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Hypoxic injury of isolated axons is independent of ionotropic glutamate receptors
Suzanne M. Underhill, Mark P. Goldberg
Neurology & Neurotherapeutics - NE Stroke Section
Neurology & Neurotherapeutics
Axonal injury in white matter is an important consequence of many acute neurological diseases including ischemia. A role for glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity is suggested by observations from in vitro and in situ models that AMPA/kainate blockers can reduce axonal injury. We assessed axonal vulnerability in primary murine neuronal cultures, with axons isolated from their cell bodies using a compartmented chamber design. Transient removal of oxygen and glucose in the axon compartment resulted in irreversible loss of axon length and neurofilament labeling. This injury was not prevented by addition of ionotropic glutamate receptor blockers and could not be reproduced by glutamate receptor agonists. However, hypoxic injury was prevented by blockade of voltage-gated sodium channels, inhibition of calpain and removal of extracellular calcium. These results suggest that isolated, unmyelinated axons are vulnerable to hypoxic injury which is mediated by influx of sodium and calcium but is independent of glutamate receptor activation.
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Underhill, S. M., & Goldberg, M. P. (2007). Hypoxic injury of isolated axons is independent of ionotropic glutamate receptors. Neurobiology of Disease, 25(2), 284-290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2006.09.011
Hypoxic injury of isolated axons is independent of ionotropic glutamate receptors. / Underhill, Suzanne M.; Goldberg, Mark P.
In: Neurobiology of Disease, Vol. 25, No. 2, 02.2007, p. 284-290.
Underhill, SM & Goldberg, MP 2007, 'Hypoxic injury of isolated axons is independent of ionotropic glutamate receptors', Neurobiology of Disease, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 284-290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2006.09.011
Underhill SM, Goldberg MP. Hypoxic injury of isolated axons is independent of ionotropic glutamate receptors. Neurobiology of Disease. 2007 Feb;25(2):284-290. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2006.09.011
Underhill, Suzanne M. ; Goldberg, Mark P. / Hypoxic injury of isolated axons is independent of ionotropic glutamate receptors. In: Neurobiology of Disease. 2007 ; Vol. 25, No. 2. pp. 284-290.
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In the month of Kartik, this ritual is performed on any of the days between the eleventh day of the bright fortnight of the Hindu lunar month Kārtik to the full moon day (Pournimā) of Kartik. A day prior to the marriage, the tulsī-vrundāvan (a special structure in which the Holy basil plant is grown) is painted and decorated. It is the day when Vrinda Devi was married to Krishna, by Srimati Radharani and Lalita sakhi officiated as the priest.
Vrindavana is completely under the control of Vrinda devi. Without her mercy it is not possible to even approach the confidential pastimes of Radha-Krishna, even as an audience. Even being allowed into Vrindavana dhama indicates that one has received some mercy from Vrinda devi.
In Krishna lila she appeared as a young gopi friend of Srimati Radharani. Under the instructions of Purnamasya (Yogamaya), she would arrange secret meeting between Krishna and Radha. She would also make all the material arrangements, like saffron, fruits, flowers, music etc. for Radha Krishna. Thus she carried on her eternal service in Goloka Vrindavana in the earthly Vrindavana.
Once Srimati Radharani was so pleased by the service of Vrinda devi that with the help of the other gopis she arranged a magnificent throne and had Krishna and Vrinda devi sit on it. Lalita sakhi acting as the priest recited the mantras and performed the marriage cermony of Krishna and Vrinda devi. Thus by the mercy of Srimati Radharani, Vrinda devi got Krishna.
Sri Radhika, the central figure of the rasa dance, spoke to Her friend Candranana, wise in knowledge of religion. Sri Radha said, "Please tell Me what kind of worship should I perform to please Sri Krishna; worship that will bring auspiciousness, piety, and the fulfillment of My desire. O beautiful one, you have heard the religious scriptures from Garga Muni's own mouth. O noble hearted one, please tell Me what vow or what worship I should perform."
Hearing Radha's words, and reflecting on them in her heart for a moment, Candranana, the best of all friends, replied, "O Radha, service to Tulasi gives the greatest piety, the greatest good fortune and the greatest benediction. It gives Lord Krishna's association. You should always have darshan of Tulasi, worship her, take her shelter. Then she will grant Your desire."
"They who, day after day, serve Tulasi attain the results of pious deeds performed in many thousands of millions of yugas... As many branches, sub-branches, seeds, flowers and leaves as are on the Tulasi he has planted, so many ancestors and descendants in His family for thousands of kalpa-yugas will go to Lord Krishna's transcendental abode. O Radha, a person who, with offerings of Tulasi-leaves worships Lord Krishna is not touched by sin as a lotus is not touched by water... A home in the midst of a Tulasi forest is a sacred pilgrimage place. Yamaraj's servants will never enter that home."
"O friend, as four-faced Brahma cannot describe all the glories of Lord Krishna, who holds the Sarnga bow, similarly he cannot describe all the glories of Tulasi. A man or woman who offers sandal-paste and Tulasi to Sri Krishnacandra's feet attains the results I have told to You. O gopi, serve Tulasi every day. Then Sri Krishna will come under Your control.
After hearing Candranana's words, Sri Radha, the queen of the rasa dance, in order to please Lord Krishna, began to serve Tulasi. Taking Tulasi, beautiful with many green leaves, to the middle of a ketaki forest, and placing her in a Tulasi-temple that was round, tall, a hundred hastas in size, beautiful with walls of gold and rubies, splendid with an outer wall of emeralds, diamonds and pearls, decorated with cintamani gems, arched gateways, gold flags and gold awnings everywhere, and glorious like Indra's palace, at the time of the star Abhijit, saintly Radha served Sri Tulasi.
Beginning with the full moon of the month of Asvina (Sept/Oct), and ending with the full moon of Caitra (Mar/Apr), to please Sri Krishna, the best of Gopis Sri Radha followed a vow with great devotion. Month after month She sprinkled Tulasi with milk, sugar-cane juice, grape-juice, mango-juice, pancamrta, and many kinds of sweet and cool juices.
On the first day of Vaisakha (Apr/May), She ended the vow. King Vrsabhanu's daughter, Radha, then pleased two hundred-thousand brahmanas with a great feast of fifty six courses. Then Radha gave them daksina of a hundred bharas of gold and pearls to each brahmana. The demigods showered flowers on the Tulasi temple.
Then, seated on a glorious throne on a gold pedestal, Her eyes like lotus petals, and Her gold crown and earrings glittering, beautiful four-armed Tulasi, who is dear to Lord Krishna, appeared. Descending from the sky, Tulasi, beautiful as a flowering vine, with Her four arms embraced and then kissed Radha, who wore a new Vaijayanti garland, and whose snake-like braids were covered with a yellow cloth.
Sri Tulasi said, "O daughter of Kalavati, I am pleased with You. I am eternally conquered by Your loving devotion. O beautiful one, as if You were an ordinary human being, You very carefully followed this vow. The desire that fills Your heart, mind, intelligence and senses will be attained. Lord Krishna will be kind to You, You are very fortunate."
To Tulasi, who spoke these words and who is dear to Lord Krishna, Radha bowed and said, "May I have unalloyed devotion for Lord Krishna's lotus feet." Saying, "So be it, " Krishna's beloved Tulasi disappeared. Then Radha, King Vrsabhanu's daughter, went home happy at heart.


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Tucson B'nai B'rith properties safe havens for seniors
The Arizona Jewish Post highlights the pair of B'nai B'rith low income senior housing properties in Tucson, focusing on the quality of life enjoyed by its residents, as well as its visionaries, Holocaust survivors Gerd and Inge Strauss.
B'nai B'rith is the largest national Jewish sponsor of federally subsidized housing for the elderly in the United States. Our Senior Housing Network in the U.S. consists of 42 buildings in 26 communities, encompassing more than 4,000 apartment units and serving more than 8,000 people.
Read more about these properties and their residents, below:
Many Tucsonans are surprised to learn that the Jewish community sponsors not one but two nationally recognized independent housing communities for low and very low income seniors: B'nai B'rith Covenant House of Tucson and the Gerd & Inge Strauss Manor on Pantano.
Covenant House resident Carolyne Vogel feels gratitude and relief for the Covenant House. "For years, I worked all the time and didn't have any close neighbors," she says. "Now I have two really good friends here. At Covenant House, it's very relaxing. I feel safe here." A four-year resident, she feels so secure that her basic needs are met, she's liberated to focus on her hobbies.
Liz Kanter Groskind, president of the Strauss Manor board, echoes the sentiments of her counterparts at Covenant House. "We get handwritten thank you notes from the residents all the time," says Groskind. "They truly appreciate all the extras. We simply believe that those who have the least should live somewhere dignified, beautiful and safe. We're not going to let you merely subsist."
Although both facilities house residents from diverse backgrounds, the numerous Jewish residents, including several Holocaust survivors, appreciate the Jewish touches that the boards provide, from menorot in the spacious and elegantly decorated lobbies, to Jewish library materials, to brisket and latkes during Chanukah and more.
Both properties were the vision and work of longtime Tucsonan Gerd Strauss, who died in 2009.
Holocaust survivors Gerd and Inge Strauss, childhood sweethearts from Germany, immigrated to the United States in 1947 and relocated to Tucson in 1986. Strauss brought both properties to fruition in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and B'nai B'rith International, the largest national Jewish sponsor of federally subsidized housing for the elderly in the United States.
After building the 119-unit Covenant House in 1995, he went on to establish the 80-unit Strauss on Pantano facility that bears his name, which opened in 2006. Residents spend 30 percent of their income on rent; the rest is subsidized by HUD. Going into his 90s, Strauss was planning a third property in Sahuarita, which never materialized.
Tucson was lucky to benefit from the timing of Strauss' vision and energy. "Section 202 program funding [HUD capital advances and operational subsidies] doesn't exist anymore. It is difficult to recreate the types of programs our communities enjoy," Olshan laments. B'nai B'rith continues to support the Tucson properties by providing technical and professional training to their supervisory boards and management and employment company, Biltmore Properties.

