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Sri Lanka President's October coup risks international backlash, bigger economic turmoil
Sat, 2018-10-27 22:14 — editor
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By K.T.Rajasingham
Colombo, 27 October, (Asiantribune.com):
By suddenly deposing Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointing an already ousted former Lankan President as the new PM, President Maithripala Srisena has engineered a political coup that instead of the expected turnaround of fortunes, has shocked the supportive US and Western powers and gave the Indian sub-continent a chill down its spine.
A special Government Gazette Notification stated that the President, under Article 42(4) of the Constitution appointed Mahinda Rajapaksa, Member of Parliament and former President, to the Office of Prime Minister with effect from October 26.
President Sirisena has skillfully ducked India and the Western democracies in a sly maneuver-but now risks loss of hard-won international victories for Sri Lanka such as the EU GSP Plus.
Also on the horizon for the already struggling Sri Lankan economy –hit by highest dollar exchange levels in history-are possible international economic sanctions, especially given that the new Prime Minister Rajapaksa carries a tainted record of civil-war allegations that are continuously shouted at by Geneva and the International Community in general.
Even a single international measure such as suspension of GSP Plus alone is sufficient to derail Sri Lanka's international image, work on economic reforms and push back the country to a pariah status within the international community.
Soon after Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn on Friday 26 at 7.20 pm at the Presidential Secretariat, the UPFA had informed Speaker Karu Jayasuriya of its decision to quit the UNP-led National Unity Government.
Among those who accompanied Rajapaksa for the swearing-in ceremony were Basil Rajapaksa and Chairman of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Prof. G.L. Peiris but Namal Rajapaksa MP and Former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa were notable absentees.
One of the most disturbing events that unfolded in the aftermath of new swearing in were the forcible take-over of government media institutions by gangs backing the new PM Rajapaksa, showing signs of a real-time coup on the ground; as commotions began spreading inside the two state run TV stations (Rupavahini and ITN), the channels were switched off and went off the air way before their usual sign-off time. This was also the first time in recent Sri Lankan media history that such a forced end to national TV transmissions were seen-especially at a time when all the eyes were curiously glued to them to witness firsthand the unravelling political turmoil in the Capital.
In its first ever statement on the developments, the EU in Sri Lanka tweeted on 27 October afternoon: "The Ambassador of EU is closely following the events as they are unfolding in Sri Lanka. We urge all parties to fully act in accordance with Sri Lanka's constitution, to refrain from violence, to follow the institutional process, to respect the independence of institutions, and freedom of media."
After Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in, deposed Ranil Wickrwmasinghe insisted on 26th night that he was still the Prime Minister despite Rajapaksa's swearing in. Addressing the media at Temple Trees, Wickremesinghe said that in terms of S. 40 (2) of the Constitution, he is still the Prime Minister and would function in that position, until he was removed by Parliament.
"The No - Confidence Motion brought against me on April 4 this year was defeated convincingly. So if anyone wants to oust me, he should go back to Parliament and show his majority in the House. Until such time I remain the Prime Minister." Several western diplomats met UNP Leader Wickremesinghe on the afternoon of Saturday 27.
UNP Leader Wickremesinghe also sent a very terse letter addressed to the President the he is the Prime Minister of the country.
In the meantime, on 26th nigh at 10.35pm the Presidential Secretariat released one-page letter sent by President Sirisena to Wickremesinghe. President Sirisena said he had removed Wickremesinghe from the post of PM with immediate effect in terms of powers vested in him.
"I had appointed you as the prime minister under (article) 42 (1) of the Constitution and as your appointing authority, I write to notice that you have been removed from the post of prime minister," Mr. Sirisena said in the letter.
Subsequently, Extraordinary Government Gazettes published by the Secretary to the President Udaya R. Seneviratne on Friday (26) stated that the President in exercising powers conferred upon him under the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, has removed Ranil Wickremasinghe, who was appointed by the President under Article 42(4) of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka from the office of the Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, with immediate effect.
Which global power now backs President Sirisena?
On 26 October evening the 5-member All Ceylon Makkal Congress led by Rishad Bathiudeen MP met at Colombo residence of Deputy Minister Ameer Ali. After discussing the latest political developments, it is learnt the five Parliamentarians in the Party left for Temple Trees and met Ranil Wickremasingha and other UNP stalwarts.
'Asian Tribune' learns that already the government under the leadership of Maithripala Srisena has obtained a pledge from the Government of China for financial support, in case any financial emergencies would rise. This arrangement was said to have been made well in advance with China in case the US, India and other like-minded countries impose any sanctions against Sri Lanka.
However, India, a most important international voice on Sri Lanka, has been observing a deadly silence-an ominous sign for President Sirisena-PM Rajapaksa combine.
Response from the West
The United States too did not commit nor comment on the new appointment but called on Friday 26 'all sides in Sri Lanka to operate within the constitution and refrain from violence as the President's sacking of the PM triggered a crisis.'
Washington also urged the island to move forward on post-war reconciliation after President Maithripala Sirisena Mahinda Rajapakse as PM, a former strongman who crushed the three decades' long Tamil Tiger uprising but refused to acknowledge abuses. "We call on all parties to act in accordance with Sri Lanka's constitution, refrain from violence and follow due process," the State Department said on Twitter.
"We expect the government of Sri Lanka to uphold its Geneva commitments to human rights, reform, accountability, justice and reconciliation," it said.
The travel warnings issued by the West in the aftermath of the coup, did little to help the tourism industry that needs more and more dollars.
After Sirisena's election in 2015, Sri Lanka shifted from confrontation to conciliation with the United States and other Western powers and promised at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to investigate allegations of abuses during the war.
Sources close to President Maithripala Srisena revealed to 'Asian Tribune' that it was Basil Rajapaksa -new PM Mahinda Rajapaksa's sibling and the Powerful Economic Minister during Mahinda Rajapaksa government- who organized the 'political coup' to swear in Mahinda Rajapaksa while also ensuring that the newly sworn Prime Minister has more than 113 parliamentarians to support him.
On Saturday 27 October political sources including in Colombo UNP MP Ananda Aluthamage said that 18 UNP Parliamentarians led by a senior, leading UNP MP who was a top, high profile Cabinet Minister and has been at odds with UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe after he was removed from the Ministry-would join President Sirisena-PM Rajapaksa camp and boost it, thus dealing a body-blow to UNP's plans. "UNPs Ravi Karunanayake to lead a team of UNPers and join with the new government" said some local twitter users.
'Asian Tribune' left messages for Ravi Karunanayake to respond and unfortunately until such time this message was posted there was no response forthcoming from him,
Sources told 'Asian Tribune' that the SLFP group loyal to President Sirisena had unanimously decided to leave the government as a preparatory move for the October 27 coup. Sirisena enjoyed the support of 24 SLFP MPs. In addition to them, the President had the backing of two CWC MPs.
Still, elevating the ousted President Rajapaksa to PM level has not brought President Sirisena any great returns-no was he assured support by Rajapaksa's "Joint Opposition" (JO). Wimal Weerawansa, a leading figure in JO declared on 27 afternoon- "There is no agreement between JO and President Sirisena to make him JO's common candidate in the next Presidential election."
However according to present position of the political parties in the in the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka UNP has 107 MPs, UPFA 95 including the 2 CWC MPs, TNA 16, JVP 6, EPDP 1 and SLMC 1 – total of 225 parliamentarians.
The UNP group includes 7 SLMC, including the one elected on the SLMC ticket and five All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), MPs, JHU 2 and 2 in Dr.Rajitha Senaratne's group.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is supportive to the UNP in parliament. It is not clear with whom JVP's six members would align with.
Knowingly well, President Maithripala Srisena has raked the mud on his own head by his own two hands.
The cry started reverberating of international tribunal for all involved in anti-human activities – now it is something - the payment one has to pay for the greed nursed for Power and Authority.
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Arizona Trail Day 17: Superior or Bust!
Last night should have been my first epic camping night. I had a nice spot. It wasn't too cold or too windy. So what was the problem? My air pad deflated overnight! I kept waking up feeling little rocks and such poking me. I hope it just deflated and didn't get punctured.
I woke up at 5:30 — earlier than usual. I had nearly 20 miles to get to Superior, and I wanted to get there as soon as possible. I also had a monster climb the first few miles and I wanted to do them fresh. I got on the trail at 6:58 a.m. So far so good!
I normally hike two hours, then take a break and check my mileage. With my pack, I normally hike 2.5 miles per hour. I can hit 3 if the terrain is flat, and I go down to 2 if it's super hilly. I was shocked to see that my app showed I'd only hiked about 3 miles in two hours. That couldn't be! Surely the satellite was off. I hiked a short distance more and checked again. Same thing. Then I noticed something. Something bad.
The arrow on my app, showing where I was on the trail, was pointing southbound. I needed to be heading northbound. Immediately, I knew what had happened. About 30 minutes ago, the trail appeared to cross a huge rocky outcrop. I couldn't find the trail, wandered around a bit, then opened my app and found it and continued on. I realized now I must have not paid attention to the arrow and promptly headed back the way I'd just come.
I could have pouted or cried, but there's no crying in hiking. I didn't break an ankle or get bitten by a rattlesnake. I'd just lost an hour and tacked two-plus miles onto the day's hike. C'est la vie.
This may have been the most beautiful day on the trail so far. The first few hours were sort of the same, meandering around cactus-covered hills. But once I reached Tonto National Forest, the scenery became spectacular. There were enormous rock formations. Sweeping views. And Picketpost Mountain in the distance. And … a Gila monster!
Now, I've seen two rattlesnakes in the last two days. Did I really need to encounter the dangerous Gila monster on day three?! It was orange with black stripes and, luckily, just gave me a passing glance as it ambled across the path. They live underground 90 percent of the time. Most Arizonans never see them. I guess I was lucky,.
While filtering water at a tiny burble, I met two people hiking the Enchantment Trail, which piggybacks on this one a bit. Then I ran across Vince again, who I'd seen twice before.
Al drove me to the store to get supplies, and Mary Jo made a wonderful dinner for all of us. Tomorrow she's promising waffles and lattes. This is amazing. People are wonderful.
Still having problems with my photos, so I'll have to post later.
Waffles and lattes!? Living the dream!! Can't wait to see more photos soon.
No crying in hiking? Who is this, and what have you done with Melanie? OK, just having a little fun, because your attitude seems almost too good. We're proud of you and enjoying your blog. (I'm including Kent, as he's never far from my side — you know how he worships me.) Keep it up. You're amazing!
I can't wait to see the photos. So glad you had spectacular scenery and trail angels to even out the misteps, rocks and gila monster.


