Quentin Meillassoux's The Number and the Siren (published by Urbanomic and Sequence Press, and elegantly translated by Robin Mackay) is quite simply the most beautiful book by a philosopher that I have read for many years. It is a highly original reading of Stéphane Mallarmé's Coup De Dés.
If the objective of Meillassoux's other book, After Finitude, is to be done with the philosophy of consciousness, the objective of The Number and the Siren is to be done with the philosophy of language. This is the other well-worn approach to correlation, which re-inscribed the giveness of the object to the thinking subject as the line that there is nothing outside the text, or no outside-text.
Mallarmé's Coup De Dés Jamais N'Abolira le Hassard aka A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, is a key source for those playful, effervescent philosophical and literary-critical languages – Blanchot, Derrida, Kristeva, Ranciere – one suspects Meillassoux of wanting entirely to leave behind.
A Throw of Dice is widely agreed to be a difficult poem. Meillassoux joins those who think it is not difficult but coded. The point is not to tease out ever lengthening chains of signification from it, but to crack the code. This has been attempted before, both by legit and crackpot cryptographers, and the effort usually founders on the inexact fit between the proposed code and the text. Just as Meillassoux makes the unreasoned possibility of contingency the key to solving the riddle of facticity, so too he makes the incompleteness of the code the key to solving the riddle of A Throw of Dice. The encoding is not exact, and this, he argues, may be just how Mallarmé intended it.
A Throw of Dice turns on the problem of what becomes of the passion of Christ once God is dead. Part of the brilliance of Meillassoux's book is finding a serene rather than apocalyptic resolution to the passion without God.
What Mallarmé and Meillassoux may share is a "dream of an absolute Literature."(6) Mallarmé proceeds via an inversion of Hegelian infinity. It is not being but nothingness that subsumes everything into itself, in a dialectic without subject or goal. Fixing the infinite is the program, not its becoming or dynamism. It is a non-Hegelian dialectic, one without progress, where nothingness and chance preside over letter and life alike. Mallarmé's particular problem is the gamble undertaken by writing verse after the death of God. How can it not be arbitrary and senseless, and cast into the linguistic foam of the times in vain?
This is the situation of A Throw of Dice. At the denotative level, the poem reads something like a high-concept Robinsonade. A storm, perhaps a shipwreck. The Master is in the waves, clutching dice in his fist, hesitating over whether to cast them. After he sinks in the waters, sucked towards a whirlpool, only his hat remains. A siren appears and strikes with her tail the rock upon which the ship has foundered. A constellation appears, near or like the seven stars of the Great Bear, as if by a celestial dice throw.
Its not just the words, it's the code that the poet wagers in and against language. That there might be a numerical code might be of a certain geek interest. That the code might contain the concept of the poem is rather more than that. Three numbers have significance for Mallarmé: Twelve, the metrical count of the alexandrine poem; seven, the number of luck and chance itself; zero, the (non) number of nothingness.
Mallarmé had an elaborate liturgy in mind for the ritual performance of A Throw of Dice, the key to which is the number twelve. The ritual power of the strictly metered alexandrine would be displaced onto the situation in which his free verse poem was performed. But what of the seven and the zero?
The coded number of the poem will be the total of its words, the last of which is "consecrated", and that number is 707. But as to whether the words in the poem actually total 707 depends on what one counts as a word, and French has particular ambiguities about what is a compound of more than one word and what is not. Rather than count this a problem, Meillassoux makes it crucial to his whole reading. The poem hovers indeterminately around its special number, a constellation that flickers in and out of view.
The number coded in the poem doubles the number thrown by the Master at the last. Or not thrown: The Master hesitates between throwing and not throwing the dice in his hand. He throws a quavering number, an infinite and unique number. This throw of the dice does not so much abolish chance as shift levels, from being an instance of a chance, to being the instantiation of chance itself.
Mallarme's A Throw of Dice is the text for a liturgy which embodies a universe without law or reason, with only contingency. Now that the old God is dead, poetry must take up the slack of the old religions, but in a new way. Meillassoux: "…to represent to a people its own mystery: such is for Mallarmé the Greek heritage upon which art… continues to feed. But, according to the poet, it is precisely representation that art must break with if it would claim to go beyond Christianity." (108) A Throw of Dice is much more than just a poem about chance, it is the chancy thing itself.
If Christ is no more, God dead, or the Creator insane, then what guarantees the combined orders of life and language? What, or more significantly who, is the trustee presiding over the portals between this world and a higher one? Who can adjudicate the proper order of words and things by claiming to interpret the divine communication from that higher place? The answer contained in Lautréamont's other brief text, written after Maldoror, is – nobody.
In the Poesies, Lautréamont writes: "Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It closely grasps an author's sentence, uses his expressions, deletes a false idea, replaces it with the right one. To be well made, a maxim does not call for correction. It calls for development." Who or what stands guarantee over that development? As the Platonov of Foundation Pit knows only too well – nothing.
The difference between Lautréamont and Mallarmé is that for the former, there is no guarantee; for the latter, nothingness is the guarantee. In Mallarmé, the trusty role of the poet, and in Meillassoux, that of the philosopher, as communicant between worlds, is retained in a 'modern' form.
The nonmodern answer might rather be Lautréamont. There are no guarantees for the fidelity of language to life, there is only détournement, or the appropriation and revision of language for the making of life. Lautréamont is the first poet of the labor point of view, which Platonov expands into a whole theory, and putatively a practice, as the Factory of Literature.
Lautréamont's factory; Mallarmé's casino. Meillassoux: "The ultimate singularity of Mallarme's poetics – the idea that oriented his last writings – thus consisted in the quest for a 'diffusion of the absolute' emancipated from representation…." (112) The way he does it is not by representing the theme of a message in a bottle, "he actually threw such a bottle." (116) The Master trusts in the divinity of infinite chance; Mallarmé trusts that the quavering number of the poem will be decoded some day, and probably by chance.
This is crucial, and part of the special beauty of Meillassoux's approach to the poem. Chance governs every level of it. Meillassoux: "Here it falls to us to explain with greater precision. Let it be well understood that Mallarmé had taken care to introduce into the encryption of the Number a quality of unforeseeability that implies that one can discover its existence only by chance. For no knowledge of the poet's work, no matter how thorough, would suffice to discover that the Coup de dés is organized around a count, and in particular the count of its words…" (117) Not labor but speculation alone presides over the unveiling of the number, for chance is the absolute quality of the great outdoors.
Rituals that bind the worlds need a sacrifice, and here Meillassoux does not diverge from this ancient logic. "Mallarmé accepted the possible destruction of the meaning of his labor upon the alter of a Chance that represented, for him, the equivalent of Destiny." (122) The bottle and its message may not wash ashore anywhere. There is no esoteric knowledge in the poem, no particular difficulty. There is only an indeterminate code, "that infinite capacity to have held within oneself all options at once." (142) There is only a nihilist passion to communicate across time an impossible number.
With this poem, Mallarmé throws himself into the infinite. "The poet thus launched his 'proper name' in the Coup de dés, so as to create beyond his death an infinite carrying his patronymic." (149) There is one message of the shipwreck, just as there is one message of the crucifixion. The poet and the poem are singular in their instantiation of the infinite. Mallarmé with this poem is, all at once, the trustee of the divine.
Meillassoux: "The Coup de dés does indeed intend to break in two the history of the world: like a zero-event on the basis of which every calendar must be recalculated – like a christic birth – it is the absolute rupture of a before and an after, of a unique, non-reproducible wager, without precursor or successor, of which Mallarmé is the 'unique Name.'" (166) Mallarmé and Meillassoux are like the God Builders Gorky and Lunacharsky from whom Bogdanov parted company, only their new God is not the proletariat but the speculator.
