Are 3D-Printed Cars The Next Big Thing?
We've seen 3D-printed forks and body parts. There's even a 3D printer in space. But now 3D printing is even hitting the open road.
Right now, that takes 40 hours — but the goal is to get it under 12. Rogers says about 95 percent of the volume of the car is printed.
Rogers says an electric version of this vehicle could be available by the end of the year and start anywhere from 8,000 to 0,000. And instead of picking from the dealer's lot, each consumer is a designer.
"You can come in and say: 'I want four seats, I want five seats, I want six seats,'" said Rogers.
But there could be roadblocks ahead. These first models are built to cruise around neighborhoods at under 40 miles per hour. To get on the highway, they'll need to meet rigorous federal road safety standards. And he'll need to convince customers that a printed car is safe.
I asked Rogers about concerns that plastic may not be enough protection during an accident.
"This is carbon-fiber reinforced thermoplastic so what we're talking about is something that actually is an aerospace grade material," he said.
The car of the future – just a click, print, and drive away.


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The hotel, designed by the architect Guillermo Forteza, is located in Son Armadams, a residential neighborhood in Palma, very close to the Cathedral (a Gothic gem dating back from the 14th and 16th centuries), the History Museum, the Bellver Castle (residence of James I back in the 15th century), Pueblo Espa�ol, Auditorium, the Baluard Museum, the Almudaina Palace and the Arab Baths.
The establishment has junior suites, superior rooms and standard rooms. It also features private reception rooms, completely soundproof, meeting rooms for 30/65 people, outdoor and indoor swimming pools and a new spa area (free, except massages).


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Letter To N. G. Dufeif
Thomas Jefferson (April 19, 1814)
Dear Sir, -- Your favor of the 6th instant is just received, and I shall with equal willingness and truth, state the degree of agency you had, respecting the copy of M. de Becourt's book, which came to my hands. That gentleman informed me, by letter, that he was about to publish a volume in French, "Sur la Création du Monde, un Systême d'Organisation Primitive," which, its title promised to be, either a geological or astronomical work. I subscribed; and, when published, he sent me a copy; and as you were my correspondent in the book line in Philadelphia, I took the liberty of desiring him to call on you for the price, which, he afterwards informed me, you were so kind as to pay him for me, being, I believe, two dollars. But the sole copy which came to me was from himself directly, and, as far as I know, was never seen by you.
I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason. If M. de Becourt's book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose. I know little of its contents, having barely glanced over here and there a passage, and over the table of contents. From this, the Newtonian philosophy seemed the chief object of attack, the issue of which might be trusted to the strength of the two combatants; Newton certainly not needing the auxiliary arm of the government, and still less the holy author of our religion, as to what in it concerns him. I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but, if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy, and to read what he pleases. I have been just reading the new constitution of Spain. One of its fundamental basis is expressed in these words: "The Roman Catholic religion, the only true one, is, and always shall be, that of the Spanish nation. The government protects it by wise and just laws, and prohibits the exercise of any other whatever." Now I wish this presented to those who question what you may sell, or we may buy, with a request to strike out the words, "Roman Catholic," and to insert the denomination of their own religion. This would ascertain the code of dogmas which each wishes should domineer over the opinions of all others and be taken, like the Spanish religion, under the "protection of wise and just laws." It would shew to what they wish to reduce the liberty for which one generation has sacrificed life and happiness. It would present our boasted freedom of religion as a thing of theory only, and not of practice, as what would be a poor exchange for the theoretic thraldom, but practical freedom of Europe. But it is impossible that the laws of Pennsylvania, which set us the first example of the wholesome and happy effects of religious freedom, can permit the inquisitorial functions to be proposed to their courts. Under them you are surely safe.
At the date of yours of the 6th, you had not received mine of the 3d inst., asking a copy of an edition of Newton's Principia, which I had seen advertised. When the cost of that shall be known, it shall be added to the balance of $4.93, and incorporated with a larger remittance I have to make to Philadelphia. Accept the assurance of my great esteem and respect.
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Business for a Fair Minimum Wage $10.10 Federal Sign On Statement (Closed)
Over 1,100 Signers including • Costco • Eileen Fisher • Ben & Jerry's • Stonyfield • Dansko • South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce • New Belgium Brewing • Seventh Generation • Organic Valley • Zingerman's • Pi Pizzeria • Parnassus Investments • ECOS • American Sustainable Business Council • Greater NY Chamber of Commerce • Main Street Alliance • ABC Home • Dr. Bronner's • Natl. Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Assoc • Green Business Network • American Income Life • Uncommon Goods • Statement sponsored by Business for a Fair Minimum Wage.
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As business owners and executives, we support raising the federal minimum wage to strengthen our economy. The minimum wage of $7.25 an hour amounts to just $15,080 a year for health aides, childcare workers, cashiers and other minimum wage workers. With less buying power than it had in the 1960s, today's minimum wage impoverishes working families and weakens the consumer demand at the heart of our economy.
Raising the minimum wage makes good business sense. Workers are also customers. Minimum wage increases boost sales at local businesses as workers buy needed goods and services they could not afford before. And nothing drives job creation more than consumer demand. Businesses also see cost savings from lower employee turnover and benefit from increased productivity, product quality and customer satisfaction. Increasing the minimum wage will also reduce the strain on our social safety net caused by inadequate wages.
A recent national poll shows that 61 percent of small business owners with employees support increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 and adjusting it yearly to keep pace with the cost of living. The most rigorous studies of the impact of actual minimum wage increases show they do not cause job loss – whether during periods of economic growth or during recessions.* The minimum wage would be over $10 if it had kept up with the rising cost of living since the 1960s instead of falling behind.
We support gradually raising the federal minimum wage over two and a half years to at least $10.10 an hour, and then adjusting it annually for inflation to keep up with the cost of living. It's good for business, customers and our economy.
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Pre-arranging airport transfers either through a UK or US company will save considerable money against an airport taxi, with a selection of UK and US companies detailed below. Prices vary greatly so it is advisable to contact UK and US based companies to get the best possible price and guarantee availability. If booking in the UK, you will be offered three types of transfers: Shuttle, Private and Minibus.
A shuttle service is charged per person and operates on a route basis dropping off other visitors. Upon arrival, a short wait may entail as the shuttle awaits other visitor arriving on other flights, but, if you are lucky, the service may depart immediately. This is the cheapest option for those on a budget.
As the name suggests, this is a private service accommodating up to 3 passengers. Clients are met in the arrivals hall by a uniformed driver and taken directly to your accommodation.
Private service for larger groups operating directly to the accommodation. The driver will await in the arrivals hall.


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Wilmington is an unincorporated community in Hogan Township, Dearborn County, Indiana.

History
Wilmington was laid out in 1815. It was once the county seat.

A post office was established at Wilmington in 1817, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907.

Geography
Wilmington is located at .

References

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Tajikistan Opens Police Stations Dealing With Domestic Violence
August 20, 2010 17:41 GMT
OSCE representative Ivar Vikki (right) meets with Tajik Interior Minister Abdurahim Qahhorov on August 20.
DUSHANBE -- Five special police stations that will assist victims of domestic violence have opened in Dushanbe and other Tajik towns, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
The facilities are the first of their kind in post-Soviet Central Asia.
Interior Minister General Abdurahim Qahhorov, who took part in the August 19 opening ceremony in Dushanbe, said Tajiks traditionally do not report family disputes to police.
He said that was why special police stations for working with victims of domestic violence were being opened. Qahhorov said victims, especially women, were encouraged to report instances of violence.
Each special unit is staffed by officers, including at least one female inspector, who attended a June course organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) office in Dushanbe on investigating and responding to cases of domestic violence.
Ivar Vikki, who heads that office, said that opening the stations showed Tajikistan's commitment to treat domestic violence as a crime and to support victims. He noted that the OSCE, which sponsored the opening of the stations, encouraged the authorities to support law enforcement further by passing a law on domestic violence, which has been pending since 2007.
According to official statistics, during the first six months of 2010 Tajik police registered at least 400 crimes related to domestic violence. The Interior Ministry monitors some 2,000 families with a record of domestic violence.


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Q: How to run Popper on HPC without sudo rights I want to execute a Popper workflow on a Linux HPC (High-performance computing) cluster. I don't have admin/sudo rights. I know that I should use Singularity instead of Docker because Singularity is designed to not need sudo to run.
However, singularity build needs sudo privileges, if not executed in fakeroot/rootless mode.