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Q: Creating a spreadsheet from a text file I am writing a shell script which takes a text file as input and generate a spreadsheet as output. I have single text file similar to the one shown below.
Name:John
Age:30
Gender:male
Name:Bob
Age:65
Gender:Male

and the pattern goes on repeating several times. I have to create a spreadsheet with name, age and gender as fields as shown below.
Name Age Gender
John 30  Male
Bob  65  Male

Help would be appreciated.

A: Create a tab delimited text file ready to import into excel:
printf "Name\tAge\tGender\n" > outfile
cut -d: -f2- <infile | paste - - - >> outfile

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*printf creates the tab delimited header

*cut from the second field to end of line

*paste formats the output into three columns which are tab delimited and amends the outfile

You could also group the commands and redirect only once:
{
printf '%s\t%s\t%s\n' Name Age Gender
cut -d: -f2- <infile | paste - - -
} > outfile

A: Well the following works if the file always has three lines for each record.
echo "Name Age Gender" >>OUTPUT.txt; xargs -n 3 < INPUTFILE.txt |sed 's/Name:\|Age:\|Gender://g' >> OUTPUT.txt

I'm certain there are more eloquent ways of handling this.

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The two main types of plums, grown commercially, are the European kind and the Japanese kind. Most of the European varieties are oval, purple plums, used to make dried plums, or prunes. Japanese plums, originally from China, were brought to the United States from Japan in the 1870s. The Japanese varieties are mostly sold fresh and include the round sweet black plums found on your grocer's shelves. The Japanese plum season starts in May and extends until September. All plums are high in fiber, vitamin C, vitamin K, vitamin A, potassium and other minerals.
"Black Ruby"
"Black Ruby" is a large reddish-black plum with very juicy, yellow flesh. Unlike most of the other Japanese varieties, its pit is "freestone," which means that it separates easily from the flesh. Most other Japanese plums are "clingstone," meaning the flesh clings to the pit. "Black Ruby" is a midseason plum. Japanese plum trees thrive in the drier southern and Mediterranean-type climates, but trees of "Black Ruby" were established to tolerate humid climates, according to the Clemson University Horticulture website.
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"Friar" is a black plum with light amber flesh. It has a small pit and is very juicy. The flesh is very sweet and contrasts with the tart skin. It is a late season plum and ripens about three weeks after "Black Ruby."
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Home / CD / ANDRÉ GONÇALVES // Currents & Riptides
ANDRÉ GONÇALVES . Modular Synthesizer, Laptop, Guitar, Fender Rhodes
with guests:
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Rodrigo Dias – Bass on track 2
Gonçalo Silva – Guitar on track 2
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Also internationally known as the man behind the ADDAC System brand of modular synthesizers and several devices for electronic music, Portuguese sound and intermedia artist André Gonçalves is back with a new solo album, just one year after the release of "Musica Eterna – Pocket Music for the Space-Time Traveller".
Fortunately so, because he was absent from the recording world for too long (10 years!), and because "Currents & Riptides" is an absolute marvel, establishing his music as one of the most intriguing in the experimental scene. Every kind of situation you can imagine is covered here, not to show off what he can do, but emerging naturally in the flux of events: combinations of analogic and digital sounds and tools, processing of field recordings and ready-made materials (the mutant electric guitar you can recognize because he wants you to), explorations of provoked or casual accidents, ambient soundscapes, noise, textures in constant change, immersive and insistent drones, you name it. When Gonçalves arrives to something beautiful and pleasing, he can't resist to act against it with a rough contrast, like an ugly feedback or a cable violently taken out.
André Gonçalves may not appear much, even in concert, but when he does, in Portugal or somewhere else, is for maximum effect. This is one of those occasions. Behind him he has a long background, alone or with other people, playing under designations like OK Suitcase, Last Time This Happened We Had a Street Party, Stapletape, Gigantiq, Feltro and more. He likes to do laboratorial work, shaping structures, but also to improvise, and he did it Achim Wollscheid, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Casper Klausen, David Maranha, Eric La Casa, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Kenneth Kirschner, Manuel Mota, Michel J. Schumacher, Ernesto Rodrigues, Richard Garet, Phill Niblock, Sei Miguel and Tim Hecker between many others. It's impossible to say if this music was produced in studio or freely improvised: sometimes it seems something meticulously composed, and other times it comes like the crude result of spontaneity. That doubt is what seduces us, knowing that the reverse is also highly probable. With him, we never know.
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Everything flows like Zen soundscapes in the inner world inside our heads, and the music has a poetic, lyrical dimension that makes us reconnect with the idea of Beauty of the Ancient Greeks.
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The week before my birthday coincided with one of the largest Loy Krathong festivals in the city of Bangkok. At The Golden Mount, locals celebrate Loy Krathong by climbing from the temple complex to the mount, while reflecting on the past year. They write their names atop the mount, wrapped specially in red silk for the holiday, and send their hopes for a peaceful new year to the winds that whip the spire. Then, they enjoy the raucous street festival's activities at the bottom of the mount after their reflective climb. The whole activity sounded like a perfect celebration to ring in my birthday-- a bit of old Bangkok's serene and reflective personality combined with a healthy dose of fun and festivity that is ever present in modern day Bangkok. So, hopping a cab with my "always up for an adventure" three year old in tow, I set out to experience The Golden Mount for the first time.
After a surprisingly mellow, traffic-free taxi ride, we arrived at the temple grounds where the annual Loy Krathong festival was just setting up for the day's business. Vendors were unmasking their stalls for the final day of the nine day festival by removing tarping that had been wrapped around their goods for the night. Large feather dusters were being flicked across the merchandise and charcoal barbecues were being lit. Hoping my son was game for a bit of a climb, I hopped out of the cab and whispered a little prayer that I wouldn't be carrying a three year old up the stairs that rose steeply in front of us. Grabbing his hand we began our ascent of the 318 steps ahead.
And, what amazing fun the climb turned out to be. Man made waterfalls gurgled along the path and multi-color candles rested on concrete steps spilling their warm wax on top of the day's previous meltings. As we passed a tea house, my son vowing aloud to stop on our descent for a refreshment of what would be teeny watermelon slices, made out of shortbread cookies, and steamed milk delivered in a silver edged porcelain tea cup. On our climb a bit further up, and ever closer to the mount, we came across a large flat outdoor foyer lined with giant antique prayer bells. Following the few other individuals also on their climb, we picked up the available mallets and smacked the bells one by one to create a deliciously rich symphony over the rooftops of Bangkok. My son's smile spread deeply as he whacked each one with renewed gusto.
Perhaps the transformation I felt occurred because of his joy in the bells or perhaps it was due to the climb. But, either way, each smack of the bells took me deeper physically into a sense of calm and well being. I admired the temple's statues and looked out over Bangkok's tiled rooftops as my jangly earrings rang in the breeze. I smiled as my son giggled at the monk who lifted him to ring another bell. And, in those moments, even before reaching the site that tourists climb to see, I realized that this was a feeling I wished I could bottle up and keep forever. The combination of the activities already described, the low chanting of the monk's surrounding the base of the temple and the gentle breeze whipping warmly around us, provided an ancient serenity.
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Combine the flour, cayenne, pepper, salt, sugar and chives in a shallow dish. Add the tofu and roll to coat. Remove from flour, gently dusting off extra, and set in a single layer on a tray. Using a large saute pan, add just enough veggie oil to lightly coat the bottom. Heat the oil over medium heat and add the coated tofu, working in batches if necessary for the size of your pan. Cook each of the four sides until they reach a deep golden color (I find flipping them with a pair of long chopsticks works very well). Remove from oil and place onto a towel lined plate. Serve immediately with following dipping sauce or transfer to a cookie sheet and reheat in the oven until warm (about 10 minutes at 350 degrees F).
In a saucepan, add vinegar, sugar, ketchup and salt. Stir to combine. In a small bowl, mix water and cornstarch until smooth and no lumps remain. Using a wire whisk, stir the cornstarch into the vinegar mixture, until smooth. Turn on the heat and continue to whisk until the mixture thickens, about 2 minutes. Turn off the heat and transfer to a serving bowl.
Been to Bangkok three times and never went to the golden mt. I'm going on my next trip thanks to your experience and description. Thx.
I love the golden mount temple. Such great views and not really on the tourist radar.
That tofu sounds delish. I'm going to have to try that.
How wonderful for you to have this experience and to share it with your kids. Even just as wonderful that you share it so vividly with all of us.
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On Thanksgiving Day, overindulgence is often part of the holiday ritual. Dr. Ira Mayer, director of gastroenterology at Maimonides Medical Center, Borough Park, shares advice to help aid digestion.
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Taking Wisconsinites' temperature on Obamacare
Annie Baxter Mar 13, 2017
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A constituent demonstrates during a rally in support of the Affordable Care Act. Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Moveon.org
Concerns about the Affordable Care Act or ACA are weighing on many Americans' minds, including those in Wisconsin.
The traditional Democratic stronghold flipped Republican and helped elect President Donald Trump last November, who promised to repeal the ACA, also known as Obamacare. Now U.S. House Republicans are trying to quickly push through their alternative to the Affordable Care Act
Clint Evenson, a divorced mechanic in Boyceville, Wisconsin, voted for Trump partly out of dissatisfaction with the ACA and the penalty it forced him to pay for a lapse in his four kids' health coverage last year.
How a Republican plan to shrink Medicaid could hurt red states
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"I had a few months where my kids didn't have health insurance because they got dropped off their other one, and I couldn't get them on my work one until open enrollment in November," he said. "So I ended up paying a $1,600 penalty."
The latest House Republican plan drops the health insurance mandate. Evenson would love to see it go. The proposal would also expand health savings accounts, which could help people pay for high-deductible plans.
But Evenson is no fan of those plans, either. His family is on one.
"Every person on it — me and my four kids — has a $5,000 out-of-pocket before it kicks in," he said. "So it's basically unusable."
Tammy Deutsch of Menomonie would like to see ACA subsidies go away. Under current policy, people below a certain income level may qualify for a subsidy to offset the cost of private insurance.
Deutsch said she could have gotten such a subsidy when she retired early from her job as a truck driver, but that option offended her sensibilities.
"I never asked for that. That's the fiscal conservative coming out," she said. "I don't think that you should have to pay for my decision to retire at 56."
Deutsch said she's going without coverage and will pay the penalty for doing so. But if her health fails, someone else may still end up paying.
The House GOP proposal would instead offer tax credits tied to earnings and age, which could, in many cases, be lower than the current Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Critics say the House GOP plan would result in far fewer people having insurance. That would be bad news for Dave Johnson of Fall Creek Wisconsin.
"I work at a Catholic-based hospital system, and we take care of a lot of patients that are underinsured or not insured at all," he said.
Johnson said he's worried his employer's exposure to uninsured patients will rise, pushing its costs up, and forcing the hospital system to lay off workers.
Are you covered? It's open enrollment time for health insurance plans in most states
Health care premiums for 2018 set to go up by as much as 50 percent
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end the Affordable Care Act
Repealing Obamacare is at the top of Trump's list
Pence, Harris spar over the future of the ACA in VP debate
Repealing Obamacare will be the easy part


