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function [mvardata] = ft_mvaranalysis(cfg, data)

% FT_MVARANALYSIS performs multivariate autoregressive modeling on
% time series data over multiple trials.
%
% Use as
%   [mvardata] = ft_mvaranalysis(cfg, data)
%
% The input data should be organised in a structure as obtained from
% the FT_PREPROCESSING function. The configuration depends on the type
% of computation that you want to perform.
% The output is a data structure of datatype 'mvar' which contains the
% multivariate autoregressive coefficients in the field coeffs, and the
% covariance of the residuals in the field noisecov.
%
% The configuration should contain:
%   cfg.toolbox    = the name of the toolbox containing the function for the
%                     actual computation of the ar-coefficients
%                     this can be 'biosig' (default) or 'bsmart'
%                    you should have a copy of the specified toolbox in order
%                     to use mvaranalysis (both can be downloaded directly).
%   cfg.mvarmethod = scalar (only required when cfg.toolbox = 'biosig').
%                     default is 2, relates to the algorithm used for the
%                     computation of the AR-coefficients by mvar.m
%   cfg.order      = scalar, order of the autoregressive model (default=10)
%   cfg.channel    = 'all' (default) or list of channels for which an mvar model
%                     is fitted. (Do NOT specify if cfg.channelcmb is
%                     defined)
%   cfg.channelcmb = specify channel combinations as a
%                     two-column cell array with channels in each column between
%                     which a bivariate model will be fit (overrides
%                     cfg.channel)
%   cfg.keeptrials = 'no' (default) or 'yes' specifies whether the coefficients
%                     are estimated for each trial seperately, or on the
%                     concatenated data
%   cfg.jackknife  = 'no' (default) or 'yes' specifies whether the coefficients
%                     are estimated for all leave-one-out sets of trials
%   cfg.zscore     = 'no' (default) or 'yes' specifies whether the channel data
%                      are z-transformed prior to the model fit. This may be
%                      necessary if the magnitude of the signals is very different
%                      e.g. when fitting a model to combined MEG/EMG data
%   cfg.demean     = 'yes' (default) or 'no' explicit removal of DC-offset
%   cfg.ems        = 'no' (default) or 'yes' explicit removal ensemble mean
%
% ft_mvaranalysis can be used to obtain one set of coefficients for
% the whole common time axis defined in the data. It will throw an error
% if the trials are of variable length, or if the time axes of the trials
% are not equal to one another.
%
% ft_mvaranalysis can be also used to obtain time-dependent sets of
% coefficients based on a sliding window. In this case the input cfg
% should contain:
%
%   cfg.t_ftimwin = the width of the sliding window on which the coefficients
%                    are estimated
%   cfg.toi       = [t1 t2 ... tx] the time points at which the windows are
%                    centered
%
% To facilitate data-handling and distributed computing with the peer-to-peer
% module, this function has the following options:
%   cfg.inputfile   =  ...
%   cfg.outputfile  =  ...
% If you specify one of these (or both) the input data will be read from a *.mat
% file on disk and/or the output data will be written to a *.mat file. These mat
% files should contain only a single variable, corresponding with the
% input/output structure.
%
% See also FT_PREPROCESSING, FT_SOURCESTATISTICS, FT_FREQSTATISTICS,
% FT_TIMELOCKSTATISTICS

% Undocumented local options:
%   cfg.keeptapers
%   cfg.taper

% Copyright (C) 2009, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen
%
% This file is part of FieldTrip, see http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip
% for the documentation and details.
%
%    FieldTrip is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
%    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
%    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
%    (at your option) any later version.
%
%    FieldTrip is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
%    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
%    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
%    GNU General Public License for more details.
%
%    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
%    along with FieldTrip. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
%
% $Id: ft_mvaranalysis.m 7393 2013-01-23 14:33:27Z jorhor $

revision = '$Id: ft_mvaranalysis.m 7393 2013-01-23 14:33:27Z jorhor $';

% do the general setup of the function
ft_defaults
ft_preamble help
ft_preamble provenance
ft_preamble trackconfig
ft_preamble debug
ft_preamble loadvar data

% check if the input data is valid for this function
data = ft_checkdata(data, 'datatype', 'raw', 'hassampleinfo', 'yes');

% check if the input cfg is valid for this function
cfg = ft_checkconfig(cfg, 'renamed', {'blc', 'demean'});
cfg = ft_checkconfig(cfg, 'renamed', {'blcwindow', 'baselinewindow'});

% set default configurations
if ~isfield(cfg, 'toolbox'),    cfg.toolbox    = 'biosig';       end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'mvarmethod'), cfg.mvarmethod = 2;              end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'order'),      cfg.order      = 10;             end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'channel'),    cfg.channel    = 'all';          end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'keeptrials'), cfg.keeptrials = 'no';           end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'jackknife'),  cfg.jackknife  = 'no';           end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'zscore'),     cfg.zscore     = 'no';           end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'feedback'),   cfg.feedback   = 'textbar';      end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'demean'),     cfg.demean     = 'yes';          end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'ems'),        cfg.ems        = 'no';           end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'toi'),        cfg.toi        = [];             end
if ~isfield(cfg, 't_ftimwin'),  cfg.t_ftimwin  = [];             end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'keeptapers'), cfg.keeptapers = 'yes';          end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'taper'),      cfg.taper      = 'rectwin';      end

% check that cfg.channel and cfg.channelcmb are not both specified
if ~any(strcmp(cfg.channel, 'all')) && isfield(cfg, 'channelcmb')
  warning('cfg.channelcmb defined, overriding cfg.channel setting and computing over bivariate pairs');
end

% check whether the requested toolbox is present and check the configuration
switch cfg.toolbox
  case 'biosig'
    % check the configuration
    cfg = ft_checkconfig(cfg, 'required', 'mvarmethod');
    ft_hastoolbox('biosig', 1);
    nnans = cfg.order;
  case 'bsmart'
    ft_hastoolbox('bsmart', 1);
    nnans = 0;
  otherwise
    error('toolbox %s is not yet supported', cfg.toolbox);
end

if isempty(cfg.toi) && isempty(cfg.t_ftimwin)
  % fit model to entire data segment
  ok = 1;
  for k = 1:numel(data.trial)
    % if any(data.time{k}~=data.time{1}),
    if size(data.trial{k},2) ~= size(data.trial{1},2)
      ok = 0;
      break
    end
  end

  if ~ok
    error('time axes of all trials should be identical');
  else
    cfg.toi       = mean(data.time{1}([1 end]))       + 0.5/data.fsample;
    cfg.t_ftimwin = data.time{1}(end)-data.time{1}(1) + 1/data.fsample;
  end

elseif ~isempty(cfg.toi) && ~isempty(cfg.t_ftimwin)
  % do sliding window approach

else
  error('cfg should contain both cfg.toi and cfg.t_ftimwin');
end

cfg.channel = ft_channelselection(cfg.channel, data.label);

keeprpt  = strcmp(cfg.keeptrials, 'yes');
keeptap  = strcmp(cfg.keeptapers, 'yes');
dojack   = strcmp(cfg.jackknife,  'yes');
dozscore = strcmp(cfg.zscore,     'yes');
dobvar   = isfield(cfg,           'channelcmb');

if ~keeptap, error('not keeping tapers is not possible yet'); end
if dojack && keeprpt, error('you cannot simultaneously keep trials and do jackknifing'); end

tfwin    = round(data.fsample.*cfg.t_ftimwin);
ntrl     = length(data.trial);
ntoi     = length(cfg.toi);

if ~dobvar
  chanindx = match_str(data.label, cfg.channel);
  nchan    = length(chanindx);
  label    = data.label(chanindx);

  ncmb     = nchan*nchan;
  cmbindx1 = repmat(chanindx(:),  [1 nchan]);
  cmbindx2 = repmat(chanindx(:)', [nchan 1]);
  labelcmb = [data.label(cmbindx1(:)) data.label(cmbindx2(:))];
else
  cfg.channelcmb = ft_channelcombination(cfg.channelcmb, data.label);
  cmbindx        = zeros(size(cfg.channelcmb));
  for k = 1:size(cmbindx,1)
    [tmp, cmbindx(k,:)] = match_str(cfg.channelcmb(k,:)', data.label);
  end

  nchan    = 2;
  label    = data.label(cmbindx);

  ncmb     = nchan*nchan;
  labelcmb = cell(0,2);
  cmb      = cfg.channelcmb;

  for k = 1:size(cmbindx,1)
    labelcmb{end+1,1} = [cmb{k,1},'[',cmb{k,1},cmb{k,2},']'];
    labelcmb{end  ,2} = [cmb{k,1},'[',cmb{k,1},cmb{k,2},']'];
    labelcmb{end+1,1} = [cmb{k,2},'[',cmb{k,1},cmb{k,2},']'];
    labelcmb{end  ,2} = [cmb{k,1},'[',cmb{k,1},cmb{k,2},']'];
    labelcmb{end+1,1} = [cmb{k,1},'[',cmb{k,1},cmb{k,2},']'];
    labelcmb{end  ,2} = [cmb{k,2},'[',cmb{k,1},cmb{k,2},']'];
    labelcmb{end+1,1} = [cmb{k,2},'[',cmb{k,1},cmb{k,2},']'];
    labelcmb{end  ,2} = [cmb{k,2},'[',cmb{k,1},cmb{k,2},']'];
  end
end

