From the casual city cyclist to the mountain climbing club rider, Christmas provides fans of two wheels a ludicrous variety of gifts and toys. From top of the range cycle computers and handmade bespoke accessories, to beautiful books and unique underwear, Christmas is covered. With that in mind, here are our favorites.
Three years in the making, photographer Michael Blann captured pictures of the mountains that have become notorious for the challenges they possess to amateurs and legends alike. While cycling offers a stern test in all its forms, it is the mountain stages that hold people's attention and the images in this book are nothing short of spectacular.
Celebrate cycling's most iconic race with the perfect underwear for powerful climbers, sprinters and tour masters alike. This London cycle shop's Podium Pants (underpants) are available in both men and women's sizes.
An exceptional sports action camera, this features built-in sensors to monitor speed, altitude and rotation. The camera itself is 4k HD and the long life battery ensures three hours of non-stop filming with a cable-free Batt-stick.
Castelli clothing features all the technological advances expected of today's garment, but features beautiful, classic styling that pays homage to a golden era of European cycling. Castelli is all about pedigree – they invented the skinsuit, pockets on jerseys, and the first LYCRA short used in professional racing.
Lightweight, comfortable, fully adjustable and, most importantly, incredibly strong. The Aeon line of helmets are the lightest that Giro produce and the vents that run down the helmet channel air to keep you cool and comfortable underneath.
The promotional poster from the 1925 Tour de France has become legendary among cycling aficionados, and this particular iconic cycling image has been produced into a museum quality print.
The XC90 is a purpose-designed, cross-country race shoe. The shoes are actually heat-moldable, which means they mold to the wearer's foot, creating a custom fit. This is then locked in to a Rovenica leather upper to contain the fit, meaning not only is a custom fit created, it stays that way.
This Oslo-based magazine releases two bespoke magazines per year, with each one focusing on a particular city. Oslo, Portland, Tokyo and Milan have all been featured in the issues released so far, but look out for the upcoming London issue in the New Year. Beautifully put together and presented, this publication is all about the culture surrounding city cycling.
One for slightly more refined cycling, this is certainly not for mountain climbs or raw speed. The tubular steel rivets are used in conjunction with leather and chrome in the springs and seat. Brooks has been making leather saddles since 1886 and each design ensures their reputation and legacy remains.
This bundle offers advanced bike-specific navigation and mapping capabilities. Points of interest, bike paths and elevation data are all included in the preloaded Garmin Cycle Map and you can connect it to your smart phone, so live tracking, incoming alerts, social media sharing and wireless uploads can all come through while you ride.
Let's forget for a second that everyone should wear a helmet while they ride, and simply think about great you'd look wearing a classic cotton cycling cap. With Brooklyn Bridge emblazoned proudly on the side, this is the style of a classic tour, with a hefty dose of Big Apple muscle.
With over 100 incredible photographs from the 1920s and 30s, this exquisite book celebrates the grit and determination of the bicycle racing pioneers who established the records, traditions, and distinct flavors of Europe's most hallowed races. Most of the pictures featured in the book haven't been seen since their original publication in the print media of that era.


It is time to get your wedding plans together! Getting engaged is so wonderful, but it is also overwhelming at times. There is so much to do leading up to the big day, and a budget to stick to. Let Polka Dot Design?s online store hook you up with some trendy and inexpensive stationery options. Find some cute and affordable fall wedding invitations for your ceremony. Check out these lovely Orange Vintage Lace Fiesta Invitations available on Polka Dot Design?s online stationery store. A burnt orange background is decorated by an ornate green circular lace pattern on the front and back of the card. This card is absolutely perfect for a fall wedding. This item is also featured on matching address labels. Get both items to have your invite dressed up on the outside and well as the inside. The little details count when it comes to your stationery choices!


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Q: Span padding not respected when there is no sibling, but remains when there is a sibling I have a div with a span and button inside of it. I can toggle the button to hide or show it.
When I do toggle the button, it makes the span jump around, as seen below:

const {
  Button,
} = window['material-ui'];

class ButtonContainer extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
      super(props);
      this.state = {
        hide: false
      }
    }
    handleHide() {
      this.setState(previous => ({
        hide: !previous.hide
      }))
    }
    render() {
        return (

                <Button style={{"background":"lightblue", "padding":"10px"}} onClick = {this.handleHide.bind(this)}>{this.state.hide?'show':'hide'} button</Button>

                     jump
                    {!this.state.hide && <Button style={{"background":"orange"}}> padding </Button>}

)
    }
}

ReactDOM.render(<ButtonContainer/>, document.querySelector("#root"))

I've tried a lot of different things, some of which are from here, including adding display: inline-block to the parent as well as padding: 0.05px and it doesn't seem to have the desired effect.
How do I prevnt this jumping when the button is toggled?

A: As span is an inline element, it doesnt has its own width and height. To stop this behaviour you can add display: inline-block to your span. It will work.

const {
  Button,
} = window['material-ui'];

class ButtonContainer extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
      super(props);
      this.state = {
        hide: false
      }
    }
    handleHide() {
      this.setState(previous => ({
        hide: !previous.hide
      }))
    }
    render() {
        return (

                <Button style={{"background":"lightblue", "padding":"10px"}} onClick = {this.handleHide.bind(this)}>{this.state.hide?'show':'hide'} button</Button>

                     jump
                    {!this.state.hide && <Button style={{"background":"orange"}}> padding </Button>}

)
    }
}

ReactDOM.render(<ButtonContainer/>, document.querySelector("#root"))

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Il singolare del Challenger of Dallas 2010 è stato un torneo di tennis facente parte dell'ATP Challenger Tour 2010.

Ryan Sweeting era il detentore del titolo e ha battuto in finale 6–4, 6–2 Carsten Ball.

Teste di serie

  Jesse Levine (primo turno)
  Carsten Ball (finale)
  Robert Kendrick (quarti di finale)
  Kevin Anderson (primo turno)

 Michael Yani (semifinali)
 Jesse Witten (primo turno)
 Ryan Sweeting (campione)
 Ramón Delgado (semifinali)

Tabellone

Finali

Parte alta

Parte bassa

Collegamenti esterni

Challenger of Dallas 2010

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My main involvement on campus is with the Environmental Core. This club, endearingly called "ecore", is a student-run environmental activism group on campus. We try to make sustainable and impactful change on campus, be that through installing drought resistant plants, or working with USC's administration on trying to get solar panels on roofs.
a super cool picture of score's camping trip to joshua tree. we were meditating while waiting for the sunset because we are, you guessed it, a bunch of hippies.
Though we all work hard to follow our passions, we end up having a lot of fun, too. We have events (gardening, camping, food foraging, other environmental and traditionally "granola" activities) at least once a month. These activities really help build a community within this organization, and I am happy to say that most of the closest friendships are formed at least partly through this club (the others are from my freshman dorm).
All this being said, it was difficult joining the club. I started going to ecore meetings halfway through my first semester at USC. I felt so out of place. Everyone knew what was going on, and everyone seemed to be better friends with each other than I would ever be with them. But because I was passionate about the cause, I kept going to meetings, and eventually created supportive friendships with a lot of the members. It's great, too, because when I go all green-freak on them and rant about America's unsustainable dependence on the meat industry, they totally understand. And that's what real friendships are made of, right?


We set the bar high with our Standard rooms. Sumptuous beds, custom designed furniture and rainfall showers in our stunning marble bathrooms come as standard at Sea Containers London.
Our boutique hotel exudes the timeless elegance of a 1920s cruise liner, with contemporary features and cutting-edge modern design by Tom Dixon. Whether you're here for work or play, our adaptive power sockets and complimentary Wi-Fi let you catch up on emails or your favourite series in the comfort of your hotel room. Standard rooms give you space to unwind and recharge while visiting London.


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/**
 * This is the KijiMusic tutorial top-level package.
 *
 * <p>
 * We organize our KijiMR classes by type, so that all gatherers go in the same package,
 * all producers go in the same package, etc.
 * </p>
 */
package org.kiji.examples.music;

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@interface NSObject (ETHSubscriptions)

- (NSMapTable *)subscriptionForKey:(NSString *)subscriptionKey;

@end


A wonderland of exciting fiction for newcomers to reading from the first stage of the ever-popular Usborne scheme. Designed for sharing with parents until children grow in confidence, these sturdy and colourful hardbacks are guaranteed to delight! Each book includes an original story told in simple words or rhyming text, brought to life by vibrant illustrations packed with picture clues. Puzzles allow children to check their understanding of each story, while guidance notes show parents how to make the most of reading with young children. Delicious new fiction from a beautifully-designed series which is always a firm favourite with new and developing readers!


