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Reviel Netz
Reviel Netz (born January 2, 1968, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli scholar of the history of pre-modern mathematics, who is currently a professor of classics and of philosophy at Stanford University.
(1968-01-02)January 2, 1968
Philologist, historian, philosopher
Life and work
Netz was born January 2, 1968, to Israeli author Corinna Hasofferett and Yoel Netz, an entrepreneur and translator of Russian classics.
From 1983 to 1992, Netz studied at the Tel Aviv University, obtaining a B.A. in Ancient History and an M.A. in History and the Philosophy of Science; from 1993 to 1995 studied classics at Christ College, Cambridge University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1995. From 1996 to 1999 Netz worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and concurrently in 1998 and 1999 worked as a post-doctoral fellow at MIT. In the fall of 1999 he took a position as an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Classics, where he has continued to teach and publish today.[1][2]
Netz's major research interest include the wider issues of the history of cognitive practices; for example the history of the book, visual culture, literacy and numeracy. He is the author of a number of works in field, including volumes I and II of The Archimedes Palimpsest. He also co-authored The Archimedes Codex with William Noel on the same subject matter, but oriented towards a public audience. It received the Neumann Prize[3] as well as several works published by the Cambridge University Press, including The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: a Study in Cognitive History (1999, Runciman Award), The Transformation of Early Mediterranean Mathematics: From Problems to Equations (2004), and Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic (2009).
Netz has also appeared as a subject matter expert on PBS's Nova concerning ancient mathematics.[4]
In addition to his work on the history of mathematics, Netz has published some Hebrew poetry, including "Adayin Bahuc" in 1999.
Authored and co-authored works
The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-521-54120-6.
The Works of Archimedes: Translation and Commentary, Vol. I: The Two Books "On The Sphere and the Cylinder", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 and 2009 ISBN 978-0-5211-1798-2.
Barbed Wire: an Ecology of Modernity, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8195-6959-2.
With William Noel, The Archimedes Codex: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Greatest Palimpsest, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007, ISBN 978-0-306-81737-3.
The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World: from Problems to Equations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-5210-4174-4.
Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-89894-2.
Editor, with William Noel, Natalie Tchernetska, and Nigel Wilson, The Archimedes Palimpsest Vol. I: Catalogue and Commentary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-01457-2.
Editor, with William Noel et al., The Archimedes Palimpsest Vol. II: Facsimile and Transcription, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-01684-2.
The Works of Archimedes: Translation and Commentary, Vol. 2: "On Spirals", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-5216-6145-4.
Archimedes Palimpsest
Academic Profile of Reviel Netz
Curriculum Vitae of Reviel Netz
The Neumann Prize of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM)
PBS Nova: Working with Infinity
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Ratno-Wambierzyce () – osada wsi Ratno Dolne w Polsce, położona w województwie dolnośląskim, w powiecie kłodzkim, w gminie Radków.

W latach 1975–1998 osada administracyjnie należała do województwa wałbrzyskiego.

Położenie
Część Ratna Dolnego położona pomiędzy Wzgórzami Ścinawskimi i Górami Stołowymi.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Kotlina Kłodzka i Rów Górnej Nysy, tom 15, pod red. Marka Staffy, Wrocław, Wyd. I-BiS, 1994, ss. 372-375,
 Słownik nazw miejscowości Ziemi Kłodzkiej, redakcja: Ryszard Gładkiewicz, Agnieszka Latocha, Eva Semotanová,

