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Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Pollution - Air, Water, Soil & E-waste
Every year as air pollution spikes in northern India around Diwali, the media is full of it. Various arms of the government and judiciary take notice and announce a flurry of activity. By February, the media attention disappears. It seems that nothing is achieved, pollution gets worse every year, and is not a solvable problem.
Actually, some progress has been made as a result of public and media attention and government actions, just not enough yet. And pollution is very much a solvable problem. It just cannot be solved on an emergency basis. It has to be dealt with firmly and gradually. If this is done, it can be brought down to developed-country levels within a few years.
Why gradually? Because there are many sources of pollution and it would be prohibitively costly to stop them or even significantly reduce them all at once (as the economic recession triggered by the pandemic and lockdowns has demonstrated). Although crop-burning and fireworks grab attention at this time of year, they are seasonal phenomena. The pollution during the entire winter and the lower but still deadly levels that persist through the summer are due to less seasonal sources. According to a comprehensive study by Chandra Venkataraman of IIT-Mumbai and other scientists, the biggest sources nationally are cooking fires, coal-fired power plants, various industries, crop residue burning, and construction and road dust. Vehicles are further down on the list. Cooking fires are the single largest source. Since particles diffuse with the air and are carried by winds, they do not stay in kitchens; they contribute to pollution throughout the country.
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Dealing with all these sources will require a gradual replacement of existing technologies with new technologies. Smoky firewood, dung and crop residues that are burnt in kitchens all over rural India and some urban slums must be replaced with LPG, induction stoves, and other electric cooking appliances. Old coal power plants must be closed and replaced with wind and solar power and batteries or other forms of energy storage, while newer plants must install new pollution control equipment. No new coal-fired power plants should be built — with renewables being cheaper, coal is obsolete for power generation. Other industries that use coal will have to gradually switch over to cleaner fuel sources such as gas or hydrogen while becoming more energy efficient at the same time. Farmers will have to switch crops or adopt alternative methods of residue management. Diesel and petrol vehicles must gradually be replaced by electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles running on power generated from renewables.
The problem is that investments in all these technological changes, although hugely beneficial for the country as a whole, are often not privately profitable at present. Businessmen, farmers, or even people deciding on their choice of cooking fuel, can't make their business or everyday decisions based on "national interest". The good news is it is easy for governments to make clean investments more profitable and dirty investments less profitable. All that needs to be done is to tax polluting activities and subsidise clean investments.
Our existing laws do not allow the central and state pollution boards to levy pollution fee or cess based on pollution emissions. Instead, they have to issue regulations, and then close down industries that don't comply. Since closing down an industry is a drastic step, it almost never happens.
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The judiciary is more powerful but has far less scientific and technical competence. It does not have even the few scientific and technical staff available to our under-funded pollution control boards — it has no capacity to conduct pollution monitoring or scientific studies or even evaluate the results. It tends to act only during crises and focus on past mistakes rather than planning to prevent new ones.
One great advantage of having a regulatory agency (let us call it an Environmental Protection Agency or EPA) that can levy pollution fee or cess, is that the regulatory decision need not be an all-or-nothing decision. Pollution fees can start small, and the EPA can announce that they will rise by a certain percentage every year. This gives businesses time to adjust — they will then find it profitable to make new investments in non-polluting technologies.
Fees should be levied where the production chain is most concentrated. For example, a fee on plastic production at refineries (refunded if plastic is recovered, that is, a fee on non recycled plastic), since it is very costly to monitor small producers and retailers of plastic bags; a fee on fly ash or sulphur dioxide emitted by coal power plants, and a fee on coal use (to cover small coal users whom it is not cost-effective to monitor individually), a fee on diesel at refineries (since it is not practical to monitor pollutants from individual vehicles and pumpsets), etc.
The EPA has to be given some independence — a head appointed for a five-year term removable only by impeachment, a guaranteed budget funded by a small percentage tax on all industries, and autonomy to hire staff and to set pollution fees after justification through scientific studies. Otherwise, its announcement of a gradually rising pollution fee will not be believed and won't spur investment in new clean technologies. The revenue from the fee should be paid to the government that can use it any way it likes, perhaps by paying it out to affected industries so that they can upgrade their technologies. EPA independence will mean that political lobbying by affected industries to stop pollution fees won't work. Instead, political lobbying will be diverted to getting a piece of the pollution fee revenue.
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A major attraction of an independent EPA for politicians in power is that they can pass on the blame for decisions on pollution fees to the EPA. A second major attraction is that pollution fees raise revenue for the government. If the law establishing an independent EPA is written to require that changes to pollution fees and regulations must be published in advance, and cannot involve abrupt changes, then nasty surprises are avoided and industry opposition will be muted, especially if industry gets a piece of the revenue to invest in new technologies.
The PM Ujjwala Yojna that increased LPG access has made a big difference to the pollution from cooking fires although there is still a long way to go. The BS-VI regulations will reduce vehicular pollution over the next decade. We need to create the institutions that will multiply these successes. Our pollution problem has taken decades to grow into the monster that it is. It can't be killed in a day. We need the scientific and technical capacity that only a securely funded independent EPA can bring to shrink pollution down to nothing.
This article first appeared in the print edition on November 16, 2020 under the title 'How to end pollution'. The writer is Professor, Economics and Planning Unit Head Centre for research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy, and Environment at the Indian Statistical Institute
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Q: Can't figure out error causing 'beanName' must not be empty in spring-batch job Could someone please take a look at this code and help me find out what is causing the error: 'beanName must not be empty.
I'm using Spring Tool Suite 3.3.0.
I am trying to write a small spring-batch job that does not persist the job stats or anything.  I just want to use spring framework.  This is not the entire job, but I'm having trouble getting past this problem.
This is my simple job with one step.  Where is the empty bean??
My spring-batch code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:batch="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-2.1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

