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WOODS HOLE, Mass. — We know that sharks are voracious eaters, but what do we know about the source of its microbiome? To date, not much. But a recent study from the University of Chicago and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) fills a gap in understanding the microbiome associated with a close relative in the Chondrichthyes, a class of fish that includes sharks, rays and skates.
"There's a new understanding that microbiomes are very important for all multicellular organisms," said MBL Senior Scientist David Mark Welch, senior author on the paper. "We're essentially taking what we've learned from the NIH Human Microbiome Project, including the central role the microbiome plays in human health, and recognizing that microbiomes play a role in a wide variety of organisms, particularly marine organisms."
Among the ocean dwellers, corals and certain fish have had their microbiomes analyzed, but "there are huge gaps [in knowledge], and one of them has been the microbiomes of non-bony fish – sharks, rays, skates and other cartilaginous fish," Mark Welch said.
An animal can acquire its microbiome in three different ways, the team's study explains. First, the parent can transmit all or part of its microbiome to its offspring. Second, the animal can acquire it during social or sexual interactions with other members of its species. And third, animals can recruit microbes from their environment through contact with fluids, habitat, or diet. Humans acquire their microbiome in all three ways.
First authors Katelyn Mika and Alexander Okamoto were inspired to discover how the microbiome originates in the little skate (Leucoraja erinacea) in 2018, when they spending the summer at the MBL with University of Chicago Professor Neil Shubin. The little skate's embryo develops in the contained environment of an egg case, commonly called a devil's purse.
"The skate egg case is a very interesting place to study microbiome development because the egg is separate from the outside world up until [about two-thirds of the way through] development, when little apertures open in the egg case and there starts to be an exchange with seawater," said Mark Welch. "So, you can ask the question more easily than in other organisms, is there vertical transmission of the microbiome? Namely, does the mother pass on part of her microbiome to the offspring?"
"We began wondering what happens with the little skate's microbiome, given the egg's fairly dramatic life-history changes," said Okamoto. "[The egg case] is basically dumped on the bottom of the ocean, abandoned by its parent for many months, and then it opens up suddenly and seawater rushes in."
The team used next-generation sequencing to characterize the microbial community at six points in the skate's embryonic development. Their efforts yielded the first evidence of vertical transmission of the microbiome from parent to offspring in the Chondrichthyes.
Their findings are a useful step in the study of microbiomes, which can be indicators of how well an organism is doing in its environment, said Mark Welch.
"We know that a lot of marine species are under stress because of anthropogenic changes, global warming," he said. "One of our broader goals is to be able to study the microbiomes of these organisms and determine very quickly, how healthy are they?"
There's plenty of room for more research on animal microbiomes, said Mika – including on sharks.
"There's a chain catshark at the MBL whose eggs look incredibly similar to the skates' eggs," she said. "They go through the same sort of development where they're in that egg case for the first two thirds, then they have slits that open, and then they finish developing with that open waterflow through the eggs. I'm desperate to know if their microbiomes are similar to the skates' or if they're totally different."
This research was funded by a grant from the Microbiome Center, a collaboration between University of Chicago, Marine Biological Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory; and by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to Alexander Okamoto.
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Wisconsin loggers are the backbone of the wood products industry, a primary contributor to the Wisconsin economy and the sustainable management of forests in the state. In the prior two surveys, we asked respondents to provide the business owner's age, assuming that there was only one owner. Recognizing that this might misrepresent business structure, in the most recent survey, we asked about the number of owners and their individual characteristics (namely age and education). Two-thirds of logging businesses reported having a single owner, while a quarter reported two.
To calculate the median owner age, we considered only those businesses with 1 or 2 owners for the 2016 production year (>90% of businesses). The median age was 56 years, which compares to 46 in 2003 and 52 in 2010. As the graph shows below, the age distribution of owners continues to shift to the right; that is, getting older. Indeed, the two most senior age groups (55-64, and 65 and older) account for 55% of all business owners.
Similar trends are evident in the number of years that logging businesses have been in operation. The median was 18 years in 2003 and 25 years in 2010, and 28.5 in 2016. In the most recent survey, over 45% of logging businesses have been operating for 30 or more years.
As with prior surveys, comparing owner age and the years in business suggests that the logging sector continues to gray, though there is a small uptick in number of of new logging businesses.
Adding to this concern is that 26% of Wisconsin logging businesses in the 2016 survey did not expect to be in business in five years. In prior surveys, this number was closer to 20%. However, when we consider the distribution of being in business in five years by annual production, those reporting that they are likely to exit are most concentrated in the 100-1,000 cords per year category. Additional analysis is needed to assess the impact of business loss on overall logging capacity; however, handwritten comments on the questionnaires suggest that the challenges facing smaller businesses, such as mill agreements and high stumpage prices, may be a factor.


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Key takeaway: your Business Case needs to prioritise what needs to be done first and how the effectiveness of each decision will be measured.
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Any platform that is likely to work well for your organisation in the longer-term, needs to achieve that perfect balance between what needs to be delivered and how it should all be put together. Use cases, requirements and your Business Case all need to work together and should cover off merchandising tools (product relationships), experience management as well as architecture.
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Here's a hot tip: when developing requirements, don't simply focus on what makes you unique. Why? Simply because it's difficult for any platform to provide all of those unique requirements considered out of the box and you don't want to get stuck in a situation where it's a race as to who can build your solution fastest.
Key takeaway: focus on understanding what's out of the box and from there, how your company can customise a certain solution that has been deemed most appropriate.
5. Are you using Cases or RFP's?
Key takeaway: question everything! Is this case going to make our customers job easier? Have we covered the entire user journey?
6. Can everything be integrated?
Ah, that golden word: integration. Put simply, integration is vital to your success as enterprise Commerce is one big ecosystem made-up of numerous back and front office systems. ERP, CRM, pricing engines, order management, Content Management Systems (CMS), product information (PIM) and so on – all should be considered during the integration phase. Prior to meeting with vendors start to understand your existing systems integrations capabilities.
How about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)?
Are there any data quality problems?
Key takeaway: understand everything – integration options, their consequences, your environment and so on. Remember, vendors understand their software, while you understand your unique environment. Work together to achieve the best results.
Selecting a B2B eCommerce Platform for your organisation is tough going but start addressing these questions first to ensure the process is as seamless as possible.