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Afghanistan's First All Female Orchestra: Fighting For Women's Rights and Freedom of Expression Through Music.
What would you do if you were told you weren't allowed to play music (or something else you loved) because you were a woman?
This week I discovered "Zohra", Afghanistan's first all female orchestra. This is a huge deal because during the Taliban rule of Afghanistan- playing instruments was BANNED. Even today, performing music is still frowned upon by many conservative Muslims.
That's what makes this group so exciting and inspiring. Not only are they an all female musical group formed in an extremely male supremacist society where many things are STILL restricted for women, but the orchestra is also led by a woman! And at only 19 years old, the conductor Negin Khpalwak, is an inspiration in herself.
The National Institute of Music, where the Zohra orchestra was formed, was founded by musicologist Ahmad Naser Sarmast in 2010. The school enrolls about 300 students between the ages of 14-20, most of which are female and many of whom come from underprivileged families. The institute is dedicated to promoting women's rights and ensuring gender equality in the sector of music, as well as offering quality arts education in an area of the world that often tells their people that they can't even play music. Giving the students outlets for self expression, creativity, and independence they wouldn't have elsewhere in the country during a previous time.
 The Zohra orchestra and Afghanistan's National Institute of Music are making waves in the Muslim world and beyond. They began touring on January 19, 2017 in Geneva Switzerland. Keep an eye and ear out for these impressive ladies. Spread the word and encourage the involvement in music to empower women and teen girls in Afghanistan and across the world.
The Vagina Monologues: Better Late Than Never
 Well it's 2017, 19 years after it's inception, and I have FINALLY read "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler. Gasp! Blame it on my ultra conservative upbringing, but I was the girl this book was made for. I struggled with guilt and shame about my body and my sexuality, no matter how minor. Even just saying the words "sex" or "vagina" made me feel embarrassed and dirty.
Now at 32, I pride myself at being a heck of a lot more free and open, but I still catch myself using word substitutions at times. Partly, I suspect, from my still lingering religious guilt and fear. Growing up with a formerly Catholic mother and Jewish father, who converted to "Born Again" Christianity during the return of the fundamentalist conservative Christian phase of the late 80's/early 90's will do that to you I guess.
But that's what makes this book of performed monologues so fascinating. It's proof I'm not the only one who struggled with these insecurity, fear, shame, and embarrassment issues when it comes to my body, sexuality, and even twisted gender perception (more on that in a later post). No, I realized I was normal. Scratch that…I AM normal.
Ok maybe "normal" isn't the appropriate word. Let's say I was typical. Typical for a female in my generation and the ones before it, apparently. It's eye opening really, and a confirmation of exactly what I'm trying to do with my life- to encourage and empower women and teen girls through the arts and media. It took a long time to become this women I am- that I have finally learned to like- and I'm still a work in progress But I've come a long way from the girl who would cry every time she looked at herself naked in the mirror, or would make "clicking" sounds with her tongue cuz she was too embarrassed to say the clinical terms of penis or vagina, and would spend hours (if not days) begging God incessantly to forgive her for having sexual thoughts let along partake in any sexual acts.
I admit reluctantly, it led to me being in a couple abusive relationships over the years- which now looking back I can see I fell victim to because of my lingering and deep rooted issues with myself and my past. These issues caused me to believe lies that led me to these unhealthy relationships, or at least accepting them far longer than any emotionally whole person should. Going around in these unhealthy cycles, until I finally woke up and put my foot down to stop it. Which honestly, I could only do with the help of some supportive friends, empowering messages, massive amounts of honest (sometimes painful) introspection and a lot of prayer.
That's another reason I am so excited about the Vagina Monologues and what Eve Ensler was doing and is continuing to do today. She's using theater and the written word as a way to facilitate a healthy conversation and expression of women's body and sexuality shaming issues as a pathway to healing and ultimately fight abuse against women in all forms.
I'm a little embarrassed that it's taken me this long to finally have experienced this work that made such a huge splash when it came out in 1998. But maybe this is just proof it's time to bring The Vagina Monologues back around for a new generation of women and teen girls still struggling with body image issues, sex shaming and abuse? And it's never too late for that.
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More departures at Twitter as Android lead leaves for Secret
Published Fri, Mar 21 20142:14 PM EDT Updated Fri, Mar 21 20144:37 PM EDT
A sign on the exterior of Twitter headquarters on Feb. 5, 2014, in San Francisco.
Looks like plenty more birds are flying Twitter's coop.
Sara Haider, a mobile engineer and technical lead at Twitter for the past four and a half years, announced on Friday that she plans to leave the microblogging company to join Secret, the buzzy anonymous social startup that launched just two months ago.
Haider will assume the role of Android lead for Secret, where she'll be responsible for launching an Android version of the app as soon as possible. (Currently, Secret is only available on iOS devices.) At Twitter, Haider worked to launch the Android version of the company's Vine video app, and for years also worked on the Android app for Twitter proper.
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Artists challenged boundaries of thought
Trevor Baratko
I had a rather pleasing weekend for a liberal-minded man.
Saturday night was spent taking in an alluring biopic, "Howl", at the unique and authentically old-school Nickelodeon Theatre in Columbia. The following morning, as millions of my fellow countrymen and women were getting their religion on, I was thumbing through pages of Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the great existentialist thinkers and philosophers of mid-20th Century Europe.
If my memory serves me correctly – which is really a tossup these days – I've touched on Sartre before here on Page 3, so let's talk first and predominantly about "Howl."
Seldom have I seen a film so up my alley. It's about the art of misunderstood outcast with things to say – Allen Ginsberg, who at the time the film is set is an insecure 29-year-old writer.
To say the film is a documentary on the life of Ginsberg isn't appropriate. Rather, the 90-minute, unrated, limited-release flick is a historic snapshot of the bohemian poet's first-published work, "Howl," and the criticism it garnered.
"Howl," a poem I read way back in college (three years ago), was considered by many to be obscene, explicit and too vulgar for the public in the year it was released, 1956. Because the poem made numerous references to homosexuality, the poem's publisher was eventually taken to court for his part in the disseminating the work.
The film's technique is what makes it great -- part takes place in a San Francisco coffeehouse, where Ginsberg (played by James Franco), rehearses his poem to a crowd that looks exactly what you'd expect from a bunch of young San Franciscans sitting around a coffee shop, listening to poetry and drinking and smoking, in the 1950s; another sequence follows the proceedings of the court case, in which the judge in San Francisco ultimately deemed the poem indeed had literary merit, and did not punish the publisher or ban the poem; and a third aspect, which I found to be evocative, was a dreamy animation sequence paired with the language of the poem.
Whether the film accurately portrayed the atmosphere of mid-1950s counterculture in California, I can't say -- I wasn't there. But it's unequivocally what I've always imagined -- a place where you can challenge thought and norms and conformity. A place I'd love to spend some time.
I'm not a proponent of making the entire world such a place. I know a great deal of people would prefer to not be part of such society. I, of course, would.
Jean-Paul Sartre, if you recall, was a public intellectual in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. He wrote and philosophized about human responsibility and accountability. An atheist by his own account, he declared that man is responsible for his actions and what he makes of himself.
What these stimulating artists, Ginsberg and Sartre, have in common is a staunch belief in freedom of speech and thought. And theirs was not just any speech, but words which alarmed many. Sartre and Ginsberg had an inkling their writing was valuable, that it needed to be out there for the public to absorb and weigh. They pushed the boundaries.
Because of men and women thinkers such as these two, millions of people's minds and tolerance have evolved.
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Political tensions rise prior to elections in Turkey
by Ahmet Aslan
Returning from the northwestern Black Sea city of Kastamonu, Prime Minister Recep Erdogan's convoy was attacked on May 4. As part of his election campaign Erdogan had visited the city to address its residents urging them to vote for his Justice and Development Party (AKP). He then flew by helicopter to a nearby city to continue his campaign, while his election convoy, including his campaign bus from which he usually delivers speeches and greets the people, was returning to the AKP headquarters in Ankara. When Erdogan's campaign bus was 25 km from the city centre, around the Ilgaz Mountains, a sudden burst of machinegun fire targeted the police car escorting the convoy. After the initial shots, the attackers came closer to the police car and threw a grenade which set the car on fire, injuring one police officer and killing another in the vehicle. After a brief exchange of gunfire with the prime minister's bodyguards, the attackers fled the scene without suffering any casualties.
