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10 Superstars Who Were Discovered at SXSW
Alex Woolaver
First Published 8 Mar 2018
It's finally here! South by Southwest 2018 kicks off tomorrow and with it the hopes of 1,000+ artists are peaked. Who will be the next in a long line of acts discovered at SXSW to go onto big things?
I played a little roulette with the hip hop and electronic lineups to find some new music over the past couple weeks, but on the eve of the festival it's time to look back and honour those who've already taken Austin by storm and catapulted themselves into the public eye.
Here are ten huge acts who managed to segue hit SXSW sets into stardom.
Three albums in and Jack and Meg were still rocking out in relative obscurity. Fast-forward a year and their album White Blood Cells was re-released on a major label and they were the focal point of the grunge revival. No doubt this much buzzed-about set helped.
OK, so she might have already been turning heads back home in the UK, but SXSW has a strong tradition of introducing British stars to the rest of the world. Along with a 2006 showcase of Arctic Monkeys, Amy Winehouse is the prime example of this. After her showcase in Austin, the troubled singer soon found herself atop the charts on both sides of the pond.
After starting as a Christian rock singer and releasing an album under her given name, Katy Hudson, and then being dropped by not one but two major labels, a young Katy Perry turned a critically acclaimed SXSW set into a recording contract with Capitol Records. A year later she was one of the biggest pop stars in the world.
Things were already snowballing for Justin Vernon and co when they took the stage at SXSW 2008, their storied debut album For Emma, Forever Ago having been given a short release the previous summer. Releasing the album on famed indie label Jagjaguwar a month before the festival, this set only added to the storm brewing around the band.
The ever elusive rapper had already released his breakthrough single Day 'n' Nite, and was signed to Kanye West's GOOD Music label a few months before he took on Austin, but every artist narrative needs a coming out party, and that's what SXSW 2009 was for Cudi.
The electric lady hasn't always been an entrenched part of the music industry, even if her boss mentality and killer dance moves may make it seem that way. This smooth as silk performance came over a year before the release of her debut album, The ArchAndroid, and helped spread the word on the eccentric brilliance of Janelle Monáe.
Having released two albums already, the Canadian electro-pop voyageur rolled into Austin in the midst of a relentless touring schedule. Up on stage by herself, surrounded by synths and beat machines, Grimes put on a clinic, giving an insight into what was to come on her breakthrough record, Visions, which came out a year later.
As they always did, Odd Future didn't enter Austin peacefully. Riding high off an internet breaking performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, last year's Brockhampton (I kid, of course) came into SXSW 2011 as conquering heroes. Only getting bigger from here, the collective launched the careers of more than a few current industry staples.
All you need is one song to make it. For Foster The People, this was Pumped Up Kicks. I may not be the biggest fan, but I can admit this song is pretty catchy. That being said, I don't know if you could get away with lyrics about shooting your high school classmates these days, but I digress. The song was everywhere in 2011 and this showcase was big in that.
Over a year before everyone's favourite sister trio released their first official single, the band played a few off-the-beaten-track showcases at SXSW. The classic South by discovery tale, the group garnered a lot of attention from industry execs and music lovers alike, got a record deal and released a world-beating debut album the following year.
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by the Josh Benner Blog September 20, 20209:54 pm November 15, 2021
Sermon: Feast of burden – John 7:1-13
After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. 2 Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand. 3 So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. 4 For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world." 5 For not even his brothers believed in him.
6 Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. 8 You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come." 9 After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
10 But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. 11 The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?" 12 And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, "He is a good man," others said, "No, he is leading the people astray." 13 Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
Our heavenly Father,
We continue to see the extreme division in our nation.
It says in Your Word:
God reigns over the nations;
God sits on his holy throne.
9 The princes of the peoples gather
as the people of the God of Abraham.
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
he is highly exalted!
May we continually be mindful of that. Lord, you are on the throne, you are our hope.
Lord God, let us not be swayed by the whims of the world, but let us be grounded in the truth of who you are.
Lord, we ask that you bless our time in your Word. May we come to you and praise you.
In Jesus' name, amen.
We come to John chapter 7.
Several weeks ago when we started chapter 6, I had mentioned that chapters 6, 7, and 8 are a section of John where we see a lot of themes which take us back to the Exodus event and the Israelite wanderings.
We certainly saw that in the feeding of the multitudes as that harkened back to God's provision of manna for the Israelites during their wanderings.
That will continue in this chapter, especially as we consider the feasts which were instituted during the Exodus event.
We also saw it in the time of year as the beginning of chapter 6 told us it was Passover. Passover, the Jewish holy day which celebrated God's redeptive work of freeing the Israelties from slavery in Egypt. It would also be at a Passover when Jesus is crucified. In tht 6, John 6 was the beginning – give or take a few days – of the last year of Jesus' life.
Chapter 5 had also been at a feast, although John doesn't specify which feast it was.
Chapter 7 will begin at yet another feast, the Feast of Booths.
And that's definitely something that John likes to do in this gospel is tie events in Jesus' life and ministry to their correspondence to the Jewish holy days.
And in that, we see that Jesus is the greater fulfillment of the Jewish feasts and what they ultimately point to.
So it's the time of year of the Jewish Feast of Booths, and Jesus' attendance at the feast will come into question and we'll look at this morning's passage in three scenes.
A conflict
Verse 1: After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
John begins this passage "after this" and he's referring to Jesus' Bread of Life discourse. We had concluded that chapter in looking at the way people responded to Jesus. Some walked away and others followed him.
John says "after this Jesus went about in Galilee."
It's actually been about six months since the last event which John recorded. We know that because the last chapter was at the time of Passover, in the spring; as verse 2 will tell us, this is the Feast of Booths, which is in the fall. The math is pretty simple.
Jesus was in Galilee and John adds that he would not go about in the region of Judea because the Jewish leaders were seeking to kill him.
That's not the first time we've seen opposition in John's Gospel, but it really begins to pick up starting in this seventh chapter.
By no means a light hearted disagreement, but bloody opposition as there were people who wanted to see Jesus dead.
Verse 2: Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand.
We've already noted that. The timing of the Feast of Booths, when Jesus should go, and when he did go are all important elements in this passage.
Verse 3: So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. 4 For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."
We see Jesus' brothers who were originally introduced in John's Gospel at the Wedding Feast at Cana in chapter 2.
They suggest Jesus go to Judea and they point out that "no one works in secret but seeks to be known openly." Their point seems to be that "if you want people to believe in you, you've got to be seen! You've gotta market yourself." Cinderella had better go to the ball.
It's interesting.
Jesus' brothers give him advice.
I think of the areas where we like to have opinions when we're not truly teh experts on the topic. Play calls in football, military strategies, foreign policy decisions. We have opinions on what doctors should or shouldn't do.
I'm not judging that. I have opinions on things too.
But we aren't experts in every domain of life. A lot of our information comes from people who actually are experts.
But here we have Jesus' brothers telling him that he should go to Judea so that his works can be seen.
They're telling God what he should do!
The all-knowing, all wise, righteous Lord needs advice from his younger brothers.
It's not all that different from how the world often treats God, his word. We make our own moral judgements about God's wisdom when we sin.
I think of God's providence but we so often rebel and grumble against that. I understand the value of lament of the hurt that our sin and the sin in the world causes.
But it can also be tempting to look at situations and to forget that God is all-knowing, all-good and that he is working ll things together for good (Romans 8:28). And in that, we can judge God's providence and perfect will.
We can do the same thing for things that God allows to happen in nature or in the world where we judge God for allowing it to happen.
The world likes to judge God for being a righteous judge. The world likes to judge God for punishing sin. The world likes to try to dictate to God what love is, what justice is, what goodness is.
For commands in scripture with which we disagree, we like to find reasons why they don't apply.
On and on.
Isaiah 45:9 says: Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'?
The point of that verse is that fallen humanity is the clay who complains against the potter who made us.
In our pride and sinfulness, humanity – in our heart of hearts – likes to think we know better than God.
There's irony that Jesus' brothers suggest to him what he should do.
Now, there's debate among scholars as to why they gave him this advice.
Are they just being supportive brothers giving advice?
That's possible.
Although it should be noted that verse 5 says his brothers didn't believe in him.
That is to say that they did not believe in his Lordship.
Jesus' brothers have a lifetime of seeing his righteousness, they've seen his signs. But they don't believe in who he is.
Richard Phillips says in his commentary "if anything can prove the depravity of the human heart, it is this."
Sometimes people say that they don't believe in God because they don't feel like they have enough evidence.
In the Bible, you see people interacting with Jesus, seeing his ministry and miracles. Who don't believe.
In the Old Testament, Abraham had personally been given the promise of God for land and offspring. But we still see him struggle with doubts at time. We see him respond with laughter at the idea that him and Sarah could have a child in their old age.
You see the Israelites miraculously freed from slavery. The parting of the Red Sea. But then they quickly turn to idolatry. They had decades of God providing for them and sustaining them in their wanderings, and yet they fell into grumbling.
It's easy to think that if we had a little more of the picture, a little more of a sense of God, then everything in our life of faith would suddenly be so easy.
That would not change that we're still sinful people.
Jesus' brothers had been in his presence for their entire lifetime and, at this point, they did not believe.
Think about the great Spiritual privilege that was!
I know we can feel a real sense of burden, a real sense of responsibility for people in our own families who are not believers.
We should care about that. We should pray for our families, pray for opportunities to share the gospel, to talk about faith. But we must remember that no matter who you are, how good you are, how faithful you are, it's beyond your control.
Jesus had a real life family who interacted with him and lived with him and yet they still struggled. And while we're on the subject of Jesus' brothers, there's another brief point that warrants mention.
Jesus had siblings.
The historical teaching of the Catholic Church is that Mary remained a virgin her entire life. That's not supported in the Bible, and is actually contradicted in the Bible. These are siblings. Some have argued that maybe they're other relatives, such as cousins.
