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FDA approves Abbott's latest drug-eluting stent
Abbott (NYSE:ABT) said today that it won FDA approval for its Xience Sierra everolimus-eluting coronary stent.
The company's device features a thin profile, improved flexibility and longer lengths than previous stents. The device and delivery system were designed to help clinicians tackle complex cases, like those involving multiple or totally blocked vessels, according to Abbott.
"We developed XIENCE Sierra so that physicians can more easily deliver the stent even in challenging cases," Chuck Brynelsen, SVP of Abbott's vascular unit, said in prepared remarks. "The updated design and improved deliverability mean doctors can access and unblock difficult-to-treat lesions with more flexibility and precision than other stents."
Abbott won CE Mark clearance for Xience Sierra in October last year and regulatory approval in Japan earlier this year. The device has been used in more than 8 million people worldwide, Abbott touted.
Last year, the company touted results from a quality-of-life analysis based on data from its Xience Excel study, which enrolled 1,905 people to compare the safety and efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention with Abbott's Xience coronary stent and coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with left main coronary artery disease.
After one month, one year and three years, patients were asked to report the frequency of things like angina and symptoms of depression.
Patients who were treated with Xience reported significantly greater freedom from angina and 60% of them said they had no difficulty breathing compared to 44% of people who had surgery.
Also last year, reports surfaced revealing that Abbott will not introduce its Xience Sierra stent to the Indian market due to measures that cap the prices for metal, drug-eluting and bioresorbable stents.
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Ariana Grande's New "7 Rings" References Her Exes, Apartment, Ponytail, and More
So many hidden moments to unpack.
By P. Claire Dodson and Lauren Rearick
We might still be reeling from the epicness that was Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next," but the pop star has returned again, releasing a brand new video for single "7 Rings."
The song — which Ariana teased on social media for days — is a heavily rap-infused take on the classic song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music. It's Broadway, but done Ari style, which is to say it's full of pink furry coats, glamorous parties, and allusions galore.
Based around the story of diamond friendship rings, the singer previously detailed how important this particular track was to her, telling Billboard in an interview that she wrote "7 Rings" after a particularly hard day. "Me and my friends went to Tiffany's together, just because we needed some retail therapy," she said. "We bought seven engagement rings, and when I got back to the studio I gave everybody a friendship ring." As for the lucky recipients of those diamond friendship rings? Ariana revealed all in a tweet, writing, "me, vic, courtney, alexa, tayla, njomza, kaydence (and my mom and nonna so technically nine but they got theirs after song was done)."
Much like the previous release of "Thank U, Next," Ari also packed this song and video with loads of references to everything from her personal life to her future new music. In case you were too busy bopping along or dreaming of your own diamond friendship ring, here are all the references you might have missed.
Spotted: Ari's dog Toulouse
According to a tweet from Ariana, "T wasn't originally supposed to be in this video but he literally wouldn't leave me / set / the shot so." Toulouse also appeared in the "Thank U, Next" video in a cameo as Bruiser, Elle Woods's infamous pup — seems like Toulouse is just used to show business now. He even gets his own pink doghouse.
https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/1085990180442431488
A future song...written in spray paint
As eagle-eyed fans pointed out, in one part of the "7 Rings" music video, the word "NASA" is scrawled in spray paint. "NASA" also popped up on a leaked track listing a few months ago, so it seems legit that it'll be on her new record.
The subject matter makes sense: Ari's love of space and the solar system is well-documented. In May, she wrote on her Instagram Story, "Jupiter can, like, get it. Earth is shaking. Jupiter, you're major."
https://twitter.com/arianaaccesscom/status/1084902238164791296
Connections to "Thank U, Next"
We already know where we've heard part of "7 Rings" before — in the opening to the "Thank U, Next" video, during its Mean Girls homage. But it turns out that "7 Rings" is also supposed to have a connected energy to the video that slaughtered the Internet.
Ariana previously explained what the vibe of "7 Rings" is meant to feel like in comparison to its sister track, "Thank U, Next." "Guess thank u, next is more vulnerable and gentle lol. seven rings is jus like ..... a flex. friendship anthem. how the homies WANT u to feel. what the 'thank u next' energy evolves into while embracing a new chapter (even tho both moods /energies are v present)," she tweeted.
Energy isn't the only thing "7 Rings" shares with "TUN." In the "7 Rings" video, she appears to be living in a dollhouse with a pink mini couch. At one point, she rips into the walls from behind the scenes, gazing knowingly upon the cute house she once danced in. Could this be a reference to the picture-perfect dollhouse in "Thank U, Next," inspired by the movie 13 Going on 30? Ari's not one for coincidences, so we're going to say it's definitely possible.
Homages to her iconic hair
No Ariana video would be complete without her memorable ponytail getting a major moment. In "7 Rings" it takes center stage, with one scene in particular fans are comparing to Rapunzel.
Watch as Ari's elongated ponytail cascades down an entire flight of stairs. Meanwhile, she jokes in the lyrics about the hairstyle: "You like my hair? Gee, thanks, just bought it."
https://twitter.com/ghostinsam/status/1086137799487610880
Nods to her past musical eras
In the Rapunzel-infused section of the video, one fan noticed that her background dancers are wearing an extra special costume: Ari's beloved bunny ears. The fan paired the shot with Ariana's Dangerous Woman promo image, and Ariana herself liked the tweet. Some fans took it even further, speculating, "4 bunnies = 4 eras? She is representing the new era?"
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Mentions of Her Exes
"7 Rings" may not explicitly name her exes in the same way "Thank U, Next" did, but some lyrics still hint at Ari's past relationships.
Early on, she references what she's been through the past few months and how she's turned her sadness into a series of bops: "Been through some bad sh*t, I should be a sad b*tch/ Who woulda thought it'd turn me to a savage?" Later, she addresses her broken engagement: "Wearing a ring, but ain't gon' be no 'Mrs.'"
While she waxes poetic about retail therapy, she also touches on her living situation — AKA the apartment she bought with Pete Davidson earlier in 2018 and which she now lives in by herself. "I bought a crib just for the closet/ Both his and hers, I want it, I got it, yeah," she says. In conclusion, no troubles paying rent here.
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The return of Marcel Kittel: 'I know how hard the way back to this moment was'
Kittel snagged stages 2 and 3 of the Giro in 2016, just as he did two years earlier.
by Matt de Neef
LIMOGES, France (CT) – Before today, Marcel Kittel (Etixx-QuickStep) already had 10 wins for the season. But after his victory on stage 4 of the Tour de France, there can be little doubt: the German is back to his very best.
But the win was far from easy. Just as yesterday's third stage went to a photo finish, so too the winner of stage 4 wasn't clear when the peloton flew across the line.
As he sat on the ground just past the finish, surrounded by journalists and photographers, Kittel himself wasn't sure he'd won. That was until a member of his team staff gave him the good news.
"I heard it from Steven, our physio. He was there with me," Kittel said in his post-race press conference. "They were saying something in the speaker and then suddenly Steven was saying 'You won, you won!' and all the emotions came over me and I gave him a big hug."
Where Kittel's realisation was a moment of ecstasy, it was a moment of palpable disappointment for second-placed Bryan Coquard (Direct Energie), beaten by mere millimetres in his quest for a maiden Tour stage victory.
For Marcel Kittel, the joy of victory had two aspects: the satisfaction of getting back to the very highest level of the sport, and the satisfaction of making amends for a frustrating first three days of Le Tour.
"This is a very very important day, not only this year but I think in my career, to show really on the highest level of cycling that I'm back, that I can win even if it's a 237km stage with an uphill finish," Kittel said. "A second thing which actually makes me even more proud, is that the team that had so much pressure in the last three days, so many expectations, that we could really turn our head around.
"We came here with a goal to win a stage of course — we had the first stage already on our mind and wanted to take the yellow jersey. It didn't work; it was 'only' a second place, and then a day after Julian [Alaphilippe] got only second — still good results but not what we wanted. And to make it even worse we really messed up the third day; the third chance to go for victory."
On stage 3 to Angers, won by Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data), Kittel could only manage seventh place. "We were too early, too nervous — we didn't really follow our plan," Kittel said. In an attempt to prevent a repeat performance, the Etixx-QuickStep riders convened after stage 3, trying to analyse the mistakes they'd made.
"I tried to give the confidence back to the boys because I know we have the power," Kittel said after winning stage 4. "We have great experience in the team actually — and we don't have to do mistakes like we did on the third stage.
"Today in the final, they stayed really cool as ice and came in the right moment to the front — that's the killer instinct that you need and I knew we had it in us and today we also showed that, and that makes me very very proud."
It wasn't until 800 metres to go that the Etixx-QuickStep lead-out train moved Kittel into position ahead of the uphill dash to the line. Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) was the first to launch his sprint, followed by Kittel, Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal) and overall leader Peter Sagan (Tinkoff). Kittel soon hit the front and while the others faded, he was able to power on to the line, just holding off the late-charging Coquard.
For Kittel's teammate Dan Martin, it was something of a surprise that Kittel was able to contest the final sprint, let alone win it.
"On the climb with about seven kilometres to go, I could see that he was really suffering," Martin told CyclingTips. "He drifted back. I didn't see them [the lead-out train] come back past.
"When I crossed the finish line and I heard he won, I thought, 'wow.' That was a really, truly, special ride. I don't think it was really a sprint for him either."
Like Martin, Kittel is in his first season at Etixx-QuickStep and both riders seem to have been revitalised by a change of scenery.
"I think he is a very similar position that I have been in this year. It is rejuvenation. And this team plays a huge part in that," Martin said. "The way the directors talk to us, the way they inspire us, the way they instil confidence. It is just to great to see."
After a 2015 season that was all but lost to illness, Kittel has bounced back in impressive fashion in 2016. But despite all his victories so far this year — including two stages of the Giro d'Italia — it's today's that is the most demonstrative.
"For me, the victory means a lot because I know how hard the way back to this moment was after last year being sick so many times, missing out on the Tour but also many other race days during the year," Kittel said. "That was for me personally a huge setback and a very difficult moment in my career.
"To be again on the level where I am now, to win stages of the Tour, to be successful during the season, to see it now working so well — although the start of the Tour was not what we wanted — is a huge relief."
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package org.knowm.proprioceptron.jme.hello;

