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US: Obama acts to ease flu fears
Via the New York Times: Obama Acts to Ease Flu Fears; U.S. Says It Is Prepared. Excerpt:
The Obama administration dispatched high-level officials from several agencies Monday to allay concerns about swine flu and to demonstrate that it was fully prepared to confront the outbreak even as the president said there was "not a cause for alarm."
Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, and Dr. Richard E. Besser, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the administration was prepared to respond to any further spread of the swine flu virus.
Homeland security officials said they expected the outbreak to spread.
"We are proceeding as if we are preparatory to a full pandemic level," Ms. Napolitano said.
As the administration responds to its first domestic emergency, it is building on concrete preparations made during the tenure of President George W. Bush that have won praise from public health experts.
But its actions are also informed by what Mr. Bush learned in his response to Hurricane Katrina: that political management of a crisis, and of public expectations, can be as important as the immediate response.
In a speech at the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, Mr. Obama said only a few words about swine flu. "This is, obviously, a cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert," he said. "But it's not a cause for alarm."
But behind the scenes at the White House, aides said the president was directing his administration to be ready in case an alarm needed to be sounded. A full report on the swine flu was added to Mr. Obama's daily intelligence briefing, with updates given to him throughout the day.
The report isn't coming as a total shock to Obama. As I noted in a post on January 4, 2008, he was calling in the summer of 2005 for a drug stockpile against an avian flu pandemic, when he was a very junior Senator.
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 Are Economic Developers in Tune with Renewable Energy?
Are Economic Developers in Tune with Renewable Energy?
Renewable energy (RE) industries have experienced tremendous growth over the past decade. Continued growth of these industries has the potential to meet many of the country's economic, environmental and social goals. But how do policymakers, investors, and economic developers best support the sustained growth of RE?
To help answer this question, the International Economic Development Council (IEDC), funded by a grant from the Energy Foundation, the Solar Foundation, and the Wind Energy Foundation, has published "Understanding Renewable Energy Businesses: Aligning Renewable Energy Firms and Economic Developers" (PDF). This report complements IEDC's 2011 "Powering Up" report (PDF) which surveyed economic developers on how they prioritize policies and strategies that support the RE industry.
This new report offers valuable standalone insight on the wind, solar and biomass electricity sectors. IEDC interviewed representatives from solar and wind energy firms to assess the opportunities and challenges facing these industries. IEDC also spoke one-on-one with experts in the biopower industry, which has been a consistent, significant source of RE over the past few decades.
These goals and the actual survey questions mirror those asked of economic developers in the "Powering Up" report. The similar format has enabled IEDC to compare and contrast firms' and economic developers' perspectives, thereby identifying both overlaps and gaps in understanding. The goal of the report is to help economic developers adjust their strategies to best support local RE industries.
Understanding alignments and gaps between renewable energy firms and economic developers can illuminate the success of existing programs and suggest improvements to future strategies. IEDC hopes this research will be a first step in closing these gaps.


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Concurrent Programming: The Java Programming Language
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Title Concurrent Programming: The Java Programming Language
Author(s) Stephen J. Hartley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 26, 1998)
Paperback 272 pages
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The popularity of the Internet has led to rapidly expanding interest in client-server programming by all kinds of businesses and organizations. Many client and server applications benefit from their design as object-oriented programs with multiple threads of control. An object-oriented language with built-in threads, Java is ideal for concurrent programming and developing multi-threaded applications. Demand for programmers skilled in object-oriented design and concurrency will only grow in the future, making concurrent programming and the Java programming language increasingly important to programming students and professionals.
Designed for students and professionals, Concurrent Programming: The Java Programming Language provides a practical, demonstrative introduction to the issues and concepts in concurrent programming, operating systems, the client-server model, and multiple threads. It features numerous Java example programs as stand-alone applications rather than as simple applets, showing readers how to utilize the Java programming language to write programs that use semaphores, monitors, message passing, remote procedure calls, and the rendezvous for thread synchronization and communication.
Each example program includes output from one or more sample runs. Multithreading issues such as race conditions, critical sections, mutual exclusion, and condition synchronization are covered. Several thread communication tools used extensively in client server programming - message passing, the rendezvous, and remote procedure calls - are also described. An algorithm animation package, written in Java, is used in several of the example programs. The book concludes with a brief introduction to parallel processing with Java.
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Home Politics Foreign Policy Iran Urges Venezuelan Gov't, Opposition to Resolve Differences Peacefully
Iran Urges Venezuelan Gov't, Opposition to Resolve Differences Peacefully
Iran's Foreign Ministry voiced backing for Venezuela's democratically elected government in the wake of recent violent protests in the Latin American nation, saying Tehran supports talks between the Caracas government and the opposition for peaceful resolution of differences.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran's principled policy is supporting Venezuela's legitimate government that has been elected by the nation. We support the continuation of talks between the government and the opposition in order to resolve the differences peacefully," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday.
Highlighting the significance that Iran attaches to stability and security in Latin America, Qassemi said lingering unrest in Venezuela would not serve the interests of any party and could mount pressure on the Venezuelan people.
The spokesman also voiced Iran's opposition to any foreign interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela, calling for respect for the Bolivarian Republic's sovereignty and independence.
Street riots have escalated in Venezuela in recent days in protest at a decision by the country's Supreme Court to seize power from the legislature.
Venezuelan security forces clashed with protesters on the streets of Caracas on Tuesday.


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Comic book artist's graphic view of Katrina
By Adam Warner
Josh Neufeld was just another comic book artist until Hurricane Katrina put him on the bestseller list.
Neufeld was one of thousands of volunteers who rushed to waterlogged Crescent City in the wake of the disaster five years ago — but he's the only one who came back with a blog, a self-published book, and a gripping graphic novel, "A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge."
"I was very shocked and upset with what I saw happening down there," said Neufeld, a longtime artist for the renowned comic series, "American Splendor," and author of the prior graphic novel, "A Few Perfect Hours."
"All those people trapped in the city and the lack of government intervention galvanized me into doing something."
Something first morphed into a blog, and then a collection of entries, called "Katrina Came Calling," which led to the well-received the new autobiographical graphic novel.
Neufeld's work as a Red Cross disaster response worker feeding hurricane-stricken citizens remains front and center in "A.D.," an eye-opening tale of destruction and human perseverance familiar to anyone who read Neufeld's popular blog.
"A.D." is filled with sadness, but also the resilience of what Neufeld calls the "colorful characters" of New Orleans. It started as a web comic, but went on to become a New York Times bestseller shortly after its hardcover release in 2009.
It's now out in paperback, and Greenlight Bookstore is heralding the event with a reading on Sept. 20.
"There's a heavy readership of graphic novels, and Josh will definitely host an exciting event," said Rebecca Fitting, who co-wons the shop. " 'A.D.' got a lot of attention when it was released."
Josh Neufeld at Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246-0200]. Sept. 20 at 7:30 pm. Free. For info, visit abookstoreinbrooklyn.blogspot.com.


