Ninja is indeed fast, but by design the buildfiles are hard to write. Ninja sources include a patch to Gyp, a higher-level build system also somehow (not sure how exactly) related to Chromium, but the support wasn't very complete, and somehow I just didn't find Gyp appealing. I therefore did what anyone in my circumstances would've done, and started writing a "meta build system" myself.
It's called Jitsu, and since I really like Ruby, that's what I wrote it in. It's at version 0.1.2 now and available from rubygems.org, and as of now it can build (or rather, generate ninja buildfiles for) C++ binaries and static libraries. Builds are specified as build.jitsu files in YAML format, which the tool processes into build.ninja files that can then be used by Ninja. I'll keep trying to use it in my own projects so hopefully it'll keep on improving from here on out. Let's see where it will go, I haven't really delineated the scope yet, to e.g. just doing C++ builds.
If you are interested, install the gem, maybe grab the source and give it a spin. Let me know what you think. Also see the documentation.


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Q: Why does this sort function shift the sorted data upward? I have a table in the range B2:E9. I'm trying to sort only columns B and C. The sorting works, but the sorted cells are shifted up from row 2 to row 1.
I've searched for the last two hours for an answer. Can someone help me?
I think Excel may be having trouble recognizing my header because it starts on row 2 and row 1 is blank.
Columns("B:C").Sort Key1:=Range("C3:C9"), Order1:=xlDescending, Header:=xlNo, OrderCustom:=1, MatchCase:=False, Orientation:=xlTopToBottom

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As the former Practice Manager for Blackbaud's Arts and Cultural team Kevin Russell combines his extensive arts administration experience, technical knowledge and cultural focus to help his team of Services and Support professionals implement and support successful software solutions that build capacity in the back-office and drive increased revenue through multiple channels.
Prior to joining Blackbaud in 2005, Kevin was the Director of Operations for ArtsBoston, a nonprofit audience development and marketing company serving performing arts organizations in greater Boston. During his tenure at ArtsBoston, he implemented a complete technology upgrade, spearheaded the redesign and relaunch of ArtsBoston's website, and managed a successful three-year strategic planning process. Before joining ArtsBoston, Kevin was an executive recruiter in the technology industry.
Kevin has served on the board of the New England Theatre Conference, a regional theatre services organization, as well as the HR advisory board of Idealist.org, a national nonprofit service organization.
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Cathedral Square it situated opposite Worcester Cathedral in the heart of the city.
Comprising some 220,000 sq ft of retail, leisure and hotel accommodation, as well as a major car park, Cathedral Square is situated at the heart of this historic cathedral city. Tenants include H&M, Top Shop, Hotel Chocolat, White Stuff, Wilko and Travelodge.
The Fund completed the redevelopment of the southern end of the property, opening successfully in July 2017. This new element provides 8 new restaurant units, a coffee shop, a new gym, extended retail space and a new public square. Yo! Sushi, Ask, Cosy Club, Miller and Carter, Starbucks, All Bar One, Kung Fu and Fitness4less are all trading successfully.
Phase 2 of the scheme which took in two high street retail units and extended rearwards into the former mall space to create an MSU of 20,000 sq ft was a pre-let to Wilko, who opened in Autumn 2017.
The scheme was recognised by Revo, winning a Gold Award in the Re:Fresh category celebrating the very best of property investment, development and asset management.
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George Floyd protests erupt in Berlin, London and Toronto – New York Post
May 31, 2020 | 1: 29pm	| Updated May 31, 2020 | 1: 31pm
The outrage over the death of George Floyd has gone global.
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of London, Berlin and Toronto over the weekend to protest Floyd's Memorial Day death during a confrontation with Minneapolis police, according to news reports.
Chanting "black lives matter" and holding signs that read "Justice for George Floyd" and "racism has no place," protesters gathered in London's Trafalgar Square Sunday and blocked traffic outside the US embassy, the largest public gatherings since the coronavirus lockdown took effect, the BBC reported.
"I'm very sympathetic to the issue but also surprised to see the strength of emotion that has gathered people together," the Rev. Sally Hitchiner, associated vicar at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church in the square, told the outlet.
"Clearly they're not following lockdown and social distancing, but I think there's a huge amount of passion there and that's overriding their concerns," Hiitchiner said. "It's an issue that requires passion but at the same time there's a huge amount of risk in what they're doing."
The BBC said "several people" were arrested.
Protesters march against the death of George Floyd by a police officer in TorontoCarlos Osorio/REUTERS
Floyd, 46, died Monday after being pinned to the ground by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin despite his repeated pleas for air.
On Saturday, protests erupted in Germany, where thousands gathered outside the US embassy in Berlin, demonstrators held up signs reading, "I can't breathe," NBC News said.
Video footage posted on Twitter by NBC correspondent Carl Nasman shows a large crowd outside the embassy, peacefully clapping in protest.
And in Toronto, as many as 4,000 demonstrators marched on Saturday. A video posted by Global Toronto journalist Albert Delitala on Twitter shows protesters marching down Brunswick Avenue in the Canadian city.
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Observers of the abandoned lots and empty buildings by the Delaware River in Fishtown might be surprised to learn that at one time they were the site of a utopian experiment. Located just north of the old Gunnar's Run (centered roughly where Beach and Richmond Streets intersect today), Dyottville began as a novel experiment in factory labor. In the early 19th century, Dr. Thomas Dyott initiated a new system of "moral and mental labor" in order to undercut European-made glass, which was of a high quality yet very expensive. For five years, he ran a company town that spanned over three hundred acres (most of which were taken up by his farm), employed and housed 250 to 300 workers at a time, and boasted 50 buildings, including a bakery, a shoe shop, a tailor, a dairy, a hospital, a chapel, and a school – for the "education of such a mass of human ignorance." The Dyottville Glass Factories were established in the 1820s on land that John Hewson had used for his famous calico printing factory in the 18th century (in fact both men inhabited the same dwelling house). They were a presence there until 1923, after which Cramp's shipyard appropriated the space.
Dyott viewed himself as a benevolent leader and innovator, taking the responsibility of reshaping and uplifting "the great mass of people" into a happy and virtuous "community of operatives." He believed this project would initiate the widespread utilization of factories in America without the negative effects seen in Europe. According to Dyott: "The great end of all human institutions is social happiness. The factory systems of Europe have degenerated into mere themes for declamation, because the industry that amasses Riches for one, created Misery for thousands…in the Dyottville System…social happiness is there made the basis of factory wealth; and the prosperity of each member of the little community is made the fertile fountain of wealth to the proprietor." He believed his system would mutually benefit the proprietors and the workers; the proprietors with better workers and therefore greater profits, and the workers with good health, improved morals, and the possibility of owning their own property someday. He also claimed its productive capabilities could bring America self-sufficiency in trade and therefore national independence.
After supper Dyott's young men spent a short time at physical recreation or music education. Dyott, believing recreation essential to health, allotted a large field just for that purpose. There, the apprentices could "amuse themselves in shinny-parties, foot-ball, sky-rocket, and other gymnastic exercises, of which they are fond…as no restraint is imposed on these innocent diversions, although the eye of an instructor is at all times upon them." They could also learn to play the flute and were instructed in "Sacred Vocal music." Every Thursday night, Dyott held a Singing School in the Chapel, attended also by neighborhood people living outside Dyottville. Dyott allowed his workers to sing only songs that would aid in their moral uplift: "all vile and obscene songs, have been superseded; which, in former times, the workmen and apprentices were accustomed to indulge in when at their labor." Here we see that the regulation of self expression in Dyottville was total: traditional worker customs had to be rooted out for the creation of a new, morally advanced and ultra-obedient operative.
Dyott educated his workers so that they could escape the "beastial degradation" characteristic of working people, but did not want to over educate them with anything he saw as impractical (or, perhaps, threatening). Before bedtime (8:30pm for the younger boys and 9pm for the older ones) they would take classes in reading, writing, and arithmetic. He taught them multiple trades, enough to make them successful operatives in his village. He believed this system could become the educational foundation for the whole country: "I have necessarily been compelled to connect labor with the whole system of moral and intellectual Education; in order to rescue mere animal power from the curse of ignorance, and to enlighten it in the path of duty…it may become the Exemplar of a National and State System of Manual labor Education." At a time when the subject was hotly debated, Dyott believed that the public should be educated in the useful arts—a belief driven by what Dyott himself explained as enlightened self-interest.
Though his system was characterized by mental and behavior control, Dyott believed it perfectly "congenial to all the Rights and Habits of a free people." Dyott claimed that the recruitment of malleable young boys made coercion unnecessary. "Persuasion, example, and system, do away with all thoughts associated with the idea of compulsion. The action of the mind to obedience is spontaneous; coercion is unknown and unnecessary; and hence no sensation of being fettered is experienced." He also stressed the absence of corporal punishment in his village due to the efficacy of his methods; if a boy broke the rules, he would not be allowed to visit friends or relatives on Sunday, the only day in which a slot of time was set aside for leaving the premises. Yet some of Dyott's contemporaries questioned the type of not-so- subtle control they observed at Dyottville. These critics, who were sometimes self-interested competitors simply worried about Dyottville's ten-hour days, helped block Dyott's petition to the state legislature for incorporation of Dyottville in 1834.
The experiment ended in during the Panic of 1837, when Dyott was unable to handle multiple runs on his private bank. He declared bankruptcy and was sent to Eastern State Penitentiary for three years at hard labor in solitary confinement. After leaving prison, he returned to the drug business of which he had been a part prior to his venture in social engineering. The glass factories reopened on a much smaller scale by 1842 and were run by the Benners family until 1923. By World War II, the entire area was owned by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company. Despite anyone's opinions of Dyott's methods or his ideas regarding "the great mass of people," his "apprentices were extraordinarily well housed, clothed, fed, and paid, compared with factory workers in general and glass-factory workers in particular." And today, the tangible remnants of this utopian experiment—Dyott's collectible glass products—often turn up in the yards of Fishtown residents.
"Dr. Thomas W. Dyott: A True Renaissance Man" by Kevin A. Sives.
Dyott, T.W., M.D. An Exposition of the System of Moral and Mental Labor established at the Glass Factory of Dyottville, in the Country of Philadelphia. Report of the Committee Chosen to Investigate the Internal Regulations of the Place. Philadelphia, 1833.
McKearin, Helen. Bottles, Flasks, and Dr. Dyott. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1970.


