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January 28, 2009 Music » Music Feature
Buzzing Frequencies
A conversation with The Low Anthem's Ben Knox Miller
By Dan Bolles @DanBolles
Published January 28, 2009 at 6:03 a.m.
Jocie Adams, Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky
As inferred by the title of their remarkable 2008 release, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, juxtaposition is a central concern for The Low Anthem. Recorded during a bleak midwinter on the summertime paradise of Block Island, duality is the record's strongest thematic current, both lyrically and musically. Folk-tale imagery and rootsy, down-home grit are tempered by sparklingly arranged horn compositions and ghostly, near-angelic chorales. Stirring rock numbers crumble and drift weightlessly into ethereal melancholia. It is a record equal parts calculated science and transcendent epiphany.
National media outlets have begun to pick up on the Providence-based trio in recent months, as evidenced by features on National Public Radio, in Paste magazine and an upcoming spread in Rolling Stone. Further increasing the considerable buzz surrounding the band, this week they will announce a string of dates with noted songwriter Ray LaMontagne.
Seven Days recently caught up with the band's primary songwriter Ben Knox Miller by phone, in advance of their upcoming performance at the Higher Ground Ballroom with troubadour Martin Sexton.
SEVEN DAYS: Much of the material on the record has obvious folk roots. But there's a distinct classical sensibility in the arrangements, which seem to be the product of Jocie Adams. Could you speak to her influence on the group?
BEN KNOX MILLER: When we started working with her, it was just very informally. She was playing clarinet. That's what her real training is in. She is also a classical composer. She's done a lot of sort of modern classical stuff and she has a great ear. So when we started working with her, it was just because we needed clarinet on a track on the previous record. And we'd ask her to come up onstage and play with us at shows. So it just sort of happened gradually.
But then, with the new record, we had all these songs, the whole map of the thing laid out, and we just let her ears do what they do and come up with these arrangements. I do most of the principal songwriting. Jeff [Prystowski] helps me with that and kind of with the general direction. And Jocie is just a really good arranger. All the horn parts you hear on the record, a lot of the vocal harmonies are hers.
She doesn't come from the world of rock music or folk music or blues music. She comes from the world of "serious" music, of classical music. And she has this beautifully innocent connection to music. Sometimes it's very naive to what we're trying to do. And other times she has this clarity of "this is supposed to be beautiful," and it's exactly the right thing.
SD: That seems like an apt metaphor for the album in general. Duality is such a running theme, especially lyrically. But it seems to manifest itself in the music as well, particularly in Jocie's influence.
BKM: I think that her influence makes the beautiful songs more beautiful and the louder songs . . . bigger, just because we have an extra set of hands. But I think [the record is] very polar, certainly.
Jeff and I listen to a lot of different stuff. A lot of the songs that are loud on the record, the harder-hitting songs, are the songs that started out as folk songs. We tried to play them that way and for some reason it didn't stick or it didn't seem . . . I don't know . . . the magic was missing? So we'd try arranging them as many different ways as we could think of. We'd sit in a room with all of our instruments and play musical chairs until the exact right frequencies started buzzing and everybody got excited. Sometimes it just had to be loud.
And then other songs — some of the ones that are real quiet on the record — started out as rock 'n' rollers. Like the quietest one on the record, "Ticket Taker." It had this, like, Neil Young minimalist hard-hitting rock thing. And it was, like, after the 20th take in the studio that we were just, like, "Fuck this. There's no way." We were gonna throw it out. Or just give up. So the producer went upstairs to bed and we were just so tired that it came out that way. We had to go wake him up again, like, "No, we have it, we have it."
SD: What spurred the decision to retreat to Block Island?
BKM: The first thing is just that it's a summer island, maybe [physically] the size of, like, Manhattan. There's, like, 800 people there in the winter. There's just no one there. So we knew we'd have quiet. We knew we'd have space. And we knew going out there would do something to the intensity because there's nowhere to escape to.
It was also just when we could pull it off. The producer is from the Clark Davis School in New York. He was a senior and this was during his winter break. It's a small program and the kids are really talented; they're all headed into music production in some capacity. So each one of them will have the first few pieces of a home recording studio that they've purchased for the classes. But they come from all over the country. So when they'd fly home, a lot of them would leave their rigs in New York. And he was able to just borrow all this stuff. Incredible equipment. So he scrounged together, like, $20,000 worth of microphones and we brought them out on the ferryboat and set up in a basement.
It really was perfect. There was a lot of tension at times because we were on top of each other constantly. We weren't sleeping. But I think that's the way it should be. There should be that intensity. Because if it's not there, everything you do after tracking is a lie. If the real musical moment never happens, then all the mixing and postproduction you want to do, you can't create a vibe.
SD: The environment of Block Island in the middle of winter is reflected in the recording. I'm thinking especially of the title track. It has this bucolic, almost sea-shanty-like atmosphere. How much do you feel actually being on the island affected how the record turned out?
BKM: I think the irony of that, which I absolutely think is true, is that song . . . um, we failed to record on Block Island.
SD: What?
BKM: (Chuckling) Yeah . . .
SD: You suckered me!
BKM: (Laughing) There's that song and one other song that we probably did 25 to 30 takes of and just gave up. It was the last one that we had saved to do. And it was really the song that we all felt most strongly was going to be the centerpiece of the record. We already knew what the title of the record was and that it was pretty central to the ongoing themes of the record, and that it had to be just right.
But, believe it or not, that song, when we were out there, had a pretty up-tempo drumbeat with polyrhythms. Sort of like an indie-rock beat. We definitely didn't think it was going to turn into an ambient, washy ballad. It's the last thing we expected. But who knows? Maybe something about being out there, something about the way the record was evolving, we knew that what we were doing wasn't right. So we came back thinking that we had lost one of the legs that the album was supposed to stand on. And we were pretty discouraged about that.
I think it was later that night, when we got back, that we came up with this completely new way to play it. It was just too late, of course, because the studio had been disassembled and the gear had been returned. So we rented out a space in New Haven and recorded it there, did another 40 takes. So that song, there were a total of 65 to 70 takes, which is absurd. We're never doing that again (chuckles).
SD: Having missed you the last time you were in Vermont, I'm curious about how the live performance compares, or maybe doesn't compare, to the material on the record.
BKM: Well, our approach to making the record, as I was telling you, is that sort of "musical chairs" attitude. We all play a ton of different instruments. We're not virtuosos, except for Jocie on clarinet. And Jeff's a great upright bass player. But we have a sort of working knowledge of most of these instruments. So that's where we come up with arrangements for the record. But on the record, we would always record three of us live together. And then we'd have other things in mind for overdubs, how to get just the right texture.
Texture is a huge thing. There is songwriting and then there's texture. And when we play live, we're equally concerned that every song be just so. So that the frequencies are buzzing and we're all excited about it. So it leads us to bring as many instruments as we can fit in the van and sort of rotate, almost between every song, what we're playing.
So it's kind of just based on what we can do. We've labored over how to get just the right sounds. I think that something that's cool about that, though, that keeps it alive, is that we can't do everything because there's only three of us. Whereas in the studio you'll definitely put a bass under a track, maybe we just don't have enough hands to have a bassist on a song. There always seems to be some space in the music where it feels stripped down and spare. And in some ways I think that adds a lot of tension and a lot of intrigue to the sound.
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Home / Blog / Are My Savings Account Funds Considered Income for Child Support?
Are My Savings Account Funds Considered Income for Child Support?
Published November 20, 2020 By Janice Boback
Categorized as Child Support
In the 2012 Supreme Court case of In re Marriage of McGrath, the Court held that the amount withdrawn by the father from his savings account should not be considered "income" for child support calculations because the money already belonged to the father. However, if using the statutory guidelines for child support generates an amount that the court finds inappropriate, the court can make specific findings of this and adjust the child support amount accordingly by using the factor that allows the court to consider the financial resources and needs of the parent.
In Illinois, the law defines "net income" for purposes of child support calculation, but it does not define "income". Net income is defined as the total of all income from all sources minus several enumerated deductions. Funds that you withdraw from the savings account that already belonged to you do not increase your wealth or provide you with a "gain or a recurrent benefit" these funds as withdrawn are not income.
Illinois Supreme Court Defines Meaning of "Income"
"Gross Income" as Defined by Updated Illinois Child Support Law
What About Business and Self-Employment Income?
Client Victory Addressing Income for Calculating Child Support
Illinois Section 505 – Defining Business Income
The Illinois Supreme Court has discussed in detail the plain and ordinary meaning of the term "income" in the In Re Marriage of Rogers case, 213 Ill. 289 Ill Dec 610, 820 N.E. 2d 386 providing that "as the word itself suggest, income is simply something that comes in as an increment or addition . . a gain or recurrent benefit that is usually measured in money." There are other Illinois court cases that define income as "a gain or profit and is ordinarily understood to be a return on the investment of labor or capital thereby increasing the wealth of the recipient."
In applying the analysis of the courts in Illinois the money in a savings account already belongs to the account owner. By withdrawing the money in the savings account it does not provide a gain or benefit to the owner of the account. The money is not coming in as an increment or addition and the account owner is not receiving money that already belongs to him.
In the new Child Support Law in Illinois which changed in July 2017 to shared support based on both parties income as opposed to a percentage of the obligor's income, there is now a definition of gross income as follows:
"The total of all income from all sources, except "gross income" does not include (i) benefits received by the parent from means-tested public assistance programs, including, but not limited to, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Supplemental Security Income, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or (ii) benefits and income received by the parent for other children in the household, including, but not limited to, child support, survivor benefits, and foster care payments. Social security disability and retirement benefits paid for the benefit of the subject child must be included in the disabled or retired parent's gross income for purposes of calculating the parent's child support obligation, but the parent is entitled to a child support credit for the amount of benefits paid to the other party for the child. "Gross income" includes maintenance treated as taxable income for federal income tax purposes to the payee and received pursuant to a court order in the pending proceedings or any other proceedings and shall be included in the payee's gross income for purposes of calculating the parent's child support obligation."
Another area of interest in the family law courts is income generated through self-employment, a business, or through income-producing rental property. The statute provides that for calculating business income for child support you get the net business income by taking the gross receipts and deducting ordinary and necessary expenses required to carry on the business.
In a recent child support case argued by Anderson & Boback, opposing counsel wanted to include, in addition to our client's W-2 wages, all of the gross rental and business income of our client for calculating child support. The court agreed with us that any child support obligation should not include income from the rental properties when his testimony was unrefuted that the net proceeds from those properties was zero. In addition, our client owned and operated a small business that breaks even over the course of the year based on the ordinary and necessary expenses required to operate the business. Our client owned and operated the business but employed others to work the business since he had a full-time job elsewhere.
In Tegeler, 365 Ill.App.3d at 456, 302 Ill.Dec. 173, 848 N.E.2d 173, the mother argued that the father's testimony that his expenses were reasonable and necessary was insufficient in the absence of any receipts substantiating such expenses. The court rejected the argument pointing out that the father's tax returns showed itemized totals of expenses… The court concluded that such evidence constituted a prima facie showing that such expenses were legitimate, which the mother failed to rebut. And as in In re the Marriage of Baumgartner, 890 N.E. 2d 1256 (1st Dist 2008) husband's non-reimbursed business expenses, as stipulated to by wife, constituted a prima facie showing that the expenses were legitimate. While the wife did not stipulate to the reasonableness of the business expenses, her argument, based solely on the lack of profit, does not rebut the reasonableness of the expenses.
Prior to July 1, 2017, Illinois section 505(a)(3)(h) of the Act permitted, in relevant part, deductions for "expenditures for repayment of debts that represent reasonable and necessary expenses for the production of income." 750 ILCS 5/505(a)(3)(h) (West 2016). Thus, for an individual to successfully claim a deduction, he or she had to establish that it was a reasonable and necessary expense for the production of income and that " 'it [fell] into the category of debt repayment as evidenced by a specific repayment schedule.' " In re Marriage of Vance, 2016 IL App (3d) 150717, ¶ 42 (quoting In re Marriage of Nelson, 297 Ill. App. 3d 651, 655 (1998)); ¶23 as quoted from the most recent third district case Hochstatter and Hochstatter 2020 Ill App (3d) 109132.
Effective July 1, 2017, section 505 of the Act was substantially rewritten, including the provisions applicable to calculating gross and net incomes. In part, the legislature added a section for the calculation of business income. See 750 ILCS 5/505(a)(3.1) (West 2018). In relevant part, section 505(a)(3.1)(A) provided: "(3.1) Business income. For purposes of calculating child support, net business income from the operation of a business means gross receipts minus ordinary and necessary expenses required to carry on the trade or business. Id.
Although the Hochstatter case dealt with depreciation, the court provided guidance as to the July 1, 2017 modification to section 505 relating to calculating net income from business income. Joshua's testimony was unrefuted and there was no evidence presented to show that the business expenses he pays for his rental properties and his small business were or are inappropriate or excessive and therefore should not be excluded from the total of ordinary and necessary business expenses to be deducted in the determination of net business income from gross business income.

