Italian giants S.S.C. Napoli have shortlisted three Real Madrid players ahead of the summer transfer window, with playmaker Isco sitting at the top of the club's wishlist.
I Partenopei are looking to make a handful of big-name signings this summer as they want to offer Juventus a serious title challenge next season, having finished as runners-up in three of the last six seasons.
Thursday's edition of Il Mattino (via Calcio Napoli 24) claims that Napoli chairman Aurelio De Laurentiis has shortlisted Spain international midfielder Isco as the club's top priority ahead of the summer transfer window.
The 27-year-old has been heavily linked with a move from Real Madrid throughout this season after falling out of favour under former managers Julen Lopetegui and Santiago Solari, although Isco scored after being brought in by Zidane during his first game back in charge.
Napoli's De Laurentiis is also eyeing a move for defensive midfielder Casemiro, whose contract at the Santiago Bernabéu expires in 2021.
Real Madrid defender Marcelo has also been mentioned as a potential target for the Partenopei, but the 30-year-old doesn't fit the age profile of a typical De Laurentiis signing and any deal for the Brazilian would depend solely on his price.
It's unknown exactly how much Napoli will be looking to spend this summer, but they've also been linked with a €30m move for Bournemouth's Nathan Ake amid rumours that Kalidou Koulibaly could be joining Manchester United at the end of the season.


MONIKA MONGOLis a Czech fashion designer who primarily creates limited collections with attention to detail and timelessness. She contrasts minimalist design with her characteristic embroidery that reveals her interest in ethnic tribes and travels across Asia. She focuses on creating a variety of dresses for various occasions which she considers a wardrobe essential for the kind of woman that likes to emphasize her femininity with elegant design. Traditional craftsmanship, quality natural materials and sustainability are of great importance to the brand which is why the production takes place in the Czech Republic.
The Mongol backpack is the perfect urban accessory to complement your outfit and to accompany you day in, day out. While functionality, elegance and minimalist aesthetics drive the design aspect of the backpack, its production reflects the core values of Monika Mongol like sustainability and tackling textile waste. The designer hand-picks discarded pieces of leather and incorporates them into the backpack, creating a one-of-a-kind piece each time. Inside the backpack is one large laptop pocket and two small pockets for small things. Back Thracians and has a lightly padded, and that means a comfortable fit.
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Pax had to witness his usual litter box space being changed forever. It was a place of very personal nature for him, of course.
He now has a new space for his litter box, and luckily he has settled with the changes.


A man who stole money from his place of work tried to cover his tracks by staging a robbery involving an 'acid' attack.
Steve Beeson, 54, was seen on CCTV footage pouring what was described in court as a 'fake acid' all over his own face as part of a robbery he staged at New Horizon Amusements in the Market Place, Boston.
Beeson of Ingram Road, Boston was taken to hospital to be checked over before being arrested and charged with theft by employee and wasting police time.
He pleaded guilty to both offences when he appeared at Boston Magistrates' Court.
The court heard the panic alarm was activated at the arcade at 8.30am on January 24.
When police arrived, Beeson, who was a manager at the business, told them the shop had been robbed and acid had been thrown in his face as he opened up.
Prosecuting, Dan Pietryka said: "Officers found Beeson on the floor complaining that his face was burning and alleging that £3,100 had been stolen.
"There was a bleach bottle on the floor."
Beeson alleged there had been a knock on the door and when he answered, a man took money from him and threw something in his face.
But CCTV footage showed Beeson pouring fake acid over his own face.
The court heard Beeson was unable to explain why he did what he did.
The incident involved nine police officers and four PCSOs as well as an ambulance crew who took him to hospital.
The court heard Beeson admitted to being 'heavily in debt' and that he had received threats to pay money back.
He said he had several payday loans and had been pressured to stage the robbery to get the funds to pay the money back.
The money - which he had stolen a week earlier - had not been recovered.
Beris Brickles, mitigating, said his client was 'seriously in debt', partly as a result of his partner having a serious illness which meant they had to travel three times a week to Leicester for treatment.
He said he had taken out loans over a period of time until he had ended up with a payday lender.
He had borrowed £1,500 which had risen to £4,500 with interest and had been assaulted in the past when he couldn't make a payment.
He said that on the last occasion he had even been shown a photograph of his wife going into Leicester hospital and his son leaving work - as a threat as to what would happen if he didn't pay.
He said Beeson came up with a scheme to take the money from the float at work and pay £3,100 to the loan sharks and repay it with a genuine loan to be taken out by a relative.
The court heard this loan did not work out so he made up the robbery.
Mr Brickles said Beeson was "very upset and ashamed by what he did" and said he could have taken far more but only took what he needed to get the loan sharks off his back.
He added that he had now started a repayment plan for his £12,000 of debts with help from the Citizen's Advice Bureau.
Beeson was given an eight week prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to repay the £3,100.


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Fundraising through mobile apps for nonprofits
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Late in 2017, Apple lifted a seven-year ban on in-app fundraising1. Up to the ban lift, nonprofits were focused on mobile fundraising strategies that went around the app store, like text-to-give and mobile donation portals. This means the field is ripe for innovation and would welcome engineers and app developers with fresh ideas.
For donors, it's all about ease of use– 63% of mobile users would rather use an app than visiting a website2. Convenience, speed, and even entertainment value are singled out as the main reasons. Apps also do a better job hosting personalization components than a standard web page. As a result, users spend 3 to 4 times longer in mobile apps than desktop or mobile websites3.
There are several nonprofit areas that stand to benefit from app development:
1 Fundraising
Third-party platforms (Omaze, Facebook Fundraiser, Classy) are favored by nonprofits over developing their own fundraising apps. Going this route means savings from security to server space, in exchange for a processing fee. That being said, there's still room for innovation in mobile apps for nonprofits.
Take Charity Miles4: Capitalizing on the popularity of activity trackers, the mobile fundraising app helps people donate to their favorite organization while getting exercise. Users choose the nonprofit they want to support and earn money from sponsors for every mile they walk/jog/bike. Or The Samaritan app5, which reveals the story of the homeless individuals you pass daily and gives you the opportunity to help through your mobile.
63% of mobile users would rather use an app than visit a website.
2 Other donations
Unlike fundraising, non-monetary donations can take a variety of forms, and offer a stronger motivation for nonprofits to create their own apps to serve a specific need. A great example is the American Red Cross6: The nonprofit has developed a blood donor app that pushes notifications in case of shortage or if a specific blood type is needed. Another organization using an app to collect and make immediate use of non-monetary donations is FoodFul7. The nonprofit application makes it easier for restaurants and grocery stores to donate provisions to registered charities– food that otherwise would be thrown away. In addition, the app provides donors and recipients with the fastest route to deliver or pick up the food and simplifies the process of writing the donation off for tax purposes.
3 Volunteering
One of the cornerstones of a functioning nonprofit, volunteer work requires proper stewardship and management in order to be effective. Apps can be of extraordinary assistance in this effort. Consider Buengo8: A marketplace app for nonprofits, Buengo recently added a volunteer job board that gets organizations in touch with their user base. Unlike apps that require a purchase, Buengo is free of charge for registered nonprofits. The deceptive simplicity of the app propelled it to the finals of the UN World Summit Award for social impact initiative.
4 Awareness
Granted, awareness has more to do with the mission of the organization than its operation (like the other three), but nonprofit apps are uniquely suited to move the needle in this area. Consider GoodGuide6: This app reveals whether a product is safe, healthy and socially responsible upon scanning the item's barcode. Users can also customize the application by choosing the issues they care about most.
The opportunities for nonprofit app development are vast and plenty. The stage is set for career starters to make their mark.
(1) Gazdecki, A. 7 Nonprofits Leveraging Mobile Apps to Further their Cause. Retrieved from https://www.biznessapps.com/blog/7-non-profits-leveraging-mobile-apps-cause/
(2) Blair, I. Why Utilizing Mobile Apps Is a Must for Nonprofits. Retrieved from https://buildfire.com/mobile-apps-for-nonprofits/
(3) Ruby Garage (2017, September 6th). 8 Reasons Your Ecommerce Store Needs a Mobile App. Retrieved from https://rubygarage.org/blog/benefits-of-mobile-app-for-ecommerce
(4) Esquivel, M. The 11 Fundraising Apps Every Nonprofit Should Know. Retrieved from https://www.wholewhale.com/tips/the-11-fundraising-apps-every-nonprofit-should-know/
(5) Trahant, G. 25 Social Good Apps That Make It Simple To Impact The World Everyday. Retrieved from https://www.causeartist.com/social-good-apps-impact-the-world/
(6) Hibbing Daily Tribune (2019, January 20th). Red Cross Issues Emergency Call for Blood Donors. Retrieved from https://www.hibbingmn.com/free_press/red-cross-issues-emergency-call-for-blood-donors/article_1f2d63ba-1a90-11e9-948e-bb9e3af50020.html
(7) Foodful. Save Your Food Store Money. Retrieved from https://foodful.net/benefits-for-your-business/
(8) May, M. (2018, October 25th). Charity App Round Up for October 2018. Retrieved from https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/10/25/charity-app-round-october-2018/#.XGdQsS3Mw9U
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ANSIBLE_HOSTS=${ANSIBLE_HOSTS:-$WORKSPACE/hosts}
SSID_FILE=${SSID_FILE:-$WORKSPACE/cico-ssid}

