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How to destroy a game designer's dreams and make it out alive: a guide for developers
17. Sie 2020 | No category, Ten Square Games
A game designer and a programmer have a totally different approach to their work. While the designer comes up with a variety of ideas, it is the programmer who has to understand them thoroughly and translate them into code, which can ultimately mean changing the original idea. Problems usually arise on two levels: communication and scaling ideas. But let's start from the beginning. Who, in fact, is a game designer? Game design is a creative profession with no strict rules—only a general framework designers work within. We start from abstract concepts such as "cool," "funny," or "pleasant," and we translate … Continued
Can you lose your head for fishing? A story of two product owners from TSG
BANG! BANG! Today, we will talk to the product owners creating our top games. They will tell us how they started working in gamedev, whether it's the job they've always dreamed of, where they get new ideas from, and whether you can still enjoy the creative process after several years of working on one title. Here's an interview with Krzysztof Świst from Fishing Clash and Łukasz Modliński from Let's Fish. Natalia: Why did you become product owners? Did you always know that you wanted to work in gamedev? Krzysiek: I have always been curious, and gamedev happened entirely by accident. … Continued
Ten Square Games is a winner of Forbes Diamonds 2020!
30. Lip 2020 | No category
We're happy to announce that our company, Ten Square Games, took 1st place in the Lower Silesian region and 5th place (out of 7 thousand companies from Poland) in the annual national Diamond ranking of Forbes. Forbes Diamonds are awarded to the most rapidly developing companies in the last three years of their activity. This evaluation is one of the hallmarks of the Polish edition of Forbes. It's made in cooperation with the Bisnode business intelligence agency collecting, processing, and analyzing data in 18 countries for over 25 years, which guarantees a reliable research methodology. Bisnode Polska collected data of … Continued
From specialist to leader. How it's done in the game industry?
29. Maj 2020 | No category
Women in IT are still a minority. According to the study of Stack Overflow, as many as 91% of programmers are male. In Poland, women account for only 5.9% of all IT specialists. Let's add a leader position to that. Impossible? And yet! Setting new goals, inspiring with knowledge and constant learning – this is only a part of a leader's responsibilities. According to Kantar's study, women in high positions introduce a new quality to organization management. Natural ability to communicate is one of their advantages. Combining it with empathy helps to bring teams together. Interviewed leaders claimed that women … Continued
Coronavirus – How to adapt to the new reality while maintaining the organizational culture.
It's a hard time for all of us. It's also a time to get organized, reevaluate goals and adjust the action strategy. It's a time during which we not only have to face long-distance problems, such as broken or incomplete equipment, but also the distance that separates us and the time of reaction. Teams' everyday work has become a challenge as until now they had their team mates at their fingertips. But a challenge is something that lets us keep learning. Absolutely and unconditionally. This is what we stick to at TSG. The end of February and beginning of March … Continued
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Q: Java 7 Bug: Displaying Telugu through Unicode literals While displaying Telugu through unicode in Java 7,java is rendering the blends incorrectly.
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However, the same literals when used in Java (here i am setting the same text to a text area, the display gets messed up.
    Font text_font = new Font ("Gautami", Font.PLAIN, 30);
jtaInput.setFont(text_font);
jtaInput.setText("\u0C05\u0C2E\u0C4D\u0C2E");

Has any one facing issues with Java 7 in the context of unicode character rendering? Any tips/ideas to get over this?
thanks
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A: Try using different fonts; The font that worked in Java 5 and Java 6 stopped working in Java 7. When I moved to a new Font, the display came back correctly.

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My boss keeps extending the date of my annual review for a possible raise. How can I expedite the process and what preparation do I need?
I have been taking on extra responsibilities that I did not have when I was hired. I am being introduced as a "specialist" now that I have extra training and believe that shows that my position has changed.
What are the company's policies regarding the frequency and timing of employee reviews? Start by checking your employee handbook and make sure you completely understand the policies. You then have a decision to make: you can approach your boss to discuss the matter and try to work it out, you can talk to your HR professionals to ask them to address it on your behalf, or you can wait and ask if any adjustment to your compensation can be made retroactively, in light of the delay. Each strategy carries risks. The first two risk impacting your long term relationship with your boss. The last strategy is a financial risk but preserves the relationship. You have to ultimately decide what's most important to you, and what consequences you're willing to live with. Happy to talk with you directly if I can be of more help.
I would take a way different angle. I believe your employer already knows you are due additional compensation and that is why it is getting put off. Maybe they don't have current resources to give you what they deserve so he is kicking the can down the road.
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Archivist Elysiana Is A Fun Hearthstone Card When Your Opponent Isn't Using It
Joshua Calixto
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Up until the launch of this month's "Rise of Shadows" expansion, Hearthstone was ruled by a few select cards that provide what fans call "infinite" value: Once you played them, you could benefit from their effects for the rest of the game. Deathstalker Rexxar, for example, provided infinite value by letting you add a powerful minion to your hand every turn after you played it. Rexxar is no longer playable in Hearthstone's Standard ranked mode, and Blizzard has tried to get rid of infinite-value cards with this expansion. But a controversial card in the new set is making it apparent that rebalancing might not be so straightforward.
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Every thirty days, we take a close look at a card that's been getting a lot of buzz—good or bad—in the world of competitive Hearthstone.
You've probably seen Archivist Elysiana if you've played the game since the expansion released. When played, Elysiana lets you draft five random cards—similar to the drafting done in Hearthstone's Arena mode—and once you've selected them, your entire deck is switched out with two copies of each card you've selected. If you have no cards left in your deck when you play Elysiana, the cards you draft become an extra 10 cards for you to draw. As an 8-Mana minion with 7 Attack and 7 Health, her base stats aren't great (you'd usually want those 7s to be at least 8s at that cost). But her effect is often good enough to single-handedly win a matchup that goes into the high turn counts.
If you've ever played a game of Hearthstone where you went through all the cards in your deck, you'll know why this effect is so helpful. Once your deck is exhausted, the next draw will give your character 1 point of "fatigue" damage. The second draw will deal 2 points of fatigue, the next deals 3, and so on. If you play Elysiana, you get to delay that damage by 10 turns.
But the card is great for other reasons, too. Some cards in Hearthstone, like Wrenchcalibur, Hakkar the Soulflayer, and Clockwork Goblin, shuffle cards into the opponent's deck that deal damage when drawn. So if you're playing against a Bomb Warrior deck whose main goal is to shuffle bombs into your deck, you might find it useful to get rid of those bombs in some way or another. Since Elysiana replaces your current deck with the cards you draft, she's capable of replacing the bombs and countering one of the opponent's main strategies.
All that being said: Even though Elysiana is a fun card to play, she's not very fun to play against, mostly because she's kind of a one-note late-game bomb. According to the Hearthstone stat-tracking site HSReplay, if you play Elysiana as a Warrior (the most popular way because it's a good late-game class), you will win a game 62.5 percent of the time. This is a huge advantage when you consider that any deck with a win rate above 50 percent is considered "good." On top of that, some people have taken to using "bounce" effects in their Elysiana decks, meaning that they use cards like Youthful Brewmaster or Seance to bring Elysiana back into their hands and allow them to add 10 more cards to their decks each time she's played. It's not exactly "infinite" value, but it can feel pretty damn close.
Once you've played 45 turns in a game of Hearthstone, neither player wins and the match ends in a draw. If you play Elysiana twice over the course of a game using bounce effects, you're playing with a 50-card deck. A lot of late-game-focused matchups, then, come down to whether one player is running Elysiana in their deck, and after that, whether they're running a bounce effect. This isn't unfair from a deck-building standpoint, since it requires a sacrifice to opt for Elysiana and a bounce effect over more defensive card options, but it has a few potential negatives. First of all, since Hearthstone tournaments will soon be moving to a rule set called the "Specialist" format, where each player can bring three slightly different versions of a single deck from a single class, it creates a sort of arms race between late-game-oriented decks. In these slow battles of attrition, the person who wins is simply the person who plays Elysiana the most.
That brings us to the second problem: From a raw gameplay standpoint, losing to Archivist Elysiana—tournament or not—just feels bad. Nobody likes playing a 35-minute game of Hearthstone and walking away with a draw. Nobody likes getting slowly choked out while fatigue damage chips away at their health. Nobody likes watching the opponent play crappy Elysiana minions while maintaining a sizeable deck well into turn 40. Nobody likes losing to an opposing Elysiana that offered way better cards than theirs did. But hey, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Or, as many seem to be doing, kill 'em before they can even play Elysiana by using an aggressive Rogue deck.
More from Kotaku
Hearthstone's New Expansion Is Bringing The Game Back To Its Roots
Blizzard Removes Two Of Hearthstone's Most Overpowered Cards From Standard Play
New Hearthstone Strategy Relies On Running Out The Clock
Joshua Calixto writes about esports, culture, and technology.