    <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:batch.properties" />

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.mycompany.batch" />

    <bean id="transactionManager"
        class="org.springframework.batch.support.transaction.ResourcelessTransactionManager" />

    <bean id="jobRepository"
        class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.MapJobRepositoryFactoryBean">
        <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="jobLauncher"
        class="org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobLauncher">
        <property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository" />
    </bean>

    <!-- <import resource="classpath:/META-INF/spring/module-context.xml" /> -->

    <batch:job id="vendorGoalsJob" restartable="true">

        <batch:step id="checkStartFileExists">
            <batch:tasklet ref="startFileExistsTasklet" />
        </batch:step>

    </batch:job>

    <bean id="startFileExistsTasklet"
        class="com.mycompany.batch.domain.vendor.goal.StartFileExistsTasklet">
        <property name="path" value="${filepath}" />
        <property name="file" value="${filename}" />
    </bean>
</beans>

2013-09-06 10:12:56,214 INFO [org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext] - <Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext@67ac19: startup date [Fri Sep 06 10:12:56 CDT 2013]; root of context hierarchy>
2013-09-06 10:12:56,261 INFO [org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader] - <Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [launch-context.xml]>
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from class path resource [launch-context.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 'beanName' must not be empty
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:412)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:212)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:126)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:92)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:467)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:397)
    at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)
    at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83)
    at com.glazers.batch.domain.vendor.goal.VendorGoalLauncher.doit(VendorGoalLauncher.java:39)
    at com.glazers.batch.domain.vendor.goal.VendorGoalLauncher.main(VendorGoalLauncher.java:32)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 'beanName' must not be empty
    at org.springframework.util.Assert.hasText(Assert.java:162)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.config.RuntimeBeanReference.<init>(RuntimeBeanReference.java:58)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.config.RuntimeBeanReference.<init>(RuntimeBeanReference.java:46)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.xml.AbstractStepParser.setUpBeanDefinitionForTaskletStep(AbstractStepParser.java:155)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.xml.AbstractStepParser.parseTasklet(AbstractStepParser.java:133)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.xml.AbstractStepParser.parseStep(AbstractStepParser.java:85)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.xml.InlineStepParser.parse(InlineStepParser.java:59)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.xml.FlowParser.doParse(FlowParser.java:119)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser.parseInternal(AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser.java:85)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractBeanDefinitionParser.parse(AbstractBeanDefinitionParser.java:59)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.xml.JobParser.doParse(JobParser.java:95)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser.parseInternal(AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser.java:85)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractBeanDefinitionParser.parse(AbstractBeanDefinitionParser.java:59)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport.parse(NamespaceHandlerSupport.java:73)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1338)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1328)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:135)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:93)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:493)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:390)
    ... 15 more

if it matters, here's my tasklet class
package com.mycompany.batch.domain.vendor.goal;

import java.io.File;

import org.springframework.batch.core.StepContribution;
import org.springframework.batch.core.scope.context.ChunkContext;
import org.springframework.batch.core.step.tasklet.Tasklet;
import org.springframework.batch.repeat.RepeatStatus;

public class StartFileExistsTasklet implements Tasklet {

    private String path;
    private String file;

    @Override
    public RepeatStatus execute(StepContribution contribution, ChunkContext chunkContext) throws Exception {

        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        sb.append(path.trim()).append(File.pathSeparator).append(file.trim());

        File f = new File(sb.toString());

        if (f.isFile())
            chunkContext.getStepContext().getStepExecution().setTerminateOnly();

        return RepeatStatus.FINISHED;

    }

    public void setPath(String path) {
        this.path = path;
    }

    public void setFile(String file) {
        this.file = file;
    }

}

A: I started to debug the spring-batch code to find where in it there was a bean check that was failing.  I noticed that the debug stepper wasn't stopping on actual executing code.  That made me think I had the classpath and jar issues.  So, I looked at my maven dependencies to see what version I was using. My Good batch project was using Spring jars 3.2.2 and my failing project was 3.0.6.  That was my first clue.  This ain't right!
So I fixed that by changing the pom.xml to be 3.2.2.  Then, after that I realized my failing project had another version-mismatched jar in it as well that I had manually added.  I removed it, got the planets aligned and all is well.
How the project wizard chose two different versions of spring framework is a question, but after several days of frustration, I was just happy to see it work.
Thanks to all who viewed this question.

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General and functional complements of Julia's Base library.

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## Installation

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Any child who has developmental delay in motor functions – Which means the motor milestones develop later than the expected age. The suspicion should be higher if the child has had insult to brain say during perinatal period. Such babies are considered high risk babies, which means they have a higher chance of developing cerebral palsy in comparison to the babies who had no perinatal problem.
Following steps should be taken as soon as delayed motor development is suspected or a child who has sustained insult to brain.
Educate yourself about the age of development of various milestones and compare them with the high risk baby (Chronology of milestones).
Compare suspected child's development with the development of known normal children.
Consult qualified specialist like pediatrician (preferably developmental pediatrician)/pediatric neurophysician/pediatric neurosurgeon/pediatric orthopedician.
Make it a point of consulting a pediatrician during each vaccination day. Request him to see whether the child has cerebral palsy. Remember, the specialists can diagnose Cerebral Palsy even before developmental delay is observed. Therefore all the high risk babies must be shown regularly to specialists.
As soon as diagnosis is made intervention should be started. At this time you are likely to face tremendous confusion. There are many indigenous methods and we do not know how effective they are. Therefore, those methods with at least some scientific proof should be tried. If you have money, manpower and time you may also try other methods. As soon as diagnosis is made following methods should be started.
Specialized therapeutic exercises say physiotherapy.
To learn correct methods of handling and nursing the child.
There are many advantages of these methods eg.
The methods would help in breaking the wrong patterns.
Would stretch the spastic muscles.
Would not reinforce abnormal reflexes.
Brain tonics may be given but only for a few months immediately after the insult to brain.
Regular consultation with various specialists. Please do not try to get this done in hurry. Because, the professionals are usually very busy and if you are too, then the net result will be less attention to the child. The professionals can always finish their work in a short time. Parents and professionals should try their best to plan out the program in such a way that no ones time is wasted and maximum proper attention is given to the child.
Make sure that wrong methods are not tried.
Prepare immediate, short term and long term plans of management in consultation with various specialists. Write the plan in your planner. The plan should be written down in the monthly and yearly calendars of next 5 years. Extra attention and treatment should be planned as soon as complications like contracture etc. start developing. Do not forget that the child may have associated other disorders like speech abnormality, cognitive sub normality etc. and other specialists to deal with these disorders should also be consulted.