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The Cask of Amontillado
Irony in "Cask of Amontillado"
Irony in "Cask of Amontillado"
The Cask of Amontillado Essays
In most cases, irony is used in stories that contain instances of humor, but this is not the case in "The Cask of Amontillado", which is essentially a dark and tragic story. Irony in the story is used as a manifestation of the evil deeds that Montresor wishes to commit against Fortunato, who does not know the terrible end that he is about to face. This style helps to keep the story in suspense while at the same time developing it main characters towards a climax that is both dramatic and tragic.
From its very beginning, irony in the story is depicted as being extremely dark and it can be used as a means of forecasting the terrible event that will occur later. Its first instance can be seen through a contrast made between the carnival and the catacombs underneath Montresor's house, where the carnival is depicted as a happy place where all its attendants are having a wonderful time. Irony in this comparison is seen when Montresor states "it was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend" (Poe 212), in reference to the happiness that and a sense of joy that is taking place within it. This statement is later contrasted to the catacombs when Montresor states that "its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris" (Poe 215), and this shows not only its scary nature, but is also a sign of Fortunato's unfortunate death. The irony in these two situations comes about through Montresor's determination to have his revenge against Fortunato despite the joyous happenings taking place at the carnival. Despite the festivities going on outside, Montresor wants to wall up his friend in a niche inside the catacombs where he is to end his life miserably.
Irony in this story can also be seen in the name Fortunato, which is Italian for fortunate, a situation which this character does not find himself in the end. Fortunato, despite the meaning of his name, ends up with a miserable when his supposed friend walls him up in the catacombs. It is therefore ironical that although his name is a reference to an individual with an auspicious life, Fortunato does not live to see it to a happy conclusion due to his untimely end.
The other instance of irony in the story is in reference to its dramatic aspects, especially where Fortunato is dressed as a jester in order to attend the carnival. In the story, it is stated that "The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells" (Poe 212), which shows that while having dressed as a fool, Fortunato does not know that within a few hours, he is indeed going to be made a fool of by Montresor. The means through which Montresor lures him to his house is an instance of being treated like a fool. When Montresor become aware of Fortunato's cough and asks, "How long have you had that cough?" (Poe 214) just when he plans to wall the latter up alive within the catacombs under his house, it is highly ironical because he does not actually care whether Fortunato has a cough or not. It is also a sign of Montresor's malicious nature because he is about to kill his friend in the worst way possible and is perhaps a means of making Fortunato feel at ease and not suspect his true intentions.
Irony in the story can also be seen through a tragic sense, where Fortunato, despite having a very bad cough, chooses to go on drinking, declaring "I drink…..to the buried that repose around us" (Poe 214), and not knowing that he within a few minutes, he will also be joining them. In the same scene, Fortunato being a freemason asks Montresor disbelievingly whether he is also a mason to which the latter replies by showing him a trowel that he has been hiding. Fortunato comes to realize the skills of a mason that Montresor has as he looks on as the latter walls him up in the catacombs and leaves him to die. After undertaking this terrible task, Montresor declares that "for half of the century no mortal has disturbed them. Rest in peace" (Poe 217), an ironical statement, which signals an end to Fortunato's life with dreadful finality, since he will never be able to leave the catacombs whether he is dead or alive.
In conclusion, irony throughout the story shows an extremely evil part of Montresor's nature since he is able, through making statements laced with irony, to lure an unknowing Fortunato, to his death. Because the story is dark and tragic, irony does not bring about humor but it instead makes possible a show of Fortunato's gullibility as he is easily manipulated by his supposed friend. Finally, irony is also a means of showing the suspense that occurs in the story because the reader does not get to know about events leading to Montresor's need for revenge towards Fortunato.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "Cask of Amontillado." Godeys Ladys Book, November 1846: 212 – 217.
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Every once in a while company's get the bright idea of pairing up with us here at SCOF, and making what the world should know as revolutionary fly fishing gear. Naturally when Dave and I first saw Steve with the latest advancement there where a lot of man purse jokes, just because Steve had it and we didn't. When one of the roll top gear bags from Recycled Waders was handed to me I didn't turn it down. If you can't understand what Recycled Waders is all about by just their name, you should probably retake the third grade to make sure you really soaked everything in. They're the company that's making functional creative things out of our stale waders from a few seasons' ago.
Functional is the only description this bag needs. A simplistic, water resistant bag made for the weekend's clothes, deodorant, oversized indicators, and a tablet. Technically speaking it's deep roll top over the shoulder bag, with nothing but one large compartment. Which is perfect for me because no matter how organized I think I am, if everything comes home it's a win for me.
Recycled Waders never claims to make waterproof products out of their location in Seattle, just water resistant. Which makes it perfect for the weekend's worth of stuff I've used it for time and time again. However it would be unlike me not to push a product to the limits. For example; throwing my roll of toilet paper into it and leaving my boat bag at home, that's a big step of trust for me. Half way through a musky float the sky breaks open and doesn't let up. Then four hours later putting feet back on the concrete fishless and wet, fully expecting everything else to be. You can guess my joy when I find nothing but dry goods in the bottom of my bag.
Moral of the story; every once in a while you get more then your excepting out of your gear. Especially gear that you only pay 45$ for. Go check out more co-brand gear at the SCOF store or even more cool stuff from recycled waders at their website. Links included just click on their name, go-ahead just do it.


