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Q: My program keeps crashing and I can't figure out why I am new to all this but I am wondering if I can receive a little help.
I am trying to get the days left from a startDate and endDate. I thought I found the answer in listing #12 in the Apple docs here --->link
After scouring stackoverflow, this is what I came up with.
    //My Code (This is code I found on stack overflow and modified
    //Start Date
    //Creating a date from a string then converting it into an NSDate Object
    NSString *startDateString = @"2016-01-01 00:00:00";
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
    NSDate *startDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:startDateString];

    //End Date
    NSString *endDateString = @"2016-12-25 00:00:00";
    NSDateFormatter *endDateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
    NSDate *endDate = [endDateFormatter dateFromString:endDateString];

    //This is Apple's code.

    NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc]
                             initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian];

    NSUInteger unitFlags = NSCalendarUnitMonth | NSCalendarUnitDay;

    NSDateComponents *components = [gregorian components:unitFlags
                                                fromDate:startDate
                                                  toDate:endDate options:0];
    NSInteger months = [components month];
    NSInteger days = [components day];

    NSLog(@"there are %ld months and %ld days left till Christmas", months, days);

The program keeps crashing at,
 NSDateComponents *components = [gregorian components:unitFlags
                                                fromDate:startDate
                                                  toDate:endDate options:0];

The question,
Can anyone guide me on how to resolve this issue?

A: Simples. What dateFormat did you send for endDateFormatter?
I'm not asking what dateFormat you think you did set, but which format you did set. Two different questions with entirely different answers.
Now you ask if we can guide you how to resolve this:
Learn to use the debugger. The obvious thing to do is step through the code line by line, and examine each value that is produced. You would then notice before components:fromDate:toDate: crashes, that your endDate is nil.
Most importantly: Learn the first rule of debugging: You did something wrong, and you need to find out what it is. That reduces the possibilities so much. There are only 11 lines of code before the crash. One of them is wrong. One of them you wrote wrong. Just go through them one by one, with the firm conviction in your mind that one of the lines is wrong, and it would be obvious.
(That's how I found the bug. I looked at the code with the conviction that there is a mistake, and searched for the mistake, and with that attitude it's easy to find. Beginners are convinced their code is correct, and as a result they can't see the most obvious bugs).
Or examine your code variable by variable. Check how dateFormatter gets created and changed. Check how endDateFormatter gets created and changed. Anything unusual that you can see?
BTW. The YYYY vs yyyy bug produces lots of laughter among the more experienced developers and creates enormous frustration among the less experienced at the beginning of each year. Up to three days around New Year every year that bug causes many applications to display years wrong.
BTW. A better question than "how to find this problem" would be "how to avoid the problem". Maddy remarked (and I'd say 99% chance the it is correct) that this is a copy / paste error.
Ignoring the fact that two date formatters were not needed: After a copy / paste like that, I use the features of the editor. Obviously you need to change uses of startDateString, dateFormatter and startDate. The compiler even tells you, because immediately after the paste operation you have three re-declared variables.
What I do: Double-click on startDateString giving the first error. Command-Shift-E (make it the search string). Type in the new name endDateString, double-click on it and Command-C (copy). Command-G to find the next occurence of startDateString, Command-V (paste) to replace it with the new name, Command-G again until all uses of the name are changed. Then the same with the second error. Practice using your editor.


Free Apple Bumpers Through Apple Store?
Discussion in 'iPhone Accessories' started by lordking65, Jul 29, 2010.
Are Apple Bumpers Available for sale in Apple stores?
If they are, Could I buy a bumper there, return and ask for a refund and get it for free if I haven't ordered any case yet from the case program?
When I got my phone (which was after apple announced the free bumper/case program) they didn't have anything for the ip4 in the store. I asked about the free bumper when I was getting my phone and they just told me to go online everything will be handled there.
The free cases are available through an app that was created for this. You can't walk into an Apple Store and get a free bumper or buy one and get a refund.
They did this because the app verifies that you actually have an ip4 in hand.


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Camaro, cocaine, cash seized in Sumter Co. bust
By WALB News Team
Published: Sep. 30, 2015 at 5:44 PM EDT|Updated: Sep. 30, 2015 at 9:02 PM EDT
Renae Mumford Mann
Milo Mumford
AMERICUS, GA (WALB) - Sumter County Sheriff's deputies seized cocaine, cash, and property after executing search warrants in a 6-month long drug investigation.
Agents found drugs, scales, packaging materials, weapons, and thousands of dollars in cash.
They also seized a 2013 Chevrolet Camaro.
Officers were looking for Milo Mumford in connection to the drug trafficking investigation.
Instead they found his mother, Renae Mumford Mann, and arrested her on weapons charges.
Milo Mumford is still wanted in reference to the drug trafficking investigation.
"He's a bonafide dealer," said Sumter County Sheriff Pete Smith. "The people on the street know who he is, he's endangering people's lives. We're going to continue our search for Mr. Mumford and we feel sure that we'll end up catching up with him. It's just a matter of time."
Anyone with information is asked to call the Sumter County Sheriff's Office.