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We do these internal game jams from time to time. One of us created a multiplayer game that we had enough fun playing in the office that we thought we would just stick it in a browser for the world to enjoy, and just use ads to pay for it's running costs. The game is kazap.io.
I thought I would share with you how we handled making the motion smooth and keeping a 'snappy' feel. Here is the video, and there is also a blog post with code!


Posted for Marylyle McCue, Digital Library Intern, 2010.
Detail from A.M. Thackara's Letterhead.
The Sherman Thackara Collection is comprised of private letters, photographs and other documents belonging to General William Tecumseh Sherman and his family. Three entire boxes contain the love letters of Eleanor Mary Sherman Thackara, one of the four daughters of General Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman. Eleanor (aka Ellie) and Alexander Montgomery Thackara (aka A.M. or Mont) kept up a passionate correspondence for many years both before and after they were wed on May 5th, 1880. The letters range in date from 1879-1897. Mrs. Thackara is believed to have donated these letters to Villanova some time around 1897.
Recently I had the pleasure of transcribing several of Mont's letters to Ellie, as well as to read many of the letters written by Ellie to Mont. One consideration when reading someone else's letters is that over time you come to recognize the author's idiosyncrasies and the letters become much easier to read, as if they were written in the hand of an old friend. Certain letters may be a struggle to read until one has become more familiar with the process and with the author's handwriting, while others may just be a lost cause. Reading letters in a digital format presents different advantages and disadvantages in comparison to reading them in person. In person, one can hold the work in their hands (or gloves) and look closely, perhaps even using a magnifying device. Of course, the archives may not be within a close distance, they may not be open during convenient hours, require an appointment or have room for only a few researchers on any given day. Though one cannot physically examine a digital document, image correction can be used to make it more readable. Contrast, brightness and sharpness can be adjusted to make an image more legible than it would be in person. They can also be printed and written on when otherwise, at best, they would need to be photocopied by a librarian or at worst the researcher would have to make painstaking notes. Barring an Internet outage or major site upgrade, digital library images are available to you in your home or office 24 hours a day. As a countermeasure, when there was a delay in the project due to a site upgrade for the Villanova Digital Library, I saved a stockpile of digital letters as PDF images to my computer to prevent any further delays. It is certainly not an exaggeration to say that digital collections have forever changed the face of historic research.
Business card from Tiffany's with Miss Sherman's (possibly Ellie's) ring size written on back.
One popular misconception about the Victorians is that their personal lives were devoid of romance or passion. On the contrary, during this period the notion of marrying for love became common and accepted in middle and upper class society. The Victorians were simply very private about their personal lives and extremely careful of when, where or in front of whom this side of them was displayed. A person would share their most personal feelings, fears and desires only with their beloved. However, it was understood that physical consummation of this passion would only be acceptable within the boundaries of marriage. The written word was then the most common and effective way to express these powerful emotions.
There are countless examples of the devotion and sheer adoration that this couple felt for one another throughout their letters. Only a few examples can be shared in this post, but they offer a glimpse of the letters' contents along with a few recurring themes common in love letters of the time. In one note, Mont wonders to his sweetheart if she can imagine anything "more heavenly than pure love" and how those who have never felt it cannot truly conceive of it.
"My Little Darling- Oh! You know so well that every day my love for you is growing stronger. Every day you become more dear." A detail from one of Mont's letters to Ellie.
Another example shows Mont simply wondering what important and mysterious matter Ellie plans to discuss with him that evening that she would not write to him in a letter. He ponders, "I am prepared for a serious talk my Darling on what subject I cannot fancy, still I will soon find out." It is also likely that there could have even been some letters deemed too personal for donation.
Another notable convention present in love letters of the period is "testing," where one lover ensures the devotion of the other through self-deprecation, admitting to or attempting to provoke jealousy. The author seeks a response assuring them of the other's love and faithfulness, as well as of their own good qualities. Mont and Ellie often tease one another about trying the other's patience, while also offering reassurance to the other. Each also claims to fear that they are completely unworthy of the other, as well as revealing a hope that the relationship will improve their own individual characters. Ellie refers to herself as "a good for nothing little body" and looks to Mont to dispel her fears that another lady will catch his fancy. Mont attempts to ease them in one note where he has "not seen any of the young ladies of this place yet, nor have I any desire to see them. All I want is to see you again." Mont himself reveals, however, a terror that when their wedding day arrives, though he finds that he loves Ellie more than before, she will discover that she does not love him at all. A man of this time period and society would likely have had few, if any, outlets for expressing insecurities other than to his beloved.
The Victorian masculine ideal was strength tempered by gentlemanly restraint while the feminine ideal called for "piety, purity, submission and domesticity" [Welter, pp. 151–174]. Evidence of period gender roles and expectations are apparent throughout both Mont and Ellie's letters. Mont repeatedly describes Ellie as "pure" and lauds her for her piety. He also refers to "how happy I will be to know that a darling little soul will look up to me for […] protection and how proud I will be to protect her from any harm." Ellie in turn writes of, "how happy I shall be in waiting upon you caring for you, learning better + better to anticipate your wishes and to please you." Each vows to take care of the other, albeit in gender appropriate ways. Mont wants to shelter his "timid little one" from the wider world, while Ellie wants to nurture her "spoiled boy Mont" inside the confines of their household.
Welter, Barbara. "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820–1860." American Quarterly, 18.2 (1966): 151–174.
Fascinating! That must have been a really interesting transcription project.
Yes very fascinating indeed. Thanks for your time in creation!


