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In 2015, Brewer was selected to exhibit at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg as part of the Inauguration Day festivities of Pennsylvania's 47th Governor, Tom Wolf. Click on the photos to the right to view some of her new work.
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Q: Read a binary file into stack instead of heap Here is the code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
void dump_buffer(void *buffer, off64_t buffer_size)
{
  off64_t i;
  for(i = 0;i < buffer_size; ++i)
  {
     printf("%02x \n", ((unsigned char *)buffer)[i]);
  }
  printf("\n");
}

void ReadFile(std::string fn)
{
    FILE *file;
    file = fopen(fn.c_str(), "rb");
    if (!file)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to open file %s", fn.c_str());
        return;
    }
    struct stat64 fsStatBuf;
    stat64(fn.c_str(), &fsStatBuf);
    off64_t fileLen = fsStatBuf.st_size;
    // fseek(file, 0, SEEK_END);
    // fileLen=ftell(file);
    // fseek(file, 0, SEEK_SET);
    unsigned char *buffer;
    buffer=(unsigned char *)malloc(fileLen+1);
    if (!buffer)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Memory error!");
                fclose(file);
        return;
    }
    fread(buffer, 1, fileLen, file);
    fclose(file);
    dump_buffer(buffer, fileLen);
    free(buffer);
}

fread reads a file into a block of memory, that is, the heap.
Is there a way to read the file into the stack?

A: Sure - assuming that your stack is large enough to hold fileLen+1 items, you can do this:
unsigned char buffer[fileLen+1];

and skip the call to free() at the end. This works, because C99 allows you to make arrays of variable size. In C++, however, this would not work *. Since most of your program is in C, however, you should be able to use the standard C construct by using a C99 standard-compliant compiler.
Note, however, that unlike malloc that would return NULL on failure, letting you handle the out of memory situation when the file is too large, this way of allocating memory in the automatic area (i.e. on the stack) will crash your program right away.
Also note that since the file is not a C string, you do not need fileLen+1; fileLen would be sufficient to fit the entire file.
 * There are compilers that provide a C++ language extension to support variable-length arrays, but the resultant code would not be standard.

A: I think it would be more portable to have:
unsigned char buffer[MAXFILESIZE];

and then check the filesize before writing, and fail if the file is too large.