Degaña is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Cangas del Narcea, on the south by the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León, and on the west by Ibias. Degaña is also the name of one of the three parishes in the municipality.
Degana is a city and a municipality and tehsil located in the Nagaur district of Rajasthan, India. The city is situated roughly southeast of 90 km from Nagaur, at a junction of State Highways 59 and 60. Degana is also connected by social sites "Facebook" link is: https://www.facebook.com/degana.raj. Jat, Rajput, Maheshwari and Meghwal founded the village about 150 years back.
A Railway Junction was made in the pre-independence era on the Jaipur-Jodhpur railway track solely for the reason of having a Railway-Node for better operational control as there was a stretch of more than 30 km without any station in-between. With the passage of time, a city came into being by drawing more and more habitation in the last 50 years around the Railway Station owing to the better connectivity to more significant city centers like Jaipur, Jodhpur and Bikaner. The city now has headquarters for administrative units of the tehsil.
'''Degaña ''' is one of three parishes (administrative divisions) in the Degaña municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.
The population is 388 ( INE 2007).


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Q: How to use the NOW() function as upper bound of a range? I have a table with a column of type tstzrange in a Postgres 10.6 database.
I need to insert / update rows with a defined lower bound but the value of the current time for the upper bound of the range, so NOW() as upper value.
Have tried things like:
UPDATE table_name
SET date_range = ['2018-03-23 00:00:00-05', now())
WHERE id = 3;

Is there a way to use a built-in function or a subquery maybe?

A: Use a range constructor. The manual:

Each range type has a constructor function with the same name as the
  range type. Using the constructor function is frequently more
  convenient than writing a range literal constant, since it avoids the
  need for extra quoting of the bound values. The constructor function
  accepts two or three arguments. The two-argument form constructs a
  range in standard form (lower bound inclusive, upper bound exclusive),
  while the three-argument form constructs a range with bounds of the
  form specified by the third argument. The third argument must be one
  of the strings "()", "(]", "[)", or "[]".

So:
UPDATE table_name
SET    date_range = tstzrange('2018-03-23 00:00:00-05', now())
WHERE  id = 3;

I assume you are aware that now() resolves to the start time of the transaction.

*

*Difference between now() and current_timestamp


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Technology & Patents
Dr. Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos, professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of British Columbia joins Keiryo's Industry Advisory Board
Savvas will support and advice Keiryo Packaging Technologies in the scientific and technical development activities related to its disruptive polymer processing technology.
Johan Robbrecht, Managing Partner of Keiryo Packaging Technologies said: Dr Hatzikiriakos is a recognized global authority in polymer rheology and has been researching the field of flow-enhanced nucleation and induced polymer crystallization for over a decade. Savvas' guidance will be instrumental in bridging the academic teachings on this subject with the industrial applications in polymer processing. We are therefore very pleased that he has accepted to join our Industry Advisory Board.
Dr Savvas Hatzikirakos said: Keiryo Packaging Technologies has opened a new industrial pathway for polymer processing which consolidates the underlying academically well-grounded polymer rheology fundamentals. The industrial application of flow-enhanced nucleation and induced crystallization offers fundamental opportunities for the polymer industry to simultaneously improve the performance and sustainability of polymer based packaging. I am therefore very pleased to be contributing to the development of this technology that can become a game changer for the whole polymer processing industry.
"I am very pleased to be contributing to the development of this technology that can become a game changer for the whole polymer processing industry."
Dr. Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos, professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of British Columbia
About Prof. Dr. Savvas Hatzikiriakos: Savvas teaches chemical and biological engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has extensively published in his key research areas of polymer rheology and polymer processing. He received several awards for his research work, amongst which the Mason Award of the Canadian Society of Rheology, two best papers in Journal of rheology (1994 and 2011), the Killam Research Fellowship in 1995 and the Future Technology Award in ANTEC 2000. Prof. Hatzikiriakos is also a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Keiryo Packaging Technologies is developing a patented polymer processing technology which introduces well-designed mechanical energy into the polymer melt during its processing. Consequently, the molecular organization of the polymer melt is altered with the creation of flow-enhanced morphological structures which have a beneficial impact on the end performances of the polymer article being produced. This enables light weighting, better barrier performance and improved mixing of virgin and recycled material. In doing so the Keiryo Packaging Technology improves the environmental sustainability of polymer based packaging.
Keiryo Packaging Technologies is incorporated in Luxemburg and headquartered at 488 route de Longwy, Luxemburg.
Tangui.vanderelst @keiryopackaging.lu
Johan.robbrecht@keiryopackaging.lu
www.keiryopackaging.lu
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Guy Wollaert, ex-CTO The Coca-Cola Company joins Keiryo's Industry Advisory Board
Guy Wollaert, Business Angel, Managing Partner of Idea-Value-Impact advisory services and former CTO of The Coca-Cola Company joins Keiryo Packaging Technologies SA as member of the Industry Advisory Board.
Packaging Insights Magazine - Ticket to ride: Keiryo Packaging develops game-changing polymer processing technology
Incoming EU regulations posit that beverage bottles will have to contain at least 25 percent recycled plastic (rPET) by 2025 and 30 percent by 2030.
Keiryo Packaging SA, 488, Route de Longwy, L-1940 Luxemburg – Luxemburg – contact@keiryopackaging.lu