This is what I have done in the HPC login node:

*

*I installed Spack (0.15.4) and Singularity (3.6.1):

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/spack/spack.git
. spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh
spack install singularity
spack load singularity

*I installed Popper (2.7.0) in a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv ~/popper
~/popper/bin/pip install popper

*I created an example workflow in ~/test/wf.yml:

steps:
  - uses: "docker://alpine:3.11"
    args: ["echo", "Hello world!"]
  - uses: "./my_image/"
    args: ["Hello number two!"]

With ~/test/my_image/Dockerfile:
FROM alpine:3.11
ENTRYPOINT ["echo"]

*I tried to run the two steps of the Popper workflow in the login node:

$ cd ~/test
$ ~/popper/bin/popper run --engine singularity --file wf.yml 1
[1] singularity pull popper_1_4093d631.sif docker://alpine:3.11
[1] singularity run popper_1_4093d631.sif ['echo', 'Hello world!']
ERROR  : Failed to create user namespace: user namespace disabled
ERROR: Step '1' failed ('1') !

$ ~/popper/bin/popper run --engine singularity --file wf.yml 2
[2] singularity build popper_2_4093d631.sif /home/bikfh/traylor/test/./my_image/
[sudo] password for traylor:

So both steps fail.

My questions:

*

*For an image from Docker Hub: How do I enable "user namespace"?

*For a custom image: How do I build an image without sudo and run the container?

A:
For an image from Docker Hub: How do I enable "user namespace"?

I found that the user namespace feature needs to be already enabled on the host machine. Here are instructions for checking whether it's enabled.
In the case of the cluster computer I am using (Frankfurt Goethe HLR), user namespaces are only enabled in the computation nodes, not the login node.
That's why it didn't work for me.
So I need to send the job with SLURM (here only the first step with a container from Docker Hub):
 ~/popper/bin/popper run --engine singularity --file wf.yml --config popper_config.yml 1

popper_config.yml defines the options for SLURM's sbatch (compare the Popper docs). They depend on your cluster computer. In my case it looks like this:
resource_manager:
  name: slurm
  options:
    "1": # The default step ID is a number and needs quotes here.
      nodes: 1
      mem-per-cpu: 10 # MB
      ntasks: 1
      partition: test
      time: "00:01:00"

For a custom image: How do I build an image without sudo and run the container?

Trying to apply the same procedure to step 2, which has a custom Dockerfile, fails with this message:
FATAL:   could not use fakeroot: no mapping entry found in /etc/subuid

I tried to create the .sif file (Singularity image) with Popper on another computer and copy it from ~/.cache/popper/singularity/... over to the cluster machine.
Unfortunately, Popper seems to clear that cache folder, so the .sif image doesn't persist.

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The Crow: City of Angels
Review by: Craig Zaffaroni
Plot: What's it about?Video: How does it look?Audio: How does it sound?Supplements: What are the extras?
Plot: What's it about?
"The Crow: City Of Angels" was made to cash in on the success of the first Crow but seemed like a move in bad taste by many people due to Brandon Lee's death. I wasn't to keen on seeing it in theaters but I waited until video to see it. when I saw it I thought it was O.K. and I don't think I watched it again until now for this review. I still feel pretty much the same way now. It's an all right movie but it is better than "The Crow: Salvation." I think that when I was watching it I just kept thinking that only Brandon Lee is associated with The Crow, no one else (Even though this is a new character & story.) However I think the film looks visually stunning like the first Crow with the dark gothic atmosphere and looks much better than "Crow:Salvation." Vincent Perez was better than Eric Mabius and the villains where better than in Salvation. I thought Iggy Pop stood out as the best villain in the film and the others did fine as well but still not up to quality of Brandon Lee and "The Crow."
"The Crow: City Of Angels" deals with another victim brought back from the dead for vengeance. Ashe (Vincent Perez of "I Dreamed Of Africa" & "Indochine") and his son are murdered and dumped in the bottom of a pier after witnessing a murder. Sarah, (Mia Kirshner of "Mad City" & "Exotica") the little girl from the first Crow is older and having dreams about the murder of Ashe and his son. The Crow appears in her window and guides her to the site of the murder in which Ashe rises from the water. She tells him of her dreams of the murder and Ashe is reminded of what led to their deaths through the touching of objects at his repair shop where he and his son where the night of the murder. Ashe Don's the painted face and leather duds and is after the gang that murdered him and his son. Others in the movie include Richard Brooks ("The Substitute" & "The Hidden") Punk Rocker Iggy Pop ("Hardware" and "Dead Man") and Thomas Jane ("Deep Blue Sea" and "Boogie Nights").
In City Of Angels Ashe rides a motorcycle versus "The Crow" where Eric Draven prefers rooftops and mysteriously disappearing. The setting is in a fictionalized version of Los Angeles instead of an unnamed city in the first one. Ashe ends up needing a little more help from the crow then Draven needed in the first one. Some other things that were interesting where that we see Sarah beyond the first film (including Gabriel the white cat) and that she is attracted to Ashe whom she is only supposed to guide on his quest for vengeance. There is no rain this time around but smog and broken glass all over the streets. The ending was different from the first and third Crow but I felt it worked even thought I thought that 1 & 3 had the better endings. City Of Angels had the least amount of action of the three films. However, the action was better choreographed in Angels than Salvation. I've heard that Salvation had the higher budged but Angels looks more expensive.
While I liked some of the things about "The Crow: City Of Angels" I still can't get over watching this and not thinking that Brandon Lee is the only Crow. However I recommend that you give City Of Angels a rent because the story and performances are good and the movie looks good visually and is well directed by Tim Pope.
Video: How does it look?
"Crow: City Of Angels" is presented in its widescreen (1.85.1) ratio and is enhanced for 16×9 TV's. The picture looks sharp and color levels look good and aren't bleeding. Black levels look good as well. There is a yellowish tint to the picture which was intended and looks very good and adds to the atmosphere of the movie. There was no pixillation but there was a little edge enhancement but nothing distracting. Great job!
Audio: How does it sound?
There is a Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Track and a DTS 5.1 Surround Track. I listened to the Dolby Digital 5.1 track and was pleased with what I heard. The levels between the dialogue and special effects/music were well balanced. There was some good action out of the rear speakers with music, gunplay, motorcycles and other bits. It was an aggressive mix. Well Done.
Supplements: What are the extras?
There was decent bonus material here. A tad better than "Crow: Salvation" in terms of the quality. Here there is an audio commentary track with Producer Jeff Most, Composer Graeme Revell, Actor Richard Brooks, Production Designer Alex McDowell and Costume Designer Kirsten Everberg. There are some interesting tidbits here and there but I would have preferred if everyone was together and there could have been two tracks split amongst the group instead of being recorded separately. There is a nice 20 Minute Behind The Scenes Featurette with some behind the scenes coverage and interviews with cast and crew members. (including Director Tim Pope, Screenwriter David Goyer, James O'Barr, Vincent Perez, Iggy Pop, Mia Kirshner and others). There is praise of Brandon Lee's performance in the first film and all seem proud of "City Of Angels." There is also a Production & Costume Design Featurette that's around 22 Minutes with Alex McDowell & Kirsten Everberg commentary over it along with music while showing storyboards and drawings. There are also Production Design Stills and Original Poster Design Concepts which are nice as well. Finally a DVD-Rom link to Production Art Gallery, Screenplay viewer and Weblinks. Some nice stuff here but not as good as the first Crows bonus stuff.
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Q: W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead i am new to Ubuntu and have probably done something stupid.
trying to update, and gets an annoying error.
Reading package lists... Done

W: Failed to fetch http://archive-canonical.com/dists/&(lsb_release-sc)/InRelease
W: Failed to fetch http://archive-canonical.com/dists/&(lsb_release-sc)/Release.gpg  Could not resolve 'archive-canonical.com'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

after reading abit online, it seems that there something wrong here:
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
so here are the results:
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2)]/ trusty main restricted

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
deb-src http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty universe
deb-src http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty universe
deb http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe
deb-src http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
deb-src http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
deb http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
deb-src http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse

## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted
deb-src http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted
deb http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-security universe
deb-src http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-security universe
deb http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-security multiverse
deb-src http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu/ trusty-security multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.

## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
## developers who want to ship their latest software.
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main
deb http://archive-canonical.com/ &(lsb_release-sc) partner
# deb-src http://archive-canonical.com/ &(lsb_release-sc) partner
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main

help please :)

A: In your /etc/apt/sources.list file, the line should look like:
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner

It doesn't work or the formatting is wrong for the $(lsb_release -sc) part.
Hope this helps!