%---think whether this makes sense at all
if strcmp(cfg.taper, 'dpss')
  % create a sequence of DPSS (Slepian) tapers
  % ensure that the input arguments are double precision
  tap = double_dpss(tfwin,tfwin*(cfg.tapsmofrq./data.fsample))';
  tap = tap(1,:); %only use first 'zero-order' taper
elseif strcmp(cfg.taper, 'sine')
  tap = sine_taper(tfwin, tfwin*(cfg.tapsmofrq./data.fsample))';
  tap = tap(1,:);
else
  tap = window(cfg.taper, tfwin)';
  tap = tap./norm(tap);
end
ntap = size(tap,1);

%---preprocess data if necessary
%---cut off the uninteresting data segments
tmpcfg        = [];
tmpcfg.toilim = cfg.toi([1 end]) + cfg.t_ftimwin.*[-0.5 0.5];
data          = ft_redefinetrial(tmpcfg, data);

%---demean
if strcmp(cfg.demean, 'yes'),
  tmpcfg           = [];
  tmpcfg.demean    = 'yes';
  tmpcfg.baselinewindow = cfg.toi([1 end]) + cfg.t_ftimwin.*[-0.5 0.5];
  data             = ft_preprocessing(tmpcfg, data);
else
  %do nothing
end

%---ensemble mean subtraction
if strcmp(cfg.ems, 'yes')
  % to be implemented
end

%---zscore
if dozscore,
  zwindow = cfg.toi([1 end]) + cfg.t_ftimwin.*[-0.5 0.5];
  sumval  = 0;
  sumsqr  = 0;
  numsmp  = 0;
  trlindx = [];
  for k = 1:ntrl
    begsmp = nearest(data.time{k}, zwindow(1));
    endsmp = nearest(data.time{k}, zwindow(2));
    if endsmp>=begsmp,
      sumval  = sumval + sum(data.trial{k}(:, begsmp:endsmp),    2);
      sumsqr  = sumsqr + sum(data.trial{k}(:, begsmp:endsmp).^2, 2);
      numsmp  = numsmp + endsmp - begsmp + 1;
      trlindx = [trlindx; k];
    end
  end
  datavg = sumval./numsmp;
  datstd = sqrt(sumsqr./numsmp - (sumval./numsmp).^2);

  data.trial = data.trial(trlindx);
  data.time  = data.time(trlindx);
  ntrl       = length(trlindx);
  for k = 1:ntrl
    rvec          = ones(1,size(data.trial{k},2));
    data.trial{k} = (data.trial{k} - datavg*rvec)./(datstd*rvec);
  end
else
  %do nothing
end

%---generate time axis
maxtim = -inf;
mintim = inf;
for k = 1:ntrl
  maxtim = max(maxtim, data.time{k}(end));
  mintim = min(mintim, data.time{k}(1));
end
timeaxis = mintim:1/data.fsample:maxtim;

%---allocate memory
if ~dobvar && (keeprpt || dojack)
  coeffs   = zeros(length(data.trial), nchan, nchan, cfg.order, ntoi, ntap);
  noisecov = zeros(length(data.trial), nchan, nchan,            ntoi, ntap);
elseif ~dobvar
  coeffs   = zeros(1, nchan, nchan, cfg.order, ntoi, ntap);
  noisecov = zeros(1, nchan, nchan,            ntoi, ntap);
elseif dobvar && (keeprpt || dojack)
  % not yet implemented
  error('doing bivariate model fits in combination with multiple replicates is not yet possible');
elseif dobvar
  coeffs   = zeros(1, size(cmbindx,1), 2*nchan,  cfg.order, ntoi, ntap);
  noisecov = zeros(1, size(cmbindx,1), 2*nchan,             ntoi, ntap);
end

%---loop over the tois
ft_progress('init', cfg.feedback, 'computing AR-model');
for j = 1:ntoi
  ft_progress(j/ntoi, 'processing timewindow %d from %d\n', j, ntoi);
  sample        = nearest(timeaxis, cfg.toi(j));
  cfg.toi(j)    = timeaxis(sample);

  tmpcfg        = [];
  tmpcfg.toilim = [timeaxis(sample-floor(tfwin/2)) timeaxis(sample+ceil(tfwin/2)-1)];
  tmpcfg.feedback = 'no';
  tmpcfg.minlength= 'maxperlen';
  tmpdata       = ft_redefinetrial(tmpcfg, data);

  cfg.toi(j)    = mean(tmpdata.time{1}([1 end]))+0.5./data.fsample; %FIXME think about this

  %---create cell-array indexing which original trials should go into each replicate
  rpt  = {};
  nrpt = numel(tmpdata.trial);
  if dojack
    rpt = cell(nrpt,1);
    for k = 1:nrpt
      rpt{k,1} = setdiff(1:nrpt,k);
    end
  elseif keeprpt
    for k = 1:nrpt
      rpt{k,1} = k;
    end
  else
    rpt{1} = 1:numel(tmpdata.trial);
    nrpt   = 1;
  end

  for rlop = 1:nrpt

    if dobvar % bvar
      for m = 1:ntap
        %---construct data-matrix
        for k = 1:size(cmbindx,1)
          dat = catnan(tmpdata.trial, cmbindx(k,:), rpt{rlop}, tap(m,:), nnans, dobvar);

          %---estimate autoregressive model
          switch cfg.toolbox
            case 'biosig'
              [ar, rc, pe] = mvar(dat', cfg.order, cfg.mvarmethod);

              %---compute noise covariance
              tmpnoisecov     = pe(:,nchan*cfg.order+1:nchan*(cfg.order+1));
            case 'bsmart'
              [ar, tmpnoisecov] = armorf(dat, numel(rpt{rlop}), size(tmpdata.trial{1},2), cfg.order);
              ar = -ar; %convention is swapped sign with respect to biosig
              %FIXME check which is which: X(t) = A1*X(t-1) + ... + An*X(t-n) + E
              %the other is then X(t) + A1*X(t-1) + ... + An*X(t-n) = E
          end
          coeffs(rlop,k,:,:,j,m) = reshape(ar, [nchan*2 cfg.order]);

          %---rescale noisecov if necessary
          if dozscore, % FIX ME for bvar
            noisecov(rlop,k,:,:,j,m) = diag(datstd)*tmpnoisecov*diag(datstd);
          else
            noisecov(rlop,k,:,j,m) = reshape(tmpnoisecov,[1 4]);
          end
          dof(rlop,:,j) = numel(rpt{rlop});
        end
      end
    else % mvar
      for m = 1:ntap
        %---construct data-matrix
        dat = catnan(tmpdata.trial, chanindx, rpt{rlop}, tap(m,:), nnans, dobvar);

        %---estimate autoregressive model
        switch cfg.toolbox
          case 'biosig'
            [ar, rc, pe] = mvar(dat', cfg.order, cfg.mvarmethod);

            %---compute noise covariance
            tmpnoisecov     = pe(:,nchan*cfg.order+1:nchan*(cfg.order+1));
          case 'bsmart'
            [ar, tmpnoisecov] = armorf(dat, numel(rpt{rlop}), size(tmpdata.trial{1},2), cfg.order);
            ar = -ar; %convention is swapped sign with respect to biosig
            %FIXME check which is which: X(t) = A1*X(t-1) + ... + An*X(t-n) + E
            %the other is then X(t) + A1*X(t-1) + ... + An*X(t-n) = E
        end
        coeffs(rlop,:,:,:,j,m) = reshape(ar, [nchan nchan cfg.order]);

        %---rescale noisecov if necessary
        if dozscore,
          noisecov(rlop,:,:,j,m) = diag(datstd)*tmpnoisecov*diag(datstd);
        else
          noisecov(rlop,:,:,j,m) = tmpnoisecov;
        end
        dof(rlop,:,j) = numel(rpt{rlop});
      end %---tapers
    end

  end %---replicates

end %---tois
ft_progress('close');

