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Professionals in the fields of computer science, physics, geology, engineering graduates, electronics, IT, telecommunications and mathematics use EBWorld.
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EBWorld software solutions are usable on multiple platforms and devices, from desktops to lightweight web clients, tablets and smartphones. They ensure data interoperability with the most advanced standards and maximum openness.
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Smiths Group plc launches EUR600m bond offering
Smiths Group plc confirms the launch and pricing yesterday of a EUR600 million senior bond offering ("the Notes") for general corporate funding purposes and to repay certain existing debt.
The Notes, priced with a fixed coupon of 1.25%, will have a maturity in April 2023 and the offer is expected to close on 28 April 2015. The Notes will be issued by Smiths Group plc, guaranteed by Smiths Group International Holdings Limited, and will rank pari passu with all its other existing unsecured indebtedness.
Finance Director Peter Turner said: "This bond issue is a successful refinancing exercise for the group, extending maturity profiles and reinforcing the stability of our balance sheet and financing profile over the long term."

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INTERPOL and child kidnapping cases- what are INTERPOL's abilities and limitations?
A reader recently contacted Red Notice Law Journal to inquire about INTERPOL's role in child kidnapping cases. This question is unfortunately more common than one might imagine, and is likely to become more so as we continue to evolve into a more and more transient world.
INTERPOL and China's Sky Net anti-corruption investigation- can INTERPOL support China's anti-corruption efforts while still protecting human rights?
INTERPOL and Russia- time for sanctions?
"My life today is different." These are the words of one of our clients, Mauricio Ochoa Urioste, whose life changed from one day to the next because he is no longer listed as a wanted person on INTERPOL's Red Notice list.


Skanska invests about SEK 250M to increase the capacity of BoKlok's factory in Gullringen, Sweden. The remodeling and expansion of the factory will take place gradually between 2018 and 2020.
The investment primarily concerns increased capacity, efficiency and automation. Among other things, a new assembly hall will be built and a state-of-the-art production line will be installed, according to the principles of Lean Production. Production capacity will increase by almost 50 percent and the investment is expected to create about 50 new job opportunities.
BoKlok is a housing concept developed by Skanska and IKEA. The company builds around 1,200 homes a year and has so far built 10,000 homes for the many people. BoKlok is responsible for the entire value chain; product and project development, factory manufacturing and sales, construction and customer relations. BoKlok has about 400 employees in Sweden, Norway and Finland.


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6.4.2.8 Censorship of Internet Social Media
More than half of the world's population has access to the Internet. As revealed by answers to the question How Much Time Do People Spend on Social Media?, the average Internet user spends more than two hours a day on social media: reading or creating content for others to read. Facebook, Twitter, WeChat and Instagram each have more than a billion users. With this size of audience, it is not surprising that advertisers are interested in gaining access to people who might become customers – and these companies are funded by advertising revenue.
Politicians, and others who wish to influence the course of politics, now advertise on Internet social media. These advertisements are scattered among the huge amount of content that people put up when communicating with their families, friends and neighbours. Some of those who post on social media can hide their identities, and they can be located anywhere in the world, so much of what people read cannot be held to account in the same way as traditional media.
The US elections in 2016 were influenced by Russia, as admitted by some big Internet companies in a subsequent investigation reported in The Guardian: Tech giants face Congress as showdown over Russia election meddling looms. It is not surprising that many governments want to regulate the big Internet companies, to prevent foreign interference as well as the spread of misleading information such as fake news. The Economist has expressed concerns over governments that try to prevent free speech, though: Censorious governments are abusing "fake news" laws. And freedom of speech is a difficult topic which recurs in many places in this book, as can be seen from its free speech index.
A BBC article, Social media: How might it be regulated?, describes some of the options being considered. These include: requiring social media companies to remove harmful, misleading or false content when this has been reported; allowing algorithms to be inspected for harmful bias; and preventing the very rapid spread of stories until they have been fact-checked.
If social media companies regulate what is published on their platforms, they are seen as wielding powers of censorship – which is problematic. This dilemma was recognised when Donald Trump was banned from Twitter, after his use of the platform helped to create the conditions for a riot: as reported in a BBC article: Twitter boss: Trump ban is 'right' but 'dangerous'.
It is important to allow people to criticise a government – and the importance of free speech is described at the end of this chapter (6.8.3). Censorship of Internet social media risks suppressing free speech, but democracy (or any form of government) can suffer if lies are allowed to spread unchecked. Spreading misinformation is different from legitimate criticism, and politicians shouldn't be able to win elections or provoke riots just by lying.
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Reno Air Races 1964 to 50th Anniversary
by Mark Hrutkay · July 19, 2013
There have been few events in sports that manage to last 50 years. Fortunately the National Championship Air Races at Reno are one of them. This year will mark the 50th running of this race during September 11th-15th 2013. Like WWII veterans, few people who were at the races in 1964 will be at the races this year. Few people showed up for the first one and crowds weren't nearly as crowded as they are today. The current gathering is nothing compared to its humble beginnings and humble it was.
The Races are currently held at the former Stead Air National Guard Base which in 1964 was an active military base. The base was named for 1st LT Croston Stead who died in a 1949 crash of a P-51 Mustang. His brother Bill Stead came up with the idea of restarting National Championship Air Races which effectively ended in Cleveland after Bill Odom's crash. Air racing didn't exactly grind to a screeching halt in 1949; while there were some races, but they were so far and few in between that there was no real "organization". Even Reno wasn't the only source of unlimited (generally WWII fighters) racing after 1964. Closed course (like Reno) and cross country races were held in various locations until the early 1970s. After that the sole survivor was the Reno Races.
Bill Stead was a well known cattleman and sportsman who liked big toys; fast airplanes and boats. Bill raced boats including unlimited hydroplanes, he was also an accomplished pilot. His air racing seemed confined to the 190 cubic inch midget racers. While I can't confirm he raced in 1964, he did race in 1965 in N36C "Miss Cosmic Wind". Bill died in a Midget crash in St. Petersburg FL on April 28, 1966.
Of course the first races weren't held at the current location, they were initially held at the Sky Ranch in Spanish Springs Nevada about 20 miles east of the present location. The runway was a narrow 2000′ dirt strip. To get things moving Bill contacted Duane Cole to plan the races. Duane Cole was a monumental power in aviation. He started his career at the end of barnstorming, literally invented precision aerobatics and shaped what is the modern airshow. Needless to say he got the Reno Air Races off to a good start. The races were held September 12-20, 1964.
They started with a cross country race for the Unlimiteds sponsored by Harold's Casino. The race was from St. Petersburg FL to Reno. Eight P-51Ds started and five eventually finished the race. The winner was Wayne Adams in a P-51D N332 averaging 319 MPH.
Once they got to Reno, there was a Women's Race won by Irene Leverton in a Piper Cherokee at 143 MPH. There were hot air balloons and soaring too. The first US National Aerobatic Championship was held there and won by none other than Duane Cole in his Taylorcraft (on display in the EAA Museum)
There were only three classes of racing at the first event; Midget Racers, homebuilt biplanes, and the Unlimiteds which were all WWII fighters.
Notables flying the Midgets were Steve Whitman and Art Scholl. Steve had been racing since before the war, he ended his career as the manager of an airport in Wisconsin. He got the EAA to move their operations to "his" airport at Oshkosh, which is named in his memory. Art Scholl was well known as an aerobatic pilot later flying his Pennzoil Super Chipmunks in front of millions. He was also known for his film work on hundreds of motion pictures, including Top Gun where he was lost in a tragic crash.
For all of Steve Whitman's experience, he lost the Midget race to Bob Porter who managed 193 MPH to Steve's 187, Art Scholl was third and two others after him. The Biplane class was won by Clyde Parsons in a Knight Twister at 144 MPH. Still Steve's legacy, his "Bonzo" racer is in the EAA Museum at Oshkosh.
The Unlimited closed course race was fielded with 5 Mustangs and 3 Bearcats. The only airplane that was significantly modified was the Bearcat N1111L owned and flown by Lockheed test pilot Darryl Greenameyer. In the months preceding the race, Darryl had installed a formula one (small, very small) canopy and sealed the wing flaps. That Bearcat went on to win races and set records. You can currently find it in the National Air and Space Museum's Hazy Center; one of Art Scholl's Chipmunks hangs near it.
Another notable in the Unlimited race that year was Clay Lacy. Clay still flies airshows and performed an aerobatic routine in Chino this spring in a Lear Jet 23. If there was a renaissance man in aviation Clay is it. He was an airline pilot, air racer, and set countless records. For all practical purposes he invented modern business aviation. When the Lear Jet was introduced, he partnered with golfer Arnold Palmer and figured out how to sell them to corporations who had no idea how badly they needed them. Clay has flown about everything from a Piper Cub to the old "Super Guppy". He runs Clay Lacy Aviation out of Van Nuys CA and is a real power house in aviation.
Another interesting pilot was Bob Love in a P-51D. Bob was an Ace, shooting down 6 planes in the Korean War. Mira Slovak flew a Bearcat in the race, and was an airline pilot from Czechoslovakia. He commandeered his own airliner in 1953 and flew out of the communist block to Frankfurt Germany and freedom. He also raced hyrdoplanes starting in the mid 1950s.
There were rules; one of which was that you had to land and take off on that narrow short dirt runway or be disqualified. Greenameyer couldn't land the Bearcat there because of a lack of flaps and the tiny canopy with little visibility so he operated out of Reno Municipal Airport. He raced, but ultimately was disqualified.
The races were set up to run in heats and the pilot with the most points would be champion. Bob Love had the fastest airplane but was penalized for cutting pylons in a prior heat. That penalty cost him the First Unlimited Championship and it went to Mira Slovak at 356 MPH.
What kind of money was awarded? A good example was for the Unlimited category in 1966 and I'm sure in 1964 it was less, a LOT less. The total purse was $10,000 plus 8% of the gate. By the time you split it all up, there isn't much even for the winner. I'd venture to say the winner took home less than the cost of ferrying a P-51 to the current races. If you want to compare it, Roscoe Turner won about $42,000 in 1938 in the air races, he did a lot better and money was worth more back then.
In the aftermath of the races, I have no gauge of the attendance, but still they were successful. The races were on the covers of about every magazine on the newstands. ABC had it on the Wide World of Sports, playing the coverage twice in the next year. The Board of Trustees had to look at the finances and they were $13,000 in the hole for the race. But they decided to continue it anyways. The next year ABC paid $12,000 for the rights to the race and in 1966 raised it to $15,000. I can't say that the Air Races have ever been a great money maker on their own, but they are a very unique event and a real boost for the Reno economy.
As I noted above, few people who were there in 1964 are still around. Mira Slovak still living in the Pacific Northwest. Clay Lacy (who was at Reno last year and probably will be this year) is still with us and still flying. Any others? Photos of the first year are rare, a few from my collection are here.
So here we are less than 2 months from the races. Time to make plans, buy tickets and get ready. We want to see you in Reno in September for the unique opportunity to be part of the 50th National Championship Air Races.
http://www.airrace.org/
I'd like to thank Valerie Miller of the Reno Air Racing Association for helping make this story possible.
You can contact me, Mark Hrutkay at TNMark1@GMail.Com.
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We're excited for the start of the 2018 BFI London Film Festival which features three projects involving Air-Edel Recording Studios as part of this years line up.
'Evelyn' is the latest powerful documentary from the Academy Award-winning team who brought us 'The White Helmets' and 'Virunga'. Air-Edel's Patrick Jonsson composed the original score which was recorded and mixed by Nick Taylor in Air-Edel Studio 1, with music supervision from Maggie Rodford.
Nick Taylor recorded Gary Yershon's score for 'Peterloo' directed by Mike Leigh at British Grove, before returning to Air-Edel Studio 1 to mix. Nick also worked in this way to produce the score for Chan-wook Park directed series 'The Little Drummer Girl' starring Alexander Skarsgård and Florence Pugh.
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Before 1819 the 4th Duke of Portland's 1,487acre Clipstone Park Estate was only bringing in £346 per year. The Duke an important agricultural innovator had the water meadows constructed to provide winter and spring feed for the large number of sheep needed to fertilise over 1000 acres of arable land.
Water meadows, once a common feature of river valleys in southern England, were important intensive agricultural systems. A sustainable form of agriculture, they integrate soil and water management to irrigate grass and trigger growth by providing an even flow of water across the field, which would warm the grass, protect it from frost and flush the roots with nutrients.
The Flood Dykes were a 'catchwork irrigation system'. These were employed from the early seventeenth century on valley sides where streams could be diverted into 'flood dykes' running along the contours. Most such systems were in river valleys in the southwest of England and were small. The Clipstone Park system was important because of its northern latitude and unusually large size (7.5 miles in length and 300 acres). It used not only dung from the large numbers of sheep and cattle that could be kept on the abundant pasture, but also sewage from Mansfield, to improve the fertility of the very poor sand-lands so typical of this part of Sherwood Forest. Kings Mill Reservoir (70 acres) was built to provide water in the summer, as well as powering the mills in Mansfield.
Built between 1819 and 1837 at a total cost £37,000. Within a few years it was estimated that the Duke made £3600 a year from the scheme, close to a 10% return. The venture wasn't without its problems. Boggy mires, some 9 feet deep, proved very expensive to drain and it was necessary to install land drains up to 12 feet deep in order to intercept the many springs and provide adequate drainage.
To feed the expanding number of industrial workers in the towns, agriculture needed to become much more efficient. The sheep-corn system became very popular around the start of the 19th century. Large numbers of sheep were needed to produce dung and urine to fertilise the field. The sheep grazed the meadows during the day but were penned on the empty arable fields at night. Each night they would be penned on a different part of the field.
To fertilise the pasture the 4th Duke arranged that all the sewage from Mansfield went into the Flood-dyke.
The introduction of modern fertilisers rendered the system obsolete but the meadows continued in use with summer irrigation to maintain a very rich pasture land high in protein.