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Brian May dubs Yungblud a "star performer" after seeing "We Are the Champions" cover
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Add Brian May to the list of Yungblud fans.
In an Instagram post, the Queen guitarist shares his reaction to the young English rocker's recent cover of "We Are the Champions."
"Every now and then, while idly scrolling in the park, you come upon something that makes you go 'WOW,'" May writes.
While May enjoyed Yungblud's spin on the Queen classic, he noticed that some commenters weren't as impressed.
"I'm smiling quietly at all the 'noooo' comments," May writes. "I remember so clearly the same kind of derision being poured on Freddie [Mercury] when we started out as Queen."
May adds, "As soon as I see someone who can inspire such strong reactions – positive and negative – I'm sure this person is a star performer."
Other rock legends who've shared their love for Yungblud's music include The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and The Who's Roger Daltrey.
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A Legacy of Women in Space: Twenty Years Since STS-57 (Part 2)
With the RMS robotic arm deftly operated by Nancy Sherlock, astronauts David Low and Jeff Wisoff are maneuvered around Endeavour's payload bay. The Spacehab module is clearly visible in the foreground. Photo Credit: NASA
Fifty years ago this month, the first woman ventured into space. Thirty years ago, also this month, the first U.S. woman ventured into space. And twenty years ago this very week, two women from quite different backgrounds—U.S. Army aviator Nancy Sherlock (now Currie) and civilian engineer Janice Voss—flew together into space for the first time. STS-57 was not the first mission in history to include two female members. Nor was it the first mission to feature a military woman among its crew. However, with the presence of both civilian and military women aboard Endeavour when she rocketed into orbit in June 1993, it offered a reminder of how far women astronauts had advanced in a mere handful of decades.
Rocketing into orbit posed something of a problem on the morning of 20 June, when bad weather at the Transoceanic Abort Landing sites put paid to hopes that Pilot Brian Duffy might celebrate his 40th birthday in style. As described in yesterday's history article, STS-57 was an important mission, carrying the first commercial "Spacehab" research laboratory and destined to recover the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) after ten months in orbit. Next morning, the 21st, conditions had improved markedly, but as the six astronauts—Duffy, Sherlock, and Voss, together with fellow crewmates David Low and Jeff Wisoff and Commander Ron Grabe—boarded Endeavour a scratch was observed on the outer seal of the crew access hatch. After consultation with mission managers, it was decided to replace the seal, and this was accomplished with little impact on the countdown.
At T-5 minutes, the hold was extended by 22 seconds in order to shoo an unauthorised aircraft out of the launch danger zone and STS-57 rocketed off the pad at 9:07 a.m. EDT. The ascent was electrifying, particularly for the three "rookie" members of the crew, with Main Engine Cutoff and the onset of weightlessness both memorable. "The bear jumps off your chest," remembered Jeff Wisoff in an interview for the Smithsonian, "and you see your seatbelts float upward, which is kinda cool."
Endeavour rockets into space on 21 June 1993, beginning the first mission to include military and civilian female crew members. Photo Credit: NASA
Despite initial difficulties, the shuttle's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) mechanical arm was initialized and checked out, in readiness for the retrieval of EURECA on the third day of the flight. A number of thruster firings were performed by Grabe and Duffy over the next 48 hours to effect closure with EURECA, whose orbit had already been lowered under ground command in recent weeks from its operational altitude of 320 miles to more closely approximate Endeavour's altitude of some 190 miles. With Grabe at the shuttle's controls for the final phases of the rendezvous, the satellite was successfully grappled by the RMS, under the deft control of David Low, at 9:53 a.m. on 24 June. Endeavour's Ku-band radar satisfactorily tracked the satellite from a distance of 30 miles to less than 100 feet, with no loss of data. Although EURECA's solar arrays successfully folded up, its two antennas—which should have retracted and latched prior to grappling—failed to close. As a consequence, it was decided to use a portion of Low and Wisoff's planned spacewalk on the 25th to tend to the problem.
An EVA was not originally planned for STS-57, but in the aftermath of the Intelsat-603 repair mission NASA decided in late 1992 to add spacewalks to as many shuttle flights as possible in order to build up an experience base within the astronaut office. In mid-February 1993, an EVA was added to STS-57, during which Low and Wisoff would spend four hours outside "to refine training methods for spacewalks, expand the EVA experience levels of astronauts, flight controllers, and instructors, and aid in better understanding the differences between true microgravity and the ground simulations used in training." Since Endeavour carried the RMS arm for the EURECA retrieval, it was decided to make use of it to rehearse procedures ahead of the Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission in December 1993. However, the criticality of Low and Wisoff's EVA was of a low level and it was stressed that only if STS-57's nominal mission duration was extended from seven to eight days would it be cleared to take place.
The decision was to be made shortly after launch and was based upon calculations of the propellant and energy expenditure and how well they matched predictions. Fortunately, these proved to be in line with expectations and on 23 June the Mission Management Team agreed to extend STS-57 to eight days. Plans for the EVA involved Low and Wisoff taking turns in a foot restraint on the end of the RMS—manipulated by Nancy Sherlock—and handling each other's mass to imitate the movement of large pieces of equipment. Moving large masses on the end of the mechanical arm was expected to be a critical requirement for both Hubble and Space Station Freedom missions. The spacewalkers also trained to investigate techniques for managing their safety tethers. The EVA, which ran to five hours and 50 minutes in total, ran exceptionally smoothly, with Sherlock positioning Low on the RMS to enable him to secure EURECA's antennas against their latching mechanisms. Payload controllers then remotely drove the latches to secure each antenna.
Since the EVA required the astronauts to depart Endeavour via the middeck-to-Spacehab tunnel, it was necessary for the pressurized module to be temporarily closed off. Subsequent investigation revealed no pressure loss from Spacehab during this time. It may, however, have induced an event which scared the daylights out of the four crew members inside the cabin. During the EVA, the shuttle was positioned with her belly toward the Sun, in order to simulate the deep cold of space which would be experienced at phases of Hubble servicing and Space Station Freedom construction.
David Low (right) and Jeff Wisoff at work during their EVA. Photo Credit: NASA
"All of a sudden, it was as if somebody took the orbiter and hit it with a bulldozer," recalled Brian Duffy in his NASA oral history. "The whole vehicle shook. It got quiet on the flight deck and we thought maybe we were hit by something. We looked outside and didn't see any damage. Nothing came flying through the wings or through the payload bay." They informed Mission Control, who also saw nothing amiss in their data. The most likely explanation, it seemed, was that residual forces that had built up on the ground in the struts holding the Spacehab-1 tunnel in place had released "and it rang the whole vehicle." When the two spacewalkers returned to the cabin, they said that they had felt nothing. "They didn't have a clue," Duffy chuckled, "but if they'd looked inside at that time, they would have seen eight big eyes!"
Low and Wisoff's EVA demonstrated the importance and usefulness of having astronauts on hand to tend to unforeseen contingencies. It also provided EVA experience for another pair of astronauts, including the first spacewalk for a member of the 1990 astronaut class. Years later, Wisoff was asked about it by a NASA interviewer. "It's an incredible opportunity," he said, "an incredible experience. You're kind of in your own little spaceship in the space suit and you can't beat that view of the Earth while you're working. It's an incredible sight!" Despite the successful closure of EURECA's twin antennas, an attempt to activate the RMS arm's Special Purpose End Effector (SPEE) connector power relay, which was to provide electrical sustenance to the satellite, failed. It subsequently became clear from on-orbit video footage and post-flight inspection that the SPEE had been incorrectly rotated by 180 degrees.
Spacehab-1, in particular, proved to be an enormous success. The module's interior environment had a tendency to be quite cool at times, prompting a pair of in-flight maintenance procedures by the astronauts to successfully adjust the cold-water bypass valve and increase the temperature slightly. The cause was later attributed to lower electrical power requirements for Spacehab than had been predicted in pre-flight tests. In other words, it was not generating as much waste heat as predicted, but the cooling system was still working at full capacity. Overall, the module's experiments exceeded 90 percent of plans. The mission was challenging for all six crew members, including Grabe, who had never done rendezvous or EVA on any of his previous three missions. "We had Ron kinda carrying the ball," Brian Duffy recalled. "Particularly in the training, he was just really good about knowing what was important for us, what we needed to know, what we should focus on."
With a one-day extension to the mission, STS-57 was scheduled to land on 29 June, but Endeavour's return actually came 48 hours later than planned. Unsatisfactory weather in the vicinity of the Shuttle Landing Facility at KSC forced a one-orbit wave-off, and when there was no improvement a 24-hour postponement was ordered. The next day, the 30th, offered no respite and another 24-hour delay was imposed. Finally, early on 1 July, Grabe and Duffy performed the de-orbit burn at 7:41 a.m. EDT, committing the vehicle to its hypersonic dive through the atmosphere. Touchdown on Runway 33 came an hour later at 8:52 a.m., just 15 minutes short of ten full days since liftoff.
Endeavour touches down within sight of the gigantic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on 1 July 1993. Photo Credit: NASA
The re-entry, Duffy related, was nominal, but characterised by one unanticipated event. "This one was a flatter, lower trajectory" than his first flight, he said. "We were coming across northern Mexico and then across the Gulf, coming in almost due east, and it was … after sunrise, maybe mid-morning." All at once, as they passed through Mach 21, a sudden wham echoed through the vehicle's airframe. About 30 seconds later, another one followed. Nancy Sherlock, sitting in the flight engineer's seat, looked up in surprise after the first event, but noticed that Grabe and Duffy—the veterans—seemed unperturbed and said nothing. When it happened again, Grabe turned to his pilot.
"Have you ever felt that before?"
"No," replied Duffy, perplexed. It later became clear that Endeavour had been shaken by a "density shear"—an air-mass differential at extreme high altitude, which Endeavour had transitioned at hypersonic speed. "Those things extend up at a high altitude," Duffy reflected later, "and when you're going very fast and you change from one to the other, you get an instantaneous notification that you're somewhere else. It's like somebody really picks up and shakes the whole orbiter. The whole vehicle rings, because [it's] not very sturdy. It looks sturdy, [but] it's about as stiff as a Twinky and, truth be known, during ascent you can actually feel it flexing."
With the exception of an ammonia cooling glitch on the runway, which required Grabe to work closely with ground crews to establish cooling and prevent an emergency power-down, Endeavour's return from her fourth flight was a spectacular success. It also cemented life-long friendships for the STS-57 crew and reinforced memories of their flight. "Nancy and I were on the flight deck one night," said Duffy, during the weather wave-off period, "where we were waiting to go to bed—basically hanging out—and she and I were upstairs, turned all the lights out on the flight deck and the two of us just sat there and floated in the window and watched the Earth going by in the dark. It was pretty neat." The down side of having to spend two additional days in orbit was that they had to budget their camera film and by 1 July it was all gone. "We didn't even have film to shoot" at the end, noted Duffy, "so we just got to look and just enjoy it. It was really cool."
The safe return of the STS-57 crew, two decades ago, marked yet another milestone in the history of women in space, with military and civilian female astronauts aboard the same mission for the first time. Barely three decades had passed since Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space and a mere ten years since Sally Ride picked up the baton for the United States. In that span of time, a woman had walked in space, three women had flown aboard a single mission, and the first African-American woman astronaut had been launched. In the ten years after STS-57, the first female shuttle pilots would fly missions, and in the ten years after that the first female International Space Station commanders. Earlier this month, NASA selected its 21st group of astronaut candidates. Eight strong, and including four women, they mark the most evenly matched mix of the sexes in any astronaut (or cosmonaut) selection in history. Today, in June 2013, two women—China's Wang Yaping aboard the Shenzhou-10/Tiangong-1 complex and NASA's Karen Nyberg aboard the ISS—continue the legacy.
And what of the next ten years? And the ten after that? The first woman on the Moon, perhaps? The first female to set foot on an asteroid … or even Mars? The door to the future stands open.
This is part of a series of history articles, which will appear each weekend, barring any major news stories. Next week's article will focus on Soyuz T-6, a mission in June 1982, during which France became the first Western European nation to launch its first man into space … aboard a Soviet spacecraft.
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Life is hard. If you've been following this blog for the last couple of months, you know that life has been incredibly messy for my family as we are entering a new season of normal. Because of that, I've searched out books and resources to help keep my head on straight while I navigate these new waters. This latest book, I stumbled into after being accepted by Tyndale to read their books in exchange for reviews.
Honestly: Getting Real About Jesus and Our Messy Lives is an incredibly honest read. I was unfamiliar with the author, Daniel Fusco, before I started reading the book, but I love his writing style! It's like we're having a conversation with one another, and his sense of humor is spread throughout every page while still acknowledging the hard and messy moments in life and the truth we need from God in order to navigate those messy times.
There's no sugar coating things or using fancy words that no one understands. Fusco takes you on a 'melodious' journey through Ephesians to look at how Jesus moves in and through our messy lives. I've never ready anything quite like it. Fusco breaks up the book into the four movements – Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance and Psalm. Each movement contains several sections that take you on a journey through Ephesians, building your understanding of how Jesus moves in your life.
We all need the gospel all the time. It needs to be a living, breathing, every moment kind of thing for us. Fusco reminds his readers gently that we need to be allowing the gospel to permeate every action, thought and moment of our day. He acknowledges the hard without being condescending, and for the first time ever, I felt like there was a book, and an author, who knew how I felt about life after cancer and the messiness that occurs because of it.
This book is for anyone, non-believer, new believer, lifelong believer. At times I would just sit and nod my head in agreement, thankful for the reminder and new perspective on the gospel. I finished the book, grateful for the truths, the acknowledgement that life is messy and it never really can get unmessy – just less messy with Jesus .
Honestly acknowledges that life can be tough and doesn't give you a fake formula to try and fix it, it acknowledges the tough, gives you hope through Jesus, and reminds you of the amazing love of Jesus.
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Conflicts, Disasters, and Child Labor
Jun 26, 2017 | Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Verité
The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched World Day Against Child Labor in 2002. Every year on June 12th and throughout the month, we take the opportunity to highlight this important issue and to share best practices towards achieving the goal of eliminating child labor by 2025.
On Thursday, June 8, 2017, Verité participated in a Twitter chat to commemorate this year's World Day Against Child Labor. Facilitated by Winrock International, the Twitter chat also included Alyson Eynon from Plan International, Jen Marlay Global from the Global Fairness Initiative, and Jessica Ryckman from Lawyers Without Borders. Program Director, Quinn Kepes, represented Verité to address the focus for this year: the impact of conflicts and disasters on child labor.
Available on Verité's Twitter profile, on our Facebook page and by searching hashtag #EndCL, the chat started with an exploration of specific drivers of child labor during conflicts and disasters including poor access to education, family separation, and disrupted rule of law. However, as Mr. Kepes noted, conflict is not limited to war zones. Societal violence can drive crisis migration leading to increased child labor as seen in Verité research in Colombia, Ecuador, and the United States.
Measures to prevent child labor during conflicts and disasters include ensuring that schools can remain open, making birth registration more accessible so that children may access relief and social serves, raising community awareness, training law enforcement on warning signs of trafficking for child labor, and working with local employers to understand the rights of legally working children.
Some of the resources that were shared during the chat include the United States Department of Labor's Sweat & Toil App, the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and Verité's Responsible Sourcing Tool.
For more information, please contact Quinn Kepes.