Greek has a word for cousin. That's not what they use here.
Jesus had siblings. He had a family.
His siblings are referenced other places in the New Testament.
Matthew 13, his brothers are named.
Matthew 13:55-56: Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56 And are not all his sisters with us?
Jesus had a family.
And guess what?
One of the things that we see in the gospels is that Jesus had a sometimes complicated relationship with his family.
So if you think your family is dysfunctional…just remember that there were people who were related to Jesus and they did not really understand him or always get along with him.
That's not to say that Jesus ever sinned. He didn't.
But we do see examples in the other gospels of familial strain.
Mark 3:20-21, Jesus is growing in popularity and crowds are following him. But we see a response of his family early in his ministry.
20 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. 21 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, "He is out of his mind."
As our passage explicitly tells us, Jesus' brothers did not believe.
At least some of his brothers eventually came to faith. Two books in the New Testament are written by brothers of Jesus: James and Jude.
But at this point in his ministry, when we're in the last six or so months of Jesus' life, they do not believe.
So we've seen the unsolicited advice of Jesus' brothers.
There's another comment that warrants mention by way of application. I think of how important it is to have a strong family. I think about when I was nearing the end of seminary. I was single and considering different ministry opportunities.
I knew I eventually wanted to be the teaching pastor of a church, but part of the reason why I didn't immediately go that route was because I thought it would be so much harder to do as a single person.
It's important to have the support of a family.
Jesus endured a lot during his ministry. In this passage, there are people plotting against him. There were people who wanted to use Jesus to suit their own ends. There were people in Jesus' inner circle who betrayed him. There were people who plotted against him.
And through all of that, aside from Mary, we don't see any support for Jesus from his own family.
There are so many ways how Jesus relates to us in his humanity. Family dysfunction is one of many.
Continuing in our passage.
Jesus responds to them.
II. We come to our second scene – divine will
Verses 6-8: Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. 8 You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come."
Jesus says "my time has not yet come."
I think the point is that his point of going to Jerusalem for the Feast of Booths has not yet come.
He is not on man's schedule or timeline.
Jesus' brothers suggest that Jesus capitalize on the autumn holidays and go to present himself in Jerusalem.
They tell him what they would have done, but they didn't see the world the way Jesus did.
There are several reasons why it's not the right time.
As the beginning of the chapter informed us, there were Jewish leaders who were seeking to kill Jesus.
But more importantly, Jesus is always sensitive to the divine will.
John 5:30, Jesus said:
I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
We see in the gospels that Jesus is led by God.
Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil
Richard Phillips' commentary points out that God had ordained a specific time for the birth of Christ.
Galatians 4:4:
when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law
God had ordained a specific time for the death of Christ.
John 17:1:
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,
And he had ordained the timing for the events in Jesus' life and ministry.
Again, Jesus' brothers wanted him to show himself, his signs, make a big display at this feast. That was not the divine will and that is why Jesus was saying the time had not come for him to go to the feast.
Because he was on God's timeline, not man's timeline.
Jesus tells his brothers in verse 6:
your time is always here.
Their time is always here because their focus and mission is still the things of the world, not the things of God. And so it doesn't matter when they go to Jerusalem.
But Jesus' time has not yet come because he is serving heavenly purposes.
Verse 7, Jesus specifically connects his brothers to the sinful world.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
The world doesn't hate Jesus' brothers because they're following the way of the world.
But Jesus came to bring light into a dark world and the world hates that.
John 3:19: this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
Jesus continues speaking.
Verse 8: You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come."
I find verse 8 to be the most interesting verse in this passage.
Jesus tells his brothers to go to the feast. That's straightforward enough.
But Jesus says that he will not be going up to "this feast."
It's interesting that it's translated "I am not going up to this feast" instead of "I am not going up to the feast."
The ESV, NASB, NIV, King James all say "this" and not "the."
If Jesus says "I am not going to the feast," it would seem that he's saying that he's not going to the Feast of Booths that's being celebrated.
But when he says "I'm not going to this feast," that seems to imply that he is going up to another feast.
The wording "going up" is also interesting.
Now from where Jesus was in Galilee, to go to Jerusalem, there actually is a change in elevation where you literally would be going up to Jerusalem. But as we see so many times in this gospel, I think Jesus' words have a double meaning.
Jesus uses the phrase about "going up," "lifted up," "ascending" in other places of this gospel. I think it refers to Jesus being lifted up on the cross and that when Jesus says that it's not the time for him to go up to this feast, he's looking forward to the future feast that he would go up to: the Passover the following spring when he would go to the cross.
And that brings us to our third scene in the passage.
III. The feast
Verse 9: After saying this, he remained in Galilee. But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.
Jesus goes to the feast.
Just two verses before, I thought Jesus had said he wasn't going.
He wasn't going on the timeline of his brothers.
He was on the divine timeline.
Jesus does not go to make a grand entrance at this feast, but he has quietly gone to attend. He's one among the many Israelites who have gone to Jerusalem to observe the holiday.
Jesus goes in private, but there were people on the lookout for him as the opposition to Jesus was increasing.
11 The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?" 12 And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, "He is a good man," others said, "No, he is leading the people astray." 13 Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
There's a buzz about Jesus. There are people at the feast who wanted to see him.
We see the differing opinions that some were favorable to Jesus while others feared he was leading people astray.
But just as Jesus had gone to the feast in private, we see that the response to Jesus is also largely in private, most likely for fear of the ruling authorities possibly retaliating against people who were sympathetic to Jesus' message and teachings.
So the passage ends with Jesus at the Feast of Booths. He's in private, but as the passage unfolds in the following weeks, we'll see Jesus more and more come to the forefront at this feast.
Feast of Booths
We talked a little bit about the Feast of Booths in the very beginning.
Providentially, it's pretty good timing in the year to come to this event in chapter 7 when the Israelites are celebrating the Feast of Booths. There are three Jewish holy days in the fall.
Rosh hashanah which is the New Year in Judaism. That actually falls this weekend.
A second holy day is Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement which is a one of the most sacred days in Jewish life which is represents atoning sacrifice and forgiveness.
That's next weekend.
And the third major Jewish Holy Day is the Feast of Booths, which is happening in our passage this morning. The Feast of Booths is how it gets translated in John.
I don't love that translation for "booths."
I hear "booth," I think of a restaurant boof.
More literally, it's the Feast of Tabernacles, sometimes called the Feast of Tents. It's also called the Feast of Ingathering. Those are all referring to the same thing. In Hebrew, the feast is called Sukkot.
Sukkot is an 8 day celebration. It is a joyous celebration that corresponds to the fall harvest and a time of thankfulness and it also calls attention back to the Israelite wanderings in the desert for 40 years.
The significance of sleeping in tents was that it was reminiscent of the Israelites sleeping in man made structures during their time of desert wanderings. The feast has a lot of resonance to the desert wanderings of Israel.
Sleeping in tents was also paying homage to Jewish farmers who sometimes had to sleep in these types of structures during their time of harvest.
And for eight days, Jewish people slept in these tents that they made.
Sukkot includes water and light ceremonies which will both become relevant in this chapter and we Jesus will explain how these elements ultimately point to him.
This year, Sukkot will fall from October 2-9. So again, we're at the same time of year as that holy day.
A day like yom kippur, the day of atonement, is meaningful, but it's not like a joyous celebration. It's a pretty somber event. It calls our sin to mind. It's like Good Friday.
But it was a meaningful, festive holiday. It also had agricultural ties as did many of the Jewish feasts.
Richard Phillips' commentary is again helpful in considering the feasts.
I mentioned some of the fall holy days.
But in the Israelite calendar, you also had three pilgrimage feasts where Jewish people in the first century would have traveled into Jerusalem from all over Israel.
The first was Passover.
Passover was in the spring.
Obviously it was Passover when Jesus was to give his life as a sacrifice.
Passover is remembering God's deliverance of Israel. It's symbolized by the sacrifice of lambs. Jesus is the perfect and spotless Passover lamb who was sacrificed to deliver and redeem people from their slavery to sin.
Passover points to salvation.
About seven weeks after Passover, you have the Feast of Weeks, also called Pentecost. That's the second of the pilgrimage festivals.
Passover coincided with the time of year when the Israelites left Egypt. Pentecost – 7 weeks later – coincided with the time of year when God gave the Law to Israel at Mount Sinai.
And certainly both of those days have resonance in Christianity.
Passover is the time of year when we celebrate Good Friday and Easter.
Pentecost Sunday commemorates God pouring out his Spirit on the early church.
And so we have this progression in the year between Passover to Pentecost to the Feast of Booths.
But there is also a progression that you have Easter, before the giving of the Spirit at Pentecost. And for the Isrealites, the Feast of Booths was a fall harvest celebration that also looked forward to a time of future hope in God's promises.
Feast of Booths was a time that looked forward. For the Israelites, they looked forward to the coming year. They looked forward to next year's planting.
Zechariah 14 pointed forward to a future time when he talked of people from the nations coming to Jerusalem together to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
Zechariah 14:16: everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
And so when Jesus' brothers want him to make a grand entrance at the Feast of Booths, the timing was not right. Feast of Booths was a celebration, but before that celebration would be appropriate, the Lord Jesus needed to endure the cross.
As Phillips says "they were advising him to put on a crown without first taking up his cross."
That is why Jesus could not go to the festival on his brothers' terms.
It was not the right time.
He goes up to the Feast of Booths. Again, I prefer Feast of Tabernacles.
As I've mentioned many times in our study of John, Jesus is the true tabernacle.
He's the place where we meet God in the world.
So one last time, consider the situation.
It's the Feast of Tabernacles and the true tabernacle is there. But he goes quietly, and largely unnoticed because sinful humanity wants to see him killed.
And just as the Feast of Tabernacles was a time when the Jewish people looked forward to a future hope, the true tabernacle, Jesus: the presence of God in the world went up to Jerusalem a final time for Passover where he would go up on the cross and give up his life so that the same sinful world who killed him could have redemption through his death and resurrection.
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The advantage of using the application cache is that ASP.NET manages the cache and removes items when they expire or become invalidated, or when memory runs low.