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Romeo Dallaire (1946 - ...)
Romeo Dallaire was born on 25 June 1946 in Denekamp, the Netherlands. His family moved to Montreal when he was still a baby and he grew up in Canada, where he chose a military career. In 1993 he was commander of the UN Unamir contingent in Rwanda, where he was a "very particular witness", according to the journalist Luciano Scalettari, "of events connected with the 1994 Rwandan genocide".
In fact, his job there was to watch over and monitor the peace process that began with the negotiations and then the Arusha agreements of 1993-1994.
These agreements centered on the formation of a transitional government in which the party of President Juvenal Habyarimana (in power for over 20 years) would share power with the rebel movement of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Dallaire reported large-scale illegal purchases of weapons on the part of regular soldiers, the Interahamwe militia and the civilian population, pointing out the risk of renewed violence: his reports were to remain unheeded.
The Arusha agreements were signed on 6 April 1994. This should have marked the end of the civil war between the army and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ongoing since 1990, and the creation of a transitional government. But the plane bringing President Habyarimana back from the diplomatic summit was shot down shortly before its arrival.
Since he first set foot in Rwanda, Dallaire had been in charge of some 2,700 blue helmets in the country. When genocide broke out, the UN decided to withdraw most of its contingent, reducing it to just 300 soldiers. Dallaire opposed this decision: "Double the number of men at my disposal – wrote the UN commander – and I will stop the genocide".
His appeals were ignored and the genocide meted between 800 thousand and one million victims in just a hundred days.
The harrowing experience of standing by, powerless, as this tragedy unfolded led Dallaire to try to kill himself on two occasions. His depression was probably also due to certain accusations against him concerning his conduct in Rwanda, to his decision not to resign when the UN contingent was reduced and to alleged failures on his part to report on the seriousness of the situation in the country in the months leading up to the genocide. All these accusations were, however, roundly refuted in 2003, when Dallaire published his book Shake Hands with the Devil, which inspired a documentary the following year. The text threw light on numerous unresolved doubts about his decisions and his relationship with the United Nations.
Later, Romeo Dallaire received several awards for his work as commander of the Unamir mission and today he is a member of the Canadian parliament.
Many years after those events, the former general is a valuable witness, who continues to denounce what happened in Rwanda and to fight against all genocides.
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The sleep study was more or less a six-hour endurance contest.
First, they tell me I have to sleep on my back or my insurance won't cover the test. Swell. I can't remember the last time I slept on my back without the assistance of general anesthesia.
I am a restless sleeper, so about every hour the technicians had to come in to reconnect the leads I had pulled off during my somnambular acrobatics. Finally, around 4 am, when they came in to untangle me a fifth time, they said they had collected enough data and that I could leave.
No coffee in the patient waiting area. Swell. I grabbed a cheese danish and retreated to the Sheetz down the road, where I quickly killed off an entire Extra Dark carafe, black. Thus energized- or at least conscious- I made it home, started the coffee pot and was welcomed by four happy shelties. They've been out, are having breakfast in their crates, and I'm heading upstairs to get my coffee.
Then my furry pals and I are going to sack out on my office floor until about noon.
I get to go through the sleep routine again once the inevitable diagnosis of sleep apnea is reached, and they fit me for one of those CPAP masks and machines.
Only the next time, I'm drinking coffee all day and taking my brief lunchtime nap. Screw 'em. If I'm going to have a rotten night, I may as well enjoy the day leading up to it.


