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Q: Spring "The prefix "tx" for element "tx:annotation-driven" is not bound." I'm getting the error above on my "tx:annotation-driven" line, but I've declared the namespace at the top of the beans file, why is the following XML causing this error?
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">

    <!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing
        infrastructure -->

    <!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model -->
    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="hibernateTransactionManager"/>

    <!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving
        up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
    <resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

    <!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by @Controllers to .jsp resources
        in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
    <beans:bean
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
        <beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </beans:bean>

    <beans:bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
        destroy-method="close">
        <beans:property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
        <beans:property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/assessme" />
        <beans:property name="username" value="assessme" />
        <beans:property name="password" value="assessme" />
    </beans:bean>

     <beans:bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
    <beans:property name="annotatedClasses">
        <beans:list>
            <beans:value>org.assessme.com.entity.User</beans:value>
        </beans:list>
    </beans:property>
        <beans:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <beans:property name="packagesToScan" value="org.assessme.com.controller.entity" />
        <beans:property name="hibernateProperties">
            <beans:props>
                <beans:prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</beans:prop>
                <beans:prop key="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory</beans:prop>
                <beans:prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</beans:prop>
                <beans:prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</beans:prop>
            </beans:props>
        </beans:property>
    </beans:bean>

    <context:component-scan base-package="org.assessme.com." />

    <beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver">
        <beans:property name="mediaTypes">
            <beans:map>
                <beans:entry key="html" value="text/html" />
                <beans:entry key="json" value="application/json" />
            </beans:map>
        </beans:property>
        <beans:property name="defaultViews">
            <beans:list>
                <beans:bean
                    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView">
                    <beans:property name="prefixJson" value="true" />
                </beans:bean>
            </beans:list>
        </beans:property>
    </beans:bean>
<beans:bean id="hibernateTransactionManager"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <beans:property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </beans:bean>

</beans:beans>

A: Just like your other xmlns: definations, you need one for xmlns:tx
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"

A: You may look here for further information:

The tx tags deal with configuring all of those beans in Spring's
  comprehensive support for transactions. These tags are covered in the
  chapter entitled Chapter 9, Transaction management.
...
In the interest of completeness, to use the tags in the tx schema, you
  need to have the following preamble at the top of your Spring XML
  configuration file; the emboldened text in the following snippet
  references the correct schema so that the tags in the tx namespace are
  available to you.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd">

   <!-- <bean> definitions goes here -->

</beans>

A: You must introduce the annotation tx to your project, you must install them, dont use the xmlns, it doesn't work correcty, I see that you develop with annotation, its good practice and use this,
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd

A: For the former solution doesn't help try this put it at the top make sure that you do not forget any xsi:schemaLocation.
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd"></beans>

A: You can use these :
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">

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Q: Allow the user to modify some parameters from .env Symfony I have some config variables on the .env file. I want to create a page on my web application to allow the administrators to modify the value of some .env variables (for example the mail configured to send mails). For this purpose, I have:
MAILER_SENDER_ADDRESS=backoffice@example.com
MAILER_SENDER_NAME="Application Name"
MAILER_URL=gmail://firstname.lastname@gmail.com:ijfxxiencrrdqihe@localhost

I am able to read the current values on my controller but I don't know how to save back the values filled by the user on my form.
Please, any help would be really apreciated.