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Track A: Tree Width
Track B: Minimum Fill-In
Track B: Feedback Vertex Set
PACE 2018: Call for participation
The objective of this challenge is to solve the NP-hard graph problem Steiner Tree on undirected edge-weighted graphs:
Input: An undirected edge-weighted graph G, and a set of terminals T subset of V(G).
Output: A tree, subgraph of G, spanning T, which minimizes the sum of its edge-weights.
This problem has been dubbed after the Swiss mathematician Jakob Steiner and has applications in VLSI and network routing, as well as phylogenetic tree reconstruction. Steiner Tree has fixed-parameter algorithms in the number of terminals, and in the treewidth. The first two tracks will explore those two avenues. In a third track, we encourage algorithms without optimum guarantee and preferably (but it is not mandatory) loosely inspired by the FPT literature on Steiner tree problems.
You can participate in any subset of the following tracks:
Exact with few terminals
You have 30 minutes per instance.
Win by solving more instances than the other participants.
You want to maximize the number of solved instances. The time to solve them (within the limit of 30 minutes) will only be a factor to break potential ties.
In all the instances, the number of terminals is relatively small.
Exact with low treewidth
The same rules as for the previous track applies, but for this track only, we provide a tree decomposition, and the treewidth is relatively low.
Win by printing Steiner trees of smaller weight than the other participants.
The teams will be ranked by increasing average ratio sol/opt, where sol is the value of your solution and opt is the optimum value (when known) or the best available upper bound (otherwise).
PACE 2018 is generously sponsored by NETWORKS, an NWO Gravitation project of the University of Amsterdam, Eindhoven University of Technology, Leiden University, and the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI). Through their support, we can hereby announce a total of 4000 euros of sponsoring that will be divided into prizes and travel awards for participants.
November 14th, 2017: Announcement of the challenge
December 11th, 2017: You may start testing your code on optil.io (see this page)
May 1st, 2018, anywhere on earth: Submission of the final version
May 10th, 2018: Announcement of the results
August 20-24, 2018: Award ceremony at the International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2018) in Helsinki
Participants of PACE are highly encouraged to submit manuscripts describing their contributions to publication venues such as IPEC, ESA Track B, and arXiv.org. We also encourage the use of the provided benchmark instances.
Édouard Bonnet (Middlesex University, London)
Florian Sikora (LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine)
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Holger Dell (Saarland University and Cluster of Excellence, MMCI)
Bart M. P. Jansen (chair) ( Eindhoven University of Technology)
Thore Husfeldt (ITU Copenhagen and Lund University)
Petteri Kaski (Aalto University)
Christian Komusiewicz (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Frances A. Rosamond (University of Bergen)
For a good dissemination of the implementations, a submission is a source code hosted in a public repository like GitHub, released under an open source license (e.g. GPL, MIT, or public domain); the repository must contain a LICENSE.md or LICENSE.txt file at the root.
Then, to participate, you will just upload your code to the platform optil.io as stated on this page. Current leader board on public instances will be live on optil.io. The final ranking will be done on the private instances, using the last valid submission on public instances on optil.io. We kindly ask the participants to send by email to the PC the name of the participants in the team, the name used on optil.io for each track, a link to the public repository as well as a short description of the program and algorithm.
If you want to participate, register now at https://goo.gl/forms/4mkuCcSjVVkMUZIy1.
Track 1: Exact with few terminals
The implementation you submit should compute an optimal Steiner tree of the given graph. We anticipate submissions to be based on a provably optimal algorithm, although we do not make this a formal requirement. Instead, if your submission halts on some instance within the allotted time and produces a solution that is known to be non-optimal, the submission will be disqualified.
There are 200 benchmark instances, labeled instance001.gr to instance200.gr. Larger numbers in the filename should, as a rule of thumb, correspond to harder instances since the instances are ordered lexicographically by increasing (t,m) where t is the number of terminals and m is the number of edges. The odd instances are public and the even instances are secret. You can download the public instances here.
Submitted implementations will essentially be executed as follows (reading from standard input, writing to standard output):
./st-exact -s 4321 < instanceXYZ.gr > instanceXYZ.ost
If your program is deterministic, it should ignore the option -s 4321; otherwise, this integer between 0 and (2^32)-1 should be used as the initial random seed for your program (and the program should be deterministic if the random seed is given). While your algorithm can use randomness to speed up its computation in expectation, the randomness should be zero-error since we will disqualify any final submission that prints a solution that is non-optimal. The input format is specified in Appendix A and the output format in Appendix B. In Appendix C, we will provide a validity checker.
Track 2: Exact on low treewidth
It is the same as track 1 except that all instances have low treewidth and a tree decomposition is given in the input file. On almost half of the instances, the provided tree decomposition has guaranteed minimum width. The details on how the decompositions are given can be found in Appendix A. They have been computed thanks to the winning implementations of the previous PACE challenge. Nothing prevents you from re-computing your own tree decomposition.
There are 200 benchmark instances, labeled instance001 to instance200.gr. The instances are ordered lexicographically by increasing (b,m) where b is the maximum bag size of the given tree decomposition and m is the number of edges. The odd instances are public and the even instances are secret. You can download the public instances here.
Evaluation and Ranking for the exact tracks
We run your submission on the secret instances, for 30 minutes each.
If any output produced is invalid or suboptimal, the submission gets disqualified.
If your submission solves more instances than the submissions of other participants, you win. As a tie-breaker, we use the running time to rank submissions.
Track 3: Heuristic
The implementation you submit must compute a Steiner tree of the graph within the allotted time. You don't need to implement a timer: We will send the Unix signal SIGTERM when the timeout is reached.
There are 200 benchmark instances, labeled instance001 to instance200.gr. The odd instances are public and the even instances are secret. You can download the public instances here.
SIGTERM: When your process receives this signal, it must immediately print the current best Steiner tree to standard output and then halt. We will send the signal by issuing the following command:
kill -SIGTERM $pid
To avoid race conditions with other printing operations, your SIGTERM handler should probably only set an atomic flag (see also http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/sig_atomic_t), which indicates to the rest of your program that it should print a solution as soon as it is safe to do so, and then halt. If the process blocks for too long, say 30 seconds, we will forcefully kill it with SIGKILL. For convenience, we recommend your program handles SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM.
Your program will be executed as follows (reading from standard input, writing to standard output):
./st-heuristic -s 4321  < instanceXYZ.gr > instanceXYZ.ost
Evaluation and Ranking
If any output produced is invalid (including a lack of output) the submission gets disqualified.
We will rank the teams by increasing mean approximation ratio. The approximation ratio will be computed with respect to the optimum (if we know it) or to the best upper bound (otherwise).
Detailed Submission Requirements for Implementations
Final implementations must be entirely in source code and must include automatic build instructions such as a Makefile that builds the operating-system executable binary on the target platform. As the sole exception to the entire source code requirement, the use of standard libraries installed on the target platform is permitted. The use of third-party SAT/CSP/ILP solvers is prohibited. For the testing phase on optil.io, please refer to the optil.io help page for the requirements (Submitting solution paragraph).
Input and output formats. An implementation must conform to the detailed problem-specific format for giving input to and output from an executable binary. Input to an executable binary is given via (a) the command-line parameters, and (b) the standard input. Output from an executable binary is given via the standard output.