%---create output-structure
mvardata          = [];

if ~dobvar && dojack,
  mvardata.dimord = 'rptjck_chan_chan_lag';
elseif ~dobvar && keeprpt,
  mvardata.dimord = 'rpt_chan_chan_lag';
elseif ~dobvar
  mvardata.dimord = 'chan_chan_lag';
  mvardata.label  = label;
  siz    = [size(coeffs) 1];
  coeffs = reshape(coeffs, siz(2:end));
  siz    = [size(noisecov) 1];
  noisecov = reshape(noisecov, siz(2:end));
elseif dobvar
  mvardata.dimord = 'chancmb_lag';
  siz    = [size(coeffs) 1];
  coeffs = reshape(coeffs, [siz(2) * siz(3) siz(4) siz(5)]);
  siz    = [size(noisecov) 1];
  noisecov = reshape(noisecov, [siz(2) * siz(3) siz(4)]);
  mvardata.labelcmb = labelcmb;
end
mvardata.coeffs   = coeffs;
mvardata.noisecov = noisecov;
mvardata.dof      = dof;
if numel(cfg.toi)>1
  mvardata.time   = cfg.toi;
  mvardata.dimord = [mvardata.dimord,'_time'];
end
mvardata.fsampleorig = data.fsample;

% do the general cleanup and bookkeeping at the end of the function
ft_postamble debug
ft_postamble trackconfig
ft_postamble provenance
ft_postamble previous data
ft_postamble history mvardata
ft_postamble savevar mvardata

%----------------------------------------------------
%subfunction to concatenate data with nans in between
function [datamatrix] = catnan(datacells, chanindx, trials, taper, nnans, dobvar)

nchan = length(chanindx);
nsmp  = size(datacells{1}, 2);
nrpt  = numel(trials);

%---initialize
datamatrix = nan(nchan, nsmp*nrpt + nnans*(nrpt-1));

%---fill the matrix
for k = 1:nrpt
  if k==1,
    begsmp = (k-1)*nsmp + 1;
    endsmp =  k   *nsmp    ;
  else
    begsmp = (k-1)*(nsmp+nnans) + 1;
    endsmp =  k   *(nsmp+nnans) - nnans;
  end
  if ~dobvar
    datamatrix(:,begsmp:endsmp) = datacells{trials(k)}(chanindx,:).*taper(ones(nchan,1),:);
  else
    datamatrix(:,begsmp:endsmp) = datacells{trials(k)}(chanindx',:).*taper(ones(nchan,1),:);
  end
end

%------------------------------------------------------
%---subfunction to ensure that the first two input arguments are of double
% precision this prevents an instability (bug) in the computation of the
% tapers for Matlab 6.5 and 7.0
function [tap] = double_dpss(a, b, varargin)
tap = dpss(double(a), double(b), varargin{:});

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Olanta is a town in Florence County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 563 at the 2010 census, down from 613 in 2000. It is part of the Florence Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Geography
Olanta is located in south Florence County at  (33.936256, -79.931944). U.S. Route 301 passes through the town as Jones Road, leading northeast  to Florence, the county seat, and southwest  to Manning. South Carolina Highway 341 leads northwest from Olanta  to Lynchburg and southeast 13 miles to Lake City. South Carolina Highway 541 leads east  to Coward.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which , or 0.44%, is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 613 people, 206 households, and 133 families residing in the town. The population density was 632.3 people per square mile (244.0/km2). There were 223 housing units at an average density of 230.0 per square mile (88.8/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 61.34% White, 37.52% African American, 0.98% from other races, and 0.16% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.14% of the population.

There were 206 households, out of which 28.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.8% were married couples living together, 20.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.4% were non-families. 32.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.15.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 21.4% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 27.2% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 21.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 105.1 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $27,813, and the median income for a family was $27,813. Males had a median income of $28,438 versus $17,361 for females. The per capita income for the town was $12,606. About 17.8% of families and 28.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 54.0% of those under age 18 and 11.7% of those age 65 or over.

Education
Olanta has a public library, a branch of the Florence County Library System.

References

External links
Town of Olanta official website

Towns in Florence County, South Carolina
Towns in South Carolina
Florence, South Carolina metropolitan area

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About every other month, Tobril and I have what amounts to the same argument about guild renown. He feels we should cull the guild and make the bigger small size bonus work for us. (I like how that last line read.) I feel we need the accounts that are in the guild to pull more renown.
Anyway, here is the deal. Tobril, the wife and I all have piking accounts, some in the guild others not. I also have the info for Phlor's account which I am slowing working on; it is also in the guild. So on weekends and some quests our pikers are busy bodies, the rest of the week not so much. But still doubling or almost doubling renown for some quests has to be better then getting a few more % but gain less over all, right?
Hmmm, no one chimed in to finish this post for me. Guess I will jump to my version of the renown test.
Starting tonight I will screen shot my alt piking account's current guild renown earned and then I will play him like normal for the week and take a follow up SS at the end of the week and see how he did. Thing is will it even matter?
A normal week for my piker is 4-5 wizkings, how ever many Devil Assaults the wife wants to do, the 3-5 raids we do on the weekends and tag along for whatever item I am grinding for that I can hunt up solo. Example it was that account that finally pulled that Seal for the Antique Greataxe for Darth Samius. I just happened to ransack the chests on 3 guys hunting for that seal last week.
I should also point out that my main alt account guy has capped his epic levels and is working on capping out his 3rd or 4th destiny just from piking.
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Q: Volume calculated by different orders of integration How to write  volume of region
$$S=\{(x,y,z): (x-2)^2+y^2<4, z<3-x^2-y^2,z=-1\}$$ in orders x-y-z and y-z-x of integration.
 I tried something but I don't get same result.
First, for x-y-z order I found proection to x-y plane
so I think integral is: $$\int\limits_{x=0}^1 \int\limits_{y=-\sqrt{4 - (x - 2)^2}}^{\sqrt{4 - (x - 2)^2}} \int\limits_{z=-1}^{3-x^2-y^2} 1\ dz\ dy\ dx + \int\limits_{x=1}^2 \int\limits_{y=-\sqrt{4 - x^2}}^{\sqrt{4 - x^2}} \int\limits_{z=-1}^{3-x^2-y^2} 1\ dz\ dy\ dx $$
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$$\int\limits_{y=-2 }^2 dy\int\limits_{-1 }^{3-y^2} dz\int\limits_{x=2- \sqrt{4-y^2}}^{\sqrt{3-y^2-z}} 1\ dx $$

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$$\int\limits_{x=0}^2 \int\limits_{y=-\sqrt{4 - (x - 2)^2}}^{\sqrt{4 - (x - 2)^2}} \int\limits_{z=-1}^{3-x^2-y^2} 1\ dx\ dy\ dz = \frac{64}{3} - 4 \pi$$