HOUSTON — What felt like an apocalyptic onslaught of pounding rains and rapidly rising floodwaters brought the nation's fourth-largest city to its knees on Sunday, as highways and residential streets turned to rivers, waist-high waters choked off access to homes and hospitals, and officials begged boat owners to pitch in with an enormous and frantic rescue operation.
It was a scene that evoked Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana in 2005, with worried residents punching holes in roofs in anticipation of the water rising even higher and people being rescued by helicopters from soggy rooftops.
The chaos inflicted by the remains of Hurricane Harvey played out across an enormous swath of Texas, most conspicuously in this metropolitan area of 6.6 million that has long been used to major storms blowing in off the Gulf of Mexico, but that has seldom, if ever, faced a scene quite like this one.
The storm, which made landfall late Friday as a Category 4 hurricane, has so far left five people reported dead, many others injured and untold numbers of homes and businesses flooded, damaged or destroyed on both the coast and far further inland. Even the National Weather Service seemed overwhelmed by the scope of the devastation.
At a news conference in Houston on Monday morning, Mayor Sylvester Turner said that 5,500 people had been taken in by the city's shelters and that he expected that number to rise "exponentially," adding that close to 300 people had been recovered in water rescues since midnight.
Speaking with the city's police and fire chiefs and other officials, Mr. Turner said that the city's goal on Monday was to reach all remaining people facing immediate danger, even as he stressed that officials were facing a quickly changing situation that was bound to frustrate residents.
"People who may not have been in a crisis state yesterday may find themselves in a crisis state today," he said.
The city's police chief, Art Acevedo, said the city had handled 56,000 calls to 911 since 6 p.m. Friday and had rescued 2,000 people. He said the city was aware of about 185 requests for rescue that had not yet been handled.
In Houston, harrowing close calls shook many families.
Ms. Wadler was eventually helped onto a dump truck driven by rescue workers.
For a vast swath of southeast Texas, there may be more trouble in the days ahead. The National Weather Service said the storm was expected to linger for a number of days. It predicted an additional 15 to 25 inches of rainfall along the upper Texas coast and southwest Louisiana through Friday. The service also raised the possibility of 50 inches of total rainfall in some areas, exceeding previous Texas records.
Flooding was reported in numerous communities in the Texas interior between Houston, to the east, and Austin and San Antonio, to the west. On Sunday, a mandatory evacuation order was issued for the city of La Grange, where the National Weather Service projected that the Colorado River would crest at 49.1 feet, according to the city's website.
As inland communities struggled with the flooding crisis, coastal communities that took the brunt of the hurricane's pounding remained punch-drunk.
In Rockport, where the storm made landfall, hundreds of homes, apartments, businesses, churches and government offices were damaged or destroyed. On Sunday morning, parts of the city were a wreck, pervaded by the sweet stench of gas, wind-battered and littered with downed power lines and tilting utility poles. Injured dogs wandered the streets.
The storm also blew through key areas for the United States oil and gas industry, and it has already caused some disruption to production. Exxon Mobil, for instance, said on its website on Sunday that it was shutting down operations at its huge Baytown refining and petrochemical complex because of flooding, while heavy rain prompted Royal Dutch Shell to close a large refining facility at Deer Park.
Shell, one of the largest producers in the Gulf of Mexico, said it had closed two offshore production platforms, Perdido and Enchilada Salsa, and had evacuated most of the workers.
Still, the gulf produces substantial quantities of oil and gas, and analysts say it is likely that the impact on energy prices and supplies will be limited; substantial stocks of oil are available, and products like gasoline are on hand because of a long period of booming global output.
In the long term, Texas is likely to face a massive, multibillion-dollar rebuilding effort that may affect a generation — and what is sure to be a daunting and sometimes depressing era of government trailers, red tape and fights with bureaucrats and insurance companies.
The federal government is promising a muscular response, with 5,000 federal employees — including members of the Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department — on site in Texas and Louisiana to assist state and local officials.
"We're setting up and gearing up for the next couple of years," Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on CNN's "State of the Union" program on Sunday.
For President Trump, the storm is the first domestic disaster to test his administration's competence. On Sunday, in a flurry of tweets, the president wrote, "Good news is that we have great talent on the ground." He announced plans to travel to Texas on Tuesday.
Hanging over this narrative is the suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago. President George W. Bush was blamed by many for the blundering federal response.
Texans, however, responded with great empathy and even heroism. Boat owners crossed the Sabine River to conduct water rescues in New Orleans, and the city of Houston threw open its arms to thousands of evacuees.
Now the Texas government will face rebuilding after a disaster of similar scope, both emotional and geographic: Gov. Greg Abbott said on Sunday that 18 counties were covered by a federal disaster declaration signed by Mr. Trump.
The Houston Independent School District said schools and offices would be closed for the week. The city's two main airports announced on Sunday that they had ceased all commercial operations. The Federal Aviation Administration estimated that George Bush Intercontinental Airport would reopen at noon on Monday but that William P. Hobby Airport would remain closed until Wednesday morning.
Many of Houston's streets were rendered impassable, complicating the focus on rescuing residents isolated by floodwaters or trapped in areas where the water was rising. Harris County officials asked the public to contribute boats and high-water vehicles, which they said were "desperately" needed to help rescue people before nightfall.
As hard rains continued to fall, cars lay wrecked or stalled out on Houston's interstate highways. People walked the roadways, looking for shelter or help, some vainly holding umbrellas skyward. Others waded through waist-high water, or paddled pirogues and little inflatable rafts. Rescue crews traversed the city in high-water vehicles, their crews in life jackets and helmets, and in trucks towing boats and Jet Skis.
At Ben Taub Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center in the sprawling Texas Medical Center complex, officials were waiting for rescue workers to evacuate their 350 patients, starting with roughly 18 patients on ventilator support in critical care units, said Bryan McLeod of the Harris Health System.
Mr. McLeod said that floodwater had entered the basement, and that a sewage pipe had burst. Cafeteria, pharmacy and other operations were suspended. "There's still about waist-deep water around the facility," he said.
Elsewhere, ghostly scenes underscored the destruction in a place long seen as one of the nation's most dynamic generators of growth and prosperity. Near the Galleria, Houston's famous shopping mall, a stretch of South Rice Avenue had more than two feet of water in some places.
Gloria Maria Quintanilla appeared as a speck on the horizon, wading through waist-high waters in the middle of the road with a sack thrust over one shoulder and an umbrella perched on the other. Ms. Quintanilla, 60, seemed to epitomize Houston's work ethic, its resolve and its shock.
"I worked at the hotel up there," she said when a reporter approached. As she walked, she explained that she was an immigrant from El Salvador, here since 1982. She makes $10 an hour washing and ironing sheets and towels at the Doubletree.
She had started the journey from home more than an hour before.
Julie Turkewitz and Alan Blinder reported from Houston, and Manny Fernandez from Rockport, Tex. Reporting was contributed by Richard Fausset from Atlanta; Stanley Reed, Christopher Mele, Maggie Astor, Christina Caron, Sheri Fink, Jacey Fortin and Matthew Haag from New York; Staci Semrad from San Antonio; David Montgomery from Austin and Michael Hardy from Houston.