import com.jme3.app.SimpleApplication;
import com.jme3.input.KeyInput;
import com.jme3.input.MouseInput;
import com.jme3.input.controls.ActionListener;
import com.jme3.input.controls.AnalogListener;
import com.jme3.input.controls.KeyTrigger;
import com.jme3.input.controls.MouseButtonTrigger;
import com.jme3.material.Material;
import com.jme3.math.ColorRGBA;
import com.jme3.math.Vector3f;
import com.jme3.scene.Geometry;
import com.jme3.scene.shape.Box;

/** Sample 5 - how to map keys and mousebuttons to actions */
public class HelloInput extends SimpleApplication {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    HelloInput app = new HelloInput();
    app.start();
  }

  protected Geometry player;
  Boolean isRunning = true;

  @Override
  public void simpleInitApp() {

    Box b = new Box(Vector3f.ZERO, 1, 1, 1);
    player = new Geometry("Player", b);
    Material mat = new Material(assetManager, "Common/MatDefs/Misc/Unshaded.j3md");
    mat.setColor("Color", ColorRGBA.Blue);
    player.setMaterial(mat);
    rootNode.attachChild(player);
    initKeys(); // load my custom keybinding
  }

  /** Custom Keybinding: Map named actions to inputs. */
  private void initKeys() {

    // You can map one or several inputs to one named action
    inputManager.addMapping("Pause", new KeyTrigger(KeyInput.KEY_P));
    inputManager.addMapping("Left", new KeyTrigger(KeyInput.KEY_J));
    inputManager.addMapping("Right", new KeyTrigger(KeyInput.KEY_K));
    inputManager.addMapping("Rotate", new KeyTrigger(KeyInput.KEY_SPACE), new MouseButtonTrigger(MouseInput.BUTTON_LEFT));
    // Add the names to the action listener.
    inputManager.addListener(actionListener, new String[] { "Pause" });
    inputManager.addListener(analogListener, new String[] { "Left", "Right", "Rotate" });

  }

  private ActionListener actionListener = new ActionListener() {

    @Override
    public void onAction(String name, boolean keyPressed, float tpf) {

      if (name.equals("Pause") && !keyPressed) {
        isRunning = !isRunning;
      }
    }
  };

  private AnalogListener analogListener = new AnalogListener() {

    @Override
    public void onAnalog(String name, float value, float tpf) {

      if (isRunning) {
        if (name.equals("Rotate")) {
          player.rotate(0, value * speed, 0);
        }
        if (name.equals("Right")) {
          Vector3f v = player.getLocalTranslation();
          player.setLocalTranslation(v.x + value * speed, v.y, v.z);
        }
        if (name.equals("Left")) {
          Vector3f v = player.getLocalTranslation();
          player.setLocalTranslation(v.x - value * speed, v.y, v.z);
        }
      } else {
        System.out.println("Press P to unpause.");
      }
    }
  };
}

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EAGLE — Just a few months after purchasing what was the Adam's Rib property near Eagle and renaming the property Frost Creek, membership is growing at the golf club. Kevin Denton, the membership director at Frost Creek, expects the number of members to approach 100 by mid-July.
"Membership at Adam's Rib never exceeded 32; Frost Creek has more than doubled membership in the first few months of offering through our founders and referrals," Denton said. "We expect the pace of membership to remain strong throughout the coming months."
'Extraordinary property'
"We are thrilled at the response to Frost Creek and are glad that the community is taking advantage of all that this extraordinary property and club have to offer," said Chad Brue, the head of the Denver-based investment group that now controls Frost Creek. "All the aspects that we have, from private fishing to this unique golf experience, the pool and tennis courts, hiking, biking, being surrounded by (Bureau of Land Management) land — all of this makes Frost Creek a world-class mountain retreat."
"All the aspects that we have, from private fishing to this unique golf experience, the pool and tennis courts, hiking, biking, being surrounded by (Bureau of Land Management) land — all of this makes Frost Creek a world-class mountain retreat."Chad BrueHead of Denver-based investment group
Denton said people are not joining because of the golf experience alone. One example of the unique privileges of membership is member cabins, which allows members to stay on property in a four-bedroom cabin to enjoy Frost Creek for a long weekend or a full week.
And, Denton said, Frost Creek is by invitation only.
"Our founding members and their referrals are building a unique community," said Denton. "Because of the strong demand for local and national memberships, we'll be raising our membership price in the near future. It's a great situation to be in, but it's not too late for prospective members to take advantage of our initial membership pricing."
The Frost Creek property and the country club comprise 2,655 acres, including an 18-hole Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course, a 16,000 square foot golf maintenance facility, a 40,000 square-foot clubhouse with Olympic-sized pool, a tennis court and on-property fishing rights along Brush Creek. Also included in the purchase were five new-construction spec-homes, five member cottages, 91 finished residential lots ranging from 3.6 to 9.9 acres and a working 1,553-acre ranch with water rights on Brush Creek.
For more information, contact Denton at 970-328-7503 or by email at kdenton@frostcreek.com.
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Turkey Targets Refugees at its Borders
Posted: 26 June 2018| Region: Middle East | Category: Analysis
AnalysisCivilians At RiskFocus On MilitiasInteractive VisualsMiddle EastPolitical StabilityPro-Government MilitiasRioting And ProtestsViolence Against Civilians
Since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, Turkey has been the main hub for hosting Syrian refugees. It is estimated that about 3.5 million refugees are based in Turkey; this amounts to approximately 15% of the total pre-war population of Syria. Due to the Turkish refugee burden, the government is pursuing a policy to limit refugee flows. In January 2018, Human Rights Watch criticized one of Turkey's policies arguing that the Turkish government is shooting at refugees at the border in an attempt to force them back into Syria. Ibrahim Kalin – President's Erdogan spokesman – responded that Turkey had "an open door-policy" and that "there has been absolutely no case of civilians being fired upon at the border".
ACLED data reveal a systematic pattern of targeting refugees at each of the five Syrian districts alongside the Turkish border. Refugees have died as a direct result of Turkish bullets. 140 incidents since January 2017 and over 190 alleged fatalities are recorded in ACLED in these locations. For example, on the 15th September 2017, "Turkish border guards targeted several civilians as they attempted to cross the Syrian border into Turkey at an unidentified point, killing a 12-year-old child and injuring others [SYR12615]."
Figure 1 shows the incidence of shootings and the number of suspected fatalities at the Turkey-Syria border since 2017. There is variation in the data with a peak in the middle of 2017 and a drop in December 2017 through the first quarter of 2018. This drop is likely due to Turkeys' Afrin offensive. Since April, incidents are increasing again in this region, but over 90% of incidents are directed against civilians rather than armed actors.
Figure 2 presents the location of incidents throughout the Turkish-Syria border. The spread of events does not drastically change over the period of 18 months, suggesting that the shooting of refugees is a systematic policy ordered by the Turkish government.[1] Most shooting by the Turkish Gendarmerie against civilians take places in Aleppo and Idlib province where the only three open border crossings are located (out of 19 official crossings).[2] As Aleppo and Idlib are controlled by Nationalist-Islamists and FSA affiliated groups, it is unlikely that Turkey's practice is a concealed attempt to target Kurdish fighters fleeing into Turkey.
Turkish actions are a clear infringement on basic Human Rights and of the non-refoulement principle enshrined in the 1951 Refugee Convention. The practice is also a reality check for Europe: its policy of outsourcing border protection in the Sahel and Middle East comes with costs.
Since the 2015 Valletta summit, Europe has pursued a policy of externalizing border control to stave the refugee flow. One of these methods has been to aid local security brokers in Libya and Niger. The situation in Turkey shows the trade-off outsourcing border control generates: partners may reduce refugee flows yet jeopardize the most basic principles Europe claims to uphold. Ending this practice at Turkish borders should be considered as Europe's leaders convene to revamp Europe's Common Asylum System on June 28 and 29.
[1] The Turkish Gendarmerie reports to Süleyman Soylu – the Turkish Minister of Interior – and deputy chairman of the ruling AKP, rather than the Turkish Armed Forces.
[2] Most incidents occur at closed and unofficial border-crossings.
Kars de Bruijne
Kars de Bruijne is a Senior Research Fellow at Clingendael's Security Unit. At the Conflict Research Unit (CRU), Kars heads the Greater Sahel Programme which focuses on the manifestation of hybrid governance under fragmented sovereignty in the Sahel and Coastal West Africa. His expertise is on the study of political violence (conflict dynamics, gangs and rebel movement strategy), subnational governance arrangement and their link to the central power, and elite politics in West Africa. Kars holds a PhD in conflict studies on rationalist explanations for (civil) conflict and degrees in International Relations, History, and Philosophy. Previously, he worked as a Senior Researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) heading among others the West Africa Desk. He is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sussex in the ERC-consolidator project Violence, Elites and Resilience in States under Stress (VERSUS).
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ATP-binding cassette sub-family E member 1 (ABCE1) is a highly conserved protein among eukaryotes and archaea. Recent studies have identified ABCE1 as a ribosomerecycling factor important for translation termination in mammalian cells, yeast and also archaea. Here we report another conserved function of ABCE1. We have previously described AtRLI2, the homolog of ABCE1 in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, as an endogenous suppressor of RNA silencing. In this study we show that this function is conserved: human ABCE1 is able to suppress RNA silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana plants, in mammalian HEK293 cells and in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Using co-immunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry, we found a number of potential ABCE1-interacting proteins that might support its function as an endogenous suppressor of RNA interference. The interactor candidates are associated with epigenetic regulation, transcription, RNA processing and mRNA surveillance. In addition, one of the identified proteins is translin, which together with its binding partner TRAX supports RNA interference.