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## React

[React AJAX best practices](http://andrewhfarmer.com/react-ajax-best-practices/)

[Airbnb React/JSX styleguide](https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/blob/master/react/README.md)

[A deep dive into children in React](https://mxstbr.blog/2017/02/react-children-deepdive/)

[10 React mini-patterns](https://hackernoon.com/10-react-mini-patterns-c1da92f068c5)

[React Lifecycle Methods - how and when to use them](https://engineering.musefind.com/react-lifecycle-methods-how-and-when-to-use-them-2111a1b692b1)

[A gentle introduction to Higher Order Components](https://www.robinwieruch.de/gentle-introduction-higher-order-components/)

[9 things every React.js beginner should know](https://camjackson.net/post/9-things-every-reactjs-beginner-should-know)

[React: Design Principles](https://facebook.github.io/react/contributing/design-principles.html)

## Redux

[Getting started with Redux (30 free video lessons by Redux creator)](https://egghead.io/courses/getting-started-with-redux)

[React/Redux - Best Practices & Gotchas](https://getstream.io/blog/react-redux-best-practices-gotchas/?fthr=redditreact)

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[Survive JS: Webpack (Free to read online)](https://survivejs.com/webpack/foreword/)

[Webpack - The Confusing Parts](https://medium.com/@rajaraodv/webpack-the-confusing-parts-58712f8fcad9)

## Testing

[Getting started in TDD with React](https://daveceddia.com/getting-started-with-tdd-in-react/)

[The right way to test React components](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-right-way-to-test-react-components-548a4736ab22)

[Testing Redux](http://redux.js.org/docs/recipes/WritingTests.html)

[React Router v4: Testing](https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/guides/testing)