A: This is not a simple task. It sounds as if you are using the dictionary as cache in which case you should look into standard caching for asp.net.
That said you could choose different strategies. You could choose to set an upper bound on the number of elements you want in the dictionary. This is can be done by having a linked list with elements and letting the dictionary store the LinkedListElement<U>. When ever you retrieve something from the dictionary, you move the LinkedListElement<U> to the front of the linked list. This way you always have the newest elements on top of the list. When you insert elements, you add them to both the linked list and the dictionary, and test if the dictionary size limit is met. If it is, you remove elements from the bottom of the linked list and the dictionary.
Remember locking!

A: Since you are using a managed language you are limited in the way how you can manage your memory and the practices of manual memory freeing or forcing garbage collector do it are all deemed as suboptimal.
So, there is no direct way to say how many elements your generic dictionary is allowed to keep and how much memory you still can claim. In the same time deleting some old values from the dictionary will not automatically lead to immediate increase of available memory.
This said, you can keep monitoring the memory currently allocated to your application using GC.GetTotalMemory (as long as your object are fully manageable, e.g. contain no unmanaged code or data blocks) and compare it to the total system memory available to application.
Or, if you know the size of the objects you put into your Dictionary<>, you might be interested in using MemoryFailPoint class that will tell you if you can create a new object of the given size or not, so you won't bump into the OutOfMemory exception and have time to free some resources.
Finally, if you are using the dictionary as a cache, there are some built-in cache providers in ASP.NET, read from here. The cache will automatically drop objects that are obsolete or old in case of memory pressure.