Claude Béglé worked for several years in the CleanTech and sustainability sectors, highlighted by his recent role as creator of the policy for the Clean Tech strategy of the State of Geneva, and as Executive Chairman of SymbioSwiss. He is a seasoned executive having worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies in top leadership positions throughout his career. A dynamic and result-oriented line manager, he is a strategic thinker with a global vision able to translate the later into action and concrete results.
He is a leader and a federator. He is also a seasoned negotiator at ease in complex business and regulatory situations. He successfully completed numerous acquisitions and subsequent integrations and is also an expert in steering change management. He possesses an in depth knowledge of the service and the consumer goods industries. Equipped with a strong sense of corporate social responsibility, with a deep engagement in favor of renewable energies, water and environmental programs, clean technologies, Claude Béglé is innovative, multilingual and multicultural.
Arnaud has close to 8 years of experience in Private Equity, from deal sourcing, through financial and technical due diligence to valuation. At SymbioSwiss he is responsible for overseeing all operations, directing the process of new project selection and heading the group's investment strategy. He is a hands-on manager and is participating actively in the day to day operations of a number of the companies in SymbioSwiss' Club of Entrepreneurs.
He holds a Masters degree in Finance and Management. He attended several private equity programs such as EVCA, SECA and Harvard Business school's specialized program. Arnaud is also a Certified International Investment Analyst.
Claudio having finished his Bachelor in Business Administration, he is pursuing with a Master Degree at Hult (San Francesco and Boston). He has a keen interest in the field of marketing. Claudio has worked as a marketing manager for small companies, and also in the sales department for a health insurance company. He is managing a number of projects within the company.
Gustavo has worked for more than 15 years for the luxury industry, mainly for watch manufacturers. In these industries he has made logos, advertising brochures, internet sites, etc. Of Mexican origin, but established since a long time in Switzerland, he is SymbioSwiss Web master.


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Western signs national charter to fight anti-Black racism in higher ed
Scarborough Charter brings together Canadian universities, colleges committed to equity, diversity, inclusion
By Mari-Len De Guzman,
Forty-seven institutions, including Western and its affiliated university colleges, Brescia, Huron and King's, have signed on to the Scarborough Charter, committed to redressing anti-Black racism and fostering Black inclusion. (Steve Anderson, Western Communications)
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Western has joined other Canadian universities and colleges in signing the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education.
"Western embraces the challenge of building a more inclusive world," said president Alan Shepard. "As postsecondary institutions continue to engage in meaningful work to increase diversity and counter racism, we can help make Canada a stronger, more just society."
Launched Nov. 18, the Scarborough Charter is the brainchild of collaborative work among Canadian universities, colleges and other partners that began in October 2020, initiating a national dialogue on racial equity and the role of higher education in instituting change. The Scarborough Charter now has 47 signatories, including Western and its affiliated university colleges (Brescia, Huron and King's).
"Postsecondary institutions are instrumental in shaping the future of society," said Opiyo Oloya, Western's associate vice-president of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). "By taking concrete action against anti-Black racism and committing to Black inclusion in all that we do as an institution and as a community, we can succeed in our journey toward change."
Oloya, an award-winning school board administrator who came to Canada as a political refugee from Uganda, joined Western as the university's first associate vice-president of EDI on Aug. 30. His work is guided by Western's first-ever EDI advisory council.
Signatories to the Scarborough Charter commit to redressing anti-Black racism and fostering Black inclusion. The charter prescribes four principles that should guide universities and colleges in policy making and action: Black flourishing; inclusive excellence; mutuality; and accountability.
The charter will enable ongoing collaboration, mutual learning and sharing of resources among Canadian universities, colleges and other partner agencies to promote and act on these principles.
"I am looking forward to what we, as a larger community of higher learning in Canada, can accomplish through a unified approach to racial equity and inclusion. This long road ahead will not be without challenges, but we are ready to take them on, and I am excited to work with our peer institutions to carve the path forward," Oloya said.
Signing on to the Scarborough Charter is the latest in a series of commitments Western has made to embed EDI principles into the institutional structure of the university.
In June, Western announced a $6-million investment to support new EDI initiatives including the recruitment of Black and Indigenous faculty members. Last month, Western's first-ever campus-wide equity census was launched, the results of which will help provide a clearer picture of the demographics of the university and enhance diversity and equity in the campus community.
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A William McKissock is listed in the 1820, 1830 and 1840 Federal Census index as living in the town of Montgomery. As of 10 Sept. 1850, William McKissock lived in the town of Montgomery, Orange County, New York, and owned real estate valued at $3,500. His wife is not listed in the census and is presumed dead at that time, but Lydia J. (a. 18) and Marietta (a. 11) (presumably his daughters) are listed as living with him. He was thus known to be alive at this time.


