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Q: How do I deallocate contents of a vector upon its destruction? As far as I know that for both vector declarations as:
//TYPE 1
std::vector<cls> vec;     //cls is user defined datatype(A class)

Memory for vector is allocated on stack and the memory of contents in the vector is allocated on heap.
It is true for the below declaration as well(Correct me if I am wrong):
//TYPE 2
std::vector<cls*> vec;    //cls is user defined datatype(A class)

Now when the vector in Type 1 goes out of scope, memory is deallocated for the objects stored in it.
But what happens in type 2 if I insert elements as below(assuming that I have the proper overloaded constructor) and then the vector goes out of scope:
vec.push_back(new cls(5));

I explicitly tried calling clear but the destructor was not invoked. Will the memory be automatically be deallocated and the destructors be called. If not then how to achieve that.
Also, where is memory allocated for the vector as well as the contents if I declare vector as:
std::vector<cls*> *vec = new std::vector<cls*>;

A: This is why we have smart pointers.
{
    std::vector<std::unique_ptr<cls>> vec;

    // C++14 will allow std::make_unique
    vec.emplace_back(std::unique_ptr<cls>(new cls(5)));
}

When the vector goes out of scope, the destructors of the unique_ptrs will be called and the memory will be deallocated.
In your case, with the raw pointers, you'd have to delete whatever you created with new manually:
// Something along the lines of this.
for (auto&& elem : vec) {
    delete elem;
}

Also, where is memory allocated for the vector as well as the contents if I declare vector as:

You're allocating the vector with new, so it'll be on the heap.

A:
But what happens in type 2 if I insert elements as below(assuming that
  I have the proper overloaded constructor) and then the vector goes out
  of scope:

The memory will leak - you'll need to iterate your vector and delete each element individually.

A: If you store a pointer to an object in a vector, you will need to delete the elements before destroying the vector (or have a memory leak, but that's not a good thing). But you shouldn't use "raw" pointers. If you use for example unique_ptr<cls> instead of *cls, the problem is solved.
So instead of:
vec.push_back(new cls(5))

use
vec.push_back(unique_ptr(new cls(5)))

or
vec.push_back(make_unique<cls>(5))

and you won't have to worry about finding some place to iterate over the vector and delete the content.
There is very few situations where a new vector<...> is "right". If you do this, think about whether it is really necessary.

A: Nope for this type you can push back a new cls byt doing vec.push_back (new cls)
//TYPE 2
vector<cls*> vec;    //cls is user defined datatype(A class)

however the vector will clean the memory of the pointer variables, but not to the instances they point to, you have to run delete on every cls* inside vec. Otherwise you have a memory leak.

A: A std::vector will not delete the objects stored in it if they are dynamically allocated. You will have to do so yourself. It is best to avoid using raw memory at all -- usually you want to wrap your pointers in std::shared_ptr or std::unique_ptr instead. They will both automatically free the memory for you.
Don't create vector by using new.

A: The memory for vector is not necessarily allocated on stack. As you show in your last snippet, the memory for vector can be allocated from the heap.
When a vector goes out of scope from the stack, or when the vector is destroyed with delete if it were allocated with new on the heap, it will automatically destroy all its elements. However, regular pointers have no destructor and do not do anything special with the object they point to when they die. So although clearing a vector of pointers, destroys the pointers, the objects they point to are NOT destroyed.
There are two solutions. Before clearing the vector, iterate through every pointer in the vector and call delete on it. A better solutin is to use a smart pointer, such a unique_ptr. When a unique_ptr is destroyed, the object it points to is automatically deleted.
So with a
vector<unique_ptr<cls>>

, you can push back new cls as you have done so, and when the vector is destroyed, all the cls objects you inserted into the vector via the unique_ptr are also destroyed.

A: A vector holding pointers isn't responsible for the memory the pointers point to.
When the vector goes out of scope, it will free the memory it had for the pointers, not the memory pointed to by these pointers.
It's still your responsibility to manage this memory. That's why you should use smart pointers as std::unique_ptr, or std::shared_ptr to avoid memory leaks (that may happen if you forgot to delete manually).

Also, where is memory allocated for the vector as well as the contents if I declare vector as:

vector<cls*> *vec = new vector<cls*>;

The vector is on the heap, the content is wherever it was (for example, it may be on the heap if you allocated it by new, or on the stack if you did : cls myCls; cls* myPointerToCls = &cls;, and then vec.push_back(myPointerToCls);)

A: Okay lots of nice answers,
You'll need to iterate your vector and delete each element individually
I'll show a small example :
class cls
{

public:
  cls(int x) :_a(x) {}
  ~cls() {cout<<"I'm Destroyed"<<endl ;}
 private:
 int _a;

};

int main()
{
vector<cls*> vec ;

for(auto i=1;i<=10;i++)
    vec.push_back(new cls(i));

for (auto it = vec.begin(); it != vec.end(); ++it)
    delete *it;

{
vector<cls*> vec2 ;

vec2.push_back(new cls(10));
}
   //Here  vec2 out of scope
}

Output:
I'm Destroyed < Only 10 times>


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Description(s): Abstract: In this reoprt, the authors compare the temperature and precipitation time series of five climate stations which can be used for the simulation of hydrological processes of the Wüstebach catchment.


Milk produced during the night could be an effective, natural aid for sleep disorders among people with epilepsy, according to epilepsy experts.
Scientists at Sahmyook University, Seoul, South Korea, have demonstrated 'nocturnal or night milk', but not 'day milk', produces sedative and anxiety-inhibiting effects that could help people to sleep better.
Published in the Journal of Medicinal Food, the study suggested nocturnal milk contained abundant sleep-promoting ingredients, such as the amino acid tryptothan and the hormone melatonin.
Carl Bazil, director of the division for epilepsy and sleep disorders at the University of Colombia's department of neurology, said he considers the Korean study to be promising.
Additionally, Prof Sanjeev Kothare, director of the paediatric sleep medicine at the comprehensive epilepsy centre, NYU Langone Medical Centre, New York, said: "scientifically, it makes sense the secretion of melatonin increases at night".
Cows milked for night milk receive a special light regime. They are kept outside during the summer, and in winter are housed with UV lights on during the day. At night they are exposed to long-wave red light which produces a strong contrast between day and night and encourages the production of melatonin.
As well as the light regime, the cows are housed in an environment with as little stress as possible, as it is disruptive to the production of melatonin.
The cows are fed on a diet rich in lucerne and alfalfa, which encourages melatonin production and is high in the amino acid tryptophan.
The sleeping aid attracted attention from Channel 4's Food Unwrapped television programme last spring, with presenter and farmer Jimmy Doherty asking if drinking hot milk really can help you sleep.