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With migration-center version 3.9 we will introduce a new scanner for CSV and Excel files. Previously, you could use our database scanner in order to scan data from CSV and Excel files, but this solution relied on the Java JDBC-to-ODBC bridge, which was discontinued with Java 8. We have taken this as an opportunity to introduce a new scanner for CSV and Excel files and also added a very powerful feature that we call "enrichment scanning".
The new CSV and Excel scanner supports two operating modes: normal mode and enrichment mode. With normal mode, you can scan data from CSV and Excel files as you used to do with the database scanner (only with a much better performance when scanning large files). With enhancement mode, you can scan data from CSV and Excel files and add that data to a previously scanned scan run in order to enrich that scan run with the data from the CSV or Excel file respectively.
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Imagine that you have a business application, which combines documents in your document management system (DMS) and additional data from – for example – a database system (DB).
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Of course, you can repeat the second step several times, in case you need to consolidate data from more than one additional system.


This article provides a detailed comparisson between the various single touch payroll solutions available.
This page provides a summary of those Low-cost Single Touch Payroll solutions on the list published by the ATO, plus a few others who have contacted me asking to be added to the list.
Sadly I don't have time to check up on all these providers to see whether the details below have changed. So if you spot something which is out of date, or if you think something should be added, please do take the time to reach out in the comments below.
However, if you're a software provider you're probably better off using the contact form.
Min Cost is the GST Inclusive minimum cost to use the service. Some providers a per employee per month or payrun, while others have tiered pricing.
No information available means that I can't find anything about this service. The list published by the ATO are merely software providers who expressed an intention to provide a product, so I suppose some of them are yet to have a product ready for market.
AccXite seems more like an accounting firm than a software provider. The vast majority of their products are "all in" accounting and bookkeeping packages. They do offer a single touch payroll product, but it's not an app you can just start using, you need to contact them to onboard you.
This one is a bit weird, I think it might be a duplicate on the ATO's list. The only mention I can find of "BAS Off" is from Free Accounting Software which has it's own separate entry on the list published by the ATO.
I can't find much about this. It's a registered business name, but no website apparently.
Looks like a proper app. Easy signup. 30 day trial. Pricing ranges from $8.80 p.mth (less than 4 employees) to $19.95 p.mth (less than 10 employees ). Browser, android, iOS support.
This looks more like a HR Management platform, lots of reporting functionality unrelated to Single Touch Payroll. Minimum pricing is $10 per employee per month.
This has the feel of an older software provider, they have a legacy desktop product as well as a hosted solution. $19 per month (5 employees or less). Browser only, no android or iOS.
Can't find anything about this, other than their ABR Record. Note that there's a similarly named entity ETax Accounting Pty Ltd which is unrelated.
Only mention I can find of this says that they're "coming soon".
Globe BD appears to be a fairly run of the mill accounting firm. No mention on their website on any upcoming Single Touch Payroll solutions.
You can lodge a variety of PLS forms using this service, including those associated with Single Touch Payroll. The cheapest option would appear to be the "on demand" tier where you'd pay $12 per month, plus a fee for each lodgement, but there's no indication on what that additional fee would be. Browser only, no android or iOS.
Quickbooks. Intuit is a large, well established software provider from the US. They don't have a stand alone product. There's an introductory price of $10.50/mth for the first 6 months.
Will be available for use from July 2019 apparently.
Desktop software. No pricing listed. A well established software provider with a range of products.
Android & iOS only, no browser based product. It's free, or $39 (once off) if you want to use the app to lodge your BAS. That said, there's no mention of payroll or Single Touch Payroll on their website.
MYOB is the oldest software provider on this list. They don't have a stand alone payroll product. MYOB Essentials is $20.25/mth (billed annually, so $243) for only one employee. For 2 or more employees the cost would be $41.25/mth (billed annually, so $495). Not really a "low-cost STP Provider".
No automated signup. Report via CSV. Pricing is unclear, it says "Free for 1 to 4 Employees", and "No expensive registration fee", and then "Contact us now for your free 30 day trial". Looks like it's browser based only.
Website is really just a placeholder. No information available. Intends to be android & iOS app.
PWC is a large, well established, accounting firm. I can't find any information about a single touch payroll service from them.
A comprehensive, mature, bookkeeping system with payroll for unlimited employees at $5 per month. Reckon has an ecosystem of integrations including Single Touch Payroll. Browser, iOS, and android apps available.
This one is unique in that it's not an app, but rather an appropriately priced portal by which you can submit your Single Touch Payroll reports. $0.10 per employee per payrun is about as cheap as it gets.
Android app. Looks like it's aimed at hospitality Point of Sale, amongst many other functions. No pricing listed. Not much detail about Single Touch Payroll integration.
A comprehensive, mature, bookkeeping system. $25/mth for only 1 employee. Not really a "low-cost STP provider"