Implementations must be deterministic. Randomized algorithms are encouraged, but the entropy to the executable binary must be supplied via the command-line parameter "-s 4321". The only exception to this rule is nondeterministic behavior caused by UNIX signals or querying the time spent/remaining.
All submission must be single-threaded (however, wrapper threads forced by limitations of your programming language are fine).
Appendix A: Graph format
We describe the file format .gr, which is a simplification of the STP file format.
The file starts with a line 'SECTION Graph'. The next two lines are of the form 'Nodes #nodes' and 'Edges #edges', always in that order, where #nodes is the number of vertices and #edges is the number of edges of the graph. The #edges next lines are of the form 'E u v w' where u and v are integers between 1 and #nodes representing an edge between u and v of weight the positive integer w. The following line reads 'END' and finishes the list of edges.
There is then a section Terminals announced by two lines 'SECTION Terminals' and 'Terminals #terminals' where #terminals is the number of terminals. The next #terminals lines are of the form 'T u' where u is an integer from 1 to #nodes, which means that u is a terminal. Again, the section ends with the line 'END'.
In Track 1 and 3, the file ends with a subsequent line 'EOF'. Here is an example of a small graph.
SECTION Graph
Nodes 5
Edges 6
E 1 2 1
E 3 5 10
SECTION Terminals
Terminals 2
[SECTION Tree Decomposition  \\only in instances of Track 2
END]
In Track 2, we append a section tree decomposition starting with a line 'SECTION Tree decomposition' and ending with a line 'END'. The lines in the scope of this section follows the format of the output of the treewidth tracks of PACE 2016 and PACE 2017.
For completeness, we reproduce the relevant paragraphs below.
Recall the definition of a tree decomposition of a graph G: It is a tree T such that every vertex x in V(T) has an associated bag B(x) that is a subset of V(G). Moreover, every edge e in E(G) must be a subset of at least one bag B(x), and for every vertex v in V(G), the set of nodes whose bags contain v induces a connected subtree of T. The width of T is the maximum size of its bags minus one.
We define the file format .td. The first line starts with s, then td, followed by the number N of bags of the tree decomposition, the width of the tree decomposition plus one (i.e., the largest bag size), as well as the number of vertices of the original input graph. The next lines we expect start with b and specify the contents of each bag; for example, b 4 3 4 6 7 specifies that bag number 4 contains the vertices 3, 4, 6, and 7 of the original graph. For every bag i, there must be exactly one line starting with b i. All remaining lines indicate an edge in the tree decomposition, so it must consist of two decimal integers from 1 and N and the graph described this way must be a tree. For example, the following is a suboptimal tree decomposition of the path with four edges.
c decomposition with 4 bags, width 2, for a graph with 5 vertices
s td 4 3 5
b 1 1 2 3
In the instances of the test set, there will be at most one commentary line. When there is a line "c We do not guarantee that this tree decomposition has minimum width.", the tree decomposition was computed with a top heuristic of PACE 2017 for one hour, and when there is no commentary line, the provided decomposition has minimum width.
Appendix B: Output Format
The output file (.ost) starts with the line 'VALUE x' where x is the weight of the found Steiner tree. The next lines are of the form 'u v' where u and v are two vertices of the graph linked by an edge and lists all the edges of the found Steiner tree. Here is a small example.
VALUE 20
Appendix C: Validity checker
A validity checker will test if a given Steiner tree (specified in the .ost file format) is indeed a valid Steiner tree of the input graph (specified in the .gr format) and that its weight corresponds to the value specified on the first line. The validity checker will be used to evaluate whether your submitted implementation computed a correct Steiner tree.
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The most important question confronting the president in 2012 is simple; What is the purpose of immigration? After answering that question, he needs to address the subsidiary issue of how his immigration policies, and immigration laws, forward that purpose.
For the first hundred years of American history, our laws were designed to encourage and welcome immigrants from around the world. Immigrants were seen as a force to build America's standing in the world, as a source both of labor and of knowledge. By the late 1800s, immigration policies were being recrafted to exclude. The vision of America's thinkers was white, and laws against non-white immigrants, beginning with the Chinese, proliferated. By 1924, even those immigrants who were white, just not white enough, were pushed out of the immigrant stream. Jews, Italians, Poles, and others lost their place in line. Immigration restriction was seen as vital to the task of forging a white man's republic.
Our immigration laws became an international embarrassment during the Cold War. Communists pointed to discrimination against non-whites in our immigration laws as they countered U.S. claims to global leadership. John F. Kennedy's new vision of more inclusive immigration laws, only realized after his death, may have owed a lot to his identification with his Irish ancestry but it also came in response to Cold War propaganda.
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The delusion that some new class of native-born Okies will hit the roads in their Model Ts to rescue agriculture (and home healthcare, and meat processing) is too delusional for the political elite in any party to believe, let alone to honestly run for office on.
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TRUMP BLAMES CONSERVATIVES FOR RIGGED ELECTIONS
by Jim Heath | Apr 13, 2016 | Conventions, Delegates, Republicans | 0 comments
Donald Trump, knowing little about party politics because, after all, he's never been on a school board, city council or even governor, continues to blame the "establishment" for "stealing away delegates" at state conventions.
"Our Republican system is absolutely rigged. It's a phony deal," says Trump.
The establishment is giggling.
Nomination process known for a year + beyond. It's the responsibility of the campaigns to understand it. Complaints now? Give us all a break
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) April 13, 2016
What Trump fails to grasp is that it's actually conservative activists, the anti-establishment crowd, that have mastered the complicated state-by-state delegate selection process.
Trump is being buried by Ted Cruz's delegate operation, which has made gains in Colorado, North Dakota and Louisiana. He's not breaking any rules, he's actually mastering them.
It's long been a specialty of social conservatives and evangelicals, along with Ron Paul libertarians, who have been working deep in the grassroots for years understanding party trench warfare.
Establishment Republicans, in a bit of irony, have made similar complaints about the process that Trump is making now.
So when Donald Trump tells you the system is "rigged" what he really means to say is, "shame on you grassroot conservatives for knowing the process better than I do!"
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Google Calendar's gallery of interesting calendars lets you add some useful features: show week numbers, the day of the week, sunrise and sunset time for your location.
Some of these features should be available as options because they're difficult to find in the list of calendars and they clutter the interface.
Google's decision to remove public calendar search had a strange side effect: users can no longer find public calendars with features that are missing in Google Calendar. A post from 2007 explained how to show week numbers in Google Calendar by searching public calendars.
I wish I had to try this, but Google calendar is down here in Swtzerland since this morning (since 3 hours min) !
There are some reports that Google Calendar is down, but not many people seem to be affected.
Before I used this (http://sites.google.com/site/gcalweeknumbers/googlecalendarweeknumbers) to see the week numbers.
IMHO, every calender application should provide an option to display week numbers.
Apple's iCal still doesn't support this.
google calender seems to be buggy at the moment (in germany).
can't add or delete calendars.
Mine is still down...has been since this morning here in the UK.
It's a real pity they remove the gallery and search for public calendars... That was nice.
Before any scheduling disasters happen, let me point out that different countries number weeks differently (it all depends on what counts as the first week), so watch out!
Plah! Still can't see weeks in the small calendar which displayes days for the whole month on the left. One more column there.
Google knows everything so should not be impossible to check my location and decide week numbering based on country contention.
Can we get this so that the week numbers start the numbering from an arbitrary week? my week one in in September!