The poet is reborn as the Siren, who appears and disappears at once, leaving the question: did infinity open, or not? Was the constellation and its count revealed or not? For a long time, until Meillassoux's book actually, it did not. Meillassoux: "modernity triumphed and we did not know it." (221) The Number and the Siren is like a new testament which reveals the old – A Throw of Dice – to be an allegory of a book to come which will reveal not a hermeneutic key but its encrypted code.
What remains constant between the christic and the modern is the form of the relation between worlds. A sacrifice is made, and the act itself takes the form of a figuring of the infinite, be it of God or nothingness. The communication with a great outdoors by a singular actor – Christ or Mallarmé – anchors the possibility of living after in its grace. The living after still requires a trustee who speaks of and for the portal between worlds. What does not happen is a closing of the portal.
To close the portal to another world – that might be another version of the modern. For Mallarmé, without God there is only contingency, but the contingent itself can be raised to the level of the infinite. But there might be another path. Without God there is no longer an infinite, but there is not just contingency, either. There is détournement, that inhuman, unconscious working of language itself on itself, via an apparatus of labor and technology.
In Mallarmé's case, we could read A Throw of Dice also as détournement: of sea lore, of Poe, of Hamlet, and most interestingly of the language of the bourgeois newspaper. In One Way Street, Walter Benjamin finds in Mallarmé's Coup de dés the incorporation of the graphic tensions of the advertisement in the printed page. It is a poem of its time in a prosaic sense as well. As with correlationism, so too with poetic language, the path not taken in Meillassoux is to think the apparatus.
The Data and the Siren: Quentin Meillassoux has, over two extraordinary books, restored the honor of the rational absolute and the poetic infinite. He frees the former from metaphysical dogma, he frees the later from a restrictively Christian messianism. Of the three goals he attributes to Mallarmé, there is clear progress on two of them, but perhaps not on a third: politics without salvation. What is given license instead is a kind of salvation inverted. A politics of reconciliation with a contingent nothingness.
The path not taken, in the case of both books, is in a certain sense a Marxist one. Meillassoux acknowledges the significance of Marx for the modern condition, in a phrase that in his terms can only be a compliment. Marx is "he who we have never known how to classify." (221) Certainly one could read After Finitude as offering a proof of materialism, of a great outdoors, rather than merely taking it as a given. But it comes at the price of defining a mathematical real innocent of observation and measurement, and hence at best congruent with the natural sciences but not of it.
Perhaps what is unclassifiable in Marx stems not from his philosophy, but from his practice. What is central is not his materialism, but what Bogdanov calls the labor point of view. That point of view has an inhuman quality. Labor is not reducible to the individual thinking subject. It is mingled with the machine in the apparatus. Labor, both scientific and industrial, is what is real in Marx and Bogdanov. Another kind of labor, poetical labor, the production of language out of language, is what is real in Lautréamont, but also in Platonov.
In both cases is labor is not reducible to its living, subjective element, but is an apparatus, an alloy of human and machine. By putting Marx via Bogdanov and Lautréamont via Platonov together we find a path marked by neither the correlation nor the absolute, and at a distance also from certain messianic themes revived – none too legitimately – in the name of Marx in our time.
We may build Gods again, but private ones. But there's a trade off. Philosophy may have access to the absolute again, or be a safe haven for the desire for the absolute, but at the price of taking philosophy away from the sciences, or indeed the social sciences, and away from the labor point of view in general.
It is as if a speculative, or rather a contemplative, realism appeared on the scene so that philosophy can guarantee the continued existence of the world after us. It's a variant on what E. P. Thompson called exterminism. It is as if there was a giving up, in advance, on the increasingly difficult challenge of shoring up the apparatus upon which thought depends.
Rather than retreat toward a human world of art, the retreat is rather one that looks like an advance, into the great outdoors, but one that is equally contemplative, aesthetic, and outside the labor point of view. It leaps over the inhuman of the apparatus, even over the nonhuman that the apparatus of science records, straight into the absolute.
By what inhuman combination of labor and apparatus does a nonhuman world become sensible and measurable to a human one? That would be the question that Bogdanov's empirio-monism once put before us. By what collective labor on language in its mediated forms does the nonrational poetics on which thought feeds come to us? That would be the question once posed by Platonov's particular articulation of détournement. Nothing guarantees an outside either to thought or language. Neither thought or language can be the critical limit to what is knowable, as neither is external to the active process of encountering the world.
Let's conclude with a particular example of what Meillassoux in After Finitude calls an arche-fossil, if of a rather different kind. Let's consider not cosmology, but climate science, which gives us evidence of a very pertinent kind of collapse. Climate science tells us of past events, such as the climate of the Hadean eon, but also of a future one, the imminent climate of the Anthropocene Era.
Climate science abstracts from the fetishism of particular, contingent actions on a certain localized scale, that of the biosphere, to show us also a future event that has already occurred. The already transpired rise – among other gases – of atmospheric carbon (and methane) has already raised global temperatures in the future. Climate science raises the alarm about an event that unfolds in slow motion all around us, but beyond the scale and memory of human thought or perception. It too is a thing which in its full wonder is outside the correlationist circle.
Climate science knows nothing of the absolute. It is an apparatus. Indeed, Paul Edwards, one of the leading histories of it is called A Vast Machine. It has three elements: predicting the weather, modeling the climate, and the physics of how both weather and climate work. It took many decades to bring all three together. Gathering timely weather data from disparate locations and altitudes takes a huge, global infrastructure. Computing that data with an accurate model of the physics takes a vast amount of computational power. Both data communication and computation friction impeded the study of climate until the late twentieth century. At the base of our contemporary knowledge of climate, and climate change, is the evolution, from system to network to webs, of a global climate knowledge infrastructure, requiring coordinated global labors.
Climate science is our Napoleon at Jena, not the world spirit on horseback, but the biospheric totality via comsat. If there is a short list of things calling us to a timely rather than a hesitant thought, then surely it is on that list. But philosophy has turned away from such things. It grew bored with the double binds of the subject, but rather than lift its gaze toward this world, it conjured up another – the world of the absolute object.
A contemplative realism provides a window through which to observe the beauty of a world that actually is collapsing, and the solace of knowing that the world will go on, even if the human does not. Philosophy has found a spectacle outside of history once again, while the sirens go off all around us, calling us to put out fires both conceptual and real.
It may well be said that I have not done Meillassoux justice, that I have not explicated his thought to the end. This is indeed the case. I have elaborated the parallel arguments of two of his books only to the point where the intersect another line of thought. We follow the argument for the absolute only to the point where it comes upon the argument of the apparatus. My aim has not been to refute Meillassoux – something for which in any case I would never claim the authority – but simply to situate his project by reference to another.
This other theory – that of the apparatus – might not even be philosophy. Yet it may have a few modest merits. It begins and ends with that mingling of labor and technology that characterize the times. It hews close to the problems that such an apparatus detects as the problems of the moment – such as climate change. It makes no claim to be the trustee of a portal between this world and another. It makes no claim that either it, or its subject, is a rare event.
Détournement is an ever present and ongoing practice, a poetics of the apparatus, a stockpile of possible, ready made substitutions, the other side of its inhuman measuring and calculating. This other theory is merely a low theory. It has no lofty ambitions. It seeks only to equip everyday life with the tools for its own sustenance and elaboration. It is a molecular red theory, of living iron and blood corpuscles. It has no interest in rendering the contemplative spectacle absolute and eternal. It has an interest only in dispensing with the spectacle entirely. In this it does not hesitate.


