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function NXT_LSWrite(InputPort, RXLength, data, ReplyMode, varargin)
% Writes given data to a digital low speed sensor port (I2C)
%
% Syntax
%   NXT_LSWrite(port, RXLength, data, ReplyMode)
%
%   NXT_LSWrite(port, RXLength, data, ReplyMode, handle)
%
% Description
%   NXT_LSWrite(port, RXLength, data, ReplyMode) writes the given data to a low speed (digital)
%   sensor of the given sensor port. The value port can be addressed by the symbolic constants
%   SENSOR_1, SENSOR_2, SENSOR_3 and SENSOR_4 analog to the labeling on the NXT Brick. The
%   value RXLength represents the data length of the expected receiving packet. By the ReplyMode
%   one can request an acknowledgement for the packet transmission. The two strings 'reply' and
%   'dontreply' are valid.
%
%   NXT_LSWrite(port, RXLength, data, ReplyMode, handle) uses the given Bluetooth connection
%   handle. This should be a serial handle on a PC system and a file handle on a Linux system.
%
%   If no Bluetooth handle is specified the default one (COM_GetDefaultNXT) is used.
%
% For more details see the official LEGO Mindstorms communication protocol.
%
% Note:
%   For LS communication on the NXT, data lengths are limited to 16 bytes per command. Rx Data Length
%   MUST be specified in the write command since reading from the device is done on a master-slave
%   basis.
%
%   Before using LS commands, the sensor mode has to be set to
%   LOWSPEED_9V using the NXT_SetInputMode command.
%
% Example
%   RequestLen = 1;
%   I2Cdata = hex2dec(['02'; '42']); % specific ultrasonic I²C command
%
%   handle = COM_OpenNXT('bluetooth.ini');
%   NXT_SetInputMode(SENSOR_1, 'LOWSPEED_9V', 'RAWMODE', 'dontreply');
%
%   NXT_LSWrite(SENSOR_1, RequestLen, I2Cdata, 'dontreply', handle);
%
% See also: NXT_SetInputMode, NXT_LSRead, NXT_LSGetStatus, COM_ReadI2C
%
%
% Signature
%   Author: Linus Atorf (see AUTHORS)
%   Date: 2007/10/15
%   Copyright: 2007-2011, RWTH Aachen University
%
%
% ***********************************************************************************************
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%% Parameter check
% check if bluetooth handle is given; if not use default one
if nargin > 4
        handle = varargin{1};
else
    handle = COM_GetDefaultNXT;
end%if

% check if port number is valid
if InputPort < 0 || InputPort > 3
    error('MATLAB:RWTHMindstormsNXT:Sensor:invalidPort', 'NXT InputPort %d invalid! It has to be 0, 1, 2 or 3', InputPort);
end%if

if length(data) > 16
    error('MATLAB:RWTHMindstormsNXT:Sensor:LSWriteDataTooLarge', 'LSWrite data input lengths on the NXT are limited to a maximum size of 16 bytes!')
end%if

%% Build bluetooth command
[type cmd] = name2commandbytes('LSWRITE');

content = zeros(4+length(data) - 1, 1);
content(1) = InputPort;
content(2) = uint8(length(data)); % TX data len
content(3) = uint8(RXLength);     % RX data len
content(4:4+length(data)-1) = data(:);

%% Packet bluetooth command
packet = COM_CreatePacket(type, cmd, ReplyMode, content);

%% Send bluetooth packet
COM_SendPacket(packet, handle);