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Q: Is there any way to flatten a stream of Path elements to a stream of content lines with Akka streams? I am trying to create a javadsl Flow which processes Path elements. It should emit the lines of content of the file associated with the Path element.
In other words, I think I need to flatten the stream of Path elements to a stream of String elements.
A Flow does have a flatten method but it involves using a FlattenStrategy and I am unsure on how to use it for my case.
final Flow<Path, String, BoxedUnit> toFileLines = Flow
    .<Path>create()
    .flatten(FlattenStrategy.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Edit1:
So it has come to my understanding that it might be a good idea to read the file with a StreamReader and emit a new String whenever the reader reaches a '\n'.
So the question now is how to emit multiple elements from a single transformation method. Like so
final Flow<Path, String, BoxedUnit> toFileLines = Flow
    .<Path>create()
    .mapAsync(
            //create streamreader
            //while streamreader has.next
                //read line until \n
                //emit line
    );

Is this possible?

A: I suggest using Flow.flatMapConcat.  First you have to write a Source that will produce lines from a file, and then flatMapConcat those Sources together.  There is also a bit of ByteString parsing using Framing which I got from the docs:
import java.io.File;
import akka.stream.javadsl.FileIO;
import akka.stream.javadsl.Flow;
import akka.stream.io.Framing;
import akka.util.ByteString;

int maxLineSize = 1024;

final ByteString delim = ByteString.fromString("\r\n");

final Flow<String, String, BoxedUnit> pathsToContents =
  Flow.of(String.class)
      .flatMapConcat(path -> FileIO.fromFile(new File(path))
                                   .via(Framing.delimiter(delim, maxLineSize,true))
                                   .map(byteStr -> byteStr.utf8String()));

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Q: How to format the file output Python 3 I have made a code which asks the users name and age. It asks age and stores it using :
name = input("")

And the name uses the same.
I have outputted the age to file like so:
f = open('UserDetails')
f.write (name)
f.write (age)
f.close ()

I would like to be able to format this as in the file it just appears like:
James42Brian20Charlie56

I would like to make it be like :
James 42
Brian 20
Charlie 56

How would I do this?

