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package com.hazelcast.config;

import com.hazelcast.instance.EndpointQualifier;
import com.hazelcast.instance.ProtocolType;
import com.hazelcast.spi.properties.ClusterProperty;
import com.hazelcast.test.HazelcastParallelClassRunner;
import com.hazelcast.test.HazelcastTestSupport;
import com.hazelcast.test.annotation.ParallelJVMTest;
import com.hazelcast.test.annotation.QuickTest;
import com.hazelcast.test.starter.ReflectionUtils;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import java.util.IdentityHashMap;

import static com.hazelcast.instance.EndpointQualifier.CLIENT;
import static com.hazelcast.instance.EndpointQualifier.MEMBER;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

@RunWith(HazelcastParallelClassRunner.class)
@Category({QuickTest.class, ParallelJVMTest.class})
public class AdvancedNetworkConfigTest extends HazelcastTestSupport {

    @Rule
    public ExpectedException expected = ExpectedException.none();

    @Test
    public void testDefault() {
        AdvancedNetworkConfig config = new AdvancedNetworkConfig();
        ServerSocketEndpointConfig defaultEndpointConfig = (ServerSocketEndpointConfig) config.getEndpointConfigs().get(MEMBER);

        assertNotNull(defaultEndpointConfig);
        assertEquals(ProtocolType.MEMBER, defaultEndpointConfig.getProtocolType());
        assertEquals(ServerSocketEndpointConfig.DEFAULT_PORT, defaultEndpointConfig.getPort());
        assertEquals(ServerSocketEndpointConfig.PORT_AUTO_INCREMENT, defaultEndpointConfig.getPortCount());
        assertTrue(defaultEndpointConfig.isPortAutoIncrement());
        assertEquals(Integer.parseInt(ClusterProperty.SOCKET_RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE.getDefaultValue()),
                defaultEndpointConfig.getSocketRcvBufferSizeKb());
        assertEquals(Integer.parseInt(ClusterProperty.SOCKET_SEND_BUFFER_SIZE.getDefaultValue()),
                defaultEndpointConfig.getSocketSendBufferSizeKb());
    }

    @Test
    public void testFailFast_whenWanPublisherRequiresUndefinedEndpointConfig() {
        Config config = new Config();
        config.getAdvancedNetworkConfig().setEnabled(true);
        config.addWanReplicationConfig(
                new WanReplicationConfig()
                        .setName("seattle-tokyo")
                        .addBatchReplicationPublisherConfig(
                                new WanBatchPublisherConfig()
                                        .setClusterName("target-cluster")
                                        .setEndpoint("does-not-exist")));

        expected.expect(InvalidConfigurationException.class);
        createHazelcastInstance(config);
    }

    @Test
    public void testFailFast_whenNoMemberServerSocketDefined() {
        Config config = new Config();
        config.getAdvancedNetworkConfig()
              .setEnabled(true)
              .getEndpointConfigs().remove(MEMBER);

        expected.expect(InvalidConfigurationException.class);
        createHazelcastInstance(config);
    }

    @Test
    public void test_setMemberServerSocketConfig_replacesPreviousConfig() {
        AdvancedNetworkConfig config = new AdvancedNetworkConfig();
        config.setMemberEndpointConfig(
                new ServerSocketEndpointConfig().setProtocolType(ProtocolType.MEMBER)
                                                .setPort(19999)
        );
        config.setMemberEndpointConfig(
                new ServerSocketEndpointConfig().setProtocolType(ProtocolType.MEMBER)
                                                .setPort(11000)
        );

        assertEquals(11000, ((ServerSocketEndpointConfig) config.getEndpointConfigs().get(MEMBER)).getPort());
    }

    @Test
    public void test_setClientServerSocketConfig_replacesPreviousConfig() {
        AdvancedNetworkConfig config = new AdvancedNetworkConfig();
        config.setClientEndpointConfig(
                new ServerSocketEndpointConfig().setProtocolType(ProtocolType.CLIENT)
                                                .setPort(19999)
        );
        config.setClientEndpointConfig(
                new ServerSocketEndpointConfig().setProtocolType(ProtocolType.CLIENT)
                                                .setPort(11000)
        );

        assertEquals(11000, ((ServerSocketEndpointConfig) config.getEndpointConfigs().get(CLIENT)).getPort());
    }

    @Test
    public void test_setTextServerSocketConfig_replacesPreviousConfig() {
        AdvancedNetworkConfig config = new AdvancedNetworkConfig();
        config.setRestEndpointConfig(new RestServerEndpointConfig().setPort(19999));
        config.setRestEndpointConfig(new RestServerEndpointConfig().setPort(11000));

        assertEquals(11000, ((ServerSocketEndpointConfig) config.getEndpointConfigs()
                                                                .get(EndpointQualifier.REST)).getPort());
    }

    @Test
    public void test_setMemcacheEndpointConfig_replacesPreviousConfig() {
        AdvancedNetworkConfig config = new AdvancedNetworkConfig();
        config.setMemcacheEndpointConfig(new ServerSocketEndpointConfig().setPort(19999));
        config.setMemcacheEndpointConfig(new ServerSocketEndpointConfig().setPort(11000));

        assertEquals(11000, ((ServerSocketEndpointConfig) config.getEndpointConfigs()
                                                                .get(EndpointQualifier.MEMCACHE)).getPort());
    }

    @Test
    public void test_setEndpointConfigs_throwsException_whenServerSocketCardinalityBroken() throws Exception {
        IdentityHashMap<EndpointQualifier, EndpointConfig> offendingEndpointConfigs =
                new IdentityHashMap<EndpointQualifier, EndpointConfig>();
        EndpointQualifier one = createReflectively(ProtocolType.MEMBER, "1");
        EndpointQualifier two = createReflectively(ProtocolType.MEMBER, "2");
        offendingEndpointConfigs.put(one, new ServerSocketEndpointConfig());
        offendingEndpointConfigs.put(two, new ServerSocketEndpointConfig());

        AdvancedNetworkConfig config = new AdvancedNetworkConfig();
        expected.expect(InvalidConfigurationException.class);
        config.setEndpointConfigs(offendingEndpointConfigs);
    }

    // bypass EndpointQualifier checks
    private EndpointQualifier createReflectively(ProtocolType protocolType, String name) throws Exception {
        EndpointQualifier endpointQualifier = new EndpointQualifier();
        ReflectionUtils.setFieldValueReflectively(endpointQualifier, "type", protocolType);
        ReflectionUtils.setFieldValueReflectively(endpointQualifier, "identifier", name);
        return endpointQualifier;
    }
}