end%function


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Deconstructing A Skyscraper In her new book, The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper, author Kate Ascher sheds light on the infrastructure and services that make life and work possible in a modern skyscraper. She examines everything that goes into designing, building and maintaining these towering buildings.
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IRA FLATOW, HOST:
You're listening to SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Say the word skyscraper, what comes to mind? The Empire State Building or the Sears Tower? But did you know that most of the world's tallest buildings are no longer in the U.S.? The world's tallest structure, by the way, is the 160-story Burj Khalifa in Dubai. At over 2,600 feet, it's more than two-and-a-half times the height of our great Chrysler Building here in New York.
No matter where they are located, skyscrapers, by the nature of their size, they're going to provide architects and engineers with unique challenges to provide their inhabitants with - what, you've got your electricity, your plumbing, your clean water, your fresh air. And whether it's in Hong Kong or New York, designing these towering structures to include simple amenities can be very complex and difficult.
Kate Ascher, author of "The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper," is here to talk to us about what it takes to turn these tall buildings into offices and homes for thousands. Ms. Ascher is also a principal with Happold Consulting and professor of urban development at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She's here in our New York studio.
And if you want to get a flavor of the book "The Heights," go to our website at sciencefriday.com. We have a wonderful little slideshow there. It's a gorgeously illustrated book. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY. I don't know how talked the publisher into making such a beautiful book.
KATE ASCHER: Thank you, I'm happy to be here and happy it's done.
FLATOW: Well, what gets you - you know, I'm a geeky person. I love watching skyscrapers, watching them being built. You know, we had a giant skyscraper built here for about 10 years next door to us. As you say, it's probably the greenest building in the world, or at least in America. What got you interested in skyscrapers?
ASCHER: You know, hey, I'm a New Yorker, and I see these things going up all around me. And I always want to peek past the walls of the construction site and understand what's going on. And some of it you can understand, and some of it you can't quite understand. So I thought I wanted to devote some time to figuring out the bits I didn't quite know.
FLATOW: They used to call those sidewalk superintendents, remember, right? There's a little hole in the side?
ASCHER: That's exactly right. You can look down into the foundation and see all the trucks going up and down and watch the cranes come up. It's great.
FLATOW: Let's start with the cranes, because to me that is what New York is, is seeing cranes on a skyline. I noticed in the - down where Ground Zero is, they're already building the new building that's going up there. And of course what do you see? Giant cranes on top.
ASCHER: Right. Actually, you don't see as many cranes in New York as you used to at the moment, particularly in Midtown. You see a lot of them downtown because they're really a sign of a robust economy and a lot of stuff going up, and for a while we had very few cranes going up. I think we're starting to see more now.
FLATOW: And what - how do you get a crane to the top of a building like that?
ASCHER: Well, the really big tower cranes that are putting up the biggest skyscrapers actually erect themselves, which is one of my favorite little factoids about constructing skyscrapers, is they put themselves up, and they take themselves down. And how they do it is quite complicated.
FLATOW: Tell us.
ASCHER: But I finally had somebody explain it to me. Well, they actually lift up, piece by piece, of their anatomy, if you will, and they've got a little sleeve that moves up and makes a hole, and they stick in the next piece, and then they move up and stick in the next piece. And the goal of course is not just to erect themselves but to actually carry steel beams and things like that once they're tall.
But then they have to take themselves apart again once they're finished.
FLATOW: We used to see pictures of people back in the Depression, when they were building all these giant skyscrapers, men would be out on the end of these I-beams.
ASCHER: And guess what? They still are.
There is no way to get two of these beams to bolt themselves together except having somebody there who of course these days is strapped in, but they're still out there, way, way up high, and they're still fixing those bolts that connect the beams.
FLATOW: Are they still riveting buildings together?
ASCHER: They are still bolting them together and welding them together, and a lot of them are the descendents of the same people that we saw pictures of in the 1920s and 1930s.
FLATOW: And who were those people?
ASCHER: A lot of those were from two Indian tribes that are up in the north part of New York State and Canada.
FLATOW: Wow, 1-800-989-8255, talking with Kate Ascher, author of "The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper." When - you know, there's so many things to talk about. We were trying to decide all the things that go on in a skyscraper. You know, let's talk about the most obvious, which if you're in New York, you see water towers on the top of every building. How do you get the water to go up so high in a skyscraper?
ASCHER: Basically you pump it.
FLATOW: But, I mean, you just can't pump it from the ground up, can you, one pump?
ASCHER: No, there's a whole bunch of very sophisticated pumps, because even the water towers have to be pumped to get to the top of even smaller buildings. But there tends to be a very sophisticated network of pumps that - and many of the skyscrapers don't actually have water towers, they have water tanks that are on a variety of mechanical floors.
And they hold the water and make sure that it's distributed at whatever pressure it's supposed to be distributed to the various floors in the building.
FLATOW: All right, some somebody - how does a skyscraper get started? Is it an idea? Is it an architect's idea? Is it a builder's idea?
ASCHER: Well, the first thing is you have to assemble the land to do it. So you know, actually getting the land with the right footprint for a skyscraper isn't that easy in a city like New York. And of course you really only build skyscrapers in very dense cities. You wouldn't put them out in a cornfield; it wouldn't make any sense. They'd never pay for themselves.
So you've got to assemble the land, and then basically you have a developer who sits down with an architect and comes up with an idea for a building that has the right program or the right amount of square footage for whoever's going to pay for it.
FLATOW: Of course it has to be zoned correctly.
ASCHER: It has to be zoned. Well, that's how much land you can land you can actually build up, is determined by the zoning, at least in this city, anyway.
FLATOW: How do you design the foundation? That's going to have to hold all the weight, right?
ASCHER: The foundation has to hold - first of all, you have to do some borings in the ground to figure out what you're boring through. And here in New York City, there's a lot of bedrock. In places like Chicago, it's clay. And depending on how soft or hard the ground is, you need different types of foundations.
FLATOW: Now, you see pile drivers work, and they're just banging like with a hammer, these beams. What are they going in? Are they going literally into the bedrock?
ASCHER: In a lot of the places you see, particularly around here in Midtown Manhattan, they are going into bedrock. That's part of the reason that Midtown Manhattan is so tall, is it's got very good bedrock very near to the surface.
FLATOW: And they're just pounding it in there the old-fashioned way.
ASCHER: They are indeed.
FLATOW: You know, do you have to have this kind of heavy granite or bedrock to be able to build skyscrapers?
ASCHER: No not at all. I mean, Chicago...
FLATOW: That's a myth, right?
ASCHER: The other great skyscraper city doesn't have any of it. It has soft clay, and so it has a whole different series of foundation technologies that are used because obviously in clay you need something else to hold that building together.
FLATOW: And in Mexico City, which is like built on...
ASCHER: Sand.
FLATOW: Sand, land-filled, you know, lake or something.
ASCHER: You need very different foundations. Again, so you're not going to see simple piles being driven in Mexico City or in Chicago.
FLATOW: Why is it that the World Trade Center collapsed - burned and collapsed? Why did it not survive the fire? What was...
ASCHER: Well, there's lots of reasons, and there's fire safety engineers that could explain it better than I can. But effectively the way it was built, its structure relied on a series of perimeter supports. And the minute that the heat basically allowed the steel to go wobbly, to put it in simple terms, those steel supports around the perimeter really couldn't hold the floors.
And as far as I can tell from the engineering reports, those floors basically were set free and began to pancake down on one another.
FLATOW: So what is the most modern way of building a skyscraper?
ASCHER: There's a bunch of different ways. It really depends on the height to which you want to build. So if you're going to go very tall, the wind forces are incredible, and you have to come up with a structure that can support those kinds of loads.
If you're building a smaller skyscraper – remember, not every skyscraper has to have 160 stories - so if you're building a skyscraper with 50 stories, you'd probably use a different structure than one that's 160.
FLATOW: Here we wouldn't call that a skyscraper. It's a little cloud-scraper.
FLATOW: 1-800-989-8255. The tallest building in the world, the one in Dubai, what was the unique challenge of building that one? How could you get it that tall? I mean, and is there a limit to how tall you can build a skyscraper?
ASCHER: Well, the real limit upon how tall you build it is two: one's economic, in terms of how much floor area can you bring elevators to without sucking up all that land and all that area into elevators? But really the wind is the biggest challenge for a skyscraper. The taller you go, the stronger the forces are, and they get very, very strong.
So you have to be able to brace that building and support that building so it can withstand those sorts of wind forces anywhere. It doesn't matter whether it's Dubai, New York, Chicago.
FLATOW: My father, who used to work in the World Trade Center many years ago, used to say he could feel the - he was up on the 80th-something floor, could feel the - and hear the building swaying.
ASCHER: I worked there for seven years, and he's absolutely right. If you went into the core, which is where the bathrooms were, it was always a bit scary because not only were there no windows, but you could hear the creaking of the building. And people used to say: It's supposed to creak. It's a good thing. But it never felt quite right.
FLATOW: 1-800-989-8255. Let's take a phone call or two. Let's go to Jenny(ph) in Silver Spring. Hi.
JENNY: Hello there.
FLATOW: Hi there.
JENNY: I'd like to know: If you're building a skyscraper in an existing city, and you're going down really deep, you're going way below the level of the existing water and possibly electrical but basically the water connections, so how do you manage to tie in, since you've got to get it both up to the upper floors and down to anything that's lower, and then it get back out on a different level?
ASCHER: Are you talking about the piping that moves through a building, the water piping moves through the building? It comes in pretty much as it would in a house. I mean, it may not be all that different if you're tied into a municipal sewage system, and there's pipes that comes into your house and move out. The concept is basically the same for a tall building.
FLATOW: 1-800-989-8255. And how do you think of all these different things when you're building, you know, all the different, the pipes, the whatever, the ventilation system, right? People have to breathe.
ASCHER: Yeah, I mean, it's like a city. There's energy that needs to come to it, there's air that has to move in and out. If you just left the same air in a skyscraper for a long time, you would not have any people living in there.
FLATOW: And now there are green buildings that have other things to - they recirculate some of the water.
ASCHER: They recirculate the gray water, and they try to keep the, you know, the air at a temperate climate so you're not having to do as much conditioning of the air. Some of them have solar panels. Some of them have wind turbines, if you can believe it, on the outside.
They haven't yet figured out how to self-power a building, how to make enough energy to support the energy needs of the thousands of occupants in it, but maybe one day they will.
FLATOW: There's certainly enough glass areas on the building, right, if you could...
ASCHER: Well, there isn't(ph) , but the glass – the glass in a vertical form isn't too good for solar panels. Somebody once likened it to trying to get a sunburn standing up.
ASCHER: So your buildings are challenged in a solar sense.
FLATOW: And then you've got all these elevators you have to put in there, right? I mean, they have to move pretty fast, some of these elevators.
ASCHER: They have to move very fast, which is why you see these shuttle elevators that whiz you to some midpoint of a floor and then let you get a local after that because otherwise you would just spend forever traveling some of the distances in these very tall buildings.
FLATOW: I would imagine they could probably make it faster than it's comfortable for you to be in.
ASCHER: They could. In fact, there's one elevator in one of the buildings in Asia where they actually have to pressurize or depressurize the elevator cab as it's coming down because otherwise people's ears would pop.
FLATOW: No kidding?
ASCHER: Really.
FLATOW: And they'd be - if they're going up, they'd be compressed like little ants.
FLATOW: Slow it down. I know there's – once actually in the World Trade Center, there was a scientist who put a scale in the elevator. So as it went up, you could watch yourself gain weight and feel like - the acceleration acts like artificial gravity.
ASCHER: That's really interesting.
FLATOW: We're talking - yeah, there's all great science in the cities, great opportunities for - certainly in big buildings to have fun with it. Talking with Kate Ascher, author of "The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper." Our number is 1-800-989-8255. You can tweet us @scifri, @-S-C-I-F-R-I. And also go to our website and join a discussion there.
So stay with us. We'll be right back after this short break.
FLATOW: You're listening to SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. We're talking with Kate Ascher, author of "The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper," a gorgeous building that if you've ever wanted to know anything about how a skyscraper works, how it's built, architecture, green skyscrapers, it's a terrific book, and it's got great illustrations in it.
And we were talking during the break about the skyscraper museum. There's a skyscraper museum in New York.
ASCHER: There's a fabulous museum downtown, near Battery Park City, which has a terrific exhibit called "Super Tall," which actually shows how the tallest buildings in the world stand up, how they were built and what they look like, which is fascinating.
FLATOW: One of the things - of course the first thing you notice when you're looking at a skyscraper is the outside of the building. And we mentioned a little bit about the windows. Are there many different ways you can build the glass or the windows in a skyscraper?
ASCHER: Yeah, and in fact not all the windows, or not all the skin of these skyscrapers is glass. You still sometimes have stone on the outside. And some of the glass comes in kind of pre-ready-to-be-stuck-in-there, and others is erected on-site. And there's all kinds of different glass as well.
So there's tempered glass and fritted glass and all kinds of glass. There's double-glass and single glass. So there's a whole worldwide business of importing this big - these big sheets of glass that go as facades of these skyscrapers.
FLATOW: Let's go to Elizabeth(ph) in Tucson. Hi, Elizabeth, welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.
ELIZABETH: Thank you very much. I was just wondering, I was looking at a National Geographic magazine a few years ago. And in it there was an architectural illustration of the outside of a skyscraper that they were considering erecting in Japan. And something that was unique about this was that the core of the building almost served as an axis around which each floor would rotate and be blown by the wind. Does that sound familiar?
ASCHER: Yeah, I've heard about one of those in the Middle East that was being designed not that long ago, so a fairly recent iteration of the same idea.
FLATOW: The floor would move around like...