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On the road to practicing a refined girl hair extensions, there may be many detours. Ma Xinni tells you that the hair wigs foundation of all shapes should start with hair care. Even if the makeup is human hair extensions delicate and docile, if the hair lacks care and loses luster, it will be the hair extensions uk overall image. Less points.


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New Report Paints Gloomy Picture for Electricity Access
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi said ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all, is not only a question of satisfying households basic energy needs.
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High voltage electricity Pylons in Mutukula.The governemnts according to the report will need billions of dollars to put us such strucures to entend power.
The world's 47 least developed countries1 (LDCs) including Uganda are falling far behind the rest of the developing world in terms of getting power to homes and businesses according to The Least Developed Countries Report 2017.
The report published this week says while countries have made great strides in recent years, achieving the global goal of universal access to energy by 2030 will require a 350 percent increase in their annual rate of electrification.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi said ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all, is not only a question of satisfying households' basic energy needs.
He said for electrification to transform LDC economies, modern energy provision needs to spur productivity increases and unlock the production of more goods and services.
Dr Kituyi added: "The productive use of energy is what turns access into economic development, and what ensures that investments in electricity infrastructure are economically viable. That he said means looking beyond satisfying households basic needs to achieving transformational energy access - satisfying producers' needs for adequate, reliable and affordable energy.
The report said while on average 10 percent of people in other developing countries lack access to electricity, this remains the case for more than 60 percent of the population in the least Developed Countries. Over 80 percent of Uganda's population does not have access to the national electricity grid.
The government has stepped up hydropower generation plants like Karuma, Bujagali and Isimba among others but estimates indicate that it will take thirty years for some of the parts of the country to get to the national grid.
Uganda according to the report is among the countries whose electricity power generation contributed to the doubling LDCs' combined installed capacity for medium hydro between 2000 and 2016.
Electricity output from medium hydro rose by more than 80 percent from 9,723 GWh in 2000 to 17,887 GWh in 2014. At the forefront of this increase have been the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.
The report says while these technologies generally still account for a relatively minor proportion of total generation, there is growing evidence of their effectiveness in serving rural areas.
Achieving universal access to modern energy in LDCs by 2030 according to the report will be costly. Based on previous global estimates, the report puts the cost at USD 12 billion to USD 40 billion per year. This far exceeds the resources currently available, the report says.
Total official development assistance to the energy sector is just USD 3 billion per year while domestic resources for public investment are scarce in most LDCs, and most also face serious limits to borrowing without risking an unsustainable debt burden.
Private investors are reportedly showing little enthusiasm for investments in electricity infrastructure in the Least Developed Countries, which entail large irreversible costs, long project cycles and slow payback.
The report suggests that governments could raise extra capital by developing domestic debt markets or tapping into alternative sources of funding, such as impact investors, infrastructure funds and, in some LDCs, the population living abroad.
Better still, the report says, would be for international donors to honour their long-standing commitment to provide at least 0.15 - 0.20 percent of their national income in aid, as part of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011 - 2020 of the United Nations. Current aid levels to LDCs fall short of this target by USD 33 billion to USD 50 billion per year.
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Q: Inequality with chromatic number and degrees of vertices Let $(d_1,d_2, \ldots , d_n)$ be a sequence of vertices degrees in graph $G$. Prove that $\chi(G) \le \max_{i \in \{1,2,\ldots,n \}} \min \{d_i + 1, i \}$.

A: Every min produces a result out of two possibilities: either the value $i$ or the value $d_i+1$ is obtained (if the two coincides, we consider it as if $i$ were chosen).
Let $j$ be the last index where $i$ is produced as a result (rather than $d_i+1$).
Then you can colour the first $j$ vertices with all different colours, and finish the rest greedily.

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This page provides information on E-prescribing for Pharmacy Techs.
There used to be a time when it was a compliment if someone told you that you had a doctor's handwriting.
Unfortunately, numerous deaths have occurred in recent years because of errors in reading prescriptions.
Illegibility, allergic reactions and wrong dosage amounts have been attributed to the causes of death.
An effective solution is to adopt E-prescribing.
E-prescribing software generates prescriptions through a process that is electronic and also aligned with participating local pharmacies. This electronic system makes life easier for pharmacy techs, pharmacists, as well as doctors' offices in ways that we will highlight below.
In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Medical Health Act (HITECH Act) was enacted to further encourage using electronic medical records as a path forward in patient safety.
This Act was part of the larger American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which sought to address privacy issues with private health information related to electronic transmissions.
In addition to eliminating risks associated with prescriptions that are hand written, alert systems also exist when using E prescribing. There are drug utilization review (DUR) programs that manage the prescription process. This way, an existing patient has all of their medical records in one location so that they cannot get a misdiagnosis.
In addition, any allergies or adverse reactions are given so that a warning would go off should the new prescription conflict with what is already on file.
Physicians love the software because it increases efficiency in their practices.
Time after time, they have had to deal with local pharmacies calling and faxing for renewals, verifications, or clarifications on existing prescriptions.
E-prescribing eliminates a lot of that back and forth communication.
Once a patients' information has been included in the system, they also benefit because getting a refill has now been streamlined.
This automated process is completed through the existing network and the doctor can approve or deny a certain refill with the click of the mouse.
Patients also benefit because their wait time is now reduced.
It is great to be in a network where everyone shares the same information. Long ago methods of each pharmacy having their own reporting systems with paper filing are now obsolete.
Fraud cases in the medical industry have also been reduced due to using E-prescribing systems. It was difficult to identify fraud across the board if you had to track using handwritten prescriptions. These handwritten prescriptions had the potential to be tampered or altered by the patient before heading to the pharmacist.
Now, there isn't an option to send C-II prescriptions electronically. However, C-IV through C-III prescriptions can be sent in this manner. So the potential for fraud had decreased.
While early adopters have been extremely pleased with using E-prescribing systems, it does have its detractors.
One issue of concern is related to the initial financial burden that comes with buying the software and keeping it maintained. The smaller clinics, clinics in remote locations, independent pharmacies, and inner city clinics have been slower to adopt these systems because of the financial barrier. They also have to factor in the time it takes to get everyone up to speed and learn the program.
Another issue of concern is that of change management. Larger companies may already have a fully functioning system that would get uprooted by adopting a more universal E-prescribing system.
There also may be preferences for the existing system and getting everyone on the same page could prove quite challenging. An initial solution to this would be to slowly change the system so as not to disrupt daily operations.
With technology, there is a common saying about "garbage in, garbage out."
There is concern regarding erroneous alerts. While alerts are needed, they are only as good as the information that has been inputted into the system.
This limitation may make physicians and pharmacists negate using it altogether.
Data entry errors could abound if there isn't supervision or support to review the data. Lastly, security breaches to the data can prove to be extremely damaging. Access to private patient information that is sent over the internet could be accessed by a hacker. There is also the chance of employees sending information across the network that may be outside its intended purpose. Lastly, electronic signatures have to be proven and verifiable to maintain an appropriate prescription. In addition to acquiring the software, firewalls and other network protection must also be purchased.
E prescribing systems have been introduced to improve the efficiency and safety of patients by using electronic means over handwritten prescriptions. While there are many advantageous benefits associated with a system, there is still room for improvement. Once there is a greater adoption from small clinics, pharmacies and large companies alike, the patient and the overall health system will benefit greatly.