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Nasdaq Is Moving Into the Bond Market, And Bond Dealers Aren't One Bit Happy
Jacqueline Doherty
I s the National Association of Securities Dealers attempting a power play in the world of bonds?
That's what many Wall Streeters claim as they prepare to object in upcoming weeks to the SEC about the NASD's proposed corporate-bond trading system.
The SEC, which has railed against the lack of transparency in the corporate bond market, asked the NASD to suggest a solution. In NASD's proposal, dealers would report all corporate-bond trades to Nasdaq initially within one hour and eventually within 15 minutes. The information would then be distributed both to the public and to regulators, who could use it to track misdeeds more easily. If approved, the system could be running by next spring.
But large issues need addressing first, including a decision on how trading information will be handled. Collecting and distributing trading information can be lucrative. The stock exchanges make money from disseminating stock quotes and there's no reason why the same couldn't be done with bonds.
Currently, bond dealers own their trading data. Though the issue hasn't been hammered out yet, dealers assume the NASD will want them to fork over bond trading information without any compensation. Traders question why they should let someone else make money off of their valuable market data. The issue becomes even thornier if Nasdaq becomes a public company.
"I firmly believe the people who supply the information should own the information," says Vinny Murray, chairman of the Bond Market Association's transparency committee and a managing director at ABN AMRO.
"There is a commercial enterprise value to this data. Not to get paid for it is bogus," adds one corporate-bond trader.
And Heather Ruth, chief executive of the BMA, notes that Nasdaq has said it is serious about an initial public offering, and it makes us "question what their motives are."
How the data will be handled has not been decided, says Patrick Campbell, chief operating officer of Nasdaq. There will be a substantial cost to putting together a bond trading system and they need revenue to support it, he explains. The agency will listen to dealers' comments and to the results from an expected SEC concept release on the economic benefit and ownership of market data. "It's premature to discuss this," Campbell says.
Another concern: The NASD system will hurt corporate-bond market liquidity. Under the NASD system, trading could become less profitable and dealers may reduce their capital committed to the market.
"We can't say for sure there will be a liquidity problem, but there may be. So we should proceed with caution because these markets are not broken," says Ruth. Meanwhile, she adds, "The schedule for implementing [the NASD proposal] is, at best, highly aggressive and, at worst, impossible."
Campbell counters that similar concerns were raised when Nasdaq implemented real-time reporting in the early 1980s. A liquidity problem never resulted.
One alternative the BMA may suggest is making all corporate-bond trades go through the BMA's own trading information system, Corporate Trades I.
C orporate bonds have done well relative to other fixed-income sectors. The margin between yields on liquid investment-grade corporates and corresponding Treasuries has shrunk by at least 0.3 percentage points in recent weeks. But because Treasury yields have backed up during this time, especially on short-term bonds, a buying opportunity may still exist.
On September 30, the two-year Treasury note yielded 5.60% and the five-year note yielded 5.76%. On Friday, those notes yielded 5.98% and 6.05%, respectively. Meanwhile, the yield curve remains extremely flat, so investors don't get much benefit from buying longer-term bonds. The 10-year Treasury yields 6.11% and the 30-year bond yields 6.23%.
"You're not going to get the incremental income by buying bonds with longer maturities, but you will take on more interest-rate risk," says William Cunningham, a senior corporate bond strategist at Merrill Lynch. Not a good thing, given the Federal Reserve may well raise rates again, he adds.
But you do gain income by accepting some credit risk. Among Cunningham's picks of short-term investment-grade corporates: CIT Group Holdings 7 1/8 % notes, due in 2004; they're rated single-A1/single-A-plus and yield 7%. ConAgra's 5 1/2 % debt, due in 2002; rated Baa1/triple-Bplus, also yields 7%. WorldCom has 7.55% debt, due in 2004, which yields 6.9% and sports a single-A3/single-A-minus rating. And finally, Cunningham likes Cox Communications 7% bonds due in 2001, yielding 6.93%. They're rated Baa2/triple-Bplus.

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Ranging in color from gold to copper, the English Bitter is brewed with pale malt and more hops than the Pale Ale, giving it a light body and moderate to assertive hop flavor and bitterness. Hops can be floral to herbal, along with a fruityness in the aroma. Generally low ABV.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 11:06
DPRK-US summit ignites hopes for nuclear-free Korean peninsula
Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 11:06 By Xinhua
US President Donald Trump (right) meets with DPRK leader Kim Jong-un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island, June 12, 2018, in Singapore. (EVAN VUCCI / AP)
SINGAPORE - A landmark summit between leaders of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States started on Tuesday morning, igniting hopes for a political solution to the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue and lasting peace in the region.
No one, however, would expect the half-day summit to be able to iron out all differences and remove deep-seated mistrust between the two long-time foes.
READ MORE: Trump, Kim launch historic Singapore summit with a handshake
To ensure that the positive momentum begets desirable outcomes, it is imperative for all stakeholders to continue working toward a common objective.
The road toward the goal of a nuclear-free peninsula and realizing regional peace and prosperity is bound to be a bumpy one that requires patience and wisdom. The first step is always the hardest to take.
As Pyongyang and Washington, the two parties at the crux of the peninsula issue, have made bold decisions to hold a summit, it is important that talks keep going and that relevant parties contribute to the negotiating process.
The Singapore summit marks the first time in history that a sitting US president meet with the top leader of the DPRK. In that respect, the summit itself carries historical significance, and is expected to chart a course of denuclearization and herald a new chapter toward peace and prosperity on the peninsula.
US President Donald Trump and his delegates (right) sit down for talks with DPRK leader Kim Jong-un and his delegates at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island, June 12, 2018, in Singapore. (EVAN VUCCI / AP)
The DPRK has recently made several goodwill gestures that evinced its strong desire to achieve a denuclearized peninsula and to focus on economic development.
Pyongyang honored its promise in late May by dismantling the Punggye-ri underground nuclear test site, where it conducted all its past six nuclear tests. Reporters from China, Russia, the United States, South Korea and Britain were invited to witness the closure.
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Earlier in the same month, US President Donald Trump thanked DPRK leader Kim Jong-un for releasing three detained Americans and also expressed his wish to make the summit "a very special moment for world peace."
Disagreements will not disappear all at once but are by no means unbridgeable. The two countries should address each other's reasonable concerns, manage and reduce their differences, and take more actions to enhance dialogue and foster mutual trust.
In that process, China will continue to contribute its efforts and play a constructive role in pushing for a peaceful solution of the peninsula nuclear issue.
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A pressing issue to be addressed at the moment is to translate the current hard-earned detente into a long-lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula by properly accommodating concerns of all parties.
To that end, the "dual-track" approach advocated by China, which seeks denuclearization alongside establishing a peace regime on the peninsula, has proven to be a practical and reasonable solution.


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Q: Substracting fixed length from vector3 line (two vector3 points)? I make a line by dragging my mouse using the LineRenderer with an object at the end, but I need the line to stop slightly before the "end point" so it doesn't cover the "object" at the end.
I know I can get a point on the line using Lerp, and then use that point as the "new end position":
Vector3 newLineEndPoint = Vector3.Lerp(lineStartPoint, lineEndPoint, 0.9f);
lineRenderer.SetPosition(lineRenderer.positionCount - 1, newLineEndPoint);

But this uses a kind of "ratio", so the gap between the end of the line and my object is different depending on the length of the line.
How could I simply "substract" from the length of the line a fixed value, for example 1.5f, or even the size of my gameobject at the end of the line, and use that new Vector3 point as my "end position" for the line renderer?