The fall season brings cooler weather, changing leaves, football and families together. With Thanksgiving and Christmas on the horizon we can schedule ourselves into an overload. One way to help us choose what's important is to consider others more important than ourselves.
Philippians 2:3-4 is a wonderful scripture to encourage us. This has been a sweet reminder to invest in others through out the year not just during the holidays. We love to assemble these scent jars and pass them out to neighbors, teachers or friends right before Thanksgiving. I was so inspired by this gift idea by Julie Lewis, back in 2007 at our first Keepers Holiday event, that I 've done it every year. It smells so good, and I pray it inspires you to love and serve others well this season.
Directions: Using a clear party bag or mason jar, place cloves in first. Next carefully arrange the orange, lemon and lime on top of cloves, cover with bay leaves and add the cinnamon sticks.
Print out scripture and instruction pages. Cut and glue scripture to the front of a 2x4 piece of cut pretty paper, glue instruction on the back. You can hole punch and attach instead of gluing. You may also just print your pages on decorative paper, cut each one, hole punch and attach as option. Don't stress about the paper, just get both on bag or jar secured with your ribbon choice.
All these items can be bought in bulk at most grocery stores. Cinnamon sticks are also in bulk through online groceries. Make sure they are real food grade and not decorative sticks. Clear party bags and mason jars are at Wal-Mart, Michaels and Hobby Lobby. The most cost friendly way will be using the clear bags.
Cut lemon, lime, and orange into quarters. Combine fruit, spices, and 2 quarts of water into a large saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer as long as desired. Cover any leftover mixture, refrigerate, and reuse. Just make sure there is always water covering the ingredients when simmering. Enjoy!
**Read the original post by Julie Lewis (and it has photos of each step in the process).
***Do you want to learn about more great gift ideas with a Kingdom purpose? Then join us at our next Keepers Connection with guest speaker Irene Delano. We love that Irene's gift ideas are easy to make and are a great way to get friends and/or kids involved in the blessing of preparation and giving.
Registration: Keepers Ministry Shop [not First Southern]. Registration opens January 4, 2018.
This Keepers Connection event will make a great girls night out or girlfriends getaway. Come for the event Thursday evening, spend the night, and visit Oklahoma City sights Friday.


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Young teenage inklings compete in a series of fun paintball-esque online competitions. Shooting coloured ink with various weapons, they can then use their ability to turn into a squid form and swim quickly through this ink. Meanwhile, in the plaza, a mysterious old Cuttlefish encourages you to join him in his battle against the Octarians to recover the stolen Zapfish which power Inkopolis.
Nintendo finally did it. For years, people have been wanting to see Nintendo make an online action game. Something to be their version of Gears of War, Halo, or Call of Duty. With Splatoon, Nintendo have made a very Nintendo online focused third person shooter. More impressively however is that on their first try, they've made what I feel to be the best online shooter since Call of Duty 4.
Instantly accessible. Addictively fun. Incredibly deep. That's Splatoon in a sound bite.
Enemy ink being like glue makes for a constantly changing battlefield.
The masterstroke is making the whole game revolve around ink. In the main gametype, Turf War, you don't win by killing the other team, or capturing a flag, or completing objectives. You win by being the team who has painted more of the floor in their team colour after three fast paced minutes of competition. Weapons fall into a few different groups. There are chargers, which are the rifles of the game. Shooting furthest, but only laying down a thin stream of coloured ink. There are rollers, big giant paint rollers that can be pushed around and which cover turf quickly, but offer little in the way of ranged attack. Then there are shooters and this class of gun shoot out blobs of ink over medium distances.
Inking up enemy inklings (always categorized by the game as 'bad guys') is far from necessary and focusing on it too much can actually be detrimental, but it's still useful, as when you splat an enemy they'll burst in a puddle of your team's ink. Putting them out of the game for a short while and sending them back to their own base, also clears the way for your team to lay down more ink.
There are also a series of sub weapons, like grenades, and sprinklers, and also super weapons which can only be used after filling up a meter (which you do by inking the ground in your colour).
Trying to walk through enemy ink is like trying to walk through glue and is a recipe for doom. The playing field is constantly changing as you gain and lose turf. Your ink slowly recharges as you use it, but you can refill your ink faster by swimming through your own ink. Being able to dive into ink and quickly flank an enemy is a great feeling.
Nintendo have done a number of unusual things in how the game is setup online. Whenever you first load up the game, Callie and Marie, the Squid Sisters, will introduce the levels currently in rotation. In four hour blocks, the game will randomly offer up games on two of the six current levels. While this might sound limiting at first, replaying the same couple of maps allows for a real back and forth as you adapt strategies and adopt techniques other players are using. A big part of what makes the game accessible is that you aren't constantly being thrown into a new map.
Every four hours, there'll be another news bulletin from the Squid Sisters and two more levels will be in rotation.
Initially you can you can only use one weapon, but it's actually a pretty good one, so it won't be long before you start reaching higher levels and can pick from an ever broadening selection of weapons. Each weapon has specifically assigned sub weapons and super weapons. Then there is gear. These are cool outfits, hats and shoes that all come with a special ability, like slowing down how quickly your ink drains, or making it harder for other players to see you when you are swimming through ink. Many also have extra slots, which unlock with random abilities as you play games wearing them.
Once you hit level 10 (currently level 20 is the maximum level) another mode, called Splat Zones, unlocks. In this mode only a small section of the map counts, and you will be thrown against similarly skilled players in a series of ranked matches. While your level can only go up, the letter ranking you get playing Splat Zones can go up and down as you win and lose.
Anyone looking to get better at the game or just for some more intense gameplay will want to check out this mode.
While Splatoon is probably one of the friendliest online games I've played, Nintendo haven't forgotten about people who are looking to play with someone on the same couch. There's a two player mode where you compete to pop balloons, with one person using the screen of the gamepad and one person using the TV. It's a fun addition for sure and while it doesn't quite have the technical polish of Turf War (it runs at a lower framerate) I'm glad it's there.
You have to play the main game on the TV despite being able
to play local multiplayer on the gamepad
Finally, there is the single player, which is a good five or so hours-worth long, offering up a few dozen linear levels that you have to ink, fight, and swim your way through. These maps focus a lot more on moving through the environment and are similar to the kind of things you'd see in a Mario game. Single player is definitely something worth checking out as it uses the same brilliant mechanics in a whole other way, and it showcases the same polish that the online modes offer.
Splatoon is an impressive first step into the online focused action arena from Nintendo. As someone who rarely gets into online gaming I have been struggling to tear myself aware from Turf War to play single player, or heck, to write this review. It's the most fun I've had playing a game in over a decade, and I don't throw such hyperbole around lightly. Unadulterated fun is really the perfect phrase to describe the game and I give it my highest recommendations to anyone even slightly interested in online gaming.
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Labels: nintendo , online action , splatoon , third person shooter , video games

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Press Release on Japan's Grant Assistance of COVID-19 vaccines
The first batch of about 1.6 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID vaccines provided by the Government of Japan to Nepal through COVAX facility arrived in Kathmandu this morning. His Excellency Mr. KIKUTA Yutaka, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, handed over the vaccines to Hon. Mr. Umesh Shrestha, Minister of State for Health and Population, amidst a brief ceremony held at Tribhuvan International Airport.
The second batch of the vaccines will arrive in Kathmandu tomorrow evening. The remaining half of the total vaccines will be brought to Nepal soon.
The Government of Nepal sincerely appreciates the Government of Japan for this generous provision of life-saving vaccine to Nepal through COVAX.
These Japanese-made AstraZeneca COVID vaccines will be administered to the senior citizens who are waiting for second shots of vaccines of this group.
The officials of Ministry of Health and Population, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a representative of UNICEF were also present during the handover ceremony.
Singh Durbar, Kathmandu


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> separate modes. Similarly Esc-J handling does not seem to match.
> the differences seem to be minor.
maintain a working binary until the switch occurs.
libopenbios/console_common.c to remove even more redundancy.