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Q: How to disable crash report popup from crashlytics I want to disable this crash popup emitted from the crashlytics framework, but still send the crash.

I've seen in the doc that you can filter the dispatch using "CrashlyticsDelegate" but I can't figure out how to shut down this. (also the doc last update is Last updated: 2017-01-20, am I missing something here o.O)
Also using strings I see some methods such as:

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*alertWithTitle:message:delegate:cancelButtonTitle:otherButtonTitle:

*setupAndDisplayAlertWithTitle:message:cancel:send:alwaysSend:report:
So the questions:

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*Is it at least possible to disable it?

*If it is, how?
I wonder if it comes from an older version of crashlytics, explaining maybe why I'm not able to find it in the doc~

EDIT: I tested the delegate's methods provided to intercept the crash before sending it

Using - (void)crashlyticsDidDetectReportForLastExecution:(CLSReport *)report; the doc says (in the header since the internet doc isn't up to date):

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*it is not called synchronously during initialization

*it does not give you the ability to prevent the report from being submitted

*the report object itself is immutable

So this one doesn't provide any way of removing the popup.

Using - (void)crashlyticsDidDetectReportForLastExecution:(CLSReport *)report completionHandler:(void (^)(BOOL submit))completionHandler; the doc says (in header again):

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*Invoking completionHandler with NO will cause the detected report to be deleted and not submitted to Crashlytics. This is useful for implementing permission prompts, or other more-complex forms of logic around submitting crashes.

Can't disable the popup here either.
Moreover I don't see what is the point of having a "permission prompt" like they say if you can't remove theirs :(

A: You can disable the privacy dialog pop-up in the app settings page
https://docs.fabric.io/android/crashlytics/advanced-setup.html#use-the-privacy-dialog
Here is a screenshot of where it hides:

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Jangan Jadi "Jaguh Kampung" BN Wants to Win
The call by the Top Barisan Nasional Hierarchy is at the moment,"BN Wants to Win the General elections 2014."(fullstop…)
There is no place for personal or party agendas. BN wants ONLY WINNABLE candidates and many seasoned and experience politicians fall into that category. There is no place also for infighting within the coalition and when the candidates have been named the coalition partners must abide.
Newer and untested candidates will have to see their chance slip by them not because BN doesnt give chances to the newer fresh faced politicians but BN will want nothing less ,nothing more than to win the seats that their candidates are fielded.
A PBB Youth Exco when asked about their 'new"candidates from their Youth wing to be chosen he was quick to point out that,"This is the mother of all elections and if any one from our wing are given the chance we will be grateful but we will have to work doubly hard.
The experience and seasoned politicians who have been through it before will deliver easily as they know what is expected of them. Only if the incumbent is bed ridden or have left us than it will be Fair to Replace them. BN must win and cannot afford any sort of complacency as this is a Federal Election and its not a State Election says the youth exco..
On another note, many Penghulus and Tuai Rumahs when asked on the "RURAL ENCLAVED SEATS" said that they prefer the existing incumbents as most of them, if NOT ALL have worked well in their deliverance of government assisted projects and are ensuring that the rural developments projects reach them. The words uttered from them," Orang lama ada banyak pengalaman dan sidak nya tahu apa tek kamek maok"
The Incumbent MP for Saratok through a telephone call echoed these words to audie61," "BN only wants to win the seats they contest. Nothing more,nothing less.
Every seat is crucial and each seat will have far reaching effect on the National count of BN seats in the final tally.
Hoping against Hope. The "Jaguh Kampung" concept and creating a fear factor for the coalition partners that if their candidates are not fielded support will be lost must not surface.
We need to subscribe in that it is a national mission for BN to win only and not "THIS IS MY SEAT AND ONE MUST NOT TOUCH IT." This is especially true only to a POINT for the parties in question and if the opposition is not up to the mark.
The GE14 is not just another election for BN but they will need to win more or maintain the 25 seats which BN won in Sarawak and the 133 seats totality. The moral obligation for all parties is to adhere to the top hierarchy that their seats they traditionally owned would be given to those who will win the seats for BN.
In other words the candidates that stands a better chance to deliver for BN,says Mawan.
It has been reported in the news media that PDP have named their candidate Subeng Mula to stand as their party candidate. But on the ground it does seem he is playing catch up to the BN Incumbent.
Is it a little too late for him or the party to be working on the ground now? That Hope is slipping away.
He should have worked the ground ever since the incumbent "quit" the party to form TERAS and stake his claim there and then. The BN incumbent would certainly be in an uncomfortable position if the party had done it then don't you think?
PDP knows that the Incumbent is an experienced,seasoned and a likeable politician and it will be very difficult to rule him out. Whispers are abound that a solution is forthcoming and we just need to keep our ears on the ground
We too wonder, what it is and while you are reading this don't forget to seek the answers below.
These are some of the articles which shows the BN incumbent doing his work and winning the support of the majority of the people of the constituency.
1. https://audie61.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/the-truth-is-out-there/
2. https://audie61.wordpress.com/fight-for-the-seat-after-bn-wins/
3. https://audie61.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/sympathiser-for-pkr-for-bn-p205-saratok/
4. https://audie61.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/dont-destroy-the-fort-p205/
5. https://audie61.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/mawans-unquestionable-loyalty/
The BN Incumbent knows how difficult it was to turn the tide around for BN in 2013 and he is still moving and meeting the people who elected him in as their Parliamentarian. The majority are supporting him to be retain as they see him as the most winnable and people/centric parliamentarian.
BN does not have much choice and for them to put an untested candidate for GE14 for Saratok if only the "Incumbent did not work and the people protested and are totally vocal and against the Incumbent". (If that is the case, nothing else could be said and audie61 would not even want to dwell on this subject as netcitizens and mass media would termed us as "BONKERS")
The situation for BN is otherwise and the majority as shown by the pictures shown speaks volumes.
Of course the decision to field the BN candidates and for them to receive the blessings would depend very much on the PM and the top BN hierarchy.
Mawan knows he cannot stop working the ground as an incumbent his duty is to fulfill his obligations to the constituents who elected him in until Parliament is dissolved.
The inevitable gets closer as GE14 is just round the corner and the Incumbent BN MP Mawan like most of his colleagues in the Parliament would need to be nominated and receive the certificate from BN to stand for GE14.
Even MP Tiong the President of PDP knows its up to PM Najib and CM Sarawak to give him the stamp of approval to stand in Bintulu and likewise Mawan and all other BN candidates nationally.
Nothing More.Nothing Less is the call and BN wants to Win Only.


Coils break down when they get hot. can't see both going out same time. Check that your fuel vent lines that are not clogged or kinked. Some electronic ignitions don't use ballast resistors.
When it quits, check if you have ignition. Just pull the coil wire from the distributor and place it close to something grounded on the block. (Do you want to just hold it? That will also show you if you have a spark.) Crank it over and watch for a spark. If you have a spark, check for fuel. Pull the flame arrestor off, look down the throat of the carb. Pump the throttle and see if the accelerator pump is squirting fuel into the carb. Find the problem and then you know what to fix. Do not just start changing parts.
This sounds like vapor lock. At idle, there is very little air and fuel movement in the engine compartment. When the fuel lines get hot, the fuel vaporizes. An easy test is to put ice or ice water soaked rags along the fuel line when the problem happens, then see if the engines will idle.
You might have a slow flooding issue. If so, the motors will idle okay for a period of time, but they are running too rich and that eventually catches up with them.
The other possibility is the carbs are too lean--that too will cause this, but it usually makes them bog and backfire on throttle up. Is that the case?
Check out my posting "360 chryslers running like crap."
So far all is good. Planning a trip to Put in Bay Ohio a 75 mile round trip. I will let you know the outcome.
I had a similar situation last year and chased my tail trying to figure out what the problem was, I like you ..thought maybe it was he related to heat or fuel, It would run like a champ at the dock , I could go out for hours then It would start stalling and didn't want to restart .the last thing I replaced was the spark plug wires because they looked like brand-new...... it was my problem all along ..a few misfires here and there would start fouling the plugs and start the stalling issues. It was very unnoticeable until it started stalling. After some time it would restart and run perfect. The spark plug wires will have you chasing other problems. I know firsthand how they will fool you into thinking you have other issues .
"When you're absolutely certain it's a fuel problem, it's gonna be ignition!"


