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Sulfonylurea-sensitive potassium current evoked by sodium-loading in rat midbrain dopamine neurons
V. Seutin, K. Z. Shen, R. A. North, S. W. Johnson
In Parkinson's disease, there is evidence of impaired mitochondrial function which reduces the capacity to synthesize ATP in dopamine neurons. This would be expected to reduce the activity of the sodium pump (Na+/K+ ATPase), causing increased intracellular levels of Na+. Patch pipettes were used to introduce Na+ (40 mM in pipette solutions) into dopamine neurons in the rat midbrain slice in order to study the electrophysiological effects of increased intracellular Na+. We found that intracellular Na+ loading evoked 100-300 pA of outward current (at -60 mV) and increased whole-cell conductance; these effects developed gradually during the first 10 min after rupture of the membrane patch. Extracellular Ba2+ reduced most of the outward current evoked by Na+ loading; this Ba2+-sensitive current reversed direction at the expected reversal potential for K+ (E(K)), and was also blocked by extracellular tetraethylammonium (30 mM) and intracellular Cs+ (which replaced K+ in pipette solutions). The sulfonylurea drugs glipizide (IC50 = 4.3 nM), tolbutamide (IC50 - 23 μM) and glibenclamide (1 μM) were as effective as 300 μM Ba2+ in reducing the K+ current evoked by Na+ loading. When recording with 'control' pipettes containing 15 mM Na+, diazoxide (300 μM) increased chord conductance and evoked outward current at -60 mV, which also reversed direction near E(K). Effects of diazoxide were blocked by glibenclamide (1 μM) or glipizide (300 nM). Diazoxide (300 μM) and baclofen (3 μM), which also evoked K+-mediated outward currents recorded with control pipettes, caused little additional increases in outward currents during Na+ loading. Raising ATP concentrations to 10 mM in pipette solutions failed to significantly reduce currents evoked by diazoxide or Na+ loading, suggesting that these currents may not be mediated by ATP-sensitive K+ channels. Finally, Na+ loading using pipettes containing Cs+ in place of K+ evoked a relatively small outward current (50-150 pA at -60 mV), which developed gradually over the first 10 min after rupturing the membrane patch. This current was reduced by dihydro-ouabain (3 μM) and a low extracellular concentration of K+ (0.5 mM instead of 2.5 mM), but was not affected by Ba2+. We conclude that intracellular Na+ loading evokes a current generated by Na+/K+ ATPase in addition to sulfonylurea-sensitive K+ current. This Na+-dependent K+ current is unusual in its sensitivity to sulfonylureas, and could protect dopamine -neurons against toxic effects of intracellular Na+ accumulation.
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Seutin, V., Shen, K. Z., North, R. A., & Johnson, S. W. (1996). Sulfonylurea-sensitive potassium current evoked by sodium-loading in rat midbrain dopamine neurons. Neuroscience, 71(3), 709-719. https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4522(95)00489-0
Sulfonylurea-sensitive potassium current evoked by sodium-loading in rat midbrain dopamine neurons. / Seutin, V.; Shen, K. Z.; North, R. A. et al.
In: Neuroscience, Vol. 71, No. 3, 04.1996, p. 709-719.
Seutin, V, Shen, KZ, North, RA & Johnson, SW 1996, 'Sulfonylurea-sensitive potassium current evoked by sodium-loading in rat midbrain dopamine neurons', Neuroscience, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 709-719. https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4522(95)00489-0
Seutin V, Shen KZ, North RA, Johnson SW. Sulfonylurea-sensitive potassium current evoked by sodium-loading in rat midbrain dopamine neurons. Neuroscience. 1996 Apr;71(3):709-719. doi: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00489-0
Seutin, V. ; Shen, K. Z. ; North, R. A. et al. / Sulfonylurea-sensitive potassium current evoked by sodium-loading in rat midbrain dopamine neurons. In: Neuroscience. 1996 ; Vol. 71, No. 3. pp. 709-719.
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First Zika Baby Born In New York City
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Andrew Follett Energy and Science Reporter
New York City officials announced Friday a baby was born with the Zika virus — the first in the city.
The infant's mother was infected with Zika "in an area with ongoing Zika transmission," and the baby "is positive for Zika," the New York City Department of Health said in a press release. City officials declined to provide information about the baby's sex or the mother's identity, but stated they learned of the case Thursday.
The official told the press it was "not at all surprising" that a baby with microcephaly was born in New York, as there's a considerable amount of travel between the city and countries which are struggling with Zika.
There have now been 12 confirmed cases of babies born with Zika-related microcephaly in America, and more than 400 pregnant woman in the continental U.S. have evidence of Zika infection. Some babies with no immediate signs of problems also have been born in the U.S. to Zika-infected mothers.
Zika virus infections in pregnant women are directly linked to fetal deaths and devastating birth defects such as microcephaly, when a baby is born with an abnormally small head, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Laboratory studies also confirmed the presence of Zika virus in the blood, tissue, brains and amniotic fluid of fetuses and babies diagnosed with microcephaly.
There are currently 1,404 cases of Zika virus confirmed in the continental U.S., as well as another 3,815 in American territories, according to the CDC. The vast majority of the cases were from people who traveled to a Zika-prone country, such as Brazil. So far, all known cases of Zika on the U.S. mainland have been brought in by travelers or acquired through sex with infected travelers.
A study published in March by the National Center for Atmospheric Research found that the Zika-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito could spread as far north as New York City this summer if the weather is warmer than average.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito lives in tropical climates. Zika likely won't spread as prolifically in the U.S. as it has in Latin America and the Caribbean, due to the high number of Americans living and working behind air-conditioned doors. The study also found small numbers of the mosquitoes can survive in much of North America during spring and fall when temperatures cool.
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Apple Faces Lawsuit Over Misleading iPhone Advertising
Lawyers for Jessica Alena Smith filed suit in U.S. District Court in Alabama and seeking damages in excess of $5 million against Apple Inc. for misleading her with their commercials which said the newly-released handset is "twice as fast."
In a 10-page complaint filed in court, Smith said that her iPhone 3G was not at all what Apple ads said it would be. While Apple made profit by selling its famed handsets, she, and other customers as well, had been misled into buying the new version of the iPhone, but did not get for their money what the producer said they would.
"Defendant intended for customers to believe its statements and representations about the Defective iPhone 3Gs, and to trust that the device was 'twice as fast at half the price'," the unsatisfied customer wrote in the complaint.
The lawsuit seeks "actual, general, special, incidental, statutory, and consequential damages," plus interest and attorneys fees.
Apple customers have been complaining about 3G network problems since the iPhone's July 11 debut. Since then, several thousand messages have been posted to Apple's support forum, detailing difficulties making calls from areas supposedly covered by a 3G network and griping about weak signals, dropped calls and slower-than-promised data download speeds.
On Monday, Apple issued an iPhone software update that a company spokeswoman said "improves communication with 3G networks." Complaints have continued to surface on Apple's support forum, reporting that the iPhone 2.0.2 update did nothing to solve their 3G reception and connection problems.
Smith's lawsuit touched on Apple's promises stating, "The defendant (Apple Inc.) expressly warranted that the defective iPhone 3G would be "twice as fast" and would otherwise perform adequately on the 3G standard or protocol," it says.
"The defective iPhone 3Gs do not conform to these express representations because they fail to connect and/or adequately maintain a connection to the 3G standard and/or protocol."
The lawsuit asked that a federal judge grant the case class-action status, claiming that "the proposed Class contains thousands and perhaps tens of thousands of members." Smith also asked the court to force Apple to repair or replace the iPhone 3G, and award her, and if the case is given class-action status, other iPhone owners, an unspecified amount of money in damages.
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Time Raiders () is a 2016 Chinese fantasy-action-adventure film directed by Daniel Lee and starring Jing Boran and Luhan. It is based on the online novel series Daomu Biji written by Xu Lei. The film was released in China by Le Vision Pictures on August 5, 2016.