A: Environment variables are there to help you specify variables for the particular environment your application runs on, for example you could have your app sitting locally on your computer which you develop on, and you could have it in the cloud running the production version of your app, version which will actually send emails correctly using real data.
What you need to do is have somewhere to store the settings you let your users customise, for example in a database. When it comes to sending the emails, you will then have to do the following:
$message = (new Swift_Message())
->setFrom(['john@doe.com' => 'John Doe'])
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Board index GENERAL DISCUSSION - The Age of Media Fakery Apollo, and more space hoaxes
If NASA faked the moon landings, does the agency have any credibility at all? Was the Space Shuttle program also a hoax? Is the International Space Station another one? Do not dismiss these hypotheses offhand. Check out our wider NASA research and make up your own mind about it all.
icarusinbound
Re: The Moon Hoax
Unread post by icarusinbound » Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:10 pm
Good efforts are being made here to attempt to properly analyse the imagery from first principles...Hollycrap, great adaptation (your gif-making skills are superb). I'm trying to deduce from the mission transcripts whether the CM was claimed to be in equatorial or polar orbit...if anyone finds-out before me, good on you (and noho/Heiwa, keep digging too...I certainly shall)
Meantime, as a response to Howie...I agree, Armstrong's behaviour is always very very odd. He (out of all of the crew) is the one with the most-disturbing 1000-yard stare, and cryptic/fractured comments....he just looks like he's squirming with discomfort, then and now.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission ... ollo11.htm
If you haven't skimmed through the trancripts, especially of A11, you should. There are details lurking in there that are stunning. For example, I was amazed to read that the A11 crew are recorded as talking to what's described as "the backup A11 crew", who are personally named in the PAO transcript...Lowell, William Anders and Haise (this by radio during the notional pre-entry return phase, when a number of travelogue soft propaganda broadcasts are made, as above). Anders would have been Armstrong if they'd had to swap the crews, so he was (by some kind of definition)the first man not to (not to?) walk on the moon. Despite the fact that the transcript (and indeed all the audio) can of course all be entirely false it provides a truly-weird counterpoint to the large stock of impossible pictures.
There's such a lot that can be dissected, or attempted to be corrolated, in all of this supposed evidence. So much of the imagery is unquestionably false, but I'm increasingly confused as to *exactly* what was done, and more specifically, exactly who knew what was going on. "Of course", we may all say..."that's precisely the problem"...but what can we conclude from all of this??
In so many ways, this woud have made more sense if we'd unearthed a 'middle way', that somehow they managed to get someone (somehow, safely) up to the moon, and back, then re-staged the whole thing. But it doesn't really look that way either...which to me is making it more of a frightening mystery than it appears at first.
[edit]A vague reference to A11 CM being in a polar orbit..I think?
Last edited by icarusinbound on Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:37 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Similar to my shock in discovering the 'Surveyor 3' story (hardware interaction within the lunar narrative that I'd never heard of before), here's yet-another weird artifact.....a moon-barrow.
AS14-64-9121
What other bits of equipment did they (allegedly) have up with them, across the six missions? How the hell did they manage to have the time to build this, and with gloves/bad visibility? Unless it was maybe towed, behind the CM-LM, on a short chain....
Unread post by nonhocapito » Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:31 pm
icarusinbound wrote: If you haven't skimmed through the trancripts, especially of A11, you should. There are details lurking in there that are stunning.
Very interesting insights and questions, icarus... and great link to the transcripts. I think that the transcripts exist because they really are scripts. Maybe they thought amateur radio operators from all over the world would try to intercept radio communication to and from the moon, so they broadcast something in real time back then for their benefit. Maybe this is simply the material leftover from those days.
I laughed when I found the following line to provide almost the first numbers appearing in the tran-script of "Apollo 11 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice" http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission ... 11_TEC.PDF :
"Apollo 11, this is Houston. Level sense arm at 8 plus 17; outboard cut-off at 9 plus 11".
Not long ago I would have still been in favor of the idea that the Apollo crew spent those days actually orbiting the earth, pretending to be on their way to the moon. A little bit like in that supposed leaked video that was probably planted by NASA to suggest the idea that they at least had that capability. Today it seems obvious that everything was fake, from the launches to the landings. Amazing...
This great gif...
...I think embodies the fakery perfectly. Just seeing how the lightning on the model never changes despite the dramatic climb and the spinning in orbit... It really is a Kubrick-like product, the kind of sequences where Kubrick appears the weakest today, compensated only by the high definition of the images in 2001. No surprise this is never shown in today's documentaries about Apollo. The world, despite everything, has grown older and a little wiser.
fbenario
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Unread post by fbenario » Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:10 am
Howie wrote: I don't know where to start with this one - Armstrongs strange reclusive behaviour is my strongest proof, everything about him says liar.
When I'm reversing into a tight space in the car park I turn the radio down or off as it affects my concentration, if I was docking the LEM with the command module & my life depended on completing this task safely, I would not be playing tape recorders at full volume & singing along to Spirit in the sky.
Unless I was faking it in a tv studio & was getting bored.
My motto is - you can't have it both ways - if a witness tells the opposite story to another witness who sees the same event, one or both have to be lying.
Alan Bean/Gene Cernan described the LEM ascent engines as loud/silent.
Buzz Aldrin says in Astronauts Gone Wild he won't be filmed watching the window fakery trick, if I went to the moon I'd deny it was a fakery, I'd be comfortable with it as I know I'm telling the truth - he knows he's not telling the truth.
Excellent psychological analysis and conclusions throughout. Impeccable application of logic.
EDIT: Howie, this only your 5th post? You need to post more.
Unread post by nonhocapito » Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:05 am
Another fantastic excerpt from the apollo transcript. Please read through it. It is Houston reading the news to the Apollo 11 crew (pages 68-69 of this pdf: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission ... 11_TEC.PDF) I added some links for your convenience:
11, this is Houston. If you are interested in the
morning news, I have a summary here from PAO.
Okay. We're all listening.
From Jodrell Bank, England, via AP: Britain's big Jodrell Bank radio telescope stopped receiving signals from the Soviet Union's unmanned Moon shot at 5:49 EDT today. A spokesman said that it appeared the Luna 15 space ship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_15) "had gone beyond the Moon." Another Quote: "We don't think it has landed," said a spokesman for Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of the Observatory.
Washington UPI: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agne ... Presidency) has called for putting a man on Mars by the year 2000, but Democratic leaders replied that priority must go to needs on Earth. Agnew, ranking government official at the Apollo 11 blastoff Wednesday, apparently was speaking for himself and not necessarily for the Nixon administration when he said, "We should, in my judgment, put a man on Mars by the end of this century."
Laredo, Texas, AP: Immigration officials in Nuevo Laredo announced Wednesday that hippies will be refused tourist cards to enter Mexico unless they take a bath and get haircuts. Huberto Cazaras, Chief of Mexican Immigration in Nuevo Laredo, said authorities in Mexico City, Acapulco, and other popular tourist spots have registered complaints about the hippies.
By United Press International: Initial reaction to President Nixon's granting of a holiday Monday to Federal employees so they can observe a national day of participation in the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission mostly was one of surprise.
Rodney Bidner, Associated Press, London AP: Europe is Moon-struck by the Apollo 11 mission. Newspapers throughout the continent fill their pages with pictures of the Saturn V rocket blasting off to forge Earth's first link with its natural satellite.
And the headline writers taxed their imagination for words to hail the feat. "The greatest adventure in the history of humanity has started," declared the French newspaper Le Figaro, which devoted four pages to reports from Cape Kennedy and diagrams of the mission. The tabloid Paris Jour proclaimed, "The whole word tells them bravo." The Communists daily L'Humanite led with the launch picture and devoted its entire back page to an enthusiastic Moon report describing the countdown and launch, the astronauts' wives and families, and backgrounding lunar activities.
Hempsted, New York: Joe Namath officially reported to the New York Jets training camp at Hofstra University (Hofsra numerous 9/11 vicsims: http://www.hofstra.edu/library/libspc/l ... rs911.html) Wednesday following a closed door meeting with his teammates over his differences with pro football Commissioner Peter Rozelle.
London UPI: The House of Lords was assured Wednesday that a midget American submarine would not "damage or assault" the Loch Ness Monster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_ness_ ... stigations). Lord Nomay said he wanted to be sure anyone operating a submarine in the Loch "would not subject any creatures that might inhabit it to damage or assault." He asked that the submarine's plan to take a tissue sample with a retrievable dart from any monster it finds can be done without damage and disturbance. He was told it was impossible to say if the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act would be violated unless and until the monster found. Over.
Roger. Thank you, Bruce.
What an incongruent selection of news... Man on mars "by the end of the century" or, in other words, 2001 (note how the news report at first typically mistakes the end of the century for the year 1999)... and the loch ness monster, isn't that the typical fakery experiment of yore? Is that why it makes its appearance here? Was it a coincidence that americans revived this globally renowned hoax in coincidence of the Apollo missions? (see wickedpedia link above).
hollycrap
Unread post by hollycrap » Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:48 am
I managed to find How the Earth's terminator (the twilight zone on earth's) looked like from the Moon on July 20th 1969 as the Apollonots were faking the moon landings.
Ref => http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/earthview.php
So that the famous picture below, published in all encyclopedias, and one of the most famous pictures of the Earth from the Moon has been proven to be a fake, according to the US Naval Observatory. (you cannot have it both ways, can you?)
And you cannot have it three ways, as this footage by the same mission around the same date (or can you?)
Any doubts at all?
Heiwa
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Unread post by Heiwa » Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:39 am
I am not so sure. Above the CMD supposedly comes speeding around the Moon and the Earth just rises or pops up behind the (vertical) Moon horizon. Sun is lighting from right. It seems it is 'half Moon', i.e. only half of the from Earth visible Moon is lit up. And half of the from Earth hidden side is also lit up by the Sun, i.e. the CMD is on the sunny side of the Moon, when Earth comes into sight.
Now, if the Earth we see from the CMD is rotating around a vertical or horizontal axis and whether the Earth North pole is up/down/right or left on the photo is beyond me, but maybe the Earth North pole is up on the photo?
After a while the Earth would distance itself further from the Moon horizon as seen from the CMD and soon it would be possible to see both some lights of the pitch black night side of the Earth (at zenith = 90° right) and the Sun far behind. And after another while we should see the Earth disappear behind the Moon horizon behind the CMD ... and the CMD flies into the dark shadowy side of the Moon hidden by the Sun.
Apparently the orbit they chose for the cmd module remains a mystery, but the only orbit that would fit the earth's terminal view above would be east to west equatorial orbit which would ostensibly increase the Command Module velocity relative to the Moon's ground.
Unread post by icarusinbound » Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:54 pm
hollycrap wrote: Apparently the orbit they chose for the cmd module remains a mystery, but the only orbit that would fit the earth's terminal view above would be east to west equatorial orbit which would ostensibly increase the Command Module velocity relative to the Moon's ground.
Again, I'd say the Official Story appears to hint that the A11 CM was meant to to be in polar orbit, not equatorial...if the ejected off-dump is supposedly going into semi-polar orbit as per the transcript, there's no way the craft could have been tracking 'east-to-west' (or west-east)
Heiwa, I do see what you're meaning, about the possible alignment of the picture.
But...we're focusing here upon an image that allegedly was taken in orbit (a factor I initially missed). Are there any earth-rise photographs supposedly taken from the surface? I seemed to remember that there was some mention of this sight by the supposed LM crew, but I haven't located it yet within the transcripts.
Unread post by hollycrap » Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:04 pm
First a correction. In my quoted statement by icarusisbound I said the LM would increase its velocity relative to the lunar ground were it moving from east to west. In fact it would decrease it. The same thing happens to a plane on Earth. If you take a flight from New York to London (west to east) you'll spend less time than if you take a flight from London To New York (east to west), because in the latter case you additionally have to make up for the earth's rotation in the same direction as the plane.
icarus, it would be nice to catch a transcript reference to an earth rise from the moon's surface, because as we have seen above there are no earth rises on the Moon.
Unread post by Heiwa » Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:53 pm
Does it matter if the CommandModule was orbiting the poles or the equator? Here is the CM after sucessful return :
It seems the window is on the side so you can take photos in all directions.
It and the LM had been launched previously from Earth at a speed of 35 000 kmh direction Moon. During voyage the speed was reduced to about 6000 kmh due to Earth trying pulling back until Moon gravity took over and it and LM accelerated again to higher speed. In order to get caught by the Moon and start orbiting the Moon, the CM/LM assembly had to fire the rocket engine to slow down to some unknown speed at which the CM/LM orbited the Moon. Maybe 2000 kmh? Fuel required for that braking, I don't know. And then the LM undocked and landed. The LM used 18 373.3 lb of rocket fuel to brake the descent and land at 0 kmh speed. After having a look around, the LM took off and used 4 870.8 lb of rocket fuel for the ascent and acceleration up to the CM to which it docked at say 2000 kmh. Not bad! Reason that much less fuel was used for the ascent was that the LM was much lighter taking off. Then they fired the rocket engine again to accelerate to 6000 kmh so that CM could fly back to Earth. I wonder where did they store all that fuel for first braking fully loaded CM/LM into Moon orbit and then, after LM had spent 23 244.1 lb of fuel going down to/up from Moon, and second accelerating almost empty CM/LM 6000 kmh out of the Moon orbit ... to get home.
Of course when the CM dropped on Earth by gravity the speed was very high but somehow some parachutes managed to decelerate the CM so it could drop into the Pacific!
Found another shot from the Moon in an earth rise from the Apollo 11. Probably produced decades after the hoax.
It matches perfectly with the one I got at the naval Observatory, for the same date. it even shows Africa which is not visible in its most famous counterpart.
Ref: as11_36_5355 http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lu ... _30th.html
Caption: The Apollo spacecraft reached Earth parking orbit after 11 minutes. After one and a half orbits the Saturn thrusters fired and the astronauts began their journey to the Moon. This spectacular photo of the Earth was taken from 158,000 km (98,000 miles) during the Apollo 11 translunar injection on July 16. Most of Africa and parts of Europe and Asia are visible.
Of course that is a made up picture.
All of them are made up pictures. This is the only original, with the fake earth being lifted by a string, and where no piece of Earth's Land can be seen, no matter how you try
The mystery thickens (rather the hoax/fairy tale thickens )
Heiwa wrote: Does it matter if the CommandModule was orbiting the poles or the equator? Here is the CM after sucessful return :
But in the animated version, the observer is meant to be traveling in the direction of the moon's horizon
Still another mindbender is why from the surface they did not make the Earth as big as it should be, too fantastic ?
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Unread post by reel.deal » Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:11 pm
hollycrap wrote:
Let's face it. Traveling into space is not possible. But that's a blessing. Otherwise they would have mounted
millions of bombs and war paraphernalia on all kinds of spacecraft. This makes me feel more safe
Everything is a farce.
hollycrap... hope you're up for having a look at the Nuke Hoax thread sometime,
check this vid out for starters, be interested to hear your thoughts...
http://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=452
The Nuclear Bomb Hoax - TV Fakery and PSYOP
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXxIhWIdhW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXxIhWIdhW8
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Apple pulled the rug out from under Facebook today by revoking their Enterprise Developer certificate. You deploy this on your employees' iOS devices so you can distribute apps without going through the App Store process.
Facebook used this mechanism to deploy their spyware and Apple simply killed those apps by revoking the certificate. Collateral damage: all other internal apps using the very same certificate also died the very same minute.
Sonos is still using the same process to distribute their betas outside the company and I would wager they violate the same terms and conditions as Facebook. The proper way to do this is use TestFlight, like everybody else.
Maybe Sonos is using private APIs in the beta versions of their iOS app and hence they have chosen this deployment approach?
I don't know. Maybe they are just lazy because they always did it this way, before TestFliight existed.
As far as I understood, Facebook's main violation was, that they used it for spying. In days before Testflight, wasn't this the usual method for deploying betas?
What Facebook did here was against Apple's privacy stance. That called them into action, and using the enterprise developer certificate for distributing apps outside the enterprise gave Apple a reason and means to stop them. They could do the same thing to Sonos if they ever chose to.
Prior to Apple's acquisition of TestFlight the usual method was also the prescribed one — adding individual test device UDIDs to the build. TestFlight was created as nothing more than a streamlined workflow for use of the limited allocation of UDID slots provided to every developer account for testing on 'external' devices. There has never been a time when the issuing agreement for enterprise certificates permitted deployment to users not directly bound by the enterprise's legal obligations. Apple may have been less than aggressive in enforcement of this rule but also has no direct method of monitoring such breaches of the agreement.
Facebook egregiously flouted this rule for malign purposes with predictable consequences - including that their own internal apps and testing workflows, which daily operation of their business is dependent upon, are now non-functional.
Any organization using this mechanism in this way exhibits a shocking lack of foresight consistent with the absence of adult supervision. It makes one wonder what other bad decisions Sonos has made.
I can remember they used to add UDIDs way back when. Which in the olden days limited them to 200 test devices. I used to have to of them: one iPhone and one iPad.


