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Merchants of myth: Idealism in Darman's Landslide and beyond
In his first book, Jonathan Darman hammers home a blistering critique of idealism in American politics.
Matthew Reade	on December 2, 2016
Modern politicians have come to recognize the power of idealism. In 2008, a little-known senator from the state of Illinois rode powerful, sweeping rhetoric about opportunity and the American dream to the White House. And, in 2016, a businessman pledged to tear down the political establishment and "make America great again," earning the adoration of a legion of supporters anxious for a fresh start. He captured the presidency against all odds.
Landslide by Jonathan Darman.
Naked appeals to idealism have long been a part of our democracy. But as Jonathan Darman illustrates in Landslide, Lyndon B. Johnson and Ronald Reagan made these appeals central to their rhetoric, crafting utopian visions of America that seduced voters but could not become reality. By dispensing with complexity in favor of simple expressions of what America should be, both Johnson and Reagan set the stage for the high-minded idealism of the modern political era—and for the frustration and failure that came with it.
Darman begins by discussing Johnson's vision of America, embodied in the Great Society. A package of ambitious social spending policies designed to "solve the great problems of American life," the Great Society promised to harness the nation's "unprecedented economic affluence" to alleviate the most persistent afflictions of human civilization.1 It would eliminate poverty, discrimination, hunger, and disease, summoning "a new world" that would "bend … to the hopes of man."2 Johnson especially reveled in the grandeur of this promise. "It's the time—and it's going to be soon—when nobody in this country is poor," he thundered at a campaign stop in the final week of his 1964 presidential bid. "It's the time when every slum is gone from every city in America, and America is beautiful."3
It was on this promise, borne of the prosperity of post-war America, that L.B.J. built his spectacular 486 electoral vote landslide against Republican Barry Goldwater. But as Darman recalls, it was only a matter of time before his vision would collapse under the weight of its fantasy. Two years after Johnson vowed to drive poverty to extinction, the Republicans dealt his party a crushing defeat in the 1966 midterm elections.4 As both liberals and conservatives recognized at the time, this amounted to a repudiation of the Great Society. As one Democrat mayor put it to the president, "I don't think we can keep pushing this Great Society idea because it hasn't worked."5 In 1968, foreseeing the drubbing that would accompany a reelection bid, President Johnson announced that he would not seek an additional term, tacitly acknowledging his failure to realize the expansive ambitions of his flagship domestic policy program.6
Johnson promised to eliminate the most persistent afflictions of human civilization through good government, but his vision collapsed under the weight of its fantasy.
As Ronald Reagan ascended through the ranks of the conservative movement during the 1960s and '70s, he too promised utopia. But where Johnson promised security from hardship, Reagan inspired hope for deliverance and restoration. Painting a picture of a broken government managed by arrogant, hapless bureaucrats, he spoke of the "elites in Washington" as a bottleneck upon the unique potential and creativity of the American people.7 "We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth," he uttered in his famous "A Time for Choosing" address. 8 Sixteen years later, with the country roiled by economic crisis, he summed up his philosophy with the simple slogan: "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."9 In other words, Ronald Reagan was the antithesis of L.B.J.
But even Reagan, remembered today as a conservative paragon, fell short of his vision. His tax cut package, designed to force an ever-expanding government to shrink, never produced a corresponding decrease in federal outlays. In a special twist of irony, the man who had proclaimed the incompetence of government throughout his political ascendance ultimately added "more debt to the nation's ledgers than had all of his predecessors … combined."10
Through his extensive accounts of Reagan and L.B.J., Darman hammers home a blistering critique of idealism in American politics. The men could not have been more different; they hailed from different walks of life, wrestled with different personal and political flaws, and embraced different governing philosophies. Yet, both leaders promised much and achieved little, establishing the basis for the tumult, gridlock, and polarization of today's politics.
Even Reagan, remembered today as a conservative paragon, fell short of his vision. In a special twist of irony, the man who had proclaimed the incompetence of government throughout his political ascendance ultimately added "more debt to the nation's ledgers than had all of his predecessors … combined."
Darman is right when he blames the "fantastic visions" of Reagan and L.B.J. for today's twisted political discourse.11 Politicians now live or die by campaign promises and high-minded ideals. Barack Obama's soaring message of change and progress produced a massive electoral victory, a turning point in American politics on the scale of Ronald Reagan's defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980.12 And when Mr. Obama failed to meet his lofty rhetoric as president, disappointed Americans on both sides of the political spectrum continued to agitate for the change he promised—and more.
For the Democrats, this meant a progressive rebellion during the 2016 party primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, who sought to protect the legacy of her predecessor rather than to expand upon it.13 Bernie Sanders, the septuagenarian Vermont senator who campaigned against Mrs. Clinton for the Democratic Party's nomination, marshaled a coalition of disaffected millennials, independents, and working-class whites behind a revolutionary progressive policy agenda that some have compared to L.B.J.'s Great Society. Eric Pianin writes in the Fiscal Times:
Not since Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson has any candidate for president wanted to do as much to expand the size and scope of the federal government as Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont … Johnson poured hundreds of billions of dollars into his "Great Society"– including the creation of Medicare and Medicaid – and Sanders's revolutionary government and social welfare agenda could easily match or exceed that spending.14
Sen. Sanders even premised his appeal on similar themes. Like Johnson, he saw the pain of America's downtrodden as a problem that he, through policy, could solve. "There are massive unmet needs on every corner of this nation," Sanders said at a rally early in his candidacy. "Children in this country go hungry … and millions of people are looking for work … This campaign is about the needs of the American people."15
The Republicans had their own revolutionary, but unlike the Democrats, they were unable to stop him. Pledging to overthrow a corrupt and elitist political establishment, businessman and reality television star Donald J. Trump toppled sixteen other contenders in the primaries to become the Republican presidential nominee. According to Newsweek's Chris Lehmann, he "struck a chord among a pinched conservative working-class electorate" with his opposition to globalization, mass immigration, and other high-minded designs of the political elite.16 Mr. Trump's pledge to "drain the swamp"—in reference to Washington D.C., the literal swamp home to much of America's political class—encapsulates the core of this vision. For Trump, government is not the problem; the political class is.
But just as Barack Obama fell short of his promise to overcome politics and unify a divided nation, Donald Trump will struggle to meet the lofty standard that his own vision has set. Voters will turn against him, realizing that his promise to fix everything that is wrong with Washington has not been kept, and will look to a new figure—offering yet another path to greatness—for new answers. And as with Reagan and L.B.J., with this idealism will come more frustration with a Washington elite that always promises, but never delivers.
After L.B.J. and Reagan, America's politicians have become merchants of myth. They trade fantasy for votes, and when reality strikes, the people feel betrayed. For true change to come, voters must demand candidates who are willing to say what they can't accomplish, while resisting the urge to support those who pledge to fix every ill and remedy every injustice. Until this happens, Darman's version of history will repeat itself ad infinitum.
In the afterword, Darman identifies the "old consensus vision" of American politics as a possible response to the ill-fated idealism of the modern era.17 But the return of practicality and realism is difficult to imagine in our polarized political world. With voters so intent upon rewarding politicians who tell them what they want to hear, it is unclear how or when consensus politics will ever trump the seductive power of grand ideals.
Darman, Jonathan, Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America (New York: Random House, 2015), xxi-xxii. ↩
Ibid. at xxii. ↩
Ibid. at 215. ↩
Ibid. at 353-54. ↩
Reagan, Ronald, "A Time for Choosing" (speech), October 27, 1964. ↩
Darman, Landslide, 362. ↩
Ibid. at xxi. ↩
Walker, Ruth, "Post-election: What's changed, what's stayed the same," The Harvard Gazette, November 13, 2008 ("For [William] Kristol, 1980—the election year that swept Ronald Reagan into office—is the analogy, albeit from the other side of the aisle."). See also Kuhn, David Paul, "Obama models campaign on Reagan revolt," Politico, July 24, 2007 ("'Now, it is blasphemy for Democrats,' Obama pollster Cornell Belcher said of Reagan, 'but that hope and optimism that was Ronald Reagan' allowed him to 'transcend' ideological divisions within his own party and the general electorate."). ↩
Stein, Sam and Jonathan Cohn, "Obama Hits The Trail For Hillary Clinton — And To Cement His Legacy For Generations," The Huffington Post, October 25, 2016 ("For the president and his longtime aides ― many of whom have been impassioned Clinton advocates in this election cycle ― it's also about making sure Obama's legacy, and progressivism as a whole, is firmly ingrained in American society"). ↩
Pianin, Eric, "Sanders's 'Great Society' Plan Could Add $15 Trillion to the Debt," Fiscal Times, April 8, 2016. ↩
Healy, Patrick, "Bernie Sanders Challenges Hillary Clinton at First Rally," New York Times, May 26, 2015. ↩
Lehmann, Chris, "Donald Trump and the Long Tradition of American Populism," Newsweek, August 22, 2015. ↩
Darman, Landslide, 375-76. ↩
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In contrast, Google search result is using mousedown JS that calls the clickthrough address instead of redirection. So the original link is kept on the HTML.
On another web site, when a link is clicked an image is downloaded to record the clickthrough.
So the ultimate question is: how do you accurately record clickthroughs without affecting SEO (if it affect anything at all)?

