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Appeal of Costa-Hawkins Rent Control on Horizon
Dennis Evanosky
Attempts in Assembly, as initiative
California state law bans local governments from imposing rent control on any new apartment construction. The law — the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act — defines new construction as dwellings with certificates of occupancy issued after Feb. 1, 1995.
Costa-Hawkins also prohibits regulating rents on single-family dwellings and individually owned condominiums and townhouses
Moves to repeal this law have appeared on two fronts: one in the State Assembly, the other as an initiative to place the appeal on the November 2018 ballot.
Assembly Bill (AB) 1506 would flat-out kill the law, called the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. The ballot initiative, known as the "Affordable Housing Act," would also spell the end for the law.
Last February, Bonta joined Assemblymembers David Chiu and Richard Bloom in introducing Assembly Bill (AB) 1506. "The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act prescribes statewide limits on the application of local rent control with regard to certain properties. This bill would repeal that act," the Legislative Counsel Digest advised.
The Digest also says what happened: "Appropriation: No: Fiscal Committee: No; Local Program: No." The bill never made it to the Assembly floor.
Proponents of the measure to repeal Costa-Hawkins, called the "Affordable Housing Act," will soon begin circulating petitions to qualify the initiative for the November 2018 ballot.
"Rents for housing have skyrocketed in recent years, they said in the Oct. 23 filing." Median rents are higher in California than any other state in the country, and among all 50 states."
In addition, advocates for overturning Costa-Hawkins point out that the federal government considers rent as not affordable if renters spend more than 30 percent of their income on that expense.
The state of California has found that not only do more than half of California renters pay at least that much, but one-third of the state's renters, some 1.5 million, pay 50 percent of their income for rent.
Supporters of the initiative will have 180 days from the summary date — currently set at Dec. 27 — to collect the necessary amount of signatures — 365,880.
Opposition for the repeal of Costa-Hawkins will come, as it did earlier this year, from the California Apartment Association (CAA) and other real estate interests.
The Sacramento Bee reported last February that pressure from these interest groups forced Bloom to put a hold on his attempt to repeal the law.
The Bee reported that, when Bloom attempted to move his Costa-Hawkins repeal forward in February, he "received significant pushback … from landlords and Sacramento lobbyists representing the state's lucrative real estate industry."
The CAA fears that, "If new construction and single-family homes are not protected from rent control, private investment into rental housing will come to a screeching halt.
"This will stymie the buiiling of new apartments thus worsening an already dire housing crisis."
Costa-Hawkins
California Apartments Association


The daughter of a famous tennis player has posted candid picture made by a foreign photographer. It Ales posing in unbuttoned jacket and without underwear. Fans of Kafelnikov compared it to Kate moss.
18-year-old Ales Kafelnikov took part in a provocative photo shoot. Part of the photos taken by Amanda Fordis, a model shared in his Instagram. They Kafelnikov posing in trendy outfits, embroidered with sparkling sequins.
On one of the frames It-girl posing in a pant suit, a bright blue color, worn on the naked body. His top unbuttoned and exposes the breast model.
Fans of Kafelnikov appreciated the photo shoot for the daughter of a famous tennis player. According to many, Alesya great at posing, so it has a bright future in the fashion industry. Some followers of the girl found that she is much like Kate moss. "Why are you so perfect?", "Very," "Ales, you are so beautiful", "angel", "Queen", "Predatory look", "Reminiscent of the retro-photo-90s, cool" – expressed his opinion the members of the model.
Recall that Kafelnikov also constantly compared with Kylie Jenner is an American model and one of the sisters of Kim Kardashian. In October, the Ales have painted in the style of famous fashion models: the daughter of tennis player, former brown hair became blonde and added hair shade of pink. Some subscribers Kafelnikov found that she hurried to change the image. According to some followers, young podium stars, Ales shouldn't be second Kylie Jenner. "Why copy? I like some parts from different images. And I take them little by little. I do not deny that I like it", commented Kafelnikov accusations of imitation American girl.
By the way, not so long ago, Kafelnikov was voiced by the size of their income. According to the model, it receives 200 thousand rubles for one session of four to eight hours. For participation in fashion shows Ales offer a more modest amount, because they assume a lower employment – only a few seconds on the catwalk.
The income model to help her not only pay for expensive purchases in boutiques, trips to beauty salons and restaurants, but also the content of the beloved pet horse named Kitty. Ales monthly it costs 75 thousand roubles. The recognition of Kafelnikov made it on Ask.fm, impressed fans of the models. They asked the beauty, does that mean it's only found with rich suitors. The daughter of a famous tennis player hurried to convince subscribers that such speculation is far from the truth. "My love will not buy. For in my life and the love of money no when you do not have", – explained the girl.


Great Andover location - close to all the schools, hospital with easy access to shopping areas and highways. There is plenty of space in this 3 bedroom and 2.5 bath home. The open kitchen has lot of counter space and plenty of room for a kitchen table. The main floor also included a formal dining room, large family/living room with fireplace and main floor laundry. The master bedroom includes walk-in closets and a master bath with double sinks and separate shower and tub. Lots of room in the basement and chance to add a 3rd full bath. The fenced-in back yard features a new screened in porch to enjoy both mornings and evenings. Don't miss out on this great opportunity.


We took a trip to Costco tonight since we needed gas and after going in for just sweet bread and milk, I filled up the wagon with a bunch of healthy things I thought would look nice such as Manoa green leaf lettuce ($3.99 for three huge heads), a box of grape tomatoes ($5.79), Laughing Cow Light Swiss Cheese ($7.69) because I'm not eating my dairy every day, English cucumbers (3 for $4.49), a whole pack of 6 mangoes that look like yesterday's Freska mango ($5.49), a huge bag of French green beans ($5.49), and blackberries ($5.99, they were on sale! Woo!). So… now I have an assload of tiny sweet tomatoes which I will no doubt only eat half of, and lots of other veggies and fruits.
MIL's dinner tonight was pot roasted pork shoulder and the pot looked really oily, so I had to pick out every little piece of fat and as I was eating tried to think of a good way to incorporate this into today's lunch without being excessive. Since Nexa mentioned sushi yesterday, I thought I'd give that a try for once.
I've never made sushi before and I have never eaten pork sushi before. Hopefully, there's not some super secret good reason why you don't see pork sushi. Regarding taste, I figure if I would have eaten dinner with rice (I skipped the rice so I could eat it for lunch), the pork, and won bok all together anyway, then what is the difference if it's rolled up in nori?? Anyway, after a small snafu with unnecessarily cutting the nori sheet in half, I managed to make my first ever sushi roll! It cut pretty easily and I started on the second. Sadly, I ended up with a little extra rice and instead of leaving it out like I should have, I shoveled it all on and ended up with two different sized sushi rolls. Darn it!!
And then to add to my un-neatness so far, my daughter comes into the kitchen asking what I'm doing. When she hears I'm making sushi of course she wants one. I give her one of the skinny ones. She doesn't eat it after the first two bites of course. Oh well, no biggie. I filled up the space with grape tomatoes. Added in some cucumber salad I saw on another blog along with kim chee, chopped sanbaizuke, and chopped takuan. I put all of these in little lettuce lined foil squares to keep the liquid and shape in.
Next I did the fruit bowl, which was very frustrating. I sliced up half of a minneola that was hiding in the fridge and those damned slices just would not arrange nicely. I added more of the Super-Lemon-like "Freska" from yesterday. Stuck in one of the cheese triangles, a strawberry, and some blackberries.
Due to the lack of experience with sushi, the discovery that I had no grater for the cucumber slicing, and the stupid minneola slices this lunch took me a whole freakin' hour to put together. I intend to cut that time at least in half next time!
This meal isn't very Core unfortunately. The rice is half brown, so counts as 2 points. The cheese is 1 point and the pork another point. A 4 point lunch, which means tomorrow I have to make sure I eat a Core dinner or exercise.