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By Ian McMurtry
World Airways Calls it Quits
After years of struggling to stay profitable, World Airways finally called it quits today. The airline's parent company, Global Aero Logistics, decided after failing to find investors to resurrect the
airline from bankruptcy to cancel all flights starting May 27. The airline is the second to claim bankruptcy in the last few months after Evergreen International Airlines ceased operations on December 31st.
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World was a charter airline whose primary customer was the US military. World became popular during the Vietnam War with the US military due to their launching point in Oakland. World operated McDonnell-Douglas MD-11s and Boeing 727s for the military during the time. In the 1980s, World opened up commercial service on domestic routes with Douglas DC-10s, they were famous for flying wide body DC-10s on small domestic flights such as Oakland-Los Angeles. These commercial routes did not last long and the airline quickly went back to being a charter and cargo airline only.
Throughout the 1990s, World Airways moved their base from Oakland to the Baltimore/Washington area and their headquarters would remain in Peachtree, Georgia. They used Baltimore Thurgood Marshall International Airport as a launching point for flights for the military to Germany and the Middle East. However, the downsizing of the military in the 2000s hurt World's revenue and in 2006 they were placed under one parent company with another charter airline: North American Airlines. The airlines continued to lose money as the government downsized the military and in 2011, they started retiring their McDonnell-Douglas MD-11s leaving them with just 2 MD-11Fs and 1 MD-11 alongside a Boeing 747-412(BDSF) to start 2014. The airline entered bankruptcy alongside North American Airlines in November 2013 as Global Air Logistics searched for investors willing to help resurrect the airlines. After months of waiting and nobody interested in helping World, Global Air Logistics folded the airline, laying off all 325 employees.
World isn't the only airline who was struggling to maintain a profit and stay airborne. They are now the second carrier in recent years to fold, following Evergreen International Airlines, who operated an all Boeing 747 freighter fleet for charter and cargo flights. Global Air Logistics's other airline, North American, has seen serious cuts in their fleet and staff. North American has retired all of their Boeing 757s and have left just 4 Boeing 767-300s in their fleet. North American plans to come out of bankruptcy by the end of the year.
Other charter and cargo airlines are thriving during this time of hardship thanks to overseas interest. Tulsa based, Omni Air International, retired all 5 of their Douglas DC-10 and replaced them with Boeing 777s, 767s, and 757s. Omni Air's main customer is leisure companies, especially the cruise ship industry who charter planes to get passengers to their overseas launching points. National Airlines operates Boeing 747s and 757s in and out of Orlando, but have recently moved a majority of their operations to Dubai for military and private customers' purposes. Atlas Air is a charter airlines that see a lot of success, Atlas operates a 47 plane fleet of Boeing 767s and 747s for customers both domestic and international. Atlas leases planes to various customers including operating Boeing's Dreamlifters as well as cargo 747-400s for Qantas Freight, Polar Air Cargo, Etihad Cargo, and Emirates SkyCargo.
As airlines move forward from the loss of World, they continue down an unknown road. The charter airline industry is always changing with the economy, just as all the aviation community changes with the economy. Charter airlines are always hit the hardest by recessions and depressions due to their constant need for businesses and agencies to use them. And in this dog-eat-dog economy, World didn't have enough interest from companies and agencies besides the US military and unfortunately they bit the dust on March, 27th, 2014.
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Gunmen shoot pregnant woman in Bayelsa
By Ikenna Amadi
A pregnant woman, identified as Gulu, has been reportedly shot in the stomach by gunmen suspected to be pirates that attacked a Yenagoa bound passenger boat in the coastal area of Koluama in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State.
The woman was rushed to a medical facility in Koluama II Community in the council area, alongside the young man that was equally shot in the attack.
Reports have it that the passenger boat was travelling from Koluama to Yenagoa when the pirates struck between Koluama I and II axis of the waterways in the early hours of the day.
The Chairman of the Bayelsa State chapter of the Nigerian Maritime Workers' Union, Lloyd Sese, confirming the incident, affirmed that the pirates also went away with the 200 horsepower engine belonging to one Sunday Leghemo, as well as the belongings of the passengers.
He also revealed that pirates in the early hours of the day blocked the Akassa route of the waterways thereby preventing passengers from travelling to Yenagoa.