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Managing Competition, Conflict, and Cooperation in a Pandemic World
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Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI) is again leading an international consortium of think tanks from various countries to convene a virtual Global Town Hall, that will be held on Saturday, 20 November 2021, with the theme "Managing Competition, Conflict, and Cooperation in a Pandemic World."
The purpose of the Global Town Hall is to provide an independent platform to discuss the state of the world still grappling with the COVID-19 crisis, evaluate policy challenges and lessons learned, and gather ideas for future direction, especially in terms of how to rebuild the world economically, socially, environmentally, diplomatically, and even geopolitically.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia
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H.E. Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission
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Nobel Laureate, President of Democratic Republic of Timor Leste (2007-2012)
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State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of People's Republic of China
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Have you noticed the rise in general bleating about civil and/or human rights apparent infractions in this great country of ours of late?
I'd like to give a brief lesson to these bleaters so as to set them back on the path of basic common sense from whence they have obviously greatly strayed.
Human rights, per se, are a group of guidelines issued internationally by the United Nations, civil rights, on the other hand as they pertain to us, are a group of guidelines issued domestically, but they basically add up to the same thing.
For instance, Human Right Numero Uno reads: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Now you see right there, this leaves itself wide open to single children, and dare I say it, women to have a good gripe. But common sense here will tell you that the term "brotherhood," although appearing so on the surface, is not a sexist term.
Number two tells us that everyone is entitled to their own religion, color of skin, political preference, country in which to live and so on.
Three gives us life and liberty. Four says no to slavery, five gives a big no-no to torture, cruelty or degradation. Six gives us the recognition to be seen as a person before the law, seven gives us the protection of the law, eight allows us the right to our justifiable bleats being heard in a court of law.
Nine says we can't be arbitrarily arrested, 10 gives us a fair trial if we are arrested. And so on.
Basically it says we're all free to do whatever we want so long as we don't break the law and we're kind to each other, and we don't force our own beliefs down unwilling throats.
I have absolutely no doubt that there are grave violations of these rights in the likes of Darfur, Ethiopia, Iran, Uganda and more. We've all heard of the terrible iniquities carried out daily, of women being denied the right to an education, of children being maimed so they can legitimately beg, of men being executed for refusing to wear a beard.
Now they are all true violations. No doubt.
So I really do wish Americans would stop pulling the "it's a violation of my human rights" when they can't get a $700,000 housing loan when they have not a prayer of making the first payment, let alone ever paying it back.
I no longer want to hear about your rights being dismantled because you were caught shoplifting but felt you weren't hugged enough as a child.
Like the so called church, using the smallest 'c' I can find, who finds it all terribly justifiable to exercise its human rights to demonstrate the wages of sin for homosexuality at any given military funeral.
This is vile. It's nasty. It's disrespectful and it's just wrong. Nobody is making anybody do the horizontal folk dance with you, so please – bugger off and leave those who are grieving to grieve in peace.
If I was tremendously religious I just know that the Greater Power is up there right now fitting every one of you for horns, a trident and a nice red suit.
The term "mischievous" has a certain overtone of imps frolicking through the forest, of small nymphs having a bit of a lark. So I take a wee bit of exception to its use when it comes to the crumb bums who file "mischievous" suits as if it was all a bit of a game.
The one that really got up my hooter was the assertion that Americans were violating human rights with the immigration laws in Arizona, as bleated by the president of Mexico. Mexico, where if you are an illegal alien you are immediately jailed and if you're lucky deported back from whence you came.
After all, I have been an "alien." I went through all the hoops to become unalienized. It wasn't easy and it wasn't cheap, but I did want to live my life in this country on the up and up and to be able to enjoy everything it has to offer, and to have the tremendous privilege of voting so I could have my teeny tiny say in what I thought could do with a tweak or two.
I apologize if you're pulled over just because of your apparent ethnicity. But if you're here legitimately, you too should be cross if your hard-earned dollars were going to support those of your birth-country who aren't.
I'm dreadfully sorry if you feel hardly done by if you're eyed by the authorities because you have a one way ticket, no luggage, a book of your chosen religion in your hand, and a bit of suspicious string coming out of your sneakers or your tidy whities. We're not violating your human rights – you are trying, possibly, to violate ours. If you indeed weren't – so sorry.
See, our moms were always right, weren't they?


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Masshysteri () was a Swedish Post-Punk band, formed in Umeå in 2008. The group consisted of Robert Pettersson (rhythm guitar, vocals), Sara Almgren (bass guitar, vocals), Kajsa Bergsten (lead guitar) and Erik Viklund (drums)

History
Robert Pettersson, Erik Viklund and Sara Almgren previously played in the punk band The Vicious. The lyrics were English and they toured in the U.S. When The Vicious drummer André Sandström left the band, they had to find a stand-in. At the same point, they decided to write lyrics in Swedish. Erik took over the drums and Kajsa Bergsten joined the group on guitar. They released two 7"s and two full-length albums before they decided to disband. According to Dennis Lyxzén (their record company manager), internal problems between band members lead to the group breaking up.

Members
 Robert (Hurula) Pettersson - rhythm guitar, vocals
 Sara Almgren - bass guitar, vocals
 Kajsa Bergsten - lead guitar
 Erik Viklund - drums

Discography
 Vår del av stan (Ny Våg 2008)
 Masshysteri (Ny Våg 2010)

Singles
 Paranoid (2008)
 Monoton tid (2008)