2016 has been an EPIC year and one that has better prepared us to Own our Future.
Thank you advisors for your daily, dedicated, service and teaching. Thank you members for bringing life and professionalism to our conferences, rocking your competitions and expanding your mind and skills. Thank you to past and present chapter and state officers for your service and dedication to DECA.
Happy Holidays Oregon DECA. Thank you for a great year!


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Windows 8.1 update an admission of failure as Microsoft attempts to repair desktop OS
Published 24 February 2014 1 min read
Microsoft is slowly walking away from the touchscreen future of Windows, today announcing an update that backtracks on their initial vision of the new OS.
In a significant update for Windows 8.1, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore today announced at Mobile World Congress that "some of those touch affordances weren't really tuned as well as we could do for those mouse and keyboard users." The update will introduce a title bar at the top of modern apps, as well as power and search buttons on the Windows 8 Start screen. Most significantly, leaks have revealed that the OS will also boot to the desktop by default now. The update will also introduce the ability to launch apps from the Taskbar, just like you would with a classic Windows application, as well as new mouse controls for right-clicking and closing apps. In a nod to Chrome OS devices, the update will also lower minimum requirements of the OS to 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. A recent report also showed this hope to compete with Chromebooks as Microsoft had cut licence fees by 70 percent for products retailing under $250.
Internally known as Update 1, the new update doesn't have a solid release date, but will be released to developers at BUILD in April.
Overall it's an admission that Windows 8 wasn't working well on a mouse and keyboard, but it's also just an admission that they don't want to fix the problems, instead choosing to hide them. Instead of improving these UI discrepancies they're just going to strip them out of the OS for desktop users. Microsoft are in the process of destroying the original vision of Windows 8, while simultaneously destroying the legacy of Windows 7.
Microsoft reveals few details for new version of Windows Phone at MWC, though leaks paint another picture
Foxtel's Presto movie streaming service launches on March 13, will cost $20 per month

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(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) A new investment scheme for Greece's five major ports of national significance, namely Igoumenitsa, Thessaloniki, Kavala, Alexandroupolis and Patras and 27 other ports was announced by Merchant Marine and Island Policy Minister Anastasios Papaligouras on April 24. The total cost for the ports' new infrastructure plan will amount to €1,6 billion. Fifty percent of the amount is covered by the European Investment Bank. The port of Igoumenitsa (North-western Greece) will receive a €44 million boost and will be linked to the Egnatia Motorway. A similar €185 million budgeted plan will be followed in the case of Patras port which will be connected with the PATHE (Patras-Athens- Thessaloniki, Evzoni) Motorway. A new passenger terminal is also under construction and will be delivered by 2010. Given its strategic position, the port of Alexandroupolis (North-eastern Greece) is also targeted. Its infrastructure is being upgraded in order for the port to increase its capacity in serving as a hub for the countries of the Black Sea and as a link of the latter to the TransEuropean Networks.


I met Giorgos Hatziyannakis, Selene's proprietor, in the early '90s when we planned the first ever Oldways Mediterranean food conference with Greg Drescher and the late Dun Gifford. It was held in Chalkidiki, Greece's northern resort area, a place of bewildering beauty where verdant surroundings edge into the crystal waters. But our luxurious, obtrusively large hotel, which was practically in the middle of nowhere, was totally incongruous with the incredible local flora and fauna—fittingly, it has since turned to a casino. Hatziyannakis was an invaluable help to me as I struggled to bring the atmosphere and flavors of the various Greek regions into the concrete, impersonal hotel halls and verandas. Journalists and food writers from the U.S. and other parts of the world who came to taste authentic Greek food still remember Hatziyannakis's stand where he fried marides, tiny Aegean fish, and served tomatokeftedes—the traditional Santorini tomato fritters—and other meze from the Cycladic islands.
At a time when most upscale Athenian restaurants served bad imitations of French and Italian dishes, Selene dared to experiment in the vernacular with mashed yellow split peas—the Greek fava, a traditional Santorini product. Hatziyannakis insisted that the restaurant's menu showcase the tiny and densely flavored tomatoes of the island, the bulbous capers and their leaves, hard barley rusks, and sweet white eggplants—all ingredients indigenous to Santorini. He is a pioneer who inspired many younger restaurateurs, and helped promote not just the food but also the wines of Santorini, which are now among the most popular of Greece's vineyard exports. When, about 15 years ago, The New York Times included Selene in its list of the 10 most spectacular restaurants in the world, it was no small accomplishment if you consider that our country has practically no gourmet restaurant tradition.
Now, unfortunately, like many other magnificent world destinations, the island of Santorini has fallen victim to its own success. With hordes of tourists, spewing forth from four or five huge cruise ships perpetually anchoring in succession on Santorini's shores from spring to late fall, Selene's original site in the village of Oia (pronounced "ee-ah") is now over-built and the surroundings lack the local color of which its owner was so proud. This year Hatziyannakis decided to move to Pyrgos, a less spoiled village in the center of the island. He chose a space that sits atop a charming private museum that demonstrates the Santorini of the past, a time when the island relied not on tourism but rather on its meager, but important, agricultural production.
Excellent tomato paste was produced in nine factories up until the mid '70s, Hatziyannakis told me, showing me the wonderfully illustrated stages of the production process in the museum. The local variety of non-irrigated small tomatoes, which recently started to be cultivated again, produces a dense paste that bears no relation to the tomato paste of the Peloponnese or the north of Greece, the basic regions where peltes (tomato paste) is now manufactured. Delicious fava that the inhabitants of Santorini cultivated and peeled in hand-operated stone mills, along with exported wine and the income sailors brought to their families, was the core of the island's economic life up until the mid-'70s. Now I heard that property in Santorini is sold at prices that rival those of Madison Avenue in New York City!
Overlooking the last remaining vineyards and the shimmering gulf of the volcano in the Caldera, Selene has a menu rooted on a mere handful of delicious products native to Santorini and the neighboring islands. Under the guidance of Giorgos Hatziyannakis, the young chef Constantina Faklari served me the most unexpected fava, scented with mastic—the crystalized sap of the mysterious mastic tree that grows on only half of the island of Chios. She also brought me a glass filled with a refreshing cold Santorini tomato soup enriched with a ball of savory ice cream made with myzithra—the Greek sheep and goat's milk ricotta. Theodoris Iosifidis, Selene's pastry chef, uses figs, pears, and peaches, as well as the ubiquitous Santorini tomatoes for his light desserts, which are served both at the formal restaurant, as well as at the less expensive new wine and coffee bar. Here patrons can have a tasting of the many wonderful Santorini wines, both assyrtiko, the most popular local DOP white varietal—which is exported to the U.S.—but also the very rich mavrotragano, the new red from an age-old island grape, unfortunately in very short supply. Vinsanto, the fruity, naturally sweet wine produced from grapes partly dried in the island sun, complements any dessert—the traditional honey stuffed cookies, or a simple plate of late-summer fruits.
Still recovering from the unfortunate death of his beloved partner and wife Evelyn, Hatziyannakis has managed to re-invent his successful restaurant, and with his dedicated team he is once again offering one-day cooking classes. His daughter, who studies in Athens, is not interested in continuing her father's dream, but Hatziyannakis is not ready to stop trying to preserve the old island ways. And if I can judge by the family of three Americans who insisted on a private lesson at any cost (which I witnessed on the day I visited Selene), I am sure this trademark Cycladic restaurant, and the traditions it carries, has a long life ahead of it.