Plot
In the Himalayas, European antiquities hunter Hendrix and his soldiers terrorize the local people in search of a clue to the Chinese secret of immortality. Zhang Qiling intervenes, defeating Hendrix, and is tasked by the local elder with averting a catastrophe to humanity.

In the present day, a writer arrives at a warehouse to interview antiquities dealer Wu Xie, who relates his story.

Wu Xie is born to a family of grave robbers. As a young boy, Wu sneaks into a temple and tries to steal a relic, but is stopped by a figure in a bronze mask.

In his twenties, Wu explores a tomb from the Warring States period when he is confronted by his uncle Wu Sanxing. The two stumble across a hidden chamber, whose inscriptions relate the tale of Iron Mask, a craftsman forced to design the tomb of the Snake Empress, ruler of the ancient kingdom of Tamutuo in what is now the Gobi Desert. Wu discovers an artifact before moths force them to flee the tomb. Hendrix orders his team to examine video from media reports of the moth incident, confirming the artifact's link to Tamutuo. Zhang, who has not aged since his encounter with Hendrix, also watches the video.

Wu and Sanxing examine the artifact and realize it is a key to the tomb of the Snake Empress. Zhang joins their expedition; he reveals to Wu that he is a divine being who suffers intermittent amnesia. Wu confides that his dreams are haunted by the temple experience from his youth.

Sanxing's team blasts an entrance into the tomb complex but are pursued by another team of grave robbers led by Ning, who is in Hendrix's employ. Ning releases drones which scan the tomb structure and relay the data to Hendrix. Sanxing's team brave booby traps and flesh-eating beetles but Wu and Zhang are separated by a cave-in.

Ning's team enters a chamber containing dormant warriors that appear human but, on analysis, are composed of plant cells. A warrior awakens and attacks the team, forcing them to retreat.

Wu wanders into the warriors' chamber where he reunites with Zhang; they kill the awakened warrior, but Ning appears, stealing the key. Wu and Zhang catch up to Ning, who demands Hendrix reveal the purpose of the mission. Hendrix reveals that the Snake Empress ingested the essence of a magical tree to sleep for two thousand years and create an army of worms to destroy humanity when she awakens, immortal.