CPU_ARCH=${CPU_ARCH:-x86_64}
CICO_FLAVOR=${CICO_FLAVOR:-small}
CICO_OS_RELEASE=${CICO_OS_RELEASE:-7}
LOGSERVER="logserver.rdoproject.org ansible_user=loguser"

# Write the header of the hosts file
cat << EOF > "${ANSIBLE_HOSTS}"
[logserver]
${LOGSERVER}

[openstack_nodes]
EOF

# Get nodes
if [ "$CPU_ARCH" == "ppc64le" ]; then
    nodes=$(cico -q node get --arch "$CPU_ARCH" --flavor "$CICO_FLAVOR" --release "$CICO_OS_RELEASE" --retry-count 10 --retry-interval 180  --count "${NODE_COUNT}" --column hostname --column ip_address --column comment -f value)
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fi

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Veggie Pride: Vegetarian and Vegan pride
Manifesto of the Platform for the Defense of Natural Health
What is Organic Agriculture?
Author: Dra. Loredana Lunadei
We want assert our pride to refuse to kill animals for our consumption
We refuse to rob their only possessions beings, their own flesh, their own life.
We refuse to participate in a breeding system that converts the short existence of the animals in a real hell.
We refuse to do those things for the pure fact of satisfying our gluttony or in accordance with habits and traditions.
A refusal of this kind should be the minimum effort. But history shows how difficult it is to say "no" when barbarism had become a social standard.
We affirm our pride to say that "no".
Denouncing the veggiephobia
Asserting that we exist
Defending our rights
People aim to shame us. Vegetarianism is denied, ignored, ridiculed, marginalized and even defamed.
The vegetarianism is a clear to object against the legitimacy of cloistered and kill of billions of animals. By its very existence breaks the law of silence. Therefore causing laughter, hate and phobia.
Of course, the harmless vegetarian is respected when asserts that their lifestyle is just a "personal choice" arguing dubious reasons of health, environmental or noble asceticism. But poor of us if we openly challenge the barbarism!
First they laugh at us. Worrying about cows and chickens is ridiculous as it sounds. Ridiculing people is way to reject ideas that do not like with no arguments. But if we are not bowed, laughter turns into grimaces. We were bad, now we have become monsters. We are traitors to our own species for all non-consensual rights. Outraged parents for not starting our children in delight butcher. Followers of the Nazis because Hitler loved dogs. Members of sects because we do not like the rest.
They accuse us of being terrorists. Sometimes they say that we idolatrous nature, other times we do not respect their laws. Trying in any way to shame us or symbolically reject of the society.
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But we refuse to be ashamed of our compassion. Let's stop hiding. Do not ask forgiveness for our refusal to kill. We're here living, thinking and making our position known.
We are millions in the world who say "no" to the massacres. Most civilizations have questioned the legitimacy of being a carnivore. Is anyone talking about it? In schools, vegetarianism should not be defamed.
"The man who eats meat or the hunter who is content with the cruelty of nature keeps each bite of meat or fish that might makes right." – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Prize for Literature.
Saying that we do not eat meat shows that we live a lifestyle that is possible. We do not eat cows or pigs, chickens, fish or shrimps, and yet we live as well as the rest, despite what it disclosed of some "specialists" whose science seems to deny reality. Vegetarianism or veganism (which excludes all animal products from the farm, dairy and eggs) doesn't have negative effects on health. Those studies show quite the opposite!
Killing to live is not inevitable, either individually or collectively. Livestock consume more nutrients from their dead meat. However, public money is invested heavily to keep the livestock and fisheries.
Beasts bred for the slaughter, they have no rights at all but for us, we express our solidarity with them, gives a few, in theory. We want to exercise our rights, because they are ours, and they are yours, the only people who have today, although it indirectly.
We right foods in canteens at work, at school or at any other community.
We educate our children without imposing on the products of the slaughterhouse.
We refuse to participate in our tax funded butchers.
We want to break the silence that came with our ideas. We no longer want to be the only public speech in the industrial and intellectual way advocating consumption of meat.
We are open to discussions.
"We are a reflection of your guilty conscience and reflection that will not hide"
In the light of dozens of animals "destroyed" due to bovine encephalopathy and FMD, we were the only ones not to feel ashamed. Not to feel ashamed for us, but shamed by others.
But above all we feel sad. If we show our pride in refusing to barbarism, why not feeling satisfied?. The animals are slaughtered per billion. We'll be their voice until the cessation of the slaughter.
We are in solidarity with all animals.
By Dra. Loredana Lunadei
Dr. Loredana Lunadei is a specialist in food, dietetics and nutrition. She studied at the University of Milan where she obtained a Master in Food Science and Technology. Subsequently, she continued her studies, completing her PhD also at the University of Milan. Linkedin.
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The history of Slovenes in Cleveland began in the 19th century, peaking between the late 19th and early 20th century with massive emigration of Slovenes prior to World War I. Slovenes in the Cleveland metropolitan area make up the largest Slovene diaspora in the United States. Since Slovene immigrants began to settle in Cleveland in the 1880s, Cleveland has become home to the largest population of Slovenes in the world outside of Slovenia. Until Slovene independence in 1990, the Slovene consulate in Cleveland served as an official consulate for Yugoslavia under Tito.

History
The first documented Slovene in the Cleveland area was John Pintar, who first arrived in Cleveland in 1879 and returned to the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia five months later; the first permanent Slovene resident of Cleveland was Jožef Turk in 1881. Slovenes began to settle in large numbers around the Cleveland area in the 1880s, particularly in the area that would become known as Newburgh. Other sizeable communities grew in the Collinwood and Euclid neighborhoods. By the 1890s, a larger community formed along St. Clair Avenue, eventually building up along eastern Cleveland and Lake Erie. As Cleveland grew as a major center of steel and iron production, immigration swelled in search of jobs. By 1914, one-third of Cleveland was foreign-born with an estimated 20,000 Slovenes. This made Cleveland the third-largest Slovene city in the world, behind Trieste and Ljubljana. Rates of immigration slowed between 1924 and 1940 due to the Immigration Act of 1924, with most Slovenes immigrating as reunited family members. Slovenes who came after World War II were predominantly political refugees.

The 1970 census listed 46,000 foreign-born or mixed-parentage Slovenes in the Cleveland area. The Slovene community continued to push east into Lake County through the 1980s, with a peak population over 50,000 Slovene-Americans in the greater Cleveland area by 1990.