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The Schwartz Report
Microsoft Announces the Surface 4 'Enterprise Bundle'
In preparation for what it hopes is a larger corporate demand for the Surface Pro 4, Microsoft today announced what it's calling the "Enterprise Bundle," which includes the newest Surface device, keyboard and a warranty only available to large enterprises (those purchasing thousands of units). The announcement comes in advance of next week's general release of its new crop of Windows 10 devices, notably the Surface Pro 4, Surface Book laptops and Lumia phones
The warranty program, called Complete for Enterprise, will allow IT to pool devices, so if one exceeds the two-replacement limit, it can still be eligible. Also in situations where an organization has an unbootable system but doesn't want to send it back because it has sensitive data on the drive, they can destroy the device.
Microsoft also disclosed the early corporate adopters for its Surface Pro 4 in an effort to demonstrate current demand by large enterprises for its new devices. "This is the most anticipated device for enterprises in years," said Brian Eskridge, senior director for Surface, in an interview. "The response we've seen for the Surface Pro 4 is by far going to be the fastest Surface adopted by businesses ever."
Granted it's only the sixth launch of a Surface and the first in nearly a year and a half but until last year's release of the much-refined Surface Pro 3, it was questionable whether Microsoft's tablet PCs would ever be widely adopted by enterprises.
A unit of Berkshire Hathaway is among the first of 10 large enterprises that Microsoft is revealing today have ordered the Surface Pro 4, mostly on spec. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive has already started replacing older Windows desktops and laptops with Surface Pro 3 devices and now plans to continue its refresh with the Surface Pro 4.
David Austin, Berkshire Hathaway Automotive's CTO, wasn't sure offhand how many units it will ultimately roll out but he said it would be several hundred per month as part of its refresh of older PCs. "We no longer order PCs for our end users," Austin said in response to an e-mail. "This is our one-size-fits-all device. This provides a more seamless experience for the employees and guests."
Asked why Berkshire chose Windows 10 tablets over iPads or Android-based devices, Austin said familiarity with Window and security, in particular, were key reasons. "We know how to secure, patch, and control access on a Windows device," Austin said. Nevertheless, Berkshire is not rolling out Universal Windows 10 apps. Instead it will be using standard HTML 5 apps in most cases, according to Austin. In addition to the Surface Pro 4s, he said Berkshire will provide the new Surface Book, Microsoft's first-ever laptop that is also slated for release next week, for power users.
Besides Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Microsoft today said those ordering Surface Pro 4s include BNY Mellon, Carlyle Group, Clifford Chance, Covana, The Global Fund, Land 'O Lakes, USI Insurance and Wessanen. Also three universities in the U.K, have placed orders: Brighton College, Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Central Lancashire.
For Microsoft, the Surface business has gone from a black eye for the company to one of its fastest growing businesses. Since revamping its devices business and rolling out the Surface Pro 3 last year, it has grown to a $3.6 billion business for the 2015 fiscal year. It appears Microsoft has even higher hopes for the new Surface Pro 4. And if the Surface Book becomes a runaway hit, that'll surely be gravy.
Is your organization considering Microsoft's newest hardware?
Posted by Jeffrey Schwartz on 10/20/2015 at 2:52 PM


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1988: Bengals Dominate First Half, Defeat Seahawks in AFC Divisional Playoff Game
The Cincinnati Bengals were the top-seeded team in the AFC as they hosted the Seattle Seahawks in a Divisional Playoff game on December 31, 1988. The Bengals were 4-11 in 1987 but climbed to the top of the AFC Central with a 12-4 record in '88. Head Coach Sam Wyche's team operated a high-powered offense that was the league's most productive and was directed by QB Boomer Esiason, who received multiple MVP honors but struggled with a sore shoulder late in the season. The running game topped the NFL and featured veteran RB James Brooks plus unheralded rookie FB Ickey Woods (pictured above), who entertained fans with the "Ickey Shuffle" after each of his 15 touchdowns. The defense was less heralded, utilizing a 3-4 alignment anchored by All-Pro NT Tim Krumrie.
Seattle, coached by Chuck Knox, topped the AFC West with a 9-7 record, which reflected the team's inconsistency. QB Dave Krieg missed time with a shoulder separation and 34-year-old WR Steve Largent had injury problems that limited his effectiveness. The Seahawks were better at running the ball with RB Curt Warner and FB John L. Williams, but the team was typically outgained by its opponents as the defense ranked 24th in the NFL.
It was a cold and cloudy late afternoon at Riverfront Stadium, where the Bengals had not lost all season, with 58,560 fans in attendance. Cincinnati had the game's first possession and went 85 yards in 11 plays. Boomer Esiason completed passes to WR Cris Collinsworth for 30 yards and WR Eddie Brown for 23 and Ickey Woods ran effectively. FB Stanley Wilson ran gained the last three yards for a touchdown and Jim Breech added the extra point.
The teams traded punts before a long pass by Dave Krieg was intercepted by CB Eric Thomas. In a series that extended into the second quarter, the Bengals drove 75 yards in 10 plays. Esiason started off with a pass to TE Rodney Holman for 11 yards and James Brooks (pictured below) followed up with a 26-yard run to the Seattle 38. Woods and Brooks ran the ball to the 15, Esiason again connected with Holman for a gain of nine, and two plays later, Wilson ran for another three-yard TD. Breech converted to make the score 14-0.
A short series by the Seahawks that ended with a punt was followed by a five-play, 56-yard Cincinnati possession. Woods took off for 30 yards on the first play, Brooks had a 17-yard carry, and Wilson gained eight to reach the Seattle one. Two plays later, it was Woods reaching the end zone and Breech's PAT had the Bengals up by a comfortable 21-0 score, and that remained the tally at halftime. Cincinnati had dominated on the ground, rolling up 165 rushing yards in the first thirty minutes, to none for Seattle.
The teams exchanged punts to start the third quarter. Seattle finally put together a promising drive as Krieg completed passes to WR Brian Blades for 13 yards and John L. Williams for 24. A sack by LB Reggie Williams had the Seahawks facing a third-and-21 situation at the Cincinnati 45, but a pass interference penalty erased the deficit and advanced the ball to the 21. Krieg passed the Seahawks to the three, but a fourth-and-two throw was broken up in the end zone by CB Rickey Dixon and the visitors came up empty.
The Bengals responded with a long drive of 95 yards with Woods and Brooks largely carrying the load. Esiason completed three passes, the first to Holman for 24 yards and the last to Brooks for nine yards to set up a fourth-and-two situation at the Seattle three. Woods came up short on the next play and the Seahawks had the ball back on downs, but at their own two with the period almost over.
Two plays into the fourth quarter, a Krieg pass was intercepted to give the Bengals the ball at their own 40, but two plays after that Esiason fumbled while being sacked and NT Joe Nash recovered for Seattle. Krieg threw to Blades for 17 yards and TE John Spagnola for seven to reach the Cincinnati seven, and three plays later the Seahawks finally got on the board on a seven-yard pass to Williams. Norm Johnson added the point after.
A three-and-out series by the Bengals resulted in a punt and the Seahawks drove 69 yards in nine plays. Krieg connected with WR Paul Skansi for 11 yards in a third-and-ten situation and a completion to WR Ray Butler for 32 yards advanced the ball to the Cincinnati 12. Three plays later, Krieg kept the ball himself for a one-yard TD, but, critically, Johnson missed the extra point and Seattle remained behind by eight points with just under six minutes to play.
Another short Cincinnati series resulted in a punt, but this time the Seahawks were unable to move the ball as Krieg threw three incomplete passes and the visitors punted as well. With the help of a 20-yard run by Woods, the Bengals reached the Seattle 44 on their next series before punting and pinning the Seahawks back at their two yard line with 2:40 remaining on the clock. Krieg was able to complete four passes, but not his last three as the drive – and Seattle's season – ended at the Cincinnati 44. The Bengals won by a final score of 21-13.
Cincinnati had the lead in total yards (345 to 294), with 254 yards of that total coming on the ground as opposed to just 18 rushing yards for the Seahawks. The Bengals also had the edge in first downs (22 to 19) and time of possession (35:19 to 24:41). Seattle turned the ball over three times, to two suffered by Cincinnati.
Ickey Woods gained 126 yards on 23 rushing attempts that included a touchdown and James Brooks added 72 yards on 13 carries. Stanley Wilson contributed 45 yards on 7 rushes that included the two short TDs. Boomer Esiason completed just 7 of 19 passes for 108 yards and no TDs but also gave up no interceptions. Rodney Holman was the only Cincinnati receiver with more than one catch, pulling in three passes for 44 yards.
For the Seahawks, Dave Krieg was successful on 24 of 50 throws for 297 yards and a touchdown while being intercepted twice. John L. Williams (pictured at left), who gained just 10 rushing yards on 7 attempts, caught 11 passes for 137 yards and a TD. Brian Blades contributed 5 catches for 78 yards. Curt Warner was held to 11 yards on 8 carries.
"They (the Bengals) did a good job the first half, we didn't, and that's where we lost the game," summed up Dave Krieg for the Seahawks.
The Bengals won again the next week as they defeated Buffalo for the AFC Championship, but then lost a closely-contested Super Bowl to the 49ers. Seattle dropped to 7-9 in 1989 and didn't return to the postseason until 1999.
The loss to Cincinnati also was Chuck Knox's last postseason coaching appearance. His teams (the Rams and Bills in addition to the Seahawks) reached the playoffs a total of eleven times, compiling a 7-11 record (3-4 with Seattle).
Labels: 1988 NFL season, Boomer Esiason, Chuck Knox, Cincinnati Bengals, Dave Krieg, Ickey Woods, James Brooks, John L. Williams, Sam Wyche, Seattle Seahawks
1988: Bengals Dominate First Half, Defeat Seahawks...