A: This should do the trick:
float offset = 1.5f;
Vector3 line = lineEndPoint - lineStartPoint;
Vector3 shortenedLine = line - line.normalized * offset;
if(line.magnitue < offset){
    shortenedLine = Vector3.zero; // otherwise it will be inverted.
}
Vector3 shortenedEndPoint = lineStartPoint + shortenedLine;
lineRenderer.SetPosition(lineRenderer.positionCount - 1, shortenedEndPoint);

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Posted August 16th, 2016 by Anthony Carbone, PC.
If you have a commercial driver's license, you likely depend on it to put money in your pocket. The last thing you need to do is lose the privilege of maintaining a CDL. There are at least five simple things you should know about CDL violations. And, why it is important to have an experienced attorney represent you in court.
Commercial driver's license fall into four major categories. According to the State of New Jersey, the first requirement is to obtain a basic driver's license. This is the one that allows motorists to operate a car. From there, a class system from A-D is in place. Each category has its own set of regulations. CDL operators are the only ones qualified to drive tractor trailers, buses and other large size vehicles.
Driving while under the Influence (DUI) laws are even stricter for CDL license holders: According to state law, the first DUI conviction in a passenger vehicle can mean suspension of your basic driver's license for up to one year. In addition, your CDL could be suspended for one year. A second DUI conviction could mean losing your basic license for two years. Be aware. It will also result in permanently losing your commercial driver's license. Obviously, you'll need to consider a new career.
Having a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) Level above .04% while driving a Commercial Vehicle: To be considered DUI, an individual's BAC level must be measured in excess of .08%. Those driving commercial vehicles are held to a different standard. If your BAC level is more than .04%, you may lose your CDL license for one year. A second conviction means permanent revocation.
Leaving the Scene of an Accident: Someone who leaves the scene of an accident may lose their commercial driver's license for one year. For a second conviction, their CDL may be revoked for life.
Using a Commercial Vehicle to Crimes Involved with the Manufacture or Transport of Controlled Dangerous Substances: A first conviction would cause the CDL operator to permanently lose their license.
Causing a Fatal Accident through Negligent Action: A first time conviction would result in a one year license suspension. A second one would mean the commercial driver's license would be permanently revoked.
If you are accused of a motor vehicle offense and possess a commercial driver's license, it is crucial that you seek experienced legal advice. At the Law Offices of Anthony Carbone, we have represented many bus and truck drivers at risk of losing their CDL. Contact us to see how we can assist you.


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Talking to Typesafe About Scala, Akka, Play, and the Future of E-Commerce

    <time>16 July 2013</time>

Making the social media rounds today is Typesafe’s in-depth Q&A with members of the Gilt Tech team. Learn about the backend technologies we use, our motivations for migrating to the Typesafe platform, the potential role of Scala, Akka and Play in the evolution of ecommerce, and much more. A highlight:

Typesafe: How is the future of ecommerce evolving, and what role does Play, Akka and Scala have in addressing these shifts?

Gilt: The ecommerce business is extremely competitive on price, speed, and features. From a development point of view, maintaining velocity is important for keeping features flowing with minimum friction. Being able to reliably build the tooling we need to simplify our internal workflows is also important for the back office. Flash sales typically have incredible non-functional requirements. Our sale spikes tend to involve a two-orders-of-magnitude increase in traffic over the course of a few seconds – so much so, that we often refer to "requests per decisecond" instead of "requests per second" to drive home how quickly traffic can ramp up. The Typesafe Platform has scaled really well for us across our internal verticals, making it simple for us to build, for example, internal-facing workflows using the same tooling we use to build the highest-performance web pages.

By being early adopters of Play, we were able to move quickly and easily to a WebSocket architecture (via actor integration) that has led to a nice increase in conversion. We're still evaluating Akka, but as we gain more experience with it, we see it becoming an integral tool. Akka enables asynchronous front-ends and offers a faster, more responsive, progressive web experience than what we would have been able to achieve with similar effort on other platforms. The actor model helps to break down functional units in code and maintain focus on the workflow. It also reduces friction for concurrent programming by eliminating boilerplate code and the bugs that frequently come with it.

The Typesafe Platform enables us to move faster, build on what we have done, do less overall refactoring, and – we strongly believe – attract the best people.

Thanks to Typesafe for asking us such great questions!

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How to Set up Your Own Photo Booth Using Eye-Fi and Hazel

    <time>16 July 2013</time>

When my sister got married, I wanted to make sure that she had plenty of great photos of her wedding–so I set up a photo booth that captured images and instantly uploaded them to the Internet. Recently I described my setup at 5@4 (née 5@5–Gilt Tech’s ongoing presentation series, featuring five talks at 4 PM every other Friday) and invited Gilt Tech’s photogenic crew, plus our resident dinosaurs, to try it out.

Things got a bit out of hand (as things do, when Tyrannosaurs are involved):

New Internet meme: Dino-Boxing:

Interested in creating your own photo booth? Here’s what you’ll need:

A camera

A computer

Eye-Fi, a wireless photo uploading card, inserted into your camera

Hazel, to automatically organize the files. Download and install it (watch this video for extra help)

Photoshop

Flickr account

Automator

Then follow these steps:

Take your picture. Eye-Fi will automatically send the photo from your camera to your computer.

Use Hazel’s rule setup to watch the Eye-Fi folder and run the next step: adding a logo to your photos.

Run your photos through a Photoshop droplet to automatically add the logo to each photo.

Use another Hazel rule to run the Automator workflow, which will send each picture via email to Flickr.

Visit your Flickr account and admire your work.

Run that by me again, please?

This visual should help:

You can view more of our dinosaur modeling shoot here.

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Riak Passes the Stress Test

    <time>15 July 2013</time>

In late June a few of us in NYC joined our colleagues in Gilt’s Dublin office to test out Riak for our main user store. Every day our main user store receives upwards of 100,000 requests per minute at our peak site traffic time of 12PM. Because of these extreme traffic spikes, excellent performance of our distributed databases is a must.

We also wanted to learn more about how Riak supported multiple data centers (including EC2) in an active-active-active configuration: a mechanism that guarantees continuous service in the event a database goes down. Active-active-active configurations also allow requests to be serviced in any datacenter without requiring the request to leave the data center to retrieve user information. These capabilities are quite important to Gilt, because network connections between datacenters are never as fast as those located within a single datacenter.

On the hardware side, our plan was to install two rings, each consisting of five servers, in different datacenters, and then completely run Riak through the gauntlet. We had only one week to create this system. Luckily, we had the best help imaginable: Seth Thomas and Steve Vinoski from Basho, the company that created Riak.

Riak passed all of our tests with high marks, and also performed well during various failure scenarios we staged.

In terms of the actual testing, our goal was to duplicate our user service and point it at a Riak datastore instead of our current datastore. This, of course, required altering the service code. I’m not a big fan of the cake pattern, which in my experience results in obfuscated code, but I have to admit that–at least in this case–it simplified the code rework and made the code cleaner.

After using Riak to duplicate our user service, our next step was to write some code to copy our existing users’ information to the new Riak backend. The speed of our current infrastructure enabled us to copy our entire user set to Riak during non-peak hours.

Once we had everything humming in our cluster of user services and Riak instance, we began simulating reads and writes to the service as they occurred in production. To do this, we used splitter: an open source project, created by Gilt VP Architecture Eric Bowman, that accepts requests and forwards them to two different backends. One of the responses is kept, and the other is discarded. In this case we discarded the Riak response. We then configured our load balance (Zeus) to forward requests to the splitter instead of directly to the service. This put read traffic on our test user service.

To simulate write traffic, we wrote a small bit of code to publish RabbitMQ messages any time a write or update occurred; consumed those messages on the test user service; and duplicated the write or update. Read-and-writes were now being executed against the test service cluster without putting our production system in any real danger. Testing looked good so far.

