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Dean Mullaney and Kurtis Findlay are back for another episode of the Library of American Comics & EuroComics Podcast!
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A year is a long time. In it, there are 52 official days of album releases, plus the multitude of albums that come out of nowhere and mixtapes. While I am writing this piece, I realise that what I listened to at the start of the year nowhere matches up to what I am listening to by the end. On the one hand, it means that it's mighty difficult for a single album to stick in my consciousness for a full year and that those which do deserve all the plaudits. On the other hand, it's an indictment of our high speed, high octane times. There's too much music (and I retain the negative connotation of the adverb) and too little time to think about any of it. I think of those solid early year releases from Laura Marling (Short Movie), Bill Fay (Who Is The Sender?), and Howard (Religion) that I forgot by the time summer came around. We decry Top 10 listicles but pieces on the best albums of the half-year now make a lot more sense to me.
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If I have to generalize my year in listening, I'd say that it was a year for gentle head bopping. There must be something in the air in the indie rock scene, kickstarted a few years back with bands like Real Estate, influenced from further back in time by Dire Straits. I can rattle off a number of bands that have continued that pared-down and chilled-out sound, all of them with great 2015 releases: Widowspeak (All Yours), Palehound (Dry Food), Mac Demarco (Another One), Kurt Vile (b'lieve i'm goin down…), and Houndstooth (No News From Home). Perhaps I've been ingesting a lot of high-production, fuzz ridden music in the past few years, but these bands are great antidotes, bringing me down to earth from long days at work.
However, earlier in the year I paid a lot of attention to Dan Mangan + Blacksmith's album, Club Meds, eventually checking them out at the Corona Theatre. Mangan, formerly known for his radio-friendly (though not Top 40-friendly) singer-songwriter fare (which I love), went all out with his experimental ambitions by pushing his touring band Blacksmith upfront. The result took a few listens to get into, but in essence it was a Mangan record, both emotional and political, fulfilling my needs for slightly edgier and grittier records.
I also listened to Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Father John Misty. The former's Multi-Love was a lesson on subtlety; on repeated listens I heard more and more old school funk rhythms and bass lines underneath a tapestry of electronics and a masterclass of guitar work.
As for Joshua Tillman's alter ego, he captured all I ever thought of about the problems of the USA and most of its millennials in the song 'Bored In The USA'. The laugh track that played after he croons "They gave me a useless education, and a sub-prime loan on a craftman's home" isn't what I can relate to personally but I felt the knife in the back for all my peers.
Closer to home, Patrick Watson came out with the beautiful Love Songs For Robots. There's no categorising this man's music. Too contemporary for the folk tag, too intricate for singer-songwriter. He's blessed with a captivating voice but his penchant for penning songs that swell and recede like hopes and dreams shine through again and again. Peter Henry Phillips, a fast riser in my books, had a similarly intricate orchestra folk sound going on in The Origin.
They both are complete contrasts of the gritty band from Detroit, Protomartyr, whose album The Agent Intellect takes the prize for grower of the year. There may be an overflow of post-punk revival bands at the moment but the more attention I paid, the more I craved the sound. Stripped, industrial, and jarring, its emptiness was so easy to crawl into.
To finish off, I'd like to talk about the big hitters from the veterans and indie darlings. I know that big name bands like Death Cab For Cutie, Blur, and Tame Impala all released albums but it was the latter's touring mates that really caught my attention. Mini Mansions supported Tame Impala at the Metropolis this year and they were, for my money, the best pop rock album of the year. Each and every song on Mini Mansions is infectious. For a band with only three members, their sound is full and heavy, sparkly and ravy.
My last two mentions are for songwriters of two different molds. First, the Jeff Tweedy-led Wilco's surprise album, Star Wars, is a personal favourite. The album feels more like a return to the early era Wilco, more Being There than Sky Blue Sky. Hard hitters mixed with ballads for spooning, everything's there. Like Spoon, Wilco are at a place where whatever they're churning out is reliably good. Tweedy still draws from his well-deep barrel of modern Shakespeare lyrics with lines like "I've come all this way to hold your hand, I became a calendar while I was waiting." I can't imagine whether a younger me would've appreciated this brand of writing in this emoji and txtspk world but for what it's worth, I'm glad Wilco are still writing for themselves and serving loyal fans along the way.
Of a similar age bracket is EL VY (comprised of the duo Matt Berninger's of The National and Brett Knopf of Menomena, both darlings of the alternative scene) and their album Return To The Moon. Equally heartfelt, endearing, and funny, it plays like a Michael Chabon novel. Berninger sings that he ain't no Leonard Cohen, but he doesn't have to be. With quips about his band's ratings on Pitchfork, it's his style of meta-irony that appeals. How fitting for the 21st century.
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We are now ready to move on to a new way of communicating with the online community at large as well as students of Shri Anandi Ma. All of the articles, personal experiences, satsangs, and program information you've been finding in Shakti Online—plus much more—will now be part of the new and beautifully designed website, www.dyc.org.
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The Upcoming Events, Workshops & Retreats, and Upcoming Webcasts sections contain Anandi Ma's complete schedule, and you have the ability to register for events online.
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But you have to understand that just being able to meditate or having a vision is not everything. Also watch out for the changes that have occurred during the course of your life since you started the practices. Has your fear lessened? Has your anger lessened? . . .
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ANNA WÜRTH, As-Sdari[ayin ]a fi Bab al-Yaman: Recht, Richter und Rechtspraxis an der familienrechtlichen Kammer des Gerichts Süd-Sanaa, (Republik Jemen) 1983-1995 (Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 2000). Pp. 284.
Allan Christelow once remarked that court documents have the potential to provide a more thorough and unbiased picture of society than most other sources. Anna Würth's study of judicial procedures at a court in a poor San[ayin ]ani neighborhood would appear to give credence to this observation. The... Full description
Allan Christelow once remarked that court documents have the potential to provide a more thorough and unbiased picture of society than most other sources. Anna Würth's study of judicial procedures at a court in a poor San[ayin ]ani neighborhood would appear to give credence to this observation. The book covers an important stage in Yemeni post-revolutionary history embracing republican state consolidation, unification of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), and the Islamist challenge. It is based on more than one hundred fifty court cases, legal manuals, and unpublished draft statutes; "participant observation" at the court; historical chronicles; newspaper articles; and interviews with jurists and petitioners. Echoing the work of Mir-Hosseini and Messick, Würth conceives of law and legal practice as mutually constituting rather than separate domains. The book is divided into two main parts, each subdivided into two or more chapters. The first part deals with the norms governing the application of family law by the courts, describing court procedures during the period of Ottoman rule and the Hamid al-Din dynasty. Most chapters are devoted to an analysis of legal reform as part of state transformation from the 1970s to unification in 1990. Readers are offered a valuable overview of the diverse family laws of 1974, 1978, and 1992, their political objectives, and the debates surrounding them. The second part centers on the administration of justice at the court between 1983 and 1995. [PUBLICATION ]
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abstract Allan Christelow once remarked that court documents have the potential to provide a more thorough and unbiased picture of society than most other sources. Anna Würth's study of judicial procedures at a court in a poor San[ayin ]ani neighborhood would appear to give credence to this observation. The book covers an important stage in Yemeni post-revolutionary history embracing republican state consolidation, unification of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), and the Islamist challenge. It is based on more than one hundred fifty court cases, legal manuals, and unpublished draft statutes; "participant observation" at the court; historical chronicles; newspaper articles; and interviews with jurists and petitioners. Echoing the work of Mir-Hosseini and Messick, Würth conceives of law and legal practice as mutually constituting rather than separate domains. The book is divided into two main parts, each subdivided into two or more chapters. The first part deals with the norms governing the application of family law by the courts, describing court procedures during the period of Ottoman rule and the Hamid al-Din dynasty. Most chapters are devoted to an analysis of legal reform as part of state transformation from the 1970s to unification in 1990. Readers are offered a valuable overview of the diverse family laws of 1974, 1978, and 1992, their political objectives, and the debates surrounding them. The second part centers on the administration of justice at the court between 1983 and 1995. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Indian Hume Pipe Company is currently trading at Rs. 522.85, up by 13.85 points or 2.72% from its previous closing of Rs. 509.00 on the BSE.
The scrip opened at Rs. 511.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 528.70 and Rs. 511.00 respectively. So far 3,517 shares were traded on the counter.
The BSE group 'B' stock of face value Rs. 2 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 570.00 on 31-Jul-2017 and a 52 week low of Rs. 290.00 on 29-Aug-2016.
Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 536.00 and Rs. 496.55 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 2,533.00 crore.
The promoters holding in the company stood at 69.92%, while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 5.63% and 24.45% respectively.
Indian Hume Pipe Company has secured a work order worth Rs 100.46 crore from Municipal Corporation Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh for augmentation of Water Supply Scheme Part-II-Distribution System, Bilaspur (Chattisgarh) under AMRUT Mission. The work is to be completed within 24 months.
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Update 2: The dais of the IIJS Signature 2019 remained vibrant and made numbers of big announcements in the row of ease of doing business (EoDB). The distinguished dignitaries at the IIJS inaugural dais also unveiled the IIJS Signature 2019 and IGJME (India Gem & Jewellery Machinery Expo) catalogue on the momentous occasion. Alongside IIJS Signature, GJEPC have the latest in gem and jewellery manufacturing technology and equipment on display at the 6th edition of the IGJME.
Mr. Pramod Kumar Agrawal, Chairman, GJEPC, launched GJEPC's toll-free number 18001034353 (Missed Call on 917208048100). He also announced that GJEPC has had discussions with Rajasthan Government to set up first-of-its-kind world class Gem Bourse in Jaipur similar to the Bharat Diamond Bourse, Mumbai.
He said that the Jewellery Park in Navi Mumbai envisages an estimated investment of Rs. 13,800 crore from the Industry and will help add one lakh jobs in the sector. GJEPC has set up Common Facility Centres (CFCs) at Amreli, Visnagar, Palanpur and Junagadh and Government has sanctioned more CFCs in Rajkot, Kolkata, Jaipur and Hyderabad. GJEPC has hired NCAER to do a cluster mapping survey. GJEPC is going to upgrade GJEPC run laboratories with world class facilities to follow the highest standards.
This year, the overseas visitor registration too has witnessed a steep increase when compared to last year indicating the growing importance of the show across the globe to source exquisite jewellery. The 'on the spot' registration facility is expected to increase visitor footfall significantly.
The show, IIJS Signature, which features well defined sections of Diamonds, Gemstones and studded Jewellery in addition to International, this year, the Gold section will be further extended to accommodate more number of exhibitors under this category. The main highlight of the show is the Signature Club which showcases the most exquisite couture jewellery by the leading Manufacturers of the Country.
IGJME is providing an opportunity to interact with leading suppliers of machinery, tools, components, packaging accessories and allied products from all over the globe and they are showcasing cutting edge technology, such as laser machines, computerized yield planning machines, advanced bruiting lathes, diamond impregnated scaife, etc in the dome.