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Puerto Rico's infrastructure wasn't ready for the serious flooding that Fiona caused
When Hurricane Fiona stormed across Puerto Rico this week, it dumped a torrent of rain that flooded the island's rivers. The flooding caused catastrophic damage in many communities, and it killed at least one person. As NPR's Adrian Florido reports, the flooding was made worse by a history of poor planning and development, choices that underestimated the complexity and power of Puerto Rico's watershed.
ADRIAN FLORIDO, BYLINE: It was a horrific scene that ricocheted across Puerto Rican media on Monday - a family trapped in their two-story home as a raging river engulfed it.
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Shouting in non-English language).
FLORIDO: Neighbors launched a small motorboat to try to reach the family. On the banks, at least three men gripped a rope attached to the boat so it wouldn't be swept away.
FLORIDO: The house is in the mountain town of Cayey. The river is the La Plata River, which has its headwaters high up in Puerto Rico's central mountains. It winds for more than 40 miles down the mountains before reaching the Atlantic Ocean on the island's northern coast, passing through towns and villages all along the way. For most of the year, the branches and tributaries of this and other rivers all across the island are places Puerto Ricans go to relax, to take a dip in tucked-away watering holes and escape the tropical humidity. But when a large storm comes, Puerto Rico's rivers suddenly become one of the biggest threats to life and infrastructure on the island.
During Fiona this week, gorging rivers swept away houses and bridges. At least two people drowned, including a man whose car was swept away by the Rio La Plata. Some towns got more rain than they've ever gotten from a single storm, more than 30 inches.
MARITZA BARRETO: (Speaking Spanish).
FLORIDO: But Maritza Barreto, a geologist and planner at the University of Puerto Rico, says there are reasons other than the massive rainfall that Fiona caused such catastrophic damage.
BARRETO: (Speaking Spanish).
FLORIDO: All across Puerto Rico, she says, homes, suburbs and shopping centers have been built right up against rivers large and small and in the alluvial valleys that are part of the watershed even if they almost never fill with water. During the construction boom of the 1970s, '80s and '90s, island officials often turned a blind eye to the risks. But Puerto Rico also has many informal communities. Roughly half of the island's housing stock is technically unpermitted construction.
FLORIDO: Unfortunately, Barreto, says, people often don't even realize they're building their homes in floodable areas. This week, many people found out.
PEDRO PIERLUISI: (Speaking Spanish).
FLORIDO: At a briefing, Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi said many communities flooded that had never flooded before. The island's public works director, Eileen Velez Vega, said that after Fiona, the government is collecting data to update its flood zone maps.
EILEEN VELEZ VEGA: (Speaking Spanish).
FLORIDO: Maritza Barreto, the University of Puerto Rico professor, says that keeping communities safe from flooding has to be a continual process here because Puerto Rico's terrain is 75% mountains and is constantly changing. Five years ago, Hurricane Maria uprooted so many trees and caused so many landslides that some rivers shifted their course.
FLORIDO: Government efforts to mitigate the risk of future flood damage, she says, has to account for the accumulative effect that development, erosion and ever-larger storms have on the way that Puerto Rico's water flows.
Adrian Florido, NPR News, San Juan. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Hurricane-damaged roofs in Puerto Rico remain a problem. One group is offering a fix
A small town ballfield took years to repair after Hurricane Maria. Then Fiona came.


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Q: Error: 'ARIMAResults' object has no attribute 'plot_predict' I'm running this code using sm.tsa.arima.ARIMA on my time series data
model = sm.tsa.arima.ARIMA(df.Sales, order=(1,1,1))
model_fit = model.fit()
print(model_fit.summary())

# Actual vs Fitted
model_fit.plot_predict(dynamic=False)
plt.show()

When I tried to plot the results, it gave me this error:
'ARIMAResults' object has no attribute 'plot_predict'
My version of statsmodels.__version__ is '0.13.2'

A: Statsmodels version 13 removed the .plot_predict() method from the ARIMA classes. Hence, you only need to use plot_predict() that you already imported into your code. Here is an example:
plot_predict(model_fit, dynamic=False)
plt.show()

A: Maybe it is the version of statsmodels made that happen. Try to check the version of statsmodels before upgrade the package to 0.6.1
>>> import statsmodels
>>> statsmodels.__version__

 $ pip install statsmodels --upgrade

For more information, click this issue on statsmodels.github

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Tag: marriage
Posted on February 6, 2013 April 5, 2019
Traditional Marriage Paves The Way For A Return To Polygamy
Photo by Dave Schumaker on Flickr, Creative Commons Licence
Its great news that MPs voted for marriage equality yesterday. We should remember that the debate yesterday was only one of several stages in the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. There will be other votes on this issue, and the arguments for and against the reforms will persist for a little while yet.
The anti-family campaigners' main argument is this: If we re-define marriage to include same-sex marriage, what is to stop a future parliament from re-defining the concept again, to allow polygamy, or inter-species marriage, &ct?
The usual rebuttal to this is that marriage has often been redefined – The Liberal Democrat campaigner Mark Pack's recent post on this topic is a great example of this argument. There is, however, another argument, that is admittedly less persuasive but worth an airing. It is this: If we acquiesce to the traditional, religious conception of marriage, what is to stop future parliaments making further reversions in the future? The religious books are pretty clear that the male has primacy in a marriage, and a religiously motivated politicians might seek to restore that inequality by redefining marriage. Likewise, the Bible has passages that warn against inter-faith marriage, such as 2 Corinthians 6:14:
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Stern stuff. The Old Testament also endorses polygamy.
So giving credence to anything proposed by the religious or social conservatives risks a similar if different 'slippery slope' argument. "Traditional Marriage Paves The Way For A Return To Polygamy".
This is a reminder that it is in the very nature of our political system that laws may be changed, and that any change to any law means that it could be further reformed in the future. This is not a bad thing (although those who see their values falling out of fashion tend to see it as such).