Hendrix directs them to the Snake Empress' lair, which they access with the key. The Empress awakens, sending her worms out into the world. Sanxing's and Ning's teams also enter the lair. Zhang battles the Empress but is unable to penetrate her magnetic force field. Wu convinces Hendrix to discard his life's goal of achieving immortality and tell them how to defeat the Empress. Sanxing's and Ning's men use explosives to destroy the magnetic fields, letting Zhang kill the Empress, thereby killing her worms. As Wu, Ning, Sanxing, and the remnants of their teams escape the collapsing lair, Wu looks back at Zhang, who is unable to escape.

In flashbacks, Wu recalls his memories of Zhang. The closing scene is a repetition of the scene where Wu and Zhang first met, except that when the two glance back at each other, Zhang sees Iron Mask and Wu sees the bronze masked figure.

Cast
Luhan as Wu Xie (吴邪)
Jing Boran as Zhang Qiling (张起灵)
Ma Sichun as Ning (阿宁)
Wang Jingchun as Wu Sanxing (吴三省)
Vanni Corbellini as Hendrix
Mallika Sherawat as Snake Empress
Robert Gilabert Cuenca as Ning´s Mercenary

Box office
The film earned $5.8 million in Thursday previews, $24.1 million on its opening day and $70.8 million on its opening weekend ($64.6 million excluding previews) debuting in first place at the Chinese box office. It performed exceptionally well in IMAX where the film brought in $5 million for the opening weekend from 309 IMAX theaters, marking the largest IMAX opening of the summer for a Chinese local-language film, and the third biggest of all time, behind Mojin — The Lost Legend ($7.5 million) and Monster Hunt ($7.2 million). It had the largest circuit of theaters in the country by registering with over 85,000 screenings per day and the best per screen average, with close to $1,000 per screen, per day. Excluding previews, its weekend take was not only the biggest in China but the third biggest internationally, behind Suicide Squad and The Secret Life of Pets. The film's impressive Chinese opening weekend was helped by fans of young, popular stars Lu Han and Jing Boran, whose enthusiasm outweighed overwhelmingly negative reviews.

Hindered by poor word of mouth and competition from local releases, it fell precipitously by 80% on its second weekend earning around $13 million and as a result fell to fourth place. Nonetheless, it managed to pass $150 million and became the one and only local summer release to cross that mark this year.

See also
The Lost Tomb, a television series based on the same novel series

References

External links

Chinese action adventure films
Chinese fantasy adventure films
2010s fantasy adventure films
Films based on Chinese novels
Films directed by Daniel Lee
Le Vision Pictures films
The Lost Tomb
Chinese teen films
Films based on Internet-based works
Films set in the Himalayas
Films about Tibet
Films set in India

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The Oakland men's basketball team in a huddle during a timeout against UM-Dearborn on Jan. 24.
Summer Weathers, Sports Reporter
The Oakland University men's basketball team started the new year on the blacktop with a big win against the Robert Morris Colonials.
Blake Lampman's 3-point shooting was the story early. He had already scored nine of Oakland's points.
It took Robert Morris nearly six minutes to get on the board. Rocket Watts had a nice hesitation move into a crossover pullup and one 3-pointer on the other end, completing the 4-point play.
Trey Townsend, who won't give you just post work, has extended his game, banking the 3-pointer as well, adding an assist to Watts' statline. The Grizzlies were doing damage behind the arc.
Robert Morris cut Oakland's lead to one with five minutes left, at 25-24. RMU then took the lead off a 3-point foul, putting them on top in their first lead of the game after trailing by 14 at 17-3.
That didn't seem to be an issue for Lampman, with back to back 3s that were nothing but net. He made five triples, ending the game with 18 points — his second-highest point total all year.
Tremendous defense by the Grizzlies forced a Colonial turnover, giving Oakland possession and sending the Colonials into the locker room down three, 36-33.
Keaton Hervey had a ferocious dunk in the second half that got the arena hyped up, and the momentum quickly went in Oakland's favor. Hervey was also solid and aggressive on the defensive side, staying on the glass and getting those boards that came in clutch in those crunch time moments.
Robert Morris' Kahliel Spear and Enoch Cheeks were the two players who put in huge amounts of effort to keep their team in it, but not enough against the unstoppable Townsend, who made three straight buckets in a row.
The second half was back and forth scoring between the two teams, but the Grizzlies tightened down defensively.
The Colonials fouled Townsend toward the end of the game, sending him to the line with 40 seconds left. He tied his career high with 30 points to close out the game with two free throws. It was a spectacular performance, marking his third 30-point game.
Oakland had a 6-0 run in the last 1:20. The Grizzlies were relentless and came out with a big win, 69-65. They will now look to apply that same pressure against IUPUI on Thursday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m.
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Dongfeng has recently introduced the Aeolus A9, a completely new model that will serve as the automaker's range topping offering at home in China.
While China has a rich historical background it appears the mirage of Hollywood has also infected the automaker, which is basing its model's name on the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. The Aeolus A9 has a rather controversial design (looks to have been inspired by the VW Passat up front and the Audi A4 at the back) but actually makes use of the same architecture that underpins the Citroen C5. Additionally, both models use the same assembly line in Wuhan, China at the Dongfeng Peugeot Citroën assembly facility. Under the hood sits just one option: a turbocharged 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine manufactured locally via the joint venture between Dongfeng and PSA.
Aside from the uninspiring exterior design, the Aeolus A9 is the second sedan from Dongfeng to make use of a PSA platform following the Aeolus L6 compact car based off the Citroen C4, which has been presented around a year ago. The truck manufacturer Dongfeng started using the "Aeolus" moniker way back in 2009 when it switched to producing cars as well. The L6 and A9 are joined in the Aeolus lineup by the A60 and S30 compact sedans, the E30L electric vehicle and the AX7 crossover. Apparently Dongfeng hasn't lost any time snatching the technology from PSA after acquiring a 14 percent stake in the French automaker that had difficulties at the time and was on the brink of collapse.