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Catalonia's tourist industry looking forward to a good August
Hotel occupancy rates expected to reach around 90%, similar to last year but below highs reached in 2017
The start of August brings the busiest time of year for Catalonia's tourist industry, and everything suggests it will be a good month but without breaking any records.
Overall, Catalonia's tourist industry expects occupancy rates to be around 90%, similar to last year but below the highs reached two years ago.
However, the estimates as to the number of holidaymakers visiting the country vary depending on the region and the type of tourism in question.
In the southern region of Tarragona, for example, hoteliers are expecting an occupancy rate of 90%, especially in the coastal area of Costa Daurada.
As for the origin of the tourists expected to visit Tarragona, most will be Catalan and Spanish, followed by British, French and Russian.
Meanwhile, on the Maresme coast, north of Barcelona, hoteliers are also expecting to occupancy rates to match the 92% attained last year.
Seaside towns such as Pineda de Mar, Santa Susanna, Canet and Calella are looking forward to welcoming the most visitors, in particular couples and families.
Spanish and Catalan holidaymakers will make up the most visitors, followed by French, Belgian, Dutch, German and British tourists, with the number of Russians expected to rise.
South of Barcelona, the popular resort of Sitges, in the area of Garraf, is looking to see occupancy rates recover and approach the high of 93% achieved in 2017.
The first two weeks of August are expected to be the busiest, which coincides with the period when most Catalan and Spanish people are on their annual holidays.
So far, reservations have been made by locals and foreign visitors in equal parts, with the latter coming mostly from France, Germany and Britain, with the Nordic countries on the rise.
As for the northern region of Girona, most visitors are expected on the coast, in Costa Brava, where occupancy rates of between 85 and 90% are forecast.
The region's capital, the city of Girona and its surroundings, expect to fill up to 75% of hotel rooms, the same number expected in the interior areas of Ripollès and Cerdanya.
With most holidaymakers also expected in the first two weeks of the month, the majority of visitors will be made up of Catalan families, followed by the nearby French and Spanish.
Camping around Barcelona
Yet, the forecasts for occupancy rates in campsites in the Barcelona area are less optimistic than last year, with 80% for chalets and up to 70% for camping plots.
While more visitors from elsewhere in Spain are expected this year, the forecasts suggest there will be fewer campers from other parts of Europe, such as France and the Netherlands.
Lleida and Central Catalonia
The western region of Lleida, meanwhile, is expecting occupancy rates similar to last year of between 80 and 95%, depending on the week and the destination.
Central Catalonia is also looking forward to a good month, especially in its rural areas, particularly in guesthouses in areas such as Berguedà, Anoia and Solsona.
With reservations already at 75%, families from other parts of Europe will make up the majority of holidaymakers, especially from France, the UK, Germany and Belgium.
Positive figures for June
Part of the expectation for a good August is based on the positive figures registered in June, when Catalonia was the place in Spain that received the most international tourists (2.1m).
In fact, visitors to Catalonia made up a quarter of all foreign tourists coming to Spain in June, an increase of 2.2% compared to the same month last year.
The majority of visitors to Catalonia were from France (16.7%), which were also the tourists who spent the most - 2.4 billion euros, a 4.7% rise compared to last year.
Overall, average spending by each visitor was 1,040 euros (up 2.4%), which works out as an average spend of 218 euros a day per person (up 10.2%).
Finally, foreign visitors stayed in Catalonia in June for an average of 5.3 days, some 7.3% less than in the same month last year, according to Spain's statistics institute.
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Q: Generating random number sequences & sorting them out in java Good day,
I am currently working on this program, which has to generate as many numbers as I enter (between 1-100) and the number has to be in the range of 0 - 1 000 000.
Then, the program must print them out in a random order and after that using the insertion sort, it must sort the randomly generated numbers.
I've been tackling this for about 7 hours now, searched online for answers, but haven't found anything yet. I was hoping to get a fix for my problem here!
What the program is supposed to do:

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*Person enters how many random numbers they want the program to generate (between 1-100)

*Print out the amount of random numbers (random numbers must must be in the range of 0 - 1 000 000), the person entered before.

*Sort the numbers using insertion sorting and print them out.

This is what I currently have:
It doesn't print out the sorted list.
public static void main(String[] args) {
    Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Enter the amount:");
    int amount = scan.nextInt();
    int []numbers = new int[amount];

    Random rand = new Random();
    System.out.println("Random order:");
    int MAX = 1000000;
    int MIN = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < amount; i++) {
        numbers[i] = rand.nextInt(MAX - MIN + 1) + MIN;
        System.out.print(numbers[i] + ", ");
    }
    System.out.println("");
    System.out.print("From smallest to biggest:");

    sort(numbers);

}
        public static int[] sort(int[] list) {
            int i, j, key, temp;
            for(i = 1; i < list.length; i++) {
                key = list[i];
                j = i-1;

                while (j >= 0 && list[j] > key) {
                    temp = list[j];
                    list[j] = list[j+1];
                    list[j+1] = temp;
                    j--;
                }

                System.out.print(list);
            }

            return list;
        }

}

A: I think u forgot to call the sort method.