Are there any immutable laws that are not open to revision by future parliaments? In times past, God's Law performed this function. But this was a flawed system, not least because religious authorities seem happy to re-legislate the Word of God when it is convenient. Countries with a written constitution seek to encode some underlying laws that frame what legislators can and cannot do… but constitutions are open to amendment and repeal. In Britain, the European Convention on Human Rights can trump domestic law. Its incarnation in British law, the Human Rights Act, has a certain meta-status, governing what other laws can or cannot say. But even these laws are open to repeal or withdrawal by law-makers.
There is no final arbiter that can prevent the slippery slope towards mad laws, dangerous and unethical laws, if a parliament wishes such things to be so. This is why the vigilance of the people is so important – to ensure that the law keeps pace with, but does not go beyond, our values. This seems to be happening in the case of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, which reflects the new public consensus that marriage should be available to all.
Time to frame Gay Marriage as 'Pro-Family'
It's encouraging to see that a group of Tories have formed a campaign group in support of gay marriage. Let us hope it hastens the day when the Government put the necessary legislation in place.
At the end of 2012, I assume the Liberal Conspiracy website is not best place to make arguments for gay marriage. There is a sense of preaching to the converted. Far better that the core case is made on places like Conservative Home. But Christmas is coming, which is the perfect opportunity for us all to debate the issue with relatives or friends who may not yet be persuaded.
Over the turkey, then, you may hear a version of the tiresome talking point trotted out by Peter Bone MP over the weekend: Marriage has been defined as "between one man and one woman" for hundreds of years. This really seems to be all the opponents of gay marriage have left – a feeble call-back to historical precedent and utterly discredited religious authority. They fail to follow up with a persuasive "and this is a good thing because…" Any arguments for why exclusively heterosexual marriage might better than extending the marriage 'franchise' fail in the 21st Century (for example, no-one these days seriously suggests that marriage is primarily about procreation).
Second, many people try to hide behind religious reasons for their opposition. "It is Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve!" Yawn. To that soundbite, it is worth pointing out that in the Garden of Eden story, the very first thing that God says about His creation, is that man should not be alone (Gen. 2-18). By contrast, the position of the Christian churches currently requires gay people to be alone. It is a pro-loneliness, anti-Genesis position.
The prefixes "pro" and "anti" remind me of the ongoing political arguments over abortion, where the battle is over language as well as facts and values. The campaign for gay marriage needs to be similarly mindful of language. For example, the Coalition for Marriage uses the language of preservation, where in fact their policies suppress the possible number of people who can get married. The opposition to gay marriage is anti-marriage and anti-family, and should be framed as such.
Feminism Enabled Gay Marriage
Feminism enabled gay marriage, and that's a good thing.
Last week we heard the Catholic bishops parroting the tired old line about marriage being "between a man and a woman", and that the secular government was somehow redefining the concept for the rest of us. This argument sounds more and more pathetic every time I hear it.
Marriage has often been redefined! In the Old Testament we had polygamy, a practice that continues in many parts of the world to this day. When that fell out of favour, the bond of marriage was still very much a transaction in which the girl had no input. This practice, of a father arranging a marriage on his daughter's behalf, is still very popular in many parts of the world and many British citizens still submit to it. The idea of romantic love leading to marriage is also a new innovation (at least, new when compared to the idea of marriage itself). Literature, from Tristan & Isolde, to Romeo & Juliet, to the Jane Austen œvre, is full of stories of romantic love colliding with the more traditional view of marriage as a financial arrangement.
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Two weeks earlier, the council approved the first reading of the proposal with a 4-3 vote in favor of the ban. Much of the council's discussion then was about individual liberty versus public health.
The ordinance represents another step in the city's efforts to regulate smoking. In 2009, the council banned smoking in all enclosed spaces such as schools, businesses and city property. Smoking is also prohibited in city-owned vehicles. Both bans apply to traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes.
Piedmont Medical Center, Winthrop University, York Technical College and all public schools in Rock Hill are smoke-free campuses.
Mayor Doug Echols said at the first reading there was plenty of support for the ban.
"I think the impression that's given to young children in and around our playgrounds is not one that we want," he said. "We don't allow alcoholic beverages to be consumed out there."
Council member Kevin Sutton argued that government should only go so far to regulate health habits, and advocated to allow designated smoking areas in parks away from playgrounds.
"We sell soft drinks, we sell hot dogs, we sell nachos at concession stands," he said. "If government is going to come in and save the world and protect us, we should outlaw bacon to our city employees. At some point, people have to live their lives. They shouldn't infringe on others."
The ban would be enforced as any other park rule, with the Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department responsible for enforcing it by asking violators to either stop smoking or leave the park.
Council member Kathy Pender said designating certain areas for smoking would be complicated.
"A lot of our parks, they are used and a lot of the park is used," she said. "For example, in Cherry Park, I think it would be very difficult to find a smoking area on the park grounds that is not in use by those who are there for health and wellness."
Dave Keely, vice chair of Tobacco Free York County Coalition, said his group has received multiple complaints about litter and secondhand smoke due to smoking, particularly in Cherry Park.
A similar measure failed early last year. After discussing whether and how to best regulate smoking in the city's parks and recreation centers, council members split 3-3 in the 2015 vote, with Sutton and council members John Black and Ann Williamson voting against the measure, arguing any limits on smoking in parks would be too restrictive.
Black was absent from Monday's meeting.
Council member Sandra Oborokumo was not present at the 2015 council meeting, depriving the council of a potentially decisive vote.
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By John Marks
Haile Gold Mine work near Kershaw South Carolina will move grave sites from one cemetery to another. OceanaGold plans expansion of the gold mine. Lancaster County Council approved the Baker Cemetery move.
A dog pooped on a Rock Hill porch. Then a gun came out, cops say
Man walks into Rock Hill hospital after he was shot twice. Who shot him is a mystery
Dead pit bull found in Rock Hill with dog fighting injuries. PETA offers $5k reward
'Community on the move': Dozens applied to be the new York manager. Here's who will.