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The 1991 Gulf War was the first international dispute following the Cold War. In January 1991, following the August 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the build up of multi-national military forces, "Desert Storm" began with the bombing of Iraq. In February, Iraqi military forces fled Kuwait under the "Desert Sword" battle plan, and on March 3, under a provisional cease fire agreement, the war was officially over. The Gulf War had attracted much attention due to the use of high tech weaponry such as the stealth bomber and Patriot missiles, but it was the ground troops that had ensured victory for the multi-national force.
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Published at 01:45 pm February 24th, 2019
Creating works of art...to be devoured!
What do 11-year-olds spend their free time doing? Worry about studies, think about what to play, or perhaps cook up some mischievous plan? Well, not this 11-year-old. With a booming online business run through a Facebook page by the name of "Piece O Cake by Samaya", Samaya Chowdhury spends her spare time indulging in her passion for baking. From a very young age, Samaya developed an interest in the art of baking, inspired by her grandmother. Always willing to participate in some way or the other, Samaya hovered around her nanu while she baked until she could finally assist. At the age of eight, Samaya baked her first cake.
There was a lot of practice that went into developing this skill, Samaya says. After a number of burnt cakes, Samaya moved on from plain cakes to using buttercream. Currently, she has become more proficient at using fondant. "Fondant is just like play-dough, you know," says Samaya; thus making the decorating process all the more exciting for her. She's always coming up with new and unique ideas to decorate.
Upon being asked how she manages her time, what with school and being a kid, Samaya says that she has the schedule down. After coming back from school, she finishes up all her school work by the evening and then begins working on her cake orders. Depending on how big the order is, sometimes Samaya has to work till past midnight, but because she loves the process so much, it doesn't wear her down. "I've never failed to deliver an order," the young baker says proudly.
Nabila Chowdhury, Samaya's mother, says that the support they got from Samaya's school teachers has been immense. Despite having to cut down the amount of time she could have potentially spent on studying, Samaya has managed to keep her grades up. "It takes about 10-12 years to fully master a skill," says Nabila, "and by the time we finish our studies and take up a hobby, we're too occupied to fully invest in it. Samaya is passionate about baking, and she doesn't let it hamper her studies, so I thought there was no better time than the present to let her pursue it."
Early last year, Nabila helped set up the page "Piece O Cake by Samaya", and under her supervision, Samaya jumpstarted her baking career. She bakes five cakes on average each week, and crafts different kinds of desserts for birthdays, bridal showers, or other festivities as such.
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Being an 11-year-old entrepreneur is by no means an easy feat, but Samaya sure does make it look sweet. Her creations may look too pretty to be eaten, but we can assure you, they taste even better!
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SUGAR CREEK, Mo. -- If you were issued a traffic ticket in Sugar Creek, you might have paid too much. A State audit found the small city near Independence was charging between 5 and 10 times the legal amount for some violations.
The excess fines were mostly issued to drivers who didn't buckle up. State law in Missouri caps fines on certain violations including seat belt and headlight use in fog at $10. Cities with charters, including Kansas City and Independence, are allowed to charge more. Both currently fine drivers $50.
No one is exactly sure when Sugar Creek changed its fine structure. But sources say the city raised its fines to $50 for seatbelt violators several years ago at the advice of the city attorney. But what apparently no one in the municipal court system or city hall realized is unlike chartered cities, fourth class cities in Missouri can not set their own fines.
"Everybody's price is different and I don't think that's right. It should all be set the same," Kelly Mewes said outside the Sugar Creek license office.
Some city and court officials declined official comment but said they feel the same way about the disparity in the law.
Police Chief Chris Soules said money is not his department's motivation for ticketing drivers for not wearing seat belts.
"We're not doing this for fines, we're not here to make money for the city or anything like that we're here for compliance," Chief Soules said.
It's unclear how many people were overcharged. The only year the auditor looked at there were 185 seatbelt violations. The audit also found Sugar Creek improperly set the fine and court cost structure for headlight violations in fog to total $125, though both the police chief and clerk of courts said those tickets were rarely written, if at all.
"If they were over charging and the state law is one amount and they charge more I would think it would be fair to refund the difference," Marshall Sanchez said outside the municipal court.
"We can't say hey can I pay less on this or that? If they are going to overcharge they should give it back," driver Rachel Ruiz agreed.
The city is now following state laws on fines, but has made no plans for refunds.
"Anything could have happened at the time, we apologize but we were doing the best we could," Mayor Mike Larson said.
Larson was elected in April of 2017, just months before the State Auditor announced the audit. Longtime City Administrator Ron Martinovich is scheduled to retire soon. City staff said he was on vacation until his retirement and unavailable for comment.
Auditors said in a news release they also found the court clerk frequently used a signature stamp for issuing warrants instead of having them signed by the judge or documenting specific authorization from the judge to issue the warrant. The court has since addressed those issues and discontinued collecting improper fines and costs.