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M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering
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Associate Professor (2017-present), Assistant Professor (2012-2017)
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Droplet and spray dynamics; Theoretical chemical kinetics; Supersonic combustion; Fire whirl; Gas-turbine combustion; Rarefied gas dynamics
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AP10005 Physics I (2013-2014, Fall Semester)
ME3403 Advanced Engineering Science in Products (2012-2015, Fall & Spring Semesters)
ME3407 Fluid Mechanics (2012-2014, Fall & Spring Semesters)
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ME4409 Engine Technology (2013-2015, Fall & Spring Semesters)
ME44003 Combustion and Pollution Control (2017-present, Spring Semester)
ME47007 Aircraft and Spacecraft Propulsion (2018-present, Fall Semester)
ME556 Advanced Combustion Systems (2014-Present, Fall/Spring Semester)
ME576 Turbulent Flow and Aerodynamics (2014-Present, Spring Semester)
ME6401 Combustion Science (2014-Present, Fall Semester)
Professional Society Membership
Member of Combustion Institute
Senior member AIAA
Member of Chinese Chemistry Society
Member of American Physics Society
Conference Session Chair
1. 2018 China National Symposium on Combustion
2. The 13th International Conference on Combustion & Energy Utilization, Taipei, 2016
3. The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, Beijing, 2015
4. The 4th East Asia Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Workshop, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2014
5. Fall Technical Meeting Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, University of Connecticut, 2011
Journals in Physics: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluid, Scientific Reports, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Journals in Chemistry: Journal of Physical Chemistry, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics
Journals in Mechanical Engineering: Combustion and Flame, Proceedings of Combustion Institute, Combustion Science and Technology, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Energy Conversion and Management, European Journal of Mechanics -B/Fluids, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Energy and Fuel, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry., AlChE Journal.
Journals in Aerospace Engineering: AIAA Journal, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Shock Waves
Conferences: AIAA, ASME, ASPACC, Chinese National Combustion Meeting
Funding Agencies: Research Council of Norway, U.S. Department of Energy, ISAAC-NL
Journal Publications (Accepted or under Review; Corresponding Author *)
1. Q. Meng, Y. Chi, L. Zhang and P. Zhang*, A theoretical kinetics study on isomerization and dissociation reactions of methyl decanoate radicals, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics (under review)
2. T. Yang, X. Xia and P. Zhang*, Anti-phase and In-phase Flickering of Dual Pool Flames, Physical Review E (under review)
3. D. Yu, H. Gu, and P. Zhang*, An energy integral analysis of compressible axisymmetric jets with external periodic focing. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow (under review)
4. Z. Zhang, P. Zhang* and Z. Zhao, Cross-Impingement and Combustion of Sprays in High-Pressure Chamber and Opposed-piston Compression Ignition Engine, Applied Thermal Engineering (under review)
5. Z. Zhang and P. Zhang*, Modelling kinetic energy dissipation of bouncing droplets for Lagrangian simulation of impinging sprays under high ambient pressures, Spray and Atomization (under review)
6. D. Zhang, C. He, P. Zhang* and C. Tang, Mass Interminglement and Hypergolic Ignition of TMEDA and WFNA Droplets by Off-center Collision, Combustion and Flame (under reivew)
7. X. Zhu, X. Xia and P. Zhang*, Stability of Buoyant Inverse Diffusion Methane Flames with Confinement Effects, Combustion and Flame (under review)
8. Y. Li, P. Zhang*, N. Kang and F. Liu, Rayleigh-Taylor instability on a spherical droplet with nonradial disturbances, Journal of Mathematical Physics (under review)
9. Y. Li*, P. Zhang* and N. Kang, Linear Faraday instability on a viscous droplet immersed in another inviscid fluid, Physical Review Fluids (under review)
10. X. Xia, C. He and P. Zhang*, Scalings in Coalescence of Liquid Droplets, Physical Review Letters (under review)
11. X. Xia and P. Zhang*, A vortex-dynamical scaling theory for flickering buoyant diffusion flames, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (under review)
12. D. Zhang, D. Yu, Y. Yuan, L. Yue, P. Zhang*, T. Zhang and X. Fan, Hypergolic ignition by head-on collision of TMEDA and WFNA droplets: size effects on multiple time scales, 37th International Symposium on Combustion (accetped)
13. K. Wu, P. Zhang*, W. Yao* and X. Fan, Computational realization of multiple flame stabilization modes in DLR strut-injection hydrogen supersonic combustor, 37th International Symposium on Combustion (accetped)
Journal Publications (Published or in Press; Corresponding Author *)