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Home Woman Isiah Thomas Still Bitter Over '92 Dream Team Snub, Blames '91 Bulls...
Isiah Thomas Still Bitter Over '92 Dream Team Snub, Blames '91 Bulls Diss
Isiah Thomas admits he's still 'personally hurt' he was not asked to be a part of that legendary '92 Dream Team./n@ArashMarkazi
Thomas says he doesn't know why he was not selected — but it's obvious he believes it's because he dissed Michael Jordan by not shaking his hand after that '91 series.
Thomas — one of the best NBA players alive at the time — says his resume should have made him a lock for the Dream Team, which is why he thinks the non-selection had nothing to do with his talent.
"If I'm not apart of the Dream Team because a lapse in emotion in terms of not shaking someone's hand … if that's the reason why I didn't make the Dream Team, then I am more disappointed today than I was back then when I wasn't selected."
Thomas — who had made the NBA All-Star team every year from '82 to '93 — explained,"The only thing that's missing from my resume is not being on the Dream Team."
The man's got a point — Thomas was one of the best players in the league at the time … and had 2 NBA titles and was a 10-time All-Star at the time.
It's something Thomas has stressed for years … he revealed in 2013 he felt disrespected by the Bulls, but would"absolutely" shake hands if he could do it all over again.
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Zygote's Homeric journey secures life for baby Nhlahla
Lady Lucky: Sixth year medical student Lindsay Bick (back), with mother Cwayita Ncise, the baby's father Ndumiso Mashiyane and the miracle baby, Nhlahla ("lucky" in Zulu). It was Bick who first saw Ncise at Somerset Hospital and reported to her registrar that she couldn't find the baby's head in the pelvis.
Miracle baby Nhlahla's story and picture have been splashed across the world's media: the BBC, CBS Canada, Radio Asia, and even the front page of The Times in London. HELEN THERON of the Monday Paper paid a recent visit to Groote Schuur Hospital to see how mother and baby were doing, and to get the behind-the-scenes story which features both staff and a student of the UCT's Faculty of Health Sciences.
It was a journey of Homeric proportions, liver surgeon Professor Jake Krige said of baby Nhlahla Ncise's beginnings.
The subject of intense media interest, Nhlahla made world headlines recently after senior obstetrician Dr Bruce Howard gently extracted her, at 39 weeks, from behind her mother's liver, putting paid to some formidable survival odds.
What were the chances that the zygote (fertilised egg), smaller than a pinhead, would slip from 20-year old Cwayita Ncise's fallopian tube, survive and then embark on a miraculous upward odyssey, via abdominal fluid and between the convolutions of intestines and internal organs, to fortuitously implant itself on her mothers' liver, an organ with sufficient blood supply to nurture the embryo to full term?
Post delivery: The placenta remains attached to the liver.
Dubbed "the liver baby", little Nhlahla presented the UCT medical fraternity at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) with some anxious moments, however. Only 14 other such extra-uterine cases had been reported. As a result of bleeding complications, only three babies survived.
Extra-uterine pregnancies, which can develop on the outside of the uterus, or even get their blood supply from the bowel, are always difficult cases. But Nhlahla's location in her mother's abdomen initially had the UCT and GSH medics, registrars and specialists scratching their heads.
One week short of full-term, her mother had been referred to Somerset Hospital with high blood pressure. On duty in the labour ward that night was sixth-year medical student Lindsay Bick, who completed Ncise's clerk sheet (which includes patient details, etc).
"She looked like a normal pregnant woman," Bick recalled. However, on examining her, Bick couldn't find the baby's head, usually easy to detect in the pelvis at 39 weeks. "The baby's bottom was also very high in the abdomen," she reported. Puzzled, she alerted her supervisor, registrar Dr Saadiqa Allie. Allie conducted an ultrasound scan and confirmed Bick's misgivings; she could not locate the baby's head either - and the uterus was empty.
Transferred to GSH, Ncise was examined by senior registrar Dr Howard Manyonga and consultant Dr Silke Dyer. Subsequent scans confirmed an advanced extra-uterine pregnancy and the location of the placenta in the upper abdomen.
"We see about five or six cases of extra-uterine pregnancy a year," noted Howard, a specialist in gynaecological cancers and difficult surgery. As these cases are rare, he remembers looking forward to the operation.
Minutes old: Nhlahla Ncise after resuscitation.
Inside the theatre, the drama deepened. The Caesarean section revealed a further puzzle; all Ncise's organs were in place (even the empty uterus), but there was no baby. Flanked by an enthralled cluster of 30 or so doctors and fifth- and sixth-year medics (the news had spread quickly), Howard described the moment as "very frightening". Instead of a foetus, he found a "massively enlarged" liver and placenta.
"It was a time bomb waiting to explode."
Krige was at a liver clinic nearby when he received a distress call at 11h00; a cryptic message from the obstetrics theatre to deliver a baby, not his usual line of work. He rushed to a scene of "enormous anxiety".
"The placenta in its amniotic sac, lined the liver. Its removal would have resulted in catastrophic bleeding," he elaborated. In highly complex situations like these, he said, "there are no rules of engagement".
"These cases require on-the-spot improvisation and every situation will be different. But it was clear we had to find a way in."
The team mobilised the liver, working quickly to free it from its attachments. And providence is always kind. At the bottom of the large organ Krige and Howard found a 5 cm diameter "window", a small area where the placenta and amniotic sac weren't attached. It offered the sole entry point. An incision was made and Nhlahla's delivery began, feet first.
"It was extraordinary," Krige remarked. "A breach delivery from the liver."
There was initially little time for euphoria, however. The baby was distressed and needed resuscitation. The placenta had also started to bleed and the bleeders had to be tied off. Krige and the team were also left with a crucial decision: how to manage the remaining placenta.
"The trick was to leave the placenta attached to the liver," Krige said. The extraneous tissue would be absorbed in two months or so and the organ would return to its normal size. "The liver has phenomenal regenerative capacity," he confirmed.
The news of Nhlahla's birth spread like proverbial wildfire. Within hours, news hounds, armed with large cameras and even larger lenses, thronged the corridors of GSH. "It has been unbelievable," Howard remarked. "My phone has not stopped ringing."
Baby Nhlahla's story and picture have been splashed across the world's media: the BBC, CBS Canada, Radio Asia, and even the front page of The Times in London. Now, Ripley's believe it or not want the story, the latter raising more than a few eyebrows in the medical streets of GSH.
The remarkable success story has thrust GSH into the spotlight. Both Krige and Howard are full of praise for the multidisciplinary team's efforts and the sterling obstetrics services available in the province. However, there is an irony that has not been lost on them.
"If Cwayita had had access to ultrasound from the beginning, as is the case in first world countries, the pregnancy would have been terminated," Howard commented. "Now we have a healthy mother and baby," he beamed. The case will be well documented as he and Manyonga plan to write a report for submission to a respected medical journal.
Nhlahla, by the way, is the Zulu name for "lucky". One feels she could as easily have been named Umlingo, or "miracle". And though some may be tempted to follow her life's path, just to see why fate was so determined she should be counted among the world's populace, her mother has it all worked out: Nhlahla is going to be a doctor, she says emphatically.
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VIGAR - MADONNA (DONNA) ISOBEL VIGAR (McBurney) was freed from the grip of cancer July 8, 2007 in Sarnia, ON. Donna now joins her husband Norm, her parents John and Kate McBurney, her sisters Audrey (Garner), Ruth (Layman), and Marie (McIntosh) in a better place. Donna is the mother of David and his wife Cheryl. Loving grandmother of Ryan, Aaron and Meaghan. She was also best "buds"� with Brandy and Emma. Donna is also survived by her brothers Alex McBurney (Ivy), London, Doug McBurney (Elsie), Ottawa and her sisters Margie Armstrong (Bill), Verschoyle and Joyce Fraser (Bill), Columbus, Mississippi. She will also be missed by many nieces and nephews. Mom provided great support for Dad and helped ease the transition that followed Dad's many moves with the Co-Operators during his career (Woodstock, London, Peterborough and Guelph). Mom was an active curler for many years playing at clubs across Ontario. Until her illness she was involved in a number of social groups in London where she made many friends. Mom would like to express her great appreciation to all her relatives and many friends who called, sent cards and flowers during her illness. She was overjoyed with your support and love. In keeping with Donna's wishes, there will be no public visitation or funeral service. Cremation has taken place and a private family remembrance will be held at a later date. Arrangements entrusted to the McKENZIE & BLUNDY FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION CENTRE, 344-3131. As an expression of sympathy, friends who wish may send memorial donations to the charity of your choice or simply pat the head of the next dog you see because there never was a mutt that Mom didn't like. Messages of condolence & memories may be left at www.mckenzieblundy.com A tree has been planted in memory of Donna Vigar in the McKenzie & Blundy Memorial Forest.
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VIGAR - MADONNA (DONNA) ISOBEL VIGAR (McBurney) was freed from the grip of cancer July 8, 2007 in Sarnia, ON. Donna now joins her husband Norm, her parents John and Kate McBurney, her sisters Audrey (Garner), Ruth (Layman), and Marie (McIntosh) in a better place. Donna is the mother of David and his wife Cheryl. Loving grandmother of Ryan, Aaron and Meaghan. She was also best "buds" with Brandy and Emma. Donna is also survived by her brothers Alex McBurney (Ivy), London, Doug McBurney (Elsie), Ottawa and her sisters Margie Armstrong (Bill), Verschoyle and Joyce Fraser (Bill), Columbus, Mississippi. She will also be missed by many nieces and nephews. Mom provided great support for Dad and helped ease the transition that followed Dad's many moves with the Co-Operators during his career (Woodstock, London, Peterborough and Guelph). Mom was an active curler for many years playing at clubs across Ontario. Until her illness she was involved in a number of social groups in London where she made many friends. Mom would like to express her great appreciation to all her relatives and many friends who called, sent cards and flowers during her illness. She was overjoyed with your support and love. In keeping with Donna's wishes, there will be no public visitation or funeral service. Cremation has taken place and a private family remembrance will be held at a later date. Arrangements entrusted to the McKENZIE & BLUNDY FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION CENTRE, 344-3131. As an expression of sympathy, friends who wish may send memorial donations to the charity of your choice or simply pat the head of the next dog you see because there never was a mutt that Mom didn't like. Messages of condolence & memories may be left at www.mckenzieblundy.com