A: Make a PHP file which records the click through to a database and then have it do a 301 redirect to your target URL, this will preserve link juice and act as a completely normal link without bloating your page with JavaScript or anything.
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A: Use an intermediate link manager to direct the traffic. Don't go directly to the address. In this way you can manage everything after the click it received. It also makes it easy to move things.

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I have been to the Mountaintop: April 3 ~ 4,1968
April 4, 1968, The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King, pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
In the months before his assassination, Martin Luther King became increasingly concerned with the problem of economic inequality in America. He organized a Poor People's Campaign to focus on the issue, including an interracial poor people's marchon Washington, and in March 1968 traveled to Memphis in support of poorly treated African-American sanitation workers. On March 28, a workers' protest march led by King ended in violence and the death of an African-American teenager. King left the city but vowed to return in early April to lead another demonstration.
On April 3, back in Memphis, King gave his last sermon, saying, "We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop…And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land."
One day after speaking those words, Dr. King was shot and killed by a sniper. As word of the assassination spread, riots broke out in cities all across the United States and National Guard troops were deployed in Memphis and Washington, D.C. On April 9, King was laid to rest in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to pay tribute to King's casket as it passed by in a wooden farm cart drawn by two mules.
The evening of King's murder, a Remington .30-06 hunting rifle was found on the sidewalk beside a rooming house one block from the Lorraine Motel. During the next several weeks, the rifle, eyewitness reports, and fingerprints on the weapon all implicated a single suspect: escaped convict James Earl Ray. A two-bit criminal, Ray escaped a Missouri prison in April 1967 while serving a sentence for a holdup. In May 1968, a massive manhunt for Ray began. The FBI eventually determined that he had obtained a Canadian passport under a false identity, which at the time was relatively easy.
On June 8, Scotland Yard investigators arrested Ray at a London airport. He was trying to fly to Belgium, with the eventual goal, he later admitted, of reaching Rhodesia. Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe, was at the time ruled by an oppressive and internationally condemned white minority government. Extradited to the United States, Ray stood before a Memphis judge in March 1969 and pleaded guilty to King's murder in order to avoid the electric chair. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Three days later, he attempted to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming he was innocent of King's assassination and had been set up as a patsy in a larger conspiracy. He claimed that in 1967, a mysterious man named "Raoul" had approached him and recruited him into a gun running enterprise. On April 4, 1968, he said, he realized that he was to be the fall guy for the King assassination and fled to Canada. Ray's motion was denied, as were his dozens of other requests for a trial during the next 29 years.
During the 1990s, the widow and children of Martin Luther King Jr. spoke publicly in support of Ray and his claims, calling him innocent and speculating about an assassination conspiracy involving the U.S. government and military. U.S. authorities were, in conspiracists' minds, implicated circumstantially. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover obsessed over King, who he thought was under communist influence. For the last six years of his life, King underwent constant wiretapping and harassment by the FBI. Before his death, Dr. King was also monitored by U.S. military intelligence, which may have been asked to watch King after he publicly denounced the Vietnam War in 1967. Furthermore, by calling for radical economic reforms in 1968, including guaranteed annual incomes for all, King was making few new friends in the Cold War-era U.S. government.
Over the years, the assassination has been reexamined by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, the Shelby County, Tennessee, district attorney's office, and three times by the U.S. Justice Department. The investigations all ended with the same conclusion: James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King. The House committee acknowledged that a low-level conspiracy might have existed, involving one or more accomplices to Ray, but uncovered no evidence to definitively prove this theory. In addition to the mountain of evidence against him–such as his fingerprints on the murder weapon and his admitted presence at the rooming house on April 4–Ray had a definite motive in assassinating King: hatred. According to his family and friends, he was an outspoken racist who informed them of his intent to kill Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He died in 1998.
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Complications of Myeloma Therapy
Angela Dispenzieri
The advent of new therapies for multiple myeloma brings new hope for patients but also new side effects. Emerging information about the risks of supportive care therapies, including long-term, high-intensity bisphosphonate use and erythropoiesis-stimulating agents, is examined. As the number of drugs in the myeloma armamentarium grows, so does the list of possible side effects and interactions. With current progress, not only are there more complications to consider but patients are also living longer and the risk for delayed complications is becoming more relevant. The author provides perspective about the risks for the most active and commonly used single-agent and combination myeloma therapies.
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Jonathan Nalder Wins the 2015 Henderson Prize
Victoria Estrada
At the opening plenary during the 2015 NMC Summer Conference, NMC Board Chair Don Henderson and CEO Larry Johnson awarded Jonathan Nalder the Henderson Prize, a special accolade that recognizes leaders who demonstrate exemplary passion to teaching, learning, and innovation.
Hailing from Australia, Nalder is a Senior Education Consultant of Digital Learning for TAFE Queensland and the founder of JNXYZ Education, a strategic planning and consultancy firm for K-12 schools. He is also the author of The iPad is Not a PC, an e-book about app workflows and a co-founder of E20, an education discussion startup. Throughout his 20+ year career, Nalder has advocated for the use of progressive methods and technologies to enrich education; he is passionate about citizen science, Challenge Based Learning, and the SAMR learning model, among others. Nalder is also an NMC K-12 Ambassador and an esteemed member of the NMC Community, well known for his commitment to creativity and innovation.
"Recognition by just about the best education community I know has blown me away," said Nalder. "I'm just a teacher willing to try new things, and NMC has reiterated their support for people like me and for the innovative spirit of their whole community with this award."
About the Henderson Prize
The Henderson Prize was created by the NMC in honor of Don Henderson to recognize those who have displayed exemplary ongoing passion for teaching, learning, and innovation. Don Henderson is the NMC's longest serving board member, and his creativity, curiosity, compassion, and deep commitment to education have been evident throughout his service to the NMC, and reflects the values that the Henderson Prize rewards.
Nalder joins Cheryl Steighner who was awarded the first Henderson Prize in 2013.
Victoria Estrada has been contributing her writing, research, and editing skills to the NMC Horizon Project since 2012. Before that, she was learning from stellar English language instructors at La Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica, where she worked for a year with a Fulbright grant. Victoria has a Certificate in Non-profit Leadership and Management from Austin Community College, and a bachelor's degree in English Writing & Rhetoric from St. Edward's University. Some of her other interests include people, flora & fauna, sustainability, good coffee, good causes, and photos. She has recently relocated to her hometown -- San Antonio, Texas.
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SIC>News>Events>SIC Plans 2021 Livestreamed Commencement
SIC Plans 2021 Livestreamed Commencement
Events//General
Southeastern Illinois College 2021 graduates will have the opportunity to walk down the aisle to accept their diplomas this year in Joseph Deaton Gymnasium Saturday, May 8. The one major difference is that there will be no packed gymnasium. Family and friends will be cheering from the college parking lot or from home and commenting on the live ceremony during the livestreamed event on YouTube.
With the ceremonies livestreamed, SIC will create Wi-Fi capacity in its north parking lot so that family and guests can stream the ceremony on their devices from their cars.
"This decision has not been made lightly," said Executive Dean of Student Services, Dr. Chad Flannery. "We want our students to have the graduation experience, but we want to make sure we do so in as safe a manner as possible. And livestreaming the event will allow family members that may live some distance away to experience the ceremonies in real time, as well."
Another change in SIC's graduation is two separate ceremonies will be held. The first is at 10 a.m. for baccalaureate Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees. The second is at 1 p.m. for Nursing, Career & Technical Education, Associate of Applied Science degrees, and certificates.
The platform will be set up in traditional fashion with the platform party spaced according to social distancing requirements. Faculty will be seated on either side of the traditional middle aisle according to social distancing requirements.
Students eligible to walk for graduation are those who finished their degree or certificate in Fall 2020 or Spring 2021, or those who will finish in Summer 2021. Students filled out their graduation application in December, and any that have not picked up their cap and gowns yet, should visit the SIC Bookstore.
Students should arrive 45 minutes prior to the start of their ceremony and enter through A Building between A and D (Child Study Center) Buildings where they will meet with college staff to get lined up. Students will be spaced out through the ABC Corridors to adhere to social distancing requirements. The ceremony will also be livestreamed throughout the ABC Corridors on TV screens for students to watch while they wait for their turn.
Students will proceed to the stage when their name is called to receive their diploma cover. They will then proceed down the middle aisle between faculty to a picture station where they will have an opportunity for a photo before exiting the gym. Photos will later be made available for families to view, save, and download, and the link will be posted to SIC's social media accounts.
Terry Severson, Hoosier Fire Management Officer, will be the keynote speaker for both ceremonies. Severson is the 2021 SIC Distinguished Alumnus.
Music for the first ceremony will be provided by SIC Music Instructor and Teacher of the Year, Cory Garmane. Musician and SIC Alumna Melinda Tolley will provide music for the 1 p.m. ceremony.
To watch the livestreamed event, visit www.youtube.com/c/SoutheasternIllinois. The video will remain on YouTube for later viewing, as well. For more information about commencement, call (618) 252-5400 ext. 2400 or email maddison.maloney@sic.edu.