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Fog, A Novel
Retour à Policier et thriller
#36342 dans Littérature et fiction, Thrillers
#38805 dans Littérature et fiction, Fiction littéraire
#47251 dans Policier et thriller, Thrillers
par Rana Bose
A small plane was blown up in an act of sabotage several years ago over Eastern Quebec, Canada. All the passengers and crew were killed. The incident was quickly analyzed and termed a mechanical failure. The case was declared cold, in a rush. What intrigue and what unseen, powerful forces could hush up such a catastrophic incident? A young actor from Montreal dies in Afghanistan. Killed by a missile from a drone. His death opens up wounds and discussions that are not in the public domain. These two seemingly disparate events form the backbone of a compelling contemporary thriller, set in the Main district of Montreal and in the blue-green mountains of Kandahar. Three friends—an eccentric dancer with a destructive split personality, an actor and tragic neighborhood hero who climbs out of the hood and destroys all existing notions about him, and the narrator, a non-descript follower who changes his life dramatically and takes control after a brutal assault—work together to de-freeze the cold case and burn up the fog. What does it take to clear the pall of complex emotions, the unresolved local and personal conflicts and the intricate remembrances of various communities in a fabled neighborhood? Rana Bose is an author, playwright, poet, and dramaturge. Fog is Bose's third novel. He has written and staged eleven plays that have been performed in many cities. He is the founding editor of Montreal Serai. Born and raised in Kolkata (Calcutta), Rana Bose completed his engineering studies at Washington University, and has lived in Montreal since the 1970s. Reviews "... suspenseful, conflicting, mysterious and hard to put down. (…) A literate mystery/thriller set in Montreal (on "the Main") with side trips to Calcutta and Kandahar, this is a superbly written book about a neighbourhood, friendships, justice and belonging. Highly recommended." — James Fisher, The Miramichi Reader "Suspenseful and sublime, Fog is a powerful novel of intrigue and love, family and friendship in which fog is a feeling 'like a tenderness of the soul.' Grounded in place with exquisite detail and held aloft by an inspiring worldview, this is a story with unforgettable characters whose entanglements lead us through the magically rendered streets of Montréal and across continents in search of adventure and truth."—Cora Siré, author of Behold Things Beautiful and other books. "Sometimes the fog is a moist mist which beautifully frames our deepest intimacies, sometimes it is a translucent curtain drawn to mask the pain of exile and displacement, and sometimes it is an obscuring darkness where all moral movement seems impossible. But Rana Bose's characters join together to find new ways forward. They emerge from the fog by recognizing the history of "the Main" while seeing it anew."—Michael Springate, author of The Beautiful West and The Beloved of God
Date de parution : 27 mai 2019
Marque éditoriale : Baraka Books


On the 14th September, the global system of Schengen Visas (VIS) was put in place in the Russian Federation, so that Russian citizens wishing to travel to a country in this region must provide biometric data such as fingerprints and digital photographs in order to obtain a visa.
To apply for this, the applicants must pay a fee of 35€ and book an appointment at the consular office in the country you wish to apply a visa for, in order to achieve the biometric details. This system facilitates information exchange between consulates and the procedure is safer.


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Erika, női keresztnév
Személyek
 Érika (1988) válogatott brazil labdarúgó
Biológia
 erika, hanga (Erica), növénynemzetség, fajai magyar nevében mindig ott az "erika" vagy a "hanga" szó
 erika, csarab (Calluna vulgaris), növényfaj, mely nem az erika (hanga, Erica) növénynemzetségbe tartozik
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Q: Python Generate truthtable from expression containing Numeric value and comparators I am trying to generate test cases from a boolean expression which may contain numerical values and comparators, e.g.:

(10 < a) and (c == 5)

truth tables seems like a good approach and generation output might look like this:
>  a,  c, result
> 11,  5,   True,
> 11,  4,  False,
>  9,  5,  False,
>  9,  4,  False

It is pretty straight forward to generate a truth table when expression only contains boolean operators using ast.nodevisitor. I ended up with something like this which works nicely.
class Expr():

    def __init__(self, expr):
        self.tree = ast.parse(expr)
        self.expr=expr
        self.vars = self.allVariables().visit(self.tree)
        self.generateTruthTable()

    def generateTruthTable(self):
        NO_GLOBALS = {'__builtins__': {}}
        self.truthtable=dict()
        for i, vals in enumerate(product([True,False],repeat=len(self.vars))):
            self.truthtable[i] = dict()
            self.truthtable[i]['inputs'] = dict(zip(self.vars, vals))
            self.truthtable[i]['expectation'] = eval(self.expr, NO_GLOBALS, self.truthtable[i]['inputs'])

    class allVariables(ast.NodeVisitor):
        def visit_Module(self, node):
            self.names = set()
            self.generic_visit(node)
            return sorted(self.names)

        def visit_Name(self, node):
            self.names.add(node.id)

now I am deeply struggling in how to perform this same generation whatever the operators are. it looks like recursion is key here. is there a way to perform such generation using python AST ?
thank you.

A: I found a solution to the problem, I just had to constrain the usage to prevent that numerical value end to the right of an operation and also limited the possibility in term of operators.
import ast
import operator
from itertools import product

class OperatorError(Exception):
    pass

class Expr():

    BOOLOP_SYMBOLS = (
        ast.And,
        ast.Or
    )

    UNARYOP_SYMBOLS = (
        ast.Not
    )

    BINOP_SYMBOLS = (
        ast.BitAnd,
        ast.BitXor,
        ast.Pow
    )

    CMPOP_SYMBOLS = (
        ast.Eq,
        ast.Gt,
        ast.GtE,
        ast.Lt,
        ast.LtE,
        ast.NotEq
    )

    def __init__(self, expr):
        self.tree = ast.parse(expr)
        self.expr=expr
        self.vars = self.SyntaxChecker().visit(self.tree)
        self.tt = self.generateTruthTable()

    def generateTruthTable(self):
        NO_GLOBALS = {'__builtins__': {}}
        truthtable=dict()
        for i, vals in enumerate(product([True,False],repeat=len(self.vars.keys()))):
            truthtable[i] = dict()
            vals_convert=[]
            for j,k in enumerate(self.vars.iterkeys()):
                vals_convert.append(self.vars[k][vals[j]])
            truthtable[i]['inputs'] = dict(zip(self.vars.keys(), vals_convert))
            truthtable[i]['expectation'] = eval(self.expr, NO_GLOBALS, truthtable[i]['inputs'])
        return truthtable

    class SyntaxChecker(ast.NodeVisitor):

        def visit_Module(self, module):
            self.vars = dict()
            self.generic_visit(module)
            return self.vars

        def visit_Expr(self, expr):
            return self.visit(expr.value)

        def visit_BoolOp(self, boolop):
            if isinstance(boolop.op, Expr.BOOLOP_SYMBOLS):
                left,right = map(self.visit, boolop.values)
                return [left, right]
            else:
                raise OperatorError(Expr.BOOLOP_SYMBOLS[boolop.op] + ' is not supported.')

        def visit_BinOp(self, binop):
            if isinstance(binop.op, Expr.BINOP_SYMBOLS):
                left , right = map(self.visit, [binop.left, binop.right])
                if isinstance(binop.op, ast.BitAnd):
                    self.vars[left] = {True: right, False: 0}
                if isinstance(binop.op, ast.BitXor):
                    self.vars[left] = {True: 0, False: right}
                if isinstance(binop.op, ast.Pow):
                    return left ** right
            else:
                raise OperatorError(Expr.BINOP_SYMBOLS[binop.op] + ' is not supported.')