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Sam Cooke ran better than the bare form suggests in finishing fifth in the one-mile-six-furlong handicap. Held up early on by Harry Bentley, he was keener than ideal, but he travelled well for a long way. He was travelling best of all at the three-furlong marker, and he moved up easily through his field on the run to the two-furlong pole. He came under pressure then, and he drifted towards the middle of the track, but he joined the front rank, he got to within about two lengths of the winner Cape Coast, before fading through the final furlong up the hill as he tired.
It was still a highly encouraging run from Ralph Beckett's horse on his first run in over a year. On his previous run, he won a 12-furlong handicap at Chester impressively off a mark of 85. He was racing off a mark of 92 here, and this performance suggests that he is more than capable off this mark. He has gone well fresh in the past, that Chester win was also after a break of over a year, but he shaped here as if he could improve for this run. He is obviously fragile, he is a four-year-old who has run just five times, but, consequently, he has plenty of potential to improve further. He is obviously good on soft ground, but he won a novice stakes at York on good ground as a juvenile.
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Autumn in Arborwood – Introducing: Ryan Mitchell
In my last blog post, I admitted to a secret. It's one that I share with laughing chagrin… I imagine celebrities as my main characters so that I can keep straight what they look like when I write about them. When I describe Emmie Tunstall's sunny smile or Ciaran Halloran's intense gaze, it is easier for me to imagine the already existing faces of Teresa Palmer and Jonathan Rhys Meyers than to craft faces and recall them reliably from the bits and pieces I've randomly chosen.
Is it cheating? Maybe. Is it fun? You betcha! So today, I am excited to introduce you to the main character of my latest work in progress. My dear readers, meet Ryan Mitchell.
Ryan is a young woman living in the small town of Arborwood, in the Northern Ontario district of Muskoka. She is a kind, caring and ambitious young woman who is all about the "family" of her home town. She is independent, and assertive when she needs to be, but not as a general rule. Her greatest joy in life is to bring joy to her loved ones and to nurture the sense of community she was raised with for everyone who comes to stay at the Arborwood Inn.
For her appearance, I imagine Ryan on the smaller, slender side, with an olive complexion, light brown hair, and pretty features—though she would describe herself as being on the plain side of pretty (I do love a modest heroine). In my head, Ryan Mitchell looks like:
Gosh, she's pretty! In the story, Ryan's main-character-counterpart, Jake Hanley, is a handsome Manhattan business mogul accustomed to dating only glammed-up women. Ryan, clearly, is far from Jake's "usual type." She's the kind of girl who, without a single swipe of makeup, still looks fresh-faced and alluring… and has no idea that others see her this way. Ryan is strong without being overwhelming, and offers a calm and competent presence to any room she finds herself in. With Alicia Vikander in place in my head for Ryan Mitchell, I am enjoying the process of getting to know this character immensely!
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Welcome to the quiet community of Arborwood. Nestled in the popular Northern Ontario lake district of Muskoka, it is a place where everyone is family, whether blood relation or not. While wealthy vacationers from around the world flock here during the summer months for some pampered rest and relaxation, the locals are happy to create for them (and their tourist dollars) a destination experience on which the district's economic health depends.
Arborwood is where Ryan Mitchell has grown up. Ever since she was a little girl, she was raised by her father, Ed, and her "family" of friends, neighbours and fellow residents of this quaint little town. Leaving Arborwood was never in the cards for Ryan, which is why she pursued a college education in Hospitality Management – the dominant industry in the area. Now, she has landed her dream job: General Manager at the Arborwood Inn, a popular upscale resort. Life couldn't be more perfect.
When the Arborwood Inn's owner, the larger-than-life "Poke" Bosworth, passes away, the loss of this beloved figure is felt throughout the community. Poke has willed ownership of his beloved resort to his nephew, Jake Hanley. Jake's world couldn't be farther apart from that of Arborwood. The son of a billionaire real estate tycoon, Jake grew up in a Manhattan high rise, surrounded by wealth and luxury, but lacking the warmth of family. Following in his father's ambitious footsteps, he has built a successful acquisitions and mergers empire… which he runs with ruthless precision and ice-cold calculation.
Ryan loves the Arborwood Inn. Jake wants to sell it like he does with the other failing businesses he acquires for profit. But what he doesn't realize is that just because a business isn't a multi-million-dollar success, that does not mean it is failing. What the Arborwood Inn offers goes far beyond the small but tidy profit it earns annually. The Arborwood Inn has priceless treasures like community, family and warmth.
Will Ryan Mitchell be able to thaw Jake Hanley's icy corporate mind and teach him to love Arborwood as much as she does? What happens when she unintentionally thaws his jaded heart in the process?
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The Wire and Baltimore
It seems that despite the most temperate reply possible, I've been drawn into another absurdist debate about whether The Wire, or Homicide, or perhaps even The Corner is good or bad for Baltimore. This time, the righteous indignation about the tarnish applied to my city's reputation is from a gentleman named Mike Rowe. A Baltimore native, he is employed elsewhere in this great diaspora of television and he has now assumed the mantle of defender of my city's reputation.
Mr. Rowe marks his displeasure with our work by reductively describing it as a depiction of "drug dealers" and "pimps" that is sufficient to convince anyone that Baltimore is a mere cesspool, certain and fixed. In this simplicity, he joins, by late count, a few business leaders, several political aspirants and at least two police commissioners in decrying narratives that don't provide the imagery with which Baltimore wishes to adorn itself.
Having been specifically directed to Mr. Rowe's remarks and asked for comment by the Baltimore City Paper, here is the sum of my entire response. It is distinct from the writing of any City Paper essayist and it alone represents my position. The City Paper's arguments necessarily remain its own; they do not coincide with mine at points. I wrote:
"Speaking for the collective that worked on the narratives in question, we undertook to tell those stories as best we could in the hope that they would be honest and relevant to the whole of our city, to our divided American society and to the fundamental necessity that is our shared future. We even operated with some hope that such storytelling might help lead to redress and reconsideration of certain policies and priorities.
"On a personal level, that's simply my job. It was my job as a reporter and as an author. It is my job still and I take it seriously.
"Certainly, there are other meaningful uses for narrative and imagery, and civic boosterism is one such laudable purpose. That is the job of others and I understand that they, too, take their labors seriously.
"As a Baltimorean fully vested in the city's future, I can respect and support such efforts and purposes, even should others demonstrate less understanding and respect for the role of storytelling as a means of offering dissent and opening civic and societal debate."
Exactly what did I claim here?
1) That our narratives were undertaken in earnest and to an ethical and professional purpose, and that my colleagues and I believe the narratives address fundamental issues and concerns that ought to be addressed. And, oh yeah, we take our role as storytellers seriously.
2) That these are not the only narratives and images that can represent the city, and that civic boosterism or promotion is also a laudable goal undertaken by equally serious and committed people.
3) That as we are Baltimoreans, living here and vested in our collective future, we support efforts to improve the city's image. Rather than critique Mr. Rowe's fledgling endeavors in any way — and certainly with less reductive cynicism than his depiction of our own efforts — we find it easy to support and encourage him.
And for this, there are now people with their asses in the air, including Mr. Rowe who has already fired off more verbiage? Really? Is there a cognitive problem here?
Mr. Rowe got a careful, polite reply because he managed to critique our storytelling without, say, the bombast of a city council president who actually used her post to attempt to pass official proclamations against The Wire (What business does any government have sanctioning or opposing narrative?), or a police commissioner who demanded apologies for the narrative (Not enough for him to dislike or critique a story, he instead demands that those who would tell a tale not to his liking actually apologize for doing so?), or a mayor who wanted to be governor and actually attempted to use his administrative authority to alter or prohibit the narrative itself. (Will you change the story or quit the story, or do I keep holding up your film permits?)
Over the years, telling these tales in which we believed proved, at points, a source of direct conflict with city officials who were willing to do far more than merely vent their personal displeasure as critique. In those instances, yes, I felt obliged to defend with some vigor the legitimate right to tell a story that serves interests other than the glorification of Baltimore and its present administrations.
Here, though, I read carefully and understood what Mr. Rowe did and did not argue. And my comments were proportioned to make clear that there was plenty of room for his good efforts on behalf of the city, that such efforts easily obtain my support, and that those efforts did not, in my mind, necessarily conflict with the concurrent responsibility by others to use narrative and imagery to tell hard truths about our city, our nation, and our national priorities and policies. That's the sum of what went back over the transom.
Too much? If Mr. Rowe can dish out his caricatures about who populates The Wire and Homicide — pimps and dealers and junkies, oh my! — yet finds himself unable to endure the brutalities of the above reply, he boasts a sensitivity that I fear cannot long endure in the town of his birth. After all, the only phrase I offered in critique of Mr. Rowe's performance, rather than in direct support of his effort on behalf of Baltimore, was to note his apparent lack of understanding for the role of storytelling that doesn't affirm what those in power wish to have said about just how swell they've administered things. For that, you can't rely on political leaders, or celebrity promotional campaigns, or any deep reservoir of empathy from many of those whose lives are arrayed on the right and profitable side of a status quo. For that, some measure of dissent is required.
