Hotel El Faro in Alghero is located directly on the beach, in the centre of the natural bay of Capo Caccia that due to its beauty was called by the Romans: Baia delle Ninfe (Bay of Nymphs).
It is protected from the Mistral wind by Mount Timidone and from the Grecale wind by Mount Doglia.
It is facing southwest and exposed to the sun from morning to sunset. Immersed in the Mediterranean scrub and pervaded by the heady scent of aloes, agaves in bloom, mastic trees and thriving Mediterranean dwarf palms that surround it, it is the perfect place for those who want to enjoy moments of pure relaxation and well-being.
Some people associate Sardinia only with the flash of the paparazzi, super yachts at anchor and "Emerald" social events.
When the sea commanded respect, when the wind threw plans and thoughts into disorder; and the lights, the colours chanted the hours of the day - and night - in close contact with rugged nature, wild enough but still soft and welcoming.
That Sardinia still exists and, silently, works in order to offer the ultimate in comfort in a modern interpretation.
Silently, because this is not the Sardinia of large numbers but has always been and wants to remain an exclusive place, away from the din of noise and crowds.
Hotel El Faro was built in the 50s, designed by the architect Antonio Simon Mossa, the supporter of respecting architecture in nature; the "pencil" who created the Scala del Cabirol - access to the nearby Neptune's Grotto - and the famous Porto Cervo. Mossa imagined the building as an ocean liner, enriched with Spanish style arches and balconies, lying on the seabed with the stern wedged between the rocks; looking out from the terrace you experience the sensation of sailing, of travel. The stern is also home to a large swimming pool which further enhances the effect of navigation.
Hotel El Faro has always been a symbol of Sardinian hospitality and attraction for many illustrious guests such as Anthony Queen, George Brown, Sting and the unforgettable Marcello Mastroianni; guests that the Hotel has been able to safeguard and numerous others who, still today, have discovered a magical dimension here, that is impossible to forget.