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Bolivia's 2019 presidential election: the end of hegemony for Evo Morales?
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Although Evo Morales leads polling going into the election, for the first time it is unclear whether he can win in the first round, and his MAS party could also lose its majority in congress. His campaign is built on a decade of strong economic performance and political stability, but Morales has recently been tarnished by his circumvention of presidential term limits, poor handling of wildfires in Santa Cruz, and attempts to undermine genuine opposition. His rival Carlos Mesa has tried to tread a fine line between preserving the best of the Morales years and criticising the worst, but it is still the Morales project that defines the basic contours of Bolivian politics, writes Jorge C. Derpic (University of Georgia).
In the run-up to Bolivia's presidential election on Sunday, 20 October, 2019, polls suggest that Evo Morales and Alvaro García Linera are leading the race for the country's presidency and vice-presidency. Crucially, however, to remain in the posts that they have occupied since 2006, they will need to win by a significant margin over their closest challenger, former president Carlos Mesa. On top of that, Morales' Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) could lose its decade-long hegemony in congress, potentially triggering a period of political instability and drawn-out negotiations.
Morales' backers are not as numerous as they once were (Eneas De Troya, CC BY 2.0)
Can Morales avoid a runoff?
Opinion polling consistently places conservatives Oscar Ortiz and Chi Hyun Chung as rivals for third place, but they are far behind the main contenders, Morales and Mesa. Where polling is less clear is in predicting whether or not Morales can avoid a runoff election on 15 December.
In order to win in the first round, Morales needs either 50 plus one per cent of the vote or 40 per cent with a 10 per cent lead over Mesa. According to a poll by one national university, Morales may reach 40 per cent, but without a 10 per cent lead.
Other polls also suggest that the MAS may be unable to reach 50 per cent of the vote for the first time since 2006 and that the gap between the first- and second-placed contenders is narrowing, especially in the largest department of the country, Santa Cruz. The fires that destroyed 3.6 million hectares of forest in the lowland region of Chiquitania may have affected Morales' chances of winning in the first round as his response to the crisis came in for severe criticism.
This level of electoral uncertainty is a novelty for the MAS, whose support seems to have peaked in 2014, when six out of ten voters chose Morales and the MAS won two thirds of the available seats in congress.
Morales and the MAS endure, but their support has eroded (Francoise Gaujour, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
The erosion of support for Morales and the MAS
In 2016, Morales narrowly lost a referendum to remove presidential term limits that he himself had established via the new constitution of 2010. Despite losing the referendum, he continued to seek a way to run for a fourth term, and ultimately the Constitutional Court somewhat dubiously concluded that to deny him this opportunity would infringe the human right to be elected and hold public office.
In this context, the MAS already feels victorious because Morales managed to run and currently holds the lead in the polls. Two core strengths explain the party's resilience:
The country's strong economic performance over the last 15 years
The political stability of the last decade, due to close ties with grassroots organisations
As a number of journalists have noted, the forging of new contracts with transnational companies to increase natural-resource revenues allowed the Morales administration to achieve sustained economic growth while also reducing extreme poverty and inequality.
But local experts have added nuance to this depiction, noting that poverty in terms of basic needs has been declining consistently since the 1970s, whereas the reduction in inequality can be explained by a fall in the incomes of trained workers. They also highlight that government investment in extractive industries like hydrocarbons has not translated into reductions in precarious labour nor into significant improvements in areas like basic services, health, or education, where the country still lags behind the rest of Latin America.
Morales' economic success stems also from an ongoing alliance with his core electoral base, which is made up of grassroots organisations like the federations of coca-leaf growers in Chapare, where he began his political career. The MAS can still count on grassroots electoral support as long as it provides members of these organisations with a path towards the higher echelons of government.
The idea of this harmonious relationship, however, contrasts with the administration's efforts to co-opt and undermine leaders from opposing factions within other organisations. The MAS has combined law enforcement and state repression with the bottom-up strategy of promoting parallel institutions to undermine opposition leaders. The National Indigenous Peoples Confederation (Conamaq), the Federation of Neighbourhood Councils of El Alto (Fejuve), and the Coca Leaf Growers Association of La Paz (Adepcoca) are cases in point.
Carlos Mesa has made a triumphant return to politics (Inter-American Dialogue, CC BY-SA 2.0)
The challenge of Carlos Mesa
Mesa, for his part, has made a triumphant comeback to politics over the last five years, leaving behind his past as vice-president in the last neoliberal administration and his resignation from the presidency in 2005, which had left him looking weak and indecisive.
Mesa has run a cautious campaign, garnering support mainly in urban areas. While still unable to attract much support from working-class or rural populations, he has made inroads by promising to preserve some of the core policies of the current administration and strongly criticising others.
He has promised to preserve the social benefits that were introduced in the 1990s and expanded under the current government, as well as rejecting the return of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (expelled from the country by Morales in 2008).
At the same time, Mesa has criticised corruption within public services and the judicial system while also outflanking Morales on extractive industries by taking a highly progressive stance. Where the current administration now privileges extractivism and the expansion of the agricultural frontier for national development, Mesa has voiced opposition to exploitation of natural resources within national parks, especially in areas inhabited by indigenous peoples.
More recently, Mesa has benefited from an unexpected wave of mass mobilisations during the finals weeks of the campaign. Urban residents from different ideological backgrounds have protested against Morales for his inability to manage the Chiquitania fires and for disrespecting democracy. Some factions now rail against domination from the centre, others hurl derogatory chants, and the opposition itself has questioned the impartiality of electoral authorities, which it accuses of being dominated by the MAS. This toxic mix only adds to growing uncertainty over the likelihood of a runoff.
Whether or not the runoff proves necessary, one thing is clear: the agenda that emerged after the wave of social mobilisations in the mid-2000s continues to dominate the Bolivian political arena, and Morales remains its figurehead. Mesa, meanwhile, exemplifies the difficulties inherent in creating an alternative platform that can challenge Morales without fully rejecting what has been a popular and largely stable political project.
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Jorge C. Derpic obtained a PhD in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia. His research deals with collective violence responses to crime from the perspective of both citizens and state officials in El Alto, Bolivia.
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Lily Penaranda says:
Nice recap of what is happening, although very benevolent with the MAS government. There are a myriard of aspects that would catalgue the macroeconomic management in the last 5 years as less than ideal. Only in 2019 Bolivia has reached very low levels of international reserves (USD9.000 Million) from USD15.000 Million that was registered by the Central bank between 2011 and 2013. The nominal debt is the highest it has been in the countries history, and annual GDP growth is falling to 3.9% from almost 5%, not to mention the negative ballance sheets in exports and the increasing sovereign debt, of which the social cash transfer are partly to blame. Good things were done, but evidently not anymore.
Jorge Derpic says:
Yes, good points. These issues seem to be highly problematic – though I am unsure if they affected Morales' lead in these elections. As Mauricio Medinaceli pointed out today, the challenge for the next administration, whoever that is, will be to do damage control with no social cost. Thanks for reading.
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When we are believing, the love of God has been shed into our hearts and we desire to remain close to Him. The life of a believer is in a constant state of warfare with the three-fold enemy. We continuously see and hear about the rampant life of sin in the world around us. Previously held morals and values are eroding. We often feel as righteous Lot, "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds)" (2 Peter 2:7,8). As children of God we realize that we are not immune to temptations of sin. Our earthly portion is sin-corrupt. As the world around us becomes more accepting of all manner of sin, we, too, face the danger of becoming "accustomed" to and conforming to the worldly ways of this world. How can one find the strength to battle and fight against temptation and sin? By taking heed of the Word of God.
Judas, not Iscariot, an apostle of Christ asked Jesus how would he reveal himself unto his own and not unto the world. Jesus responded "If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him" (John 14:23).
Luther wrote: No one is a Christian unless he keeps Christ's word. And no one can keep it, unless he has the love of God in the heart. Thus a Christian's life is to love God. And we love him, because he first loved us. (John 4:19) His love is so great that he gave his only begotten son to suffer and die on behalf of the sins of the entire world (John 3:16, 1 John 4:10). When love awakens us, we then learn who Christ is. Peter writes in his 2nd epistle 3:18, "but grow in the knowledge of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ." Also John writes "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God" (I John 4:7).
The only thing that will keep God's commandment and word in us is the desire to love and serve God. Thus, in the kingdom of God, His word in love and truth is for instruction, rebuke, guidance, consolation, encouragement of faith, and forgiveness. As the world around us continues to open the floodgates of sin, we need to remain sober, watchful and ever more fervently turn to God's Word for support, for answers, for comfort. It is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path!
The Apostle Paul instructs young Timothy to cling to the Word of God in the midst of the enemy's attack: "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus" (2 Tim. 3:13-15).
When we love God, we desire to study His Word. We want to read it and study it as often as we are able for learning, comfort, and support of our faith. "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope" (Rom. 15:4).
Dress or apparel: What we wear on the outside also reveals what is in the heart. By conforming with worldly clothing styles we do not separate ourselves from ways of the world. Offensive apparel often arouses the lusts of the flesh. Peter instructs preciously of the appearance of a child of God: "Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price" (I Pet. 3:3-4).
Our speech and our actions send a strong message. Cursing and worldly speech is prevalent in this world but should not come from the mouths of believers. Also loud and boisterous behavior, especially at public events, does not set the kind of example of which Timothy speaks: "Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity" (1 Tim. 4:12).
Courtship is for those who are ready to get to know another believer from the heart with the prayer to God that it would lead to marriage. The dating model of this world does not belong to a believer. Hugging, kissing, caressing, etc. arouse the flesh and lust, which the Bible instructs to flee: "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart" (II Tim. 2:22).
Worldly music can little by little creep into the life of a believer. Its beat, rhythms, words and lyrics show the erosion of morals and values in today's society. One may start by listening to seemingly innocent worldly music, but little by little stray further and further.
The Apostle of Love, John, wrote that man cannot live with a divided heart: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever" (1 John 2:15-17). Worldliness is sin! Dear young, do not idolize the life of the ungodly. Do not accept their worldly speech, dress and lifestyle. Let us remain humble and childlike not desiring to do anything that would transgress the will of the Heavenly Father and that could eventually lead us into unbelief and unto perdition, eternal damnation and hell.
The proclamation of the Word has effect when it contains grace and truth. In this proclamation the calling voice of the Good Shepherd is heard. The Good Shepherd yet calls the straying and lost sheep. God's grace belongs to the penitent and contrite of heart. The gospel is preached to the poor and needy.
Dear young brothers and sisters, help one another on the journey. Love each other's undying souls even if it means that your flesh suffers. When you see in your midst that which is contrary to God's Word, do not remain silent. Speak individually to those over whom there is concern. Hasten to help and restore the straying or fallen one "in the spirit of meekness" (Gal. 6:1). If there are those who are not concerned about their wrongdoing after you have spoken to them, seek help from some older trusted brothers and sisters in faith.
The enticements of the enemy of the soul are great. Our journey leads through this world, "the valley of the shadow of death." Yet we need not fear when we follow the Lord Jesus. He will abide with us through His spirit. He restores our souls and leads us in the paths of righteousness, paths which are illuminated by God's Word, paths which lead to eternal life. If we continue to follow Him, we will experience that which the psalmist has written, not only in this life, but also in the life to come: "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever" (Ps. 23).
Dear brother and sister in Christ Jesus, take comfort in John's writing "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that are in him" (I John 2:5). We who keep His Word and walk in the light will inherit heaven's glory. Be encouraged and believe all sins forgiven in Jesus name and blood.