References

External links
 band's official MySpace

Swedish punk rock groups

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Philip Heidelberger
74 EE Maria Eleftheriou, Blake G. Fitch, Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, T. J. Christopher Ward, Philip Heidelberger, Robert S. Germain: A study of the effects of machine geometry and mapping on distributed transpose performance. Conf. Computing Frontiers 2008: 79-86
73 EE Sameer Kumar, Yogish Sabharwal, Rahul Garg, Philip Heidelberger: Optimization of All-to-All Communication on the Blue Gene/L Supercomputer. ICPP 2008: 320-329
72 EE Sameer Kumar, Gábor Dózsa, Gheorghe Almasi, Philip Heidelberger, Dong Chen, Mark Giampapa, Michael Blocksome, Ahmad Faraj, Jeff Parker, Joe Ratterman, Brian E. Smith, Charles Archer: The deep computing messaging framework: generalized scalable message passing on the blue gene/P supercomputer. ICS 2008: 94-103
71 EE Sameer Kumar, Gábor Dózsa, Jeremy Berg, Bob Cernohous, Douglas Miller, Joe Ratterman, Brian E. Smith, Philip Heidelberger: Architecture of the Component Collective Messaging Interface. PVM/MPI 2008: 23-32
70 EE Pavlos Vranas, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, Alan Gara, Mark Giampapa, Philip Heidelberger, Valentina Salapura, James C. Sexton, Ron Soltz, Gyan Bhanot: Massively parallel quantum chromodynamics. IBM Journal of Research and Development 52(1-2): 189-198 (2008)
69 EE Perwez Shahabuddin, Victor F. Nicola, Philip Heidelberger, Ambuj Goyal, Peter W. Glynn: Varaince reduction in mean time to failure simulations (1988). Winter Simulation Conference 2007: 6
68 EE Sigrún Andradóttir, Paul Glasserman, Peter W. Glynn, Philip Heidelberger, Sandeep Juneja: Perwez Shahabuddin, 1962--2005: A professional appreciation. ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 17(2): (2007)
67 EE José E. Moreira, Valentina Salapura, George Almási, Charles Archer, Ralph Bellofatto, Peter Bergner, Randy Bickford, Matthias A. Blumrich, José R. Brunheroto, Arthur A. Bright, Michael Brutman, José G. Castaños, Dong Chen, Paul Coteus, Paul Crumley, Sam Ellis, Thomas Engelsiepen, Alan Gara, Mark Giampapa, Tom Gooding, Shawn Hall, Ruud A. Haring, Roger L. Haskin, Philip Heidelberger, Dirk Hoenicke, Todd Inglett, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Derek Lieber, David Limpert, Patrick McCarthy, Mark Megerian, Michael Mundy, Martin Ohmacht, Jeff Parker, Rick A. Rand, Don Reed, Ramendra K. Sahoo, Alda Sanomiya, Richard Shok, Brian E. Smith, Gordon G. Stewart, Todd Takken, Pavlos Vranas, Brian P. Wallenfelt, Michael Blocksome, Joe Ratterman: The Blue Gene/L Supercomputer: A Hardware and Software Story. International Journal of Parallel Programming 35(3): 181-206 (2007)
66 EE Pavlos Vranas, Gyan Bhanot, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, Alan Gara, Philip Heidelberger, Valentina Salapura, James C. Sexton: Gordon Bell finalists II - The BlueGene/L supercomputer and quantum ChromoDynamics. SC 2006: 50
65 EE Valentina Salapura, Randy Bickford, Matthias A. Blumrich, Arthur A. Bright, Dong Chen, Paul Coteus, Alan Gara, Mark Giampapa, Michael Gschwind, Manish Gupta, Shawn Hall, Ruud A. Haring, Philip Heidelberger, Dirk Hoenicke, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Martin Ohmacht, Rick A. Rand, Todd Takken, Pavlos Vranas: Power and performance optimization at the system level. Conf. Computing Frontiers 2005: 125-132
64 EE George S. Almasi, Gyan Bhanot, Dong Chen, Maria Eleftheriou, Blake G. Fitch, Alan Gara, Robert S. Germain, John A. Gunnels, Manish Gupta, Philip Heidelberger, Michael Pitman, Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, James C. Sexton, Frank Suits, Pavlos Vranas, Robert Walkup, T. J. Christopher Ward, Yuriy Zhestkov, Alessandro Curioni, Wanda Andreoni, Charles Archer, José E. Moreira, Richard Loft, Henry M. Tufo, Theron Voran, Katherine Riley: Early Experience with Scientific Applications on the Blue Gene/L Supercomputer. Euro-Par 2005: 560-570
63 EE George Almási, Philip Heidelberger, Charles Archer, Xavier Martorell, C. Christopher Erway, José E. Moreira, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, Yili Zheng: Optimization of MPI collective communication on BlueGene/L systems. ICS 2005: 253-262
62 EE Alan Gara, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, George L.-T. Chiu, Paul Coteus, Mark Giampapa, Ruud A. Haring, Philip Heidelberger, Dirk Hoenicke, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Thomas A. Liebsch, Martin Ohmacht, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, Todd Takken, Pavlos Vranas: Overview of the Blue Gene/L system architecture. IBM Journal of Research and Development 49(2-3): 195-212 (2005)
61 EE Narasimha R. Adiga, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, Paul Coteus, Alan Gara, Mark Giampapa, Philip Heidelberger, Sarabjeet Singh, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, Todd Takken, Mickey Tsao, Pavlos Vranas: Blue Gene/L torus interconnection network. IBM Journal of Research and Development 49(2-3): 265-276 (2005)
60 EE Michael E. Wazlowski, Narasimha R. Adiga, Daniel K. Beece, Ralph Bellofatto, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, Marc Boris Dombrowa, Alan Gara, Mark Giampapa, Ruud A. Haring, Philip Heidelberger, Dirk Hoenicke, Ben J. Nathanson, Martin Ohmacht, Robert Sharrar, Sarabjeet Singh, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, R. Brett Tremaine, Mickey Tsao, Arun R. Umamaheshwaran, Pavlos Vranas: Verification strategy for the Blue Gene/L chip. IBM Journal of Research and Development 49(2-3): 303-318 (2005)
59 EE Mark Giampapa, Ralph Bellofatto, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, Marc Boris Dombrowa, Alan Gara, Ruud A. Haring, Philip Heidelberger, Dirk Hoenicke, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Ben J. Nathanson, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, Martin Ohmacht, Valentina Salapura, Pavlos Vranas: Blue Gene/L advanced diagnostics environment. IBM Journal of Research and Development 49(2-3): 319-332 (2005)
58 EE George Almási, Charles Archer, José G. Castaños, John A. Gunnels, C. Christopher Erway, Philip Heidelberger, Xavier Martorell, José E. Moreira, Kurt W. Pinnow, Joe Ratterman, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, William Gropp, Brian R. Toonen: Design and implementation of message-passing services for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. IBM Journal of Research and Development 49(2-3): 393-406 (2005)
57 EE Gyan Bhanot, Alan Gara, Philip Heidelberger, Eoin Lawless, James C. Sexton, Robert Walkup: Optimizing task layout on the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. IBM Journal of Research and Development 49(2-3): 489-500 (2005)
56 EE George Almási, Charles Archer, José G. Castaños, C. Christopher Erway, Philip Heidelberger, Xavier Martorell, José E. Moreira, Kurt W. Pinnow, Joe Ratterman, Nils Smeds, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, William Gropp, Brian R. Toonen: Implementing MPI on the BlueGene/L Supercomputer. Euro-Par 2004: 833-845
55 EE George Almási, Charles Archer, John A. Gunnels, Philip Heidelberger, Xavier Martorell, José E. Moreira: Architecture and Performance of the BlueGene/L Message Layer. PVM/MPI 2004: 405-414
54 EE George Almási, George S. Almasi, Daniel K. Beece, Ralph Bellofatto, Gyan Bhanot, Randy Bickford, Matthias A. Blumrich, Arthur A. Bright, José R. Brunheroto, Calin Cascaval, José G. Castaños, Luis Ceze, Paul Coteus, Siddhartha Chatterjee, Dong Chen, George L.-T. Chiu, Thomas M. Cipolla, Paul Crumley, Alina Deutsch, Marc Boris Dombrowa, Wilm E. Donath, Maria Eleftheriou, Blake G. Fitch, Joseph Gagliano, Alan Gara, Robert S. Germain, Mark Giampapa, Manish Gupta, Fred G. Gustavson, Shawn Hall, Ruud A. Haring, David F. Heidel, Philip Heidelberger, Lorraine Herger, Dirk Hoenicke, T. Jamal-Eddine, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Alphonso P. Lanzetta, Derek Lieber, M. Lu, Mark P. Mendell, Lawrence S. Mok, José E. Moreira, Ben J. Nathanson, Matthew Newton, Martin Ohmacht, Rick A. Rand, Richard D. Regan, Ramendra K. Sahoo, Alda Sanomiya, Eugen Schenfeld, Sarabjeet Singh, Peilin Song, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, Karin Strauss, Richard A. Swetz, Todd Takken, R. Brett Tremaine, Mickey Tsao, Pavlos Vranas, T. J. Christopher Ward, Michael E. Wazlowski, J. Brown, Thomas A. Liebsch, A. Schram, G. Ulsh: Blue Gene/L, a System-On-A-Chip. CLUSTER 2002: 349-