Culture
The first Slovenian cultural organization was the short-lived Marijin Spolek (the Marian Society), a mutual aid society formed following the death of a young Slovene man, Peter Podrzaj, in order to protect the economic wellbeing of the growing Slovene community in 1890. The Slovene community at the time was predominantly young men who did not intend to stay in America, but rather to send money to their families in Slovenia. Turk, now an established presence in Cleveland with a number of businesses, paid for Podrzaj's funeral, and convinced 7 other men to form the Marijin Spolek as an insurance group again sickness, death, and burial costs. The Slovakian priest Stephen Furdek encouraged the Marijin Spolek members to fund a Slovene church, which laid the groundwork for St. Vitus's Church. The church was named after its founding priest, Vitus Hribar, who moved from Kamnik, Slovenia at the request of Turk to provide church service in Slovenian to the growing population. A number of other churches, including St. Lawrence (1901), St. Mary (1906), and St. Christine (1925) soon followed. Due to internal dissent, some members of Marijin Spolek splintered off to form the Slovenian Benefit Society Slovenija (Slovensko Podporno Drustvo Slovenija), while the remaining members became a part of the large American Slovenian Catholic Union (Kranjsko Slovenska Katoliška Jednota).

The Slovenian Sokol was formed in 1897 to promote gymnastics, as well as music and literature in the Slovene community. A number of Slovene-language newspapers were started in Cleveland, including Narodna Beseda (National Word), Nova Domovina (New Homeland), Ameriska Domovina (American Home) which continued publication into the 1990s, and Enakopravnost (Equality). The Catholic, more conservative Ameriska Domovina was frequently at odds with the more liberal Enakopravnost which was emblematic of the growing divide between the more and less religious sides of the Slovene community. This rift resulted in a number of identical organizations divided by ideology, such as the large number of Slovene singing communities including the Zarja Singing Society founded by Cleveland members of the Jugoslav Socialist Federation compared to the Lira Singing Society established at St. Vitus. Immigration from Slovenia slowed considerably during World War I, but Slovenes from other parts of the United States migrated to Cleveland and the community was bolstered by a high birth rate. Community leaders began serious discussions about building a center of Slovenian cultural and social life, finally culminating in the Slovenian National Home, built in 1924, after the planning organization was formed 10 years prior.

Although Slovenian language use has almost entirely disappeared, Slovenian culture and cultural events maintains a significant role in the community with events such as the Cleveland Kurentovanje, sponsored by St. Vitus. The final issue of Ameriska Domovina was published on August 21, 2008.

Organizations

 American Mutual Life Association
 Progressive Slovene Women of America
 Zarja Singing Society

Notable persons

 Frank Lausche
 Tony Petkovsek
 Michael Polensek
 George Voinovich
 Frankie Yankovic
 Ivan Zorman

References

Demographics of Ohio
Slovene-American culture in Cleveland
Ethnic groups in Ohio

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Federation of Freight Forwarders' Associations in India (FFFAI) fulfilled its desire to promote a training establishment for Customs Brokers, Freight Forwarders & Logistics companies, by setting up "The Indian Institute of Freight Forwarders" (IIFF) in 2004. It was launched, by Mayur C. Contractor, with the sole objective of training and developing human skills of the highest order to match the global standards.
IIFF has made its goal to vocationalize the available man-power and provide them to the industry. The management and control of the Institute is vested with the Board of Governors and Academic Council of the Institute.
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3 Dr G T Patle Performance evaluation of drip irrigation for selected vegetables crops in East Sikkim.
3 Dr G T Patle Organized a five days training programme on "Integrated farming system for sustainable agriculture" sponsored by Directorate of Agriculture and Food Production, Govt. of Odisha during September 5-9, 2017.


If your idea of a bedtime routine involves binge watching Netflix till 3 am, you may be setting yourself up for long term health problems.
When we talk about sleep, most of us only focus on whether or not we're getting the recommended six to eight hours per night. But, this type of thinking is surprisingly shortsighted. According to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, when you sleep matters just as much as how long you sleep. Night owls are more likely to develop diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and sarcopenia than early risers, even when they sleep the same number of hours per day.
The study looked at the difference between night and morning chronotypes, also known as your natural sleep-wake cycles. The results suggested that staying awake late at night is likely to cause sleep loss, poor sleep quality, and eating at inappropriate times. After several years, this leads to permanent metabolic changes that up the risk of developing diabetes and other medical issues.
Changing your natural sleep preference isn't easy, but may be well the worth the effort if you already have a family history of these types of health problems. Put down the remote, turn off the TV, and resolve to stick to a respectable bedtime no matter what new shows Netflix decides to add!


Join us for NYSPHA's interactive pre-conference session to learn what roles hospitals, health care, health departments and the business community are doing to improve the health of the population. Many traditional and non-traditional relationships are being built around the country, and investments are being made to address the social determinants of health through a variety of unexpected sources. How can your agency get involved? How do we find funding? How do we capitalize on a rapidly-changing healthcare environment?
Who should attend: Hospital and health plan staff and administrators, health insurance brokers, health department employees, community coalitions, health educators, health risk management professionals, public health students and professors.


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Q: Creating a DAL within its own class library using Entity Framework Update: This is not a web application; it's a server service which has a lot of DLL's that access the DB in different ways.  I needed a way to have a singleton entity framework DLL that could provide the access to the DB.
I'm attempting to setup a DAL DLL object utilizing Entity Framework 6 within my project. I want to call a single object versus setting up the model within all of the objects that need it. That way I can update the data model in one place and all of my libraries will be updated as well.
So within my project I created a .NET framework project and linked to the database to create the model (DB first). So that project sees the model ok.
I can then link to the DLL object's model within one of my other projects within the solution by creating a reference to the project and linking to the created entity like this:
ModelEntities db = new ModelEntities();

I can see all of the methods and objects that were created. But it seems I cannot access the DB when I run a very simple query like:
var dbRecord = (from record in db.UserKey).FirstOrDefault();

I can create a test within the entity model class and run that above query with no issues. And when I examine the db object, it looks like it's initialized.
Then thinking about it, I'm not sure the entity model is logged into the SQL Server using the outside object and that theory seems verified when I step through the code, the db object in that case has a bunch of exceptions on it even before running the query.
I'm not even sure I'm going about this right in the first place; that could definitely be a possibility. But in the case that I am right, how can I initialize the DB connection in the remote entity class before I call the query?

A: When you create an EntityFramework edmx within a ClassLibrary it creates a config file within that project. Your applications main webconfig will not have the config information from your class library and will not work.
The solution is to copy the connection string config items to your Application project's web config as well as the EntityFramework configuration tag.
Connection Strings:
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="ADatabase" connectionString="" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
  </connectionStrings>

Entity Framework Tag
  <entityFramework>
    <defaultConnectionFactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.LocalDbConnectionFactory, EntityFramework">
      <parameters>
        <parameter value="mssqllocaldb" />
      </parameters>
    </defaultConnectionFactory>
    <providers>
      <provider invariantName="System.Data.SqlClient" type="System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, EntityFramework.SqlServer" />
    </providers>
  </entityFramework>