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Supreme Court Decisions by Topic > FREEDOM OF THE PRESS >
Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA
No. 72-1040 Argued: October 16, 1973 --- Decided: January 9, 1974
MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a loyalty oath case. The question for decision is whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments are violated by Indiana's requirement, Ind. Ann.Stat. § 29-3812 (1969), that
[n]o existing or newly organized political party or organization shall be permitted on or to have the names of its candidates printed on the ballot used at any election until it has filed an affidavit, by its officers, under oath, that it does not advocate the overthrow [p443] of local, state or national government by force or violence. . . . [n1]
Appellants are the Communist Party of Indiana, a new political party in Indiana, certain of its officers and potential voters, and its candidates for President and Vice President in the 1972 election. Appellees are the Indiana State Election Board and its members. When appellants applied to the Election Board in August, 1972, for a place on Indiana's National Ballot for the 1972 general election without submitting the required oath, the Board, on the advice of the Attorney General of Indiana, rejected the application. Appellants thereupon filed this action in the District Court for the Northern District of Indiana seeking a declaration of the unconstitutionality [p444] of § 29-3812, and an injunction requiring that the Election Board place the Party on the ballot. A three-judge court was convened, and that court, on September 28, 1972, in an unreported opinion, declared the provision of § 29-3812 that is challenged on this appeal constitutional, and issued an order requiring the Election Board to place the Communist Party and its nominees on the National Ballot only "[i]n the event that the Communist Party of Indiana shall submit an affidavit in keeping with this memorandum and order. . . ." [n2] The Communist Party submitted an affidavit that, in addition to the statutory language, added the following:
The term "advocate," as used herein, has the meaning given it by the Supreme Court of the United States in Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 at 320, "the advocacy and teaching of concrete action for the forcible overthrow of the government, and not of principles divorced from action."
The Election Board rejected the affidavit, and appellants, on October 3, returned to the District Court, seeking an order directing the Board to accept it. On the same day, [p445] the Election Board filed a motion requesting reconsideration of the order of September 28. [n3] The District Court, on October 4, denied both motions by order entered that day. Appellants, on October 10, filed a notice of appeal to this Court to enable them to seek emergency relief. That effort was abandoned, and appellants then sought leave of the District Court to withdraw the notice of appeal in order that the District Court might act on a motion of appellants, also filed October 10, that the District Court amend its September 28 order to include a determination that § 29-3812 was constitutional "only insofar as it proscribes advocacy directed at promoting unlawful action, as distinguished from advocacy of abstract doctrine." On October 31, the District Court entered an order granting leave to withdraw the notice of appeal of October 10 but denying the motion to amend the September 28 memorandum.
Appellants refiled their notice of appeal on November 29. Appellees moved to dismiss the appeal as jurisdictionally untimely, arguing that the 60-day period for appeal, 28 U.S.C. § 2101(b), expired on November 27. We postponed consideration of the question of our jurisdiction to the merits. 410 U.S. 981 (1973). We hold that the appeal was timely. Appellees' motion for reconsideration of October 3 suspended the finality of the judgment of September 28 until the District Court's denial of the motion on October 4 restored it. Time [p446] for appeal thus began to run from October 4, and the notice of appeal filed November 29 was timely. [n4] As to the merits, we hold that the loyalty oath requirement of § 29-3812 violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments, [n5] and therefore reverse the judgment of the District Court. [n6] [p447]
Loyalty oath cases are not strangers to this Court, see Note, Loyalty Oaths, 77 Yale L.J. 739 (1968), but the constitutional questions presented in earlier cases arising from their use to limit access to the ballot have not had plenary consideration. [n7] The District Court decided this case under the pressure of a ballot printing deadline, and its memorandum opinion states no reasons, and cites no authorities to support the court's holding that
that portion of the statute providing "that it does not advocate the overthrow of local, state, or national government by force or violence" is constitutional, and hence enforceable by Indiana.
Appellees do not deny that § 29-3812 exacts a broad oath embracing advocacy of abstract doctrine as well as action. Yet this Court has held in many contexts that the first and Fourteenth Amendments render invalid statutes regulating advocacy that are not limited to advocacy of action. And, as we have so often emphasized, "[p]recision of regulation must be the touchstone in an area so closely touching our most precious freedoms." NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415, 438 (1963).
We most recently summarized the constitutional principles [p448] that have evolved in this area in Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444"]395 U.S. 444 (1969). We expressly overruled the earlier holding of 395 U.S. 444 (1969). We expressly overruled the earlier holding of Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927), that "without more, 'advocating' violent means to effect political and economic change involves such danger to the security of the State that the State may outlaw it." 395 U.S. at 447. For, we said:
[L]ater decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action. As we said in Noto v. United States, 367 U.S. 290, 297-298 (1961),
the mere abstract teaching . . . of the moral propriety or even moral necessity for a resort to force and violence is not the same as preparing a group for violent action and steeling it to such action. . . .
A statute which fails to draw this distinction impermissibly intrudes upon the freedoms guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. It sweeps within its condemnation speech which our Constitution has immunized from governmental control. Cf. Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957). . . .
Id. at 447-448.
This principle that
the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action
has been applied not only to statutes that directly forbid or proscribe advocacy, see Scales v. United States, 367 U.S. 203 (1961), Noto v. United States, 367 U.S. 290 (1961), Yates v. United States, [p449] 354 U.S. 298 (1957), but also to regulatory schemes that determine eligibility for public employment, Keyishian v. Board of Regents, 385 U.S. 589 (1967); Elfbrandt v. Russell, 384 U.S. 11 (1966); Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction, 368 U.S. 278 (1961); see also United States v. Robel, 389 U.S. 258 (1967); tax exemptions, Speiser v. Randall, 357 U.S. 513 (1958); and moral fitness justifying disbarment, Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners, 353 U.S. 232 (1957).
Appellees argue that the principle should nevertheless not obtain in cases of state regulation of access to the ballot. We perceive no reason to make an exception, and appellees suggest none. Indeed, all of the reasons for application of the principle in the other contexts are equally applicable here.
To be sure, administration of the electoral process is a matter that the Constitution largely entrusts to the States. But, in exercising their powers of supervision over elections and in setting qualifications for voters, the States may not infringe upon basic constitutional protections.
Kusper v. Pontikes, ante at 57 (footnote omitted). At stake are appellants' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to associate with others for the common advancement of political beliefs and ideas. "The right to associate with the political party of one's choice is an integral part of this basic constitutional freedom." Ibid.; Williams v. Rhodes, 393 U.S. 23, 30 (1968). At stake as well are appellants' interests as party members in casting an effective ballot. See Bullock v. Carter, 405 U.S. 134, 142-144 (1972).
Thus, burdening access to the ballot, rights of association in the political party of one's choice, interests in casting an effective vote and in running for office not because the Party urges others "to do something, now or in the future . . . , [but] . . . merely to believe in something," Yates v. United States, supra, at 325, is to [p450] infringe interests certainly as substantial as those in public employment, tax exemption, or the practice of law. For "the right to exercise the franchise in a free and unimpaired manner is preservative of other basic civil and political rights. . . ." Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 562 (1964). "Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined." Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 17 (1964).
Appellees argue:
It is fraudulent for a group seeking by violent revolution to overthrow our democratic form of government to disguise itself as a political party and use the very forms of the democracy it seeks to subvert in order to gain support and carry on its nefarious ends.
Brief for Appellees 7. Again, they argue
that the affidavit required under the statute refers to the official actions of the party itself, thus reducing to a minimum any possibility of "innocent involvement" in activities which might be considered advocacy.
Id. at 10. As we understand appellees, this is an argument that, at least for purposes of determining whether to grant a place on the ballot, any group that advocates violent overthrow as abstract doctrine must be regarded as necessarily advocating unlawful action. We reject that proposition. Its acceptance would only return the law to the "thoroughly discredited" regime of Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927), unanimously overruled by the Court in Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. at 447, 449. [n8]
Reversed. [p451]
1. Section 29-3812 reads in pertinent part as follows:
No political party or organization shall be recognized and given a place on or have the names of its candidates printed on the ballot used at any election which advocates the overthrow, by force or violence, of the local, state or national government, or which advocates, or carries on, a program of sedition or of treason, and which is affiliated or cooperates with or has any relation with any foreign government, or any political party or group of individuals of any foreign government. Any political party or organization which is in existence at the time of the passage of this act . . . or which shall have had a ticket on the ballot one or more times prior to any election, and which does not advocate any of the doctrines the advocacy of which is prohibited by this act, shall insert a plank in its platform that it does not advocate any of the doctrines prohibited by this act. No existing or newly organized political party or organization shall be permitted on or to have the names of its candidates printed on the ballot used at any election until it has filed an affidavit, by its officers, under oath, that it does not advocate the overthrow of local, state or national government by force or violence, and that it is not affiliated with and does not cooperate with nor has any relation with any foreign government, or any political party, organization or group of individuals of any foreign government. The affidavit herein provided for shall be filed with the state election board or the county election board having charge of the printing of the ballot on which such ticket is to appear.
2. The District Court's decision of September 28 also decided attacks upon the loyalty oath provision of § 29-3812 made in actions brought by two other new political parties, the American Independent Party and the Indiana Peace and Freedom Party. All three actions challenged, in addition to the "advocacy" provision, the provision of § 29-3812 requiring a party also to file an affidavit that
it is not affiliated with and does not cooperate with, nor has any relation with any foreign government, or any political party, organization or group of individuals of any foreign government.
The September 28 memorandum of the three-judge court declared this provision of § 29-3812 unconstitutional. The American Independent Party and the Indiana Peace and Freedom Party then filed affidavits accepted by the Election Board and were placed on the National Ballot for the 1972 elections. On November 11, the Election Board appealed that portion of the order to this Court. We summarily affirmed. Whitcomb v. Communist Party, 410 U.S. 976 (1973).
3. Section 29-3801, Ind.Stat.Ann. (1169), provides for ballot listing of any party that files petitions containing signatures of one-half of one percent "of the total vote of all parties cast in the state for secretary of state at the last preceding general election." The sufficiency of the Communist Party petitions in this respect was challenged by appellees in the District Court, but was not discussed in the court's September 28 memorandum, although the issuance of the injunction presupposed a decision adverse to appellees. The motion for reconsideration requested the court to reconsider that result.
4. Appellees also argue that the notice of appeal of November 29 was ineffective because the earlier notice of October 10 divested the District Court of jurisdiction, and that that jurisdiction could not have been revested by the granting of leave to withdraw the October 10 notice. But since the October 10 notice was clearly timely, that argument is reduced to an attack on the untimeliness under Supreme Court Rule 13(1) of the filing of the jurisdictional statement on January 26, 1973. Timely docketing of the jurisdictional statement is not, however, a jurisdictional requisite. Johnson v. Florida, 391 U.S. 596, 598 (1968).
Appellees' brief also invokes § 3 of the Communist Control Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 776, 50 U.S.C. § 842 providing that
[t]he Communist Party of the United States . . . [is] not entitled to any of the rights, privileges, and immunities attendant upon legal bodies created under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof. . . .
We have difficulty understanding appellees' argument that this statute is applicable to the Communist Party of Indiana or in any way relevant to the issues in this case. The statute was not relied upon by either the Election Board or the District Court when it denied declaratory relief. In any event, insofar as the argument is that this statute bars the Communist Party of Indiana from maintaining this action, it is rejected. See Communist Party, U.S.A. v. Catherwood, 367 U.S. 389 (1961).
5. Appellants also contend that the requirement is constitutionally precluded as an oath different from that prescribed for a President by Art. II, § 1, and for any other state or federal officer by Art. VI, cl. 3. See Cole v. Richardson, 405 U.S. 676 (1972). In view of our result, we need not address those contentions.
6. The only question presented in the jurisdictional statement is whether § 29-3812 is facially valid. Thus, we do not reach the question whether the Election Board's apparent failure to require the Republican and Democratic Parties, the two major parties in Indiana, to comply with the statute rises to the level of a denial of equal protection of the law as applied, or was within the Board's "prosecutorial discretion." We note, however, that the only relevant testimony in the District Court, given by the Board's clerk, is entirely silent as to the reasons behind the omission.
7. E.g., Lisker v. Kelley, 401 U.S. 928, summarily aff'g 315 F.Supp. 888 (1970); Gerende v. Board of Supervisors, 341 U.S. 56 (1951), presenting a constitutional challenge to a Maryland statute imposing a loyalty requirement on candidates for municipal office rested on
the narrowing construction tendered by the Attorney General [of Maryland] during oral argument so as to avoid the constitutional issue that was argued.
Whitehall v. Elkins, 389 U.S. 54, 58 (1967). And Socialist Labor Party v. Gilligan, 406 U.S. 583 (1972), was dismissed as insufficiently concrete and mature to permit adjudication, on the authority of Rescue Army v. Municipal Court, 331 U.S. 549 (1947).
8. Cf. Noto v. United States, 367 U.S. 290, 298 (1961), a prosecution under the Smith Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2385 where we held that the constitutional limitations require that criminal advocacy by the Communist Party be proved by
some substantial direct or circumstantial evidence of a call to violence now or in the future which is both sufficiently strong and sufficiently pervasive to lend color to the otherwise ambiguous theoretical material regarding Communist Party teaching, and to justify the inference that such a call to violence may fairly be imputed to the Party as a whole, and not merely to some narrow segment of it.
See also Scales v. United States, 367 U.S. 203"]367 U.S. 203 (1961); 367 U.S. 203 (1961); Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957).


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BOSTON -- State officials and shark experts say beachgoers don't need to worry after the summer's first confirmed great white shark sighting in Massachusetts waters.
A juvenile shark, 6- to 7-feet long and weighing about 150 pounds, was caught Saturday by a tuna boat about 20 miles off the coast. The crew tagged the shark and returned it to the sea.
The state's most famous shark attacks are fictional: The blockbuster film "Jaws" was shot on Martha's Vineyard.


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Q: change environment of a running process How might it be possible to alter some variable in the env of an already running process, for example through /proc/PID/environ? That "file" is read-only.
Need to change or unset the DISPLAY variable of a long-running batch job without killing it.