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Q: Cannot retrieve data from my flask CRUD application from mysql table even though its getting inserted without any error Here's the python snippet
@app.route('/oxygenadmin')
@is_logged_in
def oxygenadmin():
    cur=mysql.connection.cursor()
    cur.execute("SELECT * FROM oxygen")
    data =cur.fetchall()
    cur.close()
    return render_template('oxygenadmin.html', oxygen=data)

@app.route('/insert', methods=['POST'])
@is_logged_in
def insert():
    if request.method == 'POST':
        name = request.form['name']
        contact = request.form['contact']
        email = request.form['email']
        place = request.form['place']

        cur = mysql.connection.cursor()
        cur.execute("INSERT INTO oxygen(name, contact, email, place) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s)",(name,contact,email,place))
        mysql.connection.commit()
        flash("Data inserted successfully", 'success')
        return redirect (url_for('oxygenadmin'))
    return render_template ('oxygenadmin.html')

And here's the html snippet

 Oxygen Details <button type="button" class="btn btn-success pull-right" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#mymodal">Enter New Data</button>

                        ID
                        Name
                        Contact No.
                        Email
                        Place
                        Action

                {% for row in oxygen %}

                        {{row.0}}
                        {{row.1}}
                        {{row.2}}
                        {{row.3}}
                        {{row.4}}

                            Edit
                            Delete

                {% endfor %}

and...

                        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</button>

Please insert data!

                        <form action="{{url_for('insert')}}" method="POST">

                                Name:
                                <input type="text" class="form-control" name="name" required='1'>

                                Contact No. :
                                <input type="text" class="form-control" name="contact" required='1'>

                                Email
                                <input type="text" class="form-control" name="email">

                                Place
                                <input type="text" class="form-control" name="place" required='1'>

                                <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit">Insert Data</button>

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I somehow just cant get it to appear on my page
Here's how it looks
in the website itself
But it's getting inserted in the actual database though
Didnt paste the entire picture because there are some personal details
The table name is oxygen, I probably think it's doing something with the name itself , I just cant get it

A: Changing this...
{% for row in oxygen %}

                        {{row.0}}
                        {{row.1}}
                        {{row.2}}
                        {{row.3}}
                        {{row.4}}

                            Edit
                            Delete

                {% endfor %}

to
{% for row in oxygen %}

                        {{row["id"]}}
                        {{row["name"]}}
                        {{row["contact"]}}
                        {{row["email"]}}
                        {{row["place"]}}

                            Edit
                            Delete

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Q: Prevent SQL injection in spark SQL I am using spark SQL to get data from my remote MYSQL database. How do I make sure SQL injection doesnt happen as I cant seem to find a way to avoid SQL injection in spark SQl
spark = SparkSession.builder()
            .master("local[*]")
            .appName("testApp")
            .getOrCreate();
Dataset<Row> dbData =  spark.read().jdbc("url", table,properties);

I want to select columns of a table with limit with preventing sql injection.
The Query is

Select col1,col2,col3,col4 from table limit ?,?

Is it possible in spark sql java api?


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1. Log into the router's web interface.
2. Go to Advanced Settings / WAN on left side.
3. From the tabs across the top, choose NAT Pass-Through.
For phones to pick up the change immediately, reboot each of them, otherwise they will pick up the new NAT table with changes during their next registration.
once i disabled sip pass through thats when everything started working.


WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2013 (ENS) – Pacific bluefin tuna numbers have dropped 96.4 percent from unfished levels due to decades of overfishing, finds a new stock assessment, prompting conservationists to call for a moratorium on the fishery.
Like the closely related Atlantic bluefin and southern bluefin, the Pacific bluefin is a commercially valuable species and several thousand tonnes are caught each year.
Fishermen from Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and the United States all fish Pacific bluefin, but about 80 percent of the Pacific bluefin caught are consumed in Japan.
Tunas that are suited for sashimi and sushi can reach very high prices. On December 30, 2012, a 489-pound (222 kg) Pacific bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan was sold at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo for a record US$1.76 million. The price works out to $3,603 per pound. It was bought by Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., which operates the Sushi-Zanmai restaurant chain.
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HomeFountain Creek: 25 apply for director of the Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District
Fountain Creek: 25 apply for director of the Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District
October 24, 2009 October 25, 2009 Coyote Gulch Arkansas Basin, Colorado Water, CWCB, Fountain Creek, Stormwater
From The Pueblo Chieftain (Chris Woodka):
The Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District board took its first look at 25 applications for the position Friday, and assurances that $100,000 is now in place to fund administrative expenses of the district next year. The board could decide on an interim director at its Dec. 4 meeting, if the executive committee – made up of the board's officers – is able to pare the list to a handful of finalists in early November. In any event, finalists will be interviewed. The district also will set its budget at the meeting…
Those who have applied for the interim director's job are, in alphabetical order:
Steve Anselmo, president of a Pueblo engineering company.
Gary Barber, manager of El Paso County Regional Water Authority and a water rights broker. Barber is chairman of the Arkansas Basin Roundtable and played a key role in drafting legislation that set up the district as a member of the Vision Task Force.
Janna Blanter, a Colorado Springs financial consultant.
Mark Carmel, former Pueblo County administrator.
Heather Gunn, a Fountain media consultant.
Scott Hahn, of Salida, who most recently served as city manager of Cordova, Alaska.
Thomas Karwaki, director of economic development for the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe near Seattle, Wash.
Ricky Kidd, engineer-administrator of the Pueblo Conservancy District and a private engineer.
Andy Long, owner Roberts Mortgage, Colorado Springs.
Kevin McCarthy, a Pueblo businessman and member of the Pueblo Board of Water Works.
James McGrady, general manager of the Castle Pines North Metro District
Dennis Maroney, Pueblo stormwater director and a key player on the Vision Task Force. Maroney serves on the district's technical advisory committee.
Jim Munch, former Pueblo city planning director and most recently director of development for Pueblo Springs Ranch, a position he left in April. He now is a private consultant.
Randy Newman, a government contractor at Guantanamo Bay, moving back to Colorado Springs.
Allen Nichols, most recently marketing director for Cleveland Vocational Industries, Shelby, N.C.
John Plutt, a Colorado Springs businessman.
Ingrid Richter, director of development for InCompass Development, Colorado Springs.
Roberta Ringstrom, environmental scientist, Colorado Springs.
Alaina Ruscovick, a file clerk for a Colorado Springs law firm.
Rodney Scott, an Air Force supply specialist and administrative assistant in Colorado Springs.
Steven Shane, most recently a technology director for an electronic manufacturing firm, now living in Colorado Springs.
Bob Simmons, most recently, a lieutenant in the Aurora Fire Department.
Richard Stettler, Colorado Springs, University of the Rockies vice president and chief of staff.
Donald TeStrake, of Centennial, most recently site manager for an electronics consultant.
Eve Triffo, a lawyer and experienced grant writer living in Canon City.
More coverage from Chris Woodka writing for The Pueblo Chieftain. From the article:
The Southern Delivery System pipeline will cross Fountain Creek and discharge into the creek from a new reservoir on Williams Creek, the Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District learned Friday. Those two actions are in the direct jurisdiction of the district. The district also will have an advisory role to the El Paso County commissioners in the permit process.
"We would like to make a presentation with a summary of the project, saying 'here are the impacts, and here are the recommendations for mitigation,' " Colorado Springs Utilities Fountain Creek specialist Carol Baker told the district's board Friday. The board agreed to hear the presentation in January, after its technical advisory committee and citizens advisory group have had a chance to review the project and make recommendations. The district, by state law, has primary land-use authority in the floodplain of Fountain Creek, so will be able to tie its own conditions to the project…
The board also agreed Friday to adopt the March 2009 strategic plan of the Vision Task Force, the January 2009 Army Corps of Engineers management plan and appropriate local zoning and land use regulations in reviewing technical merits of projects.
Meanwhile, Teller County hopes to weigh in on Fountain Creek issues through the Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District. Here's a report from Chris Woodka writing for The Pueblo Chieftian. From the article:
The Teller-Park Conservation District has asked the Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District to include projects for flood impacts, erosion and water quality on Upper Fountain Creek, which extends about 12 miles into Teller County. "Property owners have incurred property damage and livestock (loss) due to flooding in this area, and several horse properties are located right within the floodplain of (Teller and El Paso) counties," Vern Vinson, conservation district president, wrote in a letter to the Fountain Creek board. Woodland Park is trying to obtain a floodplain easement through the Natural Resources Conservation Service as well, and Vinson indicated there would be a better chance if the conservation district had a cooperative agreement with the Fountain Creek district…
When it came time to form the district, only Pueblo and El Paso counties were included in the legislation, because they were the primary areas causing an impact or affected by changes on Fountain Creek. The district board indicated it would be able to make a place for Teller County on its technical advisory committee and citizens advisory group, but that the membership of the Fountain Creek board was determined by statute. "We're pleased to see you folks here," Pueblo County Commissioner Jeff Chostner, a member of the Fountain Creek board, told representatives of the conservation district. "We do not want to leave the impression that Teller County was left out."