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Amy (Blu-ray)
Posted in: Disc Reviews by J C on December 2nd, 2015
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"I don't think I'm going to be at all famous. I don't think I could handle it. I'd probably go mad."
Amy Winehouse — the troubled English soul singer who died of alcohol poisoning at age 27 — says these sadly prophetic words early on in Amy. Hearing them almost five years after her 2011 death only adds to the powerfully haunting quality of this documentary. At its core, Amy is like every Behind the Music episode you've ever seen…except it is also a masterfully told story with thrillingly original flourishes.
"She needed music as if it was a person…and she would die for it."
Amy begins in 1998, with home video footage of a teenage Winehouse goofing around and serenading one of her friends with a jazzy rendition of "Happy Birthday." The scene turns out to be emblematic of this mesmerizing documentary and the points that it wants to make about Winehouse. Beyond offering a sample of the singer's prodigious vocal talents, the opening shows that Winehouse was at her happiest and most comfortable (at least on camera) when she was performing for a small group of trusted friends. The cold open is also the first glimpse at the amazing quality (and quantity) of intimate footage director Asif Kapadia and his team were able to unearth to craft their story.
From there, the film follows a pretty conventional "rock star" arc. We follow Winehouse as she records and releases her jazzy debut album (2003's "Frank") and some simmering personal demons start to take hold. Winehouse is shown to have always been a recreational drug user, but those issues are magnified when she starts living on her own in Camden — a bohemian borough in London — and connects with Blake Fielder-Civil, the on-again/off-again boyfriend and eventual husband who introduced her to crack cocaine. Even as her personal issues begin to mount, Winehouse pushes through and records her second (and final) album: 2006's blockbuster "Back to Black", which granted her widespread acclaim and worldwide fame. Unfortunately, we know those things weren't enough to help Winehouse vanquish her demons.
Kapadia previously directed 2010's Senna, the phenomenal documentary about Formula One champion Ayron Senna and one of my favorite movies from the last five years. Just as he did with Senna, Kapadia doesn't use any talking head interviews from the people who were close to the "star" of his film. Instead, the storytelling burden here is largely carried by Winehouse herself, through the use of a staggering collection of recorded material that is presented in interesting ways. (The film nicely cuts together three different late-night TV performances of "Rehab" during Winehouse's American takeover.) In addition to recording session and live performance footage, we get video clips of a pre-superstardom Winehouse — which also means pre-beehive and signature thick eyeliner — lounging around her London flat or going on a car trip with a group of friends. Some of the people in Winehouse's life — most notably, manager Nick Shymansky, childhood friends Lauren Gilbert and Juliette Ashby, and even Blake Fielder-Civil himself — contribute their thoughts through voiceover.
I wouldn't say I was a Winehouse obsessive, but I definitely admired her unique vocal instrument. And like a lot of people, I found her extended public meltdown alarming, depressing…and fascinating. As a result, I found the earlier parts of Amy to be more compelling because they show the side of Winehouse most people aren't acquainted with. That being said, the filmmakers manage to explore even the familiar parts of Winehouse's life and career in refreshing ways. For example, I remember watching Winehouse looking absolutely stunned at winning Record of the Year at the 2008 Grammys, but behind-the-scenes footage in Amy reveals that she was definitely more excited by the fact that presenter Tony Bennett knew who she was. (We later get footage of an intensely insecure Winehouse dueting with her idol.) Amy even shines a new light on Winehouse's best-known song. I've sung along to the part in "Rehab" that goes "I ain't got the time/And if my daddy think I'm fine" without giving it a second thought. However, the film reveals that Winehouse's semi-estranged father Mitchell actually helped dissuade Winehouse from checking into rehab so she could get back to work. (You're not gonna believe this, but Mitchell isn't a fan of the film.)
"Oh…it's a bit unsettling at the end, isn't it?"
Amy not-so-subtly makes the point that getting Winehouse proper help early on — before the paparazzi knew who she was and could track her every move in rehab — might have helped her live a longer life. (Winehouse did seek treatment later in life.) However, the film also notes that we might have never gotten "Back to Black" if that happened. While Fielder-Civil, Mitchell Winehouse, and promoter/manager Raye Cosbert (who had an incentive to keep Winehouse on the road and performing) undeniably come off poorly in the film, the movie's main target is arguably the star-making music industry and celebrity culture, both of which tend to chew talent up and spit it back out. Again, this isn't an original thesis, and the filmmakers do bang the point home a little hard. At 128 minutes, Amy is a little flabby, especially in its latter half. (The death of Winehouse's paternal grandmother is included as a crippling event, despite the fact that this person had never really come up at all beforehand.) However, the movie still has more than enough oomph — including concert footage of Winehouse's drunken, trainwreck-y performance in Belgrade — to carry the story to its conclusion.
To be fair, some of the onus for Winehouse's addiction is placed squarely on Winehouse. (A friend notes that the singer was hopelessly bored during a period of sobriety.) Yes, it's another story about a singer whose greatness was fueled by personal demons. However, Amy still works wonderfully as a captivating chronicle of Winehouse's life and an appreciation of her talents. (Kapadia frequently uses bright yellow subtitles to highlight Winehouse's lyrics, which she wrote herself.) Unfortunately, it also grimly depicts all the ways that talent was snuffed out much too soon.
Amy is presented in an aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The 1080p image is arrived at with an AVC MPEG-4 codec at an average of 33 mbps. Like most documentaries, Amy is comprised of a ton of archival footage. Unlike most documentaries, there are no contemporary talking head interviews to serve as a baseline for the presentation's HD image. As a result, it's a little tricky to judge the image quality here, which obviously varies wildly. The home video footage and darkened, small club performances are presented in their authentically gritty, grainy glory. However, if you look closer, you'll see some nice flourishes, like the extra pop of color Winehouse's subtitle lyrics are granted. Some of the still photographs feature inky black levels and a saturated quality that make them seem as if they're about to come to life. There are also some clean, panoramic overhead shots of different sections of London mixed in.
The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is the real showstopper from a technical perspective. The musical interludes featuring Winehouse's music are granted the same weight and attention to detail that you typically hear from concert Blu-rays. (I was especially impressed by the buttery bottom end for the jazzy earlier tunes.) Dialogue is largely intelligible, and it's even appropriately muffled when it comes from an inferior recorded source. In fact, the biggest impediment to understanding what's being said is Winehouse's thick English accent. In addition to adding dynamic weight to the music, the rear speakers also snap to life during the few segments when Winehouse is being hounded by paparazzi. The incessant camera clicks from the rear speakers will temporarily put you in her disorienting mindset.
All of the bonus material is presented in HD.
Audio Commentary with director Asif Kapadia, editor Chris King, and producer James Gay-Rees: Absolutely worth a listen, if only to hear the filmmakers discuss the process and effort behind gathering all the footage for the film. The trio also alludes to interviews and anecdotes that didn't make the final cut. We learn the movie's original opening was the intimate bit with Winehouse talking about feeling like a floating head.
Interviews with Yasiin Bey, Mark Ronson, Salaam Remi, and Jools Holland: (53:52) These are the only talking head interviews to be found on this entire disc. Bey (the rapper/actor best known as Mos Def) is the most emotional participant here, sharing stories about Winehouse and showing some disappointment in Winehouse for not taking better care of herself. Ronson (who produced "Back to Black"), Remi (producer of Winehouse's debut album "Frank") and Holland talk about working with Winehouse and do a fine job articulating her unique talent. Rather than presenting the interviews in succession, this feature cuts back and forth between the four men, which kept things a little more interesting.
Deleted Scenes: (33:25) There are 17 chapters here, and they start off with 1993 footage of Winehouse as a little girl with her childhood friends. The rest are mostly comprised of more behind-the-scenes footage of Winehouse, including various recording sessions and interactions with fans. The most amusing bit comes courtesy of a clip of the U.S. State Department explaining its reason for rejecting Winehouse's visa application, which prevented her from accepting her armload of Grammys in person. Features a Play All option.
Unseen Performances: The three songs here — "Rehab" (4:50), "Love is a Losing Game" (3:50), and "You Know I'm No Good" (5:45) — come from a 2006 acoustic session at Metropolis Studios in London. They are characteristically raw, including some stops and starts.
The Making of Amy: (1:55) There's no time to get into anything too substantial here, but Kapadia (a curious fan of Winehouse's) acknowledges that his film is likely to inspire hurt feelings among those closest to the late singer.
Teaser Trailer/Theatrical Trailer
Even though it contains all the trappings of the genre, Amy is one of the best music biopics I've seen. Rather than relying on wan re-enactments of key moments from Winehouse's life, the film is able to construct a powerful and cohesive narrative using the inimitable singer herself.
Whether or not you're familiar with Winehouse's tragic story (or you think you're familiar with it), I recommend you give this documentary a look. It's an excellent example of "show, don't tell."
J C
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A lot of animals in a tropical forest make sound, by communicating with each other, trying to find mates, warn each other about predators. Considering all that sound together, as a "soundscape", can tell us a lot about the state of the tropical forest. Even without identifying individual species according to their calls, we can say, for example, whether one soundscape is more saturated with sound than another. According to the acoustic niche hypothesis, animals have evolved to vocalize at different frequencies and times, so that they can communicate well. The idea is that if there are many species in a habitat, they have to compete for acoustic space, in other words, they have to vocalize differently to other species in order to be heard. How much of the acoustic space is taken up during a day, month, or even a year, can tell us how many vocalizing species there are.
Together with colleagues from The Nature Conservancy and the Queensland University of Technology, we are using these differences in soundscape saturation to develop a fast, cheap, and efficient biodiversity monitoring tool. To test this approach, we recorded the soundscapes, and analyzed their saturation, in different parts of tropical rainforest in the Adelbert Mountains of Papua New Guinea. Using Bioacoustic Recorders made by Frontiers Lab, we captured 35 different soundscapes, ranging from pristine forest, forests that are used for hunting by local people, and small patches of forest that have been converted to gardens or cocoa plantations.
A false colour spectrogram of a 24h soundscape in the Iwarame community in Papua New Guinea. Produced by Michael Towsey and Anthony Truskinger at Queensland University of Technology.
You can listen to all of our recordings and see site descriptions at ecosounds.org. Results of this study are now published in the journal Conservation Biology!
If you are looking for a lighter, less technical read, Inside Science and Cool Green Science wrote about our results.