ASCHER: Yeah, not by - this one was not by the wind, it was by some kind of, you know, electrical rotation, regular rotation, but same idea.
FLATOW: Wow, and when all those dials stop spinning, some cash would come out?
FLATOW: Sorry, I couldn't help myself...
ELIZABETH: I was just curious to see if it had been built, or is it still in pre-construction idea?
ASCHER: Well, it hasn't been built, and there are some engineers I know - and again, I'm not an engineer, but I know a lot of them, and they're all fairly dismissive of the idea. The one thing they haven't been able to figure out with that quite yet is the plumbing and how you wire the plumbing to be able to move around in this sort of infinite circular motion without getting very, very confused.
FLATOW: Thank you, Elizabeth. Let's go to Chris(ph) in Holland Patent, New York. Hi, Chris.
CHRIS: Hi, thanks for taking my call.
CHRIS: My question is: Earlier you mentioned about the sky cranes. I've always been fascinated by them. And you mentioned quickly how they bring the pieces and just stack them up. And I still can't figure out how they get them off the crane and move them around and lift them on top and how high is each section.
And then my other part of the question is: What holds the whole thing up when it's going up? You know, it's a spindly thing that lifts up tons of weight...
FLATOW: Yeah, how does it hold all that weight?
ASCHER: Well, it's very hard to describe without a visual picture. But basically it's, you know, a structural frame. The crane is very simple - very simply a kind of truss-like figure that's bringing the weight up. And each segment that they insert is somewhere in the region of 10 to 20 feet and - of additional frame that's simply going on top of the existing frame.
And so it continues to move up pretty much in a linear fashion till it gets to whatever height it needs to be to do the work on the construction site.
FLATOW: If you go to our website at sciencefriday.com, in the SciArt section, we have some illustrations from the book that show you exactly how that happens. And I'm always just amazed at how long these arms of these cranes are, how much material they can pick up.
ASCHER: It's fantastic. I also learned - I was always interested in what life in a cab in one of those cranes must be like at great heights. And one of the fun facts that I picked up in doing the research was that the actual compensation of the men who are driving the cabs, the men and women who are driving the cabs, is not a function of how high they are but how long that arm reaches out. Isn't that interesting?
FLATOW: That's the talent, I guess. You're very talented to control that.
ASCHER: Well, you've got to balance the weight. It's tricky, right.
FLATOW: Yeah, yeah, and they have all kinds of stuff in there, amenities of home like...
ASCHER: They do, they do, they do. As far as I know, they've got heating and all the rest of, you know, the common human needs.
FLATOW: It's like big - you know, I learned this from many years ago from doing - from being on the radio. In the West you hear about these giant tractors that have the same thing, and they have televisions and things like that.
ASCHER: Right, yeah, no, they do.
FLATOW: 1-800-989-8255. Let's see if we have a tweet there: Can buildings become - here's tweeting - can buildings become wobbly enough that they will collapse if they're not built correctly?
ASCHER: You know, I was asked that question recently at a talk I gave, and I don't actually know of any buildings that collapsed because they were wobbly, in terms of skyscrapers. You see buildings collapse, you know, from time to time and in cities, that are old and left to deteriorate.
But in terms of skyscrapers, there very rarely is something like that because these buildings are pretty well-maintained. They're expensive assets.
FLATOW: Was there anything you couldn't learn that you wanted to know about skyscrapers, that was a question that still remains unanswered for you?
ASCHER: No, but there's things I understand maybe not as well as someday I would like to.
FLATOW: Such as?
ASCHER: I mean, you know, how the wind works on a building is very complicated, those vortices that spin off certain types of structures.
FLATOW: So the wind goes around a building and on the other side?
ASCHER: The wind goes around the building, and it moves it in certain ways, and I think in some senses you need to be around these models for a long time to understand exactly how they work. Also how you design a foundation that fits the building. There's a lot of different options in terms of what that foundation could be like.
But you actually have to have some sense of how much you want the building to sink, how much is permissible to be able to allow the building to sink when you're designing it. So some of this stuff just, I think, comes to you after years of being in the practice.
FLATOW: Let's go to Gary(ph) in Sacramento. Hi, Gary.
GARY: Hi, a question: When designing the tallest buildings, is the mindset that they're going to last forever, or is there a strategy, and is there a method for taking one down once it becomes unserviceable or obsolete?
ASCHER: You know, necessity is the mother invention, and eventually I think you figure out how to do anything. But at the time they're being put up, nobody's thinking about how to take them down. I don't know that there is a sense that they are going to last forever, but you're putting so much money into these investments that you assume they're going to last, you know, somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 years, and some of them last longer.
FLATOW: You know, bridges have a structural lifetime to them. Do buildings have a...
ASCHER: Buildings don't because buildings are being constantly replaced. I mean, if you look at some of the renovations even around a place like New York City, if you want to upgrade a building because it's dated or aged, you pull out the elevators, you pull out an awful lot of the structural elements, you re-clad it, and it becomes like new because its component parts are like new.
FLATOW: Thanks, Gary. They're doing a makeover of the Empire State Building, right, with windows and stuff like that?
ASCHER: That's right. They're doing a bit retrofit of the Empire State Building, also the Willis Tower in Chicago, to make it both more energy efficient and more rentable.
FLATOW: Yeah, and those buildings are - I'm going to say they're made like iron. I mean, they're just rock-solid.
ASCHER: Right, they're not going anywhere. I mean, a building like the Empire State Building, or even the Woolworth Building, which was built in 1913 in Lower Manhattan, and it's still going strong, that's coming up for 100 years old.
FLATOW: And that was once the tallest building in the world. There are a whole bunch of buildings down there, at one point were the tallest building in the world.
ASCHER: Right, tallest, most expensive and most ornate.
FLATOW: Let's go to Justin(ph) in Green Grove Springs. Hi, Justin.
JUSTIN: Hi, Ira, thanks for taking my call.
FLATOW: No problem.
JUSTIN: Ms. Ascher, I was just wondering: What do you think the most important invention to affect the construction of skyscrapers over the last 140 years has been?
ASCHER: Oh, that's a hard one because you can't have part without the whole. So in some ways, people talk about the steel frame, the structural steel frame to take the weight of the building as a, you know, huge step forward from the masonry walls that were supporting buildings. And that's probably, in some senses, the first and most important.
But if you didn't have elevators to go with that, nobody would want to climb up 80 stories.
ASCHER: So, you know, and then you talk about water and power, and so in some ways you really needed probably three or four or five inventions, including electric light, to be able to make these buildings make sense.
FLATOW: Indoor plumbing.
ASCHER: That too, that too.
JUSTIN: That's really a far cry from the wooden cranes of the 1200s.
ASCHER: Yes, it is, indeed.
JUSTIN: Thank you very much.
FLATOW: And of course you do have to think about the waste system in a building of that size, right? Are they doing - are buildings coming online now, greener buildings that actually clean their own waste inside the building instead of flushing them out into the sewers?
ASCHER: There's sort of black water and gray water. The gray water is the stuff that comes off sinks. And there's a number of buildings, including some in New York City now, that are recycling the gray water that comes off the sinks and are actually using them in toilets and for landscaping and other sorts of things.
The use of recycling black water, which is the stuff that basically comes off the toilets and bathrooms, is not really being used in this country, but in some places, in India and other places, there are technologies that are allowing that to be somewhat recycled.
FLATOW: Yeah, and they're also putting in waterless toilets in some places. When people build a big skyscraper now, are they planning them more green?
ASCHER: They're planning them much more green, in part because for marketing purposes, people who are building new buildings want tenants who, you know, really care about the environment. They're all looking to have these green labels. So there's a big of a race afoot to see who has the greenest building.
FLATOW: So what's your next book? You're going into a still how-it-works theme?
ASCHER: It is a how-it-works theme. It's actually - I guess you could - I don't have a name for it yet. You could think about it as sort of planes and trains and automobiles. It's transportation.
FLATOW: Wow.
ASCHER: ...which is an area I actually know a little bit more about than I knew about skyscrapers when I started.
FLATOW: Wow. Well, we'll look forward to it. If it's half as good as this book, it'll be terrific.
ASCHER: Thank you.
FLATOW: The book is "The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper." Our guest is Kate Ascher. It's a wonderful book. If you've got something on your holiday list, this is - this might be one. Thank you, Kate, for taking the time...
ASCHER: Great. Thank you.
FLATOW: ...to be with us today.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Lucky Soul: A Coming of Age
Dave Heaton
A Coming of Age shows at every step what sets Lucky Soul apart from the pack.
Lucky Soul
A Coming of Age
Label: Ruffa Lane
US Release Date: Import
The UK band Lucky Soul's 2007 LP The Great Unwanted was one of the more stunning debut albums in recent years, a sparkling fusion of melody and melancholy, rooted in the sounds of Motown and '50s 'girl groups'. Centered around the charm and singing talent of Ali Howard, it was also evidence of the songwriting and arranging skills of Andrew Laidlaw, an obvious student of the history of popular music.
They weren't the first band to draw from that style of pop music, and won't be the last, but are one of the best doing it currently. In the three years since their debut, that field has grown even more crowded, but their second album, A Coming of Age, shows at every step what sets them apart. As an album, it builds on their strengths but sees them developing that sound in several different directions, showing the way a band can take relatively common templates and breathe life into them. Sharp songwriting and musicianship makes all the difference.
The history of pop music amounts to sad love songs, but Lucky Soul have found clever ways of writing sad love songs in different terms. On this album, there are no straightforward "my love has left me so now I'm sad and alone" choruses. The song "Our Heart" may be the closest, but it takes a physical and existential angle, with lyrics like, "Visions of you burn down the back of my eyes / I can't use them / I'm worried and blind / Reminded about you". The pain of heartbreak affects the entire body; the song breaks that down, body part by body part. A similar trick is used on "Ain't Nothin' Like a Shame", an even more devastating song that's also snappy as can be. Howard sings, "A sad malaise creeps into me / Like shadows on my lungs", a splendid description of the overall mood across A Coming of Age.
Accompanying the album's glamorous sheen and bright, smile-inducing melodies is that sense of malaise. Probing the condition of the broken heart is a song's most likely focus, but these songs also convey a more general feeling that things are going awry. The first phrase on the album is "dark times ahead", sung on the first single "Woah Billy". That feeling seems to hang in the air everywhere. Later in the song, Howard sings, "I think my time is running out / I'm ticking". A couple songs later is "Up in Flames", one of the album's catchiest songs, which asks the musical question, "Whatcha gonna do when it all goes up in flames?"
Song after song presents bright sound, while the band contemplates a scenario where everything around them is collapsing. The words used to describe this condition are specific and creative enough to be chilling, even while the music is taking us higher. A sample from across the album: "Got a long hard summer to live through" ("That's When Trouble Begins"); "A shadow on my soul / So hard to lose" ("Southern Melancholy"); "The sound of breaking glass / Breaking in my chest" ("Ain't Nothin' Like a Shame")."
Lucky Soul aren't just using one simple happy music/sad lyrics trick, though. The most high-energetic pop tracks use strings, horns, handclaps, and backing vocals in careful and effective ways. The arrangements are full of nuance, of places where sadness and sweetness are entwined. They're playing the same buoyant pop-soul as on their debut, but they push it in different places, towards gospel ("Love 3"), disco ("Woah Billy!"), or a Booker T-like soul groove ("Ain't Nothin' Like a Shame"). The title song gets surprisingly dense, nearing some kind of art-rock place that you would never imagine the band entering.
The ballads "Warm Water", "Southern Melancholy", and "Upon Hilly Fields" represent that continual search to find sweetness within sadness, feeling within emptiness. "Upon Hilly Fields" is an elegant stroll, a gem built of sorrow. It ends on a hopeful note, sort of. It feels like hope, but at the same time has an element of terror to it, as our protagonist reveals that despite the heaviness of heartbreak, the pain she felt wash over every core of her being, she would do it all over again in a heartbeat. That's the story of love; it's an unavoidable instinct, even when you know you'll be crushed. The song conveys that beautifully.
The genius of A Coming of Age lies in that capacity to communicate in the same moment the pain and the beauty of love -- meaning, essentially, the pain and beauty of human existence itself. They do it within the well-established framework of uplifting, emotionally moving pop songs that you will sing and dance and hum along to as you go about that messy business of living.
Carmen Villain's 'Both Lines Will Be Blue' Explores Andean Melodies Through Ambient Dub
Carmen Villain's latest album Both Lines Will Be Blue veers hard from her last two albums, trading her psychedelic roots for spacious ambient dub.
Hans Kim
With the music inspired by Roy Orbison and visuals influenced by French cinema, "I Only See You" spotlights Janet LaBelle's abilities as a powerhouse vocalist.
Punk and pop energy collide in the new infectious single "Leeches" from New Jersey duo 18th & Addison.
Warming Up to Melody: An Interview with Film/TV Score Composer Cliff Martinez
Film/TV score composer Cliff Martinez talks with PopMatters about his work with Steven Soderbergh, Harmony Korine, and Nicolas Winding Refn, whose new series Too Old to Die Young features one of Martinez's most ambitious scores to date.
Thomas Britt
All but One Speak up in Julia Alvarez's ¡Yo!
In a new edition to the sequel to How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, ¡Yo!, Julia Alvarez structures the story of a writer and her voice by allowing everybody but the writer herself to have a voice.
Christopher John Stephens
Erasure's Vince Clarke amplifies the groove of Fujiya & Miyagi's "Fear of Missing Out" and steers it to the heart of the dancefloor.
The Mariachi Ghost announce their new album, Puro Dolor, as dark theater unfurls between living piñatas in their new music video for "Cuerpo Mortal".
Will Beeley Is Back in Town with 'Highways & Heart Attacks'
Texas singer-songwriter Will Beeley drifted away from making music, but he's back to tell stories on Highways & Heart Attacks, his first album in 40 years.
Rich Wilhelm
David Mamet Lampoons Harvey Weinstein to No Effect in 'Bitter Wheat'
By staging a thinly veiled version of Harvey Weinstein – played by John Malkovich in a fat suit – David Mamet aims for controversy in Bitter Wheat.
Brice Ezell
Slowdive's Rachel Goswell Partners with Her Husband for New Project the Soft Cavalry
Another post-reunion project for Slowdive's Rachel Goswell. In collaborator Steve Clarke she has discovered a talented songwriter and married him, no less.
Linda May Han Oh Highlight Her Many Musical Talents on 'Aventurine'
Jazz bassist Linda May Han Oh adds a string quartet to her group to produce something wholly integrated on Aventurine.
Will Layman
Electro-Worldbeat's Azam Ali Shares Mesmering Video for "Phantoms" Ahead of New LP (premiere)
Hustle and Drone Take Pop in a Dark Direction Via "Stranger" (premiere)
FYKE's "Antisocial" Highlights Social Anxiety Disorder (premiere)
Dirt Poor Robins Revel in Cinematic Fatalistic Glory on "Scarecrows" (premiere)