Finally, the new district is using a $25,000 CWCB loan to evaluate how stormwater relates to land-use policies in the Fountain Creek watershed. Here's a report from Chris Woodka writing for The Pueblo Chieftain. From the article:
The Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District board voted unanimously to oversee the grant from the Colorado Water Conservation Board. The grant aims at a process that has been envisioned for several years to develop uniform stormwater policies throughout the region…
"This project will implement many of the recommendations contained in the Fountain Creek Watershed Strategic Plan," [Rich Muzzy, of the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments] said. The strategic plan, along with the Corps study, will be used as policy guidelines until the district can develop its own. The district also will use local land-use recommendations as a guide…
The CWCB-funded project would synthesize existing information and develop a policy evaluation regarding how "non-point sources" – basically any discharge that is not covered by a state permit – are treated. The results would be reviewed by the district's technical advisory committee and citizens advisory group. Then, workshops would held to determine how to implement strategies, and finally regional groups would be formed to put the information to practical use.
More Fountain Creek coverage here and here.
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Articles > Market Commentary > BlackRock (BLK) Announces Formula One Purchase, Secondary Offering by Barclays
BlackRock (BLK) Announces Formula One Purchase, Secondary Offering by Barclays
Shares of international asset management giant BlackRock Inc. (BLK: Charts, News) closed down -4.36 or -2.60 percent on Tuesday to $163.37 per share; the stock later declined -3.52 or -2.15 percent in afterhours trading to $159.85 per share. BlackRock stock sold off during the day after news broke that BlackRock, along with two other partners had purchased a large stake in the Formula One Group motor-racing franchise.
BlackRock stock sold off in afterhours trading following news that Barclays Bank PLC (BCS: Charts, News) will be selling its 19.6 percent stake in BlackRock in an underwritten public offering for $160.00 per share. In addition, BlackRock will repurchase another $1.0 billion worth of its shares at a price of $156.80 per share.
New York City based BlackRock Inc. is the largest asset management firm in the world, with over 10,000 employees worldwide and as of March of 2012, had $3.684 trillion in assets under management. The first news item, which affected BlackRock's stock performance during the day, was the purchase of a stake in Formula One, a motor-racing franchise due to have its initial public stock offering in Singapore by late June.
The $1.6 billion stake in Formula One stock was purchased from privately held CVC Partners by BlackRock along with two partners, U.S. based investment group Waddell & Reed and Norwegian Norges Bank Investment Management, the asset management unit of the Norwegian central bank. The stake represents 21 percent of Formula One and gives the company a valuation of $7.6 billion.
BlackRock stock then fell below $160.00 per share in afterhours trading after Barclays Bank PLC announced it had agreed to sell 26,211,335 shares at that price in an underwritten public offering. Also, BlackRock will buy back 6,377,552 shares from Barclays at $156.80 per share.
The underwriters of the offering were also granted an option to buy up to 2,621,134 more BlackRock shares at the offering price which could be exercised within 30 days. The secondary offering, along with the BlackRock repurchase and the underwriter's optioned shares represents Barclays' entire stake in BlackRock.
Barclays received the stock as part of BlackRock's 2009 purchase of Barclays Global Investors division for $15 billion. The value of Barclays' investment in BlackRock was written down to 3.4 billion in 2011, with the deal's net proceeds, Barclays expects to receive $5.5 billion or 3.49 billion at the current rate of exchange.
The two news items have already brought BlackRock stock down more than four percent since Monday. With the secondary offering and large investment in Formula One at least a month away from its IPO, the stock may continue to slide near term.
Barclays offering will certainly put a $160 top on the stock at least until after the deal goes through. As far as the Formula One investment, after Facebook's (FB: Charts, News) shares more than -25 percent slide in the first two days after its IPO, demand for Formula One shares may not be as high as previously anticipated, putting additional pressure on BlackRock.
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Iran responds to EU oil and gas sanctions with… oil and gas sanctions
01-28-2013 • RT.com
Iran has slapped a ban on oil and gas exports to the European Union, even though the EU has already forbidden Iranian petrochemicals from entering its territory.
Kissinger: The Iran Nuclear Situation Will Come To A Head In The 'Very Foreseeable Future'
Henry Kissinger recently gave an ominous forecast on the future of Iran's nuclear program: that it will be taken care of one way or another very soon.
Barak: US plans 'surgical strike' if Iran sanctions fail
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Iran wants a nuclear deal, not war
01-26-2013 • guardian.co.uk
Nuclear negotiations with Iran, in the right spirit, will work. US-led trade embargos and military threats will bring only disaster
Kerry: US Will 'Do What We Must' to Stop Iran
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Confirmation Hearings Seen as Formality, Approval Could Come Tuesday
Mullahs in Space
01-22-2013 • freebeacon.com
Iran may launch 'living creatures' into orbit
All War is Civil War
01-20-2013 • Common Dreams
Everyone has a stake in issues like the prevention of nuclear war, and indeed of conventional war, like the potential war between Israel and Iran or the U.S. and Iran.
Netanyahu conundrum faces Iranian riddle
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a simple message as he seeks a third term in office - he is a strong man and a vote for him at parliamentary elections on January 22 means Israel will be a powerful nation.
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Iran's foreign minister on Thursday invited Egypt's president to visit Tehran again, a sign of improved relations between the two nations since an Islamist government took over in Cairo.
Iranian Captives Freed in Prisoner Exchange in Syria
More than 2,000 prisoners incarcerated by the Syrian authorities were being released on Wednesday in return for 48 Iranians freed by rebels after five months in captivity in what appeared to be the biggest prisoner swap since the uprising.
Iran seizes Saudi fishing vessels: Fars news agency
Iran's coast guard has detained two Saudi fishing vessels after they entered Iranian waters, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
Mayday, Mayday: Has Iran gone nuclear?
01-07-2013 • The Political Commentator