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John Russell Pope, Rudolph Evans, and Adolph A. Weinman, "Jefferson Memorial," Histories of the National Mall, accessed July 18, 2019, http://mallhistory.org/items/show/31.
The Jefferson Memorial features a classically-inspired dome surrounded by columns. The centerpiece of the memorial is a 19 foot bronze statue of Jefferson. The statue was the second one of Jefferson placed in the Memorial, replacing a work made of plaster because material shortages during World War II made metal unavailable. Inscriptions on the interior walls of the memorial include passages from the Declaration of Independence, Notes on the State of Virginia, and A Summary View of the Rights of British America.
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Q: To remove UIGestureRecognizer or not to remove I have an app made in Swift that uses gesture recognizers and has multiple scenes. Scenes include a menu, instruction page, gamescene, and gameover screen. If I have a GameScene that initializes swipe gestures, but doesn't remove them, when I lose and go to the GameOver scene, hit replay, and come back to the GameScene, does this create problems? In other words, if I don't remove the gesturerecognizers from the view before switching to another, will this eventually bug my program out after a while?
for touch: AnyObject in touches {
        let location = touch.locationInNode(self)
        if self.nodeAtPoint(location) == self.replayButton {
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            var scene = InstructionScene(size: self.size)
            let skView = view as SKView!
            skView.ignoresSiblingOrder = true
            scene.anchorPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.5, y: 0.5)
            scene.scaleMode = .ResizeFill
            scene.size = skView.bounds.size
            skView.presentScene(scene, transition: transition)
        }

A: When you add a gesture to a view on a scene, it applies only to that view and doesn't affect other views in other scenes that you might transition to. Don't worry about removing the gestures from scenes from which you have transitioned away. Just make sure the gesture creation is linked to the loading of the view (e.g., viewDidLoad or in IB) and not merely the appearance of the view (e.g., viewDidAppear).
The only thing that would be problematic (and this is unrelated to your gestures question) would be if you transition from scene A to scene B, but then transition again from B to another copy of A. As long as you're popping/dismissing/unwinding to get from B back to the original instance of A, then you're fine. But if you have some circular pattern of present/push segues, then you can run into memory issues.

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Q: Find nearest data from shapefile I need to set for each municipality i the nearest value from a list of municipalities. Every municipality in this list may have a specific price value if it produces a commodity or have a NA if it does not produce in that year. Therefore, i can either: a) have its own price; b) have the price from a closest neighbor, and this may change for each year (2000 through 2014).
This database is in a shapefile imported to R through SP <- readOGR("MT.shp") where N1 is the ID number, N2 is the municipality code, N3 is its name and N4 through N18 are the prices (when available):
$ N1 : Factor w/ 287 levels "1","10","100",..: 287 1 112 210 221 232 243 254 265 276 ...
$ N2 : Factor w/ 287 levels "1100015","1100023",..: 287 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 ...
$ N3 : Factor w/ 287 levels "AGUA AZUL DO NORTE",..: 148 2 3 4 5 1 6 7 10 16 ...
$ N4 : Factor w/ 39 levels "0.1999605989",..: 39 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 32 NA ...
$ N5 : Factor w/ 49 levels "0.2099991931",..: 49 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 42 NA ...
$ N17: Factor w/ 103 levels "0.5011494253",..: 103 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 55 NA ...
$ N18: Factor w/ 100 levels "0.75","0.8092253594",..: 100 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 93 NA ...

Therefore, I need to fill all NAs (total of 2965) with the value from the closest municipality with a valid number. I read a similar guidance from:
R - Finding closest neighboring point and number of neighbors within a given radius, coordinates lat-long
but that did not apply equally for my dataset.
Is there any formula to do this task?
Thank you.

Following @StatnMap help, I calculated all minimum distances:
> distmin <- spDists(SP, longlat = TRUE); class(distmin)

[1] "matrix"

I also have a matrix called psoy with dimension (287 x 15). An example:
         X2000     X2001     X2002
[1,]        NA        NA        NA
[2,] 0.2500000 0.2866667 0.3600000
[3,]        NA        NA        NA
[4,] 0.6500390 0.5598765 0.4000000
[5,] 0.7500390 0.5598765        NA
[6,] 0.6000000        NA 0.3500000
[7,] 0.4200150 0.4700000 0.3000000
[8,]        NA        NA 0.4000000

For each column of psoy, let's say X2000, I need to find the nearest municipality with a valid (non NA) value. I created a new dataframe A trying to manage this problem by year:
> A <- data.frame(psoy$X2000, distmin)

For municipality X1, for instance, A would be (first column are prices and second are distances from X1 to neighbors):
         X2000        X1
[1,]        NA   0.00000
[2,] 0.2500000 360.45196
[3,]        NA  62.37937
[4,] 0.6500390 261.60197
[5,] 0.7500390 583.45032
[6,] 0.6000000 696.34611
[7,] 0.4200150 600.53779
[8,]        NA 764.88325

So, in this example, X1 does not have a value and should return the value from the nearest municipality. The answer I need is 0.6500390 from [4,] substituting NA in row [1,], column X2000.
I tried several commands to make it automatic, but none worked. The best I did was:
A$psoy00r <- ifelse(!is.na(A$psoy.X2000), A$psoy.X2000,
    with(A, psoy.X2000[which.min(X1)], na.rm = TRUE))

but it still kept NAs where they already existed.
I appreciate any help and thank you for attention.


