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Q: Error installig pycairo on Linux: missing cairo.h Trying to install pycairo I get a missing C lib cairo.h. I already have installed libcairo2-dev and updated pip3. Any ideas on how to fix?
pip install pycairo
Collecting pycairo
  Using cached pycairo-1.21.0.tar.gz (340 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: pycairo
  Building wheel for pycairo (PEP 517) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /home/dbarcene/anaconda3/bin/python /home/dbarcene/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py build_wheel /tmp/tmp_4nbw_f7
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-3i43xt78/pycairo_0149ed3d8f314887ad96f80dbc14140d
  Complete output (21 lines):
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-38
  creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-38/cairo
  copying cairo/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-38/cairo
  copying cairo/__init__.pyi -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-38/cairo
  copying cairo/py.typed -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-38/cairo
  running build_ext
  building 'cairo._cairo' extension
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-38
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-38/cairo
  /home/dbarcene/anaconda3/bin/x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-cc -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -march=nocona -mtune=haswell -ftree-vectorize -fPIC -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -O2 -pipe -march=nocona -mtune=haswell -ftree-vectorize -fPIC -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -O2 -pipe -march=nocona -mtune=haswell -ftree-vectorize -fPIC -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -O2 -ffunction-sections -pipe -isystem /home/dbarcene/anaconda3/include -DNDEBUG -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -isystem /home/dbarcene/anaconda3/include -fPIC -DPYCAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR=1 -DPYCAIRO_VERSION_MINOR=21 -DPYCAIRO_VERSION_MICRO=0 -I/usr/lib/include/cairo -I/usr/lib/include -I/usr/lib/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/lib/include -I/usr/lib/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/lib/include -I/usr/lib/include/uuid -I/usr/lib/include -I/usr/lib/include/freetype2 -I/usr/lib/include/libpng16 -I/usr/lib/include -I/home/dbarcene/anaconda3/include/python3.8 -c cairo/bufferproxy.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-38/cairo/bufferproxy.o -Wall -Warray-bounds -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wextra -Wformat=2 -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Winit-self -Winline -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wmissing-noreturn -Wnested-externs -Wold-style-definition -Wpacked -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-aliasing -Wundef -Wunused-but-set-variable -Wswitch-default -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-command-line-argument -fno-strict-aliasing -fvisibility=hidden -std=c99
  In file included from cairo/private.h:42:0,
                   from cairo/bufferproxy.c:34:
  cairo/pycairo.h:37:10: fatal error: cairo.h: No such file or directory
   #include <cairo.h>
            ^~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
  error: command '/home/dbarcene/anaconda3/bin/x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-cc' failed with exit code 1
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pycairo

A: According to the pipy page for pycairo:

Installing Pycairo requires cairo including its headers. For more info see "Getting Started".

The linked page gives the following instructions:

Installing Pycairo requires pkg-config and cairo including its
headers. Here are some examples on how to install those for some
platforms:

*

*Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt install libcairo2-dev pkg-config python3-dev

*macOS/Homebrew: brew install cairo pkg-config

*Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S cairo pkgconf

*Fedora: sudo dnf install cairo-devel pkg-config python3-devel

*openSUSE: sudo zypper install cairo-devel pkg-config python3-devel

And I guess that the Fedora instructions will work for RHEL / CentOS too, modulo possibly using yum rather than dnf.

A: As I am using anaconda I tried installing through conda with the command:
conda install -c conda-forge/label/gcc7 pycairo

It checked for several inconsistencies in my base env, but at the end it installed using a "Package Plan" with this contents:
## Package Plan ##

  environment location: /home/dbarcene/anaconda3

  added / updated specs:
    - pycairo

The following packages will be downloaded:

    package                    |            build
    ---------------------------|-----------------
    ca-certificates-2018.10.15 |       ha4d7672_0         135 KB  conda-forge/label/gcc7
    pybind11-2.4.3             |   py38hfd86e86_0         134 KB
    pycairo-1.21.0             |   py38h287db57_0         120 KB
    ------------------------------------------------------------
                                           Total:         389 KB

The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:

  jinja2             pkgs/main/noarch::jinja2-2.11.3-pyhd3eb1b0_0
  pybind11           pkgs/main/linux-64::pybind11-2.4.3-py38hfd86e86_0
  pycairo            pkgs/main/linux-64::pycairo-1.21.0-py38h287db57_0
  pycodestyle        pkgs/main/noarch::pycodestyle-2.6.0-pyhd3eb1b0_0
  pyflakes           pkgs/main/noarch::pyflakes-2.2.0-pyhd3eb1b0_0

The following packages will be SUPERSEDED by a higher-priority channel:

  ca-certificates    pkgs/main::ca-certificates-2022.4.26-~ --> conda-forge/label/gcc7::ca-certificates-2018.10.15-ha4d7672_0

I also checked in a console import cairo and it seems to work. There are certainly some dependencies broken that I haven't figured out yet, but this might serve as a workaround for now.