A: Use string.format with a newline character like so:
f = open('UserDetails', 'a')
f.write("{0} {1}\n".format(name, age))
f.close()

A: I haven't tested this, but did you try something like this?
separator = ' '
f = open('UserDetails')
f.write (name + separator)
f.write (str(age) + separator)
f.close ()

It might not show exactly how you want it, but the idea is to use string concatenation and see if that works (including the new line symbol '\n'').
That said, without seeing the actual code you've written, it's hard to say much else.

A: name = input("")
age = input("")
f = open('UserDetails','a')
f.write ("{0} {1}\n".format(name, age))
f.close()

A: f = open('UserDetails','a')
name = input("Name? ")
f.write ("{} ".format(name))
age = input("Age? ")
f.write ("{}\n".format(age))
f.close ()

I would do something like this
You can put a while loop where needed
OR
You can run it multiple times if you wish to add another person

A: The with open as syntax is preferred over needing to manually close a file, and this will loop until you kill the script.
with open("UserDetails", "a") as f:
    while True:
        name = input("name: ")
        age = int(input("age: "))
        f.write("{0} {1}\n".format(name, age))


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Recently, there was an interesting discussion on the Internet mailing group known as BOATANCHORS. Its 800+ members are devoted to the preservation of vacuum tube equipment affectionately called Boatanchors. Someone started a thread called 'Confessions' in which they admitted to dismembering or trashing radios which have now become scarce or valuable. Other personal confessions surfaced. Some of the stories were humorous and others were sad. Jim Condon AD4YM, exposed the ultimate radio hacker during a recent trip to Italy.
"The man who cannibalized the very first boatanchor was -- Guglielmo Marconi! In October of 1995, I visited Villa Grifoni, the house near Bologna from which Marconi made his first radio transmission in 1895 - a distance of over one mile. Marconi's house is being converted to a radio museum. My guide, an EE professor from the University of Bologna, explained that none of the oldest radios displayed were original, but had to be rebuilt from Marconi's drawings because 'Marconi was too good of an engineer to leave them alone. As soon as he built and used a radio, he tore it apart to make a better one'.
This museum itself is funded by a private foundation and very few locals know about it. Apparently, Italians don't think that anything that is 'only' 100 years old can have much historical significance.
For those of you who have trashed boatanchors, say one hundred 'Hail Marconis' and sin no more.
The strange looking title over this article actually has some meaning. It is intended to best express the frustration one can expect if trying to perform 'brain surgery' on a vintage Marconi CSR5A general coverage radio receiver. Fortunately, I have never had to do this myself, but I do know of someone who was not so fortunate. Let me explain.
In the CSR5A receiver, the band-switching assembly is mounted into a sub-chassis which is called the 'turret'. This sub-chassis is mechanically and electrically attached to the main chassis. In the event that the turret must be extracted for repairs, just follow these simple instructions. First, you remove the receiver from its case and detach the three bottom cover plates - do not be concerned over the 30 screws that secure these plates. Next, desolder 29 wiring connections as outlined in the manual. Following that, there are another 20 screws to remove in order to physically detach the turret. After the turret is repaired, the procedure must of course, be reversed. Do not go insane in the process, or you won't be able to get the pieces back together. Do not attempt this at home. It should only to be left to the pros or the innocent who do not know any better.
This glimpse of 1944 radio maintenance technique has been presented for those of you who might have complaints about 1990's manufacturing methodology.
"Mind if I open it up and take a look?" "Could we take this to a place where we can plug it in and try it out? "The real clincher is "Can I have your name and phone number so if I have a problem I can call you and resolve it?" Anybody who won't co- operate with those requests may be consciously disguising the true condition of the goods. At that point, it would be best to say "Not interested!" and walk away.
"Worked last time I turned it on" or "I don't know if it works".
Translation: It doesn't work now.
"It has a problem with ..."
Translation: The seller only mentions this because it's obvious to the most casual observer. There are other problems of course, but you can't see them.
"It has a MINOR problem with ..."
Translation: The seller couldn't fix it, either because the cost was prohibitive, he didn't have the expertise or parts are unavailable.
"It might need a bit of tweaking."
Translation: Marconi himself couldn't fix it, much less align it.
"It was used in government service."
Translation: After the government technician tried to solder the loose connections with an acetylene torch, it was stored outdoors on a wooden pallet during the winter season.
"The dial drive may need lubricating."
Translation: The gears are stripped and all the setscrews are hopelessly frozen.
"I plugged it in to check that it lights up."
Translation: The light came from the two foot high flames.
Translation: The 60Hz hum is faithfully reproduced.
"I'm selling it because I have two of them."
Translation: I'm getting rid of my parts radio.
"You won't find one at a better price."
Translation: "Better", in this case, meaning from the point of view of the seller.
"There are a couple of other people interested in it."
Translation: Someone sat on it briefly to tie his shoelaces while walking past the table.
Many thanks to Jim Garland W8ZR, Bill Sorsby N5BU and Kim Herron of the 'Boatanchor' Internet group for sharing their experiences.
An actual radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations USN, 10-10-95.
Station #2: This is the Pudget Sound lighthouse. It's YOUR call.
Would you ever buy a radio made by a cosmetics company? You say what? Why would a cosmetics company be in the radio business? Yes, its actually true. A batch of the famous R390 military receivers carry the famous Helena Rubenstein name and of course, there is a small background story.
In the late 1950's, the Helena Rubenstein (HR) company decided to diversify into electronics. Since there was a lot of money to be made in military contracts, they tendered a bid on a US Navy contract for a quantity of eighty R-390A receivers. At that time, HR did not have on a single electronics engineer on staff, so they bid a ridiculously low price. Guess what? - the low bidder won the contract! Immediately, HR hired an engineer to set up an assembly line. He eventually told management how much it would cost and they nearly fainted. To cut their losses, HR purchased eighty off-the- shelf R-390A's from Collins Radio for some exorbitant price, put their own labels on them, delivered them to the Navy and promptly forgot about going into electronics.
A tip of the hat to Harry, N1PG for contributing this item.
How to simulate shipboard life at home. Some suggestions for the land-locked sailor who misses the "good old days".
1) Replace the door on your closet with a curtain and proceed to sleep on the shelf. Six hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble "Sorry, wrong rack".
2) Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the shower head down to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you shut off the water while soaping.