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<?php
/**
 * SlideDeck 2 Widget Class
 *
 * More information on this project:
 * http://www.slidedeck.com/
 *
 * Full Usage Documentation: http://www.slidedeck.com/usage-documentation
 *
 * @package SlideDeck
 * @subpackage SlideDeck 2 Pro for WordPress
 * @author dtelepathy
 */

/*
Copyright 2012 digital-telepathy  (email : support@digital-telepathy.com)

This file is part of SlideDeck.

SlideDeck is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

SlideDeck is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with SlideDeck.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
?>
<?php
class SlideDeck2Widget extends WP_Widget {
    var $namespace = "slidedeck2";

    /**
     * Constructor function for Class
     *
     * @uses WP_Widget()
     */
    function SlideDeck2Widget() {
        $widget_options = array(
            'classname' => $this->namespace . '_widget',
            'description' => 'Add SlideDeck 2 SlideDecks to your widget areas'
        );
        $this->WP_Widget( $this->namespace . '_widget', 'SlideDeck 2 Widget', $widget_options );
    }

    /**
     * Initialization function to register widget
     *
     * @uses register_widget()
     */
    function init() {
        register_widget( "SlideDeck2Widget" );
    }

    /**
     * Form function for the widget control panel
     *
     * @param object $instance Option data for this widget instance
     *
     * @uses slidedeck_load()
     * @uses slidedeck_dir()
     */
    function form( $instance ) {
        global $SlideDeckPlugin;

        $instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, array(
            'slidedeck_id' => "",
            $this->namespace . '_deploy_as_iframe' => false,
            $this->namespace . '_use_ress' => false,
            $this->namespace . '_proportional' => true
        ) );

        $slidedeck_id = strip_tags( $instance['slidedeck_id'] );
        $deploy_as_iframe = $instance[$this->namespace . '_deploy_as_iframe'];
        $use_ress = $instance[$this->namespace . '_use_ress'];
        $proportional = $instance[$this->namespace . '_proportional'];

        $instance_title = ( isset( $instance[ $this->namespace . '_title'] ) ) ? $instance[ $this->namespace . '_title'] : '' ;
        $instance_before_deck = ( isset( $instance[ $this->namespace . '_before_deck'] ) ) ? $instance[ $this->namespace . '_before_deck'] : '' ;
        $instance_after_deck = ( isset( $instance[ $this->namespace . '_after_deck'] ) ) ? $instance[ $this->namespace . '_after_deck'] : '' ;

        $title = strip_tags( $instance_title );
        $before_deck = $instance_before_deck;
        $after_deck = $instance_after_deck;

        $namespace = $this->namespace;
        $slidedecks = $SlideDeckPlugin->SlideDeck->get( null, 'post_title', 'ASC', 'publish' );

        include( SLIDEDECK2_DIRNAME . '/views/elements/_widget-form.php' );
    }

    /**
     * Update processing function for saving widget instance settings
     *
     * @param object $new_instance Option data submitted for this widget instance
     * @param object $old_instance Existing option data for this widget instance
     *
     * @return object $instance Updated option data
     */
    function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {
        $instance = $old_instance;

        $instance['slidedeck_id'] = $new_instance['slidedeck_id'];
        $instance[$this->namespace . '_deploy_as_iframe'] = isset( $new_instance[$this->namespace . '_deploy_as_iframe'] );
        $instance[$this->namespace . '_use_ress'] = isset( $new_instance[$this->namespace . '_use_ress'] );
        $instance[$this->namespace . '_proportional'] = isset( $new_instance[$this->namespace . '_proportional'] );
        $instance[$this->namespace . '_title'] = $new_instance[ $this->namespace . '_title'];
        $instance[$this->namespace . '_before_deck'] = $new_instance[ $this->namespace . '_before_deck'];
        $instance[$this->namespace . '_after_deck'] = $new_instance[ $this->namespace . '_after_deck'];

        return $instance;
    }

    /**
     * Widget output function
     *
     * Loads a SlideDeck instance based off the widget settings specified by the user
     *
     * @param object $args Extra arguments provided for this widget output see documentation at
     *                     http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_widget
     * @param object $instance Option data for this widget instance
     *
     * @uses slidedeck()
     */
    function widget( $args, $instance ) {
        global $SlideDeckPlugin;
        global $slidedeck_footer_scripts;

        extract( $args, EXTR_SKIP );
        $title = isset( $instance[$this->namespace . '_title'] ) ? $instance[$this->namespace . '_title'] : '';
        $before_deck = isset( $instance[$this->namespace . '_before_deck'] ) ? $instance[$this->namespace . '_before_deck'] : '';
        $after_deck = isset( $instance[$this->namespace . '_after_deck'] ) ? $instance[$this->namespace . '_after_deck'] : '';

        echo $before_widget;
        if ( $title )
            echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;

        $shortcode = "[SlideDeck2 id={$instance['slidedeck_id']}";
        if( $instance[$this->namespace . '_deploy_as_iframe'] ) $shortcode.= " iframe=1";
        if( $instance[$this->namespace . '_use_ress'] ) {
            $shortcode.= " ress=1";

            // If this widget makes this page have a RESS deck...
            $SlideDeckPlugin->page_has_ress_deck = true;
        }

		/**
		 * The proportional option is negative only. Proportional
		 * is default, and this option being false only overrides it.
		 */
        if( !$instance[$this->namespace . '_proportional'] ) {
        	$shortcode.= " proportional=false";
        }

        $shortcode.= "]";

        if ( $before_deck )
            echo '
' . $before_deck . '
';

        echo do_shortcode( $shortcode );

        if ( $after_deck )
            echo '
' . $after_deck . '
';

        echo $after_widget;
    }
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', array( 'SlideDeck2Widget', 'init' ) );


The stylish Citichic Sukhumvit 13 by Compass Hospitality is located on Sukhumvit 13 in the heart of the city. Boasting colourful furnishings and modern interiors, this non-smoking hotel offers free WiFi and a rooftop pool. Guests enjoy free shuttle service to Nana BTS Skytrain Station, which is 400 metres away.
Citichic Sukhumvit 13 by Compass Hospitality enjoys easy access to the main Sukhumvit Road and is within walking distance to restaurants, bars and shops. Suvarnabhumi Airport is less than an hour's drive away.
Rooms at Citichic Sukhumvit 13 by Compass Hospitality have polished wooden flooring and glass-walled bathrooms. Each is equipped with a flat-screen TV and tea/coffee making facilities. Selected rooms have private terraces.
Health conscious guests can exercise at Citichic's gym. The hotel offers convenient services like a 24-hour front desk and laundry services.
Air-conditioned room offers an en suite bathroom with a bathtub and separate shower.
Rate: THB 1189.15 ... THB 3699.00; select dates below to get current rates.
This family room features a balcony, soundproofing and bathrobe.
This triple room has a minibar, seating area and bathrobe.


Just like the mild flavor, this BBQ sauce has a robust flavor of all natural ingredients. The natural hickory smoke flavor has no aftertaste and a heat that comes slowly on without the feeling of burning your mouth. This pleasing, flavorful sauce will enhance any food you put it on. Definitely a favorite of all who want more spice in their taste. 20.5 oz.
This award winning sauce is gluten free, fat free, and cholesterol free. No high fructose corn syrup.
From the first taste to the last Grandma Foster's is a robust flavor of all natural ingredients with a hint of sweetness. The natural hickory smoke flavor has no aftertaste and enhances the taste of anything you put it on. The sauce is loved by young and old alike.
An Omaha-produced barbecue sauce, Grandma Foster's Smooth and Spicy, recently earned the "Best Overall Sauce" award at the Great American Barbecue Competition.
The seventh annual contest was in Kansas City, Mo., last weekend. The sauce beat 116 others to become the top spicy sauce as well.
Grandma Foster's Smooth and Spicy and Smooth and Mild sauces are the creation of Steve Foster, who perfected them while in college and launched the line in 1996.
The national competition is conducted as a blind taste test.
I lived in Minnesota for several years and found it there. It is the best! Gluten free never tasted so good! It is not in stores in Seattle area so I am so happy I was able to find it. I use it on everything!
This is literally the best BBQ sauce I have ever had. There is a reason why it has won so many awards, after you taste it you will want to make up an award to give to it!
This is by far my favorite bbq sauce. It complements all meats very well. What I love most are the natural ingredients and no sugar. Grandma Fosters bbq gives such a smooth and delicious smoked bbq flavor to everything I have cooked it with.
I am 63 years old and been an avid and frequent barbecue cook throughout my adult life. I have tried many homemade and prepared barbecue sauces and to date Grandma Foster's is the best ever.