An article at WND cites an Iranian Revolutionary Guard source who says that Iran has already built a nuclear bomb with the help of Russia and North Korea. Further the Islamic regime is said to be working out of seven sites that are unknown to the IAE
Reported By Michael Haltman
Israeli Officials Hope Hagel on Board With Iran War
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Something Awful at Isfahan?
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Iran on Wednesday said it had shot down two US-made RQ-11 reconnaissance drones in the past 15 months, adding to a ScanEagle drone and RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft it already claims to have captured.
Iran unveils new combat helicopter
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Iran on the final day of naval combat exercises Wednesday announced the launch of its next generation of combat helicopters.
Obama signs law against Iran Latin America influence
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12-28-2012 • The National Interest
...there are substantial costs associated with a nuclear-armed Iran. Increasing tension in the region could certainly add to the security premium on Gulf oil.
Blogger's death stirs political hornet's nest in Iran
12-27-2012 • http://www.reuters.com, By Babak Dehghanpisheh
There was little about Sattar Beheshti that made him stand out in a working-class suburb south of Tehran called Robat Karim.
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Frannie B says you're "In My Way"!
Beyond the simple pleasures of enjoying music there is an elusive quality about the art-form that is hard to pinpoint. It might be that music affords some of us the ability to be open and vulnerable; to be able to lose oneself while simultaneously being completely in the moment. For Frannie B, music's always been just that, a safe space where she can truly express the inner workings of her mind, a place where she can be free.
Her new single, "In My Way", is out now and it's well worth checking out. The follow up to "Fearless", "In My Way" is brashy but gentle with it as it sweeps and sways throughout its short two and a half minute length. Frannie debut backed in 2017 with "We Can Find A Way" and has been prolific ever since. Her output this year already encompasses the new single, "Fearless" and "Monsters".
It is through her brand of modern Pop that Frannie B seeks to replicate that same magical feeling for others, leaving a radiating glow on each and every listener that her music touches.Stylistically, Frannie B draws from a plethora of artists in the Pop ecosphere. From the big Pop hooks of Rita Ora, to the darker shades of Dua Lipa, and even lashings of RnB stylings ala Kehlani thrown in for good measure, Frannie B's music is as dynamic as it is diverse.
Sonically, her music could be described as a melting pot of soulful and gentle vocal lines colliding with an ocean of digital sounds.Her music has risen to critical acclaim in a short amount of time, with praise received from notable artists including Sinead Harnett and Anne Marie, as well as a whole host of press mentions. Additionally, Frannie B has landed consistent airplay multiple times on BBC Radio, BBC Upload and BBC Bristol to name just a few.
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So perhaps you've read an article or two that I've written and wondered "just who is this character?"! Well I thought maybe it would be time to introduce myself and what I'm all about. Well it's all about the music! Having been born in the late 1970's I was heavily influenced by my parent's love of 'popular' music and rock and roll of the 1950's and 60's. My Mother always said she should of married Elvis and my father was, and is still, in love with Sandie Shaw! But while my Dad's tastes stopped in about 1967, my Mum carried on loving music throughout the 70's, 80's and beyond. My first memory was playing on the floor whilst my Mother was ironing one day with the radio on, and hearing ABBA's "Super Trouper" dancing my nappy off to it! Maybe that's where it all went wrong…?! Having been subjected to all and sundry in my infant years, I finally found my feet in the mid-1980's and began 'partying' to the likes of Culture Club, Stevie Wonder(!), Elkie Brooks and Bananarama to name but a few! The year 1987 would have a profound effect on my listening tastes and from thereon in my life would be dominated with buying and listening to music. Any number of outstanding songs were released and listened to that year, most notably "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and "La Isla Bonita". That Summer my mind was completely taken over with music and sounds I'd never heard before and I was totally taken in by it all. My father would say "whaaar rubbish you got on naaaaao?" (I'm from Norfolk!) but I was hooked. And it continued so for the rest of the decade and the next. At the beginning of 1988 I 'met' my true love and the singer I've worshipped more than any other artist or group. You may know of her. She's from Australia…! Aside from pop music, my tastes are many and varied and continues to grow and expand as I 'mature' in age. I've always been heavily interested in films and in particular the mechanics of film making and of course film music, so scores and subsequently orchestral music takes up a lot of my tastes and collection. 90's dance and club tunes also takes up much of the space in my head and I'm surprised my brain has stopped shaking from the years of abuse it took being dragged to nightclubs, often three times a week in my 20's! I find with each year that passes I regress back to my youth and of course the 1980's. 80's music dominates and the lust to see as many 80's acts and singers play live now is insatiable. I'm still getting into the groove as much as every breath I take, but I'm never gonna give up listening to my heart and pumping up the volume, simply because I LOVE MUSIC…any kind of music!
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Q: SML Function to "zip together" lists of an arbitrary depth I'm trying to translate a nested for loop in Java code to SML. I'm going to have a list of the format [[a, b, c], [d, e, f], [g, h, i]] and I want this function to give me a list of the form [[a, d, g], [b, e, h], [c, f, i]]. The length of each list will vary, and I need to avoid using any mutable datatypes. The code I have so far is this -- the bottom pointFromList takes each inner list and drops it into a record that I've defined elsewhere.
The problem I'm having is that the code below doesn't terminate. Looking at debugging output, it works fine through all of the zipElement ([], xs::xss, accY, accX) calls, but it breaks somewhere after that. I'm new to SML and I'm completely stumped.
fun zipListToPoints (featuress : real list list) =
    let
    fun zipElement ([], [], accY, []) =
        accY
      | zipElement ([], [], accY, accX) =
        zipElement(rev(accX), rev(accY), [], [])
      | zipElement ([], xs::xss, accY, accX) =
        zipElement([], xss, [hd(xs)]::accY, tl(xs)::accX)
      | zipElement (ys::yss, xs::xss, accY, accX) =
        zipElement (yss, xss, (hd(xs)::ys)::accY, tl(xs)::accX)
    val numFeatures = length(hd(featuress))
    val zippedList = zipElement([], featuress, [], [])
    in
    map pointFromList zippedList
    end
end