Unable to find the data-sources in the datasources tab.
I am trying to do blending for data from an excel file and sql server database. First I created sql-server Connection and proceeded to create excel connection. After the creation of excel connection, sql-server connection disappears from Data section of datasources tab even though all connections are visible in worksheet tabs.
Please help to list out all the available datasources in datasource tab.
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you have it already, but you will see name of you data source on top right on the list as seen below.
2. Re: Unable to find the data-sources in the datasources tab.
Also, you want you can keep data connection n data source names the same so you don't get confused later on, but it is not required.
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Executive Interview – Martin Crawford – Managing Director, Travelex, Australasia & Japan
Wed, March 09, 2005 Australia Taipeibank, Executive Interview, Research
(9 March 2005 – Australia) Travelex began modestly in 1976 when chairman and CEO Lloyd Dorfman opened a currency exchange business in central London. Now almost 30 years later, and following the ₤440 million acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services business in 2001, Travelex is the largest non bank foreign exchange (FX) business in the world.
Taiwan merger creates largest private bank
Tue, October 08, 2002 Taiwan Fubon Financial Holding, Taipeibank, Mergers & Acquisitions
(Taiwan) - Approval by shareholders of Fubon Financial Holdings and Taipeibank to merge through a share swap has created Taiwan's largest private bank with assets of US$32 billion.
Taiwan's Cathay moves on takeover target
Tue, October 01, 2002 Taiwan Cathay Financial Holding, Fubon Financial Holding, Taipeibank, United World Chinese Commercial Bank, Mergers & Acquisitions
(Taiwan) - Cathay Financial Holdings has paid US$448 million for a 14.8 percent stake in United World Chinese Commercial Bank (UWCCB), and now looks set to complete the US$3.4 billion takeover of its target.
Citigroup seen taking larger stake in Taiwan's Fubon
Tue, September 10, 2002 Taiwan Citigroup, Fubon Financial Holding, Merrill Lynch, Taipeibank, Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions
Taiwan's Fubon Financial Holding said on Thursday it believed Citigroup Inc, the world's largest financial group, would follow through on a long standing desire and raise its stake in the holding company.
Bank merger wave about to hit the other China
Tue, August 20, 2002 Taiwan Cathay Financial Holding, Chinatrust Commercial Bank, Fubon Financial Holding, Taipeibank, United World Chinese Commercial Bank, Mergers & Acquisitions
(Taiwan) - Two just completed large bank mergers in Taiwan, worth nearly US$6 billion, is seen to be the start of a move forcing smaller rivals to accelerate a consolidation process in a highly competitive market, still burdened with bad debts and weak profits.
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The New RotaGel™ Cutting Lube provides maximum adhesion to the tool and visually assures thorough coverage.
Hougen Manufacturing, Inc., (Swartz Creek, MI) the leading manufacturer of magnetic drills and annular cutters announces their new RotaGel™ Cutting Lube. In most metalworking applications, nothing is more important than proper tool lubrication. RotaGel Cutting Lube is an is an industrial lubricant that provides superior protection to the cutting tool even in hard, high torque machining applications. RotaGel Cutting Lube is a very environmentally safe lubricate because its core ingredients are based on a food grade lubricant. It is non-toxic and biodegradable.
With the consistency of a creamy gel, RotaGel has properties that help it adhere to the tool and reduce friction throughout the cut. Because it is formulated with a Hougen blue color, it allows the operator to consistently gauge where the lubricant is applied and visually assures thorough coverage. Designed for use on all metals including: carbon steel, stainless steel, inconel, hastalloy, titanium, aluminum and other alloys and exotics. RotaGel is a versatile cutting lubricant that provides maximum lubrication and increased tool life with many different applications and tools. Example of applications include: annular cutters, taps, drills, saws, reamers, endmills, general lubrication and more. Not only does RotaGel provide lubrication to cutting tools, it also improves hole and surface finishes.
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Seagate's new Mobile HDD provides 2TB of storage in a 7mm form factor. During a time when SSD innovation leads the market for this form factor, this drive holds unique appeal for users who want to upgrade their laptop storage without switching over. Although SSDs indisputably outperform HDDs, the Mobile HDD allows users to load up to 2TB of storage into their laptop at a fraction of the cost of an SSD.
The Seagate Mobile HDD is SATA 6Gb/s and it can be used as a replacement for 7mm as well as 9.5mm laptop designs. Although it uses architecture that is being rendered obsolete by solid-state technology for this form factor, the Mobile HDD serves to sustain casual budget-minded users who are more cost sensitive. By comparison, the Samsung 850 EVO 2TB SSD, which is one of the only consumer SSDs on the market that provides 2TB in a 7mm form factor, costs around $630. Although the Mobile HDD might not suit performance enthusiasts or high-demand use cases, its $102 price tag makes it a compelling option.
The weight of the Mobile HDD (less than ¼ lb), paired with Seagate's standard shock resistance and quiet operation, further refines this drive for use in a mobile setting. In terms of security, the Mobile HDD comes standard with Trust Computing Group (TCG) Opal protocol and Instant Secure Erase Technology. If users need enhanced security, they can upgrade their drive with premium security features, such as Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and FIPS 140-2 SED.
The Mobile HDD comes in 1TB and 2TB models ($73 and $102, respectively), and includes a 2-year warranty.
We conducted our consumer benchmarks for the Seagate Mobile HDD with the StorageReview HP Z620 Workstation. The Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2TB HDD was our only comparable drive.
In our first test, which measures 2MB sequential performance, the Seagate drive (114MB/s read and 110MB/s write) was slightly outpaced by the Samsung drive (118MB/s read and 116MB/s write) in both read and write.
The Seagate Mobile HDD outperformed the Samsung Spinpoint in our random 2MB benchmark with 72MB/s read and 88MB/s write.
Our random 4K benchmark with IOMeter puts more strain on the drives in terms of throughput. Although the drives were close, the Seagate HDD outperformed the Samsung HDD in both read and write, with 98 IOPS and 259 IOPS, respectively.
Results were similar when looking at random 4K transfers in MB/s, with the Seagate drive posting 0.39MB/s read and 1.01MB/s write.
In terms of average write latency, the Seagate Mobile HDD slightly outperformed the Samsung Spinpoint (3.9ms vs. 4.9ms, respectively). When switching to max latency, the Seagate drive handily outperformed the Samsung drive (440ms vs. 2038ms, respectively).
Our final consumer synthetic benchmarks compare the drives in a series of mixed-server workloads with a queue depth of 1 to 128. Each server profile has a strong bias towards read activity, ranging from 67% read with the database profile to 100% read in the web server profile.
Our database profile features a 67% read and 33% write workload focusing on transfers around 8K in size. The Seagate HDD posted a solid performance against the Samsung Spinpoint HDD under these conditions, almost doubling its numbers for most of the benchmark.
Our next benchmark is the web server profile, which is read-only, with transfer sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 512KB. Once again, the Seagate drive outperformed the Samsung drive by almost 100MB/s.
The file server profile has 80% read and 20% write workload spread out over multiple transfer sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 64KB. In this benchmark, the Seagate Mobile HDD exhibited a consistent performance that was stronger than that of the Samsung HDD.
The last profile looks at workstation activity, with a 20% write and 80% read mixture using 8K transfers. Although the Samsung Spinpoint HDD started out with a slightly better performance, the Seagate Mobile HDD was the top drive for the remainder of the benchmark.
While the results of synthetic benchmarks are important to identify the key strengths and weaknesses of a drive, performance in these tests does not always translate directly into real-world situations. To get a better idea how the Seagate Mobile HDD will handle itself in the field, we will chart StorageMark 2010 HTPC, Productivity, and Gaming traces against comparable drives. Higher IOPS and MB/s rates with lower latency times are preferred.
We saw only marginal differences between the Samsung and Seagate drives in our HTPC trace, with the former slightly outpacing the latter. The Seagate Mobile HDD posted 38.8MB/s and 522 IOPS, with an average latency of 15.3ms (vs. Samsung's 39.1MB/s, 526 IOPS and 15.1ms, average latency).
The Seagate Mobile HDD posted a stronger performance than the Samsung Spinpoint in our gaming trace. These results are somewhat validating for the Seagate Mobile HDD, considering that the Samsung Spinpoint was originally designed to serve primarily in this use case. The Seagate drives posted 26.7MB/s and 499 IOPS, with an average latency of 16.0ms.
The Seagate Mobile HDD was designed to appeal to budget-minded consumers who aren't ready for the transition to solid-state for their capacity data. Even with the growing prevalence of SSDs, there aren't many 2TB 2.5" HDDs on the market; in part, this helped Seagate distinguish the Mobile HDD from other products. From a pricing standpoint, specifically in terms of $/GB (cost per gigabyte), the Seagate Mobile HDD trumps the SSDs and 2.5" HDDs that are currently available.
Conversely, the Seagate Mobile HDD is fairly limited from a performance standpoint. Although it outperformed the Samsung Spinpoint M9T in most of our performance benchmarks, neither drive would be considered competitive in the context of the overall drive market. That said, we didn't expect this drive to impress anyone with its performance, and its great value keeps it relevant to a wide range of consumers with ever-growing media archives.
The Seagate Mobile HDD offers up to 2TB in a notebook-friendly form factor and is great for those looking to maximize capacity while keeping cost affordable.