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Garbage collection is one of the big changes I've seen in programming languages over my life. Go back 25 years, to 1992, and only academic languages, scripting languages and Lisp were garbage collected, and no one would think of writing a lot of the stuff in Python that's done now. So a bunch of stuff was written in C and in a primitive version of C++ that doesn't support the more sophisticated memory management of modern versions. Now virtually all new programs are GCed, using JVM or .NET languages, or Python/Perl/Ruby.
Why are C/C++ not garbage collected by your definition? A variable will go out of scope after a block ends, so unless that variable contains pointers, the memory will be freed, right?
In C++, a stack-allocated value goes out of scope when a block ends – but a dynamically allocated block of memory doesn't get released unless someone releases it.
If we only have stack-allocated values, then there's no need to have garbage collection at all. (And, in fact, there are languages like that. At one point,I worked on a programming language which only has stack-allocated values.) The catch, though, is that without dynamically allocated values, you're limiting what kinds of computations you can write. With no form of dynamic memory allocation, you can't be Turing complete – there will be computations that you cannot implement.
program, at the cost of doing a lot of work managing sharing and ownership.
Thank you, your comment clarifies the definition of garbage collection for me. None of the explanations I have heard talks about the difference between the stack and the heap. So whenever we talk about memory allocation we talk about the heap right?


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Q: troubleshooting splash page browser differentials I have built a splash page for my web application using rails 4.2.4 and decided to test how it renders across a plethora of different browsers.
As you can see from my attached screenshot, it renders perfectly in firefox, opera and chrome.
However in good old safari, the search bar placeholder looks like it has been dragged through a hedge backwards.
How can I best tackle this aesthetic differential in safari.
Is this administered through some sort of media query or advanced CSS component.?