To really make sure Riak was as solid as it seemed, we then decided to ramp up the read/write load. We simulated an extreme read load by using Zeusbench, which executed an extreme number of HTTP requests against our test service and provided metrics on how the service performed (you can find a number of open source alternatives to Zeusbench).  We also wrote a quick program that executed upwards of 1,500 insertions into Riak per second.  We kept the inserts going the entire time.  Read/write performance didn't suffer, even under this amount of load.

Our final test involved kill -9'ing Riak nodes and monitoring how the cluster performed.  While removing Riak nodes, we maintained production load against the service. Riak performed well during these situations.

Riak’s strong performance suggests that, should we pursue implementation, it will withstand our unique traffic needs and prove reliable. As for the Gilt-Basho team's strong performance: It was amazing that we were able to accomplish so much in just a week's time! Thanks again to Seth and Steve for making this possible.

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"Truly Scale a Modern Engineering Organization" Slides and Video

    <time>15 July 2013</time>

For those of you couldn’t make Gilt co-founder/CTO Michael Bryzek’s talk at AppNexus last Wednesday (maybe because you were attending the Play NYC meetup?); click here to view the slides. Bryzek’s talk covered Millennials in the workplace, Gilt’s social experiment, the value of using key performance indicators (KPIs) and much more. Thanks again to AppNexus for hosting the event.

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Meet a Gilt Technologist: Lead Software Engineer John Kenny

    <time>12 July 2013</time>

What is your role at Gilt?

I’m lead engineer for Team Galactus. (We like to give our teams abstract names that don't refer to a particular initiative; at the time of forming Galactus, we were going through a comic book phase!) I’m a full-stack engineer, but the vast majority of my work at Gilt is on the backend: developing shared libraries, web applications and services.

How long have you been with Gilt?

Just over two years.

Has your role here changed over time?

No, I’ve always been a backend engineer. I’ve done some frontend stuff with previous companies that were very small, and where you had to roll up your sleeves and basically do everything.

Why do you enjoy backend development more than frontend?

It’s less like the Wild West than frontend development. You can implement clean, well-tested and reusable solutions fairly easily; it's a lot more difficult to do that in the frontend. Frontend work often feels like one hack on top of another hack, with a third hack thrown in to work around some IE issue. And it all feels really fragile, because it’s not statically typed. Refactoring something can be a very stressful experience! There have been a few frameworks over the years built to try to solve this problem (e.g. GWT), but it’s still generally a more challenging environment to work in. Throw CSS into the mix, which can do some really cool, untestable stuff, and … well, you get the picture.

Which technologies do you use on a day-to-day basis?

Scala, Play, Handlebars (both the standard JS Handlebars and Gilt’s own Scala implementation–fondly called Scandlebars, and written by Gilt engineer Mark Wunsch.

What's your personal strategy for learning a new technology?

My inclination is always to just learn on the job. That only gets you so far, though. And when you're working on important pieces of software, you need to be the expert in the technologies you are using. Taking time out to really learn those technologies is something I have to work hard at; it's not something that comes naturally. My preference when I do need to learn something in detail is a good old-fashioned paper book–remember those?

I recently took Martin Odersky’s Coursera course on Scala. This was really enjoyable.

Describe for us some of the projects that you've been working on recently.

The team is currently in the process of migrating our sale listing page (the most visited page on Gilt: ~30k rpm at noon) over to a new technology stack: Play, Scala, Handlebars, and Solr. As part of that work we are building a new app and adding a lot of new code to shared libraries.

We are also working to integrate Scalatest/Selenium testing into our continuous delivery framework. Continuous delivery allows us to deploy to production in minutes at any time with no manual interaction after the developer types "sbt release" on their laptop. Having really good Selenium test coverage, written using Scalatest, is a key part of that.

A small side project I've just completed is a piece of code that allows you to build "views" of a cache. You simply provide a transformation function, and you get back a virtual cache of a different type. The views themselves can be cached (if the transformation is expensive) and you can stack them, so you can have views of views. Getting the type system to work was a bit of a mind melt, but I think the end result is pretty cool.

One technology you've been using lately is Solr. Tell us more about that.

We started using Solr to power some basic search capabilities on the site in 2011. Galactus then built keyword search using the same technology stack. We are now moving the sale listing page onto Solr–after all, a sale listing is simply a search for all products with a particular sale ID. This means that less code is required to power the site. As part of moving the listing page over, we're really having to step up the performance of the search technology stack. It has to be scalable and really fast!

What's been your biggest accomplishment here?

I've done a few things that I'm proud of. Early on, I think my biggest accomplishment was “getting” the Gilt technology stack so quickly, and being able to contribute within a few weeks of joining. I've since worked on some pretty core pieces of software like Commons, which is a client library for Gilt's domain model; the sale targeting engine, which targets sales to the appropriate members; and keyword search. I also recently led the redevelopment of the product page: a complete rewrite of the old page from the bottom up.

What would you say are the best parts about working at Gilt? And more specifically, about working at Gilt-Dublin?

The pace–things move very fast all the time. We’re on the cutting edge in terms of continuous delivery, the technologies we're using, and some of the testing tools we’re building.

Also, the people. Gilt has some great people in so many different areas. I’ve learnt more in my first two years at Gilt than I did in the previous eight years since I left college. The Dublin office, being a bit younger than Gilt NYC, feels a little more like a start-up in some ways. There’s a really good atmosphere. Despite being the new kid on the block, we’re solving big problems and we’re doing great work!

The actual office itself is also fantastic: A penthouse office in the city centre with great views. Plus it’s in Dublin, the best city in the world!

Can you talk a bit about mentoring and your on-the-job inspiration sources?

While Gilt is using some really cool and interesting technologies, I’m an engineer rather than a technologist, so solving problems is what makes me want to go to work each day–and Gilt has some really hard, interesting problems to solve.

I’m also lucky to work with exceptional people. This is also a great inspiration: working with people who, in pretty much every interaction I have with them, teach me something.

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Play! meetup recap

    <time>12 July 2013</time>

On Wednesday, around 70 Play framework enthusiasts visited Gilt’s 2 Park Ave. office in NYC for the Play NYC meetup group’s “Async Coding in Play and Scala” talk, featuring LinkedIn engineer Jim Brikman. To add to our earlier post about the meetup: Jim’s discussion of Play’s non-blocking IO nature.

Seeing identical Play-powered functionality implemented in both Java and Scala highlighted how much more efficient and concise Scala is.

Play and Scala are a great match, especially when it comes to async coding, mostly due to functions being first-class citizens, and having access to great syntax “candy” such as sequence comprehensions.

If you are stuck in Javaland but want to write more async code and not drown in boilerplate, check out ParSeq.

Check out the slides from Jim’s talk here.

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Gilt Featured on HuffPost Live's "Tech Game Changers"

    <time>11 July 2013</time>

Earlier today Gilt VP of Mobile Yonatan Feldman and Director of Mobile Product Christopher Gonzalez appeared on HuffPost Live’s “Tech Game Changers” to talk about our latest mobile developments. These include our brand-new “save sizes” feature; mobile-only, “summer specials,” and personalized sales. As Yon and Chris explain, feedback from our customers played a significant role in our development of these features, which are designed to make the shopping experience as enjoyable and fun as possible. Check out the video!