Any insult from Mr. Rowe's remarks may well have been unintended; however, the pimps and dealers and drug addicts that this gentleman so easily and hastily conjured to lament our narratives are, of course, a minority of the characters actually depicted in those stories. But in focusing on those few stereotypes, Mr. Rowe was clearly raising an argument that I find familiar and disturbing: That an undeserving portion of Baltimore has been chronicled at the expense of a Baltimore more deserving of attention, and that the America left behind by deindustrialization, poverty and the depredations of the drug war should just quiet the fuck down while we sell more of the America that has not been so marginalized.
Mr. Rowe, there are literally hundreds of television narratives — sitcoms and reality shows and comic-book dramas and cops-and-robbers affirmations of law and order out there, shows about the America in which human beings are still valued and in which capital still operates to the advantage of the many. By contrast, there was, for a brief time, one little-watched drama on one pay channel that tried to tell a story in that part of the nation where those things are no longer close to fucking true. That story happened to be set in the city of Baltimore; Mr. Rowe now asserts that as far as he is concerned it was one story too many.
I do indeed find that stance offensive, parochial and myopic. Telling only the pretty, affirming stories has a cost, too. Telling tales in which the poor and marginalized — including those who live and work amid an underground economy that is, in fact, the largest employer in Baltimore city — are rendered as human rather than as merely the chow for avenging cops has, at least, some small chance of perhaps slowing the war on the underclass now ongoing in this country. If it is tough work that Mr. Rowe chronicles — and I understand it's his stock in trade — then the ease with which he throws judgment across the chasm between the two Baltimores has perhaps denied him some fresh material, and some real insight into one of the hardest, most destructive and self-destructive occupations in one of America's largest growth industries. The drug war doesn't endure as it has for 60-odd years without people being fed a media diet of contempt for dealers and pimps and addicts in the precise terms that Mr. Rowe feels so comfortable venting. We don't become the most incarcerative society in the history of mankind without so easily dehumanizing those who are consigned to the parts of our city that Mr. Rowe, the Greater Baltimore Committee and aspiring politicians might struggle to sell as authentic or charming.
Moreover, I hold the audience for our harsher narratives — and indeed for other, warmer storytelling about Baltimore — in much higher regard than Mr. Rowe, apparently. I think viewers are smart enough to understand that these stories represent certain quadrants of my city, but not all of Baltimore, and even more certainly not the whole of the metropolitan area. They are stories about one America, long and purposely ignored and isolated, and while set in Baltimore, they are applicable to East St. Louis or South Chicago or North Philadelphia. Anyone who thinks The Wire is all of Baltimore is as much a fool as anyone who can be shown a crabcake and convinced that the Inner Harbor is all of the city. Pretending otherwise — from either end — is a mug's game.
My question — and given how regularly I have to deal with this dynamic, I think it a fair one — is simply this: Is it possible for someone to assert on behalf of Baltimore's charm and worth, while at the same time being grown-up enough to understand that other stories have an altogether different but essential purpose? Is it conceiveable that someone seeking higher office, or credit for civic improvement, or even a paid promoter's fee might simply do the straight business of asserting for the best of Baltimore, without going to the trouble to pretend that there are not significant problems in this city and every American city that require redress? Is the universe sufficiently vast to contain both the empirical fact that a Faidley's backfin crabcake is the world's best and that Baltimore is the fifth most dangerous city in America? Can it be that Brooks Robinson is indeed the superior third baseman to Mike Schmidt, while at the same time credible that as many as half the African-American males under the age of forty in my city are unable to find or are no longer even seeking legitimate, full-time work? Does a walk around the harbor's growing promenade suggest hope in the city's planning and execution in a way that the failure to educate most public school graduates to participate in city's legitimate economy does not? Is it possible to speak well of Baltimore, sincerely, while allowing certain truths to stand?
Not yet, apparently. And for some folks, maybe never.
Robin Riebe says:
I'm a johnny-come-lately fan of the Wire (just having finished season 3) and chanced upon this article while wondering: how closely does the shows depiction of Baltimore match the reality? Thank-you for your thoughts and more than anything the show itself. I'm a midwesterner but was stationed on a Coast Guard harbor tug in Curtis Bay back in 72-73. The things I remember about the city are mostly positive: the waterfront, Sabatino's, the art museum to name just a few. But there were times when as an out-of-towner driving ignorantly around the city I would end up in neighborhoods (not unlike some of those seen on the show) where I tell you I feared for my safety. But even so, I have a soft spot in my heart for the city and probably always will (except for the Ravens, one my best friends is from Cleveland and when the Browns . . . well you get the picture).
Great post. I'd like to hear more from Mike Rowe on the subject because he seems like a really grounded person despite his cable tv quasi-celebrity. If I had to guess, people get so defensive about the depiction of Baltimore in The Wire because unlike other cities such as New York, this is the portrayal in popular media people most associate with the city. There isn't a vast public outcry when Law & Order depicts extreme violence and sex crime because it's just one fictional New York among thousands that contains such deviants.
Baltimore doesn't have many stories about it that have become as popular as The Wire, so this one that is based more in reality than most television programs draws a lot of heat from people who either have a stake in keeping the image of the city untarnished or don't encounter or don't believe that the inner city is like this.
Also, it's just a tragedy that many don't accept The Wire as an allegory to the USA as a whole. It's right there in the first scene of the first episode. C'mon, people.
It seems to me that cities, like people, have their own personalities, pasts and even motivations. I think its fair to look at people from all sides, so why not a city? JFK was a good man, yet a womanizer. Elvis was a tremendous stage artist, yet drug addicted. Gandhi had impeccable humanist views, yet disowned his own son for wanting to be married. Maybe I'm an iconoclast but I think people can be as flawed as they are virtuous. Within this prism, cities carry that same connotation.
Lakshman says:
I've been following this thread but took some time to think of something half way intelligent to say. I haven't read Mr.Rowe's original piece that prompted this reply from Mr. Simon but reading through some of the comments, especially from the lady that met Europeans grossed out about Baltimore because of The Wire I couldn't help but think of how some of my Indian friends and colleagues react to news stories that portray (in their opinion) India in somewhat poor light. I first started observing this a few years ago when Slumdog Millionaire was winning Academy Awards by the handful. The main lament from many of my Indian friends and relatives was how Hollywood was at it again showing how wretched India is. More recently with all the rape stories being reported out of India I see a the same trend. There they are, the media in the West portraying India in a poor light.
Never mind the fact that yes, even though not all Indian kids are swimming around in pools of shit (as shown in one of the scenes), the reality for far too many of them is pretty close. So it is with the rape stories grabbing the world's attention. Yes, not all Indian men are rapists but as a society we have turned a blind eye to the problem of sexual harassment and sexual assault in India for far too long. I understand the urge to defend something that you are close to or belong to, the urge to show all that is good about it instead of the bad. I work hard to fight stereotypes every day and I am hurt when a woman American colleague, in a meeting refuses to go to India because of what she perceives could happen to her in India. The reality of it is that it happens, and if me having to constantly fight such stereotypes at work or otherwise and having to try to educate people that India is not only about slums and women getting raped, then it is a small price to pay for the awareness as a result.
I guess all this is a long winded way of saying that the perceived "negative publicity" that Baltimore receives as a result of The Wire is a small price to pay for portraying the realities of life for those that don't have a voice, and to go back to the comment about Europeans or others being grossed out, yes I knew how awesome Johns Hopkins was before I saw The Wire but I didn't know a whole lot about life for so many in the inner city. Heck, I'm probably not even as smart as say a Mr. Rowe or some of the other commenters here but I can't quite understand how someone can watch The Wire and not come out with greater empathy and understanding for those that are less fortunate than us, let alone reductively categorizing the show as about "pimps, whores and drug dealers" or whatnot.
I would hazard a guess that the majority of Dirty Jobs fans are glass-half-full types, whereas The Wire aficionados might prefer to say the-water-line-is-clearly-in-the-middle.
I wonder what the mayor of Victorian London thought of "Oliver Twist"?
Nick Moroney says:
So again, can we cut to the quick here? Fanboy this says that; fangirl that says this; how about solid suggestions re. justice and equity in Baltimore? (From a juvenile justice activist)).
What have I spent the last quarter century reporting on or dramatizing? Or are you disinclined to acquire the actual narratives and their underlying arguments and instead asking me to reduce them for you, personally, into a blogpost?
Hey man, your boots are on the ground. Why don't you tell us?
One practical thing I would like to see is an increase in budget for the summer youth jobs program in Baltimore, and a restoration of the rec centers that have been closed in recent years. That's just one example of something that I think could and should be done. I mean, any additional investment in job creation or education would probably be good.
Agreed. The recreation centers could be expanded to include counselors knowledgeable about local resources to connect kids and young adults with jobs and training opportunities. City and state government could also prioritize investment in communities and cut spending on warehouse-type facilities housing kids and adults facing challenges.