_header.html.erb

    <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-ex1-collapse">
      Toggle navigation

    </button>

      <input type="text" class="searchTerm" placeholder="What type of Skincare product would you like?">
      <button type="submit" class="searchButton">

      </button>

<%= link_to "Home", root_path %>

<%= link_to "About", about_path %>

<%= link_to "Login", new_user_session_path %>

<%= link_to "Signup", new_user_registration_path %>

      <% if user_signed_in? %>

<%= link_to "Account Settings", edit_user_registration_path %>

<%= link_to "Log out", destroy_user_session_path, method: :delete %>

      <% else %>
    <% end %>

bootstrap_and_customization.css.scss

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,700);

$body-bg:                          #ecf0f1;
$font-family-sans-serif:           'Lato', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
$navbar-height:                    70px;
$navbar-default-bg:                white;
$navbar-default-brand-color:       #c0392b;
$brand-primary:                    #c0392b;
$jumbotron-bg:                     white;

@import 'bootstrap';
@import 'bootstrap-sprockets';

.center {
     text-align: center;
}

.navbar-brand {
     font-weight: bold;
}

.btn-lg {
    padding: 18px 28px;
    font-size: 22px;
    border-radius: 8px;
    }

.jumbotron {
    width: 735px;
    padding-left: 30px;
    padding-right: 15px;
    padding-bottom: 20px;
    padding-top: 20px;
}

.container .jumbotron {
    border-radius: 35px;
}

.container {
    width: 1270px;
}

.navbar {
    min-height: 90px;
}

.navbar-brand {
    float: left;
    padding: 10px 15px;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: normal;
}

.navbar-brand img {
  display: inline-block;
}

.navbar-brand span {
    display:inline-block;
    vertical-align : middle;
    height: 7px;
}

h1, {
  font-family: 'Lobster', cursive;
  color: #e22f8f;
}

.row {
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  padding: 3rem;
  background-color: #efefef;
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 18px;
  font-weight: normal;
}

li {
  display: inline-block;
  *display: inline;
  padding: 8px;
  color: #e22f8f;
  }

a {
    color: #a0616d;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding: 13px;
}

/*=========================
  search bar
 ================= */

 @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans);

 body{
   font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
 }

 .search {
   width: 100%;
   position: relative;
 }

 .searchTerm {
   float: left;
   width: 100%;
   border: 15px;
   background: #F2F2F2;
   padding: 5px;
   height: 40px;
   border-radius: 8px;
 }

 .searchTerm:focus{
   color: #000000;
 }

 .searchButton {
   position: absolute;
   right: -50px;
   width: 40px;
   height: 40px;
   background: #a0616d;
   text-align: center;
   color: #fff;
   border-radius: 5px;
   cursor: pointer;
   font-size: 20px;
 }

 /*Resize the wrap to see the search bar change!*/

 .wrap{
   width: 35%;
   position: absolute;
   top: 69%;
   left: 45%;
   transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
 }

 /*This code beneath puts the glow round the search placeholder!*/

textarea:focus, input:focus, input[type]:focus, .uneditable-input:focus {
    border-color: rgba(160, 97, 109, 0.8);
    box-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(160, 97, 109, 0.075) inset, 0 0 13px rgba(160, 97, 109, 0.6);
    outline: 0 none;
}


Back in March, I joined Seekerville's Speedbo. And I was more than pleased with my result. Over the moon in fact. I set a goal of writing 20 000. Bear in mind at this point, my WIP was sitting at 18 000 words, which I'd done over the course of several months. And yet I dared to dream that I could at least double that in the space of 31 days.
I did it. I really did it. And you know what really helped? The fact that I had set the goal, made it public and hence made myself accountable to someone other than myself.
So what's happened since March? A heck of a lot. Oh, you mean writing wise? Next to nothing.
April was insanely busy for me, and I had set that month aside to get on top of all these other things that needed attending to. Unfortunately, April's busy-ness spilled into May, to the point where it's only been the last few days that I've actually added to my word count.
I couldn't really help all the things that happened in April and May. But now that I've made it through, I'm ready to knuckle down in the writing department again. And I'm letting you know what I'm intending to achieve so you can cheer me on.
My current word count is at 42780. My goal is to reach 60k by the end of June. This works out at a bit over 500 words per day. That's doable. And I'm hoping some days I can hit 1000 to make up for those occasional 0 word days that I know are bound to happen (I do have 2 kids aged three and under).
I'm going to let you know my progress each week on Thursday's with Helen.


Two years ago I took part in the World Peace Summit: Climate Change — What To Do? in Wellington, at the Westpac St James Theatre. I blogged about it at the time (before and after), and promised to link to the video of my talk when it was available. Of course, I then completely forgot to check, and so when I stumbled upon myself on Youtube earlier today, I thought I'd finally keep my promise. Given that I was talking in 2008, I think my comments stand up quite well (I'm rather pleased with my remarks about warmer winters being snowier winters), though my technological optimism is now tempered by pessimism both about the state of the climate system and our ability to come up with policies to reduce emissions. If you follow the "more from" links on the Youtube page, you can also watch David Wratt, Pene Lefale, Rod Oram, Andrew West, and Rachel Brown's presentations.


Middle-aged public radio manager, occasional writer and stage performer. You can find me at the Washington H.S. pool many mornings at 5:30am.
Continue reading "Showing The Rifle"
Continue reading "I keep 'em a long time"
Continue reading "SF & Drugs & Rock 'n Roll Is All My Brain & Body Need"
Two hummingbirds are fighting for access to our feeder. They are so focused on keeping each other away from the nectar, that neither ever actually gets to eat.