A number of years ago, while Brimmer & Heeltap was still a concept, I wanted to incorporate more volunteering into my schedule. The Ballard Food Bank was appealing to me for their desire and ability to help the community around me.
On my first official day however, I was not prepared to feel the impact of their efforts quite so profoundly. Just down the street from their main location on 70th and 24th, a nearby church let them use their basement to ensure that folks who needed to receive food during non-working hours had a place to go. This pop-up food bank met the needs of our neighbors during the 2008 economic down-turn.
Hunched near the arranged tables, I spotted a senior neighbor of mine rummaging through one of the apple bins. If he recognized me, he never acknowledged it and I still feel a lump of emotion in my throat when I think about him. I didn't want to embarrass him by acknowledging his need and I felt awful for trying to avoid contact in that moment.
Living where we do, it might be easy to assume how much abundance is at our fingertips. Sadly the growth of any region can have negative impacts on those around us. Rising rents, utilities, property taxes, and general living expenses lend to the needs of these clients. The Ballard Food Bank alone serves over 1,200 people a week throughout Ballard, Magnolia, and Queen Anne, thirty two percent of which are seniors and eleven percent are children.
On Thanksgiving morning, Brimmer & Heeltap will have a team in the annual Turkey Trot. Some of our crew, regulars, and friends, will unite to help raise awareness and funds for those in need.
The Turkey Trot is the largest annual fundraiser for the Ballard Food Bank and we ask you to please consider donating or joining our team. Any contribution is so greatly appreciated.
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CHICAGO, Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDRX) (Allscripts) announced its financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015.
Bookings(1) were $272 million, a third-quarter record, compared with $223 million in the third quarter of 2014, a 22 percent increase. Sales were strong across core clinical and financial solutions, population health management and managed services. Growth was robust across both the ambulatory and acute markets, including two new client footprints for the Sunrise™ electronic health record (EHR) solution.
Forty-four percent of third-quarter bookings related to software delivery, while the remaining 56 percent was derived from client services. This compares with 52 and 48 percent of bookings attributable to these revenue categories, respectively, in the third quarter of 2014. Software delivery bookings increased 4 percent year over year in the third quarter of 2015. Client services bookings increased 42 percent year over year in the third quarter of 2015.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2015, bookings totaled $768 million compared with $679 million in the first nine months of 2014, a 13 percent increase.
Contract revenue backlog as of September 30, 2015, totaled $3.6 billion, a 4 percent increase over the prior-year amount.
Paul M. Black, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts, stated, "Allscripts third-quarter and nine-month results illustrate our momentum in the global health care IT market. Bookings grew 22 percent in the third quarter of 2015 and increased 13 percent year-to-date. Total bookings were at record levels for a third quarter, driven by a healthy mix of sales across major software solution categories and value-added services. We added major new EHR clients in the US and United Kingdom and expanded strategic partnerships with key ambulatory clients such as Catholic Health Initiatives."
Revenue totaled $355 million, an increase of 3 percent compared with $345 million in the third quarter of 2014.
Software delivery, support and maintenance revenue totaled $231 million in the third quarter of 2015, up 1 percent compared with the third quarter of 2014. Software delivery, support and maintenance revenue consists of all software, hardware, subscription and transaction-related revenue as well as support and maintenance.
Client services revenue totaled $124 million in the third quarter of 2015, up 6 percent compared with the third quarter of 2014. Client services revenue consists of recurring managed services and other project-based client services revenue.
Recurring revenue, consisting of subscriptions, recurring transactions, support and maintenance, and recurring managed services, increased $16 million compared with the third quarter of 2014; an increase of 6 percent year over year. Non-recurring revenue, consisting of systems sales and other project-based client services revenue, declined $9 million or 9 percent, compared with the third quarter of 2014.
Gross margin in the third quarter of 2015 was 46.4 percent on a non-GAAP basis and 43.3 percent on a GAAP basis, compared with 42.3 percent and 38.1 percent, respectively, in the third quarter of 2014. A favorable software mix, improvements in support margins, as well as improving efficiencies in client services delivery drove gross margin improvements.
Operating expenses, consisting of selling, general and administrative (SG&A) and research and development (R&D) expenses, declined 2 percent on a non-GAAP basis and 3 percent on a GAAP basis in the third quarter of 2015 compared with the third quarter of 2014. This decline reflects a year-over-year decrease in corporate SG&A expense, partially offset by a slight increase in R&D expense compared with the third quarter of 2014. GAAP operating expenses in the third quarter of 2015 included severance and other non-recurring expenses of $10 million. These are excluded for purposes of calculating non-GAAP operating expenses.
Reflecting year-over-year revenue growth, gross margin expansion and management of operating expenses, Adjusted EBITDA increased 44 percent to $66 million in the third quarter of 2015, compared with $46 million in the third quarter of 2014.
Non-GAAP net income in the third quarter 2015 totaled $25 million compared with $12 million in the third quarter of 2014, a 113 percent increase. GAAP net loss in the third quarter 2015 totaled $5 million compared with a net loss of $26 million in the third quarter of 2014.
Non-GAAP earnings per share in the third quarter 2015 were $0.13 compared with $0.06 in the third quarter of 2014. GAAP loss per share in the third quarter 2015 was $0.03 compared with a loss per share of $0.15 in the third quarter of 2014.
Cash flow from operations in the third quarter 2015 totaled $40 million compared with $14 million in the third quarter of 2014. For the nine months ended September 30, 2015, cash flow from operations totaled $128 million compared with $52 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2014, a 147 percent increase.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2015, free cash flow totaled $81 million compared with $3 million in the same period of 2014.
Mr. Black concluded, "Allscripts financial performance continues to improve each quarter across all key financial metrics, including: recurring revenue, gross margins, Adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP earnings per share, cash flow from operations and free cash flow."
Baptist Health Care Corporation in Pensacola, Fla., selected Sunrise as the single comprehensive health care record and revenue cycle management solution for all points of care, including three hospitals, ambulatory sites and physician practices.
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (UHSM), a major acute teaching hospital based in Wythenshawe, Manchester, United Kingdom, selected the Sunrise platform as its new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system to enhance care coordination for healthcare providers, patients and families.
Allscripts announced a significantly expanded relationship with Catholic Health Initiatives to provide Allscripts Managed Services™ through its TouchWorks EHR and Allscripts Practice Management solutions.
Allscripts earned top scores for its ambulatory EHRs, Allscripts Professional EHR™, Allscripts TouchWorks® EHR and Sunrise Ambulatory Care, from research company Black Book™ Rankings.
Allscripts hosted approximately 3,500 attendees at its annual user group conference, the Allscripts Client User Experience (ACE) in Boston.
On September 30, 2015, Allscripts amended its Credit Agreement, providing for an increase in loan capacity as well as a lower interest rate. The amendment consists of a $250 million senior secured term loan and a $550 million senior secured revolving facility, or a net increase in borrowing capacity of $150 million. This improvement in Allscripts borrowing terms and increased credit facility reflects the continued improvement in Allscripts financial performance over the last two years.
Non-GAAP earnings per share between $0.45 and $0.47 per diluted share.
For a complete reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP items, see the explanation of non-GAAP financial measures as well as the GAAP and non-GAAP reconciliation financial tables in this release (Tables 4 and 5).
Allscripts will conduct a conference call today, Thursday, November 5, 2015, at 4:30 PM Eastern Time to discuss its earnings release and other information. Participants may access the conference call via webcast at http://investor.allscripts.com. Participants also may access the conference call by dialing (855) 717-7811 or +1 (224) 357-2059 (international) and requesting Conference ID # 55802602.
A replay of the call will be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call, for a period of four weeks, on the Allscripts Investor Relations website or by calling (855) 859-2056 or +1 (404) 537-3406 - Conference ID # 55802602.
(1) Bookings reflect the value of executed contracts for software, hardware, other client services, remote hosting, outsourcing and subscription-based services.
This earnings release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on the current beliefs and expectations of Allscripts management, only speak as of the date that they are made, and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Such statements can be identified by the use of words such as "future," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," "will," "would," "could," "can," "may," and similar terms. Actual results could differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements, and reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance. Certain factors that could cause Allscripts' actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: Allscripts' failure to compete successfully; consolidation in Allscripts' industry; current and future laws, regulations and industry initiatives; increased government involvement in Allscripts' industry; the failure of markets in which Allscripts operates to develop as quickly as expected; Allscripts' or its customers' failure to see the benefits of government programs; changes in interoperability or other regulatory standards; the effects of the realignment of Allscripts' sales, services, and support organizations; market acceptance of Allscripts' products and services; the unpredictability of the sales and implementation cycles for Allscripts' products and services; Allscripts' ability to manage future growth; Allscripts' ability to introduce new products and services; Allscripts' ability to establish and maintain strategic relationships; risks related to the acquisition of new companies or technologies; the performance of Allscripts' products; Allscripts' ability to protect its intellectual property rights; the outcome of legal proceedings involving Allscripts; Allscripts' ability to hire, retain and motivate key personnel; performance by Allscripts' content and service providers; liability for use of content; security breaches; price reductions; Allscripts' ability to license and integrate third party technologies; Allscripts' ability to maintain or expand its business with existing customers; risks related to international operations; changes in tax rates or laws; business disruptions; Allscripts' ability to maintain proper and effective internal controls; and asset impairment charges. Additional information about these and other risks, uncertainties, and factors affecting Allscripts' business is contained in Allscripts' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Allscripts does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the impact of circumstances or events that may arise after the date of the forward-looking statements, or other changes in its business, financial condition, or operating results over time.
the reclassification of approximately $9.5 million of debt issuance costs.
Note: all adjustments to reconcile GAAP to non-GAAP net income are net of tax.
(a) Interest expense and other, net has been adjusted from the amounts presented in the statements of operations in order to remove the amortization of the fair value of the cash conversion option embedded in the 1.25% Cash Convertible Notes and deferred debt issuance costs from interest expense since such amortization is also included in depreciation and amortization.
(b) Adjusted EBITDA margin is calculated by dividing adjusted EBITDA, net of non-controlling interest by total non-GAAP revenue.
Allscripts reports its financial results in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP. To supplement this information, Allscripts presents in this release non-GAAP revenue, gross profit, gross margin, operating expense, net income, including non-GAAP earnings per share, non-GAAP effective income tax rate, Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow, which are also considered non-GAAP financial measures under Section 101 of Regulation G under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Non-GAAP revenue consists of GAAP revenue as reported and adds back deferred revenue and other adjustments recorded for GAAP purposes.
Non-GAAP gross profit consists of GAAP gross profit as reported and adds back deferred revenue and other adjustments booked for GAAP purposes and excludes acquisition-related amortization, stock-based compensation expense, and non-recurring expenses and transaction-related costs. Non-GAAP gross margin consists of non-GAAP gross profit as a percentage of GAAP or non-GAAP revenue in the applicable period, as defined above. For the third quarter of 2015, non-GAAP gross margin totaled 46.4 percent, consisting of non-GAAP gross profit of $164.3 million divided by revenue of $354.5 million. For the third quarter of 2014, non-GAAP gross margin totaled 42.3 percent consisting of non-GAAP gross profit of $146.9 million divided by non-GAAP revenue of $347.7 million. Reconciliations to non-GAAP revenue and non-GAAP gross profit are found in Table 4 within this press release.
Non-GAAP operating expense consists of GAAP selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A) and research and development expense (R&D), as reported, and excludes non-recurring expenses and transaction-related costs and stock-based compensation expense recorded to SG&A and R&D. For the third quarter of 2015, non-GAAP operating expense totaled $121.5 million consisting of $91.1 million of GAAP SG&A and $47.7 million of GAAP R&D expense and excludes $9.9 million of total non-recurring expense and transaction-related costs and $7.4 million of stock-based compensation expense recorded to SG&A and R&D. For the third quarter of 2014, non-GAAP operating expense totaled $124.2 million consisting of $97.0 million of GAAP SG&A and $45.9 million of GAAP R&D expense and excludes $10.0 million of total non-recurring expense and transaction-related costs and $8.7 million of stock-based compensation expense recorded to SG&A and R&D.
Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure and consists of GAAP net income (loss) as reported and adjusts for: deferred revenue and other adjustments; depreciation and amortization; stock-based compensation expense; non-recurring expenses and transaction-related costs; non-cash asset impairment charges; interest expense and other, net; equity in earnings of unconsolidated investments; and tax provision (benefit).
Non-GAAP effective income tax rate is based on non-GAAP pre-tax earnings and consists of the statutory federal income tax rate, Allscripts effective state income tax rate, and adjustments for permanent differences.
Non-GAAP net income consists of GAAP net income/(loss) as reported, and adds back deferred revenue and other adjustments, acquisition-related amortization, stock-based compensation expense, non-recurring expenses and transaction-related costs, non-cash charges to interest expense and other, and non-cash asset impairment charges, in each case net of any related tax effects. Non-GAAP net income also includes a tax rate alignment adjustment.
Non-GAAP earnings per share consists of non-GAAP net income, as defined above, divided by weighted shares outstanding – diluted in the applicable period.
Deferred Revenue and Other Adjustments. Deferred revenue and other adjustments includes acquisition-related deferred revenue adjustments, which reflect the fair value adjustments to deferred revenues acquired in business acquisitions. The fair value of deferred revenue represents an amount equivalent to the estimated cost plus an appropriate profit margin, to perform services related to the acquiree's software and product support, which assumes a legal obligation to do so, based on the deferred revenue balances as of the acquisition date. Also included are adjustments for the vesting of a warrant issued to a commercial partner and the effects of straight-lining contractual pricing adjustments over the performance period. Allscripts adds back deferred revenue and other adjustments for its non-GAAP financial measures because it believes the inclusion of this amount directly correlates to the underlying performance of Allscripts operations.
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It is quiet outside Sataedu Ulvila Vocational College on a Thursday in January, but when you step inside, the mood changes completely. You see children with cheeks glowing red with excitement everywhere in the hallways, and you can catch groovy music coming from the sports hall. We have stepped into the middle of a robot and science fair for children and adolescents, and the air is thick with joy of learning and zest of doing.
The FIRST LEGO League, FLL is a teaching support method with the purpose of promoting interest of children and adolescents, 9–16 years of age, in science and technology. The programme was founded by the US-based FIRST Foundation in 1998 and, by now, over 250,000 children and adolescents participate globally. The theme of season 2016–2017 was Animal Allies, with focus on exploring the interaction between humans and animals. In Finland, the FLL contest activities are organised by the non-profit Robotiikka- ja tiedekasvatus ry (ie. Robotics and science education) organisation.
This was the first time that the regional contest came to Satakunta. Teams from Ulvila, Harjavalta, Kokemäki and Eurajoki and one team with students from several schools entered the contest. The first impression was that the goal of the programme had been achieved: the target group was full of enthusiasm.
"Eeva-Liisa, we learned how to get this to work on the first try!" Onni Suuronen exclaims to his teacher from the side of the Lego robot contest baseplate.
Team Jekut is controlling its robot on the contest baseplate. Pictured are team members Benjamin Laitinen (left), Elisabeth Rasmus, Emilia Palomäki, Onni Suuronen, Vihtori Raivio and Jonne Grönlund.
Onni is one of the members of Team Jekut from Year Three in Vanhakylä School in the town of Ulvila. The team has worked together once a week since late October and used one whole Saturday to prepare their own robot and science project, which were represented at the fair in January.
"First, we learned how to follow instructions," their teacher, Eeva-Liisa Kallinen-Alenius tells us.
The Lego robot (top picture) had to achieve several tasks that had been predetermined, on the contest base (bottom picture).
A lot of work, a lot of fun!
A total of 20 pupils selected coding as an optional school subject at the Vanhakylä School, and they were divided into two teams. The lessons included making dog-ear hats, robot building, coding, and much more.
"We have used graphic design software for coding at the school before, but the Lego contest introduced a bigger challenge and tangible tools for us," explains Ms Kallinen-Alenius, who coached one of the school's teams.
She praises the children for their hard work in the classroom. But she also points out that the children have had an enormous zest for doing and learning the whole time.
"Do we have to go home now?" asked one of the children after the first class. They were always excited to work on the robot and concentrated on the codes so hard that their cheeks were blushing," Ms Kallinen-Alenius describes, with a smile on her face.
"This subject has required unique research and discovery from the teacher, too. It has broadened my own understanding of coding and the enthusiasm has been infectious," Eeva-Liisa Kallinen-Alenius outlines.
In addition to the construction of a Lego robot and learning coding, the subject included a science project. This time, the project theme was human-animal interaction and any relevant problems.
"Our team picked, based on a team discussion, the alone-time of a dog as their topic. The team searched for information online and from books and by interviewing a veterinary nurse. Based on the information they had collected, the children developed Jekku, a robot who helps to resolve the challenges related to a dog's alone-time," Ms Kallinen-Alenius explains.
As a part of the contest assessment, the Jury reviewed the science project completed by each team, the mechanical construction of the robot, the coding and the design project and how the core values of FLL – respect for others, discovering new things, sharing and understanding information and having fun – are reflected in the work of the team. Furthermore, the skills of the robots were assessed in a robot game.
Team Jekut demonstrated the research project in a lively manner as a team to the three members of the Jury. The demonstration kicked off with their team choir singing their own lyrics to a song "Oh take a look at Jekku, the dog". After the song, the team members explained their philosophy, including slogans like "Win or lose, it doesn't matter, having fun is much better" and "Together we will come up with a solution". The Jury was impressed by the features of Jekku the Dog, but they also showed interest in the other strengths of the team.
"We really know how to work as a team," was the unanimous reply by the Year Three students.
Team Jekku did a great job in presenting their science project. Pictured: Janne Grönlund, Onni Suuronen and Venla Marjamäki.
The children were happy with their representation afterwards and had nothing but praise for the subject. One of the team members said that, at first, she was a little apprehensive, but noticed after the first class how much fun it was.
"Discovering information and constructing was fun," Venla Marjamäki specified.
"And coding," Benjamin Laitinen added.
After the Satakunta regional contest, the main prize was awarded to the team with the most uniform quality of performance in all of the contest categories. The categories were the robot game, values, science project and robot design. The main prize was granted to the team Walley 2.0. The performance of the team was praised for being top quality in all categories. The whole team was equally involved in the activities even though the team had members of different ages from several schools across the region, which was also acknowledged by the Jury.
Awarded best in the robot game was team Eagle Camp, from Vanhakylä School in Ulvila, and the best core values were demonstrated by Team Panda from the same school. First place in the best science project category went to Hamsukingit from Harjavalta Primary School and in the robot design category to Team Ruubertti Robortti from Kokemäki School.
All of the winning teams of the regional contest, except Team Panda, continued to the Finnish Championships of the robot and science fair, organised in Helsinki in early March.
"The teams from Satakunta were clearly superior to the others, especially in the robot game category. Team Ruubertti Robortti from Kokemäki was given the best points from the robot game and coding in the Finnish Championships. And Eagle Camp from Ulvila achieved the highest score in the mechanical engineering of a robot category," praises Mikko Puputti from Prizztech.
Mikko Puputti from Prizztech also noticed how contagious the joy and zeal of learning of the children and adolescents was at the FLL regional contest in Ulvila in January.
Leader Karhuseutu has granted funding to Prizztech for the organisation of FLL's robot and science fairs and establishment of the LEGO robot activities in the Pori region. Cimcorp Ltd, the City of Ulvila, Sataedu (the Educational Federation of Satakunta), the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences and Pizztech Ltd offer their contribution to help the schools take part in the robot and science fairs by FLL.
"Organising these robot and science fairs is a part of the activities of the Robocoast competency cluster*," Puputti explains.
The goal is to organise the 2018 Finnish Championships in Satakunta, the Robot Coast of Finland.
"In addition to Helsinki, regional contests took place only in Ulvila, Oulu and Joensuu this year. The maximum number of teams admitted to the Satakunta contest was 25, and the places were filled instantly," explains Prizztech's Mikko Puputti, who is happy with the excellent reception of the event.
Learning from the experiences of the first contest year, there will be limitations introduced in the registration, so that only one team from each school can enter the regional contest. This means that there will be a wider representation of schools across the region.
"In 2018, the theme of the contest will be Hydrodynamics, i.e. the flow of water, and Satakunta University of Applied Sciences will host the Finnish national championships," says Puputti, bursting with enthusiasm.
* Robocoast is a network of businesses that belong to the automation industry's competency cluster in Satakunta. Coordinators and inviters of the network include the regional business-development company Prizztech and the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences.