The old website was by then hardly updated anymore – we didn't have the time to register all recordings we received and downloaded. This list is a mix of audio and video. There are no extended details. I hope I someday have time to clean this mess up.
All shows do have an official recording, offered by The Music Website. All recordings here are audience-made.


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The 1938 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1938 college football season.  In their third season under head coach Carl Snavely, the Big Red compiled a 5–1–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 110 to 55.

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Stadium Tour- Minute Maid Park, Home of the Astros
Earlier in the year, I had gone down to Houston for another work visit that coincided with the Red Sox being in town. My uncle took me to the game, the Red Sox won, and I had an amazing time. Unfortunately, Joel missed out on the fun, and I hadn't done a stadium tour, so we decided to hit up Minute Maid Park before the trek to Dallas. We went to the earliest time slot (they run Monday through Saturday at 10 and 12) and paid $15 per ticket. A lot of cities have invested a lot of money into rebuilding and renovating their downtown areas, and Houston is certainly one of those cities. The old stadium was outside the city, but this one is right downtown. They still have some work to do- you could see a few run down old homes right across the street from the stadium (prime parking space), but it did give the area a facelift, and our tour guide, a Houston native, was really appreciative of that. Unfortunately, that was about all he was appreciative of- he was rather pessimistic and seemed frustrated with his team's unwillingness to go out and get the pieces he thought they needed for a World Series. We were there the day they announced they'd signed or traded for Brian McCann, but he wasn't sold on him (I don't blame him- gross Yankees). What makes his pessimism amusing looking back, however, is that the Astros actually won the World Series the following fall and ultimately made the necessary moves down the stretch to make it happen. All during the World Series I was thinking of our pessimistic tour guide and how I hoped that the run had restored his faith in the Astros ownership.
The tour itself was pretty good- they were doing some construction in the outfield and didn't turn on the lights- it's a convertible roof that was closed and while there are lots of windows, it was pretty overcast that day and so we didn't get much natural light. It was, however, the most we've been allowed to walk around the back stop and down the baselines, so that was neat. We got the typical stops- dugout, various seating places, press box, and a few other behind the scenes stops, but my favorite was the atrium when you walk in. They built the stadium where there was once a train station and they kept the same atrium (probably updated) that was there before. It was a cool touch and made the train in left field make a lot more sense. Our tour guide had grown up in the area, so it was interesting to get his perspective on the stadium and he was pretty knowledgeable, although he didn't know the answer to Joel's go-to stadium question: "How much did (insert stadium name) pay to have the naming rights?" Overall, it was a good tour, decently priced, and parking was easy. Also, this is the second time we've toured a stadium and had the team win the World Series the following fall (and the Patriots won after we toured Fenway), so any ball clubs interested in having us come tour your stadium, contact me soon! 😊


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Q: How to properly assign events to dynamically created buttons in c# Winforms? My intention is to create buttons at runtime and have a click event handler subscribed to them. Once the dynamically created button is clicked, the click eventhandler is unsubscribed, such that the click event only fires once.
At runtime the desired behaviour only works if I create one button and click it immediately . If I create more than one button, than only the last created button unsubscribes from the click event. Did I miss something?
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    Button b;
    int counter;

    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    // create more buttons
    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        b = new Button();
        b.Size = new Size(50, 50);
        b.Click += b_Click; // dynamic button click event
        this.Controls["flowLayoutPanel"].Controls.Add(b);

    }

    // dynamic button click eventhandler
    void b_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        b.Text = counter.ToString();
        b.Click -= b_Click;
        counter++;
    }
}

A: Because b member will reference last created dynamic button, so clicking any buttons will remove click event handler of currently referenced button in b variable, which would be last created.
Use sender to access instance of "current" button and remove click event handler only from "current" button.
void b_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var button = sender As Button;
    button.Text = counter.ToString();
    button.Click -= b_Click;
    counter++;
}

Don't use private member for dynamic button, but local variable
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var button = new Button();
    button.Size = new Size(50, 50);
    button.Click += b_Click;
    this.Controls["flowLayoutPanel"].Controls.Add(button);
}

If you need to reference collection of created button somewhere, you can access them from the controls of flow panel where buttons were added
var dynamicButtons = .
    this.Controls["flowLayoutPanel"].Controls.OfType<Button>().ToList();

Or save them to the dedicated collection (in case flow panel has other buttons)