A: You can't do this without a nasty hacks - there's no API for this, no way to notify the process that its environment has changed (since that's not really possible anyway).
Even if you do manage to do that, there is no way to be sure that it will have any effect - the process could very well have cached the environment variable you're trying to poke (since nothing is supposed to be able to change it).
If you really do want to do this, and are prepared to pick up the pieces if things go wrong, you can use a debugger. See for instance this Stack Overflow question:
Is there a way to change another process's environment variables?
Essentially:
(gdb) attach process_id
(gdb) call putenv ("DISPLAY=your.new:value")
(gdb) detach

Other possible functions you could try to call are setenv or unsetenv.
Please do really keep in mind that this may not work, or have dire consequences if the process you target does "interesting" things with its environment block. Do test it out on non-critical processes first, but make sure these test processes mirror as close as possible the one you're trying to poke.

A: There is no need to do so if a batch job can read from a file system to retrieve a change. Just run a job with path to a temporary unique directory and pass the same path to the child shell script. Script will lock a file in that directory and write a file with new values near the lock file. A job script time to time will lock the same file, parse and read changes back from the values file. To find out how to make a lock in the unix shell just search for unix shell lock file or bash lock file, there is already exist a plenty solutions for that.
Benefits from this solution:

*

*portable between almost any OS like Windows or Unix

*no need to write and duplicate complex parsers for each interpreter (unix/windows/etc) to read back values from the file as long as the values file stays simple

Issues in implementation below:

*

*Implementation relies on a file lock in a shell redirection phase (flock in Linux to achieve exclusion effect, in Windows has a builtin exclusion)

*Each value for a variable is a single line value (not a multiline)

Implementation is stored here: https://sourceforge.net/p/contools/contools/HEAD/tree/trunk/Scripts/Tools/std
https://sourceforge.net/p/tacklelib/tacklelib/HEAD/tree/trunk/bash/tacklelib
The bash implementation:
set_vars_from_locked_file_pair.sh
#!/bin/bash

# Another variant of a configuration file variables read and set script.
# The script must stay as simple as possible, so for this task it uses these parameters:
# 1. path where to lock a lock file
# 2. path where to read a file with variable names (each per line)
# 3. path where to read a file with variable values (each per line, must be the same quantity of lines with the variable names file)

# Script can be ONLY included by "source" command.
if [[ -n "$BASH" && (-z "$BASH_LINENO" || ${BASH_LINENO[0]} -gt 0) ]]; then

function set_vars_from_locked_file_pair()
{
  # the lock file directory must already exist
  if [[ ! -d "${1%[/\\]*}" ]]; then
    echo "$0: error: lock file directory does not exist: \`${1%[/\\]*}\`" >&2
    return 1
  fi

  if [[ ! -f "${2//\\//}" ]]; then
    echo "$0: error: variable names file does not exist: \`$2\`" >&2
    return 2
  fi

  if [[ ! -f "${3//\\//}" ]]; then
    echo "$0: error: variable values file does not exist: \`$3\`" >&2
    return 3
  fi

  function LocalMain()
  {
    # open file for direct reading by the `read` in the same shell process
    exec 7< "$2"
    exec 8< "$3"

    # cleanup on return
    trap "rm -f \"$1\" 2> /dev/null; exec 8>&-; exec 7>&-; trap - RETURN" RETURN

    local __VarName
    local __VarValue

    # shared acquire of the lock file
    while :; do
      # lock via redirection to file
      {
        flock -s 9

        # simultaneous iteration over 2 lists in the same time
        while read -r -u 7 __VarName; do
          read -r -u 8 __VarValue
          # drop line returns
          __VarName="${__VarName//[$'\r\n']}"
          __VarValue="${__VarValue//[$'\r\n']}"
          # instead of `declare -gx` because `-g` is introduced only in `bash-4.2-alpha`
          export $__VarName="$__VarValue"
          (( ${4:-0} )) && echo "$__VarName=\`$__VarValue\`"
        done

        break

        # return with previous code
      } 9> "$1" 2> /dev/null # has exclusive lock been acquired?

      # busy wait
      sleep 0.02
    done
  }

  LocalMain "${1//\\//}" "${2//\\//}" "${3//\\//}" "${4:-0}"
}

fi

testlock.sh
#!/bin/bash

{
  flock -x 9 2> /dev/null
  read -n1 -r -p "Press any key to continue..."
  echo >&2
} 9> "lock"

The same on Windows (as an example of portability):
set_vars_from_locked_file_pair.bat
@echo off

rem Another variant of a configuration file variables read and set script.
rem The script must stay as simple as possible, so for this task it uses these parameters:
rem 1. path where to lock a lock file
rem 2. path where to read a file with variable names (each per line)
rem 3. path where to read a file with variable values (each per line, must be the same quantity of lines with the variable names file)

rem disable alternative variables expansion to avoid `!` character consumption
setlocal DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

set "FILE_LOCK_PATH=%~1"
set "FILE_VAR_NAMES_PATH=%~2"
set "FILE_VAR_VALUES_PATH=%~3"
set "PRINT_VARS_SET=%~4"

set "FILE_LOCK_DIR=%~d1"

rem the lock file directory must already exist
if not exist "%FILE_LOCK_DIR%" (
  echo.%~nx0: error: FILE_LOCK_DIR does not exist: "%FILE_LOCK_DIR%"
  exit /b 1
) >&2

if not exist "%FILE_VAR_NAMES_PATH%" (
  echo.%~nx0: error: FILE_VAR_NAMES_PATH does not exist: "%FILE_VAR_NAMES_PATH%"
  exit /b 2
) >&2

if not exist "%FILE_VAR_VALUES_PATH%" (
  echo.%~nx0: error: FILE_VAR_VALUES_PATH does not exist: "%FILE_VAR_VALUES_PATH%"
  exit /b 3
) >&2

rem The endlocal works only in the same call context
endlocal

rem exclusive acquire of the lock file
:REPEAT_LOCK_LOOP

(
  (
    rem if lock is acquired, then we are in...
    call :MAIN "%%~2" "%%~3" "%%~4"
    call set "LASTERROR=%%ERRORLEVEL%%"

    rem exit with return code from the MAIN
  ) 9> "%~1" && (del /F /Q /A:-D "%~1" & goto EXIT)
) 2>nul

rem Busy wait: with external call significantly reduces CPU consumption while in a waiting state
pathping localhost -n -q 1 -p 20 >nul 2>&1
goto REPEAT_LOCK_LOOP

:EXIT
exit /b %LASTERROR%

:MAIN
rem drop last error
type nul>nul

if %~30 NEQ 0 goto SET_WITH_PRINT

rem trick with simultaneous iteration over 2 lists in the same time
(
  for /f "usebackq eol=# tokens=* delims=" %%i in ("%~1") do (
    set /p "%%i="
  )
) < "%~2"

exit /b 0

:SET_WITH_PRINT
rem trick with simultaneous iteration over 2 lists in the same time
(
  for /f "usebackq eol=# tokens=* delims=" %%i in ("%~1") do (
    set /p "%%i="
    rem to filter out wrong matches of a variable from the `set "%%i"`
    for /f "usebackq eol=# tokens=1,* delims==" %%j in (`set "%%i"`) do if /i "%%j" == "%%i" echo.%%i=%%k
  )
) < "%~2"

exit /b 0

testlock.bat
@echo off

(
  pause
) 9> ./lock

To write the files in just make the same way lock in your code.

A: If I attach gdb to the current shell and try to set env variable it remains the same(or doesn't exist):
$] sudo gdb -p $$
(gdb) call putenv("TEST=1234")
$1 = 0
(gdb) call (char*) getenv("TEST")
$2 = 0x0
(gdb) detach
(gdb) quit
$] echo "TEST=$TEST"
TEST=

I've found out that putenv doesn't work, but setenv does:
$] sudo gdb -p $$
(gdb) call (int) setenv("TEST", "1234", 1)
$1 = 0
(gdb) call (char*) getenv("TEST")
$2 = 0x55f19ff5edc0 "1234"
(gdb) detach
(gdb) quit
$] echo "TEST=$TEST"
TEST=1234


Can you believe it's been 20 years? - by that's life!
She was just a baby when she appeared on TV screens around the world.
But now the 'Sun Baby' from The Teletubbies, named Jess Smith, is all grown up.
The now 20-year-old appeared on BBC South East to talk about how she landed the iconic role.
"I was being weighed at the hospital," she recalls.
"My mum took me and it just happened to be the same time that the producer of the old series had come in and wanted the hospital to get in contact with them if they'd seen any smiley babies.
The teletubbies enjoyed international success in 1997 thanks to its lead characters Tinky Winky, Dipsy, La La and Po.