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Fraud–Or Why We Need An Independent School Data Agency
March 8, 2018 ~ Valerie Jablow
Despite council education committee chair David Grosso asking DCPS personnel at the March 1 DCPS performance oversight hearing (find the hearing recording here; Grosso comments start at minute 30) about the existence of residency fraud, and being reassured that it is not common, anectodal evidence suggests that residency fraud and waitlist jumping have occurred regularly in our public schools.
Years ago, for instance, a staff member told me that she estimated that 5% of the student body at her DCPS school did not live in DC.
That year, the 5% amounted to 30 students. If each of those students paid the $12,000 due through nonresident tuition, that would be $360,000 more that year from that school alone–or what amounts to three classroom teachers and spare change. And who knows how many real, living, breathing DC kids those other kids displaced?
When the Wilson/Wilson debacle happened just a few weeks ago, a parent (whose child was on the Wilson high school waitlist while former chancellor Wilson's child got admitted) told me that a DC high school with a waitlist pulled a student from the bottom of the 2017 waitlist because he was a good athlete, while a school without a waitlist could not pull a student in until after their post lottery application was completed. That parent also told me that a school enrolled a student at the end of the school year to circumvent the most recent lottery that year, so technically that student didn't "jump" the line.
In my own time as a DCPS parent, I have seen public high school coaches watching my son's middle school baseball games–they were there to recruit. Tell me: How does that work if a school has a waitlist or is only available through the lottery?
Even if only a small fraction of such incidents actually happened, the fact that we know some clearly do occur (see here, for a refresher course) illustrates the degree to which luck and gaming have a role in our public education–when they deserve utterly no role whatsoever.
Yet, the agency that would naturally be the place where these bucks would stop–our office of the state superintendent of education, or OSSE–never seems to be on top of these practices in a meaningful way, despite having access to all of the data in our schools as well as oversight of the lottery.
For instance, on p. 7 of this document, a July 2017 review of findings on nonresident students in SY16-17, OSSE showed that despite there being almost $1 million of documented lost tuition money and fines, only $23,000 was collected. This mirrors page 235 of OSSE's responses to the council's oversight questions, wherein OSSE showed that it received about $74,000 in nonresident tuition settlements between November 2016 and June 2017.
While we perhaps should be glad that OSSE is not in charge of our tax and revenue office (!), these issues highlight the strange disconnect OSSE appears to have with its data and the schools that data is intimately related to.
–At OSSE's performance oversight hearing last week before the council, Ward 3 council member Mary Cheh wondered why OSSE didn't sound the alarm about the graduation rates at our schools and the fact that OSSE knew attendance and PARCC scores indicated there were all sorts of problems.
–During that hearing, the Ellington residency fraud was discussed–and the head of OSSE, Hanseul Kang, promised the council a list of schools where OSSE investigated 100% of students for residency verification. But we the public do not have access to that list–despite the fact that it was compiled out of OSSE's annual residency verification, wherein the agency checks 20% of each school's student body. If 5% of this sample seems suspicious, OSSE investigates 100% of the student body. Ellington was identified for action because the first sample failed, so during the 100% check, a significant portion of the student body appeared to have residency issues, prompting the involvement of the attorney general's office. Who knows what other schools have been identified to have potential residency fraud?
–We the public also do not have the annual audits of our lottery. (Yes, Virginia, there ARE annual lottery audits–just not for public consumption.) Last week, during a telephone meeting of the lottery board, the head of the lottery, Cat Peretti, said that every year there are "anomalies" in the lottery, which are examined annually by American Research Institute (AIR). Not only was I unable to find anything about AIR's contract with our city in the DC contracts database, but the actual audits appear publicly unavailable. Peretti noted to me that discussions of those audits are available in the minutes of the lottery board–which is not quite the same as seeing the audits themselves, given that the people who comprise the lottery board are, um, sort of invested in not letting lottery scandals get into newspapers. (During that lottery board meeting last week, in fact, some board members seemed very worried about Ellington.)
Then there is the money:
That is, I calculated that since the end of September through the end of January, the mayor received about $700,000 from individuals and businesses in Maryland and Virginia, with most of those donations $500 and up. The Post recently reported that the mayor's campaign had accumulated $1.85 million by the end of January. The amount I tallied from Maryland and Virginia alone thus comes to more than a third of the mayor's total campaign contributions in that time.
So it is that many people in DC's neighboring jurisdictions are (literally) invested in our mayor. Those people may reasonably expect, as a result of that investment, the mayor and her deputies to enable those people's interests–which for all any of us knows could be sending their children to Ellington or other publicly funded schools in DC.
Moreover, though they are tasked with verifying residency, individual schools and LEAs not only have more important stuff to do (hey, like educating out kids!), but they actually have incentives to not check too much, because enrollment at every single one of our publicly funded schools means money–sometimes, even continued existence. Despite the rosy fortune telling of our office of planning, our student population has not grown commensurately with our growth of schools and available seats, so every school scrambles every year to ensure every last seat is filled.
Yet, not only do we have residency rules that are absurdly easy to cheat (really–a utility bill with name and address? Ever hear of people owning two properties and renting one out with utilities included?), but the agency tasked by our city with keeping data on our schools (um, that's OSSE) appears to be entirely divorced from the residency verification process until late in the game, a la the Ellington residency scandal.
To be sure, Ellington is but one data point. Our city inspector general is looking into the issue of waitlist jumping at Wilson high school, along with the DC board of ethics and government accountability. And the DC auditor is doing an enrollment audit for the city.
But gees, why can't we get the agency in charge of all this data to ensure residency verification and the lottery are part of sound, and independent, processes from the start?
After all, our city could fix residency fraud tomorrow, by cross-checking each enrolled student's parent or guardian with whether they have filed a DC income tax return (or its equivalent) as a DC resident. OSSE admitted in its oversight responses to the council that it does so occasionally, so this process isn't exactly unheard of.
Moreover, the mayor is uniquely positioned to ensure robust residency verification for our schools, as she is in control of all our schools, OSSE, as well as the city's tax revenue office!
So why doesn't it happen?
Maybe because the person with oversight of both OSSE and DCPS while everything at Ellington went down was the (former) deputy mayor for education, Jennifer Niles, a mayoral appointee who resigned when she was exposed for having committed fraud via the lottery for a fellow political appointee, the (former) DCPS chancellor, Antwan Wilson. (The lottery itself is overseen by an agency within OSSE.)
This means that neither DCPS nor OSSE are politically independent of the mayor and thus cannot be expected to do anything independent if doing so is not in the political interest of the mayor.
Sadly, this also means that the person Ms. Niles reported to–Mayor Bowser–is ultimately responsible not merely for possibly denying actual living breathing DC kids spots at Ellington (and who knows at what other public schools), but also for the fact that her city agencies did not do their jobs adequately in ensuring this current episode of potential residency fraud at Ellington was promptly dealt with, through fines or tuition paid, thus allowing the city to lose potentially as much as $600,000 in tuition at just Ellington in just this school year.
During that OSSE performance oversight hearing, David Grosso said he feared that what high level school authorities say is happening and what school staff on the ground report are two different things.
Given that the FBI, the city inspector general, the city attorney general, and the board of ethics and government accountability are currently investigating our schools for lottery, residency, absence, and graduation "anomalies," Grosso's fear appears well-justified.
Time for an independent OSSE.
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3 thoughts on "Fraud–Or Why We Need An Independent School Data Agency"
Mark Simon says:
This is a very creative solution, Valerie. Your solution was to make OSSE accountable to the elected school board. Perhaps. It could also be made accountable to a multi-stakeholder independent steering committee the way it is in Chicago.
If OSSE was accountable to a broad Steering Committee made up of stakeholders, including the organizations representing teachers and principals, parent organizations, university researchers, and public education advocacy organizations, DCPS and the charter board, instead of the Mayor, then you would have something looks more like the celebrated Consortium for Chicago School Research, but even better. It would be publicly funded and accountable to the public. You'd take the politics out of it, and only the public interest would be served.
The Consortium in Chicago has contributed to transforming Chicago into the school system with the most academic growth of any in the country this year, according to a new study by Sean Reardon.
I had always thought that the only way to get independent research was to create another independent research entity in DC, at great cost, but perhaps you're right. All we need to do is to take OSSE out from politicized control by the Mayor. We already invest $506 Million in OSSE each year, and the result is politicized spin in place of honest research. Perhaps the nature of OSSE can change with a structural change.
Valerie Jablow says:
Yes. The only thing I'd add is that anyone who is elected with oversight of OSSE (or frankly anything to do with our public schools) needs to not have private donors. Our city needs to decouple private donations and interests from public school oversight. Now that we have 11 years of data on mayoral control, we can see very clearly how privatizing school interests is detrimental to public involvement and public process. The current proposal to have Melissa Kim, an official with KIPP DC, become the next deputy mayor for education is just continuing the long line of prior DMEs who have been either charter school employees or with deep charter school and privatized school interests. With oversight of both OSSE and DCPS, the DME wields tremendous power and shapes our school landscapes–often without any public input whatsoever. This is not a formula for sustaining and strengthening public interest in our schools.
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\section{Introduction}