53 EE Narasimha R. Adiga, George Almási, George S. Almasi, Yariv Aridor, Rajkishore Barik, Daniel K. Beece, Ralph Bellofatto, Gyan Bhanot, Randy Bickford, Matthias A. Blumrich, Arthur A. Bright, José R. Brunheroto, Calin Cascaval, José G. Castaños, W. Chan, Luis Ceze, Paul Coteus, Siddhartha Chatterjee, Dong Chen, George L.-T. Chiu, Thomas M. Cipolla, Paul Crumley, K. M. Desai, Alina Deutsch, Tamar Domany, Marc Boris Dombrowa, Wilm E. Donath, Maria Eleftheriou, C. Christopher Erway, J. Esch, Blake G. Fitch, Joseph Gagliano, Alan Gara, Rahul Garg, Robert S. Germain, Mark Giampapa, Balaji Gopalsamy, John A. Gunnels, Manish Gupta, Fred G. Gustavson, Shawn Hall, Ruud A. Haring, David F. Heidel, Philip Heidelberger, Lorraine Herger, Dirk Hoenicke, R. D. Jackson, T. Jamal-Eddine, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Elie Krevat, Manish P. Kurhekar, Alphonso P. Lanzetta, Derek Lieber, L. K. Liu, M. Lu, Mark P. Mendell, A. Misra, Y. Moatti, Lawrence S. Mok, José E. Moreira, Ben J. Nathanson, Matthew Newton, Martin Ohmacht, Adam J. Oliner, Vinayaka Pandit, R. B. Pudota, Rick A. Rand, Richard D. Regan, Bradley Rubin, Albert E. Ruehli, Silvius Rus, Ramendra K. Sahoo, Alda Sanomiya, Eugen Schenfeld, M. Sharma, Edi Shmueli, Sarabjeet Singh, Peilin Song, Vijay Srinivasan, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, Karin Strauss, Christopher W. Surovic, Richard A. Swetz, Todd Takken, R. Brett Tremaine, Mickey Tsao, Arun R. Umamaheshwaran, P. Verma, Pavlos Vranas, T. J. Christopher Ward, Michael E. Wazlowski, W. Barrett, C. Engel, B. Drehmel, B. Hilgart, D. Hill, F. Kasemkhani, David J. Krolak, C. T. Li, Thomas A. Liebsch, James A. Marcella, A. Muff, A. Okomo, M. Rouse, A. Schram, M. Tubbs, G. Ulsh, Charles D. Wait, J. Wittrup, M. Bae, Kenneth A. Dockser, Lynn Kissel, Mark K. Seager, Jeffrey S. Vetter, K. Yates: An overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer. SC 2002: 1-22
52 EE Peter A. Franaszek, Philip Heidelberger, Dan E. Poff, John T. Robinson: Algorithms and data structures for compressed-memory machines. IBM Journal of Research and Development 45(2): 245-258 (2001)
51 EE Vittorio Castelli, Richard E. Harper, Philip Heidelberger, Steven W. Hunter, Kishor S. Trivedi, Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan, William P. Zeggert: Proactive management of software aging. IBM Journal of Research and Development 45(2): 311-332 (2001)
50 EE Paul Glasserman, Philip Heidelberger, Perwez Shahabuddin: Variance reduction techniques for value-at-risk with heavy-tailed risk factors. Winter Simulation Conference 2000: 604-609
49 EE Peter A. Franaszek, Philip Heidelberger, Michael E. Wazlowski: On Management of Free Space in Compressed Memory Systems. SIGMETRICS 1999: 113-121
48 EE Paul Glasserman, Philip Heidelberger, Perwez Shahabuddin: Stratification issues in estimating value-at-risk. Winter Simulation Conference 1999: 351-358
47 EE Paul Glasserman, Philip Heidelberger, Perwez Shahabuddin: Gaussian Importance Sampling and Stratification: Computational Issues. Winter Simulation Conference 1998: 685-694
46 EE Beng-Hong Lim, Philip Heidelberger, Pratap Pattnaik, Marc Snir: Message Proxies for Efficient, Protected Communication on SMP Clusters. HPCA 1997: 116-127
45 EE Philip Heidelberger: Editorial. ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 7(1): 3 (1997)
44 Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol: Building Parallel Simulations from Serial Simulators. MASCOTS 1996: 2-4
43 EE Paul Glasserman, Philip Heidelberger, Perwez Shahabuddin, Tim Zajic: Splitting for Rare Event Simulation: Analysis of Simple Cases. Winter Simulation Conference 1996: 302-308
42 EE David M. Nicol, Philip Heidelberger: On Extending More Parallelism to Serial Simulators. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation 1996: 202-205
41 EE David M. Nicol, Philip Heidelberger: Parallel Execution for Serial Simulators. ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 6(3): 210-242 (1996)
40 EE Phillip M. Dickens, Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol: Parallelized Direct Execution Simulation of Message-Passing Parallel Programs. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 7(10): 1090-1105 (1996)
39 Philip Heidelberger, Jogesh K. Muppala, Kishor S. Trivedi: Accelerating Mean Time to Failure Computations. Perform. Eval. 27/28(4): 627-645 (1996)
38 Philip Heidelberger, Rahul Simha: Fast Simulation of a Voice-Data Multiplexer. INFOCOM 1995: 361-368
37 Phillip M. Dickens, Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol: Parallelized Network Simulators for Message-Passing Parallel Programs. MASCOTS 1995: 72-76
36 EE Caroline Benveniste, Philip Heidelberger: Parallel Simulation of the IBM SP2 Interconnection Network. Winter Simulation Conference 1995: 584-589
35 EE Philip Heidelberger: Fast Simulation of Rare Events in Queueing and Reliability Models. ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 5(1): 43-85 (1995)
34 EE Cheng-Shang Chang, Philip Heidelberger, Perwez Shahabuddin: Fast Simulation of Packet Loss Rates in a Shared Buffer Communications Switch. ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 5(4): 306-325 (1995)
33 EE David M. Nicol, Philip Heidelberger: A Comparative Study of Parallel Algorithms for Simulating Continuous Time Markov Chains. ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 5(4): 326-354 (1995)
32 Alvin M. Blum, Ambuj Goyal, Philip Heidelberger, Stephen S. Lavenberg, Marvin K. Nakayama, Perwez Shahabuddin: Modeling and Analysis of System Dependability Using the System Availability Estimator. FTCS 1994: 137-141
31 Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol: Parallel Simulation of Markovian Queueing Networks. MASCOTS 1994: 35-36
30 EE Phillip M. Dickens, Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol: Timing simulation of paragon codes using workstation clusters. Winter Simulation Conference 1994: 1347-1353
29 EE Philip Heidelberger, Perwez Shahabuddin, Victor F. Nicola: Bounded Relative Error in Estimating Transient Measures of Highly Dependable Non-Markovian Systems. ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 4(2): 137-164 (1994)
28 Cheng-Shang Chang, Philip Heidelberger, Sandeep Juneja, Perwez Shahabuddin: Effective Bandwidth and Fast Simulation of ATM Intree Networks. Perform. Eval. 20(1-3): 45-65 (1994)
27 Victor F. Nicola, Perwez Shahabuddin, Philip Heidelberger, Peter W. Glynn: Fast Simulation of Steady-State Availability in Non-Markovian Highly Dependable Systems. FTCS 1993: 38-47
26 Philip Heidelberger: Fast Simulation of Rare Events in Queueing and Reliability Models. Performance/SIGMETRICS Tutorials 1993: 165-202
25 David M. Nicol, Philip Heidelberger: Parallel Simulation of Markovian Queueing Networks Using Adaptive Uniformization. SIGMETRICS 1993: 135-145
24 EE Peter W. Glynn, Philip Heidelberger, Victor F. Nicola, Perwez Shahabuddin: Efficient estimation of the mean time between failures in non-regenerative dependability models. Winter Simulation Conference 1993: 311-316
23 Victor F. Nicola, Marvin K. Nakayama, Philip Heidelberger, Ambuj Goyal: Fast Simulation of Highly Dependable Systems with General Failure and Repair Processes. IEEE Trans. Computers 42(12): 1440-1452 (1993)
22 EE Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol: Conservative Parallel Simulation of Continuous Time Markov Chains Using Uniformization. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 4(8): 906-921 (1993)
21 David M. Nicol, Philip Heidelberger: Optimistic Parallel Simulation of Continuous Time Markov Chains Using Uniformization. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. 18(4): 395-410 (1993)
20 Victor F. Nicola, Philip Heidelberger, Perwez Shahabuddin: Uniformization and Exponential Transformation: Techniques for Fast Simulation of Highly Dependable Non-Markovian Systems. FTCS 1992: 130-139
19 EE Philip Heidelberger, Victor F. Nicola, Perwez Shahabuddin: Simultaneous and Efficient Simulation of Highly Dependable Systems with Different Underlying Distributions. Winter Simulation Conference 1992: 458-465
18 Ambuj Goyal, Perwez Shahabuddin, Philip Heidelberger, Victor F. Nicola, Peter W. Glynn: A Unified Framework for Simulating Markovian Models of Highly Dependable Systems. IEEE Trans. Computers 41(1): 36-51 (1992)
17 EE Peter W. Glynn, Philip Heidelberger: Analysis of Parallel Replicated Simulations Under a Completion Time Constraint. ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 1(1): 3-23 (1991)
16 Philip Heidelberger, Peter A. Franaszek: Traffic studies of unbuffered Delta networks. IBM Journal of Research and Development 35(1): 288-299 (1991)