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Metaverse Maybe a Moneymaker for Enterprises by 2027
In five years, 40% of large organizations worldwide will be using a combination of Web3, AR cloud, and digital twins in metaverse projects aimed at increasing revenue, research and advisory firm Gartner predicted Monday at its IT symposium in Orlando, Fla.
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Gartner's metaverse prediction was part of a top 10 list of strategic technology trends released at the event.
The firm sees a metaverse as a "collective virtual 3D shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical and digital reality." It is persistent and provides enhanced immersive experiences, it added.
A complete metaverse will be device independent and won't be owned by a single vendor, Gartner continued, and will have a virtual economy enabled by digital currencies and non-fungible tokens (NFT).
Gartner's prediction raised eyebrows among some analysts. "It's a bit aggressive," observed Mark N. Vena, president and principal analyst at SmartTech Research in San Jose, Calif.
"The primary headwind to the metaverse in business is the arrival of genuine metaverse apps that will have broad appeal with enterprise accounts," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Some of that does exist — and will continue to surface — in operational areas like inventory management, logistics, and other vertical areas, but until a metaverse app, or apps, that increases productivity arrives, I think 40% is a stretch," Vena added.
Metaverse or Metaverses?
Ross Rubin, the principal analyst at Reticle Research, a consumer technology advisory firm in New York City, also sees some challenges that could impede the spread of the metaverse into the enterprise.
"On a core level, we need improvements in device size and power efficiency and broader applications beyond those in manufacturing, engineering, and other industrial applications that we see today," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Beyond these AR-related improvements, however, there are open questions as to whether the metaverse will evolve as a single, broadly accessible platform, like the web, or whether companies will largely build out their own applications, as they do with cloud technology today," he continued.
"However," Rubin added, "we are starting to see some encouraging standards-setting here, such as the Metaverse Standards Forum."
Meta, the owner of Facebook, could also be contributing to metaverse traction problems, maintained Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore.
"Facebook's efforts are so bad they are putting a cloud over the entire segment and, ironically, they are the biggest investor in it," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Facebook is effectively putting a big sign over the segment implying it is fake," he added, "even though Nvidia's efforts are working far better and being well implemented by firms like BMW, showcasing the potential that Facebook appears to be destroying at the moment."
Patience Needed
Impatience could also play a role in a company's metaverse persistence, noted Quynh Mai, CEO of Qulture, a digital marketing agency in New York City.
"As brands enter the metaverse, they often get discouraged upon arrival, not realizing that it is still a nascent but evolving platform," she told TechNewsWorld. "They don't see a mass amount of users in metaverses like Decentraland or The Sandbox, and then retreat."
"Perseverance is important as the technology driving Web3 is evolving quickly with developer activity increasing exponentially, so it's important for brands to experiment now so they can scale their Web3 projects alongside its evolution," she said.
"With the looming recession in the U.S. and the IMF's economic warnings, many brands are retreating from Web3 and focusing on short-term issues," she continued. "However, just like during Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, brands that do not innovate will lag behind."
"Web3 adoption will be powered by Gen Z, which is 25% of the world's population, so brands that do not stay the course will not prosper or connect with this cohort in 2027," Mai added.
'Superapps'
Gartner also predicted that by 2027, 50% of the world's population will be daily active users of multiple "superapps."
Superapps combine the features of an app, a platform, and an ecosystem in a single program. In addition to having its own set of functionalities, it provides a platform for add-ons by third parties.
"Although most examples of superapps are mobile apps, the concept can also be applied to desktop client applications, such as Microsoft Teams and Slack, with the key being that a superapp can consolidate and replace multiple apps for customer or employee use," Gartner Vice President and Analyst Frances Karamouzis explained in a statement.
Teams Virtual Meeting Space (Image Credit: Microsoft)
Multi-function apps have always had appeal to users, Enderle noted.
"A single app that does a lot of things has always been attractive over multiple single-focused apps because folks don't want the complexity and learning curves associated with a prolific number of apps," he said. "So relative simplicity, perceived cost, and the utility of superapps make them attractive."
Superapps have been in the news lately since Elon Musk said he wants to purchase Twitter as an accelerant for building one, Rubin explained.
"The model for this is WeChat, in China, which is used for tasks as diverse as reading news, making payments, and hailing cars," he said. "WeChat was able to grow its functionality in part because there were no dominant OS vendors and little competition from outside of China keeping it in check."
"There are higher barriers to replicating its success outside of China," he continued. "Still, Apple, for example, already supports playing games and sending money through its Messages app, and Telegram supports add-on bot applications that could deliver a lot of functionality beyond messaging."
Sustainable Technology
One strategic trend that traverses all the others is sustainability, Gartner noted. It cited one of its recent surveys where CEOs reported that environmental and social changes are now a top three priority for investors, after profit and revenue.
This means, it continued, that executives must invest more in innovative solutions that are designed to address [environmental, social, and governance] demands to meet sustainability goals.
"[I]n 2023, delivering technology will not be enough," Gartner Vice President and Analyst David Groombridge said in a statement.
"These themes are impacted by environmental, social, and governance expectations and regulations, which translate into the shared responsibility to apply sustainable technologies," he said in a statement.
"Every technology investment will need to be set off against its impact on the environment, keeping future generations in mind," he added. "'Sustainable by default' as an objective requires sustainable technology."
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Leprosy beyond tales and legends
From biblical times to the Middle Ages to present day – leprosy lives.
Ten years ago, the World Health Organization called to eliminate leprosy within a decade. Last year, the disease continued to produce half a million new cases. Since 1995 and until 2010, the WHO will provide free treatment, but it's worth considering how effective this free treatment is when the many suffering from leprosy continue to hide their condition, often fearing discrimination and isolation.
Given the shame surrounding the illness, it's difficult to say how many live with the disease without ever seeking help. It wasn't long ago that people thought it was normal to quarantine people to leper colonies. It is now thought that a vast majority of people are immune to the bacteria and exposure to infected people would not necessarily result in transfer of the disease. Even with this knowledge, there is a stigma around acquiring and spreading leprosy. Despite the closure of most colonies in the 1960s, some persist.
There are parts of the world where people fear leprosy more than cancer or other life-threatening diseases, and this fear prevents treatment. It's crucial for people to treat themselves immediately because the cure eliminates the disease, but the permanent disfigurement that occurs prior to treatment cannot be reversed. The longer a person prolongs medical attention, the more damaging the illness becomes.
The WHO and other health organizations must think in broader terms of health care because a treatment is more than providing medicinal healing. Health care providers must take into account cultural and societal factors that play a role in preventing treatment. It doesn't make sense to have a goal but to not measure and target the factors that prevent successful treatment. Working with community representatives to determine proper care is a crucial element in ending this illness.
Health care is not charity – it's a human right, and it cannot be something that simply means giving money without considering long-term solutions. Psychological and societal factors play a greater role than many assume. In a world where pandemics such as AIDS are prevalent, it is not enough to argue that societal stigmas and shame prevent treatment from saving lives.