New car technology has come a long way in recent years, even decades. Things we only saw in sci-fi movies or in our own imaginations are becoming reality with increasing speed. One such bit of technology – the self-driving car – has suffered a setback as a result of a recent incident in Florida in which a Tesla Model S owner was killed when the vehicle's brakes failed to activate. The vehicle struck a tractor trailer that turned in front of him, according to the police reports, after its cameras failed to recognize the side of the trailer and the man died at the accident scene. The failure highlights that, for as much progress that has been made, the technology is not yet perfect.
How Is Fault Assessed In An Auto Accident?
Any time an accident occurs, we try to determine its cause it in the hope that future occurrences will be prevented. Of course, the Tesla case is unique due to the autopilot component – and will certainly be interesting to watch to see how it is handled. In some cases, a manufacturer may bear some part of the liability if there is some sort of defect or problem with the car or one of its components. However, in the majority of accident cases, one or more of the drivers' actions usually leads to the incident. Factors such as reckless driving, speeding, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or inattentiveness can all cause an accident to happen in the blink of an eye.
The most important thing to do if you have been involved in an auto accident is to make sure anyone who needs medical attention is treated as soon as possible. If police are called to the scene, cooperate with them to provide information, but never admit to any fault. Have your identification and insurance information handy so that these details can be provided easily. For minor accidents that do not require the involvement of police, all drivers will need to exchange information. Once again, never admit fault. It is a good idea to take pictures of the scene and other shots that may be useful later. Moving vehicles out of the traffic flow if it can be done without causing further damage to the vehicle and getting everyone to a safe location are also important. If a police report has been filed, request a copy for your records.
When you have been injured in an auto accident, the legal professionals at Boone & Davis in Fort Lauderdale will help you to understand your rights and responsibilities under Florida law. We have decades of experience handling all types of personal injury and auto accident cases and know what to look for when tackling each individual case. Our auto accident attorneys will review your case with you and assess where fault may lie to determine the best way to proceed with your case. Making sure you feel comfortable about the process and about the way your case is handled is important to us. Contact us either by phone at 954.556.5260 or through our website and get started today towards a full recovery for your losses.


Jing Lejano is a writer, editor, and crafts enthusiast. She finished high school at De La Salle-Zobel then studied Management Economics at the Ateneo de Manila University. She started working in the papers as a lifestyle writer for The Business Star before joining the world of glossies as Managing Editor of Smart Parenting magazine. She then moved to Good Housekeeping Philippines as Home and Family Editor. She would later become its Editor in Chief for four years.
Today, she is happy to be working at home, editing the pages of Urban Mom and Turista, and writing for YES!, Yummy, and Women's Health.


The Test Pilot is a classic tiki cocktail created by Don the Beachcomber back in the 1940s. It combines two types of rum with Angostura bitters, Pernod, Cointreau, Falernum, and fresh lime.
I decided to riff on this drink by incorporating tropical fruits and the flavors of one of my favorite contemporary cocktails, the Paloma. The result is a very balanced, delicious reinterpretation that I think is perfect for summertime.
Rim a Collins glass with salt and fill it with crushed ice.
Strain into your prepared glass and enjoy!


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Six tips for creating a killer brand for your company
VentureBeat Staff	 May 1, 2012 7:00 AM
This post is sponsored by Volvo. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity.
There are misconceptions about how important branding it is to success, how much work it takes, and the best ways to approach it. But every company, from a fresh-faced tech-startup to Apple, knows good branding can make a product or service.
Branding is how you present your company — your name, imagery, reputation — to the world through logos, ads, marketing materials, websites, apps, and social media. Left-brained business types may see it as simple graphic design, like choosing a logo color, or as a mysterious art. But experts know successful branding is hard and the best results are based on research, facts, and a well thought-out road-map.
We talked to Chris Mayfield, head of the Austin-based company Crispy Design, about how companies of all sizes can get the most out of working with branding professionals. Here are his guidelines for success:
The most important work for successful branding takes place before a designer or agency is even hired: research, planning, introspection, and difficult decision making by the client. The worst thing a company can do is go to a design agency without having collected key pieces of information and expect the designers to fill in the blanks.
First, decide exactly what you want to communicate and who you want to communicate to — who is most likely to buy your product? Then, break down what your company does and identify its strengths and weaknesses so you can develop an approach that promotes its former and diminishes its latter.
If you don't have this level of understanding of your own company, you won't be able to engage with the agency enough to have their work be beneficial.
Pick a specific goal
Once you've done the advanced research, settle on a specific, actionable goal. Instead of saying, "We want to make more money," try "We want to increase our market share with rural females between 18- and 25-years-old." A scattershot approach will be less effective than a tightly focused strategy and will make it harder for you to gauge your success.
You can ask your branding agency to suggest a direction, but Mayfield says this is ill-advised. The third-party team you've hired to work on branding has only known your company for a short period of time, but you've been living and breathing it for years. You have the best understanding of your company and what it is trying to accomplish.
Communicate to your agency exactly what you're trying to do over the next six months or a year. That way it can completely optimize what it's trying to do for you.
Don't be a copycat
A common first instinct it to replicate what a successful company, like Apple, has already done, which is short-sighted and not to anyone's benefit. Blindly imitating another company's branding strategy never works out.
"Many small and medium business think it's like divinity if it was done before," said Mayfield. "They think Facebook was built by Moses and was without fault." Just because another company has already "perfected" an approach, doesn't mean doing the same thing will work again for a different product or service.
Just as ill-advised as copying the big companies is emulating your competitors. Mayfield says this is the antithesis of branding. You want to set yourself apart from competitors. Branding should explain, in tone and visuals, how you're different from them, not how you're similar. This is a hard leap for many people.
"For small companies, a risk is exactly what they have to take," said Mayfield. "This is generally their one chance to do something incredible."
Today, there's no limit to how you can promote a product or service. Technology offers companies incredible opportunities to do things in a whole new way, such as using Facebook to target a very specific demographic. But you must understand the technology (or hire an agency that does) and be willing to go in unexpected directions.
Traditionally, ad agencies just want to make print ads and TV spots, and marketers want to put logos on frisbees and swag. But the landscape is changing; interactive and social media agencies are being added to the mix, and everyone is starting to use technology creatively to reach potential customers.
Take Sweat Leaf Tea. The company believed two things: that anyone who tried its iced tea would try it again, and that people are more likely to want a nice cold drink when it's hot out. The agencies working on the project decided to geolocate people using an IP sniffer, and cross-reference that info with the average temperature where they were located. If it was above a certain degree, they would offer them free tea.
Social media is the technology that gets all the attention, and while it is an incredibly important part of branding, it's also not the most complicated. The key to social media is putting in the work and being active in a space. The best social media plans are often the domain of content directors, as they're the best at promoting their company's own intellectual prowess.
Vacuum-company Dyson explains a complicated product clearly. As technologically innovative as the company is, it's able to communicate quickly and succinctly what its products can do. That simplicity is the cornerstone of a good brand, but can also be applied to the branding process itself.
It's possible to overwork brands. Take logo design: a smartly designed logo doesn't try to convey every aspect of a company, just give an impression. Attractive design should come ahead of cramming in literal representations of what the product does, or hunting for the perfect color to make someone want to spend money.
"Colors communicate things like fear, hunger, cold, and danger. They don't communicate something like trust," says Mayfield. Symbolism is another equally over-thought element of logo design. Sometimes it works, like when banks try to communicate stability with Grecian pillars. But don't believe an agency that shows you a shiny object and tells you it communicates synergy. They are just trying to sell you on their design, and that's a disservice to your company. The focus should be on making the design look contemporary.
Step back and let the agency do its work
If you have done all of the research and strategy work, step back and let the people at the design agency do what you have hired them to do. Don't try to micro-manage the process. If they don't do a good job, don't hire them again. But if you're constantly derailing their work, you'll never get the best out of them or the experience.
Image via rishibando/Flickr


Disclaimer: This post is based on Brian Jacobel's great post about reducing highlight.js's bundle size, since he doesn't have a comment section on his blog, I figured I would add a few more details as well as some updates for webpack2 here.
In an attempt to improve the performance of this blog, I am currently trying to bring down the size of my assets. I use webpack2 to bundle the code for my apps and I currently split my chunks into vendor (all third-pary libraries, i.e. node modules) and application code (although I might use some more advanced code splitting techniques in the future).
The problem: highlight.js is taking up almost 25% of the total bundle size.
When I started analysing my vendors chunk, I was quite surprised to find that highlight.js took up almost 25% of my total bundle size. The problem? All available languages are automatically included, although I am only using a small sub-set and am not planning on adding more any time soon either.
To analyse my webpack build, I used the amazing webpack-bundle-analyzer plugin. Brian used the webpack-visualizer plugin instead. More cool tools for analysing your webpack bundle can be found here.
You can find a list of all supported languages on highlight.js' website or by having a look at their source code on GitHub.
Thanks to using webpack2's tree shaking, this is all that has to done in order to remove all unnecessary languages from highlight.js. Please refer to the original post for details on how to achieve the same with webpack1.
I guess the message of this post, despite concentrating on the specific case of highlight.js, is that knowing your third party libraries is really important. Don't add anything you don't really need and regularly analyse your bundle to find and eliminate more libraries that take up disproportionate amounts of space. In the case of this blog, I found a second library, taking up 15% of my bundle size: moment.js. And I only use moment.js to format Dates... And only in approximately 3 places! So instead of only removing their locales, as discussed in many places already, I actually just wrote my own date formatting utility.