15 EE Philip Heidelberger, Harold S. Stone: Parallel trace-driven cache simulation by time partitioning. Winter Simulation Conference 1990: 734-737
14 Philip Heidelberger: Discrete Event Simulation (Introduction to the Special Section). Commun. ACM 33(10): 28-29 (1990)
13 Philip Heidelberger, Alan Norton, John T. Robinson: Parallel Quicksort Using Fetch-and-Add. IEEE Trans. Computers 39(1): 133-138 (1990)
12 Edward A. MacNair, Kenneth J. Musselman, Philip Heidelberger: Proceedings of the 21st Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, DC, USA, December 4-6, 1989 ACM Press 1989
11 Philip Heidelberger, Peter A. Franaszek: Traffic Studies of Unbuffered Delta Networks. SIGMETRICS 1989: 226
10 EE Philip Heidelberger, M. Seetha Lakshmi: A Performance Comparison of Multimicro and Mainframe Database Architectures. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 14(4): 522-531 (1988)
9 Philip Heidelberger, Ambuj Goyal: Sensitivity Analysis of Continuous Time Markov Chains Using Uniformization. Computer Performance and Reliability 1987: 93-104
8 EE Philip Heidelberger, M. Seetha Lakshmi: A Performance Comparison of Multi-Micro and Mainframe Database Architectures. SIGMETRICS 1987: 5-6
7 Balakrishna R. Iyer, Lorenzo Donatiello, Philip Heidelberger: Analysis of Performability for Stochastic Models of Fault-Tolerant Systems. IEEE Trans. Computers 35(10): 902-907 (1986)
6 Philip Heidelberger, Stephen S. Lavenberg: Computer Performance Evaluation Methodology. IEEE Trans. Computers 33(12): 1195-1220 (1984)
5 Philip Heidelberger, Kishor S. Trivedi: Analytic Queueing Models for Programs with Internal Concurrency. IEEE Trans. Computers 32(1): 73-82 (1983)
4 Philip Heidelberger, Kishor S. Trivedi: Queueing Network Models for Parallel Processing with Asynchronous Tasks. IEEE Trans. Computers 31(11): 1099-1109 (1982)
3 Philip Heidelberger, Peter D. Welch: A Spectral Method for Confidence Interval Generation and Run Length Control in Simulations. Commun. ACM 24(4): 233-245 (1981)
2 Philip Heidelberger, Peter A. W. Lewis: Regression-Adjusted Estimates for Regenerative Simulations, with Graphics. Commun. ACM 24(4): 260-273 (1981)
1 Philip Heidelberger: Variance Reduction Techniques for the Simulation of Markov Process. Acta Inf. 13: 21-37 (1980)
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3 Gheorghe Almasi [72]
4 Sigrún Andradóttir [68]
5 Wanda Andreoni [64]
6 Charles Archer [55] [56] [58] [63] [64] [67] [72]
7 Yariv Aridor [53]
8 M. Bae [53]
9 Rajkishore Barik [53]
10 W. Barrett [53]
11 Daniel K. Beece [53] [54] [60]
12 Ralph Bellofatto [53] [54] [59] [60] [67]
13 Caroline Benveniste [36]
14 Jeremy Berg [71]
15 Peter Bergner [67]
16 Gyan Bhanot [53] [54] [57] [64] [66] [70]
17 Randy Bickford [53] [54] [65] [67]
18 Michael Blocksome [67] [72]
19 Alvin M. Blum [32]
20 Matthias A. Blumrich [53] [54] [59] [60] [61] [62] [65] [66] [67] [70]
21 Arthur A. Bright [53] [54] [65] [67]
22 J. Brown [54]
23 José R. Brunheroto [53] [54] [67]
24 Michael Brutman [67]
25 Calin Cascaval [53] [54]
26 José G. Castaños [53] [54] [56] [58] [67]
27 Vittorio Castelli [51]
28 Bob Cernohous [71]
29 Luis Ceze [53] [54]
30 W. Chan [53]
31 Cheng-Shang Chang [28] [34]
32 Siddhartha Chatterjee [53] [54]
33 Dong Chen [53] [54] [59] [60] [61] [62] [64] [65] [66] [67] [70] [72]
34 George L.-T. Chiu [53] [54] [62]
35 Thomas M. Cipolla [53] [54]
36 Paul Coteus [53] [54] [61] [62] [65] [67]
37 Paul Crumley [53] [54] [67]
38 Alessandro Curioni [64]
39 K. M. Desai [53]
40 Alina Deutsch [53] [54]
41 Phillip M. Dickens [30] [37] [40]
42 Kenneth A. Dockser [53]
43 Tamar Domany [53]
44 Marc Boris Dombrowa [53] [54] [59] [60]
45 Wilm E. Donath [53] [54]
46 Lorenzo Donatiello [7]
47 Gábor Dózsa [71] [72]
48 B. Drehmel [53]
49 Maria Eleftheriou [53] [54] [64] [74]
50 Sam Ellis [67]
51 C. Engel [53]
52 Thomas Engelsiepen [67]
53 C. Christopher Erway [53] [56] [58] [63]
54 J. Esch [53]
55 Ahmad Faraj [72]
56 Blake G. Fitch [53] [54] [64] [74]
57 Peter A. Franaszek [11] [16] [49] [52]
58 Joseph Gagliano [53] [54]
59 Alan Gara [53] [54] [57] [59] [60] [61] [62] [64] [65] [66] [67] [70]
60 Rahul Garg [53] [73]
61 Robert S. Germain [53] [54] [64] [74]
62 Mark Giampapa [53] [54] [59] [60] [61] [62] [65] [67] [70] [72]
63 Paul Glasserman [43] [47] [48] [50] [68]
64 Peter W. Glynn [17] [18] [24] [27] [68] [69]
65 Tom Gooding [67]
66 Balaji Gopalsamy [53]
67 Ambuj Goyal [9] [18] [23] [32] [69]
68 William Gropp (William D. Gropp, Bill Gropp) [56] [58]
69 Michael Gschwind [65]
70 John A. Gunnels [53] [55] [58] [64]
71 Manish Gupta [53] [54] [64] [65]
72 Fred G. Gustavson [53] [54]
73 Shawn Hall [53] [54] [65] [67]
74 Ruud A. Haring [53] [54] [59] [60] [62] [65] [67]
75 Richard E. Harper [51]
76 Roger L. Haskin [67]
77 David F. Heidel [53] [54]
78 Lorraine Herger [53] [54]
79 B. Hilgart [53]
80 D. Hill [53]
81 Dirk Hoenicke [53] [54] [59] [60] [62] [65] [67]
82 Steven W. Hunter [51]
83 Todd Inglett [67]
84 Balakrishna R. Iyer [7]
85 R. D. Jackson [53]
86 T. Jamal-Eddine [53] [54]
87 Sandeep Juneja [28] [68]
88 F. Kasemkhani [53]
89 Lynn Kissel [53]
90 Gerard V. Kopcsay [53] [54] [59] [62] [65] [67]
91 Elie Krevat [53]
92 David J. Krolak [53]
93 Sameer Kumar [71] [72] [73]
94 Manish P. Kurhekar [53]
95 M. Seetha Lakshmi [8] [10]
96 Alphonso P. Lanzetta [53] [54]
97 Stephen S. Lavenberg [6] [32]
98 Eoin Lawless [57]
99 Peter A. W. Lewis [2]
100 C. T. Li [53]
101 Derek Lieber [53] [54] [67]
102 Thomas A. Liebsch [53] [54] [62]
103 Beng-Hong Lim [46]
104 David Limpert [67]
105 L. K. Liu [53]
106 Richard Loft [64]
107 M. Lu [53] [54]
108 Edward A. MacNair [12]
109 James A. Marcella [53]
110 Xavier Martorell [55] [56] [58] [63]
111 Patrick McCarthy [67]
112 Mark Megerian [67]
113 Mark P. Mendell [53] [54]
114 Douglas Miller [71]
115 A. Misra [53]
116 Y. Moatti [53]
117 Lawrence S. Mok [53] [54]
118 José E. Moreira [53] [54] [55] [56] [58] [63] [64] [67]
119 A. Muff [53]
120 Michael Mundy [67]
121 Jogesh K. Muppala [39]
122 Kenneth J. Musselman [12]
123 Marvin K. Nakayama [23] [32]
124 Ben J. Nathanson [53] [54] [59] [60]
125 Matthew Newton [53] [54]
126 David M. Nicol [21] [22] [25] [30] [31] [33] [37] [40] [41] [42] [44]
127 Victor F. Nicola [18] [19] [20] [23] [24] [27] [29] [69]
128 Alan Norton [13]
129 Martin Ohmacht [53] [54] [59] [60] [62] [65] [67]
130 A. Okomo [53]
131 Adam J. Oliner [53]
132 Vinayaka Pandit [53]
133 Jeff Parker [67] [72]
134 Pratap Pattnaik [46]
135 Kurt W. Pinnow [56] [58]
136 Michael Pitman [64]
137 Dan E. Poff [52]
138 R. B. Pudota [53]
139 Rick A. Rand [53] [54] [65] [67]
140 Joe Ratterman [56] [58] [67] [71] [72]
141 Aleksandr Rayshubskiy [64] [74]
142 Don Reed [67]
143 Richard D. Regan [53] [54]
144 Katherine Riley [64]
145 John T. Robinson [13] [52]
146 M. Rouse [53]
147 Bradley Rubin [53]
148 Albert E. Ruehli [53]
149 Silvius Rus [53]
150 Yogish Sabharwal [73]
151 Ramendra K. Sahoo [53] [54] [67]
152 Valentina Salapura [59] [65] [66] [67] [70]
153 Alda Sanomiya [53] [54] [67]
154 Eugen Schenfeld [53] [54]
155 A. Schram [53] [54]
156 Mark K. Seager [53]
157 James C. Sexton [57] [64] [66] [70]
158 Perwez Shahabuddin [18] [19] [20] [24] [27] [28] [29] [32] [34] [43] [47] [48] [50] [69]
159 M. Sharma [53]
160 Robert Sharrar [60]
161 Edi Shmueli [53]
162 Richard Shok [67]
163 Rahul Simha [38]
164 Sarabjeet Singh [53] [54] [60] [61]
165 Nils Smeds [56]
166 Brian E. Smith [67] [71] [72]
167 Marc Snir [46]
168 Ron Soltz [70]
169 Peilin Song [53] [54]
170 Vijay Srinivasan [53]
171 Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow [53] [54] [56] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63]
172 Gordon G. Stewart [67]
173 Harold S. Stone [15]
174 Karin Strauss [53] [54]
175 Frank Suits [64]
176 Christopher W. Surovic [53]
177 Richard A. Swetz [53] [54]
178 Todd Takken [53] [54] [61] [62] [65] [67]
179 Brian R. Toonen [56] [58]
180 R. Brett Tremaine [53] [54] [60]
181 Kishor S. Trivedi [4] [5] [39] [51]
182 Mickey Tsao [53] [54] [60] [61]
183 M. Tubbs [53]
184 Henry M. Tufo [64]
185 G. Ulsh [53] [54]
186 Arun R. Umamaheshwaran [53] [60]
187 Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan [51]
188 P. Verma [53]
189 Jeffrey S. Vetter [53]
190 Theron Voran [64]
191 Pavlos Vranas [53] [54] [59] [60] [61] [62] [64] [65] [66] [67] [70]
192 Charles D. Wait [53]
193 Robert Walkup [57] [64]
194 Brian P. Wallenfelt [67]
195 T. J. Christopher Ward [53] [54] [64] [74]
196 Michael E. Wazlowski [49] [53] [54] [60]
197 Peter D. Welch [3]
198 J. Wittrup [53]
199 K. Yates [53]
200 Tim Zajic [43]
201 William P. Zeggert [51]
202 Yili Zheng [63]
203 Yuriy Zhestkov [64]