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Glomerular macrophages in human auto- and allo-immune nephritis
Angeletti, Andrea Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Giannina Gaslini Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare, Genoa, Italy
Scapozza, Leonardo Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Cavalli, Andrea Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Ghiggeri, Gian Marco Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Giannina Gaslini Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare, Genoa, Italy
Prunotto, Marco Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Giannina Gaslini Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare, Genoa, Italy - Galapagos NV, Basel, Switzerland
Moll, Solange Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
Cells. - 2021, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 19 p
Glomerulonephritis
Immune nephritis
English Macrophages are involved in tissue homeostasis. They participate in inflammatory episodes and are involved in tissue repair. Macrophages are characterized by a phenotypic heterogeneity and a profound cell plasticity. In the kidney, and more particularly within glomeruli, macrophages are thought to play a maintenance role that is potentially critical for preserving a normal glomerular structure. Literature on the glomerular macrophage role in human crescentic glomerulonephritis and renal transplantation rejection with glomerulitis, is sparse. Evidence from preclinical models indicates that macrophages profoundly modulate disease progression, both in terms of number—where depletion has resulted in a reduced glomerular lesion—and sub-phenotype—M1 being more profoundly detrimental than M2. This evidence is corroborated by better outcomes in patients with a lower number of glomerular macrophages. However, due to the very limited biopsy sample size, the type and role of macrophage subpopulations involved in human proliferative lesions is more difficult to precisely define and synthesize. Therefore, specific biomarkers of macrophage activation may enhance our ability to assess their role, potentially enabling improved monitoring of drug activity and ultimately allowing the development of novel therapeutic strategies to target these elusive cellular players.
DOI 10.3390/cells10030603
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The Price of Success
At the risk of invoking comparisons to Oscar Wilde and this quote...
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of
everything but the value of nothing."
...we note that the Caps' success last season comes with a price. It is the price of keeping the "core" pieces of the puzzle in place, as this look at the cap hits of 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 suggest:
Five years ago, this club was a wreck, and the disappointment of failure was being worn openly. This club didn't disappoint anyone last year (except perhaps those who now feel that there is unfinished business to take care of) and has the look of another club that went from basement to Stanley Cup final in two seasons.
It is a club that has followed a plan -- draft well, keep that core together (note those amounts in yellow above), add pieces through trade or free agency as needed.
There is spending stoopid and spending well. In 2001 and 2002, the Caps spent stoopid and paid a heavy price in the years that followed -- economically and emotionally. In 2008, they seem to be spending well.
Democracy in Tampa
Taking a page from the history of political discourse in this fine nation of ours, the Tampa Bay Lightning are having a town meeting...so reports Damian Cristodero of the St. Petersburg Times:
"The highlight of the event will feature a question and answer session hosted by Lightning television play-by-play announcer Rick Preckham with owners Oren Koules and Len Barrie, head coach Barry Melrose and center Vincent Lecavalier."
OK...here are a few questions...
Oren...Len signed a guy, and he picked Mark Recchi...you going to let him sign another? Maybe Stu Barnes? Or Kevyn Adams, as long as you're doing the Memory Lane Forward Tour?
Steve Stamkos...think he'll make the squad?
You signed or traded for 11 forwards -- so far. You traded two defensemen to get...two defensemen and added two additional defensemen in other deals. My question is, when you go out to eat, you order six main courses and no sides, don't you?
Coach Melrose...you haven't been behind an NHL bench in more than a dozen years. You don't have a .500 season in the NHL with a roster that didn't include anyone named, "Gretzky." You going to try to convince Oren and Len to bring Wayne over from Phoenix?
Is it true Jay Feaster's new duties include doing in-game entertainment as Thunderbug?
If "Feasterbug" doesn't work out, will your new mascot be...
One last question...about your off season...have you people lost your minds? No, really...guys?...guys??


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Ah, the coalition – we'll miss it when it's gone
Despite predictions of disaster, the Con-Lib pact has weathered some serious storms and been great for Britain
Alice Thomson
Wednesday March 18 2015, 12.01am, The Times
So it looks like we could be going back to 1974, with Abba, Ceefax, Chopper bikes, Britain's first McDonald's and two general elections in a year. You're lucky if you don't remember the chaos. The Tories scrambling around for a partnership with Jeremy Thorpe; Labour attempting minority government before a second election gave them a majority of three votes, soon whittled down to zero.
They had to muddle through the late 1970s, eventually turning to a "confidence and supply" pact, or "pay and rations" as it was dubbed, with the smaller parties. These were turbulent years. It was survival on a week-by-week basis that ended with the Winter of Discontent and 18 years of Tory rule. Nothing to feel nostalgic about.
But I think we


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The Apache HTTP Server Project
http://httpd.apache.org/
The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort
aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available
source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is jointly
managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using the Internet
and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and its related
documentation. In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code,
and documentation to the project.
This file is intended to briefly describe the history of the Apache Group (as
it was called in the early days), recognize the many contributors, and explain
how you can join the fun too.
In February of 1995, the most popular server software on the Web was the
public domain HTTP daemon developed by Rob McCool at the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
However, development of that httpd had stalled after Rob left NCSA in
mid-1994, and many webmasters had developed their own extensions and bug
fixes that were in need of a common distribution. A small group of these
webmasters, contacted via private e-mail, gathered together for the purpose
of coordinating their changes (in the form of "patches"). Brian Behlendorf
and Cliff Skolnick put together a mailing list, shared information space,
and logins for the core developers on a machine in the California Bay Area,
with bandwidth and diskspace donated by HotWired and Organic Online.
By the end of February, eight core contributors formed the foundation
of the original Apache Group:
Brian Behlendorf Roy T. Fielding Rob Hartill
David Robinson Cliff Skolnick Randy Terbush
Robert S. Thau Andrew Wilson
with additional contributions from
Eric Hagberg Frank Peters Nicolas Pioch
Using NCSA httpd 1.3 as a base, we added all of the published bug fixes
and worthwhile enhancements we could find, tested the result on our own
servers, and made the first official public release (0.6.2) of the Apache
server in April 1995. By coincidence, NCSA restarted their own development
during the same period, and Brandon Long and Beth Frank of the NCSA Server
Development Team joined the list in March as honorary members so that the
two projects could share ideas and fixes.
The early Apache server was a big hit, but we all knew that the codebase
needed a general overhaul and redesign. During May-June 1995, while
Rob Hartill and the rest of the group focused on implementing new features
for 0.7.x (like pre-forked child processes) and supporting the rapidly growing
Apache user community, Robert Thau designed a new server architecture
(code-named Shambhala) which included a modular structure and API for better
extensibility, pool-based memory allocation, and an adaptive pre-forking
process model. The group switched to this new server base in July and added
the features from 0.7.x, resulting in Apache 0.8.8 (and its brethren)
in August.
After extensive beta testing, many ports to obscure platforms, a new set
of documentation (by David Robinson), and the addition of many features
in the form of our standard modules, Apache 1.0 was released on
December 1, 1995.
Less than a year after the group was formed, the Apache server passed
NCSA's httpd as the #1 server on the Internet.
The survey by Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com/survey/) shows that Apache
is today more widely used than all other web servers combined.
The current project management committe of the Apache HTTP Server
project (as of March, 2011) is:
Aaron Bannert André Malo Astrid Stolper
Ben Laurie Bojan Smojver Brad Nicholes
Brian Havard Brian McCallister Chris Darroch
Chuck Murcko Colm MacCárthaigh Dan Poirier
Dirk-Willem van Gulik Doug MacEachern
Eric Covener Erik Abele Graham Dumpleton
Graham Leggett Greg Ames Greg Stein
Gregory Trubetskoy Guenter Knauf Issac Goldstand
Jeff Trawick Jim Gallacher Jim Jagielski
Joe Orton Joe Schaefer Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz Ken Coar Lars Eilebrecht
Manoj Kasichainula Marc Slemko Mark J. Cox
Martin Kraemer Maxime Petazzoni Nick Kew
Nicolas Lehuen Noirin Shirley Paul Querna
Philip M. Gollucci Ralf S. Engelschall Randy Kobes
Rasmus Lerdorf Rich Bowen Roy T. Fielding
Rüdiger Plüm Sander Striker Sander Temm
Stefan Fritsch Tony Stevenson Victor J. Orlikowski
Wilfredo Sanchez William A. Rowe Jr. Yoshiki Hayashi
Other major contributors
Howard Fear (mod_include), Florent Guillaume (language negotiation),
Koen Holtman (rewrite of mod_negotiation),
Kevin Hughes (creator of all those nifty icons),
Brandon Long and Beth Frank (NCSA Server Development Team, post-1.3),
Ambarish Malpani (Beginning of the NT port),
Rob McCool (original author of the NCSA httpd 1.3),
Paul Richards (convinced the group to use remote CVS after 1.0),
Garey Smiley (OS/2 port), Henry Spencer (author of the regex library).
Many 3rd-party modules, frequently used and recommended, are also
freely-available and linked from the related projects page:
<http://modules.apache.org/>, and their authors frequently
contribute ideas, patches, and testing.
Hundreds of people have made individual contributions to the Apache
project. Patch contributors are listed in the CHANGES file.
How to become involved in the Apache project
There are several levels of contributing. If you just want to send
in an occasional suggestion/fix, then you can just use the bug reporting
form at <http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html>. You can also subscribe
to the announcements mailing list (announce-subscribe@httpd.apache.org) which
we use to broadcast information about new releases, bugfixes, and upcoming
events. There's a lot of information about the development process (much of
it in serious need of updating) to be found at <http://httpd.apache.org/dev/>.
If you'd like to become an active contributor to the Apache project (the
group of volunteers who vote on changes to the distributed server), then
you need to start by subscribing to the dev@httpd.apache.org mailing list.
One warning though: traffic is high, 1000 to 1500 messages/month.
To subscribe to the list, send an email to dev-subscribe@httpd.apache.org.
We recommend reading the list for a while before trying to jump in to
NOTE: The developer mailing list (dev@httpd.apache.org) is not
a user support forum; it is for people actively working on development
of the server code and documentation, and for planning future
directions. If you have user/configuration questions, send them
to users list <http://httpd.apache.org/userslist> or to the USENET
newsgroup "comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix".or for windows users,
the newsgroup "comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows".
There is a core group of contributors (informally called the "core")
which was formed from the project founders and is augmented from time
to time when core members nominate outstanding contributors and the
rest of the core members agree. The core group focus is more on
"business" issues and limited-circulation things like security problems
than on mainstream code development. The term "The Apache Group"
technically refers to this core of project contributors.
The Apache project is a meritocracy--the more work you have done, the more
you are allowed to do. The group founders set the original rules, but
they can be changed by vote of the active members. There is a group
of people who have logins on our server (apache.org) and access to the
svn repository. Everyone has access to the svn snapshots. Changes to
the code are proposed on the mailing list and usually voted on by active
members--three +1 (yes votes) and no -1 (no votes, or vetoes) are needed
to commit a code change during a release cycle; docs are usually committed
first and then changed as needed, with conflicts resolved by majority vote.
Our primary method of communication is our mailing list. Approximately 40
messages a day flow over the list, and are typically very conversational in
tone. We discuss new features to add, bug fixes, user problems, developments
in the web server community, release dates, etc. The actual code development
takes place on the developers' local machines, with proposed changes
communicated using a patch (output of a unified "diff -u oldfile newfile"
command), and committed to the source repository by one of the core
developers using remote svn. Anyone on the mailing list can vote on a
particular issue, but we only count those made by active members or people
who are known to be experts on that part of the server. Vetoes must be
accompanied by a convincing explanation.
New members of the Apache Group are added when a frequent contributor is
nominated by one member and unanimously approved by the voting members.
In most cases, this "new" member has been actively contributing to the
group's work for over six months, so it's usually an easy decision.
The above describes our past and current (as of July 2000) guidelines,
which will probably change over time as the membership of the group
changes and our development/coordination tools improve.
The Apache Software Foundation (www.apache.org)
The Apache Software Foundation exists to provide organizational, legal,
and financial support for the Apache open-source software projects.
Founded in June 1999 by the Apache Group, the Foundation has been
incorporated as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation in order
to ensure that the Apache projects continue to exist beyond the participation
of individual volunteers, to enable contributions of intellectual property
and funds on a sound basis, and to provide a vehicle for limiting legal
exposure while participating in open-source software projects.
You are invited to participate in The Apache Software Foundation. We welcome
contributions in many forms. Our membership consists of those individuals
who have demonstrated a commitment to collaborative open-source software
development through sustained participation and contributions within the
Foundation's projects. Many people and companies have contributed towards
the success of the Apache projects.
Why The Apache HTTP Server Is Free
Apache HTTP Server exists to provide a robust and commercial-grade reference
implementation of the HTTP protocol. It must remain a platform upon which
individuals and institutions can build reliable systems, both for
experimental purposes and for mission-critical purposes. We believe the
tools of online publishing should be in the hands of everyone, and
software companies should make their money providing value-added services
such as specialized modules and support, amongst other things. We realize
that it is often seen as an economic advantage for one company to "own" a
market - in the software industry that means to control tightly a
particular conduit such that all others must pay. This is typically done
by "owning" the protocols through which companies conduct business, at the
expense of all those other companies. To the extent that the protocols of
the World Wide Web remain "unowned" by a single company, the Web will
remain a level playing field for companies large and small. Thus,
"ownership" of the protocol must be prevented, and the existence of a
robust reference implementation of the protocol, available absolutely for
free to all companies, is a tremendously good thing.
Furthermore, Apache httpd is an organic entity; those who benefit from it
by using it often contribute back to it by providing feature enhancements,
bug fixes, and support for others in public newsgroups. The amount of
effort expended by any particular individual is usually fairly light, but
the resulting product is made very strong. This kind of community can
only happen with freeware--when someone pays for software, they usually
aren't willing to fix its bugs. One can argue, then, that Apache's
strength comes from the fact that it's free, and if it were made "not
free" it would suffer tremendously, even if that money were spent on a
real development team.
We want to see Apache httpd used very widely--by large companies, small
companies, research institutions, schools, individuals, in the intranet
environment, everywhere--even though this may mean that companies who
could afford commercial software, and would pay for it without blinking,
might get a "free ride" by using Apache httpd. We would even be happy if
some commercial software companies completely dropped their own HTTP server
development plans and used Apache httpd as a base, with the proper attributions
as described in the LICENSE file.
Thanks for using Apache HTTP Server!