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Q: How to Load a RavenDB Document, constrained to a Collection, when not using default ID generation strategy In RavenDB 4 (v4.0.3-patch-40031) I have two Document types: Apple and Orange. Both have similar, but also distinct, properties. I run into a bug in my code at runtime where sometimes an the ID of an Apple is provided, but an Orange is returned. Scary!
Diving into it, it somewhat makes sense. But I'm struggling with an appropriate solution.
Here goes. In RavenDB, I have stored a single Apple as a Document:
id: "078ff39b-da50-4405-9615-86b0d185ba17"
{
    "Name": "Elstar",
    "@metadata": {
        "@collection": "Apples",
        "Raven-Clr-Type": "FruitTest.Apple, FruitTest"
    }
}

Assume for the sake of this example that I have no Orange documents stored in the database. I would expect this test to succeed:
// arrange - use the ID of an apple, which does not exist in Orange collection
var id_of_apple = "078ff39b-da50-4405-9615-86b0d185ba17";

// act - load an Orange
var target = await _session.LoadAsync<Orange>("078ff39b-da50-4405-9615-86b0d185ba17");

// assert - should be null, because there is no Orange with that Id
target.Should().BeNull(because: "provided ID is not of an Orange but of an Apple");

... but it fails. What happens is that the Document ID exists, so the RavenDB loads the document. Not caring what type it is. And it attempts to map the properties automatically. I expected, or assumed incorrectly, that the Load type specifier would limit the lookup to that particular document collection. Instead, it grabs + maps it throughout the entire database, not constraining it to type <T>. So the behaviour is different from .Query<T>, which does constraint to collection.

Important to note is that I'm using guids as identity strategy, by setting the Id to string.Empty (conform the docs). I assume the default ID strategy, which is like entityname/1001, would not have this issue.

The docs on Loading Entities don't really mention if this is intentional, or not. It only says: "download documents from a database and convert them to entities.".
However, for reasons, I do want to constrain the Load operation to a single collection. Or, better put, as efficiently as possible load a document by ID, from a specific collection. And if it does not exist, return null.
AFAIK, there are two options to achieve this:

*

*Use the more expensive .Query<T>.Where(x => x.Id == id), instead of .Load<T>(id)

*Do the .Load<T>(id) first and then check (~somehow, see bottom) if it is part of collection T

My problem can be summarized in two questions:

*

*Is there another, more performant or stable way, than the two options mentioned above?

*If there is not, out of the two options - which is recommended in terms of performance and stability?

Especially for the second question, it is very hard to correctly measure this properly. As for stability, e.g. not having side effects, that is something that I guess someone with more in-depth knowledge or experience of the RavenDB internals might shed some light on.
N.B. The question assumes that the explained behaviour is intentional and not a RavenDB bug.
~Somehow would be:
public async Task<T> Get(string id)
{
    var instance = await _session.LoadAsync<T>(id);
    if (instance == null) return null;

    // the "somehow" check for collection
    var expectedTypeName = string.Concat(typeof(T).Name, "s");
    var actualTypeName = _session.Advanced.GetMetadataFor(instance)[Constants.Documents.Metadata.Collection].ToString();
    if (actualTypeName != expectedTypeName)
    {
        // Edge case: Apple != Orange
        return null;
    }

    return instance;
}

How to reproduce
UPDATE 2018/04/19 - Added this reproducible sample after helpful comments (thanks for that).
Models
public interface IFruit
{
    string Id { get; set; }
    string Name { get; set; }
}

public class Apple : IFruit
{
    public string Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

public class Orange : IFruit
{
    public string Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