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Former Muslim inmate recounts abuse he experienced at China's 're-education' camp
(Reuters/Stringer)An Imam calls on Muslim Uighurs for their afternoon prayer with a self-made iron loudspeaker on the roof of the Kuqa Mosque, the second biggest mosque in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, August 20, 2012.
A Muslim inmate at one of China's "re-education" camps has recently spoken about the torture that he had endured as authorities attempted to force him to renounce his beliefs.
Omir Bekali, a Kazakh citizen, was reportedly held in one of the camps for twenty days after he spent seven months in a prison.
During his stay at the camp, he was forced to stand at a wall for five hours at a time for refusing to follow orders. He was then sent to a solitary confinement, where he was not allowed to eat any food for 24 hours. Bekali noted that he had contemplated suicide after 20 days at the camp.
"The psychological pressure is enormous, when you have to criticise yourself, denounce your thinking – your own ethnic group. I still think about it every night, until the sun rises. I can't sleep. The thoughts are with me all the time," Bekali narrated, as reported by The Independent.
Bekali was born in China in 1976 but had acquired Kazakh citizenship in 2009, three years after moving to the neighboring country.
The former inmate noted that Muslims at the camp are forced to eat pork and drink alcohol as part of the re-education process.
Chinese officials who have spoken to the media about the camps have said that the aim of the re-education camp was to fight Islamic extremism and separatism.
In an effort to curb extremism, the Chinese government had set up a massive surveillance program in Xinjiang to monitor activities of Muslims. According to Human Rights Watch, the Communist Party has deployed more than one million party members to spend days in the homes of mostly Muslim families in Xinjiang and report on the extent of religious beliefs of the family members, as well as instances uncleanliness and alcoholism.
Some have estimated that tens or even hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Xinjiang have been detained in the camps. It has been described by a U.S. commission as the "largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today."
As part of the re-education program, detainees are encouraged to criticize people and things that they love. Those who refuse to do so are reportedly sent to solitary confinement and beaten by officers.
Bekali's account of what went on at the camp when he was detained there was corroborated by three other former inmates and a former instructor in another center, according to The Independent. Two Kazakh officials have confirmed that he was detained for seven months and sent to re-education a camp.
The authorities had arrested Bekali a day after he handed over a decades-old Chinese identity card at police checkpoints when he visited his parents in Xinjiang on March 25.
He was held incommunicado in a cell for a week before he was transferred to Karamay's Baijiantan District public security office, where he was interrogated about his work and tortured by officials.
Three months after his arrest, Kazakh officials had paid a visit to Bekali and other Kazakh citizens who had been detained in China. Bekali was taken out of his cell four months after the visit, but he was not set free.
He had been sent to a compound in the northern suburbs of Karamay where about 1,000 internees are being indoctrinated by the state, he recounted.
At the camp, Bekali and other internees are forced to learn "red songs" and study Chinese language and history. Inmates are required to chant "Thank the Party! Thank the Motherland! Thank President Xi!" before they could eat their meals.
Detainees are also forced to present self-criticism of their own religious history after enduring four-hour lectures about the dangers of Islam.
Bekali had thought of killing himself after enduring 20 days at the camp. He had been sent to solitary confinement after he reportedly told an official to take him back to his former detention center.
"Take me in the back and kill me, or send me back to prison. I can't be here anymore," he reportedly shouted, according to The Independent.
The Kazakh national was released after 24 hours in solitary confinement. He said that he initially did not want to tell his story for fear that his relatives would be targeted. However, he changed his mind when his mother, his father and his sister were taken by the authorities on three separate occasions.
"Things have already come this far. I have nothing left to lose," he said, according to The Independent.