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Q: Slice FLAC file into 5 second segments I have a FLAC audio file that I want to slice into 5 second segments.  I don't need to resample or change the data in any way.
What tools/libraries are there for this? Should I be looking at ffmpeg?  I actually want to create a HLS stream so a tool that would do that would be a bonus but if I can simply chunk the audio data I can create the playlist myself.

A: Use the segment muxer:
ffmpeg -i input.flac -f segment -segment_time 5 output_%03d.flac

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*In this example outputs will be named output_001.flac, output_002.flac, etc.

*Add -reset_timestamps 1 if your need to reset timestamps at the beginning of each segment.

*Since you asked there is also the HLS muxer, but that's a different topic from the question title.


After a month's worth of issues with Anthem, BioWare's GM has penned a new blog post talking about the future of the game.
It has been a rough past month for the team at BioWare since launching the studio's latest title Anthem. Amidst an underwhelming response from critics and a variety of bugs and other issues that have continued to plague the title, Anthem has struggled to find its footing.
Despite everything though, BioWare's General Manager Casey Hudson says that the studio remains committed to the game long term. In a new blog post on BioWare's website today, Hudson acknowledged that it has been a rough few weeks since release. "On the one hand it's been a rougher launch than expected. But then as I think back we also knew that big new online games tend to hit some kind of problem once they go live, so as much as we tested and prepared to make sure everything was ready, we were also ready for the possibility that unexpected issues might arise at launch," Hudson wrote.
Even though there have been many problems with Anthem since arriving, I'm really hoping that BioWare can improve Anthem greatly and make it an experience that is far more enjoyable down the road.
Currently, Anthem is available on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.


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Q: JQuery - .map is not a function I have the following code:
var fieldsJson = formBuilder.actions.getData('json', true);

console.log(fieldsJson);

var nameArr = fieldsJson.map(function (item) { return item.name });

But I keep getting error:
fieldsJson.map is not a function

The console is clearly showing fieldsJson to be an object array as follows:
[
  {
    "type": "text",
    "label": "Text Field",
    "className": "form-control",
    "name": "testfield",
    "subtype": "text",
    "customField": true
  },
  {
    "type": "text",
    "label": "Text Field",
    "className": "form-control",
    "name": "testfield",
    "subtype": "text",
    "customField": true
  }
]

So why is it throwing error for map function?