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John T. Nelson is a law clerk in the Tax Department. Mr. Nelson joined Debevoise in 2021. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2021. He received ... Read Full Biography
John T. Nelson is a law clerk in the Tax Department.
Mr. Nelson joined Debevoise in 2021. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2021. He received an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2013 and an MA from University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies in 2012, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He received an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2010. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Yale Law School, 2021, J.D.
London School of Economics and Political Science, 2013, M.Sc
University College London, 2012, M.A.
Princeton University, 2010, A.B.


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Q: 21.10 snap Firefox crashed tabs I recently updated my desktop to Ubuntu 21.10. This defaults to a snap version of Firefox, and while it is slower to start, I could live with that. But the real problem was that, several times a day, I would be told that I had a crashed tab, and this message was in all tabs (of which I only had 3 or 4). The message included a button to restore the tabs, and while this always worked, it was annoying. As an experiment, I tried deleting the snap version and installing Firefox from apt (instructions here). Since doing this, the tab-crashing behavior is gone. So why would the snap version, and only the snap version, have this problem? This is a System76 Ratel Pro with 8 Gb of RAM. It currently has no System76 PPA, pure Ubuntu 21.04 install from ISO, then upgraded to 21.10.
Edit: I do not believe that the "21.10 Firefox Missing Profiles" question describes the same problem. The problem I encountered concerns Firefox running normally, and then asynchronously crashing. Repeatedly.


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package org.smslib.modem.athandler;

import java.io.IOException;
import org.smslib.GatewayException;
import org.smslib.Service;
import org.smslib.TimeoutException;
import org.smslib.modem.ModemGateway;

public class ATHandler_Siemens_MC35i_FD extends ATHandler_Siemens_MC35i
{
	public ATHandler_Siemens_MC35i_FD(ModemGateway myGateway)
	{
		super(myGateway);
	}

	@Override
	public void sync() throws IOException, InterruptedException
	{
		getModemDriver().write("AT&F\r");
		Thread.sleep(Service.getInstance().getSettings().AT_WAIT);
	}

	@Override
	public void reset() throws TimeoutException, GatewayException, IOException, InterruptedException
	{
		getModemDriver().write("\u001b");
		Thread.sleep(Service.getInstance().getSettings().AT_WAIT);
		getModemDriver().write("+++");
		Thread.sleep(Service.getInstance().getSettings().AT_WAIT);
		getModemDriver().write("AT&F");
		Thread.sleep(Service.getInstance().getSettings().AT_WAIT);
		getModemDriver().clearBuffer();
	}
}

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Game of the Month: Top 4 PlayStation Games of July 2017
Judges, trials, and hot stuff
by Robert Ramsey Wed 2nd Aug 2017
This summer has just flown by, hasn't it? We're now sitting pretty in August, but we can't possibly forget the gaming goodness that came our way last month. July certainly wasn't the strongest period we've ever seen, but our internal staff vote to decide our Game of the Month was still a close call. Feast your eyes on our winners below.
Bronze Trophy: SUPERHOT VR
Sammy's been banging on about how amazing SUPERHOT is in virtual reality since he got his hands on review code, and it turns out that a number of our writers agree with him. Scooping fourth place in our staff vote, SUPERHOT VR takes the stylish shooter and turns it into a very physical experience. "SUPERHOT VR is one of the most inventive first-person shooters you'll find on any gaming system – let alone PlayStation VR," Sammy wrote in our 8/10 review.
Click here to read our full review of SUPERHOT VR
Silver Trophy: Pyre
Dashing into third place we have Pyre, the latest incredibly pretty release from Bastion and Transistor creators Supergiant Games. Mixing elements of competitive sport with weird fantasy and lite RPG mechanics, Pyre's a bit of a strange title, but one that comes together extremely well. "Pyre marks Supergiant Games' third consecutive masterpiece," wrote reviewer Graham Banas in our 9/10 review.
Click here to read our full review of Pyre
Gold Trophy: Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
Remasters don't get much better than Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. Polishing up a slice of PlayStation 2 RPG brilliance, this glorious return to to the world of Ivalice comes with a much improved job system, great graphical upgrades, and the same intriguing story. "Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is a near perfect reworking of a PS2 masterpiece," reads the conclusion of our 9/10 review.
Click here to read our full review of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
Platinum Trophy: SUPERHOT
That's right, SUPERHOT has been voted our Game of the Month for July 2017. Having (kind of) the same game appear twice in one Game of the Month article is unprecedented, but it just goes to show that the long wait for SUPERHOT's arrival on PS4 has been well worth it.
Offering up some supremely stylish shooting, the title's simply a must try. "SUPERHOT is excellent. It may lack the physicality of its virtual reality alter-ego, but it makes up for this with a mind-bending story and an on-point menu system," Sammy wrote in our 8/10 review. "The slow-motion shooting is still super satisfying, and the added locomotion makes for a different kind of cadence to the PlayStation VR version. Buy both editions if you can, as they complement each other nicely and are unmissable in our humble opinion," he concluded.
Click here to read our full review of SUPERHOT
That's another month polished off, but do you agree with our winners? Vote in our poll, and then have your say in the comments section below.
What was your Game of the Month for July 2017? (40 votes)
get2sammyb
SUPER. HOT. SUPER. HOT.
BAMozzy
I can't say any of these games would be on my wanted list. I could have played Superhot months ago on Xbox if I wanted but it just doesn't appeal and also wouldn't be in my top games for this month as I would have played it months ago.
For me, July has been a very quiet month but should start picking up in August with Uncharted the Lost Legacy before Septembers Destiny 2 (both pre-ordered). Then Octobers glut - Assassins Creed, Wolfenstein 2, Evil Within 2 and maybe even Forza 7 so I am quite glad the last few months have been underwhelming and quiet - at least from my perspective anyway...
Johnnycide
100% in agreement. IT'S THE MOST INNOVATIVE SHOOTER I'VE PLAYED IN YEARS.
ApostateMage
Even though I still haven't got it because I'm a tramp, I voted for FFXII. I've played it a few times before so I know it's boss.
@BAMozzy I honestly think you'd enjoy Superhot, I really do. Well worth considering if it's ever discounted.
Ralizah
Played Super Hot a bit on PC. The concept is interesting, but it never really goes further than that for me (at least, in the time I played). Also, whoever decided it was a good idea for a gruff voice to repeat the title over and over between levels should be let go. One of the most annoying things I've ever seen in a game.
Gatatog
I'm really enjoying Pyre, which isn't a surprise considering Supergiants previous 2 successes, but Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun has come right out of nowhere and snatched my attention. It was released on the very last day of the month as well. However, seeing as I've played more of Pyre and love the devs I decided to give that my vote.
I bought FF12 having never finished it back on PS2 and although I've tried and tried, I simply cannot enjoy it. I've finished the Giru-thingy place and given up. I just find the whole game boring, especially the dull as hell story.
@get2sammyb To be honest, the concept is interesting and the art-style is too but its not something I would buy - even if its just a £1 or 2.
The test for me always comes down to would I rather play the numerous games I have not finished or spend some money on a game I know I probably won't play for more than an hour at most. As much as I enjoyed games like the Trials games, I only ever end up playing them for a few hours until the novelty of what they offer gets boring, combine with the increase in difficulty knowing that even if you do persevere with that 'same' mechanic to get past that level, the next is literally just more of the same - its just space invaders, asteroids, pac-man - I know its different mechanically but the principal is the same - get passed the level to do virtually the same again with a difficulty increase.
I know you could say that games like Uncharted, CoD etc don't really change with each new mission, don't always get more difficult either but they have story and context with characters that I want to see what happens next. Not games that you can virtually predict the entire game. Once you've played the first few missions, you know pretty much what he last few missions will offer - maybe not 'exactly' but principally you can - just like level 50 in Pac-Man, Asteroids or Space Invaders...
Don't get me wrong, I grew up loving games like those. However , at the time, that was the way all games were - unless you count the pure text based games but that's not really what I look for in games today. I probably would add it to my download list if GwG or IGC offer it but considering the number of games I have that I want to play, as well as the busy months ahead of new games I am hoping to add to my collection, I can't see this competing for my time.
@Gatatog Shadow Tactics will be in August's Game of the Month vote. Should give the team time to play through it, too.
Pyre is my game of the month, supergiant games never disappoints
JoeBlogs
Maybe not one of the best months of all time, but I've had my backlog on the go, so I didn't really notice.
@get2sammyb @BAMozzy I would add that as a fan of shooters and story in games, Super Hot delivers big time. I thought is was overpriced at 20 quid, but I've found myself playing it daily, and- while it's short- the campaign is VERY well done with a story that will definitely resonate.
I paid about 20 quid to see rogue one on release, and that was about 2 hours or so. Haven't watched it since, but I don't feel cheated by it.
Up to you in the end like, but as a recommendation I'd say it's a steal if it gets reduced to say, a tenner.
Bad-MuthaAdebisi
I'm only interested in Super Hot VR but I hear the VR version is a little thin. Zodiac FF does intrigue me and I'm hearing things about Pyre too and I'm surprised and delighted by the premise, I'll need to watch some Pyre gameplay soon.
Heynow
Infinite mini golf game of the month
sinalefa
Didnt touch a single one of these, Splatoon 2 is all I need. Would get Pyre and particularly Superhot during a sale.
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Police & Fire: Springfield man dies after becoming trapped under vehicle
SPRINGFIELD MAN DIES: A 62-year-old man was killed Thursday after he was trapped under a vehicle. Calhoun County Sheriff Department deputies said the man was found at 5:20 p.m. on Upton Avenue near 12th Street in Springfield. Deputies said the vehicle was lifted off the man by bystanders and CPR was attempted by paramedics from Lifecare Ambulance and Springfield firefighters. The victim, whose name was not released, was pronounced dead at the scene. Deputies said the man was either driving or working on the vehicle. The incident remains under investigation by the department's Accident Reconstruction Team. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff department at 269-781-0880 or Silent Observer at 269-781-9700.
HIT AND RUN: Battle Creek police are searching for the driver of a van that struck and injured a crossing guard at Riverside Elementary School on Friday. Officers were called to the school at 650 Riverside Drive at 8:36 a.m. Officers said the crossing guard, 64, stepped into the northbound lane and attempted to stop traffic when he was hit by a dark blue or black van. Police said the driver of the van stopped, stepped out and looked, and then drove away. Police said the van may have damage to the front passenger portion. The crossing guard, who has been at the school 27 years, was wearing a reflective vest and holding a reflective sign. None of the children waiting to cross from the east side of the roadway were injured. The guard was taken to Bronson Battle Creek where he was treated and later released.
BROTHER ASSAULTED: A warrant is being sought for a man, 29, after another man, also 29, said he was assaulted in the 300 block of Clover Lane at 3:22 a.m. Thursday. The victim said the other man came looking for the victim's brother, who is dating the suspect's former girlfriend. When the victim confronted the suspect the two men began fighting in the yard before the suspect finally fled.
Call Silent Observer at 269-964-3888 or text CRIMES (274637) SOTIP or see www.crimereports.com with information about crimes.