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At Least 28 People Shot in Weekend Shootings Across Chicago Area
The latest fatal shooting took place early Monday morning in the city's Lake View neighborhood on the North Side
Published Jun 15, 2019 at 4:14 PM | Updated at 11:37 AM CDT on Jun 17, 2019
At least 28 people were shot, six fatally, across Chicago over the weekend, including a teen who was shot to death in the city's Englewood neighborhood.
Shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday, Austin Rogers, 15, was standing in the street in the 2300 block of West 68th Street when he was struck by gunfire in the back, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
He was pronounced dead at Comer Children's Hospital, authorities said.
The latest fatal shooting took place early Monday morning in the city's Lake View neighborhood on the North Side.
A 30-year-old man was shot and killed while riding in an SUV just before 2:30 a.m. in the 2900 block of North Broadway, authorities said. According to police, a man in a white Dodge Magnum fired shots at the vehicle, striking the victim in the head and shoulder.
The man was pronounced dead at Saint Joseph Hospital, police said.
Minutes before, there was an argument in the parking lot of a retail store in the 3200 block of North Sheffield Avenue, police said. There, the male in the Dodge displayed a weapon at the SUV. The driver of the SUV fled, and the male followed in the Dodge.
No one is in custody as Area North detectives investigate.
At least four people were fatally shot on Sunday alone, authorities said.
Just before 11:30 p.m., a 25-year-old man was found shot in the chest while in the driver's seat of an upside down vehicle in the 7900 block of South Luella, police said. The car appeared to have crashed into multiple parked cars before stopping, according to authorities. The man was taken to University of Chicago Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Just after 10 p.m., two people were shot, one of them fatally, in an alley in the 6400 block of South Talman. Police said a 39-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the back and was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he later died, authorities said. A second man, 43 years old, was shot in the leg and also transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center. His condition was later stabilized, police said.
Another person was shot early Sunday in the Calumet Heights neighborhood.
A 34-year-old man was on the sidewalk outside a nightclub about 2:39 a.m. in the 8900 block of South Stony Island Avenue when someone in a passing black Chevrolet Malibu opened fire, police said.
The man was hit multiple times and was pronounced on the scene, police said. Witnesses have been "uncooperative" with investigators.
Nearly two hours earlier, a woman was shot to death in Little Village on the Southwest Side.
Corina Avila, 27, was a passenger in a vehicle traveling about 12:54 a.m. near the 2600 block of South St. Louis Avenue when someone unleashed gunfire, striking her in the head, police and the medical examiner's office said.
The female driver drove about a mile away to a home in the 4100 block of West 25th Street where paramedics responded, authorities said. Avila was pronounced on the scene.
The driver told officers she didn't know where the shots came from, police said.
At least 14 other people have been hurt in shootings since 2 p.m. Friday. The weekend ends at 5 a.m. Monday.
Three people were killed and 36 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago last weekend.
Here are the rest of the weekend's shootings:
In the 8200 block of South Cottage Grove at approximately 3:20 p.m., a 46-year-old man heard a verbal altercation outside, and then an unidentified man entered the building and began firing shots, striking the victim in the face. The man, who also suffered a graze wound to the right side of his body, is in stable condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said.
Around 4 p.m., two men were shot in the 200 block of North Leamington, police said. Circumstances surrounding the shooting weren't immediately released, but authorities said a 25-year-old man was shot in the lower legt leg and taken to West Suburban Hospital in stable condition. A 24-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds to the body and was listed in critical condition.
A man was shot multiple times as he sat in a vehicle in the Ravenswood neighborhood on the North Side. About 8 p.m., in the 4600 block of North Leavitt Avenue, a vehicle pulled up from behind and at least one person inside unleashed gunfire, police said. The bullets entered the back of his vehicle and struck the 31-year-old twice in the shoulder. He drove off and took himself to Swedish Covenant Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
At approximately 9:32 p.m., an 18-year-old man was walking in the 2700 block of North Avers when he was shot in the ankle, according to police. The man was taken to Illinois Masonic, where he was listed in good condition.
In the 7500 block of South Union at approximately 11:15 p.m., a 33-year-old man was walking when he heard shots and felt pain in his leg, police said. The man, who was shot twice in the incident, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he is listed in good condition.
A 35-year-old man was walking in the 3500 block of West Belmont just after midnight when a man in a dark-colored pick-up truck fired shots at him, striking him in the hip. The man was taken to Stroger, where his condition later stabilized.
At approximately 2 a.m. a 30-year-old man was walking when he was shot in the abdomen in the 5600 block of West Addison, police said. He refused to give further information to police about where he was shot or when, and is being treated at Illinois Masonic.
Three people, including a teen, were wounded in a triple shooting Saturday in Chatham on the South Side. A 24-year-old woman was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked vehicle about 2:34 a.m. in the 7500 block of South Calumet Avenue, police said. She and the other passengers were talking to people standing outside of the vehicle when someone opened fire. The woman was hit in the head along with a 16-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man, police said. The teen was struck in the arm, back and knee while the man was shot in the back. The vehicle the woman was in drove off and stopped a few blocks away in the 7900 block of South Vincennes Avenue in Gresham where emergency crews were called, police said. All three were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where their conditions were stabilized, police said.
A 25-year-old man was shot while driving around 3:45 a.m. in the 2300 block of North Cicero, police said. The man told police he heard shots and felt pain, then realized he had been shot in the leg. Authorities said the man told them he didn't know where the shots came from, but pulled into a gas station in the 2800 block of North Cicero where he was then transported to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition.
Just after 8 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot while working on his car in the 2400 block of South Central Park, police said. The man told police he heard gunshots and saw the muzzle flash of a weapon near an alley on the street. Three people fled the scene on foot and the man working on his car was shot in the lower left leg, police said. He took himself to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was listed in good condition.
A 31-year-old man was walking about 10:47 p.m. in the 7600 block of South Eggleston Avenue when someone in a passing black sedan opened fire, police said. The man was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center with a gunshot wounds to his legs, police said. His condition was stabilized.
Just before 1 a.m., a 27-year-old man was shot in the chest and arm during a verbal altercation with a group of men in the 300 block of South Canal, police said. The man was taken to Northwestern Hospital in stable condition, authorities said. No one was in custody and witnesses with the victim were uncooperative with officers at the scene, according to police.
Around 1:15 a.m., a 23-year-old woman was shot in the finger when someone in a vehicle drove by the porch she was sitting on in the 10500 block of South Edbrooke and opened fire, police said. The woman refused medical treatment at the scene and it was not immediately clear if she was the intended target, according to authorities.
Around 2:30 a.m., a 17-year-old man was shot while walking in the 3100 block of West Douglas, police said. According to authorities, the teen was walking on the block when someone approached him from behind and asked him his gang affiliation before firing shots. The teen was struck three times in the leg, but never saw the face of his attacker, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in stable condition.
Just after 3 p.m., a 26-year-old man was shot on the sidewalk in the 700 block of North Parkside, police said. The man suffered a gunshot wound to the lower right leg and took himself to West Suburban Hospital where he was listed in stable condition.
Around 4:45 p.m., police said a 16-year-old girl was shot will sitting in a vehicle in the 1100 block of West 110th Place. Authorities said the teen was approached by an unknown man who fired shots at her, striking her in the chest. She was transported to Advocate Christ Hospital in serious condition, authorities said.
A 17-year-old boy was shot just before 8:30 p.m. in the 5000 block of West Adams, police said. The teen was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition. Area North detectives are investigating.
A 30-year-old man told officers he was driving in an area he couldn't remember when he stopped at a stoplight and someone got out of a car, approached the man's vehicle and began yelling gang slogans before opening fire on the vehicle. The driver was shot in the arm, drove away and crashed into a lightpole in the 1200 block of North Menard, police said. Officers saw him walking and called for an ambulance, which took the man to Loyola Hospital. He was last listed in stable condition, police said.
About 30 minutes later, a 38-year-old woman was shot while standing on the sidewalk with a group of people in the 10600 block of South Torrence. Police said someone in a passing black vehicle fired shots on the group, striking the woman in the lower backside. She was taken to Trinity Hospital in stable condition. Police said it was not immediately clear if she was the intended target.