Tests
E.g. throws InvalidCastException in same session (works), but in second it doesn't.
public class UnitTest1
{
    [Fact]
    public async Task SameSession_Works_And_Throws_InvalidCastException()
    {
        var store = new DocumentStore()
        {
            Urls = new[] {"http://192.168.99.100:32772"},
            Database = "fruit"
        }.Initialize();

        using (var session = store.OpenAsyncSession())
        {
            var apple = new Apple
            {
                Id = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
                Name = "Elstar"
            };

            await session.StoreAsync(apple);
            await session.SaveChangesAsync();

            await Assert.ThrowsAsync<InvalidCastException>(() => session.LoadAsync<Orange>(apple.Id));
        }
    }

    [Fact]
    public async Task Different_Session_Fails()
    {
        var store = new DocumentStore()
        {
            Urls = new[] {"http://192.168.99.100:32772"},
            Database = "fruit"
        }.Initialize();

        using (var session = store.OpenAsyncSession())
        {
            var appleId = "ca5d9fd0-475b-41de-a1ab-57bb1e3ce018";

            // this *should* break, because... it's an apple
            // ... but it doesn't - it returns an ORANGE
            var orange = await session.LoadAsync<Orange>(appleId);

            await Assert.ThrowsAsync<InvalidCastException>(() => session.LoadAsync<Orange>(appleId));
        }
    }
}

A: .Query<T>.Where(x => x.Id == id) is the way to go. In RavenDB 4.0, queries by ID are handled directly by the documents storage under the covers (not by an index), so it's the same efficient as Load.
The advantage for your scenario is that queries are scoped to a specified collection only.

A: well, i found what should be the problem but i don't understand why.
you said:

by setting the Id to string.Empty

but in the example you wrote Id = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
in my tests i explicitly assign string.Empty and i get the cast exception, when i assigned the generated Guid to the entity (like you) i reproduced your situations. Probably ravendb makes some different considerations in these two cases that creates this behavior, i don't know if it could be considered a bug.
Then use string.Empty


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Q: Load images for collection view in background thread So I have a collection view in which I'm populating 141 images into it, but the problem I'm having is when scrolling through the view, it's not very smooth. I've already tried using low res images for the cells (which helped slightly) and decreasing the swipe speed (or should I say increasing the deceleration when scrolling).
So I figured my next step would be to try loading the cells on a background thread?
Firstly I have no clue how to do this, and Google isn't much help. Secondly, I'm not sure if the fact I'm re-using cells when they go out of view (so I don't create 141 cells, one cell per image) makes a difference.
Here's how I'm loading in the images:
func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {

    if let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier("TreeCell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as? TreeCell {
        cell.contentView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
        let tree = Tree(treeNumber: (indexPath.row + 1))
        cell.configureCell(tree)
        return cell
    }

    else {
        return UICollectionViewCell()
    }
}

TreeCell for whoever asked:
var tree: Tree!

required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
    super.init(coder: aDecoder)

    layer.cornerRadius = 10.0
}

func configureCell(tree: Tree) {
    self.tree = tree

    treeCellImage.image = UIImage(named: "\(self.tree.treeNumber)")
}

And the Tree class:
private var _treeNumber: Int!

init(treeNumber: Int) {
    _treeNumber = treeNumber
}

var treeNumber: Int {
    return _treeNumber
}

A: Don't try to create UICollectionViewCells on a background thread. The cells should be created only via a dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier variant and UI prefixed classes (UIKit) are not thread-safe unless explicitly stated as such. As you said, it will break cell reuse and potentially cause all sorts of memory issues.
Check out this SO question: Load UIImage in background Thread
If you aren't supporting iOS 8, you could load the images from disk on the background. Once they're loaded, I'd post a NSNotification on the main thread containing the image's unique id (filename?). The cells can all listen to the notification and – if the notification is observed for the cell's current image – display the new UIImage.
If you can use [UIImage imageNamed:], you'll get some nice low-memory-reactive caching benefits for free. Otherwise, you'll probably want to maintain a cache (NSCache or NSDictionary) of the images that you're already loaded.
If you do need to support iOS 8, you can still load image data from disk in the background via NSData, and feed the image data into a UIImage on the main thread. The expensive task is reading from disk. If your images are in Asset Catalogs, this will require a lot more work than imageNamed.
Now, assuming you find a method of safely loading the images on a background thread/queue that works in your specific situation, you have a few options to further optimize performance:
Cap concurrent tasks
Try to limit the number of concurrent image loads otherwise a quick scroll can saturate the system with blocking tasks and thread switching overhead.
Cancellable tasks
You should be able to cancel pending image load operations. If the user is scrolling just a bit faster than you can load the images, you want to be able to cancel loads for images that have already moved off-screen. Otherwise you can fill up the queue with unseen images.
Intelligent image loading
Don't load images that will be scrolled away in milliseconds (i.e. in response to a 'flick' or quick swipe). You can figure this out by hooking into the collection view UIScrollViewDelegate method
-scrollViewWillEndDragging:withVelocity:targetContentOffset:. This method lets you know how fast a user dragged the content and where the collection view will end up. You can even pre-load the images near the target content offset so that they're ready when scrolling ends!
A good for this sort of thing is NSOperationQueue because NSOperation instances support prioritization, concurrency caps, and concurrent execution. If you go with Grand Central Dispatch, you'll need to build in the ability to 'cancel' a task on your own.