A: If fieldsJson is a String, you need to parse it with JSON.parse:
var fieldsJson = formBuilder.actions.getData('json', true);

console.log(fieldsJson);

fieldsJson = JSON.parse(fieldsJson)
var nameArr = fieldsJson.map(function (item) { return item.name });

A: You're almost certainly looking at a JSON string representation.  This will also catch any malformed json:
try {
  JSON.parse(fieldsJson);
} catch (e) {
  console.log(e);
}

Further info for JSON.parse()


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Rafael Correa on Corruption Charges: 'This Trial is a Farce, They Sought to Sentence Me Before 2021'
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Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa accuses his successor, Lenín Moreno, of waging a political campaign against him and resolutely rejects the court's corruption allegations. Correa says that the government is responsible for Ecuador's inefficient response to the COVID-19 crisis and predicts the collapse of the neoliberal paradigm.
On 7 April, former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for alleged corruption during his 10-year tenure as head of state.
Along with 19 other defendants, Correa was found guilty by the Ecuadorian authorities of accepting what the court called "bribes" from private firms in exchange for state contracts. The sentence also bars those convicted from engaging in politics for the next 25 years.
However, according to Correa, who is currently living in exile in Belgium, the sentence is nothing but a political persecution campaign kicked off by his successor and former ally, Lenín Moreno, to keep him out of Ecuadorian politics.
"They were desperate to sentence me before 2021 to try to hinder my participation [in the election]", Correa says, referring to next year's presidential vote in the country.
The former Ecuadorian president denies receiving bribes from companies and any wrongdoing. According to him, "the executive power violated the constitution and replaced 60 percent of judges".
"The contracts the prosecution refers to do not exist, this is a farce cooked up by the judicial system", he underscores.
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'Criminal' Handling of COVID-19
At the same time, Correa regrets that he was ousted from the political arena, calling the Ecuadorian government's handling of the coronavirus crisis as "criminal".
"The government is irresponsible and criminal", he says. "It's not me saying this, all indicators speak for themselves: our country has the highest mortality from coronavirus in Latin America".
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Ecuador accounts for 7,529 confirmed cases and 355 deaths, as of 14 April. For its part, Johns Hopkins cites 7,603 cases and 369 coronavirus-related deaths in the country.
The former head of state bemoans the fact that the Moreno government "threw out health officials, ended the agreement with Cuban doctors and reduced the health budget".
Just before the pandemic, in mid-November 2019, Quito terminated health accords with Cuba that dated back to 2013 and pulled about 400 Cuban medical professionals out of the country.
Correa recalls that Ecuador was one of the countries that best coped with the outbreak of the swine flu in 2009.
"Now we are one of the worst examples in the world", he remarks.
"The coronavirus took the country's healthcare system off guard", the politician says. "In January, the emergency response protocols for fighting the pandemic were already known. But they did nothing. They didn't equip hospitals, they didn't hire doctors, they didn't acquire respirators".
He notes that his hometown, Guayaquil, is now suffering not only because of the virus, but also because of the national government's inability to curb the pandemic.
"Next week, Guayaquil will collect even more dead", Correa says. "This disaster is just the beginning. Necessary measures have not been taken. I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel".
However, "even in this nightmare crisis, [the government] is obsessed with political persecution", he notes. "It is very painful, and at the same time, outrageous".
'Pandemic is Destroying Neoliberal Paradigm'
To make matters worse, the country is bracing for a drastic economic crisis, warns the former head of state, stressing that the economy of Ecuador is undermined by the government's neoliberalism.
"The pandemic has shown us that health cannot be a commodity, it is everyone's right, and it is necessary to guarantee everyone the access to this right", Correa highlights. "[The pandemic] has shown us the importance of collective actions which are taken in the modern world by states, that is, showed us the importance of the state".
According to the former Ecuadorian president, the COVID-19 outbreak is destroying the neoliberal paradigm.
"The world will change after this pandemic", he predicts.
At the same time, he criticises the lack of regional coordination in responding to the health crisis, which has resulted in the growing role of the military. "Peru sent tanks to the border with Ecuador so that infected people could not cross the border. They want to fight the virus with tanks. Are we crazy? There is no coordination either regionally or globally", he says.
"In the 21st century, it is necessary to reconsider the role of the armed forces in Latin America, which decide what is good and what is bad together with the media, who call themselves defenders of democracy – when, in fact, they stole it from us – and defenders of freedom of speech, while they destroy it by not informing but manipulating information. There will be no real democracy in Latin America until the issue of the media and the armed forces is resolved", Rafael Correa concludes.
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Anthony Hopkins Slays Drake, RIP Rockford Peach & More — Past & Curious
Links to the past, with relevance today: Anthony Hopkins beat me to TikTik! (Image via TikTok) HUFF POST: Anthony Hopkins is 82, but doing the Drake challenge went down easy for him! He also does a mean Sly Stallone. The first male hooker on TV? (Image via video still) GREG IN HOLLYWOOD: A tribute to…
RIP Jerry Stiller: This Guy … This Was My Kinda Guy
Legendary comedian and actor Jerry Stiller died at 92 over the weekend after a long period of declining health. His death was confirmed by his actor son Ben Stiller on Twitter early Monday: https://twitter.com/RedHourBen/status/1259759084309446657?s=20 Stiller, who had been one half of the beloved comedy duo Stiller and Meara with his wife of over 60 years,…