Despite the heightened political tension that has created what may be called low-intensity turmoil in Turkey, especially in the southeastern region of the country, no one was expecting such a brazen attack on the prime minister. The Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), an internationally listed terrorist organization, immediately claimed responsibility and warned Erdogan that the next target will be the AKP. By all accounts this was one of the most sophisticated attacks the PKK has launched in its history. Targeting the prime minister's election convoy was a symbolic move by the PKK, as was the location of the attack. It was unusual for the PKK to attack a Turkish prime minister and unlike previous PKK attacks that were launched from the southwest province of Turkey this one took place in western Turkey just a couple of dozen kilometres from the capital, Ankara.
During the past few months the PKK has intensified its own campaign to sabotage the elections scheduled for June 12. Indeed, the PKK has its own goal: establishment of an autonomous Kurdish state in the south-east region of Turkey, for which it has been staging a bloody terror campaign for three decades. However, it would be naïve to assume that the PKK is merely serving the "interests" of the Kurdish minority. Due to its militant communist-nationalist ideology, the religious and moderate Kurds that make up most of the Kurdish minority have distanced themselves from the group. Additionally, recent revelations from the Ergenekon case showed involvement of the Turkish "deep state" in the establishment of the PKK and its influence on the group. Evidence has emerged that the Turkish secret service (MIT) and the army supported Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the PKK, currently held prisoner in Imrali Island, to set up the group in 1978 and since then they have had shady relations with the terrorist group.
Therefore, escalating PKK attacks on the eve of elections must be scrutinized in detail. A senior Turkish journalist Adem Yavuz Arslan concluded that the attack targeted Erdogan and attempted to destabilize the country before the elections: "The PKK meant to say, 'I am strong before the elections, I can carry out attacks against anyone and in any part of the world.' There is also an aim to create a feeling of insecurity among the public and lay the blame on the Justice and Development Party [AKP] for this. By stirring nationalist and conservative reactions against terrorism, there is an effort to change the political balance against the AKP. As much as Erdogan's convoy, the ballot box was also the PKK's target."
Almost all opinion polls predict a landslide victory for the AKP in the June 12 general elections. The last opinion poll carried out by KONDA, the most reputable independent survey company, just a few weeks before the elections predicted AKP's overall vote to reach 46 to 50%. This figure concurs with earlier surveys and if a dramatic change does not take place before the elections the AKP will form a third consecutive government. The same poll shows that the AKP significantly exceeds its closest rival the Republican People's Party (CHP), founded by Mustafa Kemal, whose vote is predicted at between 25 to 27%. Finally, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) remains just above the 10% official barrier to enter the National Assembly (NA).
Confident of his party's success, Erdogan has already declared that if his party does gain a majority to form the government he would resign from the leadership of the party, and urged his rivals to do the same. Political analysts believe that Erdogan's AKP is already guaranteed a third term in office but Erdogan has larger goals in mind. AKP's "biggest election project" as Erdogan promised, is to replace the existing constitution with a new one. Erdogan had already gained a major success in last year's referendum to amend the constitution, which dramatically reduced the power of the army and enabled civil courts to try ex-army officers involved in military coups. However, Erdogan stated that amending the existing constitution was not enough and they need to prepare a new constitution that will deal with current issues such as minority rights, religious freedom, and women's rights, and pave the way for eradicating influence of the army and civil bureaucracy in politics altogether.
If this new constitution goes into effect the implications will be far-reaching. It will be the last stage of wiping out the old guard of the Turkish Republic and establish a powerful democratic, civil Muslim country. In order to achieve this, the AKP needs between 330 to 367 seats in the National Assembly. These two numbers are significant since with 367 seats the AKP will not need the support of any other party to approve the new constitution. If it cannot achieve this figure, any number above 330 will enable it to place the issue before the public for a referendum as they did for amending the constitution last August. According to opinion polls the AKP seems to have a lock on 330 seats in the assembly and is now trying to reach the 367 target. This scenario may only be realized if the nationalist MHP falls short of the 10% barrier that is necessary to enter the National Assembly. The MHP's votes traditionally ranges between 15 to 20%; however, a recent scandal triggered by some video tapes that show licentious images of six senior party members and their comments about their party seem to have caused a significant drop in its traditional voter support. If this trend continues, it will allow only two parties to enter the NA and MHP votes will be shared between the AKP and the CHP, which means the AKP might gain another 50 seats, achieving a comfortable majority of 367 seats in the National Assembly.
However, there are many difficulties awaiting Erdogan and his team. The old guard are working hard to frustrate the AKP's plan: a sinister campaign has been launched to create turmoil in the country which is expected to increase votes for Turkish nationalism represented by the MHP, and Kurdish nationalism represented by the Peace and Democracy Party, known to be the political wing of the PKK, which has been participating in elections through independent candidates to overcome the 10% barrier. Additionally, there is a possible engineering of a coalition between the two traditional archenemies, the CHP and the MHP. This would be a difficult undertaking considering the potential backlash from the grass-root supporters of the two parties, but the influence of the old guard in the Turkish political establishment is still strong enough to materialize its plans — regardless of the consequences for the country — if they think this would lead to their victory.
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Sage Intacct strikes deal for big downtown San Jose expansion
Tech firm Sage Intacct agrees to expand in Riverpark Towers office complex
Riverpark Towers office complex, consisting of two high-rise buildings in downtown San Jose. Sage Intactt, an up-and-coming cloud services firm, has struck a deal for a big expansion of its downtown San Jose operations in a deal that suggests tech companies hunger for space in the urban core of the Bay Area's largest city. Newmark Knight Frank
By George Avalos |
PUBLISHED: August 14, 2019 at 1:25 pm | UPDATED: August 15, 2019 at 6:30 am
SAN JOSE — Sage Intacct, an up-and-coming cloud services firm, has struck a deal for a big expansion of its downtown San Jose operations that suggests tech companies hunger for space in the urban core of the Bay Area's largest city.
The tech company leased 20,000 square feet in Riverpark Tower 2, one of two office high rises that in the Riverpark Towers complex, an iconic campus perched on the banks of the Guadalupe River in downtown San Jose, according to sources familiar with the transaction.
The Sage Intacct deal is the largest leasing agreement so far this year in downtown San Jose. The deal extends the number of years of the tech company's rental agreement, along with providing it with more office space in the tower.
Prior to the deal, Sage Intacct had occupied five floors in Riverpark Tower 2. The leasing transaction enabled Sage to expand to a sixth floor in the building.
The building is being marketed by Newmark Knight Frank commercial real estate brokers Michael Saign, Anne Ralston, Phil Mahoney, and Joe Kelly. Newmark Knight Frank declined to comment about the transaction. Riverpark Towers owners DivcoWest and Rockhill Management didn't comment about the new leasing deal.
As a result of the transaction, Sage Intacct now leases roughly 118,000 square feet in the building, according to the sources.
"Just like their company slogan, downtown San Jose is where Sage Intacct can do more and do it better," said Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association. "As they continue to expand their accounting software business, downtown is growing alongside them."
In the time since DivcoWest and Rockhill bought the two-building office center in December 2017 for $285 million, they have completed a total of 500,000 square feet of rental transactions, measured by expansions, extensions, and new leases.
Riverpark Towers consists of two 15-story towers. Riverpark Tower I, at 333 W. San Carlos St., totals 297,000 square feet. Riverpark Tower 2, at 300 Park Ave., is roughly 303,000 square feet. The Riverpark complex is now 98 percent leased.
"There was a time when these two buildings were the reason for the lackluster vacancy rates downtown," said Bob Staedler, principal executive with San Jose-based Silicon Valley Synergy. "Now we are looking at them being 98 percent leased. Times have changed."
The office complex commands sweeping views of the Santa Clara Valley and San Jose. It's on a site bounded by West San Carlos Street, the Guadalupe River, Park Avenue, and Woz Way.
Besides Sage Intacct, other tenants include Nokia, Cohesity, Okta, WeWork, and BDO.
Big developers — and huge tech companies such as Google and Adobe — have maneuvered on multiple fronts to create major campuses for large tenants.
In Adobe's case, the cloud services titan has begun construction of a big new office tower for a major expansion of its downtown San Jose headquarters complex.
Yet the Sage Intacct deal is a reminder that mid-sized and smaller tech companies also have begun to scout for more elbow room in downtown. Sites such as Riverpark Towers and the 50 W. San Fernando St. high rise may offer among the few alternatives for big expansions that fall short of a million-square-foot requirement.
As a result, multi-tenant office towers that are deemed to be top-quality properties have achieved rising rents. Riverpark Towers is believed to command the highest rents in downtown San Jose for prime, or Class A, office buildings, according to commercial property experts.
The increasingly tight office market in downtown San Jose could bolster a burst of office construction on the part of big developers.
"The new office development being planned will be leased up quickly," Staedler said.
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Q: How to understand the Object.getClass() method? The Java Object.getClass() method javadoc says:

Returns the runtime class of this Object. The returned Class object is
  the object that is locked by static synchronized methods of the
  represented class. The actual result type is Class<? extends |X|>
  where |X| is the erasure of the static type of the expression on which
  getClass is called. For example, no cast is required in this code
  fragment:
Number n = 0;
Class<? extends Number> c = n.getClass();

Returns: The Class object that represents the runtime class of this
  object.

What is the runtime class?
What does "returned Class object ... is locked by static synchronized methods" mean?

A: getClass gives you the Class instance for the object's actual class at runtime, rather than the type of the reference that you have to it.
A simple example will probably clarify. Say we have a method that accepts anything that implements List and dumps out its class name;
static void foo(List l) {
    System.out.println(l.getClass().getName());
}

We can call it with various different types of lists:
foo(new LinkedList()); // Outputs "java.util.LinkedList"
foo(new ArrayList());  // Outputs "java.util.ArrayList"

Since foo can be called with any List, in the rare (!) situations where it's unavoidable, it can use getClass to figure out the actual class of the instance it's been given.

How to understand returned Class object is locked by static synchronized methods?

static synchronized methods synchronize on the instance of Class that represents the loaded class at runtime, so that calls to such methods can't overlap. Say I have a class, Foo, with a static method notThreadSafe, and I have two threads that need to call it:
// On thread 1
Foo.notThreadSafe();

// On thread 2
Foo.notThreadSafe();

Because it's not thread safe, notThreadSafe would be declared synchronized:
public static synchronized void notThreadSafe() {
    /* ... */
}

Which is effectively the same as
public static void notThreadSafe() {
    synchronized (Foo.class) {
        /* ... */
    }
}

(Foo.class is the Class instance for the loaded Foo class.)
So when thread 1 enters the synchronized block, if thread 2 tries to enter that block (or anything else synchronized on Foo.class), it has to wait.
It doesn't have to be two calls to the same method; I could have two static synchronized methods (m1 and m2), where thread 1 is calling m1 and thread 2 is calling m2, and the call to m2 would have to wait for the call to m1 to complete, because they're both synchronizing on the same instance (the Class instance for Foo).
How does this relate to getClass()? Because that same Class instance is what getClass on Foo instances returns:
System.out.println(Foo.class == (new Foo()).getClass()); // true

A: "Runtime class" is the Class object associated with the effective type of the object. It means if you do :
Object o = new String();
System.out.println(o.getClass());

You will get class java.lang.String, because the actual, runtime class of o is String. You can't predict this at compile time.
As for the "locked by synchronized static methods", it really means that, for a method declared inside class ThisClass :
public static synchronized foo() {
    ...
}

... is equivalent to :
public static foo() {
    synchronized(ThisClass.class) {
        ...
    }
}

That is, the Class object is used as the lock for all synchronized static methods. More on synchronized blocks and locks here.

A: For your second question that means that with:
class A {}
class B extends A {
  public static synchronized void f() {}
}
...
A a = new B();
Class <? extends A> c = a.getClass();

a call to f() on c (only possible via reflection) will effectively use the same lock as B.f(). The lock will be the class object itself.

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Spoiler alert: They don't want to kill you.
In an open letter decrying autonomous weapons, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and thousands of other very intelligent women and men recently voiced their concerns about killer robots. What has their hackles so raised is not Terminator-style malevolent AI, it's drones programmed to destroy targets without human input. It's serious stuff worth a second look, but also worthy of context. The truth is that robots have never actually been that good at killing people. Even in our automated age, the deadliest machines are really just accident prone.
A recent study in the journal arXiv.org, reviewing 14 years of data taken from FDA incident reports, found 144 deaths, more than a thousand injuries, and over 8,000 malfunctions. Most of the reports, the authors said, were a result of burning or broken pieces falling on patients, electrical problems, or unintended operations misusing the robotic equipment.
A Michigan man named Robert Williams had the unfortunate distinction of being the first person killed by a robot when, in 1979, he was crushed at a Ford Motor plant. In the three decades since, industrial robot fatalities have been rare — in the U.S., just 33 between 1984 and 2014 — but as the accident at a Volkswagen plant earlier in July demonstrates, they haven't been elminated. The future looks less deadly, according to British roboticist Alan Winfield, as we start to develop robots that aren't simply safer but ethical: That is, react with caution when humans find themselves in harm's way.
During a live-fire exercise, the software controlling a South African Defense Force anti-aircraft cannon is believed to have malfunctioned, unloading its 35mm guns, killing nine. It is also possible, however, that the failure was mechanical rather than digital, as the New Scientist pointed out. Either way, incidents like this are incredibly rare despite what you might see in video games.
The lethal elephants in the room are, of course, U.S. military drones, which have carried out more than 400 strikes in Pakistan. (Exact statistics of covert CIA strikes are, as you might expect, tough to come by.) Unlike the robotic arms in factories, these drones are not actually autonomous and require someone at a military base to remotely pull the trigger. In one of the very few instances of an autonomous commercial drone causing a death, a loss of GPS caused a South Korean device to crash into a truck, killing the 50-year-old aviation engineer inside.


TFC (12-8-7) had gone seven games unbeaten before the calamity that befell BMO Field on August 27. Not only did the 1-0 result move the Montreal Impact to within six points behind their Canadian rivals with a game in hand, talisman Sebastian Giovinco went down with a quad injury. An adductor strain will keep him out until next week at the earliest.
While Jay Chapman is also still sidelined with an MCL tear picked up in August, there is brighter news for Greg Vanney who may be able to reinstate Clint Irwin in goal. Irwin played 90 minutes for TFCII last weekend as he continued his comeback from two months out.
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Saturday's game is the second of three games between the sides this season. Back in July, Justin Morrow scored the only goal of the game in Toronto to give his side the three points. Last season, TFC were on the wrong end of a 3-2 score line in Chicago.
The Reds have only one more road game once they return from Chicago for a four-game home stand. They will welcome the Fire to BMO for the final regular season game.


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Each sign falls into one of three categories. Astrologers call these categories "modalities." They represent a sign's particular strength in working with others. I find that knowing what modality a person is can be very helpful for team building. The ideal team would have at least one person from each modality. The three modalities are cardinal, mutable and fixed. Think of it as beginning, middle and end. The cardinal signs are initiators. They love to dream, envision and begin projects. They are Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. The next modality, mutable, likes to work out the kinks of a project or relationship. They adjust as necessary to make things run smoothly, and maybe that is the quality noted by the person who said you were "good for business." Mutable signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. A fixed modality sign brings it home. They are the finishers of the zodiac, and they are driven to do whatever it takes to perfect the project or relationship. They are Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: From "Game of Thrones" to the upcoming feature film "Aquaman," Jason Momoa's intensely visceral charisma has a way of bringing fantasy worlds to life. The Leo star was born when the sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter were all in the sign of the king cat: That's an unusual amount of royal astral-influence.
Leo is also the sign of playfulness, children, the heart and show business.