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Q: Regarding some elementary transformations I was trying to follow a math forum thread when suddenly I stumbled upon a transformation that I just couldn't understand. It goes as follows:
$$v = \sqrt{ \frac{2 U}{r} - \frac{2 U}{r_0}}
\implies v = \frac{dr}{dt} =  \sqrt{ \frac{2 U r_0  - 2 U r } {rr_0}}$$
Can anyone please explain me how we got from the fist statement to the second? What sort of rules are employed here?

A: HINT: Forget about the square root.
Do you know how to calculate $\frac12+\frac13$?


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How smartphone apps could help carpooling go mainstream
By Ben Adler Apr 17, 2015, 12:20pm EDT
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A better way to get to work?
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Why are companies that enable you to order a cab with a smartphone labeled "ride-sharing" and lumped into the "sharing economy"? They are nothing of the sort, really. You don't share a ride with an Uber driver any more than you share a cup of coffee with your barista.
From an environmental perspective, this difference is more than just semantic. Every actual shared cab ride — when two people going the same direction are passengers in the same car — means one less car trip and one half the carbon emissions.
These new ride-sharing apps actually involve sharing rides
And now a number of companies are working on apps that create real shared rides, in all the different kinds of configurations users might want. Soon you might be able to use one app to carpool to and from work, another to find a ride out to a bar along a route with no bus service, and yet another to share a taxi home.
The last example is the easiest and best developed, as it's a simple variation on the so-called "ride-sharing" that has already proliferated. Late last year, Uber and Lyft launched services, called UberPool and Lyft Line, for finding someone to share your cab and split your bill in a handful of cities such as New York, LA, and San Francisco.
As the Today show reports, "In San Francisco, 50 percent of all Lyft rides are now taken with Lyft Line, according to the company, and the service is most popular in hip neighborhoods like the Mission, Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and West Hollywood in Los Angeles." In December, Sidecar expanded its Sidecar Shared Rides service from San Francisco to Washington, DC, and Boston.
True ride-sharing has been slow to catch on in the US
But some people are uncomfortable with the prospect of riding with random strangers. And Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar rides can be relatively pricey, so even sharing the cost isn't cheap. That's why new apps are cropping up to provide opportunities to share rides with people who have a common affiliation, and at lower prices.
I've been waiting a long time for real ride-sharing to finally take off. I first learned about the concept years ago from my friend Jon McKinney, who has been working on it for eight years. "In 2007, when I was traveling through Korea, I noticed it would be a regular habit of cab drivers to pick up other riders," says McKinney. "These guys are doing an ad hoc kind of cab-sharing." Then, one night shortly after his return to New York, he was going home to Brooklyn from a restaurant in Manhattan's Chinatown, and he was struggling to hail a taxi.
Thinking to himself that many of these cabs were occupied by people headed in his same direction, some of whom would gladly split the ride with him to save money, McKinney wondered if there could be a way to set that up. Smartphones had just become widespread, and McKinney reasoned that a smartphone app could solve the problem. (This was before services like Uber came along.)
So McKinney founded CabCorner in 2009 to help people not just hail cars through their phones but also match up to share rides with other passengers. The big hurdle was that in order to match people to share a ride, the program must have a large number of people using it. Otherwise, users are unlikely to find someone else who is going from the same area to the same area at the same time.
But apps are trying to make ride-sharing easier (and safer)
In the last few years the premise of hailing a ride via smartphone has become widely accepted. That means there are far more potential ride-sharers out there, which in turn means it's more plausible that a service could get the density of users it needs to successfully make a lot of matches.
More fundamentally, it means customers have the confidence — born of positive experience with services like Uber, Sidecar, and Lyft — that they can use a smartphone app to set up a ride that is reliable and safe. That's a precondition to going a step further and finding a passenger to share the back seat with.
The challenge for some potential users is that riding with strangers sounds like it might be unpleasant or sketchy. Some people actually like the opportunity to meet other young, tech-savvy passengers. In fact, since Lyft Line lets users see a picture of a potential ride sharer, Today reports that some people are using it like a dating service. But one person's new world of fun possibilities is another person's avalanche of unwanted advances. Even aside from serious concerns, like sexual harassment or assault, there's just the possibility that you'll get stuck with someone droning on about their coding skills in a voice like Ben Stein's.
CabCorner's approach to overcoming that obstacle is to focus on groups where potential riders have something in common. "Organizing by affinity group is a much lower barrier than sharing rides with strangers," says Eric Goldwyn, a Columbia University doctoral candidate in urban planning who serves as the company's director of policy and planning (and is also a friend of mine). "There are some studies that show people are very skeptical of sharing with strangers." Goldwyn is doing his dissertation on "dollar vans," the informal buses that serve New York's immigrant communities. "What I see in dollar-van research is that an affinity group is how you ease people into sharing."
CabCorner is currently focusing on the natural affinity group of college students. It launched a website specific to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in February 2013 and facilitated about 40 shared rides that spring semester. Ridership petered out in the fall, but the company has just relaunched there under the name CabEasy with plans to expand to more campuses in this coming fall.
Based on the same affinity-group principle, a company called HOVee launched a private beta app in the Bay Area in January that matches riders for carpooling. Typically, the main impediments to carpooling tend to be concerns about whether you and your fellow riders will be on the same schedule and having to make awkward conversation with strangers. HOVee, which is focused specifically on commuting, tries to solve that with an algorithm that matches you based not just on your schedule but on your profession. It promises to match you with colleagues from your same company or a similar one, and in so doing, turn a drawback of carpooling — chatting with strangers — into a networking opportunity.
The future of ride-sharing: Fewer people buying cars?
Other players are working on filling the void between cheap fixed-route buses and expensive taxis. Ford is trying to develop a minibus service, called the Dynamic Social Shuttle, that is optimized for this middle ground of four to 10 passengers. The idea is that riders could request a ride via an app, and the system would distribute them into efficient routes that pick up everyone where they are and drop them off within a five-minute walk of where they are going. "The end result is a service faster than the bus but cheaper than UberX," says Becky Reeves, a spokesperson for the company. Ford will initially roll out the experiment in London; it intends to have some test vehicles on the ground later this year.
Ford is aware that the market is shifting as millennials show less desire to own cars and drive, so it's aiming to transition itself from a car company to a company that provides mobility solutions. "We are trying to think of the city as a customer: What does the city need and how can Ford provide it?" says John Abernethy, the project's lead researcher.
Of course, some people would rather get a cab that takes them all the way to their destination. And some people would find carpooling with a colleague even more annoying than carpooling with a stranger they'll never have to see again. Others would rather carpool only if it's acceptable to put on their headphones and drop any pretense of the ride being a social occasion.
But it's okay if the Dynamic Social Shuttle and HOVee aren't for everyone. As these and other services grow and proliferate, there will be some for carpooling with colleagues and others for carpooling with strangers, some for people who want to share a cab only with other students, and some that offer lower prices in exchange for sharing a ride with more people.
Younger Americans show a greater willingness than older ones to trade the privacy of their own car for cost-savings, but mass transit still can't take them everywhere they want to go. Many metro areas have inadequate public transit systems, and many jobs are located in inaccessible suburban office parks. So there's an opportunity for real ride-sharing to help people get around and put a dent in carbon emissions. And if these services catch on, millennials might be even less likely to buy a car than they already are.
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Imagine you and your lover, or a former lover, driving down a rural highway at midnight, a two lane highway with no illumination other than your headlights and the stars. The moon set an hour ago and the clouds drifted away.
You argue about how badly you mistreated his parents, boss, former friend or second cousin who hasn't spoken to him for years. Or perhaps her head is collapsed against the windshield while she snores, and you can see a single drop of saliva rolling down her chin.
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Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions
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Chief Minister of Balochistan
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Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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Die Blokker Holding B.V. ist die Führungsgesellschaft eines niederländischen Handelsunternehmens, das auch in Belgien, Luxemburg, Frankreich, Deutschland und weiteren Ländern tätig ist. Blokker betreibt unter verschiedenen Namen Ladenketten, die vor allem mit Haushalts- und Spielwaren vorwiegend im mittleren bis niedrigen Preissegment handeln, aber auch mit Inneneinrichtungsgegenständen, Gartenzubehör, modischen Accessoires und anderem. Hauptsitz der Blokker Holding ist Laren in Nordholland. Eigentümer der Holding ist eine Stiftung, die Stichting Administratiekantoor Blokker BV., ebenfalls mit Sitz in Laren. Blokker gehört zu den größten Spielwarenhändlern in Mitteleuropa. Die Gruppe beschäftigt rund 24.500 Mitarbeiter und erzielt einen Jahresumsatz von 2,8 Milliarden Euro.

Geschichte
Blokker wurde am 25. April 1896 von Jacob und Saapke Blokker in Hoorn als Eisen- und Holzwarenladen unter dem Namen De goedkope IJzer- en Houtwinkel gegründet. 1923 erwarb man eine ehemalige Töpferei, um sich dort zu vergrößern. In den 1930er Jahren eröffneten die Söhne unter dem Namen Gebroeder Blokker mehrere Filialen in der Randstad. Ihre Nachkommen bauten das Unternehmen zu einer landesweiten Kette aus. Durch Übernahmen anderer Unternehmen wuchs die Gruppe weiter. Heutzutage betreibt die Blokker Holding insgesamt rund 2700 Läden in 14 Ländern.

2003 wurde Jaap Blokker als Händler des Jahres ausgezeichnet. Nach der 2007 erfolgten Umflaggung der deutschen Kaufhauskette  Karstadt kompakt zur Hertie GmbH wurden deren Spielwarenabteilungen komplett über Intertoys beliefert.

Vertriebsmarken
 Blokker, Bart Smit (rund 150 Spielwarengeschäfte), Big bazar, Casa (Dekorationsartikel), Cook&Co, E-Plaza (Tochtergesellschaft von Bart Smit, vertreibt Computerspiele), Familux, Giraffe, Gifts and Dreams, Groenblok/Tuincentrum Overvecht (Gartencenter-Kette), Holland Handels Huis, Hoyng, Intertoys (rund 200 Spielwarengeschäfte, teils auf Franchise-Basis geführt), Leen Bakker (Möbel und Einrichtungszubehör), Marskramer (Haushalts- und Spielwaren), Maxi Toys (Spielwaren), Novy, Toys2play (Spielwaren), Xenos (Geschenkartikel, Haushaltskeramik, Glaswaren, Kerzen, Haushaltsartikel, Kleinmöbel, Nahrungsmittel), Trend Center (Großhandel).