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Rolling Stones Exhibit Rocks Music Fans
May 20, 2016 by Janina Winkler
– Sponsored News – For a Rolling Stones fan, what could top meeting the band in person? New Yorker Alex Emanuel met Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood inside the Recording Gallery within the Rolling Stones retrospective exhibit, Exhibitionism, at London's Saatchi Gallery.
After handshakes and back slaps with the band, Alex recalled, "It's going to sound silly, but for a moment I thought I was a member of the Rolling Stones. It's not every day you get to meet your idols." He added, "The show has given me a unique glimpse of the city through the eyes of the Rolling Stones."
Exhibitionism is a Rolling Stones treasure trove, and includes 9 themed gallery spaces with 500 items from original stage costumes, rare instruments, lyric books, backstage and touring paraphernalia, album art, photography, stage designs, personal diaries, and never-before-released audio and behind-the-scenes footage.
Celebrating the Stones' artistic collaborations in music, art and design, fashion, and film, Exhibitionism also features original works on display from an array of artists as diverse as Andy Warhol, Alexander McQueen, Prada, Dior, Ossie Clark, L'Wren Scott, David Bailey, Michael Cooper, Jeff Koons, Walton Ford, Shepard Fairey, and Martin Scorsese.
"The exhibition offers the most in-depth insight into The Rolling Stones and their incredible career," says Thea Jeanes-Cochrane, Director of iEC (International Entertainment Consulting), the company behind the exhibit. "We've worked hard to create something utterly breathtaking and it's very pleasing to see the fans reactions."
Chris Gottlieb, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at VisitLondon.com adds, "Alex's Rolling Stones tour of London shows how the city is steeped in the history of one of the world's greatest rock bands."
Alex was taken on a Rolling Stones-themed, once-in-a-lifetime trip to London after the city's official tourism body, Visitlondon.com, identified him as a "super fan" of the band.
Alex visited many iconic Rolling Stones locations, including Edith Grove, Chelsea, where the band lived together; Regents Sounds in Denmark Street, where they cut their first albums; the 100 Club, where they played an impromptu gig in 1982, and Olympic Studios where "Sympathy for the Devil" was recorded.
Tourism initiative Fans of London — devised by Visitlondon.com and supported by the GREAT Britain Campaign, British Airways, and Hilton — celebrates many special events across London this year including the Rolling Stones exhibit, Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday celebrations, and 400 years of Shakespeare's legacy.
Exhibitionism runs until September 4 at London's Saatchi Gallery. Tickets are available at stonesexhibitionism.com. Want to win a trip to London for your own music fan fantasy? Visit www.visitlondon.com/fans.
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Q: How to setup Sentry-cli source maps with react-native Introduction
Hi, I'm trying to get Sentry to recognise our sourcemaps in a react-native project, but I can't get it working.
The artifacts are uploading - I can see them in the WebUI, but the events lack context/mapping:

Question
Can anyone see any problems in my setup?
Thanks!
 Background
Assumptions

*

*uploading release artifacts, then deleting artifacts from web ui, then re-uploading new artifacts is valid