The Skolen for Grafisk Desugn (SFGD) in Oslo is now called Westerdals Grafiske Design, where Christopher continues to teach. Christopher is also interested in typography, and at the time of compilation (2004) is creating a collection of essays on typography.
Studied under: Ann Camp, Gaynor Goffe, Gerald Fleuss, Tom Perkins, Jen Lindsay.
Elected to Fellowship in 1976.
Elected to Craft Membership in 1970.
Freda Hands, later Jones, was a working calligrapher who continued in her work until the age of 82 or 83. She produced work for HM Queen Elizabeth, HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury. She also wrote and decorated the Jamaican Declaration of Independence, one of the few pieces with her name attached to it.
Studied under: Gaynor Goffe, Ann Hechle, Sue Hufton, John Woodcock.
Elected to Fellowship in 1960.
Examples of her work can be seen in practically every SSI exhibition catalogue from 1960 onwards. A separate catalogue was published of her Lavender's Green explorations.
Studied under: Irene Wellington, Ann Camp, M. C. Oliver, William Gardner.
Elected to Craft Membership in 1925.
Studied under: Madelyn Walker, Graily Hewitt.
Elected to Craft Membership in 1923.
Died Newport, Isle of Wight, June 2008.
David was an artist as much as he was a calligrapher. As such, his training was broadly based and teachers included Ronald and Mrs Horton, Ann Gasston, Marguerite Johnson M.A., E. Morgan-Rendle, F C Herrick and Leslie Cole (with whom he studied lithography). Leicester College of Art subsequently became Leicester Polytechnic then De Montfort University. Here David taught BA Hons and MA Hons students as a Senior Lecturer from 1952 to 1984, when he was made to retire. He also taught at Brighton College of Art and Design, and was Visiting Lecturer to the Royal College of Art teaching calligraphy from 1976 to 1980. His students went into many fields: Tony Matthews became an illustrator, Cal Swann a book designer, Linda Grey a designer and Charles Dance an actor. He has made many teaching visits to the USA, Japan and Netherlands. He specialised in linking writing with drawing and watercolours. He has produced calligraphic works for Leicester City Council, the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, and (working as part of the team under Alfred Fairbank) the Memorial Book to the United States Air Force of WW2: this is in St Clement Dane's church in London. His work has been reproduced in books by other calligraphers: Calligraphy by David Harris: Lettering Techniques by John Lancaster: Calligraphy Today: Modern Scribes and Lettering Artists: Kalligrafie Alden Biesen 1988: Cultureel Strombeek 1990. He exhibited at the SSI exhibitions Art of the Scribe and Calligraphy 84. In 1997, he designed the sculpture "Tribute to RAF Halton, Apprenticeship Scheme which stands outside the "schools" at RAF Halton, near Wendover, Bucks. He died on 4th September 2012, still an active calligrapher.
Studied under: Many, see below, Alfred Fairbank.
Teaching at West Dean. A scribe working on the St John's Bible. Sue stood in as Acting Hon Sec for January-October 2013.
Studied under: Ann Camp, Tom Perkins, Gaynor Goffe, Gerald Fleuss.
Deputised as Hon Sec for Therese Fisher when the latter was ill. Member of the Royal Victoria Order.


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Profiles of Locals
Templeton Calendar
Templeton Chamber Members
Templeton School District shines under new Superintendent
Spectacular tomorrows
By Laura E Zolnoski
Templeton Superintendent of Schools Joe Koski celebrated his one-year anniversary with the district in February 2012. He came to the Central Coast from the Nuview School District, which is located in the San Diego area, where he had been for 24 years. Koski visited Templeton before applying and fell in love with the community and people. He says, "I have felt welcomed in Templeton. It is a great place to be."
Koski's vision for the Templeton Unified School District is to "build on success that Templeton has enjoyed, with a focus on core academics and a transition to 21st century technological needs." Koski places an emphasis on collaborative learning, where students demonstrate what they have learned through presentations and projects (in addition to finals and state testing).
"Templeton has committed and talented employees," he says, "and highly motivated community members. We have a strong track record of success, and these are our biggest strengths in the face of challenges that the state budget system has presented."
The Templeton School District, along with all other California public schools, are receiving the same amount of money from the state than they were in 2003 – yet they are living with 2012 expenses. To put it in perspective, the price of a gallon of gas hit a "record high" in 2003 – that price was $1.72 per gallon. Despite this, school employees are "doing the best they can do be innovative and provide well-rounded programs for our students."
Koski and the Board of Trustees have to make tough decisions about what is desired versus what is affordable, but they have managed to keep K-12 music and art programs, and the high school also has nineteen AP classes – more than most other districts, despite cuts. "We are finding ways to expand during this tough time – we are being more efficient, and using the dollars that we do have, wisely to create more attractive programs." State testing scores have remained high.
One of Koski's ultimate goals is for the Templeton District to become wireless. He would love to see students utilizing the technology available out of the classroom, such as iPads, Skype, and FaceTime, to enhance their learning experience. "We can use these programs to connect around the world, which would benefit everybody," he says. He also hopes to incorporate digital textbooks into the classroom in the future.
More immediate plans to expand lay within Templeton High School's Biotechnology and Endeavour programs. Koski explained, "We are developing a program called STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) in which students will be able to go through high school in a way that is similar to having a college 'major.' The certification from these programs will appear on their high school diploma."
Templeton High School is also working on a partnership program with Cuesta College. Students who participate in this will be able to take classes at Cuesta for "dual credits" – that is, credits that apply to their high school diploma as well as an AA. "If students take enough of these courses, they can have their AA by the time they graduate, or be well on their way. These programs will help put Templeton students ahead of the curve when it comes time to apply for college," Koski says.
"My goal is for everything to be better tomorrow than it was yesterday," says Koski, "and Templeton's yesterdays were pretty spectacular."


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Tronc chairman Michael Ferro resigns amid sexual harassment allegations
Imani Moise
Exec quits hours before report of alleged misconduct publishes
Tronc said Michael Ferro would continue to receive a $5 million-a-year consulting fee through 2020, which the company agreed to late last year.
Tronc Inc. announced Monday that its largest shareholder, Michael Ferro, is stepping down as nonexecutive chairman hours before the publication of an article alleging that he had made inappropriate sexual advances toward two female entrepreneurs.
In a news release issued early in the day, Tronc US:TRNC said the 51-year-old Ferro was retiring from the company's board after orchestrating the sale of Tronc's flagship newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, last month.
But after Fortune magazine published a story later in the day alleging inappropriate behavior by Ferro toward the women, Tronc sought to distance itself from him.
"Michael Ferro has had no claims filed against him while leading Tronc as chairman. Further, we are aware of no claims filed against Mr. Ferro throughout his career. As Mr. Ferro has retired after leading a financial turnaround of Tronc, we wish him well in his private life and will have no further comment," the company said in a statement.
Do you hate politics? Here's how you could profit from it using ETFs
The next housing crisis: A historic shortage of new homes.
Uber suspends driverless-car program after pedestrian is killed.
A panel of virus experts and Moderna's CEO Stephane Bancel gathered Monday in a virtual panel to discuss pandemic challenges and possible developments ahead for 2022.