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Teri van der Heijden, Barbara Rijlaarsdam: Blokker. Hoe het imperium de familie ontglipt. Amsterdam: Ambo|Anthos, 2018, ISBN 978-90-263-4120-5

Weblinks
 Website von Blokker (niederländisch)

Einzelhandelsunternehmen (Niederlande)
Großhandelsunternehmen
Laren (Noord-Holland)
Unternehmen (Noord-Holland)
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Greatest Musical Of The Last 30 Years Is...
CONAries
Broadway Legend
joined:10/7/08
Greatest Musical Of The Last 30 Years Is...#1
Posted: 1/8/09 at 10:55am
From Dress Circle:
"As part of the celebrations for Dress Circle's thirtieth anniversary, in September 2008, we launched an online poll to find the Greatest Musical of the Last Thirty Years. Voting continued until midnight on 31st January 2008We would like to thank the many thousands of Musical Theatre Fans who took part in our search by casting their vote for their favourite musical. We would also like to say congratulations to the lucky winner of a Superbreak to London who will be notified shortly.The voting has now closed and we are delighted to announce as the winner: WICKED
The Top Ten Musicals as voted for by you are
1st Place Wicked
2nd Place Les Miserables
3rd Place - The Phantom of the Opera
4th Place - Sweeney Todd
5th Place - Rent
6th Place - The Rocky Horror Show
7th Place - The Lord of the Rings
8th Place - Blood Brothers
9th Place - West Side Story
10th Place - Hairspray
Once again we would like to thank everyone that took part!"
Although Wicked is my favourite show and I have seen it *cough*20*cough* times, however I feel this only won due to the voting fangirls and Les Miserables should be the true winner!
exedore
joined:4/20/05
re: Greatest Musical Of The Last 30 Years Is...#2
Excuse me, I need to go throw up a little...
MamasDoin'Fine
...pass me the bucket too!
Updated On: 1/8/09 at 11:04 AM
songanddanceman2
Bloody Wicked, when will people realize this is an average show with a couple of decent tunes and plot holes the size of india
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
Sister George
Leading Actor
Yet further proof, if proof were needed, that this democracy nonsense really doesn't work...
In the Facist State of Sister George this result will be nullified and Sweeney Todd will take it's rightful place.
"I tend to think if god wanted us to believe in him, he'd exist" Linda Smith
'The Rocky Horror Show' -Jeeeez!
Just to check, did you people complaining ACTUALLY vote, because if you didnt, you cant really complain!
Doesn't make any difference.
Broadway Star
joined:8/1/08
SADM2-I first read that as 'Holes the size of Idina'-and thought 'she's not that big' oops.
Pass me the bucket also. The list generally is not great, but the fact that 'West Side Story' is awful. (and yes I did vote so feel justified in a moan!)
Maybe I'm on nobody's side http://phdconfessions.blogspot.com/
AvenueQResident
Lord of the Rings???
And yeah, I thought Wicked was really good but most not certainly the greatest.
People may disagree, but I'm glad to see Hairspray there.
Everything in life...is only for now.
re: Greatest Musical Of The Last 30 Years Is...#10
Im AMAZED Cats isnt in there, I dont like it... BUT it ran for 21 years, did 6 years on tour and was hugely popular!
I didn't even notice that Lord of the Rings got in the top ten. I presume people misread and though it was the Greatest Musical that felt like it lasted 30 years...
That alone is enough to cue the miltary to launch my coup d'etat (re)
Eastwickian
Posted: 1/8/09 at 12:01pm
I'll lead the charge!
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luke-h***
Lord of the Rings? Why is Gypsy not up there? I mean it's the classic musical, often named the greatest musical of time. And Wicked? This sucks! I voted for something like The Witches of Eastwick, I thought it meant shows that made their premiere on the West End to be honest, greatest West End musical anyone?? Not Wicked!
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What were the rules for this thing?
1978-2008 = 30 years
Rocky Horror Show opened in 73 and West Side Story opened in London in 58.
You could argue that both have had West End seasons in the past 30 years, but then that does render the whole thing slightly pointless...
jaqs
I voted for WSS, didnt notice the 30 years thing.
Really I just dont get wicked.
toanythingtaboo 2
When I opened this, I thought it was of the last 10 years...saw Wicked won and I thought, 'fair enough' it's definitely up there.
But 30 years?! I love me some Wicked, but come on. It's definitely not the best artistically...but it is amazingly popular, but not as popular as Les Mis or Phantom...so that doesn't work out either.
This list just confuses me. Where is The Lion King? That's still massive here! Avenue Q?! Grease?!
Sweeney Todd?! I wonder if any of the voters even saw the stage production.
Lord Of The Rings should most definitely not be anywhere near the top 10 list of the past 30 years?! It was beautiful to look at and some of the songs are wonderful...but come ON!
Surely a more sensible order judging by popularity and how long they've been around, would have been;
Updated On: 1/8/09 at 12:55 PM
Phantom of London
Posted: 1/8/09 at 1:31pm
I do not get Wicked number 1 my arse, should of been Hairspray.
Scripps2
"Yet further proof, if proof were needed, that this democracy nonsense really doesn't work"
At work today it had to be explained to the 17 year old office junior, as part of the general banter, that the USA has had more than two Presidents.
That, and these DC results, are frightening.
And yet, I'm actually pleased that Sweeney made it on to the list at all.
On that list, Sweeney should be top.
I'm actually more in disbelief at Lord of the Rings' inclusion.
Based on what appears to be their crazy rules that if its had a production in the last 30 years it's counted then Lord of the Rings is greater than....
Spend Spend Spend
Eurobeat
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunset Blvd
The Hired Man
to name just a very few of the infintely superior productions and shows in the last 30 years....
Why is it just not renamed The 'Bunch of idiots vote online for a show they've seen recently and they liked as their brains have yet to fully finish growing' Award.
Im not a lover of lists but I will say to you, Sister Georgenna, that your list is pretty spectacular.
As for the Dress Circle list that they have published, looking at it over and over, I would now say that it is more like a list of their Top Best Selling CD's than anything anybody got to vote on.
I saw Sweeney Todd on tour a couple of years ago, with Jason Donavan, I have to say I did not like the show, but that does not mean the show was bad, I need to listen to Sweeney Todd a couple more times on my MP3 to get more of a feel for it.
I remember reading the NYT, Ben Brantley review of The Woman in White, in which he draw comparisons with Sweeney Todd, as both are set in the Dickensian era, both shows were playing Broadway at the same time, he basically slagged off WIW to big up Sweeney Todd, I know WIW was not peoples favourite ALW but I thought it was better that Sweeney Todd.
However I have not studied any of Sondheim Music and only seen the said show, something I hope to reverse in the near future.
legallysam
"At work today it had to be explained to the 17 year old office junior, as part of the general banter, that the USA has had more than two Presidents."
Has it..?
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Q: How do I have a page display new information in Sinatra after a server-side process ends? How do I accomplish displaying new information after a server-side process wraps up?
Here's generally what I have, with some pseudocode in the comments:
require 'sinatra'

get '/' do
  t1 = Thread.new {
    sleep 10
  }
  #if t1 running display
  #  "Loading..."
  #when t1 ends display
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end

A: In order to use AJAX you have to create an endpoint on your server and use a jQuery or another framework to ease the use of calling the endpoint from javascript. I will paste a short example.
The server could look like this:
require 'sinatra'
set :views, "."

get '/' do
   erb :home
end

get '/ajax_endpoint' do
  t1 = Thread.new {
    sleep 10
  }
  'Done'
  #do the job
end

Put in the views folder (in my case the same as the one the main sinatra app is in) a file with the following content:
<html>
<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.0.3.min.js'></script>
<script>
    window.onload = function() {
        $.get('/ajax_endpoint', function(data) {$("#the_div").text("Job done!")})
    }
</script>
 <body>
    <div id='the_div'>
         Loading...
    </div>
 </body>
</html>

In order for the example to work out of the box call the view home.erb.
The main part is calling $.get function. It uses the jQuery frameowrk to make an asynchronous http request at the url you specify as parameter. The second parameter is the callback function for the success. For more informartion about AJAX just use Google, while for jQuery specific use try: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/