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Buber-Korrespondenzen digital
Martin Buber (1878-1965) is arguably the most significant and still internationally influential thinker of the modern German-Jewish cultural and intellectual world. In addition to Buber's writings in his diverse spheres of activity, it is in particular the correspondence (approx. 40,000 letters) with almost all the famous contemporary...
Martin Buber (1878-1965) is arguably the most significant and still internationally influential thinker of the modern German-Jewish cultural and intellectual world, »alongside Einstein and Freud [...] one of the best-known Jews of the twentieth century« (Bourel 2017, p. 14). In addition to Buber's writings in his diverse spheres of activity, it is in particular the correspondence (approx. 40,000 letters) with almost all the famous contemporary personalities and countless institutions preserved in his Jerusalem estate in the National Library of Israel (NLI), which has so far been largely unedited by research, that reflects the network character of his effectiveness and promises a multitude of insights into the history and the intellectual and cultural environment of his time.
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Feed manufacturer Devenish Nutrition has reported increased in profit and sales from its latest full year of trading.
The Belfast-based business made an operating profit of £3.6 million on revenues of £225m in the year to May 31st 2018, compared to £2.8m and £187m in the previous financial year. The pre-tax profit figure rose 9% to £1.7m.
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Oahu has a large number of beaches where different diving opportunities are available. These dive sites present a range of choices in terms of natural and artificial treasures. You can go diving for plane and shipwrecks, see offshore lava formations, or catch a glimpse of rare marine life.
This Hawaiian island is famous the world over for its scuba diving spots. There are dozens of populated as well as deserted beaches where you can go scuba diving. And it does not matter whether you are a trained professional or an inexperienced first-timer. Oahu has something for everyone. The Three Tables, Sharks Cove, Devils Rock, Ka'ena Point, and Turtle Heaven on the North Shore, all have depths in the range of 50 to 100 feet and offer ideal scuba diving opportunities. These diving sites are accessible mostly from the shore itself, while in some cases you may have to be taken there in a boat. On the West Shore, you have the Makaha Caverns, Mahi Shipwreck, Electric Beach, and Tech Reef that are very popular with scuba divers.
The Electric Beach is a particularly good place for viewing sea life. A wide variety of eels make their homes in the coral bed of the sea. The Kewalo Pipe, Fantasy Reef, and Rainbow Reef and Magic Island on the South Shore also have a vibrant marine life with different types of spotted puffer fish, turtles, Moorish idols, morays, porcupine fish, fantail filefish, barracudas, and triggerfish. If you are lucky, you might even get to see the elusive manta ray. And to spot humpback whales, take a trip to the Blow Hole. The best time to see these majestic creatures is during winter and early spring months. Another popular diving site is the Manana "Rabbit" Island. Located on the East Shore, this site boasts of excellent coral formations and plenty of lobsters. You also get to see triton trumpets, helmet shells, tiger sharks, and white tip reef sharks here. Having said all this, the best place to see marine life in all its glory is the Hanauma Bay. This is actually a nature preserve on the South Shore and the waters here are home to more than 100 species of fish.
If you are an amateur, you can stay close to the sand patch inside the barrier, whereas if you are carrying proof of certification you will be allowed to venture into greater depths. This is one place which abounds in large resident eels, octopuses, spotted eagle rays, jack fish, and green sea turtles.
The waters around Oahu have witnessed a number of plane crashes and shipwrecks. These sites are now extremely popular with adventure sports enthusiasts. The Corsair Wreck on the East Shore is one of the most regularly visited wreck spots. Situated at a depth of 110 feet, it features the ruins of a World War II era plane. Around the wreck are a number of underwater caves and ledges that can be explored. There is also a good chance that you might come upon a sleeping white tip reef shark. Along the China Wall you can spot various species of eels, eagle rays, as well as turtles. The Baby Barge's beautiful coral encrusted deck which rests at a depth of about 45 feet is worth diving for. The caves around the ledge are a favorite resting spot for green sea turtles and white tip reef sharks. You also have the greatest chance of spotting the Galapagos sharks at this site.
Corsair wreck. Sits in approx 30M water. Sank/ditched in 1948. Pilot survived the water landing.
The most popular dive on the West Shore is the Mahi Wreck. The Mahi was sunk in 1986 and now stands upright at a depth of 90 feet. White-spotted eagle rays can often be seen around this wreck. Sea Tiger Wreck and Turtle Canyons, situated just off the shore of Waikiki, are home to a staggering variety of fish and other sea creatures. You can also get a clear look at the large coral heads here. Among the well known Oahu dives is the YO-257 Wreck site. Resting upright at 95 feet, this Navy yard oiler makes for an impressive sight. You can swim the stern and get a close look at the blue coral hanging from the walls and ceilings on the inside of the ship.
If you have always been fascinated by these magnificent creatures of the sea, you should not miss the opportunity of going diving with the sharks while in Oahu. The ocean around the island is frequented by various different types of sharks, especially the white tip reef sharks, tiger sharks, scalloped hammerhead sharks, sandbar sharks, and even the whale sharks. And the best part is, in some areas the visibility exceeds 200 feet which makes it ideal for watching these gorgeous creatures in their natural habitat. Plenty of shark diving tours are available in Oahu, and choose any one of these to embark on a thrilling adventure you are not likely to forget in a long time.
Most of the wildlife tours of this kind take place on the North Shore. You will be taken about 3 miles into the sea on a boat, and on the way you are likely to see dolphins, green sea turtles, and even humpback whales, depending on the season of your visit. Once in the shark infested waters, you can choose to go deeper in a special shark cage or just stay on board and watch as these elegant creatures circle the boat. If you do go down in the cage, you can get a much closer look at the sharks, and might even end up brushing your hand against one. The sharks most commonly seen are the sandbar sharks, Galapagos sharks, gray reef sharks, and the hammerheads.
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Q: SIGABRT (signal 6) error in finding majority element in array using divide and conquer I checked SO and saw two issues dealing with the same problem statement. However, neither of them contained what I'm looking for. The task is to output 1 if an array with n elements contains an element that occurs more than n/2 times, using a divide and conquer strategy.
I developed what I think is a working solution based on the fact that the base case is a sub array with one element that is (obviously) the majority element in the subarray. I then proceed to compare these majority elements across subarrays, asking if ultimately they happen more than n/2 times.
For more details, see https://classes.soe.ucsc.edu/cmps102/Fall01/solutions4.pdf (Problem 4)
I wrote two different solutions to this problem, one using a very naive O(n^2) algorithm to check if my solution was correct for all cases, and one attempting to implement the algorithm described in the link above.
Inside main, I stress test my solution against the obviously correct but naive one. However, upon running this I'm getting a SIGABRT (signal 6) error. My debugger tells me to check for malloc, object was probably modified after being freed.
Now I can't tell whether or not my solution is correct. I really don't know what's going on with bad allocation, I'm relatively new to C++.
Code goes below:
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

using std::vector;

int get_majority_element(vector<int> &a, int left, int right) {

    int m;
    int majority_left, majority_right;      // majority element in either sub array
    int count_right = 0, count_left = 0;    // count for above
    int leftt, rightt;                      // endpoints

    if (a.size() == 1) {
        return a[0];
    }
    else {

        m = (left + right)/2;  // calculate mid point

        vector<int> b_left(m);
        vector<int> b_right(right - m);

        // get left sub array
        for (int i = 0; i < m; i++) {
            b_left[i] = a[i];
        }

        // set new endpoints
        leftt = 0;
        rightt = m;

        majority_left = get_majority_element(b_left, leftt, rightt);

        for (int i = 0; i < right - m + 1; i++) {
            b_right[i] = a[m+i];
        }

        leftt = m;
        rightt = right - m + 1;

        majority_right = get_majority_element(b_right, leftt, rightt);

        // if there is a majority element, count its frequency

        if (majority_left != -1) {
            for (int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
                if (a[i] == majority_left)
                    count_left++;
            }
        }

        if (majority_right != -1) {
            for (int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
                if (a[i] == majority_right)
                    count_right++;
            }
        }