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"A distinguishing feature of evaluation is the universal focus on stakeholder perspectives, ......,and evaluation are judged on if and how stakeholder perspectives are included" (Matheson, 2008).
Page 194 of Mathison (2007), "A distinguishing feature of evaluation is the universal focus on stakeholder perspectives, a feature not shared by social science research. And evaluations are judged on if and how stakeholder perspectives are included. While evaluation models are based on different epistemological foundations, all evaluation models attend to stakeholder perspectives-the assessments, values, and meanings of the evaluand's stakeholders are essential elements in any evaluation." .... "When research participants are referred to as stakeholders, it is often a reference to whom the data are collected from rather than a consideration of the stakeholder's vested interests. "
How to engage stakeholders and include the stakeholder perspectives during the evaluation process?
How to engage with stakeholders depends on how you know the stakeholders. Evaluators, as discussed in Fitzpatrick, J., Sanders, J. & Worthen, B. (2011), can be internal or external evaluators. If you work within a company and are evaluating your own company, you are more likely to have a vested interests and therefor more likely to have bias, unless it's (ideally) for a client or other department (which would make you an external evaluator).
Evaluators also come into a project or evaluation with some knowledge of a proposal, business requirements, vision document, or other criteria. Often, or in the best case scenario, an evaluator would be part of writing, strategizing, and reviewing these documents. These documents are the foundation or backbone of what is known about stakeholders and the criteria for evaluation.
Personas - This is a great way to always keep stakeholders who are not present or can not represent themselves or a large few groups of people easily.