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Scarborough: 'Let Tillerson Do His Job or Name Kushner Secretary of State'
Cameron Cawthorne
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough blasted President Donald Trump on Thursday for not letting his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, do his job.
Scarborough said Tillerson was being "set up for failure," so that Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, could be the de facto secretary of state.
The show's panel was responding to a Politico article detailing an outburst that Tillerson had last Friday towards Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office, for "torpedoing proposed nominees to senior State Department posts and for questioning his judgment."
"Rex Tillerson is an accomplished 65-year-old guy who ran one of the world's largest companies and he's been treated lately like a GS-12," said columnist Mike Barnicle.
Co-host Willie Geist said Tillerson was not frustrated by ego as the article suggested, but just wanted to do his job and have all the necessary tools.
"He has been set up, Mark Halperin, for failure," Scarborough said. "He's been set up for failure and it's happening every day. They're not even letting him put his people in after Donald Trump promised him that he would be able to pick people that were running the State Department with him."
"Rex Tillerson, Mika, has been working very well with General [James] Mattis, with [Defense] Secretary Mattis. Those two are in constant communication," Scarborough said. "They're trying to work through problems and yet they can't get the president of the United States to give them the people they need to make America strong, to make America safe because he's got this freakish idea that he's going to let his son-in-law run America's foreign policy."
Scarborough said later in the segment that four Trump administration officials told him that Kushner was going to be the de facto secretary of state.
"Donald Trump and Jared Kushner's idea has been from the very beginning that he would be the secretary of state and they would just get somebody that would go around the world and smoke cigars with leaders, slap them on the back, but all the business was going to be done by Jared," he said.
"Let Rex Tillerson do his job or name Jared Kushner secretary of state," Scarborough added. "Rex, you're either secretary of state or you're not secretary of state, and if they're not going to let you be secretary of state, go home. You've deserved it. Have your retirement. Enjoy yourself."
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POLL: Should Warner Bros. Reboot Harry Potter?
With Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald having disappointed with both critics and audiences, Warner Bros. Pictures and creator J.K. Rowling may have to rethink their approach to their Wizarding World franchise. ComingSoon.net wants to know from its readers whether the studio should simply reboot the entire Harry Potter franchise and start again from scratch, possibly even reimagining the original landmark eight-film series? Vote now in both polls below!
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The eight Harry Potter movies released from 2001 to 2011 stand as the third-highest-grossing film series behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars with $7.7 billion in worldwide receipts. While the two Fantastic Beasts prequels have been financially successful, they haven't stirred the same fervent fanbase that the original run did. Since Rowling is very protective of her property it's unlikely that Warners would do anything without her involvement. Given that, it's possible that the studio could use Rowling and Jack Thorne's highly-successful play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as the basis for a new series of films chronicling Harry's son Albus Severus Potter's time at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Warners has already announced that Fantastic Beasts 3 (the third in a planned 5-film prequel cycle) has been delayed a year and will open on November 12, 2021. Production is scheduled to begin in spring 2020. Eddie Redmayne will reprise his role as Newt Scamander in the film, with Johnny Depp confirmed to return as well as the villain Grindelwald. The previous film in the Harry Potter prequel franchise, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, earned $653 million at the worldwide box office.
The first two Fantastic Beasts movies were directed by David Yates, from a screenplay by J.K. Rowling, and produced by David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram.
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Lace is a fairly safe bet each and every autumn/winter, but for 2019, it has been used in so many ultra-pretty ways that we wanted to share. From layered over shirting (Prada) to ruffle upon red ruffle for party dresses (Erdem) and as negligées for day (Philosophy), we imagine this classic fabric trend will not only infiltrate your evening wardrobe but your day one too. Even Victoria Beckham is behind it, so we're ready and waiting to see how she styles it our IRL, perhaps at the airport…
I don't think I've ever seen so many trends! The autumn/winter 2019 fashions are, to say the least, varied, vast and very much going to suit your style, whatever that may be. If you're a minimalist, there's much to love. If you're a maximalist, this is an epic time for you too. If you like colour, great. If you hate colour, fabulous! Want to dress like you're permanently at a party? That's an entirely legitimate planned, backed by many big industry hitters, including Marc Jacobs and Versace.
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Inquiring for my daughter. Where is the best Fashion Merchandise Marketing school in Sacramento and San Francisco area? Whenever I goggle these schools, some say Institute of Art in Sacramento, and some say FIDM, and others. I'm so confused I have no idea, which is the best college for my money. I have decided to go to American River College to get my Associates, and then I have no idea where to continue my fashion degree.
In the City of Light, during the years from 1927 to 1940, Schiaparelli's reputation for daring designs grew steadily. Soon, Parisians developed a passion for her unusual dresses, sweaters, and accessories. Her signature style always encompassed some whimsical elements, such as lobster motifs or skeleton ribs and bones (made with trapunto quilting); however, the construction of the garments themselves was often quite strict and tailored…this dichotomy made for original pieces that were often "knocked off" by other designers.
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There's a puff-sleeve personality for everyone, according to the runways. Maybe you'll like yours neat and rounded out at the shoulder for autumn (see Givenchy), or maybe you'll want something decadent and entirely inappropriate for anything that involves dipping sauces (see Emilia Wickstead's gigantic-sleeved floral dresses). Whatever route you choose to go down there is a huge amount on offer from edgy to prim.
Ottavio Missoni started their own fashion design company with his wife Rosita. First they started with stripes, the easiest design which could be made with the ch. They use up to twenty different fabrics, including wool, cotton, linen, rayon and silk and some 40 different colours for each of their collections. Their clothes range from sweaters to skirts, dresses and jackets. Ottavio Missoni has also diversified from clothes to tapestries and carpets. Ottavio died last year leaving Rosita being the head of the business.
After working for renowned fashion house Nino Cerruti, he branched out on his own, delivering his first women's wear collection in 1974. Armani's designs were always influenced by menswear, and his immaculate tailoring and cutting gave his pieces a timeless air. He is famous for his deconstructed jackets, which feature a softer shoulder and a longer line.
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Distinctive works of two artists that relate to guns will likely generate questions and conversations on a timely topic at Vision Gallery.
The photographs of Kari Wehrs of Tempe and the sculptures of Nathaniel Lewis of Phoenix are being exhibited at "TOGETHER" through May 3 at Vision Gallery, 10 E. Chicago St. An opening reception for Wehrs and Lewis will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight, April 6, at the gallery.
The artists' works are being shown together for the first time.
The tintype process was invented in the 1850s and was the main method of photographic image-making in the 1860s during the Civil War, remaining popular into the 1880s, Wehrs said.
Lewis, a father of two and former toy designer, created sculptures that he said were created to illustrate "adult behavior that we don't typically model for children," including the use of guns, surveillance cameras and TSA stops.
"Many people discuss it in person, or argue about it online, in (an) attempt to get other people to agree with them – but that is not what these artists are doing. Kari is making her photographs in order to interact with people who she doesn't see eye to eye with, try to understand their points of view and find common ground.
Both artists said their works are not meant to make judgments on gun use or other controversial matters but rather to raise questions and make viewers think.
She shot the photos as part of her thesis work while earning her master's degree in fine arts from Arizona State University and said the work examines social and "political divisiveness" in the world today.
"From scenes of gun violence that make the national news, to my 60-some-year-old mother suddenly deciding to carry, incidents of gun use haunt me with curiosity and fear," Wehrs wrote in her thesis statement for the photography project.
"Having no personal attachment to guns, I am grappling with present day societal reverberations and implications of the gun in American culture," she added.
She said she set up her darkroom tent and tintype gear in known target shooting places in Arizona's desert and walked up to "gun enthusiast strangers" to see if they would be willing to be photographed.
After creating the portraits, Wehrs gave the people she photographed the option of shooting the images as targets. Some of them did and left bullet holes in the plates.
"'Shot' refers simultaneously to my use of the camera and the participant's use of the gun," Wehrs said.
Besides having a master's of fine arts degree from ASU, Wehrs has a bachelor's degree in visual communication from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.
She now is an adjunct professor of photography at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. Wehrs also is an instructor at the Maine Media Workshops + College, where she teaches summer classes.
Tilt Gallery in Scottsdale represents Wehrs, 36, who is thrilled to be showing at Vision Gallery, in the community where she teaches.
Lewis is also happy to be showing for the first time at Vision Gallery and is a fan of Wehrs' work.
Lewis was born and raised as an American in Saudi Arabia and worked for many years as a toy designer.
He has a bachelor's degree in sculpture from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in sculpture from Arizona State University.
Lewis said his experience growing up in Saudi Arabia and later making toys shaped his work as an artist. He began doing woodworking at 12 years old and said he has been pursuing it for the last 20 years as a sculptor.
He and his family moved to the United States when he was almost 14 years old. Later Lewis worked for Maxim Enterprise, Inc. as a toy designer in Massachusetts, making trucks, houses, people and other items for various companies.
Besides working as a sculptor, Lewis also is a multimedia artist who creates video and photography and draws, and he also teaches at a private high school.
"I have been examining adult behaviors that we are ashamed of and don't render as toys," Lewis said in a statement. "Examples would be a TSA stop with a child-sized dynamite vest, or a Fisher-Price inspired case with a child's gas mask, surveillance equipment etc.
"When I came up with the image of a toddler carrying an assault rifle, it confounded me and somehow indirectly embodied a lot my fears. As a parent and a teacher, I am interested in the seemingly arbitrary ages we introduce violent concepts to young people," he added.
He has a 9-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son. Lewis said most of his sculptures in the Vision Gallery exhibit are "toy size," pieces a 2-year-old could pick up, though one installation piece is larger and mounted on the wall.
Lewis frequently creates public art including the "The Catacombs of Professor McGee" in the Gallery @ The Library, Scottsdale Civic Center and at Grand Rapids Art Museum after he won the ArtPrize Phoenix Pitch Night competition at Found:RE Phoenix last year.
Vision Gallery is a fine arts gallery that represents more than 300 regional artists and is home to one of two Art-O-Mats in Chandler. The Chandler Cultural Foundation manages the nonprofit Vision Gallery and exhibits are rotated on a regular basis.
A portion of art sales at Vision Gallery support the Vision Kids program, which offers free art classes for kids ages 6 to 16 January through May, then August through December.