Funny we landed here. Cast and crew of The Wire and The Corner and HBO left behind a fund of $1.25 million with the Parks & People Foundation for the maintenance of rec programming in inner-city Baltimore. Money donated or raised by the productions themselves over six years of production and after.
Kudos! Hopefully Mr. Rowe's production will look for similar ways to give back to the community.
Tony Amos says:
Very well spoken, with just enough passion to not irk Rowe, but maybe to open some underused synapses. I'm watching Season 3 of The Wire as I type this, having read it while viewing the end of Season 2. One might applaud your body of within The Corner and The Wire as if we landed satellite upon a moving comet for the first time. Thank you for shining a spotlight and it's unforgiving truth upon America the forgotten.
TF says:
Mr. Simon: I'm late to the dance having just watched all five seasons in the last 2 weeks. A friend directed me to the show during it's run but it was too close to my own work and hence not very relaxing or entertaining at the time. I know some the families of whom you wrote, thought I have never met them.
Thankfully, I returned to my friend's recommendation. From season 1 – 4 I was glued to the series, some of the best cinema (small screen or big) that I have ever watched. Admittedly, Season 5 left me wanting. I thought you and your various storytellers and directors were capable of so much more. But I digress, while I live in Chicago, I see and have seen lives not unlike those you depicted. Having worked in government, I have witnessed the games as you described. Even this morning, I watched a video clip of the Superintendent of police, diminish the claims of a murder victim despite evidence in the form of a request for an order of protection…"she was not afraid" he claimed. His credibility tainted even further by the fact that the shooter, who killed himself, was the son of two Chicago Police officer. I could see Burrell or Rawls delivering the same message, a uniformed deputy standing stoically by with those scrambled eggs on the brim of his perfect adorned hat.
Finally, your small anecdotes about the city council president, the governor and others trying to influence your story do more to affirm that you're stories may be fictional, but they are more grounded in truth that some can bare.
Thanks for the Wire….great stories, acting, editing, cinema. Regards, TF
Said it before, and I'll say it again — I think just about any season of any show would suffer in comparison to season 4 of THE WIRE (who can resist those kids?) but I also think season 5 benefits from a re-watch, after you've already re-watched the other seasons, of course. I noticed a lot more of the callbacks and references to other seasons that enriched season 5 for me, upon a rewatch, and I better understood the newspaper storyline. I recommend it.
derek seymour nz says:
Season 5 stands up. Just don't watch it straight after season 4…It's a hard act to follow. Season 5 has some of my favourite moments of the wire (that's some spider-man shit, and mcnulty's phone conversation "you little twist…")
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All the pieces matters…
To dismiss season 5 is like saying you prefer Melville's heart to his brain. It's the gestalt organism that impresses. I'll never understand anyone who chooses one season over another. All the pieces matter. It's the most ambitious narrative ever attempted on TV. And it was accomplished because each episode in each season nailed it. Boom.
Mr. Simon:
The Wire is the best series that has ever been on television. Baltimore is exhilarating and sad, like most of our cities and being able to understand and be moved by the issues you presented so beautifully and tragically is receiving a gift. You changed how I think. Thank you.
Mr. Simon,
I have refreshed this page about two dozen times today to see what you have to say on last night's non-indictment….Please.
You prefer the backfin at Faidley's to the jumbo lump? I can vividly remember my first jumbo lump – equal parts ecstasy (obviously) and dismay that no other crab cake could ever measure up, and I had only one place in the world I could get a good crabcake.
I certainly like the backfin, but I don't find them all that much different than crabcakes elsewhere.
Not to miss the important purpose of this article, backfin meat is considered tastier, if not as visually impressive as lump. Think of it as the dark meat where lump is the white.
You are of course correct, if not sagacious.
I'll give it another shot – maybe splurge and compare side-by-side with the jumbo lump.
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Transformers: Soundwave Linkin Park Special Edition
Now don't get me wrong, I've been a fan of Linkin Park since they've started out and I'm a HUGE fan of Transformers since Generation 1. I mean a huge fan. No, seriously, I have Transformers tattoos... anyways, I'm going to dive in and say I'm not digging the special edition Soundwave that was produced as a result from the collaboration between Linkin Park and Hasbro.
I may be a little demanding when it comes to the Transformers franchise. Especially if it involves Generation 1 (G1), which is my absolute favorite series and Soundwave, who is one of my absolute favorite Decepticons.
The design is inspired by the G1 series Soundwave and mainly recieves a gold treatment all around and comes in a cassette-style box packaging. The full package includes four cassette minions that can slide into Soundwave's chest and stands about 7'' high.
The unveiling of the design was shakey at first with the very loyal fanbase to the Transformers world and has ultimately transposed to a luke-warm reception at the moment. But overall, the most avid Transformers collectible fan WILL get their hands on this item. I, myself, am not a huge fan of this piece.
You can be the judge for yourself with the pictures below.
Like what you see? Have $150 to burn? You can purchase it here or you can check out the standard sites, such as eBay, Amazon, etc.
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The Crystalensaccommodating intraocular lens (IOL) is great in concept, but not always so great in reality. The theory behind the Crystalens is that it moves inside the eye and mimics natural accommodation - the process of changing focus for near objects. Sometimes the Crystalens simply does not accommodate. Unfortunately it is difficult to know before surgery if the Crystalens will or will not accommodate.
It takes some time for the eye to understand how to manipulate the Crystalens. Waiting 3-6 months before making a decision about the outcome is reasonable. There are a few events that would require you to urgently make a decision about changing the Crystalens. Your surgeon should be able to advise you about this timeline, based upon your individual circumstances. This is usually not a situation where you suddenly must make a trip to the surgeon for lens exchange. You should have a reasonable amount of time to make the decision.
If the Crystalens does not accommodate, then you have a rather fancy (and expensive) regular single focus IOL.
You provided your Snellen 20/100 distance visual acuity, but what would be most helpful is your current prescription for full distance vision correction and the amount of plus that is required for adequate near vision. Being within 1.00 diopter of target refractive error is relatively common after IOL surgery. Being within 0.50 diopter is generally considered an excellent result. It is possible that you are within that range, but without the prescription it is impossible to know. There is no real correlation between diopters and Snellen, and Snellen does not tell us if you are myopic (nearsighted, shortsighted) or hyperopic (farsighted, longsighted) or if astigmatism is contributing to the problem.
If your refractive error is less than 1.00 diopter myopic, then it is likely your surgeon will recommend against a lens exchange if there are no other problems. If your refractive error is greater than 1.00 diopter or if your refractive error is hyperopia, then a lens exchange may more likely be considered appropriate.
I am personally not a fan of multi-focal IOLs. I hear so many complaints about halos around light sources from multi-focal IOLs that it seems the reliable single-focus IOL may be better. Multifocal IOLs are very dependant upon pupil size and pupil reaction. Your surgeon will need to evaluate these measurements to determine if a multifocal is even a reasonable consideration. For people who like them, they love them. For people who don't, they are pretty unhappy. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
Have you discussed monovision correction with single-focal IOLs with your surgeon? This may be the most appropriate method to reduce the need for reading glasses, depending upon your needs. If you don't mind reading glasses all that much, single focal IOLs corrected for distance vision may be best.
What you don't want to do is Lasik or any similar cornea-based surgery until you have decided you are sticking with the IOL that is already implanted. There is no advantage to messing with the cornea if you are going to end up exchanging that IOL.
I am curious if you had this surgery because of a cataract, or if this was Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE).What is your age and what are your normal activities?
Thank you for your response. This was a clear lens replacement. I'm 53 and work outside and do some driving at night. I'm pretty convinced to not do the IOL in the other eye. I don't care for the halos etc. that I see at night. If the lens does not accommodate I leaning towards a slight Lasik correction in the IOL eye if the doctor agrees. Then lasik in the other eye to get me to a workable mono vision. I wore mono vision contacts for over a year with no real problems. I ended up in the surgery center to explore mono vision lasik, but changed to the IOL because lasik was almost half of the IOL price. I was thinking that the lasik procedure would be sort of temporary, so why not do the IOL's and have the full range of vision (advertisement) and not have to worry about cataracts later. I hope my results are not typical and applaud those who have had successful lens replacement. Knowing what I have experienced, I would suggest the single vision replacement lens over the Multi focal type, and would not replace a clear lens (no-cataracts). That is only my opinion based on my personnel situation. Once your natural lens is removed it's gone. If you have developed cataracts then the lens needs to be replaced and you can make up your own mind about the replacement options. I hope I can one day say that everything worked out. My surgeon is very competent and provides the whole range of services (lasik and IOL's), and is still evaluating my case.
The halos you describe are undoubtedly because the width of the lens portion of the Crystalens is not large enough for the width of your natually dilated pupils. Lasik will not resolve this and Lasik may make it significantly worse. If my assumption is correct, only an exchange with an IOL of the proper width will stop the halos.
Your logic regarding going for Crystalens was accurate based upon the information you were provided, but the reality is that the IOL is not accommodating, is not large enough for your pupil size, and it is not the proper power to provide good distance correction. Nothing screws up a perfectly good theory faster than reality.