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Q: How to read multiple 3d images and store them in 4D array using numpy python? I have used the code below to create an array with the shape of (2, 3, 365, 256, 256) (2, 365, 256, 256) for 3 images however I need my shape to be (2,365, 256, 256, 3) (2, 365, 256, 256) for my model to run, any tips please?
def Load_function(path):
  f_img= nib.load(path )
  img_data= f_img.get_fdata()
return img_data

 def __load__(self, id_name):

    image_path = os.path.join(self.path, id_name)
    ## Reading Image
    image = np.empty((0,365, 256, 256))

    for imname in ["image2B.nii.gz", "image1to2_nlB.nii.gz", "diffFSL.nii.gz"]:
        img = Load_function(os.path.join(image_path,imname))

        img = resize_data(img)

        ## Normalizaing
        img = img/np.percentile(img,99.5)
        #images.append(img)
        #images.append(img)
    ## store into a 4D array that you've created above (this will hold all the images you want for one subject)
        image = np.append(img[np.newaxis, ...],image, axis=0)  # add a new axis to each image and append them to result

    ## Reading Masks
    mask = Load_function(os.path.join(image_path, "ground_truth.nii.gz"))
    mask = resize_data(mask)

    return image, mask

A: You can try the transpose in NumPy, check this https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.transpose.html


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Hardesty, Juliet2
Allen, Colin1
Cameron, Jon1
Casey, Michael1
Cline, Nicholae1
Digital Library Brown Bag Series[remove]12
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1. [Untitled]: How to lose your metadata and keep your search results (56:00)
Hardesty, Juliet
It is an interesting time in the libraries for metadata. We have a lot of things described and described well, but is it feasible to keep all of that description in a useful way moving forward? And...
2. A Collaboration of 3-D Modeling and Automated Box Manufacture for Library Special Collections Enc... (29:11)
Sanders, Doug
The manufacture of protective enclosures is part of routine work in many libraries and museums. This presentation summarizes a novel collaboration of 3-D scanning and modeling technology provided b...
3. An Inside Look At Managing MDPI Digitization (58:31)
Casey, Michael; Dapuzzo, Andrew
Audiovisual archivists agree that media holdings must be transferred to the digital domain as soon as possible in order to survive. Because this work requires significant resources, it must be cond...
4. Avalon's Role in the Digital Collections Ecosystem (43:33)
Cameron, Jon
As the need to manage and provide access to collections of digital content grows, the ecosystem of software solutions designed to meet these needs has greatly expanded. Into this pool of software c...
5. Decoding Digital Preservation (46:25)
Dowding, Heidi
Digital preservation is one of those phrases that means a lot to a few people and a little to a lot of people. It is often confused with digitization (preservation by digital), digital curation (of...
6. Hypershelf: A Multidimensional Browser for Exploring Content Across the Library (1:00:18)
Allen, Colin; Murdock, Jaimie
Research libraries continue to reinvent themselves in the face of increasing demand from users for digitized texts. As physical books move from stacks to deep storage, many researchers lament the r...
7. Making connections: Turning the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection into a Linked Open Data set (44:40)
What does it mean to turn data into Linked Data? That is the question we are attempting to answer with this project. The IU Libraries released the metadata for the Cushman Photograph Collection und...
8. The Center for Biological Research Collections and the Path To Digitization for IU's Natural Hist... (57:35)
Motz, Gary
The Center for Biological Research Collections is a consortium of research-based scientific collections at Indiana University that works in close collaboration with the IU Libraries, the Advanced V...
9. Transcodes and Transfers: Exploring the MDPI Back-end Processing (56:15)
Wheeler, Brian
The process of converting the digitized MDPI media into something that can be used for web delivery is conceptually simple: transcode each one into derivatives and transfer them to the delivery sy...
10. Trends in Digital Scholarship: Stories from Indiana University Bloomington (54:32)
Dalmau, Michelle; Homenda, Nick
The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries' Digital Collections Services department has offered Digital Project Planning consultation services twice a week since the opening of the Scholars' Comm...

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From 1996 to 1999, the U.S. food and Drug Administration approved 157 new drugs. In the comparable period a decade later—that is, from 2006 to 2009—the agency approved 74. Not among them were any cures, or even meaningfully effective treatments, for Alzheimer's disease, lung or pancreatic cancer, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, or a host of other afflictions that destroy lives.
More and more policymakers and patients are therefore asking, where are the cures? The answer is that potential cures, or at least treatments, are stuck in the chasm between a scientific discovery and the doctor's office: what's been called the valley of death.
The barriers to exploiting fundamental discoveries begin with science labs themselves. In academia and the NIH, the system of honors, grants, and tenure rewards basic discoveries (a gene for Parkinson's! a molecule that halts metastasis!), not the grunt work that turns such breakthroughs into drugs. "Colleagues tell me they're very successful getting NIH grants because their experiments are elegant and likely to yield fundamental discoveries, even if they have no prospect of producing something that helps human diseases," says cancer biologist Raymond Hohl of the University of Iowa. In 2000, for instance, scientists at four separate labs discovered a gene called ABCC6, which, when mutated, causes PXE (pseudoxanthoma elasticum), a rare genetic disease in which the skin, eyes, heart, and other soft tissue become calcified—rock hard. By 2005, scientists had genetically engineered lab mice to develop the disease. The next step would be what's called screening, in which scientists would laboriously test one molecule after another to see which had any effect on ABCC6. But "academic scientists aren't capable of creating assays [test systems] to do that," says Sharon Terry, CEO of the Genetic Alliance, which supports research on rare genetic diseases (her children have PXE). "It's time-consuming drudgery and takes an expertise that hasn't trickled down to the typical academic scientist." Ten years later, there is still no cure for PXE.
For scientists who are willing to push past these obstacles, the next one is the patent system. When Robert Sackstein was a bone-marrow-transplant surgeon in the 1980s, he noticed that fewer than 5 percent of the transplanted blood stem cells reached their target in a patient's marrow. He therefore decided to study how cells navigate, what beacons they follow. A decade-long search led to the discovery of a molecule on the surface of blood stem cells that turns out to be the master molecule used by those cells to home in on any site in the body.
Sackstein named the molecule HCELL. If stem cells were tagged with HCELL, he thought, they would make a beeline for the correct tissue—say, to regenerate bones in patients with osteoporosis. In 2008 he and colleagues announced in a paper in Nature Medicine that they had managed to do just that: when he injected human bone-forming stem cells tagged with HCELL into mice, the cells headed for the mice's bones and began forming human bone there. HCELL-tagged stem cells, in other words, could be the long-sought cure for osteoporosis, as well as other diseases that might be treatable with stem cells.
But because Sackstein had described HCELL in a scientific paper, the U.S. patent office told him it was rejecting his application. Ten years of appeals have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees. Sackstein fervently believes his discovery deserves a patent, and it was granted one in Europe and Japan. "You have to persevere," he says. "I can't let it go, because I think the impact on patients could be so great. We've cured osteoporosis in mice." But without patent protection, no company will develop HCELL for people, even in Europe or Japan. For a multinational drug company to go forward, it needs patent protection in the U.S. as well.
If a discovery is patented, the next step is for the university or NIH technology licensing office to find a commercial partner to develop its professors' discoveries. (The institution where a scientist works, not the scientist herself, owns the intellectual-property rights to discoveries, and thus the exclusive right to license it.) Licensing typically involves upfront fees, plus a promised share of royalties should the molecule become a commercial drug. One biotech startup in the Midwest has been trying for three years to license a discovery made when some of its founders worked at the NIH. Vascular surgeon Jeffrey Isenberg, now at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and colleagues were studying how the gas nitric oxide promotes blood flow. They discovered a pathway that inhibits nitric oxide and thus impedes blood flow. By blocking the blocker—to football fans, adding an extra guard to your offensive line—the scientists got nitric oxide to open blood vessels again and increase blood flow, at least in lab animals. The molecule that works this magic is a protein called thrombospondin-1, or TSP1, suggesting that this particular offensive guard might be a potent drug for saving heart-attack victims; restoring blood flow in patients with severe diabetes, in which impaired blood flow leads to gangrene; and treating hypertension.
Instead, VCs—essentially the only source of money to move preliminary discoveries forward—are demanding that startups prove themselves far more than in the past. Francis "Duke" Creighton had a eureka moment a few years ago: use magnets to amplify the effects of drugs that dissolve stroke-causing clots. He founded Pulse Therapeutics to develop the discovery, in which tiny magnetic particles would be mixed with a clot-busting drug, and a magnet would be used to get more of the drug to its target. He had enough money to do experiments for six months in vitro, "then we ran out," says Creighton. "Venture-capital firms said, 'Show me animal data and we'll talk,' but running animal experiments would cost $300,000 at the least." No money, no animal studies; no animal studies, no money. BioGenerator helped Creighton raise $100,000, but he's still short of what he needs.
Human testing is even more expensive—tens of millions of dollars—so commercial calculations stalk the decision like Banquo's ghost. Research funded by the Multiple Myeloma Re--search Foundation at a small biotech led to a promising new drug for multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells in bones. But the firm was bought by a large drug company that decided against testing the drug in that cancer, calculating that the payoff would be greater if it could be shown to work against the big four (breast, lung, prostate, colon) or leukemias. "It's our feeling that if it had been tested in myeloma only, it would have moved faster," says Louise Perkins, chief scientific officer of the foundation.
If we are serious about rescuing potential new drugs from the valley of death, then academia, the NIH, and disease foundations will have to change how they operate. That is happening, albeit slowly. Private foundations such as the MMRF, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, and the Myelin Repair Foundation (for multiple sclerosis) have veered away from the NIH model of "here's some money; go discover something." Instead, they are managing and directing scientists more closely, requiring them to share data before it is published, cooperate, and do the nonsexy development work required after a discovery is made.
For instance, the Chordoma Foundation, which supports research into that rare cancer, found that there was only one decent chordoma cell line in the whole world—in a freezer in Germany—and it hadn't been used for new research since 2001. The foundation obtained the legal rights to it and distributed it to some two dozen researchers, jump-starting studies that otherwise would never have been done. The cell line is being used to, among other things, screen existing drugs to see if they might work against chordoma.