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Seahawks punter Jon Ryan enjoying Pickles (his new baseball team) on the side
By Bill Shaikin
Staff WriterFollow
Aug. 5, 2017 9 AM PT
As NFL training camps opened this month, the refrain once again was heard all over the land: Baseball used to be America's pastime, but football is the nation's favorite sport.
For all the time and money the commissioner's office spends on studies and focus groups on how to make baseball more attractive to young fans, someone there ought to talk to a gregarious red-haired guy who did not grow up in America but developed such a love for minor-league ball that he bought a team of his own.
He is the punter for the Seattle Seahawks.
Jon Ryan is making his money playing in the NFL — and investing it in baseball.
He is an owner of the Portland Pickles, a summer team for college players. The Pickles are packing fans into a rickety city park every night, offering fun and pun. The mascot is a green pickle that bills itself as "sort of a big dill."
Ryan, 35, is in his 10th year with the Seahawks, after two years with the Green Bay Packers and two with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. He grew up in Saskatchewan, where he played baseball as a kid but preferred lacrosse when he had to choose a spring sport.
Retirement is coming sooner rather than later, and at first he thought about becoming an agent.
He would represent players — baseball players, not football players.
"I'm not going to say I'll be sick of football, but it'll be nice to do something different," he said.
Ryan owns a 10% stake in True Gravity, a Toronto-based agency that represents four major league players. Blake Corosky, the managing partner, said he was surprised during his first visit to Ryan's home, when the baseball caps displayed were the ones from California League teams.
"I just get in my car and drive up and down the state and go to minor league games," Ryan told Corosky.
When Ryan played for the Packers, he spent his free time attending minor league games (the Timber Rattlers!) and college summer league games.
He fell in love with baseball, so hard that he bought a condominium near Phoenix Municipal Stadium so he could go to spring training games every day. Then he fell in love with comedian Sarah Colonna.
"Our second weekend of dating, I was like, 'Oh, I'm going to spring training with some girlfriends,' " Colonna said. "He was like, 'I literally live at spring training.' "
Colonna and Ryan, now married, live in Los Angeles. So does Alan Miller, the founder of Collide, a marketing agency that guides corporations through music and sports promotions.
Ryan and Miller partnered in search of a minor league team. Ryan might have been the face of the investment group, but not along the lines of Magic Johnson investing $50 million into the Dodgers.
"Are you saying we can't afford a minor league team?" Colonna asked.
"Just barely," Ryan said.
Even a Class-A team can cost $8 million to $14 million, according to Josh Norris of Baseball America. The total investment for Ryan, Miller and a third partner in buying the Pickles: less than $1 million.
"This was kind of the perfect situation," Ryan said, "get in there, get our feet wet, learn the ropes, and not lose our home in the process."
The Pickles are not an official minor league team; college players cannot be paid. But Ryan is running the operation as if it were a minor league team, with all the promotional wackiness that ensues, and the players get the benefit of an active professional athlete as an owner.
When Ryan discovered the players did not have a movie player on their bus, he got them one.
"They can't watch 'Bull Durham' if they don't have a DVD player," he said.
He embraces the standard minor league selling points — affordable tickets, cheap food, family entertainment between innings — and proudly notes the Pickles offer 16 microbrews on tap. He also emphasizes how fans can get up close and personal with the players, and not just by walking up to the dugout or passing them along the concourse.
"The players share the same bathrooms with the people that are going there," he said. The stadium dates back to 1956.
The Pickles have the usual cap and T-shirt and bobblehead giveaways. They also let kids run the bases backwards.
Ryan imported three of his Seahawks teammates for a game, and they all took batting practice and staged a home-run derby. The Pickles also held "Tackle Jon Ryan Night," where all the kids in attendance could swarm Ryan in the outfield and take him down. They did.
Can't imagine the Seahawks were too excited by that promotion.
"They weren't told about it," Ryan said with an impish grin.
The Pickles open the playoffs Sunday. Win or lose, their season will be over by next Sunday — the day the Seahawks open their exhibition schedule, against the Chargers at StubHub Center.
Ryan will be back at his day job, full time. The future could include Ryan and Miller soliciting partners for bids on teams in the established minor league circuit.
"The next situation, we'll go look for big checks," Miller said. "We are obsessed with the crazy, ridiculous nuances of minor league baseball."
If a kid from Saskatchewan can hit it big in the NFL, he just might be able to do the same in baseball. Put together a winning streak of investments and a winning group of investors, and the purchase of all or part of a major league team might be within reach.
"I wouldn't rule it out," Ryan said. "That would have to be down the road a little bit.
"Building a baseball empire starts very small."
You never know. What starts with the Pickles could grow into a really big dill.
bill.shaikin@latimes.com
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Q: Upload Speed Issue : HttpWebRequest I am using HttpWebRequest to upload file to certain server, now the problem is I am having speed issues.
I am not able to get the same upload speed as I get with browser (Mozilla Firefox), the speed I am getting is 1/5 of the speed I get from Browser.
Here are my HttpWebRequest object's setting
//headers is a NameValueCollection type object,
//Method is a struct { GET, POST, HEAD }

        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
        request.UserAgent = headers["User-Agent"];
        request.KeepAlive = false;
        request.Accept = headers["Accept"];
        request.AllowAutoRedirect = AllowRedirect;
        request.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptLanguage, "en-US,en;q=0.5");
        request.Method = Method.ToString();
        request.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = false;
        request.ReadWriteTimeout = 60000;

Some global options that i have kept enabled
        ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;
        ServicePointManager.DefaultConnectionLimit = 200;
        ServicePointManager.MaxServicePointIdleTime = 2000;
        ServicePointManager.MaxServicePoints = 1000;
        ServicePointManager.SetTcpKeepAlive(false, 0, 0);

How i am sending file in chunk...
            if (PostMethod == PostType.MultiPart && uploadFiles.Count > 0)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < uploadFiles.Count; i++)
                {
                    string fileParam = uploadFiles.GetKey(i);
                    string tmpFilename = uploadFiles.Get(i);
                    string tmpData =
                    string.Format(
                        "--{0}\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"{1}\"; filename=\"{2}\"\r\nContent-Type: {3}\r\n\r\n", boundary, fileParam, Path.GetFileName(tmpFilename), MimeType.GetMimeByExtension(Path.GetExtension(tmpFilename)));
                    byte[] tmpBytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(tmpData);
                    writer.Write(tmpBytes, 0, tmpBytes.Length);
                    bSent += tmpBytes.Length;

                    arg.Progress = (int)(bSent * 100 / totalBytes);
                    arg.Speed = (bSent / sw.Elapsed.TotalSeconds);
                    OnProgress(arg);

                    //write the file
                    int fileBytesRead;

                    FileStream fileStream = File.Open(tmpFilename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);
// buffer size = 8192
                    while ((fileBytesRead = fileStream.Read(buffer, 0, BUFFER_SIZE)) > 0)

                    {
                        writer.Write(buffer, 0, fileBytesRead);
                        bSent += fileBytesRead;

                        int timeNow = Environment.TickCount;
                        if (timeNow - lastTime >= 500)
                        {
                            lastTime = timeNow;
                            arg.Progress = (int)(bSent * 100 / totalBytes);
                            arg.Speed = (bSent / sw.Elapsed.TotalSeconds);
                            OnProgress(arg);
                        }
                    }

                    tmpBytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes("\r\n");
                    writer.Write(tmpBytes, 0, tmpBytes.Length);
                    bSent += tmpBytes.Length;

                    arg.Progress = (int)(bSent * 100 / totalBytes);
                    arg.Speed = (bSent / sw.Elapsed.TotalSeconds);
                    OnProgress(arg);

                }
            }

I would be happy to attain even a 75% of browser upload speed.

A: I found the answer by searching this site.  It appears to be a duplicate of ".NET HttpWebRequest Speed versus Browser".
From the answers posted there:
"The first time you request a page, .net tries to detect proxy settings. The solution is to pass in an empty WebProxy object. This way it just connects to remote server instead of autodetecting the proxy server." - Markos
Try adding
    request.Proxy = new WebProxy();

A: Two things.

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*You're defeating the purpose of TCP/IP stacks by chunking. TCP/IP is designed to handle near asynchronous transmission of data. It will do its own chunking and continue to send chunks until it is finished or reaches its maximum number of unacknowledged chunks. If the max number of chunks is reached, it will wait for an ACK(acknowledge) to continue - similar to a semaphore ideology expect the releases can be "stacked", AKA a single ACK contains the last point it received and can "release"/acknowledge multiple chunk packets) - or the request times out.
By chunking it yourself, each chunk has to be fully acknowledged to send anymore data so you're increasing your overhead. You are still using the same connection, but essentially making multiple separate requests. In addition, if the TCP/IP chunk size is not a divisor of you chunk size (YOUR_CHUNK_SIZE % TCP_IP_CHUNK_SIZE != 0) you are leaving a lingering TCP/IP chunk that has to timeout and resolve to a pseudo ACK; it gets acknowledged the next time it can in the next chunk.
 2.

Another option that can have an impact on performance is the use of the UseNagleAlgorithm property. When this property is set to true, TCP/IP will try to use the TCP Nagle algorithm for HTTP connections. The Nagle algorithm aggregates data when sending TCP packets. It accumulates sequences of small messages into larger TCP packets before the data is sent over the network. Using the Nagle algorithm can optimize the use of network resources, although in some situations performance can also be degraded. Generally for constant high-volume throughput, a performance improvement is realized using the Nagle algorithm. But for smaller throughput applications, degradation in performance may be seen.
An application doesn't normally need to change the default value for
  the UseNagleAlgorithm property which is set to true. However, if an
  application is using low-latency connections, it may help to set this
  property to false.