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Washington, DC, October 25, 2017 –(PR.com)– Andreia Gibau, a graduate of Brockton High School in Massachusetts, has arrived in the Philippines to represent the United States at the 17th Annual Miss Earth beauty pageant. The contest is followed by millions globally and is recognized as a top three international pageant.
Gibau will spend four weeks conducting environmental mission work and competing in preliminary contests. On November 4, 2017, Gibau will appear alongside 90 national representatives at pageant finals, held at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines.
Managed by Carousel Productions, Miss Earth focuses on empowering women through fashion, leadership, travel, and service. Delegates advocate for environmental awareness and protection of the Earth while showcasing tourist destinations. The reigning Miss Earth is Katherine Espin of Ecuador.
Age 22, Gibau graduated from St. John's University in New York with a degree in public relations. She held the title of Miss Teen United States and first runner up Miss New York USA. On August 4, Gibau bested 50 delegates to be crowned Miss Earth United States during the national pageant, aired on the Dish Network.
Gibau says she competes in pageants, "To give me a voice to inspire and talk about things that I believe in." Her platform is "Act Local, Think Global," encouraging Americans of all ages to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Prior to departing for the Philippines, Gibau spent time visiting elementary schools to read books and teach environmental lessons. She traveled to Puerto Rico for rain forest conservation and looks forward to returning to the island as well as locations like Miami that were recently damaged by hurricanes.
For three consecutive years, the United States has placed in the Top 4 at Miss Earth. Gibau has ranked highly in recent preliminary competitions, receiving a bronze medal in swimwear and a silver medal in resortwear.
Candidates are also judged on video, photo, gown, interview, speaking and environmental knowledge. On November 4, judges will narrow down the candidates to 16 finalists, culminating with the crowning of Miss Earth 2017 as a global ambassador to environmentalism and the face of "beauties for a cause" for one year.
Candidates wishing to claim the 2018 USA title have already begun the state entry process. Gibau will crown her successor on July 14 in the nation's capital.
Follow Gibau at www.missearthunitedstates.com and www.facebook.com/missearthus. International contest details are available at www.missearth.tv and www.facebook.com/missearth.
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Cinema Chat: 'On Broadway' At The Michigan, 'Shang-Chi' At The State, And More
By David Fair & Russ Collins • Sep 2, 2021
Michigan Theater Upstairs Lobby
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We're heading for an extra-long weekend, so why not catch a good movie? WEMU's David Fair gets in touch with Michigan Theater Foundation executive director Russ Collins to discuss the newest films coming to your favorite movie houses this Labor Day weekend.
Cinema Chat: 09/02/21
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS FOR MICHIGAN THEATER AND STATE THEATRE
The Michigan and State theaters require all attendees over the age of 12 to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours before films or live events. Masks will also still be required at this time. Attendees under the age of 12 will need to have their temperature checked and wear a mask at all times at the event. This is a temporary safety policy, which we expect to stay in place until the current flare up of COVID-19 infections recede.
OPENING DOWNTOWN
"On Broadway" -- OPENS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 AT THE MICHIGAN
From the makes of "RBG" – the Ruth Bater Ginsberg documentary--this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy!
As audiences prepare for the return of live theater after an unprecedented absence of 18 months, an all-star cast tells the inside story of the last time Broadway came back from the brink. The film shows how this revival helped save New York City, thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion, and the sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Interviews with legends of the stage and screen, including Hugh Jackman, Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, and Ian McKellen take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from "A Chorus Line" to "Hamilton." Archival clips of iconic performances by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones, and Mandy Patinkin punctuate this hurly-burly ride through the main street of American show business. Now that New York City is facing an uncertain path forward in its recovery from a devastating pandemic, this documentary from Academy Award®-nominated director Oren Jacoby shows how Broadway led the way in the city's last great rebirth and provides a model of how it will come back again.
"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" -- OPENS TONIGHT AT THE STATE
Based on the Marvel Comics featuring the character Shang-Chi, it is the 25th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi alongside Awkwafina, Meng'er Zhang, Fala Chen, Benedict Wong, Michelle Yeoh, Ben Kingsley, and Tony Leung. In the film, Shang-Chi is forced to confront his past after he is drawn into his father's Ten Rings organization.
This is the first Marvel Studios film with an Asian director (Destin Daniel Cretton) and a predominantly Asian cast. Filming began in February 2020 but was put on hold in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The film is part of Phase Four of the MCU. It received positive reviews from critics, praising the film's fight choreography, its exploration and representation of Asian culture, and the performances (particularly that of Liu and Leung). The film stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, who must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS DOWNTOWN
"Stephen Sondheim's Follies" -- PLAYING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 AT 3 PM AT THE MICHIGAN
One-Night Event! Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee, and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in a dazzling National Theater of Great Britain production. Featuring a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, Stephen Sondheim's legendary musical was directed by Dominic Cooke ("The Courier") and filmed live on the London stage at the National Theatre in 2017. New York, 1971. There's a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow, the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves. Winner of Academy, Tony, Grammy and Olivier awards, Sondheim's previous work includes "A Little Night Music," "Sweeney Todd," and "Sunday in the Park with George."
"David Byrne's American Utopia" -- OPENS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 AT THE STATE
Directed by Oscar-winner Spike Lee, this film is a groundbreaking cinematic event that inspires audiences to connect with each other and with the global community. This filmed version of the electrifying Broadway musical sensation brings Oscar, Grammy, and Golden Globe-winning musician David Byrne (Talking Heads) together with 11 musical artists from around the world to perform songs from across Byrne's career. Hailed by critics as "pure bliss," the performance is a joyful celebration of music and dance, a call to action to engage in our democracy, and an invitation to reimagine our own utopias. Featuring never-before-seen footage and a special introduction by David Byrne.
"Dear Evan Hansen" -- PLAYS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 AT THE MICHIGAN
A special screening of this film will occur on Sunday. The screening was arranged for University of Michigan students, faculty and staff by U-M graduates (from the acclaimed Musical Theater Program by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who wrote the music and lyrics for this award-winning Broadway hit. It opened at the Music Box Theatre (designed by C. Howard Crane, who designed our very own State Theatre) in 2016. It was nominated for nine Tony awards, winning six, including Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Ben Platt, Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Rachel Bay Jones, Best Musical, and Best Score. The movie stars Ben Platt, who also stared in the Broadway production.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK SERIES - Fridays
"Rear Window" -- Playing this Friday @ the Michigan
"Rope"
"Dial M for Murder"
"Notorious"
"The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog"
ESSENTIAL AVA DUVERNAY - Tuesdays
"Selma" – 9/7
"I Will Follow" – 9/14
"Middle of Nowhere" – 9/21
"A Wrinkle in Time" – 9/28
LATE NIGHTS - Fridays at 9:30 PM
"Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" – 9/10
"The Big Lebowski" – 9/17
"Stop Making Sense" – 9/24
"Akira" (anime) – 10/1
"Donnie Darko" – 10/8
"Alien" – 10/15
"Eraserhead" – 10/22
CONTINUING DOWNTOWN
"Together"
Academy Award directorial nominee Stephen Daldry's ("Billy Elliot," "The Hours," 'The Reader") new comedy, starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan, is the story of a family, like so many, who found a way to survive - together.
It is a British comedy-drama from a screenplay written by Dennis Kelly. It is a hilarious and heartbreaking story which intimately shows two partners forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of lockdown.
The film was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 17 June 2021. Upon release, it received generally positive reviews from critics, with some calling it a "claustrophobic", "brilliant", and "honest" film set during the pandemic. However, a mixed response was given on its use of monologues and fourth wall breaks. In her review, Lucy Mangan from The Guardian gave the film four stars out of five and wrote that it "captures perfectly the emotional dilapidations of a dying relationship".
"Free Guy"
A bank teller discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game and decides to become the hero of his own story... one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way... before it is too late. Directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman. The film stars Ryan Reynolds (who also produced) as a bank teller who saves his friends from deletion by the game's creator (Taika Waititi). Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, and Utkarsh Ambudkar also star.
"CODA"
This film had its world premiere on January 28, 2021 at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and the screening at the Michigan Theater will be one of only a handful of theatrical screenings to be allowed. An American dramatic film featuring a hearing teenage girl who is a Child Of Deaf Adults (CODA for short). Written and directed by Sian Heder, the film stars Emilia Jones as the hearing girl, with Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur as her culturally deaf parents and Daniel Durant as her deaf brother. Eugenio Derbez and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo also star in the film. The film, which is an English-language remake of the 2014 French-language film "La Famille Bélier" was filmed on location in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the United States.
"Respect"
The much-anticipated musical film based on the life of American singer Aretha Franklin. Directed by Liesl Tommy (in her feature film directorial debut), from a screenplay written by Tracey Scott Wilson. The film stars Jennifer Hudson as Franklin. Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgore, Skye Dakota Turner, Tate Donovan, and Mary J. Blige.
COMING SOON DOWNTOWN
"The Lost Leonardo" – 9/10
"The Eyes Of Tammy Faye" – 9/17 or 9/24
"Dear Evan Hansen" – 9/24
In late October, Wes Anderson's new film "The French Dispatch"
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Cinema Chat: New COVID Safety Guidelines Begin Friday At Downtown Ann Arbor Movie Houses
By David Fair & Russ Collins • Aug 26, 2021
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August is winding down, but the movies will always be here for you. WEMU's David Fair talks to Michigan Theater Foundation executive director Russ Collins about the week's movie news, new and returning films on the big screen, and what you'll need to do to stay safe while enjoying the movie of your choice.
Cinema Chat: Michigan Theater And State Theatre In Ann Arbor To Require Proof Of Vaccination
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We're in the dog days of August, and we have the right amount of movie goodness to help you through it. After a week off, WEMU's David Fair reconnects with Michigan Theater Foundation executive director Russ Collins to chat about the latest films coming to the big screen this weekend, and what you'll have to do to get in to see them.
Cinema Chat: 'Annette' Arrives At The State, 'The Suicide Squad' Crashes The Mulitplex, And More
By David Fair & Russ Collins • Aug 5, 2021
There's not much summertime left, but there are still summer-style movies coming this weekend. WEMU's David Fair got in touch with Michigan Theater executive director Russ Collins to chat about the latest movie news and the latest films worth checking out downtown and at your favorite multiplex.