I did the National Geographic DNA test - which is a "remote ancestry" test. Basically I found out that my X chromosome is fairly rare and is most common in Poland (and uncommon there). Also that I have about half the "usual" amount of Neanderthal DNA. I did the Ancestry DNA test because I have been a member of that website for quite a few years. The result that I have ancestors from nearly all of Europe was not a surprise, but that I am supposedly 31 % Irish was. I am almost exactly 1/8th Scandinavian, which makes sense because one of my great grandfathers came from Sweden. What I didn't expect was that supposedly I am 6 % Italian/Greek. But there is a family tradition that my while my Rippetoe line came to America from France, the family was ultimately of Italian origin. Also it is possilbe that my German DeFroehn line was orginially from the village of Frain in eastern France. The one very good result of the Ancestry test, is that it is now proven that Miles Mark was a son of William Mark. This had been a matter of debate/dispute for at least 30 years. So far the Ancestry DNA test has not helped with any of my "brick walls": Eggleston, Mark or Purnell lines. It has been claimed that the Eggleston family is the most researched family in America, except for my part of the family! The three surviving children of William Mark gave the following on the 1880 federal census as the birthplace of their father: England, Connecticut and New York! Several different Purnell families immigrated to Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania in colonial times.


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Marrying Data And Creativity
by	Ronan Shields on	14th Aug 2014	in	News
The 'data crunchers' and 'creatives' have historically been on polar opposite ends of the advertising industry spectrum, but as the digital era advances to a chapter marked 'big data' this is starting to change, as ad agencies more commonly associated with Cannes Lions than ATS London start to change tack.
The media industry is going through an era of unparalleled change as digital, and data (particularly 'big data') become must-haves to been seen as fit for purpose, and creative agencies have proved no exception.
It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to describe the pairing of the two as an odd match. Only last year Bartle Bogle Hegarty founder Sir John Hegarty (the guy behind all of those iconic Levi's commercials) bemoaned of a "creative deficit", due to an over-reliance on modern technology.
This is just one example of may 'traditional creatives' harking back to an era when they were simply entrusted to come up with 'the big idea', the theory being that data-led advertising is just not conducive to creativity.
But this is not the prevailing sentiment, as forward-thinking agencies are using programmatic technologies and data analysis to deliver improved real time ad campaigns, including informing the creative process.
Is data and tech fuelling a creative deficit?
Agencies that have built their reputations based on their creative output are starting to use data and analysis at the very core of their campaigns, and in some cases setting up entirely new divisions to ensure the marriage between data and creativity are firmly embedded.
Dylan Mouratsing, Manning Gottlieb OMD, Evidence Director, says the attitude of data and creativity being like oil and water, are fast becoming outdated.
"Mad Men-style unilateral decisions, based on little more than a focus group of one, have largely been consigned to history. One common misconception is that use of evidence straightjackets creativity," he says.
"This is something traditionalists struggle with, and it's a process of education to get away from that. One of our central beliefs is that using the body of data that's available on a given project doesn't lead to less creativity, but actually creates a more fertile ground for original work."
Another outfit with a similar mindset is Iris London, which has a unit within its fold called Iris Concise, which took to the stage at this year's Cannes Lions conference to imbue delegates over the use of data in the creative process.
Data as stimulus
Ben Essen, Iris, head of planning, says: "The idea of data and creativity has been around for a while. We've found that the best insights come from data analysis, and you can go and create an output from there."
Damian Glover, Iris Concise, director, says: "We have a team of data analysts and strategists that work with the rest of the teams. They help with mining clients' data to try and identify new target customers, and make the financial case for the brief."
Both Essen and Glover agree that data-led thinking is key to coming up with effective creative. "Data can help you ask a whole new questions, from there you can go on and create groundbreaking work," says Essen. "It's part of the new creative skill set."
"When we find what areas to focus on, then we can let the creative minds get involved," adds Glover.
Manning Gottlieb's Mouratsing agrees, adding that it is difficult to think of one area of advertising and marketing that is not affected by data-driven decision making.
"Idea generation is better with stimulus, and if we can, for instance, use social buzz monitoring to understand potential buyer's opinions, motivations and behaviours, this can only be a good thing. This complements tried-and-tested approaches, like popping out for a mystery shopping trip, or meeting the consumer face-to-face in a focus group session," he says.
"Further along the creative process, the right type of testing can validate, develop and hone work to make it even better before it reaches the public."
Ciaran McConaghy, Fabric, marketing solutions director, explains that much of his company's work now involves helping with the creative process.
"A lot of times we're asked to look at things like whether or not a creative asset is effective, and if the client needs to invest in a new one, or maybe even to utilise existing ones in a different way. For smaller clients [with less budget] this is important"
Mouratsing adds that such testing is important, especially when budgets are becoming ever-more squeezed. He says: "In-campaign, clients are seeing the benefits of dynamic creative optimisation and multi-variant testing, to fine-tune work and ensure we don't squander budgets with inefficient creative.
"For instance, we know that split testing different taglines in a live scenario is a far more efficient way of deciding effectiveness than spending hours trying to pre-empt the market."
All parties consulted agree that this use of data also helps increase clients (who ultimately say 'yes' or 'no' to a campaign) to sign off on their ideas.
'Ideas' still have a place
Essen says: "Clients love evidence and proof, and data makes it easier for a client to buy the idea. It's no proof that it will work, because creativity always requires some sort of leap of faith. When you're creating something new, an element of that is always required."
Mouratsing explains: "A data-led approach is by its nature more transparent than following a number of creative leaps from concept through to delivery. If we've done our jobs properly this should make the solution we've arrived at self-evident as being the right approach.
"This approach works best when the client can trace a clear line from what the data told us, through to the strategic interpretation, and right into the implications for how the brand should behave in the marketplace."
However, Mouratsing also says that data alone does not guarantee a successful campaign; intuition and a flair for a 'good idea' still have a place.
"There is still room for some creative ideas to stand alone, where adequate evidence is impossible or impractical to gather," he says.
"The takeover of the OXO Tower for PlayStation [one of Manning Gottlieb's clients] is a good example of this, when the London icon was changed to represent the PlayStation symbols for the PS4 launch.
"The press and social media impact of it was huge, but going into it there was very little objective way of quantifying the potential impact compared to, say, a paid search campaign. This is when it is important to understand the limitations of the body of data, for all stakeholders to innovate, and then learn from the experimentation in as many ways as possible."
Resistance?
So are such progressive attitudes towards injecting the traditional creative process with data widely held, or are the nay-sayers like Sir John Hegarty still in control of the average creative department?
"I've heard of more hold-outs among other businesses, though, where some hold on to their way of working without data to support them," says Mouratsing.
"This may have served them brilliantly well for years or even decades. I see this as a failure to recognise a massive opportunity, arising from the new context in which we work."
If such ideas can be more widespread, we will see the narrative on programmatic move away from just 'bottom of the funnel' retargeting, and into more nuanced strategies around real-time branding, further channelling more spend into the coffers of ad tech.
This topic will be debated at ATS London where panelists from ad agencies DigitasLBi, Neo@Ogilvy and Essence will offer their insights.
TagsAdvertiserAgencyAnalyticsBrandingCreativeDataTargeting