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October, 2011 Letters to the Editor
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:13 AM :: 7577 Views :: Kauai County News, DHHL, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
Cayetano's Consumer Advocate says Left is lame but Hawai'i Free Press Has no Place
Cancellation Letter To Hawai`i Free Press: October 17, 2011
No matter how lame the left, right-wing zealotry has no place in a progressive culture.
Gregg J Kinkley
Note: Kinkley was Cayetano's Executive Director of the Division of Consumer Advocacy. Here is an article about his effort to prevent formation of the Kauai Utility Coop: Chicago lawyer Kinkley opposes formation of KIUC. While we will happily stipulate to the lameness of the left, Kinkley's implied demand for censorship is denied. We also reject his implied claim to be arbiter of Hawaii culture and his claim to represent 'progress'.
A Misdirected Blast from a Supporter of Abercrombie's New Communications Director
(Editor's Note: Hawai`i Free Press did not write the article in question. The writer is responding to an article which appeared in the October 10 Star-Advertiser, and was included in the Hawai`i Free Press News Read October 10. We're still looking for this letter to appear in the Letters section of the Star-Advertiser.)
Dear Editor, October 17, 2011
What an ignorant article this was. As a Republican, I am embarrassed the way you attacked this fellow. Did you do any homework on him at all? So what if he is a Democrat. There are Democrats that are decent, honest Americans. You get so wrapped up in your political whims that you forget often that the people you attack are just that; people!
Here are some facts about Jim Boersema you should know.
He and Jack built the top, most professional ad agency in Hawaii.
Jim was the second highest ranking Army Reserve officer in Hawaii and was activated. Due to that he was unable and prohibited from even contacting Starr Siegle. They lost their major clients (i.e. BofH, Hawaiian Air, etc.) and went bankrupt. Serving his country he lost a fortune. By the way, he also owns Mateo's Restaurant which also went under thanks to the war and Jim being reactivated.
When the government was dealing with Tony Rutledge; the Federal Court took Unity House away from Rutledge and separated it from the union. Federal Judge Ezra personally call (sic) Jim and asked him if he would take it over and clean it up. With a lack of ongoing union revenue, sadly it is in bankruptcy. When the government needed someone to run Olelo with all of its past board problems, etc., they called Jim to take over as chairman.
Yes he had a client who was an NFL owner that wanted to apply for a casino. Again, a client!
Yes he is a 20% owner of Zanzibar.
I wonder how well you would fare under similar circumstances?
Robert Chaison
Here is the News Read including the Star-Advertiser article: Governor's New Communications director Is Chairman Of Unity House, Owner of Troubled Nightclub, Gambling Advocate
Elder Caregiver: We need Aloha, not "Death by Prescription"
I am an experienced caregiver to elderly, disabled, and seriously/terminally ill patients.
Suicide activist and physician Robert Nathanson is preying on the very people who need us most. By participating in and instigating suicide among the vulnerable, Nathanson is committing acts that are illegal, unethical, and disgraceful to the medical profession. Physician assisted suicide constitutes the worst form of medical abandonment and is a recipe for abuse of the elderly, handicapped, and helpless.
We must not become complacent in vital matters that would allow a small minority of euthanasia advocates to infringe upon our right to life. Rather than believing the lie that we somehow "need" to institutionalize death by prescription, let's get with it and begin sharing our unique gift of aloha with those in need.
By offering life-affirming support and compassion to those in difficult circumstances, we can promote an island community that values and respects even the most defenseless members of our human 'ohana.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Department: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Department of Chemical Engineering and Robotics Engineering Program invite applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level. Candidates should be interdisciplinary-minded and have a PhD in Chemical Engineering, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Materials or a closely related discipline. We especially encourage applicants with an expertise in soft robotics, with backgrounds or interests in studying chemical and biochemical processes and approaches for the advancement of robotics science, engineering and applications. Some examples may include, but are not limited to: active matter and responsive soft materials; assembly engineering of nano- and microscale building blocks to design and control material properties; using chemical means to provide new power, sensing, actuation, control, or computation methods for soft robots and intelligent devices; employing chemical or biochemical synthesis and analysis methods for design of soft robotic systems; and machine learning to automate processes.
WPI's Chemical Engineering Department, with 17 faculty, 400+ undergraduate and 50+ graduate students, is ranked number 6 (out of 150) in the nation by College Factual - USA Today, with cutting-edge and growing research programs in molecular bioengineering, sustainability, functional materials and catalysis.
WPI's Robotics Engineering (RBE) Program is the first in the nation and in the world to offer BS through PhD degrees in robotics. The RBE Program, with 38 core and affiliated faculty, 370 undergraduates and 170 graduate students, was awarded the inaugural ABET Innovation Award for its truly interdisciplinary, project-based, curriculum that integrates a variety of disciplines including Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
Our combined collegial and diverse faculty work collaboratively in providing exceptional teaching and mentoring in the context of progressive interdisciplinary research to solve some of the most complex societal problems. With research funding from the NSF, NIH, AFRL, ONR, DARPA, NASA, DOE and industry, we offer an incredibly vibrant environment for faculty and students alike. The Chemical Engineering department is housed in state-of-the-art facilities located at both Goddard Laboratories and the interdisciplinary WPI Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park. Robotics laboratories comprise a number of different platforms including the new PracticePoint, a soon-to-be completed healthcare robotics R&D facility designed to promote collaboration between WPI faculty, the medical robotics and cyber-physical systems industry, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
WPI's reputation as a rigorous and innovative university rests on the shoulders of its faculty. WPI is one of the nation's oldest and premiere technological universities, founded in 1865 and located one hour west of Boston in Worcester, a growing scientific and technological hub of innovation. WPI is a highly selective private university with an undergraduate student body of over 4,000 and 1,900 full-time and part-time graduate students. Its innovative project-enriched, interdisciplinary curriculum engages students and faculty in real-world problem solving, often at one of WPI's global project centers. U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks WPI among the top 100 national universities and WPI was recently ranked No. 1 for "faculty who best combine research and teaching" (Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Ed, 2016).