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I am writing to you in the hope that you will visit the fracking site at Preston New Road and meet me and local protesters this Friday.
I read your letter to the Home Office Minister about the estimated cost of policing the fracking site and their response.
Policing these unpopular fracking sites is obviously costly and takes officers away from more important duties, especially as several years of austerity have already left the police overstretched.
This cost will grow as more fracking sites are opened, such as the one proposed at Roseacre.
My preferred solution is for the government to simply abandon fracking because of the huge damage it is doing to the climate and local environments. However, with a government ideologically committed to fracking, despite massive public opposition, I would suggest that we have a conversation about how we can work together to persuade national government to pay for the policing of a nationally imposed policy.
I'm sure that you understand the reasons why these protests will continue against the imposition of fracking, especially as all the local democratic systems have now been sidelined by the government and made near irrelevant to the outcome of decisions.
For example, I have been particularly struck by there being no nationally agreed 'set back' limits, which means that a civil servant in Whitehall can decide that it is fine for a fracking well to be built opposite your house. Protest and direct action have become the only tools of dissent left to people to express their horror at the well documented impacts of fracking.
The Heysel Stadium disaster of 1985 in which 39 people died and the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 in which 96 died knocked the stuffing out of Dalglish but through it all he showed diplomacy and compassion, not for nothing was he called 'King Kenny'.
In his autobiography he states that behind every successful man is a woman, but as far as he's concerned his wife Marina has never been behind him, she has been beside him, always. Well put Sir Kenny!
Governments do not create wealth; businesses create wealth and ultimately provide the taxes to support governments.
If we leave the EU without a deal as seems likely due to the intransigent, obstructive and unhelpful EU negotiating team, there will be little disruption.
Market forces of supply and demand will apply. If the EU seeks to disrupt businesses in Europe and Britain they will do so at their peril bringing opprobrium on themselves from both sides of the Channel and similarly if they wish to provide an unnecessary and unpopular hard border in Ireland they will have to try and do it.
They won't; they will have to be pragmatic.
Gender equality in prison system?
I have just heard a debate on the radio regarding women prisoners, the argument was being made was that women with children shouldn't get prison time as many have kids to take care of.
I can imagine the prisons are full of men who have kids so why are they not spared time locked up either then.
If you commit a crime, male or female, and you are caught you get punished.
If you are being sent down what gender you are shouldn't matter.
In times of gender equality, women can't ask for the same rights as men and then want to play by different rules as regards going to prison.
I had to put the TV on mute during Halep v Stephens at French Open, hope they ban it before Wimbledon.
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Festus is an Advocate of the Courts of Judicature in Uganda and an Attorney & Counselor at Law in the State of New York.
He holds a Master of Laws in International Taxation from New York University, where he was a Hauser Global Scholar. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from Makerere University where he was the winner of the Chief Justice's Prize, as the best overall student in his class.
Festus is a tax expert and is reputed for advising businesses on complex tax issues in relation to cross-border transactions. Festus' recent experience includes serving as a tax adviser for the Consor tium during negotiations for a US$ 4bn refinery in Uganda. Festus was the tax adviser for the investor in a USD 620 million steel plant project in Uganda. Festus is currently representing Heritage Oil & Gas in a USD 434 million litigation before the High Court of Uganda.
Festus has served as tax technical adviser for the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Government of Liberia and the Republic of Somaliland and the Ministry of Finance of Uganda. Previously. Festus served as an international tax consultant at Price Waterhouse Coopers' New York and Uganda offices.
Festus has, on occasion, been called as expert witness on Ugandan tax law in the London Commercial Court and in the High Court of Uganda. He has also appeared pro hac vice in tax litigation before the Rwanda Commercial Court.
Festus is a lecturer of international tax law at the East African School of Taxation, and has served as guest lecturer on international tax at Duke University (North Carolina, USA) and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Vienna, Austria). Festus has on several occasions been invited to train the Uganda Revenue Authority and the Uganda Tax Appeals Tribunal on complex tax matters.
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Philipp Lukas (* 4. Dezember 1979 in Wien) ist ein ehemaliger österreichischer Eishockeyspieler, der zwischen 2000 und 2018 ununterbrochen beim EHC Linz in der österreichischen Eishockey-Liga unter Vertrag stand.

Karriere

Philipp Lukas lernte den Eishockey-Sport im Alter von acht Jahren kennen, als er gemeinsam mit seinem Vater und seinem Bruder Robert zu einem Training des WAT Stadlau erschien. Nicht sonderlich begeistert von dieser Sportart zu diesem Zeitpunkt, brachte sein Vater, der als ehemaliger Eishockeyspieler der Tschechoslowakei Nachwuchstrainer wurde, seinem Sohn Eishockey näher. Lukas und sein Bruder wurden nun nicht nur am Eis trainiert, sondern arbeiteten auch zu Hause an ihrer Stock- und Scheibentechnik. Im Sommer besuchten die Brüder jährlich Trainingslager in Tschechien, um die eisfreie Zeit in Österreich zu überbrücken.

Mit 16 Jahren spielte Lukas unter dem Profitrainer Kurt Harand, der ihn auch bald in die Kampfmannschaft des CE Wien integrierte. Dort lernte er auch Spieler wie Andreas Judex, Raimund Divis oder Oliver Setzinger kennen. Nachdem er die AHS abgeschlossen hatte, schloss er sich der HSNS (Heeressport- und Nahkampfschule) an, womit er auch während seiner Bundesheerzeit Eishockey trainieren konnte.

1999 wurde Philipp Lukas schließlich ein Angebot der VEU Feldkirch unterbreitet, das er auch annahm. Von da an behauptete er sich in der höchsten österreichischen Spielklasse. Bereits ein Jahr später wechselte Lukas wegen des Konkurses seines Vereins mit Spielern wie Rick Nasheim, Mark Szücs, Christian Perthaler und Markus Peintner zu den Black Wings Linz.

Am 4. April 2018 gab er nach dem Playoff-Aus gegen Salzburg sein Karriereende bekannt. Der Verein wird seine Rückennummer 21 nicht mehr vergeben.

International
Bereits mit 14 Jahren war Philipp Lukas soweit gereift, um eine fixe Größe im österreichischen Junioren-Nationalteam zu sein, in dem er sich unter anderem bei Turnieren in der Schweiz, Kanada oder den Niederlanden regelmäßig mit Toren und Assists in die Punkteliste eintrug. Er nahm an den U18-C-Europameisterschaften 1996, als er bester Verteidiger und bester Torvorbereiter des Turniers war,  und 1997, als er zum besten Spieler seiner Mannschaft gewählt wurde, sowie der U20-C-Weltmeisterschaft 1997 teil.

Sein Debüt im österreichischen Nationalteam gab er am 13. November 1999 bei der 1:3-Niederlage gegen Deutschland im Freundschaftsspiel in Rosenheim. Anschließend spielte er bei den Weltmeisterschaften 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 und 2011 für die Alpenländler in der Top-Division. Nach dem Abstieg 2007 spielte er bei der Weltmeisterschaft 2008 in der Division I und erreichte mit seiner Mannschaft den sofortigen Wiederaufstieg in die Top-Division. Zudem vertrat er seine Farben bei den Qualifikationsturnieren für die Olympischen Winterspiele in Salt Lake City 2002 und in Vancouver 2010.

Als Trainer
Nach seinem Karriereende als Spieler wurde Lukas Eishockeytrainer, zunächst als Fitnesstrainer bei den Black Wings und als Assistenztrainer der österreichischen U20-Nationalmannschaft. 2020 wurde er Assistenztrainer bei den Steel Wings Linz und betreute weiterhin verschiedene Nationalmannschaften Österreichs als Co-Trainer. Im Februar 2022 wurde er als neuer Cheftrainer und Sportdirektor der Black Wings Linz vorgestellt.

Erfolge und Auszeichnungen
 1996 Bester Verteidiger und bester Vorbereiter bei der U18-C-Europameisterschaft
 1997 Aufstieg in die B-Gruppe bei der U20-C-Weltmeisterschaft
 2003 Österreichischer Meister mit dem EHC Linz
 2008 Aufstieg in die Top Division bei der Weltmeisterschaft der Division I
 2012 Österreichischer Meister mit dem EHC Linz