*"abs_path": "app:///index.bundle", requires the bundled js needs to be renamed to index.bundle

*That fact that all events have a processing error: Discarded invalid parameter 'dist' should not effect sourcemaps

*Once everything lines up, all my historical events for the release will benefit from the uploaded files/sourcemaps

Xcode build phase
During the XCode build phase we already bundle the DSym.
In this script, I'm trying to pull out the bundled js and sourcemap, and uploading it.
Script
#!/bin/bash
# WARNING: Run directly from Xcode

# For testing of Xcode bundling/sentry locally, set to "true"
DEBUG_FORCE_BUNDLING="true"

printf "Xcode: Bundle react-native and upload to Sentry"

source ../scripts/xcode/utils/node_activate.sh

# Create bundle and sourcemap
export NODE_BINARY=node
export SENTRY_PROPERTIES=sentry.properties
DEST=$CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR/$UNLOCALIZED_RESOURCES_FOLDER_PATH
export EXTRA_PACKAGER_ARGS="--sourcemap-output $DEST/main.bundle.map.js";
if [ "${CONFIGURATION}" = "Release" ]; then
    FORCE_BUNDLING="$DEBUG_FORCE_BUNDLING" \
    ../node_modules/@sentry/cli/sentry-cli react-native xcode \
    ../node_modules/react-native/scripts/react-native-xcode.sh
else
   FORCE_BUNDLING="$DEBUG_FORCE_BUNDLING" \
   ../node_modules/@sentry/cli/sentry-cli react-native xcode \
   ../node_modules/react-native/scripts/react-native-xcode.sh
fi

# Copy bundle & sourcemap
mkdir -p ../.xcodebuild
cp $DEST/main.jsbundle ../.xcodebuild/index.bundle # rename?
cp $DEST/main.bundle.map.js ../.xcodebuild
echo "Size of file $(wc -c ../.xcodebuild/index.bundle)" # RENAME!?
echo "Size of sourcemap $(wc -c ../.xcodebuild/main.bundle.map.js)"

# Upload sentry release
# https://docs.sentry.io/cli/releases/#creating-releases
APP_IDENTIFIER="com.mycompany.app"
VERSION="1.4.21"
RELEASE_NAME="$APP_IDENTIFIER-$VERSION"
DISTRIBUTION_NAME="2400"

function sentry_release {
    npx sentry-cli releases \
        files $RELEASE_NAME \
        $1 $2 $3
        --dist $DISTRIBUTION_NAME \
        --strip-prefix ".build" \
        --ignore node_modules \
        --rewrite "$(pwd)"

}

sentry_release upload ../.xcodebuild/index.bundle '~/index.bundle'
echo "sentry_release upload"

sentry_release upload-sourcemaps ../.xcodebuild/main.bundle.map.js
echo "sentry_release upload-sourcemaps"

echo `date`
echo "DONE"

Note: The important bit of node_modules/react-native/scripts/react-native-xcode.sh is:
BUNDLE_FILE="$DEST/main.jsbundle"

echo "BUNDLE_FILE: $BUNDLE_FILE" > ~/bh/react-native-native/bundle.log

"$NODE_BINARY" $NODE_ARGS "$CLI_PATH" $BUNDLE_COMMAND \
  $CONFIG_ARG \
  --entry-file "$ENTRY_FILE" \
  --platform ios \
  --dev $DEV \
  --reset-cache \
  --bundle-output "$BUNDLE_FILE" \
  --assets-dest "$DEST" \
  $EXTRA_PACKAGER_ARGS

Script output
Xcode: Upload Debug Symbols to SentryNow using node v11.11.0 (npm v6.7.0)
FORCE_BUNDLING enabled; continuing to bundle.
warning: the transform cache was reset.
Loading dependency graph, done.
info Writing bundle output to:, /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/TheApp-cvfhlrosjrphnjdcngyqxnlmjjbb/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/TheApp.app/main.jsbundle
info Writing sourcemap output to:, /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/TheApp-cvfhlrosjrphnjdcngyqxnlmjjbb/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/TheApp.app/main.bundle.map.js
info Done writing bundle output
info Done writing sourcemap output
info Copying 109 asset files
info Done copying assets
Size of file  8477623 ../.xcodebuild/index.bundle
Size of sourcemap  15378754 ../.xcodebuild/main.bundle.map.js
A 560eaee15f0c1ccb5a57b68b5dc1b4944cff84d2  (8477623 bytes)
sentry_release upload
> Analyzing 1 sources
> Adding source map references
> Uploading source maps for release com.mycompany.app-1.4.21

Source Map Upload Report
  Source Maps
    ~/main.bundle.map.js
sentry_release upload-sourcemaps
Fri May 3 15:50:26 BST 2019
DONE

Sentry event JSON
Trimmed some breadcrumbs/callstack:
// 20190503154011
// https://sentry.mycompany.com/mycompany/react-native-app/issues/4205/events/396945/json/

{
  "id": "1c754ed7d651445eb48ed79c995073e2",
  "project": 11,
  "release": "com.mycompany.app-1.4.21",
  "platform": "cocoa",
  "culprit": "crash(app:///index.bundle)",
  "message": "Error Sentry: TEST crash crash(app:///index.bundle)",
  "datetime": "2019-05-03T14:32:25.000000Z",
  "time_spent": null,
  "tags": [
    [
      "logger",
      "javascript"
    ],
    [
      "sentry:user",
      "id:b5f212b4-9112-4253-86cc-11583ac1945a"
    ],
    [
      "sentry:release",
      "com.mycompany.app-1.4.21"
    ],
    [
      "level",
      "fatal"
    ],
    [
      "device",
      "iPhone9,1"
    ],
    [
      "device.family",
      "iOS"
    ],
    [
      "os",
      "iOS 12.1"
    ],
    [
      "os.name",
      "iOS"
    ],
    [
      "os.rooted",
      "no"
    ]
  ],
  "contexts": {
    "device": {
      "model_id": "simulator",
      "family": "iOS",
      "simulator": true,
      "type": "device",
      "storage_size": 499963170816,
      "free_memory": 274915328,
      "memory_size": 17179869184,
      "boot_time": "2019-04-29T07:53:06Z",
      "timezone": "GMT+1",
      "model": "iPhone9,1",
      "usable_memory": 16463810560,
      "arch": "x86"
    },
    "app": {
      "app_version": "1.4.21",
      "app_name": "MyApp",
      "device_app_hash": "<device_app_hash>",
      "app_id": "<app_id>",
      "app_build": "2400",
      "app_start_time": "2019-05-03T14:31:33Z",
      "app_identifier": "com.mycompany.app",
      "type": "default",
      "build_type": "simulator"
    },
    "os": {
      "rooted": false,
      "kernel_version": "Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0: Thu Jun 21 22:53:14 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4570.71.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64",
      "version": "12.1",
      "build": "17G65",
      "type": "os",
      "name": "iOS"
    }
  },
  "errors": [
    {
      "type": "invalid_attribute",
      "name": "dist"
    }
  ],
  "extra": {
    "session:duration": 52129
  },
  "fingerprint": [
    "{{ default }}"
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "type": "Error",
    "value": "Sentry: TEST crash"
  },
  "received": 1556893946.0,
  "sdk": {
    "client_ip": "109.69.86.251",
    "version": "0.42.0",
    "name": "sentry.javascript.react-native"
  },
  "sentry.interfaces.Breadcrumbs": {
    "values": [
      {
        "category": "console",
        "timestamp": 1556893700.0,
        "message": "%c prev state color: #9E9E9E; font-weight: bold [object Object]",
        "type": "default"
      },
      {
        "category": "console",
        "timestamp": 1556893941.0,
        "message": "%c prev state color: #9E9E9E; font-weight: bold [object Object]",
        "type": "default"
      },
      {
        "category": "console",
        "timestamp": 1556893941.0,
        "message": "%c next state color: #4CAF50; font-weight: bold [object Object]",
        "type": "default"
      },
      {
        "category": "sentry",
        "timestamp": 1556893945.0,
        "message": "Error: Sentry: TEST crash",
        "type": "default",
        "level": "fatal"
      }
    ]
  },
  "sentry.interfaces.Exception": {
    "exc_omitted": null,
    "values": [
      {
        "stacktrace": {
          "frames": [
            {
              "function": "callFunctionReturnFlushedQueue",
              "platform": "javascript",
              "abs_path": "app:///[native code]",
              "in_app": false,
              "filename": "app:///[native code]"
            },
            {
              "function": "touchableHandlePress",
              "abs_path": "app:///index.bundle",
              "in_app": false,
              "platform": "javascript",
              "lineno": 64988,
              "colno": 47,
              "filename": "app:///index.bundle"
            },
            {
              "function": "crash",
              "abs_path": "app:///index.bundle",
              "in_app": false,
              "platform": "javascript",
              "lineno": 93710,
              "colno": 22,
              "filename": "app:///index.bundle"
            }
          ],
          "has_system_frames": false,
          "frames_omitted": null
        },
        "mechanism": null,
        "raw_stacktrace": null,
        "value": "Sentry: TEST crash",
        "thread_id": 99,
        "module": null,
        "type": "Error"
      }
    ]
  },
  "sentry.interfaces.User": {
    "id": "b5f212b4-9112-4253-86cc-11583ac1945a"
  },
  "type": "error",
  "version": "7"
}