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'Health and wellness culture has evolved': How cereal brand Kashi modernized its marketing to stay relevant
By Gabriela Barkho
Image via Kashi
As interest in health foods grows, older brands are looking to stay relevant to consumers' evolving tastes. One example is breakfast food brand Kashi, which was founded in 1984 and was acquired by Kellogg's in 2000.
Throughout the early 2000s, Kashi became synonymous with its Go Lean line's ads, which targeted health-conscious and outdoors-loving demographics. But over the years, Kashi has revamped its marketing, as well as some of its cereals, waffles and other breakfast food, to cater to more mainstream consumers.
Kashi's director of brand marketing, Melanie Hall, argues that the brand is one of the earliest examples of better-for-you cereal. However the category's growth has had some ebbs and flows as breakfast trends evolved over the decades, she said. "We want to keep the convenience, taste and fun personality," Hall explained. "But we also want to deliver high fiber and other nutrients in cereal that doesn't taste like cardboard."
Over the two years, the company introduced new versions of its existing cereal and frozen waffle lines that more overtly spoke to new consumer trends. For example, it unveiled its Kashi GO Keto, which has 12 grams of plant-based protein. In mid-2020, Kashi also debuted a new line of protein-packed waffles. Both of these launches required a new approach to marketing.
The company's updated marketing efforts also dovetail with cereal's recent comeback, which was boosted by more Americans eating breakfast at home during the coronavirus. According to a February 2021 Bloomberg report, in 2020 cereal sales hit a record that was previously broken in 1973. Moreover, young consumers have taken interest in new formulations, such as keto-friendly and protein-packed cold cereals, that have become further popularized by startups like Magic Spoon and Three Wishes. While Kellogg's doesn't break out Kashi's sales, last May CEO Steven Cahillane pointed to the new keto-friendly Kashi Go as one of the company's lines "showing very strong velocities already."
In an interview with Modern Retail, Hall spoke about the role of Kashi's latest product launches, growing marketing efforts and tapping into consumers' latest interest in better-for-you foods. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
As an established breakfast brand, how do you approach promoting Kashi among the increasingly crowded category?
Health and wellness culture has evolved a lot in the U.S. over recent decades. In the past, the health food movement was more exclusive, but has become more embraced by all — which has led to all different diet trends.
One of the things we're focusing on is making healthy eating approachable and enjoyable. When Kashi started, it was tapping into the organic and sustainability ethos, and we pioneered an entire grocery store aisle through that. Some of our earliest campaigns focused on how to make healthy eating more fun.
Now it's about modernizing that, so it's not just the surfing ads you used to see from the brand.
The breakfast cereal category has been challenged by several trends, including keto, paleo and gluten-free diets. How is Kashi keeping up with changing consumer tastes?
One way we're offering more options is with our no sugar added line, Simply Raisin, which launched last year. The line came out during our last cycle but it's doing well so far. It sparked adventurous curiosity on what else we can do in the low sugar space.
Our new maple waffle cereal just began shipping, and that has an all-family appeal and is non-GMO, like all our other products. We're constantly looking at where else we can be innovative in that space to lower the sugar in our products.
What are some changes you are making to help the brand appeal to a more diverse consumer base?
We've been looking at ways to reach a broader audience through various programs. For example, in October we updated our Hearts to Oats and cinnamon oats cereal so that they're eligible to participate in the Women, Infants and Children [WIC] program.
Another part of our new focus is on accessibility. We're also launching new packaging, so you'll start to see a different look and feel to our products. That will also include us investing in U.S. carbon offset programs that also help local communities.
How else is Kashi's marketing evolving to reflect the changing customer base?
We're shifting more to digital and trying to figure out how to meet people online. They [consumers] are now on TikTok, Pinterest and Instagram — and not just network television. So we think: 'who do we partner with to tell our story?'
Last year, we looked at some smaller brands to collaborate with. Like when we relaunched our new waffles, we did a collaboration with the Trade Street Jam Company, which happens to sell jams with low sugar.
We'll also be launching on TikTok this year, which is a first for us. We're also expanding our Instagram Reels efforts to better describe our foods' taste.
Lastly, we want to do more partnerships with influencers who can talk about our products and showcase creative ways to enjoy Kashi.