From MSDN: HttpWebRequest Class (System.Net)

A: Here is various option using that we can increase uploading speed :-
http://bytes.com/topic/asp-net/answers/440179-how-speed-up-file-upload-2-0-a
use this in config file for large file:---
Write this in web config  system.web>
httpRuntime maxRequestLength="2097151"
this may be help for find solution in IIS 7.0
Write this in web config  system.web>httpModules
**add name="ITHitPutUploadProgressAndResumeModule" type="ITHit.WebDAV.Server.ResumableUpload.PutUploadProgressAndResumeModule, ITHit.WebDAV.Server"**


Attention to balance. OXO has this down. The idea of making sure it's easy to handle and perform all tasks.
Deep ridged filter, to allow air to circulate. Facilitates brewing. The filter bottom is narrow, but flat, leading to efficient, consistent flow during steeping.
Double walled glass carafe. Cool outside. Evenly hot inside. Designed high enough to place ice cubes in bottom for instant cold coffee, while retaining all the benefits of Specialty Coffee Association specified hot brewing.
It's interesting to see OXO moving towards manual gear. It gives me hope that there's life in new manual methods. While this may be refinement more than reinvention, I can think of no more thoughtful minds than OXO's folks to apply themselves to getting more from your precious grounds. I've requested a review sample and am eager to see how it fares in my own kitchen. Meanwhile, enjoy this conversation I had at OXO's space at Housewares.
Thanks Kevin, great article! Is that dripper glass or plastic? It looks cool whatever material it is.
Thanks Kevin for this article.
Sounds like an interesting manual option. Perhaps with all the technology that surrounds us, there are benefits to a slow coffee in the mornings.
Yes, Was. There are still new manual methods outperforming the vast majority of automatic methods. Amazing isn't it?


The SmartAVI VW-09XVAS is a 3x3 video switch with a 4 port video overlay. End users have the ability to set up each monitor individually (such as resolution and color quality) and then can 'add' them to the PresenterWall system. For greater flexibility and simplicity, you can also define your video wall configuration within the software, and with one click, set all of the monitors in the group at the same time. This enables the software to communicate with each monitor separately or as part of a larger grouping for stretched/tiled images and video.
Import movies or files from a disc, sending it to a single screen or stretch it across multiple screens, depending on how large you want the image to display.
The PresenterWall server is based on the Windows XP platform, providing instant familiarity with SmartAVI's software, greatly reducing any learning curve while increasing creativity and productivity.


As a Mom I have to wonder where did she learn this and does her mom know she does it. I do know it is not an easy thing to learn and takes an incredible amount of skill to beat box at this level. It's not a sport and it's not what I would call music but it is definitely a talent. I hope she can find a way to make all the time she must spend practicing pay off in the end. Maybe they have a college team somewhere. She is an amazing young woman with a unique talent. Enjoy the video…. R.
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This is amazing! Does your daughter walk around the house practicing all of the time? I can barely whistle.
A very unique talent, like you said.
No, she is not my daughter but she is cute, isn't she. I don't know who she is.
AMAZING!!! very impressive. my 17 y/o is a bit of a beat boxer too – i'm going to show her this!
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My leaflets will be delivered on Monday and I will start to post them.
In your experience is it necessary?
If so are the any window cleaning friendly companies you recommend that provide cover?
Or is it just a matter of looking on a comparison site?
The vast majority of insurers won't cover damage to property or item been cleaned hence most PL insurance is cheap.
If you are just window cleaning then contact A Plan insurance brokers.
Is that right? I did want cover in case I damaged the customers property or car with my ladder.
I will also be grass cutting in the spring until I get my window cleaning round established.
I have had motor insurance with A Plan since the 90's, I can get business motor insurance elsewhere going direct for a lot less so may change soon.
If you're ladder is left unattended and it ends up on a client's car then you are covered. But if you damage a window whilst cleaning it you ain't.
If you are doing grass cutting as well as window cleaning you might need 2 separate policies.
Thank-you both for the help.
I will look at Gleaming Insurance and a comparison site and see if I can get the cover I am looking for.
Gleaming cost for me as a sole trader is £184 per annum.
On a comparison site Corea insurance was £69.
From reading the cover notes both did seem to include damage to property which would include windows. Maybe I misunderstood.
Using bleach products or heat were not covered but I wont be doing either.
1: The law says you HAVE to have public liability.
2: I went throught this same question (item being worked on) years ago with several insurers and only one of them covered the item being worked on and that was Gleaming. Been with them ever since.
Gleaming seems to be the one to go for if you're looking for a comprehensive cover. If you're happy to pay out of your own pocket to fix a window or make new a scratched piece of glass then go for cheaper insurance. Although it all comes off your tax bill at the end of the day so why not pay more if you can.
Thanks for the replies, you are right of course to go for the best cover.
I have only had 2 jobs this week.
I have e-mailed Gleaming and asked if there is a cover for sole traders just starting out, I will not have other people working for me or be holding any keys or use any chemicals besides dilute washing up liquid.
That's strange - I'm a regular sole trading window cleaner, and the quote I just got was £271.06/£23.00pm I put in for £4m coverage.
What reply did you get, mate?
Have to say not very impressed with Gleaming in the past.
was that with a payout issue??
i'm with APlan, just basic cover for 1mill, £60 a year.
I'm with higos(underwritten by hiscox) at £14/month for £5 million public liability. In the middle of employing and got a quote from the same company for £5million public liability for two people plus employers liability and that came in at just under £450 for the year.
What's the point of insurance if your not covered properly!
I've had to claim once when a lad caused 4K worth of damage cleaning, replaced the next day!!!
I dunno...lol....it's what my current one is! I'm pretty sure I needed 4m for some site work I was doing once. They specifically asked for this requirement.
If you want to quote for schools for example you need £5-mill, If you decide to do a add on job and aren't properly covered or damage expensive grey aluminium frames some people are having fitted then are in for a big bill.
Well I was in email contact with a Gleaming manager, I told him my situation, sole trader, no employees, no keys to hold, no chemicals used. I wanted cover for any damage I could cause to a property or car including the windows I was working on.
He told me 2nd Feb they were launching a new product that would work out cheaper as we could choose which elements we wanted cover for. I checked and got the same quote, emailed him again and then he told me that there is not going to be a new product, I cut and pasted my original email and his reply, he apologised and said the new date for this product launch was 19th Feb, I checked the website again on the 20th and still no new option. So I emailed him again asking if the launch date was postponed and have had no reply, this is about 10 days ago. I give up.
APlan and Hiscox and all the others I contacted informed me that they did not cover for the windows that were being worked on, I think that is important, to me it is anyway.
Aplan cover for the work you are undertaking(Damage to glass)I specifically asked this and it's part of my policy.
They are quite knowledgeable on window cleaning for PL and van insurance.They can even supply wfp courtesy vans with you van insurance now.