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A Bargain and a Half!
I had a little windfall yesterday at a garage sale. I found these little earrings and thought they were a bit cute, although I don't wear gold. So I got some other bits and took them to the seller, she said 'oh those have real sapphires and diamonds in them so they will be $5 if you don't mind- they've never been worn'. I said no problem and bought the lot.
When I got in the car I decided to have a closer look. I knew the other bits I had were sterling silver, which I can pick apart and use in my jewellery. But when I took the earrings out, they had a price tag of $130 on the back and were 9ct gold!
So I got 2 tiny diamonds, 2 sapphires and some gold for $5... not bad I say! I'll be picking them apart to use in my jewellery!
PS Love the new look (yeah, I know I am a bit behind, but there has been a lot going on lately!


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Suntory was founded in 1899 by Shinjiro Torii, who opened his store, "Torii Shoten", in Osaka to sell a range of imported wines. In 1921 the store became the Kotobukiya Company and two years later they made their first venture into the whisky world when they built Japan's first whisky distillery - the now legendary Yamazaki.
Torii built Yamazaki with his good friend, and the "father of Japanese whisky", Masataka Taketsuru, who had recently returned from his travels to Scotland where he had picked up many of the practices and techniques needed to distill quality whisky.
Taketsuru had initially wanted to build the distillery on the northern island of Hokkaido, due to the weather conditions being similar to that found in Scotland, but Torii was concerned about the cost of transporting the required materials to the island. A location just outside Osaka was chosen instead.
Taketsuru worked as manager of the Yamazaki distillery for around 10 years before setting out to create his own company, Nikka, and finally building the distillery he wanted on Hokkaido - Yoichi.
The Kotobukiya Company struggled to continue producing whisky throughout World War 2 and it wasn't until 1946 that they managed to start distilling a significant amount of spirit once more. They re-released their first creation "Torys Whisky" and it was lapped up by thousands around the country as the locals' taste for the spirit grew.
Suntory Whisky
After experiencing years of moderate growth and success, the Kotobukiya Company changed its name in 1963, and Suntory Whisky as we know it today was born.
In 1972 they built the Chita grain distillery in the Aichi Prefecture, and the whisky made here would be used predominantly in blends.
The following year, and 50 years since the founding of the Yamazaki distillery, Suntory's second master blender, Keizo Saji, decided it was time to expand further and build a second malt distillery.
He wanted the whisky produced there to be different in character than that being made at Yamazaki and so he sent one of his most trusted employees, Tameo Onishi (Yamazaki Distillery Manager at the time), on a journey around Japan with the goal of finding the most pristine water source in the country.
After a long journey that took him to all corners of Japan, he stumbled upon Hakushu. Even though he had come across many incredible sites and water sources on his travels, he was shocked at what he found here, stating "I'm surprised Japan has this type of water". This journey would lead to Onishi being named "The Water Hunter" and soon after, Hakushu was born.
The new distillery would allow Suntory to produce a range of different whiskies, both single malts and blends, thanks to the contrasting characters of the spirit being produced at Yamazaki, Chita and Hakushu.
From here on, the company went from strength to strength as Japanese whisky grew in popularity around the country.
When Japanese whisky finally exploded onto the international market in the early 2000s, Suntory Whisky was well placed to take full advantage and their incredible creations became hugely sought after around the globe.
Further Expansion At Suntory Whisky
The Japanese whisky boom allowed Suntory to expand even further and today they have vested interests in not only Japanese whisky, but also Scotch and bourbon. They have gone on to produce some of the most astounding whiskies ever created, picking up a huge number of awards along the way.
They are without a doubt one of the biggest drinks companies in the world today - a true drinks giant and whisky legend.
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A vignette can be defined as a small literary sketch. As used in this history, most vignettes tell the story of a project or a significant occurrence in the ongoing history of CH2M HILL. They each describe a single project or other happening that was instrumental in shaping the future course of the firm.


در کنار گسترش گیم های پلی استیشن و تعداد طرفدارانشان، برای بازی کردن بازی های PSP در رایانه، در حال حاضر تنها سه شبیه ساز کنسول پلی استیشن وجود دارد: PPSSPP که در حال حاضر بهترین شبیه ساز PSP است، JPCSP اولین شبیه ساز PSP و بر پایه جاوا و PCSP که توسط تیم برنامه نویسی PCSX2 نوشته شده است. PCSP یک شبیه ساز کنسول دستی برای پلی استیشن سونی است. شبیه ساز PCSP با زبان برنامه نویسی سریع و با راندمان بالای C ++ نوشته شده است و در مقایسه با شبیه ساز JPCSP که با زبان جاوا نوشته شده است، سرعت اجرا و کیفیت گرافیکی بیشتری دارد. اما این شبیه ساز همچنان از لحاظ میزان سازگاری جای پیشرفت دارد.
To play PSP games on computer, at present there are only three PlayStation Portable console emulators available: the currently best PSP emulator – PPSSPP, the earliest PSP emulator developed based on Java – JPCSP, and PCSP – a discontinued but very good PSP emulator developed by partial members from the development team of PCSX2.
PCSP is a abortive/discontinued (died in its WIP state) Sony PlayStation Portable handheld console emulator for Windows, developed by some of the credits of the most popular PS2 emulator PCSX2. You may find a very detailed guide on how to configure and use this emulator in the accompanying documentation.
PCSP emulator was written in the fast, high-efficiency C++ programming language. Compared with the JPCSP emulator written in Java language, its running speed and graphics quality are both far surpassing than the former. Unfortunately, this emulator's compatibility is not so good. Even worse, it shows no sign that its developers are still trying to improve this PSP emulator, although they have stated that they were planning to completely rewrite PCSP in order to provide better support to hardware and commercial PSP games.


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Q: "Author (in prep.)" instead of "Author (year)" Issue
I would like to be able to cite works that are in preparation but still incomplete, using "in prep." instead of a date. (This is mainly for citing my own work in progress in job applications, my CV, etc.) The reason is because (at least in my field) "Bar (2016)" implies that the work is at least somewhat complete and available in some form or other (published, or posted on an archive or the author's website), whereas "Bar (in prep.)" does not imply either one.
Specifically, I would like to be able to do something like the following with Biblatex:
\cite{bar}         -> Bar [in prep.]
\textcite{bar}     -> Bar (in prep.)
\parencite{bar}    -> (Bar [in prep.])
\printbibliography -> Bar, Foo (in prep.). Title. ...

I don't think the square brackets are conventional, but they make sense to me because "Bar in prep." and "(Bar in prep.)" look odd, especially with more than one author, e.g. "Bar and Baz in prep.", and "Bar (in prep.)" is already taken and has a different semantics.
Biblatex has a field called pubstate that accepts the possible value inpreparation, which gets expanded to the (localized) string "in preparation". By default, however, if I also specify a date, then the date gets printed instead of "in preparation".
@unpublished{bar,
  author = {Foo Bar},
  date = {2016},
  pubstate = {inpreparation},
  title = {Title},
}

\cite{bar}         -> Bar 2016
\textcite{bar}     -> Bar (2016)
\parencite{bar}    -> (Bar 2016)
\printbibliography -> Bar, Foo (2016). Title. ... In preparation.