1. L. Zhang, Q. Meng, Y. Chi and P. Zhang*, Toward High-Level Theoretical Studies of Large Biodiesel Molecules: An ONIOM [QCISD(T)/CBS:DFT] Study of the Reactions between Unsaturated Methyl Esters (CnH2n−1COOCH3) and Hydrogen Radical. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 122 (2018) 4882-4893.
2. Q. Meng, X. Zhao, L. Zhang*, P. Zhang*, and L. Sheng, A theoretical kinetics study on low-temperature reactions of methyl acetate radicals with molecular oxygen. Combustion and Flame, 196 (2018) 66-75.
3.X. Zhu, X. Xia, and P. Zhang*, Near-field Flow Stability of Buoyant Methane/Air Inverse Diffusion Flame. Combustion and Flame, 191 (2018)66-75.
4. D. Yu and P. Zhang*, Circulation-controlled firewhirl with differential diffusion. Combustion and Flame, 189 (2018) 288–299.
5. L.Y. Yue, Y. Jia, X. Xu, X. Zhang, and P. Zhang, Effects of Cowl Shock on the Self-starting Characteristics of Hypersonic Inlets. Aerospace Science and Technology, 74 (2018) 72-80.
6. K. Sun, P. Zhang, Z. Che, and T. Wang, Marangoni-flow-induced partial coalescence of a droplet on a liquid/air interface. Physical Review Fluids 3, 023602 (2018).
7. K. Sun, P. Zhang*, M. Jia, and T. Wang, Collision-induced jet-like mixing for droplets of unequal-sizes. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 120 (2018) 218-227.
8. X. Xia, C. He, J. Zhao, D. Yu, and P. Zhang*, Vortex-Ring-Induced Internal Mixing Upon the Coalescence of Initially Stationary Droplets. Physical Review Fluids, 2, 113607 (2017).
9. Z. Zhang and P. Zhang*, Kinetic Energy Recovery and Interface Hysteresis of Bouncing Droplets after Inelastic Head-on Collision, Physics of Fluids, 2017. 29, 103306.
10. K. Wu, P. Zhang*, W. Yao, and X. Fan, Numerical Investigation on Flame Stablization in DLR Hydrogen Supersonic Combustor with Strut Injection. Combustion Science and Technology, 2017. 189(12): p. 2154-2179.
11. Z. Zhang, P. Zhang*, and Z. Zhao, Impingement and Combustion of Sprays in a Model Opposed-Piston Compression Ignition Engine. Combustion Science and Technology, 2017. 189(11): p.1943-1965.
12. C. Tang, X. Zhang, L. Song, M. Qin, P. Zhang, J. Li and Z. Huang, Dynamics of droplet impact on solid surface with hierarchical roughness. International Journal of Multiphase Flows, 96: p. 56–69.
13. D. Yu and P. Zhang*, On the flame height of circulation-controlled firewhirl with variable density and in power-law vortices: a mass-diffusivity-ratio model correction. Combustion and Flame, 2017. 182: p. 36–47.
14. D. Yu and P. Zhang*, On the flame height of circulation-controlled firewhirls with variable density. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017. 36(2): p. 3097-3104.
15. Y. Yuan, T. Zhang, W. Yao, X. Fan*, and P. Zhang, Characterization of flame stabilization modes in an ethylene-fueled supersonic combustor using time-resolved CH* chemiluminescence. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017. 36(2): p. 2919-2925.
16. L. Shi, H. Shen, P. Zhang, D. Zhang, and C. Wen, Assessment of vibrational non-equilibrium effect on detonation cell size. Combustion Science and Technology, 2017. 189(5): p. 841-853.
17. C.L. Tang, J.Q. Zhao, P. Zhang*, C.K. Law*, and Z.H. Huang, Dynamics of internal jets in the merging of two droplets of unequal sizes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016. 795: p. 671-689.
18. Z. Zhang, Y. Chi, L. Shang, P. Zhang*, and Z. Zhao, On the role of droplet bouncing in modeling impinging sprays under elevated pressures. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2016. 102: p. 657-668.
19. D. Zhang, P. Zhang*, Y. Yuan, and T. Zhang, Hypergolic Ignition by Head-on Collision of N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine and White Fuming Nitric Acid Droplets. Combustion and Flame, 2016. 173: p. 276-287.
20. K. Sun, P. Zhang*, C.K. Law*, and T.Y. Wang, Collision Dynamics and Internal Mixing of Droplets of Non-Newtonian Liquids. Physical Review Applied, 2015. 4(5).
21. K. Sun, T.Y. Wang, P. Zhang*, and C.K. Law, Non-Newtonian flow effects on the coalescence and mixing of initially stationary droplets of shear-thinning fluids. Physical Review E, 2015. 91(2).
22. P. Zhang*, L.D. Zhang, and C.K. Law, Density functional theory study of the reactions of 2-azido-N,N-dimethylethanamine with nitric acid and nitrogen dioxide. Combustion and Flame, 2015. 162(1): p. 237-248.
23. X.R. Zhu, R.F. Li*, D.G. Li*, P. Zhang*, and R.Z. Qian, Experimental study and RANS calculation on velocity and temperature of a kerosene-fueled swirl laboratory combustor with and without centerbody air injection. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2015. 89: p. 964-976.
24. Y.C. Li, R.F. Li*, D.G. Li*, J.Y. Bao, and P. Zhang*, Combustion characteristics of a slotted swirl combustor: An experimental test and numerical validation. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2015. 66: p. 140-147.
25. L.D. Zhang and P. Zhang*, Towards high-level theoretical studies of large biodiesel molecules: an ONIOM [QCISD(T)/CBS:DFT] study of hydrogen abstraction reactions of CnH2n+1COOCmH2m+1 + H. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2015. 17(1): p. 200-208.