Artifacts
Web UI
Cut and pasted from Release artifacts page:
Release com.mycompany.app-1.4.21

Artifacts
NAME                    SIZE
~/index.bundle          8.1 MB
~/main.bundle.map.js    14.7 MB

sourceMappingURL
$ tail -c 50 .xcodebuild/main.jsbundle
//# sourceMappingURL=main.bundle.map.js

A: After MONTHS, we realised we had to write client code to knit in the Distribution and Release....
    const configureSentry = () => {
        Sentry.config(config.sentry.dsn).install();
        Sentry.setDist(DeviceInfo.getBuildNumber());
        Sentry.setRelease(DeviceInfo.getBundleId() + '-' + DeviceInfo.getVersion());
    };


Image movie displayed in the Thessaloniki Ataturk House Museum presenting the days in Thessaloniki where Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born in 1881 and visited for the last time in 1911, by a collection of photographs of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Thessaloniki from that period.
Image movie displayed in the Thessaloniki Ataturk House Museum presenting the days at the Monastery where Mustafa Kemal Ataturk started studying with the Military High School in 1895 until his admission to the Military Academy in 1898, by a collection of photographs of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Thessaloniki from that period.
Image movie displayed in the Thessaloniki Ataturk House Museum presenting the days in Istanbul starting with the Military Academy in 1899 and ended with his death in the Dolmabahçe Palace in 1938, by a collection of photographs of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Istanbul from that period.
Image movie displayed in the Thessaloniki Ataturk House Museum featuring a collection of photographs of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as a proof of his love of children, his memoirs with his adopted children and the day he presented to children as a gift.
Image movie displayed in the Thessaloniki Ataturk House Museum presenting the days in Ankara where Ataturk arrived for the first time in 1919 to establish the parliament turning the city into a capital which is also home to his tomb, by a collection of photographs of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Ankara from that period.


Lawn sprinkler sellers can sell their items at eBay auctions. Sellers can check out the "Want It Now" posts to see if someone is looking for their particular item. This feature enables you to contact potential buyers to determine whether they are still interested in the item, as well as to tell them a little bit more about the lawn sprinklers you are offering. Be sure that your product matches a buyer's request, as unrelated responses can result in the seller being suspended from the "Want It Now" program. Sellers who go the "Want It Now" route can list a starting price for their sprinklers, or they can avoid the bidding process by just listing a fixed selling price.


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Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Athletic Excellence Awards!
Athletic Excellence Fund 2020
Congratulations to all Boccia NL athletes recently recognized with Awards from The Athletic Excellence Fund that recognizes athletic and academic excellence of the province's top athletes. Supported by the Department of Children, Seniors and Social Development (CSSD) and Sport Newfoundland and Labrador (Sport NL), the AEF includes the Premier's Athletic Awards, Team Gushue Awards, Elite Athlete Assistance Program, and Sport NL Scholarships.
Premier's Athletic Awards
Premier's Athletic Award was awarded to Lois Martin and Stephen Westcott in recognition of athletic excellence and provides financial support to help offset costs incurred through training and competition.
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Michael Mercer, Hayley Redmond and Kristyn Collins were recognised through the Elite Athlete Assistance program. They were recognized for athletic excellence and received financial support to help offset costs incurred through training and competition for high performance athletes from Newfoundland and Labrador who have been selected to a National Team.
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Q: SQLRPGLE source size limit Is there a limit to what the SQL pre-compiler can handle for an SQLRPGLE source object?
I have had some problems compiling a 25,000 line program and a line limit is the only thing that would explain the errors I'm getting

A: A few thoughts ...

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*What error are you getting when compiling?  The idea that a 25k line program might cause the SQL pre-compile a problem is not outside the realm of possibility ... consider that the pre-compiler creates a new source member (in QTEMP) that gets passed through the normal compile, and this new source member is larger than the original.  WAY back when I worked at SSA, we had problems (freudian slip) programs that were written in AS/SET that caused the compiler to choke on the size of the source members it generated.  I don't remember the limitations though.

*A 25k line program is pretty damn huge ... might not be a bad idea to take a hard look at the program and see if it could be broken up into logical modules that are bound together into a program object.

A: as @WarrenT said, tell us what the messages are.
We do have SQLRPGLE source code bigger than 25k lines and compiled just fine.
There is no limit (as i know of) if using RPG IV. The limits of 32k or so lines only if using SEU editor. If i'm not mistaken, RPG III and older do have some limits.
Use Websphere RSE (Remote System Explorer or whatever its name now) if your code is bigger than 32k.
Agree with @david and others - 25k is huge. We don't normally write huge codes, the one we have comes from 3rd party written in tools like AS/SET.

A: I've seen a program that got to about 40k lines. The compiler had no problem with it this size but you couldn't open it in SEU. Eclipse was ok but SEU has a limit of 32k lines due to the size of the line count in the margin.
What we had to do was create a second source member and /copy it in at the bottom. A horrible workaround but what else are you going to do with a program that size!