The power sum method of Tur\'an (see Tur\'an \cite{Turan} or Montgomery \cite{Montgomery} Chapter 5) allows us to obtain lower bounds for power sums
\begin{gather}
  \max_{\nu=N(n),\ldots,M(n)} \abs{g(\nu)}, \\ \intertext{where}
  g(\nu)=\sum_{k=1}^n b_k z_k^\nu \\ \intertext{for $z_k$ and $b_k$ complex numbers, and $M(n)-N(n) \geq n$ a function of $n$. We will henceforth assume that the $b_k \geq 0$ are positive. In particular we are interested in the case of {\em pure} power sums ($b_k=1$) }
   S(\nu)= \sum_{k=1}^n z_k^\nu,
\end{gather} and  the minimum norm $\min_{k} |z_k| = 1$. We will also assume that $N(n)=1$. In this case  a number of results  have been proved.
\begin{align*}
 \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,n} \abs{S(\nu)}&\geq 1,  \qquad &\text{(Tur\'an \cite{Turan2})} \\
    \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,2nm-m(m+1)+1} \abs{S(\nu)}&\geq \sqrt{m}.  \qquad (1 \leq m \leq n)  \qquad &\text{(Andersson \cite{Andersson})}
\\ \intertext{Under the min norm it seems reasonable that the minimal systems
$(z_1,\ldots,z_n)$ which minimize the expressions actually lies on, or very close to the unit circle. This has been difficult to prove and in fact in that case, when the $z_k$ are unimodular, Newman, Cassels and Szalay have independently  proved the stronger result}
\max_{1 \leq \nu \leq c n} \left| \sum_{k=1}^n z_k^\nu \right|&\geq \sqrt{\frac {cn-n+ 1} {c}}. \qquad &\text{(\cite{Turan}, Theorem 7.3)}
\end{align*}

\section{One sided bounds}

We will denote
\begin{gather} \label{star3}
  g(\nu)=\sum_{k=1}^n b_k e(\theta_k \nu),
\end{gather}
where $\theta_k$ are real numbers and  $b_k >0$. We will let
\begin{gather*}
 A= g(0)=\sum_{k=1}^n b_k, \qquad \text{and} \qquad B=\sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2.
\end{gather*}
In this section we will furthermore assume that $g$ is real valued. In particular this implies that
\begin{gather} \label{hhh}
  g(\nu)=g(-\nu).
\end{gather}
We will also let
\begin{gather*}
 g^+(\nu)=\begin{cases} g(\nu), & g(\nu)>0, \\ 0, & \text{otherwise,} \end{cases}  \hskip -13pt \qquad \text{and} \hskip -13pt \qquad  g^-(\nu)=\begin{cases} g(\nu), & g(\nu)<0, \\ 0, & \text{otherwise.}
\end{cases}
\end{gather*}
It is clear that
\begin{gather} \notag
 g(\nu)= g^+(\nu)+g^-(\nu), \\ \intertext{and}
 \abs{g(\nu)}= g^+(\nu)-g^-(\nu). \label{oj23}
\end{gather}

Our method of proof will use the Fej\'er kernel
 \begin{gather} \label{star1}
   F_{m+1}(x)=\sum_{\nu=-m}^{m}\p{1-\frac{\abs{\nu}}{m+1}} e(\nu x).
\\ \intertext{The Fej\'er kernel can be written as}
 \label{nonneg}
   F_{m+1}(x) =\frac 1 {m+1} \left( \frac{\sin \pi (m+1)x}{\sin \pi x} \right)^2,
\end{gather}
and  is thus non negative. We will let
\begin{gather} \label{starr2}
  \alpha= \frac 2 {m} \sum_{\substack{g^+(\nu)>0 \\ 1 \leq \nu \leq m}} \p{1-\frac{\nu}{m+1}}, \qquad \text{and}  \qquad \beta= \frac 2 {m} \sum_{\substack{g^-(\nu)<0 \\ 1 \leq \nu \leq m}} \p{1-\frac{\nu}{m+1}}.
\end{gather}
From the representation \eqref{nonneg} it follows that  $F_{m+1}(0)=m+1$. From this it is clear that
 \begin{gather} \label{abbb}
   \sum_{\nu=1}^m \p{1-\frac {\nu}{m+1}} = \frac m 2,
  \end{gather}
 and thus also
\begin{gather} \label{star2}
 \alpha+\beta \leq 1.
\end{gather}

\subsection{The first method}

\begin{lem}
  One has that
  \begin{gather*}
    \sum_{\nu=1}^{m} \p{1-\frac {\nu}{m+1}} \abs{g(\nu)}^2 \geq \frac{(m+1) B-A^2} 2.
  \end{gather*}
\end{lem}

\begin{proof} We have that
\begin{gather*}
  \sum_{\nu=-m}^{m}  \p{1-\frac{\abs{\nu}}{m+1}}  \abs{g(\nu)}^2 = \sum_{k,l=1}^n b_k b_l F_{m+1}(\theta_{k}-\theta_{l}),  \\
\intertext{which by the contribution of the diagonal $k=l$, and the non negativity of  the Fej\'er kernel, eq. \eqref{nonneg} implies that}
 \sum_{\nu=-m}^{m}  \p{1-\frac{\abs{\nu}}{m+1}} \abs{g(\nu)}^2 \geq \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2  F_{m+1}(0).
\end{gather*}
The result follows by subtracting the term $\nu=0$ and using equation \eqref{hhh}.
\end{proof}

\begin{lem} \label{lem2} Suppose that  $\abs{g(v)} \leq M$ for $\nu=1,\ldots,m$. Then
\begin{gather*}
     \sum_{\nu=1}^{m} \p{1-\frac {\nu}{m+1}} g^+(\nu) \geq \frac {B(m+1) - AM-A^2} {4M}.
\end{gather*}
\end{lem}

\begin{proof}
Since $g^+(\nu)=(\abs{g(\nu)}+g(\nu))/2$ and
 obviously $\abs{g(\nu)} \geq \abs{g(\nu)}^2/M$ when $\nu \neq 0$ we have that
 \begin{gather*}
       \sum_{\nu=1}^{m} \p{1-\frac {\nu}{m+1}} g^+(\nu) \geq   \frac 1 {2} \sum_{\nu=1}^{m}  \left( 1-\frac{\nu}{m+1} \right) \left(\frac{\abs{g(\nu)}^2} {M}  + g(\nu) \right)  .
\end{gather*}
The  first term can be estimated by Lemma 1 and gives the contribution
\begin{gather*}
 \frac {B(m+1) -A^2} {4M}.
\end{gather*}
The second term can be investigated by use of the Fej{\'e}r kernel. By the non  negativity of the Fej\'er kernel, equation \eqref{nonneg} we have that
\begin{gather*}
   \sum_{\nu=-m}^{m}  \left( 1-\frac{\abs{\nu}}{m+1} \right)  g(\nu) \geq 0
  \end{gather*}
By the fact that $g(0)=A$ and  using equation \eqref{hhh}  we find that
\begin{gather}
 \sum_{\nu=1}^{m}  \left( 1-\frac{\nu}{m+1} \right)  g(\nu) \geq - \frac A 2,
\end{gather}
which gives the remaining contribution to our Lemma.
\end{proof}
We now prove the following Theorem.