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Q: How do i fix this broken CSS Masonry? I am modifying a pinterest clone script and working on replacing jquery masonry with css masonry, i think have added css values properly, but the masonry is still breaking a bit, can you guys please take a look and let me know what i might be doing wrong?
CSS thats making the masonry work is listed below,
Code:
#grid-container {
max-width:1200px;
-webkit-column-count: 4; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
-moz-column-count: 4; /* Firefox */
column-count: 4;
margin: 176px auto 0;
}

#grid-container > .post {
    width: 290px;
    margin: 0 5px 0;
    position: relative;
    display: block;
    height: auto;
}

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Regards,
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A: Setting column-count to 4 will ensure there are always 4 columns, instead of showing the max number of columns based on the post card widths. Use column-width instead. See below for that change and a few others.
#grid-container {
    max-width:1200px;
    -moz-column-width: 288px;
    -webkit-column-width: 288px;
    column-width: 288px;
    -moz-column-gap: 1em;
    -webkit-column-gap: 1em;
    column-gap: 1em;
    margin: 176px auto 0;
}

#grid-container > .post {
    width: 100%;
    margin: 0 5px 0;
    display: inline-block;
    height: auto;
}

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Many hotels have special facilities for families!
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The following family friendly small hotels are members of the Puerto Rico Hotel & Tourism Association.
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Il Festival Grec è un festival internazionale di teatro, danza, musica e circo che si svolge a Barcellona.

Il festival prende il nome dalla sua sede principale: il Teatre Grec, un teatro all'aperto costruito sul Montjuïc nel 1929 dall'architetto catalano Ramon Reventós in occasione dell'Expo 1929. Nel 1976 il teatro era caduto in uno stato semi-abbandono ma, grazie al successo di pubblico del primo festival, è stato recuperato. Inizialmente il Teatre Grec era l'unico luogo utilizzato per le produzioni del festival, ma oggi si svolge in diversi luoghi della città di Barcellona.

Il festival persegue una duplice missione: mettere in scena le opere più interessanti di artisti e compagnie catalane e presentare altri produzioni rilevanti spagnole ed internazionali.

Il festival nel corso del tempo è diventato un importante appuntamento della stagione estiva di Barcellona e ha visto la partecipazione di artisti come Dario Fo, Lindsay Kemp, la Martha Graham Dance Company, Jan Fabre, Peter Brook, Michel Piccoli, Robert Lepage, Paco de Lucía, Cristina Hoyos, Nacho Duato, Miles Davis, Manhattan Transfer, Joe Cocker, Celia Cruz, Chuck Berry ed Elvis Costello.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Cultura a Barcellona
Festival spagnoli