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https://www.middletownpress.com/nba/article/Jerome-Kersey-s-death-linked-to-blood-clot-11789597.php
Jerome Kersey's death linked to blood clot
Anne M. Peterson The Associated Press
Published 2:53 pm EST, Thursday, February 19, 2015
In this July 16, 2003 file photo, Portland Trail Blazers general manager John Nash, left, chats with assistant coach Jerome Kersey.
Photo: Greg Wahl-Stephens — The Associated Press File Photo
PORTLAND, Ore. >> The state medical examiner says former Portland Trail Blazers player Jerome Kersey died from a blood clot that traveled from his left calf to his left lung.
The announcement Thursday comes a day after Kersey died at 52. He had minor knee surgery Friday, but it could not be immediately determined if surgery caused the clot.
Kersey appeared Tuesday with former Blazers Terry Porter Brian Grant at a Portland high school in celebration of African-American History Month. He visited the team offices hours before his death.
Kersey helped the Trail Blazers twice reach the NBA Finals before he won a title with the San Antonio Spurs in 1999.
Kersey averaged 10.3 points and 5.5 rebounds in 17 seasons in the NBA with Portland, Golden State, the Los Angeles Lakers, Seattle, San Antonio and Milwaukee.


The 2016 Mercury transit and a Sunset with donuts in the Everglades!
Mercury transits across the Sun May 9, 2016.
The little dot at bottom is the charred planet Mercury plus some sunspots above it!
Transit of Mercury and sunspots with some donuts for sunset!
Sunset with donuts over Florida Bay.


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How California Is Pioneering a New Retirement Savings Plan
The California Secure Choice plan is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, at left in his office.
Rich Pedroncelli—AP
By Penelope Wang
California is about to give millions of workers a big boost toward retirement security. Late Wednesday, the California Senate approved legislation to set up a state retirement savings program called Secure Choice that would provide coverage to nearly 7 million small-business employees in the state who lack access to workplace plans. The bill is expected to be signed by Gov. Jerry Brown within the next few weeks.
The Secure Choice plan would require small employers to auto-enroll workers in an IRA. That puts California on track to become the largest state to set up a state savings program—but it's far from the first. Washington has approved a program that is scheduled to launch Jan. 1, 2017, and six other states, including Oregon, Illinois and Connecticut, have enacted legislation to set up plans of their own. All told, at least 30 states are in various stages of setting up retirement plans—some mandatory for employers and some voluntary—according to the Georgetown University Center for Retirement Initiatives.
With the launch of California Secure Choice, the movement is approaching critical mass. "California is a game-changer," says Georgetown Center executive director Angela Antonelli, who expects the program will bring national attention to the retirement coverage gap.
Studies show that more than half of workers—some 55 million nationwide—lack workplace retirement plans, especially those employed by small businesses and freelancers. And when it comes to putting money away, an employer nudge really matters: 90% of those with workplace plans save for retirement vs. only 20% of those without one.
An obvious solution would be to establish a national auto-IRA plan that would allow these workers to save without an employer-sponsored program. But despite repeated bipartisan efforts, auto-IRA legislation hasn't been approved by Congress. So individual states have decided to step in—a movement that recently received support from the U.S Department of Labor, which issued rules offering a clearer roadmap for states to set up their own retirement plans, says Sarah Mysiewicz Gill, senior legislative representative at AARP.
The state initiatives differ in their approaches. Some are setting up plan-provider marketplaces that employers can sign up for on a voluntary basis, but most are mandating that employers auto-enroll workers in a state-provided savings program, which is the case in California. Workers can always opt out, as they can in 401(k) plans.
Though the initial target for the California plan was a 2017 launch, the program is more likely to get going in 2018, says state Treasury Secretary John Chiang, who also heads the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Investment Board.
Given the size of the worker population, the schedule calls for a gradual rollout, starting with the smallest employers. "Projections show that the plan is likely to get 1.6 million workers enrolled in the first year," says Blanca Castro, Sacramento Metro Manager forAARP, who has been tracking the legislation.
The program's details are still being hammered out. As currently outlined, private-sector businesses with five or more workers that don't currently offer a retirement plan must auto-enroll employees in an IRA. (It's still not clear whether that IRA will be a Roth or traditional account.) The default contribution level may be 3%, which may be increased automatically. Administrative fees would be capped at 1%.
For the first three years, worker contributions would be stashed in a safe investment, such as Treasuries, while the program administrators select an investment manager, who would eventually offer a broader range of options. The model being used is the myRA, the ultrasafe retirement savings option introduced by President Obama in 2014 for investors just starting out. (You can sign up for your own myRA account at the U.S. Treasury website.)
The California Secure Choice program has garnered broad support, as tweaks to the plan led industry groups, such as the California Chamber of Commerce, to drop opposition. But there are still critics. The Investment Company Institute, the trade organization for the fund industry, has argued that the program may be too expensive to manage, since it will probably attract smaller accounts that lack economies of scale.
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Still, many asset-management companies, including robo-adviser firms like Betterment and Wealthfront, manage small accounts for low fees. And the feasibility study for the program projects that even at high opt-out rates, there would be sufficient assets to maintain cost-effectiveness. "Our goal is to drive down costs as low as possible," says Chiang.
That said, the state savings initiative does raise a key question: Is this really the best way to close the retirement savings gap? A patchwork quilt of 50 state plans, however efficiently run, will still lack the economies of scale of giant programs like the federal Thrift Savings Plan or public pension plans. As the Boston College Center for Retirement Research recently noted,
Even if more states are successful in setting up a tier of retirement income for their citizens, this approach to implementing a retirement program is clearly a second-best alternative. A national Auto-IRA plan would be a much more efficient way to close the coverage gap, offering substantial economies of scale and avoiding the laborious, time-consuming, and expensive process of setting up 50 different state plans.
It's possible that the state savings initiatives may spur more interest in finally establishing a national auto-IRA or perhaps even a national mandatory savings plan. But those efforts will undoubtedly have to wait until the next president gets around to focusing on the retirement savings crisis.