Based upon the information I have gained from many patients and surgeons who have implanted the Crystalens, your result is not "typical", but your result is relatively common.
Replacing a clear lens (Refractive Lens Exchange - RLE) is a generrally appropriate and successful way to resolve refractive error for someone who is fully presbyopic, but the proper lens and target correction is necessary. I'm sure you would have been satisfied if you had single-focus IOLs that replicated your monovision with contacts.
It's good that you have a surgeon who can provide many options that may respolve your problems. That is probably your greatest asset.
My latest follow up visit showed a little vision improvement. I was myopic to start with (20/400 pre-implant), so that maybe has an effect on what I can expect as far as improvement. I'm at 20/60 and reading around J3 with a lot of light and cheating a bit. To see at J3 I have to hold the card out a little farther than normal. The Doc has suggested to implant the second eye and really nail the distance vision. Then maybe tweak the first eye with lasik for the complete package. When I asked about lasik for distance in the second eye instead he said I would not have the close vision, and that is what this whole deal was about in the beginning. Trying to eliminate the need for reading glasses or contacts. I have scheduled another ascan in a couple of weeks. So that once that is done I will be about 8-9 weeks out from the first eye and will decide then what to do. Could there be any reason to expect more vision improvement based just on time since implant?
It is possible that you will gain vision improvement with the Crystalens. It is possible that it will settle in a position that will provide better vision or that your eye will learn how to manipulate the lens for accommodation.
I don't want to rain on your parade, but there is a very simple truth here: there is no surgery that "cures" presbyopia. Crystalens is probably the closest to a surgical correction for presbyopia, and you are experiencing what you can get from that.
Even when the Crystalens works perfectly, the physics of its optics are such that the very most you can expect is about 1.50 diopters of accommodation. That's not bad, but that much accommodation from the Crystalens is the maximum and the exception, not the norm.
Because you were successful with monovision it seems prudent to consider this an appropriate target.
In my effort to troubleshoot my own situation, does this make sense? When I look through the pin hole device the halos are gone along with much better vision. I understand a little about the concept of the pin hole test and how it helps to show refractive error (something with the light rays), but is that the same reason that in my case the halos disappear when looking through it?
We have a detailed article about pupil size issues and night vision problems. It relates primarily to Lasik, but the concept is the same. If light is able to reach the edge of the IOL, it can cause the halos you report. If your pupils are small, such as in bright daylight, the light entering the eye passes only through the center of the IOL and does not touch the edge. A pinhole will do the same thing.
A small pupil or a pinhole also has the effect of concentrating light to a single focal point in the eye and creates a greater depth of focus. These too will improve vision when looking through a small aperture.
If you move the pinhole around to the periphery of your cornea while looking straight ahead in a low light environment you will probably be able to find the halo.
Here's a report on my progress to date. I started with a right eye that needed -4.75 of power to correct for distance. I had been wearing a -3.00 contact right eye to get a type of mono vision for the last year (a -2.75 in the left eye). After the crystalens was implanted (right eye) and some time has past (two months), I've settled in around 20/60 to 20/80 for the distance.
I can see very good at 18" to 3', dashboard and computer with the implant, but distance is blurry. The only way I can drive or work is to keep wearing the left contact.
My Doctor suggested another ascan on the left eye as a check before implanting it. Since I would need to be out of the contact for a week I asked to get a temporary contact for the implanted eye so I could see to drive etc.
With -1.00 of correction over the crystalens my distance is great, however I lost some of the near. I need reading glasses for the computer now. As soon as the ascan was done I went back to the contact in the non-implanted eye (mono vision again).
The second eye is on the books to be done in a couple of weeks. They are trying to hit the power this time for distance. I would be lying if I said I wasn't concerned.
The Crystalens does not often immediately provide accommodation. It can sometimes take many months. As previously stated, accommodation may never occur or may be very limited.
Your surgeon's plan to provide monovision with Crystalens in both eyes is probably very wise. Even if the Crystalens does not accommodate, you would have a function workaround for presbyopia. You would have an extended range of near and mid vision if you are able to accommodate in both eyes with the Crystalens.
Express your concerns with your surgeon and determine if what is planned is most appropriate considering your experience thus far.
Please keep us informed of your progress. Many people are considering Crystalens and your experience will be helpful.
I'm now 4 days out from Crystalens implant in my second eye. My first reaction was that it is all relative.
The dilated post surgery eye made the not so good first implanted eye look good. With the eye still dilated big time I felt encouraged that this might work.
I took the day after surgery off, and did nothing but the three different drops three times a day. I had serious halos around lights but could see at a distance well enough to drive. The two eyes seemed to be working together ok.
I didn't have any pain or even a red spot on the white of the eye, things couldn't have been going any better.
Then I went to work. At work I bent over to pick a piece of paper up and felt something odd. Looking across the room I realized that I had caused an event, that took away vision.
My first thought was that the implant had moved off center. I called my Doctor and got an appointment that afternoon.
He said the position was still good but seemed a little puzzled by what might have happened. The Crystalens rep. happened to be there and also took a look at the eye. She said the lens had gone flat.
I guess I was happy that the position was good, but I still can't see very well. The Doctor said it was not a big deal to pop it out (my words). He said something to the effect of restore it to the right condition. Before doing that though they want to try keeping the eye dilated for five days and see if would go back on its own.
I should say that post op instructions are to not lift anything heavy, strain or stoop. I just couldn't believe, that simple bending over to pick something up would do this.
So far there has been no improvement, and I'm not looking forward to a whole week of dilation. It was my fault for not being more careful. I guess I thought I could just breeze through the second eye.
At this point I'm not a poster boy for Crystalens. I will post results of my case as they develop.
Now ten days out from the second eye. I was dilated for a week and miserable.
When I went back at one week post op, the lens rep. said there was curvature again. They told me to stop the dilation drops but continue with the other drops. As the dilation began to wear off my vision improved. I am very much encouraged that this may work.
My first eye has settled in (after about three months) at around 20/40 distance and J3 close. I can see to read (best at almost arms length) and distance is not to bad (nothing really sharp at a distance).
The good news is that the two eyes seem to be working together pretty well. The new left eye is not great up close (would need readers for the computer if looking only through the left), but both eyes together are good. Might be able to pass the drivers test.
I will have a two week post op next week and will see what the numbers are at that time. I have more opinions but will save them for later.
Two weeks out from the second implant now. My visit today had my first eye at 20/50 for distance and J3 when holding a little farther out than where you would for a book.
The second eye is fair for distance maybe 20/30 but up close I could only get the top line on the jaeger chart. The Doctor gave me the official you can pass the drivers test comment (with both eyes).
I still have hope that the new (second eye) implant will improve as time goes by. My Doctor is still on the case and wishes I had better vision now, but has tweaking up his sleeve for a later date, I think.
I realize that I signed off for the procedure and can't complain. I do have pass the drivers test vision, and am thankful for that.
My brother-in-law had Cataract surgery the same day I had my second implant and is having some complications. So compared to him I have it made.
In my opinion, given what I know about my own procedure, I would not recommend clear lens replacement at this time. The total cost for one and what your are giving up in losing your natural lens. It may be that I change my tune down the road, time will tell. I still remember how sharp and halo free my second eye was with a contact before surgery.
Please keep us informed. The Crystalens is often recommend and potential patients will undoubtedly find your long-term outcome interesting and valuable.
It's been a little over five months since my second Crystalens implant. Vision using both eyes has settled in at J3 up close and 20/25 distance.
Not wanting to lose any up close sight but needing a little more distance I elected to have my Doctor Lasik my left eye (my distance eye). He determined that I needed about .75 more correction.
Three days out from the procedure things seem good. One day follow-up had me seeing 20/20, and no ill effects. I must say after having the implant surgery, the Lasik was a walk in the park. I'm encouraged that this may be all I need to function without glasses or contacts. J3 for near is not great but I can do most things without readers.
My wife has asked me at this point would I do it again (implants)? My answer is still no, I would not.
That is because I didn't really have a problem with contacts or reading glasses. It is nice now not to have to depend on anything to see, but in my opinion you risk a lot (remember my case was a clear lens replacement - I didn't have to do this). I have floaters (after the Yag laser), and night vision is full of halo's and starburst.
My situation is, I believed the hype of the advertisers (near middle and far vision restored). The best advice that I have heard concerning these lenses is don't think you will have the sight of someone young again.
That is very true, at least in my case. You may end up with acceptable vision if there are no complications. I would be very cautious about going down this road (Crystalens), especially if it is an elective type procedure like it was for me. I'm thankful to have the results that I have and the problems I can live with. Please do your homework, talk to real people that have had the procedure and make your decision based on their results, don't just look at the brochures.