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Judge rejects expert witness as too biased in gas plants trial
By Rob FergusonQueen's Park Bureau
Thu., Sept. 28, 2017timer4 min. read
A judge has dealt a blow to the criminal prosecution of two Dalton McGuinty aides accused of deleting emails, ruling the Crown cannot use a retired OPP detective as an expert witness.
Former sergeant Robert Gagnon, a computer forensics specialist hired to examine hard drives and BlackBerrys seized under search warrants, was too close to the investigation, Judge Timothy Lipson said Thursday.
That means Gagnon — slated to be a key witness for the Crown — cannot be relied upon to give unbiased opinions on evidence as the case continues, Lipson ruled.
In one example the judge called "the most concerning," Gagnon recommended an additional charge of mischief in relation to data be laid against David Livingston and Laura Miller.
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"There really was no separation between the work of Mr. Gagnon and the work of Project Hampden investigators," Lipson said of the OPP team and the police code-name for the probe.
"This is a clear case for exclusion," he added in a one-hour ruling on a motion by the defence to have the retired detective-sergeant rejected.
Criminal trial for two top aides to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty begins for the alleged deletion of computer hard drives linked to the Liberals' scrapped gas-fired power plants.
"Mr. Gagnon regarded himself as a team member of Project Hampden."
The trial was delayed for two days while Lipson researched his ruling in the case against Livingston, the final chief of staff to McGuinty before he stepped aside as premier, and former deputy chief Laura Miller.
They are charged with breach of trust, mischief in relation to data and misuse of a computer system in the alleged wiping of hard drives in the McGuinty premier's office prior to Kathleen Wynne replacing him in February 2013.
The changeover of power took place amid a political furor over the McGuinty government's controversial cancellation of gas-fired power plants before the 2011 provincial election.
Livingston, a former investment banker, and Miller have pleaded not guilty. They face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the charges laid almost two years ago.
The trial centres on allegations that Livingston and Miller did not supply emails and documents requested under Freedom-of-Information laws and by a legislative committee probing the reasons behind the cancellations. The Crown charges the defendants "destroyed records they had a duty to preserve."
After the judge's dramatic ruling and a 35-minute break, Crown attorney Tom Lemon told court the prosecution had not had time to "fully consider" the impact of Lipson's decision on the case.
The defendants and their lawyers were visibly relieved, with Livingston hugging family members in the hallway outside court.
The Crown, however, will have two weeks to ponder its next moves as the trial adjourns until Oct. 16 after Friday's proceedings. No evidence of deleted emails or documents has yet been presented.
In his ruling, Lipson noted Gagnon's role in the case "expanded rapidly over time" as he became an important resource to the OPP team, sitting in on "numerous" conference calls and meetings on the investigation.
An email Gagnon sent to investigators about Livingston needing to protect his reputation and that of the Liberal party is "the kind one would expect of a partisan police investigator," the judge concluded.
He admonished the Crown for not heeding a precedent-setting 2015 Supreme Court of Canada ruling that expert witnesses must be independent and impartial to prevent wrongful convictions.
Lipson cited the inquiry into wrongful convictions in child death cases in which disgraced pathologist Dr. Charles Smith testified for the Crown, resulting in parents and caregivers going to jail and losing custody of children. Smith himself told a 2008 inquiry into the troubles that he felt he was testifying "to make a case look good."
Also Thursday, the Crown called senior cabinet office official Linda Jackson, now retired, who testified a decision was made to stop cancelling the email accounts of departing premier's office employees because of "the number of freedom of information requests" at the time.
When asked by the defence if Livingston had taken an oath of office after being seconded to McGuinty from Infrastructure Ontario, Jackson replied there was no record of one.
As to whether Livingston was given any training in retention of records, Jackson said "I don't know," but added she was not aware of such training for political staff until after Wynne took power.
The deleted documents case is being closely watched by political observers with a provincial election looming next June.
Opposition parties insist the McGuinty government scrapped the locally unpopular gas-fired power plants in Oakville and Mississauga to save Liberal seats in the 2011 vote in which the Liberals were reduced to a minority.
McGuinty has said the plants were cancelled because they were too close to residential areas. He was not a subject of the police investigation and co-operated with the probe.
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Would you call James Oberg's thorough debunk of the book's assertions about Mars Observer, Mars Polar Lander, and Mars Climate Orbiter overly narrow? It doesn't strike me that way. The only way it could possibly have been broader would have been for him to flat-out declare that NASA never under any circumstances causes deliberate failure of its expensive missions. To those of us who actually understand spaceflight, that goes without saying, and you can't prove a negative. Hoagland and Bara rely greatly on that principle in almost everything they write. A parody would be "NASA is infiltrated by free-masons and fascists and nothing it ever releases to the public is true. NOW PROVE OTHERWISE".
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Data Breach – Early reports for possible Staples compromise
Uncategorized October 21st, 2014
Hopefully the scope of the latest will continue to be isolated to about a dozen of the 1800 stores nationwide. During WSJ report this morning, it was noted that approximately 400 million accounts have been compromised over the past year collectively by the many firms impacted.
http://www.zdnet.com/staples-investigates-possible-data-breach-credit-card-fraud-7000034902/
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/banks-credit-card-breach-at-staples-stores/
QUOTE: Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations in the Northeastern United States are currently dealing with a data breach. Staples says it is investigating "a potential issue" and has contacted law enforcement.
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