Faneuil Estate, built in 1760, on southern slope of Bigelow Hill, between Bigelow and Brooks Street. Faneuil St runs in front of the mansion with Oak Sq to the left and Washington St is in the foreground. The date of this photo is c1860 when it was in its original Georgian style. It was renovated sometime therafter with the French second empire style with mansard roof, etc.
Gatekeeper's house of the Faneuil estate. Dating from 1760, it is the oldest house in the Oak Sq area at the corner of Faneuil and Dunboy Streets. Photo taken about 1925.
Davis House, built in 1707, stood on Faneuil Street where the Faneuil Housing Project stands today.
Beginning of the Faneuil Housing Project construction in 1949. Houses in the background are at 254- 253 North Beacon St. The house on the right (#243), which was built in the 1850s, no longer stands and was originally the home of Benjamin Fobes, long time Brighton Police Chief. This land originally formed part of Brighton's oldest nursery, Winship's gardens, a 40 acre property which was sold for residential development in the 1850s.
The Hiram Barker House, residence of a Brighton lumber merchant, stood at the southeast corner of Parsons and Niles Street. See on the map below to the right of center.


Ekaterina Klimova, Katherine Spitz, Masha Tsigal and other celebrities at the premiere of "transformers. The last knight".
the automotive incarnation of the cult Bumblebee is a bright yellow Camaro.
Irina Bezrukova was published with a companion, which, of course, attracted universal attention. "Nothing personal!" — commented the actress. The man was Artem Lyalin, a choreographer, who taught the star one dance project "Dancing with the stars." Since then Artem and Irina are friends.
"Transformers: the Last knight", timed to the release of the film.
grown up experienced designers and collectors.
Alexander and Alexander Strizhenov, Dasha gauzer, Maxim Trankov, Ekaterina Klimova, Anna Tsukanova-Cott, Katherine Spitz, Alexander Nosik, Anastasia Grebenkina, Anfisa Chernykh, Masha Tsigal and others.


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#include "core/editing/commands/InsertLineBreakCommand.h"

#include "core/HTMLNames.h"
#include "core/dom/Document.h"
#include "core/dom/Text.h"
#include "core/editing/EditingStyle.h"
#include "core/editing/EditingUtilities.h"
#include "core/editing/FrameSelection.h"
#include "core/editing/VisiblePosition.h"
#include "core/editing/VisibleUnits.h"
#include "core/frame/LocalFrame.h"
#include "core/html/HTMLBRElement.h"
#include "core/html/HTMLElement.h"
#include "core/layout/LayoutObject.h"
#include "core/layout/LayoutText.h"

namespace blink {

using namespace HTMLNames;

InsertLineBreakCommand::InsertLineBreakCommand(Document& document)
    : CompositeEditCommand(document)
{
}

bool InsertLineBreakCommand::preservesTypingStyle() const
{
    return true;
}

// Whether we should insert a break element or a '\n'.
bool InsertLineBreakCommand::shouldUseBreakElement(const Position& insertionPos)
{
    // An editing position like [input, 0] actually refers to the position before
    // the input element, and in that case we need to check the input element's
    // parent's layoutObject.
    Position p(insertionPos.parentAnchoredEquivalent());
    return p.anchorNode()->layoutObject() && !p.anchorNode()->layoutObject()->style()->preserveNewline();
}

void InsertLineBreakCommand::doApply()
{
    deleteSelection();
    VisibleSelection selection = endingSelection();
    if (!selection.isNonOrphanedCaretOrRange())
        return;

    VisiblePosition caret(selection.visibleStart());
    // FIXME: If the node is hidden, we should still be able to insert text.
    // For now, we return to avoid a crash.  https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40342
    if (caret.isNull())
        return;

    Position pos(caret.deepEquivalent());

    pos = positionAvoidingSpecialElementBoundary(pos);

    pos = positionOutsideTabSpan(pos);

    RefPtrWillBeRawPtr<Node> nodeToInsert = nullptr;
    if (shouldUseBreakElement(pos))
        nodeToInsert = HTMLBRElement::create(document());
    else
        nodeToInsert = document().createTextNode("\n");

    // FIXME: Need to merge text nodes when inserting just after or before text.

    if (isEndOfParagraph(caret) && !lineBreakExistsAtVisiblePosition(caret)) {
        bool needExtraLineBreak = !isHTMLHRElement(*pos.anchorNode()) && !isHTMLTableElement(*pos.anchorNode());

        insertNodeAt(nodeToInsert.get(), pos);

        if (needExtraLineBreak)
            insertNodeBefore(nodeToInsert->cloneNode(false), nodeToInsert);

        VisiblePosition endingPosition = createVisiblePosition(positionBeforeNode(nodeToInsert.get()));
        setEndingSelection(VisibleSelection(endingPosition, endingSelection().isDirectional()));
    } else if (pos.computeEditingOffset() <= caretMinOffset(pos.anchorNode())) {
        insertNodeAt(nodeToInsert.get(), pos);

        // Insert an extra br or '\n' if the just inserted one collapsed.
        if (!isStartOfParagraph(createVisiblePosition(positionBeforeNode(nodeToInsert.get()))))
            insertNodeBefore(nodeToInsert->cloneNode(false).get(), nodeToInsert.get());

        setEndingSelection(VisibleSelection(positionInParentAfterNode(*nodeToInsert), TextAffinity::Downstream, endingSelection().isDirectional()));
    // If we're inserting after all of the rendered text in a text node, or into a non-text node,
    // a simple insertion is sufficient.
    } else if (!pos.anchorNode()->isTextNode() || pos.computeOffsetInContainerNode() >= caretMaxOffset(pos.anchorNode())) {
        insertNodeAt(nodeToInsert.get(), pos);
        setEndingSelection(VisibleSelection(positionInParentAfterNode(*nodeToInsert), TextAffinity::Downstream, endingSelection().isDirectional()));
    } else if (pos.anchorNode()->isTextNode()) {
        // Split a text node
        Text* textNode = toText(pos.anchorNode());
        splitTextNode(textNode, pos.computeOffsetInContainerNode());
        insertNodeBefore(nodeToInsert, textNode);
        Position endingPosition = firstPositionInNode(textNode);

        // Handle whitespace that occurs after the split
        document().updateLayoutIgnorePendingStylesheets();
        // TODO(yosin) |isRenderedCharacter()| should be removed, and we should
        // use |VisiblePosition::characterAfter()|.
        if (!isRenderedCharacter(endingPosition)) {
            Position positionBeforeTextNode(positionInParentBeforeNode(*textNode));
            // Clear out all whitespace and insert one non-breaking space
            deleteInsignificantTextDownstream(endingPosition);
            ASSERT(!textNode->layoutObject() || textNode->layoutObject()->style()->collapseWhiteSpace());
            // Deleting insignificant whitespace will remove textNode if it contains nothing but insignificant whitespace.
            if (textNode->inDocument()) {
                insertTextIntoNode(textNode, 0, nonBreakingSpaceString());
            } else {
                RefPtrWillBeRawPtr<Text> nbspNode = document().createTextNode(nonBreakingSpaceString());
                insertNodeAt(nbspNode.get(), positionBeforeTextNode);
                endingPosition = firstPositionInNode(nbspNode.get());
            }
        }

        setEndingSelection(VisibleSelection(endingPosition, TextAffinity::Downstream, endingSelection().isDirectional()));
    }

    // Handle the case where there is a typing style.