Congratulations to everyone at Gaywood Community Primary School in King's Lynn who yesterday after a very long installation progress created a TV show in their brand new TV and radio studio. The show below is especially for year six children to learn about moving up to 'BIG' school.
Special guests included Holly Rowe, my little girl, who's not so little any more and her friend Harry Tipple. I'm so proud of her for this and also think the whole thing is an amazing idea to help worried children when it comes to leaving the only school they've ever know at the end of the school year.
Thanks to Mr Shanks at Gaywood Community Primary and well done to Springwood High too!


text:
Epilogue: building peace in Lamu
Inside Kenya's war on terror
Inside Kenya's war on terror: the case of Lamu
I. Lamu becomes a victim: "They wanted to start a civil war"
II. Tinderbox of grievances: inequality and politics in Lamu
III. Kenya's war on terror
IV. "We're being punished": war on terror comes to Lamu
V. Countering violent extremism: not yet a peace strategy
VI. Foreign friends: lending a hand?
Read more Saferworld analysis on counter-terror and CVE
In Kenya there is an emerging official narrative of a war on terror being won. [154] Al-Shabaab is on the back foot in Somalia. Kenya has not seen further attacks on the scale of Westgate, Garissa or Mpeketoni. But no one believes that the threat of al-Shabaab has evaporated. When we asked people in Lamu whether they thought another large-scale attack targeting Christians and non-indigenous people would succeed in further dividing the area, or even manage to garner more support for the group, views were mixed.
On the positive side, there was a near-uniform acceptance that Lamu still has significant resilience to division. People often pointed to the response to the Mpeketoni attacks, with one person arguing that "everyone in Lamu Town felt bad for the victims of Mpeketoni. Some Kikuyus came here and we welcomed them." [155]
Others stressed that although the land disputes and politicisation of ethnicity had deepened divisions, it was important not to overlook the bonds that did exist. As one elderly woman from the Mpeketoni area argued, "We have stayed with Kikuyu since when they came. We used to nurse their children as they go farming". [156]
Others also pointed out that:
People won't get behind al-Shabaab or openly support it because firstly they blame the group for the problems they face now, including bringing the security restrictions, and secondly because we are well educated in Islam. [157]
Indeed, the depth of Islamic belief and teaching in the area was seen as antithetical to al-Shabaab's ability to garner support.
Furthermore, people pointed to the hard work being done by numerous local civil society groups, and especially faith groups, in trying to improve community cohesion through dialogues and fora that bring people together. As a businesswoman from Mpeketoni suggested, "inter-faith dialogue helped a lot because for example Christians were told about how terrorism is not part of Islam. It also helps heal divides." [158]
A religious leader in a focus group discussion pointed out that the:
attack in Mpeketoni immediately divided people by religion and tribe. However, we [a group of imams and preachers] formed an inter-faith forum and led a public demonstration, we closed the whole road. The whole community came, the media came, and on the second day the national government came. [159]
However, it is questionable whether bottom-up peacebuilding activities have managed to reach beyond those in society who are already open to participation. As we heard in one focus group:
Community leaders have sat together and united our networks, but at the youth level, those beyond our networks, they are not being united. This includes the most sensitive group, the young marginalised men. [160]
Overall, progress has been made, but no one is under any illusions about the persistence of divisions:
There has not been enough bringing people together to understand it's not Muslims or Christians. So another attack would still really divide people. [161]
There are other issues that civil society leaders feel are beyond their control. As a businessman points out, "the government needs to do its security work but ensure they do not victimise people". [162] While the government – and its international partners – recognise the problems embedded within Kenya's security sector, especially related to abuse of power, discrimination, and the lack of accountability, reform has been slow and uneven. Civil society has many insights that could help shape the government's peace strategy – on both security and other matters. But people feel disappointed by the tendency to avoid consultation on sensitive security matters, and the consequent failure to enable engagement. [163]
Lamu's structural problems also remain largely unaddressed. Whatever development initiatives come to Lamu – whether a port, other infrastructure or tourist investment – new jobs and economic opportunities will mean more migration, tension and grievances. [164] The remedy? Time and again we were told of the need to invest in education for 'local' people.
One issue raised even more frequently than education or jobs was the need for the government to ensure that everyone has title deeds. As one woman involved in peacebuilding efforts explained:
We can talk about cohesion and living together but indigenous people will still feel bad without the title deed, they will say 'we can't get a loan, we can't send our children to school.' [165]
The issue sits at the centre of identity-based conflict in the region. In the words of a politician: "If we had equal land rights and were treated equally then who would be able to incite one group against another? Their propaganda would not work." [166] There has been some work by both the national and county government to resolve the issue of title deed ownership, with customary community ownership of land recognised in Kenya's new constitution, and some deeds being issued to local people. Nonetheless, many locals still lack the skills and the stamina to attain land titles, and meanwhile the interests at play in Kenya's land politics remain entrenched – linked to actors in Nairobi with considerably more power than the 'small people' who are most at risk from further violence, whether at the hands of al-Shabaab or the security services.
Unfortunately, the temptation remains for politicians to gain support by taking disputes over land, jobs or services, and mobilising 'their' constituencies against 'the others'. In Lamu, devolution appears merely to have brought such national dynamics closer to the local level.
With elections due this year in August 2017, religious leaders in Lamu are worried about election-related violence between identity groups: "We're on a time bomb and it could explode at any time." [167] Even local officials share these concerns, predicting that, "as we move towards elections, more violence can be expected". [168]
Yet, despite the deep fissures and vulnerabilities that exist in Lamu, al-Shabaab may yet be unable to mobilise significant levels of support from its people. As one study explains:
Kenyan Muslims are not united, and nor is the coast. Race and ethnicity, as well as religious differences, divide these potential communities…. This cannot become a popular mass movement. [169]
So worries about large-scale recruitment and rebellion may well be overblown. However, they also miss the point. As one politician and businessman suggested:
As long as there are grievances here al-Shabaab will be able to continue. So it won't get to a civil war, but also we won't have a solution. [170]
The West's current obsession with CVE marks, in some ways, progress from the overly securitised war on terror. But as Kenya demonstrates, it has by no means replaced securitised thinking, and countries such as the United States have made this clear through putting their money and diplomatic support behind Kenya's military-security approach in both Kenya and Somalia. Nevertheless, even with CVE, which is in theory open to addressing causal factors and community perspectives, outside actors risk getting it wrong in contexts like Kenya.
In the best case scenario, this leads to the misallocation of resources and attention. In the worst, it could fuel an escalation of violence and a divisive response. There is no reason for forward strategy to be unclear though. First, Lamu needs a peace strategy rather than a range of counter-terror crackdowns and CVE projects. Such a strategy can easily be developed by listening to voices like those we spoke to with a view to identifying the issues that could lead to conflict (rather than merely looking for 'push and pull factors' that could lead to recruitment). Second, as a general rule, the most sensitive issues are typically the most pertinent to progress.
The priorities that came through most clearly from our research in Lamu were as follows. Firstly, Lamu deserves a changed approach to security provision that treats all groups equally and respects rights and due process even when dealing with violent individuals. Secondly, there needs to be quicker progress on providing equal access to land titles, jobs, education and political representation for all people in Lamu. Third, dialogue and bridge building will remain important, but dialogue does need to feel meaningful: it is up to Kenya's government – encouraged by its international friends – to demonstrate that it is listening to local people and acting decisively to address their concerns.
154. Cherono S (2016)), 'War on terror being won by brain power, not gun power, Security bosses reveal', The Daily Nation, 28 November
155. Key Informant Interview with businessman, Lamu Town, 29 November 2016
156. Women's focus group discussion, 1Lamu Town1 December 2016
158. Key Informant Interview with businesswoman, Lamu Town, 1 December 2016
159. Mixed focus group discussion, Lamu Town, 30 November 2016
163. Key Informant Interview with civil society activist, Lamu Town, 29 November 2016
164. Key Informant Interview with journalist, Lamu Town, 29 November 2016
166. Key Informant Interview with politician, Lamu Town, 29 November 2016
167. Key Informant Interview with group of religious leaders, Lamu Town, 1 December 2016
168. Key Informant Interview with official, Lamu Town, 29 November 2016
169. http://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/sites/lam/files/note4_observatoire.pdf, p 22
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The Rio Mesa High boys' water polo team didn't just keep knocking on the door.
It set up camp. Hey, it virtually moved onto the front porch.
All the perseverance reaped the grand prize Saturday.
Runner-up the past two seasons in the division finals, the Spartans became CIF-Southern Section champions in their third try with a decisive 9-4 victory over familiar foe Malibu in the Division 6 title match at the William Woollett Aquatics Center.
Lucas Villa scored four goals, Cameron Custance tallied two and the Spartans defense proved resolute in racking up the school's first section crown in water polo.
"It's an incredible feeling," said Custance, a senior and three-year varsity player. "It was such a hard feeling last year not to win the championship. Our goal from Day 1 this season was to win the championship.
Talk about a pressure season. Coach Derrick Timmons conceded anything less than a Southern Section crown would have been a disappointing year.
On a dreary, rainy day, the Spartans noticed nothing but sunshine. They celebrated in the pool, then made sure Timmons joined them for a postgame dip.
"I put a bear hug on him and pulled him in," said Custance with a grin.
Afterward, the hugs kept on coming.
Rio Mesa, the Pacific View League champion, plays up to its top seed in finishing 26-7, including three victories over Tri-Valley League champ Malibu. The Sharks, a division runner-up in two of the last three seasons, finished 22-6-2.
Theo Guillemot, Ryan Brown, Emmet Pierson and Kris Kakiakin all had single goals for Malibu. Preventing them from getting more was Rio Mesa goalie Kyle Walthall, who finished with six saves.
After close defeats in two previous finals, Rio Mesa eschewed any drama Saturday.
Malibu scored the first goal on Guillemot's shot from about 10 yards out with 4:22 left in the opening quarter. Matt Serrata scored the equalizer for Rio Mess less than a minute later by tossing a lob into the cage past Malibu goalie Dane Sartorius.
That set off a string of six straight goals by the Spartans, which resulted in a 6-2 halfltime lead.
Joe Yamamoto took a rebound after Custance hit the post and powered a shot into the net for the go-ahead score in the first period.
Two goals on 6-on-5 advantages — one by Custance and one by Villa — opened up a 4-1 lead after one quarter. After three periods, the lead was 8-3.
Villa said two previous trips to the finals added precious experience.
Balance and defense also played key roles for the Spartans.
Rio Mesa's defensive pressure proved instrumental as Malibu missed on its first six man-advantage opportunities.
"Our defense won the game," Villa said.
Five different Spartans scored goals. Yamamoto, Serrata and Zack Womack finished with single scores.