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Eishockeynationalspieler (Österreich)
Eishockeyspieler (VEU Feldkirch)
Eishockeyspieler (EHC Linz)
Eishockeytrainer (EHC Linz)
Österreichischer Meister (Eishockey)
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Geboren 1979
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Top Ten Origins: Flu
By Jim Harris
You may not like getting your flu shot, but you should. On January 28, 2017 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control declared that seasonal influenza had reached an epidemic level and the number of cases of flu has continued to rise since. So far, during of the 2016-2017 influenza "season," the CDC has collected reports of 444,748 total cases of influenza across the United States and Puerto Rico with a mortality rate exceeding 7.5%. The number of influenza cases in 2016-2017 has been unusually high but it is an important reminder of the long and harmful history of human interaction with the influenza virus. As the flu epidemic grows, Origins offers Top Ten historical "flu facts."
1. The Etymology of "Influenza"
Map of the current influenza epidemic, reported by the World Health Organization.
The word influenza is derived from the medieval Italian word for "influence" (influentia) and referred to the perceived causes of the disease. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the causes or "influences" of the disease were first believed to be astrological, but over time, the explanation changed to "influence of the cold" (influenza del freddo). In 1703, in his graduation thesis, De Catarrho epidemio, vel Influenza, prout in India occidentali sese ostendit,J. Hugger of the University of Edinburgh first used the term in English, but "influenza" was not a commonly used term in England until the 1782 pandemic.
2. The First Pandemic (1580)
Influenza (H1N1) under the microscope.
Scholars have found records of what appears to be epidemic influenza dating at least as far back as 1173 C.E., but the first confirmed influenza pandemic occurred in 1580. The pandemic began in Asia during the summer months, spread quickly to Africa and then into Europe along trade routes from Asia Minor and Northern Africa. Then, over the course of the next six months, the pandemic spread across Europe and the Atlantic to America. Mortality rates were staggeringly high for the time. Scholars estimate 9,000 deaths occurred in Rome alone. Other reports indicate the near eradication of the entire population of several Spanish cities.
3. Influenza in the 18th Century and 19th Centuries
Map of influenza cases worldwide, 1889-1890.
More recent medical records (since 1700) provide much concrete evidence of a series of epidemics and pandemics of what we are almost certain to have been influenza. In spring 1729 an outbreak of influenza began in Russia and over the course of six months spread westward across Europe and eventually all over the known world during the course of a three-year pandemic. In 1781, another major pandemic broke out in China in the autumn, before spreading to Russia and then on across Europe over the course of an eight-month pandemic. Reports indicate that, at the peak of the pandemic, 30,000 fell ill each day in St. Petersburg and that two-thirds of the population of Rome and three-quarters of that Munich succumbed to the disease. Influenza continued its pandemic rampage throughout the course of the nineteenth century, in 1800-1802, 1830-33, 1847-1848, 1857-1858 and 1880-1890.
4. False Findings: An Etiological Error
A culture of Haemophilus influenza.
During the 1880-1890 influenza pandemic, while upwards of half of all German town-dwellers contracted at least a mild case of influenza, a German physician named Richard Pfeiffer began to take samples of nasal discharge from his patients. From these samples he cultured a bacterium, which he named Bacillus influenza (or as it more commonly came to be called, Pfeiffer's bacillus), in 1892. Pfeiffer believed that this bacterium, which we know now as Haemophilus influenza, was the cause of pandemic influenza.
In fact, Haemophilus influenza was not responsible for influenza, which is a viral disease. But the bacteria was responsible for causing opportunistic local infections only possible in an already compromised immune system, such as an influenza patient. Because of the recent discovery of the anthrax, cholera, and tuberculosis bacteria, and lacking a microscope powerful enough to observe much smaller viruses, few of his contemporaries contested Pfeiffer's findings and his bacterial etiology was accepted as the cause of pandemic influenza for decades to come.
5. The 1918-1919 Pandemic: A History by the Numbers
1918-1919 influenza mortality in the U.S. and Europe.
The twentieth century endured the two most important case studies in the history of infectious disease: the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic and the late twentieth century HIV/AIDS global crisis. Influenza made its historical mark during the relentless 1918-1919 pandemic. It struck on the heels of the First World War, which, conservatively, cost the lives of 10 million soldiers from 1914-1918. A recent estimate suggests that influenza cost the lives of more than 30 million people around the world—and in a much shorter time span than the war itself! During the pandemic, more people died of influenza in a single year than during the entire peak of the Black Death (1347-1351), which eradicated between 30-60% of the entire population of Europe. In Britain alone, more than 225,000 people lost their lives to influenza in 1918-1919.
6. Why "Spanish Flu"?
A makeshift influenza hospital at Camp Funston, 1918.
We often hear the 1918-1919 flu pandemic labelled "The Spanish Flu." However, the first cases of influenza occurred far away from neutral Spain at the military base, Fort Riley, in Kansas. On March 4, 1918 company cook Albert Gitchell reported sick with a fever of 40º C at Camp Funston at Fort Riley. Within days, 522 men reported sick and by the end of the month, 1,100 soldiers were admitted to hospital with influenza. Among them, 237 developed pneumonia and 38 died (approximately 20 percent of those hospitalized). So if the pandemic started in Kansas, why was it called the "Spanish Flu"? Historians still debate this misnomer, but the most likely explanation is due to the early affliction and large mortalities in Spain where it allegedly killed 8 million people in May 1918.
7. 1918-1919 as a Public Health Crisis
Gauze masks like the one this secretary is wearing were commonly distributed as an anti-influenza public health measure during the 1918-1919 pandemic.
The 1918-1919 pandemic quickly circled the globe, and most of humanity felt the effects of the flu as it followed trade routes and shipping lines. The Great War, in its twilight years and during demobilization, exacerbated the rapid diffusion of the pandemic. Outbreaks swept through North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Brazil and the South Pacific. A shortage of physicians, especially in the civilian sector, was a common phenomenon as many had been lost for service with the military.
In late August 1918, the pandemic virus mutated, and a new more virulent form of influenza broke out almost simultaneously in Brest, France (August 22); Freetown, Sierra Leone (August 24); and Boston, Massachusetts (August 27). The death tolls peaked late fall 1918. Those who were lucky enough to avoid infection had to deal with the public health ordinances to restrain the spread of the disease: public departments distributed gauze masks to be worn in public; stores could not hold sales; funerals were limited to 15 minutes. Some towns required a signed certificate to enter and railroads would not accept passengers without them. Those who ignored the flu ordinances had to pay steep fines.
8. Finding the Viral Cause
Dr. Edwin Shope (left) and Dr. Patrick Laidlaw (right).
During the 1918-1919 pandemic, scientists assumed that the cause was a new strain of Pfeiffer's bacillus, but test results found samples of the bacillus in only a small percentage of patient-cases. In the aftermath of the pandemic, scientists re-opened the investigation into the etiology of influenza. In 1931 Richard Shope, an American virologist, made a landmark discovery: a strain of the influenza A virus in pigs. Two years later, Patrick Laidlaw at the Medical Research Council of the U.K. cultured the same virus in humans. Together, in in 1935-1936, the Shope and Laidlaw laboratories correctly identified the H1N1 strain of the influenza A virus, which was the actual cause of the 1918-1919 pandemic.
9. The Quest for a Vaccine
Dr. Ernest Goodpasture (left), and preparation of influenza vaccine in Connaught Laboratories in Canada, 1957 (right).
In 1919, doctors attempted to vaccinate patients against influenza, by developing a vaccine for Pfeiffer's bacillus, but this proved completely ineffective against the wrong cause. In light of Shope and Laidlaw's discovery of the viral nature of influenza, scientists almost immediately went to work on a new influenza vaccine. In 1931 Ernest Goodpasture, professor of pathology at Vanderbilt University, began to culture the virus in hen eggs, a technique that proved vital to developing the first experimental flu vaccines. Flu vaccines were first used by the United States military during the Second World War, and were first used publicly as early as the 1950s. While the egg-culture technology is still in some use today, as of 2012 the FDA approved growing the virus in cell cultures as well.
10. Swine Flu, or Why You Should get a Flu Shot
Former President Barack Obama vaccinated against H1N1, 2009.
In spring 2009, a new strain of the H1N1 virus emerged in Mexico and spread quickly around the globe. It affected millions of patient-cases, but the mortality rates remained lower than even seasonal influenza. Nevertheless, this seems to be a variant strain of the same virus that caused the great pandemic of 1918-1919 and cost so many millions of lives. Fortunately, scientists have been able to very quickly culture the viral strain. As a result, your annual flu shot also provides protection from the H1N1 strain of flu as well. As doctors worry about the possibility for a new pandemic, make sure you go get your flu shot.
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What is Out of Africa Wildlife Park?
Out of Africa Wildlife Park is an opportunity to see hundreds of wild-by-nature animals from all over the world, especially Africa. Not a zoo, not a drive-through park, it's a place where visitors enjoy an authentic replica of a real African Bush Safari. Besides the entertaining shows and animal presentations throughout the day, all of our animals are cared for with passion and respect, roaming in spacious habitats that give you the chance to see these beautiful creatures and their natural behavior up-close. Our staff lives and works with them in a relaxed environment that encourages human/animal relationships. Out of Africa is more than a preserve. We are dedicated to raising awareness of our exotic neighbors and promoting understanding through in-person contact. Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Black Hills of Camp Verde, Out of Africa Wildlife Park truly is an awe-inspiring adventure blending family bonds with the power and cunning of the wild, year-round.