    RefPtrWillBeRawPtr<EditingStyle> typingStyle = document().frame()->selection().typingStyle();

    if (typingStyle && !typingStyle->isEmpty()) {
        // Apply the typing style to the inserted line break, so that if the selection
        // leaves and then comes back, new input will have the right style.
        // FIXME: We shouldn't always apply the typing style to the line break here,
        // see <rdar://problem/5794462>.
        applyStyle(typingStyle.get(), firstPositionInOrBeforeNode(nodeToInsert.get()), lastPositionInOrAfterNode(nodeToInsert.get()));
        // Even though this applyStyle operates on a Range, it still sets an endingSelection().
        // It tries to set a VisibleSelection around the content it operated on. So, that VisibleSelection
        // will either (a) select the line break we inserted, or it will (b) be a caret just
        // before the line break (if the line break is at the end of a block it isn't selectable).
        // So, this next call sets the endingSelection() to a caret just after the line break
        // that we inserted, or just before it if it's at the end of a block.
        setEndingSelection(endingSelection().visibleEnd());
    }

    rebalanceWhitespace();
}

}

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The modern growth theory is based on technological breakthroughs which result in new consumer goods and services.
Once these goods are used worldwide, the originating country (let's say USA) earns billions through patent protection, marketing and selling them.
Now money from the rest of the world is pouring into the USA, which goes into increasing income, furthers production and hence employment and output.
The rate of economic growth is enhanced.
Part of this new money goes into research and development of other new products, so as to keep this conduit of economic growth and development in motion.
This is an example of the concept of "export led growth."
There is not a single underdeveloped country anywhere in the world which is technologically advanced.
Reversely, there is not a single developed country anywhere in the world which is technologically backward.


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Candidate Filing for 2022 Primary Elections Set to Resume February 24
Published: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 11:07 am Updated: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 11:07 am
Candidate filing for North Carolina's 2022 primary elections, as well as rescheduled municipal elections, will resume at 8 a.m. Thursday, February 24, and end at noon on Friday, March 4, under an order issued Tuesday by the Superior Court of Wake County.
The order (PDF) by a three-judge panel upheld state legislative and congressional district maps being challenged in redistricting-related lawsuits.
"State Board of Elections staff will immediately begin preparing for the continuation of the candidate filing period, including securing a location to ensure the health and safety of staff and candidates," said Karen Brinson Bell, State Board executive director. "We will provide all details to the public as soon as possible at NCSBE.gov and through an announcement distributed to the media."
County and municipal candidate filing also will resume on February 24 and take place at the county board of elections offices. Contact the specific county office for hours of operation and COVID-19 protocols.
Meanwhile, a separate court order (PDF) on Tuesday ordered the suspension of the consideration of any challenges to candidates for U.S. House, N.C. House, and N.C. Senate, until final resolution of the litigation in the redistricting cases, North Carolina League of Conservation Voters v. Hall. Such a challenge was filed against a congressional candidate on Monday, January 10, and the State Board was planning to appoint a panel to hear that challenge during a meeting on Wednesday, January 12, as required by state law. In accordance with the court's order, the State Board canceled its meeting, and consideration of that pending challenge is postponed until resolution of the redistricting cases.
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Sherrie Norris Lovin' Spoonful Cooking Column: Bring Out the Big Pots, It's National Soup Month
Events, Service Projects to Honor King Legacy at App State; Bakari Sellers to Speak at 37th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration


Ah, enchanting kingdoms, exotic animals, towering roller coasters—where else can you feel the magic and splendor of Walt Temple World? Oh, right. That's Disney World. Sorry. Temple does have some pretty spectacular attractions in the works, including an Epcot-inspired food truck event, therapy dogs at Paley Library and Frisbee golf. Also more food. Today Grillmaster Neil D. Theobald is cooking for you. So slip on some rodent ears and check out these nine things to do during finals.
If you're reading this after 1 p.m., drop what you're doing, because Main Campus Program Board's last event is today and there.will.be.food.trucks. And not just the usual suspects, but food trucks from all over the city (and cuisine from all over the world!) at Epcot Takes Temple. Truck treats will be the main attraction, but you can also sign up for a free painting session.
Don't forget: President Theobald's last student barbecue of the school year will be held today, too. You can eat burgers with the prez or eat food truck fare—or, you know, eat burgers with the prez then eat food truck fare.
3. And don't forget breakfast.
If your Diamond Dollars have been depleted and you've moved on to a change-under-the-sofa budget, take advantage of Rise and Shine, hosted by Temple Libraries, on the first finals study day. You can grab breakfast treats and coffee before that trek to the TECH.
Work out some end-of-semester stress by dancing til you drop or doing some neon-themed yoga. And at Ambler you can try nine-hole Frisbee Golf Tournament (if you don't know, it's where you—just Google it).
5. Get your gamer (or artist) on.
We know it's serious flash card time, but when your brain feels so stuffed you start worrying about your resemblance to Stewie Griffin, head to the Tyler Spring Carnival. There will be bouncy rides and games to win and carnival food to binge on, so you can distract yourself from thoughts of Stewie by filling your stomach instead. Or, take a break from puzzling over your final English assignments and spend some time puzzling over, well, games and puzzles and arts and crafts at Paley Library.
If you feel like getting your downward dog on and fleeing campus for a bit, head to Free Yoga on the Waterfront at Race Street Pier, where you can briefly forget about your stat final and focus on your Sphinx pose.
Truthfully, we'd like to keep these sweet pups to ourselves, but you should know that therapy dogs are back on campus to provide comfort and lower your anxiety levels. Plus, the puppy love will hold you over until you're home to snuggle with your own pets. They'll be on campus for three days, so plan accordingly.
Show some support for graduating Owls at the Tyler senior exhibition showcasing graphic and interactive design students' portfolios in the school's Green Hallway. These exceptional artists will showcase everything from packaging and posters to catalogs and branding. You can get a sneak peek of some portfolios here, but you ought to go in person for the full effect.
8. And celebrate *being* a senior.
Like free drinks and apps? If you're a graduating senior, a happy hour's happening to celebrate YOU. Not to bum you out, but it's your last hurrah, so come out to this event sponsored by Temple's Young Alumni Association. You'll get two drink tickets and appetizers FREE, so remember to register. And then eat. Drink. Be merry. Fly the nest.
Wednesday, May 4, 5 p.m.–7 p.m., Master's Bar & Restaurant, 1535 N. Carlisle St.


Summer is almost over and I must get back in Scouting mode…. I am headed to Barcelona, Spain on Sunday to do a Shooting Clinic and as soon as I return to Italy I will re-pack and drive up to Slovenia for the 2013 Eurobasket.
Training camp is just a few weeks away also and I look forward to seeing the new Bobcats team.


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() is a 1971 Japanese crime film directed by Hideo Gosha.

Release
The film was released theatrically in Japan on 30 October 1971 by Toho. The film was released by Toho International in the United States with English subtitles on 7 June 1972.

Reception
Vincent Canby of the New York Times reviewed the film in 1982, describing it as "a rather enjoyable if often mysterious and esoteric entertainment for someone coming upon the genre for the first time." Canby concluded that the film was "resolutely sentimental and picturesque" and "a most peculiar mixture of stylized prettiness and blood and gore, which is, I suspect, the film's main purpose" and "makes a feeble stab at social criticism" and that a viewer may "not understand everything that's going on in The Wolves, but I doubt that you'll be bored." Time Out declared that, while "Hideo Gosha is virtually unknown in the West", The Wolves is "a yakuza movie in a class of its own" and "a stunningly realised thriller", concluding that "Gosha's muscular, Expressionist colour imagery blazes through the screen."

Cast
 Tatsuya Nakadai
 Noboru Ando
 Toshio Kurosawa as Tsutomu Onodera

See also
 List of Japanese films of 1971

Footnotes

References

External links

Japanese crime films
Films directed by Hideo Gosha
Yakuza films
Toho films
1971 crime films
1971 films
1970s Japanese films

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We have a very unique opportunity to get to know and follow one brave little Friends of Karen child and his family. Luke just turned 5 years old in December and is currently in Pre-K. His mom, Nicole, is a teacher, his dad, John, works in sales, and he has a little sister, Grace, who is just a year and a half old. Luke and his family live in Rockland County, NY. They are a happy, unremarkable family, but for one thing… Luke is about to go through a bone marrow transplant (the 2nd in his short life).
When I asked Luke what he was thankful for he said "lots of cupcakes!" I giggled at his most perfect answer. That is exactly what every 5 year old (almost 6) little boy should be thankful for. I was not surprised when my sweet little Luke added on to his response, "I am thankful for you and Daddy and Grace... for helping me."
My superhero is a kindergartener! Luke has completed his first month of school. Each morning he wears the biggest smile. He pops out of bed and proudly gets dressed ready to take on the day. It has become so clear how much he loves life... the children, learning and playing. Luke is 6 months post-transplant. We have hit a huge milestone and the thing that comes to mind is a rocket ship soaring into space. Luke had his clinic appointment and the news was bright enough to light up the sky. His numbers were given an A+. His myeloid engraftment was 100% (it was 14% before the transplant).


Heat management is one of the major challenges in modern electronic devices. The higher performance results in a production of greater amount of heat which needs to be efficiently dissipated so as to ensure the electronic devices operational during the period of lifetime. This paper discusses the application of micro- and nano-materials in thermal interface materials (TIM) used for heat management. Effects of type, size and geometry of different fillers were experimentally investigated. The results showed that it is recommended to utilize silver particles compared to copper ones to achieve higher heat dissipation. And the particles of smaller size may enhance the thermal conductivity of elaborated materials.