A: Change the sources list file in /etc/apt/
mv sources.list

Go to https://repogen.simplylinux.ch/generate.php and create a new sources list file:
nano sources.list

Save and test.


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We will bring you marvellous Gruffalo messy play trays, painting, play dough and mark making stations & more! AND then entry into the farem too!
This event is suitable for ages 5 months – 5 years.
Tickets are priced at £8 for children £4 for siblings.


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Kudumbam Oru Kadambam () is a 1981 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by S. P. Muthuraman. Based on Visu's play of the same, the film stars Pratap, Suhasini, Sumalatha, S. Ve. Shekher and Visu reprising his role from the play. It was remade in Kannada as Ananda Sagara (1983), in Telugu as Manishiko Charithra (1984), in Hindi as Aaj Ka Daur (1985), and in Malayalam as Oru Sandesam Koodi that same year.

Plot

The film opens on an ordinary day in the lives of the families in a large apartment house in Chennai. Each family represents a different slice of early 1980s middle-class society. Kannan and Uma are a working couple. Kannan's father, retired from Government service, lives with them. They enjoy the comforts of dual income, but their general lament is that their long work hours compel them to send their five-year-old daughter Priya to boarding school. The second couple comprises real estate agent Paramasivam and his homemaker wife Parvathi. Real estate in the early 1980s is not very profitable or progressive. Paramasivam and Parvathi enjoy a happy marriage, but Paramasivam's limited (and sporadic) income is barely able to meet household costs. The third couple is Srinivasa Raghavan and Lakshmiammal. Fifty-five-year-old Srinivasa Raghavan is a worthless wastrel. In spite of a college education, he has never worked a day in his life. He chooses to roam about the city and engage in pointless banter with anyone he can find. Lakshmiammal works as a cook to earn a meager wage, but they frequently have to pawn their valuables to get by. Their son Madhu is an aspiring actor with dreams of making it big, and their daughter Mythili is still in high school.

Their everyday lives have ups and downs. Kannan and Uma work all through the week. Uma takes German lessons in the evenings. Their overburdened schedule permits them to see their daughter only on weekends, and as a result they gradually drift away from the needs of their child. As for Paramasivam, his income is squeezed by the down market or by crafty tenants (who collude with
the owners and ultimately do not pay his commissions). Lakshmiammal works long hours in hot kitchens, and worries that her declining health might just give out one day.

There are some new arrivals. The first is Parvathi's brother Kumar. Kumar has recently graduated from college, and he arrives in Chennai to start a new job. He plans to stay with Parvathi for a few days until he finds a new place. The second arrival is Anandan, a mild-mannered young man. He used to work at a rice mill in Nagapatnam, but when the mill was destroyed in a cyclone, his employer transferred him to another job in Chennai. Anandan is happy to find another job, but despairs because he is away from his wife and children in Nagapatnam. He is not able to afford weekly trips to see his family. Lakshmiammal recognises an opportunity and proposes a boarding arrangement. Anandan is happy to accept; Lakshmiammal's home cooked food is healthier and cheaper than eating out every day.

The families are faced with various crises. Kannan's father discovers that Lakshmiammal has been visiting a hospital to treat an emerging tuberculosis ailment caused by long exposure to cooking flames. Kannan's father discreetly informs Mythili that Lakshmiammal must not continue working. Mythili drops out of school and starts working at a palatial mansion in the city. (Her job is not revealed, but it is strongly suggested that she may be working as an escort for a rich man.) The job, however, pays quite well and Mythili anonymously sends a portion of the money to her mother. Srinivasa Raghavan remains oblivious or apathetic to the whole situation.

Kannan and Paramasivam are also faced with trouble. Uma receives a promotion at work. Kannan is unable to accept that his wife makes more money. Priya continues to drift away from her parents, and refuses to come home for Diwali. When Parvathi suddenly becomes pregnant, she is forced to abort because of their strained financial situation. Paramasivam is stricken cold by the fact that he did not have cash for the cab to bring his wife to the hospital. Uma, Parvathi and Lakshmiammal individually ponder the central questions of the film – the role of money and the role of working women in the new society order.

Their troubles escalate. Kannan dreams that Uma is seduced by her German boss, and that she will eventually leave him. Paramasivam is compelled to borrow money, at exorbitant interest, from a loan shark. Parvathi is deeply grieved to learn this. Lakshmiammal follows Mythili and assumes the worst when she sees that a car is sent to fetch Mythili every day. She breaks down in tears before Srinivasa Raghavan. When Srinivasa Raghavan angrily question Mythili, she retorts that he, having never provided for the family, has no fatherly rights to ask about her business.

The men set about evaluating their situation. Kannan and Uma decide that their child is a higher priority than additional income, and Uma accordingly resigns from her job. Kannan's father provides additional support by way of his retirement income. Paramasivam finally agrees to let Parvathi get a real job. And Srinivasa Raghavan, stung by his daughter's criticism, sets off to find work. Undaunted by rejection from various offices, he finally earns a day's wages by working on the docks. He returns home with dignity. Now that he has restored his station as a father, he claims the right to question Mythili. He bluntly asks if she has been prostituting herself. Mythili takes him to the palatial mansion. She reveals that the lady of the house has been stricken with a paralysing disease and that Mythili's job is to help her with her daily duties. Mythili breaks into sobs, saying she has not done anything to dishonor
the family.

Harmony is restored to just about everyone. Anandam, in tragicomic irony, is suddenly transferred away to Dindigul just as he has found a job for his wife in Chennai. His wife now takes his place in the apartment and writes to him every week.

The film ends with the missive that money is required for life but life must not be entirely consumed by money.

Cast
 Pratap as Kannan voice-over by Delhi Ganesh
 Suhasini as Parvathi
 Sumalatha as Uma
 S. Ve. Shekher as Paramasivam
 Kamala Kamesh as Lakshmiammal
 Nithya as Mythili
 Bhoopathi
 Samikannu as the matchmaker
 Goundamani as Chettiar
 Visu as Srinivasa Raghavan
 'Kuriakose' Ranga as Anandan
 Omakuchi Narasimhan as Mathrubootham
 Baskar as Kumar

Production
Kudumbam Oru Kadambam was a play written by Visu who also starred. S. P. Muthuraman saw the play and, impressed, decided to adapt it for the screen; Visu was chosen to reprise his role, making his debut as a film actor. Visu's brother-in-law 'Kuriakose' Ranga also made his film debut with this; he also wrote the dialogue "Paithiyakaara aaspathirila paithiyangalukku vaithiyam pakkara oru paithiyakaara vaithiyarukke paithiyam pudicha, andha paithiyakara vaithiyar endha paithiyakara haspathirila paithiyangalukku vaithiyam pakara oru paithiyakara vaithiyar kitta than paithiyathukku vaithiyanm pathupaar?" ().

Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by M. S. Viswanathan. Lyrics were written by Kannadasan and Vaali.

Release

Kudumbam Oru Kadambam was released on 5 December 1981. The film was a commercial success, running for over 100 days in theatres.

References

External links

1980s Tamil-language films
1981 films
Films directed by S. P. Muthuraman
Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan
Films with screenplays by Visu
Indian films based on plays
Tamil films remade in other languages


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Q: How to use onEdit to copy the data to another google sheet file and overwrite the data if the ID is the same?

Hi everyone,
I want to copy the data from source sheet to destination sheet. When the data reached the destination sheet, the script able to loop through row 2 in destination sheet to see whether any same ID already existed. If the ID already existed in row 2, then it will overwrite the data in the column, if not, the script will find the last empty column based on row 2 and paste the data there.
So in the screenshot above, since there is no 1004 in destination sheet, then it will paste the data in column E.
This is my code:
function onEdit(e){
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet ();
  var targetfile = SpreadsheetApp.openById("11tpC8SNZ5XB35n7GON0St3ZQ37dIbM8UbXRjmkVAeJQ");
  var target_sheet = targetfile.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
  var target_range = target_sheet.getRange(3, ss.getLastColumn() + 1);

  if (e.range.columnStart == 3 && e.range.rowStart == 16){
    if (e.value == 'Submit'){
      var source_range = ss.getRange("C4:C14")
      source_range.copyTo(target_range);
      e.range.clearContent()
    }
  }
}

My current problems are:

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*The script is not working when I triggered it in cell C16 (couldn't find the reason)

*I'm not sure how to add the checking for ID in destination sheet into my script.