Applicants must apply on-line at https://careers.wpi.edu/. Please include a cover letter, curriculum vitae with complete publication list, statement of research background and interests, statement of teaching philosophy and interests, statement of leadership experience (for tenured candidates) and the names and email addresses for at least five references. For additional information contact Professor and Head Susan Roberts at [email protected]
Candidates should have a PhD in Chemical Engineering, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Materials or a closely related field. Applicants at the tenure track level must show potential for an innovative and sustainable research and teaching career. Applicants at the tenured level must have a demonstrated record of outstanding research, excellent teaching and established leadership. WPI expects faculty to be involved in a balance of research, teaching and service activities, including mentoring student projects at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels.
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Official Statement On Ted DiBiase's WWE Departure
WWE issued an official statement on the departure of Ted DiBiase on Friday. According to their statement, DiBiase's contract is up as of September 1, 2013. Below is the statement in its entirety:
As of Sept. 1, Ted DiBiase Jr. will no longer be under contract with WWE. Opting not to renew his contract, DiBiase has chosen to pursue other endeavors outside the sports-entertainment world.
WWE wishes Ted DiBiase the best in all his future endeavors.
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New Thinking (and Funding) Required on Domestic Violence
"It is time to start a conversation which includes practitioners across the field...and to start calculating the real costs to our health and community welfare system."
- Member for Maitland, Jenny Aitchison MP
A few months ago, a young woman came into my electorate office. Let's call her Amanda*. She is one of the many who have sought my help since I was elected as the local MP last March.
Amanda was articulate, well groomed, clever and engaging: the kind of woman that some think are never victims of domestic violence.
Like many people in our community Amanda grew up, got married and started raising two children. The marriage broke down, and both parties went their separate ways. Amanda met another man. When she became pregnant with her new partner's child, things started to unravel for her.
Her new partner started to abuse her, to the extent that at times she was hospitalised. She left the relationship.
Amanda applied for an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) from the courts and was granted one for two years. However her ex-partner has continued to abuse her during this time. In fact, he has even written letters to her from jail in breach of these orders.
At the same time Amanda was battling her ex- partner for successive AVOs in the courts, her ex- husband was fighting her for sole care of her two oldest children on the basis that she could not keep them safe from her ex-partner.
Amanda has had to get three AVOs against her ex-partner, even though the courts have the power to grant a ten year AVO, they wouldn't do it in this case. On what basis did they think that this man would change his behaviour? He has not been through a program for perpetrators or any counselling. He has been to jail and continued his violence against her.
Then Amanda's ex-partner sought unsupervised access to her youngest child, the child he has never lived with. Having been through so much, her finances have been drained and she did not have the resources to pay a solicitor and is therefore representing herself. It remains to be seen how clearly the court listens to her plight this time.
When someone like Amanda is so badly failed by our justice system: when it is so hard to get an AVO against a proven perpetrator of domestic violence, when women lose their children because their partner is abusive, when they suffer repeated and seemingly unfettered violence from their ex partners, when the Family Court and the Criminal Courts seem to be working together against victims of violence, and when women become impoverished fighting the system, something is deeply wrong.
Governments at all levels are making major announcements addressing domestic violence lately, but in NSW, under the Baird Government's recent announcements, aside from some changes to policing, and introduction of some perpetrator behaviour programs, the structural elements of the court processes remain the same and extra funding for refuges appears to be a smoke and mirrors exercise with no certainty about how many new beds will be created.
In general,the conversation about preventing domestic violence appears to be focused on the two groups which receive direct government funding to deal with it: refuges and the police. Refuges are gagged from advocating under their contracts, so they are unable to freely participate in the public debate, nor publicly prove their funding crisis.
Some workers in the field believe that more resourcing for police will not result in reducing domestic violence until there is real cultural change in the force. According to one lawyer, police are often not acting quickly enough, specialist domestic violence officers are often not available, and general police seem to take the view that they can 'calm down' situations without providing ongoing legal protections for the women involved. Admittedly this may be sometimes a function of an officer's previous interactions with the judiciary, particularly in regional areas.
It's time to start a conversation which includes practitioners across the field, including the judiciary, doctors, community nurses, mainstream community services, social workers, and lawyers to add weight to the calls for more structural changes in the legal system and to start calculating the real costs to our health and community welfare system.
While Destroy the Joint has been counting murders of women in Australia (which last year increased to around two per week), there has been less attention to other statistics offered by Quentin Bryce at a recent conference I attended. Every three hours a woman is hospitalised due to domestic violence and three women a week suffer head injuries as a result of domestic violence.
It is a deeply disturbing reflection on the priorities of the Government that in the context of this attack on women and children, the best Mike Baird can aim for is to "reduce the rate of domestic and family violence reoffending within 12 months by 5% by 2019".
Our families deserve better than that.
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As an architect or drawing office, 3D visualizations can often be the tongue of the scales that convince your customers/investors of how important and thoughtful your project is. 3D-Vizual produces professional 3D visualizations that can help lift your project to the next level. A 3D visualization gives your customer a photo-realistic picture of how the construction project will look – both in daylight and in the night hours. The customer not only gets an idea of how the house will look, but also what mood the construction will bring, and how the residents can use the area. This can be a good idea, for example, if you as an architect are to present a plan for a new housing block, and the developers are interested in knowing how the building will form part of the landscape.