26. L.D. Zhang, Q.X. Chen, and P. Zhang*, A theoretical kinetics study of the reactions of methylbutanoate with hydrogen and hydroxyl radicals. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2015. 35: p. 481-489.
27. P. Zhang*, S.J. Klippenstein*, L.B. Harding, H.Y. Sun, and C.K. Law, Secondary channels in the thermal decomposition of monomethylhydrazine (CH3NHNH2). RSC Advances, 2014. 4(108): p. 62951-62964.
28. T.C. Zhang, J. Wang, X.J. Fan*, and P. Zhang, Combustion of Vaporized Kerosene in Supersonic Model Combustors with Dislocated Dual Cavities. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 2014. 30(5): p. 1152-1160.
29. T.C. Zhang, J. Wang, L. Qi, X. Fan*, and P. Zhang, Blowout Limits of Cavity-Stabilized Flame of Supercritical Kerosene in Supersonic Combustors. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 2014. 30(5): p. 1161-1166.
30. P. Zhang, S.J. Klippenstein*, and C.K. Law, Ab Initio Kinetics for the Decomposition of Hydroxybutyl and Butoxy Radicals of n-Butanol. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2013. 117(9): p. 1890-1906.
31. D. Liu, P. Zhang*, C.K. Law, and Y.C. Guo, Collision dynamics and mixing of unequal-size droplets. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2013. 57(1): p. 421-428.
32. H.Y. Sun, P. Zhang, and C.K. Law, Ab Initio Kinetics for Thermal Decomposition of CH3N·NH2, cis-CH3NHN·H, trans-CH3NHN·H, and C·H2NNH2 Radicals. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2012. 116(33): p. 8419-8430.
33. H.Y. Sun, P. Zhang, and C.K. Law, Gas-Phase Kinetics Study of Reaction of OH Radical with CH3NHNH2 by Second-Order Multireference Perturbation Theory. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2012. 116(21): p. 5045-5056.
34. S.W. Yoo, S. Chaudhuri, K.R. Sacksteder, P. Zhang, D.L. Zhu, and C.K. Law, Response of spherical diffusion flames subjected to rotation: Microgravity experimentation and computational simulation. Combustion and Flame, 2012. 159(2): p. 665-672.
35. C. Tang, P. Zhang, and C.K. Law, Bouncing, coalescence, and separation in head-on collision of unequal-size droplets. Physics of Fluids, 2012. 24(2).
36. P. Zhang and C.K. Law, An analysis of head-on droplet collision with large deformation in gaseous medium. Physics of Fluids, 2011. 23(4).
37. P. Zhang and C.K. Law, A Fitting Formula for the Falloff Curves of Unimolecular Reactions, II: Tunneling Effects. International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 2011. 43(1): p. 31-42.
38. P. Zhang, S.J. Klippenstein, H.Y. Sun, and C.K. Law, Ab initio kinetics for the decomposition of monomethylhydrazine (CH3NHNH2). Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2011. 33: p. 425-432.
39. P. Zhang and C.K. Law, Rarefied flow effects on stabilization and extinction of rotating-disk flame at low pressures. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2010. 53(1-3): p. 475-481.
40. T.C. Zhang, P. Zhang, C.K. Law, and F. Qi, CVD in Weakly Rarefied Rotating Disk Flows. Chemical Vapor Deposition, 2009. 15(10-12): p. 274-280.
41. P. Zhang and C.K. Law, A Fitting Formula for the Falloff Curves of Unimolecular Reactions. International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 2009. 41(11): p. 727-734.
42. P. Zhang and C.K. Law, Role of the Knudsen layer in determining surface reaction rates based on sticking coefficients. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2009. 634: p. 113-135.
Journal Publications (in Chinese)
43. P. Zhang, Binary Droplet Collision in Gasesous Environment. SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2017. 47(7): 070013. (invited review paper).
44. P. Zhang and G. Yu, Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a liquid drop at high Bond numbers. Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2006. 38(3): p. 1-7.
45. Y. Zhang, M. Zhang, S. Xu, and P. Zhang, Numerical investigation on blast wave propagation and dynamic response of an explosion vessel. Explosion and Shock Waves, 2003. 23(4): p. 331-336.
46. P. Zhang and G. Yu, Study of one-dimensional flow analysis model of the combustor in supersonic combustion experiments. Experiments and Measurements in Fluid Mechanics 2003. 17(1): p. 88-92.
47. P. Yue, S. Xu, and P. Zhang, Numerical study on a moving shock diffracted over the cylinder/square column in hydrogen air mixture. Chinese Journal of Computational Physics, 2001. 18(1): p. 10-16.
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The disgraced former comedian was sentenced on Tuesday.
Disgraced former comedian and actor Bill Cosby was sentenced to 3-10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand more than a decade ago. He was convicted earlier this year, and nine more of his accusers were in the courtroom to see his sentencing being read.
Cosby will serve a minimum of three years at a state prison for the assault, which is just one of dozens of alleged abuses of many women over many years. In 2015, 35 accusers shared the cover of New York Magazine to speak on the record about the abuse.
The hearing ended with the judge deeming Cosby a "sexually violent predator," which means he will be required to attend regular counseling long after his time served, as well as telling neighbors about his status and conviction.