"A Letter to my Wife " is dedicated to all the Parents who are sacrificing their time for their Kids and struggling to keep a Couple alive amidst Parenting.
As I am writing this to you, I am not complaining but trying to adapt to this new identity of yours.
A day had just begun- I opened my eyes to find you holding our Son, trying to make him sleep for some more time. He dozed off again and you straight away headed to the Kitchen without even noticing that I was watching you with half-eyes closed waiting for your Good morning wish.
He was up again and you welcomed his day with Hugs and Blessings. You got busy bathing him and making him ready for the day but I was still lying in Bed wanting you to wake me up with your sweet voice.
I shaved my beard off which you were insisting me for so many days but to my surprise, you did not even notice that and left for your Job. It was a loud goodbye while you were running downstairs which was once a Goodbye Hug.
Your attention has been shared and it is not 50-50. I know I am sounding childish but I think I feel jealous of him sometimes. At the end of the day, I patiently sit in front of TV and wait for you to make him sleep but I come back to find you in your dream world already.
We do not go out as a "couple" instead of "Parents". We did not sit alone for long to enjoy a late-night movie or early morning tea. I have no option but to hang out with Friends as your days end up making you tired leaving no space for us to enjoy our togetherness.
Though I did not like your timely calls round the day ( A confession) but now I crave for your single call inquiring about my day. Our calls are just the reminders now which were once the love messages.
I know I never appreciated those days when your name did not have "Mom" title but now, I want time to roll back to those golden days and I promise, I will make each day a remembrance, before we turn from Romantic Duo to Troublesome Trio.
Our time and romance has taken a backseat. Saying all that, I respect a Mother in you as you look after the needs of a new human being that came into our world, a human being that is innocent and need our Love.
You made me understand the things when Once, I tried to share my feelings with you. You convinced me that time will pass soon and things will be back to Normal.
But wait, all my hopes were shattered today when you surprised me with your plan to have a second child.
I wish you could read my heart.
He titled it "Letter to my Wife" and then he crumbled the paper, turned it into a ball and tossed it into Trash.
He is now ready to accept the new normal.
HOW ARE YOU KEEPING A COUPLE ALIVE IN THIS JOURNEY OF PARENTING?
Better to vent out your feelings before it is too late. Life is strange, but it can be tweaked a bit through efforts.
Ya, right Alok. Saru could read it in your eyes, you would need not write a letter.
Brilliantly penned Upasna. From a lovely dovey madly in love couple we became just parents. Mostly because I became more a mom and that's why hubby dear forever gave up the idea of the second child. I know it!
Ha ha…what is good that its a mutual decision. Thanks for your comment Roma.
Awww so sweet. Are you married? Did your Wife read this?
No I am still single. I have already asked my Girlfriend to read this blog. This blog is full of interesting things.
Really! I am so glad to know this. Its people like you, who are boosting me to write better and better each day.
Beautiful post! Been there, done that!
Thanks Karan. Happy to know that there are many like us.
Maybe one day I will end up feeling this. Loved the way you have written clean and simple.
I hope you would not feel like this. Talk with your partner and let your love win over this. Thanks Anil.
🙂 I think you spoke for most "dads" through this letter, Upasna. Life is irrevocably transformed with the arrival of a child in the family. Relationship equations change and it is up to the couple to keep their romance alive. Very nice post!
You are right Mam- Life is never same after Kids and change for ever. Sometimes, its really hard to keep the spark alive amidst all the responsibilities but I am glad My husband understands it and never make a fuss.
Wow, such a beautiful expression of longing and yearning. You have crafted it really well. I could feel for him.
Thanks Tarang. Its same for every new Father, I believe.
I liked the format of your post as a letter from the point of view of the husband. Having children is not for the faint of heart and does disrupt the life of a couple in so many ways. It certainly does test a relationship and can be stranger than fiction, for sure. And men are especially bewildered by it all. I remember my hubby being that way. He still is at times even though our babies are now 20 and 22 years old!
Hey Cathy, I am really sorry for delayed response. Don't know how I missed it.
You are right- Men feel possessive at times. I remember my Father saying this to my Mother that "Children matter more to you now"- When we were Teenagers. Parenthood tests Couple-hood always. Thanks for your comment.


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A Strategy To Be On The Last Train To The Gulag Still Ends Up At The Gulag
The Extinction Of The Liberal Intellectual
Way back in the now-utopian seeming days of the early 90s, I was in college at the protoypical midwest university, Bowling Green State. Set in a town surrounded on all sides by corn fields and home to the National Tractor Pulling Championships, BGSU is home to around 20,000 students. Not quite Big Ten sized but a decent sized school nevertheless. Being a short drive from where I went to high school, the campus was full of people I went to school with as a teen and was very upper Midwest culturally. Lots of kids from working class union families and farms and small towns. When I went there it was overwhelmingly white and I am guessing that is the same today even though BGSU has a "Chief Diversity and Belonging" officer. What the actual eff is "belonging"?
Anyway, as a young whippersnapper (who was already married and had two kids) I found myself in the very common for those times position of being a conservative kid in a school with a liberal faculty. Things were a lot simpler back then. Rush Limbaugh was edgy and new, I could still listen to NPR on the way to school without every story being about Trump. At least on the surface politics was still about stuff other than racial identity. Fags weren't getting "married", trannies were still relegated to the shadows where normal people didn't have to see them and the college girls were all feminists but still prowling for husbands.
Most of the student body was politically ambivalent, they were there to get a degree and get out so they could get a good job. There were a few wannabe radicals and people like me in the college Republicans club but most of the students stayed clear of overt political activism. The exception was the editorial pages of the school paper. There were a couple of regular opinion columnists posting predictable liberal drivel and me being me, I regularly sent letters to the editor refuting what they wrote. Kind of like slow motion trolling since it would be days later when my letters to the editor were printed. After a while, the editor of the paper invited me to write my own weekly column which I was happy to do, and I in turn got pretty nasty response letters. A few of my Poli Sci professors read my columns and would mention what I wrote in class. Obviously the editors of the school paper disagreed with my positions but they gave me an outlet to express a different opinion. In one of my more snarky columns I suggested that the pseudo-intellectual liberal elites would one day be extinct. How right I was.
That was then. Today? Even the far milder positions I held back then wouldn't be given a voice and the stuff I write now would probably get me expelled in the first week of class.
It marks a major change in liberal political discourse. When I was a student, liberals assumed they held the intellectual as well as moral high ground. Liberals used to love arguing their position, their righteous indignation spilling forth in a flood. Hell, you couldn't get them to shut up, always yammering about the working man and stuff. Their arguments were facile and flimsy but at least they made an argument and engaged in debate.
In the modern era that has all shifted drastically. The average liberal/progressive/Democratic Socialist/whatever the heck they are calling themselves has no interest in engaging in the public sphere. They don't want to present their case and refute their opponents, they would prefer to burn their opponents at the stake but as that is illegal (for now) they settle for silencing and censoring them. The once haughty liberal intellectual class are now snitches and cyber-assassins. People on social media boast of trawling the web looking for bad thinkers, reporting them for no reason and then celebrating when people get deplatformed as if they won some sort of great victory. Most liberals today are the same sort of people who used to inform on their neighbors to the Stasi and watch smugly from their apartment when their neighbor was hauled away in the middle of the night.
This is the result of liberalism transforming from a political movement into a religious movement. The average liberal today is as intractable and unthinking as a King James Only primitive Baptist. In place of "God said it, I believe it, that settles it!", you have "I saw it on Twitter, it made me feelz, if you disagree you're a Nazi!". They are not simply unwilling to debate the issues, they are incapable of debate. They have been conditioned, brainwashed, into believing whatever new leftist dogma they are told to believe. These are not simply positions they hold, they are part of their sense of self and to question a position they hold is to attack them as a person. Their reactions are visceral.
I used to spend (way too much) time arguing with people about theology online. Some people you could have reasonable discussions with. Many people you could not. I mentioned the King James Only types but others were just as bad, especially the various cultic groups from Mormons to some of the more...exotic...cults. Arguing with them was a lot like arguing with contemporary progressives. I eventually stopped messing with one group of cultists because I suspected they were crazy enough to come after me in the real world. A lot of "liberals" are the same way: Anyone that disagrees with them is a Nazi -->> Nazis are bad -->> therefore you should kill them and their families. In a lot of cases, saying something that unsettles them or makes them question their dogma is so upsetting that it is "triggering", ergo it is "violence". You said something I didn't like so that justifies me sucker punching you with a bike lock.
Modern progressive acolytes are the intended end result of an "education" system that suppresses free thought and the natural inquisitiveness of heritage Americans, replacing it with quasi-religious conditioning and conformity of opinion. People don't think because they have been taught to not think and instead to focus on rote memorization and regurgitation. No matter how silly or demonstrably false your statement, I am supposed to just accept it and especially if the person saying it is in one of the many protected classes in America. Case in point from Professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries from "The" Ohio State University, perhaps the most undeserved and pretentious affectation in the American university world. I attended OSU as a freshman before transferring and academically at the undergrad level it was barely a step above a community college.
Mr. Jeffries didn't care for my semi-serious, mostly trolling response, so like he did with everyone else that pushed back on his ridiculous assertion, he blocked me.
Mr. Jeffries is an associate professor of history at Ohio State and you will be shocked to find that his specialty is...well, read for yourself.
After time well spent in the "Heart of Dixie," Hasan crossed the Ohio River and joined the faculty at The Ohio State University in the history department. Since arriving at Ohio State, Hasan has taught graduate and undergraduate seminars on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, and surveys in African American and American history.
So mostly seminars and survey classes. Not an academic heavyweight from all appearances.
As a side note, this guy with the twitter username of "@profjeffries" is the latest proof of my operating assumption that people who feel the need to put "Dr" or "Professor" or "Reverend" or "Pastor" in their social media usernames or handles are incredibly insecure in their own credentials and that their insecurity is justified. My dad is a doctor and people who didn't know that called him Mr. Sido all the time and he never, ever corrected them because he didn't need to be fawned over to be secure in his credentials. A guy who has to scream "I'm a professor!" or just as bad "I wrote a book!" is probably someone with very weak intellectual foundations so they rely on inflated credentialing to make themselves seem smarter than they are.
It is an all too infrequently commented on truth that in spite of people having access to essentially the entirety of human knowledge while sitting on the toilet, people today are incredibly ignorant. To compound the problem, they are ignorant of being ignorant. A corollary to that is that we have replaced education with conditioning. Someone who is educated knows how to learn and adapt mentally, someone who is conditioned can only respond with what they have conditioned to know. When confronted by someone challenging their conditioning, they begin to short-circuit mentally.
The responses to pushback are predictable. The first is name-calling and it is as boring and unimaginative as can be. A thought-criminal is a "racist" or "Nazi" or "white supremacist" or my personal favorite "Russian bot". When people suggest that I am a Russian bot and I point out that I use my real name and location, and you easily see my social media history trail dating back to the beginning of social media, they usually take the second response and block me. In general they can't get past the first retort. If calling me a racist doesn't work, they don't know what to do. White men in America are supposed to wither and curl up into a ball when called a racist and a white man that doesn't respond that way causes confusion.
Decades of conditioning has resulted in a once proud liberal intellectual class that is now incapable of defending even their most basic assertions. It is kind of sad, while they were wrong as could be, it was fun to engage in debate with people who truly believed passionately and intelligently about real issues. It helped me hone my own positions by being forced to refute them and defend my own beliefs. That is how everyone gets a little smarter. Instead of that, we have the social media secret police lurking about looking for people to mass report.
Rest in peace pseudo-intellectual liberals, you were fun to debate.
Posted by Arthur Sido at 11:57 AM
"Even the far milder positions I held back then wouldn't be given a voice".
Deplatforming and censoring was the absolute worst thing these plebs could do. They can't see it but most of us are angry. Very, very angry.
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You won't recognize the place, so it will be worth coming by just to see what we've done with the space. You'll want to wear your best costume attire, unless you want to be "that guy" or "that girl"… No one ever says "that girl", but don't let yourself be the first to be called it.
Important Note: Bring your best costume, because we're giving a prize out to the best dressed person in attendance.
We're looking for people to pull all the stops and own up to making this a Halloween in Barcelona to remember. Having said that, our team is putting together some surprises with the spirit of "trick or treat" all over the place.
Our kitchen will stay open till 2 AM, so you can get late munchies through the night.
We're leaving this last treat for you., enjoy… After all, this is Halloween!
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Fire personnel were able to stop the fire from spreading to another set of structures, but the six buildings that caught fire are said to be a complete loss.
Officials tell ABC15 the complex was completely fenced in, so the fire is believed to be suspicious in nature at this time. Investigators are working to determine the cause.
No injuries were reported during the fire.