Part I: Who is Sarah Abdallah sahouraxo?
This article is the beginning of a never ending network, which spreads targeted disinformation. MEA's team discovers daily new elements and information about the Russian-Iranian-Assad-Hezbollah RIAH network. Sarah Abdallah was the only successful PsyOp, the network was about to delete all her traces from the internet linking her to Hezbollah. Not anymore.
The question was who is she? Why does she want to silence Joumana Gebara? Why does she incite U.S. citizens against each other? Why doesn't she promote equal rights? Why doesn't she interact with those undermining her credibility? The path toward finding out answers led to the discovery of an unbelievably coordinated network of disinformation and fake news. It is significant to reveal who these people are, what they are doing and why they are doing it. It is a war against the West, its values and actually against any human values, the very human existence. MEA will begin with Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo who led to the rest of the network.
Showing the methods and the results of the researches will help the reader acquire researching and association skills. The researcher observes every detail during his research, everything is important, every detail is collected, then an extract of the major data is published in a way that the reader would feel s/he is part of the researcher's mind and knowledge.
At the end of the research, a bibliography of the references and sources is listed. The reader will not only discover that all what is stated in the research is true, but also that Sarah Abdallah and her network purposely deleted evidence. It is typical for psychological operations and disinformation campaign is led by real individuals under the instructions of states and intelligence.
The below extracts on Sarah Abdallah are from her own Twitter archive, in which she states that she is @muqawamist, the blogger and owner of: www.muqawamist.wordpress.com (Here you can browse all her submitted links praising Hezbollah). The "Muqawama" is "Hezbollah, the Islamic Resistance" in English. And a "Muqawamist" is a Jihadi or Mujahid, who is part of Hezbollah, dedicating his/her life to spread Islam all over the globe and would pay with his/her life to achieve the goal. And this is coherent throughout the metamorphosis of Sarah Abdallah, her devotion to Islam, the unity of Islam, to Palestine and Shia governments, as opposed to secular and democratic countries.
Debunked Muslim Terrorist Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo faking as a Christian.
The above shown screenshot shows the status of @sahouraxo the Hezbollah psychological operative account: 14 November 2016. 4K followers. Hezbollah's @sahouraxo identifies as a Muqawamist, a quick look into her articles and history confirms that she is Hezbollah, she writes propaganda in favor of Hezbollah. Further investigations, which will be revealed in other articles, discarded mind blowing facts. She praises terrorist Hezbollah and IRGC members in her tweets and propaganda pieces, as the screenshot below shows.
Hezbollah (Muqawama or the Islamic Resistance) is a group listed by the U.S. Treasury as Foreign Terrorist Organization and has committed/is committing endless crimes, among others the suicide bombing of the Marines barricade in 1983, the suicide bombings against the US Embassies in Beirut and Kuwait, the kidnapping and killing of thousands of U.S. citizens, journalists and army in Lebanon, Kuwait, Iran, Syria and Iraq, the kidnapping of airplanes, the contribution to 9/11 and many other terrorist activities. Below a screenshot of Sarah Abdallah's archive showing some tweets praising Hezbollah the Islamic Resistance, as heroes.
Initially, Sarah Abdallah's internet appearance began with her [email protected] jnoubiyeh (From the South of Lebanon). How does MEA know this? 1) From her own previous Twitter alias @Jnoubiyeh, see sidebar, 2) From her own www.muqawamist.wordpress.com, in which she states she is @Jnoubiyeh, see sidebar, 3) And from one of her old followers, who confirmed that she is @jnoubiyeh, based in Montreal, from South Lebanon, see below.
She adopted the alias @jnoubiyeh between 2004 and 2013, then the alias @muqawamist between 2013 and 2016, finally she is known as @sahouraxo since 2016 till today.
Doesnt this Hezbollah Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo aka @jnoubiyeh terrorist look like a monster in reality? Twitter supports and promotes this terrorist monster against real investigative journalists. Why is @TwitterSupport backing Hezbollah, an ugly terrorist faking as a Christian, hijacking the voice of Christians of the Middle East and inciting Western citizens against their government and each other? Twitter is terrorist supporterand violates U.S. and international laws. MEA's team has proof, to be discarded in further stages, that Hezbollah's Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo is also enjoying the protection of several U.S. politicians.
Below an extract of Sarah Abdallah's profile under the handle @jnoubiyeh (which means from the South of Lebanon, as stated by Abdallah herself also later in her blog www.muqawamist.wordpress.com.
Hezbollah's Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo says she lives in Montreal, Canada (before the "everywhere"). Thus she lives in Montreal, Canada, where she enjoys freedom of speech but she incites hate and violence against the West and its values! How moronic can this terrorist cheap girl be? She should go live in Iran or in Beirut's Dahiyeh. Sarah Abdallah is a living example for the failed "integration" advocated by Canadian Dr. Kymlicka.
An extract from Sarah Abdallah's Blog under her profile "A Propos Muqawamist": www.muqawamist.wordpress.com – also proves the metamorphosis from "jnoubiyeh" to "muqawamist" and that with the change of aliases, she changes her social media account. The change of her facebook account from https://www.facebook.com/jnoubiyeh to: https://www.facebook.com/muqawamist then to https://www.facebook.com/sahouraxo and her Twitter account from https://twitter.com/jnoubiyeh to: https://twitter.com/muqawamist which later became https://twitter.com/sahouraxo. Same is valid for Instagram and other social media platforms.
An extract from Sarah Abdallah's Blog under her profile "A Propos Muqawamist": www.muqawamist.wordpress.com – which she deleted but can be found here, proves that she is "jnoubiyeh" and had a facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/jnoubiyeh and till today a locked Twitter account: https://twitter.com/jnoubiyeh, in which she calls herself "Beautiful Princess". Sarah is Farsi (Iran) for Arabic Soraya, which means Princess. It is possible that a name change occurred or that her real name is Soraya, as she suffers from an identity crisis and had often a name change including Sahar instead of Sarah and often changed handles from jnoubiyeh to muqawamist to sahouraxo, and changed her profession from law student, to activist, to human rights activist, to journalist, to writer, to commentator and geopolitical analyst, and a change of her location too, from Aytaroun in Bint Jbeil – South Lebanon, to Montreal – Canada, to everywhere, to unknown locations on Twitter.
Sarah Abdallah: "from the heart of Resistance Camp" which means "from the Hezbollah Camp".
Under this Muqawamist Twitter archive link, she clearly identifies with Palestine not Lebanon, with Islam not Christianity. Also under her Jnoubiyeh Blogs and under her Muqawamist wordpress (See Bibliography).
Hezbllah's Sarah Abdallah had already a huge network, which included Palestinians and Pakistani. Later also pro-Assad Syrians, the Russians, the Western Alt-Left (The Western-Russian leftists such as the UK labor party) and during Trump's, Farage's, Petry's, Le Pen's, Wilder's era, her network attracted the Western Alt-Right. But her very first break through came through the tweet about Putin's picture hung in Manhattan, U.S.
The metamorphosis of Sarah Abdallah originally @jnoubiyeh, then in this video @muqawamist (which means Hezbollah) to @sahouraxo (the Russian, Iranian, Assadist, Hezbollah troll).
Even Ann Coulter retweeted a Hezbollah operative several times. How will Coulter explain it to the families of the Marines whom Hezbollah's suicide bombers killed in cold blood? How will Coulter explain it to the families of the killed 9/11 victims, US Embassy employees and US Army in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq? How will she explain it to the family of CIA Bureau Chief William Francis Buckley and Marine Colonel William Higgins, David Dodge president of the American University of Beirut, Terry A. Anderson the Chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, Charles Glass, Terry Waite, Thomas Sutherland, Rudolph Cordes and so many others?
Sarah Abdallah, sometimes Sahar Abdallah @muqawamist (just do a simple search in the Twitter box for: muqawamist, and woops, you will be amazed as you scroll down how @muqawamist becomes @sahouraxo!!!), her previous facebook https://www.facebook.com/muqawamist and her previous blog www.muqawamist.wordpress.com, which is full of propaganda and demagogy praising terrorists of Hezbollah and IRGC, as well as dictators like Assad, Khamenei and Putin. In this blog, the Russian policy to hijack the voice of the Christians of the Middle East begins, additionally inciting U.S. citizens against each other and their politicians, who are anti-Russia.
After deleting the www.jnoubiyeh.com, www.jnoubiyeh.blogspot.de, www.jnoubiyeh.blogspot.com, www.muqawamist.wordpress.com, she created www.beautifulspy.com (If this doesn't sound like a really serious journalist!!! PS: Beware not to register, it is all fake, just to get names and IPs of users). Later she created www.sarahabdallah.net (She writes under "about": Just a regular Lebanese girl who loves discussing geopolitics and current events. Coffee, books and manga too.) and meanwhile a new website www.sarahabdallah.org (WOW suddenly she becomes a PROFESSOR IN JOURNALISM!! From a "regular girl" under .net to a "professor" under .org within a month!!! Holy crap!! But that's not all! LOL! You will crack from laughter, in the blog she insists on faking that she is a "journalist" and a "professor in journalism", I laughed so much while reading her "lecturing": How to become a journalist. God help us! This psychopath continues lying, while her lies are all debunked.
If you enjoyed Part I, do not miss Part II: Forensic Investigation on Sarah Abdallah alias @sahouraxo, @Jnoubiyeh and @Muqawamist.
MEA's Joumana Gebara investigated Hezbollah terrorist Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo part of Russia's network. A simple click on the pictures leads to the saved archive U.S. based WayBack Machine because Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo and her network keep deleting traces and evidence. They even deleted traces and evidence from the archive.is machine which is Russian-Turkish owned, however fortunately they were incapable so far of deleting the evidence from the WayBack Machine: Click on images for more.
The screenshots below prove that Sarah Abdallah and the Iranian network promoted change of regimes in the Arab Spring to topple pro-U.S. regimes and substitute them with pro-Iran/Russia regimes like Muslim Brotherhood regimes. The same policy as Iran.
MEA – MidEastAnalyst promotes and is committed to the United States' Bill of Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, United States' Copyrights and Fair Use Laws, while Twitter violates the clauses grounded in United States' Bill of Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, United States' Copyrights and Fair Use Laws, Trust and Safety Council and United Nations Principles on Business and Human Rights. Twitter supports and promotes terrorism and terrorists, while prohibiting journalists from practicing their profession. Twitter also prohibits freedom of speech for human rights activists, while ensuring that terrorist organizations and members like ISIS, Qaeda and Hezbollah, which spread hate, inequality, suicide bombing, death penalty, children sexual abuse and violate human rights, are granted a free platform.


Changes to education are much needed in Europe. We must make the best use of technology in order to showcase the power of learning – awakening curiosity, stimulating innovation and enjoying the discovery of the world. Young learners across the continent make us aware of these challenges.
The world of learning and teaching in Europe is still traditional. In order to reshape education in Europe successfully, learners should engage in more personalization, collaboration and better links between formal and informal learning, with the help of teachers who are confident in sharing and creation of educational contents.
Learning can't anymore be confined to specific classroom and timetables but take full advantage of technology to break boundaries and learn across cultures, ages, and geographical divides.
Increasing effectiveness of education Open Education Ressources (OER) and Massice Open Online Course (MOOCs), easier and more efficient public procurement, sharing practices, opportunities to innovate.
Increasing equity – knowledge more accessible to all, and individuals getting access to new learning opportunities, by lowering costs and better access to digital services.
Producing positive impacts in the economy – stronger and more structured uptake of ICT and upskilling the workforce, helping industry manage disruptive change, through new market opportunities by fostering partnerships for infrastructures, new products and services.
The overall goal remains to increase the attractiveness of European education for boosting 21st skills and better living.
Our commitment with "opening up education"
To this end, the European Commission adopted in October 2013 the Communication on Opening Up Education, a high-level European Agenda to seize the opportunities of the digital revolution in education and training.
We have foreseen to fund these activities under several programmes Horizon 2020, Erasmus+ and partly the Structural Funds.


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Whārangi 7. Types of clay
'The sunbathed clay pit'
Matauri Bay clay pit
White sand bunkers
Mushroom farming
Clay plaque
Kaolinite, New Zealand's most common clay mineral, is formed by the deep weathering of many different rocks such as granite, schist and greywacke. It is widely quarried and manufactured into domestic brick, tile, pipe, ceramics and pottery. It is also used as a filler in rubber, bitumen and adhesives, and highly pure kaolinite is used for paper coating.
In the 2000s the largest kaolinite clay pits were in the wider Auckland area, while South Island clay pits were typically smaller operations. The biggest brick-making operation in the early 2000s was in Auckland. Small-scale pits also keep New Zealand's potters supplied with raw material.
Making marbles
Len Castle, a New Zealand ceramic artist, first encountered clay in the 1930s as he sat under a pōhutukawa tree on Westmere beach, Auckland. He started his career early, making marbles out of clay for his classmates during the Second World War, when glass was in short supply. He would fire them in the kitchen oven, often with explosive results.
Halloysite – white clay
Under certain conditions the volcanic rock rhyolite weathers into a distinct type of clay. Known as halloysite, it has been altered by hydrothermal fluids passing through it and then weathered by rain and exposure to the atmosphere. The producers of halloysite clay from deposits in Matauri Bay, Northland, claim that it is the world's whitest clay. The clay is indeed white and bright, and is very expensive.
The Matauri Bay operation is the largest single clay producer in New Zealand. Most of the clay is exported for the manufacture of high-quality ceramics including porcelain, bone china and technical ceramics. Silica sand, a by-product, is sold to the building industry and used in golf course bunkers. In the early 2000s there were sufficient resources for over 30 years' production.
Bentonite is derived from the weathering of volcanic ash deposits. A small quarry digs bentonite from the Harper Hills, 65 kilometres west of Christchurch. This clay can absorb large amounts of water, making it useful as a lubricant in drilling operations, a medium for growing mushrooms, and a stock-feed additive.
Ki mua Tō muri mai: Whārangi 8. Ceramics and pottery Whai muri
Carl Walrond, 'Rock, limestone and clay - Types of clay', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/rock-limestone-and-clay/page-7 (accessed 29 January 2022)