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Woman drowns in Coffs Harbor's Park Beach
A woman has died vacationing on the central north coast after being pulled from a treacherous surf by witnesses.
A Sydney woman has died after being pulled from a treacherous surf at Park Beach in Coffs Harbor on Monday.
Several beaches in the area were closed at the time due to the dangerous conditions created by the former tropical cyclone Seth.
The woman, who is believed to be in her 40s, was pulled unconscious from the water by members of the public shortly before 1 p.m.
Despite attempts by witnesses and paramedics to resuscitate her, she died at the scene.
Police said the woman was on vacation from Sydney, but was waiting to notify the family before revealing the woman's identity.
"The former tropical cyclone Seth, currently located about 400 km east of the north coast of New South Wales, today brings big and powerful waves, dangerous surf conditions and strong winds. gale force on northern coastal waters, "a warning from the Bureau of Meteorology said.
Already this year, five people have died in drowning incidents on the Australian coast.
Since the start of December, there have been 19 coastal drownings, a peak of 19% from last year.
"Summer and the holidays are a great time to be on our shoreline with family and friends and we want everyone to enjoy this time and come home safe," said Adam Weir, Managing Director of Surf Life Saving Australia.
"For this reason, we urge all who visit our coastline to take simple steps, such as swimming on the beaches patrolled between the red and yellow flags."
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The sixth annual list, created by INvolve and presented by the Financial Times, honours people who have impacted LGBT+ inclusion inside and outside the workplace.
Kier's Christina Riley is the only person listed to work in the construction industry.
Since transitioning from male to female in 2014, Christina has given over 45 diversity and intersectionality talks and has raised over £7,500 for charity. Since joining Kier she took up the role of vice chair of the company's LGBT+ and Allies Committee.
This marks the fourth year that Riley has been recognised in the list and the first time she has been listed in the top 10.
All of the 2018 Role Models were nominated by peers and colleagues, with the nominations then reviewed by OUTstanding's judging panel, which consists of former BP CEO, Lord Browne, Harriet Green, CEO and chairman of IBM Asia Pacific, among other well-known names in business.
Riley said: "I am thrilled to have been recognised on this prestigious list amongst a host of other names doing great things for the awareness of LGBT+ issues in business. When I transitioned there was no visible transgender role models in the industry and I have been overwhelmed by the amount of support I have received since joining Kier.