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The problem is that the neighborhoods and villages in east Jerusalem have been integrated into the city's fabric of life in a way that does not permit separation. It is not a matter of ideology. You have never heard me say that "when we sat by the waters of Babylon, we remembered Zion" – and we thought about Shuafat and Beit Hanina. It is possible that if in 1967 these exact borders had not been set, Jerusalem would have developed in other directions and these neighborhoods would not have been relevant.
Has anyone at all tried to tackle the question of the meaning of the division that is proposed? Can anyone imagine cutting off Sheikh Jarrah, or that the entrance to the hospital on Mount Scopus should have to go through the checkpoints of the Palestinians? Problems would be entailed for the municipal fabric that would turn life into hell, beyond the security issue…. Has anyone at all tried to analyze how, within this spaghetti that would be created, infrastructures could be built separately? How planning and building laws could be dealt with separately? How one would deal with water? How one would deal with problems of parking, streets?
A rise in the number of requests for Israeli identity cards, a rise in demand for the Israeli matriculation exam, a rise in registration for Israeli academic institutions, a decline in birthrate, a rise in the number of requests for building permits, a rise in volunteering for national service among east Jerusalem's young people, a rise in the residents' levels of satisfaction, a revolution in access to the health services, a survey [discussed below] showing that in the permanent settlement, more Palestinians in Jerusalem will prefer to remain under Israeli rule than to move to Palestinian control, and so on.
Indeed, instead of just asking "Jerusalem: United or divided?" one can note not a few aspects of normality and cooperation, on the one hand, and of segregation, alienation, and not infrequent violence, on the other. That these exist side by side does not mean they cancel each other out. The image of separation stems from the political controversy over the city's future and from the radical Islamic trend. Images of cooperation and normality, which the media tend to ignore, reflect a reality of coexistence going back decades. In recent years the building of the separation fence has also contributed to the process; to a large extent the fence detached east Jerusalem from its natural hinterland – the villages and the Arab population of the West Bank, leading east Jerusalem Arabs to turn "westward" all the more.
The field of education is a notable example. Far more Palestinian young people now want to attend Israeli academic institutions. For that they need an Israeli matriculation certificate (the Israeli academic institutions do not recognize Palestinian ones). So more young people in east Jerusalem now take the Israeli matriculation exam, and there are now numerous learning centers in east Jerusalem to prepare them for it. The result is an increase of east Jerusalem Arab students at the Hebrew University, particularly in the faculties of medicine and the natural sciences.
There is also the issue of basic services, such as connection to the municipal water network. In recent years the Gihon water company has brought about a revolution by connecting tens of thousands of new customers, all of them east Jerusalem residents, to this network. More east Jerusalem residents than in the past now also submit requests to the municipality for building permits, preferring to build with a permit rather than illegally as was the practice for many years.
The huge and unfortunate gaps between Jerusalem's Jewish and Arab neighborhoods regarding the level of infrastructure and services, a result of ongoing Israeli neglect, still exist.6 In at least one area, however, the gap has been closed: that of health services. In surveys of the city's residents that the municipality conducts, the Arab residents give quite high grades in this area. What brought about the change was the National Health Insurance Law (1995), which reimburses the health funds according to the number of people registered at each. The health funds have opened high-quality clinics in east Jerusalem neighborhoods as well, and usually award their management to local concessionaires, physicians, or businesspeople. As Prof. Yosef Prost, director of general health services in the Jerusalem district, said at the end of 2012, "There are clinics in east Jerusalem that are the best in the area. I could easily take them and put them in central Tel Aviv."7 To this one must add, of course, Jerusalem's three largest hospitals: Hadassah Ein Kerem, Hadassah Mount Scopus, and Shaarei Tzedek; east Jerusalem Arabs, as residents, have been enjoying their high level of care for years. Numerous volunteers for the Magen David Adom ambulance service, both Jews and Arabs, also provide care to both populations.
The city is also interconnected by common infrastructure networks, and it would be difficult and perhaps impossible to separate these from each other without causing suffering to the residents. Services at varying levels are provided to all parts of the city: from main and secondary roads that cross it lengthwise and widthwise and connect all its parts, to integrated water, electricity, sewage, and telephone networks.
In the above-mentioned hospitals, Jewish and Arab doctors and nurses work side by side and serve both populations. Many of the pharmacists in Jerusalem are Arabs. So are many of the drivers of the Egged bus lines and many of the passengers of this transportation cooperative. The malls in Jerusalem – Malcha, Hadar, and Achim Yisrael – teem with both Jewish and Arab customers. The intermingling is even more pronounced in the promenade of shops between Jaffa Gate and the Mamilla neighborhood, where Arabs and Jews routinely sit adjacent to each other in cafes. Both the sellers and the customers in this promenade include Jews and Arabs. Intermingling is also common in the areas of banking, commerce, and employment. A considerable number of the stalls in the Mahane Yehuda market are run by Arabs. Some of the shop owners in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City are also Arabs who employ Jews. Even the entrance hall of the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, Orthodox Jewry's flagship in the capital, is maintained and cleaned by Arabs. The large supermarket chain Rami Levy employs many hundreds of Arabs in its Jerusalem branches. Intermingling also prevails in the parks along the seam line, such as Liberty Bell Garden. Arabs likewise come to the Biblical Zoo and the Ein Yael outdoor museum, and their children take part in summer camps offered at these venues.
Jews visit east Jerusalem in smaller numbers, but here too there is intermingling. In recent years all the quarters of the Old City have been crowded with tourists and with numerous Jews. Jews live not only in the Jewish Quarter but in the Muslim and Christian quarters as well, and there is Jewish-Arab cooperation in these neighborhoods in both trade and tourism. The Festival of Light, which the municipality has been holding in the Old City for several years, is an example of such cooperation with the revenues enjoyed by both Jewish and Arab merchants.
Before the "Jerusalem Intifada" many Jews, mainly from Pisgat Ze'ev and Neve Yaakov, visited the new Beit Hanina shopping center in northern Jerusalem. Jews needing cheaper dental clinics would even go to Isawiya.
The Arabs of Jerusalem also enjoy an income level four times higher than that in the Palestinian Authority, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and access to any location in Israel, as well as a slew of National Insurance benefits. The Arabs of the West Bank do not enjoy these privileges.
The intermingling, common fabric, and normalization that Olmert described 15 years ago have also become an accomplished fact because of an ongoing, large-scale momentum of activity to which the state of Israel has viewed itself as committed since the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War. From the start, the objective of the massive construction in the eastern part of the city was to cement Jewish control of strategic lands and preclude any future separation between the different parts of the city. Israeli construction was aimed at knitting the city together, expanding it, filling spaces that had been empty, and ensuring that Jerusalem could not be divided again.
For over three decades, as noted, the state affirmed that everything must be done to unify the city and prevent its redivision. The new neighborhoods in east Jerusalem were built with this in mind, according to a plan that was intended from the start to prevent a division. About 200,000 Jews now live in these neighborhoods; public and state institutions have also been built in locations annexed to the city in 1967, including Kiryat Hamemshala (the Government Compound) in Sheikh Jarrah, the campus of the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus, and hotels along Road 1. Lands and properties were purchased, both by private individuals and organizations, with the aim of "redeeming" Jerusalem. For several years there was also a government agency known as Igum that bought land and buildings in the Old City and east Jerusalem for future settlement of Jews there.13 In addition, the network of roads that today serves the two populations was laid and paved according to a plan that ruled out a division. As mentioned, the route of the one light-rail line in operation so far, and those of some of the other planned lines as well, were determined with this in mind.
The large neighborhoods over the Green Line, such as Ramot, Gilo, Pisgat Ze'ev, Har Homa, and Ramat Shlomo, were established by the government; currently tens of thousands of Jews live in each of them. Smaller enclaves were also created, sometimes with government support, by ideological groups. Some of these are in Beit Orot on Mount Scopus, the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, the Christian Quarter of the Old City, the Shaar Haprachim area in the Old City, the area of the Tomb of Shimon Hatzadik (Simon the Just) in Sheikh Jarrah, the Arab Musrara area, the Maale Hazeitim neighborhood in Ras al-Amud, Beit Hashiva in Beit Hanina, Arab Abu Tor, the Mount of Olives, and an enclave on the municipal jurisdictional borderline in Abu Dis. These were aimed at fulfilling the Jewish people's historical and religious connection with places of greater significance to them in the ancient core of Jerusalem; but also, and no less, at preventing a redivision.
C. A Border Town Again?
is likely to perpetuate affluent, modern neighborhoods on the western side contrasted to poverty and physical neglect on the eastern side. The neighbor in Abu Tor who peeks from his window at the possessions of the Jewish neighbor will feel envy, and similar to the situation today along the seam line in other parts of the country, a dynamic of thefts and burglaries will develop, just like in the 1950s and 1960s.
During the period of division up to 1967, the city's migration balance was negative, more people leaving than coming to live in it. After the Six-Day War the migration balance evened out and sometimes was even positive. Over the recent decades (except for one year) it has again been negative. Based on the trends we have outlined, a division would probably further increase both Jewish and Arab emigration from the city.
Population growth in Jewish Jerusalem during the 19 years before the city's unification derived half from natural growth and half from the large waves of aliyah that characterized the early years of the country.
More than half of those who were employed in the divided city worked in the service sector in the fields of education and health, mainly under the aegis of the national and municipal governments; only one-fourth were employed in productive activity in the fields of industry and commerce. A division will likely cause an economic crisis, further enlarge the proportion of workers in the services, and reduce the proportion of people who work in industry, commerce, and hi-tech.
During the years of division, Jerusalem's economy was in retreat compared to the growth and expansion in other parts of Israel. In contrast to the eastern city, which lived from tourism – the holy places of the three religions are there – tourism in the west, where few tourist sites remained, was anemic. Most of the foreign tourists entered the Israeli side of the city through the Mandelbaum Gate, spent a few hours there, and continued on their way. A redivision that again leaves the main tourist and religious sites on the Arab (Palestinian) side will likely have the same effect on the Jewish side.
During the 19 years of division, Jerusalem's proportion of Israel's total population declined from 9.6 percent to 7.4 percent. The main reason was a relative lack of jobs. Today Jerusalem accounts for 10 percent of the total population, and the Jews in Jerusalem form 8 percent of the country's total Jewish population.
For a long time the large government ministries were located in Tel Aviv, and there were more government workers in Tel Aviv than in Jerusalem. Today it is impossible to know how the reality of a divided city would affect the presence of government ministries in Jerusalem.
One of the difficult problems the city dealt with was the detachment between the Jewish community and the cemetery on the Mount of Olives, which was often desecrated and where 38,000 headstones were destroyed. Alternative cemeteries had to be established in Givat Ram, Sanhedria, and Har Hamenuchot. If, in a redivision, the Palestinians demand the Mount Olives, that difficult reality will probably return. Even if the mount remains in Israel's hands, the roads to it will be exposed to Palestinian terror.
Not infrequently, Jordanian Legionnaires sniped from the Old City wall at Jews in the western city. Particularly exposed were Jews who went from south of the King David Hotel toward Talpiot. A similar situation prevailed along the line between western Musrara and Jewish Musrara. In Chapter 3 we noted that a redivision would leave Arab neighborhoods dangerously near Jewish ones, and that weapons would be available and could, with unbearable ease, reach numerous hostile elements whose interest in attacking in Jerusalem has hardly come to an end.
Prof. Raphael Israeli, who was a member of the Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission before 1967, testified in Divided Jerusalem that the city's affairs along the borderline were actually run by the commission, with much involvement by the world powers that was usually to the Israeli side's detriment. Experience suggests that further international involvement in arranging a division of Jerusalem would not benefit Israel.
During Jordanian rule the residents of the Muslim Quarter lived in especially difficult conditions, without paved streets or a sewage system and, in many homes, without electricity. The Muslim Quarter also remained densely crowded. After 1967, however, conditions there improved considerably.
It appears, then, that a division of Jerusalem will be traumatic, not only on the demographic, security, and national levels but also for morale. A division will seriously impair the common fabric of life, the normality and intermingling, the larger totality that is little talked about, along with the city's economy and municipal fabric.
E. What Do the East Jerusalem Arabs Want?
The 2014 "Jerusalem Intifada" seemingly reflected increased nationalism among the east Jerusalem Arabs. The fact that many thousands took part in the disorders, and close to a thousand were arrested, could lead to the conclusion that most east Jerusalem Arabs want separation, division, and distinct political expression.
Yet, for many years, there have been plentiful indications that a considerable part of this population opposes a division of the city and, if it were to occur, would move to the Israeli side. This seemed evident, for example, even during informal talks that were held in 2014 between residents of Jewish and Arab neighborhoods with the aim of calming the situation.