A: Based on your previous comment on the image size, the first thing you should do is to resize your 200 x 200 images to match the 90 x 90 dimensions of your collectionViewCell.
UIKit will resize the 200 x 200 images as you populate your cells. Resizing images in general incur a non trivial cost, and this is done on the main thread. You should see drastic increase in smooth scrolling if you gave your cells 90 x 90 images instead of 200 x 200.


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Under FATCA, all non-U.S financial institutions worldwide are required to report U.S clients holding more than $50,000 to the IRS.
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The Israeli government planned to start actively implementing the law in the country on September 20, which requires all non-U.S. financial institutions worldwide to report the financial information of American clients and U.S. green card holders who have accounts holding more than $50,000 directly and routinely to U.S. authorities, as well as proving that they don't have American clients who don't report earnings to the IRS.
Not limited to banks, FATCA compliance was specifically demanded from online forex and CFD brokers in Israel in order to not be disqualified from receiving a 'Trading Arena' license. However on Wednesday, just days before this process was due to go into operation in Israel, Justice Hanan Meltzer ordered officials to stop the preparatory work. An emergency hearing is to be held on the matter before September 15.
Green explained: "Justice Meltzer's action should be championed. His wise caution should serve as a wake-up call for other countries to rethink enforcing this toxic, flawed, damaging legislation that is being imposed on sovereign states around the world by the U.S. There are important questions to be asked about the imperialistic nature of FATCA. Countries and FFIs have been coerced into complying with FATCA's sovereignty-violating, expensive, burdensome, privacy-infringing regulations by the U.S. – or face heavy penalties. In effect, these countries and FFIs are now working as de facto agents of America's tax authority.
It is claimed by its proponents that this law is designed to catch tax evaders who illegally shelter money offshore. This is a noble aim. But FATCA cannot possibly tackle this extremely important global issue effectively due to its dragnet, untargeted approach. Instead what it does – because of its plethora of serious unintended adverse consequences – is to brand the 7 million Americans who choose to live and/or work overseas, including many of the 300,000 in Israel for example, as financial pariahs.


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Our Lady of Walsingham
Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
at Julian House Monastery, Waukesha, WI
During the Middle Ages two shrines were especially popular among the English people: one honoring St. Thomas à Becket and the other, Our Lady of Walsingham. The latter shrine had its beginnings in 1061 and has remained England's principal shrine to Mary, Mother of God, "the only pre-Reformation shrine now in Anglican hands." (Fr. John Julian, OJN, Stars In A Dark World) In fact, the BBC did a nationwide poll six years ago, asking what was the favorite spiritual place for English people. The overwhelming winner was the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.
The motif of the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham is based on the medieval seals of the priory in Walsingham. In 1921 Fr. Alfred H. Patten, then vicar of the Anglican parish in Walsingham Village, working with artists, architects, and church historians, was able to develop a statue based on the medieval seals. The Blessed Virgin sits on a high-backed throne, with the Child Jesus on her lap holding a book of the Gospels.
Almighty Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
you have revealed the beauty of your power
by exalting the lowly Virgin of Nazareth
and making her the Mother of our Savior:
May the prayers of our Lady of Walsingham
bring Jesus to the waiting world
and fill the hearts of all your people
with the presence of her Child,
who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God,
now and for ever. Amen.
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Armonika, (angl.: glassharmonica) ali tudi hidrokristalofon je instrument podoben orglam, ki ga je izumil Benjamin Franklin leta 1761 in ga poimenoval harmonica po grški besedi za harmonijo. Danes ga umeščamo v skupino zelo redkih glasbenih instrumentov.

Zgodovina

Izziv za razvoj instrumenta je Benjamin Franklin dobil v Londonu, kjer so v tistem času glasbeniki proizvajali zveneče zvoke z vlečenjem prsta po robu steklenih kozarcev napolnjenih z vodo. Instrument je zasnoval s 37 steklenimi čašami različnih velikosti, kromatično uglašenimi na tri oktave. Čaše so brezstično razporejene ena v drugo na vodoravni vrteči osi, ki se jo lahko različno hitro poganja s pedalom. Zvok se proizvaja z vlečenjem omočenih prstov po vrtečih se čašah.

Raba instrumenta

Skladbe za armoniko so pisali Mozart, Bach, Camill Saint-Seans, pozneje tudi Richard Strauss.
Danes so glasbeniki, ki igrajo na instrument zelo redki. V svetu je znanih le pet, med njimi Francoz Thomas Bloch.