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Q: How to fix Macbook that did not completely install a new version of OS, so now its stuck in a error loop every time its turned on. I tried to install the latest version of the mac os, computer was turned off mid installation. Now when i try to run the computer it goes through a error, keeps repeating the process of trying to fix the error.

A: Your best bet is to just start over from scratch.

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*Hold down CommandR while powering on the Mac to get it into recovery mode.

*Once the recovery mode menu comes up, choose disk utility, elect your Mac's hard drive and format it. If you have an SSD choose APFS, if not HFS+. If you are not sure, go with HFS+.

*When that is done (we reformatted just to be safe) Quit out of Disk Utility and choose the option to install macOS.

*You may need to either plug the Mac into your router with an Ethernet cable (fastest) or sign onto your WiFi network as the Mac will now download macOS.

*Make sure it is plugged in and is getting power. Older (magsafe) power connectors) have lights on them. Green for charged, Orange for charging and let it do it's thing.

*Follow the prompts to choose your language, etc. Note that your Mac will likely install the macOS it shipped with. You can upgrade to Mojave once you have a bootable Mac.

*Now just let it do its thing. You will know it is done when it starts asking more questions about your User account, to sign into iCloud. Etc.

Note that in step to I have you reformat your drive. This assumes you already have a backup (Time Machine or other) to restore your data from. If not you have a whole 'nother set of problems. Let us know if that is the case.
I have you reformat your drive in case something (disk structure, files, etc.) is damaged. It's more of a precaution than anything else. you MAY be able to reinstall without this step. I would not do that unless I absolutely had to and had data on the disk I didn't have a copy of.
It would also be helpful if you included your Mac's model in questions like this. Depending on the age of the Mac some features are not available, like Recovery Mode...

A: From Apple
You probably need to do following, but this time make sure it is plugged in to power.

How to use macOS Recovery
Turn on your Mac and immediately press and hold Command (⌘)-R or one
of the other macOS Recovery key combinations on your keyboard.
Continue holding until you see the Apple logo or a spinning globe.
Startup is complete when you see the utilities window:

Alternative methods are described in the link

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Associate, born and raised in New York, New York. Ms. Kim attended Bronx H.S. of Science in Bronx, New York. She earned her undergraduate degree in Economics from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She obtained an LSAT scholarship and earned her J.D. at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California.
In 2003, Ms. Kim returned to her home state, and was admitted to practice in New York. She gained invaluable experience in the areas of complex insurance coverage litigation and asbestos litigation working with a reputable defense firm in New York City.
In 2005, Ms. Kim was admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and since then has primarily concentrated her practice in the area of class action multi-district litigation. She also represents injured parties in medical negligence and personal injury lawsuits on a selective basis.


Hosting an Easter gathering? Personalize Easter eggs for your guests by using foil alphabet stickers to monogram eggs. Use the eggs as placeholders or plant them in some homegrown Easter grass. Boiled eggs have a strong nutritional profile.