Sky Vegas have just launched their brand new £1 Million Giveaway and it runs until December 18th 2014 so plenty of time to get involved!
There's no need to opt in, and your first £10 played through on ANY game will qualify you for a daily ticket for the draw.
Then, for every £10 you play through on eligible slots and instant win games or £50 on eligible table games will earn you further tickets.
There's no limit on the number of tickets that you can earn or the number of times you can win a daily prize.
Those daily prizes include: 1 x £5,000, 2 x £1,000, 5 x £500, 25 x £50, 500 x £10 and 1000 x £5 – that'a whopping 1,500 prizes being given out every single day!
There are over 350 different games that you can earn tickets on and, if you really love your slots, you can also get your hands on a Golden Ticket which gives you another chance to win big!
You will earn a Golden Ticket into the Sky Vegas weekly Golden Jackpot by accumulating 250 daily tickets. Don't miss out on 7 chances to win £25,000!
So there you have it – 1,500 daily opportunities to win cash at Sky Vegas.


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Apple Time Machine
Wednesday, December 29th, 2021 | Tech
Apple Time Machine is the built-in backup system for macOS. The problem is that it's not very good. Having used it for ten years, it consistently fails to verify its own backups. So, the idea that you have this rich history of incremental backups is often not true as it fails and has to start again.
It also takes up a ridiculous amount of disk space. Given that Apple only ship their Macs with 512 GB of SSD, taking up most of that to run a backup is not ideal.
Maybe it could use a different disk. But then it goes confused about how much storage is available. It thinks there is less than 100 GB available:
But I actually had 4 TB available:
I hope Apple sort all of this out at some stage.
All of the PBs
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 | Sport
Despite the tragic end to my running this month, 2021 has been kind to me. I've smashed all of my PBs and I don't think I could really ask for anything more.
1 mile: 5:38 at the Summer Mile. I've never done a one-mile race before so it was a guaranteed PB.
5k: 19:38 at Woodhouse Moor parkrun. With parkrun closed for so long it was bound to happen when it restarted, and it did in August before achieving the dream of a sub-2 in November.
10k: 41:41 at the Yorkshire Duathlon. Not sure how accurate they measure in multisport but I'm taking it.
10 mile: 1:10:31 at the Christmas Cracker. It was a trail run (on the towpath) so again, might not be 100% accurate. And I haven't run a 10-mile in four years so this was inevitable. But coming second was awesome.
Half marathon: 1:35:36 at Hubble Bubble. Another Grim Up North towpath run. I came third at this one.
Marathon: 3:55:33 at a self-supported replacement for the Sir Titus Trot. This was an accidental PB as I was chilling out and taking selfies early on (with the timer running) and only realised at 30k I was on a PB pace.
Sprint: 1:04:20 at Tadcaster Triathlon. What is a PB given the courses are so different? For example, Tadcaster uses a 14k bike course. But I did take the fastest run split for the club, so I was very happy with that. I also PBed on the Evolve sprint course.
Standard: 2:42:52 at World Triathlon Leeds. That swim is coming along nicely. I also PBed at the Evolve quarter course.
Middle: 5:46:47 at Outlaw X. Very pleased to get a sub-6. In fact, it had been so long since I Had run a half marathon (this was pre-Hubble Bubble) that I set a half marathon PB at the race as well.
Full: 12:50:05 at Outlaw. It's difficult to compare full distance courses but the closest is probably my first, the Yorkshireman, which I beat by 1:45:07.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021 | Family & Parenting, Life
Whatever version of the solstice you are celebrating, we're sending our love and wishing you a wonderful time. I hope you've found plenty of good stuff in 2021 and have an even better 2022.
We don't take a holiday photo every year, but we did take one in 2016, just after Venla had arrived. Safe to say she looks a little different!
Monday, December 20th, 2021 | Health & Wellbeing, Life
Last week I was leading a club run when due to some combination of poor foot placement, a bit of gravel coming down from a curb and maybe just some plain old bad luck, I decked it. I went over on the ankle and it hurt a lot. Thankfully, Lucy was running in my group and was able to lead everyone back to The Edge.
I booked an appointment with my GP to get it checked out but when I asked for a telephone appointment, explaining I couldn't walk, they said they were only doing face-to-face appointments (they're going to freak out when they hear about COVID) and so I had to go to the walk-in. The irony was lost on them.
Next, I tried the minor injury unit at Middleton. However, they don't allow you to drop in, you have to phone 111. Which I did. 111 booked me an appointment at the LGI A&E. I found this hilarious as pre-bookable emergencies was a Monster Raving Loony Party policy proposed in 2015. Although the LGI had some trouble finding the referral details, everything here was really good: almost no wait going through assessment, x-ray and minor injuries. They checked it out and referred me to the fracture clinic who phoned back the next day.
End result: it is fractured. It's called an avulsion fracture which is where the ligament rips off a tiny piece of bone. I have to wear a walker boot for 4 weeks, and no running until 8 weeks post-injury at least. Not what I wanted given I had just start my training for Race to the Castle. But it's happened so I just have to get on with life.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) course
Saturday, December 18th, 2021 | News
Traditional forms of psychotherapy involve talking a lot about problems and take a long time. This is expensive for the client and isn't much fun because you have to talk about your weakest points. Of course, it may be worth it if you make gains. But there is an alternative.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy says that by focusing on a client's existing strengths and using those to build solutions, change can be achieved in only a handful of sessions. In my new course, we'll explore all about SFBT: what it is, how it works and how to use it.
Preview the course on Udemy or watch the trailer below.
SEQ Level 1 Swimming Assistant
Monday, December 13th, 2021 | Life
I've been expanding my triathlon coaching knowledge by completing some of the individual discipline training programmes, including the Swim England Qualifications Level 1 teaching assistant.
Part of the practical was delivering swimming lessons as part of the Learn To Swim programme. Working with children is a very different experience from working with adults who, as triathletes or would-be triathletes, are typically strong swimmers. Definitely a fun challenge!
To Sell is Human
Sunday, December 12th, 2021 | Books, Business & Marketing
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others is a book by Dan Pink. In it, he argues that the old ABCs of sales (always be closing) have been replaced by a new, more authentic and honest approach to sales.
His case is essentially this: the old way of sales relied on information asymmetry. The salesperson knew more than the customer and could use that to their advantage. However, in the information age, the customer has often done a lot of research and in many cases knows more than the salesperson (such as competitor offerings) and therefore you cannot bullshit a customer anymore.
So, what do we do about it? Pink argues that we need to be empathetic towards our customers. Understand how we can help them and build a way to win together, rather than seeing sales as a zero-sum game where we have to get one over on the customer.
We should give them all in the information they need and not be afraid of doing so. He gives the example of CarMax, an American car superstore brand that provides computers for customers to research what their competitors are doing so they know that CarMax is offering the best deal.
Finally, be clear on what you are offering. Pink suggests an elevator pitch may be too long for the modern generation who are used to 140-character tweets. Pink suggests a number of successors to the elevator pitch including one-word pitches (when I say "search"…), questions and rhymes.
The Offspring at The Wardrobe
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 | Music
The Offspring are touring to support their new album Let The Bad Times Roll. They did two stops in Leeds, one to play a big gig at Leeds Arena and another to do a more intimate acoustic site at The Wardrobe.
Ironically, despite it being an album launch, I don't think they played any songs off their new album. It was all about the classics: The Kids Aren't Alright, Self-Esteem, Why Don't You Get A Job, Dirty Magic and a host of others. But perhaps the highlight was Noodles busting out Come Out And Play on the ukulele.
COVID compliance was good. The venue was checking COVID passports and face masks at the door, and most people kept their masks on if they weren't actively drinking.
Christmas Cracker 16k
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 | Sport
I've had an amazing triathlon season this year and so it was only fair that I had a difficult off-season. Not long after I recovered from my first cold I picked up a second one which was one of the worst I have had. It's a cold, so that's still not bad in the grand scheme of things, but still kept me from training for 10 days.
By the time the Grim Up North Christmas Cracker rolled around, I couldn't wait to get running again. But I was also concerned that after two weeks of not doing much I wouldn't perform too well. Sunday turned out to be surprisingly mild and I went leggings and a t-shirt for what I hoped to be a fast-paced affair. I managed a 10-minute warm-up and a breakfast of Red Bull and energy gel.
Nobody seemed keen to lead out so I set off from the front and led the race for the first 50 metres. Another athlete then came past me. Joel then overtook us both and I followed him through to take back second place. He accelerated away building about a 30-second lead over the first few kilometres and then the gap stabilised. I was running on the limit but decided to push hard to halfway and then ease up on the way back.
I was maybe closing the gap a little at the halfway point before Joel put the hammer down on the way back and re-opened the gap. I was running with a blister on my left foot but thankfully the pain in my chest was so overwhelming that my foot pain was very manageable in comparison. The gap established again and I crossed the line 30 seconds down and 3 minutes ahead of third place.
I was hoping to average somewhere between 4:20 and 4:22 per kilometre and I came in at 4:21. This was my first ever second place, besting the third place I picked up at the Hubble Bubble half marathon a month ago.
Since COVID, Grim Up North have been splitting the events over two separate races, one on the Saturday and one on the Sunday. If I had run on the Saturday, I would have been three minutes clear of the field and the winner from Saturday would have not made the podium in our race. But that's the luck of the draw. All we can do is our best and know that the more times we do that, the luckier we will get.
Post-race care was good as usual: they had a BBQ on for this event a well as the usual sweets and drinks.
Counselling L3 certificate
Monday, December 6th, 2021 | Life
It feels like years ago that I finished my level 3 in counselling but my certificate has finally turned up. To convince Leeds City College to send it to me, I had to post them enough stamps for them to send it out.
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import React from 'react';
import Spinner from '../components/Spinner';
import { reduxForm } from 'redux-form';
import { login } from '../actions/auth';
import {
  FormGroup,
  ControlLabel,
  FormControl,
  HelpBlock
} from 'react-bootstrap';
import {
  createValidator,
  required,
  email as emailValidationRule
} from '../utils/validation';