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ACB 2022
Denver Concert Band
In 1961, a group of grown-up friends were sitting around talking about their days growing up. Some reminisced about music experiences they wanted to re-live. Others said they never had a chance to play music as children but would love to try as adults. The talk soon turned into action. Several of them got instruments, and Dr. James DeRoos and Harold and Viola Topping approached Stan Limburg of Denver Christian High School to lead and teach them.
These dedicated founding members overcame a lot of obstacles during the early years. They lost their rehearsal facilities and then Limburg left. However, the musicians solved these problems in some novel ways. For example, they found another teacher to conduct, and they turned their home basements into rehearsal space. At one time the 20-member band even rehearsed in the reception area of Dr. DeRoos medical clinic!
As the mid-sixties came, the band continued to change rehearsal facilities and conductors, but it also started to grow in size and in popularity. The newfound success meant the band needed to get a little more sophisticated on the business side. They changed their name from "The South Denver Community Band" to the current name "The Denver Concert Band, Inc." They also became a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and created a board of directors to run the band.
Besides all the legal changes, 1968 was also a musical turning point for the band. Under the guidance of Frank Parce, the DCB performed its first formal concert at Grant Junior High School in Denver. For the 32 musicians in the band, it was a dream come true. That summer, the band also added a full schedule of "Summer Pops" concerts at Washington Park.
As the 60s turned into the 70s, the band started gaining respect around the city by performing for some very prestigious events. In 1972, the DCB was the first adult band to be invited to perform at the Colorado Music Educator's Conference (CMEA) in Colorado Springs. And in 1975, the DCB performed for Governor Lamm's inauguration at the State Capitol. The band also started giving back to the community that embraced them. In 1977, the band created the "Young Artist" Scholarship Competition to encourage high school seniors to pursue music performance careers.
The band also performed charity concerts around the city. In 1979, they performed a benefit concert for four young boys who were severely burned in a Sheridan gas explosion. And in 1981, the DCB performed a benefit concert for the Cambodian Relief Fund.
In 1986, during its 25th Anniversary year, the band was 70 members strong and thriving. That year, they became the first community band to perform for state music educators at the national convention of The American Bandmasters Association.
As the 80's turned into the 90's, the band continued to grow in strength and musicianship. The band had found a home at the Central Presbyterian Church. And the conductors helped shape the eclectic musical style that current fans now love. Wayne Bailey (now at Arizona State University) and Michael Schaff (now at New York University) both brought a strong professional discipline to the band, and current maestro Jacinda Bouton introduced a worldly musical flair.
Now in its 60th year, the band regularly performs in front of thousands of Coloradans every year. The band rehearses each Monday evening at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons Street, Lone Tree, CO 80124. During the formal concert season, the band presents three to four concerts of fine quality consisting of serious, original compositions for winds and transcriptions from symphonic literature. The DCB has dedicated its spring concert to the Young Artist Competition and awards $2,500 to the winner along with the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the band during that concert. In the summer, the band demonstrates the same fine musical standards playing summer-in-the-park concerts throughout Colorado and neighboring states.
Jacinda Bouton
Jacinda Bouton has been the Music Director of the Denver Concert Band (DCB) since 1997. She is also the founding Conductor of the Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra and is an active conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the Rocky Mountain Region. Jacinda feels fortunate to have conducted these ensembles in over thirty guest artist concerts with members of the Colorado Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and many other nationally and internationally renowned soloists. In addition, Ms. Bouton has also previously directed the Denver Municipal Band during the summer season.
Jacinda has directed the DCB on international concert tours to the British Isles in 1998 and France and Germany in 2004. She also directed the DCB in two appearances at the Association of Concert Bands national convention in Fairfax, VA in 2002 and Houston, TX in 2009. Jacinda has served as Co-Director of the Breckenridge Music Institute's Summer Music Camp, was Director of the Denver Junior Police Band taking an active role in the rebirth of this Denver institution, and for many years was Director of Instrumental Music at George Washington High School in the Denver Public Schools. Jacinda is a cum laude graduate of Southwest Missouri State University with an emphasis in Music Education, receiving certification in both instrumental and choral areas.
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Q: Error message when running telnet in python shell Below is a minimal example of my code, which If you run, should recreate the problem I have. One thing I have encounter that the error does not appear if my raspberry pi (the thing I am using teller to connect to) is turned off or the internet cable is unplugged.
#IMPORTS
import time
import telnetlib
import sys
import getpass

#TELNET
user = input("Please Enter Your Username: ")
time.sleep(0.4)
pass_ = input("Please Enter Your Password: ")

bot = telnetlib.Telnet("192.168.1.128")
bot.read_until("login: ".encode(),  timeout=None)
bot.write(user + "\n")
bot.read_until("Password: ".encode(),  timeout=None)
bot.write(pass_ + "\n")
bot.write("cd PiBits/ServoBlaster")

I get the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/kiancross/Desktop/PROJECTS/RASPBERRY_PI/ROBOT/CONTROLLER_GUI/RPi_BOT_CONTROLLER.py", line 17, in <module>
    bot.write(user + "\n")
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/telnetlib.py", line 289, in write
    if IAC in buffer:
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not bytes

I was running the following code which you can see in this post but as you can see from the answer I changed it to the code above which resulted in the above error message.
I should say that the code is no where near finished and a lot of things are just to test until I get telnet working!
I have tried the fix for the older version of python mentioned in this post.
I have used print(type(user)) to see what kind the variables are and they are strings. I have tried bot.write((user + "\n").encode(latin-1)) as shown in this fix, but the error message still appears. I have also tried encoding in unicode. I understand that part of that line is encoded wrong but I don't know if it is the variables or the "\n". I have tried doing bot.write(user + b"\n") but this get rid of the error.
If anybody has any other methods that could stop this error, I would greatly appreciate them.
Thanks
P.S Im running on python 3.4.0
EDIT
I have tried this:
bot = telnetlib.Telnet("192.168.1.128")
bot.write(user + "\n".encode('ascii'))
bot.read_until(b"Password: ")
bot.write((pass_ + "\n").encode('ascii'))

But I still get the same error.
When I do:
bot = telnetlib.Telnet("192.168.1.128")
bot.read_until(b"login: ")
bot.write(user + b"\n")
bot.read_until(b"Password: ")
bot.write(pass_ + b"\n")

I get a different error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/kiancross/Desktop/PROJECTS/RASPBERRY_PI/ROBOT/CONTROLLER_GUI/RPi_BOT_CONTROLLER.py", line 23, in <module>
    bot.write(user + b"\n")
TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly

All the error seem to say that It needs to be a string but my variables are already strings.
Thanks

A: The telnet interface probably wants to work in bytes not Unicode. I have tested this code on Python3 and it avoids the error:
import telnetlib
bot = telnetlib.Telnet("127.0.0.1", 22)
user = "dobbs"
bot.write((user + "\n").encode('ascii'))
print(bot.read_all())


Dwell's Vespa pizza cutter is the perfect thing for italophiles, combining two of the countries most famous exports.
Perhaps a little less stylish than your average model – though perfectly equipped to do the job required – it's a pizza slicer in the shape of a vespa. One to file next to the vinyl-shaped pizza slicer in the novelty kitchen implements drawer maybe?