MWE:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@unpublished{bar,
  author = {Foo Bar},
  date = {2016},
  pubstate = {inpreparation},
  title = {Title},
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
In \cite{bar}, \textcite{bar} argues \ldots \parencite{bar}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Here are two solutions I know of.
Solution #1
Replace date = {2016} with year = {in prep.}. (NB: Using date = {in prep.} throws an error.) This kind of works, but is not exactly what I'm looking for (no square brackets). Moreover, it's an abuse of the year field, and I would prefer a semantically better solution in the spirit of Biblatex.
@unpublished{bar,
  author = {Foo Bar},
  year = {in prep.},
  title = {Title},
}

\cite{bar}         -> Bar in prep.
\textcite{bar}     -> Bar (in prep.)
\parencite{bar}    -> (Bar in prep.)
\printbibliography -> Bar, Foo (in prep.). Title. ...

MWE:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@unpublished{bar,
  author = {Foo Bar},
  year = {in prep.},
  title = {Title},
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
In \cite{bar}, \textcite{bar} argues \ldots \parencite{bar}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Solution #2
Remove the date field altogether, keep pubstate = {inpreparation}, and add
\DeclareLabeldate{%
  \field{date}
  \field{pubstate}
}

which basically means "use date, if there is a value for it; otherwise, use pubstate, if there is a value for it".
@unpublished{bar,
  author = {Foo Bar},
  pubstate = {inpreparation},
  title = {Title},
}

\cite{bar}         -> Bar in preparation
\textcite{bar}     -> Bar (in preparation)
\parencite{bar}    -> (Bar in preparation)
\printbibliography -> Bar, Foo. Title. ... In preparation.

MWE:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@unpublished{bar,
  author = {Foo Bar},
  pubstate = {inpreparation},
  title = {Title},
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\DeclareLabeldate{%
  \field{date}
  \field{pubstate}
}

\begin{document}
In \cite{bar}, \textcite{bar} argues \ldots \parencite{bar}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

This solution is more in line with Biblatex principles, but it's still a bit off:

*

*"in preparation" instead of the shorter (and more conventional) "in prep."

*no square brackets in \cite and \parencite cases

*no "(in prep.)" immediately after the author in the reference list

My question
Is there any easy way to adapt solution #2 (or similar) so that inpreparation expands to "in prep.", to add square brackets but only for \cite and \parencite, and to add "(in prep.)" (or "in prep." or whatever, in accordance with the specified bibstyle) after the author name in the reference list?
Or is there a better way of going about all of this that I've overlooked? Thanks.

A: I have a reasonable, but somewhat limited, solution for the question.
In order to have the shorter form "in prep." instead of the full one, you can:
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
    inpreparation      = {in prep\adddot},
}

As you suggested yourself, to add pubstate to the labeldate:
\DeclareLabeldate{%
    \field{date}
    \field{year}
    \field{eventdate}
    \field{origdate}
    \field{urldate}
    \field{pubstate}   % <-- NEW
    \literal{nodate}
}

To get the square brackets in \cite and \parencite I believe the simplest way is to adjust the respective cite commands:
\DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}[\mkbibparens]
  {\iffieldequalstr{pubstate}{inpreparation}{\DeclareFieldFormat{labelyear}{\mkbibbrackets{\bibstring{\thefield{labelyear}}}}}{}%   <-- NEW
   \usebibmacro{cite:init}%
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}}
  {}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\cite}
  {\iffieldequalstr{pubstate}{inpreparation}{\DeclareFieldFormat{labelyear}{\mkbibbrackets{\bibstring{\thefield{labelyear}}}}}{}%   <-- NEW
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

(@CarLaTeX, I don't see why this shouldn't work with "in press" too).
To get "(in prep.)" in the place of the year in the bibliography:
\renewbibmacro*{date+extrayear}{%
    \iffieldundef{\thefield{datelabelsource}year}
      {\iffieldequalstr{pubstate}{inpreparation}{\printtext[parens]{\bibstring{\thefield{pubstate}}}}{}}   % <-- NEW
      {\printtext[parens]{%
         \iffieldsequal{year}{\thefield{datelabelsource}year}
           {\printdateextralabel}%
           {\printfield{labelyear}%
            \printfield{extrayear}}}}}%

Given this, if you wish to omit the redundant "In preparation" at the end of the reference in the bibliography:
\renewbibmacro*{addendum+pubstate}{%
  \printfield{addendum}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \iffieldequalstr{pubstate}{inpreparation}{}{\printfield{pubstate}}}   % <-- NEW

Putting it all together in a MWE:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@unpublished{bar,
  author = {Foo Bar},
  pubstate = {inpreparation},
  title = {Title},
}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
    inpreparation      = {in prep\adddot},
}

\DeclareLabeldate{%
    \field{date}
    \field{year}
    \field{eventdate}
    \field{origdate}
    \field{urldate}
    \field{pubstate}  % <-- NEW
    \literal{nodate}
}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}[\mkbibparens]
  {\iffieldequalstr{pubstate}{inpreparation}{\DeclareFieldFormat{labelyear}{\mkbibbrackets{\bibstring{\thefield{labelyear}}}}}{}%  <-- NEW
   \usebibmacro{cite:init}%
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}}
  {}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\cite}
  {\iffieldequalstr{pubstate}{inpreparation}{\DeclareFieldFormat{labelyear}{\mkbibbrackets{\bibstring{\thefield{labelyear}}}}}{}%  <-- NEW
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\renewbibmacro*{addendum+pubstate}{%
  \printfield{addendum}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \iffieldequalstr{pubstate}{inpreparation}{}{\printfield{pubstate}}}   % <-- NEW

\renewbibmacro*{date+extrayear}{%
    \iffieldundef{\thefield{datelabelsource}year}
      {\iffieldequalstr{pubstate}{inpreparation}{\printtext[parens]{\bibstring{\thefield{pubstate}}}}{}}  % <-- NEW
      {\printtext[parens]{%
         \iffieldsequal{year}{\thefield{datelabelsource}year}
           {\printdateextralabel}%
           {\printfield{labelyear}%
            \printfield{extrayear}}}}}%

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
In \cite{bar}, \textcite{bar} argues \ldots\ \parencite{bar}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Which renders:

But, alas, the limitation is quite restrictive. If you have two or more "in preps." from the same author, you will get strange results in the dealing of the extrayear part. But this would also be the case in both of the 2 solutions of the OP (least bad with solution #1).


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I can clearly recall sitting in my grandmother's front room on a gloomy Sunday in the spring of 1992, cheering Nottingham Forest on as they beat Tottenham Hotspur in the second leg of their Rumbelows Cup semi-final.
While I was a veteran Arsenal supporter of a good year and a half by then, I didn't have any ill-will towards Spurs, but Forest were something of a second-favourite side to this seven-year-old, as they played nice football and fellow Corkman Roy Keane was making a big impression in midfield.
Even back then, my interest in kits had blossomed in tandem with my love of football and the fact that Forest were wearing red shorts at White Hart Lane, when there was no clear need to, was somewhat perturbing. I didn't actually realise that it was the final successful activation of what we can only surmise was a Brian Clough superstition.
Clough did enjoy his routines – such as wearing a green jumper on matchdays, having initially worn one around the training ground to remind Peter Shilton who the 'real number 1' at the club was – and while we don't have proof of exactly why the red shorts became a fixture at Spurs, we can examine the facts for an Occam's Razor conclusion.
Having won 3-1 at Spurs in November 1978 as defending champions, Forest would then go on to lose on their next seven visits to N17, up to the end of 1984-85, six league games and one in the FA Cup.
In January 1986, though, that run would end with a 3-0 win and they triumphed 3-2 at Spurs in November of that year, too. What was different in those seasons? Well, as Spurs were wearing an all-white home kit at the time, Forest were forced to switch to all-red, and it seems that that was hit upon as the magic serum.
Through 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91 and 1991-92, Forest remained unbeaten away to Tottenham, a run which included a Littlewoods Cup quarter-final replay in 1990 as well as 1992 semi, all the while wearing red shorts.
That semi in 1992 – coming after a league win there on Boxing Day – was to prove to be Forest's last time avoiding defeat at Spurs in red shorts. In 1992-93, the team deemed too good to go down disproved that notion, and included among 22 defeats in the inaugural Premier League was a 2-1 loss at White Hart Lane.
By 1996, Forest had ceased the tradition after their return to the Premiership but Spurs belatedly returned the favour when they wore alternative white shorts, and socks, in Nottingin the FA Cup, with the snowy weather making things difficult in terms of visibility.
Spurs kit expert Jeff Maysh reckoned that the all-white for Spurs was to do with the navy shorts and socks being laundered – they were at home to Sheffield Wednesday the Saturday before and hosted Southampton three days later, so it is a possibility.
All of the above was planned and written with the sense that the mystery had been solved satisfactorily, but then a few days ago, Lee Hermitage put the cat among the pigeons once more when he unearthed a picture from the first game in Forest's losing run at White Hart Lane, the 1-0 reversal in 1979-80, featuring an all-red adidas kit.
It was the look they had worn in beating Malmo to win the 1979 European Cup – and won don again in seeing off Hamburg in that season's decider – but it was a one-off at Spurs until the enforced change in 1985-86. Why they did it, we just don't know. And perhaps we never will.
I think Cloughie originally took to wearing green whilst at Leeds as Revie had considered it an unlucky colour.