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Imaging the Earth's magnetosphere
Pkmet.Space Sci., Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 37%384, 1989 Printedin Great Britain. Cn332-0633/89 S3.00+0.00 Q 1989 PergamonFTea plc IMAGING THE EARTH'S MAG...
Physics of the magnetosphere
Feasibility study of the O II 83.4-mm imaging of the inosphere and magnetosphere
The radiation belt and magnetosphere
Resonance nature of the magnetosphere
Electrohydrodynamics of the pulsar magnetosphere
Pi2 pulsations in the magnetosphere
Imaging of ionospheric plasma outflow in the magnetosphere: Verification of a new concept
Mercury's magnetosphere
Model magnetosphere of Mercury
Pkmet.Space Sci., Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 37%384, 1989 Printedin Great Britain.
Cn332-0633/89 S3.00+0.00 Q 1989 PergamonFTea plc
IMAGING THE EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE D. W. SWIFT, R. W. SMITH d S.-l. AKASOPU Geophysical Institute and Department of Physics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-0800. U.S.A.
(Received 11 Nouember 1988) AI&r&-The ability to image the Earth's magnetosphere would constitute a major advance in our ability to formulate a comprehensive, time-dependent model of the magnetosphere and of substorm processes. Imaging technology is rapidly developing to the point where useful optical images could be made with sufficient spatial and temporal resolution for viewing substorm processes. We identify resonant scattering solar emissions near 834 A by O+ as the most promising means of viewing magnetospheric plasma and tracing processes within the magnetosphere. Simulations of images at 834 A observed from the Moon's orbit, which include detail on the radiation belts and the plasma sheet, are presented and analyzed. They show that changes in the global structure are expected to be visible through changes in the brightness and
structure of features which can he identified on the image. The analysis also shows that, given expected performance of detectors and reflectors now under development for use in e.u.v., useful images could be made in 15-30 min with 1000pixels. This will give time resolution adequate for observation of structures which could change in the period of a typical magnetospheric substonn. In addition to the further development of optical devices,high resolution spectra of solar radiation are needed to make more accurate calculations of the scattering due to 0+ at 834 A.
The study of the Earth's magnetosphere, beginning with the International Geophysical year and the discoveries of the Van Allen belts, is now over 30 y old. The intervening years have seen the discoveries and identification of the magnetopause (1963), the bow shock and neutral sheet (1964-65), the plasma sheet (1967-70), the cusp (1971-72), the mantle (1973-75), the low latitude boundary layer (1973-75), and the aurora1 potential structure (1975-76). In addition, many dynamic features of the magnetosphere have been revealed by satellites. Among them are : the flux transfer events (Russell and Elphic, 1978), plasmoids (Hones, 1979; Hones et al., 1986; Baker et al., 1987), up-flowing ions from the polar and aurora1 ionosphere (Yau et al., 1984), and the transient response of the plasma sheet (Huang et al., 1987). Our current picture of the magnetosphere has evolved as a result of the laborious process of assembling a multitude of time series records taken on satellite passes largely uncorrelated with substorm occurrence, through various parts of the magnetosphere. Since the magnetosphere is subject to large changes from one pass to the next, it has been necessary to use our emerging theoretical understanding in an attempt to extrapolate the information gained from one satellite pass to the next. As a result, after 30 y of space observations, gaps and uncertainties remain in our conceptual picture of the magnetosphere. Think how much easier it would have been if we
could "see" the magnetosphere and follow changes in magnetospheric weather, as we can see the weather in the troposphere through the formation and movement of clouds. For example, it would be highly instructive to observe the formation and detachment of plasmoids during substorms that have been described by Hones et al. (1986). Another feature of extreme interest is the response of the near-Earth plasma sheet to the growth and expansive phases of substorms (Kokobun and McPherron, 1981), since there is much in these processes that is not understood (Kaufmann, 1987). Also, the polar ionosphere is a likely source of the plasma sheet (Cladis and Francis, 1985), so it would be of interest to observe the outward streaming of ionospheric plasma detected by Yau et al. (1984). The purpose of this paper is to suggest that there are important tracers of plasma motion in the magnetosphere that may he subject to imaging. There have been many 2- and 3-D simulations (Feder and Lyon, 1987 ; Ogino, 1986) to explain these phenomena, which are capable of predicting the dynamic evolution of plasma populations in the magnetosphere. Computer graphics from these simulations are capable of producing images on a global scale which would be directly comparable with those which could be. obtained by global imaging. The ability to image the magnetosphere would therefore contribute significantly toward convergence of theory and observation in magnetospheric physics. In this paper we investigate the possibility of imag379
D. W. SWIFT et al.
ing the ma~etosphere in resonantly scattered sunlight. Hones (1987) suggested that dynamics of plasmoids could be observed from the Moon by imaging the release of Ca in the magnetotail. We present an analysis and simulation which shows that it may be possible to observe magnetospheric dynamics on a continuous basis by imaging emission from naturally occurring plasma species, namely O+. The next section will present an analysis of emission intensities from naturally occurring plasmas. The following section will present a discussion of possible instrument designs. Next we present synthetic images of what the magnetospheric plasma may look like to an observer at the distance of the Moon and show synthetic images of how the magnetosphere would look when viewed with a realizable instrument. 2. FEASIBILITY
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The first requirement is that the trace emission be from plasma state. This is necessary because the medium is virtually collisiontess, so any neutrals present would be unaffected by plasma motion. Another requirement is that whatever plasma species is chosen be relatively abundant in the magnetosphere and present in only small quantities in the background solar wind. Otherwise light from the magnetospheric plasmas would be in poor contrast compared with the background light emanating from the solar wind of the much more extensive interplanetary medium. It is convenient that the emission be present at all times, and therefore scattered sunlight should be used. For efficiency, a resonant transition is most suitable. Noting these requirements, the obvious candidates are 0" and He+. The O+ ion is the second most abundant ionic species in the magnetosphere, sometimes approaching that of Hf (Lennartsson and Shelley, 1986). Moreover, it is below detectable levels in the solar wind, even though more highly ionized states of oxygen have been detected (Bame et al., 1968, 1970). The H+ ion is, of course, unsuitable for viewing, because it does not radiate photons. The only other possibility is He', which has a strong Lyman-a resonance line at 305 A. However, this ion is far less abundant in the magnetosphere, with fractional abundances generally less than 0.01 (Lennartsson and Shelley, 1986). Bame et af. (1968) report fractional abundances of He+ of the order of 0.001 in the solar wind, but they (Bame et al., 1970) later suggested that instead of He+ they were viewing **Si+', so it seems unlikely that the solar wind contains a significant population of He+. Since we shall be relying on resonant scattering of sunlight, another consideration is the solar irradiance
in the resonance lines of He+ and O+. Hinteregger (1969) gives a 0.65 x lo9 photons cn? s-' solar irradiance to the 0" and 02+ group at 843 A, while Timothy (1977) gives a 0.5 x 10' irradiance for this same feature in the solar spectrum. These numbers are in reasonable agreement, considering the natural variability of solar emissions at this wavelength. The scattering cross-section of O+ summed over the three components of the triplet is about 5 x IO-l3 cm'. Taking Hinteregger's value for the solar &radiance, we get a scattering rate of 3.3 x 10m4photons SK*per O+ ion. The solar irradiance at 304 8, is about 9 x 10' photons crn2 s-' (Timothy and Timothy, 1970). Taking the resonant scattering cross-section of He+ to be the same as Ii for the Lyman-a line, of 1.67 x lo-l3 cm2, we get a scattering rate of 1.5 x lo-' photons s-' per He+. When taking the relative magnetospheric abundances of O+ and He' into account, the Of has an advantage. This analysis ignores the effect of the thermal Dop pler shift in the magnetospheric ions. This is a major un~rtainty. Assuming a 2 keV tem~rat~e, the fractional Doppler shift will be 5 x lop4 for O+ and 2 x 10s3 for He+. Since the number of scattered photons depends upon the match of the absorption lines of the plasma with the emission lines of the Sun, reduced scattering efficiency may occur if the plasma lines are broadened or shifted causing a mismatch. A definitive calculation of the scattering rate of O+ will require more detailed info~ation on the shape of the solar lines. This may require rocket observations targeted specifically at resolving the spectral features of the solar spectrum in the neighbourhood of 834 A. The present calculations assume that there is no loss of scattering efficiency due to Doppler broadening. We focus on the resonant scattering of the 834 8, solar radiation by the O+ triplet. We assume that each O+ will scatter 3.3 x 10m4photons s-'. A typical response of a camera system (discussed in the following section) will allow it to register 1 photon SK' for each 3.3 x lo6 O+ ions cme2 column along the line-of-sight. Assuming a density of O+ of 0.1 cm-3 (Lennartsson and Shelley, 1986) as typical of the plasma sheet and a path length of 3&, we find that total counts of the order 40 are achievable in the order of 1 min for pixels registering the brighter areas of the image. 3. INSTRUMENTAL