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SXSW 2021- WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
"If you tell a thirtysomething male he is Jesus Christ, he is inclined to believe it".
WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn is the account of the rise and fall of WeWork, one of the biggest venture capitalist bubbles in recent years and his near messianic co-founder Adam Neumann. WeWork was in the not so glamorous business of renting office space in premises it had refurbished with a trendier edge except that with it came some grand promises of a new lifestyle, of a work revolution, of changing the world even. In it, Academy Award winner Jed Rothstein has interviewed several former employees at every level as well as those bought into the We lifestyle and gathered some extensive footage for a forensic investigation into this unicorn company, that promised so much and failed so hard.
What set WeWork apart was its mission statement that was actually the opposite of those giants such as Facebook and Apple, with their emphasis on the "I", the I of i-phone and their narcissistic and egocentric culture. Technically WeWork isn not a tech company but it was riding a burgeoning wave of disillusionment with those big names from Silicon Valley and instead replacing the I with We, WeWork was all about sharing a physical space with others, with connecting and collaborating with people in real life. While your tolerance for the company's new age BS might vary, there is no denying than witnessing the footage all these young, beautiful and creative people interacting and connecting makes one understand how attractive and earnest it would have come across to twentysomething professionals, untouched by cynicism as yet. The director is quick to show that with under the youthful veneer and party atmosphere were some very old-school working practices however: lower salaries than the jobs demanded, long hours, exploitation and betrayal... those who got burned are all too happy to relate those in details for the camera.
The company tapped in that youthful appetite to change the world, one that is both earnest and arrogant and that each generation goes through but perhaps even more millennials after coming into the job market during the recession. Yet it is not just members of that generation who got sucked in. The film depicts how older investors also got hit by the FOMO and it is revealing that it is indeed one of them who pushed the company over the edge by encouraging Adam to go bigger and crazier. There was no chance he would ever consider to be interviewed but we are presented with plenty of footage and first-hand account of the Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son's involvement with WeWork to show how even the most experienced and wealthy businessmen can lose all common sense faced with a potential new golden goose.
WeWork: Or The Making... has some glossy production values and is fast paced, mirroring how quick it all happened with WeWork, skilfully detailing the financial developments of the company without losing us with too many details. At times however, its stylistic choices are a little on the nose: just as we are about to go from the rise part to the actual fall and an interviewee explains that no one at WeWork worried too much about consequences and the long term, images of dark clouds and lightening are edited in. Later we are told about the greed that gripped the company there is a montage of children stuffing their faces...
The second half does a great job of chartering the fall of the company when it all started to go wrong, when not even the endless self belief of Adam Neumann and the blind faith so many had put in him were enough to hide the hemorrhaging of cash. However that fall is indeed perhaps a little less spectacular than, say that of Fire festival organiser Billy McFarland or disgraced Theranos's founder Elizabeth Holmes which means the film loses a little bit of its earlier oomph. Despite allegations of substance abuse, being economical with the truth in terms of revenue projections and using the trust of countless staff members and investors, technically Adam Neumann did not commit an illegal act hence its exit feels a little anticlimactic, it is unlikely that a fictional adaptation will follow, in a Wolf of Wall Street kind of way.
There is not a chance in the world that Adam Neumann was ever going to agree to take part in its documentary but that is not to say it is one sided. It gives him a fair representation, as a complex character with charisma and endless self-belief, who genuinely believed he was going to change the world in the early days of the company and who truly had a vision besides making money. A tall, long haired and attractive Israeli, he had a striking presence even though he is shown to be meticulously cultivating it, working the camera of the countless TV shows he was invited to, repeating the same funny anecdote over and over again...
WeWork: Or the Making... is an enjoyable and insightful documentary, delivering just that touch of schadenfreude while still offering a fair account of these extraordinary events.
Review by Laurent de Alberti
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C++ support with the Android NDK

The Android platform provides a very minimal C++ runtime support library
(/system/lib/libstdc++) and corresponding headers for it in the NDK.

By default, this 'system' runtime does not provide the following:

Standard C++ Library support (except a few trivial headers).

C++ exceptions support

RTTI support

However, the NDK provides various "helper C++ runtimes" which can provide them,
or a subset of these features.

To select the runtime you want to use, define APP_STL inside your
Application.mk to one of the following values:

    system          -> Use the default minimal system C++ runtime library.
    gabi++_static   -> Use the GAbi++ runtime as a static library.
    gabi++_shared   -> Use the GAbi++ runtime as a shared library.
    stlport_static  -> Use the STLport runtime as a static library.
    stlport_shared  -> Use the STLport runtime as a shared library.
    gnustl_static   -> Use the GNU STL as a static library.
    gnustl_shared   -> Use the GNU STL as a shared library.
    c++_static      -> Use the LLVM libc++ as a static library.
    c++_shared      -> Use the LLVM libc++ as a shared library.

The 'system' runtime is the default if there is no APP_STL definition in
your Application.mk. As an example, to use the static GNU STL, add a line like:

    APP_STL := gnustl_static

To your Application.mk. You can only select a single C++ runtime that all
your code will depend on. It is not possible to mix shared libraries compiled
against different C++ runtimes.

IMPORTANT: Defining APP_STL in Android.mk has no effect!

If you are not using the NDK build system, you can still use on of
STLport, libc++ or GNU STL via "make-standalone-toolchain.sh --stl=".
see STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN for more details.

The capabilities of the various runtimes vary. See this table:

                C++       C++   Standard
              Exceptions  RTTI    Library

    system        no       no        no
    gabi++       yes      yes        no
    stlport      yes      yes       yes
    gnustl       yes      yes       yes
    libc++       yes      yes       yes

I. Runtimes overview:

I.1. System runtime:

The system runtime only provides a very small number of C++ standard headers.

This corresponds to the actual C++ runtime provided by the Android platform.
If you use it, your C++ binaries will automatically be linked against the
system libstdc++.

The only headers provided here are the following:

    cassert cctype cerrno cfloat climits cmath csetjmp csignal cstddef
    cstdint cstdio cstdlib cstring ctime cwchar new stl_pair.h typeinfo
    utility

Anything else is not supported, including std::string or std::vector.

I.2. GAbi++ runtime:

This is a new minimalistic runtime that provides the same headers than
the system one, with the addition of RTTI (RunTime Type Information) and
exception handling support.

If you insist on using it, read the "RTTI Support" and
"Static runtime considerations" sections below.

I.3. STLport runtime:

This is a port of STLport (http://www.stlport.org) that can be used on
Android. It will provide you with a complete set of C++ standard library
headers, with RTTI and exception handling support.

That's because the library embeds its own copy of GAbi++.

Available as both both static and shared libraries. To use it, use either
one of these two lines in your Application.mk:

  `APP_STL` := stlport_shared
  `APP_STL` := stlport_static

Note that 'stlport_shared' is preferred, for reasons explained in
"Static runtime considerations".  The shared library file is named
libstlport_shared.so instead of "libstdc++.so" as on other platforms.