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Finout, a cost monitoring app for cloud software and platforms, today emerged from stealth with $18.5 million — a combination of a $14 million Series A funding round led by Team8 Capital and a $4.5 million seed round led by Pitango First. Co-founder and CEO Roi Ravhon said that the capital will be put toward adding support for new cloud providers, infrastructure, and middleware and expanding Finout's team to 40 employees by the end of the year.
As companies increasingly migrate their workloads to the cloud, it's becoming clear that cloud spend can be difficult to forecast and manage. According to a 2022 Flexera report, companies waste an estimated 32% of their cloud budget owing to underestimates of usage. Ravhon says he founded Finout to bring transparency not only cloud environment pricing, but to the cost of cloud-native software that organizations use every day.
Before launching Finout, Ravhon worked as director of core engineering at Logz.io, where he met Asaf Liveanu, who currently serves as Finout's CPO. While running multi-cloud environments, Ravhon said he faced difficult-to-answer questions about IT spend from leadership such as "Is a 5% increase in Amazon Web Services (AWS) bill good?" and "How much does a specific customer cost?"
"It became apparent to me that the available tools in the market weren't sufficiently advanced to answer … key [spend] questions from leadership, and so I decided to embark on the Finout journey," Ravhon said. "Together with Finout's third co-founder, Yizhar Gilboa, who I met while serving in Israel's elite intelligence unit, Liveanu and I built the tool we were missing."
Finout attempts to estimate the cost of cloud providers, data warehouses, and content delivery networks together, combining them into one large bill. Integrating with AWS products, Kubernetes clusters, Snowflake storage, Stripe, Twilio, and more, the platform correlates and analyzes cost into business KPIs while providing recommendations and alerts.
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Beyond a consolidated bill, Finout can break out the costs of services and products by different, arbitrary segments. For example, Ravhon said, it can expose the cost of individual Kubernetes pods running in a cloud instance, or the amount it's costing to run apps to service a specific customer.
"The industry is transitioning to usage-based … To take an e-commerce platform as an example, a simple transaction flow might go through Akamai to AWS to Stripe to Twilio to Mailchimp and back to AWS," Ravhon said. "The leadership and financial teams can use Finout to understand the profitability of any customer, feature, business unit, and service they sell. Just knowing that [a company] spends a million dollars a month for cloud services is great, but it's also meaningless. Is it a lot? Is it good? Did it grow correlative to the customer base? What is the price of a specific customer out of that bill? These are the questions leadership seeks to answer, as cost management becomes a board-level priority."
Ravhon sees Vantage and Cloudthread as rivals in the cloud cost monitoring space as well as incumbents like VMWare's Cloudhealth, Harness' Continuous Efficiency, and Apptio's Cloudability. It's a crowded segment — there's also Spot and Replex. But for what it's worth, Ravhon asserts that Finout is the only vendor that tackles the "border-based" usage problem with native support for technologies such as Kubernetes.
Finout's tens of customers include Ravhon's and Liveanu's former employer, Logz.io, in addition to Singular, Bigabid, and Riskified. Ravhon claims that the platform has "hundreds" of users.
"We consider both the pandemic and the tech slowdown an opportunity for Finout. The pandemic pushed cloud adoption forward in many sectors, and the tech slowdown is making many companies focus more on controlling their cloud spending," Ravhon said. "With companies across the spectrum now seeking granular-level data points to inform key decision making, we are in prime position to absorb significant market share."
Liran Grinberg, co-founder and managing partner at Team8, added in an emailed statement: "The correction in the tech market has shifted focus from top-line growth to profitability, gross margins, unit economics, and healthy business metrics for sustainable, long-term success. We've witnessed dozens of companies struggling to develop a solution to deal with the surge in usage-based cloud pricing, but nothing has been available — until now … That's why we are so excited to lead this round. Finout is uniquely positioned to enable cost control across cloud platforms by providing an out-of-the-box solution that empowers the modern, cloud-based enterprise to achieve its [spend] goals."
R Squared Ventures, Jibe Ventures, and toDay Ventures also participated in the Series A.
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Q: App cant find character device file when running inside bash script im trying to start my serial port application inside a bash script. for some strange reason the application cannot fetch the /dev/ttyACM0 device file. if i type ls -la in /dev/ directly from a terminal the device file visible. When i try the same thing in a bash script every device file is visible except for the ttyACM0.
in terminal:
root@pc:~$ ls -la /dev/ttyAC*
crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 166, 0 Feb 18 17:25 /dev/ttyACM0

in script:
ls: cannot access /dev/ttyAC*: No such file or directory

All other device files are still visible.. Does someone have any idea how this is possible?
Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash

# gpio defs
mcu_reset=49 #gpio2_17
mcu_erase=50 #gpio2_18

dir_export="/sys/class/gpio/export"
dir_reset="/sys/class/gpio/gpio$mcu_reset"
dir_erase="/sys/class/gpio/gpio$mcu_erase"

# Initialise Reset and erase gpio
if [ ! -d "$dir_reset" ]; then
  echo $mcu_reset > $dir_export
  echo out > "$dir_reset/direction"

  echo $mcu_erase > $dir_export
  echo out > "$dir_erase/direction"

  echo 0 > "$dir_erase/value"
  echo 1 > "$dir_reset/value"
  echo "* GPIO directories initialised!"
fi

# erase mcu flash
echo "* Erasing device..."
echo 1 > "$dir_erase/value"
sleep 0.5
echo 0 > "$dir_erase/value"
sleep 0.5

# reset device
echo "* Resetting device..."
echo 0 > "$dir_reset/value"
sleep 0.5
echo 1 > "$dir_reset/value"
sleep 0.5

# Flash device
#$(bossac -e -d -w -v -b argv[0])
ls -la /dev/ttyAC*

# reset device
echo "* Resetting device..."
echo 0 > "$dir_reset/value"
sleep 0.5
echo 1 > "$dir_reset/value"
sleep 0.5

A: Found the problem! When 'echo 1 > "$dir_reset/value" gets executed the mcu connected to linux resets. the sleep of 0.5 seconds was to short for the mcu to come up again.