        // if both elements in sub arrays are majority and they're different, there is no majority element
        if (count_left == count_right && majority_left != majority_right) {
            return -1;
        }

        // check if either sub array has a majority element that occurs more than n/2 times
        else if (count_right > count_left && count_right > a.size()/2) {
                return majority_right;
        }
        else if (count_left > count_right && count_left > a.size()/2){
            return majority_left;
        }
    }

    return -1;

}

int get_majority_fast(vector<int> &a, int left, int right){

    std::reverse(a.begin(),a.end());

    int current = 0;
    int count;
    for (int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
        current = a[i];
        count = 0;
        for (int j = 0; j < a.size(); j++) {
            if (a[j] == current)
                count ++;
        }
        if (count > a.size()/2)
            return 1;
    }
    return -1;
}

int main() {
//    std::cin >> n;
//    vector<int> a(n);
//    for (size_t i = 0; i < a.size(); ++i) {
//        std::cin >> a[i];
//    }
//    std::cout << (get_majority_fast(a, 0, a.size()) != -1) << '\n';

    while(true){
        int one, two;
        int n = rand() % 100 ;
        std::cout << n << "\n";
        vector<int> a;
        for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
            a.push_back(rand() % 100);
        }

        one = get_majority_element(a, 0, a.size());
        two = get_majority_fast(a,  0, a.size() != -1);

        if (one != two) {
            std::cout << "Wrong answer: " << one << ' ' << two << "\n";
            break;
        }
        else {
            std::cout << "OK\n";
        }
    }
}

A: There was effectively an out of bounds error in one of the loops. Corrected loop is below:
for (int i = m; i < right - m ; i++) {
    b_right.at(m-i) = a.at(m + i);
}

I thought the weird SIGABRT error was due to something arcane. Guess I learned to use x.at()
Also, I had a couple other mistakes. Full corrected code is below:
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

using std::vector;

int get_majority_element(vector<int> &a, int left, int right) {

    int m;
    int majority_left = -1, majority_right = -1;      // majority element in either sub array
    int count_right = 0, count_left = 0;    // count for above
    int new_left, new_right;                      // endpoints

    if (a.size() == 1) {
        return a[0];
    }
    else {

        m = (a.size())/2;  // calculate mid point

        vector<int> b_left(m);
        vector<int> b_right(right - m);

        // get left sub array
        for (int i = 0; i < m; i++) {
            b_left.at(i) = a.at(i);
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < a.size() - m ; i++) {
            b_right.at(i) = a.at(i + m);
        }

        // set new endpoints
        new_left = 0;
        new_right = m;
        majority_left = get_majority_element(b_left, new_left, new_right);

        new_left = m;
        new_right = right - m;

        majority_right = get_majority_element(b_right, new_left, new_right);

        // if there is a majority element, count its frequency

        if (majority_left != -1) {
            for (int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
                if (a[i] == majority_left)
                    count_left++;
            }
        }

        if (majority_right != -1) {
            for (int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
                if (a[i] == majority_right)
                    count_right++;
            }
        }

        // if both elements in sub arrays are majority and they're different, there is no majority element
        if (count_left == count_right && majority_left != majority_right) {
            return 0;
        }
        else if (count_left == count_right)
            return majority_left;
        // check if either sub array has a majority element that occurs more than n/2 times
        else if (count_right > count_left && count_right > a.size()/2) {
                return majority_right;
        }
        else if (count_left > count_right && count_left > a.size()/2){
            return majority_left;
        }
            // majority element in sub arrays isn't majority in array
        else
            return 0;
    }

}

int get_majority_fast(vector<int> &a, int left, int right){

    std::reverse(a.begin(),a.end());

    int current = 0;
    int count;
    for (int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
        current = a[i];
        count = 0;
        for (int j = 0; j < a.size(); j++) {
            if (a[j] == current)
                count ++;
        }
        if (count > a.size()/2)
            return 1;
    }
    return -1;
}

int main() {

    int n;
    std::cin >> n;
    vector<int> a(n);

    for (size_t i = 0; i < a.size(); ++i) {
        std::cin >> a[i];
    }

    int result;
    int out;

    result = get_majority_element(a, 0, a.size());

    if (result != 0)
        out = 1;
    else
        out = 0;
    std::cout << out << '\n';

}

I'm sure I could make it a lot prettier but right now I don't want to hear about this for a while.


This haircut can be easily achieved with the help of a skilled barber, and very clear instructions on how you want the haircut to look. Here are some examples of the disconnected haircut and how you can help your barber achieve them.... If you want something different, tell him what you like about your current style and what you want to change. Instead, use the following hairdressing terminology to explain lengths and cuts: Fade/Taper – Refers to the gradient of your hair length (gradually fading from longer to shorter).
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so you want to go in there and tell the barber that you want to keep your waves and what you want him to do is get a two guard and put it on the clippers and then start from my crown on the top of my head, the cut downwards.


