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Reddy also alleged that the Centre has been using the I-T department to intimidate Congress leaders and their supporters.
Bengaluru: Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy on Friday claimed that phone calls of Congress leaders were being tapped to get details of their strategies for the May 12 assembly polls and blamed BJP president Amit Shah for it. Reddy claimed it has been on for the past three months.
“For the past fortnight, the tapping is happening for almost 18 hours a day. There are teams from Gujarat, Jaipur and Delhi involved in the activity and boys associated with BJP and its affiliated organisations are working in these teams from Karnataka,” he said.
Blaming Shah for the phone tapping, the minister claimed that the teams were tasked with recording the conversation and then translating it in Hindi or English.
The minister alleged that the plan was to use the conversation to defame them and accused the Centre of trying every strategy to trouble the Congress leaders in Karnataka.
Reddy also alleged that while phone tapping was in progress on the one hand, the Centre has been using the Income Tax department to intimidate Congress leaders and their supporters.
“There is nothing wrong in raiding those who are evading taxes but when people like Congress MLA and candidate from Anekal B Shivanna are targetted, it becomes even more evident that the centre was trying to harass them. What did the I-T sleuths get from the raids on Shivanna’s premises? A mere Rs 4.75 lakh. I-T has been used to intimidate Congress leaders and their supporters,” Reddy said.
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Q: Derive a constant in Kullback-Liebler divergence proof From Kullback-Liebler divergence of matrix factorization;
\begin{equation*} \mathrm{X}\approx\mathbf{WH} \tag{1} \end{equation*}
How equation $(2)$ is derived to constant equality in equation $(3)$? 
Why does $X_{f,t}\log{X_{f,t}}-X_{f,t}$ disappear?
\begin{equation*} d_{\mathrm{KL}} (\mathbf{X}\ \vert\vert \mathbf{WH})=\sum_{f,t}\left(X_{f,t}\log\frac{X_{f,t}}{WH_{f,t}}-X_{f,t}+WH_{f,t}\right) \tag{2} \end{equation*}
\begin{equation*} \stackrel{\hbox{cst.}}{\hbox{=}} \sum_{f,t}-X_{f,t}\log\sum_{k}{WH_{f,t}} + \sum_{f,t}\sum_{k}{WH_{f,t}} \tag{3} \end{equation*}
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Metropolitan Hilarion departed New York for Florida on Sunday evening, November 25, 2012, On Tuesday, November 27, the believers of the Eastern American Diocese gathered at St. Vladimir’s Church in Miami for the funeral of Fr Damian. The funerary Liturgy and burial was led by His Eminence.
The rest of Vladyka Hilarion’s week was tightly scheduled, interesting and productive.
On Friday, November 30, His Eminence visited the newly-opened Paideia Classical Academy, an orthodox Christian school for South Florida. The director and teachers told him about their achievements and hopes for the future, asking the First Hierarch to bless and pray for them.
On Saturday, December 1, at 10 AM, Metropolitan Hilarion gave the Church of St. Matrona of Moscow in Hallandale (near Miami), an invaluable gift: a portion of the relics of St. Nicholas the Miracle-worker and an icon of St. Matrona, gifts from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Metropolitan Hilarion and other clergymen performed a moleben to St. Nicholas in the presence of a great multitude of worshipers, and that evening the Primate of the Russian Church Abroad performed all-night vigil.
On Sunday, December 2nd, Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Church of St. Matrona, at which Vladyka Hilarion officiated, along with Archimandrite Alexander (Belya), the parish rector, Archimandrite Isaac (Chakley), Prior of Holy Trinity Monastery of Khust-Gorodilovo in Ukraine, Protopriest Ernest Rapsun and Protopriest Nikolai Masniuk from the Czech Republic, Hieromonk Nicholas Perekrestov from New York and Priest Joseph Lucas of the Orthodox Church in America. After Liturgy, which filled everyone with great joy, His Eminence warmly greeted the many parishioners who came to piously welcome the holy relics. Vladyka noted, in particular, the zealous and fruitful labors of Fr. Alexander, who over the course of only one year decorated the church with the help of faithful helpers, introduced a regular cycle of divine services, and established a vibrant parish life. The parishioners of the Church of St. Matrona and visiting worshipers openly and earnestly expressed their spiritual elation at being given the chance to venerate the holy relics and gave thanks to their First Hierarch for his general archpastoral ministry and prayerful support.
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