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Stop Vilifying Jordyn Woods
The Media Vilifies Black Women — Jordyn Woods Was Just The Latest Casualty
Ashley Alese Edwards
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After two weeks of relative silence, Jordyn Woods opened up Friday on Jada Pinkett Smith's Red Table Talk about how she allegedly hooked up with Tristan Thompson, the father of Khloé Kardashian's daughter True. The story was a salacious shocker: Woods, who is best friends with Kardashian's sister Kylie Jenner, went to Thompson's house for a party, where she allegedly made out with the NBA player and then spent the night.
Entertainment and gossip outlets — including Refinery29 — have poured over every detail and update. Through it all, a very clear media narrative emerged: Khloé Kardashian is the victim, and Jordyn Woods is the villain. Just search Twitter for "Jordyn Woods," and you'll see countless tweets calling Jordyn a homewrecker, a slut, a snake, and an idiot for messing up future lucrative business deals with a family as powerful as the Kardashians. TMZ all but said 21-year-old's career in finished now that she has been cut off from the reality TV family.
Woods says the story we all know is not true. She said she has never slept with Thompson, and while she made a mistake for being at the party in the first place (and being drunk), Thompson kissed her as she was leaving — it wasn't some nefarious affair.
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We'll never really know what went down, and honestly, that doesn't matter. But what does is how Jordyn Woods, a young Black woman, has been treated by the media. We've seen it before. Woods is being painted as a promiscuous, desperate clout chaser. She told Pinkett Smith her mother can't go to the grocery store, and her siblings can't go to school or work because of the constant harassment since the news broke. Through tears, she said people have said her dad deserved to die. (Woods' father passed away in 2017 from cancer.)
"They're putting their focus on a young Black woman who made a mistake, and not a mistake that's worth public persecution," Woods told Pinkett Smith. "The first few days of this were definitely the hardest. I couldn't eat for days. I would just try to sleep and hope that I could wake up and this wouldn't be true."
Well, you know what they say. Black women can be the most disregarded and disrespected creatures on the Earth.
You don't have to look far from the Kardashians' orbit to find another Black woman who went through a similar public crucifixion (another word Woods used to described her recent experience). Blac Chyna, who has a daughter with Rob Kardashian and was once good friends with Kim Kardashian West, has pretty much been blackballed after a series of public spats with the family, including when Rob posted nude photos of Chyna online.
These situations are messy, and while no one ends up looking good, it's always the Black woman who ends up looking the worst. "Well, you know what they say," Pinckett Smith told Woods, "Black women can be the most disregarded and disrespected creatures on the Earth."
She's right. We are sexualized by society at a young age, seen as less innocent even as children, never given the benefit of the doubt. An extreme example of how Hollywood treats imperfect Black women is Whitney Houston, whose drug addiction was treated as joke and as a shameful character flaw until her death. Houston was never seen as a person who was suffering from a disease, a person who needed compassion and help. Just contrast her treatment by the media to that of Demi Lovato, who has publicly struggled with addiction for years and overdosed last summer.
I can't fully understand what Jordyn is going through, as I am far from a celebrity and have never been embroiled in a public scandal to this degree. But, I empathize with her because I've been there — vilified for a mistake, my Blackness automatically making me be seen as aggressor. I'm guilty myself of getting caught up in this gossip cycle, feverishly clicking on every story that offered up "new details." But, I'm now opting out, because the public dragging of Jordyn Woods, a young Black woman who had a lapse in judgment, shouldn't be entertainment.
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With the off-season from hell long vaulted, it was business as usual, and for my good mate Anthony that meant reading a barrage of my hyperbolic pro-NRL texts.
Only this year there was a wicked twist.
Rather than basking in a bevy of comic-laden retorts, I was promptly axed and left wheezing for a medicab thanks to this parting shot: "Not me. I'm on the bus to November, see you then".
Now just so you know, Anthony's no token footy fan, so this was far deeper than a bad-hair-day sook.
Long before the likes of Danny Buderus, Boyd Cordner and Latrell Mitchell, Taree had my mate, Anthony. And while he never claims to have delivered on the park, he's rusted on tighter than a grandfather's FJ wheel nut.
A Super League survivor who still clung tight even after the NRL speared his beloved Bears, Anthony's tougher to remove than a month-old beetroot stain. Not even bigwigs Ken Arthurson and John Quayle could shake him from a top-end bash back in the day, welcoming him with open arms after falling for his fake allegiance to the NSW Touch Association.
So when Todd Greenberg is chasing free advice, his team could do far worse than listen to this fed up and battle-scarred supporter who doubles-up Monday to Friday in Sydney's corporate space.
Thankfully, in the interest of therapeutic recovery, Anthony agreed to pour his heart out and let the demons loose while the camera rolled.
In a wideranging chat, Anthony opened up some of the NRL's most divisive topics.
After simmering to the beat of the NRL's horror off-season, he took aim at the conflicted approach of the NRL and its clubs.
He pointed the finger at Cowboys chairman Laurence Lancini's negative response to the NRL after their decision to stand down a guilty Scott Bolton and was surprised by Manly and St George Illawarra's attempts to play Dylan Walker and Jack de Belin.
"While I see the point they are trying to make, I'm absolutely staggered at the naivety that they are displaying in the current social climate that it's a good idea to push back," he said.
On the Indigenous All Stars' attempts to promote discussion on alternatives to Advance Australia Fair, Anthony felt the NRL failed to capitalise on a golden opportunity to embrace the team's mature approach, saying, "Whenever this happens, I feel the game misses the opportunity to promote the discussion in a way that the conversation continues constructively and respectfully".
And on grassroots development, he didn't have to think too hard before explaining why AFL participation rates have increased faster than the NRLs.
"The AFL are knocking the NRL out of the park with what they are doing in the junior space. This is the third or fourth of these (Sherrin) balls we've got from the AFL, and here we are in the middle of Sharks and Dragons territory and rugby league hasn't come near the schools in this area," he said.
But at the end of the day, his biggest gripe is with the game's leadership and its inability to define and navigate towards a desired outcome.
"There's been so many mixed messages over the years surrounding what the game actually wants to do. If you look at other industries, they know what they want to do, and they know where to do it. The good industry players are the absolute best they can possibly be within those confines".
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The SABC's de facto censorship by omission approach to news coverage
Posted By: Ed Herbston: December 19, 2012 In: Opinion
"Haffajee rightly calls for more investigative journalism. However, one must realise (as she undoubtedly does) that the undue expectations we have of print media (who are, let's face it, principal targets of this latest legislative onslaught), are a result of a state broadcaster that has spectacularly failed us. SABC had a quarterly income of R2.7 billion yet somehow squandered it to record a R25 million loss. Think of an instance when SABC, the most resourced, multi-lingual medium (and the source of news for 80% of this country), reported a breaking news story in the last decade: there have been few, if any. This is highly unacceptable and more deserving of anger than the state of the print media in this country, which is by no means perfect but certainly vastly superior in quality and accountability to the broadcast media.''
A response to stories untold– Vinayak Bhardwaj 27/11/2010
"The SABC's constant promotion of the ANC on its evening television news bulletins and its constant suppression of any news inimical to its political masters is both illegal and illicit.
"It is illegal in terms of chapter three, section 10(d) of the Broadcasting Act of 1999, which obligates the SABC to 'provide significant news and public affairs programming which meets the highest standards of journalism as well as fair and unbiased coverage, impartiality, balance and independence from government and other interests.'
It is illicit in terms of the SABC's own code of news ethics, which compels it to report in a neutral and objective way."
'Déjà vu on SA Bootlicking Corporation on TV' Rhoda Kadalie, Business Day 3/3/05
On Friday 7 December, South Africans awoke to a Mail & Guardian front page lead story, 'The Kept Politician', which effectively confirmed everything in Adriaan Basson's recent best seller, 'Zuma Exposed'.
The newspaper's story was based on a 2006 KPMG forensic report into Jacob Zuma's financial affairs which it claimed the National Prosecuting Authority had covered up and which cited Nelson Mandela as one of several benefactors of a man who for two decades has been living way beyond his means.
Another disturbing factor, as Stephen Mulholland was to later point out in a Sunday Times: Business Times column, "Our banks slip into a pit of corruption" (16/12/2012) was that the three banks cited in the KPMG report, Standard, ABSA and FNB were manifestly guilty of influence peddling, "… a crime in the US and other jurisdictions".
In this context the reverberating ramifications of the Mail & Guardian exposé will continue to shake the foundations of our political and financial landscape for some time to come as Songezo Gibi of the Midrand Group was to point out in a follow-up article in the paper: "Schabir Shaik might have been sentenced to 15 years in a prison hospital for bending the rules with Zuma, but there have been absolutely no consequences for the banks or for the officials who broke the rules to accommodate him. Questions about what they expected in return for this special treatment have not been asked, but they should be. In effect they put the bank's money at risk for an as yet undisclosed return on that risk. It is scandalous." "Nkandla exposes corporate rot."(14/12/2012.)
By any standards this is a major story and in a multi-party democracy – the USA, the UK, France, Holland or Germany – the KPMG report would have toppled governments and national television stations would have interrupted scheduled programmes to provide saturation coverage.
Comparing how e.tv (eNCA) and the SABC carried this and other contentious stories on their respective 7 pm English television news bulletins shows how the SABC regularly suppresses stories that are detrimental to the ANC – and this was one of them.
That night eNCA led with a follow-up on the Mail & Guardian story with context being provided by the station's specialist court reporter, Karyn Maughan. The Democratic Alliance MP James Selfe was also interviewed.
As is routinely the case, the SABC3 also led with a Jacob Zuma story – that he had offered his condolences to the next of kin of those killed in the Air Force Dakota which crashed in the Drakensberg. (It is now standard practice for the SABC to turn any tragedy into a promotional vehicle for Zuma by making the introductory sentence not the fact that there has been a tragedy but that Zuma has offered his condolences to those bereaved by it.)