Such insights arise from numerous talks with east Jerusalem Arabs that I have held over the years. The picture that emerges is quite clear: they identify with the Palestinian struggle, have a sense of Israeli neglect and discrimination regarding investments in infrastructure and services for their neighborhoods, but look askance, sometimes extremely so, at the PA because of its lack of real democracy. They particularly fear losing their resident status, which affords them a host of benefits and rights as described earlier – freedom of movement and expression, varied employment possibilities, a high income level, entitlement to National Insurance and other imbursements. They are in a state of ambivalence. On the one hand, their national sentiments intensify when there is war in Gaza, or when Israel acts militarily in the West Bank to suppress terror, and particularly when Muslim spiritual leaders succeed to spread the "Al-Aqsa is in danger" libel and the Temple Mount becomes a focus of conflict. On the other hand, for many east Jerusalem Arabs the desire to preserve the united city, and to safeguard their resident status with its numerous benefits, keeps growing.
Only a few are prepared to say these things openly or be identified publicly as saying them. During the 2014 "Jerusalem Intifada," Hamas gangs and Fatah members created an atmosphere of fear among the residents, lest they dare openly express their real feelings. Loud cries of distress, stemming from that atmosphere of fear, were directed at the Jerusalem municipality, the police, and the ISA; but in places like Isawiya, Shuafat, A-Tur, or Jebel Mukaber there was greater apprehension of the terror elements than of the Israeli government.
One can't suddenly, in a few seconds, turn the world upside down and decide that a resident of Jerusalem is like a resident of Hebron or Nablus…. The residents of east Jerusalem are something special. In the PA there is no democracy. They don't know what democracy is. I don't think asking for a referendum in east Jerusalem is a crime. So far at least, I do not belong to the PA and it does not belong to me. Arafat is not my rais, and it is not acceptable to me that he should sign an agreement that determines my future without asking me what I think…. He has no mandate from me and he does not represent me.
The public opinion survey that the American survey institute Pechter conducted for the Council on Foreign Relations, together with the head of the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, Dr. Nabil Kukali, found that in case Jerusalem is divided as part of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, the Arabs of the eastern part of the capital in fact prefer to live under Israeli sovereignty.
The survey, which was conducted among the residents of 19 of the Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, also revealed that their opposition to such a measure is so fierce that they would rather move into Israel than live under the rule of a Palestinian state.
The survey also revealed that the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem want to retain their Israeli identity cards and keep enjoying the health services and social benefits that the state provides them. Thirty-five percent said that Israeli citizenship is what they prefer, and only 30 percent opted to be citizens of the future Palestinian state. Another 30 percent said they did not know or preferred not to answer the question.
…In order to retain the blue [Israeli] identity card, it appears that the east Jerusalem residents are even prepared to pay a heavy price: 40 percent said they would relocate so as to remain Israeli citizens if their place of residence were to pass to Palestinian sovereignty. Conversely, only 29 percent said that in the opposite case, where it would be decided to leave the given area under Israeli sovereignty, they would move to the area to be placed in Palestinian hands.
Apart from the social benefits, the east Jerusalem residents explained that their preference to carry an Israeli identity card stems from the fact that it allows them freedom of movement throughout the country, a higher income, and varied employment possibilities. The minority that prefers to live under Palestinian sovereignty explained this in terms of nationalist and patriotic motivations.
It's true. I and many others in east Jerusalem are aware of what happens in the West Bank and in Gaza. The population, and I as well, do not want to live under a regime where people do not have rights or health insurance or national insurance or child stipends or a guaranteed income or unemployment payments or disability payments. People, even under occupation, desire a certain standard of living. There is a difference between a salary of 8,000 shekels a month in east Jerusalem and 800-1,200 shekels in the PA. Even a soldier in the PA does not earn more than 2,100 shekels.
So people say to themselves: the PA can go jump in a lake. People look at the nature of the PA, of the leadership. They see there, on the one hand, a large impoverished population, and on the other, a political and military leadership who came from Tunis, took over the land, the economy, live in luxurious homes, drive Mercedes, and do not care about the people that goes barefoot. It's true that the population feels that it is part of the Palestinian people, but the whole national issue suffers attrition, whether it is in Gaza, whether it is in the West Bank, and certainly if it is in east Jerusalem. Nationalism is important, but standard of living is more important.
In east Jerusalem a person who doesn't feel well goes to Hadassah Hospital and gets the right medical treatment without paying. People on the West Bank do not even obtain medicines, let alone hospitalization. I hear about medicines whose date has expired, that are displayed there on the shelves, that you endanger your life by using. Where is the PA? Where is the supervision? Does that interest them at all?
…When Israel began to build the fence in the north, A-Ram emptied out. Thirty percent of the residents there, who hold blue identity cards and live in three-story houses, went and rented shacks in Isawiya and Silwan, just so as not to lose the residency permits and lose rights, and to get away from the PA.
Are you Israelis or Palestinians?
The truth is that today we are closer to the Israeli Arabs, who have almost lost their identity. We don't really know whom we belong to.
What will happen on the ground if there is a division?
There will be large-scale migration to the Israeli side. I have no doubt about that. Thousands have already moved to Abu Ghosh and to Ein Rafa and to Neve Yaakov and Pisgat Ze'ev. It's no secret. In east Jerusalem they want an open society, a good standard of living, rights, democracy. None of that exists in the PA.
Then what is the conclusion?
The residents in East Jerusalem want quiet. The government perhaps sees them as a potential terror element, but it's wrong. The residents here know the value of freedom of movement, access to workplaces, freedom of expression, the numerous rights, the possibilities for a livelihood.
The few suicide terrorists who have come from east Jerusalem are exceptions. At the same time, one has to take into account that continued home destructions in east Jerusalem are likely to raise the level of terror in the eastern part of the city, which today is very limited.
What is the practical significance of these views regarding a future settlement in east Jerusalem?
People in east Jerusalem are not looking for a solution. They are looking for a good standard of living. Thirty thousand of them have already gone further than to settle for a residency card, and have Israeli citizenship. If tomorrow the government opens the door to naturalization, I'd say that about 100,000 will go to the Interior Ministry and request Israeli citizenship, but the government is still setting limits on this.
This issue – the automatic revocation of resident status, and possible invalidation of this status by Israel because of absence from the country – has affected east Jerusalem residents' behavior over the years. Since 1967, Israel has revoked the resident status of about 14,500 east Jerusalemites on the grounds of absence from the country. Some years, such as 2006, saw an especially high number of such revocations – 4,577; other years, such as 2012, saw a very low number – only 116.
It is the constant fear of losing resident status that has led thousands of Palestinians who had lived outside the municipal borders of Jerusalem (in the West Bank) – and legally speaking also outside the borders of the country – to move within the Jerusalem boundaries. This, of course, has affected the Jewish-Arab demographic balance in Jerusalem, the city's economy, the density of housing in Arab neighborhoods, as well as the feelings of east Jerusalem residents who for various reasons have lived outside the city. They have felt themselves under an ongoing threat of revocation of their status, which, as we have seen, affords them many benefits and rights.
Different explanations have been offered for this increase – economic motives and personal convenience, the ongoing trend of integration and "Israelization" of east Jerusalem Arabs, or acceptance of the enduring political reality. Some claim, however, that those who request citizenship want to make sure their resident status will not be revoked if they leave the country for some time, or spend some time in the territories.
Given the fact that tens of thousands of Palestinians who had lived outside of Jerusalem have moved back into it for fear of losing their resident status, and the fact that the building of the separation fence in northern Jerusalem prompted tens of thousands of Palestinians to do the same, it appears that the latter explanation is well founded.
Anyone to whom maintaining the Jewish majority in greater Jerusalem is important, then, must show some flexibility on the residency issue. The insistence on sustaining the threat of revoking the east Jerusalem Arabs' resident status has caused tens of thousands of them to move from outside Jerusalem into the heart of the city.
In practice, then, the state of Israel finances the resident status of the tens of thousands who return, since they now demand that the terms of their status are fulfilled. Would it not have been preferable, therefore, to keep financing the resident status of these same tens of thousands of people while they were living outside of Jerusalem? Lifting or mitigating the threat of revocation would leave tens of thousands of additional Palestinians, Jerusalemites by origin who hold a resident card and fear losing it, outside the city. Moving in this direction would also be justified from both a human and a public-diplomacy standpoint. The state of Israel would indeed have to "pay" to lower the motivation of Jerusalem residents living outside the city to return to it, but the "payback" would be maintaining the Jewish majority in Jerusalem. This could, at least at the present time, be worthwhile.
1 The daily Yerushalayim, December 29, 2000.
2 Nir Hasson, "Te'uda K'chula, Mitzrach Mevukash b'Mizrach Yerushalayim" (Blue Card: A Much-Wanted Item in East Jerusalem), Haaretz, December 29, 2012.
3 The city was divided for the 19 years of Jordanian rule, 1948-1967.
4 Choshen and Korach, Hashnaton Hastatisti, Table ג/10 (no. 28).
5 For more, see Nadav Shragai, "Ha'ir sh'Urbeva La" (The City That Got Mixed), Israel Hayom, May 23, 2014; Hasson, "Te'uda K'chula"; Nir Hasson, "Tachanat Hamaavar Hachinuchit shel Toshavei Yerushalayim Baderech l'Kabalat Avoda b'Yisrael" (The East Jerusalem Residents' Educational Way Station on the Way to Finding Work in Israel), Haaretz, August 28, 2012; Eren Tzidkiyahu, "Milchama al Habayit b'Yerushalayim" (A War for the Home Front in Jerusalem), website of Molad: The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy, March 25, 2014.
6 See, e.g., Committee to Examine the Municipal Services in East Jerusalem, Sherutei Ha'iriya Bamigzar Ha'aravi: Nituach Tzarchim v'Maanim (The Municipal Services in the Arab Sector: An Analysis of Needs and Solutions), November 1974.
8 These will connect the Hebrew University campus at Givat Ram and the one on Mount Scopus, Mount Scopus and Gilo, Ramot (in the north) and Gilo (in the south); the "brown line" will operate in the eastern part of the city; and a line will operate from the Western Wall to Givat Ram through the center of the city. For details, see Daniel Shmil, "Mitrachvim: Chamisha Kavei Rakevet Kala Nosafim Yukmu b'Yerushalayim" (Expanding: Five Additional Light-Rail Lines Will Be Built in Jerusalem), The Marker, September 20, 2013.
11 Yehoshua Prawer and Ora Achimeir, eds., Esrim Shana b'Yerushalayim (Twenty Years in Jerusalem) (Tel Aviv: Misrad Habitachon, 1987), 15-16; Shragai, Har Hamerivah, 199-200.
12 The Clinton Parameters were based on the principle of dividing the city according to the layout of the population: what was Jewish, for the Jews; what was Arab, for the Arabs.
13 A report on this agency's activity and objectives is in the author's possession.
14 Similarly in the small pockets of settlement that Jews have renewed in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City and in the City of David, Jews and Arabs live side by side.
15 Nadav Shragai, "Hatzad Hafalestini Mitchayev Lehafer et Haheskem; Hatzad Ha'israeli Mitchayev Lehafgin Ozlat Yad" (The Palestinian Side Promises to Breach the Agreement; The Israeli Side Promises to Show Weakness), Haaretz, June 9, 2002.
17 Amiram Gonen, "Yerushalayim – Eich Lechazek v'Lechaber et Ha'ir Hamitporeret" (Jerusalem – How to Strengthen and Connect the Disintegrating City), in Amirav, Adoni Rosh Hamemshala, 162.
18 Benvenisti, Mul Hachoma, 82; Israel Kimchi, "Yerushalayim Hechatzuya 1948-1967" (Divided Jerusalem 1948-1967), Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, in manuscript.
19 In newspaper articles and in conversations with the author of this book. A similar decline in apartment prices in seam-line neighborhoods occurred in Jerusalem during the Second Intifada, particularly in Gilo, Har Homa, and Pisgat Ze'ev.
20 Roi Yanovsky, "Katastrophat Hanadlan shel Kav Hatefer" (The Real-Estate Catastrophe of the Seam Line), Yediot Yerushalayim, October 31, 2014.
23 Elisha Efrat, Yerushalayim v'Haprozdor: Geografia shel Ir v'Har (Jerusalem and the Corridor: A Geography of City and Mountain (Jerusalem: Tel Aviv: Achiasaf, 1967), 75, 79.
24 According to the data of Table א/3 in Choshen and Korach, Hashnaton Hastatisti, 17, the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem encompassed an area of 46,711 dunams.
25 Mordechai Naor, Yerushalayim Ir v'Am (Jerusalem: City and People) (Jerusalem: Yitzhak Ben Zvi/Yediot Aharonot/Sifrei Hemed, 1995), 226.
26 Hillel Cohen, Kikar Hashuk Reka (The Market Square Is Empty) (Jerusalem: Hotza'at Ivrit, 2007), 28.
27 Makor Rishon, September 1, 2000.
28 The survey is referenced by Klein in Yuzmat Geneva, 151-153, and is quoted in a background paper prepared for the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies prepared in the framework of an article by Prof. Yaakov Bar-Siman-Tov.
29 The link for the survey by the Pechter Institute: http://pechterpolls.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Detailed-Survey-Results-on-E-Jerusalem-1-10-11-1034pm-Eastern.pdf.
31 Nadav Shragai, "Maadifim Lihiot Yisraelim" (They Prefer to Be Israelis), Israel Hayom, January 21, 2011.
32 The Israeli Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh is quoted in a similar vein in a far-reaching article by Avinadav Vitkun that was posted on the News1 site on May 20, 2012. The article was first published in Makor Rishon. See there also the remarks by Dr. Israel Kimchi.
33 For more, see the executive summary of a new study by Dr. Amnon Ramon of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies: Hatoshavim shel Arvi'ei Mizrach Yerushalayim—1967-2013 (The Residents of the East Jerusalem Arabs—1967-2013) (in the author's possession).
34 From "Shlilat Maamad Hatoshavut b'Mizrach Yerushalayim" (Revoking Resident Status in East Jerusalem), website of B'Tselem, January 1, 2011.
35 Nir Hasson, "3374 m'Toshavei Mizrach Yerushalayim Kiblu Ezrachut Ba'asor Ha'acharon" (3,374 East Jerusalem Residents Received Citizenship over the Past Decade), Haaretz, October 20, 2012.