        def visit_Compare(self, cmpop):
            if isinstance(cmpop.ops[0], Expr.CMPOP_SYMBOLS):
                left = self.visit(cmpop.left)
                right = self.visit(cmpop.comparators[0])
                if isinstance(cmpop.ops[0], ast.Gt):
                    self.vars[left] = {True: right + 1, False: right - 1}
                elif isinstance(cmpop.ops[0], ast.GtE):
                    self.vars[left] = {True: right, False: right - 1}
                elif isinstance(cmpop.ops[0], ast.Lt):
                    self.vars[left] = {True: right-1, False: right + 1}
                elif isinstance(cmpop.ops[0], ast.LtE):
                    self.vars[left] = {True: right, False: right + 1}
                elif isinstance(cmpop.ops[0], ast.Eq):
                    self.vars[left] = {True: right, False: right + 1}
                elif isinstance(cmpop.ops[0], ast.NotEq):
                    self.vars[left] = {True: right + 1, False: right}
            else:
                raise OperatorError(Expr.CMPOP_SYMBOLS[cmpop.ops] + ' is not supported.')

        def visit_UnaryOp(self, unaryop):
            if isinstance(unaryop.op, Expr.UNARYOP_SYMBOLS):
                right= self.visit(unaryop.operand)
                self.vars[right] = {True: False, False: True}
            else:
                raise OperatorError(Expr.UNARYOP_SYMBOLS[unaryop.op] + ' is not supported.')

        def visit_Num(self, num):
            return num.n

        def visit_Name(self, node):
            self.vars[node.id] = {True: True, False: False}
            return node.id

with the example:

(a < 10) and (c == 5)

I can generate the following output:

{
  0: {'inputs': {'a': 9, 'c': 5}, 'expectation': True},
  1: {'inputs': {'a': 9, 'c': 6}, 'expectation': False},
  2: {'inputs': {'a': 11, 'c': 5}, 'expectation': False},
  3: {'inputs': {'a': 11, 'c': 6}, 'expectation': False}  }

feel free to suggest any improvement to this solution.