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DaromaTzafona's dedicated professional team gives personalized support to all portfolio clients. Traveling the breadth and width of the country, the team periodically visits each company, many of them privately owned family businesses, and works with the founders, CEOs and managers to assess ongoing needs and find solutions for business challenges.
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Q: Closed form expression for $\sum_{n=0}^\infty H(x - n y) z^n$ involving Heaviside functions For $x>0$, $y>0$ and $0 < z < 1$ consider the sum
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where $H$ is the Heaviside step function. Is there a way to write down a closed form expression for this?

A: This is the sum of a finite geometric progression: $$\sum_{n:x\geq yn,n\geq0}{z^n}=\sum_{n=0}^{\left\lfloor\frac{x}{y}\right\rfloor}{z^n}=\frac{z^{\left\lfloor\frac{x}{y}\right\rfloor+1}-1}{z-1}$$


From arriving at the parking garage, through check-in to shopping and departure gates, Helsinki Airport will soon be the first airport in the world with the ability to track passenger flows during their entire airport experience.
The new tools for managing the flow of people through the busy airport have been developed by Walkbase, a Finnish company that is the leader in retail tracking analytics and indoor wifi positioning systems.
Walkbase has installed dozens of sensors throughout the entire terminal complex, which track the estimated 60-70% of people who visit the airport and leave their mobile phones with wifi turned on.
The new innovations allow Helsinki Airport to burnish its reputation as a forward-thinking hub, which embeds seamless innovation into travelers' experiences at the flagship Finavia property.
"Implementing Walkbase technology is part of our smart airport strategy which aims to offer passengers smooth airport experience and easy transfers between Europe and Asia. Helsinki Airport is now the world's first airport to introduce passenger flow management technology covering the whole passenger path way from car parks to departure gates, says VP of Passenger Management Heikki Koski from Finavia, Helsinki Airport.
The deal between Finavia - which operates Helsinki Airport - and Walkbase, is expected to be worth several hundred thousand euros in the next few years.
The Walkbase technology lets airport managers get an almost pinpoint fix on individual mobile devices, without storing any of the owner's personal data. The positioning information is used to monitor and improve the user experience for passengers arriving, departing or transferring at the airport - for example by identifying any passenger flow bottlenecks within the terminal at security, or in particular shopping areas. The solution lets airport retailers maximise their own marketing efforts, and in the near future will allow passengers to benefit from location-based content to be pushed to passengers' smart phones - such as changed departure times or gate information, as well as finding transfer directions.
"Imagine a truly 21st century airport experience, where your smart phone tells you if there is time to shop or eat or make it to your departure gate. That is already possible at Helsinki Airport with Walkbase technology" said Tuomas Wuoti, CEO and co-founder of the Espoo-based company.
"Our collaboration with Finavia also shows how a legacy service provider like an airport can still innovate and improve the way they do business, constantly evolving and willing to work with the startup culture at the heart of Finland's new digital economy" Wuoti added.
The Walkbase technical rollout at Helsinki Airport will see up to 300 small devices installed in every part of the complex by the end of the year. The iBeacons and Wi-Fi routers discreetly monitor signals from smart phones either passively or with an app-based opt-in, and the whole technology bundle ensures complete personal data security. "All of Walkbase's development has been based on maintaining very strict privacy standards at the core of the product" said Wuoti. "We cannot see, and do not store, any personal information about the user or owner of the device" he stressed.