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Meander through the Oatlands Plantation and Gardens
Directions to Oatlands Plantation Lane
The stately edifice stands proudly over the Oatlands Plantation in Hunt Country Virginia.
A 40 minute drive from DC will take you to a Revolutionary War era plantation in Virginia's Hunt Country. Established in 1798 by a grandson of Robert "King" Carter, a major land baron of the Colonial Virginia lowlands, Oatlands Plantation originally consumed over 5 square miles of fertile Virginia farmland.
Oatlands' operation depended on more than one hundred slaves and the Carter family was only able to hold onto the land for a little over three decades after the Civil War. It fell briefly into the hands of the founder of The Washington Post, who then sold it to DC socialites William and Edith Eustis.
Edith devoted most of her life to the preservation of the house and gardens. After her death, the family donated the plantation to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1964.
The garden at Oatlands features many shady pathways that are perfect for quiet contemplation.
Julia and I toured the house and gardens recently after visiting a farm we were interested in buying in Northern Loudoun County. As we were traipsing through the steep gulley leading down to the river to find the property line, Julia made clear to me that she did not relish the work of a land agent.
She also presented me with a list of features that any farm must have before she would entertain another visit:
A nice, big house
A lot of "straight" [flat] land
Not too many trees
Oatlands ticked all the boxes, so I took her there on the way home and she informed that, yes, this is what she had in mind. Although I am not currently in a position to purchase Oatlands (the upkeep alone is over $1 million per year), I was able to spring $10 for the self-guided tour of the gardens.
The garden at Oatlands enjoys an unobstructed view of Loudoun County.
Situated in the near center of rural Loudoun County, Oatlands Plantation is the quintessential Hunt Country estate. It's a popular place for weddings, as nearly the entire estate serves as an ideal backdrop for a photo.
Touring can also be an educational experience for children if you're willing to put in the work to explain its history of slavery, a task aided by the many helpful placards throughout the estate. After touring the house, the bachelor's cottage, carriage house, and the oldest greenhouse in America are among the outbuildings you can visit.
If you'd rather just wander among the gardens, though, you'll be pleased with the narrow boxwood paths and the many obscure plantings along the lane, including Larix decidua, Buxus sempervirens, Suffruticosa and Quercus robur.
More information: oatlands.org


When you think of cloves, you most likely think of the versatile spice that is used in a variety of dishes. From seasoning roasts to hot beverages like apple cider to baked goods like pumpkin pie and more, it's a common spice that's use is amplified in the colder months.
Not only do cloves help add warmth and a little zest to your favorite foods and drinks, there are also quite a few health benefits of cloves. Learn what cloves are used for when it goes beyond the kitchen below.
Balanced diets are the best way to get the required daily amounts of vitamins and minerals that are recommended. By adding cloves to your dishes, you're going to easily add a large variety of these vitamins and minerals.
Cloves are high in protein and fiber while also containing potassium, manganese, zinc, calcium, iron, and sodium. They are also loaded with many vitamins that include Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Vitamin C, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B6, Vitamin E and Vitamin A.
Cloves are a great way to stimulate your digestive enzymes to balance out your digestive system. When you eat too much of something or even something that doesn't agree with your digestive system, you are likely to suffer from cramps or nausea. If you consume cloves, you can aid in the relief of these symptoms. Cloves can help relieve nausea, reduce gas, and improve your general stomach digestion.
As mentioned before, cloves have a noticeable amount of fiber as well. This means that they also have the ability to help with constipation while promoting regularity.
One of the unique health benefits of cloves is that they can kill off bacteria. Cloves have antimicrobial properties, which means they are able to help prevent the growth of microorganisms.
Want to reap these clove health benefits for this purpose? Look for a toothpaste or mouthwash that has clove included as an ingredient. It's a great way to help keep your mouth even cleaner.
While cloves can be found and used year round, they are a fantastic spice to use during the fall season. One of the reasons is that they provide a natural immune system boost. Colds are more prevalent in colder months giving you even more reason to consume this spice.
Cloves offer the immune system boost thanks to all of the antioxidants and nutrients that can be found in the spice, especially Vitamin C. By adding cloves to your dishes, you can reap the health benefits of cloves as it can aid in improving your white blood cell count. This in turn decreases your body's sensitivity to different bacteria.
You may not think about your liver all that often, but one of the health benefits of cloves is that it helps protect your liver and other vital organs from free radicals. Free radicals are compounds that build up and can eventually damage normal tissue and can increase the likelihood of disease or damage, including liver disease.
Consuming cloves can help clean out your liver while aiding in protecting it from other foods and drinks that you consume.
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Hell is the painful state of existence caused by Disjuncture and Disconnection from Consciousness.
Hell is caused by low levels of Consciousness in body (i.e. low CQ). Low CQ is caused primarily by a Toxic Socialization which disconnects the Physical Unit from its Resident Monadic Self.
In addition to toxic socialization, Old Energy Archetypes and [[Old Energy Ideology], toxins in the environment, poisons in the food supply, and vibrational spaces saturated with the electromagnetic garbage of modern communications technology, contribute to the Disconnection.
The experience of Hell is negative in every way. At best one experiences heightened arousal, dissatisfaction, low-grade frustration, general confusion, and long term degradation of the physical unit. At worst one is thrown into an out of control toxic spiral disease and disjuncture. While in hell, damage to the physical unit accrues.