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I'm having trouble coming up with words to describe last night's second installment of the Real Housewives of New York Reunion other than "shouty" and "annoying," which probably gives you a pretty good indication of how things went, even if you didn't watch the show yourself. And if you didn't, mazel tov. You're smarter than we are.
I didn't hate this season of Real Housewives as much as some of you did, but the reunions have really worn me down. I couldn't be more pleased that we're only getting one episode of Housewives per week until the Beverly Hills ladies return in early September, because it's starting to feel like Bravo's beating a dead horse. We need a break, or at least I do.
1. Ramona was still sticking to her story about LuAnn's video. If Ramona didn't want to help LuAnn because she doesn't like her, she should just say that. Especially now because her "logic" has been so thoroughly destroyed. NONE of us like LuAnn. We'd all understand!
2. Jill is still horrible. And that's exactly how she should be. They showed some clips of her being snippy, catty, mean and generally talking behind people's backs in every way possible, which more or less put to rest any argument Jill could make that she's changed. She hasn't! And she shouldn't, because even though I kind of hate her half the time, the other half of the time, I think she's hilarious. If Jill were suddenly nice and cuddly and always forthright to people about her feelings, she'd cease to be Jill. And you saw how much camera time Kelly didn't get this season because she was sane…
3. We're still not sure if Ramona is an alcoholic. The brunettes seemed sure that she had a problem, the blondes weren't so sure. Might she be? Maybe. But I don't think there was any absolute indication one way or the other from the footage that we all saw, and the way that the brunettes latched onto the idea so happily wreaked of collusion. (As did the way they went after Alex. Put a pin in that, we're going to talk about it later.)
I think the discussion of Ramona's on-camera drinking habits was fair, though. Not only is it something that fans have been wondering about for at least two season now, but if Ramona didn't want anyone to get that idea, perhaps the first words out of her mouth every time someone pointed a camera at her shouldn't have been "pinot grigio." What wasn't fair, though, was the fact that her initial reaction to questions about her drinking habits was to tell the world that Jill's in Alcoholics Anonymous.
That little shitfit was bad for a couple of reasons. First, I don't think Jill's actually in AA. If she were, we would know it by now, and I don't ever remember hearing any whispers about it at all. Second, IT'S AA. It's anonymous, and outing someone who's in AA and who hasn't yet chosen to out themselves is just about the crappiest thing you can do. It was kneejerk defensiveness at its finest, and it actually made me more likely to believe that Ramona does have some sort of problem that she needs to address. Misdirection doesn't work with me, missy.
4. We got a guided tour to LuAnn's condescension and it was fabulous. The key to LuAnn's meanness has always been her ability to deny that anything she says is meant in a mean way, but when it's all played back-to-back like that, she fumbled for some sort of excuse as to why those things weren't actually mean. But it's classless to correct someone's pronunciation in public, let alone all the other stuff she's done.
LuAnn also didn't seem to grasp why people might hold her to a different standard of behavior, and she actually said that she's not trying to teach anyone anything about behavior. Did she forget that she wrote ("wrote") that book about how everyone should act? Was it not intended to be instructive, and did she not hold herself out as an expert on proper behavior and etiquette? If you want to be a total hosebeast (y'all loved that word last week, so here it is again, just for you!), don't also seek to profit by telling others what's wrong with how they go about their daily lives. You can pick one or the other, but not both.
5. Everyone hates Simon. Although still, no one could produce any actual "mean tweets," and Alex pointed out that if they had existed, someone would have seen them or found them by now. Which is true! And at this point, I don't think that they ever actually existed, because Jill is good enough at this game to know that she should print stuff like that out when it happens so that she can refer to it later. But still, "watch out" is creepy as hell. I'll give them that. Telling someone to "watch out," particularly a man saying it to a woman, is not making Simon's argument any better.
Of course, the elephant in the room when Alex's defense of Simon is being picked on is that none of these women actually like each other but Ramona and Sonja. If you were surprised thatAlex doesn't care if Simon calls Jill a c-u-next-Tuesday, you haven't been paying attnetion. I doubt Jill would stop Bobby from saying the same thing. Wouldn't you side with the dude you married over those people too? Even if he's being kind of vulgar and annoying? I know I would. Hell, I'd side with my dentist over those women.
6. They're not big fans of Alex either. I know that some of you are completely convinced that Alex is malevolent, and to be honest, I do not understand your reasoning. At all. Sure, she's a little awkward at times and makes some frightening faces when she's flustered, but the Brunette team seems to have gotten together before the reunion and decided to work together to make sure that she never finished a sentence, answered a question in full or otherwise had an opportunity to express herself in any kind of reasonable way. If they hate it so much when Alex gets red and anxiety-ridden, why don't they lay off her and let her finish a thought?
Because they're trying to push her off the show, that's why. And maybe they're just doing it to get rid of Simon, or maybe it's because they're the kind of people who always need a target. I'm not sure! But whatever the reason, all four of them decided to hate Alex simultaneously. And I'm sure the irrational Alex haters loved it, but based on the Twitter reaction, most people just found it tedious and mean. (I'm one of those people.)
7. Ramona spent some time reading Morocco's Wikipedia entry. She had literacy statistics and everything, presumably to prove that she's not the reason that everyone hates America. But she is! People like her are exactly the reason.
8. I'm sick of Kelly. For me, that was the big takeaway of the entire reunion fiasco. Kelly had garnered a lot of goodwill from most regular Housewives viewers during the season by making what was seemingly an about-face from Crazy Kelly on Crazy Island last season. And in a single reunion's time, she squandered that goodwill and returned straight to the petty, nonsensical, mean-spirited bimbo she had been for the entirety of her time on the show thus far. She spent all that time and energy being even-keeled and reasonable, and then she ruined it for herself.
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Each unit has computerized keratorefractometers which read the patient's diopter. It is further tested in a reading test which includes reading at a certain distance while using trial rims and lenses of various diopters. In each unit there are standardized digital tables for testing distance and near visual acuity.
For 6 years our medical data have been kept in a computerized form on a server and are available to the doctor from every unit in any of our centres. A patient can get a copy of the medical data which they lack. Visual data is also stored in digital form.
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Q: Laravel 5: Form fields not in model I have a model with a field called map_zips and inside that field, I would like to store up to 5 zip codes, comma separated.
I would like to have five different form fields that before getting stored in the database model, I concatenate the values together and store them in the DB in the single column.
How can I create multiple form fields in a view, validate said form fields, perform what needs to be done on said form fields, store them?  Beyond that, I think I will also need to split them up when loading up the edit/update page as well.
I guess the simplest way would be to create 5 different columns, one for each zip, but I'd like to learn how to do this to help extend my limited knowledge of Laravel.
In my ReportsController.php my current store method looks like this:
public function store(Request $request) {
    $this->validate($request, $this->rules);
    $user                     = Auth::user();
    $report                   = $request->all();
    $report['user_id']        = $user->id;
    Report::create($report);
    return redirect('/reports')->with('status', 'Report created');
}

A: I don't know if i undertand you question but you can try this:
if you want 5 input fields in your view you can try this, you will see error messages from you validation and a returned message to confirm that the value was stored propperly
@if (count($errors) > 0)

        @foreach ($errors->all() as $error)

{{ $error }}

        @endforeach

@endif
@if(session()->has('message'))

        {{ session()->get('message') }}

@endif
<form action="{{ route("route_to_store_function") }}" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="zip1">
    <input type="text" name="zip2">
    <input type="text" name="zip3">
    <input type="text" name="zip4">
    <input type="text" name="zip5">
    <button type="submit"></button>
</form>

then in your store function, concatenate the fields, save the report and return with a message to the previous page:
public function store(Request $request) {
    $this->validate($request, [
        'zip1' => 'required',// you can add more validations here
        'zip2' => 'required',
        'zip3' => 'required',
        'zip4' => 'required',
        'zip5' => 'required',
    ]);

    $report = new Report();
    $report->map_zips = $request->zip1.",".$request->zip2.",".$request->zip3.",".$request->zip4.",".$request->zip5;
    $report->save();

    return redirect()->back()->with('message', 'The report has been stored succesfully');
}

Then when you want to edit the report you can try this:
public function edit($id) {
    $report = Report::find($id)

    $zipCodes = explode(",", $report->map_zips);
    return view('edit_report_view', compact("report", "zipCodes"));
}

And in you edit view:
<form action="{{ route("route_to_update") }}" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="id" value="{{ $report->id }}">
    <input type="text" name="zip1" value="{{ $zipCodes[0] }}">
    <input type="text" name="zip2" value="{{ $zipCodes[1] }}">
    <input type="text" name="zip3" value="{{ $zipCodes[2] }}">
    <input type="text" name="zip4" value="{{ $zipCodes[3] }}">
    <input type="text" name="zip5" value="{{ $zipCodes[4] }}">
    <button type="submit"></button>
</form>


It is getting a little more challenging as the rows get longer, and I'm a little scared about the length of the later rows (from looking at some of the photos from the first challenge group, I'm guessing it might end up with 27 "trips" around the center maybe.) But it's a good project to keep my hands busy while I watch a show and it has been really fun choosing the different fabrics for each row as I go.
If you're interested in seeing more of the challenge photos, the hashtag for the challenge is #bgtawc. I love seeing all the different versions of this quilt.


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The origin of the name – name Nora is considered to be a multiple origin name. Iti is considered to be of latin and Anglo- Norman origins.
The meaning of the name Nora– Its roots may come from the latin name Honoria, which means "Honor". However French consider this name to be derived from the French name Alienor, bourne by French Princess of Occitan. The latter is derived from thethe Occitan phrase alia Aenor "the other AENOR" . This name is popular in England, Italy, Germany, Irieland, Scandinavian and Baltic countries.
Nora is a cheerful person and loves to talk. She is optimistic, creative and has a great imagination. Nora is lucky and loves luxury and good life. Her style is remarkable, however she loves to spend and to indulge. She can be very emotional and artistic. She may be very eloquent and be a gifted speaker. She has a talent of self- expression and can be great a dancer, make- up artist or musician. She is romantic and can be very moody at times. However she has a great determination to achieve her goals and can be extremely industrious.