The preceding analysis indicates the possibility of obtaining useful magnetospheric images from the Of emission at 834 A and possibly He at 304 A. The major challenge is to build instrumentation which will
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FIG.~.RESULTSOFMODELCALCULATIONSHOW~NGIMAGEOFTHEMAGNETOSPHEREINRESONANTLYSCATTERED SUNLlGHTFXOMO+. The scenes A-D are 40" x 40" views from a distance of 60Rr from the center of the Barth and
30" above the eliptic plane. (A) is viewed from 20:00 L.T. toward the center of the Earth, (B) is looking from 18:OO L.T. to a point IO& behind the Earth, while (C) and (D) show views looking toward the Barth from 1490 and 1690 L.T., respectively. The dark hole is caused by the Earth obscuring the plasma behind it. E shows the count rate, assuming a 10% efficiency. This is taken along the white trace shown in the image C, with the sweep from the magnetotail toward the Sun to the lower left.
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(B) The same as A, except that the results of simulation of a Poisson distribution of the number of photon counts in each pixel is shown. (C) the same as B, except that a 2 pixel wide Gaussian filter has been applied. (D) Same as C, except that 0.67 pixel filter has been used ; and (E) is the same, but a 6 pixel wide filter has been used on B.
Imaging the Earth's magnetosphere make an image of the magnetosphere sufficiently rapidly using these photons, i.e. on the scale of a few minutes so as to see a magnetospheric substorm lasting on the order of an hour. The e.u.v. region of the spectrum is difficult to use for reflectors, detectors and dispersing elements. It is impossible to use transmitting optics because of the high absorption at these wavelengths. Spectral imaging in the ultraviolet has been carried out by McCoy et al. (1986) and Kumar et al. (1983) using a concave grating spectrometer as a combined imaging and dispersing optical element. Such techniques require scanning of the object in 1-D at least since the 2-D images which could be obtained have one direction used for dispersion. The price for use of a single element high efficiency e.u.v. detector, such as a cone channeltron, is the requirement to scan in 2-D. Such a design was not found to be favorable. Traditional methods using grazing incidence are unacceptable here, and normal incidence reflectivity is less than 10% for metals. Recent developments in multilayer Bragg reflectors have now been proven useful in this region (Walker et al., 1988). Designs for these reflectors may be optimized for narrow band reflectivity (Meekins et al., 1986) and promise reflectivity near normal incidence reaching a theoretical 70%. The narrow band nature of their performance provides the predispersion required for the selection of the 834 A emission with a bandwidth of 10-20 A. Hence, it is possible to construct a "monochromatic" camera using a mirror made in this manner without the need for an additional predisperser. One design under consideration calls for a reflecting camera using a 50 cm' reflector with a 20" half-angle field configured similarly to the Schmidt camera. No corrector plate is required for the 1000 pixel image which avoids using transmitting optics. Spectral predispersion is provided by the mirror as described above. The light reflected by the mirror will be imaged on a windowless microchannel plate detector having a position sensitive anode. Photons recorded by the detector are processed serially by computer to be stored to the appropriate pixel of the image matrix in memory. Assuming a combined reflectance for two surfaces of 30% and a detector efficiency of 8%, such a system, as mentioned in Section 2, will record 1 photon s-' for each 3.3 x lo6 ions in a 1 cm2 column along the line-of-sight. Images of the magnetosphere containing 1000 pixels may be made in the order of minutes. 4. THE MAGNETOSPHERE
AS VIEWED IN 0+
To obtain some idea what the magnetosphere might look like when viewed by resonantly scattered
sunlight, we have constructed a simple model of the magnetospheric O+ plasma number density. This consists of an asymmetric radiation belt on dipole magnetic field-lines. The lines intersect the Earth between 60" and 75" latitude on the night side and 70" and 75" latitude on the dayside. The density of the radiation belt is assumed to vary as n = 0.75/R, where n is in cm3, and R is the geocentric distance in Earth radii. There are assumed to be no particles earthward of R = 1.5. A simple slab model was chosen for the plasma sheet. The plasma sheet was chosen to be a slab 2Rr thick and extending from x = - 10 to -4ORE and y = - 15 to 15Rz with a uniform density of 0.1 cm-'. The contribution of the ionospheric plasma was blanked out, because it would be so bright that it would overwhelm the contributions from the radiation belt and plasma sheet. The results of the model calculation are shown in Fig. 1. This figure shows four separate views of the magnetosphere at a distance of the orbit of the Moon, 60RE. The figure was made by computing the line-ofsight densities along the view directions. The field of view is 40" x 40", and the resolution in this picture is 0.4". All frames are viewed from 30" above the ecliptic. The trace shown in the bottom frame shows the counting rate for a 50 cm' detector that could be expected along the scan line shown in the frame immediately above. The sweep starts from the magnetotail and proceeds sunward. In addition to blanking out the ionosphere, the Earth was allowed to hide from view the plasma behind it, but there was no provision for shadowing the plasma from sunlight. The images shown in Fig. 1 show the type of perspective that can be obtained from the distance of the Moon, and it can be seen that this offers a rather good vantage point to view most of the plasma in the Earth's magnetosphere. However, these pictures show a level of resolution considerably better than is likely to be realized with instruments than can be built in the foreseeable future. Figure 2 provides an idea of image quality that can be obtained with an instrument employing a 50 cm2 collecting area and operating at a 10% efficiency. The images show the same view as shown in Panel C of Fig. 1. The frames in Fig. 2 show 33 x 33 pixel arrays, with an angle across each pixel of 1.2". It is assumed that the detector spends 1 s collecting photons from each pixel, so that it takes about 18 min to assemble the entire frame. The image in Panel A was obtained by averaging over each nine pixels in each 3 x 3 pixel array in Fig. 1C. The total number of counts per pixel varies from about 300 in the brighter part of the radiation belt to about 40 in the plasma sheet to the upper right. At these counting rates, the image quality will be affected by counting
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statistics. In order to evaluate this effect, a random number generator was used to generate for each pixel a Poisson distribution of counts. The result is shown in panel B of Fig. 2. Panels C-F show the results of smoothing in an attempt to enhance image quality. The smoothing was done by convoluting the 33 x 33 pixel images with the normalized Gaussian, P(x) = exp [ - x?/(Sx)*]. Panels C and D show the results of smoothing the images shown in Panels A and B, respectively, with 6x = 2, where the distance across each pixel is taken as unity. This level of smoothing completely removes the graininess of the image in A, while there is some indication of remaining graininess from the image B. Panels E and F show the results of smoothing the image in B with 6x = 0.67 and 6, respectively. From these examples we saw that attempts to completely remove the effect of the statistical fluctuation produces an unacceptable loss of resolution. The display shown in Fig. 2 suggests that an acceptable level of resolution for recognition of major magnetospheric features on a time scale of one third of an hour can be obtained with a collector placed on the Moon with a 50 cm* collecting area and an angular resolution of about a degree. Satisfactory images could be obtained with current designs only with the sacrifice of time resolution by an order of magnitude. 5. CONCLUDING REMARKS
Our preliminary analysis indicates that global imaging of the magnetosphere is not out of reach of even today's technology. There is little doubt that both in situ satellite observations and the simultaneous images of the magnetosphere will considerably advance our understanding of magnetospheric substorm processes. REFERENCES
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2010 Honda Accord Crosstour EX-L 2WD 5dr
Front Wheel Drive, 4 Door, Large
18 mpg city / 27 mpg hwy
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February 16, 2010 by Brian Alexander, Road Test Editor
2010 Honda Accord Crosstour