3) Every time there's a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you are nauseous.
4) Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "High".
5) Don't watch TV except for movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one.
6) Have the plumber give you a haircut.
7) Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney making sure the wind carries the soot across and onto your neighbours house. Laugh at him when he curses you.
8) Buy a trash compactor and only use it once a week. In the interim, store garbage in the other side of your bathtub.
9) Wake up every night at midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. Optionally, try canned ravioli or cold soup.
10) Make up your family menu a week ahead of time without looking in your food cabinets or refrigerator.
11) Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed and get dressed as fast as you can, then run out into your yard and break out the garden hose.
12) Once a month, take every major appliance completely apart and then put them back together.
13) Use 18 scoops of budget coffee per pot and allow it to sit for five or six hours before drinking.
14) Invite at least 85 people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months.
15) Install a fluorescent lamp under your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
16) Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through one of them.
17) Lockwire the lugnuts on the wheels of your car.
18) When baking cakes, prop up one side of the pan. Then, spread icing really thick on the other side to level off the top.
19) Every so often throw your cat or dog into the swimming pool and shout "Man overboard, ship recovery!" Run into the kitchen and knock all of the pots/pans/dishes off the counter onto the floor, then yell at the rest of your family for not having the place "stowed for sea".
20) Put on the headphones from your stereo but don't plug them in. Go and stand in front of your stove. Say to nobody in particular "Stove manned and ready". Stand there for three or four hours. Say once again to nobody in particular, "Stove secured". Roll up the cord and put the headphones away.
21) Set your alarm for 0330. Get up, hang two full Coke bottles around you neck and stand under a sprinkler in the backyard for 4 hours.
This was originally written by Malcom Brown ZL1AZ.
Approach the ailing equipment in a confident manner. This will give the equipment the mistaken idea that you know what you are doing. It will also impress anyone who is watching and if the equipment should suddenly start to work properly, you will be credited with its repair.
Wave the service manual at the equipment. This will make it assume you are at least familiar with the source of knowledge.
In a forcible manner, recite Ohm's law to the equipment. (Caution: Refer to a reliable text to be sure of your knowledge of Ohm's law). This will prove to the equipment, beyond a shadow of a doubt that you possess some technical knowledge. This is a drastic step and should only be attempted if the first two steps fail.
Disturb the equipment slightly. This may require anything from a one foot to a five foot drop onto a concrete floor. Be sure you do not mar the floor.
Brandish a large screwdriver in a menacing manner. This will frighten the equipment and demonstrate your knowledge of the deadly 'short circuit' technique.
Add a transistor circuit even though the equipment uses tubes. This will prove to the equipment that you are familiar with design techniques and confuse the equipment thereby increasing your advantage. If this doesn't work, proceed to the final and most drastic step.
MONDAY : Our ships at sea.
WEDNESDAY : Ourselves (as no one is likely to concern themselves with our welfare).
THURSDAY : A bloody war and a quick promotion.
FRIDAY : A willing foe and sea room.
SATURDAY : Sweethearts and wives, may they never meet.
SUNDAY : Absent friends and those at sea.
The last North American tube manufacturer was a company in Kentucky who closed down their production line in the early 1990's. Many people thought that this situation would be permanent leaving Russia and China as the only source for the few remaining tube types. Now, we have the surprise of surprises. With the price of audio-type tubes being driven into the stratosphere by the tube audio crowd (a large portion of which lives in Japan), a former American tube manufacturer is back in production. Guess who? - Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of the US telephone industry.
Western Electric has been able to restore the original tooling and to find key employees (former and current) to restore audio power tube production at their Kansas City works. The first tube type being cranked out is the WE 300B, a power triode. This tube was selling for $125 wholesale when Western Electric made their last production run in 1988. The suggested unit list price in the current production run is $350. Other types planned for future production include the WE 274B duo-diode rectifier and the WE 212E.
Who can afford tubes at these prices? It seems the audio crowd who favour tube amplified sound will have no problem opening up their wallets. Here are some examples of vacuum tube amplifier pricing from the May 1995 issue of "Vacuum Tube Valley", a magazine which provides a lot of interesting reading and many pictures of high-end audio equipment. The equipment prices are something else. New production audio amps introduced at the Winter 1996 CES Show in Las Vegas Nevada include the Marantz T-1 50 watt Power Amp at $25,000; three new WAVAC stereo single-ended power amps at $12,000, $22,500, and $45,000 each; and the Sunlight Engineering Sunharts MK II speaker at $36,000/pair.
And to think that hams complain about transceiver prices!
Thanks to Michael Burke of Westminster, MA for the source information.
Front line communication in World War I relied heavily upon field telephones and landline DC telegraph, both of which used single wire lines with earth return. In contrast, modern field phones are usually used with paired wires but are capable of single wire/ground operation. Deploying communication lines was a dangerous job, and artillery fire quickly damaged the wires. Col. Fuller of the British Army developed an ingenious device which could combine voice and telegraphy simultaneously on a single line, without mutual interference. The major advantage of Fullerphone telegraphy was that it could operate through wires having so much resistance or leakage that they were unusable for voice. It is said that it could even operate through a broken wire if both broken ends touched ground.
For the voice circuit, the Fullerphone employed a conventional local battery telephone and was capacitively coupled to the line. It lacked a sidetone suppressing hybrid network and other refinements found in World War 2 military field phones. The telegraph transmitter was simply a 3 volt battery in series with a telegraph key. Both the telegraph transmitter and receiver were coupled through an L-C low pass filter which suppressed key clicks and prevented audio frequency and ringing signals from being shunted. The telegraph receiver was a sensitive earphone in series with the armature and normally open contacts of a quiet electric buzzer.
Vibrating contacts interrupted DC signals, modulating them into audio. It was extremely sensitive, yet it used no active components. Automatic transmit/receive switching was accomplished by SPDT contacts on the key. Several models of the Fullerphone were produced. The later 'marks' did not contain telephone components, and could be used with or without conventional field phones. Some models included an offset voltage source for nulling galvanic effects; ie - a 1.5 volt battery with a polarity reversing switch was connected to a potentiometer in series with the earphone.