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Making Cents of Census Data

    <time>11 July 2013</time>

If you work in data science, you've probably come across websites that present U.S. Census data with fancy bells and whistles (such as associated maps) that you can use to find demographic information. These websites, which usually charge a fee, often allow you to look up limited amounts of data–and typically one zip code at a time.

As proponents of open source, we've decided to skip the fees and share, for free, this easy-to-use file that aggregates 2010 U.S. Census data and 2007-2011 American Community Survey data, aggregated to the zip code level.

Parsing and aggregating the data into something digestible was an excruciating process, but I'm glad I did it. At Gilt we aggregate data at the ZIP code level to better understand the demographic profile of our customers. The above table helps us gain insights into the general demographic profile of the areas of high and low customer membership/activity. For example, we can compare membership and order conversion in rural vs. urban areas, or differentiate purchasing and web behavior in high vs. low income areas. I say "general" because the data is aggregated to the postal code level, it’s not about a specific individual.

I was warned

As a database administrator and data engineer, I occasionally receive interesting data-related requests from my colleagues. One of the more interesting inquiries I've fielded recently came from one of Team Data's very own–Data Scientist Igor Elbert. Igor's known to pepper his own data analyses with references to Russian literature and World War II history, so I wasn't totally surprised that his request was a bit on the exciting and creative side (as far as data requests go).

I was warned that Igor's request might be a bit tedious to fulfill. Yet it seemed simple enough (just three steps!):

parse the census data

import it into Gilt’s data warehouse and

aggregate the data by zip code in order to better visualize the demographic information about our customer base.

I did not heed the warning, and enthusiastically dove into the world of U.S. government data. This process turned out to be far more complex and interesting than I initially thought it would be, and also involved importing the subset of American Community Survey (ACS) data about people's economic status, education level, and house value. The census data was only available in an archaic–i.e., end-of-the-20th-century–format. Column names corresponded to lookup values. Tables were embedded tables within tables, differentiated with a “table” column. To find what I was looking for required an additional lookup of the attribute associated with each value.

Processing the Data

In order to find out what kinds of data the columns represented, I had two options:

Extract the data from a giant PDF "tech-doc" file that comes with the Census and ACS

Use the provided Microsoft Access data shells (of course I do not, nor will I ever, have a copy of Microsoft Access). An alternative to using Access is mdb-tools.

I chose option #2, since this could be automated. It's both humorous and sad that the U.S. Census Bureau still presents its data using MS Access and MS Excel instead of an open source database or some other format. New York City and other governmental bodies around the world make their data available in more modern and open formats, yet the federal government apparently can't let go of its pre-Y2K technologies. Access still enforces a 255-column limit-per-table restriction on files, which for my purposes resulted in about 290 segmented files per state. I used mostly Perl and some Scala to automate parsing of these files into Aster Database/PostgreSQL-compatible SQL and data files.

Here's where things got interesting: After parsing all of that poorly presented census data, I discovered that it contained a wealth of information that can be correlated to find out more about Gilt's customer base–and how we can better target our marketing to reach them. The census data includes a geographic information lookup table that provides information on state, county, Combined Statistical Area (CBSA) and aggregation or summary level (the geographic level the data represents–for example, state, county, county/sub-county, or zip code):

Column   |       Type        | Modifiers
-----------+-------------------+-----------
 FILEID    | character varying |
 STUSAB    | character varying |
 SUMLEVEL  | character varying |
 COMPONENT | character varying |
 LOGRECNO  | character varying |
 US        | character varying |
 REGION    | character varying |
 DIVISION  | character varying |
 STATECE   | character varying |
 STATE     | character varying |
 COUNTY    | character varying |
...
...
...

Here is an example of the lookup data for household income (the long table title corresponds to the table segment '0056' and the subtable 'B19001'):

 Table ID | Segment File | Column |                                                                   Long Table Title
----------+--------------+--------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 B19001   | 0056         | .      | HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS (IN 2011 INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS)
 B19001   | 0056         | .      | Universe:  Households
 B19001   | 0056         | 1      | Total:
 B19001   | 0056         | 2      | Less than $10,000
 B19001   | 0056         | 3      | $10,000 to $14,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 4      | $15,000 to $19,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 5      | $20,000 to $24,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 6      | $25,000 to $29,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 7      | $30,000 to $34,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 8      | $35,000 to $39,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 9      | $40,000 to $44,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 10     | $45,000 to $49,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 11     | $50,000 to $59,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 12     | $60,000 to $74,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 13     | $75,000 to $99,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 14     | $100,000 to $124,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 15     | $125,000 to $149,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 16     | $150,000 to $199,999
 B19001   | 0056         | 17     | $200,000 or more
...
...

Then a corresponding select from table segment ‘0056’ (all table segments had to have their data definition language reverse-engineered using the above lookup data as well–for example, table 'B19001' column 13 indicates the number of people in the $75-100K income bracket):

  Column   |       Type        | Modifiers
------------+-------------------+-----------
 FILEID     | character varying |
 FILETYPE   | character varying |
 STUSAB     | character varying |
 CHARITER   | character varying |
 SEQUENCE   | character varying |
 LOGRECNO   | character varying |
 B19001_1   | character varying |
 B19001_2   | character varying |
 B19001_3   | character varying |
 B19001_4   | character varying |
 B19001_5   | character varying |
 B19001_6   | character varying |
 B19001_7   | character varying |
 B19001_8   | character varying |
 B19001_9   | character varying |
 B19001_10  | character varying |
 B19001_11  | character varying |
 B19001_12  | character varying |
 B19001_13  | character varying |
...
...
COUNTY | COUSUB | CBSA  | median_household_income
----------+--------+--------+--------+-------+-------------------------
 0020416  | ny     | 047    |        |       | 99938
 0009268  | ny     | 103    | 10000  |       | 99926
 0007581  | ny     | 071    | 47999  |       | 99911
 0025098  | ny     | 071    |        |       | 99911
 0001616  | ny     | 029    | 24130  |       | 99911
 0030562  | ny     | 119    |        |       | 99904
 0028569  | ny     | 103    |        |       | 99904

With our Census/ACS data file, you can conduct highly complex demographic analyses without having to waste lots of time looking up the same information zip code by zip code. Use it to gain better insights by region, population density, income level, education level, house value, and more.

Photo by  Brian Kelley. License via Creative Commons.

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Async Coding in Play with both Java and Scala

    <time>10 July 2013</time>

    Async Coding in Play with both Java and Scala

Tonight (Wed 7/10) Gilt once again plays host to the Play NYC meetup. On this evening's agenda: LinkedIn's Jim Brikman presents “Async Coding in Play with both Java and Scala,” a discussion of the non-blocking IO (NIO) nature of the Play framework:

In this talk, I'll discuss how Play offers an escape from thread pool hell, how it opens the door to real-time web applications (e.g WebSockets), and how to write asynchronous code in Java and Scala without getting stuck in callback hell.

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How to Do High Tea the Gilt Tech Way

    <time>09 July 2013</time>

Every now and then, some of us at Gilt Tech like to break out our department’s favorite antique floral tablecloth and silver tea set, round up a few decadent pastries, and hold a high tea. Or so I learned yesterday, when Senior Director, Program Management Office Heather Fleming (glamorously outfitted for the occasion in a fuchsia dress) stopped by my desk to invite me. Being a connoisseur of caffeine and sugar, I could not say no.