The second story on the SABC bulletin also featured Jacob Zuma – the fact that he had left for Tanzania to attend an SADC Extraordinary Summit on the situation in the DRC – but nowhere in the entire bulletin was there any reference to the KPMG forensic report scandal, a story so explosive that it immediately went viral.
What this makes clear is that the SABC misled the Freedom of Expression Institute and ICASA on 12 November when the corporation promised that it would strictly follow and implement its code of ethical news conduct and, in return for which, the FXI agreed to withdraw its complaint about the Zikalala-era blacklisting scandal. What compounds and exacerbates this concern is the latest example in a succession of recent SABC censorship scandals involving acting COO, Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
A second example: On 9 August 2005 members of the ANC Youth League, who were aggrieved because Jacob Zuma had been axed by President Thabo Mbeki, booed Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka off the stage at a Women's Day rally in Utrecht, KZN.
The SABC televised the rally but deliberately censored the booing, even though it had the footage. Its repeated lies in this regard were subsequently exposed by e.tv which led, in turn, to the dismissal of SABC spokesman, Paul Setsetse.
Fast forward to 23 October this year and exactly the same scenario unfolds. This was the day when, for the first time, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry screened footage of how the 34 Marikana miners died. According to newspaper reports National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega was in a very good mood, laughing and joking with those around her. Then the bereaved relatives of those killed in the massacre – the SABC calls it a "tragedy" – exploded in outrage.
"…Phiyega stared straight ahead, ignoring a widow screaming at her for answers about her husband's death," the newspapers reported.
'Why did they do this? Why did your policemen kill my husband? What did he do?' the woman screamed at her."
That night eNCA reported on this facet of the hearing in its lead story on its 7 pm bulletin.
The SABC clearly had a camera present because its story on the equivalent bulletin briefly showed the anguish of the bereaved women but it deliberately did not reflect the hostility Phiyega experienced. Censorship by omission and a sordid history of news bias repeating itself?
A third example: On 26 October, the Asset Forfeiture Unit obtained an order in the Northern Cape High Court to seize R24m in assets belonging to ANC MP Yolanda Botha. eNCA headlined the story but there was nothing that evening on the equivalent SABC TV News bulletin.
On 21 November an eNCA camera crew filmed Botha, John Block the ANC leader in the Northern Cape and ANC MEC Alvin Botes filing into the Kimberley Magistrates Court to face charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering but nothing was broadcast on the equivalent SABC TV news bulletin The corporation has a full time TV news team in Kimberley and could not have been unaware of this ongoing story of corruption in the province because it has been given constant coverage by the excellent local newspaper, the Diamond Fields Advertiser. Why then was nothing reflected that night on the SABC3 7pm TV news bulletin? Censorship by omission?
Prior to Polokwane in 2007, the ANC's Zuma faction correctly complained that they were being kept off the air by President Thabo Mbeki's acolytes at the SABC. Now the reverse is happening. South Africans were first alerted to this in June 2010 by newspaper columnist William Saunderson-Meyer who pointed out that when Mbeki revealed details of his newly-created organisation, the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, in a speech at UNISA in Pretoria, there was no SABC coverage – this despite the fact that the corporation has a news office a 20-minute drive from UNISA.
On 11 July this year the Sunday Times reported that SABC reporters had been instructed not to report on Mbeki or do interviews with him. Then, on 13 September, enraged members of the biggest SABC union, BEMAWU, reported that they had been instructed not to give coverage to Zuma opponent, Julius Malema. The SABC countered this uncomfortable truth and the concomitant adverse publicity by filming the two in wide shot to diminish their size on screen and, where possible, by not using sound bites.
From the beginning of recorded sound, sound bites have inspired and guided us.
Think of Winston Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches" in the House of Commons on 4 June 1940, Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on 28 August 1963 and Ronald Reagan's "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall" at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on 12 June 1987.
In our own context, think of F W de Klerk's "The time for negotiation has arrived." at the opening of Parliament on 2 February, 1990 and Nelson Mandela's "Free at last" on that momentous day, 2 May, 1994.
While not as historically important, a recent soundbite also reverberated across the country creating, in the words of a Barney Mthombothi editorial in the Financial Mail, a "firestorm".
They were uttered on Friday 19 October, yet so significant was their impact that the Sunday Times saw fit to make them the subject of its front page lead three days later.
Here are those words: "I must state that I have prepared this lecture deeply troubled by a feeling of great unease that our beloved motherland is losing its sense of direction and that we are allowing ourselves to progress towards a costly disaster of protracted and endemic general crisis.
"I for one am not certain about where our country and nation will be tomorrow and what I should do in this regard to respond to what is obviously a dangerous and unacceptable situation of directionless and unguided national drift."
The words resonated and clearly struck a chord with a rapt nation. They were part of a speech by former President Thabo Mbeki during an Oliver Tambo memorial lecture at Fort Hare University.
However, those who tuned in to the SABC3 English television news broadcast at 7pm that night never heard them. The story that, with a banner headline, dominated the front page of the Sunday Times three days later was, on this bulletin, relegated to the eleventh place on the running order – just before the sports section and after the first advertisement break. It was broadcast for just 43 seconds as a presenter voice-over and without an upsound from Mbeki or a later interview. Censorship by omission?
You can judge for yourself because the SABC has posted the above-mentioned video clip.
Thanks to the current ANC-aligned SABC news managers and the party's deployed cadres on the board who support them, ethical probity in news gathering continues to be an alien concept at Auckland Park. The irony, however, seems lost on the ANC that, while it is an intrinsic part of and the underlying reason for the 24/7 news corruption at the state broadcaster, it relentlessly attacks the print media and bulldozes through parliament draconian pro-corruption secrecy legislation that was never even contemplated during the apartheid era.
In support of that contention I would like to close with this quote: "My argument is that the ANC is obsessed about the print media and its numerous uncoverings of corruption within its party ranks. These exposés destroy the image the ANC would like to portray of itself as the noble liberation movement. It summoned two outrageously undemocratic 'solutions' to deal with the 'problem'. Under the guise of 'development', 'transformation', 'rights to dignity' and maybe even 'the second transition' there is something highly ideological and seriously political afoot: the desire for political control through curbs on access to information." Glenda Daniels, 'Fight for Democracy – The ANC and the Media in South Africa' (Wits University Press, 2012)
Ed Herbst is a a prize-winning reporter, worked for the SABC television news for 28 years but left in 2005 without other employment in prospect because of the pervasive news and other corruption at all levels of the corporation.
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We met a polar bear. We were as up-close and personal to one of these magnificent creatures as we will ever be.
We were at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, Wisconsin. It is a very intimate space. You see the animals, and it's pretty clear that they see you. More than once, I have wondered who is really on display here – us or them. On this warm summer day, one of the polar bears was swimming in the pool of his "natural exhibit," which includes a glass wall for underwater viewing. The bear was doing laps.
He would dive underwater from the far end, swim straight toward the viewing glass, and come up by placing his huge paws on the glass as he turned to complete the lap. The pattern put him eye-to-eye, paw-to-hand with the viewer. It looked as though this enormous creature was coming straight at you, and then, at the last minute, he would turn. You could high five his paw on the glass as he turned for the next pass.
The energy, excitement, joy, and touch of terror is all there. It has all the makings of an encounter with the sacred. It's a contagious magic. Kids and grown-ups alike were caught up in it. Right there. In Madison, Wisconsin.
Like others, I am deeply, deeply ambivalent about zoos. From the animals' perspective, they seem cruel. As an empath, I can almost feel the sadness of the creatures. As a nature experience, I fear it furthers the sense that nature is somewhere else. It's removed from our everyday city living. And yet, we've taken our kids to their fair share because it gives them a sense of the scale of animals. Creatures on this planet can be bigger than dogs and people. It is very hard to get that into one's imagination without an experience of an immense creature like a rhinoceros or a whale – or a polar bear.
As far as zoos go, Henry Vilas Zoo is doing a lot right. Not only is it an enchanted visitor experience, but also it is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. They've "met rigorous, professional standards for animal management, veterinary care, wildlife conservation and research, education, safety, staffing, and more." Fewer than 10% of USDA-licensed wildlife exhibitors in the United States hold this accreditation, and the organization is a leader in conservation efforts.
The admission price? Free. Yep, admission-free.
Yet, is it worth it? Honestly, I'm not sure. And now, to further complicate things, there's our friend, the swimming polar bear. He is a main character in our family bestiary.
"What's a bestiary?," you ask. It a "book of beasts." The medieval versions were compendiums of short descriptions of the natural world, usually animals, with a moralizing tale. Not quite scientific text, not quite religious manual, but a mix of natural history and spiritual formation. Aberdeen's Bestiary is a classical example. In Lyanda Lynn Haupt's updated Urban Bestiary, she recommends checking out the entries for the ant and the beaver.
My family's summer bestiary includes the polar bear and the green sunfish of my oldest son's first fishing excursion. Black-eyed susans. Mosquitoes and deer ticks. Milk thistle. Paper wasps. Mud daubers. Sweet corn and watermelon. Blue jays. Box turtles and fox snakes. Deer and bison. Red tailed hawk. Dragonflies, monarchs, and fireflies. Ants – so many ants. Wrigley Field ivy. Grasshoppers. The call of a whippoorwill. Squirrels and chipmunks. Lake gulls. Minnows. Wood ducks. And, the list goes on and on.
This fall, I'm teaching a course on urban nature, and we will be building a seminar bestiary. It's an experiment in teaching, but in theory, it's a way to practice building the connections to urban nature that the course is exploring. Who knows what we'll see!
So, what did you do this summer? Who did you add to your bestiary?