Another way of multiplexing telephone and telegraph (or two telephone channels) on a pair of wires is the 'simplex' or 'phantom circuit' in which the auxiliary channel uses earth return and places common mode signals on the pair of wires through center tapped transformers. There are also balanced configurations using multiple pairs. (Batman has a bat phone but the Phantom has a phantom circuit). Note that the expressions 'earth dipole' and 'earth current' are often used synonymously. Some authors make the distinction that earth currents are natural or man made, while earth dipole defines the equipment which is used to transmit and receive them.
Although not intended for 'wireless' communications, the Fullerphone had a limited earth-dipole receiving capability. It could detect earth currents of nearby single wire DC telegraph circuits. Yet, the Fullerphone's own current was too weak for interception by that method. The British also used Fullerphones in World War II, and Japanese forces apparently used earth-dipole equipment for communication between their underground fortifications on Pacific islands.
The opponents in World War 1 were sometimes able to intercept each others telephone traffic by using battery powered amplifiers and pairs of widely spaced earth probes to detect audio frequency earth currents. Operators of this equipment, quite by accident, discovered the ionospheric VLF "whistler" phenomenon. Whistlers were initially thought to be of man made origin because they sounded like falling bombs and shells.
Other British literature describes a device called a 'Power Buzzer' which was used for wireless through-the-earth telegraphy in World War 1. The transmitter was a large electric buzzer having a secondary step up winding whose ends were connected to a pair of earth probes (bayonets) separated perhaps, 100 yards. The receiver was an audio amplifier connected to the same 'antenna'. These buzzers had sets of removable armatures which produced different frequencies so that receiving operators could use their ears to select the desired signal.
The ill fated inventor Nathan B. Stubblefield used telephone components in his experiments with inductive and earth-dipole communications. Like near-field induction, earth-dipole comm- unication range is inherently limited by inverse cube attenuation. Hams used audio power amplifiers and earth probes for ground wave communications during World War 2 when normal transmitting privileges were suspended. Ranges greater than one mile were claimed.
Today, power line hum is a major limitation of earth-dipole communications. Power line noise has significant harmonic content and cannot be removed by simple notch filters. During World War 1, the battlefield was a dangerous environment for electronics but it was probably very quiet from an electrical and noise viewpoint. There is something to be said about the simple technology of yesteryear.
1. Royal Signal Museum, Maj. R. Picard, curator. Blandford Camp, Blandford, Dorset DT11 8RH, Great Britain.
2. Meulstee, Louis. "Earth Current Telegraphy". Morsum Magnificat issue #9, Autumn, 1988.
3. The Fullerphone. Its action and use. Issued by the General Staff, War Office, 1917. Darling and Son, Ltd., London.
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Customers have dwindled by the week at Indian Masala Hut, a curry stall in Singapore's shipyard heartland. Manager K. Muralidoss blames the slump in oil rig-building that led to the elimination of thousands of jobs, many held by workers from India and Bangladesh.
"The lunchtime crowd has more than halved," Mr Muralidoss says, surveying the almost-empty Benoi Road food court, where only four of 12 hawker stalls were open one afternoon last week.
As recently as last month, he was busy filling orders from companies trying to sate hungry labourers working overtime. "That has come down quite a bit because there are fewer projects being worked on."
More than US$400 billion (S$555 billion) of proposed energy projects worldwide have been delayed since mid-2014 and pushed into next year and beyond, according to consulting firm Wood Mackenzie.
In Singapore, the global centre for oil-rig construction for decades, the slowdown contributed to the economy contracting the most in four years in the third quarter.
BP abandoned oil exploration off the Great Australian Bight, it said last week, five years after beginning a search for resources in one of the world's last frontier regions. BP had previously estimated the drilling programme would cost more than A$1 billion (S$1.1 billion).
More than two years of tumbling oil prices have wiped more than US$24 billion from the market value of Keppel, Sembcorp Marine and Singapore's other listed oil-services companies - or about two thirds of their pre-July 2014 capitalisation.
Decisions like this ripple through Singapore's oil and gas services industry, from Keppel and Sembcorp Marine, the world's biggest builders of oil rigs, to companies supplying anchors, chains and other components, to the eateries feeding an offshore engineering workforce that tripled over a decade to peak at more than 90,000.
More than two years of tumbling oil prices have wiped more than US$24 billion from the market value of Keppel, Sembcorp Marine and Singapore's other listed oil-services companies - or about two thirds of their pre-July 2014 capitalisation. Since then, at least 25,000 jobs have been axed and one company, Swiber Holdings, has defaulted.
"We'll see more failures within the oil services sector," said Mr Song Seng Wun, regional economist with CIMB Private Banking. "Stronger companies, like Keppel and Sembcorp Marine, will survive and take advantage of opportunities. They have deeper pockets."
Output in the marine and offshore engineering sector fell 29.7 per cent in the first eight months of the year, the worst-performing industry in Singapore, according to data from the Economic Development Board.
The down-cycles in a few industries like offshore and marine, and falling oil and commodity prices have dampened demand in the region, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said at a company's media event. "But those are short-term factors, those are cyclical factors," he added.
Keppel shares rose 1.31 per cent to $5.42 yesterday while Sembcorp Marine fell 1.12 per cent to $1.325. They have fallen 18 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively, this year.
Profit at Keppel, which reports third-quarter earnings today, is forecast to slump to the lowest in a decade this year. Sembcorp, which posted a 69 per cent drop in first-half profit, is slated to report on Tuesday.
Both companies declined to comment on whether more job cuts are likely amid a decline in rig orders, citing a pre-earnings blackout period.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 20, 2016, with the headline 'No light yet at end of tunnel for oil services industry'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Now… How did they get a hold of the uniforms in the first place????
The terrorosts get the unforms through ambush…like the way they did at Kenyan camp in al adde…am told they used vehicles and uniforms they had gotten from Burundi camp raid.
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Charles Stepney (March 26, 1931May 17, 1976) was an American record producer, arranger, songwriter and musician. Stepney is noted for his work with artists such as The Dells, Ramsey Lewis, Rotary Connection and Earth, Wind & Fire.