I.4. GNU STL runtime:

This is the GNU Standard C++ Library (a.k.a. libstdc++-v3), providing the
more features. Note that the shared library file is named "libgnustl_shared.so".

I.5. libC++ runtime:

This is a port of LLVM libc++: http://libcxx.llvm.org/.  Note that the shared library
file is named "libc++_shared.so".

Please read the "C++ Exceptions support", "RTTI Support" and
"Static runtime considerations" sections below.

II. Important Considerations:

II.1. C++ Exceptions support:

The NDK toolchain supports C++ exceptions, since NDK r5, however all C++
sources are compiled with -fno-exceptions support by default, for
compatibility reasons with previous releases.

To enable it, use the new LOCAL_CPP_FEATURES variable in your Android.mk,
as in:

    LOCAL_CPP_FEATURES += exceptions

See ANDROID-MK for more details about this variable.

Another way to do the same is to define it in your LOCAL_CPPFLAGS definition
(but using LOCAL_CPP_FEATURES is preferred), as in:

    LOCAL_CPPFLAGS += -fexceptions

More simply, add a single line to your Application.mk, the setting will
automatically apply to all your project's NDK modules:

    APP_CPPFLAGS += -fexceptions

IMPORTANT: You will have to select a C++ runtime that supports
           exceptions to be able to link / run your code.

II.2. RTTI support:

Similarly, the NDK toolchain supports C++ RTTI (RunTime Type Information)
since NDK r5, but all C++ sources are built with -fno-rtti by default for
compatibility reasons. To enable it, add the following to your module
declarations:

    LOCAL_CPP_FEATURES += rtti

This will be equivalent to:

    LOCAL_CPPFLAGS += -frtti

Or more simply to your Application.mk:

    APP_CPPFLAGS += -frtti

II.3. Static runtimes:

Please keep in mind that the static library variant of a given C++ runtime
SHALL ONLY BE LINKED INTO A SINGLE BINARY for optimal conditions.

What this means is that if your project consists of a single shared
library, you can link against, e.g., stlport_static, and everything will
work correctly.

On the other hand, if you have two shared libraries in your project
(e.g. libfoo.so and libbar.so) which both link against the same static
runtime, each one of them will  include a copy of the runtime's code in
its final binary image. This is problematic because certain global
variables used/provided internally by the runtime are duplicated.

This is likely to result in code that doesn't work correctly, for example:

memory allocated in one library, and freed in the other would leak
    or even corrupt the heap.

exceptions raised in libfoo.so cannot be caught in libbar.so (and may
    simply crash the program).

the buffering of std::cout not working properly

This problem also happens if you want to link an executable and a shared
library to the same static library.

In other words, if your project requires several shared library modules,
then use the shared library variant of your C++ runtime.

II.4. Shared runtimes:

If you use the shared library variant of a given C++ runtime, keep in mind
that you must load it before any library that depends on it when your
application starts.

As an example, let's consider the case where we have the following modules

libfoo.so

libbar.so which is used by libfoo.so

libstlport_shared.so, used by both libfoo and libbar

You will need to load the libraries in reverse dependency order, as in:

    static {
      System.loadLibrary("stlport_shared");
      System.loadLibrary("bar");
      System.loadLibrary("foo");
    }

Note that you shouldn't use the 'lib' prefix when calling
System.loadLibrary(), unless you specify the full path as in:

System.loadLibrary("/path/to/libstlport_shared.so")

Which is not recommended, since this hard-codes the path in your code.

III. EXTRAS:

III.1. STLport-specific issues:

This NDK provides prebuilt static and shared libraries for STLport,
but you can force it to be rebuilt from sources by defining the following
in your environment or your Application.mk before building:

    STLPORT_FORCE_REBUILD := true

STLport is licensed under a BSD-style open-source license. See
sources/cxx-stl/stlport/README for more details about the library.

III.2. GNU libstdc++ license is GPLv3 + linking exception!

Be aware that the GNU libstdc++ is covered by the GPLv3 license (and not
the LGPLv2 or LGPLv3 as some assume), full details available here:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/license.html

Be sure that you comply with all clauses of this license.

III.3. libc++-specific issues:

"-std=c++11" is turned on by default.

Similiar to GNU libstdc++, you need to explicitly turns on exceptions or rtti
support in "LOCAL_CPP_FEATURES" if you wish.

It's likely that you need libatomic if you #include <atomic>.  Add
"LOCAL_LDLIBS += -latomic" for ndk-build, and "-latomic" for standalone toolchain.
Note that -latomic is only available in gcc4.8, not gcc4.6.  Clang3.4/3.3 use gcc4.8's
as/ld/headers/libraries so they get -latomic too.  The version of libatomic in gcc4.8
may work for gcc4.6, although it's not tested and you have to copy them manually.

This NDK provides prebuilt static and shared libraries for libc++
compiled by clang, but you can force it to be rebuilt from sources by defining
the following in your environment or your Application.mk before building:

    LIBCXX_FORCE_REBUILD := true

Around 98% of current 4645 tests passes when compiling libc++ with
clang for all supported ABIs. The remaining fails are mostly in the areas
of wchar_t and locale Android bionic don't support.  Switching locale
from the default produces the following warning in logcat

    newlocale() WARNING: Trying to set locale to en_US.UTF-8 other than "", "C" or "POSIX"

Using gabi++ as run-time also causes some issues in the nested exception and propagation too,
which will be addressed when libc++ switches to use libc++abi in the future.

More fails when compiling libc++ with gcc4.8 mostly because the lack of support
in _Atomic (ETA: gcc 4.9).  See platform/ndk.git
29d9f88ef5a33cd65b4b9977aed628bc195facf3 for details

Using libc++ with gcc4.6 is not recommended (at least not tested at
this moment) because its c++11 support isn't great

See "black_list*" in
tests/device/test-libc++-shared-full/jni/Android.mk for tests which fail to
compile, and tests/device/test-libc++-shared-full/BROKEN_RUN for tests
which fails to run correctly.

IV. Future Plans:

uSTL support?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Favorite things about… Meet John Doe (1941)
Date: February 3, 2017Author: Lindsey 1 Comment
In addition to being this month's "Favorite things about…" feature, this post was written for the Barbara Stanwyck Filmography Project, my quest to watch every single film Barbara Stanwyck ever made! For more reviews from the project, visit the dedicated index page.
The favorite film:
Meet John Doe, a 1941 dramedy/societal critique directed by Frank Capra
(Image via LitFlicks)
The synopsis:
When publisher D. B. Norton takes over a newspaper and fires several of the reporters, he stirs up a lot of anger. Ann Mitchell, who has been writing a column in order to support her mother and siblings, is one of the reporters to lose her job. As a parting gift to Norton, she submits her final column, a fake letter from "John Doe," an unemployed man threatening suicide. Called back into the newsroom after the letter causes a frenzy with the public, Ann and the bosses decide to hire a man to impersonate "John Doe" in order to boost circulation.
The cast:
Barbara Stanwyck as Ann Mitchell
Gary Cooper as "John Doe"
Edward Arnold as D. B. Norton
Walter Brennan as The Colonel
Spring Byington as Mrs. Mitchell
James Gleason as Henry
Gene Lockhart as Mayor Lovett
The film is based on "A Reputation," a short story by Richard Connell which first appeared in Century Magazine.
Working titles for the film included The Life and Death of John Doe and The Life of John Doe. Meet John Doe was ultimately chosen, TCM reports, to avoid potential confusion over the film being a biography.
"Daisy," the animal actress playing the Mitchells' dog in the film, appeared in 45 films total including the Blondie series.
This film marked the final collaboration between Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin. They made ten films together in total.
Frank Capra reportedly filmed five different endings for Meet John Doe.
Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck co-starred in a total of three films: Meet John Doe (1941), Ball of Fire (1941), and Blowing Wild (1953). Both also appeared in The Stolen Jools (1931) and Variety Girl (1947), though they didn't share any scenes.
Ann Sheridan was considered for the role of Ann Mitchell.
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for its screenplay.
(Image via Wikimedia Commons)
Favorite things:
Ann: "Big, rich slob like D. B. Norton buys the paper and forty heads are chopped off!"
Ann: "He wants fireworks, eh? Okay." *furiously typing*
Mayor Lovett: "Well, what about me? It's my building he's jumping off of!"
Stanwyck's fast-talking explanation of the sales potential of "John Doe"
Ann: "On Christmas Eve, hot or cold, he goes!"
Henry: "What John Doe?"
Ann: "The one we hire for the job, you lunkhead!"
Ann: "If it was raining hundred dollar bills, you'd be out looking for a dime you lost some place!"
Ann: "That's our man! He's made to order!"
The "I Protest!" photo adorning so many front pages
The montage of The New Bulletin's circulation growth
Daisy the dog!
Ann's frenzied writer's block as she prepares a speech for "John Doe"
Ann's mother telling her that no one will listen to "John Doe" because there's already so much negativity on the radio, and sharing Mr. Mitchell's diary for inspiration
The John Doe radio broadcast — how he stumbles over his words at first, has microphone mishaps, and is heckled, but delivers his message powerfully by the end (even if he isn't totally buying it, himself!)
"To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barking dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork."
Waiter: "Ma! MA! That's John Doe!"
The montage of the growth of the "John Doe" movement
John's dream of interrupting Ann's wedding
John passionately standing up against the killing of "John Doe"
The snow showers and shadows of the scenes at City Hall
Ann: "That's why those bells are ringing, John! They're calling to us – not to give up – but to keep on fighting! To keep on pitching! Oh, don't you see, darling? This is no time to give up!"
Harry: "There you are, Norton. The people! Try and lick that!"
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Image Comics will return to Chicago this year for C2E2 on Friday, April 6 through Sunday, April 8th. Please note: updates to the schedule may appear online during the show. Please refer to the www.imagecomics.com post for the most up-to-date information.
Comic artists don't just translate scripts: they build characters. From choreographing the most subtle facial tics and body language to designing entire wardrobes, illustrators are master actors of ink on page. Giving shape to entire casts, they carve new souls on a monthly basis. The creators on this panel specialize in character design, from Leila del Duca's medieval romanticism on SLEEPLESS to Jeremy Haun's rugged post-apocalyptic fantasy chic in THE REALM, and Tula Lotay's fashion-forward covers. Come see these shapers discuss their process, including Annie Wu and Jen Bartel as they preview their upcoming Image projects, DEAD GUY FAN CLUB and BLACKBIRD.
Writers channel the crises we face everyday through layers of fiction, allowing readers to dissect universal struggles through a vibrant, askew lens. Though comics may catalyze new worlds overflowing with imagination, creators ground that surrealism in drama and catharsis. Join a panel of stellar scribes including Kyle Higgins (THE DEAD HAND), Gerry Duggan (ANALOG), Tee Franklin (BINGO LOVE), Tini Howard (HACK/SLASH: RESURRECTION) and some very special guests as they discuss the friction that gave way to their latest works.