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Posted on April 27, 2012 by Dave
The Garden of Eden. The first Utopia. Throughout time people have gotten impatient about waiting for the rapture; dabbled in nihilism to prod the redemption; in general, a complete dissatisfaction with the world as it is leading to fervent imaginings of a world as it might become. We have continually tried to recreate Utopia, but no degree of legislation, moral suasion and outright arm twisting has produced the conditions for repairing this damaged world and making it whole again. In fact, as time goes on, our utopian visions have darkened, and optimism about our collective destiny, a golden age have faded under the weight of a certain hubris and fear. ….
---Unsurprisingly, Tillinger's appropriation of 500 ignores such complexities; he has a plain interest in comparing two German despots and one imagines his intended readership must have welcomed the comparison. This is clearest in captions of images in the PIC story, which — though they support Tillinger's analysis of the novel — are disconnected from the original contexts of Léon Benett's illustrations. For example, the two images at the bottom of page 21: on the left, "The new weapon is finally completed by the workers: it will be aimed at a neighbor," is actually from chapter v and is associated with Marcel Bruckmann's first experiences of working in the factories of Stahlstadt; on the right, "The weapon is tested. This tale, written a half century ago, has come true in Hitler," is from chapter xvi, where it depicts Bruckmann and Octave Sarrasin's explosive penetration of the city's Central Block. The PIC captions reduce the variety and ambiguity of Benett's images — many of which seem as much to celebrate the technocratic potency of the City of Steel as to monumentalize its inhumanity — in the same way that Tillinger's streamlined account of the novel reduces its message to a single refrain.---Read More:http://www.verniana.org/volumes/04/HTML/PIC.html
An escapism from the reality of the scientific age. In 1890, William Morris in his News from Nowhere dreamed of a new London that had become a cluster of villages amid idyllic woodlands, the only remnants from the past being the Houses of Parliament, now used to store dung. In 1887 W.H. Hudson gazed into the distant future to find A Crystal Age, in which society resolved itself into great country estates, each a little world with its own history and traditions, presided over by a housemother who is part goddess, part queen bee, and part Mom. Although these communities were theoretically set in the future, they were really dreams of the past.
The other, the forward marching utopias were changing with the contemporary world that produced them. One of the earliest of these Utopias of Steel was, appropriately enough, Steel City, and it made its appearance in an 1879 book called The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne. Built in Oregon by a wicked German planner named Dr. Schultz, Steel City is one vast munitions plant whose workers are attached to the factory as medieval serfs were attached to the land. Verne was deliberately creating a negative utopia, but he also put a positive one in the same story. Problem is, the "good" utopia is hardly more attractive. it is a kind of germless garden city with identical brick houses on identical lots where wallpaper and carpeting are forbidden, to guard against bacteria, and for the same reason the city's hospitals are burned down every year.
Leon Benett. Source: Wiki
Something similar happened a few years later in Looking Backward, when Edward Bellamy constructed his own Steel City, or rather Steel State. It was conceived and intended as a positive utopia , but it seems the opposite. The entire population works for the state in a vast labor army, and in good utopian tradition all receive credit in return for their work and thus may draw what they need from the great storehouses. No money of course; no banks, no want, no crime, for Bellamy argued that crime was caused by an inequality of possessions. If supreme trust in a wise elite is the first great utopian fantasy, here is the second: the notion that people need only to be drafted, as it were, and issued with decent rations to make them perfect.
---Looking Backward is the story of Julian West, a wealthy young Bostonian who enters a hypnotist's trance on May 30, 1887, and wakes up 113 years, three months, and eleven days later. Dr. Leete, an articulate citizen of the new century, greets him and explains, in the first of many leaps of logic required by the reader, that the hypnosis has perfectly preserved West's body. He hasn't aged an hour; Boston, however, has changed nearly beyond recognition. When West goes outside, he glimpses an idyll of tree-lined streets and majestic public buildings whose only familiar features are the Charles River and the islands of the harbor, gleaming through air clear of coal smoke. --- Read More:http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/reconsiderations/magical-thinking.php?page=all
Yet for all his simple-mindedness, Bellamy was a chillingly accurate prophet, even if he did not understand the meaning of his prophecy. He foretold a lot that has become reality, from Muzak ( generic entertainment) and piped-in-religion to the labor army. In this sense Looking Backward is one of the most significant of all utopias, because it makes us see the all-important point: we used to deride utopia because it was unreal; now we dread it because it is real.
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The Denis Julien Inscription was left on a rock face in  along the Green River in Moffat County, Colorado by Denis Julien, a French-American trapper who was one of the few Europeans in the area in the 1830s. Julien made a practice of leaving his mark on locations along the Green and Colorado rivers, leaving at least eight such marks.  Four, including the Colorado mark, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The inscription reads:

DJ       1838

It is about  above normal water level, but below flood level. The inscription is located in Whirlpool Canyon in what is now Dinosaur National Monument. The inscription was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 19, 1986.

See also
 Denis Julien Inscription (Grand County, Utah), Canyonlands National Park
 Denis Julien Inscription (San Juan County, Utah), Canyonlands National Park
 Julien Inscription Panel, Arches National Park

References

National Register of Historic Places in Colorado
Moffat County, Colorado
National Register of Historic Places in Dinosaur National Monument
1838 works

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In this article we summarize recent research about what it takes to strengthen the processing link in the local meat and poultry value chain.
To bring locally grown, sustainably raised meat and poultry to market requires access to processing facilities with the skills, inspection status, and other attributes to handle these products safely, legally, and to customer specifications. Farmers and others suggest that limited processing infrastructure is a bottleneck restricting the flow of local meat and poultry to market and call for more facilities to be built. Yet at the same time, existing small processors often lack the steady, consistent business required for profitability, and new ventures too often struggle or fail for lack of enough livestock to process, enough of the time. What is going on?
In a report commissioned by USDA's Economic Research Service (1, 2), we analyzed this multi-faceted problem and identified fundamental causes, drawing on a cost analysis of local processing at three scales. Through case studies of seven successful local and regional processors, we illustrated how farmers and processors can build more established and predictable business relationships, for mutual benefit. The case studies include strategies and solutions that may be adopted by others. The bottom line is that business commitments between processors and farmers are critical to mutual success: farmers commit to providing consistent throughput of livestock to process, and processors commit to providing consistent, high-quality processing services. This commitment, supported by coordination and communication between processors and their customers as well as along the entire supply chain, is essential to the persistence and expansion of local meats.
We also argue that efforts to change public policy related to local meats processing, if properly targeted, can be effective in achieving the larger goal of expanding opportunities for local meat production, marketing, and consumption. In a third article (4), we describe and suggest a wide variety of productive policy strategies, as well as some approaches that have not been successful. For example, successfully changing federal law is less than half the battle: implementation, which typically happens in the administrative realm, is critical and needs continuous attention. We describe examples where administrative approaches to policy change, while often neglected in favor of legislative action, can be quite useful.
(1) Gwin, L., A. Thiboumery, and R. Stillman. 2013. "Local Meat and Poultry Processing: The Importance of Business Commitments for Long-Term Viability." Economic Research Report 150. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Available at: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-report/err150.aspx.
(2) Stillman, R., L. Gwin, and A. Thiboumery. 2013. Solving Processing Issues a Key to Successful Local Meat Marketing. Amber Waves. USDA Economic Research Service. Dec. 16. Available at: http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2013-december/solving-processing-issues-a-key-to-successful-local-meat-marketing.aspx.
(3) Gwin, L. and A. Thiboumery. 2013. Local Meat Processing: Business Strategies and Policy Angles. Vermont Law Review (June). Available at: http://lawreview.vermontlaw.edu/files/2013/08/12-Gwin-Thiboumery.pdf.