sin, cos and atan2 are not really necessary for game code. If you have to get the angle with atan2 from a cos and sin you will probably be sending the angle (possibly slightly modified) back through to sin or cos a bit later. You can probably optimize that roundtrip out using some trig identities.
Either way sin, cos, invsqrt (= 1/sqrt(x) from which you can get the sqrt: sqrt(x) = x*invsqrt(x)) and even memcpy have machine instructions for them. So the general solution is to use assembly or intrinsics to invoke them.
2 years, 11 months ago Edited by Mārtiņš Možeiko on May 9, 2016, 5:59 p.m.
Sometimes sin/cos are needed. For example, to construct rotation matrix from users input (ingame editor or something).
@Cranky: for sin/cos I suggest to look at http://gruntthepeon.free.fr/ssemath/ page. It has very permissive license (zlib). And it has SSE and NEON optimized sin/cos/exp/log implementations with very good accuracy and performance. For sqrt there is SSE intrinsic that generates 1 instruction - _mm_sqrt_ss (or _mm_sqrt_ps for 4x floats). For atan2 you can check out this code: https://github.com/michael-quinlan/ut-sse/blob/master/sse/sseMath.h (MIT license) It uses bunch of functions, but you can extract raw SSE intrinsics for atan2 code.
As for memcpy - usually you just do for loop, like Casey does, and copy needed data manually. This way compiler can optimize this copy better than generic memcpy. If it sees that length is 8 bytes, then it can generate just one mov instruction in x86_64.
rep movsb on modern CPU's is not so bad. CPU's have special optimizations for it.
@ratchetfreak: while x86 CPU has FPU instructions for sin/cos/atan2 you really shouldn't use them. SSE/SSE2 will give you better performance. And on x86_64 code it will avoid transferring values from SSE to x87 FPU registers and back again.
I was wondering what you thought of an alternative I found. If you change the entry function with the /ENTRY linker option, avoiding the crt entry function and also not using the crt anywhere else, the only function you depend on from the crt dlls in an optimised build is memset. Then you can statically link in only that function. This way you totally sidestep all the intrinsic functions and any other compiler functionality having to be copied or reimplemented. After all we want these functions anyway so I don't see a problem with getting them normally. It would probably be fine to use other simple functions like math ones too. As far as I can tell this works as you would want it to, but i'm not an expert.
Yes, that is also an option what you can do to avoid CRT startup functionality. But the point of this topic was to avoid whole C runtime, because some people want to see (or write) all the code that runs in your program and not rely on some unknown code inserted by compiler.
2 years, 4 months ago Edited by Spicy Wolf on Dec. 24, 2016, 3:52 a.m. Reason: Fixed big problem with mixing Linux syscall tables.
I'm not sure if this is useful to anyone, but I hacked together the equivalent code for Linux (might also work on macOS, haven't tested yet).
!!UPDATE! THERE'S A REASON NOT TO USE INT $0x80 ON x64!
//this is a wrapper around the Linux exit syscall.
//    "movq %0, %%rdi\n\t", and use the compiler option "-fno-builtin"
//  do the syscall manually.
//  which, notably, has exit at eax==1, and passes the first param in ebx.
//syscall will use the newer x64 table and API.
//  indicate that execution will never reach a certain area.
//  Mostly required to avoid warnings about a noreturn function returning.
//This is where we will tell the linker to start executing our code.
//... Our code goes here.
//All done, call our exit syscall wrapper.
The resulting executable, when run, will do nothing and immediately exit.
What are the implications of building Linux applications without glibc?
Well, the big one is that no syscall wrappers are provided.
See, unlike Windows, Linux doesn't have a kernel library separate from its standard C library. glibc implements both Linux's syscall interface as well as the C stdlib. Avoiding glibc means rolling your own syscall wrappers. Fortunately, unlike Windows, Linux's syscalls are all very well documented.
Allocating large arrays seems to be no problem, floating-point seems to work without extra code, but zero-initializing large arrays does create an "undefined reference to 'memset'" linker error. Using the memset implementation from the original post mostly solves the problem, though (at least in pure C mode), size_t is not defined by default -- use unsigned long or typedef it.
I would think it's safe to assume that if you use this method with C++, all the 'features' it provides that are backed by the runtime -- exceptions, new/delete, RTTI, global object ctors/dtors, pure virtuals -- would not be available.
UPDATE: macOS has so far stymied my efforts to dodge the startup code.
For Linux, it seems that there are two other compiler options you can use: "-nodefaultlibs" and "-nostartfiles", but documentation on GCC seems to suggest "-nostdlib" implies both. Docs also suggest that linking with libgcc.a may be required if it starts complaining about routines GCC includes.
2 years, 4 months ago Edited by Spicy Wolf on Dec. 27, 2016, 4:09 a.m. Reason: New information, avoiding double post.
I managed to beat clang into accepting nostdlib by also using "-static" to avoid being forced to use libSystem.dylib and crt1.o, but I didn't save that many bytes: 4184 vs. 4288. I've been investigating using NASM to directly control the code being executed, but the version included with my system (or maybe the build tools? I'm not sure) only builds for 32-bit, not 64-bit like I'm interested in. I'll have to get a newer version and try that out.
Some other useful information: As far as the 64-bit syscall interface for macOS, it's largely the same as Linux, except all the syscall numbers are 0x2000000 higher than the Linux ones (e.g. exit, 60 for Linux, is 0x200003C for macOS), and the parameters are passed, in order, in rdi, rsi, rdx, r10, r8, and r9.
Okay, so I just realized something kind of big. DON'T USE INT $0x80 IN LINUX X64! It redirects to the old x86 syscall table, which has a totally different API. I'll be updating my other post regarding this, but the syscall numbers and registers to use are totally different between the two.
EDIT 12/26/2016: I just compared against the minimal Windows executable I made, and that's 3,072 bytes, and there's probably switches I could use to get that down, or some sort of tool similar to GNU strip, but it's not that much smaller than the minimal macOS executable above.
Does snprintf and swprintf (the C standard, not the Windows standard) exist in msvcrt?
I am not sure if i am failing with exporting it or if i got the wrong names (as Windows usually have similar names and adds underscores and whatnot.
MSVC before VS2015 has _snprintf which is not compatible with C99 snprintf. It has some differences/incompleteness.
Starting with VS2015 msvc C runtime has C99 compliant snprintf function.
Basically any underscore prefixed function in MSVC C runtime has some non-standard behavior. That's why the underscore - so somebody doesn't accidentally call it and wonder why behavior is different.
Ah, thanks for clarifying, i wasn't sure what it meant, so i kinda thought the underscore was used to explicitly call the original function (C compliant).
Well that explains why i can't obtain the function, is there any equivalent to it in Windows itself?
1 year, 9 months ago Edited by Mārtiņš Možeiko on July 3, 2017, 5:15 p.m.
1) wsprintfA function from user32.dll. It has some limitations - max output is 1024 chars, no float (and probably more advanced formatters) support.
2) _snprintf from msvcrt.dll. Either link dynamically to it, or do GetProcAddress. This snprintf is pre-c99, so no formatters like %zu, but otherwise it works fine. msvcrt.dll file will be present on all Windows machines, it is basically C runtime that is used by Windows internal components. GCC on Windows (MinGW) uses it as its C runtime library.
4) c99-snprintf - also a good single file sprintf.
stb_printf includes stdarg.h and stdlib.h for va_args & friends. This will make it use the CRT, right?
1 year, 9 months ago Edited by Mārtiņš Možeiko on July 4, 2017, 7:46 a.m.
va_arg is actually in stdarg.h, not stdlib.h. That's a bug in stb_sprintf.
And it is ok to use stdarg.h even if you are not linking to CRT. Because stdarg.h doesn't contain runtime functions. It contains only compile time compiler-specific functionality. Just like intrin.h contains intrinsics to generate special CPU instructions (like __rdtsc) instead of calling real functions.
It ok also to use stdint.h (provides typedefs for int types) and inttypes.h (for printf macros like PRIu64) and stddef.h (for size_t and NULL) and limits.h (for various macros like INT_MAX) and float.h (for macros like FLT_MAX).
I knew about stdint.h, inttypes.h, stddef.h and limits.h. I've never looked into stdarg.h, so thanks for the info! I'll take a look myself when I get a chance!
stdlib.h definitely needs linking to CRT, that was the main point of the question. Knowing that, if I ever need a non-CRT printf implementation I'll absolutely check this one out!
As aidtopia noted, replacing the memset and memcpy intrinsics doesn't seem to combine with Whole Program Optimization (/GL). It is still possible to use it, by putting the replacement intrinsics in their own static library. That way you can still apply Whole Program Optimization to the rest of the project.


Our poisonous friend under water; you can see the roughness of the skin on its back.
Sometimes when I'm out looking for insects to photograph, I see other things. Imagine a creature sporting a neurotoxin hundreds of times more deadly than cyanide in sufficient quantities to kill a full grown man. And it's common in our area.
The Rough Skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa) sports the same toxin that makes the pufferfish and harlequin poison-dart frogs so deadly, tetrodotoxin. I wasn't at all familiar with this species until I had the pleasure of seeing several in a slackwater portion of the Van Duzen River periodically surface, breathe and almost disappear among the dead leaves lining the riverbed.
According to the Seattle Times, a 29-year-old man in Oregon swallowed one on a dare and died within hours. The toxin interferes with the transmission of nerve impulses, causing progressive numbness, paralysis and eventually cardio pulmonary failure. There is no known antidote. Fortunately, the toxin does not transmit through skin, which is why children have played with them with no ill effect. It is totally a defensive weapon.
The newts have two known natural enemies: the common garter snake and other larger rough skinned newts, both of which have a limited tolerance for the poison.
Just swimming along, all deadly and stuff.
So, if you're out and about and see a dark-backed, orange-bellied salamander, keep your pets and kids away from it — all in all it's probably best for everyone to just let it go its own way.