\begin{thm}
Suppose that $\abs{g(\nu)} \leq M$ for $\nu=1,\ldots,m$.  Then one has that
\begin{gather*}
  \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,m} g^+(\nu) \geq \frac {B(m+1)-AM-A^2} {2M m}.
\end{gather*}
\end{thm}
\begin{proof}
  This follows from Lemma 2 and equation \eqref{abbb}.
\end{proof}

\subsection{An improvement for large values of $m$}
As $m$ tends to infinity Theorem 1 will give us
\begin{gather*}
  \max_ {\nu=1,\ldots,m} g^+(\nu) \geq   \frac {B} {2M}-o(1),
\end{gather*}
We will prove a stronger results which allows us to obtain
\begin{gather*}
  \max_ {\nu=1,\ldots,m}  g^+(\nu) \geq  M+2-\frac{2M^2} B-o(1).
\end{gather*}
This will give sharper results when $M \asymp \sqrt B$ and for large $m$.

\begin{thm}
Suppose that $\abs{g(\nu)}\leq M$ for $\nu=1,\ldots,m$. If
$B(m+1)-A^2-mM^2 \geq 0$ then  one  has that
\begin{gather*}
  \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,m} g^+(\nu) \geq \frac{B(m+1)-A^2}{mM}, \\ \intertext{In case $B(m+1)-A^2-m M^2 \leq 0$ one has that}
     \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,m}     g^+(\nu) \geq    M+2 \times \frac{B(m+1)-A^2-mM^2} {B(m+1)-A^2-AM}
\end{gather*}
 under the assumption that the denominator in the last fraction is positive.
\end{thm}

\begin{proof}
By equations \eqref{starr2} and \eqref{star2}
it is clear that
\begin{gather} \label{oj22}
  \frac 2 m \sum_{\nu=1}^{m}  \p{1-\frac{\nu} {m+1}} g^-( \nu) \geq    - M (1-\alpha).
\end{gather}
By equation \eqref{oj23} and the fact that $\abs{g(\nu)} \leq M$ we get the inequality
\begin{gather*}
  g^+(\nu) \geq \frac{\abs{g(\nu)}^2} M+g^-(\nu).
\end{gather*} By combining this with equation \eqref{oj22} we see that
\begin{align*}
  \frac 2 m \sum_{\nu=1}^{m}  \p{1-\frac{\nu} {m+1}} g^+( \nu) &\geq \frac 2 m  \sum_{\nu=1}^{m}   \p{1-\frac{\nu} {m+1}} \frac{\abs{g( \nu)}^2} M -   M (1-\alpha).
\\ \intertext{which by Lemma 1 can be estimated by}
&\geq  \frac{B (m+1)- A^2} {Mm} -  M (1-\alpha).  \end{align*}
This together with the definition of $\alpha$, equation \eqref{starr2}  implies  that
\begin{gather} \label{ttt}
 g^+(\nu) \geq
 \frac{1} {\alpha} \cdot \p{ \frac{B (m+1)- A^2} {Mm} -  M (1-\alpha)} =
  \frac {B(m+1)-A^2-mM^2} {\alpha M m}+M
\end{gather}
for some $\nu=1,\ldots,m$.
We see that if $B(m+1)-A^2-mM^2 \geq 0$ then the function is decreasing in $\alpha$ and the  minimum over $0 < \alpha \leq  1$ is attained for $\alpha=1$. This gives us case 1. In the case when $B(m+1)-A^2-mM^2 \leq 0$ the function is increasing in $\alpha$ and we use the following estimate
\begin{gather*}
 \alpha  \geq \frac {B(m+1)-AM-A^2}{2 m M}.
\end{gather*}
which follows from Lemma 2 to obtain a lower bound. By putting this value in the right hand side of \eqref{ttt} we obtain a lower bound and we obtain the second part of our theorem. We remark that we also need that $B(m+1)-AM-A^2$ is positive since otherwise we get an $\alpha<0$.
\end{proof}

\section{A lower bound for power sums}
We will now use our one sided theorems to obtain improved lower bounds for the absolute values of power sums.

\begin{thm}
 Let
 \begin{gather*}
   B_\nu=\sum_{k=1}^n b_k^\nu, \qquad A=B_1^2-B_2, \qquad \text{and} \qquad B=B_2^2-B_4.
\end{gather*}
 Then one has  that
 \begin{gather} \label{i0} \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,m} \abs{g(\nu)}^2 \geq B_2+\frac{B (1+1/m)}{2B_2}- \frac {AB_2+A^2} {2B_2 m}. \\ \intertext{One also has that}
\label{i1}\max_{\nu=1,\ldots,m}  \abs{g(\nu)}^2  \geq  2B_2 -2 \times \frac{A^2-B+ m B_4}{B(m+1)-AB_2-A^2}
\end{gather}
 when $m \geq (B-A^2)/B_4$ and  both the numerator and the denominator in the last fraction is positive (this is true for $m$ sufficiently large).
\end{thm}

\begin{proof}
 Let $g(\nu)$ be defined by equation \eqref{star3}. Then
\begin{gather*} \begin{split}
  \abs{g(\nu)}^2 &= \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2+ \sum_{k=1}^{n^2-n} c_k e(\lambda_k \nu), \\ &= B_2+h(\nu) \end{split}
\end{gather*}
where $c_k=b_ib_j$ and $\lambda_k=\theta_i-\theta_j$ for $i \neq j$. It is clear that $h(\nu)$ is real valued and hence we can use the methods of section 2.

Let us now assume that
  $|h(\nu)| \leq B_2$ for $\nu=1,\ldots,m$. By using Theorem 1 with $M=B_2$ we have that there exist a $\nu$ with $\nu=1,\ldots,m$ such that
\begin{gather*}
  g^+(\nu) \geq \frac {B(m+1)-AB_2-A^2} {2B_2 m}.
\end{gather*}
 This implies \eqref{i0} in case $|h(\nu)| \leq B_2$.

We have by the definition of $B$ that
\begin{gather*}
  B(m+1)-A^2-mB_2^2  =B-A^2-m B_4
\end{gather*}
which is negative if $m \geq (B-A^2)/B_4$, and it follows from Theorem 2 with $M=B_2$ that
\begin{gather*}
 h(\nu) \geq   B_2 -\frac{2A^2-2B+2mB_4}{B(m+1)-AB_2-A^2}
\end{gather*}
 for some $\nu=1,\ldots,m$. This implies \eqref{i1} in case $|h(\nu)| \leq B_2$.