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The Cryosphere, 11, 1665-1684, 2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1665-2017
Research article 14 Jul 2017
Research article | 14 Jul 2017
The importance of accurate glacier albedo for estimates of surface mass balance on Vatnajökull: evaluating the surface energy budget in a regional climate model with automatic weather station observations
Louise Steffensen Schmidt1, Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir1, Sverrir Guðmundsson1,2, Peter L. Langen3, Finnur Pálsson1, Ruth Mottram3, Simon Gascoin4, and Helgi Björnsson1 Louise Steffensen Schmidt et al. Louise Steffensen Schmidt1, Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir1, Sverrir Guðmundsson1,2, Peter L. Langen3, Finnur Pálsson1, Ruth Mottram3, Simon Gascoin4, and Helgi Björnsson1
1University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland
2Keilir Institute of Technology, Reykjanesbær, Iceland
3Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
4Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France
Received: 03 Feb 2017 – Discussion started: 24 Feb 2017 – Revised: 24 May 2017 – Accepted: 05 Jun 2017 – Published: 14 Jul 2017
Abstract. A simulation of the surface climate of Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland, carried out with the regional climate model HIRHAM5 for the period 1980–2014, is used to estimate the evolution of the glacier surface mass balance (SMB). This simulation uses a new snow albedo parameterization that allows albedo to exponentially decay with time and is surface temperature dependent. The albedo scheme utilizes a new background map of the ice albedo created from observed MODIS data. The simulation is evaluated against observed daily values of weather parameters from five automatic weather stations (AWSs) from the period 2001–2014, as well as in situ SMB measurements from the period 1995–2014. The model agrees well with observations at the AWS sites, albeit with a general underestimation of the net radiation. This is due to an underestimation of the incoming radiation and a general overestimation of the albedo. The average modelled albedo is overestimated in the ablation zone, which we attribute to an overestimation of the thickness of the snow layer and not taking the surface darkening from dirt and volcanic ash deposition during dust storms and volcanic eruptions into account. A comparison with the specific summer, winter, and net mass balance for the whole of Vatnajökull (1995–2014) shows a good overall fit during the summer, with a small mass balance underestimation of 0.04 m w.e. on average, whereas the winter mass balance is overestimated by on average 0.5 m w.e. due to too large precipitation at the highest areas of the ice cap. A simple correction of the accumulation at the highest points of the glacier reduces this to 0.15 m w.e. Here, we use HIRHAM5 to simulate the evolution of the SMB of Vatnajökull for the period 1981–2014 and show that the model provides a reasonable representation of the SMB for this period. However, a major source of uncertainty in the representation of the SMB is the representation of the albedo, and processes currently not accounted for in RCMs, such as dust storms, are an important source of uncertainty in estimates of snow melt rate.
How to cite: Schmidt, L. S., Aðalgeirsdóttir, G., Guðmundsson, S., Langen, P. L., Pálsson, F., Mottram, R., Gascoin, S., and Björnsson, H.: The importance of accurate glacier albedo for estimates of surface mass balance on Vatnajökull: evaluating the surface energy budget in a regional climate model with automatic weather station observations, The Cryosphere, 11, 1665-1684, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1665-2017, 2017.
The regional climate model HIRHAM5 is evaluated over Vatnajökull, Iceland, using automatic weather stations and mass balance observations from 1995 to 2014. From this we asses whether the model can be used to reconstruct the mass balance of the glacier. We find that the simulated energy balance is underestimated overall, but it has been improved by using a new albedo scheme. The specific mass balance is reconstructed back to 1980, thus expanding on the observational records of the mass balance.
The regional climate model HIRHAM5 is evaluated over Vatnajökull, Iceland, using automatic...
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Java-Gaming.org > Games Center > Contests > Finished Contests > 4K Game Competition - 2006 > JUDGES!
I volunteer to be a judge. I don't have an entry and I've already played most of the games so I know how to play them and I know what features (or at least most of them) are incorporated in the games.
Seems there are enough judges. I support the multiple categories suggestion. I'd let the judges rate every game on a, say, 1-15 or 1-20 scale (the bigger the scale, the smaller the chance that game gets equal scores. On the other hand, the bigger the scale, the more work and harder decisions for the judges. 1-15 should do the trick, I think. Or, 1-10, but with the criteria that each judge can only give one game a "10".) This scale should come with each category, and then you could simply generate a list based on the averages. Then, the judges could leave their comments where they like with the scores (and let us hope they do!).
That will only allow for one category, and the majority seems to support average or multiple categories of some sort, as far as I can tell. I beg you to reconsider, please.
"Java Games? Incredible! Mr. Incredible, that is!"
Don't use last year's system. Last years ended up being overly complicated and meant different things to different judges. I don't think anyone (least of all the judges) were happy with the results. The first place came out okay, but everything beyond that was skewed toward inconsequentials. Just let them give it a scrore between 1-10 or 1-100. That way a judge can ensure that the games he approves of the most will float to the top while the games he thinks the least of will sink to the bottom.
1-100 is the best bet IMO.
You then get course grain banding :- 100-90 Outstanding, 80-90 Excellent, 80-70 Good, etc etc.
While still allowing for fine grain scoring, when wanting to compare competitors within the same 'band'.
These could be awarded via round based nominations.
I see someone is paying attention. Welcome to PC Gamer meets the 4K contest.
I've been considering the same thing. However, I think the judges should come up with an award they want to give, then come to a consensus among themselves on awarding it. Voting for the award may result in unintended effects. These sorts of awards are really just cosolation prizes of sorts that reviewers/judges tend to award when they want to recognize special achievements in a particular area. So a consensus is really better than a vote, since the ratings would already have chosen which game was "best".
I agree that a simple 0-100 score without categories is the best way of judging the games.
Otherwise the competition goes from "I'm going to make the most fun game I can in 4k" to "Oh no, I need to cram in some sound to get a higher score".
I am not participating in the contest.
PM me if I am chosen.


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Q: Assignment to variable using locals() Why is this not working? All variables below in print statement evaluate to None.
def assign(data):
    first=middle=last=suffix=None
    sep = ','
    fields = ['last','first','middle','suffix']
    a = data
    for name in fields:
        if a:
            a, *b = a.split(sep)
            print('intermediate: ', a, b)
            if a:
                locals()[name] = a
                a = None
                if b:
                    a = sep.join(b)
    print('first %s middle %s last %s suffix %s ', first, middle, last, suffix)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    data = 'Jon, Bon, Jovi'
    assign(data)

Edit 1
Evan asked so posting non working code below. Caveat: I fully understand now that there is no good reason to have varying variables ;)
def assign(data):
    first=middle=last=suffix=None
    sep = ','
    fields = ['last','first','middle','suffix']
    a = data
    for name in fields:
        if a:
            a, *b = a.split(sep)
            print('intermediate: ', a, b)
            if a:
                #locals()[name] = a
                exec('%s = a' % name)
                a = None
                if b:
                    a = sep.join(b)
    print('first %s middle %s last %s suffix %s ', first, middle, last, suffix)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    data = 'Jon, Bon, Jovi'
    assign(data)

A: There is no pythonic way to assign values to local variable names dynamically. If you want this behavior, the simplest solution is to use exec.
If you simply replace the line:
locals()[name] = a

With exec:
exec('%s = a' % name)

Check out the documentation for exec while you are at it.