This are my google files
Source sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12kKQKT2XSdPkJ46LSV9OiI167NKBdwKkpkOtOf_r_jI/edit#gid=0
Destination sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11tpC8SNZ5XB35n7GON0St3ZQ37dIbM8UbXRjmkVAeJQ/edit#gid=0
Hope to get some advice and help from expert. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

A: Explanation:
I see a couple problems with the existing script:

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*Simple Triggers only have authorization on the container Spreadsheet, so to access another Spreadsheet you need to create an Installable Trigger:

// Creates an edit trigger for a spreadsheet identified by ID.
function createTrigger() {
  ScriptApp.newTrigger('copyFunction')
    .forSpreadsheet('source-sheet-id')
    .onEdit()
    .create();
}

*copyTo() only works when copying to the same Spreadsheet. You would need to use getValues() and setValues() to copy across spreadsheets. The caveat is that formatting is not copied. You would need to manually format the columns if a new column is filled up.

function copyFunction(e) {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var targetfile = SpreadsheetApp.openById('dest-sheet-id');
  var target_sheet = targetfile.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
  var id_table = target_sheet.getRange(2,2,1,target_sheet.getLastColumn()-1).getValues();

  if (e.range.getA1Notation() == 'C16') {
    if (e.value == 'Submit') {
      var source_values = ss.getRange("C3:C14").getValues();
      for (i = 0; i < id_table[0][i]; i++) {
        if (id_table[0][i] == ss.getRange("C3").getValue())
        break;
      }
      target_sheet.getRange(2,i+2,12).setValues(source_values);
      e.range.clearContent();
    }
  }
}


THE COURT OF Appeal has been "compelled" to quash a jury verdict which convicted a driver of manslaughter, despite agreement amongst doctors that he met the criteria to be found legally insane.
Polish national Dariusz Alchimionek (44), with an address at Barrow Way, Spa Street, Portarlington, Co Laois, had denied the manslaughter of John Gorman (19) and assault causing harm to his brother, Adam, on 29 December 2015.
The brothers had been returning home from Tullamore when a vehicle driven by Alchimionek suddenly crossed the road into the path of their oncoming car at Ballycrystal, Geashill, Co Offaly.
Tullamore Circuit Criminal Court heard how Alchimionek had become convinced the Islamic State group, or Isis, were about to invade Europe and a third World War was about to begin.
Consultant psychiatrists for both the prosecution and the defence, both of whom worked at the Central Mental Hospital, agreed that Alchimionek met the criteria to be found not guilty by reason of insanity.
The jury had the option of returning of three verdicts: guilty, not guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity.
After two hours and 50 minutes of deliberations the jury returned majority guilty verdicts of 11-1 on both counts, which were met with applause in the courtroom.
Alchimionek was then sentenced to nine years imprisonment with the final three suspended by Judge Keenan Johnson in October 2017.
Lawyers for Alchimionek, Kenneth Fogarty SC and Niall Flynn BL, advanced the sole ground of appeal that the jury's verdict was "perverse" and against the evidence.
Fogarty said the atmosphere in the Circuit Court was "highly charged". There was an "outpouring of emotion" that was "humanly understandable" but "not desirable in terms of how the law was to be applied".
He said it was explained to Alchimionek that the foregone conclusion of a not guilty verdict by reason of insanity, was a referral to the Central Mental Hospital (CMH). He is currently in prison.
Giving judgment today, President of the Court of Appeal Justice George Birmingham said the return of a guilty verdict in this case "was against all the evidence" and, as such, "has to be regarded as perverse".
He said the quashing of a jury's verdict because it was perverse was "very exceptional", reflecting "the primacy of the jury in our system of criminal justice".
However, Justice Birmingham, who sat with Justice John Edwards and Justice Brian McGovern, said the Court of Appeal "feels compelled to do that" in this case.
Counsel for the Director of Public Prosecutions, Michael Delaney SC, argued that the quashing of the verdict would "have the effect of reducing the jury to a form of rubberstamp" in every trial where insanity is raised and unchallenged.
Delaney said it was a jury's right to reject expert evidence, even if it was unchallenged, if they weren't sufficiently convinced by it.
During the hearing before the three-judge court, Justice John Edwards commented that juries take an oath to give a true verdict in accordance with the evidence. There was no evidence, other than the unanimous expert opinion, on Alchimionek's state of mind at the time, the judge said.
The case was put back a week to allow both sides consider the decision and to provide any up-to-date information on the availability of a bed in the Central Mental Hospital.
The DPP is seeking a retrial.
Fogarty asked the court to commit his client to the CMH for inpatient care.
He said his instructing solicitor, Brian Gilmartin, had tried to find out if a bed was available in the CMH but "we haven't been successful".


In this lesson, you will learn about the structure of Python loops and how you can use them to iteratively execute code.
Be sure that you have completed the lessons on Python Variables and Lists and the lesson on Intro to DRY Code.
In previous lessons, you used arithmetic operators such as + to add values, but there are many other operators in Python that allow you to work with values.
In this lesson, you will work with comparison operators, which allow you to compare values such as checking whether one value is greater than another (e.g. >).
another value or variable that follows the operator.
You will also work with assignment operators (e.g. +=), which allow you to set a variable to a new value based on an arithmetic operation or some other calculation.
At this point in the course, you have already used assignment operators to add items to Python lists, such as when you added a new item for December to a list containing month names (e.g. months += ["Dec"]).
In Python, there are two primary structures for loops: while and for. You will learn about both in this lesson.
A while loop is used to iteratively execute code until a certain condition is met. That condition could be that the results of the code reach a certain value (e.g. code will iteratively execute as long as the current value of the results is less than 5).
For while loops, comparison and assignment operators are both very useful.
For example, you can write a loop to iteratively add a value of 1 to a variable x using x += 1, as long as the current value of x does not exceed a specified value.
Last, you indent the code lines that are included in the while loop. This indentation is important in Python as it indicates that the indented code is to be executed as part of the loop, not after the loop.
In this example, a comparison operator is used to compare the value of variable x (which begins with value of 0) to the value 10, the designated end point.
Within the loop, the value of x is printed first, before the assignment operator is used to add a value of 1 to x. This process repeats each time that the code iterates, until the current value of x is no longer less than 10.
At that point, the condition is no longer true (as x is now equal to 10), so the loop ends.
Note that to access the value of the variable x, you must use the correct variable name in the loop (e.g. x).
Also, note that the code in the loop is executed in order, meaning that the print() function executes first before the value of 1 is added to x. You can change that order if you want to see the value of x, after the value of 1 has been added.
Compare the previous while loop to the code that you would have to write to accomplish the same task without a loop. Which would you rather do?
In addition to using comparison operators to compare values, you can also specify a range of values to limit the duration of the while loop. The range is inclusive of the starting value, but not of the ending value.
Note that the structure of the while loop remains the same, regarding the use of a condition, colon, and indentations of the code that will be iterated.
In this example, rather than using an explicit comparison operator, you are stating that the code below can continue to execute as long as the value of x remains in a certain range.
Specifically, you state that the code can execute as long as the value of x exists within a numeric range that begins at 1 to and ends with 5, but is not inclusive of 5. This explains why the code does not print the value of x when it reaches 5.
Another useful looping structure is a for loop, which will iteratively execute code for each value in a group that is provided as an input parameter. This group can be a list of values or filenames, individual characters in a text string, etc.
The syntax of a for loop is quite similar to while loop, regarding the use of a condition, colon, and indentations of the code that will be iterated.
The main differences are that the loop begins with for rather than while, and that the for loop is expecting to execute for each item in a list. Therefore, the list should be defined before (or as part of) the for loop.
Note that in this example, x is not a variable but rather a placeholder for the current value that the loop is working with in each iteration of the code.
This means that you could use any word or character to indicate the placeholder, with the exception of numeric values.
You simply need to reuse that same word or character in the code lines that are being executed, in order to access the value at that placeholder.
For example, the placeholder could be called i, or even something completely unrelated like banana.
numlist is a variable (in this case, a Python list), and you must use its variable name to access the items in the list.
However, the list does not have to be numeric, as you may often want to use lists that contain text strings to iterate on directory and file names. For example, you may want to iterate code on a list of specific filenames.
Note that print() returns the name of the file, but not the values in the file. The function that you use in the loop will determine what output you will receive.
Review the code blocks below carefully and determine why you do not receive an output when you execute it.
Fix the code block so that it runs.


Even though Maven served a Thanksgiving dinner this year, the official opening day was last week, as owner David Silva and staff returned for the first full season of this venue on Palm Beach. Billed as an American brasserie, these are the same folks who own Nantucket's Galley Beach restaurant. At the end of our season, they will close and head north.
This is the same spot that housed former Nick & Johnnie's and longtime fave Chuck & Harold's, right on the corner of Royal Poinciana Way and South County Road. Interior set-up is the same both inside and for the outside patio, and the food is good, judging from the jumbo lump crab cake and crab salad I ordered recently. The cocktail talent was evident, too, such as Rosemary's Baby (pictured above).
It's nice to have a venue there offering breakfast, too, because watching the Palm Beachers promenade as you sip mimosas is one of the area's delights. Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and brunch on the weekends.