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Q: Self-loops in Graph may not display correctly or export correctly to PDF (due to BezierCurve problem) Bug introduced in 10.0 and fixed in 11.2
 Problem is due to a BezierCurve bug.

I don't understand why the following does not work:
Export["graph.pdf", Graph[{1 <-> 1, 1 <-> 2}, EdgeShapeFunction -> "Line",
        EdgeStyle -> {Black}, VertexStyle -> Black, VertexSize -> .05]]

It evaluates fine, but the resulting PDF only seems to show half the loop at vertex 1.
The problem seems to be with EdgeShapeFunction: it displays correctly in Mathematica, but does not export correctly to PDF

A: On my system (OS X 10.10.4) it doesn't even display correctly on-screen.  This means that rasterization doesn't help.
I can confirm the problem in 10.0.2, 10.1.0 and 10.2.0.  The problem doesn't exist in 9.0.1.

We can trace back this problem to a BezierCurve bug.
gr =
  Show@Graph[{1 <-> 1, 1 <-> 2}, EdgeShapeFunction -> "Line",
    EdgeStyle -> {Black}, VertexStyle -> Black, VertexSize -> .05];

bc = First@Cases[gr, _BezierCurve, Infinity]
(* BezierCurve[{{1., 0.}, {1.08848, 0.190784}, {1.28736, 0.24718}, {1.41453, 0.188223}, {1.41453, -0.188223}, {1.28736, -0.24718}, {1.08848, -0.190784}, {1., 0.}}, SplineDegree -> 7] *)

Graphics[{bc, Red, PointSize[Large], Point[pts], Black, Dashed, Line[pts]}]

Note that only half of the curve is displayed.  This only happens with SplineDegree -> 7 in this case.

BezierFunction doesn't suffer from the same problem:
ParametricPlot[BezierFunction[pts, SplineDegree -> 7][t] // Evaluate, {t, 0, 1}]

A: I can reproduce your problem (Win7 64, M10.0.1). Same problem if you try with PDF or EPS format.

When actually your graph should look like this
Graph[{1 <-> 1, 1 <-> 2}, EdgeShapeFunction -> "Line",  EdgeStyle -> {Black}, VertexStyle -> Black, VertexSize -> .05]

It looks like this is a bug, but there is an easy way around if you can afford to have a raster image instead of a vector. The graph can be transformed into a bitmap using Rasterize
Export["graph.pdf",
 Rasterize[
  Graph[{1 <-> 1, 1 <-> 2}, EdgeShapeFunction -> "Line",
   EdgeStyle -> {Black}, VertexStyle -> Black, VertexSize -> .05],
  ImageSize -> 2^10]]

Until this is fixed if you need vector format, you can use SVG, which works fine.
EDIT:
or, you can remove the option EdgeShapeFunction->"Line" as pointed out by @Steve_D, i.e yourself. Still, this is a bug.


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Nora Neve (1873-1952) was a British nurse and medical missionary with the Church Missionary Society who pioneered missionary nursing. Her work was instrumental in the development of the Kashmir Mission Hospital in Srinagar. She was the hospital's first Superintendent of Nursing and led education and cleanliness initiatives. Neve also recorded and published records of Kashmiri hospital practices in the American Journal of Nursing, contributing to the tool kits of other missionaries and preserving a part of Kashmir's cultural history.

Background

Early life and influences
Nora Neve was born in England in 1873. Her family members were devout Christians and members of the Church of England. Two of her uncles, Arthur Neve and Ernest Neve, were medical missionaries in Kashmir by the time she was 11 years old. At the young age of 18, Nora traveled to Kashmir to visit her uncles and see the mission hospital where they worked. She decided to join them and the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and a year later, was officially announced as part of the society's ranks in the Church Missionary Gleaner July 1898 edition.

Education
Neve was sent by CMS to The Olives, a training home where they sent women missionary candidates. There, she received her nursing and additional Christian religious education. At the time of her attendance, The Olives was only a 4 year old private training school in the post-Nightingale era, when nursing schools were established in England that focused on providing future nurses practical education, promoting sanitation and cleanliness practices, and on fostering nursing theory and professionalism.

Missionary work
Neve left for Kashmir by sea in September or October 1898. She was supported financially by the church of St. Mary Abbots of Kensington.

Kashmir Mission Hospital

Neve joined Ernest and Arthur Neve at the Kashmir Mission Hospital at Srinagar. The hospital was considered a modern, state of the art institution. It was known as far away as Balistan, more than 100 miles from Srinagar, from discharged patients who traveled and told others. Eventually, during Neve's time, it would grow to consist of 4 male doctors, 2 English nurses, and 120 hospital beds. In a year, they reported 22,735 new outpatients, 1,764 in patients, 5,038 surgical operations, with 15-18 operations on a busy day. The hospital also played a religious role and considered physical healing to be a vehicle to share the gospel, which they actively taught to patients. Neve shared this sentiment, expressing hope in an article she wrote for the American Journal of Nursing that increasing numbers of patients would be converted to Christianity.

Leadership at the mission hospital
Neve was the Superintendent of Nursing at the Kashmir Missions Hospital. She was an indispensable part of the team developing the hospital; Ernest Neve said that without her, it would have broken down. He also credited her with the efficiency of the hospital, the strict cleanliness, and the disciplined decor, which she maintained through inspections on her daily rounds. Through these practices, she brought the Kashmir Mission Hospital to modern European standards based on the germ theory which had been developed only decades before.

She was described as a kind and patient nurse and was known for teaching her patients as well as caring for their physical ailments, although she reported finding more success teaching young patients than older. She was especially in charge of the women's wards in the Sir Petrabh Signh Pavilion, as nursing care was done by those of the same gender as the patient. She also camped at sites beyond the hospital that were in great need to provide aid temporarily.

Neve led other nurses and staff at the hospital. Other nurses at the mission hospital who worked under her supervision include two English nurses, Lucy McCormick and H Smith, with visiting nurses helping during the busy summer months. She spent much of her time supervising eastern assistants, who were recorded to need more assistance because they lack "sense of duty".

Few government hospitals in Kashmir had a nurse on staff at this time, and Neve's necessary and innovative work served as an example for other hospitals in the region. In addition to the Mission Hospital, Neve worked the North India Leper Hospital, a government hospital.

Legacy
Throughout her time in Kashmir, Neve actively corresponded with the American Journal of Nursing, describing her work in detail and offering advice to other missionaries. This included tips as small as how to deal with pesky flies and articles as long as to describe the complex workings of both the Kashmir Mission Hospital and the nearby Leper's Hospital. Through these, she created a guidebook for other nurse missionaries to follow, whether in South Asia or elsewhere, and written record of Kashmir's culture.

Additional published work

Nursing in Mission Stations
Neve's article "Nursing in Mission Stations" was published in the American Journal of Nursing in 1908. In it, she describes her work at the hospital in Srinagar, as described above in the Kashmir Mission Hospital section. She describes the way that it is looked down on for men to care for women outside of their families, explaining why the hospital and its staff were segregated by gender.

A Leper Hospital in North India
"A Leper Hospital in North India" was published in the American Journal of Nursing a year later, in 1909. It describes another hospital where she worked, which specialized in care of people with leprosy. Although the hospital was managed by CMS, it was run by the state. She reports 173 admissions in 1908 and the average length of stay to be 1,104 days because leprosy is a chronic disease and those infected had to live in years of quarantine to protect others. Some of the patients were treated and no longer had leprosy symptoms, but stayed for care for their other ailments. Work at the hospital was done by orderlies, superintendents, and patients. She notes that just like at the Kashmir Mission Hospital, patients were only cared for by those who shared their gender, as this was a pervasive cultural standard that informed medical practices in Kashmir.