A: locals() returns new dictionary data. It can not be reference of stack memory of "assign" function.
I think you want to make a object easily when you create an instance related of name.
How is this code as below:
class Name:
    def __init__ (self, data):
        sep = ','
        fields = ['last', 'first', 'middle', 'suffix']
        data = data.split(sep)
        self.fields = {f:d for f, d in zip(fields, data)}

    def __str__ (self):
        orderedFields = ['first', 'middle', 'last', 'suffix']
        output = ''
        for field in orderedFields:
            output += field+' '+self.fields[field]+' '
        return output

if __name__ == '__main__':
    data = Name('Jon, Bon, Jovi, ')
    print (data)


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"CNN is fake news. I don't take questions from them," says @POTUS. "Let go to John Roberts of Fox.
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"I think it's a horrible thing that you have a pipeline coming from Russia" to #Germany, says @POTUS repeating criticism of #NordStream2.
President Trump literally in Winston Churchill's seat.
New @realDonaldTrump administration's #Africa strategy being unveiled here by @AmbJohnBolton.
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Barr demonstrated "an unwavering adherence to the rule of law" in his previous tenure as attorney general, says @POTUS in Kansas City speech to law enforcement, saying his intended nominee deserves bipartisan support.
In speech to law enforcement, commenting on congressional races, @POTUS sometimes you choose someone for a position that you think is going to be really good and "they choke like dogs."
The @POTUS-Xi dinner here was a "highly successful meeting," says @PressSec in statement and the Chinese president, "in a wonderful humanitarian gesture, has agreed to designate Fentanyl as a Controlled Substance."
And @POTUS agreed that on Jan. 1, he'll "leave tariffs on $200 billion worth of product at the 10% rate, and not raise it to 25% at this time," adds @PressSec.
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Amesbury is about 10 miles from Salisbury, where former Russian spy Sergei #Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok in March.
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Yakovenko, under questioning from Chris Bryant, who chairs the all-party committee, is now explaining the Russian theory that a nerve agent found in Salisbury was British made. I'm not sure I follow his answer completely.


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Here we go again! I know I say this every year, but it's an absolutely absurd and impossible task to try to see even half of the 700+ feature films released each year, and then to attempt a ranking of the best [insert arbitrary number] of them, so that's not what I do. Instead, I managed to see a paltry 101 movies released in 2018, and I'm going to attempt to rank my ten favorite movies out of that number. It's still absurd and very difficult, but at least I don't have to convince anyone these are the "best" movies of the year. They're just the ones I personally dug the most, and your mileage will most likely vary wildly. As always, I've made some effort to highlight movies you're not hearing about on other year-end lists or awards ceremonies, while not stubbornly ignoring any of those that you are hearing more about, as I did in 2016.
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Ezra's Favorite Movies Of 2014
This was the year I realized that my annual goal of seeing pretty much every movie released in a given year was more impossible than ever. The reason for this is the exponential growth in the number of films now being released in the digital age. When I started doing these lists back in 2001, there were about 300 official releases per year; now it's closer to 700. With that in mind, I'd like to start with a partial list of movies I meant to see in 2014, but just didn't get to in time. Then, to acknowledge the relatively arbitrary nature of these lists in general, I'm listing my Top 10 in categories by which each film corresponds to another one from my Top 20 (only the Top 10 is ranked in order of preference). It'll make more sense as you read it, I promise.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN (40 movies I didn't see in time for this list, in alphabetical order): Bird People; The Boxtrolls; Calvary; Chef; Citizenfour; Coherence; The Congress; Enemy; Fading Gigolo; Filth; Force Majeure; Foxcatcher; Frank; Fury; Gloria; Happy Christmas; Ida; Joe; A Letter to Momo; Leviathan; Life After Beth; Like Father, Like Son; Lucy; Men, Women & Children; A Million Ways to Die in the West; Mr. Turner; Moebius; A Most Violent Year; Night Moves; Palo Alto; The Rocket; The Sacrament; St. Vincent; Song of the Sea; Starred Up; Stonehearst Asylum; Top Five; 22 Jump Street; Virunga; Wrinkles.
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Ezra's Top 10 Favorite Films Of 2011
Well, it's that time once again, and as always, I didn't get around to a lot of the films I would have liked to see – as I write this, a DVD of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris sits on my desk, glaring at me – but there comes a time when every movie lover has to call it a year. I have somewhat arbitrarily picked today as that time, so here now are my top 10 favorite films of 2011:
# 10) MELANCHOLIA – anyone with whom I talk movies already knows how much I love Lars von Trier, and though this is definitely not my favorite of his films (2003's Dogville still takes that honor), it is nonetheless a striking and powerful depiction of the nature of depression, as well as a highly unusual and compelling look at what the impending apocalypse might feel like. The stunning opening and closing sequences alone make this film impossible to ignore, or to forget. Read More
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Lars Von Trier's Melancholia
Posted 22 Apr 2012 — by Ezra Stead
Melancholia, Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany, 2011
Written and Directed by Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier's latest is by no means my favorite of his films, but I do feel much more charitable about than he apparently does. Here is what the great Danish artist / provocateur has to say, excerpted from his statement on the film's official website: "This is cream on cream. A woman's film! I feel ready to reject the film like a transplanted organ … I am confused now and feel guilty. What have I done? Is it 'exit Trier?' I cling to the hope that there may be a bone splinter amid all the cream that may, after all, crack a fragile tooth … I close my eyes and hope!"
As gifted a filmmaker as von Trier certainly is, he doesn't seem to quite have the knack for self-promotion. Then again, this could be yet another example of the perverse, impish delight he seems to take in his own self-destruction, as most recently evidenced in his controversial "I am a Nazi" joke at this year's Cannes Film Festival. This is oddly appropriate to Melancholia, which, as the title suggests, is largely about the mysterious, fascinating pull of deep, all-encompassing depression, as well as the beauty and peace to be found in the complete destruction of absolutely everything. In fact, the latter – the incredibly gorgeous apocalyptic images that bookend the film – mainly functions as a metaphor for the former. The planet Melancholia, which has supposedly been "hiding behind the sun," threatens to destroy all life on Earth as it draws near, yet it is also described as the most beautiful sight we will ever see. Depression may be always lurking just behind the nurturing light of life, but when it finally shows itself, we find that it is more absorbing and actually enjoyable, in a perverse way, than happiness. Read More
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While RAC has long supported the St. Louis arts community in a variety of ways, grantmaking has always been the cornerstone of our work. Our first priority remains supporting artists and arts organizations in our community. Read on for our message about the grantmaking status during the pandemic.
Due to the ongoing financial impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Regional Arts Commission (RAC) has been working diligently to adjust our annual grantmaking programs to ensure alignment with RAC's strategic priorities, and in response to feedback from the arts community. In spring 2020, RAC immediately reaffirmed that all grants awarded through this 2019-2020 grant cycle would be honored in full, ensuring grantees would receive 100% of their RAC funding through June 30, 2020. Because of the uncertainty caused by COVID-19 and to be as supportive of arts organizations, 2020-2021 Program Support grants were awarded as general operating support funding and were not dependent on program completion. RAC also recognized the dire economic circumstances of so many of our local working artists, and as the only major funder with a mandate to support individual artists, RAC established the Artist Relief Fund that has now been able to support almost 600 local working artists with a total of over $500,000 to help cover the costs of life-sustaining expenses such as housing and utility payments, groceries and food, medical expenses, and child-care services. We took these actions while RAC grappled with the reality that our primary source of funding, the hotel/motel tax, had been severely impacted. Hotel/motel occupancy has dropped significantly, and we are uncertain when that will improve. The Commission remains steadfast in our mission to support local artists and arts organizations in these uncertain times, but RAC will have very limited financial resources over the next year. This limitation has inevitably resulted in major cuts to our grantmaking that will continue for some time. During this unprecedented time, we will continue to do what we can with the resources we have to support our arts community. More information about future grant programs will be announced in spring 2021. For questions about RAC's grantmaking, please email grants@racstl.org.
Pianos for People: Reverberations of a Lasting Legacy
Pianos for People honors the vision of late founder, Tom Townsend, by expanding its offerings as a provider of pianos and music education Playing an instrument can have life-changing effects. But the cost of an instrument, especially a piano, can be insurmountable....
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The Human Genome Meeting 2017 (HGM2017) was held in Barcelona from 5-7 of February. This is the annual conference of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO), a major scientific conference for human genetics & genomics, genomic medicine, and genomic biology. Ivo Gut, director of the CNAG, chaired the Local Organizing Committee which also included Jaume Bertranpetit (Institute of Evolutionary Biology, IBE), Elias Campo (Hospital Clinic, August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute, IDIBAPS and University of Barcelona, UB), Joan Comella (Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, VHIR) and Manel Esteller (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Centre, IDIBELL).
The CNAG actively contributed to the scientific program of the meeting with two invited speakers, several oral abstract presenters and poster presentations. Tomàs Marqués-Bonet, the CNAG and IBE Comparative Genomics group leader was invited to give a presentation in the Ancient DNA and Population Genomics session. He presented his results on great apes genome diversity and population history. In the following session, Gian-Andri Thun, postdoctoral researcher in the Biomedical Genomics group gave a short presentation on the insights into regulatory variation of gene expression in bronchial brushings of individuals with and without airway obstruction.
On the second day during the Cloud Computing and Data Sharing session Steven Laurie, data analyst at the CNAG, presented the RD-CONNECT platform which aims to accelerate rare disease research and facilitate data sharing through measures such as the GA4GH Beacon network and GA4GH/IRDiRC Matchmaker Exchange. Marc Martí-Renom, leader of the CNAG and the CRG Structural Genomics group was invited to present his research during the Distinguished Spanish speaker's session and showed his findings on structure determination of genomes and genomic domains in function of spatial restraints. Finally, Miranda Stobbe, postdoctoral researcher in the Biomedical Genomics group, presented on the non-randomness of somatic mutations in cancer genomes using the ICGC Pan Cancer dataset.