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Below is a list of account partner status changes I found. I'm logging my findings since 2017-03-31.
Basically if the account has a different partner status associated with it than the last time I found the account it will get logged.


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Q: Listen for Spring Integration TCP Connection events My objective is to listen for particular tcp connection events and perform some tasks with it.
By implementing ApplicationEventPublisher, I can see the events firing.
@Component
public class TestEventPublisher implements ApplicationEventPublisher {

   @Override
   public void publishEvent(Object event) {
       LOG.info("Event Fired - {}", event.getClass());
   }
}

INFO  [globalTaskExecutor-2] logger - Event Fired - class org.springframework.integration.ip.tcp.connection.TcpConnectionOpenEvent
INFO  [ThreadPoolTaskExecutor-3] logger - Event Fired - class org.springframework.integration.ip.tcp.connection.TcpConnectionCloseEvent

So I added the listeners for it, but they do not get executed.
@Component
public class TestListeners {

   @EventListener(TcpConnectionOpenEvent.class)
   public void doSomethingWhenConnectionIsOpen() {
        LOG.info("----------------**************** CONNECTION OPEN EVENT FIRED ****************** -----------------------"); // No log shows up
    }

    @EventListener(TcpConnectionFailedEvent.class)
    public void doSomethingElseWhenConnectionFails() {
        LOG.info("----------------**************** CONNECTION ATTEMPT FAILED EVENT FIRED ****************** -----------------------"); // No Log shows up
    }

}

What i am doing wrong?

A: Your publisher doesn't actually publish anything, it just logs the event.
In order to use @EventListener, you must use the built in ApplicationEventPublisher provided by Spring (which is actually the application context).
The TCP components implement ApplicationEventPublisherAware so Spring will automatically inject the built-in publisher (as long as the component is managed by Spring). If you want to intercept the publishing, your publisher must implement ApplicationEventPublisherAware, log the event, then call the real publisher provided by Spring.
You should also add the event parameter to the listeners.


Last week Microsoft rolled out a long-awaited social networking integration to the Xbox 360 console that included support for Twitter, Facebook, and CBS-owned social music site last.fm.
The early reports are coming in about adoption of the new update, and last.fm is reporting they saw a whopping nearly one million new users sign up for the service via Xbox Live in the U.S. and UK.
That boils down to almost 300 new users per minute over the course of the last week, which last.fm says is the biggest growth spurt they've ever seen since the service first launched back in 2002. Additionally, over 120 million minutes' worth of music has been streamed through last.fm on the console during that week. By all accounts, that's a huge success for last.fm and a big win for the Xbox 360 as en entertainment hub beyond gaming.
The stats are doubly impressive when considering the total volume of Xbox Live users is only about 20 million — meaning almost 5% of them signed up for last.fm after the social integrations went live. Free Xbox Live Silver members only have access to a trial version of last.fm with a 180 minutes streaming limit, but paid Xbox Live Gold members have unlimited streaming access.
An additional last.fm subscription option at $3/month nets you ad-free, uninterrupted station listening, a view of recent profile visitors and a custom station of just the tracks you've loved (as well as member benefits on the last.fm site itself). Of course, it remains to be seen how many of those new signups will be converted to paid subscribers.
Are you using any of the new social features on your Xbox 360? Were you a member of last.fm beforehand, or did you sign up for the service thanks to the integration with your game console? Let us know in the comments.