Death
Neve died in 1952 at the age of 73. She is remembered today for her pioneering nursing work in Kashmir, the written documentation of Kashmir culture and missionary service, and commitment to bringing education and Christianity to the people of Kashmir.

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Khalidi closely analyses three historical moments that illuminate how the United States' involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine. The first moment he investigates is the "Reagan Plan" of 1982, when Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin refused to accept the Reagan administration's proposal to reframe the Camp David Accords more impartially. The second moment covers the period after the Madrid Peace Conference, from 1991 to 1993, during which negotiations between Israel and Palestine were brokered by the United States until the signing of the secretly negotiated Oslo accords. Finally, Khalidi takes on President Barack Obama's retreat from plans to insist on halting the settlements in the West Bank.


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Apartment developers will create more new apartments in 2021 in old office, retail, and hotel buildings than at any time in the last decade.
The pandemic didn't slow down apartment developers who adaptively reuse old buildings. Rising apartment rents allow investors to spend more to buy and redevelopment old buildings—income from the finished apartments should eventually pay for the high cost of development.
"We will likely see a fair amount of this—redevelopment and converting properties to apartments—over the next few years," says John Sebree, senior vice president and national director of multifamily for Marcus & Millichap, working in the firm's Chicago offices. "That is the result of being in a housing crisis, and without new product being built at the same pace as demand."
Developers are likely to finish a record 20,100 new apartments in 2021 in buildings converted from other uses, according to Yardi Matrix. That will make 2021 the busiest year for conversions in the last 10 years. It's also up sharply from an average of about 12,000 a year over the last five years.
"The pandemic has accelerated the need for a rapid supply of housing stock," says Doug Ressler, manager of business intelligence for Yardi Matrix, working in the firm's Scottsdale, Ariz., offices.
The number of new apartments created in converted buildings grew steadily from about 5,000 in 2010 to 15,000 in 2017. It dipped to less than 9,000 in 2018… but quickly recovered to close to 12,000 a year in both 2019 and the pandemic year of 2020.
The cost of redevelopment varies a lot depending on the building being repurposed—but it is generally significantly cheaper than building similar new apartments from the ground up.
"One estimate could be that renovations could cost about 30 to 40 percent less than new construction for the same number of units," says Emil E. Malizia, a research professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Total development cost per unit should be less as long as the cost of the site and building is not significantly more expensive than the cost of site acquisition for new construction."
The pandemic has hurt demand for hotels, offices, and retail space—but the occupancy rate for apartments is still well above 90 percent and rents continue to grow on average, even in the once-bustling downtown areas hurt the most by the pandemic. The relatively strong demand for apartments compared to the demand for office space and hotels is helping to make more deals work to adaptively reuse these buildings.
Nearly half (41 percent) of the conversions being completed in 2020 and 2021 are in former office buildings.
"The trend toward office conversions is a significant departure from the last decade when hotel conversions were popular," says Ressler. Old hotels were relatively easy to turn into apartment buildings because the existing floorplans and utilities were already a good fit with residential use. "However, consistent urban demand and increased preference for open-plan layouts and out-of-the-box designs revealed the housing potential in non-residential buildings."
In cities like Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the return of capital and demand in submarkets in and around the central business district has made it possible for developers to create thousands of new apartments in converted buildings. The top cities where developers created the most new apartments in converted office building in 2020 and 2021 include Washington D.C. (1,091 apartments) and Chicago (1,020 apartments).
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With the recent release of Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management report published on the 20th July 2020, Certero asks whether the reliance of information intelligence gathered from the traditional analyst house is now a source of concern and that can actually harm the delivery of SAM solutions and leave businesses even more exposed.
As businesses across the globe face the daunting reality of increased audits due to the impact of COVID-19, the latest Magic Quadrant (MQ), released by Gartner for the Software Asset Management (SAM) industry, has raised serious concerns about the factual content of the Gartner's Magic Quadrant report.
The aim of Gartner's MQ is to provide an impartial, factual overview of the key players within the SAM industry and help businesses understand the technology providers they might consider for a specific IT technology investment opportunity.
Steve Willmore, CMO of Certero, commented: "The importance of data accuracy in the SAM market is key, and we at Certero always focus on providing our customers with accurate data. The report is a clear demonstration that the market needs to look beyond an industry analysis as it has potential to represent inaccurate information which can affect an organization's ability to choose the right partner."
Certero believes the SAM market has not moved on enough from the outdated 2010 way of delivering SAM solutions and believe global organizations actually need a solution that is fit for 2020 and beyond.
Willmore adds: "An IT and SAM platform should always focus on one thing – data accuracy first. At Certero, we set out on a path to deliver the best IT Hardware and Software Asset Management solution by doing it differently from the other players within this industry."
"Working with an IT solution such as Certero is an important investment, and CIOs and IT Managers should look beyond a single inventory and analytics report to discover a technology provider that is reputable, credible and suitable for a client's IT requirement." Said Willmore.
When CIOs and IT Managers are looking to invest in a new solution platform that helps manage their IT estate, many will want to work with a solution that will find, manage and optimize all their IT assets in one place. The technology landscape is evolving at rapid speed and it's more important than ever for IT managers to future-proof their IT estate to prepare for new cyberthreats, especially with the rise of remote working, and provide essential tools that ensure business continuity.
With the digital landscape evolving at rapid speed, it's key that businesses and IT departments partner with a company that has a solution that challenges the outdated SAM2010 approach and delivers a differentiated SAM2020 solution that is fit for the 21st century economy. Certero recommends that organizations should undertake their own analysis and proof of concept, to fully understand the offering and benefits IT solution provides. One that can be completely delivered as SaaS and offers true 'unification' of all their assets, via a single pane of glass and a single source of normalized data, straight out of the box.
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I support Certero's assertion that a business should not solely rely on the Gartner Magic Quadrant in selecting a SAM Suite – you ignore your own unique circumstances in doing so. e.g. if your company is nationally based, what does it matter if a SAM suite provider has offices in four other continents? Certero scored exceptionally well in the previous MQ assessment because it took the time to get customer engagement correct – indeed I recall Monash University in Australia singing Certero's praises at an IT Conference in Sydney. If though, they feel they have been mis-represented in the latest SAM tools MQ, perhaps they should take the time to review whatever submission they made to Gartner, and to conduct a lesson learnt exercise – while also examining those companies to the right (and above) that have ended up in the top right hand corner – don't hate the player, hate the game!
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A gamelan is a traditional musical ensemble from Indonesia. It is a collective instrument, made up of elements which cannot be played separately; it combines different percussion devices (gongs, metallophones with bronze keys, and drums), to which may be added a bowed string instrument, a xylophone, a zither, a flute and voice.
Pieces from the gamelan repertoire offer melodic compositions which are shared out between the ten to fifteen players, whose parts are closely interlocked. The successful rendering of a piece thus results from a consensus: the perfect coordination of the musicians, each one only playing a tiny part of the melodic line. The repertoire is rich, complex and calls for virtuosity. But, because of this atomisation of the musical parts, gamelan is also a real laboratory of educational experimentation, allowing neophytes to come close to the inner logic of Javanese musical thinking.
I discovered gamelan in the early 1990s. I have since been learning this music with various Javanese masters, amongst which Rahayu Supanggah, Sri Joko Raharjo, Waluyo Tembang, Peni Candrarini, and Nia Dwi Raharjo.
Over the past few years, I have been part of the groups Sekar Wangi (Cité de la musique, Paris) and Pantcha Indra (Paris). I focused on the female singing part (sindhenan). We played in various concert halls in Paris (Philharmonie 2018, Musée Guimet 2013, Théâtre du Chatelet 2013, Centre Mandapa 2013, Musée du quai Branly 2012, Cité de la musique 2008), Chinon (2011), Pontault- Combault (2010), Pau (2009), Nanterre (théâtre de la Forge 2013, Maison de la musique 2008), Strasbourg (Théâtre jeune public 2008), Cannes (Musée de la Castre 2008), Java (2008, 2007), La Réunion (Théâtre en plein air de Saint Gilles 2006), Nice (Musée des Arts asiatiques 2004), Grenoble (2004), Lyon (Grame 2004), Bourg en Bresse (2004). See also this article about our wayang performance in 2008.
Click here to watch a teaser of our music & dance performance at Musée Guimet (2013).
Click here to watch our performance at Philharmonie de Paris (2018).
Over the past 15 years I have been teaching gamelan at Cité de la musique (Paris), to adults, children and professional musicians. During these classes, the participants discover some basic musical features of Javanese gamelan. Aside from these teachings I was also involved in specific training programs.
From 2006 to 2009, I coordinated a training program for gamelan teachers in Southeastern France. During this period I also provided theory and practice classes, for students at the University of Nice.
In 2011 I taught a gamelan course for undergraduate students at the Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova in Lisbon (Portugal). The course included 3 hours of practice and 1 hour of theory per week.
During the semester, students learned how to play the main instruments of the gamelan, on various forms of the repertoire. During musical practice, we focused on concepts such as cyclicity, scales, collectiveness, interdependence of the melodic lines, and performance speeds/styles (irama). The lectures involved readings, listenings and video projections. They seeked to provide an understanding of gamelan in its social context (religion, cosmogony, social organisation...). We al so compared musical traditions in Java, Bali and Sunda.
At the end of the semester we performed a one hour concert at the Museu de Oriente. The professional group Yogistragong was our guest for this event. Click here to download the flyer of the concert.
En roumain, les "gogonele" sont des tomates vertes marinées en saumure. On les affectionne tout particulièrement en Europe centrale et orientale, de la Grèce à la Russie, de la Turquie à la Serbie et... jusqu'en France ! D'où le nom de ce trio énergique et sans conservateurs qui reprend à sa sauce l'étendue richesse musicale des contrées balkaniques.
Car c'est bien une grande excursion sonore que nous proposent les musiciens de Gogonele, et on peut leur faire confiance ! À eux trois, ils parlent et chantent sept langues (macédonien, grec, russe, roumain, romanes, serbe, kurde), qu'ils ont appris dans leur jeunesse ou au cours de leurs nombreux voyages. Une des originalités de ce trio réside dans leur capacité à donner des clés de compréhension des musiques qu'ils interprètent. Parfois sur le ton de l'humour, parfois un peu plus sérieusement (tous trois sont chercheurs/ethnomusicologues), ou tout simplement en traduisant les paroles des chansons, le répertoire est resitué dans son contexte local et servi avec son jus.
Comme dans ces pays où repas et musiques sont généralement associés, il y a des chants pour manger, pour boire, pour casser les assiettes par terre, pour danser sur les tables, pour rire, pour pleurer, et parfois pour tout cela en même temps. L'ambiance est volontiers énergique, ponctuée de quelques moments de profonde nostalgie. Les instruments utilisés sont principalement le bouzouki (luth grec), le kaval (flûte turco-balkanique), les percussions (tambourin ou derbouka) et l'accordéon, de temps à autre utilisé comme un synthétiseur... Le trio Gogonele sonne plutôt acoustique mais se dirige parfois subtilement vers des sonorités plus électriques, juste reflet de la diversité sonore des musiques actuelles des Balkans.
Pimentés et aromatiques, les concerts des Gogonele regorgent de trouvailles musicales hors-calibre. Chacun pourra y puiser de quoi noyer son chagrin, enflammer sa joie, ou tout simplement rêver.
Duets with Victor A. Stoichiţă (my husband). We play these songs primarily for ourselves and for friends. They are in Greek, Russian, Romanian and occasionally Turkish, Arabic or Kurdish. Some have known composers, others don't. The arrangements are usually our own.
The music presented here is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
J'avance toujours du bon pied.
Featuring by Victor, Arthur, Martin and myself. Adapted from a song by Les Ours du Scorff.
Martin joined us on 24th of February 2017!
Lyrics and tune adapted from a popular Russian song. Estelle (voice), Victor (voice & piano), Arthur (comments), and a couple nice koloboks.
May your stars shine happy too!
Tune and lyrics adapted from a traditional Greek song. Voice (me), bouzouki (Victor) and special comments (Arthur).
Recorded and mixed in Ardour, subbed in Aegisub, rendered on Openshot and Avidemux.
Home made greeting card for 2016 sang by Victor, Arthur and myself. The tune and lyrics are from Cheburashka, the soviet anime movie (original version here).
Our greetings card for 2015. Sang by Victor, Arthur and myself, featuring Pole the Monkey (tchik-tchik), Sophie the Giraffe (pouët-pouët) and Micha the Polar Bear (clong-clong).
The song is a cover of a famous tune by the Russian Band Цветы (Flowers). Цветы was considered "underground" in soviet times. Some of its recordings were even prohibited in the 1980's. Not that this particular tune has anything subversive about it. It's more on the boyscout side of the band's repertoire (a side which most "underground" groups in communist regimes also have — at least the ones which managed to survive).
If you search for the first verse on Youtube you'll probably find a recent performance of the song by the band, who grew old (and quite bland) in the meantime. But you can also hear other lovely renditions of it, such as this one, by the red army choir.
I gave birth to our son Arthur on 7th of August 2014. It was a rainy day in Nanterre, but for us such a happy one!… We decided to put up a short musical clip to announce the good news to the world.
The song is Crocodile Gena's birthday song from the soviet anime series Cheburashka. I changed the lyrics slightly to fit our purpose, and sang them to the original tune. Victor sampled our voices singing poms, pams, poums and pims on various notes. Then he assembled these recordings in an sfz soundfont and used the latter in linuxsampler to play the bassline and chords. At the end, Arthur's voice makes a brief apparition (he had only been using it for five days!). All tracks were recorded and mixed in Ardour 3.
Kondoula lemonia is a Greek traditional song from Epirus. The lyrics compare the beloved woman to a lemon tree (lemonia - λεμονιά is feminine in Greek).
Little lemon tree (Μωρη κοντούλα λεμονιά), full of lemons (με τα πολλά λεμόνια), I kissed you and I became ill (σε φίλησα κι αρρώστησσα), but I didn't call the doctor (και το γιατρό δε φώναξα). Lower your branches (Χαμήλωσε τους κλώνους σου), so that I can cut a lemon (να κόψω ένα λεμόνι) and drink its juice (για να το στύψω να το πιω), to cure my illness (να μου διαβούν οι πόνοι).
We usually play this tune acoustic, with bouzouki, frame drum and voice. It comes from an album recorded in the 80's by Sofia Kollitiri and Makis Xristodolopoulos. Here's an "electric" version inspired by the joyfully citric sounds of electro-saz and similar genres in the Balkans. Electro-saz & co. are performed primarily live, in dancing settings. They support a lot of motivic improvisation, on both the voice and the lute. Here the tracks are recorded and mixed in Ardour DAW.
Three songs in one. The lyrics (in Greek) are sung from a woman's perspective. She keeps thinking about a handsome man with dark hair who lives in a house nearby and haunts her dreams at night... The second part of the song says: "Since people say that you're a good guy, please love me!"
The arrangement of this suite/song is inspired by a recording from Sophia Kollitiri. We tried to emphasize its "psychedelic" kind of vibe. Recording was done in Ardour. Bouzouki and voice were recorded with a microphone, the other instruments were played on a keyboard driving Linuxsampler.
Voice and guitar. This is quite typical of the repertoire of Gypsy professional musicians in Romania (the lăutari). It was recorded famously by Dona Dumitru Siminică. Our version is (by far) more minimalist, but tries to capture nevertheless a similar ambiance of nostalgia.
The lyrics (in Romanian) portray a male narrator remembering how he used to love a young and beautiful woman, without noticing that she was in love with another... The last line is : "Because in those times / I easily believed in love / And didn't even know / What suffering really meant" (Căci atuncea lesne / În amor credeam / Și nenorocirea / Nici n-o cunoșteam).
Voice and bouzouki. In Greek, tzivaeri is the name of a light wind. The lyrics are about exile, longing and "black destiny".
Voice, kaval and tambourine. Music and lyrics composed by Sofia Kollitiri.
A mother adresses her child, evoking the sacrifices she went through for him, lamenting that he now left to live far away, and promising that she would always welcome him back, if ever he felt homesick. In brief, deep pathos!
Kagok Semarang is a traditional gamelan tune, performed here by myself in several playback takes. Victor A. Stoichiţă realized different mixes to accompany Monica Tracke's mise-en-scène of the play Ondine by Jean Giraudoux. The play was staged twice as Monica's final project at the professional theater school Cours Florent in Paris (2011).
Opening. A 20 minutes loop (cut to 2 minutes here) played during public's entrance and first moments of the play.
Between act I and II. The stage is dark. The knight wakes up between two paths of light and hesitates on which of them to follow.