 Let us now assume that $|h(\nu)| > B_2$ for some $\nu=1,\ldots,m$.
Since $\abs{g(\nu)}^2=B_2+h(\nu) \geq 0$ this means that  $h(\nu) > B_2$ and $\abs{g(\nu)}^2 \geq 2 B_2$. We see that this implies \eqref{i0} since $2 B_2 \geq B_2+(1+1/m)B/(2B_2)$ and the third term on the right hand side in \eqref{i0} is negative. Likewise it implies \eqref{i1} since the last  term on the right hand side in \eqref{i1} is negative.
\end{proof}

\section{The pure power sum case}

In the pure power sum case we have that $B_k=n$, $A=B=n^2-n$ in Theorem 3 and it follows that

\begin{cor} One has that
\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
  \item
  $ \displaystyle \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,m} \abs{S(\nu)}^2 \geq n+ \frac {(-1+n)(1+m-n^2)} {2 m},$
\item $\displaystyle
\max_{\nu=1,\ldots,m} \abs{S(\nu)}^2  \geq 2n -\frac{2(1+m-2n^2+n^3)}{(-1+n)(1+m-n^2)}. \qquad (m>n^2)$
\end{enumerate}
\end{cor}
Corollary 1 $(i)$ improves upon known results for $m$  bigger than $n^2.$ In fact it is convenient to write $m=n^2+j$ and we obtain

\begin{thm}
  One has for $j \geq 0$ that
 \begin{gather*}
 \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,n^2+j} \abs{S(\nu)} \geq \sqrt{n + \frac {(1+j)(n-1)}{2(j+n^2)}}.
\end{gather*}
\end{thm}
For $j=0$ and in the case of unimodular numbers $z_k$ it improves slightly on the general lower bound
\begin{gather*}
 \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,n^2} \abs{S(\nu)} \geq \sqrt{n}
\end{gather*}
in Tur\'an's problem 10 from Andersson \cite{Andersson}. We obtain

\begin{cor} One has that
\begin{gather*}
 \inf_{\abs{z_k}=1} \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,n^2} \abs{S(\nu)} \geq \sqrt{n+\frac 1 {2n}-\frac 1 {2 n^2}}.
\end{gather*}
\end{cor}
Another result where the lower bound follows from Theorem 4 and the  upper bound follows from Montgomery's construction (see Montgomery \cite{Montgomery} page 101. Example 6.) is the following
\begin{cor} Suppose that $n+1$ is a prime number. One then has that
\begin{gather*}
   \sqrt{n  + \frac 1 2 -\frac {2n-1} {2(n^2+n-1)}}\leq  \inf_{\abs{z_k}=1} \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,n^2+n-1} \abs{S(\nu)} \leq \sqrt{n+1}.
\end{gather*}
\end{cor}
We remark that the lower bound holds in general. We see that this approximately  halves the previous gap between the upper and lower bound. For further discussions of explicit constructions that yields similar upper bounds in power sum problems, see our paper Andersson \cite{Andersson3}.

In our paper Andersson \cite{Andersson2} page 17, we considered functions $\Lambda$ that fulfills
\begin{gather*}
  \sqrt n \p{\Lambda(\alpha)-o(1)} \leq \inf_{\abs{z_k}=1}  \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,\lfloor \alpha n^2 \rfloor} \abs{S(\nu)}.
\end{gather*}
We proved that we can choose $\Lambda(\alpha)=1$ for $\alpha>0$ and furthermore that for $0<\alpha \leq 1$ we proved that it is the best possible. We asked whether the function must be identically $1$ or must be  bounded. While we can not answer if there exist such an  unbounded function it follows from Corollary 1 that we can choose a $\Lambda$ such that $\lim_{\alpha \to \infty} \Lambda(\alpha)=\sqrt 2$. More specifically we obtain the following Theorem.

\begin{thm} Let $\alpha \geq  1$ be a constant. One then has that
\begin{gather*}
  \p{\sqrt{\Phi(\alpha)}-o(1)}   \sqrt n  \leq \inf_{\abs{z_k}=1} \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,\lfloor \alpha n^2 \rfloor} \abs{S(\nu)} \leq  \p{\sqrt{\lceil \alpha \rceil}+o(1)} \sqrt n,
\\ \intertext{where}
        \Phi(\alpha)= \begin{cases} \frac 3 2-\frac 1 {2\alpha}, & 1 \leq \alpha \leq 3, \\
                                    2-\frac 2 \alpha, & \alpha \geq 3. \end{cases}
\end{gather*}

\end{thm}

\begin{proof}
 The lower bound for $1 \leq \alpha\leq 3$   follows from Corollary 1 $(i)$ with $m = \lfloor \alpha n^2 \rfloor$.
 The lower bound for $3 \leq \alpha$   follows from Corollary 1 $(ii)$ with $m = \lfloor \alpha n^2 \rfloor$.
  The upper bound follows from Theorem 6 in Andersson \cite{Andersson2}.
\end{proof}
In particular this will give us
\begin{gather*}
  \p{\sqrt{\frac 5 4}-o(1)}   \sqrt n  \leq \inf_{\abs{z_k}=1} \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,2n^2} \abs{S(\nu)} \leq  \p{\sqrt 2 +o(1)} \sqrt n.
\end{gather*}
We see that the lower and upper bounds are not the same and we do not yet have the true asymptotic. This contrasts to the case when we take the maximum over the interval $\nu=1,\ldots,n^2$ where we proved (see Andersson \cite{Andersson2})
\begin{gather*}
  \inf_{\abs{z_k}=1} \max_{\nu=1,\ldots,n^2} \abs{S(\nu)} \sim  \sqrt n.
\end{gather*}

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Kjeldsen, Sinnock & Neudeck, Inc., (KSN) was retained by Power Engineering Contractors Inc. to provide surveying and mapping services for the emergency replacement of four 36" raw sewage pump discharge pipes at the City of Stockton Regional Wastewater Control Facility. The Facility pumping system includes four raw sewage pumps, four raw sewage pipes and has the capacity to transport 142 million gallons of raw sewage per day. During the early months of 2008 staff at the plant became aware that the mortar lining of the discharge pipes was eroded and the exposed steel pipe was corroded, prompting an urgent repair project. To minimize disruption to the plant the discharge pipes would be replaced in stages. To accomplish this it was necessary to have the new discharge pipes prefabricated in the exact layout as the existing pipes before the replacement could begin. By utilizing state of the art 3D laser scanning technology, KSN was able to provide the pipe fabricator with accurate 3D AutoCAD drawings of the existing pipe. The information provided by KSN allowed the new discharge pipes to be fabricated as exact replicas quickly and accurately, so that the replacement project could stay on budget and within schedule. The completed project allows the Stockton Municipal Utilities Department to continue providing wastewater treatment to the City of Stockton throughout the peak flows of winter without the risk of pipe failure and the risk of shutting down the plant.