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This is now the second post on the 5 theological views that need burned at the stake and it will be covering the Prosperity Gospel Theology preached by TBN and others like it. If you have not read the 1st entry about Dominion Theology then I would welcome you to do so.
The Prosperity Gospel is a theological view that claims wealth is a sign of God's blessings and that God wants to bless you too. It is often referred to as the "heath, wealth, and prosperity gospel" because it emphasizes that God's blessings also manifest in one's health and over-all well being. Through unwavering faith and dedicated financial giving God MUST bless your because He has "promised" to in His word.
Christian are often encouraged to "claim" such blessings in the name of Jesus. The prosperity teaching of positive confession (name-it and claim-it) stems from its proponents' view of scripture. The Bible is seen as a faith contract between God and believers; God is understood to be faithful and just, so believers must fulfill their end of the contract to receive God's promises. This leads to a belief in claiming the blessings as part of the contract. Due to John 14:14 (ask anything in my name) many prosperity promoters encourage the idea that the more you have faith for, the more you will be blessed with.
I will make you into a great nationand I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing" (Gen 12:2).
Where Did The Prosperity Gospel Come From?
The theological underpinnings of the Prosperity Gospel began in the post-WWII era when faith-healing preachers were starting to gain traction. The base of the faith-healing theology is not much different than the prosperity theology; ask and you shall receive if you are faithful.
One of the first faith-healing preachers to discover and promote the Prosperity Gospel was Oral Roberts, about 1947/48. He was the one who began declaring that God would increase their blessings, not just for being faithful, but for donating to HIS ministry specifically. He even promised that he would return donations that were not miraculously matched by or increased by God.
While I believe Oral may have truly believed in this gospel, it was not long before others realized it was a great method for increasing their own wealth and prosperity. Today there are a slew of preachers who do nothing more than take advantage of believers while squandering their donations on mansions, private planes, luxurious vacations, exotic sports cars, and million dollar wardrobes; all while millions around the globe are starved to death. They have faked educational credentials and often promote themselves as having a PhD; placing a Dr. before their titles. Sadly, many do not see through the scam.
One of the biggest scams is the "faith seed" used by many of the scam artist televangelists. Typically this is by playing a word association game with the word "seed" in the Bible. However, keep in mind that seed NEVER EVER has anything to do with money in the Bible. Words are not relative, they are contextual.
Besides the obvious fact that the prosperity preachers are only rich because they have convinced thousands of people (often poor) to give them as much money as possible, it's also just not founded in the scriptures.
The Abrahamic promise of blessings is ridiculous because the blessing that God promised Abraham was many generations, a great name, and God's own covering. God never mentioned financial blessings. Blessings does not always have to be equal to money. If that were true then wouldn't the "children are a blessing (Psalm 127:3)" verse be a bit confusing? Let's read the blessing passage in context.
First note that God is promising blessings specifically to Abraham and his offspring. Secondly, he says that all the people on earth will be blessed through Abraham. It is clear that this is not a financial blessing or Abraham would go broke spreading that blessing to the entire world. I would also point out that the New Testament speaks of what the blessing actually is; the blessing of the savior Jesus and the out pouring of the Spirit.
Furthermore, what are Christians to think if they continually give to the church faithfully but never get "blessed"? Are they bad christians? Why would God leave the majority of the world's Christians out of the "blessing" of Abraham? Are they cursed by God? Does not just want to bless everyone besides them? Did they not give enough money? Did they give money to the wrong church or ministry?
Moreover, what about the fact that the majority of the world's Christian live in utter poverty? In the streets of China, Ethiopia, Congo, Brazil, Mexico, Philippines, and other poor countries, Christian often go without even the basic necessities of life. Why would God leave the majority of the world's Christians out of the "blessing" of Abraham?
Lastly, Jesus and the NT church as our example, we should expect that the world and it's systems are going to reject us, not bless us.
I will end with a great snippet from a truly educated preacher named John Piper.


That's how we felt when hearing the news that Steve Jobs is resigning his position as CEO. Gutted that his health is such that he has had to make this decision and gutted because Steve Jobs is the lens that gives Apple laser-like focus. Actually, scratch that, he gives the entire computing industry focus. We have no doubt whatsoever that he has infused his love of art, design, technology, engineering and humanity into every fibre of the company that he and Steve Wozniak founded on April 1, 1976. However there is no denying that he will be missed and that Apple will be somewhat diminished as a force for change.
We wish him well and hope that his reduced workload will give him more time and energy to focus on a full recovery.
We thought it would be interesting to run a series of posts that present some of Steve's highlights during his time as Apple's CEO.
We start with the introduction of the Macintosh. The 'insanely great' personal computer that defined the way that we would interact with computers for over 25 years.
To sell innovation you need to be able to tell a good story. Every keynote that Steve Jobs gave was a lesson in storytelling. It's not enough to simply add cool new features or new ways of doing things, communicating the reason for those 'features' and 'ways' in a style that can be easily understood and passed on to others is essential.
We wonder if any of the other Apple executives can step up in this regard.


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Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Romania, 1955-1959 Department of State decimal files 766, 866, and 966.
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Kiristoosiin bilisa bahuu kan jedhu barumsi duuka buutummaa kun namni dhunfaaniif waldaaleen adda addaa yoo dhimma itti bahaan hedduu itti gargaaramuu ni danda'u.
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Freedom In Christ, teachings are very useful in our disciplship program in our Churches.
With the availability of the FIC Discipleship Course in the 2 main local languages of Ahamric and Oromo, requests for training are coming in from churches all over Ethiopia.
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R.C. Hall
Aust Prescr 1999;22:138-9
DOI: 10.18773/austprescr.1999.124
cost of drugs
drug regulation
Health policy monitoring
Hall R. Pharmaceutical product discontinuations unrelated to safety. Aust Prescr 1999;22:138-9. https://doi.org/10.18773/austprescr.1999.124
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Safety concerns are not the only reason a drug is withdrawn from the market. Other reasons include product portfolio rationalisation, treatment advances, regulatory reviews of efficacy and demands to reformulate products. Government policies on reimbursement can also lead to withdrawals. More rarely, medicolegal issues can result in discontinuation.
Current estimates of the costs of developing a new chemical entity are of the order of US$600 million spread over approximately 10 years. Worldwide, only one in three products is likely to gain a return on the development costs. Despite this investment a product is sometimes removed from the market for reasons other than safety considerations. While health professionals are usually well informed about drug withdrawals in response to adverse effects, the reasons for other withdrawals may be unclear.
Rationalisation of product portfolios
A successful pharmaceutical research company continuously adds products to the market-place and thus will have an increasing range of products and presentations. The medical need for, and commercial viability of, an increasing portfolio should be reviewed on a regular basis. This may lead to the discontinuation of some presentations or products. Such decisions are not taken lightly. A basis for a decision to discontinue has been described.1 This process takes into account the need to continue to provide products which meet a specific medical need but which are not commercially viable.
As more pharmaceutical companies amalgamate, reviews of product portfolios become more likely. A newly-merged company will almost certainly increase the range of its product portfolio, but will also create product overlaps. As a result, some products may be discontinued. Since such decisions may come long after the `hype' of the merger announcement, the cause and effect may not be recognised.
The thalidomide tragedy led to the regulation of pharmaceuticals in many Western countries in the late 1960s or early 1970s. In general, products on the market at the time regulations came into effect received `grandfather' status. As a result, claims and formulations available at the time were accepted without review. However, in Europe, committees were established to review `grandfathered' pharmaceutical products. The Committee of Review of Medicines was established in the U.K. in 1975. Companies were required to submit data to support claims for marketed products. As a result, by the end of 1976, approximately 10 000 licences were voluntarily surrendered and other products were discontinued.2
In the European Union, products are now licensed for five years, after which time a renewal is required. While this provides a mechanism for product discontinuations, there is no list of products that may have been discontinued due to this process.
Advances in treatment
Improved treatments may lead to product discontinuations. Mercurial diuretics for the treatment of hypertension were an advance in their day, but their use would now be unacceptable.
New technologies may also lead to product discontinuations. Examples include the plastic ampoules which have replaced some glass vials and facilitated the discontinuation of multi dose vials. Product discontinuations may therefore be driven by declining medical need, which in turn is the result of better alternatives.
Formulation changes
Occasionally, the need to reformulate a product results in a review of the value of the product versus the costs of introducing the change. The requirement to replace chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) with hydrofluoroalkanes (HFAs) as propellants in pressurised metered-dose inhalers is one such example. Agreements to share toxicology data on HFAs reduced the development costs. However, significant resources and expertise are still required to develop the valve technology and document the clinical equivalence between the current CFC products and new HFA products. Smaller companies may decide to discontinue their CFC products rather than incur the costs of developing a replacement containing an HFA.
The European Commission has directed that, in the case of essential substances, once there are at least two HFA alternatives on the market, older formulations of those substances containing CFCs must be withdrawn.
Pharmaceutical reimbursement policies
This is an area of growing controversy as countries implement policies ranging from a free-market approach to restricted lists and reference pricing of subsidised medicines. With the possible exception of the free-market approach, most of the remaining policies have cost containment as their primary goal. However, since pharmaceuticals account for only approximately 10% of most developed countries' health budgets, the maximum cost saving is small compared to what could be achieved in other areas. Furthermore, appropriate pharmaceutical intervention in many cases saves costs in other areas of health expenditure. It is unfortunate that the structure of health funding in Australia and some other countries does not take into account such savings.3
In a review of measures to control the pharmaceutical industry,4 the authors concluded that price regulation is a relatively crude way of controlling expenditure on pharmaceuticals. The reviewers recognised the Australian efforts to utilise economic analyses to aid the decisions about subsidising new products. However, they also commented that a rigorous evaluation of the impact of the Australian approach is required.
Since this review, the Australian government has introduced reference pricing for a number of drug classes. This questions the role of pharmacoeconomic analyses and has the secondary effect of undermining the patent life of new compounds in the affected classes. Such changes may prompt companies to withdraw products or rationalise their product range. In New Zealand, the cost-containment strategies of the drug subsidy agency contributed to the withdrawal of famciclovir and valaciclovir.5
Therapeutic best practice
Many countries are developing strategies to ensure patients receive rational drug therapies. Examples include the National Prescribing Service in Australia and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in the U.K. It is too soon to determine whether or not these schemes will result in product withdrawals. However, in this context, a more active `delicensing' process has been proposed for the U.K.6 Along similar lines, one form of propentofylline was discontinued in Japan apparently because of new criteria on clinical usefulness.
Apparent removal
On occasions, a company may decide to license a product to another company. As part of this process, the product name may be changed making it appear that the product has been discontinued.
Medicolegal issues
In some countries, there is a growing move to take legal action if a pharmaceutical product is claimed to have resulted in an undesirable outcome. The cause celebre in this regard was Debendox (Bendectin). Some claimed that Debendox was teratogenic. In 1983, the company discontinued the product because it was not prepared to continue a succession of legal cases in the U.S.A. This decision was taken despite the fact that there was no conclusive evidence that the product was a teratogen.7
Information on discontinuations
In Australia deletions from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme are listed in each edition of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule. However, there is no clarifying information about the reasons for withdrawal, some of which could be related to safety.
A complete listing of all products that have been discontinued is available on the Drugdex database, but this also does not include the reasons for discontinuation. The Food and Drug Administration in the U.S.A. requires pharmaceutical companies to notify the administration within 15 working days of discontinuing sale of a product. However, stating the reason for discontinuation is voluntary. While there are a number of possible reasons for product discontinuations, the relative importance of each of these cannot be assessed because there is not enough information to analyse.
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