At Gilt, all of our conference and meeting rooms are named after cities or countries. Yesterday’s tea took place in conference room Cuba (a country where tea is maybe not the most popular drink, but our “England” room only accommodates two people–far too small for such a festive gathering). Arranged on the conference table were plates and platters stacked with rich chocolate cakes, croissants, green (purposely so) pound cake, and teas of all types. In the background, jazzy music played.

I took a seat next to Justin Riservato, senior program manager and ambivalent keeper of the official Gilt tea set. Majestic and slightly tarnished (“patina'ed”), the tea set once belonged to Gilt Tech’s … fictitious great-great-great-great-grandparents, W. Chester Chichestershire Gilt IV and Hester Chichestershire (née Middleton) Gilt. Some say that one day, while in a typically generous mood, one of the Chichestershire Gilt the IVs’ … also fictitious children quietly left the set at our 2 Park Ave. office for posterity. “Now the tea set stays here and appears in 50 percent of our Gilt Tech office photos,” Justin explained. It also serves us well at high teas, of course.

Like many things at Gilt Tech, high teas are the result of people taking initiative and demonstrating strong stewardship, creativity, and ingenuity. Providing the best customer experience possible is also key. At least 15 people stopped in for a cup of hot Devonshire or bite of croissant. Many lingered. By the end, all of the cakes were (mostly) gone.

Sound fun? Maybe you and your colleagues should hold your own high tea. Here’s what you’ll need to reproduce ours:

High Tea Checklist

Imaginary 19th century relatives

Floral heirloom tablecloth with matching napkins

A person wearing a top hat (pocket watch is also acceptable)

Music: French jazz, Handel, Tchaikovsky, some of the Wu-Tang Clan’s quieter numbers, no 1980s metal

Photogenic antique tea set that’s too heavy to transport home

A rich chocolate cake with a surprise plastic knife baked into it (?)

Pound cake

Croissants and turnovers (cronuts are probably not acceptable)

cups (preferably Gilt mugs)

hot water

a curated selection of teas (Earl Grey, English Breakfast, green for the health-conscious)

milks: cow, soy, etc.

sugars: turbinado, honey, refined, brown, powdered (don’t overdo it, though)

place settings

a roomful of awesome people to share the experience with

Feel free to send photos of your high tea experiences to lapple at gilt dot com. Cheerio!