In 2015, the STULZ CyberAir is awarded with the INNOVATIONSPREIS-IT ("Innovation Award IT"). The jury of experts of the Initiative Mittelstand labels the CyberAir with BEST OF 2015 in the category "Green IT".
CyberCool 2 "Best of 2014"
Also in 2014, a STULZ product recieves the INNOVATIONSPREIS-IT ("Innovation Award IT"). The jury of experts of the Initiative Mittelstand awards the CyberCool 2 in the category "Green IT" with the label BEST OF 2014.
Cyber Row "Best of 2013"
Initiative Mittelstand awards companies providing innovative IT solutions and a high utility for SMEs with the INNOVATIONSPREIS IT. Cyber Row received the rating "BEST OF 2013" in the category "green IT".
Frost & Sullivan recognises STULZ with the 2012 Europe Product Leadership Award.


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Q: WPF Keep textbox focussed while pressing tab key I am writing a WPF application where we are supposed to shift focus from one button to another by pressing the TAB key.
All is fine, but for a specific page, there is a textbox which is always focused so that the user can type in it immediately. But now, when I press TAB, the focus is shifted to the button (which is as per requirement) but as the focus is lost from the textbox, I cannot type anymore.
I want to have a behavior where I can keep the Keyboard focus on textbox but should be able to control the buttons using TAB key as well. In a way, I need to have focus on textbox and the buttons at the same time. Is this possible?
Tried the FocusManager.IsFocusScope = "true", but this did not help.