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Shakespeare & Titian II
How might we conduct an investigation into the possibility of Shakespeare knowing Titian's composition? The situation is complicated by the fact that more than 30 copies of Venus and Adonis (20 on canvas, 10 in print) are known to exist. Let's start with the definitive version, the Venus and Adonis in Madrid (centre right on grid). The facts concerning the authentic Prado version are these. Titian painted the Venus and Adonis in 1553 for Philip II of Spain to commemorate his marriage to Queen Mary Tudor, the half sister of Elizabeth, on July 25th 1554. It was destined to hang in his private camerino, although the exact layout of Philip's poesia is not known, though it has been the subject of much debate.[1] However, the historical fact is that Philip II left England in 1555 and had his paintings shipped to the Low Countries under Spanish control; from there they went to Madrid. It is therefore extremely unlikely that Shakespeare would have seen the Prado Venus and Adonis. However Shakespeare could- and I mean could, not did- have known the composition through prints by either Giulio Sanuto lived and flourished in Venice between 1540 and 1588- or Martino Rota- engraver born in Sebenico, c. 1520, lived in Venice, Florence and Rome. The one by Gulio Sanuto (centre left on grid)- which has a copy in the print collection of the British Museum, was acquired long after the publication of the poem: however, this collection dates back to only to the first half of the eighteenth-century, so it can be ruled out as an influence.[2] No copy of Rota's print can be found in England prior to 1593, although Shakespeare could have seen one.
What about the painted variants and copies? To give you some idea of the problem, here are some of the more well-known versions. There is a painted variant in the National Gallery in London, (top left on grid). As Harold Wethey, the compiler of the Titian catalogue raisonné, says, this "does not measure up to Philip's picture by a considerable margin".[3] Its main difference is that it has a boyish Adonis, whose drapery is darker red and nearer to the velvet on which Venus sits. Sir Charles Holmes argued for this being earlier than the one in Madrid, and another connoisseur judged the canvas unfinished, perhaps because of the dull, brown colour of the landscape.[4] The Titian scholar Erica Tietze-Conrat said the painting was a sketch, or modello- or presentation sketch- of 1553 which "was used for repetitions in Titian's workshop." However, as Wethey says, the canvas is much too large to be a modello, and that Erica Tietze-Conrat probably hadn't seen the London or Madrid painting for many years.[5] It was previously in the Colonna collection in Rome, and subsequently acquired by the gallery from an English collector, Angerstein, in 1824. It was restored in 1924. This is almost certainly a workshop piece of about 1554 which shows Adonis much younger, more in accord with Ovid rather than Shakespeare. This type of composition that shows Cupid asleep and three dogs is known as the "Prado type."
There is another type known as the "Farnese type", known after a lost version from that collection.[6] According to the Venetian connoisseur Ridolfi, Titian painted a Venus and Adonis in Rome in 1545-6, but is disappeared in the 19th century without leaving any trace- we don't even know if the engravings and painted variants look like the Farnese picture.[7] This type seems to have completely different iconography to the "Prado type". Cupid is fully awake and very close to the lovers; there are two dogs instead of three. We know it through engravings and workshop versions.[8] One is in the Metropolitan Museum of New York (top right on grid), previously in the Palazzo Mariscotti in Rome for more than two hundred years until 1804 when it entered Lord Darnley's collection in Cobham.[9] After that, it was in a London collection, and then it went to New York in 1949. This is almost certainly another workshop copy, of about 1560-3, and falls into the "Farnese group". There's another example (bottom right on grid) of this group in Washington. This version probably descends from the Barbarigo-Giustiniani collection and purchased by Lord Sutherland in 1675.[10]
An interesting sidelight is thrown on this variant with sleeping Cupid when a picture in the London National Gallery is considered. A painting that is rarely on display, Boy with a Bird shows a similar youth to the conscious Cupid in the Farnese variant. This canvas has been analysed by Paul Joannides, and Jill Dunkerton (of the NG) and interesting conclusions have been reached. According to Joannides, stylistically the colour matches Titian's earlier "peaches and cream", that is, white and vermillion scheme, and therefore was painted much earlier than the poesia Venus and Adonis.[11] It's a long and complicated argument, but one of the most interesting views to come out of it is the possibility that Titian was thinking of the Venus and Adonis composition some thirty or forty years earlier.
This is taking us away from Shakespeare, but the third group, the so-called "Barberini type" has been of interest to Shakespeare scholars, though I would suspect art historians would steer well clear of it, mainly because it doesn't seem to meet Titian's very high standards. I would agree with Wethey that that the silly cap worn by Adonis in this picture (bottom left on grid) in the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, can have nothing to do with Titian, although that hasn't deterred Magri in arguing that "Shakespeare" could have seen it. [12] It should be noted that her "Shakespeare" refers to Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, not the Bard of Avon.[13] I have no knowledge of the authorship debate, nor do I intend to pursue it. But as to the "author" of this painting, it's certainly not Titian, but a follower, and not a very good one at that.
Bringing this talk to a close, what conclusions can we draw from the facts and images presented here?
The iconography of Titian's Sacred and Profane Love and the Venus and Adonis do have themes which appear in Shakespeare's poem. That could be purely coincidental. We cannot say any more.