text:
Huge Open Day for World-Class Residential Aged Care Home
November 23, 2017 By editor
More than 1,000 people enjoyed the open day at Southern Cross Care last Saturday when its new world-class home was officially opened. "It was really terrific support from the community and great to see families and young people come along," said Marketing Manager Sean Wilson.
A new 62-bed world-class residential aged care home, designed by Architects Johannsen & Associates from Sydney, has been developed at a cost of $22 million in Parkes. The new facility, accommodating over 200 seniors, has almost doubled its capacity from when it first started in 1992.
Setting a new benchmark for a regional aged care facility, it has been conceived as a rural village and was designed around landscaped courtyards and connected by walkways and verandas.
The complex also has a chapel, community hall and cafe to help generate a focus meeting place for residents and visitors. Chief Executive Paul McMahon said: "Our vision was to provide Parkes and the Central West with a residential care home akin to the best you'll find in a major city. A further drawcard will be the new Home Care
office offering a range of activities and services aimed at customers who want to get involved within our community, while still living independently at home".
At the open day a festive atmosphere prevailed as young and old enjoyed a variety of activities on offer throughout the day.


BONDRE Microfiber Multi-purposes Towels Set has 2 pieces of kitchen towels. They can be used in different ways as kitchen washcloths-- wash the table wares with less detergent, as washroom towel--dry the moisture quickly, as dining room cleanging towels-- to clean the tables and furniture, as facial exfoliationg beauty towels -- gentle remove the makeup and cleanse the skin, as Car Drying Towels - clean the cars and polish automatically... It help you complete daily house cleaning in less time. The towel is clean without lint, fast dry after wash, therefore will not be mouldy after long time use.
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America wants to stay neutral and wants to avoid the war.
Most Americans supported these Acts because they did not want to get involved in the war and the acts would help them not get involved and help them not look like they are taking sides.
I think we should join this war because Hitler had some bad war plans and if we join then we can get rid of them all.
U.S wanted to avoid being pulled into another foreign war. Isolationists worked hard to pass measures to keep the U.S out of the conflict.
Military Buildup: congress approved increased military spending. september 1940 congress passed a law that set up the first peacetime draft.
Atlantic Charter: Roosevelt and churchill set up goals for post war world. 1) GB and US will seek no territorial gain after war. 2) all people have the right to choose there own government.3) create new organization to replace failed League Of Nations. ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR!!!!!!!


text:
package interactions

import (
	"closest-reporting-manager/display"
	"closest-reporting-manager/models"
	"fmt"
)

func Menu(org models.Org) {
	for {
		display.ClearScreen()

		display.Inform(fmt.Sprintf("Org hierarchy for : %s", org.Name))

		org.PrintLevels()

		display.ShowMenu([]string{
			"\tTo add a person to the org, PRESS 1",
			"\tTo find closest reporting manager, PRESS 2",
			"\tTo find closest reporting manager, PRESS e",
		})

		option := display.GetChar()

		if string(option) == "1" {
			AddEmployee(org)
		}

		if string(option) == "2" {
			FindClosestManager(org)
		}

		if string(option) == "e" {
			return
		}
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Oklahoma contains fourteen schools that offer medical informatics programs. Texas Tech University, the highest-ranking medical informatics school in OK,	has a total student population of 30,049 and is the 150th	highest ranked school in America.
Of the 14 medical informatics schools in Oklahoma, only 7	have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Washington University in St Louis comes out as the most expensive ($28,951/yr), with Missouri Southern State University as the lowest recorded at only $8,461/yr.
Medical Informatics students from Oklahoma schools who go on to become medical informatics specialists, medical assistants, medical billing specialists, medical secretaries, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 170,580 people working as medical records and health information technicians alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $33,880.
Also, within the medical informatics schools in Oklahoma, the average student population is 1,754	and average student-to-faculty ratio is 15 to 1. Aside from medical informatics, there are 4305 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,424	people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,600, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.


text:
import copy
from collections import deque
from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
from typing import Dict, List, Optional, TypeVar, Union

from ray.util.annotations import Deprecated

T = TypeVar("T")

@Deprecated
def merge_dicts(d1: dict, d2: dict) -> dict:
    """
    Args:
        d1 (dict): Dict 1.
        d2 (dict): Dict 2.

    Returns:
         dict: A new dict that is d1 and d2 deep merged.
    """
    merged = copy.deepcopy(d1)
    deep_update(merged, d2, True, [])
    return merged

@Deprecated
def deep_update(
    original: dict,
    new_dict: dict,
    new_keys_allowed: bool = False,
    allow_new_subkey_list: Optional[List[str]] = None,
    override_all_if_type_changes: Optional[List[str]] = None,
    override_all_key_list: Optional[List[str]] = None,
) -> dict:
    """Updates original dict with values from new_dict recursively.

    If new key is introduced in new_dict, then if new_keys_allowed is not
    True, an error will be thrown. Further, for sub-dicts, if the key is
    in the allow_new_subkey_list, then new subkeys can be introduced.