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Great voices, memorable Mozart in SSU's "The Magic Flute"
SSU's "The Magic Flute." Photo by David Papas
By ROBERT DIGITALE
Stirring voices, the pageantry of life-size animal puppets and the swirling melodies of Mozart engage the ear and eye at Sonoma State University's new production of "The Magic Flute."
The opera, which continues through Sunday, tells a tale of love, lies, trials and ultimately forgiveness. The story includes earthy comedy and deep mysticism, but it should be seen as more a vehicle for beautiful music and a call for harmony rather than a gripping drama. Thankfully for opera novices, the production displays the words overhead for this version sung in English.
In the story, there is a Queen of the Night (Sarah Phelan) and her princess daughter Pamina (Jamelia Brown), whom the queen asks a young prince to rescue from an evil king. The prince Tamino (James Leng) goes on his quest with the aid of Papageno (Malik-Charles Wade) a silly, often self-absorbed bird catcher. Along the way Tamino receives a magic flute and Papageno is given magic bells. In time the prince gets his view of reality challenged. He is told it is the queen and not king Sarastro (Gene Wright) who is truly out to do harm.
In Thursday's opening performance, cast members Phelan and Brown exhibited voices made for opera. Phelan as the queen performed vocal fireworks as her arias soared high and low with a dazzling flurry of notes. Meanwhile, Brown as the princess sang melodies of love with power and beauty.
The leading men also get their moments, as when the prince and bird catcher sing about the ordeal of remaining silent, one of the tests they face. Wade gets most of the opera's laughs, including while trying to determine whether a woman he encounters is an old lady or the young love of his life.
The company includes talented black-clad puppeteers, who animate a great serpent and a range of animals, among them a baby elephant, a koala bear and penguins. The production also includes a gigantic moving elephant, a striking device on which the king makes his entrance.
We may not realize it but somewhere in our lives many of us have heard the opera's swirling, memorable overture. The production's 17-piece orchestra, conducted by musical director Lynne Morrow, played it with deft accomplishment and went on to offer sweet accompaniment to the voices on stage.
The stage director is Amanda McTigue. Full disclosure requires me to say I have been a past collaborator with her (our joint short story with other writers appeared a few years back in The Press Democrat) and I remain a fan.
Bravo to the company, including Kimberly Colisch, Maddie Crook, Jessica Driver, Marie Halcrow, Paul MacKinnon, Kyra Leetz, Meghan Muller, Alexis Zent, Anna Leach, Meagon Monroe, Aliya Bacal Peterson, Casey Burns, Thomas Bowers, Samantha Philp, Riley Spindler and Avery Wilson.
The production continues Thursday through Sunday at the university's Evert Person Theatre. For information and tickets, click here.
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Home Investing Golden Age Thinking
Golden Age Thinking
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them." -Andy Bernard, The Office
*Spoiler alert* in the first few paragraphs if you've never seen Midnight in Paris before.
In Midnight in Paris, struggling novelist Gil Pender (played by Owen Wilson) feels like a fish out of water in modern times.
On a trip to Paris with his fiance and future in-laws, Pender romanticizes the idea of writing in the City of Lights during the freewheeling Roaring 20s.
If only he could go back to that time, all of his problems would be solved and he would be much happier.
Michael Sheen plays Paul, a know-it-all who tries to set Pender straight on his nostalgia for another time:
Nostalgia is denial – denial of the painful present… the name for this denial is golden age thinking – the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in – it's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
This scene provided some nice foreshadowing for the rest of the movie.
Through some movie magic, Pender ends up getting transported back to the 1920s on his midnight strolls through Paris, hanging out with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Picasso, T.S. Eliot and Salvador Dali.
On these ventures back in time he falls for 1920s Adriana (played by Marion Cotillard) but she doesn't see her own time as the golden age of Paris.
So when Gil and Adriana are transported back to the late-1800s Belle Epoque period she feels that must be the most wonderful time in history to live.
Of course, when Gil asks some people from that time what they thought the best era was, they answer the Renaissance.
It's easy to look back at previous generations or maybe your own childhood and conclude things must have been better.
A survey of Americans, Brits and the French asked people whether life in their country is better or worse today than it was 50 years ago. Nearly one-third of the Brits, 41% of Americans and nearly half of French people said things are worse now.
Johan Norberg recently wrote an excellent article at the Wall Street Journal explaining why this happens:
Psychologists say that this kind of nostalgia is natural and sometimes even useful: Anchoring our identity in the past helps give us a sense of stability and predictability. For individuals, nostalgia is especially common when we experience rapid transitions like puberty, retirement or moving to a new country. Similarly, collective nostalgia—a longing for the good old days when life was simpler and people behaved better—can also be a source of communal strength in difficult times.
Another reason is that historical nostalgia is often colored by personal nostalgia. When were the good old days? Was it, by chance, the incredibly short period in human history when you happened to be young? A U.S. poll found that people born in the 1930s and 1940s thought the 1950s was America's best decade, while those born in the 1960s and 1970s preferred the 1980s. In the 1980s, the popular TV show "Happy Days" was set in a nostalgic version of the 1950s; today, the popular series "Stranger Things" fondly conjures the fashion and music of the 1980s.
For the majority of households in America, the period from 1900-1950 may have ushered in many of the biggest technological changes for any generation in history.
People were introduced to several luxuries we now take for granted – radios, refrigerators, washing machines, irons, full electricity in their homes, private indoor toilets, central heating, air conditioning, automobiles and more.
The high school graduation rate jumped from just 10% in 1900 to well over 50% by 1950. The average life span when from 57 to 72.
By almost any measure the world was a far better place in 1950 than it was in 1900.
Yet many people in 1950 didn't see it that way.
Frederick Lewis Allen wrote the definitive book on how America transformed in the first half of the 20th century with The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950. He describes the plight of the upper-middle class in 1950 and how they longed for the days of 1900:
Because wages in the building trades—and the costs of building materials—were much lower than today, they could live in much larger quarters. Because servants' wages were much lower and candidates for servants' jobs were in abundance, they could staff these larger quarters amply. Furthermore they were spared many of the expenses which most of their descendants take as a matter of course: the cost of an automobile (much greater than that of a horse and carriage); the cost of such extra gadgets as electric refrigerators, washing machines, radios, television sets, or what not; the cost of a college education for children of both sexes; and very likely the cost of an extra home for week-end or summer use. (As we have seen, fewer reasonably well-to-do Americans had "summer places" then than now.) So the man whose salary now would command a rather cramped apartment might then have occupied a house which today would seem grandly large.
Elderly people who look back today upon childhoods lived under any of the circumstances which I have just been describing sometimes regard them with nostalgia. Life seems to have been much simpler in its demands then, and certain of the amenities seem to have been much more accessible. It was easier then than now, these people feel, to maintain a sense of the identity of the family. People who live in ample houses are better able to take care of old or invalid or ineffective relatives than families with less space at their command. Indeed it is quite possible that part of the social security problem of our time—the widely expressed need for pensions, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, etc.—arises out of the fact that many families no longer can shelter those whom they used to consider their dependents—grandma, who used to have a third-floor room, or eccentric Cousin Tom, who was tucked away in the ell. Even when one makes every allowance for the many good things of today which the prosperous of 1900 (and those who approximated their way of life) had to go without, one must admit that there is a basis for the nostalgia.
I'm sure no one felt sorry for the well-to-do people of the 1950s who were no longer able to pay such low wages for their servants but you can see how pervasive nostalgia can be even for those who have seen their lives improved by leaps and bounds.
When I was a freshman in college, the seniors would always regale us with stories about how much better the party scene was when they first arrived on campus. I scoffed at these stories until my friends and I said the same thing when we were seniors.
Over time people tend to remember the positives more than the negatives.
Norberg cited the research of schoolchildren returning from summer vacation. When they were asked to list both the good and the bad from their summers, the lists were basically the exact same length. When the same exercise was repeated a few months later, the good side of the ledger tended to get longer while the bad side got shorter. By the end of the year only the good stuff remained in their memories.
There is nothing wrong with feelings of nostalgia. In some ways, building a portfolio of nostalgic feelings in your memory bank is what life is all about.
But the good old days are probably not as grand as you think.
Newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, who himself was writing during the roaring 20s, once remarked, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
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CENTOS. Apache Tomcat 7 (7.0.72) - Security Manager HOW-TO. The Java SecurityManager is what allows a web browser to run an applet in its own sandbox to prevent untrusted code from accessing files on the local file system, connecting to a host other than the one the applet was loaded from, and so on.
In the same way the SecurityManager protects you from an untrusted applet running in your browser, use of a SecurityManager while running Tomcat can protect your server from trojan servlets, JSPs, JSP beans, and tag libraries. Or even inadvertent mistakes. Imagine if someone who is authorized to publish JSPs on your site inadvertently included the following in their JSP: Every time this JSP was executed by Tomcat, Tomcat would exit. Using the Java SecurityManager is just one more line of defense a system administrator can use to keep the server secure and reliable. WARNING - A security audit have been conducted using the Tomcat codebase. How to install PyCairo in Python2.7? thanks - WebFaction Community. To install PyCairo in your home directory you need to first install it's dependancies, Pixman and Cairo.
To do that, you can use our Install Software From Source guide. I've managed to install it in a test user's home like that: Open an SSH session to the server. If you don't know how this guide will help you.Download and uncompress the source code mkdir ~/downloads cd ~/downloads wget wget wget wget wget tar xzf libffi-3.0.11.tar.gz unxz glib-2.31.22.tar.xz tar xf glib-2.31.22.tar tar xzf pixman-0.26.2.tar.gz unxz cairo-1.12.2.tar.xz tar xf cairo-1.12.2.tar tar xjf py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2Export some usefull variables export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/lib/pkgconfig export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/libInstall libffi (This step is optional on a CentOS 6 machine) cd libffi-3.0.11 . /configure --prefix=$HOME make make installInstall glib (This step is optional on a CentOS 6 machine) cd ..
Build Instructions. How to Install and Configure phpMyAdmin on CentOS 6. PhpMyAdmin is an open source tool used for the administration of MySQL.
Setting / removing environment variables permanently and globally. Refreshx2 wrote:I can't believe this hasn't been asked in the past but I can't find it anywhere online.
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Perspectives: Why Does This HIV Drug Cost $75 In Africa and $39,000 In America?
Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.
The New York Times: H.I.V. Drugs Cost $75 In Africa, $39,000 In The U.S. Does It Matter?
A new gold-standard triple therapy for H.I.V. has just made its debut in Africa. It costs $75 a year. In the United States, many people with H.I.V. take an almost identical therapy. It costs $39,000 a year. The United States is infamous for its high cost of health care — and H.I.V. medicines are a big part of that. Plenty of drugs carry outrageous prices: EpiPens, insulin, cancer treatments, even some antibiotics. But no class of medicines is more scandalously expensive than for H.I.V. These medicines are by far the largest item in Medicaid's drug budget, the third largest for the insurance exchanges and the fifth largest for commercial insurers. (Tina Rosenberg, 9/18)
The Detroit News: The Delusion Of Foreign Drug Importation
The Trump administration has just announced the formation of a working group at the Food and Drug Administration to study legalizing the importation of foreign-made drugs. Although the study is limited to a narrow set of circumstances in which imports might be allowed, it sets us on a path we shouldn't step on. The goal is to lower costs and prevent price-gouging by drug makers who find themselves with monopoly power over a particular treatment -- say, an out-of-patent medication for a rare disease with only a single generic manufacturer in the market. But proponents of imports are only starting with the narrow case. Their real goal is to allow foreign imports on a massive scale. (Peter Pitts, 9/17)
The Wall Street Journal: Drug Rebates Aren't 'Kickbacks'
The Trump administration is close to issuing a new rule that could effectively ban rebate payments from drug manufacturers to pharmaceutical benefit managers, or PBMs. The plan is misguided. A full ban would backfire and increase costs to consumers. The regulation, now under review at the Office of Management and Budget, could remove the safe-harbor protection for rebate payments under an anti-kickback law. But rebates are price discounts, not kickbacks. They reduce prices based on sales volume: Drug companies charge less when more of their drugs are sold to patients. (Josepth Antos and James C. Capretta, 9/16)
The New York Times: Transparency Hasn't Stopped Drug Companies From Corrupting Medical Research
On Thursday, Dr. José Baselga resigned from his position as chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Earlier this month, ProPublica and The New York Times revealed that he'd received millions of dollars from drug and device companies whose fortunes he stood to affect. He also sat on the board of at least six companies, where his fiduciary responsibility to them might conflict with his obligations to the cancer center. Most of his outside income was not disclosed to the journals in which he published, in violation of their requirements. Although his case is extreme, these kinds of conflicts of interest are virtually universal in the upper levels of academic medicine. (Marcia Angell, 9/14)
CNN: Huge Price Hikes By Drug Companies Are Immoral
Several pharmaceutical companies have been jacking up the prices of their drugs in unethical ways. Most recently, Nirmal Mulye, founder and president of Nostrum Pharmaceuticals, defended his decision to more than quadruple the price of nitrofurantoin, used to treat bladder infections, from about $500 to more than $2,300 a bottle. He said it was his "moral requirement to sell the product at the highest price." (Robert Klitzman, 9/18)
Bloomberg: Cigna Express Scripts Deal: Hard Part Lies Ahead
Cigna Corp. has successfully dodged two giant obstacles in its attempt to purchase pharmacy-benefit manager Express Scripts Holding Co. First, it got past Carl Icahn, who tried to convince investors to vote no on the deal in August, only to drop the effort days later after giving it further thought. And on Monday afternoon, it won clearance from the Department of Justice to go ahead with the transaction. But the hardest part lies ahead. This is a period of massive uncertainty for the PBM business, and Cigna is paying $54 billion for the pleasure of having to navigate it. (Max Nisen, 9/17)
Stat: Innovation And Lower Drug Prices Are What's Needed To End Tuberculosis
The United Nations "high-level meeting" on tuberculosis will take place in less than a month and the political declaration that emerges from it will, for better or worse, shape the global response to the world's deadliest infectious disease for years, perhaps decades, to come. There is a very real risk that the declaration could undermine, rather than improve, access to medicines for the more than 10 million people who fall ill with tuberculosis every year. To prevent this from happening, we must distinguish disagreements that are honest from those that are dishonest. (John Stephens, Brabha Mahesh and Brian Citro, 9/13)
New England Journal of Medicine: Limiting State Flexibility In Drug Pricing
To reduce the burden of high-cost, low-value drugs, Massachusetts has proposed establishing a closed formulary, in which certain drugs can be excluded from coverage, for its Medicaid program. In late June, however, CMS denied the state's request without explanation. (Nicholas Bagley and Rachel E. Sachs, 9/13)
New England Journal of Medicine: Will Courts Allow States To Regulate Drug Prices?
In 2017, Maryland enacted a statute that prohibits manufacturers from "price gouging" on any "essential off-patent or generic drug." But in April 2018, a panel of the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that statute. (Christopher Robertson, 9/13)