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namespace bitstamp {

class api {
public:
	api(const std::string& key="", const std::string& userid = "", const std::string& secret = "");
	api(const api&);
	std::string ticker();
	std::string order_book();
	std::string balance();
	std::string orders();
	std::string transactions(const std::string& offset = "0", const std::string& limit = "1", const std::string& sort = "desc");
	std::string sell(const std::string& amount, const std::string& price);
	std::string buy(const std::string& amount, const std::string& price);
	std::string bitcoin_withdrawal(const std::string& amount, const std::string& address);
	std::string cancel(const std::string& order);
	std::string unconfirmed_btc();
	std::string bitcoin_deposit_address();
	std::string withdrawal_requests();

protected:
	std::string get_nonce();
	std::string get_auth();
	std::string https_get(const std::string& api);
	std::string https_post(const std::string& api, const std::string& post);

protected:
	std::string key_;
	std::string userid_;
	std::string secret_;
	curlpp::Cleanup cleaner_;
	curlpp::Easy getrequest_;
	curlpp::Easy postrequest_;
};

}
#endif

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Had Too Much Space Cake? Amsterdam Tourist Doctor Comes To The Rescue
When doctor Van Ommeren is called during his night shifts, he must make a quick analysis. Does it sound urgent or can it wait a while? Then he cycles to the tourist's residence, often in the centre of Amsterdam.
His medical service for international visitors has been around for three years now. After having worked in Australia for two years, Van Ommeren returned to the Netherlands and founded HotelDoc.
In a recent interview with newspaper Parool, Van Ommeren says that "a large part of the job consists of the classic cases for a general practitioner: stomach flu, airway complaints but also – what else – cannabis."
Space cake is usually the culprit. According to the doctor, it is striking that it is often middle-aged people make the mistake of eating too much. "They want to try some but they're not accustomed to much [of it's effect]. They panic, get palpitations and think they're dying. Yesterday I was with a patient who had eaten space cake and engulfed the entire bathroom in puke. It came up to the ceiling. It didn't help that the partner also ate space cake and was also panicking, with one inflicting the other. The only thing I can do is reassure them. Then I do a few small tests, such as measuring blood pressure. It's not medically necessary, but it helps to reduce the panic. I only leave when they are calmed down. Usually I say: tomorrow you will laugh about it."
January 18, 2020 /by Stefan
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Journalist, who "couldn't feel her face" after eating spacecake, thanks coffeeshop
British journalist Yomi Adegoke wrote an open letter to employees of an Amsterdam coffeeshop, saying she's "eternally grateful to them" because they helped her when she "couldn't feel her face" after eating spacecake."
Adegoke was in Amsterdam for a panel discussion and wanted to try Amsterdam's favourite edible, space cake. She first ate a quarter of the cake, felt nothing after an hour, and then ate another quarter.
After this she decided to participate in a city walk, but she soon felt very bad. "It was as if the world was slowly collapsing," she writes in the letter, which was published by The Guardian. She was convinced that everyone wanted to make sure she would miss her flight – which would depart two hours later.
Adegoke managed to drag herself to the nearest coffeeshop and plop down on the couch to "die softly." She cannot remember the name of the coffee shop.
"You did not laugh at me when I asked if I would ever feel my face again," she writes. "You gave me a drink and assured me there was no conspiracy against me." She is "forever grateful to the coffeeshop for all the water, the sweets, and how you managed to get me to the airport in a taxi."
But most of all Adegoke wants to thank the employees for ''putting up with a smug tourist, who even though she has done it all before''.
Full letter:
Dear cafe staff,
You sat with me for nearly an hour, as I became the world's worst ad for anything weed-related in front of your irked customers. That weekend – I explained as you passed me the ninth glass of water – I had been booked for a panel discussion in Amsterdam, a stay I extended by three days to convert business into pleasure, a much-needed mini-break I intended to spend almost entirely baked. To facilitate this, I went to a place that did the "best space cakes in the city"; "best", I soon realised, meaning "the ones most likely to make me think I dropped one of my ears on the high street when running from God".
On my last day, with a fair amount in my bloodstream already, I ate a quarter of a space cake and felt a bit tired. An hour passed; still nothing but a mild case of the munchies. And, like a spoilt child in a moralising fairytale, I decided to sate my hunger with another quarter.
It was during a walking tour of the city that the world casually began to cave in. I glanced downwards and the floor was suddenly at the tip of my nose. I then suspected I was a mere millimetre away from everyone else in the group, and that my slightest movement would send the six-year-old near me flying across the square. Slowly, I began stepping back, attracting bemused looks. The jig was up. I wasn't concerned that they would realise I was high as a kite on the face of the moon, but that now they were "out to get me". My backwards walk became a backwards run. The skyline began to drip on to the pavement. I became convinced of a growing conspiracy to keep me stoned enough to miss my flight home, which was in two hours.
I managed to lug myself into another coffee shop – yours – to die quietly on your couch.
"Was it something we gave you?" one of you asked, touching my forehead. And though it wasn't, you tended to me with the bedside manner of a paediatrician caring for a child with a broken arm. You rallied around me with water, assuring me there wasn't a conspiracy and you definitely weren't part of one. You weren't fussed when I pointed out that that was exactly what someone would say if involved in a conspiracy. You handed me an orange, and comforted me when I tearfully realised I had forgotten how to peel one. You suppressed smirks as I asked if I would ever feel my face again. Dazed, I asked how long I'd been there. "I'd say about eight minutes," one of you replied. At that, I actually began to cry.
Though I can't recall your shop's name for obvious reasons, to you all, I am eternally grateful: for the lakes-worth of water, for the non-stop sweets, for bundling me into a cab to the airport. But most of all, for putting up with a smug tourist, who even though she has done it all before, still manages to make an absolute tit of herself in Amsterdam.
(photo: Metro)
December 27, 2019 /by Stefan
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Exhibition 'Cannabis Cuisine' at Hash Museum Amsterdam
Everyone knows you can eat cannabis. Space cake from Amsterdam coffeeshops is world-famous, but did you know life expectancy of residents in the Chinese town of Bama Yao is well above 100? Scientists believe the secret behind this long lifespan has something to do with their diet, which contains a lot of hemp seeds.
Although the cannabis sativa is mainly known for its flowers, which can be smoked, it is also proving to be a versatile source of nutrition. Nowadays, hemp seeds are available at any supermarket and in recent years, CBD oil has been on the rise as a nutritional supplement. In the exhibition Cannabis Cuisine (1 December 2017 – 25 February 2018), the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum in Amsterdam explores the history of cannabis in nutrition, lists the healthy qualities of hemp and follows the latest trends in high cuisine.
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December 7, 2017 /by Stefan
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Budget Space-Cake
Amsterdam can be damn expensive, so for those wishing to get high on a budget we suggest homemade space cake.
Step 1: Do some research. If you have not tried smoking cannabis before, please do not dive straight into making your own space cake. Edibles purchased at a coffeeshop are made with a strict and precise dose, so for first timers we recommend space cake from a coffeeshop.
Step 2: Get some soft blond hash, or the least expensive 'soft' hash available, avoid black hash, it sticks to your teeth easily.
Step 3: Purchase your favorite muffin, brownie or even a chocolate bar for around 1 euro or less.
Step 4: Taking care, split the candy bar in half using a knife or your fingers, if possible.
Step 5: Sprinkle the hashish on half the candy bar. (Coffeeshops generally put 0.3 grams into space cakes, aim for a similar amount.
Step 6: Enjoy the journey, and please remember to keep something sweet on your person, in case you get too high and wish to maintain a lower altitude.
August 30, 2017 /by Stefan
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About Edibles
Cannabis is used around the world to transform well known dishes and snacks into totally new gourmet experiences. From gummy treats and cannabis laced candy, to pot pizza, flying lasagna, ice cream and cookies.