    Args:
        original: Dictionary with default values.
        new_dict: Dictionary with values to be updated
        new_keys_allowed: Whether new keys are allowed.
        allow_new_subkey_list: List of keys that
            correspond to dict values where new subkeys can be introduced.
            This is only at the top level.
        override_all_if_type_changes: List of top level
            keys with value=dict, for which we always simply override the
            entire value (dict), iff the "type" key in that value dict changes.
        override_all_key_list: List of top level keys
            for which we override the entire value if the key is in the new_dict.
    """
    allow_new_subkey_list = allow_new_subkey_list or []
    override_all_if_type_changes = override_all_if_type_changes or []
    override_all_key_list = override_all_key_list or []

    for k, value in new_dict.items():
        if k not in original and not new_keys_allowed:
            raise Exception("Unknown config parameter `{}` ".format(k))

        # Both orginal value and new one are dicts.
        if (
            isinstance(original.get(k), dict)
            and isinstance(value, dict)
            and k not in override_all_key_list
        ):
            # Check old type vs old one. If different, override entire value.
            if (
                k in override_all_if_type_changes
                and "type" in value
                and "type" in original[k]
                and value["type"] != original[k]["type"]
            ):
                original[k] = value
            # Allowed key -> ok to add new subkeys.
            elif k in allow_new_subkey_list:
                deep_update(
                    original[k],
                    value,
                    True,
                    override_all_key_list=override_all_key_list,
                )
            # Non-allowed key.
            else:
                deep_update(
                    original[k],
                    value,
                    new_keys_allowed,
                    override_all_key_list=override_all_key_list,
                )
        # Original value not a dict OR new value not a dict:
        # Override entire value.
        else:
            original[k] = value
    return original

@Deprecated
def flatten_dict(
    dt: Dict,
    delimiter: str = "/",
    prevent_delimiter: bool = False,
    flatten_list: bool = False,
):
    """Flatten dict.

    Output and input are of the same dict type.
    Input dict remains the same after the operation.
    """

    def _raise_delimiter_exception():
        raise ValueError(
            f"Found delimiter `{delimiter}` in key when trying to flatten "
            f"array. Please avoid using the delimiter in your specification."
        )

    dt = copy.copy(dt)
    if prevent_delimiter and any(delimiter in key for key in dt):
        # Raise if delimiter is any of the keys
        _raise_delimiter_exception()

    while_check = (dict, list) if flatten_list else dict

    while any(isinstance(v, while_check) for v in dt.values()):
        remove = []
        add = {}
        for key, value in dt.items():
            if isinstance(value, dict):
                for subkey, v in value.items():
                    if prevent_delimiter and delimiter in subkey:
                        # Raise if delimiter is in any of the subkeys
                        _raise_delimiter_exception()

                    add[delimiter.join([key, str(subkey)])] = v
                remove.append(key)
            elif flatten_list and isinstance(value, list):
                for i, v in enumerate(value):
                    if prevent_delimiter and delimiter in subkey:
                        # Raise if delimiter is in any of the subkeys
                        _raise_delimiter_exception()

                    add[delimiter.join([key, str(i)])] = v
                remove.append(key)

        dt.update(add)
        for k in remove:
            del dt[k]
    return dt

@Deprecated
def unflatten_dict(dt: Dict[str, T], delimiter: str = "/") -> Dict[str, T]:
    """Unflatten dict. Does not support unflattening lists."""
    dict_type = type(dt)
    out = dict_type()
    for key, val in dt.items():
        path = key.split(delimiter)
        item = out
        for k in path[:-1]:
            item = item.setdefault(k, dict_type())
            if not isinstance(item, dict_type):
                raise TypeError(
                    f"Cannot unflatten dict due the key '{key}' "
                    f"having a parent key '{k}', which value is not "
                    f"of type {dict_type} (got {type(item)}). "
                    "Change the key names to resolve the conflict."
                )
        item[path[-1]] = val
    return out

@Deprecated
def unflatten_list_dict(dt: Dict[str, T], delimiter: str = "/") -> Dict[str, T]:
    """Unflatten nested dict and list.

    This function now has some limitations:
    (1) The keys of dt must be str.
    (2) If unflattened dt (the result) contains list, the index order must be
        ascending when accessing dt. Otherwise, this function will throw
        AssertionError.
    (3) The unflattened dt (the result) shouldn't contain dict with number
        keys.

    Be careful to use this function. If you want to improve this function,
    please also improve the unit test. See #14487 for more details.

    Args:
        dt: Flattened dictionary that is originally nested by multiple
            list and dict.
        delimiter: Delimiter of keys.

    Example:
        >>> dt = {"aaa/0/bb": 12, "aaa/1/cc": 56, "aaa/1/dd": 92}
        >>> unflatten_list_dict(dt)
        {'aaa': [{'bb': 12}, {'cc': 56, 'dd': 92}]}
    """
    out_type = list if list(dt)[0].split(delimiter, 1)[0].isdigit() else type(dt)
    out = out_type()
    for key, val in dt.items():
        path = key.split(delimiter)

        item = out
        for i, k in enumerate(path[:-1]):
            next_type = list if path[i + 1].isdigit() else dict
            if isinstance(item, dict):
                item = item.setdefault(k, next_type())
            elif isinstance(item, list):
                if int(k) >= len(item):
                    item.append(next_type())
                    assert int(k) == len(item) - 1
                item = item[int(k)]

        if isinstance(item, dict):
            item[path[-1]] = val
        elif isinstance(item, list):
            item.append(val)
            assert int(path[-1]) == len(item) - 1
    return out

@Deprecated
def unflattened_lookup(
    flat_key: str, lookup: Union[Mapping, Sequence], delimiter: str = "/", **kwargs
) -> Union[Mapping, Sequence]:
    """
    Unflatten `flat_key` and iteratively look up in `lookup`. E.g.
    `flat_key="a/0/b"` will try to return `lookup["a"][0]["b"]`.
    """
    if flat_key in lookup:
        return lookup[flat_key]
    keys = deque(flat_key.split(delimiter))
    base = lookup
    while keys:
        key = keys.popleft()
        try:
            if isinstance(base, Mapping):
                base = base[key]
            elif isinstance(base, Sequence):
                base = base[int(key)]
            else:
                raise KeyError()
        except KeyError as e:
            if "default" in kwargs:
                return kwargs["default"]
            raise e
    return base


March's student of the month is Brighton illustration 3rd year, Katie Scott. Her project exploring biological hybridisation caught our eye with its fantastical anatomy and Haeckel-esque curiosity. The A2 images will make their way into a large scale book and though inevitably finding themselves processed some way digitally with scanned watercolour swatches etc, the infinitesimal adjustments of hues and tones like a painter mixing colour, means her process could never be repeated twice. And the effect is quite beautiful.
At the time of making/creating this project, who or what was your biggest influence?
There was one blog that I can't find now, which had the most amazing Edo-period Japanese medical illustration. They're not fantasy but the style is beautiful.
What is the most valuable thing you have learnt at university to date?
To work bigger. And use colour. Two things I was terrified of before coming to university.
What would you be doing now if you weren't at Art School?
I guess I may have tried to peruse some art based career, probably unsuccessfully. I don't like to think about it.
Where are you making/creating most of your work?
At home mostly, I don't need a lot of space and I have a nice set up there. When I can I try to use the studio at university, while I still have it.
I just finished my exam project: a catalogue of flora and fauna from Jules Verne's novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Next I'd like to look into the reproduction habits of mythical monsters. But it's degree show set up in 6 weeks, so soon that will be taking over.


REI hosts two new festivals on the East Coast celebrating women and the outdoors through live music, speakers, recreation, and more.
Taking place in Washington D.C. and Shakori Hills, North Carolina, these special one-day events consist of star-studded musical lineups, activities, and classes focused on connecting women with the outdoors. While the events are focused on the awesomeness of women, all are invited to partake in the festivities. Today REI announced the official lineups for the two events.
The D.C. event will be held on Saturday, September 29, in Patuxent River Park at Jug Bay. Best Coast is headlining along with performances by Brazilian Girls, Seratones, Lucy Dacus, Oshun, Bat Fangs, Palehound, and Bibi McGill. Unique to this event, go paddling on the Jug Bay with REI's DC Outdoor School. There is no camping available at this event.
Located at the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center in North Carolina, the event takes place on Saturday, Oct. 20. Headlining the show are Mavis Staples and Best Coast, with additional performances by Seratones, Bat Fangs, Mary Lambert, Bibi McGill, H.C. McEntire, and S.E. Ward. There will be limited camping available for attendees as well.
Both festivals open at 10 a.m. with each event hosting local vendors, food trucks, and alcohol sold at select tents.
Attendees can participate in yoga sessions, rock climbing, paddling, a 5K run, and Firestarter Sessions. These sessions include classes on camp cooking, urban outdoor essentials, wilderness survival, iPhone Photography, and more. Paddling and rock climbing activities will be lead by female instructors from the REI Outdoor School in addition to classes led by brand partners.
Partners include Black Diamond, Garmin, Hydro Flask, Leatherman, Lorissa's Kitchen, Maui Jim, Merrell, OluKai, Osprey, RXBAR, Salomon, Sea to Summit, Smartwool, and Subaru of America.
Along with their set schedule of activities and classes, there will be surprise events to discover throughout the day. After finishing your 5k or rock climbing session, they will have a hammock zone for relaxing.
Attendees will have to fill out a waiver before participating in any outdoor activities.
Announced in 2017, Force of Nature is a program focused on creating more access to the outdoors for women. Through hosting 1,000s of classes and experiences nationwide, they are looking to make the outdoors a level playing field.
For tickets and more information, check out the Outessafest website. Children 12 and under will be admitted free of charge.