On October 31st, upcoming girl group Dream Note released their first concept film for their first single album 'Dreamlike'. It is called 'Concept Film: ON'. They are set to make their debut on November 7th. Check it out below!
In the first scene, some members are standing behind a flurry of streamers. Then, shots of the group divided into two smaller groups are shown. They are clearly having a good time together. We are then introduced to each member of the group ahead of their debut. The next shot of the members feature each of them doing some sort of sport, like tennis or rollerblading. This hints that their debut may have something to do with school or sports-related. In pairs, they also play around with each other. Their debut will definitely be colourful and cute!
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Q: RangeError: Invalid typed array length error during Deploy Azure App Service in Azure DevOps I'm getting the following when performing Deploy Azure App Service in Azure DevOps.
2019-02-27T18:51:57.5018577Z ##[section]Starting: Deploy Azure App Service
2019-02-27T18:51:57.5028370Z ==============================================================================
2019-02-27T18:51:57.5028503Z Task : Azure App Service Deploy
2019-02-27T18:51:57.5029162Z Description : Update Azure App Services on Windows, Web App on Linux with built-in images or Docker containers, ASP.NET, .NET Core, PHP, Python or Node.js based Web applications, Function Apps, Mobile Apps, API applications, Web Jobs using Web Deploy / Kudu REST APIs
2019-02-27T18:51:57.5029281Z Version : 3.4.21
2019-02-27T18:51:57.5029357Z Author : Microsoft Corporation
2019-02-27T18:51:57.5029433Z Help : [More information](https://aka.ms/azurermwebdeployreadme)
2019-02-27T18:51:57.5029534Z ==============================================================================
2019-02-27T18:51:58.2314716Z Got connection details for Azure App Service:'myproject'
2019-02-27T18:52:01.5712562Z Updating App Service Application settings. Data: {"MSDEPLOY_RENAME_LOCKED_FILES":"1"}
2019-02-27T18:52:20.6292666Z Updated App Service Application settings and Kudu Application settings.
2019-02-27T18:52:20.6292953Z Rename locked files enabled for App Service.
2019-02-27T18:52:20.6811253Z ##[error]RangeError: Invalid typed array length
2019-02-27T18:52:23.2141473Z Successfully updated deployment History at https://myproject.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/deployments/31551293542097
2019-02-27T18:52:23.2230607Z ##[section]Finishing: Deploy Azure App Service

I don't know what script / config is controlling this and so I have no idea what array this error is referring to.
My build pipeline completed successfully.

A: Well, the cool thing is that the Azure App Deploy script is open source. I'm not exactly sure where the Range Error is bubbling up from; but if I had to guess, I would say it's occurring when the script is doing some file IO operation per your deployment options (image below).
One thing to look at are the files on your web app and see if anything looks suspicious like an old file that hadn't been updated in while. Since your deployment succeeds and your app runs fine, it could be something content related.


After getting my head wrapped around AD&D 1st Edition's combat system, I've gone back and re-read Castles & Crusades and Swords & Wizardry's initiative and combat systems. In the case of S&W, all the presented options. In the past, I glossed over those sections with the thought, "Yeah, yeah. I know how to do this." Turns out that I missed some things.
Did you know that in Castles & Crusades that, in the first round of combat, longer weapons/larger creatures get to act first in the the first combat round even if they didn't win initiative?
Did you know that combat round segments are presented as an option in Swords & Wizardry Complete?
I've become a keener reader.