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Mathematical Averages and the Landscape of the American Midwest
[Image: From "Midwestern Culture Sampler" by Design With Co.; photo by Matthew Messner].
Alas, I did not have a chance to write about this project while it was still on public display last month at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, but Design With Co.—an interesting firm previously featured here for their "Farmland World" proposal—has put together an analytic landscape model called the "Midwestern Culture Sampler."
The idea behind the model was to use "a fictional institutional entity called the Institute for Quantities, Scale and Image" in order to illustrate patterns of land use across the United States.
The resulting model, at ten-and-a-half square-feet, thus showed "a full square mile of the average geography and settlement patterns of the United States in their representative proportions."
In other words, if 27% forest cover, 11% asphalt, 53% agricultural, or any other possible mathematical combination—including number of sports fields, schools, roads, or even hospitals—was the average American use of a given square-acreage of land, then that is how it would be modeled by Design With Co.
This would result in a perfectly calibrated but, for that very reason, utterly absurd representation of the ideal countryside.
In fact, the designers' quest for exact calibration also extended to the architecture itself, which became a cartoonish, postmodern exaggeration of midwestern building styles.
Further, the designers explain, "Within this territory are various landmarks and attractions that are relocated in ways that enhance or challenge their architectural metaphors."
These include, for example, the "Leaning Tower of Pisa" as rebuilt in Niles, Illinois.
An accompanying guidebook, which I have not yet seen, called Mis-Guided Tactics for Propriety Calibration, apparently offers a history of their fictional institution, but perhaps also, as its title suggests, includes a series of instructions for how one's own land use patterns could brought into mathematical alignment with the national average.
Build another baseball diamond!
[Image: A ghost of "Farmland World" slips into the model… From "Midwestern Culture Sampler" by Design With Co.; photo by Matthew Messner].
Their overall intention, according to the designers, was "to reframe the familiar in a way that begins to feel like a hyper-real fairy tale," a landscape of exaggerated relationships and distorted terrains that, nonetheless, are mathematically accurate reflections of the country.
I believe the model is now traveling to other venues, so keep your eye out for the American average landscape popping up in a gallery near you.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on April 11, 2015 January 1, 2016 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Architecture, Design With Co., Landscape1 Comment on Mathematical Averages and the Landscape of the American Midwest
Farmland World
[Image: "Farmland World" by Design With Company (Allison Newmeyer and Stewart Hicks)].
One of the runners-up for the recent Animal Architecture Awards is also one of my favorites from the competition: "Farmland World" by Allison Newmeyer and Stewart Hicks of the Chicago-based Design With Company.
The project is an ironic investigation of how humans relate to farm animals—more specifically, how the ongoing spatial separation between humans and the animals they rely on for food and other forms of agricultural work can make animals seem to be nothing more than utilitarian machines.
[Image: From "Farmland World" by Design With Company; view larger].
In the architects' words:
The everyday life of the average American is almost completely disconnected from the land and animals that support them. Even farmers perform their duties primarily through automated mechanisms that remove them from the subject of their industry. The constructed distance between the human "us" and the animal "others" is increasing to the point that distinctions between machines and animals look blurry purely from distanced detachment. From our removed perspective, the extreme demand for cheap food production and the diversion of the pet economy distorts animals until they look more like utilitarian machines (bacon) or anthropomorphic projections to entertain and decorate (tea-cup terrier). As we relate to animals and machines similarly, where each begins to exhibit characteristics of the other, their converging trajectories point to an impending crisis at their collision.
Farmland World makes the human-animal encounter spectacular, proposing an absurdly over-the-top farm animal theme park—a "human/machine/animal hybrid adventure-land."
[Image: From "Farmland World" by Design With Company].
Farmland World "is a chain of agro-tourist resorts sprinkled across the American Midwestern countryside":
Part theme park and part working farm, guests arrive to the resort via train and stay as part of 1-day, 3-day or 5-day experience packages. Capitalizing on both recent governmental investments in high-speed rail infrastructure and the plentiful subsidies for farming, the network of resorts combine crowd-sourced farm labor with eco-tainment.
"As train-loads of itinerant fantasy farmers arrive," Newmeyer and Hicks drily write, "they are herded to the Grazing Coliseum to receive their complimentary overalls. From there, the adventure begins."
Foregrounding the idea that humans have increasingly come to confuse animals with machines, Farmland World is populated by robots, rides, and representations.
Inflatable mega-pigs and hollow, roving "cow combines" act as "robotic performers," in the designers' words. Animal replicants, these false creatures "extend the tradition of machines using and mimicking animals for moving, operating, branding and processing food crops."
[Image: From "Farmland World" by Design With Company; view section in more detail].
Meanwhile, the architect adds, "temporary farm excursionists"—paying visitors—"work, sowing and harvesting fields, becoming part of the herd. Farmland World embraces this hybrid human-animal-machine relationship, reinvigorating the rural landscape."
[Images: The robotic super-cows of "Farmland World" by Design With Company; view section in more detail].
As you can see in the project's overall guide, there are a whole series of these giant robot animals. A "chicken planter" stands beside a mechanical "sheep baaaler," which, in turn, is neighbors with a pig plow and a mechanical horse that spreads real horse manure from its techno-derriere. Think of it as Westworld in an age of vast industrial farming—a livestock Disneyland.
On the project plan, you'll also see such places as "Beeville" and "Veggie Row," the latter promising an internally-animated range of machine-plants sprouting from beds of artificial soil.
Having gone to elementary school in a small town in rural Wisconsin, I vividly remember being taken to see farm animals over at UW-Madison, including one that had had a window surgically implanted into its side; you could actually watch the cow, in section, digesting its food.
To go from this—a bovine proto-cyborg—to Design With Company's beautifully rendered "Farmland World" doesn't actually seem like such a stretch.
In any case, congratulations to Allison Newmeyer and Stewart Hicks for placing as second runner-up in the Animal Architecture Awards; for more, see the Animal Architecture website as well as this earlier post today on BLDGBLOG.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on August 22, 2011 January 1, 2016 Categories BLDGBLOGTags "Animal Architecture", Agriculture, Architecture, Design With Co., Farming, Landscape3 Comments on Farmland World
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The Lessons of Turnberry
It's time to reassess the greatness of Tom Watson. But what does his performance say about today's generation of players?
Jaime Diaz
Dom Furore
Master Negotiator: Watson worked his way around Turnberry with a Hoganesque display of solid shots many younger players didn't seem to have.
Lest it ever again slip our minds that golf is the cruelest game, the word "Turnberry" will for the foreseeable future suffice as an instant reminder. But as the wind howled through the empty bleachers surrounding the fateful final green and the sky darkened over the Firth of Clyde late Sunday evening, it was natural to wonder what the 138th British Open taught us.
First and foremost, Tom Watson's reputation as a player is adjusted upward. His feat of reaching the playoff of a major championship at age 59 has never been approached, surpassing what then-50-year-old Harry Vardon did by holding the lead over the final nine holes of the 1920 U.S. Open before sadly finishing second by a stroke. Like Vardon, and especially Sam Snead, Watson, by showing how much game he has in his dotage, retroactively raises the assessment of just how much game he had in his prime. In other words, during that period from 1975 to 1983 in which he won his eight major championships—and even in the long period after that when he barely won at all—he was better than we thought.
But second, the last round at Turnberry provided a revealing snapshot of the current era of golfers—and frankly, exposed them as wanting. For all their power and superior physiques and technical proficiency, the evidence keeps suggesting they are as a group (with one giant exception) competitively softer and less-accomplished shotmakers than their predecessors. And unless a few of them can come closer to being more like the giant exception, their place in history, much like the baby boomers, will end in the shadow of the golf equivalent of the Greatest Generation—a group including Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Johnny Miller and, of course, Watson—that ruled the game in the 1970s and into the 1980s.
I've been resisting this line of thought for several years, which has gained momentum as so many have folded and fallen before Tiger Woods. The argument goes that Woods has it easier than Nicklaus did when it comes to racking up majors, because of the greater number of proven winners and presumably tougher, hungrier and more well-rounded competitors that the Golden Bear faced. For all their vaunted depth, today's players, the theory goes, suffer from a general decadence: too much prize money lowering the urgency to win; too few moments atop leader boards leaving them relatively callow under pressure; and too many equipment advances that keep increasing distance, accuracy and spin while lulling them into a one-dimensional style of power golf that is ill-suited to the demands of major championships, particularly those played on a links.
For a while it seemed that a basic foundation for this polemic was nostalgia. It tends to ignore that Nicklaus and others picked up plenty of their majors when lesser players buckled. It also seemed an intentional slight to Woods, devaluing his breathtaking record for winning tournaments when holding or sharing the lead going into the final round (45 for 48 in his career, and 14 for 14 in majors), which to my mind is his most extraordinary feat and the one that most distinguishes him from the champions of previous eras. Finally, it runs contrary to the principle that is generally accepted across all sports—that athletes keep getting bigger, faster and stronger while increasing their skills.
However, I've been getting worn down as the game's wise heads have become more insistent. Sure, players from the previous era have a clear conflict of interest, but veteran caddies, who have worked in both eras and have been best positioned to see the difference, don't. Though they prefer not to be quoted, most believe the older players were tougher and better all-around players. "They can get rich without being that good now," more than one grizzled looper has told me of the current crop.
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Turnberry gave this school of thought more credence. It was the kind of examination that asked the variety and type of questions modern players have a hard time answering. As Luke Donald, who closed with 67 to finish T-5, said, "They don't the winner the champion golfer of the year for no reason, because this really does test all facets of your game."
Sunday's final round was most telling. Neither the wind nor the pin positions seemed extreme. Padraig Harrington, after ending his defense of the claret jug with an early finishing 73, declared, "Anyone can get it under par today. … There's hardly a pin on the golf course if you hit a good shot you can't get close to."
Yet birdies were scarce, and 67 was the best anyone did. Cink said it was because of Turnberry's tricky crosswinds. "You just don't have any margin for error with the way you start your shot, with the trajectory or the spin," he said. "You just have to be right, or you're going to miss your target, no question. It was just the perfect amount of wind to challenge everybody and see what everybody had."
It just didn't seem that the main contenders—the ones by definition doing the best playing—had that much. One after the other they failed when presented with a main chance. First Ross Fisher reacted to a sudden three-stroke lead after the first four holes by making a quadruple-bogey 8 on the fifth, and never recovering. Ernie Els, a stalwart of the era, got to even par by playing the first 10 holes in three under, but he could get no further and missed a six-footer for par on the last that ended all hope. Retief Goosen, who has not been quite the same since taking a lead into the final round of the 2005 U.S. Open at Pinehurst and shooting 81, was within one when he took two in the bunker and missed a four-footer to double bogey the 15th. Mathew Goggin was tied for the lead through the 13th, but three straight bogeys and a failure to birdie the easy par-5 17th left him two out of the playoff. Even Chris Wood ended his 67 with a missed 10-foot par putt on the 72nd that would have tied him with Watson and Cink.
The most regretful "nearly man" besides Watson was Lee Westwood, a prolific closer early in his career, who once again didn't get it done. His long-suspect short game found him out: A clumsy bunker shot on 15 and an anemic chip on 16 led to bogeys that were more egregious than his three-putt on the final green.
Even Cink looked as if he had blown it. After his third birdie on the back nine at 15 put him in a tie for the lead, he promptly took three from the edge for a bogey on the 16th and failed on a six-footer for birdie on the 17th.
But Cink has been steeled by failure, putting himself through the same process—brutal self-assessment and determined correction—that once changed Watson from a young player prone to choking to a champion who could face down Nicklaus. "Somebody at a major always has that calm peace about them," said Cink, who was the embodiment of cool with his 72nd-hole birdie putt.
Watson, Trevino, Ballesteros
For the four days he commanded center stage at Turnberry, it surely seemed to be Watson who had the corner on calm. His swing, now long distilled to its functional essence, was a study in rhythm, balance and repetition. His expression, even over the short putts that for so long have been his nemesis, was one of inner joy. As he put on a Hoganesque display of exceedingly solid shots that masterfully negotiated Turnberry's winds and nuanced angles, younger competitors didn't contain their admiration for a player who seemed to have emerged—slightly wizened but playing a game with which they were not really familiar—from a time capsule.
"He's so solid, and he hits the right shot," said Cink. "He just plays under control. The same Tom Watson that won this tournament in 1977, that same guy showed up here this week."
Watson is the essence of old school and believes the game has devolved in decadence in recent years, but he didn't throw any darts at Turnberry. "The big-headed clubs make you a little sloppy," he allowed. Asked directly about the current era of players, he half-ducked. "Well, that's for you to write," he said. "But there is that element of 'Who is challenging Tiger?' "
Though he didn't win, when it came down to it, until the very last green, it was Watson who handled the pressure with the most poise and aplomb. He hit full-blooded shots throughout the back nine, particularly on the final three holes. As he had said, "The reason I'm out here is I hit quality shots when the pressure's on." And he did. The great irony of Turnberry is that the man who had grown to love the unpredictable bounce of the ball on a linksland was undone by the meanest of bounces after flushing a seemingly perfect 8–iron approach into the 72nd hole.
So, here's the takeaway: Yes, Watson is a supreme talent and truly extraordinary golfer, even greater than we knew. Yes, his inability to carry the ball through the air as far as the young bucks is rendered moot on a championship links. But sorry guys, all-timer or not, links or no links, if a 59-year-old guy looks like the best player in the field at a major championship, there is something wrong with your era.
At the presentation ceremony, Watson stood with 16-year-old Matteo Manassero, the dynamic Italian amateur who finished T-13 after his own disappointing 5-5-5 finish. They had played the first two rounds together, and Manassero was the better for it. "Playing with Tom Watson," he said, "even if he doesn't say something to you, even if he doesn't give you advice, you grow up [by] watching him."
Though he didn't complete the storybook, Watson put on a clinic for the ages. Perhaps Manassero's era—the next one—will be freer of the excesses that have hurt this one. Maybe there will be more equipment rollbacks, and, who knows, less money.
Until then, let's hope the lessons of Turnberry were well learned.