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Q: Representation Theory and Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory What is a good book/source to understand Representations of a Group in the sense we use it in Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory? I've read Barry Simon's book on Representation Theory but would like to be more comfortable with the ideas of Universe, irreducible representations and the like we use in Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory.
Thanks!!


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Dodgers to try top prospect May as reliever
Beltran is out
Hour 1: Beltran Fired
The Los Angeles Dodgers will try Dustin May, their top pitching prospect, as a reliever this weekend as they look to determine if he'll have a place on their postseason roster.
May had been slated to start Sunday's game against the Atlanta Braves, but manager Dave Roberts told reporters Friday that they will instead use the 21-year-old as a reliever at some point in the series.
"Right now, we're just trying to keep our options open as long as we can," Roberts said in explaining how the team plans to use May going forward.
The manager said May is open to being used as a reliever, something he hasn't done since 2017 with Class A Rancho Cucamonga.
May has made three starts since making his major league debut Aug. 2. He is 1-1 with a 2.65 ERA, going 5 ⅔ innings in each appearance.
Roberts said Tony Gonsolin, who is at Triple-A Oklahoma City, could start Sunday or the Dodgers may treat it as a bullpen game.


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About CR&D
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Pitch Your Project
Konglomerate Games and Biome Collective will receive £45,000 each to deliver a proof of concept demonstrator for the Nesta Playbox. Follow their journey with us in 2022.
In December 2021, five videogame developers from across Scotland were given £5,000 to pitch their vision for the 'Nesta Playbox'. The playbox is a digital twin of a Scottish neighbourhood, that provides data and insight about food environments that can be applied in the real world. The organisations were chosen following an initial application phase and lightning pitch session held in November.
The standard of submissions and diversity of ideas was incredibly high, leading us to offer two £45,000 prizes, rather than the one advertised at launch. We are excited to be working with two Dundee-based studios, Konglomerate Games and Biome Collective, to prove and pilot their concept games in early 2022. Commiserations to Agency of None, Chimera Tales, and Pocket Sized Hands who all delivered innovative work. We look forward to working with you in the future.
Konglomerate Game's winning idea involves building an environment in which players can build a city and adjust the food environment by building or moving takeaways, supermarkets and restaurants with different health and affordability ratings, set how different citizens interact with the food outlets and introduce blanket policies that affect the whole city.
Biome Collective's idea borrows mechanics from classic management simulations in which players manage resources for a virtual version of the Hilltown area of Dundee. Players will be able to make changes such as adjusting infrastructure or reformulating food products in a bid to improve the provision of healthier food options.
InGAME & Nesta– the UK's Innovation agency for social good- are co-funding these demonstrators to validate whether the tool can be used to plan healthier neighbourhoods across the UK. The demonstrators are being funded as part of Nesta's 'A Healthy Life' mission and InGAME's Cluster of the Future Challenge Call initiative. The development phase for both demonstrators begins at the end of January 2022.
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The Virtual Healthy Neighbourhoods Challenge is part of InGAME's Cluster of the Future (CotF) Challenges programme. CotF challenges are ambitious competitions to jumpstart high-risk, high-reward collaborations. Our calls are designed to harness and apply the awesome potential of videogames to provoke breakthrough solutions to known but difficult challenges, inventing new futures and driving positive change.
Our Challenge Calls are co-productions with respected Challenge Sponsors from across the globe. Together we co-design and co-fund the challenge, then we catalyse the amazing creativity and innovation potential of Scotland's games industry in response. If you're interested in becoming a Challenge Sponsor, please contact us.
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Word for Today:Enjoy the Peace of the Season.
Enjoy the Peace of the Season.
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" ( John 14:27).
"Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord" ( 2Peter 1:2).
Be truthful and honest with yourself .
Stay connected to the Word .
Be compassionate, merciful and kind to one another. Live in peace with one another.
Thank you Jesus for waking me up this morning.
Dear Father, we pray for everyone sincerely connected to your Word, that you give them the grace to enjoy the true peace of God in Jesus name. Amen.
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/ Bethlen, Count Stephen
Bethlen, Count Stephen
Bethlen, Count Stephen, 1874–1947?, Hungarian premier (1921–31). A Transylvanian, he entered the Hungarian parliament in 1901, and in 1919 he was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. Called to the premiership by Admiral Horthy, he prevented (1921), despite his monarchist leanings, the return of King Charles (Austrian Emperor Charles I) to avoid military intervention by the Little Entente. The chief aim of his foreign policy was the revision of the post-World-War-I Treaty of Trianon (see Trianon, Treaty of); a treaty of friendship (1927) with Italy advanced this cause. Bethlen survived a scandal over the forgery of francs in 1926, but his revisionism aroused the increasing suspicion of the Little Entente powers. In 1931, French bankers offered a loan to the hard-pressed government on condition that there be an end to revisionism, and Count Bethlen resigned. He was succeeded as premier by Count Julius Károlyi. Drawn at first toward collaboration with Nazi Germany, Bethlen grew increasingly opposed to Adolf Hitler and in 1940 opposed Hungary's alliance with Germany. In 1945 he was taken by the Russians to the USSR, apparently because of his efforts at concluding a separate peace with the Western powers. He was unofficially reported to have died there in prison.
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Ace Frehley - Origins Vol.2 (eOne / SPV)
by Kevin Burke
It is evident on Origins Vol.2 that not only is Ace Frehley on top of his game, but he is enjoying himself.
This man needs little in the way of introduction. Ace Frehley is one of most emulated, and influential guitarists of the past forty-five years. As a member of KISS in the seventies, he was integral to their success, and their myth. His riffs, solos and fireworks which literally exploded from his fingers became the reason as to why so many lost teenagers picked up a guitar and found a direction. But he was something bigger than KISS, he could knock a decent album away from the fold, and his solo album from '78 is testimony to that. The truth is, when the divorce happened in '82, the band lost it's creative spark, and it's authenticity. And now Ace is back with a new album.
After KISS, his offerings with Frehley's Comet, and solo outings (Trouble Walkin'), have been on the same level, if not bettered what his former band were knocking out. This century however, things have taken a twist, one which involves a plethora of quality releases that are satisfying long time fans and the converted. Since 2009's acclaimed Anomally, Ace has struck gold, not just as a musician, but as a songwriter. In 2016 came something different in Origins Vol 1. An album of covers, featuring input from Slash, Lita Ford, John 5, Mike McCready, and ex-bandmate Paul Stanley. Twelve tracks including three KISS tracks, two of which penned by Frehley ("Cold Gin", "Parasite"), but not originally sung by him. On September 18th, he follows up that excellent homage-paying album with something equally strong in the aptly titled Origins Vol. 2.
There is a transcendent selection of tracks on offer. Although one bonus KISS number in "She", the rest is a who's who of rock goliaths. Already the teaser dropped in "Space Truckin'", the 1972 Deep Purple, which is reinvented, and sounds hand built for Ace (Space Ace Truckin'), although great it does not represent fully the impact of what's on offer. The set launches full throttle with the early Led Zep cracker "Good Times, Bad Times". It is a spectacular opener, with a relentless riff-fest. What is dominant is the cohesion between Frehley and the rest of the band, working as a solid machine. Evident further in the reworking of the Mountain track "Never In My Life". The dominance of the guitar lines which come at the listener from all angles is at times overwhelming but wholly enjoyable.
Ace really brings the rock to roll in the Beatles "I'm Down", with a solo pulled straight out of 1977. It is stadium intense music condensed onto an album. The take of "Jumpin' Jack Flash", with vocals by Lita Ford, is the fuse lit on an incendiary stick of dynamite. The intro alone is mind blowing and inventive, the vocals are venomous and all guitars are in flames. Though there are even more heavyweight adventures in a version of the Cream's "Politician", a follow on to the version of "White Room" from Vol.1. This time, what would sound like an odd choice is actually executed with conviction, with an extra edge of guitar work from John 5. Same can be said for "Lola" by the Kinks, but it cleverly works, in both paying tribute to the original and integrated with the style of Ace. The chorus of course remains as catchy as ever.
This is a real tribute to influence, the appearance of the Humble Pie classic "30 Days In The Hole". With vocals by Cheap Trick's Robin Zander, it is just such a great track that it sounds like an original. There is a transcendent appearance by another ex-KISS player in Bruce Kulick. Both Bruce and Ace let loose on the Jimi Hendrix banger "Manic Depression". Here things are lifted closer to heaven, hearing both guitarists with different sounds cut solo after solo is just spectacular. Also worth noting is "Kicks" by Paul Revere & The Raiders. Like all that came before it, the track sounds so organically drenched in sweaty rock and roll. The urgency of the original is very much at the heart of the recording, and it flows beautifully.
An honest view of Origins Vol.2 can be to describe it as 'fun'. It is the good old sounds, some of which we may have forgotten, updated in this surreal and tragic world. The Animals "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" is the perfect example of this. It is sing-along personified, an anthemic statement to find freedom. Ace nails it. And then comes the closing track. A statement of how Ace has accepted his past, and now celebrates it with a reworking of "She". This bonus track is a final act of intensity, a reminder of what the guitarist accomplished, as if we need one. But it is great to hear it, and Ace has a voice that, like the man himself, has aged gracefully.
The band backing Ace, Jeremy Asbrock, Ryan Spencer Cook, and Philip Shouse, are simply sublime, and fully complement the style of the guitarist. They give him space to soar and an anchor to reign him in when needed. However, it is evident on Origins Vol.2 that not only is Ace Frehley on top of his game, but he is enjoying himself. For the length of the album he is breathing fire through those humbucker pickups, stretching the instrument, within a slick, cool playground of rock and roll.
1. Good Times Bad Times (Led Zeppelin)
2. Never In My Life (Mountain)
3. Space Truckin' (Deep Purple)
4. I'm Down (The Beatles)
5. Jumpin' Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones)
6. Politician (Cream)
7. Lola (The Kinks)
8. 30 Days In The Hole (Humble Pie)
9. Manic Depression (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
10. Kicks (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
11. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (The Animals)
12. She (KISS) [Bonus Track]
Available September 18th.
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Q: Calculate cosine similarity for between all cases in a dataframe fast I'm working on an NLP project  where I have to compare the similarity between many sentences
E.G. from this dataframe:

The first thing I tried was to make a join of the dataframe with itself to get the bellow format and compare row by row:

The problem with this that I get out of memory quickly for big medium/big datasets,
e.g. for a 10k rows join I will get 100MM rows which I can not fit in ram
My current aproach is to iterate over the dataframe with as:
final = pd.DataFrame()

### for each row
for i in range(len(df_sample)):

    ### select the corresponding vector to compare with
    v =  df_sample[df_sample.index.isin([i])]["use_vector"].values
    ### compare all cases agains the selected vector
    df_sample.apply(lambda x:  cosine_similarity_numba(x.use_vector,v[0])  ,axis=1)

    ### kept the cases with a similarity over a given th, in this case 0.6
    temp = df_sample[df_sample.apply(lambda x:  cosine_similarity_numba(x.use_vector,v[0])  ,axis=1) > 0.6]
    ###  filter out the base case
    temp = temp[~temp.index.isin([i])]
    temp["original_question"] = copy.copy(df_sample[df_sample.index.isin([i])]["questions"].values[0])
    ### append the result
    final = pd.concat([final,temp])

But this aproach is not fast either.
How can I improve the performance of this process?

A: One possible trick you may employ is to switch from sparse tfidf representation to dense word embeddings from Facebook's fasttext:
import fasttext
# wget https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fasttext/vectors-crawl/cc.en.300.bin.gz
model = fasttext.load_model("./cc.en.300.bin")

Then you can proceed to calculate cosine similarity with more space efficient, context aware and better performing (?) dense word embeddings:
df = pd.DataFrame({"questions":["This is a question",
                                "This is a similar questin",
                                "And this one is absolutely different"]})

df["vecs"] = df["questions"].apply(model.get_sentence_vector)

from scipy.spatial.distance import pdist, squareform
# only pairwise distance with itself
# vectorized, no doubling data
out = pdist(np.stack(df['vecs']), metric="cosine")
cosine_similarity = squareform(out)
print(cosine_similarity)

[[0.         0.08294727 0.25305626]
 [0.08294727 0.         0.23575631]
 [0.25305626 0.23575631 0.        ]]

Note as well, on top of memory efficiency, you also gain about 10x speed increase due to using cosine similarity from scipy.
Another possible trick is to cast your similarity vectors from default float64 to float32 or float16:
df["vecs"] = df["vecs"].apply(np.float16)

which will give you both speed and memory gains.

A: I just wrote an answer to a problem similar to yours yesterday, which is Top-K Cosine Similarity rows in a dataframe of pandas
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import cosine_similarity

data = {"use_vector": [[-0.1, -0.2, 0.3], [0.1, -0.2, -0.3], [-0.1, 0.2, -0.3]]}
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
print("Data: \n{}\n".format(df))

vectors = []
for v in df['use_vector']:
    vectors.append(v)
vectors_num = len(vectors)
A=np.array(vectors)
# Get similarities matrix, value for each pair at corresponding index of upper triangle of matrix
similarities = cosine_similarity(A)
# Set symmetrical(repetitive) and diagonal(similarity to self) to -2
similarities[np.tril_indices(vectors_num)] = -2
print("Similarities: \n{}\n".format(similarities))

Outputs:
Data:
          use_vector
0  [-0.1, -0.2, 0.3]
1  [0.1, -0.2, -0.3]
2  [-0.1, 0.2, -0.3]

Similarities:
[[-2.         -0.42857143 -0.85714286]  # vector 0 & 1, 2
 [-2.         -2.          0.28571429]  # vector 1 & 2
 [-2.         -2.         -2.        ]]


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Our District -
Helping Banks Brace for Hurricane Season
Severe meteorological events like hurricanes can lead to extensive power and telecommunications outages that impact ATMs, cellular availability, and internet access. Financial institutions may shut down or move operations for safety. At the same time, people still need to pay for groceries, medicine, and even rent. During these stressful times, demand for cash spikes.
How do we ensure that cash is available when it's needed most? By being well prepared and by working directly with financial institutions and armored carriers year-round.
We've learned from Katrina, Sandy, Harvey, Maria, and other hurricanes that major storms can interrupt a financial institution's operations. Interruptions can last a few hours to more significant periods of time.
Some disruptions can be anticipated, others cannot. That's why having a response plan cannot wait until the last minute.
The Federal Reserve's Cash Product Office (CPO) and Reserve Banks have comprehensive business continuity plans, which we test regularly. Throughout the year, we communicate to banks and armored carriers about how a storm could impact Federal Reserve operations. We also work with our business partners to understand their plans.
When early warning indicators predict a disruptive event, the CPO and the Federal Reserve office in the affected area jump into action. The first step is to open communication channels and establish the Federal Reserve's response team, which includes business continuity experts and communication specialists. The team also extends to our partners in financial institutions and armored carriers.
Throughout the storm or disruptive event, we stay in close contact with each other and our business partners, so we are all aware of any changes in operating status, as well as any safety or transportation issues.
Supporting recovery
Making sure consumers have ready access to cash in affected areas is a collaborative effort. During large-scale revitalization efforts, we often coordinate with local and national authorities and monitor cash supply and demand daily. This includes working with local banks and armored carriers to assess currency contaminated by flood waters, sewage, and mold. We then provide special bags so the contaminated currency can be safely transported to the Fed for proper disposal.
Over a typical two-year period the U.S. coastline is struck by an average of three hurricanes, one of which is classified as a major hurricane (winds of 111 miles per hour or greater), according to the National Weather Service. Last year was an especially busy season with six major storms on record.
The 2018 hurricane season began June 1 and is expected to run through November 30. We cannot predict the severity of this year's storms, but we're ready to move into action to meet cash demand when and where it's needed.
The Federal Reserve's Role in Cash Distribution
Emergency Funds: Why Americans Choose Cash for Disaster Preparation
Cash Stands Ready Rain or Shine
Meeting Demand for Currency during a Disaster
Banco Popular reflects on resiliency planning in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria
The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the management of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.