The term 'edible' is a slang term used among the cannabis community to denote 'an edible cannabis product'. A small variety of 'edibles' are available at coffeeshops in the Netherlands, these include a standard slice of cake, or a muffin, usually in vanilla or chocolate flavors, and a variety of colors.
All 'edibles' in the Netherlands come with a label clearly indicating the amount of cannabis inside, which can range from 0.2 – 0.8 grams per item. The dose is calculated to produce effects which can last between two and four hours.
Please remember that edible cannabis is processed via your digestive system into the bloodstream, so what you ingested before and during the experience can have an effect. The experience is stronger on an empty stomach, and weaker after consuming foods high in sugar, which can be handy to remember if you want to return from orbit sooner.
The experience usually takes between 20 and 40 minutes to begin, compared with smoking which can be felt only a few seconds after inhaling. Take it easy.
July 17, 2017 /by Stefan
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Members of Wisconsin's Sikh community conduct a candlelight vigil for six people killed in an attack a day earlier at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Aug. 6. Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Sikh Religious Society of Wisconsin -- a temple about 25 miles away from the scene of the Aug. 5 shooting -- to honor the victims of what police are calling an act of "domestic terrorism."
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dances with Malawian women at the Lumbadzi Milk Bulking Group on Aug. 5 in Lilongwe, Malawi. Clinton became the first U.S. chief diplomat to visit Malawi, where she encouraged President Joyce Banda to be "a role model in Southern Africa for more democratic governance."
Afghan policemen and villagers look on at the scene where a civilian minibus was hit by a remote-controlled bomb in Kabul's Paghman district on Aug. 7. A Taliban bomb killed eight people and wounded five when it struck the minibus, amid growing unrest in areas surrounding the Afghan capital.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a military base on the Israeli side of the border with Egypt after militants drove an Egyptian military vehicle through a security fence in Kerem Shalomon on Aug. 6. The seizure of two military vehicles by Islamist miltants came after an armed militant attack on an Egyptian police station in North Sinai that left at least 16 soldiers dead.
Police officers stand guard outside the Hefei City Intermediate People's Court as China opens the murder trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai on Aug. 9. In an extremely quick hearing, Gu admitted to having killed British businessman Neil Heywood in Chongqing, where her husband, Bo Xilai was the Communist Party chief until early this year.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney looks at corn with farmer Lemar Koethe in a field in Des Moines, Iowa, on Aug. 8. Much of the United States has been hard hit by drought, significantly reducing corn outputs. Romney is campaigning in Iowa before traveling to New Jersey and New York for fundraising events.
An image from NASA's Curiosity Rover shows the pebble-covered surface of Mars. This is a portion of the first color 360-degree panorama from NASA's rover, composed of thumbnails, which are small copies of higher-resolution images. The mission's destination, a mountain at the center of Gale Crater called Mount Sharp, is the slope on the lefthand side of the picture. Blast marks from the rover's descent stage are in the foreground.
A waterbomber flies over a wildfire in Ouranoupoli, northern Greece, on Aug. 9. Around 25 fire units are battling the blaze that broke out on Aug. 8 in the heart of Mount Athos.
Bikers attempt to manouver through a flooded street in Quezon City, suburban Manila, on Aug. 7. Half of Manila was under water and 250,000 people fled their homes as torrential rain paralyzed the city, sweeping away houses, stranding residents on rooftops, and triggering a landslide.
A U.S. Army soldier of the 1st Platoon Comanche Company secures a hill at a checkpoint in Afghanistan's Khost Province on Aug. 9. Some 130,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan are preparing to withdraw in 2014, and are working alongside Afghan soldiers as they take increasing responsibility for the anti-insurgency campaign.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates after winning the gold medal in the men's 200 meter final on Aug. 9, day 13 of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Somalis celebrate during a ceremony to mark the first anniversary of terror group al-Shabab's withdrawal from Mogadishu on Aug. 6. Somali president Sheikh Shrif Ahmed declared that the country will celebrate its new national holiday, called "Peace Day," every year.
Indian children dressed as the Hindu god Krishna sip cold drinks after celebrating pre-Janamashtmi festivities in Amritsar on Aug. 9, the eve of the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth of Krishna.
Bangladeshi travelers queue to collect tickets at a railway station in Dhaka on Aug. 5, as Bangladesh Railways starts delivering advance tickets for Eid al-Fitr. Eid, the biggest Muslim holiday, marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan and will fall around Aug. 20, depending upon moon sightings.
Thai Muslim women pray during Ramadan in Narathiwat province on Aug. 5. Muslims fasting during the month of Ramadan must abstain from food and drink from dawn until sunset, when they break their fast with a meal called iftar.
Muslim schoolchildren in Jodhpur make a human chain in the shape of India on Aug. 9, as they pray for world peace during Ramadan.
Runners and walkers, dressed in light-emitting suits and holding light sticks, make their way up Arthur's Seat as part of a mass participation in a public art piece called "Speed of Light" on Aug. 8, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Hot air balloons take to the skies from Ashton Court at the International Balloon Fiesta on Aug. 10, in Bristol, England. The early morning flight of nearly 100 balloons over the city was the first mass ascent of Bristol's four-day Fiesta.
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When looking for a peculiar trait in a fund manager, it helps to also have it yourself.
Swensen likes to talk about how he looks for money managers who have "a screw loose." In terms of self-interest, the rational thing to do if you run a hedge fund or private equity firm is concentrate on raising as much money as possible and grow rich off the fees. The managers Swensen wants are driven by a different ambition. They want to beat their competitors' returns, whether or not that translates into maximum personal enrichment. The ideal Swensen manager looks a lot like Swensen, who passed up Wall Street lucre to ensure that the university he loves is rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Over three decades, Swensen backed new fund managers that have returned billions to the school.
Supplementing Swensen's native abilities, however, is a money manager network built up over decades and bolstered by loyal Yalies. William Helman, a general partner at Greylock Partners, says that when the top VC firm decided to open to a few new clients in the 1990s it sought out Yale in part because of an alumni connection at the firm. Yale's $2.7 million bet on Greylock-backed LinkedIn Corp. generated an $84.4 million gain when the company went public in 2011. Swensen seeded Yale alum and former investment-office staffer Lei Zhang with $20 million to start Hillhouse Capital Management in 2005, which has backed tech startups such as JD.com in China. Hillhouse earned $2 billion for the university.
There are clues in Yale tax documents about other winning bets, including Boston hedge fund Bracebridge Capital, which Swensen seeded decades ago, and a $274 million stake in New York-based health-care investor Baker Brothers Advisors that quadrupled over a decade. All in all, about 60% of Yale's portfolio is allocated to alternative investments such as private equity, hedge funds, and venture capital. And Swensen has been more willing than most CIOs to take the risk of riding his best bets even as they swell to a large share of the endowment.
Early on, few firms dealt in the sort of assets Swensen was interested in, so he had to help create them—becoming, in essence, a venture capitalist of venture capitalists. "Dave absolutely put us in business," says Joel Cutler, one of the founders of VC firm General Catalyst. Getting in early has other benefits: Swensen can exercise more influence over younger, unproven firms and negotiate down the management fees that he abhors.
It pays to be early if you have the power to "anoint" a fund.
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Born and raised in Brooklyn, Mohammed excels as a rental agent. He has a deep understanding of the market and is able to guide his clients thoroughly through their transactions. Mohammed helps his clients methodically by ensuring that all necessary steps are planned on a schedule for a seamless transaction.
When he's not focused on real estate, you can find him enjoying taking walks in the wonderful different neighborhoods. He enjoys playing soccer and basketball. Mohammed spends the rest of his time away from real estate with his family, at the gym, or waiting in line at the movies.