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B.B. King was 77 years old when Reflections was released, which perhaps entitled him to reflect back on the song standards the album contained. Despite advancing age, King had already been unusually busy on the recording front for a septuagenarian, turning out the gold-selling duets album Deuces Wild in 1997, Blues on the Bayou in 1998, Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan in 1999, the double-platinum Riding With the King with Eric Clapton and Makin' Love Is Good for You in 2000, and the seasonal recording A Christmas Celebration of Hope in 2002. For Reflections, he again worked with Simon Climie, who produced Riding With the King, and collaborated with a session band including such notables as Joe Sample, Nathan East, and Doyle Bramhall II. The songs ranged from pop evergreens like "I'll String Along With You" and "For Sentimental Reasons" to blues favorites such as Lonnie Johnson's "Tomorrow Night," with oddities like "Always on My Mind" thrown in and even a couple of remakes of the earlier King songs "Word of Honor" and "Neighborhood Affair." The arrangements, which included horn and string parts, left room for King's distinctive blues guitar work, but really supported his always expressive voice. The result was a confident, easygoing album that stylistically could have been made in 1953 as easily as 2003. Blues purists and aficionados of blues guitar would find it only partially satisfying, but it reflected the breadth of musical taste of an artist who always played the blues but never restricted himself only to blues music or blues fans. ― Allmusic
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A friend of mine up in Vermont emailed me asking if there were any places to get a good Michigan Dog, so I decided to visit an old favorite: Archie's on a Roll.
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