You are the Muse of all Muses.
Any facts, figures or references stated here are made by the author & don't reflect the endorsement of iU at all times unless otherwise drafted by official staff at iU. This article was first published here on 11th November 2014.
Tanya Srinath is a contributing writer at Inspiration Unlimited eMagazine.


Zii is the way to go for Creative. Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo shared his vision and a totally new Creative with a new product line and business model. Zii is the answer to the NEW Creative. Although now, the Zii Egg for developers were already shipping around the world. But we have not heard of any exciting Zii products as the result of the 'Shan Zhai' marketing strategy which is widely popular in the China market.
CEO Sim promised that Creative will have its own line of Zii products for consumers and stressed that the Zii is highly flexible which can evolved into highly popular products such as mobile phones, TV set-top boxes, video conferencing systems, digital signs, netbooks, eBooks and other mobile communication devices.
Hopefully we can all see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Come on Creative! You can do it!
In my message last year, I shared our vision to create a totally new Creative, with a new product line and a new business model, leveraging on the innovative technologies we have developed over the years which will again see Creative set a major trend in the industry and open up opportunities for all.
We started unveiling this vision with the launch of our System-on-Chip, the ZiiLABS ZMS-05 SoC, and the Zii Platform, ushering in the era of StemCell Computing. The Zii Platform includes our Plaszma OS, Plaszma SDK and the Zii EGG for developers, which runs the Plaszma OS or Android OS. The Zii Platform also includes the ZMS-05 System Module, a compact, media-rich module targeted for outside developers and OEMs to use with Plaszma software to significantly reduce the design and manufacturing complexity in creating next-generation devices and applications.
With our Zii Platform and the ZMS-05 System Module, we now have solutions to sell into the huge 'Shanzhai' OEM market in China, which is a key part of our new business model. We recently announced our 'Shanzhai' OEM Marketing Program that will outreach and build demand in this burgeoning OEM market. The 'Shanzhai' OEMs and other enterprising organizations around the world may not have brands of their own, but they do have an insatiable appetite for ready-to-go technologies, and can adapt quickly to new market opportunities. Using our Zii Platform and ZMS-05 System Module, these enterprising OEMs can leverage on our state-of-the-art technologies and brand equities to rapidly bring a plethora of high quality and low cost Ziipowered products to market. These products can possibly include mobile phones, TV set-top boxes, video conferencing systems, digital signs, netbooks, eBooks and other mobile communication devices.
In addition, we plan to utilize the Zii Platform in a new line of our own Zii-branded products, including portable media players, speakers, audio solutions and other personal digital entertainment devices.
The development of the Zii Platform has required a significant ongoing investment in research and development. Now that we are bringing the Zii Platform to market and beginning to deliver on our new vision, we will also require a substantial investment in marketing to build our new business model. We are prepared to make these strategic expenditures, as our strong cash position of over US$250 million provides us with the financial flexibility to continue to invest in the development and marketing of the Zii Platform, and to take advantage of the opportunities for new product lines and businesses offered by the Zii Platform.
Our strong cash position was a bright spot in an otherwise difficult and challenging fiscal year for Creative, with an extremely turbulent and uncertain global economic environment.
With the onset of the unprecedented crisis in the global financial markets and the resulting global economic downturn, we took aggressive measures to position Creative to meet the challenges in the tough period ahead of us. We undertook a complete restructuring of our worldwide sales and marketing operations, including closing or consolidating certain operations that were too costly or underperforming. We significantly lowered our operating expenses by sharply reducing our international headcount and infrastructure costs, primarily in Europe and the US, while simultaneously driving down our inventory position, substantially reducing inventory exposure.
The global economic downturn had a negative impact on the demand and selling prices for our products across all product categories and, combined with the closure or consolidation of certain businesses, resulted in substantially lower revenues and gross margins for the year.
Sales for fiscal year 2009 were US$466 million, 37% lower than the previous fiscal year sales of US$737 million. Gross profit as a percentage of sales came in at 17% in fiscal 2009, down from 22% in fiscal 2008. Net loss for fiscal 2009 was US$138 million, compared to a net income of US$128 million in fiscal 2008. Net loss for fiscal 2009 was impacted by the lower sales and gross profit in the year, and restructuring charges of US$11.2 million, exchange losses of US$24.9 million, investment losses of US$13.2 million, and a provision ofUS$12.8 million for potential unrecoverable advances due from a former subsidiary that had been divested in 2007. Net income for fiscal 2008 included a US$148 million gain from the sale of Creative's headquarters building (Creative Resource) in Singapore, an exchange gain of US$14.6 million, an investment gain of US$18.8 million and restructuring charges of US$II. 7 million.
During the 2009 fiscal year, we repaid the entire US$100 million outstanding balance of our syndicated term loan. We are now practically debt-free, with no bank borrowing and a strong balance sheet with over US$250 million in cash.
Notwithstanding the challenges from the adverse market conditions during the year, we continued with our research and development efforts for our current product lines in areas that hold promise for the future, and introduced exciting new products in each category.
In our audio business, we expanded our market potential, launching the Sound Blaster Wireless for iTunes together with Wireless Receivers, the first time we have targeted the huge base of iTunes users on both the PC and the Mac. Sound Blaster Wireless for iTunes allows users to significantly improve the audio quality of music, movies and games on their notebooks and play them wirelessly through speakers in any room in the home. We also extended our Sound Blaster X-Fi product line by introducing the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium FatalIty Professional Series and the PCI Express Sound Blaster Titanium FatalIty Champion Series sound cards. These high-performance sound cards unleashed the full power of our X-Fi technology and EAX ADVANCED HD audio processing.
For the multimedia speaker business, we announced our highest-end GigaWorks T3 speaker system that delivers audio precision in style. We also updated our main speaker offerings with the introduction of the GigaWorks T40 Series II and GigaWorks T20 Series II, and the Inspire T3200 and Inspire T6200 speaker systems.
For our headphone business, we introduced the ultra-lightweight and stylish Aurvana Air earphones, the latest addition to our ,premium Aurvana designer earphone series. We also extended our earphone offerings with the introduction of the Creative EP-630 in-ear stereo earphones in a variety of fun and exciting colors, and the Creative EP-430 noise-isolating in-ear earphones.
For the PC gaming market, we unveiled the Sound Blaster Arena Surround USB Gaming Headset, the Creative Fatal1ty Professional Series Gaming Headset Mk II and the Digital Wireless Gaming Headset HS-1200. These high-performance headsets provide gamers with our advanced proprietary audio technologies to further enhance their gaming experiences.
To differentiate our MP3 players in a highly competitive global MP3 market, we added our X-Fi audio technology to the high end of our product line with the introduction of the Creative ZEN X-Fi early in the fiscal year, followed by the Creative ZEN XFi2 in September 2009. These are the only players that have award-winning X-Fi audio enhancement solutions that significantly improve the quality of MP3 music playback.
We also introduced the Vado Pocket Video Cam, followed by the next generation Vado HD Pocket Video Cam. The user-friendly Vado HD allows users to shoot videos in high definition, easily share them online, and play them back in true HD on an HDTV with our HDMI connection.
Looking ahead, the global economic outlook remains uncertain, and the overall market for Creative's current products remains difficult and unpredictable. However, with the aggressive restructuring efforts we have taken, we are now a much leaner company with a lower operating cost structure, which allows us to weather these challenges and positions us well when the global economy recovers.
With Zii, I see a bright and exciting Creative finally emerging in the horizon.