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stomachs full of Indian curry,
too much, but not too spicy,
marvelled at the sight,
for half an epigrammatic second.
Did you see that? One asked.
Whores, taking crack.
The other said:
Hey, people, taking crack.
On the street, we were again
sold watches, old phones,
tailored suits, massages.
Or they were.
My face was too clearly
Hong Kong and my gender
too unambiguous
to be a potential customer.
Cover image by Steve Calcott
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a Hong Kong-born writer currently based in the UK. She is a founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and an editor of the London-based Fleeting Magazine and the academic journal Victorian Network. She edited Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology in 2006 and co-edited Love and Lust in 2008. Her own work has been widely published in print and online and she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times and the Forward Prize. She is finishing her PhD thesis on Neo-Victorian fiction at King's College London.
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Turkish Woman: Finding It Cheap

Turkish Woman: Finding It Cheap
Posted enero 10, 2022
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Having dedicated her life to women's rights and following Mustafa Kemal's patriotic footsteps, Halide Edib wrote historical past as she devoted herself to years of the national wrestle, in addition to taking a major half within the process. In 2020, over 3.6 million Syrians were underneath short-term protection in Turkey, forty six per cent of them ladies and ladies. The Law on Foreigners and International Protection, and the Temporary Protection Regulation present a robust authorized framework for the authorized keep, registration, documentation and access to rights and companies for foreigners in Turkey. Against all challenges, greater than a century-long struggle of ladies galvanized hopes for a democratic and plural democracy through which the required changes within the political and legal realm can be attained. We all should show our solidarity with this unyielding battle of women in Turkey and elsewhere who struggle for life and dignity. Without the emancipation of women, all of us would be the prisoners of our personal lives. On 19 June 2018, the European Court of Human Rights has fined Turkey eleven,000 euros over the government-owned electrical energy distribution company's refusal to appoint a woman as a security officer on account of her gender.
These reforms, however, weren't absolutely carried out, and gender equality was subordinated to different causes till the 1980s, when a brand new wave of the women's motion emerged. Equipped with a stronger feminist consciousness and id and using a deliberate effort to hold up their autonomy, women activists and teams leading the second wave sought extra substantive and transformative adjustments. Turkey's ratification of a number of human rights treaties issued by the UN and the Council of Europe facilitated women's activism and put Turkey on a progressive path as soon as again. Throughout this essay we've seen the range and complexity of the feminist motion within Turkey. The coming of what some termed because the third wave of feminism after in the 1990s maybe marks the difference between the motion in Turkey and the motion elsewhere. Apart from the mainstream feminists, there appeared Kurdish nationalist feminists, Islamist feminists and, extra just lately, project feminism. In this sense, ladies ought to goal to help the community through the pursuit of employment and political representation and what's necessary to some is that they need to be capable of express their faith through the donning of the head scarf.
The underlining concept here is the truth that "human rights" issues in general and "women's rights" points particularly require extra time and a real social and mental transformation. For this to happen, authorized changes can only be considered the first steps.
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Her articles cover locations all over the globe and give first-hand stories on seducing international ladies from everywhere in the world. Turkish women adore it when their males are decisive concerning the path of the relationship. The common age of marriage is 24 years old, and when you have no prospects of marriage, then do not waste their time. The assurance and belief that the means ahead for the relationship is marriage is what matters most. Even in case you have been visiting Turkey plenty of occasions, the one means you'll find a way to see the actual Turkey is that if you're taken on a tour by an area.
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In September 2017, at Ankara, neighbors complained to the manager of an condo building a few girl for carrying shorts at her house, demanding that she should maintain her curtains closed. The manager warned the girl to keep her curtains closed for her personal sake. In March 2018, a instructor at a non secular vocational high school in Konya was dismissed from his publish over feedback he made about feminine college students wearing fitness center garments. He also wrote that physical education lessons ought to be an optionally available class for college kids, because it «prepared girls for the satan». Over 37% of Turkish ladies mentioned that they had skilled bodily or sexual violence – or each – according to an exhaustive 2014 survey of 15,000 households by the country's household ministry.
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Then the ladies requested for help from two cops in the street, however certainly one of them began beating one of the girls, based on the woman's testament the «officer said the harassers have been proper as a end result of we have been 'dressed inappropriately,'». Security footage confirmed one of the cops beginning to beat one of the women.
Most of the women in this examine had mixed ideas of opinions in regards to the climacteric, and the bulk was additionally suffering from climacteric complaints. This information may help healthcare providers in the provision of culturally competent well being care to midlife Turkish women. Final assessment consists of suggestions to support future programming of CIPE on women's protection in company compliance applications turkey women in Turkey, an executive summary and annexes. Full listing of paperwork reviewed and a listing of stakeholders' interviews are submitted as attachments to the ultimate evaluation report. As arrests have continued to extend over the past four years, human rights organizations have referred to as on Turkey to finish prosecutions for acts of "insulting the president," and accused the federal government of using the regulation to silence dissenting voices.
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There can be widespread incidence of child marriage in Turkey, the follow being particularly widespread in the jap and central parts of the nation. These results may be of explicit relevance for all of the social, well being, governmental, and municipal managers, but particularly well being workers working in major health care. Further studies on the influence of hormonal adjustments, food regimen, life-style and sociocultural characteristics are additionally necessary to additional perceive mid-life experiences. Analysis of the research also revealed statistically vital relationships between almost all the signs and the women's menopause standing, other than the signs 'lack of energy' and 'constipation/diarrhoea'. This was in contrast to ladies in premenopause who reported these complaints in the highest proportions. Table 2 presents the respondents' opinions, attitudes and misconceptions in the path of some statements in regards to the climacteric and hormones used throughout manopause and postmenopause. One hundred p.c of the women gave their responses on the statements in regards to the climacteric; disagree, neither agree nor disagree, or agree.
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using std::min;
using std::numeric_limits;
using std::vector;

using v8::Array;
using v8::Local;
using v8::String;