Another spurious comedy routine involving Bob Golding and Ian Kirkby in pantomime Cinderella at The Alban Arena in St Albans. Both will be appearing in 2019 panto Sleeping Beauty. Picture: Pamela Raith Photography.
Rita Simons as the Wicked Queen in St Albans pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at The Alban Arena. The former EastEnders star returns this year in Sleeping Beauty.
Sleeping Beauty will be this year's festive treat at The Alban Arena.
The Evolution Pantomimes production will run from Friday, December 6 to Sunday, January 5, 2020, with some performances already sold out.
And there will be a number of familiar faces in the cast with St Albans panto legends Bob Golding and Ian Kirkby back once more, and no doubt performing yet another spurious comedy routine.
After playing Dandini in Cinderella in 2018, Arena patron Bob will be back in a dress in Sleeping Beauty as Nurse Nellie.
The Sleeping Beauty cast also includes the lovely Jemma Carlisle in the title role of Beauty.
Jemma played Cinders at the Arena last Christmas and has been nominated for a British Pantomime Award gong for her performance.
Former EastEnders star Rita Simons, who played Roxy Mitchell in the BBC One soap, also returns to St Albans after playing the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs back in 2016.
Another returning star is CBeebies' Andy Day, who completes the principal cast members.
Andy appeared on the St Albans stage in panto Cinderella back in 2013 alongside Bob Golding and Jemma Carlisle.
The Alban Arena confirmed the casting news last night (Tuesday).
A post on the venue's Facebook page said: "The main cast has been confirmed for this year's Evolution Pantomimes production of Sleeping Beauty!
"We can now reveal that the wonderful Rita Simons will be here as the Wicked Fairy, CBeebies' very own Andy Day plays the role of Jangles, while Jemma Carlisle is back as Beauty – and the ever-popular St Albans favourites Bob Golding and Ian Kirkby are back as Nurse Nellie and the King.
Three of the 2019 St Albans cast have been nominated for this year's Great British Pantomime Awards.
While Jemma Carlisle has been shortlisted in the 'Best Principal Girl' category, Rita Simons' performance in Bournemouth Pavilion's Sleeping Beauty is up for Best Female Villain in the industry awards.
Bob Golding has been nominated for Best Supporting Male.
Tickets for 2019 St Albans panto Sleeping Beauty are on sale now and are flying out of the box office.
Jemma Carlisle as Cinderella off to the ball in pantomime Cinderella at The Alban Arena in St Albans. Jemma will return to the St Albans panto this year as Beauty in Sleeping Beauty. Picture: Pamela Raith Photography.
Jemma Carlisle as Cinderella in pantomime Cinderella at The Alban Arena in St Albans. Picture: Pamela Raith Photography.
Bob Golding as Dandini in pantomime Cinderella at The Alban Arena in St Albans. Picture: Pamela Raith Photography.