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Rice football started strong but stumbled to a lopsided finish in their season opener against USC, prompting the Owls to find a solution before next week.
"To say that things snowballed is probably an understatement."
When Rice football head coach Mike Bloomgren uttered those words following a 66-14 rout at the hands of the USC Trojans on Saturday night, the admission wasn't surprising. Even heading into the game — Rice was a 32.5-point underdog on the road — it would have been foreseeable to envision a scenario in which a Top 15 program with a Heisman-caliber quarterback outplayed the Owls.
But nobody could have envisioned how the onslaught unfolded.
"There are four plays that really led to this game going the way that it did," Bloomgren followed, making direct reference to the four interceptions thrown by Rice quarterbacks. Yes, quarterbacks, plural, because the Owls had their starter knocked from the game with an injury for the fifth time in their last 10 games.
If you want to talk about statistics more staggering than three pick-sixes in a single game, five injured quarterbacks in 10 games come pretty close.
There is no official diagnosis of Green's injury nor is there an established timeline for his return. Once more, Rice football doesn't have a lot of answers.
"This is a tough pill to swallow," safety George Nyakwol said. "This is just a good wake-up call for us to prepare us for the rest of the season."
Likewise somber, offensive lineman Shea Baker was already moving on to the next game. "We'll watch the film, learn from our mistakes, not repeat the same mistakes and move on," he said with a defiant resolve.
The offensive line undoubtedly has improvements to make in the running game as well as in pass protection. As Nyakwol would also go on to admit, the Owls' tackling could stand to improve as well. There are lots of little tweaks to be made and things to correct before they take the field again next week against McNeese State.
But regardless of who is on the field or who is playing quarterback, three tipped pass interceptions that went in and out of the receiver's hands, as Bloomgren himself described it — that won't do. "You gotta be able to throw and catch," Bloomgren said point blank. "We're playing college football."
Whatever happened on Saturday from the second quarter on was a miserable excuse for a college football game. It was a slaughter, brought on by correctable errors by players who have already proven they can play much better than they did against the Trojans.
To that end, Bloomgren's final refrain seems believable, if not somewhat likely.
"I don't see anything that's terminal. I'm not gunna hang my head on this thing," he declared. "I still think we are a very, very good football team and I think we showed that in spurts today but certainly not for a complete game."
Rice football hosts McNeese State on Saturday, September 10. They will be expected to win.
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Nearly everyone has an answer to the age-old question, "Batman or Superman?" But, not everyone knows much about either hero. With so much talk of Bruce Wayne right now, we thought we should investigate him a little more.
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Batman has always been our guy. Many of us didn't grow up reading comics, but we still played favorites when it came to Supes and Batman. We liked that his superiority came from a practiced skill, not alien genetics. Plus, as girls, it's ingrained in us to fall for tall, dark and mysterious guys. And that's cool, but you should be able to back up that knowledge in case you ever make that claim in front of someone who has actually read a comic book. These renditions are where it's at when it comes to knowing what's up with Batman and Gotham.
Batman: The Court of Owls — Scott Snyder
In 2011, DC comics rebranded and relaunched their entire collection, dubbing the makeover "The New 52." Court of Owls was Batman's first official appearance in the new lineup and it blew away nearly everyone. This is the Dark Knight you grew up watching on the big screen, but fighting a criminal collective you may not be as familiar with. The Court of Owls run everything that comes in and out of Gotham… and they don't have the city's best interests at heart. Add in a hard-to-kill assassin named Talon and you've got one hard (but never impossible) mission left at Batman's boots. Also, the coloring with the navy blues and purples is particularly awesome. A good comic store will have the first chapter on hand for $1 if you want to try it out.
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The Dark Knight Returns — Frank Miller
Chronologically based on release date, this one should come first, as it was originally released in 1986. However, The Dark Knight Returns features an older, more mature Batman — making it perfect for following up the new series. In TDKR, Bruce Wayne is 55 and has retired as a superhero, along with all the other heroes. He's working with the U.S. government, but it's just not as fulfilling as donning the cape. As crime begins to rise in Gotham once again, Wayne knows what he's destined to do and soon finds himself back in black and on a mission to rid Gotham of Harvey Dent/Two-Face and all the other menacing creatures lurking about. The film, The Dark Knight Rises, uses some of the plot points from the comic, but you're doing yourself an injustice to skip the book.
Gotham Central — Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka
Not exactly a Batman story, Gotham Central focuses on the Gotham Police Department, telling stories of the officers and detectives working the streets of Gotham every day. This, dear readers, would be the absolute perfect jumping off point if you catch Fox's new series, Gotham. Don't expect many crossovers, just some similarities. However, if you like comics more for the crime-fighting skew than the superhero skew, Gotham Central (and Gotham, the show) might be your gateway into a whole new world.
Batman has been around for decades, so it can be a little overwhelming to go into the comic book store without some direction. Once you delve into these new, awesome stories, don't let that be the end of your journey. Dive into the Batman back catalogs… or find a new hero to explore for a while. The options are limitless, which is kind of the best part.
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