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Q: Back button prevents page from authorizing user? In my MVC 4 application, I am using a BaseController to execute a few processes whenever any of my other controllers get hit, one of which is checking if a user is logged in or not.
I've noticed that this is a common issue across design patterns, frameworks, what-have-you. Sadly, I could not find a solution.
Let's keep this short and sweet: how can we prevent the back button from allowing unauthorized access to my MVC 4 pages?

A: One possible issue is the page being in browser cache. Consider adding some anti caching code to the page initialization.
 Response.Cache.SetCacheability(System.Web.HttpCacheability.NoCache);
 Response.Cache.SetNoStore();

Here is are some other questions with some implementation options.
Disable browser cache for entire ASP.NET website
How do I add site-wide no-cache headers to an MVC 3 app

A: You should try this:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/2969537/957921
Is about adding an Attribute to the Action Methods to avoid browser cache.

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Яначе́к — ударный кратер на планете Меркурий. Его диаметр составляет около 47 километров. Такое название для кратера выбрано Международным Астрономическим Союзом в 1985-м году. Яначек — имя чешского композитора Леоша Яначека, который жил в 1854—1928 годах.

Предполагается, что американская автоматическая межпланетная станция Мессенджер разбилась о поверхность Меркурия на координатах 54,4° N 149,9° W, около кратера Яначек 30 апреля 2015 года.

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Fortify The Health of the Newborn Calf.
When the first pregnant cow displays signs of labor early in calving season, it is too late to match the proper sire with the cow herd or vaccinate with a scour prevention vaccine. Hopefully these important management decisions including proper health and conditioning, a dedicated routine of cleanliness, hygiene, proper record keeping, and the first crucial feeding of a quality colostrum have been put in place helping to propel the good health of the calf through the first stage of its life.
Preventing disease is always the best way to disrupt its negative potential so along with these management practices, vaccinations and other preventative measures delivered shortly after birth should be considered. There is no "one size fits all" plan. Each program could contain numerous options of vaccinations, shots, pastes, and disinfectants but most importantly must be tailored to not only the herd's specific needs but also fit the area of the country and the existing climate and conditions that come with it. Standard fare could include a vitamin shot, a multi-mineral treatment usually including selenium for white muscle disease prevention, castration, dehorning, navel dip and a clostridial vaccine with or without tetanus depending on whether castration is also being completed. Clostridial bacteria prevention products are necessary for use in newborns due to their presence in all conditions with routine interaction between calves and the environment causing these spores to enter the gut and bloodstream.
When considering vaccines, common thinking is fractured. It is a fact that for over 200 years vaccines have benefitted both human and animal life and with each advancing year new technology and research make vaccination programs even better. In today's world that scrutinizes agricultural processes, we need to be committed to finding the best possible vaccine use practices and not just carry on decades old routines without inspecting their usefulness.
Very young calves have an immature set of immune cells and organs and conventional thinking is that those with proper maternal antibodies throughout their system derived from adequate doses of quality colostrum will likely not respond to vaccines and if they do, it will be a weaker, more short-term response. Lately, some of the drug manufacturers have begun to market more intranasal vaccines for respiratory diseases that target the newborn calf. These may be superior to injectable vaccines for young calves with maternal antibodies present, but more research is needed.
The choice of products to deliver to newborn calves is complicated and not only depends on where you live, but where you calve, what your cows are vaccinated with, what you feed, what types of supplements you use, and what is the prevalence of disease in your herd. It is extremely important to work with a veterinarian to make a usable plan that will be effective and relevant to your calf crop.
No matter where you live an environmental based infection of the navel and umbilical cord can enter the calf's body and bloodstream shortly after birth. Excessive bleeding, odor and pus, pain and swelling can cause a devastating condition ending in death if left untreated. The simple use of an inexpensive correctly rated iodine solution dip can help keep the newborn free of this infection.
In a perfect world, calves would be castrated and dehorned as soon as possible after consuming their fill of good quality colostrum. Studies show that the impact to the calf is much less when these processes are completed within the first 24 hours of life and combined with the ease of handling a newborn in comparison to an older calf, this is the most efficient and humane time for this task.
The Agriculture and Food Development Authority states that the success of the finished animal is greatly determined by the quality and management of the newborn. It has also been proven that 50% of calf mortality during the first year occurs within the first six weeks of life. Since the main source of income for ranchers and farmers is generally their calf crop, working to establish a proper health plan with a credible veterinarian who knows their operation and the challenges they face, can greatly increase the chances of realizing the full potential of this important process.


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A fresh edition of Newsmakers, a Radio One Personality Interview, takes the air today at exactly five minutes past one o clock in the afternoon. Featuring as guest is former Rector of the Lagos State Polytechnic and the pioneer Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Board for Vocational and Technical Education, Chief Olawunmi Gasper MNI. […]
SEAFARERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDS STANDARDIZATION OF ENGAGEMENT
A workable Maritime Policy and re-establishment of a National Shipping Line, have been recommended as immediate actions that will revamp the Nigerian Merchant Navy, which is considered a critical driver of the Maritime Industry. President of the Merchant Seafarers Association of Nigeria, Retired Navy Captain Abel Ogah, who gave the recommendations at the Maiden Sailors […]
JULIUS BERGER RESTATES COMMITMENT TO TIMELY COMPLETION OF LAGOS – SAGAMU EXPRESSWAY
Users of the Lagos – Sagamu stretch of the Lagos – Ibadan Expressway, have again been assured that the expansion project would be delivered by the stipulated time. Executive Director of Administration of official handler of the federal road, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, Alhaji Zubairu Ibrahim – Bayi, gave the assurance at a media parley […]
Migration Media Charter Unveiled At IOM Summit In Tunisia
A media guide for journalists and other people working on migrant policy has been unveiled at International Migration Summit organised by International Organization For Migration (IOM) in Tunisia on Tuesday. The charter contained guide and terminologies developed to appropriately capture the description of migrants and their situations in the eye of the media. Media practitioners […]
NIDCOM HAILS ANTHONY JOSHUA
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, has congratulated Nigerian-born boxer, Anthony Oluwafemi-Joshua, for his victory against Andy Ruiz Jr in Saturday's World Heavyweight Boxing fight in Saudi Arabia, thus reclaiming his World Heavyweight titles. Chairman/CEO of NIDCOM, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa gave the commendation in a statement by the Head of Media and Public Relations, Mr […]
DSS UNCOVERS PLOT TO DESTABILIZE NIGERIA
The Department of State Services (DSS)says it has uncovered syndicated plots by some undesirable groups to cause a breakdown of law and order in various parts of the country including Abuja. According to a statement by the DSS Public Relations Officer, Mr Peter Afunanya, the arrangement is to instigate protests, mass action and violence with […]
VETERAN PHOTO – JOURNALIST, SUNMI SMART – COLE EXHIBITS WORKS OF FOUR DECADES.
It was an outpour of emotions and reunion as families, friends and admirers of renowned photo – journalist, Mr Sunmi Smart – Cole converged at the Terra Kulture, Victoria Island, Lagos for the exhibition of his photographs and latest book, Sunmi's Lens. The roll call had lovers of Arts, including former Ambassador of Nigeria to […]
Mile 2 , Alaba Suru, Kirikiri is no go area for now ! Area boys are fighting. Two persons already confirmed dead.
Federal Lawmaker Moves To Redeem Campaign Promise on Upgrade of Mushin – Isolo road.
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Lagos APC Lauds Sanwoolu Over N35,000 Minimum Wage
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress(APC)has commended Governor. Babajide Sanwoolu for approving N35,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the state. The party gave the commendation through its Assistant Publicity Secretary, Mr Abiodun Salami. It said the approval of the new wage by the governor had confirmed that the APC […]
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Q: 5 Likert Scale and Normal Distribution prior to parametric testing I have data from a 5 point Likert scale item which approximately 1/4 of the responses only account for 1 through 4 of the 1 through 5 available.
Do I have to  standardize the min/max response categories that is reported in SPSS descriptives for output or will creating z-scores be sufficient?
The variables have differing degrees of distributions due to this and the transform functions (e.g., SQRT, LG10) have not solved my problem. My sample (N=162) is the first part of a test/retest for instrument reliability. I have run all the processes thinking that what looked normal and based on criterion (2 or 3 times the SD is sufficient to estimate skewness to identify 'normal distribution' regardless of visual).
I'm at the point of frustration and exhaustion...any expert advice?

A: A test of significance on "normality" is often very uninformative. With large samples
these tests almost always reject the hypothesis that sample data are from a normally
distributed population, but often the degree of non-normality is only small and has
no impact on the reliability of the statistcal analyses. Graphic methods such as q-q-
plots are often more useful.
Moreover, if you perform analyses such as regression, ANOVA, t-test, then the
normality of the variables is uninteresting. Instead, you would have to inspect
the distribution of the residuals (prediction errors).
Even more: if you want to perform analyses such as regression, ANOVA, t-test,
then with such a large sample size as yours, even a normal distribution of the
residuals doesn't matter much.