When migrating Exchange on-premises to Exchange Online (Office 365) it is common to run into the follwing error message when starting a migration batch.
The <domain>.mail.onmicrosoft.com proxy address in critical for mail routing to work in the hybrid scenario. Without the alias present on the user object the users that remain on-premises would not be able to send a message to any of the users located in the cloud.
While the issue can be fixed by modifying each users in "Active Directory Users and Computers" for large workloads this is definitly something you'll want to accomplish using PowerShell.
After running the script ensure that the changes are replicated to the domain controller used by Azure AD Connect. Wait for Azure AD sync to occur or start it manually.
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Hwang Min Hyun is a member of NU'EST from Pledis Entertainment and a member of WANNA ONE from YMC Entertainment. He was on the show, "Produce 101 Season 2" and was chosen to be part of the new group "WANNA ONE". WANNA ONE is under the label YMC Entertainment, just as IOI was before they ended the group not too long ago. And if you didn't know, the winners of Produce 101 Season 1 were the members of IOI.
It was Hwang MinHyun's birthday not too long ago, so we had some fans place orders with Flower Gift Korea. There were a bunch of different groups of fans who got together to think of which gifts to send to Hwang Min Hyun in Seoul, South Korea. In the end, they decided on which Flower Gift Korea items to send Hwang MinHyun as birthday gifts. And we were lucky enough to get some photos of our delivery to YMC Entertainment, which is located in Seoul, South Korea.
The above three photos show what we delivered to YMC Entertainment, Seoul, South Korea. It was our first time to YMC Entertainment that time, so we weren't sure how strict they were going to be. And it wasn't easy to get the delivery there because YMC Entertainment is located inside a building that doesn't let anyone in without approval from a worker.
Outside of the building where YMC Entertainment is located in.
It wasn't easy for our delivery man to get into the building. But after trying a bunch of few things, we were able to get into the building!
So the above photo is of the gifts inside the building. Nice! We got into the building, so now we had to see if we would be able to get to YMC Entertainment's door. Once we got to the fourth floor, we knew we were in the right place because of all of the boxes that were there for Hwang Minhyun from other fans.
Wow! That is a lot of gifts for one member of WANNA ONE! And there were more inside YMC Entertainment!
So, we were able to deliver the gifts to YMC Entertainment and took some photos, which was not easy to do.
It was fun preparing and delivering the gifts for our customers. They were really happy to have received our photos and knew for sure that we delivered the gifts to YMC Entertainment in Seoul, South Korea to WANNA ONE member Hwang MinHyun!
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It is best to search for Itaewon-dong 36-35 in google maps or whatever map tool you are using.
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DOHA, Qatar, 2018-Mar-21 — /Travel PR News/ — Qatar Airways is pleased to announce the launch of Oryx Kids Club, an exciting new flying club for the airline's youngest passengers, designed to put even more fun into flying for children.
The fun-filled launch took place at a press conference at KidzMondo Doha, hosted by Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Ehab Amin, and Qatar Airways Senior Vice President Marketing and Corporate Communications, Ms. Salam Al Shawa, with a special appearance by the Oryx Kids Club hero mascots, 'Orry' and 'Orah' the Oryx and their three furry friends – Kamil the camel, Faaiz the falcon and Farah the desert fox.
Qatar Airways Senior Vice President Marketing and Communications, Ms. Salam Al Shawa, said: "Flying with Qatar Airways should always be a fun and easy experience for families, and so we are excited to be able to launch our new Oryx Kids Club, making every flight with Qatar Airways even more enjoyable and relaxing for both parents and children.
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Honorary Lecturers
Paul S. Sidhu, London, United Kingdom
Professor Paul Sidhu from London, United Kingdom, will present the Luigi Oliva Honorary Lecture, titled 'Contrast-enhanced ultrasound in paediatrics: ready for clinical practice?' at ECR 2019.
Paul Sidhu is professor of imaging sciences at King's College London and a consultant radiologist in the Department of Radiology at King's College Hospital.
He received his medical degree from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, now part of Imperial College, in 1982, with honours. He completed his internship at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington on the professorial medical unit, before completing residency positions at the Brompton Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Guy's Hospital.
Prof. Sidhu spent one year as a fellow in medicine at Guy's Hospital, and a year as a lecturer in the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, before returning to radiology training at the Hammersmith Hospital and King's College Hospital. He was appointed consultant radiologist at King's College Hospital in 1996, taking on a dual role in both ultrasound and interventional radiology.
Prof. Sidhu's research has focused on ultrasound and interventional radiology, and he has published extensively on many aspects of ultrasound, particularly in relation to male health and liver transplantation.
Prof. Sidhu notably pioneered the introduction of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the United Kingdom in 1996 and is recognised as an authority in the application of this technique in clinical practice. His current research interests include the application of CEUS to the testis, radiation dose reduction in children and non-invasive ultrasound in the assessment of liver disease.
He is currently the editor of the European Journal of Ultrasound and was deputy editor of the British Journal of Radiology. He is past-president of the British Medical Ultrasound Society and past-president of the section of radiology of the Royal Society of Medicine. Currently, Prof. Sidhu is president of the European Federation of Societies in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB). He is an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound and a fellow of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE).
Prof. Sidhu is the editor of five books and has published over 275 scientific articles, as well as 60 book chapters. He has also organised numerous teaching courses, predominantly related to ultrasound imaging. Prof. Sidhu is a renowned teacher, involved with the ESR, ESGAR, ESUR and EFSUMB teaching courses, and was awarded the best teacher accolade for the European School of Radiology (ESOR) in 2013. Prof. Sidhu is an active lecturer who has given over 500 presentations at national and international meetings and has also been invited to deliver a number of plenary lectures.
At ECR 2019, Professor Paul Sidhu will present the Luigi Oliva Honorary Lecture titled 'Contrast enhanced ultrasound in paediatrics: ready for clinical practice?'