const submitLogin = (values, dispatch) => {
  return dispatch(login(values));
};

class LoginForm extends React.Component {

  render() {
    const { userName } = this.props;

    return (

        {
          userName &&

Bentornato {userName}! Grazie per esserti registrato in Qando!

        }
        {this.renderForm()}

    );
  }

  renderErrors() {
    const { authError, authLoading } = this.props;

    // TODO: Improve error handling divide by 400 Bad login and other errors...
    if (authError && !authLoading) {
      return (

            Invalid credentials.

      );
    }
  }

  renderForm() {
    const {
      fields: { email, password },
      handleSubmit,
      authLoading
    } = this.props

    return (
      <form onSubmit={handleSubmit(submitLogin)} noValidate>

        <FormGroup
          controlId="formControlsEmail"
          validationState={(email.touched && email.error) ? 'error' : null}
        >
          <ControlLabel>Email</ControlLabel>
          <FormControl
            type="email"
            placeholder="Email"
            disabled={authLoading}
            {...email}
          />
          {email.touched && email.error && <HelpBlock>{email.error}</HelpBlock>}
        </FormGroup>

        <FormGroup
          controlId="formControlsPassword"
          validationState={(password.touched && password.error) ? 'error' : null}
        >
          <ControlLabel>Password</ControlLabel>
          <FormControl
            type="password"
            placeholder="Password"
            disabled={authLoading}
            {...password}
          />
          {password.touched && password.error && <HelpBlock>{password.error}</HelpBlock>}
        </FormGroup>

        {(() => {
          if (authLoading) {
            return <Spinner />;
          }

          return <button className="btn btn-primary">Login</button>;
        })()}
        {this.renderErrors()}
      </form>
    );
  }
}

function mapStateToProps(state) {
  return {
    authLoading: state.auth.loading,
    authError: state.auth.error,
    userName: state.auth.name, // Came from registration link
    initialValues: {
      email: state.auth.email || '',
    },
  };
}

export default reduxForm({
  form: 'login',
  fields: ['email', 'password'],
  validate: createValidator({
    email: [required, emailValidationRule],
    password: [required],
  })
}, mapStateToProps)(LoginForm);

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