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package backline.http.metrics

import akka.http.scaladsl.server.{Directive0, RequestContext}
import scala.util.control.NonFatal

trait MeterDirectives extends MetricsBase {
  def withMeter: Directive0 =
    meter(ctx => getMetricName(ctx))

  def withMeterNamed(name: String): Directive0 =
    meter(_ => name)

  private[metrics] def meter(nameFunc: RequestContext => String): Directive0 = {
    mapInnerRoute { inner => ctx =>
      findAndRegisterMeter(nameFunc(ctx)).mark
      try {
        inner(ctx)
      } catch {
        case NonFatal(err) =>
          ctx.fail(err)
      }
    }
  }
}

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package net.ssehub.easy.producer.scenario_tests;

import static net.ssehub.easy.varModel.varModel.testSupport.TextTestUtils.assertFileEquality;
import static net.ssehub.easy.varModel.varModel.testSupport.TextTestUtils.assertFileEqualityRec;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileFilter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.tools.JavaCompiler;
import javax.tools.JavaFileObject;
import javax.tools.StandardJavaFileManager;
import javax.tools.ToolProvider;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.Test;

import net.ssehub.easy.instantiation.core.model.buildlangModel.Script;
import net.ssehub.easy.instantiation.maven.Registration;
import net.ssehub.easy.instantiation.velocity.VelocityInstantiator;