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English literature 1830-1900
A. E. Housman: Selected Prose
Author: A. E. Housman
Editor: John Carter
Lovers of Housman's poetry and admirers of his scholarship have long been aware, from the Introductory Lecture of 1892 and The Name and Nature of Poetry, 1933, that he was also master of a highly individual prose style; and others besides classical students have relished the pungency of the famous preface to his edition of Manilius. Here, in addition to these, is a selection of Housman's writings, both scholarly and general, gathered from periodicals and other out-of-the-way sources, which decisively confirms his reputation as a prose stylist. The prefaces, the adversaria and the reviews, in particular, give the layman an idea of the precision and the penetration of exact scholarship. Housman's comments and judgements on other men illuminate his own nature: withdrawn, austere, even crusty, yet gentle with the unassuming; ruthless in exposure of arrogance and pretension.
Part I: Introductory Lecture (1892)
Part II. From the Prefaces:
1. Manilius I (1903)
2. Manilius V (1930)
3. Juvenal (1905)
Part III. Reviews, Adversaria and Letters to the Press:
1. Tucker's Supplices of Aeschylus (1890)
2. The Manuscripts of Propertius (1892, 1894)
3. Schulze's edition of Baehrens' Catullus (1894)
4. The Manuscripts of Propertius (1895)
5. Palmer's Heroides of Ovid (1899)
6. Tremeheere's Cynthia of Propertius (1900)
7. A Line in Lucan (1901)
8. Remarks on the Culex (1902)
9. Owen's Persius and Juvenal - A caveat (1904)
10. Ellis's Catullus (1905)
12. Luciliana (1907)
13. The Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. IX: The Period of the French Revolution (1915)
14. A Georgian History of Victorian Literature (The Cambridge History of English Literature, vols. XIII an XIV) (1917)
15. Bywater's Four Centuries of Greek Learning in England (1920)
16. Simpson's Louis Napoleon and the Recovery of France (1923)
17. Keats' Fall of Hyperion, line 97 (1924)
18. Dr Fraenkel's Appointment (1934)
Part IV: The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism (1921)
Part V. Biographical:
1. J. M. Image (1919)
2. Arthur Platt (1927)
Part VI. Ceremonial:
1. The Trinity College Addresses (1913, 1919)
2. Address to Sir James George Frazer (1921)
3. Address of Condolence (1925)
4. Address of Congratulations (1935)
Part VII: The Name and Nature of Poetry
Index of names.
A. E. Housman
Ruskin's God
The Portrait of a Lady
Nineteenth-Century Lives
The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories
Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Prose Fictions
The Old Enemies
Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture
Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jane Austen to the New Woman
The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City
Paris, London, New York
Darwin's Plots
Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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English literature: general interest
English literature after 1945
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by GTI Research · August 23, 2016
Stakeholders in the power sector, including a former Minister of Power and Chief Executive Officer of Geometric Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, have suggested that mini grids should be created in the country rather than depending solely on the national grid.
They said the creation of mini grids would help to curb the occurrence of total system collapse and contribute towards sustainable electricity.
This year, the nation's power grid has recorded 21 collapses – 16 total and five partial collapses.
A mini grid can be defined as a set of electricity generators and possibly energy storage systems interconnected to a distribution network that supplies electricity to a localised group of customers, according to energypedia.
Nnaji, who noted that the transmission network in Nigeria is grossly inadequate, said, "If you are using a national grid, stability of the grid is important. I actually don't advocate a national grid if you are talking about sustainability.
"The national grid could be a super grid but it should have mini grids. Like Eko Electricity Distribution Company should have its own grid that can be sustainable; Ikeja Disco has its own grid. When you have it like that, it is easier not to have a total countrywide system collapse," he said.
The ex-minister said it was also possible to have embedded generation to feed the mini grids.
He said, "You build power plants within particular grids and the power plants support those mini grids and not reliant on the wider grid. That is sustainability. In Aba, that is what Geometric Power has done."
The Chief Executive Officer, Eko Electricity Distribution Company, Mr. Oladele Amoda, suggested that regional grids could be created in the country, saying, "In fact, that is the way to go, but not immediately because of the location of the power stations right now."
He, however, said it required some consultation so that no area would be disadvantaged.
Amoda said, "For instance, Egbin, Olorunsogo and Omotosho power stations can take care of the South-West. But then when we have gas issues, it becomes a problem. I am not sure we can do that immediately, but it can be planned."
An energy research analyst at Ecobank Capital, Mr. Kareem Jubril, described as very welcome the idea of having mini grids or sectionalising the national grid.
"Having mini grids is an ideal solution; it gives more flexibility. We don't have to have all the power stations supplying the national grid," he said.
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The Department of Pharmacology at Penn State College of Medicine is dedicated to teaching and research in the biomedical sciences. Its missions are to provide high-quality training of the next generation of scientists and physicians and to develop new diagnostic tests, medicines and delivery systems.
At its home in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the Department of Pharmacology occupies 20,000 square feet of state-of-the-art laboratory space in the Hershey Center for Applied Research, Penn State Cancer Institute and Penn State Institute for Personalized Medicine.
The faculty comprises more than 25 primary faculty members with an additional 20 joint faculty from clinical and basic science departments. Research ranges from cell and molecular studies of cancer, to biochemical/pharmacological investigation of nervous system function, to whole-animal studies of drug development.
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We are assistant deans, course directors, textbook authors and PhD program directors. We are research scientists, endowed professors and entrepreneurs. We are Penn State.
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Cancer Institute, Experimental Therapeutics
Shantu Amin, PhD
Cancer Institute, Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
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Anthony Bonavia, MD
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Keith Cheng, MD, PhD
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Matthew Coates, MD, PhD
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Dhimant Desai, PhD
Department of Pharmacology - Associate Professor
Nikolay Dokholyan, PhD, MS
Department of Pharmacology - G. Thomas Passananti Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - G. Thomas Passananti Professor
Sinisa Dovat, PhD, MD
Department of Pediatrics - Professor and Vice Chair of Basic Science Research
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Ligand-induced disorder-to-order transitions characterized by structural proteomics and molecular dynamics simulations
Makepeace, K. A. T., Brodie, N. I., Popov, K. I., Gudavicius, G., Nelson, C. J., Petrotchenko, E. V., Dokholyan, N. V. & Borchers, C. H., Jan 16 2020, In : Journal of Proteomics. 211, 103544.
Abstracts of Presentations at the Association of Clinical Scientists 139th Meeting Hershey, PA, May 15-18, 2019
Donaldson, K., Buchanich, J. M., Grigson, P. S., Deneke, E., Vrana, K. E., Sacks, D. B., Kuehn, G. J., Cardamone, D., Pesce, A., Smiley, S., Nickley, J., Krock, K., Thomas, R., Wilkerson, M. L., Farag, H. A., Challa, S. R., Tice, A. M., Wolk, D. M., Prichard, J., Grant, M. L. & 102 others, Regmi, S., Kerbacher, B., Quinton, L. E., Tice, A. M., Olson, J., Haynes, A., Yu, E., McCully, K. S., Assi, J., Wong, M., Zarrin-Khameh, N., Nifong, T. P., Hawker, C. D., Carlton, G. T., Rivera, J. M., Foulis, P. R., Zuraw, A., Morlote, D., Peker, D., Reddy, V., Harada, S., Crutchfield, C., Zander, D., Barbhuiya, M. A., Pederson, E. C., Straub, M. L., Scott, S. C., Neibauer, T. L., Salter, W. F., Creer, M. H., Zhu, Y., Bornhorst, J. A., Theobald, J. P., Algeciras-Schimnich, A., Cao, L., Knox, J., Hardy, R., Texas, H. J., McGuire, M. F., Hunter, R. L., Brown, R. E., Hicks, J., Cai, Z., Brown, R. E., Ali, Y., Cheng, K. C., Katz, S. R., Ding, Y., Vanselow, D. J., Yakovlev, M. A., Lin, A. Y., Clark, D. P., Vargas, P., Xin, X., Copper, J. E., Canfield, V. A., Ang, K. C., Wang, Y., Xiao, X., De Carlo, F., van Rossum, D. B., La Rivière, P. J., Newell, J., Hossler, C., Roche, M., Warrick, J., Phaeton, R., Kesterson, J., Myers, C., Barrios, R., Mintz, P., Robyak, K., Hamilton, C., McGhee, P., Pederson, C., Straub, M., Scott, S., Neibauer, T., Salter, W., Robyak, K., Singh, N., Morlote, D., Vnencak-Jones, C., Yemelyanova, A., Harada, S., Shah, M., Moghadamtousi, S. Z., Lan, C., Duose, D., Hu, P., Esquenazi, Y., Luthra, R., Ballester, L. Y., Koenig, A. N., Liu, C. G., Zhang, J., Kalia, A., Al-Habib, A., Van Arsdall, M., Dhingra, S., Patel, K. & Tatevian, N., May 1 2019, In : Annals of clinical and laboratory science. 49, 3, p. 403-416 14 p.
A calcium/cAMP signaling loop at the ORAI1 mouth drives channel inactivation to shape NFAT induction
Zhang, X., Pathak, T., Yoast, R., Emrich, S., Xin, P., Nwokonko, R. M., Johnson, M., Wu, S., Delierneux, C., Gueguinou, M., Hempel, N., Putney, J. W., Gill, D. L. & Trebak, M., Dec 1 2019, In : Nature communications. 10, 1, 1971.
Calcium Signaling
A central core disease mutation in the Ca2+-binding site of skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor impairs single-channel regulation
Chirasani, V. R., Xu, L., Addis, H. G., Pasek, D. A., Dokholyan, N. V., Meissner, G. & Yamaguchi, N., Aug 2019, In : American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. 317, 2, p. C358-C365
Central Core Myopathy
Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel
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Acid ceramidase promotes drug resistance in acute myeloid leukemia through NF-κB-dependent P-glycoprotein upregulation
Tan, S. F., Dunton, W., Liu, X., Fox, T. E., Morad, S. A. F., Desai, D., Doi, K., Conaway, M. R., Amin, S., Claxton, D., Wang, H-G., Kester, M., Cabot, M. C., Feith, D. J. & Loughran, T. P., Jan 1 2019, In : Journal of Lipid Research. 60, 6, p. 1078-1086 9 p.
Acid Ceramidase
Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Inhibitors for Cancer Therapeutics
Dinavahi, S. S., Bazewicz, C. G., Gowda, R. & Robertson, G., Oct 1 2019, In : Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. 40, 10, p. 774-789 16 p.
Aldehyde Dehydrogenase
Health Services Needs and Demand
Aldehyde dehydrogenase in regulatory T-cell development, immunity and cancer
Bazewicz, C. G., Dinavahi, S. S., Schell, T. D. & Robertson, G. P., Jan 2019, In : Immunology. 156, 1, p. 47-55 9 p.
Regulatory T-Lymphocytes
Allostery in Its Many Disguises: From Theory to Applications
Wodak, S. J., Paci, E., Dokholyan, N. V., Berezovsky, I. N., Horovitz, A., Li, J., Hilser, V. J., Bahar, I., Karanicolas, J., Stock, G., Hamm, P., Stote, R. H., Eberhardt, J., Chebaro, Y., Dejaegere, A., Cecchini, M., Changeux, J. P., Bolhuis, P. G., Vreede, J., Faccioli, P. & 19 others, Orioli, S., Ravasio, R., Yan, L., Brito, C., Wyart, M., Gkeka, P., Rivalta, I., Palermo, G., McCammon, J. A., Panecka-Hofman, J., Wade, R. C., Di Pizio, A., Niv, M. Y., Nussinov, R., Tsai, C. J., Jang, H., Padhorny, D., Kozakov, D. & McLeish, T., Apr 2 2019, In : Structure. 27, 4, p. 566-578 13 p.
Allosteric Regulation
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Alternative splicing of the Wnt trafficking protein, Wntless and its effects on protein-protein interactions
Petko, J., Thileepan, M., Sargen, M., Canfield, V. & Levenson, R., Jul 8 2019, In : BMC Molecular and Cell Biology. 20, 1, 22.
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Angiotensin axis blockade, acute kidney injury, and perioperative morbidity in patients undergoing colorectal surgery: A retrospective cohort study
Bonavia, A., Javaherian, M., Skojec, A. J., Chinchilli, V. M., Mets, B., Karamchandani, K. & Kork, F., Aug 1 2019, In : Medicine (United States). 98, 33, e16872.
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Role of Sox2 in Stress Adaptations to Ovarian Cancer Anchorage Independence
Hempel, N. & Karthikeyan, M.
A promising small molecule for pancreatic cancer therapy
Sharma, A.
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Translational development studies of a novel combination therapy for castration-resistant prostate cancer
Lu, J. & Deng, Y.
Deoxyglucose
In vivo agonist molecular probes for the dopamine D1 receptor
Mailman, R. & Sharma, A.
Dopamine D1 Receptors
Single-Photon Emission-Computed Tomography
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Heterogeneity of mitral cell properties determined by the timing of neurogenesis
Imamura, F.
Olfactory Bulb
Olfactory Receptor Neurons
Automatic Data Processing
Engineering allostery for in vivo protein control
Dokholyan, N.
Protein Interaction Maps
Guanosine Triphosphate
Integrating cheminformatics and molecular simulations for virtual drug screening
Medical Student Training Program
Levenson, R.
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Mechanisms of vinculin activation and force transmission
Dokholyan, N. & Campbell, S.
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Null Lymphocytes
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Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award
Nikolay Dokholyan (Recipient), 2004
BMES Career Development Award
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Director's Award
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Az erbium egy kémiai elem, melynek rendszáma 68 és vegyjele Er. Ezüstfehér színű, ritka fém, a lantanoidák közé tartozik. Nyelvújításkori neve erbeny. Szobahőmérsékleten szilárd halmazállapotú.