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Huawei founder signals enterprise unit ramp, ready to chew the fat with Biden
By Ray Le Maistre
Picture courtesy of Huawei
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei in bullish mood
New enterprise business could make up for handset sales dip
He'd be happy to get on the phone with the new US President
With Joe Biden successfully inaugurated as the new US President, Huawei seems to believe there might be a thawing of relations with the global superpower – so much so that the Chinese vendor's founder Ren Zhengfei has sent a "you know where to find me" message to the Biden administration.
He might be waiting a while…
More importantly, Ren (pictured above) suggested the Chinese vendor's enterprise tech business might be set to ramp up significantly.
Ren occasionally makes himself available for media Q&A sessions and, when he has a message he wants widely spread, the Huawei PR machine is used to share a transcript. The message this time? We're fine, thanks (despite US sanctions and multiple 5G market exclusion), we're available for a chat if an olive branch would be welcomed by Biden's team, and watch out for a new era of 5G-enabled enterprise technology solutions.
The occasion of the media Q&A was the opening on an 'Intelligent Mining Innovation Lab' in Taiyuan, China. That's significant because it's an example of Huawei pushing further into enterprise verticals, where 5G is regarded by many as a catalyst for business growth and operational efficiencies (particularly in manufacturing). Ren is one of those keen to associate 5G with enterprise opportunities: "In the 5G era, connecting businesses is the main goal," he noted, adding later that Huawei's goal is to provide communications technology systems and platforms that are applicable to any industry. It's also worth noting that China alone has more than 8,000 mines – hence the innovation lab.
Here are the highlights of Ren's responses to media questions. There were many more questions, but here are what I think are the juicy ones (I amended the wording for brevity) and the most important one is at the end:
Can Huawei survive?
Ren: "I am even more confident about Huawei's survival than I was [a year ago], because we have more ways to overcome those challenges. Our sales revenue and profits in 2020 were higher than last year's," said Ren. He didn't cite numbers, but figures alleged to come from Huawei's internal accounting systems suggest the company's full year 2020 revenues increased by 11.2% to $136.7 billion and its profits grew by more than 10% to $9.9 billion. How is that possible when Huawei's telco carrier business has been under pressure and its smartphone sales plummeted as chip supplies dried up? The company is focused on tech products but its range is diverse – Ren suggested, for example, that sales of Huawei earphones are set to hit $10 billion per year, though a timescale was not mentioned.
Might the Biden administration go so far as the remove Huawei from the Entity list?
Ren: "I think it's very unlikely that the US will remove us from the Entity List. I won't say it's impossible, but it's extremely unlikely. We basically aren't considering it a possibility." [But you can bet your bottom dollar that Huawei is now hell bent on making that a more likely possibility…]
If US President Biden called you, what would you say to him?
Ren: "I would welcome that, but he hasn't called. You have my email address and telephone number… I would talk with him about common development. Both the US and China need to develop their economies, as this is good for our society and financial balance. Everyone needs this. As humanity keeps making progress, no company can develop a globalized industry alone. It requires concerted efforts around the world." [Subtext: I am waiting for your call that will almost certainly never come.]
Will relations with the US thaw under a Biden administration?
Ren: "Allowing US companies to supply goods to Chinese customers is conducive to their own financial performance. If Huawei's production capacity expanded, that would mean US companies could sell more. It's a win-win situation. I believe the new administration will weigh and balance these interests as they consider their policies. We still hope to be able to buy a lot of US components, parts, and machinery so that US companies can also develop with the Chinese economy… I hope the new US administration will come up with more open policies that are in the interests of US companies and the US economy as a whole."
Can new enterprise opportunities for Huawei offset the dip in device sales [from the supply chain issues and the sale of the Honor smartphone line]? If so, when? (Question asked by David Kirton from Reuters.)
Ren: "I think more or less within this year."
This year? That would represent a significant leap in Huawei's enterprise business and is the response that might strike fear into the hearts of those who wish Huawei would collapse or at least just become a domestic supplier of tech to Chinese enterprise and consumer customers.
Does Huawei really now have the chops to deliver technology solutions for enterprises around the world (excluding the US, of course) that are of equal or better technical quality than its rivals at cost points that would attract enterprise CFOs?
Don't bet against it.
- Ray Le Maistre, Editorial Director, TelecomTV
Asia-Pacific,
Energy & Utilities,
Huawei,
Manufacturing & Industry 4.0,
Telecoms Vendors & OEMs


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Q: GATE JAPE rule priorities not respected I have following text:
1 hwb wert: 330 kWh

In the first step, following mapping is tacking place:
330 kWh is mapped as: Lookup.major = "unit"
hwb wertis mapped as: Lookup.major = "keyword"
The JAPE Rules:
Phase: composedUnits
Input: Token Lookup
Options: control=appelt debug=true

Rule: TableRow
Priority:10
 (
  ({Lookup.majorType == "keyword"})
  ({Token.kind == punctuation})[0,4]
  ({Lookup.majorType == "unit"})
 )

Rule: ReversedTableRow
Priority: -2
(
 ({Token.kind == number})
 ({Lookup.majorType == "keyword"})
)

I can't understand why the ReversedTableRow-Rule is matched and not the TableRow.

A: The appelt priorities work only for the same regions of text (e.g. earlier match wins and longer match wins). Text consumed by a previous rule cannot be matched by a later rule...
From the documentation:

With the appelt style, only one rule can be fired for the same region
  of text, according to a set of priority rules. Priority operates in
  the following way.

*

*From all the rules that match a region of the document starting at
  some point X, the one which matches the longest region is fired.

*If
  more than one rule matches the same region, the one with the highest
  priority is fired

*If there is more than one rule with the same
  priority, the one defined earlier in the grammar is fired.

...

Note also that depending on the control style, firing a rule may
  'consume' that part of the text, making it unavailable to be matched
  by other rules. This can be a problem for example if one rule uses
  context to make it more specific, and that context is then missed by
  later rules, having been consumed due to use of for example the
  'Brill' control style.

The rule TableRow can win as longer with following modification, note that I added the :tableRow label, which does not include the leading number token.
(
 ({Token.kind == number})?
 (
  ({Lookup.majorType == "keyword"})
  ({Token.kind == punctuation})[0,4]
  ({Lookup.majorType == "unit"})
 ):tableRow
)


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Q: Does Spark Dataframe have an equivalent option of Panda's merge indicator? The python Pandas library contains the following function :
DataFrame.merge(right, how='inner', on=None, left_on=None, right_on=None, left_index=False,
                right_index=False, sort=False, suffixes=('_x', '_y'), copy=True,
                indicator=False)

The indicator field combined with Panda's value_counts() function can be used to quickly determine how well a join performed.
Example:
In [48]: df1 = pd.DataFrame({'col1': [0, 1], 'col_left':['a', 'b']})

In [49]: df2 = pd.DataFrame({'col1': [1, 2, 2],'col_right':[2, 2, 2]})

In [50]: pd.merge(df1, df2, on='col1', how='outer', indicator=True)
Out[50]:
   col1 col_left  col_right      _merge
0     0        a        NaN   left_only
1     1        b        2.0        both
2     2      NaN        2.0  right_only
3     2      NaN        2.0  right_only

What is the best way to check the performance of a join within a Spark Dataframe?
A custom function was provided in 1 of the answers: It does not yet give the correct results but it would be great if it would:
ASchema = StructType([StructField('id', IntegerType(),nullable=False),
                 StructField('name', StringType(),nullable=False)])
BSchema = StructType([StructField('id', IntegerType(),nullable=False),
                 StructField('role', StringType(),nullable=False)])
AData = sc.parallelize ([ Row(1,'michel'), Row(2,'diederik'), Row(3,'rok'), Row(4,'piet')])
BData = sc.parallelize ([ Row(1,'engineer'), Row(2,'lead'), Row(3,'scientist'), Row(5,'manager')])
ADF = hc.createDataFrame(AData,ASchema)
BDF = hc.createDataFrame(BData,BSchema)
DFJOIN = ADF.join(BDF, ADF['id'] == BDF['id'], "outer")
DFJOIN.show()