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World-wide hotels specialist Hotels4u.com has launched a refreshed version of its website to help holidaymakers find cheap hotels and accommodation at home and abroad even more quickly and easily. A combination of improved browsing and searching, plus extra choice and information will allow customers to confidently make decisions about where to stay on their next holiday. LONDON, ENGLAND, October 16, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ — World-wide hotels specialist Hotels4u.com has launched a refreshed version of its website to help holidaymakers find cheap hotels and accommodation at home and abroad even more quickly and easily. A combination of improved browsing and searching, plus extra choice and information will allow customers to confidently make decisions about where to stay on their next holiday.
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Croce oder Crocé ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Anna Della Croce di Dojola (* 1943), italienische Diplomatin
 Baldassare Croce (1558–1628), italienischer Maler
 Bartolomeo Giuseppe Stoffella dalla Croce (1799–1833), österreichischer Archäologe
 Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), italienischer Philosoph und Historiker
 Bernard Crocé-Spinelli (1871–1932), französischer Komponist und Musikpädagoge
 Bernardino della Croce (1502–1568), Schweizer Sekretär des Kardinals Alessandro Farnese, Bischof von Como

 Clemens Evangelist della Croce (1782–1823), deutscher Maler
 Daniele Croce (* 1982), italienischer Fußballspieler
 Giovanni Croce (1557–1609), italienischer Komponist
 Giovanni Andrea della Croce (1514–1575), venezianischer Chirurg
 Isidoro Croce (1892–1966), Abt von Santa Maria di Grottaferrata
 Jim Croce (1943–1973), US-amerikanischer Sänger und Songwriter
 Johann Nepomuk della Croce (1736–1819), italienischer Maler
 Joseph Crocé-Spinelli (1845–1875), französischer Erfinder und Ballonpionier
 Karl Klemens della Croce (1816–1891), deutscher Maler
 Pietro Croce (1920–2006), italienischer Mikrobiologe, Pathologe und Medizinautor

Siehe auch:
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Q: Bisection method failing and results in infinite loop I am trying to find the roots of the equation g(x)=exp(2x)+3x-4. I have to do this, using the bisection method in MATLAB.

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*Initial interval is (0,2)

*Desired accuracy is 1e-8
I have written some code in MATLAB, however, I get the wrong answer and it doesn't stop calculating, which seems like an infinite loop.
First, here's my code:
g = @(x) (exp(2*x)+3-4);
xl = input('Enter the first approximation xl:');
xu - input('Enter the first approximation xu:');
acc = input('Enter the value of accuracy:');
while ((g(xl)*g(xu)) > 0)
    xl = input('Enter the value of first approximation xl:');
    xu = input ('Enter the value of first approximation xu:');
end
while (abs(xu-xl)>acc)
     xm = (xl-xu)/2
     if (g(xl)*g(xm)<0)
        xu = xm;
    else
        xl = xm;
    end
end

Now MATLAB gives me: xm = -2, and continues forever giving me this value.
How do I get a good approximation of xm? I know it should be around 0.5.

A: In your actual bisection method while loop, you do the following
xm = (xl-xu)/2

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*Question: What is this meant to do?

*Answer: It's meant to set xm equal to the midpoint of xl and xu. Therefore you have a sign error, and should be doing
xm = (xl+xu)/2; % xm is the midpoint (or mean) of xl and xu

You said you know the result should be 0.5, but a quick plot can verify it should be nearer 1.24, as the above correction shows (giving a result 1.2425)

Edit: This should be a red flag if you know what the answer should be!
As pointed out by Lindsay, you have a typo in your g definition, it should be
g = @(x) (exp(2*x)+3*x-4); % You previously omitted the 2nd 'x', meaning g(x)=exp(2*x)-12

A final typo in your code, which you must have fixed or you wouldn't have got as far as the infinite loop, was the - in the definition of xu when you should be using =.
With all of these corrected, you get the desired result of 0.4737 ("around 0.5").


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There are a number of institutions of higher learning that offer science and engineering classes in Kenya. There are around 48 universities in Kenya and among them are about 22 that are funded by the government (public universities), then there are 14 private chartered universities, plus about 12 that operate with a Letter of Interim Authority (LIA). The higher education sector in the country can only be described as emerging and it has not yet been able to quench the thirst for education by most high school graduates.
There have been different rankings that have been published on the hierarchy of universities, according to management, research, resources and total commitment to improving the state of education in Kenya and Africa as a whole. There are also a number of polytechnics, public colleges and private ones that dedicate themselves to offering the same courses. However, most of the science and engineering courses are offered in the public universities. Most private chartered universities offer courses in the arts.
Among the best recognized universities in the science and school engineering courses, Nairobi University is highly ranked. It might be termed as the mother of all the public universities because of its strategic location in the capital city Nairobi. The university offers some of the highest grade in science and engineering courses. The school can be credited with molding some of the Kenya's best scientists. It is then followed by Kenyatta in terms of no particular ranking. It is the second largest public university in Kenya and was established in 1975. It has majored mostly on offering courses dealing with humanities and arts.
A school of science and more specifically engineering is ongoing derived from the schools of pure and applied sciences in Egerton University, which is located in Nakuru. Egerton University is another university focused on growth of the technical aspect of farming and as such has a number of agriculture related businesses among other various courses including engineering. The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and technology is a well established institution of higher learning that offers various technological courses and has produced some really talented young ICT experts. It was established in 1981 as a middle level college but was later turned into a fully fledged university in 1994.
Moi University, another notable Kenyan educational institute, is located a few kilometers from Eldoret town. It is in an ideal location considering the great weather of the north rift valley regions. Other notable universities include Masinde Muliro University of science and technology, Maseno University is among others that offer science and engineering courses.


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35 years of field experience in the Global South
• 2017-2018: Senior Consultant for World Health Organization on Health, Water and Climate Change in Asian countries
•	1981 to 2016: Program Manager for global development agencies (WHO, FAO, GIZ, SDC) in support to state and non-state actors in The Philippines (2013-2016), Ecuador (2009-2013), India (2001-2008), Mali (2001), Madagascar (1990-2000) and Peru (1982-1989);
•	Short-term missions to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Haiti, Indonesia, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Vietnam.
•	Strengthened national capabilities to plan for resilient, healthy and dignified livelihoods of people, communities, and regions, in alignment with the MDG and the SDG targets.
•	Facilitated policy dialogue, enabled the set up of institutional frameworks and legislation to develop and implement national action plans to improve health and well-being.
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•	Coordinated cross-disciplinary initiatives and intersectoral efforts, achieving better capabilities to address environmental health challenges.
•	Supported community empowerment and engagement guided by the principles of ecological balance, equity and sustainability.
•	Advanced skills for project/ programme administration, participative training, resource mobilization, evaluation, reporting and communication.
•	Developed communication materials and manuals for community training.
•	Cooperated with academia for action-research work and field practices.
Assets: Sustainable community development and health; Health and climate change; Ecological agriculture; Multicultural know-how.
Skills: Proficient in English, German, Spanish and French; Read Portuguese and Italian; Basics in Greek.
1990: Master's in Development Studies, Erasmus University, The Netherlands.
1981: BSc. in International Rural Development, University of Kassel, Germany.
1974: Technician in Tropical Agriculture, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
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Blown out my mind; I can't keep up the pace.
I'm selling all my midnight, still broke and living on the ground.
My gone little mama, cut out without a sound.
With my greased-up Levis, baseball boots above my head.
If it wasn't such a tragedy, I might wish I was dead.
She took my ice-cream Mustang and my purple coloured Dodeville.
She even took my panpipes and my elixir of life pill.