Laird Barron's two story collections The Imago Sequence and Occultation have made him my favourite horror author next to Lovecraft; However, I hesitated to read his first full-length novel, The Croning, for a while; I felt that in some of Barron's last few stories some of the recurring motives were wearing thin, and I wasn't quite sure if the mythology he has established could carry the weight of a whole novel.
The Croning put these fears at rest (while awakening a few older, darker ones); it is a brillant novel, perhaps Barron's best work to date, even though it is not as relentless as most of his short fiction. It has a much slower pace, but not in the sense that the narrative is stretched out – The Croning is a relatively short novel of about 250 pages –, but in the sense that it really is the story of a sinister truth unfolding over the course of more than 60 years. I think what Barron sets out here to reformulate a fundamental concept of cosmic horror – the notion that the universe is alien to us, and that a true understanding of its alienness can only come at the expense of our humanity – on a very personal level. Lovecraft with his technique of suggesting the unspeakable by a sort of frenetic loquaciousness couldn't do that.
The Croning's narrative about the not quite normal, but basically good life of it's protagonist Don Miller, which is peppered with events that hint at abject terror that he either forgots or dismisses – until, in the very end, they coalesce to a fearful picture that undermines everything he ever believed and trusted in. The main storyline concerns octogenarian Don and his wife Michelle, happily married, who live in a house that has belonged to Michelle's family for generations and in which Don has never felt quite at home. Several flashbacks show both of them in their younger, wilder years and suggest that secrecy and violence have played a bigger role in their life than the older Don remembers.
The passage manages not only to suggest the danger of sickness and death that are implicit in something that can happen to any of us on the street, namely being bitten by a dog; it also implies that this mortal assault is an exemplification of the hostility of the world around Don, and even in a way part of a ritual.
Due to the hallucinatory character of such moments, it is easy for Don to dismiss the revelation of a hostile universe implicit in them. And while we as readers can easily identify with this dismissal, we also know that we are reading a horror novel and that such moments are in fact relevations of the true nature of the book's reality.
The Croning hops from one of these moments to the next and thereby paints a picture of the dark, repressed underside of Don's life. It skirts the border between the conscious and the unconscious, never quite revealing what is really going on down there in the regions of his life he cannot access. However, a Lovecraftian inversion of psychoanalysis is at work here, for the unconscious is not the internal realm of the protagonist, but the external, objective truth of the universe he is living in. The darkness is outside of Don, while the idea that it is only inside, that it is just an expression of his childish fears (he suffers from an irrational fear of the dark, for example) is the soothing lie he tells himself.
The Croning is also a story about childhood; even as an octogenarian, Don seems very much like a child who is protected, but also dominated by his wife Michelle, who clearly knows more about the dark secrets of his past he can't quite access. His awakening to the dark truth behind the strange occurances throughout his life is also a kind of awakening to the realm of harsh reality. In his mid-eighties, Don is still a child who finally has to learn that one day, he will die; That one day, everyone has to die. It is "the beautiful thing that awaits us all", because death in The Croning is also highly sexualized (the imagery of Don's revelation in the end is basically that of a perverse returning to the womb – a ziggurat with a vaginal abyss that swallos a degenerated humankind). Don is offered a chance to cheat death, but only at the price of sacrificing his "inner child" – which, in the inverted psychoanalytic logic of the novel, is of course an external child. One way of the other, accepting the truth of death means that, in a way, you have already died; your only choice is to cynically embrace this truth or to impotently deny it (there is no option to come to terms with death peacefully in The Croning, for it is, after all, a horror novel).
Finally, The Croning might also be called a misgynist novel, as its horror relies heavily not only on vaginal imagery, but also on the archetype of the witch and on the notion of female sexual power. This is obviously a very conscious decision by the author, and I'm not sure if I would level this as a critque against the book; in the end, the motive of a male protagonist living in a world that is dominated by a dark power conceptualised as female, who not only threatens to obliterate the protagonist but also deeply and sincerely loves him (albeit in a quite horrific way) is just so damn effective. After all, most horror fiction is dependant on gendered archetypes, and The Croning at least knows what it does by employing them to their best effect.
In the revealing dialogue towards the end of the book, Barron admits a certain triteness within the concept of cosmic horror, an inherent inability to live up to its promise; it shows how well he knows what he does, and maybe he knows it a little too well, because without this confession, the immediate effect of the novel might have been even more powerful. However, it is also an invitation to re-think the concepts of cosmic horror. I think this thorough re-thinking is what Barron has been doing since The Imago Sequence.


I have had an interesting few days this week in the hospital. Early on in the week I was asked to help interpret for a patient in resus who was having a suspected heart attack, he spoke English and very little French. He was completely drenched in sweat, panicking, tearful and crying "this is the end". I was terrified and I genuinely thought he was going to die squeezing my hand. He described a crushing central chest pain, radiating to his left arm and jaw and gave a history of having previous heart attack, angina and stents. He was quite resistant and kept wanting to leave, and once he was more stable after some GTN and morphine the cardiologist arrived. I was in resus with the patient and a nurse for about 5-10 minutes before she arrived, and he displayed some odd behaviours. Every few minutes he would look terrified at a fixed point in the room and need reminding where he was, I think he was hallucinating. Bizarrely, all investigations came back as normal, so the cause was thought to be psychiatric.
Another patient I have seen this week and will always remember, was assumed to be victim of domestic violence. She had fractured her mandible. She gave a very tenuous history of falling over and denying any history of trauma or violence, she was incredibly timid and the doctor and I who saw her had the worst gut feeling. ENT confirmed that a boxer would've been unlucky to sustain such an injury. Once her partner arrived there was a strange situation where everyone must've known that everyone else knew, but no one could say anything to anyone else (on our part due to confidentiality). She was admitted to surgical ward that day for fixation of the fracture the next day, and hopefully the team she would be looked after by were able to provide her further support.
The third interesting case this week was of a young man in his 20s presenting agitated and aggressive after some kind of collapse and then a following seizure at work with no previous history of epilepsy, but possible drug use. He came into resus and had some sedation to allow a thorough examination. His heart rate was ~170 (I can't remember what his blood pressure was doing at this point!) An intracranial hemorrhage needed to be ruled out, so he had to go upstairs to the radiology department for a CT. However, whilst waiting at the lift he started to desaturate and had a respiratory arrest so we headed swiftly back to resus where he was intubated before going upstairs. Another thought was seizure secondary to cocaine or another narcotic, as his heart rate was elevated, not falling. (Cushing triad of raised intracranial pressure: increased systolic blood pressure, decreased heart rate and irregular respiration). Fortunately the CT scan was completely normal, but the toxin screen and other investigations were normal too. He stabilised in resus on return from CT and was able to be extubated, however he remained drowsy and incoherent (GCS 10-11). He was transferred to ITU (réanimation) and I'm not sure what the outcome was but am interested to find out next week.
On a slightly more cheerful note I think I'm getting better with the French, I've been relentlessly mocked by a few people for using "vous" instead of "tu/te" as just out of habit I always say "s'il vous plait", rather than "s'il te plait". I just don't think I quite understand or appreciate the difference between the two as there isn't really anything to compare it to in English but I think I'm getting better. I've started managing to see patients by myself and bulldoze my way through some kind of history and examination and hopefully I'm starting to be a bit more useful rather than a hindrance. I have had some funny encounters with a couple of patients with such strong Marseille accents that I've just had to apologise and ask one of the interns to see them.


Around Paintrock Lodge in the summer you can see a wide variety of wildlife along with spectacular scenery. Flowers, mountain streams, snow capped mountains and bright green parks provide a backdrop that is next to none for those who are interested in photography or just watching wildlife in their natural setting. Or just stare out the window of our lodge in the morning with a cup of coffee and watch moose, deer, and elk roam by.
Take a day-long horseback ride or a hike along a mountain stream trail and see why we love the Big Horn Mountains so much. Elk, moose, deer, antelope, coyotes, pikas, bald and golden eagles, sage grouse, and many many more make the Big Horn Mountains home.
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At first glance, there's no delete key on the Chromebook. There's a search key. But, there's no delete key. So, how to delete on Chromebook?
There is a set key combination to delete stuff. Don't know the key combination? Here's what to do.
So, all you have to do is, hold the 'Alt' key and press the Backspace button. Likewise, you may use Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to delete words instead of a single letter.
For more information, you can read how to remap keyboard buttons on the Chromebook. For example, you can remap the 'Search' key on Chromebooks to the 'Caps Lock' key.