Game of Thrones season 8 will be airing on 14th April and has already gained vast craze amongst its fans. With it being the final season, most fans want to ensure they watch it live.
There's some good and bad news. The regular HBO price of $14.99 per month will activate once the trial is complete, or you can cancel anytime during the trial. This same rule applies to all streaming service free trials: If you do not want to become a paying subscriber, be sure to do not forget to cancel before the free-trial period expires. You'll need to skip social media if you want to avoid the spoilers!
What time will GoT season 8 episode 1 air? As with Amazon Prime there is no cable, DirecTV or Dish Network needed as this is a direct offering by HBO for subscribers. It's very tempting, especially if you don't have Foxtel or iTunes/Google accounts to purchase the episodes, but it'll make the world a safer place.
If you'd like to jump straight into the episode we have the HBO stream RIGHT HERE for you.


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Q: Retrieving a filename for an ALAsset How can the filename be extracted from an ALAsset?
Is there a way to get this via the url or some other way?

A: Update: As yeonsh notes below, from iOS 5.0 there is a better way. This answer is relevant for iOS < 5.0.
You can extract an URL from the ALAsset, but all the filenames are the same, on the form
assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=1000000001&ext=JPG
If you for some reason need different file names, try making an internal-external paradigm:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface NSURL (NSURL_Asset)

- (NSURL*) toExternalForm;
- (NSURL*) fromExternalForm;
- (NSString*) toExternalFilename;

@end

#import "NSURL+Asset.h"
#import "URLParser.h" // from http://iphone.demay-fr.net/2010/04/parsing-url-parameters-in-a-nsstring/

static NSString *const EXTERNAL_TOKEN = @"/assetExternalForm/";

@implementation NSURL (NSURL_Asset)

// assets-library://asset/asset.JPG/assetExternalForm/1000000001.JPG -> assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=1000000001&ext=JPG
- (NSURL*) fromExternalForm {
    if([self.scheme isEqualToString:@"assets-library"]) {
        NSRange slash = [self.absoluteString rangeOfString:EXTERNAL_TOKEN options:NSBackwardsSearch];
        if(slash.location != NSNotFound) {

            NSRange dot = [self.absoluteString rangeOfString:@"." options:NSBackwardsSearch];

            if(dot.location != NSNotFound) {
                NSString* extention = [self.absoluteString substringFromIndex:(dot.location + dot.length)];
                NSString* identifier = [self.absoluteString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(slash.location + slash.length, dot.location - (slash.location + slash.length))];

                return [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@?id=%@&ext=%@", [self.absoluteString substringToIndex:slash.location], identifier, extention]];
            }
        }
    }
    return self;
}

// assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=1000000001&ext=JPG -> assets-library://asset/asset.JPG/assetExternalForm/1000000001.JPG
- (NSURL*) toExternalForm {
    if([self.scheme isEqualToString:@"assets-library"]) {
        NSRange range = [self.absoluteString rangeOfString:@"?"];
        if(range.location != NSNotFound) {
            URLParser *parser = [[[URLParser alloc] initWithURLString:self.absoluteString] autorelease];

            NSString* extention = [parser valueForVariable:@"ext"];
            NSString* identifier = [parser valueForVariable:@"id"];

            if(extention != NULL && identifier != NULL) {
                return [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@.%@", [self.absoluteString substringToIndex:range.location], EXTERNAL_TOKEN, identifier, extention]];
            }
        }
    }
    return self;
}

// assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=1000000001&ext=JPG -> 1000000001.JPG
- (NSString*) toExternalFilename {
    if([self.scheme isEqualToString:@"assets-library"]) {
        NSRange range = [self.absoluteString rangeOfString:@"?"];
        if(range.location != NSNotFound) {
            URLParser *parser = [[[URLParser alloc] initWithURLString:self.absoluteString] autorelease];

            NSString* extention = [parser valueForVariable:@"ext"];
            NSString* identifier = [parser valueForVariable:@"id"];

            if(extention != NULL && identifier != NULL) {
                return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@.%@", identifier, extention];
            }
        }
    }
    return NULL;
}

@end

Note that you do not need a filename to read the content of an ALAsset. Use the ALAsset.defaultRepresentation.getBytes method for that.

A: From iOS 5.0 you can get the file from ALAssetRepresentation Class.
ALAssetRepresentation *rep = [anAssetItem defaultRepresentation];
NSString *fileName = [rep filename];


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Q: Find all the combinations of numbers between min and max in php I am trying to figure out the most optimized code that will find the list of combinations that are between X, and Y for a given list like below:

*

*A = 4

*B = 6

*C = 3

*D = 5

*E = 4

*F = 1

And let's say X = 7, and Y = 16
So finds all the combinations whose sum are greater than or equal to X, and less than or equal to Y. The values can be repeated.
That is:

*

*AA

*AAA

*AAAA

*ABA

*ABB

*ABC

*...

*EE

*EEE

*EEEE

*EA

*EAA

...And so on
Final condition: Duplicate arrangements should not be included. For example, ABB is the same as BBA, and BAB. So the latter two should not be included.
I am trying to find the most optimised code for this as the input list can contain up to 200 numbers...

A: Things you'll need to do:

*

*Loop all our letter combinations

*Order the combination alphabetically, so that we can find duplicates. e.g. ABB is the same as BAB - see https://stackoverflow.com/a/9912497/897266

*If it's a duplicate, mark it as such or exclude it - see https://stackoverflow.com/a/10096034/897266

*Calculate each combinations value - see https://stackoverflow.com/a/49181225/897266

*Compare each combinations value to confirm it's within our min/max bounds - see https://stackoverflow.com/a/4684064/897266

*If it is then retain it, else mark it as not or exclude it

*After the loop, output the set of combinations which pass the test and are not duplicates

I could write that all out in php, but I'm hoping that's enough guidance to give you a fighting chance at it.