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By: TheSabre.com | November 20, 2002
If there was any doubt about who was going to lead the Virginia football team this year, the seniors put that to rest on the night of July 30. Following the first full-squad meeting of the preseason at the McCue Center, several of the older players addressed the freshmen when the coaches left the room.
Their message was clear: This is our team, not yours. You have to fit in, not us. We lead, you follow. Understood? Welcome aboard.
"I think the freshmen were pumped up a little bit too much when they got here," senior safety Jerton Evans said the next day. "We had to humble them, and we did."
In one sense, the assertion of authority was no big deal. Seniors are supposed to be the leaders, right? But with this team, there were reasons to wonder whether that would be the case.
For one thing, the senior class is almost absurdly small, with just eight players who began the season on scholarship. (Two others, Heath Boucek and Brad Durbin, later received grants-in-aid.) Vastly outnumbered by the 27 true freshmen, the seniors had to wonder whether the rookies would give them the respect they felt they deserved.
After all, the freshmen came to UVa hearing about how great they were, how they would play a lot right away, how they would save the program. They might have expected to take over leadership roles as well. For all those reasons, the seniors felt they needed to take control by laying down the law.
"It went really well," senior safety Shernard Newby said after the meeting. "I think freshmen everywhere in the country come in with a little cockiness about them. These guys definitely have talent. But they have to realize we're veterans and they can learn something from us. This is not the time for individuals to show what they can do. This is a team sport. We said, 'We want y'all to be part of this team, but work within the system.'"
Now, nearly four months later, it's fair to say that the first team meeting helped set the tone for what has been a surprisingly successful season. Picked to finish eighth in the ACC, the Cavaliers are 7-4 – most observers predicted no more than four wins – and a near-lock for a bowl bid. They can finish second in the conference by beating No. 18 Maryland in the seniors' final home game Saturday.
While the freshmen (and sophomores and juniors) have played major roles, the seniors can take pride in leading the way, on and off the field. Billy McMullen is the team's top receiver, while Angelo Crowell, Merrill Robertson and Evans are the top three tacklers. Newby leads the team with three interceptions. Alex Seals
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The Tar Heels return to the floor and to ACC action when they travel to Pittsburgh to take on the 9-4 Panthers.
Bryant Baucom
Dec 30, 2022 11:15 AM EST
Currently on a four game winning streak, North Carolina will look for their tenth victory of the season when they travel to Pittsburgh on Friday.
As the Tar Heels return to ACC play, they appear to have found their footing and find themselves ranked inside the top-25 once again.
Standing in their way is a Panther team that is 2-0 in league play and enters as winners of eight of their last nine games.
Similar to North Carolina, Pitt has a plethora of players who can score the basketball, including four that average in double figures.
Forward Blake Hinson is the catalyst for Jeff Capel's squad, leading the way with a team-high 17.2 points and 7.4 rebounds.
Guard Jamarius Burton is connecting on 53.6 percent of shot attempts, recording 14.4 points per game and dishing out 4.5 assists.
Rounding out the backcourt is Nelly Cummings (11.2 points) and Greg Elliott (11.1 points), as Cummings also paces the roster with 4.8 assists per game.
For North Carolina, guarding the three point line and keeping the Panthers off of the foul line is key to continuing their success.
Six different players shoot 35 percent or better from the beyond the arc, while three have connected on 25 or more three-point attempts.
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As a team, the Panthers shoot 72.3 percent from the charity stripe, but bode four different players who shoot 77 percent or better.
Nelly Cummings is close to automatic from the line at 95.7 percent, while Burton is sitting at 86.4 percent.
Rebounding is a strong suit for Pitt, who at 40.5 rebounds per game, sit slightly above the Tar Heels and first in the ACC.
As North Carolina returns from their holiday break, the first four minutes will be crucial in determining whether there is rust or if they have picked up right where they left off.
Preseason ACC Player of the Year Armando Bacot has returned to his NCAA Tournament form and spearheads the Tar Heel offense. Playing through Bacot and making the extra pass to turn a good shot into a great one has been impactful to their turnaround.
In the backcourt, Caleb Love's ability to share the basketball and serve as a playmaker has drastically improved over the course of the winning streak. He has recorded 22 assists during their four wins, including seven in the victory over Ohio State.
As for RJ Davis, finding his shot from beyond the arc again has helped create another dynamic to this offense. He is shooting 42 percent from three over the last four games and scored in double figures in three of those contests.
More importantly for North Carolina, they're playing like a team with confidence. The four game losing streak was the perfect recipe for disaster between five straight games away from home, an injured Bacot, and not having time to practice and fix their issues.
Now, as the calendar turns to 2023, the Tar Heels are playing like a top-25 team and appear to be headed in the right direction.
As losers of three of their four contests against the Panthers, they will attempt to extend their winning streak in Pittsburgh, where they are winners of three straight, and move over .500 in conference play.
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Reports have indicated that Intel confirmed its specifications for the upcoming 9-Series chipsets for LGA-1150 and LGA 2011-E HEDT platform- H97, Z97 and Intel X99 desktop chipsets. Intel Z97 and H97 chipsets are available for LGA 1150 package, whereas the Z97 will be paired with current generation 'Haswell Processors, followed by its refreshed versions and 'Devil's Canyon' processor families. Intel X99 will be paired with the upcoming 'Haswell-E' HEDT platform with LGA 2011-3 package.
Motherboards with Intel Z97 chipsets will have up to PCI-Express 3.0 slots wired to the CPU, and have configurations of x16/NC/NC, x8/x8/NC and x8/x4/x4 for GPU setups. What should be noted that unlike the previous generation, H97 will support overclocking, though it will not have the same PCIe configuration that Z97 allows. Along with this, both chips will have up to 8 PCI-e 2.0 lanes for series of onboard devices and 14 USB ports, out of which 6 are for USB 3.0.
Both the H and B version of 9 series chips will allow PCI-e M.2 storage drives that provides 66.6% more bandwidth compared to SATA 6Gb/s standard. This should accelerate manufacturer's plans to release a series of high-performance SSDs by 2014- 2015. These two chipsets also will allow RAID, AHCI and Rapid Storage Technology. Intel Z97 will have Dynamic Storage Accelerator (DST)whereas Intel H97 will have Small Business Advantage (SBA) feature.
Intel X99 is designed for high-end multi-GPU setups. The board will have up to 5 PCI-e x16, therefore allowing x16/NC/x16/NC/x8, x16/NC/x8/x8/x8 and x8/x8/x8/x8 setups. There's also up to 8 lane PCI-e 2.0 for onboard devices, followed by support for 14 USB ports with 6x USB 3.0.
This chipset will also allow up to 10 ports of SATA 6Gbps with RST and SRT support. Its RAID 0 configuration also supports, SSD TRIM functionality.
As reported earlier, the newer families of desktop processors and chipsets will be out by Q2- Q3 2014.