Zunanje povezave

Viri
 Brane Maselj: Steklene orgle spravljale ljudi v blaznost, Delo, 1. april 2014

Aerofoni


What will we leave behind? What will people remember? What do you want them to remember? What will I leave behind?
I hope my kids will one day say that I taught them to stop and listen and look around. Look up, look at the stars and appreciate what is around us and who we are. I try to teach them this one little thing.
Stop and listen. Listen to the wind. Listen to the story it tells.
Stop and watch. Watch the waves as they roll in, watch the sun raise or set. Watch the storm develop, watch the butterfly dance in the air.
Breathe in and smell the air, the different scent it has. Smell the weather, the season, the flowers, there is so much out there.
Let your head fall back and glance up, mouth wide open, tongue out and try to catch those snowflakes or drops of rain and just taste them. Enjoy good food. The sweetness of fruits.
Just feel, hear, taste, smell and experience how beautiful life is.
That is probably the most important thing of what I want my kids to remember. What I hope that they will tell their friends, spouses or kids one day.
That it's okay to say no.
That you got to life your live and not wait for it to happen.
I want them to know what it feels like to be loved.
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We should all consider the legacy that we will leave behind, and this is a wonderful legacy indeed. A legacy filled with hope, wonder, life lessons and love, all of which can pass on from generation to generation.
Such a beautiful thought. It's so easy to be consumed by the business that is our lives and we just forget to take a step back and just stop and enjoy the beauty that's all around us. My kids and I are eagerly awaiting our first real snowfall out here. No matter what is going on in this house, we stop whatever it is we're doing and watch the snow.
I did that with my mom! I remember how you could actually smell the snow in the air already but it did not fall and then suddenly onee snowflake… Then two or three more and then it started slowly to properly snow… Enjoy!
This is something I have thought about a lot this year. I think about the legacy my mum left me, it's amazing. I hope I do half as well as she did. I guess in a way, our children ARE our legacy to the world.
A lovely post, and if my daughter remembers any one thing I taught her I hope it will be to try out as much as you can in this world, because there is just so much to discover and that is something that we all have to do for ourselves.


The method most used to sell a home has changed in recent years. A higher share of sellers are relying on the expertise of real estate agents and brokers to sell their home, rather than trying other methods.
From 1991 to 2011 the share of home sellers who used a real estate agent or broker to sell their home increased from 77 percent to 87 percent.
Over the same time period, the share of sellers who sold their home as a FSBO (For-Sale-By-Owner) decreased from 19 percent to 10 percent.
Sellers use real estate professionals to help them sell their home in a reasonable timeframe, to market their home to potential buyers, and to price the home competitively.
For more information on the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, click here.
More sellers turn to realtor's to sell their homes because Realtor's bring value to the table. It doesn't cost money to use a Realtor, their expertise and knowledge helps you sell your home for more money and in a reasonable time frame. Selling your home can be an extremely stressful situation and your Realtor can help lessen that stress and guide you through the process with ease.
Running an inspection company in the Greater Austin TX area, our team can tell you that a Realtor is invaluable in making things happen, while we are usually contacted after the fact of one buying a home, the greater percentage of sales that actually go through appears to be much higher when the Realtor is there to help avoid all the mine fields of the transaction.
Negotiating items after a home inspection can be tricky, a good Realtor knows this and works to make sure all parties are engaged, my personal advice, never sell or buy a home without the help of a good Realtor.
I am definitely seeing a lot of FSBOs converting this fall. However, I'm suprised at the 2009 and 2011 numbers… there were a lot of FSBO's during that time in an effort to save money.
I'd be curious, should those who use a flat fee mls listing be considered FSBOs? They sure think they are.
I wonder if those numbers include flat fee mls listings, and would like to see those extrapolated out.
Do your FSBO numbers include new construction when the seller is the builder? Technically, the seller owns the property in these instances.
Kurt, no, the Home Buyers and Sellers Survey only covers home buyers who also sold a home. It does not cover builders as a section of sellers.