Input:
+----+--------+----+---------+
|  id|    name|  id|     role|
+----+--------+----+---------+
|   1|  michel|   1| engineer|
|   2|diederik|   2|     lead|
|   3|     rok|   3|scientist|
|   4|    piet|null|     null|
|null|    null|   5|  manager|
+----+--------+----+---------+

from pyspark.sql.functions import *
DFJOINMERGE = DFJOIN.withColumn("_merge", when(ADF["id"].isNull(), "right_only").when(BDF["id"].isNull(), "left_only").otherwise("both"))\
  .withColumn("id", coalesce(ADF["id"], BDF["id"]))\
   .drop(ADF["id"])\
   .drop(BDF["id"])
DFJOINMERGE.show()

Output
+---+--------+---+---------+------+
| id|    name| id|     role|_merge|
+---+--------+---+---------+------+
|  1|  michel|  1| engineer|  both|
|  2|diederik|  2|     lead|  both|
|  3|     rok|  3|scientist|  both|
|  4|    piet|  4|     null|  both|
|  5|    null|  5|  manager|  both|
+---+--------+---+---------+------+

 ==> I would expect id 4 to be left, and id 5 to be right.

Changing join to "left":

Input:
+---+--------+----+---------+
| id|    name|  id|     role|
+---+--------+----+---------+
|  1|  michel|   1| engineer|
|  2|diederik|   2|     lead|
|  3|     rok|   3|scientist|
|  4|    piet|null|     null|
+---+--------+----+---------+

Output
+---+--------+---+---------+------+
| id|    name| id|     role|_merge|
+---+--------+---+---------+------+
|  1|  michel|  1| engineer|  both|
|  2|diederik|  2|     lead|  both|
|  3|     rok|  3|scientist|  both|
|  4|    piet|  4|     null|  both|
+---+--------+---+---------+------+

A: Try this:
>>> from pyspark.sql.functions import *
>>> sdf1 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(df1)
>>> sdf2 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(df2)
>>> sdf = sdf1.join(sdf2, sdf1["col1"] == sdf2["col1"], "outer")
>>> sdf.withColumn("_merge", when(sdf1["col1"].isNull(), "right_only").when(sdf2["col1"].isNull(), "left_only").otherwise("both"))\
...  .withColumn("col1", coalesce(sdf1["col1"], sdf2["col1"]))\
...   .drop(sdf1["col1"])\
...   .drop(sdf2["col1"])

A: Altered LostInOverflow 's answer and got this working:
from pyspark.sql import Row

ASchema = StructType([StructField('ida', IntegerType(),nullable=False),
                 StructField('name', StringType(),nullable=False)])
BSchema = StructType([StructField('idb', IntegerType(),nullable=False),
                 StructField('role', StringType(),nullable=False)])
AData = sc.parallelize ([ Row(1,'michel'), Row(2,'diederik'), Row(3,'rok'), Row(4,'piet')])
BData = sc.parallelize ([ Row(1,'engineer'), Row(2,'lead'), Row(3,'scientist'), Row(5,'manager')])
ADF = hc.createDataFrame(AData,ASchema)
BDF = hc.createDataFrame(BData,BSchema)
DFJOIN = ADF.join(BDF, ADF['ida'] == BDF['idb'], "outer")
DFJOIN.show()

+----+--------+----+---------+
| ida|    name| idb|     role|
+----+--------+----+---------+
|   1|  michel|   1| engineer|
|   2|diederik|   2|     lead|
|   3|     rok|   3|scientist|
|   4|    piet|null|     null|
|null|    null|   5|  manager|
+----+--------+----+---------+

from pyspark.sql.functions import *
DFJOINMERGE = DFJOIN.withColumn("_merge", when(DFJOIN["ida"].isNull(), "right_only").when(DFJOIN["idb"].isNull(), "left_only").otherwise("both"))\
  .withColumn("id", coalesce(ADF["ida"], BDF["idb"]))\
   .drop(DFJOIN["ida"])\
   .drop(DFJOIN["idb"])
#DFJOINMERGE.show()
DFJOINMERGE.groupBy("_merge").count().show()

+----------+-----+
|    _merge|count|
+----------+-----+
|right_only|    1|
| left_only|    1|
|      both|    3|
+----------+-----+


Our logo is intended to capture the spirit of our two parishes in collaboration with one another and our connection to the mission of Jesus Christ. The logo has two lilies – one representing each parish.
The lily is a symbol of the Blessed Mother. It is a symbol of virginity and purity. There is also a white day lily which only blooms during the time of the Assumption in mid-August and is known as the Assumption Lily among horticulturalists.
The lily is a symbol of St. Anthony as he is usually depicted holding a lily. Most images of St. Anthony of Padua depict him holding the Child Jesus and with lilies. With Saint Anthony lilies have special significance. Lilies are in bloom around much of the world in the month of June, the month of his Feast Day [the 13th].
The lily is also a sign of life and growth, As part of God's creation lilies show the ongoing nature of God's love and protection. It signifies our connection to the incarnation of Jesus as human and divine and the incarnation of all of creation.
If you look closely you will find the initials of our parishes in the logo as well. Can you find them?


I think the meraki is seeing the 10.x.x.x as on the local lan and blocking it..
is there a way to make this work other than allowing the guest network access to my internal lan?
can i put a specific meraki firewall rule allowing the internal ip of exchange server.?
will the deny any overide that rule?
Yup. So the AP will act as the gateway/DNS/DHCP etc. from the clients perspective. But in reality, he is acting as a proxy. So whatever DNS the actual AP gets assigned (say from your windows domain server for example) is what it will use to do DNS resolutions.
For this reason, I tend to make it a habit that my access points always get assigned public DNS. They need it to reach the internet, and also for guest SSID like you just experienced. Plus I like to think that it adds an extra layer of security, as I don't want any internal DNS servers to accidentally get exposed for some unknown reason.
The easy way to overcome it is to use custom DNS as I mentioned previously. Downside to this is you kind of lose that 'free feature' of blocking adult content option, but oh well.


These panels are as originally fitted to all UK built MKI and MKII Mini Saloons and Coopers but these were also used on the early Innocenti models before trim production was moved to Italy. We create the 8 horizontal line design with a high frequency welding machine and our own dedicated tooling as they were created originally. Some original colours used in the Innocenti production are no longer available.