The language of Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis", especially the play on Adonis as painted image, could support the theory that Shakespeare was looking at paintings which inspired these ideas, but not necessarily Titian's. Quite a lot of other Venetian painters did this subject. However Shakespeare was interested in visual art, and the poem does reflect awareness of the paragone debate in Italy. Famously he mentions Giulio Romano in The Winter's Tale, and Magri has tried to connect Giulio's Sala dei Cavalli with the imagery of the lively horses in Shakespeare's poem, but all that hinges on the authorship debate, which is best left to the experts.[14] For more on the authorship debate, go here.
Both Shakespeare's poem and Titian's painting for Philip II do contain the figure of a reluctant Adonis, which appears in Shakespeare, but not in Ovid. However, as David Rosand said, the reluctant lover was not without precedent. Still, although Panofsky's theory cannot be proved, it cannot be disproved either- it therefore remains a valid hypothesis, until new evidence emerges to refute it. I'll leave you with that final thought.
[1] See for example the discussions in Thomas Puttfarken, Titian and Tragic Painting: Aristotle's Poetics and the Rise of the Modern Artist, Yale, 2005; Jane C. Nash, Veiled Images: Titian's Mythological Paintings for Philip II, London, 1985.
[2] Magri, "Titian's Barberini Painting", 80.
[3] Wethey, The Paintings of Titian: Complete Edition, 3 vols., vol. III, Mythological and Historical Paintings, no 41, Phaidon, 1975, 190-1.
[4] Wethey, p. 190.
[5] Wethey, p.190.
[6] Wethey, L. 19, Farnese Coll., 1545-46 or about 1560; no. 95 (Sir Robert Strange's engraving); no. 96 (Raphael Sadeler's print); no. 97 (workshop variant in New York); no. 98 (Washington).
[7] Wethey, L-19, p. 242.
[8] According to Wethey, Sadeler made his print in 1610 from the version in the Barbarigo Coll, and now in Washington.
[9] Wethey, no. 43, pp. 192-3.
[10] Wethey, no. 44, p. 193.
[11] Paul Joannides and Jill Dunkerton, "Two Responses to a Titian Question", National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Vol. 28, 2007. "The small canvas of A Boy with a Bird (NG 933; plate 1) that entered the National Gallery with the Wynn Ellis Bequest in 1876 appears to be an extract of a detail from the so-called 'two-dog' type of Titian's Venus and Adonis, known from versions in Washington (plates 2 and 3) and New York, both of which are generally dated to the 1550s or 1560s. However, the paint handling of the boy in the National Gallery picture is characteristic of work by Titian and his studio in the 1520s and the colour range also suggests this period. This apparent contradiction led earlier scholars to conclude that it was a later pastiche of Titian, probably dating from the seventeenth century. The study of sources for the composition, and detailed technical examination following the recent cleaning of the painting, have led the present authors to reassess the work."
[12] Wethey, X-40, p. 223. "This mediocre school piece, in which Adonis wears a ridiculous red hat and has rose ribbons on his quiver, is not only coarsely painted but so clumsily based upon the Prado composition as to eliminate Titian's own participation. A related design and no better quality characterize the example at Alnwick Castle (cat x-39), where Cupid is wanting. The vertical shape of the picture allows for the inclusion of more of the trees and sky than in the Prado original." See also Wethey's comments on X-39, in the Duke of Northumberland's collection. "The extraordinary fact is that Crowe and Cavalcaselle wrote with the greatest enthusiasm of this small picture, which they ranked above the masterpiece in the Prado Museum. The preposterous cap worn by Adonis and the general awkwardness of the composition leave the impression that variant of the Prado version, like that in Rome (cat X-40) owes nothing to Titian himself."
[13] Those who support De Vere's authorship of the plays are called Oxfordians; those who support the Swan of Avon are called Stratfordians. I make no further comment than that!
[14] Magri, "Titian's Barberini Painting", 85.
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In 1563 Arthur Golding, the uncle of the Earl of Oxford, translated Ovid's Metamorphoses into English. Some think he was Oxford's Latin tutor as well.
Posted by: Francis DeStefano | 07/22/2011 at 09:05 PM
Working in the other direction, to how many aristocratic houses and collections did William Shakespeare have access? Where might he have gone to see works of art, I wonder? We now have thirty copies and ten prints (with many more that have presumably left no trace.) Not to mention the copies of copies, and free variants, especially by way of the decortive arts... At a few degrees of separation, almost anything is possible... even likely!
Posted by: Edward Goldberg | 07/23/2011 at 12:47 PM
Frank, I read that.
Edward, that point about entry into aristocratic collections came up in conversation today, believe it or not. Thanks for stopping by.
Posted by: David Packwood | 07/23/2011 at 06:14 PM
Thanks, David! I am enjoying your site very much. Many years ago, a teacher of mine proposed the "theory of the missing middle" when it came to artistic influence. "Unless we have absolute evidence linking one specific work of art to another specific work of art, the connection is probably yet another work of art - perhaps derivative or related - that no longer survives or at least, hasn't been identified." There were a few cultivated Italianists in Shakespeare's England but not very many,I don't think. And visual perceptions were probably most influenced by Netherlandish painters, often with Italianizing elements in their work. If Shakespeare didn't know the prints after Titian, some of the Haarlem Mannerists did!
Thanks Edward for your nice comments.
The missing middle theory is an interesting one. I'll bear that in mind. I don't think art historians use it much which doesn't surprise me.


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