Career
He started his musical career as a jazz piano and vibraphone player, and began work for Chess Records as a musician and arranger.  In 1966, Charles Stepney and Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records' co-founder Leonard Chess, created the band Rotary Connection. Stepney went on to produce the group on the Chess vanity label Cadet Concept. These were their 1967 self titled debut album, 1968's Aladdin and Peace LPs and 1969's release Songs. He also produced the group's 1970 album Dinner Music and 1971 LP Hey Love.   According to writer Paul Bowler: "The six albums that Rotary Connection recorded under Stepney's guidance proved revolutionary; a glorious fusion of styles made essential by the simpatico nature of Stepney's lush string arrangements and [Minnie] Riperton's multi-octave, quasi-operatic vocals."

Stepney went on to produce  Rotary Connection lead singer Minnie Riperton's 1970 debut album Come to My Garden. Commenting on Minnie at the time he said that she "has a soprano range of about four octaves, a whole lot of soul, she's good-looking and she's got the experience of Rotary behind her."

During 1970 Stepney also wrote, produced and conducted a Classical Jazz Symphony entitled "Cohesion". "Cohesion" was performed by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Ramsey Lewis Trio and Minnie Riperton in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Stepney worked with a wide range of other performers at Chess.  He began producing soul group The Dells on their 1968 album There Is. He later produced the group's 1969 release Love is Blue and their 1971 LPs Like It Is, Like It Was and Freedom Means.  He also worked with blues musicians Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf  , and singers Terry Callier, Marlena Shaw, and Deniece Williams, on their albums.  He is credited as a musician or producer on albums including The Soulful Strings – Paint It Black (1966) and Groovin' with the Soulful Strings (1967); Muddy Waters – Electric Mud (1968) and After the Rain (1969); Howlin' Wolf – The Howlin' Wolf Album (1969); Marlena Shaw – The Spice of Life (1969); Terry Callier – Occasional Rain (1972), What Color Is Love (1973) and I Just Can't Help Myself (1974); Phil Upchurch – Upchurch (Cadet, 1969) and The Way I Feel (Cadet, 1970).

Stepney began to collaborate with the Ramsey Lewis Trio as a producer on their 1968 LP Maiden Voyage.   The album included the song "Les Fleur" written by Stepney and later recorded by Riperton in 1970. He also arranged on the Trio's 1968 album Mother Nature's Son and 1969 LP Another Voyage, and co-produced the 1970 album The Piano Player.

With the Trio was a young drummer named Maurice White who in prior played with Chess Records. White went on to found and lead a new band called Earth, Wind & Fire.
Stepney eventually worked as an associate producer on the band's 1974 release Open Our Eyes.

He then performed on Ramsey Lewis's 1974 album Sun Goddess and produced his 1975 LP Don't It Feel Good. Additionally Stepney coproduced with Maurice on Earth, Wind & Fire's 1975 albums That's the Way of the World and Gratitude. Stepney then went about coproducing with White on EWF's 1976 album Spirit, Ramsey Lewis's 1976 LP Salongo, The Emotions 1976 album Flowers and Deniece Williams's 1976 LP This Is Niecy.

Death
The song "Spirit" was intended to uplift Stepney's spirit and to show all the gratitude that Earth, Wind & Fire had towards him. However, Stepney never got to hear the song. Maurice White spoke to Stepney on the morning of May 17, 1976, but later that day, Earth, Wind & Fire keyboardist Larry Dunn received a phone call, informing him that Stepney had died of a heart attack.

Influence and legacy
Artists such as Ramsey Lewis, Stevie Wonder, Deniece Williams, Chaka Khan, 4hero, Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick, Zero 7, and Terry Callier have been influenced by Stepney. 4hero dedicated their hit single "Les Fleur" - which he co-wrote - to Stepney and Minnie Riperton.

Personal life
Stepney was survived by his wife Rubie and his three daughters Eibur, Charlene and Chante.  Charles has five grandchildren Brandice, Darryl, Gabrielle, Lindsey and Edward Charles.  He also has two great grandchildren Rapheal and Gabriel.

See also
Albums Produced by Charles Stepney

Discography

As sideman
With Bunky GreenPlayin' for Keeps (Cadet, 1966)
With Eddie HarrisJazz for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (Vee-Jay, 1961)For Bird and Bags (Exodus, 1963)
With Ramsey LewisBack to the Roots (Cadet, 1971)Sun Goddess (Columbia, 1974)

As arranger
With Ramsey LewisMaiden Voyage (Cadet, 1968)Mother Nature's Son (Cadet, 1968)
With Eddie HarrisPlug Me In (Atlantic, 1968) US
With Minnie RipertonCome to My Garden'' (GRT, 1970)

References

External links
Charles Stepney - American Record Producer at The Official Website of Charles Stepney
Charles Stepney - Interrupted Genius at Voices of East Anglia

1931 births
1976 deaths
Musicians from Chicago
Record producers from Illinois
20th-century American musicians
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American male musicians

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