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Former Crypto Lawyer and ICO Advisor Julian Zegelman: Investing in ICOs Is a Risk on Dynamite
A talk with a venture capitalist about advising ICO projects, giving up his legal career and high-risk ratios.
Former crypto lawyer and ICO advisor Julian Zegelman on why he compares ICO investing to "a relationship with a bipolar person"
Julian Zegelman, a lawyer with many years of experience, has turned into a VC — he's now a general partner at TMT Blockchain Fund, a venture capital fund investing in blockchain technology projects.
But why did he end his legal career?
Catherine Ross: I was going to ask you a bunch of legal questions, but you've mentioned that you're not a lawyer anymore. How did that happen?
Julian Zegelman: It's like being a recovering alcoholic, you know? When you've been drinking for a long time, people remember that you used to drink. Personally, I don't drink [Eds: this is just a colorful metaphor]. But you go to the meetings and everyone there says, "Oh, you were an alcoholic." And I'm not an alcoholic anymore. Leave me alone. I like skiing now.
I used to be a lawyer for a very long time; but in parallel, I was always drawn to business and I was always drawn to the creativity of business, which to me was creating new opportunities. And so, parallel to being a lawyer, I was an entrepreneur. I co-founded four companies: Two of them got acquired, two of them failed. I learned a lot from the failures.
CR: But did you work with the legal side of the crypto/blockchain industry?
JZ: Yes, a lot. Absolutely. That's how I first got into it.
CR: Great! And my question is, how does a lawyer become a crypto lawyer? Are there any courses or training?
JZ: I think [it involves] meditating to Satoshi's image.
CR: So, it means I might become one as well!
JZ: Absolutely. But seriously, you touched upon an excellent point. I think being a blockchain lawyer is about the question of what blockchain is — it is securities law, privacy law, contracts, or enforcement.
CR: But since blockchain is a technology, can it be regulated as any other technology is?
JZ: I think you need to have a general understanding of technology and the law for technology, and the ability to learn and adapt quickly. And then, you need to have an underlying, solid foundation in an area of law that is imposed — that's impacted by blockchain. I know criminal lawyers who are blockchain lawyers. They help people when, for example, there is a criminal matter and cryptocurrency is involved.
I know litigators who are blockchain litigators because they've done enough cases to understand some unique aspects. A lot of securities lawyers make great blockchain lawyers because now, more and more tokens are regulated as securities.
CT: And what does a regular VC company do in the crypto space? Do they only focus on crypto projects?
JZ: I like the word 'blockchain.' And you bring the wonderful distinction, because I like to break the distinction between three separate, but related things, which are blockchain as a technology; tokenization and token economics as a socioeconomic phenomena; and cryptocurrencies — which everybody is excited about. [But] I haven't even looked [at the Bitcoin price]. I don't know what it is today. It could be $30,000 per Bitcoin, for all I care.
The interview has been edited and condensed. To watch a full interview, go here:
CR: Does that mean you focus on blockchain projects? Would that be correct?
JZ: In real-life language, we invest in companies that happen to use blockchain to solve real-life problems. In other words, they've got customers, and customers pay them money — or will pay them money in the foreseeable future — and we bet on the fact that somebody will buy their product.
CR: So, how do you decide in which companies to invest? How do you do your due diligence?
JZ: I'm going to be very contrarian, and very boring, and entirely non-sexy right now. The way we look at it is in a very traditional, boring way.
All flash to Lamborghinis, big conferences, people saying they're going to wipe out the banking system, the government, everybody is going to load into a rocket and Elon Musk is going to take everybody to the moon in exchange for tokens — it's got great entertainment potential, but we don't invest there.
I talk to a lot of leading blockchain research groups — at Stanford, MIT, CalTech, Oxford, etc. — I [also] talk to people who are leaving large corporations or leaving the blockchain teams at large corporations to launch something else.
I look at serial entrepreneurs, I look at coders, we [at TMT Blockchain Fund] go to a lot of hackathons. We look in places where there are people who are going to build real technology. And then, we dig deeper and we look at the real technologies that could solve actual problems. And then, we dig even deeper and we think, "How do you build a sexy product or service out of this combination of a real technology that gives a solution to a real-life need?"
CR: And all them use ICOs, as a way of fundraising?
JZ: Most of the time, they don't. And I want to preface this with the fact that we have invested in ICOs and we probably will continue to invest in ICOs. And also, we've invested in what we call 'special situations,' which is, especially early in 2017, when we looked at opportunities that we believed had very good short-term profit potential, but we did not necessarily want to stay there in the long run.
CR: Traditional VC firms have been very considerate about the industry. Do you think we'll see bigger interest from them in the future?
JZ: That market is changing.
As VCs, we didn't want to get into that because, a) that's insane, and b) the risk profile: The legislation wasn't there, the understanding of what will happen afterward wasn't there.
CR: Okay, got it — it's a gray area and VCs don't like gray areas.
JZ: Extremely, yeah. It was extremely gray. Yeah, VCs don't like gray areas because think about it as you're starting a new relationship and your partner is bipolar — and I mean, I don't mean to be mean to anybody who has a psychological condition, but I'm just trying to bring some lightness.
A new relationship is a gray area anyway. A new relationship with the bipolar person is like going into a space that has…
CR: A high-risk ratio?
JZ: High-risk ratio: That's what ICO investing is.
A startup is risky — any startup is. And then, you snap down to ICO and unregulated markets on top of that, that's like risk on dynamite.
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CR: I've looked through your social media platforms and I've noticed that you advise a lot of projects. Is that correct?
JZ: I used to.
CR: Past Tense?
JZ: Sometimes. I'm a firm believer that you learn by doing. And right now, I'm focused on advising a few select companies that are in our portfolio, in the fund's portfolio — and I'm doing additional advisory work — but the period from probably 2015 to 2017, I was advising quite a few companies.
CR: I was always interested in what exactly a crypto adviser does. What did you advise [on]?
JZ: I can talk about my experience, because I think there is a huge difference in what people are doing. [It all depends on the] expertise, the stage of the company and what's expected. I was always focusing on two core areas of expertise which I have. One is legal compliance and risk management, and the other one — corporate development: recruiting other advisers, recruiting early customers, [advising on] the strategy to get business partners, on how to make a project more sustainable and real early on.
That's what I used to do a lot as an entrepreneur — getting partnerships, early corporate investors — and when I advised the projects, that's the two areas I focused on.
CR: We've talked a lot about investing, but the question I usually ask everyone is — are you a crypto trader yourself?
JZ: I'm embarrassed to say, but I am.
CR: Embarrassed? Why that particular word?
JZ: Well, because I think I'm a very atypical representative of the [venture capital] industry, because I tend to be serious in investing but not in other things. And a lot of folks in VC feel that crypto trading is very volatile, very illogical and they stick to what they know. [But] I trade. I trade in a very careful manner, but I do.
And anytime anybody asks about trading — Bitcoin, futures, horses, whatever — I say, educate yourself, read a lot, form your own strategy. If you can, watch what others are doing. Have a diversified portfolio — the modern portfolio theory works. But most importantly, don't put all of your money in there.
Cointelegraph editorial team thanks Julian Zegelman and BlockShow for the interview.
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