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Der Mercedes Cup 2001 war ein Tennisturnier, welches vom 16. bis 22. Juli 2001 in Stuttgart stattfand. Es war Teil der ATP Tour 2001 und wurde im Freien auf Sandplatz ausgetragen. In derselben Woche wurden in Amsterdam die Energis Open und in Umag die Croatia Open gespielt, welche anders als der Mercedes Cup, der zur ATP International Series Gold zählte, nur zur Kategorie der ATP International Series gehörten.

Titelverteidiger der Einzelkonkurrenz war der Argentinier Franco Squillari, der in diesem Jahr an sechs gesetzt im Achtelfinale gegen den späteren Finalisten Guillermo Cañas scheiterte. Cañas verlor wiederum dort dem Setzlistenersten Gustavo Kuerten glatt in drei Sätzen. Nach 1998 war es der zweite Titel für ihn in Stuttgart und der 15. seiner Karriere.
Im Doppel siegte die mit einer Wildcard gestartete Paarung aus Cañas und Rainer Schüttler das Turnier, indem sie sich im Finale gegen Michael Hill und Jeff Tarango durchsetzten. Sie traten damit die Nachfolge von Jiří Novák und David Rikl, die im Vorjahr gewannen. Die Titelverteidiger waren dieses Jahr topgesetzt, aber schieden schon im Achtelfinale aus.

Das Teilnehmerfeld der Einzelkonkurrenz bestand aus 48 Spielern, jenes der Doppelkonkurrenz aus 24 Paaren. Die acht am besten platzierten Spieler im Einzel sowie Paarungen im Doppel erhalten jeweils ein Freilos in der ersten Runde. Das Gesamtpreisgeld betrug 800.000 US-Dollar; die gesamten finanziellen Verbindlichkeiten lagen bei 700.000 US-Dollar.

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Untere Hälfte

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Weblinks und Quellen
 Turnierplan Einzel auf der ATP-Homepage (PDF)
 Turnierplan Doppel auf der ATP-Homepage (PDF)
 Turnierplan Einzelqualifikation auf der ATP-Homepage (PDF)

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Topic: Permanently Removing Objects from Simulation?
Topic: API Equivalent "Compute Mass and Inertia"
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Great - thanks for looking into this. Looking forward to the Beta.
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What Kind of Yemen?
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CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK
Two Countries Geographically Far Apart But Very Close in Heart and Soul: Yemen and Turkey
Yemen, But What Sort of Yemen?
The Problem of Poverty in Yemen and Regeneration
How To Ensure the National Unity of Yemen?
How Can Yemen Best Make Use of Its Natural Wealth?
Women's Place in Yemeni Society
The Lowest Common Denominators the Parties in Yemen Can Agree on
The Importance of Individual Rights and Freedoms in Yemen
Terror Is Again at the Top of Yemen's Agenda
The Corruption Eating Away at Yemen from the Inside
One of the Dozens of Problems Facing Yemen Is Immigration
Key to Democracy and Development in Yemen: Education
Countries Swamped by Debt and Interest
Political Life in Yemen
Why Is Military Spending Significant?
Houthis Are the Brothers of All Yemenis
Yemen Must Not Fall into the Trap of Identity Politics
The Protests in Yemen Should Not Turn into a Mass Frenzy
Mindsets Need To Change for A Permanent Peace in Yemen
What Can Be Done To Ensure Stability in Yemen?
Will the New Government in Yemen Bring Stability?
Yemen Doesn't Deserve To Be A Failed Country
The Problems of Yemen Can Be Solved When A Strong National Security Is Built
Military Operations Do Not Always Produce A Solution
Political Instability in Yemen Is Having a Damaging Effect on Children
Spirit of Unity a Must for Yemen's Political Transition
What Yemen Needs Is a Spirit of Union and Unity
Yemenis Must Be Friends, Not Enemies
There Is Still Hope for Peace and Democracy
The Struggle for Power Must Not Break Yemen Apart
Yemen Must Not Become a Trojan Horse on the Arabian Peninsula
Developments in Bahrain, Yemen and Other Islamic Countries
Must Not Be Allowed To Turn into A Sectarian Conflict
Is This the Will of Yemenis or the Global Powers?
Operation Decisive Storm Brings Not Stability But Death to Yemen
Turkey Asks for Peace in Yemen, Not War
Deaths Cannot Stop More People Being Killed
Yemen Needs Urgent Ceasefire
What Is Happening in Yemen Is No Longer a Political, but a Humanitarian Crisis
An International Model To Put an End to the Conflict
in the Islamic World Is Possible
A Lack of Quality Is Feeding the Conflicts in the Islamic World
Yemen: A Country That Nobody Sees and Nobody Hears
The Only Solution to the Tragedy in Yemen: The Reconstruction of Peace and Love
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What Yemen Reminds Us of
Until a few years ago, Yemen would remind a Turk of the folk song that is sang for the Turkish soldiers that were martyred there. Of course, it would also remind people of the coffee known in Europe as 'Turkish coffee' which, in fact, was brought to Istanbul from Yemen and whose reputation spread from there as far as Vienna. And for those who are even more familiar with Yemen, it would remind them of the Yemeni houses made of clay, mud and basalt, and the daggers Yemeni men invariably keep at their waists.
However, today Yemen only reminds people of civil war, suicide attacks, cities devastated by bombardment, hunger and poverty.
Upon reading the articles in this book, you will witness the ever-growing social and economic problems facing Yemen, and see that almost no solution or reconciliation efforts are made on the part of any of the parties. These articles serve as the images of a country that, step-by-step, seems to be heading for a catastrophe.
Each article tells us of a side of Yemen that is full of anguish and suffering. While reading these lines, you will witness how tribalism, discrimination against women, and the narcotic herb called 'khat' have devastated the country at one time or another, and you will have the opportunity to acquaint yourselves with genuine suggestions that will help alleviate this devastation.
Of course, these writings do not merely serve as a political or social analysis: Throughout the book, what happens in Yemen is analyzed based on the tenets of the Qur'an and effective and exact solutions are offered accordingly. The analysis does not adopt a tone that favors one tribe, political group or religious sect over another. On the contrary, the articles only offer solid and constructive advice that will contribute to the coexistence of the members of different sects and ideologies. By introducing a modern Islamic conception that values science, art and women, the articles discuss how such an approach will offer a remedy for the problems faced by Yemen.
One of our dearest wishes from Almighty God is the reign of peace over the entire world, and a peaceful and prosperous life for the Yemeni people as well as for all Muslims around the world as soon as possible. We do not want Yemen to remind us of suffering, conflict and dissension any more, but to remind us of a country that has achieved happiness, peace and solidarity within itself, and unity with all Muslims.
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Жорже де Ленкаштре (;  — ) — португальський інфант, герцог Коїмбрський (1495—1550). Магістр Ордену меченосців святого Якова й адміністратор Авіського ордену (1495—1550). Представник Авіської династії, засновник Ленкаштрівського дому. Народився в Абрантеші, Португалія. Позашлюбний син португальського короля Жуана ІІ від коханки Ани де Мендонси, служниці португальської королеви Хуани. Виховувався в Авейрівському монастирі Ісуса під керівництвом тітки-інфанти Жуани (до 1490). Згодом навчався при королівському дворі. Всупереч намаганням батька не зміг успадкувати португальський трон через своє походження. Став опонентом нового короля Мануела І та його сина Жуана ІІІ. Очолював політичну опозицію, так звану партію прагматиків, до якої входили Вашку да Гама, Франсішку де Алмейда та багато нових християн. Наполягав на фінансово-комерційній ролі експедицій до Індії, відкидаючи політично-місійну складову. Безуспішно намагався зберегти автономію своїх чернечо-лицарських орденів від втручання королівської влади. Одружився із Беатрисою де Вільєною (1500). Мав декількох дітей, серед який авейрівський герцог Жуан. Помер у своїй резиденції в Палмелі, Португалія. Похований у палмельській церкві святого Якова. Після його смерті король Жуан ІІІ скасував Коїмбрське герцогство.

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Джерела
 Livermore H.V. History of Portugal. Cambridge: University Press, 1947.
 Livermore H.V. A New History of Portugal. Cambridge: University Press, 1969.
 Oliveira, Ana Rodrigues. Rainhas medievais de Portugal. [S.l.]: A Esfera dos Livros, 2010.

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Португальські інфанти
Герцоги Коїмбрські
Авіська династія
Ленкаштри
Магістри Авіського ордену
Позашлюбні діти португальських королів


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The 1987–88 Soviet Championship League season was the 42nd season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Fourteen teams participated in the league, and CSKA Moscow won the championship.

First round

Final round

Playoffs

Relegation

External links
Season on hockeystars.ru

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Soviet League seasons
Soviet sport