When George V. Hager Jr. joined Genesis Health Ventures in July 1992, the Kennett Square, Pa.-based geriatric healthcare company had just raised $32.5 million in a second public offering and had another $25 million available through a bank credit facility.
With $189 million in total assets, the company comprised 40 nursing homes, a small therapy company and a pharmacy subsidiary.
Today, the 40-year-old senior vice president and chief financial officer manages more than $734 million in assets, including 107 "eldercare centers," 10 primary-care physician clinics, nine institutional pharmacies and five medical supply distribution centers. In four years, Hager has raised more than $500 million in equity capital and expanded the credit facility to $300 million. Soon, the company hopes to further increase the facility to $450 million.
As winner of the 1996 Cain Brothers Award, which honors a top finance executive in healthcare, Hager will attend Harvard Business School's 1997 Focused Financial Management Series, scheduled for January.
Cain Brothers is a New York-based investment banking and capital advisory firm.
The award selection committee was impressed by Hager's creative use of financial mechanisms and tools to build the company, said Stephen M. Shortell, professor of health services management at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Ill.
For example, as Genesis Health Ventures' Chief Executive Officer Michael R. Walker noted, Hager used a lease structure to generate off-balance-sheet financing to acquire healthcare operations.
When Hager was hired, one of his primary responsibilities was to expand analyst coverage. Only two "sell-side" analysts, who make buy and sell recommendations on behalf of investment banking firms, were tracking the company, and one had a negative outlook on the industry.
Today, 14 analysts follow Genesis. Colleagues say the CFO has deftly communicated the company's complicated story while keeping a firm hand on internal financial controls and capital planning decisions.
Genesis' "outcomes-oriented" strategy focuses on creating value for customers, Hager said. Instead of building census, the company has tried to empty beds and reduce length of stay. "I think initially it was a strategy that was not very well received," he noted.
In addition, Hager said the company's pioneering efforts to develop vertically integrated networks-each of its five regional networks links beds, physicians, rehabilitation therapists and pharmacy services-fell out of step with Wall Street's craze for "pure-play" subacute-care companies, which focus exclusively on that segment of the post-acute-care market.
Hager's conservative management of the balance sheet has boosted the company's credibility and analysts' comfort level. Not wanting the company to be overly leveraged, he has managed to maintain a 50% ratio of debt to equity. According to an Aug. 20 report by Robert M. Mains, an analyst with Hartford, Conn.-based Advest, Genesis' current debt-to-capital ratio is 54.6%, or 49.7% when outstanding convertible debenture options are excluded. "This is a reasonable figure for a long-term-care company, particularly one with an earnings stream as predictable as that of Genesis," Mains wrote.
Much of the company's growth results from targeted acquisitions. As CFO, Hager puts potential acquisition candidates through his own due diligence.
"We probably reject more opportunities than we pursue," he said, largely because Genesis has decided not to stray outside its five core markets. The company's bailiwick serves more than 3 million elderly in the Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire area; eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware Valley; southern Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland; the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area; and central Florida.
"We have pursued acquisitions that we have backed off of because of price, too," he said. Genesis buys companies based on some multiple of cash flow, such as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, commonly known as EBITDA. Generally, it will buy service businesses for three to five times cash flow and will pay six to seven times cash flow for long-term-care businesses.
With each acquisition, Hager must consolidate numerous billing and clinical systems. "It's a difficult job. All the financial systems are different," he said.
The company's strategy seems to be paying off. In the year ended Sept. 30, 1995, net income rose 34% to $23.6 million, or 97 cents per share, from $17.7 million, or 84 cents per share, in the year-earlier period. Net revenues grew 25% to $486.4 million.
For the third quarter ended June 30, net income more than doubled to $10.1 million, or 35 cents per share, from $5 million, or 21 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. Net revenues rose 37% to $172.8 million.
Hager takes pride in helping to build an organization he considers "outstanding" from both a clinical and operational standpoint, and he hopes to continue down that path.


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De Hockey Pro League 2021/22 voor vrouwen was de derde editie van de Hockey Pro League, een internationaal hockeytoernooi voor landenteams dat wordt georganiseerd door de Internationale Hockeyfederatie (FIH). Het toernooi ging in oktober 2021 van start en liep tot juni 2022.

Opzet
De deelnemende landen speelden twee keer binnen een kort tijdsbestek tegen elk ander land; of thuis, of uit. Bij de volgende editie van het toernooi wordt dit omgedraaid. Als een van beide onderlinge wedstrijden moest worden afgelast, dan telde de uitslag van de andere wedstrijd dubbel. De wedstrijden werden gespeeld van oktober 2021 tot juni 2022. Het land dat bovenaan eindigde, was de winnaar.

Deelnemende landen

Aanvankelijk zouden de landenteams van Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland aan het toernooi deelnemen, maar deze trokken zich op 17 september 2021 terug vanwege reisbeperkingen die met de coronapandemie samenhangen. De FIH gaf op 8 oktober te kennen dat deze teams worden vervangen door die van India en Spanje.

Uitslagen

Eindstand

Uitzendrechten
In Nederland was de Hockey Pro League te zien de rechtenhouder Ziggo Sport, die zowel de rechten van het mannen- als het vrouwentoernooi in handen had. Ziggo Sport zond alle wedstrijden van het Nederlandse vrouwenteam live uit op kanaal 14 van Ziggo Sport (gratis beschikbaar voor klanten van tv-aanbieder Ziggo) en op betaalzender Ziggo Sport Totaal.

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import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.UUID;
import org.apache.ignite.IgniteCheckedException;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.managers.discovery.DiscoveryCustomMessage;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.util.typedef.T2;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.util.typedef.internal.S;

/**
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    /** */
    private final Map<UUID, IgniteCheckedException> errs = new HashMap<>();

    /** */
    private Map<Integer, T2<Long, Long>> updateCntrs;

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        this.startReqData = startReqData;
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        if (updateCntrs == null)
            updateCntrs = new HashMap<>();

        for (Map.Entry<Integer, T2<Long, Long>> e : cntrs.entrySet()) {
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Dr Mark O'Doherty, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow from the UK Clinical Research Collaboration Centre of Excellence for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, where he obtained his PhD in nutritional and cardiovascular epidemiology in 2009. Mark's post-doctoral training to date has been in cancer epidemiology and healthy ageing and he has extensive experience in the utilisation and management of large datasets, both in an all-Ireland setting and during his time at the National Cancer Institute, Washington, DC, United States. Mark was core to the strategic organisation of the cardiovascular disease and diabetes Work Package within the EU 7th framework CHANCES Project: Consortium on Health and Ageing: Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States.
His research, as a CARDI Fellow, will explore differences in trends in work related disability and in the way people report disability between nations and across different national health and welfare service contexts. The aim of this research is to develop expertise in the evaluation and assessment of work related disability among older adults through the use of disability vignettes which will supplement self-reported disability.
This approach provides the capacity to compare variations in reporting thresholds with representative data for differing ageing populations from The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (TILDA) and the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA). Only by comparing self-reported disability and health with those confirmed by objective health assessment can we form a better understanding of the degree to which perceptions of work disability are guided by objective health status, by socio-economic environment and by personal characteristics and circumstances.


Agriculture and nutrition should complement each other in order to achieve food and nutrition security and universal health coverage. This was the dominant discourse during Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) sensitisation meeting for integration of nutrition in agriculture and food systems curriculum held at JKUAT, June 22, 2018.
It was observed that despite record food output in various parts of the country, Kenya still suffers from malnutrition. To tackle that, it was unanimously agreed that the stakeholders involved should focus on nutrition capacity building and improving the quality of peoples diet.
The meeting brought together stakeholders from FAO, Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute (KNDI), Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Ministry of Health and JKUAT to deliberate on how to develop the capacity of local universities to contribute to the transformation of food systems for healthier diets and better nutrition through public-private partnership.
Speaking during the meeting, the Head of FAO Kenya Nutrition Unit, Ms. Angela Kimani said in order to ensure that Kenya achieves food nutrition, it is crucial to strengthen the knowledge and capacities of key stakeholders especially academia as agents of change.
"Academia will play a key role in building the capacity of food nutrition and hopefully produce competent graduates and train SMEs of agri-food sector to transform food systems for better nutrition," said Ms. Kimani.
With 26% of children in Kenya being malnourished, Ms. Kimani was optimistic that multi-stakeholder collaboration would play a vital role in ending malnutrition menace in the country.
Coordinator of Deans, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Prof. David Mburu while lauding the efforts of FAO in strengthening the capacities for nutrition sensitive food systems said, the sensitisation will improve academia-industry linkages for development.
"As a University we are ready to play our role in eliminating malnutrition in all its forms and hopefully, it will aid the country achieve the Big Four Agenda," Prof. Mburu observed.