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Euro 2016 win would be "cherry on top of the cake" for Fonte
Jose Fonte has spoken of his meteoric rise from League One to within touching of the Euro 2016 final ahead of Portugal's semi-final clash with Wales.
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Jose Fonte says that winning Euro 2016 with Portugal would be the "cherry on top of the cake" after his rise from the bottom of League One to Europa League qualification and the semi-finals of the European Championships.
Whilst Portugal were knocked out of Euro 2012 by Spain on penalties, Fonte was still yet to make his Premier League debut, let alone his international debut.
Since then, Fonte has established himself as one of the most consistent centre backs in the league which has led him into Portugal's starting lineup.
Speaking ahead of Portugal's semi-final clash against Wales, the Saints skipper said that his rise from League One to playing in the Euros "means the world".
Fonte said: "It means everything, it means the world.
"Obviously I've always had the ambition and the desire and the belief that I could get there. As soon as I could get to the Premier League, I thought I'd be closer to the dream, to my target.
"Fortunately, we've been able to progress at Southampton to be a top-six or seven club in the Premier League, and that gave me the opportunity to be selected by the manager.
"It's something that I am proud of and something I'll always cherish, this time in Euro 2016."
Fonte said that winning Euro 2016 would be the "cherry on top of the cake" in his rise from League One but is expecting a "battle" against the surprise package of the tournament, Wales.
"This is going to be a battle, a very tough match.
"They never give up. Their mentality, the togetherness that they are showing and the system they play suits them well.
"They are where they are because they deserve it, so we expect a really tough game tomorrow.
"We've prepared for this, to be ready to play our game tomorrow and have our weapons at the ready."


I've had reservations for several weeks about using this week's subject for a blog. I feared it being misunderstood, I feared it igniting a debate, I feared it sparking an unpleasant reaction.
Then, the subject was raised at last months meeting of my local branch of Headway (www.headway.org.uk), the charity for survivors of traumatic brain injury. The branch leader began a discussion about interesting ways in which survivors of traumatic brain injury, including stroke, try to combat the anger and frustration issues which come with our situation; the issues which scream ''Why did this happen to me?"; "Why can't I do what I used to do?"; "How am I supposed to cope with the crushing fatigue/headaches/mood swings which plague my life now?"
Some members said they use meditation (I've tried and failed, but I'm working on it), some use mindfulness, some play a musical instrument, some paint, some do a variety of crafts, some use a variety of relaxation techniques. After some hesitation, I ventured the fact that I go boxing.
Not, I hasten to add, getting-beaten-around-the-head-and-body boxing. Not even The Warrior is stupid enough to do that. For one thing, it could cause another stroke. No, for an hour on one evening every week, I go to my local boxing club, put on a pair of 12oz gloves and thrash hell out of a punchbag for an hour.
I find it helps to get rid of those anger and frustration issues, while it also helps with (BIG WORD ALERT!) my proprioception, which is to say the way and the speed the signals get from my brain to my limbs. Rebuilding proprioception is a key part of stroke recovery and as my stroke affected the cerebellum, the part of the brain which controls my balance, anything which can help me to regain my balance and not walk as if I'm steaming drunk has got to be worth it.
I'd like to be able to claim that this was my idea; in fact, like most things to do with my recovery it was first suggested by #breathebalancebeactivatedemily. Once she had unlocked and un-knotted my body after the stroke, a process which took the best part of a year, we began working on strengthening my core and helping my balance through gym-work. She would have me running around a gym, catching balls thrown high and low to my left as I went; she would get me balancing on the edge of rowing machines to replicate a beam; and she would have me hitting a punchbag every week, getting out the frustration but also getting my technique right - watching where I was putting my feet whilst throwing punches.
I enjoyed it and I found that it worked but, for various reasons, we stopped using that particular gym and I couldn't continue boxing. I investigated purchasing my own (they cost as little as £30 on the internet) but Warrillow Towers isn't really suitable for storing or hanging a punchbag. Then, I had a lightbulb moment. Tamworth Boxing Club is based near the church which Mrs Warrior and I use. I have known head coach Alan Keast for 30 years, since I worked on the local paper and dealt with the club on a regular basis. Would Alan let me use their facilities?
I approached him, he made the suggestion for me and I have been using the gym since July. It's helping my fitness, it's helping my proprioception and it's definitely helping my anger and frustration issues - I'd rather have a mental picture on the punchbag of that motorist who cut me up the other day than get into a road-rage incident, after all.
It definitely isn't for everyone, of course; plenty of stroke-survivors couldn't contemplate it or wouldn't want to, but it works for me in my situation at this moment.
And the reason I've decided to write about it this week is that I now have pictures of me in action. A few weeks ago, I arrived at the club one night to find members of Tamworth Photographic Club taking pictures of the 'real' boxers (16 to 18-year-old lads with muscles like footballs, you know what I mean....") And one of the photographers recognised me from my local-paper days. I told him my story and he and his colleagues took a range of pictures of me, some of which I've used to accompany this piece. I'm grateful to Alec Benwell, David Bowen, Roy Chambers and Les Cotterill for the pictures and to Alan and his coaches for the opportunity.
I do try to stay out of their way, but I also learn from what they tell the youngsters about boxing technique. As I say, it's not for everyone and I wouldn't suggest it for everyone - but I feel it's doing me a terrific amount of good in lots of ways.


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The National Library of Latvia () is a national cultural institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture of Latvia. Its current main building is known as the Castle of Light (). The National Library of Latvia was formed in 1919 after the independent Republic of Latvia was proclaimed in 1918. The first supervisor of the Library was Jānis Misiņš, a librarian and the founder of the Latvian scientific bibliography (1862–1945). The current building was designed in 1989 by noted Latvian-American architect Gunnar Birkerts (1925–2017), who emigrated to the United States and made his career there. It was constructed in the early 21st century and opened in 2014. Today the Library plays an important role in the development of Latvia's information society, providing Internet access to residents and supporting research and lifelong education.

History

Interwar period
The National Library was founded on 29 August 1919, one year after independence, as the State Library (Valsts Bibliotēka). Its first chief librarian and bibliographer was Jānis Misiņš (1862–1944), who made his immense private collection the basis of the new library. Within a year, until 1920, the  stocks had grown to 250,000 volumes. Starting in the same year, all publishers were obliged to hand in a deposit copy of their works. Since 1927, the Library has published the National Bibliography of Latvia.

There were significant additions in 1939 and 1940, when the State Library took over many of the libraries and collections of the Baltic Germans, most of whom resettled to the Nazi Germany. Among these collections was a large part of the collection of the Society for History and Archaeology of Russia's Baltic Provinces, est. 1834, the primary historical society of the Baltic Germans. In 1940, holdings encompassed 1.7 million volumes, so that they had to be stored in two different locations in the Old Town (Jēkaba iela 6/8 and Anglikāņu iela 5).

German and Soviet rule
During World War II, Germany invaded Latvia and occupied Riga (1941–1944). At that time, German authorities renamed the State Library as Country Library (Zemes bibliotēka), eliminating reference to a sovereign Latvian state.

Following the war, Latvia was under Soviet rule, and the institution was known as State Library of the Latvian SSR (Latvijas PSR Valsts bibliotēka). According to Soviet customs, in 1966 the library received an honorary name, commemorating Vilis Lācis, a writer and the late prime minister of Soviet Latvia. From 1946, literature deemed 'dangerous' from the Soviet perspective was withdrawn from the shelves and until 1988, when the Soviet Union gave up control, could be accessed only with a special permit. In 1956, the State Library moved into a new building at Krišjāņa Barona iela.

Renewed independence
Since the re-establishment of Lativan national independence in 1991, the institution has been called National Library of Latvia. In 1995, it received as a permanent loan the Baltic Central Library of Otto Bong (1918-2006), a collection pertaining to the history, regional studies and languages of the Baltic countries.

Collections

The Library's holdings today encompass more than 5 million titles, incl. about 18,000 manuscripts from the 14th century up to modern times. One of the characteristic cornerstones of the NLL, which characterizes every national library, is the formation of the collection of national literature, its eternal storage and long-term access.

The NLL is a centre of theoretical research and practical analyses of the activities of Latvian libraries. The Library carries out the functions of the centre of Latvia Interlibrary Loan, ensures the library and information service to the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia, the Saeima, implements the standardisation of the branch. Since the very outset, its main concern has been the national bibliography. The massive union catalogue Seniespiedumi latviešu valodā (Ancient Prints in Latvian 1525–1855, published in Riga, 1999) received the Spīdola Prize in 2000 and was awarded The Beautiful Book of the Year 99. In 2005, the Letonikas grāmatu autoru rādītājs (1523-1919) (Index of the Authors of Lettonica Books (1523–1919)) was published, providing information about versatile branches of science and representatives of various nations, Latvia being the main focus of their publications.

The NLL includes several collections of posters (artists Oskars Šteinbergs (1882–1937), Sigismunds Vidbergs (1890–1970), Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), Bernhard Borchert (1863–1945), Niklāvs Strunke (1894–1966) and others).

Letonica
Digitising collections at the NLL started in 1999. At present the Latvian National Digital Library Letonica, which was formed in 2006, holds digitized collections of newspapers, pictures, maps, books, sheet-music and audio recordings. In 2008 NLL launched two major digital projects. Periodika.lv is the NLL's collection of digitized historical periodicals in Latvian with the possibility to read full texts and search page by page.