/**
 * Real use case tests. Although Maven is available, we run the tests without Maven in order to
 * avoid external resolution issues and to allow for offline use. Thus, maven is commented out if used.
 *
 * @author Holger Eichelberger
 * @author El-Sharkawy
 */
public class RealTests extends AbstractRealTests {

    protected static final String[] RELATIVE_CURL_EXECUTABLES = {"curl/curl.bat", "curl/curl.sh"};

    private static RealTests tests;

    @Override
    protected void addTestDataLocations() {
    }

    /**
     * Starts up the test.
     */
    @BeforeClass
    public static void startUp() {
        tests = new RealTests();
        tests.cleanTemp();
        Registration.register();
        VelocityInstantiator.register();
    }

    /**
     * Tears down the test.
     */
    @AfterClass
    public static void shutDown() {
        if (!debug && null != tests) {
            tests.cleanTemp();
            tests = null;
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected File getTestFolder() {
        return new File(getTestDataDir(), "real");
    }

    /**
     * Deletes a newly created folder inside the temp folder.
     * Should be called after the creation of new tests.
     * @param baseFolder A project folder created during a test.
     */
    protected void cleanTempFolder(File baseFolder) {
        if (!debug) {
            try {
                FileUtils.deleteDirectory(baseFolder);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.out.println("Cannot delete " + baseFolder + ": " + e.getMessage());
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Asserts equality of the models and the parsed/analyzed result, i.e. it
     * reads file as a model, analyzes it, compares the obtained
     * errors with expectedErrorCodes, compares the contents of
     * file with the printed (analyzed) model and checks the
     * project information directly obtained from file. It is assumed that
     * no version shall be checked.
     *
     * @param file
     *            the name of the file containing the model (without suffix)
     * @param expectedName
     *            the expected name of the model
     * @param expectedErrorCodes
     *            the expected and allowed error codes (errors occurring
     *            multiple times need to be listed multiple times here)
     * @throws IOException
     *             problems finding or reading the model file
     */
    protected void assertEqual(String file, String expectedName, int... expectedErrorCodes)
        throws IOException {
        EqualitySetup


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Q: Run docker inside docker as non root user How can I run docker commands inside a docker container when the user is not root?
The reason behind this (running as non root) is that the (first) container creates some files on a mounted volume. If the user in the container is root then these files' owner is also root. If I run the container with the same user as on the host system then these files have the correct user and group.
docker run --rm -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock ubuntu /bin/bash

// inside container:
// assume docker binary is available
docker pull alpine

This will not work when run as a non root user giving following error:
Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Post http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/images/create?fromImage=alpine&tag=latest: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied

A: Docker:
docker run -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) --group-add $(getent group docker | cut -d ':' -f 3) --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock docker docker --version

For Docker Compose set group_add under your service and set the env variable:
export DOCKER_GROUP_ID=$(getent group docker | cut -d ':' -f 3);

services:
  myservice:
    image: docker
    group_add:
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Carvel construction. Pretty in a traditional manner, for silent utility use around Silva Bay. Weight about 500 pounds with 240 pounds of batteries aboard. Designed around the 8 HP 24V Etec motor turning a 10 inch propeller. Range to be about 4 hours at 5 knots.
The Etek motor in the 15' Electric Launch is built by Briggs & Stratton for robots and small electric vehicles. It will handle 12-48 volts and will produce a maximum of 8 HP at about 4000 Rpm. In the boat it is setup with a 4:1 reduction and running 24 volts RPM at the prop is about 450. The owners have not yet gotten the right propeller on so no performance figures, but roughly she'll do 5.5 knots for about 4 hours on one charge.


Summary: Coordinator of Public Works & Housing is a term position for three months with a strong possibility of an extension.
The Beardy's & Okemasis' Cree Nation requires a superior candidate to serve as "Coordinator – Public Works & Housing".
Under the direct supervision of the Councillor i/c Public Works & Housing, the "Coordinator – Public Works & Housing" is the administrative head of the Department of Public Works & Housing with the Beardy's & Okemasis' Cree Nation.
The Coordinator – Public Works & Housing works full-time and has proven experience in managing all activities related to Public Works & Housing.
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La cattedrale di Nostra Signora della Candelaria (in portoghese: Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Candelária) si trova a Bissau, in Guinea-Bissau ed è la cattedrale cattolica della diocesi di Bissau. La costruzione della cattedrale di Bissau ha avuto inizio nel 1935, su progetto dell'architetto João Simões, in collaborazione con l'architetto Zilhao Gallardo, e fu completata nel 1950. La cattedrale esprime una caratteristica tradizionalista nella sua architettura neoromanica.

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 Chiesa cattolica in Guinea-Bissau
 Cattedrali in Guinea-Bissau

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Air Partner appoints new managing director, charter
April 24, 2019: Air Partner, global aviation services group, has appointed Kevin Macnaughton as managing director, Charter, with immediate effect. The UK-based company informs that Kevin is responsible for the development of the charter division%u2019s business strategy, and reports directly to CEO Mark Briffa. Most recently, he held the role of Company director, head of […]
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April 24, 2019: Air Partner, global aviation services group, has appointed Kevin Macnaughton as managing director, Charter, with immediate effect.
The UK-based company informs that Kevin is responsible for the development of the charter division%u2019s business strategy, and reports directly to CEO Mark Briffa.
Most recently, he held the role of Company director, head of European Sales, leading the planning and execution of the sales strategy. During his tenure, the company significantly increased its sales and client retention across Europe.
Kevin brings with him a wealth of experience in the aviation charter industry, both in the UK and overseas.
He has held a number of senior roles at NetJets, private passenger jet operator, over a period of 13 years.
Kevin's immediate focus will be on delivering organic growth in the charter division as it seeks to drive innovation, upselling and cross-selling all Group products and services.
Kevin Macnaughton said: "I'm excited to be joining Air Partner as it continues to expand its global reach, as evidenced by the recent office openings in the US and Singapore. I look forward to capitalising on Air Partner's reputation for excellence and deepening relationships with new and existing customers."