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Mortality from cancer and chronic respiratory diseases among workers who manufacture carbon electrodes
F Donatoa,
S Monarcaa,
G Marchionnab,
A Rossia,
C Cicionic,
R Chiesaa,
D Colind,
P Boffettad
aDipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale ed Applicata, Sezione di Igiene, Università di Brescia, Via Valsabbina 19, 25123 Brescia, Italy , bUO Dipartimento di Igiene e Prevenzione USL n 5, Regione dell'Umbria, Italy , cUSL n 1, Regione dell'Umbria, Italy , dInternational Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Dr Francesco Donatodonato{at}med.unibs.it
OBJECTIVES To investigate the risk of cancer and non-neoplastic respiratory diseases among workers who manufacture carbon electrodes, as this industry entails exposure to mixtures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
METHODS A historical cohort study was carried out of 1006 male workers employed for at least 1 year between 1945 and 1971 in a carbon (graphite) electrode production plant in central Italy, who were followed up for mortality between 1955 and 1996. The ratio of observed to expected deaths (standardised mortality ratios, SMRs) was computed from both national and (for the period 1964–96) regional age and period specific mortalities. A multivariate Poisson regression analysis was performed to investigate the relative risk (RR) of death according to duration of employment and time since first employment in the factory.
RESULTS A total of 424 workers had died, 538 were still alive, and 44 were lost to follow up. Mortalities from all causes, all cancers, and respiratory tract cancer were in line with the regional figure. An excess was found over the expected deaths from skin cancer including melanoma (SMR 3.16, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.65 to 9.23) and from non-neoplastic respiratory diseases (SMR 1.58, 95% CI 1.16 to 2.11). Poisson regression analysis including age as a covariate showed an increased risk of dying from gastric cancer with increasing duration of employment, and an increase in the RR of dying from lung cancer and from non-neoplastic respiratory diseases with increasing time since first employment, although the linear trend was not significant.
CONCLUSION This study supports previous findings that working in the carbon electrode manufacturing industry may not increase the risk of dying from respiratory cancer. However, a possible association with non-malignant respiratory diseases cannot be excluded.
carbon electrode manufacturing
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
historical cohort study
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem.57.7.484
Carbon electrode manufacturing is one of the many industrial processes involving coal and petroleum products, with potential exposure to coal pitch and petroleum pitch. These productions entail exposure to mixtures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), some of which may be carcinogenic to humans.1 An increased risk of lung, skin, and bladder cancer has been reported among workers with occupational exposure to PAHs.2 However, the results from the only three cohort studies of carbon electrode production workers carried out so far are inconclusive, possibly due to the relatively few subjects enrolled or the short duration of follow up.3-5
We aimed to investigate whether there was an excess of deaths from neoplasms and non-neoplastic diseases attributable to working at a carbon (graphite) electrode production plant in Italy. Previous studies carried out in this plant showed high concentrations of PAHs and mutagens in the working environment6 and high concentrations of mutagens in the urine of workers.7 Also, exposure to high concentrations of PAHs was found in various working areas in another graphite electrode producing plant.8Furthermore, higher mean values of 1-hydroxypyrene in end of shift urine9 and higher concentrations of benzo(a)pyrene diolepoxide adducts to albumin10 were found among workers exposed to PAHs at this and a similar plant in Italy.
The characteristics of the factory and its production processes have been reported in detail previously.6 7 Briefly, the factory is located in Umbria, a region in central Italy, and has been manufacturing various carbon products since 1901. From 1945 to 1971, the factory produced carbon electrodes used in metallurgy, carbon brushes, and small carbon specialties. Petroleum derived coke, coal tar pitch, and petroleum tar pitch were all used as raw materials. Petroleum coke was used as the basis whereas pitches were used as binding material. The manufacturing process consisted of grinding and mixing the raw material and the binder, forming a crude paste, and then heating it at 800°C–1000°C in the baking area. Then electrodes were impregnated with liquid pitch under pressure and baked again at 250°C. During these activities, working exposure to fumes including PAHs may have occurred. Afterwards, electrodes underwent graphitisation at 2800°C, finishing touches, and shipping.
Personnel files from the plant registers were examined to collect information on dates of hire and resignation. More detailed data on job titles and smoking habits were not available. We restricted the cohort to workers hired after 1 January 1945 because the quality of data on employment was questionable before that date.
The data analysis was performed among men only due to the few women working at the factory. We included only workers who had worked at the factory for at least 1 year before 31 December 1971, resulting in a total of 1006 subjects. All workers were considered as equally exposed and duration of employment was used as a proxy for cumulative exposure to PAHs. The follow up lasted from 1955 to 1996. The mean (range) follow up was 39.5 (1.5–51.9) years. The vital status at the end of follow up was assessed by consulting the municipality registers, which were regularly updated as is usual in industrialised countries. The causes of death were coded with the 8th revision of the international classification of diseases, injuries, and causes of death (ICD-8).
Each man contributed person-years at risk from the date of employment to date of death, end of follow up, or last contact. The expected number of deaths was computed from both the national and regional rates for age and calendar period. The plant is actually located in a region with lower mortality than in the whole country from all causes, all neoplasms, lung and bladder cancers, and non-neoplastic respiratory diseases.11-14 However, although the regional rates seemed more adequate than the national ones for calculating expected deaths, the population living in the region is small (822 459 inhabitants in 1994) so age and period specific rates for most single causes of death were unstable. Furthermore, the regional rates were only available for 1964–96. For these reasons, we calculated expected deaths from the national rates for the whole follow up period, and we used the regional rates for further analysis.
Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) and their 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were computed as suggested.15Person-years and expected deaths were computed with the person-years programme for personal computer.16 Poisson regression analysis was performed with the GLIM programme to calculate relative risks (RRs) and their 95% CIs15 for the causes of death with at least one observed death in each of the categories considered.17 All the models fitted included age and calendar period as covariates.
Cohort members contributed a total of 34 248 person-years. Of the 1006 subjects in the cohort, 424 died during the follow up, 538 were alive at the end of the study and 44 were lost (4.4%). The number of deaths observed and expected from the national rates by cause or broad group of causes, the corresponding SMRs, and their 95% CIs are set out in table 1. Fewer than expected deaths were found for all causes, all malignant neoplasms, various single neoplasms including larynx and lung cancers, diseases of the circulatory and the digestive systems, and external causes. An excess of deaths was found for neoplasms of the skin including melanoma (SMR 2.29) and of the testis (SMR 5.71), and for non-malignant respiratory diseases (SMR 1.29), although they were all non-significant at p<0.05.
Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) by selected causes of death (1945–96, with the Italian population as the reference)
When the 1964–96 observed deaths were compared with expected deaths, computed from the regional rates, no differences were found for mortality from all causes (observed deaths n=390; SMR 0.95, 95% CI 0.86 to 1.05) and from all neoplasms (observed deaths n=121; SMR 1.0, 95% CI 0.82 to 1.18); a higher than expected ratio was found for deaths from skin cancer including melanoma (observed deaths n=3; SMR 3.16, 95% CI 0.65 to 9.23) and from non-neoplastic respiratory diseases (observed deaths n=46; SMR 1.58, 95% CI 1.16 to 2.11, data not shown in the tables).
Poisson regression analysis was performed according to duration of employment and time since first employment on mortality from all causes, all cancers, some cancer sites, and from non-neoplastic respiratory diseases (table 2). No significant increase in the relative risk with increasing duration of employment was apparent for mortality from all causes and most single causes. However, a significant increase in the relative risk of dying from stomach cancer with increasing duration of employment was found (p for trend=0.02).
Relative risks (RRs) of death from all selected causes, by duration of employment
Analysis of mortality for time since first employment showed an increased risk of death for many cancer sites, notably the lung, and for non-neoplastic respiratory diseases among subjects with ⩾20 years since first employment, although it was not significant (table3).
Relative risks (RRs) of death from all causes, all malignant neoplasms, buccal cavity, pharyngeal and laryngeal cancers together, stomach and bladder cancer, and non-neoplastic respiratory diseases for time since first employment with a Poisson regression analysis including age as a covariate
Previous studies showed that workers in this factory were exposed to high concentrations of airborne PAHs and mutagens and that they also excreted higher concentrations of mutagens in urine than unexposed controls.6 7 We performed a historical cohort study to assess whether, in line with environmental and individual exposure data, employment in this factory caused an excess of deaths from cancer. As data on specific job titles were not available, non-differential misclassification of exposure may have occurred in our study, resulting in dilution of the risk of death due to exposure to PAHs. A recent study showed that about half of the workers are substantially exposed to PAHs.9 It can be argued that more than half the workers had been exposed to PAHs in the past decades due to changes in the manufacturing process occurring in the study period in the plant. Therefore, the dilution effect of the risk of death due to occupational exposure in the factory is probably not highly relevant.
A small deficit in mortality from all causes, all neoplasms and diseases of the circulatory system was found when the national rates were used. However, the cohort members lived in the Umbria region, which has lower death rates than Italy as a whole for these causes.11-14 In fact, these deficits disappeared when the regional rates were used, suggesting that mortality from all causes and all cancers in the cohort was not different from that in the region.
We found no excess of deaths from lung and bladder cancers, which have been related to occupational exposure to PAHs,2 in agreement with other cohort studies among graphite electrode manufacturing workers.3 4 Nor did we find increased mortality for cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx. Overall, mortality from cancers related to tobacco was in line with regional rates, suggesting that the prevalence of smoking in the cohort was similar to, or lower than in the general population. Recent data support this hypothesis: the proportion of smokers among workers exposed to PAHs at the factory (mean age 41 years) was 36% in 1994, lower than the 42% figure found among men of similar age and living in Central Italy in 1994.18 The Poisson analysis showed a non-significant slightly increased risk of death from lung cancer with increasing time since first employment. However, the lack of an effect of duration of employment on risk of lung cancer argues against a carcinogenic risk.
We found an increased risk of death from stomach cancer by duration of employment. However, no overall increase in deaths from this cause was found in the whole cohort when compared with the national or regional population, and previous studies on carbon electrode production workers showed no increase in the ratio of observed to expected deaths from gastric cancer.3-5
Among other cancers, we found a higher than expected number of deaths from skin neoplasms, including melanoma, and testicular cancer. However, these findings are based on very few deaths, thus preventing any firm conclusion. The excess of deaths from testicular cancer is similar to that found among workers in one of the two plants examined by Moulin et al (SMR 5.66).4
The main finding of our study is the increased mortality for non-neoplastic respiratory diseases. An excess of pneumoconiosis has been reported among carbon electrode workers,19 20attributed mostly to silica and asbestos which are present in the work environment. Furthermore, graphite has also been reported as a cause of pneumoconiosis,21 and cases of this disease have been described among graphite mine workers.22 The excess of mortality for respiratory diseases in the cohort can not be attributed to tobacco smoking, as discussed previously. The excess of deaths from non-malignant diseases of the respiratory system may, at least partly, explain the lack of increased risk of death from respiratory tract cancer, due to the mechanism of competitive causes of death.
The regional rates were kindly provided by Dr Capocaccia from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome. We greatly appreciated some thoughtful suggestions for the data analysis from Dr Carlo Zocchetti from the Epidemiological Unit of the Lombardy Region.
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Djokovic lifts eighth Aussie crown after epic against Thiem
February 2, 2020 // by Michael-Gillett// Leave a Comment
Image Credit: Carine06 from UK [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Novak Djokovic has become the first man to win grand slams across three different decades, as he tussled to a exceptional five set victory against Dominic Thiem in the final of the Australian Open.
The Serbian Djokovic has lifted the crown eight times now and has never lost in the final at Melbourne Park. But tonight was potentially the furthest he has been pushed at this stage of the competition, having to fight back from two sets to one down.
Early on in the match it looked as if debutant finalist Thiem had not brought his A-game, as he quickly fell to a 3-0 deficit in the first set. Last year Djokovic blew away Nadal in the final, thrashing him 6-3 6-2 6-3, but the 26 year old Austrian Thiem was not going to stand for falling to a similar fate as Nadal. He fought back to level the set at 4-4 showing the crowd we had a match on our hands.
Now 17 time Grand Slam title winner Djokovic broke again to take the first set 6-4 but rather fell apart after this. Thiem who had beaten Djokovic in four of their previous five meetings later won six games in a row to win the second set 6-4 and surge to a 4-0 lead in the third.
The Austrian actually lead Djokovic 2-1 in their three grand slam meetings before today, and looked as if he may extend this further when he wrapped up set number three 6-2. The two time French Open finalist has never won a slam however, and still faced a gigantic task of seeing the match out against one of the greatest players to step onto the court.
Thiem lost a vital break point at 1-1 in the fourth set and this potentially gave Djokovic a new surge of life. At 4-3, his younger opponent hit some wild shots to hand the Serb at two game lead, and keeping cool and collected Djokovic closed the set at 6-3 to take it the distance.
32 year old Djokovic won his first Australian Open title 12 years ago, in 2008 when he defeated one time slam finalist Jo Wilfried Tsonga in four sets after losing the first. And today would mark another comeback, as he broke Thiem early in the fifth.
Before the fortnight Thiem had never previously made the quarter final at Melbourne Park, but this week has seen him battle past world number one Rafael Nadal, and also against Alexander Zverev who had looked formidable in the run up to the semi final. So this was a good indicator that the 26 year old would not go down with a fight, and he battled to hold serve at every other time of asking in the final set.
Despite Thiem's resilience though, the man from Belgrade would not be stopped. Djokovic held firm and from 0-15 down served the set out to 6-4 and lift his eighth crown on Rod Laver Arena.
After the lifting his trophy Djokovic paid respect to Australia's devastating bushfires and the death of Kobe Bryant. In his victory speech he said: "Devastating things started 2020 with the bushfires. And one person I considered a mentor to me Kobe Bryant and his daughter passed away.
"This is a reminder to all of us we should stick together more than ever and be with our families. Stay close to the people that love you. We are part of a sport where we compete but obviously there are more important things in life. It is important to be humble and conscious of the things happening around you."
Collectively over $6million has been raised over the Australian tennis summer to help the bush fire relief.
Djokovic also paid tribute to Thiem: "Congratulations Dominic for a great tournament. You were very close to winning and you definitely have a lot of time left in your career. I am sure you will win more than one of the Grand Slams in your career."
Before the champion's interview Thiem also congratulated Djokovic and lamented on a successful week for him. He said: "I am proud and happy I can compete in these times with you (The Big Three). I fell short today but I hope soon I can get revenge. Congratulations.
"I experienced a huge support. Thanks to everybody who comes and I think it is one of the best sporting events in the world. It has been a pleasure and I am already looking forward to next year."
Next week the ATP Tour returns, with the first clay event of the year in Cordoba, Argentina. Fellow ATP events are also running in Montpellier and Pune.
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Bringing externalities in-house: what is an internal carbon price and should my business be implementing one?
Polluters very rarely offer to pay for cleaning up the pollution they cause. Lessons from history tell us that when there are private profits and public costs it usually takes an intervention from government to put a price on externalities.
Carbon emissions don't respect national borders, so tackling a global problem like climate change is ultimately going to require a global solution. And slowly but surely the prospect of a worldwide price on carbon emissions is beginning to seem more likely, particularly following the latest international climate change agreement coming out of the Paris COP 21 talks. This lays the groundwork in Article 6 for creating mechanisms and markets to reduce carbon emissions, both multilaterally and globally.
There is already considerable momentum behind carbon pricing around the world, with existing regional, national and subnational schemes currently covering around 12 percent of global emissions. Carbon taxes or emissions trading schemes are either operational or planned in the EU, USA, China, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Norway, Turkey, Mexico, Chile, Thailand, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and South Africa.
With a strong global commitment to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees, alongside the urgency of the challenge of addressing climate change, there is every reason to expect carbon pricing to continue its expansion.
The volume of emissions covered by such schemes has trebled over the past decade. China's regional pilots are expected to turn into a national scheme from 2017. States in the USA and provinces in Canada are already linking their cap-and-trade schemes, with Mexico currently looking to get involved from 2017.
These are markets that matter for many companies, where paying for carbon emissions is becoming part of the cost of doing business.
In response to these schemes, or in anticipation of future carbon pricing legislation, this year the CDP reported that 437 large companies say they now use an internal carbon price in decision-making. This is an increase from just 150 in 2014. A further 583 companies reported that they intend to use an internal carbon price in the next two years.
But what actually is an internal carbon pricing and what are the advantages of implementing one?
There is no single method or price that is used. Broadly speaking, internal carbon pricing is most frequently used as a shadow price which can be added to future investments and operational costs as a way of hedging against future policy decisions to implement any carbon pricing mechanisms.
As described in company testimonies contained within CDP studies, some of the key benefits of doing this include:
To anticipate government legislation on carbon pricing
To comply with existing government legislation
To avoid intermediary/transaction costs associated with trading permits in national schemes in favour of factoring in these prices internally
To justify investments that may have smaller margins without a carbon price
To manage risk for future investments
To monetise and record social cost
In some exceptional circumstances, a carbon price can underpin a more expansive company scheme. In 2012, Microsoft made the decision to use an internal carbon fee which was charged individual business groups using Microsoft services. The funds from this internal tax were then used to invest in energy efficiency initiatives, renewable energy and carbon offset projects in order to meet net carbon neutral targets.
Since 2014, 100% of Microsoft's energy consumption is sourced or offset due to these projects. In just three years, the company has reduced its emissions by 7.5 million tonnes of CO2 and saved more than $10 million on energy costs. This year it expects its scheme to amount to $20 million of internal charges.
Useful work on carbon pricing implementation is starting to emerge to address these questions such as a recent study from the World Resource Institute and Caring For Climate. This finds one of the common challenges to setting an internal carbon price is a lack of guidance in knowing what price to set. This is related to a lack of clarity and certainty from climate policies at a national level. There are also issues with prices being set too low to actually affect investment decisions.
The good news is that it may be getting easier to predict the future. Many countries have now pledged to implement a carbon pricing mechanism as part of their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions to action on climate change, submitted in Paris. The agreement by governments in Paris, alongside demands for action from the broad coalitions of corporates that came together, suggests that legislative action on carbon pricing will only become stronger.
Analysis by the UK government's Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Carbon Trust estimates that in a scenario where warming is limited to less than 2 degrees, the global price of carbon is expected to converge at $140 per tonne of CO2 by 2030 and $400 by 2050. In a 1.5 degree scenario these costs would be considerably higher.
Predicting the future and making decisions is one of the great challenges faced by the executives and non-executives responsible for long term corporate strategy. Climate change will create both winners and losers, but setting an internal carbon price will help companies to better address the risks they face and choose the path needed for success in a sustainable, low carbon future.