NAN_METHOD(WrappedRE2::Split) {

	Local<Array> result = Nan::New<Array>();

	// unpack arguments

	WrappedRE2* re2 = Nan::ObjectWrap::Unwrap<WrappedRE2>(info.This());
	if (!re2) {
		Nan::Set(result, 0, info[0]);
		info.GetReturnValue().Set(result);
		return;
	}

	StrVal a(info[0]);
	StringPiece str(a);

	size_t limit = numeric_limits<size_t>::max();
	if (info.Length() > 1 && info[1]->IsNumber()) {
		size_t lim = info[1]->NumberValue();
		if (lim > 0) {
			limit = lim;
		}
	}

	// actual work

	vector<StringPiece> groups(re2->regexp.NumberOfCapturingGroups() + 1), pieces;
	const StringPiece& match = groups[0];
	size_t lastIndex = 0;

	while (lastIndex < a.size && re2->regexp.Match(str, lastIndex, a.size, RE2::UNANCHORED,
			&groups[0], groups.size())) {
		if (match.size()) {
			if (match.data() == a.data || match.data() - a.data > lastIndex) {
				pieces.push_back(StringPiece(a.data + lastIndex, match.data() - a.data - lastIndex));
			}
			lastIndex = match.data() - a.data + match.size();
			pieces.insert(pieces.end(), groups.begin() + 1, groups.end());
		} else {
			size_t sym_size = getUtf8CharSize(a.data[lastIndex]);
			pieces.push_back(StringPiece(a.data + lastIndex, sym_size));
			lastIndex += sym_size;
		}
		if (pieces.size() >= limit) {
			break;
		}
	}
	if (pieces.size() < limit && (lastIndex < a.size || (lastIndex == a.size && match.size()))) {
		pieces.push_back(StringPiece(a.data + lastIndex, a.size - lastIndex));
	}

	if (pieces.empty()) {
		Nan::Set(result, 0, info[0]);
		info.GetReturnValue().Set(result);
		return;
	}

	// form a result

	if (a.isBuffer) {
		for (size_t i = 0, n = min(pieces.size(), limit); i < n; ++i) {
			const StringPiece& item = pieces[i];
			Nan::Set(result, i, Nan::NewBuffer(const_cast<char*>(item.data()), item.size()).ToLocalChecked());
		}
	} else {
		for (size_t i = 0, n = min(pieces.size(), limit); i < n; ++i) {
			const StringPiece& item = pieces[i];
			Nan::Set(result, i, Nan::New(item.data(), item.size()).ToLocalChecked());
		}
	}

	info.GetReturnValue().Set(result);
}

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1,331 Nigerians die in road crashes in 3 months
Posted by Lucy Nwachukwu | 28 August 2018 | 1,591 times
•An accident scene along Lagos-Ibadan expressway
Not less than 1,331 Nigerians died in the road crashes in the second quarter of 2018, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The figure was contained in the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) "Road Transport Data (Q2 2018)" report released on Tuesday in Abuja.
The report said 1,257 of the 1,331 Nigerians that died, representing 94 per cent of the figure, were adults while the remaining 74 Nigerians, representing six per cent of the figure, were children.
"Also, 1,047 male Nigerians, representing 79 per cent, got killed in road crashes in the second quarter while 284 female Nigerians, representing 21per cent got killed.
According to the report, a total of 8,437 Nigerians also got injured in road crashes within the period.
It said of the number, 7,946 Nigerians got injured, representing 94 per cent of the figure all adults while the remaining 491 Nigerians, representing six per cent of the figure were children.
It said: "6,415 male Nigerians, representing 76 per cent, got injured in road crashes in the second quarter while 2,022 female Nigerians, representing 24 per cent got injured."
The report also said 2,608 road crashes occurred through speed violation in the second quarter of 2018, accounting for 50.65 per cent.
The report said tyre burst and dangerous driving followed closely, accounting for 8.59 per cent and 8.40 per cent of the total road crashes recorded. (NAN)
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Q: Why am I able to write to and read a tempfile even after closing it? I was experimenting with opening text editors from my python script and I noticed something that apparently contradicts my understanding of the documentation of tempfile.
My experiment started out with Alex Martelli's answer.
My code -
import os
import tempfile
import subprocess

f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+t', delete=True)
n = f.name
print('Does exist? : {0}'.format(os.path.exists(n)))
f.close()
print('Does exist? : {0}'.format(os.path.exists(n)))

subprocess.run(['nano', n])
with open(n) as f:
    print (f.read())

print('Does exist? : {0}'.format(os.path.exists(n)))

OUTPUT:
Does exist? : True
Does exist? : False
Hello from temp file.

Does exist? : True

In the code, I explicitly call close on the file object declared with delete=True, however even then I am able to write and read contents to it. I don't understand why this is happening.
According to the docs-

If delete is true (the default), the file is deleted as soon as it is closed.

If calling close deletes the file then I SHOULD NOT be able to write and then read it. But it displays the correct contents of the file that you enter when nano executes. And like a tempfile, the file is not visible in the directory where I opened the terminal and ran the script.
What is even more strange is that os.path.exists works correctly for the first two times and possibly incorrectly for the third time.
Am I missing something here?
Additional Experiment:
If I run the following code then I can clearly see the file created. But that doesn't happen in the original code.
n = '.temp'
subprocess.run(['nano', n])
with open(n) as f:
    print (f.read())

print('Does exist? : {0}'.format(os.path.exists(n)))

A: Lets have a deeper look at your code.
First you create your temp file
f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+t', delete=True)
n = f.name
print('Does exist? : {0}'.format(os.path.exists(n)))

and this output
Does exist? : True

so there is nothing to  worry about. Then in the next statements
f.close()
print('Does exist? : {0}'.format(os.path.exists(n)))

you are closing the file and actually the file gets deleted, because you are getting the following output:
Does exist? : False

Afterwards however you are recreating your file via
subprocess.run(['nano', n])
with open(n) as f:
    print (f.read())

so this is why afterwards the command
print('Does exist? : {0}'.format(os.path.exists(n)))

returns
Does exist? : True

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