Tulajdonságai

Fizikai tulajdonságai

Három vegyértékű elem, a tiszta erbiumfém lágy, képlékeny (illetve könnyen alakítható), de a levegőn stabil, nem oxidálódik olyan gyorsan, mint néhány más ritkaföldfém. Sói rózsapirosak, a fémnek jellemző éles abszorpciós sávjai vannak a látható, ultraibolya és a közeli infravörös tartományban. Ezt leszámítva a többi ritkaföldfémhez nagyon hasonlóan néz ki. Szeszkvioxidja az erbia. Az erbium tulajdonságait bizonyos mértékig a benne található szennyezők mennyisége és minősége határozza meg. Nincs ismert biológiai funkciója, bár úgy vélik, hogy az anyagcserét gyorsítja.

Az erbium 19 K alatt ferromágneses, 19–80 K között antiferromágneses, 80 K felett paramágneses sajátságú.

Kémiai tulajdonságai
Az erbiumfém levegőn lassan fényét veszti, és erbium(III)-oxid keletkezése közben könnyen elég:
4 Er + 3 O2 → 2 Er2O3

Az erbium eléggé elektropozitív fém, hideg vízzel lassan, forró vízzel gyorsan reagál, miközben erbium-hidroxid keletkezik:
2 Er (s) + 6 H2O (l) → 2 Er(OH)3 (aq) + 3 H2 (g)

Az erbiumfém az összes halogénnel reakcióba lép:
2 Er (s) + 3 F2 (g) → 2 ErF3 (s) [rózsaszín]
2 Er (s) + 3 Cl2 (g) → 2 ErCl3 (s) [ibolya]
2 Er (s) + 3 Br2 (g) → 2 ErBr3 (s) [ibolya]
2 Er (s) + 3 I2 (g) → 2 ErI3 (s) [ibolya]

Az erbium készségesen oldódik híg kénsavban, melyben a hidratált Er(III)-ionok sárga színű [Er(OH2)9]3+ komplex formájában vannak jelen:

2 Er (s) + 3 H2SO4 (aq) → 2 Er3+ (aq) + 3  (aq) + 3 H2 (g)

Felhasználás
Az erbium erősíteni tudja a száloptikában haladó fényt, anélkül hogy előzőleg a fényt elektromos jelekké kellene alakítani.

Jegyzetek

Lantanoidák


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MEMA, FEMA, National Weather Service, State Agencies Partner to Increase Public's Awareness of Winter Hazards
REISTERSTOWN, Md. (December 2, 2019) —The Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) is partnering with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the National Weather Service (NWS), the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDoT SHA), the Maryland Department of Health (MDH), the Maryland State Police (MSP), and local and state emergency management coordinators to encourage all Marylanders to learn more about winter safety and the importance of winter emergency preparedness. Maryland Winter Safety Week extends from December 2 through December 8, 2019. An official proclamation will occur on Monday, December 2 at the MDoT SHA Annapolis District Office. Accompanying the proclamation officials will host a press conference with representatives of each of these state agencies.
"Winters in our state bring frigid temperatures, intense winds, dangerous ice, and heavy snow, so I urge Marylanders to start preparing now," said Governor Larry Hogan. "By being prepared, staying aware, and using common sense, we can all enjoy the winter season."
According to the Maryland Department of Health, since the winter of 2013-2014, there have been 208 cold-related deaths in Maryland. This includes 61 cold-related deaths in the 2017-2018 winter season and 54 cold-related deaths during the 2018-2019 winter season. Thirty percent of these deaths occurred in Baltimore City alone.
Further, a 2014 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims that of the nearly 11,000 weather-related deaths reported nationally between 2006 and 2010, 63 percent were attributable to excessive natural cold.
"If history is any guide, it's likely that our state will experience some severe winter weather over the next few months," said Russell Strickland, MEMA's Executive Director. "Our message is simple: Make preparations now so you can avoid the last-minute rush for snow shovels, salt, and other winter essentials, but most importantly, be informed, and be prepared."
Among the several hazards that winter weather brings are the health risks posed by sustained exposure to extreme cold. It can lower body temperature, weakening the immune system, and it can aggravate chronic diseases like asthma, arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular and lung disease, and mental illness, among others.
Thousands of people are also at risk indoors if their power has been shut off, or they do not have the financial means to increase the temperature in their homes. For those with chronic diseases, a cold interior may be a dangerous environment. Cases of carbon monoxide exposure peak during the winter, when people are more likely to use generators, stoves, and home heating systems that may not be properly maintained. If it is unsafe to run a gas lawnmower or a car in a given space, it is also unsafe to run a portable generator.
MEMA and other state partners have gathered a number of winter preparedness and safety tips that will be shared throughout Maryland Winter Safety Week and the winter season through our social media channels. Here are some of the highlights:
When cold weather hits, you should check on the welfare of family, friends, and neighbors who are particularly vulnerable to cold, snow, and ice – this may include the elderly and those with access and functional needs.
Build a home preparedness kit that includes winter supplies such as snow shovels, ice melting products, extra warm clothes and blankets, flashlights, and batteries.
Follow a trusted weather source, such as the National Weather Service and local news media, to be aware of any predicted frozen precipitation or severely cold temperatures.
Sign up for Emergency Alerts in your area and determine how you will receive information if you are traveling out of town.
Visit Ready.gov/alerts for more information on emergency alert options.
In addition to these tips, please check out this winter preparedness tip video (bit.ly/Winter-Preparedness-Tips) on our YouTube Channel. Additional information about winter preparedness can be found on our website (www.mema.maryland.gov), our Twitter feed, our Facebook page, our LinkedIn page, and our YouTube site.
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