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Radar is used extensively by the military, police, weather, air travel, and maritime industries - why not you? Come learn how to build a radar imaging system on the cheap! This talk will explain the basics of how radar works as well as how to measure range and velocity of your chosen targets. You will learn how to use synthetic aperture techniques to generate a two- or even three-dimensional image. The hardware and software design will be totally opened up so you can go home and build your own system.
The talk will try to run through the basics pretty fast, so some knowledge of electronics or basic physics might help, but is not required! Regardless of your background, you will see the capabilities of a modern home-built radar system and hopefully get some ideas for your own uses.


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Maintaining adequate water for container plants in outdoor sales areas is difficult during the late spring and summer. In mass marketing areas employees are uninformed about the water requirements of plants under various environmental conditions. Plants often are severely stressed and over all quality reduced. A system was developed to automatically irrigate container plants in an outdoor sales area. The system is a modification of the Controlled Water Table (CWT) irrigation system developed at the Univ. of Kentucky (U.K.). The sales area consisted of 2 shelves each 2.44 m long and 0.28 m wide. A trough was constructed from a 5-cm diameter pipe with a 1/4 slot; it was attached to the back side of the shelf. One side of a capillary mat, placed on the shelves, was suspended in the trough containing water. Two systems were used to maintain the level of water in the trough. One was a small float valve installed in a 10-cm PVC pipe which was attached to the 5-cm PVC pipe. The float was adjusted to maintain the water in the trough 2 cm below the top of the shelf. The water reservoir consisted of a 20-cm diameter PVC pipe, 1.22 m long that held 70 L of water. A second system maintained a constant water level in the trough using Torricellian tube principle. The water reservoir was the same as above except it was tightly sealed so no air could leak from the system. The water table was maintained 2 cm below the bench surface by rotating a hole in small cap. A variety of plants in containers, ranging from 10 cm to 5 L pots were maintained without water stress, in a greenhouse environment as well in an outdoor environment for several weeks.
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similar to ~/.ssh/known_hosts it contains the system-wide-accepted public keys of other hosts.
"No ECDSA host key is known for 172.20.0.12 and you have requested strict checking.
is for server side config – here you can specify what auth-meachanism (password or pgp) to use or what users and from what IP's are allowed to login.
You should disable password auth completely and ONLY user public-private-key authentication.
login to your server, become root… open a second console to test logging in with public keys.
if this file exists – nobody can login – except root directly at a physical server terminal.
the file seems to get automatically deleted on a reboot(debian8.8).


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Victor 5020 (Black label (popular) 10-in. single-faced)
The following matrix(es) were released with this catalog number:
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Title/Artist
Victor B-3903 4 1/16/1907 Just because you're you / Harry Macdonough ; Elise Stevenson
Audio of this recording from the Library of Congress
Primary Performers:
Elise Stevenson (vocalist : soprano vocal)
Harry Macdonough (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Release Date: 4/1907
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Victor 5020 (Black label (popular) 10-in. single-faced)," accessed January 27, 2023, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/object/detail/37558/Victor_5020.
Victor 5020 (Black label (popular) 10-in. single-faced). (2023). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved January 27, 2023, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/object/detail/37558/Victor_5020.
"Victor 5020 (Black label (popular) 10-in. single-faced)." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2023. Web. 27 January 2023.


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Town Without a Soul and Other Stories
Electronic / House
The DJ Matt Werner Show on Fresh Air: The Alternative features interviews with some of the most provocative musicians and writers today who challenge the status quo of the music and literary scenes. Featured guests include hip hop artist Talib Kweli, spoken word artist and musician Saul Williams, rock composer Dave Smallen, modern classical composer Fr. Bruno Clifton, beatboxer and voice artist Kid Beyond, and poets from the Def Poetry Jam including Ise Lyfe, Dahlak Brathwaite, and George Watksy. mattswriting.com » Podcasts
The Classical Music Discoveries series features local amateur and internationally acclaimed artists, composers, orchestras and special events. Classical Music Discoveries makes classical music accessible and fun to everyone with millions of "Happy Listeners" covering the globe. Your world famous podcast hostess, Sandy Hedgecock, brings a touch of home, good music and kindness that other classical music podcasts fail to do. Why not give us a try and I'm sure you will soon be another "Happy Listener." Classical Music Discoveries
All things Progressive, music first and foremost also featuring the best Progressive house rhythms on the planet. Presented by Jason Lee. Progressive Sessions
The Popmatic Podcast is where you can find reviews and recommendations of the best books, movies and music available for check out from the Popular Materials department of the Nashville Public Library. You can also learn about library programs like concerts, film screenings, book clubs, author talks and book signings. Popmatic Podcast
Eric Moed & Brian Schulman's Weekly Radio Show on WIPR Pratt Radio. Two architecture students who love music and know how to get it into your ears, down to your soul and out through your feet. Urban Grilling.
ピーター・バラカン氏がメインパーソナリティーとなり、毎回様々なゲストを迎えて生き方や価値観を探っていくゲストトーク番組。毎週30分だけオープンするこのミュージアムをポッドキャッストでもお楽しみ下さい。 Tokyo Midtown presents The Lifestyle MUSEUM TOKYO FM
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Contemporary drama in a rural setting from the world's longest running radio soap opera. BBC Radio 4
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization.[3] Its website is the most popular American online newspaper website, receiving more than 30 million unique visitors per month.[4] The New York Times
J.C. Hutchins is an award-winning fiction and nonfiction storyteller, with 15 years of professional writing experience. His two novels – 7th Son: Descent and Personal Effects: Dark Art — were published in 2009 by St. Martin's Press. J.C. Hutchins
Arts, culture and city life from WNYC, New York Public Radio, 93.9 FM, 820 AM. WNYC Culture
IndieFeed delivers fresh and quality-filtered music selections to audiences seeking extraordinary content experiences. Unlike mass-oriented broadcast companies, IndieFeed delivers targeted, single-serving shows optimized for desktop and mobile use, providing valuable content choices for busy quality-conscious people. IndieFeed.com Community
Brian Ibbott is a podcaster who lives in Arvada, Colorado.[1] He is most notably known for his podcast Coverville, which began in September 2004. Coverville is one of the longest running podcasts in the iTunes store and also is in the top rankings for overall episode numbers. He also podcasts for the Denver Post as well as co-hosting the casual gaming podcast "Tired Thumbs" with Charlie George and Sara Phillips. He also co-hosts a movie discussion podcast, "Film Sack", with Scott Johnson, Randy Jordan, and Brian Dunaway.[2][3] Brian Ibbott
KEXP-FM (90.3 FM) is a public radio station based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in alternative and indie rock programmed by its disc jockeys. Its broadcasting license is owned by the University of Washington, which operates the station in a partnership with Paul Allen's Experience Music Project. The station was formerly operated under the call letters KCMU. KEXP
n today's fast-changing media landscape, WGBH is making sure you have our content when and where you choose: on air, online, and on the go with TV and radio broadcasts, WGBH Boston
Andrew Culver and Josh Charney have combined their talents to bring you a listening experience like no other - music and narration perfectly combined to create a complete immersion in a fictional world. In these dark tales, a young girl realizes her mother has changed into something terrible; a man arrives in an ominous town and receives an offer too good to turn down; another man on a space station accepts a nasty job because the money is too good to resist; and a third man seeks revenge - or does revenge seek him? Get ready to enter a world in which man is inches away from his own downfall. Get ready for Existent Domain.
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This premiere episode features the story, "Night of the Witches," in which a young girl discovers her mother has transformed into something terrifying. In the first chapter of "Town Without a Soul," a train-jumping drifter gets dumped in an ominous desert town. Episode 1 06:03