Latvia has a tradition of Latvian Song and Dance Festivals organized every four years. The historical materials from the first Song Festival in 1864 till the Latgale Song Festival in 1940 can be explored in another digital collection of the National Library of Latvia.

New building

The first discussions about the need for a new National Library began as early as 1928, and the significance of the project of this century was confirmed by high-level international recognition of the value of its collections. In 1999 almost all 170 UNESCO member states adopted a resolution during its General Conference, calling on member states and the international community to ensure all possible support for the implementation of the NLL project.

The continuous growth of the Library had made it necessary to transfer parts of its stock into other buildings. By 1988 NLL had its holdings distributed among five locations in Riga. Furthermore, since 1996, some holdings of rarely used books had to be stored in a repository in  outside the capital, in a former Soviet missile bunker. The Silakrogs repository is still in use.

The Parliament finally authorized a new building to be constructed on the left bank of the Daugava River. On 15 May 2008, after discussions lasting for many years, the newly established state agency New 'Three Brothers''' (Jaunie "Trīs brāļi", J3B) and the Union of National Construction Companies'' signed the contract on the construction of the new building for the National Library of Latvia. On 18 May 2014, the main facility of the Library at Krišjāņa Barona iela was closed for the move.

In 2008, construction started according to the design of noted Latvian-American architect Gunnar Birkerts, who had been based in the Detroit, Michigan area since the early 1950s. He had been commissioned to design the building in 1989. He was inspired by the Castle of Light and  Glass Mountain from Latvian mythology.

The new building has thirteen floors and is sixty-eight metres high. Construction costs were given as 193 million euros. 480 people work there.

As part of Riga's programme for its title as European Capital of Culture, selected holdings were symbolically carried from the old to the new building by a human chain on 18 January 2014. The new building was finally opened on 29 August that year, the Library's 95th anniversary.

Today the NLL building is a dominant landmark on the Riga cityscape. It has space for conferences and conventions, and other community events. Among others, it hosted the 4th summit of the EU's Eastern Partnership programme in May 2015, and a debate chaired by the BBC's Jonathan Dimbleby on 14 March 2016.

Current projects
LIBER 43rd Annual Conference
Development of the digital library services
Dissemination and Exploitation via Libraries: for Success and Sustainability of LLP Results
Effective training tools application to qualification improvement in library sector (ETQI)
Europeana Awareness
Europeana Inside
Europeana Newspapers
Europeana Sounds
The Exhibition "Book 1514–2014" and Academic readings "Content of the 21st Century"
The Impact of Digital text and Multimedia Format on Childhood Learning: a Multidimensional Approach

See also
List of national libraries
Latvian ISBN Agency

References

References

External links

 Official site of the National Library of Latvia
 Project of the new building of the NLL
 Friends of the National Library of Latvia
 National Library of Latvia at Google Cultural Institute
 Message to the future readers
 Live from the construction site
 World Wide Science

Library buildings completed in 1919
Buildings and structures in Riga
Latvian culture
Latvia
Latvian digital libraries
1919 establishments in Latvia
Libraries established in 1919
Deposit libraries
Libraries in Latvia


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WSU Offers Free Application Month and Special Virtual Visit Days
by Ethan Kolb | Oct 6, 2021 | Academic News, Student News, Twitter, WSU News
Winona State University will participate in College Knowledge Month, a statewide effort to provide every graduating high school senior the opportunity to apply for college and waive its $20 application fee for both prospective students and transfer students. During...
Centralizing On-Campus Living Community
by Tesla Mitchell | Jul 14, 2021 | Campus News, Community, Faculty Staff News, Features, Top Stories, Twitter, Update, WSU News
For the first time in more than 30 years, when Winona State University's fall semester kicks off in August, there will be no residential students on the university's West Campus. Creating a cohesive residence life community has been a goal for Winona...
Cultural Intelligence Training for Law Enforcement
by Tesla Mitchell | Jun 23, 2021 | Community, Events, Features, Top Stories, Twitter, Update, WSU News
Minnesota Law Enforcement Officers interested in being trained on cultural intelligence will have an opportunity to dig into understanding race relations and their impact on policing during a July 7 training through Winona State University. Hosted by WSU's Criminal...
$12M Energy Project Steps WSU Closer to Net Zero
by Tesla Mitchell | Jun 21, 2021 | Achievements, Blog Slider, Features, Student News, Top Stories, Twitter, Update, WSU News
By Fall of next year, the largest solar panel energy system on any Minnesota State campus will be right here at Winona State University. That's just one part of the $12 million campus-wide Leading Energy Savings and Sustainability (LESS) project that WSU is moving...


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Wikipedia says: "H. P. Lovecraft's reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, exerting an influence that is widespread, though often indirect."
H. P. Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published.
Edited with an Afterword by Stephen Jones. Illustrated by Les Edwards.
collection of Lovecraft's short stories. The illustrations look beautiful and they add a nice touch to the fascinatingly weird stories. If you're a Lovecraft fan, you should buy this book immediately. You won't regret it.


Australian surgeons are taking leaps and bounds when it comes to education and improvements within the cosmetic surgery industry. Their commitment to research and development has led to dramatic improvements and surgery opportunities for their clients.
As outlined in the recent Vogue Magazine Australia article, anaesthesia is one of the areas that has seen some valuable improvements.
"Anaesthesia today is a lot more streamlined and the drugs being used are much safer," says Dr Hugh Bartholomeusz, Specialist Plastic Surgeon and former president of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons.
What does this mean for Australian Cosmetic Surgery clients? The improvements in anaesthesia can allow for some patients to reduce their post-surgery time in hospital and recover at home.
The article also highlights the improvements in basic aspects of surgery such as the materials used to make sutures. Sutures used in Australia today dissolve and are generally less irritating to the skin.
Surgeries such as facelifts, eye lifts and rhinoplasty have changed dramatically in the past few years and the results are often so natural that it can be hard to tell if a someone has had cosmetic surgery. The time in the operating room has also reduced significantly for many cosmetic surgeons due to advances in research and technique.
Rejuvenating body cosmetic-surgery procedures have been revamped recently, too, says Dr Mark Hanikeri, a specialist plastic surgeon from Perth. These procedures include the 'mummy makeover', which has been a saviour for many post-pregnancy.
To review Dr Mark Hanikeri's Mummy Makeover Results click here. To see his Breast Augmentation/Lift results click here.
Finally, Australian Cosmetic Surgery has seen greater improvements to catering to the client's individual needs, specifically according to their ethnicity. "We work with a person's ethnic make-up to ensure a result that doesn't compromise that ethnicity but delivers great improvements," explains Dr Hanikeri.
As always it is important to check your doctor's qualifications prior to any surgery. You can read all about the different qualifications a surgeon can be certified with via our previous blog here.


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Hariri in Moscow to attend FIFA World Cup match and meet Putin
June 13, 2018 by yalibnan Leave a Comment
Prime minister-designate Saad Hariri arrived in Moscow and was met by Zabivaka (Hothead), the official mascot of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and several FIFA officials and the Lebanese ambassador to Moscow Shawki Bou Nassar. Credit Dalati & Nohra
Prime minister-designate Saad Hariri is shown autographing a soccer ball for one of the officials that met him at the airport in Moscow. Lebanese ambassador to Moscow Shawki Bou Nassar who met Hariri is shown standing (R). Credit Dalati & Nohra
Prime minister-designate Saad Hariri will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, the eve of the FIFA World Cup, Hariri's office said.
He will then attend the football tournament's inaugural match on Thursday, pitting Russia against his longtime backer, Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh has been a key ally of Hariri for years, but the relationship appeared to falter in late 2017 when Hariri announced his surprise resignation during a trip to the kingdom.
He subsequently rescinded the decision and in May was appointed for a new term as prime minister following parliamentary elections.
He is now in talks to form a coalition government.
Hariri, 48, met Putin in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi in September 2017.
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With growing interest in organic foods, people are looking for credible information to help them in decision making. How about providing this information in an essay? With many articles offering opinions and unfounded rumors on the subject, you will need to produce an outstanding paper. To attract the attention of readers, the title must be captivating. What are some of the topics that are of interest and would make your work worth reading?
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Hello, I'd like to use the export raw data function without accessing survey's summary report page, is it possible?
export is connected to a report, because the report defines which questions to export, and whether some respondents should be filtered out.
But you can put the link to the exports on report portals, if you need quicker access to it.
actually I would like to automatically export data without human interaction with the web interface.
for all surveys? If so, you need to create a custom plugin to do this. That would require java programming skills.
ok, so I can write my own plugin for export raw data for example every nite at 2 o'clock. Should I implement the IReport interface? wich function may I call for exporting raw data -in cvs format? in the plugin API docs I found just one method called getReportHtml for this interface, but I'm not sure this could be what I'm looking for.
Actually, it is not that simple. You actually need to get all respondents for a survey one by one, get the response value for each, and write it to a file. All of this is doable from the API, but a little work to do.
We'll see if we can get the built-in export exposed in an API call. Perhaps 6.3 or 6.4.