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By Mr Smith September 28, 2019
The presence of numerous bugs, glitches, exploits and lackluster end-game content is finally catching up to The Division. While Ubisoft Entertainment SA (EPA:UBSFY) touted the game to be a wrecking ball for Bungie's Destiny, regular emergence of a series of technical issues have drastically hampered the experience of a post-apocalyptic New York City.
On Reddit, a user posted Steam stats to reveal that the total player-base of The Division has shrunk by a massive 81% since the game's launch. Released on March 8, 2016, the online open-world third-person shooter recorded a peak player-base of 114,225. However, the numbers have since then dwindled to a measly 22,130 as of last week.
Comparing the first three weeks of release between The Division and Dark Souls III, FromSoftware's new brutal installment saw to a drop of only 39 percent, whereas The Division faced shrinkage of 53 percent.
It has to be pointed out that the numbers have been taken from Steam, and it's possible that the player-base playing the game directly through Uplay is omitted from this comparison. Nonetheless, these are damning figures for any developer. Considering how Ubisoft has long-term plans for The Division, such a drastic fall in the total number of players is worrisome.
Within just three weeks of its release, players started reporting about a game-breaking bug that completely locked them out of the game. Ubisoft had no other choice but to ask them to be patient for the much hyped April update, which promised to fix this and many other issues. To add insult to injury, the anti-cheat system in place for the PC version has proven to be mediocre.
It has rather become a norm to see bugs and exploits continue to surface with regularity. It's a vicious cat-and-mouse game between the players and developers. No sooner does Ubisoft amend one issue when the players quickly find another exploit to the same bug. Over on Reddit, many players have confessed to having ditched the game for a majority of April.
Currently, The Division is in a much better state compared to the last month. However, it is still being plagued with issues. Only recently, its Daily Challenges started disappearing. Even though a hotfix was released, they vanished again just yesterday for a second time.
Ubisoft needs to quickly sort out its priorities so that it can wash The Division with clean code.
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Set these Goals for all you need for a sunny weekend spent floating on a river with friends.
If you've never let the current sweep you and your inflatable explorer down a lazy river, you've been denying yourself one of life's great pleasures!
One could argue that a sunny weekend spent floating on a river with your buddies is better than a day at the spa, a night out in Vegas, or a tropical beach vacation. In a way, a float trip is a little of all three: peaceful and relaxing, wild and fun, and full of swimsuits and suntans.
The next time the sun is out, the water is warm and its levels are safe, and your friends are free, pick up the following items and enjoy an easy, breezy day floating your worries away.
You definitely can't float without a floatie! Your craft of choice will depend on the type of water you'll be navigating.
A mellow river calls for a donut-shaped inner tube, perfect for plopping onto and maximizing sun exposure while also allowing you to dive through it to wear it like a Hula-Hoop® for a slightly less passive experience.
A river that has a few more twists and turns calls for something a little more raft-like—preferably with a paddle or oars that will allow you to navigate without bumping into too many rocks or low-hanging trees.
Two good pieces of advice when it comes to picking out an inflatable floatie: Always check the maximum weight capacity (and ensure you're under it), and spring for the fancier model. Cheap versions are tempting, but if they're going to leak air or are made out of a flimsy material that will tear easily, you'll be doing more swimming than floating.
Never leave for a float trip without a roll of good old-fashioned duct tape. This silver spool is a must-have for proactive and reactive repairs.
Proactive: Before you hit the agua, reinforce the seams of your inflatable with a layer of duct tape. This will act as a little extra insurance against surprise rocks and sharp sticks.
Reactive: If the aforementioned surprise rocks and sharp sticks manage to get you, you may be able to prevent an SOS by pulling your floatie out of the water, drying it off a bit, and patching up the leak with some duct tape. Voila, a second life for your floatie, and more float time for you.
Duct tape can also be used for other innovations, such as taping your paddle to your floatie during quieter sections of the river so that you don't lose it when the current picks up.
It's going to get hot out there, and nothing will help you stay cooler than an ice-cold drink of…something. How can you keep your drink ice cold without ice cubes? That's where the rope comes in.
MacGyver yourself a leash of sorts, attaching your can to your floatie in a way that allows it to float behind you, following you and your watercraft. The water will keep your beverage cold until the moment you decide to crack it open. Ah, perfection.
This goes without saying, but if you will be imbibing alcoholic beverages, be responsible—alcohol and water activities are a recipe for danger. And, of course, always take your trash and recycling with you. Leaving empties behind is a major no-no; besides, it's bad karma.
You're not going to float in your clothes and we definitely advise against floating in the buff (they can issue tickets for that!), so you're going to need to get yourself a bathing suit to see you through your floating adventures. If your float route tends to get a little busy, we recommend a unique pattern or bright color (neon should do the trick) so that your friends can spot you in a crowd. Better yet, go for matching team swimsuits; it's always good for a laugh, and it's a great way to make new friends on the river.
Before you hop into your floatie and suntan on the open water for an entire day, it's a good idea to slather yourself in waterproof sunscreen to avoid exiting the water a vibrant shade of red. Remember, water is reflective, and sunburns hurt! Don't forget to bring a bottle of sunscreen along with you to reapply regularly, especially if your trip goes more than a couple of hours. Be generous; this is definitely not the time to be stingy.
If you're going to be floating down a river where the bottom is covered with soft, white sand, then consider yourself lucky! For most of us, a float down the river involves contending with sharp, slippery rocks and all kinds of mysterious slimy stuff lurking at the bottom. Show your feet some love and pick up a pair of water shoes. They'll save you from having to do that "I'm walking on lava!" hop.
Whether you stash it in a tree stump at your exit point or have a friend waiting for you with it at the end, a dry towel will be a welcome sight at the finish of your long float, particularly if you're hopping out of the river around sunset. A soaking-wet swimsuit combined with a cool evening is a recipe for chattering teeth. We recommend an extra-large, extra-fluffy towel to combat goosebumps.