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Elevated view of four International Scouts, one patrol car, and two helicopters used by Atlantic Go Patrol, Philadelphia's traffic patrol.
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Korean War Helicopter
Infantry troops of the 8th Army preparing to board a Bell UH-1D helicopter of the 6th Transportation Helicopter Company for transport to the front.
Helicopter Power
Arriving at a forward area, a U.S. Air Force CH-30 helicopter carrying a 105mm howitzer is directed in for a landing. The artillery piece, which was in a r...
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As a crowd of onlookers watch, Santa Claus alights from his special holiday helicopter with the help of an aide at Southgate Shopping Center.
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Angel-Pre
About Moor Amps
The Angel amplifers were designed with a simple mission – music so real you close your eyes and they're in the room playing to you.
It's a simple sounding mission at one level, but it turned out to be a bit complex. To get there, an amplifier has to excel at a long list of different, sometimes contradictory, requirements.
Listening tests showed that low feedback amplifers are the most natural musically, but the control over the speaker a 'muscle amp' gives is equally important.
The Power Amp
The 30 year design evolution process resulted in a broad spectrum of amplifier prototypes mostly along the lines of contemporary amplifier designs. They were test beds for discovering what really matters in an amplifier.
Many promising leads turned out to be blind alleys. Many proposed changes did not work in the conventional designs for a variety of interesting reasons.
Ultimately it took a return to a blank sheet of paper, and a new approach to power amplifier design using all the years of collected ideas and ideals to create the Angel amplifiers.
So what did we learn?
Natural tonality
It is critical to the sound quality to make every single stage of the amplifier intrinsically very linear. This allows the amplifier to give a natural sound and tonality of instruments and vocals.
This gives the 'close your eyes and they are playing in the room' level of realism.
Musical Scale
Extending the concept of intrinsic linearity so it applies at all power levels, even down to transient 2 ohm speaker loads, prevents the amplifier from compressing musical dynamics.
This allows the amplifier to convey the true range of musical expression. Drum beats have striking realism, an orchestra has it's full scale and power, while quiet whispers remain truly quiet.
Transparency and Detail
THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) is often quoted in amplifier specifications, with the number of zeros after the decimal point like some kind of holy grail. In real listening, as long as THD is low-ish, it's just not relevant to the sound of the amplifier.
But designing an amplifier to achieve very low THD has an important side-effect – it tends to increase IMD (Intermodulation Distortion).
IMD is rarely quoted, but in our experience it kills music by muddying and blurring fine details, particularly when multiple instruments are playing at the same time.
The Angel amplifiers use very linear circuitry and low feedback to keep IMD very low. This leads to a wonderful transparency and neutrality, the music shines through and the amplifier 'disappears'.
You can't eliminate ALL distortion from an amplifier, so the key is not to measure it, but to listen to it, then remove the distortion you can hear.
Rhythm and Timing
It's all about Current. Lots of it please!
Real loudspeakers are complex mechanical and reactive loads, and the only way to make a real speaker cone faithfully reproduce the music is to supply current from the amplifier.
But what about Linearity? Many amplifiers have high current limits, but transistors lose linearity as the currents increase. The Angel 6 addresses this by using 6 output transistors per channel to spread the current.
This means that when you crank up the music levels, the Angel amplifiers keep delivering more power and scale, without compressing the dynamics and 'hardening up' the sound like traditional amplifiers.
The level of grip this provides on the speakers is astonishing, and the timing and rhythm of the music remains natural, effortless and fluid.
To get the most from a low feedback amplifier design, the Angel amplifiers also use:
* A multi-island linear power supply to help deliver the full dynamic range of the music
* Low feedback discrete regulators for natural and neutral tonality
* Dual-Mono construction for channel isolation and imaging
* Top quality components for long life expectancy at low stress
* Custom low noise toroidal audio transformer with independent secondaries
* A low-resonance casing with heavy machined panels to reduce microphony and preserve transparency of fine musical nuances
Music, Music, Music…
Fundamentally the music is what drives all of our design decisions.
Ultimately, moving away from established and published amplifier design wisdom freed up the design process on the Angel amplifiers, allowing the music to come flowing out.
At Moor Amps we have re-imagined the amplifier and applied sound engineering design to produce the Angel amplifiers.
Effortless Musicality at any listening level.
Trust your ears to measure the difference, and prepare to rediscover your music collection.
Moor Amps Ltd, 16 Balland Park, Ashburton, Newton Abbot, TQ13 7BS
support@mooramps.co.uk


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Als Rotte wird in der militärischen Luftfahrt eine Formation aus normalerweise zwei Flugzeugen oder Hubschraubern bezeichnet. Je nach Einsatzauftrag können es auch mehr sein.
Verantwortlich für Führung der Rotte ist der Rottenführer. Er wählt seine Position innerhalb der Formation je nach Lage und Einsatz.

Die nächstgrößere fliegende Formation bezeichnet man als Kette.

Besonderheit

NATO-Luftverteidigungssystem
Im gemeinsamen Luftverteidigungssystem der NATO, beispielsweise für Air Policing oder Quick Reaction Alert, werden Alarmrotten vorgehalten, die in einer hohen militärischen Bereitschaftsstufe mit Abfangjägern 24 Stunden an 365 Tagen verfügbar sind. Der Einsatzbefehl erfolgt durch einen vorgesetzten nationalen Gefechtsstand, ein CRC oder ein CAOC.
 Darstellung
Militärisches Symbol – "Rotte" (Formation aus mindestens zwei Luftfahrzeugen) – in NATO-Streitkräften:
 ein einzelner Punkt (●   Rotte allgemein); bzw.
 ein liegendes Rechteck mit einem Punkt darüber (Rotte als einzelne Teileinheit) auf militärischen Karten

Nationale Volksarmee
In den Luftstreitkräften der NVA war die der Rotte vergleichbare kleinste fliegende Formation das Paar. Es bestand aus zwei Luftfahrzeugen, dem Führenden (Vorgesetzten) und dem Geführten (Untergebenen). Übernommen wurde die Bezeichnung von den sowjetischen Luftstreitkräften (dort: Para, ).

Luftwaffe der Wehrmacht
In der Luftwaffe der Wehrmacht hatte der erfahrenere Flugzeugführer als Rottenführer das Sagen. Sein Rottenflieger (im Sprachgebrauch der Flieger auch Kaczmarek genannt) konnte durchaus ranghöher sein.

Bilder

Weblinks
 Informationen auf der Homepage der deutschen Luftwaffe

Militärische Luftfahrt
Militärischer Verband