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Q: php chmod usage I'm trying to write a php file and set permission for it in order to be editable straight away after its creation.
Here's my code:
<?php

$var = '<?php $mycontent = new Content(); echo $mycontent->block($p_name);?>';

$myFile = "testFile.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w+') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $var;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);

fclose($fh);

chmod("tests/testFile.php", 0644);

?>

For some reason it's not working. The created file is still not editable unless I set manually the permissions. tests/ is the directory where the file has been created.
Any idea?

A: $myFile = "testFile.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w+') or die("can't open file");
chmod("tests/testFile.php", 0644);

The functions you are calling are referring to two different files. One in the directory of your PHP script and one in a directory called tests. Choose one, update your code and see if it works out for you.


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Kościół Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego w Pruchnej – kościół ewangelicko-augsburski w Pruchnej, w województwie śląskim w Polsce. Należy do parafii ewangelicko-augsburskiej w Drogomyślu.

Historia
Kaplica ewangelicka na cmentarzu w Pruchnej została wybudowana w latach 1892-1893. W ołtarzu umieszczono obraz przedstawiający Zmartwychwstanie Jezusa. Uroczystość poświęcenia odbyła się 17 września 1893 r. Dzwony na wieży zainstalowano w 1923 r.

W czasie II wojny światowej świątynia uległa zniszczeniu. Została odbudowana w 1945 r. Podczas odbudowy dodano balkon, który pozwolił na zwiększenie liczby miejsc.

Od 1952 r. przy kościele rozpoczęło się prowadzenie zajęć szkółki niedzielnej.

W 1973 r. przeprowadzono generalny remont kaplicy i budowę chóru. Kolejny remont i przebudowa wnętrza miał miejsce w 1987 r.

1 kwietnia 1991 ks. biskup Jan Szarek podniósł kaplicę do rangi kościoła. W tym samym roku zainstalowano nowe organy elektryczne.

Z okazji stulecia kościoła, świątynia została ponownie wyremontowana w 1992 r. Zamontowano oświetlenie ołtarza, podgrzewanie ławek i nowe gzymsy. Fasadę kościoła odnowiono w 1999 r. Trzy lata później zainstalowano nowy zegar oraz mechanizm dzwonów, a w 2004 r. wymieniono okna.

W 2000 r. w pobliżu kościoła rozpoczęto budowę nowego domu parafialnego, w którym od 2005 r. zamieszkał proboszcz pomocniczy. W domu prowadzone są szkółki niedzielne, godziny biblijne, spotkania młodzieżowe i próby chóru dziecięcego.

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Hastings faces ethics probe
Hastings 'in the strongest terms, denies the charges,' his attorney said.
By Jennifer Epstein
06/22/2011 06:35 AM EDT
Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings faces a House ethics investigation over sexual harassment charges made by a female former member of his staff.
An inquiry by the Office of Congressional Ethics began at least a month ago, Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, the conservative group that recently filed a lawsuit against Hastings on the charges, told POLITICO on Wednesday.
Winsome Packer, a former staffer on the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which was chaired by Hastings, alleges that she was the victim of "unwelcome sexual advances" and "unwelcome touching" by the congressman. Packer also claims that she faced retaliation by Hastings and his staff director, Fred Turner, when she tried to report the behavior.
Fitton told POLITICO that Packer has been cooperating with the Office of Congressional Ethics and that the case "seems well along to us." The office has 90 days to investigate the case before it must issue a recommendation to the House Ethics Committee on whether to conduct its own probe.
Hastings's attorney, Tonya Robinson, told the Wall Street Journal that the congressman "in the strongest terms, denies the charges. He is confident that he will be fully exonerated. Mr. Hastings has stated unequivocally that the record will show that the plaintiff's claims are untruthful and without merit."
When the suit was filed in March, Hastings said in a statement that it was full of "inaccuracies" and he had not behaved improperly.
"I have never sexually harassed anyone. In fact, I am insulted that these ludicrous allegations are being made against me. When all the facts are known in this case, the prevailing sentiment will be, 'How bizarre!'" he said. "I will win this lawsuit. That is a certainty. In a race with a lie, the truth always wins. And when the truth comes to light and the personal agendas of my accusers are exposed, I will be vindicated."
This case is not the first time Hastings has had a run-in with federal ethics rules.
As a U.S. District Judge in south Florida, he was impeached and convicted by the Senate for bribery and perjury in 1989, and removed from office. He was acquitted in a criminal trial on the same charges because his alleged co-conspirator refused to testify. He was also one of six lawmakers who was being investigated for possible misuse of federal overseas travel funds, though the House ethics committee dropped its probe earlier this year.
Alcee Hastings,
Ethics Investigations,
Office Of Congressional Ethics


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Q: How axios interceptor gets triggered I am creating a response interceptor to get the status type and set the flag based on the status type so that an ant d modal popup can be loaded based the flag value.
How this Interceptor will be triggered for every http calls and how to set the flag in response interceptor so that i can read it in another typescript class to show modal popup
import axios, { AxiosInstance } from 'axios';
import React, { useState } from 'react';
axios.interceptors.response.use(function(response){
console.log("New Interceptor response");
console.log(response.status);
console.log(response.statusText);
return response;
},
function (error){
return Promise.reject(console.error);
});

A: Wrap the axios in a hook like useReqest or sth. set the interceptor and it will be triggered every time you use this hook. Axios like RegExp has some state in it so it remembers some settings.
Essentially you must use the axios instance which has been configured with an interceptor and will be called by default. Same thing like intercepors in Spring/NestJS/Express if you are familiar with backend dev.