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We are aware of an ongoing issue that is affecting users' ability to connect to Breww and we are working as quickly as possible to resolve the issue. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
We will post any updates as we have them here.
Apologies again for the continued issue with Breww. We have identified that the issue lies with our service provider (DigitalOcean), who are experiencing network issues affecting their services.
We are currently working on getting around these ourselves rather than waiting for them to resolve them on their side. We've identified a few potential solutions and are implementing them now.
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Yikes! Teresa Giudice reignited her feud with her brother and his wife, Joe and Melissa Gorga, during the Nov. 14 episode of 'RHONJ', when she blasted him for not spending enough time with their dad.
Teresa Giudice and Joe Gorga may soon be enemies again, as she seemed to reignite their on-again/off-again feud during the Nov. 14 episode of Real Housewives of New Jersey. But this time around, they're not fighting about his wife, Melissa Gorga. Instead, she slammed him for not spending enough time with their dad, Giacinto Gorga. She even got her daughter, Gia, involved! Mind you, Teresa, Joe and Melissa have been fine for two seasons now, so it was shocking to see them going at it again.
In tonight's episode, Giacinto first told his son, "You never call me no more," before Joe explained, "I didn't call you this week. I was busy all week. Bad week." But that wasn't a good enough excuse for Giacinto. So he turned to Melissa and said, "He don't call me all week." She said, "Aww," but he also called her out, saying, "You too." However, she retorted, "I just saw you. We just saw you at the house."
"When? Two weeks ago," he said. Clearly, he wasn't happy. And because Giacinto wasn't happy, Teresa wasn't happy. Teresa didn't flip a table or anything, but she was certainly annoyed. Once Giacinto left the room, Teresa hammered Joe some more, saying he needs to spend more time with their dad. But he kept defending himself, so Gia then chimed in, saying she hears Giacinto complaining as well. And Teresa loved that — she begged Gia to defend her so she wouldn't be forced to go "two against one" with Joe and Melissa.
Melissa advised the adults have their conversation away from Gia, which was extremely smart and mature of her to say, but Gia clapped back, saying she's old enough to hear these conversations and because Giacinto confides in her, she felt she was more than welcome to involve herself in the drama.
Nothing got too heated, but next week, when the girls head to Oklahoma with Margaret, Melissa and Teresa go at it again, according to the preview that played at the end of the episode. So this won't be the last we see of this fight.
In other RHONJ news, Margaret invited all the ladies to tag along with her during a work trip to Oklahoma, and Danielle broke down in tears after hearing Margaret and Dolores were going to be hanging out together. It was super dramatic and typical Danielle behavior.
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On January 27, 1945, Soviet forces entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp and liberated it. An estimated 1.1 million Jews and 130,000 Gypsies, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and other prisoners from throughout Europe, were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau throughout the years of its existence. The name Auschwitz, albeit not directly after the war, became the symbol of the Holocaust and the Nazi atrocities, and in fact the ultimate symbol of human evil.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the most "international" death camp, where the largest number of prisoners were murdered. It was also the death camp that operated for the longest period of time. It was a huge complex of concentration and labor camps, and over the years hundreds of thousands of prisoners worked in it (or were deported from there to other camps). It was also the only camp in which prisoner numbers were tattooed on inmates' (Jewish and non-Jewish) arms.
But only in the late 1990s did January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz – become an international remembrance day. Germany was the first country that established the day, in 1996 – six years after the collapse of the wall and the reunification of Germany. In 2000 an international organization was established by the Prime Minister of Sweden, which would eventually be called International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and which established that day as an international remembrance day, which in 2005 was also recognized as such by the European Union. Only in November 2005 did that day become global, when the UN General Assembly – with no objections – decided to establish January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp
That decision, as well as the establishment of IHRA, are expressions of what many researchers call the "globalization of Holocaust memory." Usually, when we think about collective memory, we think about a memory that is common to more or less cohesive groups – such as ethnic, national or religious groups – for whom the memory is a central part of their identity. But in a long and fascinating process, greatly accelerated in the 1990s, the Holocaust became a global memory, or at least European and Western. In very many cities of Europe and North America, but also in Latin America and some countries of Asia and South Africa, there are museums and institutions devoted to the study and commemoration of the Holocaust. For instance, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.,which is possibly the largest commemoration and research institution in the world (along with Yad Vashem), is also an expression of that process. It is a federal American Museum, located at the heart of the avenue of American national symbols (the mall), which is devoted to an event to which the US had no connection. This is an exceptional and unparalleled phenomenon.
We often hear about the danger of Holocaust denial. It seems that compared to such a marginal phenomenon, the more interesting and exceptional phenomenon is actually the memory of the Holocaust, which has pushed beyond the boundaries of the nations directly involved in it (Germany and the Jews). The memory of the Holocaust has become such that a large part of the world views it, unlike any other national memory, as a sacred memory whose preservation is an ethical mission that defines a civilized person. In these senses the memory of the Holocaust is actually a cultural exception. An international conference that took place at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in 2008, and an edited volume published in its wake in 2015, were devoted to this exceptional phenomenon.
It is important to note that this globalization also has political aspects. For example, the aforementioned UN resolution to establish International Holocaust Remembrance Day was the initiative of an Israeli diplomat named Ron Adam, who wanted, as he recently disclosed, to offer an alternative and competing narrative to the Palestinian narrative, which he felt prevailed in the corridors of the UN and the international community. Another case was a heavily attended international ceremony to mark that day in January 2020 at Yad Vashem, which served as a stage for the presentation of a historically distorted pro-Russian narrative. Another example is the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by IHRA in 2016, and which has since become an almost compulsory code in many countries in the world. This definition views anti-Zionism and strong criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism, and thereby serves to de facto silence critical voices against Zionism and against Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day therefore marks the decision of many countries in the world to turn the Holocaust into a symbol of evil and the struggle against it, as well as the fact that that memory is an essentially deeply political space, sometimes even in a cynical and instrumental way.
To view the events of "What is Memory? 70 Years Later" on The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute YouTube channel.
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Russian Return to the Middle East
Today it is common wisdom to claim that Russia is returning to the Middle East. Some regard it with hate, the others with suspicion, the third with hope. But before any evaluation according to interests and positions of different players and observers, we need first to clarify how Russia returns? What represents contemporary Russia on the new map of balance of world powers – especially regarding the Middle East?
In the last 50 years, Russia has thrice changed radically its geopolitical and ideological status. During the Soviet period in the context of a bipolar world, Russia was undoubtfully a geopolitical superpower, the stronghold of Land Power, and the center of universal communist ideology, seeking to gain the mortal fight with the capitalist system, for the global control on the human societies on a planetary scale. The opposite camp – NATO States – represented geopolitically Sea Power and liberal ideology. Geopolitics and ideology, interests and values were densely intertwined forming two totalities – two blocks, two projects for humanity claiming to evict sooner or later the opponent.
During this period the Soviet Union effectively was present in the Middle East – both as the power geopolitically opposing the capitalist West in most of regional conflicts, but at the same time supporting movements and parties that had in their programs and doctrines something that resonated roughly with the Left – secularism, progressivism, anti-capitalism, and anti-colonialism. The concrete politic of USSR in the region with a mostly religious population varied from the direct support of communist and socialists parties (not too influential and powerful) to pragmatic alliances with nationalist and anticolonial movement when they were not too religious.
So the function of the USSR in the Middle East was based on this two side scheme: geopolitical interests of USSR as great continental power (realist approach) combined with orientation to reach the goal of promoting communist World Revolution (idealist approach). We should consider this paradigm carefully because it shows two distinct cornerstones in the Soviet strategy. They were merged and intertwined in the whole complex but they were nevertheless different by nature and structure.
For example, this paradigm explains why USSR avoided dealing with anti-Western and anti-capitalist movements in the Middle East that were deeply affected by Islam and has religious values at their core. Salafism, Ikhwans, or Shiits were regarded by Soviets by mistrust. For the same reason, USSR itself provoked the disbelief inside these currents.
The Western pole had during the bipolar period a symmetric structure. The pure geopolitical interests (Sea Power) with its inherent scenarios repeating more or less literally force lines of old British imperialism were coupled with liberal ideology, always choosing in regional issues, the opposite side to socialist, leftists or anticolonial forces presumably naturally supported by Soviets.
The crucial moment comes with the collapse of the Soviet Union. That was the fall of the geopolitics of Land Power. The zone of influence of the core Heartland of Eurasia has shrunk radically on three circles.
The large domain of influence including Latin America, Africa, and South Asia
The Warsaw Treaty Organization
The Soviet Union itself split into 15 parts.
In the realm of ideology, the change was yet more profound because Moscow has totally abandoned Marxism and embraced liberal capitalist ideology.
It was the end of bipolarism – in geopolitics and ideology. Russia has refused to continue to represent the second pole as an alternative, and accepted with Eltsine the role of periphery of the Same.
We need to remember that collapse of USSR as an ideological system was not accompanied by the symmetric abandoning by the USA and Europe of their liberal-capitalist ideology. The end of the cold war happened by the voluntary self-annihilation of only one of the players – the Soviet East has rejected its ideology but the capitalist West did not. That's how liberal globalism has shaped its form. The globalization in the unipolar world was necessary to the expansion of liberal ideology, accepted by all as some universal norm – hence human rights, parliamentarian democracy, civil society, free market, and other purely ideological dogmas have become necessary global standards, ideological standards secured and promoted by the globalization itself.
There was a unipolar moment (as Ch. Krauthammer called it) that started in 1991.
In this period Russia has completely withdrawn from the Middle East. It was entirely engaged in inner problems balancing in the 90th on the edge of further collapse of Russia itself. But by pure inertia, some connections established during bipolarity were somehow conserved, as well as the image of Russia as a geopolitical alternative to the West; this image was still living in the societies of the Middle East. The unipolarity left the Arabic population one to one with the Atlanticist liberal West, which was finally free to affirm itself as a unique global player and the highest instance of the decision making. That is unipolarity and it affected the Middle East during the last 30 years culminating in a chain of color revolutions sponsored by the West in order to drown democracy, human rights, and liberalism in "retarded societies".
The final purge of secular nationalist and somehow socialist regimes (as Baath parties in all its versions – in Iraq, Libya and Syria) has become inevitable – in the unipolar paradigm, there was no global symmetric power that would be capable to contend such processes and support anti-Western political systems and leaders.
Talking about the second pole – USSR from now on was the hole.
During the last 20 years of Putin's rule in Russia, the country has restored partly its power. In the clear contrast to Eltsine's contemporary first term in office, Russia didn't follow unconditionally any order of the West and led its own sovereign politics. But this time, Russia restores its force only as great geopolitical power – as Land Power, hence the concept of Eurasia, the Eurasianism in general.
But in the field of ideology in Russia, there is a kind of vacuum. The gap left by rejected communism is filled with pragmatic and syncretic conservatism with no hard line. That makes Putin's Russia much more flexible. Russia represents today's only geopolitical entity – more and more clearly opposed to the West (Sea Power) but without any clearly defined ideology.
At the same time, modern Russia cannot any more pretend to be the second pole in the bipolar structure. To play this role Russia is too weak compared with the aggregated potential of the USA and NATO countries. But there is new China whose economic growth has made it comparable with the American economy and threats to overcome it.
Hence Russia reaffirms itself not as the second pole in the new bipolar system, but as one of the few poles (more than 2!) in the context of multipolarity. Today Russia (militarily and on the level of geography and natural resources) and China (economically) already are two poles of something like a tripolar system. But India, the Islamic world, Latin America, and Africa can one day form other self-sufficient poles. So, the Russian geopolitics of the Great State evolves now in the totally new context of multipolarity. As usual, Russia is still the Land Power opposing Sea Power, but China is also the Land Power having exactly the same global opponent – the liberal West.
So, Russia returns to the Middle East in totally new conditions and with different functions. It is not a second pole opposing the West, but one of the few poles struggling against unipolarity in favor of multipolarity.
By the way, I explained these changes in my book "The Theory of Multipolar World" which was recently published in the USA by Arktos Publishers.
Final remark: The Western pole today, as before, is keeping its ideological content intact. More than that – during unipolar moment – when it yet looked like as something sustainable – liberal ideology seemed so powerful and indisputable, that globalists themselves – having no more formal ideological enemies – started to purge the liberal ideology itself, trying to make it yet more liberal. Hence, the disproportional volume of the gender problem raised in the last two decades. (I dedicated my book "Fourth Political Theory" to the discussion of this argument)
So now, I suggest the Middle East readers to compare the function of two global players in the contemporary regional balance of powers. The return of Russia in the Middle East is the coming of Land Power trying to resist the pressure of unipolar West, but this time without any ideological replacement of one secular materialist ideology by the other, of one form of capitalist totalitarianism with the other – communist. Modern Russia has nothing to impose on Middle East peoples on the ideological level. It is enough to regard Russia as an ally and to resist the pressure of the unipolar globalist West. No matter what is the reason for the rejection of the West by the Muslim population – religious, economic, national, or others. Russia is essentially in the Middle East to secure multipolarity not insisting on what should come in exchange for liberalism. This realism and this flexibility open totally new historical opportunities to Russian-Arab friendship.
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Q: Cant change custom UITextField border color I am trying to make a nice textField but it didn't work. So my problem is when i begin edit textfield i need to change border color to another, but when it happens my custom border going to default rect. What i want it's just change color of bottom border.
func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {

    nameField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyle.none
    nameField.layer.borderWidth = 2.0
    nameField.layer.borderColor = UIColor.red.cgColor
    nameField.layer.masksToBounds = true
    print("lol")
}

public func testField() {
    let border = CALayer()
    let width = CGFloat(2.0)

    border.borderColor = lightBlue
    border.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: nameField.frame.size.height - width, width:  nameField.frame.size.width, height: nameField.frame.size.height)

    border.borderWidth = width
    nameField.layer.addSublayer(border)
    nameField.layer.masks[ToBounds = true
}

A: Here is a solution. I have subclassed UITextField and overrided layoutSubviews func with checking if it is firstResponder (means cursor is there) or not and setting corresponding color.
Swift (3.0):
class TextField: UITextField {
    lazy var bottomBorder: CALayer = {
            let border = CALayer();
            border.borderColor = UIColor.white.cgColor;
            border.borderWidth = 1;
            return border
    }()

    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()

        borderStyle = .none;
        layer.addSublayer(bottomBorder);
    }

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews();

        let borderColor = isFirstResponder ? UIColor.blue : UIColor.white;
        bottomBorder.borderColor = borderColor.cgColor;
        bottomBorder.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: layer.frame.size.height - 1, width: layer.frame.size.width, height: 1)
    }
}