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The world is now estimated to be churning out quintillions of bytes of data every day, which goes to show why the industry is struggling to keep up with the ever increasing demand for data scientists to pinpoint those insights that can increase company revenues, or better manage their resources.
The McKinsey Global Institute predicts the industry will need at least 190,000 more workers with analytics expertise and 1.5 million more data-savvy managers by 2018 in the US alone. It is clear that we need highly skilled, business-savvy data scientists to sustain future demand and keep pace with industry growth and that's why Hortonworks has renewed our support for "Science to Data Science" (S2DS), a five-week course in London that arms science PhD students with the technical and commercial skills needed to be hired into data science roles.
The initiative, led by Pivigo Academy provides a mix of lectures, workshops and practical exercises giving participants hands-on experience solving real life data problems, whilst obtaining a solid background on a range of technical, management and business topics. Over the years, S2DS has welcomed brilliant minds from a variety of backgrounds, not necessarily related to data analytics per se. To give you a flavour, Andrew Burgess's background is astrophysics, Helen Ramsden's research concerned neuroscience and gene expressions, whereas Juan Pablo Maldonado Lopez's PhD was in mathematical game theory.
Last year's course has helped all these students find rewarding jobs outside their respective academic roots. Amy McQuillan, for instance, was able to join Royal Mail as a business modelling analyst, after years of academic research in stellar physics. "Thanks to an excellent pool of big data experts, insightful management lectures and networking sessions, I was able to develop a commercial mind-set which allowed me to find a rewarding job outside my academic roots", said Amy.
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