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\section{Introduction}
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The idea of a {\it compressed algebra} has been around in commutative algebra for some time (it first appeared, implicitly, in Emsalem-Iarrobino's 1978 work $[EI]$), and identifies those (standard graded artinian) algebras having the (entry by entry) maximum $h$-vector among the $h$-vectors of all the algebras having given codimension and socle-vector. Compressed algebras and their $h$-vectors were extensively studied in the eighties by Iarrobino ($[Ia]$) and Fr\"oberg-Laksov ($[FL]$), and then by this author in full generality ($[Za1]$ and $[Za2]$).\\\indent
Recently, Migliore, Mir\'o-Roig and Nagel ($[MMN]$) defined the useful concept of {\it relatively compressed algebra} (which extends a notion first introduced by Cho and Iarrobino; see $[CI]$, Remark 2.9): given an artinian algebra $A=R/I$, an algebra $B=R/J$ (where $R$ is a polynomial ring and $I$ and $J$ are homogeneous ideals of $R$) is called {\it relatively compressed with respect to $A$}, if $B$ is a quotient algebra of $A$ (i.e., $J\supseteq I$) and the $h$-vector of $B$ is the largest among the $h$-vectors of all the quotient algebras of $A$ having the same socle-vector as $B$.\\\indent
This concept, in other words, defines the \lq \lq smallest" ideals $J$ containing a fixed ideal $I$, given the socle-vector of $R/J$ as an invariant. Migliore {\it et al.} mainly focused on studying the $h$-vectors (and the minimal free resolutions) of those level algebras which are relatively compressed with respect to $R$ modulo a complete intersection (oftentimes generic). Those $h$-vectors, in fact, supply interesting information on the size of the ideals containing a given regular sequence.\\\indent
In this note, by identifying relatively compressed algebras with generic quotients of suitable truncations of a level algebra, we can apply the recent work contained in $[Za3]$, where we studied generic level quotients, to extend some of the results of $[MMN]$. Namely, we supply (in general sharp) upper and lower bounds for the $h$-vector of a level algebra which is relatively compressed with respect to any given arbitrary level algebra.\\
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Let us now fix the setting we will be working in throughout this note. We consider standard graded artinian algebras $A=R/I$, where $R=k[x_1,...,x_r]$, $I$ is a homogeneous ideal of $R$, $k$ is a field of characteristic zero and the $x_i$'s all have degree 1.\\\indent
The {\it $h$-vector} of $A$ is $h(A)=h=(h_0,h_1,...,h_e)$, where $h_i=\dim_k A_i$ and $e$ is the last index such that $\dim_k A_e>0$. Since we may suppose that $I$ does not contain non-zero forms of degree 1, $r=h_1$ is defined to be the {\it codimension} of $A$.\\\indent
The {\it socle} of $A$ is the annihilator of the maximal homogeneous ideal $\overline{m}=(\overline{x_1},...,\overline{x_r})\subseteq A$, namely $soc(A)=\lbrace a\in A {\ } \mid {\ } a\overline{m}=0\rbrace $. Since $soc(A)$ is a homogeneous ideal, we define the {\it socle-vector} of $A$ as $s(A)=s=(s_0,s_1,...,s_e)$, where $s_i=\dim_k soc(A)_i$. Note that $h_0=1$, $s_0=0$ and $s_e=h_e>0$. The integer $e$ is called the {\it socle degree} of $A$ (or of $h$). The {\it type} of the socle-vector $s$ (or of the algebra $A$) is type$(s)=\sum_{i=0}^es_i$.\\\indent
If $s=(0,0,...,0,s_e=t)$, we say that the algebra $A$ is {\it level} (of type $t$). With a slight abuse of notation, we will refer to an $h$-vector as level if it is the $h$-vector of a level algebra.\\\indent
Let us now recall the main facts of the theory of {\it inverse systems} that we will be using in this paper. For a complete introduction, we refer the reader to $[Ge]$ and $[IK]$.\\\indent
Let $S=k[y_1,...,y_r]$, and consider $S$ as a graded $R$-module where the action of $x_i$ on $S$ is partial differentiation with respect to $y_i$.\\\indent
There is a one-to-one correspondence between artinian algebras $R/I$ and finitely generated $R$-submodules $M$ of $S$, where $I=Ann(M)$ is the annihilator of $M$ in $R$ and, conversely, $M=I^{-1}$ is the $R$-submodule of $S$ which is annihilated by $I$ (cf. $[Ge]$, Remark 1), p. 17).\\\indent
If $R/I$ has socle-vector $s$, then $M$ is minimally generated by $s_i$ elements of degree $i$, for $i=1,2,...,e$, and the $h$-vector of $R/I$ is given by the number of linearly independent derivatives in each degree obtained by differentiating the generators of $M$ (cf. $[Ge]$, Remark 2), p. 17).\\\indent
In particular, level algebras of type $t$ and socle degree $e$ correspond to $R$-submodules of $S$ minimally generated by $t$ elements of degree $e$.\\
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Let $A=R/I$ be any level algebra of socle degree $e$, having $h$-vector $h=(1,h_1,...,h_e)$. Let $B$ be a level algebra of socle degree $d\leq e$ and type $c\leq h_d$ which is relatively compressed with respect to $A$. Denote the $h$-vector of $B$ by $H=(1,H_1,...,H_d)$. Then:\\
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{\bf Theorem 1.} {\it With the above notations, for $i=1,2,...,d$, we have:
$${1\over h_d^2-1}((h_d-c)h_{d-i}+(ch_d-1)h_i)\leq H_i\leq \min \lbrace h_i,ch_{d-i}\rbrace .$$}
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{\bf Proof.} Notice that a quotient of socle degree $d$ of $A$ can be naturally seen as a quotient of socle degree $d$ of $A/A_{d+1}\cong R/(I,R_{d+1})$, which is the level truncation of $A$ having $h$-vector $h=(1,h_1,...,h_d)$.\\\indent
Also note the important fact that the level algebras $B$ above, relatively compressed with respect to $A$, are exactly (isomorphic to) the {\it generic} level quotients of type $c$ and socle degree $d$ of the algebra $R/(I,R_{d+1})$ (that is, the quotients parameterized by the points of a non-empty open subset of $({\bf P}^{h_d-1}(k))^c$, given a set of generators $G_1$, ..., $G_{h_d}$ of the inverse system module corresponding to the level algebra $R/(I,R_{d+1})$; see also $[Za3]$).\\\indent
Hence, the first inequality of the theorem is immediately obtained by $[Za3]$, Theorem 2.9 (Main Theorem).\\\indent
Let us now show the second inequality: $H_i\leq h_i$ is obvious. It remains to prove that $H_i\leq ch_{d-i}$. Again, consider $B$ as a quotient algebra of $R/(I,R_{d+1})$. The inverse system module corresponding to $B$ is generated by $c$ linearly independent forms of degree $d$, and $H_i$ is given by the number of $(d-i)$-th linearly independent partial derivatives of those $c$ forms. By the symmetry of {\it Gorenstein} $h$-vectors (i.e., level $h$-vectors of type 1), each of the above $c$ forms has at most $h_{d-i}$ $(d-i)$-th linearly independent partial derivatives, whence we have $H_i\leq ch_{d-i}$. This completes the proof of the theorem.{\ }{\ }$\rlap{$\sqcap$}\sqcup$ \\
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{\bf Remark 2.} The second inequality of Theorem 1 extends $[MMN]$, Lemma 2.13 to any level algebra $A$ (not necessarily a complete intersection).\\
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{\bf Proposition 3.} {\it Let $A$ be any level algebra having $h$-vector $h=(1,h_1,...,h_e)$. Then, for all positive integers $d$ and $c$ such that $d\leq e$ and $c\leq h_d$, there exists a level algebra having socle degree $d$ and type $c$ which is relatively compressed with respect to $A$.}\\
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{\bf Proof.} As we have underlined in the proof of the theorem, the level algebras of socle degree $d$ which are relatively compressed with respect to a given level algebra $A=R/I$ \lq \lq are" exactly the generic level quotients of $R/(I,R_{d+1})$ of socle degree $d$. The result follows from the fact that those generic quotients always exist (see the observation at the beginning of Section 2 of $[Za3]$).{\ }{\ }$\rlap{$\sqcap$}\sqcup$ \\
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{\bf Example 4.} Let us consider a level algebra $A$ of socle degree 8 having $h$-vector $$h=(1,4,9,13,13,13,9,6,4).$$\indent
(The fact that $h$ is actually a level $h$-vector can be shown, for instance, by using sums of powers of generic linear forms as suggested in $[Ia]$, Theorem 4.8 A.) By Theorem 1, the $h$-vector $H$ of the level algebras of type 3 and socle degree 6 which are relatively compressed with respect to $A$ must satisfy the following (entry by entry) inequalities: $$(1,3,4,6,5,5,3)\leq H\leq (1,4,9,13,13,12,3).$$
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{\bf Remark 5.} In general, the two bounds of Theorem 1 are sharp (and they are so simultaneously for all $i=1,2,...,d$).\\\indent
Indeed, the fact that there exist algebras $A$ and $B$ such that the lower bound of the theorem is sharp was implicitly shown in $[Za3]$, Example 2.10. We briefly recap that example here (without proofs) for completeness.\\\indent
Let us consider the level algebra $A$ (of codimension $r=(t+1)p$, type $t$ and socle degree $e$) associated to the inverse system module $M=<F_1,...,F_t>$, where $F_j=y_{jp+1}y_1^{e-1}+y_{jp+2}y_2^{e-1}+...+y_{(j+1)p}y_p^{e-1}$. One can easily see that the $h$-vector of $A$ is $h=(1,(t+1)p,(t+1)p,...,(t+1)p,t)$. Furthermore, the level quotients of $A$ of type $c\leq t$ and socle degree $e$ all have the same $h$-vector, $(1,(c+1)p,(c+1)p,...,(c+1)p,c)$. But this is exactly the lower bound of the theorem, since we have the identity $(c+1)p={1\over t^2-1}((t-c)(t+1)p+(ct-1)(t+1)p)$. Thus, in this example the lower bound of Theorem 1 is sharp.\\\indent
The existence of algebras $A$ and $B$ such that the $h$-vector of $B$ is the upper bound of Theorem 1 is guaranteed by an argument using compressed algebras. For instance, let us consider two generic forms, $F$ and $G$, of degree 7 inside $S=k[y_1,y_2,y_3]$. Then the $h$-vector of the (compressed) level algebra $A=R/Ann(F,G)$ is $h=(1,3,6,10,15,12,6,2)$ (e.g., see $[Ia]$). If we consider the level quotient $B$ of $A$ of type 2 and socle degree 6 whose associated inverse system module is generated by two derivatives of $F$ and $G$ (e.g., $F_{y_1}$ and $G_{y_2}$), then we clearly have that the $h$-vector of $B$ is $H=(1,3,6,10,12,6,2)$, and this is exactly the upper bound supplied by Theorem 1.\\
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{\bf Remark 6.} A very interesting fact regarding relatively compressed algebras is that their $h$-vector depends heavily on the original algebra $A$, not only on its $h$-vector.\\\indent
In order to see this, we will exhibit two level algebras, $A_1$ and $A_2$, such that $h(A_1)=h(A_2)=h=(1,h_1,...,h_e)$, and two positive integers, $d\leq e$ and $c\leq h_d$, such that there exist level algebras $B_1$ and $B_2$, both having socle degree $d$ and type $c$, which are relatively compressed with respect to $A_1$ and $A_2$ (respectively), and whose $h$-vectors are different.\\\indent
Let $h=(1,(t+1)p,(t+1)p,...,(t+1)p,t)$, as in Remark 5, and consider, as $A_1$, the algebra $A$ of that remark. Let $d=e$ and $c=1$. As we saw above, the $h$-vector of any Gorenstein quotient $B_1$ of $A_1$ of socle degree $e$ is $H^{(1)}=(1,2p,2p,...,2p,1)$.\\\indent
Therefore, it suffices to find a level algebra $A_2$ with $h$-vector $h$ having a Gorenstein quotient of socle degree $e$ with an $h$-vector $H^{(2)}$ larger than $H^{(1)}$. Let us consider an inverse system submodule $M\subset S=k[y_1,y_2,...,y_{(t+1)p}]$ generated by $t$ forms of degree $e$, one (say $F$) being the sum of powers of $(t+1)p-(t-1)$ generic linear forms, and the remaining $t-1$ being the $e$-th powers of one generic linear form each. If we let $A_2$ be the level algebra associated to $M$, then it is easy to see (again by using $[Ia]$, Theorem 4.8 A on sums of powers of linear forms) that the $h$-vector of $A_2$ is $h$, and that the $h$-vector of the Gorenstein quotient $B_2$ of $A_2$ (of socle degree $e$) whose inverse system cyclic module is generated by $F$ is $H^{(2)}=(1,(t+1)p-(t-1),(t+1)p-(t-1),...,(t+1)p-(t-1),1)$.\\\indent
Thus, for $t>1$ and $p>1$, we have $H^{(2)}>H^{(1)}$, as we desired.\\
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{\bf Remark 7.} It would be interesting to extend the above results on level algebras to algebras $A$ and $B$ with arbitrary socle-vectors. However, this is beyond the scope of this brief note, since such a generalization would be strongly related to an analogous generalization of our recent paper $[Za3]$, that, to date, has not yet been obtained.\\
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{\bf Acknowledgements.} We warmly thank (our former Ph.D. Thesis advisor) Dr. A.V. Geramita and Dr. A. Iarrobino for their comments and suggestions which improved the exposition of this article.\\
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