Objective-C
@interface TextField ()

@property (nonatomic, strong) CALayer *bottomBorder;

@end

@implementation TextField

- (void)awakeFromNib {
    [super awakeFromNib];

    [self.layer addSublayer:self.bottomBorder];
}

- (void)layoutSubviews {
    [super layoutSubviews];

    UIColor *borderColor = self.isFirstResponder ? [UIColor blueColor] : [UIColor whiteColor];
    self.bottomBorder.borderColor = borderColor.CGColor;
    self.bottomBorder.frame = CGRectMake(0, self.layer.frame.size.height - 1, self.layer.frame.size.width, 1);
}

- (CALayer *)bottomBorder {
    if (!_bottomBorder) {
        _bottomBorder = [CALayer layer];
        _bottomBorder.borderColor = [UIColor whiteColor].CGColor;
        _bottomBorder.borderWidth = 1;
    }
    return _bottomBorder;
}

@end

A: Make your border
let border = CALayer()

Global and the just change its borderColor in textFieldDidBeginEditing
func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {
    border.borderColor = UIColor.red.cgColor
}

Hope this helps.

A: Use this piece of code
func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_textField: UITextField) {
    nameField.layer.sublayers![1].borderColor = UIColor.redColor().CGColor

}

func testField() {
    nameField.layer.sublayers![0].hidden = true
    let border = CALayer()
    border.frame = CGRectMake(0, nameField.frame.size.height - 2, nameField.frame.size.width, 20)
    border.borderColor = UIColor.blueColor().CGColor
    border.borderWidth = 2
    nameField.layer.addSublayer(border)
}

A: Try to add this line of code in your func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField) method, this will remove your custom layer and you can see the change done.
if (nameField.layer.sublayers?.count)! > 0{
    nameField.layer.sublayers?[0].removeFromSuperlayer()
}

Hope this helps.

A: You need to add additional sublayer to border of textfield so that you can assign any of the color.
   let border = CALayer()
    let width = CGFloat(1.0)
    border.borderColor   = UIColor(red: 188/255, green: 189/255, blue: 192/255 , alpha: 1).CGColor
    border.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: textField.frame.size.height - width, width:  textField.frame.size.width, height: textField.frame.size.height)
    border.borderWidth = width
    textField.layer.addSublayer(border)
    textField.layer.masksToBounds = true


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can trap all reads, that's all.
executes get shunted to a "split page".
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Modern society has seen an explosion in the commercial use of new chemical compounds. An estimated 80,000 industrial chemicals are in everyday use but only a small fraction of these have been tested for basic human health effects and we have even less data about which chemicals people are exposed to on a daily basis. Another challenge is evaluating how multiple chemical exposures and various social factors can interact to increase health risks. Much work remains to be done with historically recognized toxicants such as heavy metals and common industrial solvents. Many of these compounds are persistent in the environment, and bioaccumulative in the body, creating concerns about long-term and transgenerational health risks. Nations around the world face thousands of contaminated locations from previous industrial activity or waste disposal that must be remediated in some manner, many in low income or minority communities. The result is a combined set of difficult scientific and social challenges.
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After 12 years, he decided to leave the RAF and join Civvy Street. "I was still thought of as an aircraft engineer, but in my mind I had become a safety practitioner, so I knew I had to make a change," explained Simon.
Simon joined an ambitious health and safety company running NEBOSH courses and providing consultancy in all kinds of workplaces in the UK, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Iraq and more. It was a steep learning curve and Simon more than rose to the challenge.
From there he gained his current position, that of health and safety advisor with British Airways. He is responsible for all aspects of health and safety within British Airways Engineering, which as well as being varied is very important.
"Biological risks, radiation from x-rays, working at height, and workplace transport. The hazards to manage are endless. It's one of the reasons I love working here. I look after around 4,000 engineers and sub-contractors and of course there is the travelling public as well. It's a rewarding job, a massive responsibility and British Airways are a fantastic business to work for."
British Airways encourage employee engagement in health and safety and aim to create and maintain a no blame culture, resulting in more accurate recording of incidents and potential hazards. For British Airways "Safety is our first priority."
The company have recently become an accredited centre to deliver NEBOSH courses leading to the National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety. Drawing on his previous experience, Simon will be delivering courses for British Airways managers and safety representatives to help them prepare for their examinations.
There is no doubting that Simon has the right experience, knowledge and qualifications. However, it is the moment he became a NEBOSH examiner when he claims "the lights really came on".
"I have to say, people are sometimes a little surprised when they discover I'm an examiner. After all I'm not an academic and my career in health and safety has been relatively short, albeit intensive. Overall I'd say it's one of the best things you can do and I'd recommend anyone becoming an examiner who is looking to take things one step further. It's really been a massive benefit for me."
How has your NEBOSH qualification helped you? Email us with your story: marketing@nebosh.org.uk.


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Vietnam: Reisen Vietnam - Vietnam Reisen mit lokaler Reisefirma, Spezialist für deutsche Touristen, Asiatica Reisen Vietnam organisiert individuelle maßgeschneiderte Touren.
Vietnam: Vietnam travels - The word "Vietnam travel" in itself is an invitation to charm, exoticism and adventure.
Cambodia: Cambodia travels - Visit Wonders is a travel agency based in Hanoi, Vietnam, specializing in excursion tours to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
International: www.hot-maps.de/europe/czech_republic/prague/homeen.html A very good map source for not just Prague. They have many different maps of different cities with interactive functions. Find most streets, etc.
Berlin Germany: www.newberlinmagazine.com Berlin's #1 English language City Magazine. The sight has all the club listings, bar and restaurant recommendations, train times to other cities, weather, maps, and is updated with all the new live music and club events bi-weekly.
Berlin Germany: www.newberlintours.com A free walking tour company, featuring a 3 1/2 hour overview tour of Berlin, the Cold War Spy Tour, the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Tour, 3rd Reich Berlin Tour, and New Berlin's Famous Pub Crawl.
Berlin Germany: www.insidertour.com Walking and bike tours, city guide, online services.
St. Petersburg, Russia: www.travelinrussia.com They offer custom-tailored tours of St. Petersburg, Russia with private tour guides. Also car rentals, Russian visa support, travel tips and shore excursions for cruise travelers.


Before Chris Conder's village in northern England built its own broadband network, Internet speeds were so bad that children who went away to study would refuse to come home for the holidays.
Now it has some of the best broadband speeds in Britain after villagers took matters into their own hands — part of a growing trend for community-owned networks run independently of the main providers.
"We can do without water and electricity and gas, which a lot of us do … You can be self-sufficient in the countryside, but you cannot generate broadband," Conder said.
Communities that want to be connected raise money for the infrastructure — the cables and server space — by buying shares in B4RN at 1 pound each and there is a minimum purchase of 100 shares, which can only be sold back to the company.
"50 megabits per second might have been adequate a few years ago, but it ain't adequate now. The direction of travel is irreversible," said Antony Townsend, one of the founders of Broadband for Surrey Hills.


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