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Volume 100 Issue 3
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Volume 100 - Issue 3 - August 2006
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NOTES FROM THE EDITOR
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2006, pp. iii-vii
Conflicting clichés about money abound. Everybody "knows" that "Money can't buy happiness," but in the 1970s the Swedish pop group ABBA sold millions of records celebrating the eternal sunniness of "the rich man's world."
Does "Bettering Our Condition" Really Make Us Better Off? Adam Smith on Progress and Happiness
DENNIS C. RASMUSSEN
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Adam Smith is almost certainly history's most famous advocate of commercial society, but he frankly admits that the relentless pursuit of wealth is a major obstacle to tranquility and contentment and hence that, at first glance, the higher living standards that people "enjoy" in commercial society seem to come only at the cost of their happiness. I argue that the solution to this apparent paradox can be found in Smith's account of the positive political effects of commerce: dependence and insecurity are the chief obstacles to happiness and have been the hallmarks of most of human history, and so the alleviation of these ills in commercial society constitutes a great step forward. Money really cannot buy happiness, but the liberty and security that commercial societies tend to provide help to assuage the greatest sources of misery.
Fantasy, Irony, and Economic Justice in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen and Wealth
JOHN ZUMBRUNNEN
In his final two surviving plays, Assemblywomen and Wealth, Aristophanes turns his comic art toward a consideration of the possibilities of radical economic change. His presentation of those possibilities has been read as either indulging in fantasy or as ironically reinforcing the economic status quo. This essay argues that the two plays in fact work to instill in their audience a complex and challenging sensibility that holds fantasy and irony in tension with one another. Drawing on recent arguments about the relationship and relative priority of economic redistribution and cultural recognition as political goals, I suggest that this sensibility provides an attractive model for theorists and ordinary citizens alike as they grapple with issues of economic and social justice.
The Experiences and Effects of Economic Status Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities
DENNIS CHONG, DUKHONG KIM
We propose and test a theory of opportunities that explains the conditions in which economic status affects support for racial and ethnic group interests among African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Using data from a 2001 Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University national survey, our analysis finds that, for all minority groups, the effect of economic status on support for group interests is mediated by the socioeconomic experiences of individuals. Intergroup differences therefore result from varying experiences and perceptions of discrimination among minority groups rather than from group-specific theoretical processes. Compared to Latinos and Asian Americans, African Americans are least responsive to changes in economic circumstances because they are on the whole more pessimistic about their life prospects and more likely to encounter discrimination. But we find in general that, among those minority individuals who perceive equal opportunity and experience less discrimination, higher economic status often leads to a reduced emphasis on race and ethnicity. These results demonstrate that the incorporation of a minority group into American society depends not only on the actions of group members but also on the fair treatment of that group by the majority population.
Presidentialism, Electoral Identifiability, and Budget Balances in Democratic Systems
JOSÉ ANTONIO CHEIBUB
This paper examines the impact of the form of government—presidential or parliamentary—on fiscal outcomes in democratic systems. Based on data for democracies in 98 countries between 1970 and 2002, it shows that the gross domestic product ratio of the central government budget balance is higher in presidential than in parliamentary democracies. It also shows that this impact is not due to the fact that presidential systems are not subject to the "costs of coalition" that allegedly afflict parliamentary democracies: the coalition and status of the government are of no consequence for budget balances in either presidential or parliamentary systems. Presidential systems matter for budget balances because they generate relatively high incentives for governments to keep budgets under control. They do so because in presidential systems, unlike in parliamentary systems, voters are by design able to identify and punish those responsible for economic policies. Presidents, however, vary in their capacity to affect budget policies. This paper demonstrates that presidential systems in which presidents are constitutionally able to dominate the budget process or to effectively veto legislation tend to have higher budget balances than those in which the budget process is dominated by the legislature or the president is unable to exercise existing veto powers.
Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency
DANIEL Y. KONO
A growing body of research shows that democracies have more liberal trade policies than do autocracies. I argue, in contrast, that democracy has contradictory effects on different types of trade policies because electoral competition generates more information about some than about others. It generates considerable information about policies whose effects on consumer welfare are easy to explain to voters, but less information about policies whose effects are more complex. By increasing the transparency of some policies relative to others, democracy induces politicians to reduce transparent trade barriers but also to replace them with less transparent ones. I test this hypothesis by examining the impact of democracy on tariffs, "core" nontariff barriers (NTBs) such as quotas, and "quality" NTBs such as product standards in 75 countries in the 1990s. I find that democracy leads to lower tariffs, higher core NTBs, and even higher quality NTBs. I conclude that democracy promotes "optimal obfuscation" that allows politicians to protect their markets while maintaining a veneer of liberalization.
The Reassociation of Ideas and Purposes: Racism, Liberalism, and the American Political Tradition
STEPHEN SKOWRONEK
Racist and liberal ideals are said to anchor competing political traditions in America, but a juxtaposition of ideals obscures key processes of change in the cultural lexicon and misses much about how a political tradition comes to bear on the development of a polity. Attention to the reassociation of ideas and purposes over time points to a more intimate relationship between racism and liberalism in American political culture, to the conceptual interpenetration of these antithetical ends. Cuing off issues that have long surrounded the reassociation of John C. Calhoun's rule of the concurrent majority with pluralist democracy, this article examines another southerner, Woodrow Wilson, who, in the course of defending racial hierarchy, developed ideas that became formative of modern American liberalism. Analysis of the movement of ideas across purposes shifts the discussion of political traditions from set categories of thought to revealed qualities of thought, bringing to the fore aspects of this polity that are essentially and irreducibly "American."
Why Small, Centrist Third Parties Motivate Policy Divergence by Major Parties
JAMES ADAMS, SAMUEL MERRILL
Plurality-based elections between two major parties or candidates sometimes feature small, centrist, third parties. We modify the standard two-party spatial model of policy-seeking parties to incorporate a centrist third party, and we show that the presence of such a party—even if it has no chance of winning—motivates the major parties to propose policies that are much more divergent than without the third party. We derive explicit formulas for party locations at a three-party equilibrium and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of that equilibrium. We show that, over time, the major parties can be expected to shift their policies in the same direction relative to each other but in the opposite direction relative to the minor party. The predictions of this model are compared with estimates of party policy locations during appropriate periods in postwar Britain.
Stacking the States, Stacking the House: The Partisan Consequences of Congressional Redistricting in the 19th Century
ERIK J. ENGSTROM
Considerable debate exists over the impact of redistricting on the partisan composition of the U.S. Congress. I address this debate by turning to an era of congressional redistricting that has received little systematic attention—the politics of gerrymandering in the 19th century. Using statewide-, county-, and ward-level electoral data from 1870 to 1900, I show that when a single party controlled the districting process, they used districting to systematically engineer a favorable partisan bias. These partisan biases affected the partisan composition of state congressional delegations and at times even helped determine party control of the House of Representatives.
Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War
MACARTAN HUMPHREYS, JEREMY M. WEINSTEIN
The toll of civil conflict is largely borne by civilian populations, as warring factions target non-combatants through campaigns of violence. But significant variation exists in the extent to which warring groups abuse the civilian population: across conflicts, across groups, and within countries geographically and over time. Using a new dataset on fighting groups in Sierra Leone, this article analyzes the determinants of the tactics, strategies, and behaviors that warring factions employ in their relationships with noncombatants. We first describe a simple logic of extraction which we use to generate hypotheses about variation in levels of abuse across fighting units. We then show that the most important determinants of civilian abuse are internal to the structure of the faction. High levels of abuse are exhibited by warring factions that are unable to police the behavior of their members because they are more ethnically fragmented, rely on material incentives to recruit participants, and lack mechanisms for punishing indiscipline. Explanations that emphasize the importance of local community ties and contestation do not find strong support in the data.
When Can Mediators Build Trust?
ANDREW H. KYDD
Mediation is one of the most widespread techniques for preventing conflict and promoting cooperation. I examine the conditions under which mediators can facilitate cooperation by building trust between two parties. Assuming mediators have no intrinsic commitment to honesty, they can be credible trust builders in one-round interactions only if they care about the issue at stake, have a moderate ideal point, and do not find conflict to be too costly. A mediator that is solely interested in promoting cooperation, or one that is biased toward one side, will be ineffective. A desire to preserve a reputation for honesty can overcome a limited amount of bias or issue indifference.


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Sangamon Valley High School Yearbook Club
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Better Food = Happier Students
There have been some recent changes to Sangamon Valley this year. One of those changes includes our lunch. We used to not have a company that we got our lunch through, and now we have Aramark. They have given us more options to choose from, like our everyday pizza, fries, and chicken nuggets. We also get more than one option when it comes to the main dish. We have more than just the same kind of salad everyday, as well. Mr Field stated: "Before, we weren't getting the bank for our buck." Everyone seems to be very satisfied with our new lunch this year and we hope that it keeps getting better and better.
We also have a lunch director, Kelly Rice. She came from Taylorville and is enjoying Sangamon Valley so far, except for the heat. Kelly said that being a lunch director is new to her this year. We haven't seen ale cart this year, but are hoping to soon. Last year, we had strawberry milk and Mr. Field loved it. He said that it was pretty darn good and he hasn't seen it this year, but hopes to. Mr. Field said, "I'm going to ask Miss Rice if we can get some strawberry milk up in this joint." Maybe we will see some strawberry milk shortly, especially for Mr. Field. Our hope is that everyone is enjoying the new lunch this year!
Remi Mendenhall & Jalynn Ethington
Remi is a sophomore at SVHS. Jalynn is a freshman at SVHS.
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