The larger context is that I have a record type point with a label features : real list. In order to normalize the data before doing some analysis on it, I need to perform an operation on the ith element of the features list for each point. The original Java looks like this:
for(i=0;i<Points.length(); i++){
    oneFeature = new float[Points.getNumberOfFeatures()];

    for(j=0; j<Points.getNumberOfFeatures(); j++){
    oneFeature[j] = Points[j].getFeature(i);
    }

    normalizedData = new float[Points.getNumberOfFeatures()];
    normalizedData = normalize(oneFeature);

    for(k=0; k<Points.length(); k++){
    Points[k].setFeatureList(normalizedData[k]);
    }
}

and my SML should eventually look like:
fun normalizeData (points) =
    let
    fun extractFeature (index) =
        map (fn features => sub(features, index)) #features(points)
    val listOfFeatures =
        map extractFeature list.Tabulate (length(points), fn x => x)
    val normalizedFeatures =
        map normalizeFeature listOfFeatures
    in
    map zipListToPoints normalizedFeatures
    end

(SO has messed up the indentation of my SML somewhat, sorry!)

A: If your lists were regular (each list within a list having the same length), what you describe sounds like a matrix transposition. This is easily achieved using Standard ML's list combinators. For example:
fun transpose [] = []
  | transpose (xss as (xs::_)) =
    List.tabulate (length xs, fn row => map (fn xs => List.nth (xs, row)) xss)

And a demonstration:
- val m = [[1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8], [9, 10, 11, 12]];
> val m = [[1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8], [9, 10, 11, 12]] : int list list
- transpose m;
> val it = [[1, 5, 9], [2, 6, 10], [3, 7, 11], [4, 8, 12]] : int list list

One could adjust this fn row => map (fn xs => List.nth (xs, row)) helper function to accept if a given row is not full. But if all rows are not equally long, it would need to find the longest of these first in order to avoid throwing away elements on positions greater than the length of the first row.
Update: For large matrices, the running time above might not work out. Below is another way to define transpose such that previously transposed elements are not visited again and again:
(* Written without pattern matching *)
fun transpose [] = []
  | transpose xs =
    if null (hd xs)
    then nil
    else map hd xs :: transpose (map tl xs)

(* Written with pattern matching *)
fun transpose [] = []
  | transpose ([]::_) = []
  | transpose xss = map hd xss :: transpose (map tl xss)

A: here's an idea for that inner zipElement
all credits go to Dan Grossman
exception BadTriple
fun zip3 list_triple =
  case list_triple of
      ([],[],[]) => []
     | (hd1::tl1,hd2::tl2,hd3::tl3) => (hd1,hd2,hd3)::zip3(tl1,tl2,tl3)
     | _ => raise BadTriple

i hope you can figure the way to transform the tuple into the list yourself.


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Hellenic Studies offers study-abroad programs for students interested in expanding their cultural knowledge and awareness of the rich artistic and intellectual legacy of Greece, while also enhancing their intellectual curiosity and facilitating their development as citizens of the world. Check out the video from the 2014 study abroad program! See below for our current study abroad program offerings.
Athens and Nafplion, Summer Quarter:
Greece and Europe- Travelers, Migrants & Tourists
Hosted by Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies and the American College of Greece.
Program Dates: June 21 to August 11, 2019
Application deadline is January 31, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.
The program builds on the exceptional work done by UW students in Greece this past summer who studied the plight of the Roma ('Gypsies' to many, a pejorative term).
Students step into how and why Greece was constructed as a magnet destination for European and American travelers in the 19th and 20th centuries; why during the 1950s and 1960s the Greeks were forced to emigrate to Western Europe and to other western countries in search of a better life; why Greece became, especially from the 1990s onwards, a host country for immigrants from the Balkans and elsewhere; and how the phenomenon of mass tourism impacted the economy as well as the culture of Greece.
Within this framework some of the topics of study is the perception and representation of Greece and the Greeks by Western European and American travelers; the construction of the tourist gaze about Greece; the relation of Greece with neighboring Balkan countries, especially Albania, formerly the largest exporter of illegal immigrants to Greece; the question of human rights of the undocumented immigrants in Greece; the political and social tensions that the phenomenon of mass immigration caused in Greece; the emergence of multiple cultural identities following the arrival of immigrants but also the arrival of tourists in Greece, and the transformation of Greece from a 'mono-cultural' to a 'multi-cultural' country.
Students will then work with officials in the Nafplion City Hall and with individuals in the local Roma community to understand relations between the two groups. The goal here is to become acquainted with how migrant populations are, or are not, integrated into the local community. This is not simply an abstraction but a real challenging issue for local officials. Our goal is to provide assistance and knowledge of how to bridge gaps to find possible solutions.
The Program includes planned excursions the Acropolis and the New Acropolis Museum, Aegina (possibly Olympia, site of the first Olympic Games), the islands of Spetses and Hydra, and the ancient ruins of Mycenae.
Breakfast and regular dinners will be provided to all students
This program is honored to once again be hosted by Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece.
Acropolis and New Acropolis Museum, Olympia, Mycenae, Spetses & Hydra. We also plan to attend a performance at the ancient theaters of Epidavros and the Herodes Atticus Theater at the Acropolis.
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