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Thomson Reuters keen to partner legaltech startups
By Kiran Kaur Sidhu August 8, 2019
TR Ignite provides startups with access to aggregated data to develop solutions
With a global footprint and large customer base, offers opportunities to scale up
"THOMSON Reuters has been serving legal and tax professionals for many decades. We are always looking for new ways to improve how we work and technology plays an integral part in that," explained James Jarvis (pic, above), the vice president of global legal solutions at Thomson Reuters Legal Australia.
Until Aug 16, Thomson Reuters is inviting early stage startups in the legal and regulatory space across the Asia Pacific to apply to its recently launched technology investment programme, TR Ignite.
Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to pitch at TechLaw.Fest in Singapore on Sept 5 to 6, 2019 for a potential investment of US$250,000 (RM1.03 million) and a strategic collaboration with Thomson Reuters through its six- to twelve-month incubator programme.
"The idea behind TR Ignite is to extend the reach or the thinking around technology by collaborating with startups to bring new perspectives to the problem that technology can enhance," Jarvis said.
Thomson Reuters is welcoming a range of solutions across artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, natural language processing, distributed ledger and data analytics.
The problem statements Thomson Reuters is looking to solve stretch across these areas of technology.
Jarvis provided some use case examples: "Some challenges of knowledge work revolve around finding data and material that is relevant to a particular legal issue," he said, explaining that technology can be used to streamline search results for legal professionals.
For startups, one common challenge faced is the difficulty in aggregating market data. TR Ignite serves as a good opportunity for them to "access to information that Thomson Reuters already provides to legal and tax companies" enabling the startups to develop and validate ideas more effectively.
While Thomson Reuters declined to share the number of applications thus far, Jackie Rhodes (pic, above), the head of legal professionals, Asia and Emerging Markets, shared that the response "has exceeded expectations."
Since legal and regulatory frameworks are localised by jurisdiction, these may cast challenges for startups to scale up across the globe. However, it is a pursuit Thomson Reuters' believes it is poised to take on.
"One of the things we focus on is to develop technology that can be applied not just in one jurisdiction but have applications in different collections of information and provide solutions in the different markets that we operate," said Jarvis.
Additionally, Rhodes believes startups can leverage upon Thomson Reuters' global footprint and large customer network.
"Partnership is where the scaling up comes in. We bring scale, the startup brings the idea and technology."
Those interested can access more information about the programme via the website.
Thomson Reuters launches TR IGNITE
Lawyers, let EasyLaw do the running for you
Legal tech at the forefront
TR IGNITE
TechLaw.Fest
Kiran Kaur Sidhu
Inaugural Malaysia Tech Week set to rock ecosystem
By Karamjit Singh June 14, 2019
BorderPass to automate Malaysian airport immigration process
TM One unveils Klang Valley Core Data Centre
By Tan Jee Yee May 2, 2019
Maxis connects UTAR with high speed fibre and mobile connectivity
By Digital News Asia June 6, 2019
Data-powered talent management with Accendo's Talent Pulse
By Kiran Kaur Sidhu May 23, 2019


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Q: Does mounting a large disk image require a certain amount of free space on the internal drive? I've got a bunch of Mac disk images (.dmg files) that are 100 GB or larger. I'm currently on an iMac with a few hundred gigabytes of free space, but I'm going to be moving to a Mac laptop with 128 GB storage.
So, I'm wondering, would that be a problem when I have less than 100 GB of free space on my computer, but I'm opening a disk image larger than 100 GB? My guess would be no, but is ANY space on the internal drive used at all when mounting an image?
How exactly does mounting an image work, does it just change the way the operating system sees the files as one file (the disk image) rather than the actual files within the disk image, until it is mounted? Therefore, no internal space is necessary for the mount operation?
Follow-up question: Is it any slower to read from a DMG on an external drive than it is to read from any other files on the same external drive? Basically, is there any performance hit from having files in a DMG?

A: There certainly isn't the same amount necessary as the DMG, so you sure can mount a 100GB DMG into a file system that has less (there will be trivial consumptions, maybe a few kb, but nothting that you'll notice).
The whole thing works in the way, that the system attaches a file-system driver to the file with the DMG.  The driver will present the DMG file to the system like an "external" drive and perform file requests on behalf of the system on the contents of the file.
Essentially the driver will says to MacOS:  We have a new volume here. So MacOS will then ask the driver.  "Give me a list of content in it", and then the driver examines the inside of the file and presents the list of files organized inside the DMG.  Etc.


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Where is Hunan
Home > Upcoming Events
"Hong Kong in Miniature" Exhibition
Opened in 1964, China Icehouse is a popular shooting location of many Hong Kong films. (Photo/Li Kunli)
The Blue House is a first class historical building in Hong Kong, and a rare tong lau housing cluster preserved in Hong Kong. (Photo/Li Kunli)
The interior of a toy store completed in three years. (Photo/Li Kunli)
The Cheung Chau Bun Festival is a traditional Chinese festival on the island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong. It is the biggest occasion of the island. (Photo/Li Kunli)
The "Hong Kong in Miniature" Exhibition opened in Changsha on September 29. It showcased more than 40 miniature models created by a number of artists, all depicting Hong Kong's cherished traditions, its unique culture, landmarks, cityscape and aspects of daily life.
"The year of 2022 will mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland and the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Wuhan will join hands with the Hunan Liaison Office to hold a series of activities in Hunan." said Guo Weixun, director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Wuhan. Guo added that, the exhibition aims to deepen Chinese mainland people's understanding of Hong Kong and promote cultural exchanges between Hunan and Hong Kong. He continued, "We hope to showcase Hong Kong's cultural achievements through a diversified form. Tourists can have an immersed experience of Hong Kong's culture."
Meanwhile, seven Olympic-themed works are displayed.
The exhibition opens to the public free of charge from September 29 to October 10 at Changsha China Finance Center (CFC).
Address: No. 303, first section of Furong Middle Road, Kaifu District, Changsha
This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.
Translator: Xiao Juan
Chinese source: Voice of Hunan
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Dylan Rush: Best in Show: Lucky Break?
Dylan Rush, 19, a Communication Design sophomore at Kutztown University won Best in Show Award at the 2012 Hazelton Art League Open Exhibition. He drew a series of line art portraits of Joe Paterno in January for his first assignment in Kevin McCloskey's Illustration Techniques class. Dylan calls the work "Joe Pa." You will notice the central portrait is upside down and the glass is broken. Dylan explained that in his hurry to frame the artwork, he accidentally broke one of the frames. Dylan decided to hang it broken to conceptually reflect the shattering turmoil at the end of Jo Pa's life. Note that in the final image Joe Pa has regained his upright direction.
The 2012 Best in Show award included a $300 cash prize. Dylan also sold the triptych for a nominal sum to a Penn State fan and it now hangs on the wall of a building on the campus of Penn State in Hazelton, PA.
Such a heart-warming post! Go DYLAN!!
Glad you like it, Rona. Dylan is a good student. He was smart enough to add a second pane of glass so you don't cut yourself if you are tempted to touch the middle image.


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In this activity, participants will split into small groups and discuss computational social science and SICSS.

### Learning objectives

- Participants will get a chance to get to know each other on the first day.
- Participants will develop their own views on computational social science as a field.

### Participant preparation

There is no participant preparation before this activity.

### Activity

- We will split you into small groups of about 4 people.
- Introduce yourself to each other and discuss prompt 1 (about 20 minutes): One of the videos you watched before participating featured Matt answering the question "What is computational social science?".  But, that's just his view.  What do you think is computational social science?  What are the things that are most exciting about computational social science to you? Are there specific computational social science studies that you find particularly beautiful or inspiring?
- Discuss prompt 2 (about 20 minutes): One of the videos you watched before participating featured Chris talking about why we think SICSS is important. What do you hope to get out of SICSS? What would make our time together more successful?
- Full group discussion (about 20 minutes).

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The M3000 motion controller is a highly integrated, mixedsignal system-on-a-chip that combines major building blocks necessary to control and position multiphase stepmotors.
The system also works as a high-speed general-purpose microcontroller with communications, analog, and system functions. A high-speed Risc-based Atmel AVR core runs at 20 MHz and includes a watchdog timer, interrupt controller with two external interrupts, internal and external counter timers, and 20 general-purpose I/O lines. Communications include two SPI ports, a general-purpose Uart, and a Can controller. The system comes with a 64k × 16 program memory, 4k × 8 data ram, and an interface for an external 4k × 8 data block.


Happy Friday! Hope everyone had a wonderful week. Just wanted to share some vintage inspired hearts.
These chipboard hearts came from the dollar section of Michaels. It was actually meant to be a chipboard mini album, but I decided to use each heart individually for valentine hearts.
The black and cream heart was made using paper from DCWV Black Currant stack as well as Cosmo Cricket's 1934 collection. The chipboard inkwell and fountain pens are also from the 1934 collection by Cosmo Cricket.
I distressed all of the edges with vintage Photo distress ink. The metal key is from 7 Gypsies.
The light pink heart was made with Making Memories paper.
The chipboard butterflies are from K&Company's Madeline collection. The lock and key are from Tim Holtz.
The small photo frame was from my local craft store. The large flower is from Recollections.
I used Old Lace Glimmer Mist on the flower to give it a slight sparkle.
The pink pearls and gems are from Bo Bunny.
The last heart was made with K&Company's Madeline collection.
This is one of my favorite lines that K&Company put out. The key is from Tim Holtz, the roses are from Recollections and were sprayed with Glimmer Mist.
I used the coordinating stamp set for the Madeline collection to stamp the chandelier and crown. The ribbon is from my local craft store as well as Joann's.
I hope you like my Vintage inspired valentine hearts. They were fun to create.
Please feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think. I really like reading your comments on my projects. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend!
Love them!! What a fabulous idea!!
I must get me some of those flowers!! And that Cosmo Cricket paper is to die for!! GORGEOUS!! GORGEOUS!!
So…the vintage photo ink…is that the Tim Holtz distress ink or something different?
Your work looks beautiful! I was wondering whether i can use one of the images (the once of the heart with the key and roses) for an anniversary card for my boss Rory and Wendy???


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