As noted in last week's column about vitamin D, vitamins are substances that the body can't make that are necessary in trace amounts for normal metabolic functioning.
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is a water-soluble vitamin (as opposed to fat-soluble). Unlike other vitamins, which are made by plants (vitamin D is an exception because it is produced by exposure to sunlight), B12 comes from bacteria in dirt. Animals eat food that contains dirt, and B12 is stored in their livers and muscles. B12 also ends up in eggs and dairy.
• Anemia associated with abnormally large red blood cells.
• Numbness and tingling in hands and feet, poor balance, which can be irreversible.
• Memory trouble, depression and even psychosis.
• Elevated homocysteine, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
• Pernicious anemia, which is an autoimmune disease that destroys the intrinsic factor necessary for B12 absorption.
• Obesity surgery such as stomach stapling, and other GI tract surgery involving the stomach or small intestine.
• Celiac and severe Crohn's disease.
• The commonly used diabetic drug metformin.
• Drugs that prevent secretion of stomach acid taken for more than two years (PPIs such as Nexium and Prilosec; H2 blockers such as Pepcid and Zantac).
• Advanced age: People 65 and older don't absorb B12 as well.
In addition, a vegan lifestyle can result in deficiency. People often ask me why, if plant-based nutrition is a "natural" diet, they have to take a B12 supplement. The answer is that we don't eat as much dirt, with B12-containing bacteria, as we did when the human genome was evolving. For example, our water is treated (which is a good thing in that we don't get cholera or giardia). And our produce is often prewashed.
How do you tell if you are deficient in B12? If you have any of the symptoms of B12 deficiency noted above, if your red blood cells are abnormally large, or if you have any of the above risk factors for deficiency, you should have a blood test done to check your level of B12. A more accurate test is a serum methylmalonic acid.
Deficiency is treated with supplements. For the most part, oral supplements are sufficient. In rare situations such as celiac disease or severe Crohn's disease injections are necessary.
To prevent deficiency, all vegans should supplement with 250 micrograms a day of B12 (cyanocobalamin), which is inexpensive and which you can buy at any drug store in pill form (sublingual preparations offer no advantage). People 65 and older should take 1,000 micrograms a day.
It is especially important that vegan women who are pregnant supplement, to ensure that the growing fetus gets adequate B12. Unlike other vitamins, you can't get too much vitamin B12 with oral supplementation because you can only absorb a certain amount.
Years ago, doctors would give B12 injections to patients who complained of feeling tired. However this practice is a bad idea. There are many causes of feeling tired, and B12 deficiency is an uncommon one. So if you feel tired, you need a workup to see what the cause is and then you should be treated appropriately.


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Idrimi was de koning van Alalakh in de eerste helft van de 15e eeuw v.Chr.

Idrimi was een zoon van de koning van Aleppo die ingesteld was door de nieuwe heerser over de regio, Barattarna, de koning van de Mitanni. Toch slaagde hij erin zijn troon opnieuw te bemachtigen en als vazal te worden erkend van Barattarna. Idrimi stichtte het koninkrijk Mushki, en regeerde vanuit Alalakh als vazalvorst van de Mitanni. Hij viel ook het Hittietenrijk in het noorden binnen, wat hem een vredesverdrag opleverde met Kizzuwatna.

Een inscriptie op de sokkel van een beeld dat in Alalakh werd gevonden vermeldt Idrimi's lotgevallen. Nadat zijn familie verplicht was naar Emar te vluchten had hij ze verlaten om naar het zuiden te trekken bij de Habiru in "Ammija in het land van Kanaän, waar de Habiru hem als de "zoon van hun grootvorst" erkenden en zich "rond hem schaarden"  nadat hij zeven jaren lang in hun midden had geleefd. Hij voerde de Habirustrijders aan in een zegenrijke aanval op Alalakh via de zee, waar hij dan koning werd.

Archeologie
Het stadsleven van Noord-Syrië onder heerschappij van de Mitanni komt tevoorschijn in niveau IV van Tell Atshana (het vroegere Alalakh) in de Amuqvlakte. Het beeld in ruwe witte steen dat er in een tempel werd bewaard tot de stad verwoest werd rond 1200 v.Chr. en vervolgens met eerbied werd begraven levert het portret van deze koning terwijl hij op zijn troon is gezeten. Geschreven in de eerste persoon staat er het verhaal van de koninklijke familie die in ballingschap werd gevoerd door een volksopstand, hoe Indrimi dan naar Kanaän ging, er te midden de semi-nomadische Habiru leefde en dan geleidelijk met hulp uit Mitanni zijn gezag herwon en zijn troon opnieuw dertig jaar lang bezette. Hij bouwde er ook een paleis (waarschijnlijk het "Paleis van Niqmepa" opgegraven door Woolley).

Bij de vernieling van dit paleis is blijkbaar gepoogd om de archieven in spijkerschrifttabletten te redden. Een aantal werden aangetroffen verspreid over de buitenste tuin en doorheen de vertrekken die ernaartoe leidden vanuit een kleine archiefkamer. Er staan details op over de internationale wetgeving en de gewoonten die golden tussen de verschillende lokale staten onder Mitannibestuur. Andere gaan over de samenlevingswet inzake handel en landbouw. Over het religieus leven is niets gevonden.

Literatuur
  1975: Biblical Lands - The Making of the Past, Elsevier-Phaidon, London

Zie ook
 Alalakh
 Habiru
 Mitanni

Hebreeuwse oudheid
Kanaänitische oudheid

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Exciting fiddler, Patrick McAvinue, performs his original compositions. With his incredible artistry and infectious smile, an evening with Patrick and his quartet is guaranteed to make our spirits soar.
Maestro James Harp directs this region's finest opera performers in this marvelous cabaret series presented by The Lyric Opera House. Shows are the first Saturday of each month. Enjoy "Opera a la Carte."
Tonight, Maestro Harp showcases students from his Peabody Opera Class in a Puccini program.


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Where have all the rock critics gone?
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he immediate answer to the above question in the title would be – everywhere. And nowhere. At the same time. I'm talking about two trends actually. Excluding such great and known names such as Lester Bangs and Crawdaddy magazine founder Paul Williams, who are truly gone, most of the big names like Greil Marcus, Robert Christgau, and Simon Frith are still around; somewhere in columns in established cultural magazines, books, and even academia. But it seems that their style of integrated cultural, musical and sociological analysis that at the same time deconstructs and reconstructs certain musical work is less and less visible. What has happened?
The heady days in the '60s when rock music was the main part of a new artistic and social-cultural movement (then called 'counterculture', as it was geared at re-examining then set cultural norms), and rock criticism was attracting all sorts of intellectual types, producing writing that has its merits on more than one level are all but gone. Today, two trends seem to be predominant. One is that rock music as part of overall culture has become an almost too strictly defined academic subject, examined in serious, sometimes overtly serious academic research works like the extensive study Rock Criticism from the Beginning, curated by four academics and academic publications such as Rock Music Studies. Or into an extensive online archive of past rock critic glories, like the one offered by Rock's Backpages.
…rock music as part of overall culture has become an almost too strictly defined academic subject…Or into an extensive online archive of past rock critic glories, like the one offered by Rock's Backpages.
Some brilliant stuff to be read in all of those, but how many of the everyday music fans and followers is ready to shell out about $100 dollars per subscription for either Rock Music Studies or Rock's Backpages, or quite a hefty sum for the aforementioned academic work or one of Greil Marcus' excellent books? What those everyday followers of rock (fashion), to quote a bit an old The Kinks song, are currently left with is looking out at a plethora of online sites and blogs that offer 'musical reviews', basically written by anybody who feels that they can do so.
Of course, excluding visits to personal sites of the likes of Robert Christgau, Tom Hull or former NME star writer Charles Shaar Murray or a few others, you are left with any and all of recent newcomers that will serve you up with everything – from some excellent writing and commentary to re-hashes of the standard press kits that the PR send along with today's standard – album streams, or music file downloads at best.
Rock criticism minus the criticism
These days in many cases, reviews usually serve as a promotional wheel for music PR's…
What seems to be lost in all this is the criticism itself in the term 'rock criticism.' As Charles Shaar Murray explains in a text he wrote back in the '90s (still on his site), album reviews do not necessarily mean criticism. These days in many cases, reviews usually serve as a promotional wheel for music PR's, who often don't even bother to send the original LP or CD, not even giving a chance to the reviewers to look at the complete work as a piece of an attempt at something more than a consumer product.
Or even more so, as Ted Gioia wrote in his piece for Daily Beast, music criticism has "degenerated into lifestyle reporting" – where? who did what? when? and to whom? in the music business (with the emphasis on business) dominates.
…music criticism has "degenerated into lifestyle reporting"
Ok, so the times have changed. But does that mean that the need for a more deepened analysis and look at the cultural and social background of certain music has diminished? Of course not, and such an extensive academic research into the subject matter is evidence to that. The question though remains – how to revive such work in more mainstream, particularly online publications. Good 'new' rock critics are out there, they just need to 'pop up;' and the right conditions exist.
An English attic turns out to be a 'treasure trove' of lost music
Old rock rules WXPN's "2,020 Greatest Songs of All Time"