DriverSide Overview
If you want to understand the Honda Accord Crosstour, it helps to take a short trip back in time. When the BMW X6 hit the market two years ago as the world's first "Sports Activity Coupe," we thought everyone in Munich must have been drinking from the same bottle of crazy juice. So bizarrely contrived in its inability to really be a sport-ute or a coupe when its goal was to be both, we never thought the idea would catch on. Now, we're not so sure. Honda's new Accord Crosstour sits a bit lower, but the profile is very much the same. The front half is the familiar shape of an Accord – albeit one that sits a bit taller – but towards the rear it tapers into a strange hatch shape that seems like a partial throwback to the Honda CRX of the '80s, albeit stretched over a bulbous four-door body. Inside you get the benefits of a command seating position and easy cargo access – general SUV traits – and outside you get a car that's lower to the ground and easier to park. Sounds suspiciously like a station wagon to us, but because the marketers won't go anywhere near that word in North America, these new, more polarizing designs are becoming more common. Honda seems to especially like the "crossover coupe" design, as they have recently released an X6-shaped vehicle for their Acura luxury brand called the ZDX as well. They've been known to do their homework, so chances are they're on to something here.
What's to Like

The command seating position is the primary reason most consumers purchase crossover vehicles, and we like the idea of a lighter weight, easier-to-navigate vehicle. Easy access to cargo and the extra rear storage space also comes as a big plus. If you don't need all-wheel drive, highway fuel economy gets a boost to the high 20s.
What's Not to Like

Styling will prove polarizing, and the design really is a love-it-or-hate it proposition. The button-heavy interior can be a turn-off for some, and the navigation system is beginning to show its age in the graphics department. Rear headroom feels limited by the sloping "coupe style" roof.
The Drive:
DriverSide Driving Impressions
Much like its Accord namesake, the Crosstour cruises effortlessly around town and has mostly sedate on-road manners. The steering ratio has been slackened up a bit to move the Crosstour closer to its SUV and crossover competitors, but the helm remains responsive and decently weighted. But the larger body of the Crosstour adds 300 lbs over a similarly equipped Accord EX-L, and that's without all-wheel drive, which tacks on another 200 lbs, taking the grand total to a very pudgy 4,070 lbs. All that weight is tough to hide, a fact that presents itself every time you go to accelerate hard. Despite its impressive 271 horsepower output, the Crosstour has trouble hiding its mass, and the engine really has to rev to make brisk forward progress. The all-wheel drive system feels especially bulky, but if it's a utilitarian vehicle you want with the responses of a heavy Accord, there's little doubt you've found your vehicle.
Engine and Drivetrain

The Honda Accord Crosstour is powered by a 3.5-liter V-6 engine that's good for 271 horsepower and 254 lb-ft or torque. Power is driven to the front wheels or, optionally, to all four, via a five-speed automatic transmission.
Interesting Vehicle Features and Options

Honda's Real Time four-wheel drive system, only available on the top-of-the-line 4WD EX-L, manages power efficiently by maintaining front-wheel drive when grip is available and only switching to all-wheel drive when slip is detected. A six-disc, 360-watt audio system with seven speakers comes standard.
Key Technology Evaluation
Honda's navigation system raises the MSRP of the Crosstour $2,200, and adds a digital screen housed in the center stack. The system boasts voice recognition and points of interest with Zagat ratings, though the display is a bit difficult to navigate and lacks in the graphics department. Homelink remote, Bluetooth hands free, power seats and a remote entry system all come standard on the 4WD EX-L.
Green Evaluation/Gas Mileage

Given its extra weight, the Accord Crosstour boasts impressive fuel economy numbers in front-wheel drive form, returning 18 mpg city, 27 mpg highway. All-wheel drive takes those numbers down to 17 mpg city, 25 mpg highway, and the engine is emissions rated at a green-friendly ULEV-II.
A Closer Look: Vehicle Details
If you're familiar with the Accord, you'll feel right at home in the Crosstour, as the cabin is essentially a carryover with a higher seating position. The center console is button-heavy, though easy enough to learn, with climate controls flanking those for the audio and navigation systems.
Exterior

If anything, the Crosstour can be called easily distinguishable. The front grille is prominent to say the least, leading into a long hood and high beltline that carries through to the rear. The sloping coupe-like roof helps the Crosstour hide its size, although from the rear it looks more crossover SUV than car.
Market Segment and Pricing

The Honda Accord Crosstour starts at an MSRP of $34,020 before destination fees, jumping up to $36,220 when equipped with navigation. It's tough to peg anything as a direct competitor, though the $30,995 Subaru Outback 3.6R Limited and $29,550 Toyota Venza AWD V-6 come close.
What We Think

Neither truly a wagon or crossover, the Honda Accord Crosstour is an interesting proposition. It offers plenty of utility and reliability, though what it gains in style it loses in rear seat headroom and overall cargo capacity. Then again, it doesn't necessarily have any "true" competition. Maybe that was the idea all along.
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