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History through social media: New book on First World War shares soldiers' letters home through tweets
Jacqueline Carmichael's book Tweets from the Trenches shares more than 100 accounts from soldiers on the front lines during the First World War.	Edmonton
"Delivering rations to the front, dodging bullets & mortar fire both … bullets ripped the dirt up all round me but none of them were marked Black Jack," First World War veteran George "Black Jack" Vowel wrote home in 1915.
His granddaughter Jacqueline Carmichael found this letter a few years ago, along with several others highlighting grim stories from the front lines. Veterans sent home more than 9 million pieces of mail throughout the war and Carmichael thought these accounts needed to be shared — but in a manner better fit for society 100 years following the end of the war — on social media.
Carmichael, an author and former journalist residing in Port Alberni, B.C., created a Twitter account for Vowel in an effort to share his correspondence home from the war to a new generation.
"That was the social media of their day. They didn't have Twitter and they didn't have text. But they had journals and letters and that's how they communicated," she said. "I think it helps a new generation 100 years removed from that war connect with it. It makes it real how much like us these guys and women were."
Maj (Rev) Wm Beattie/#cobourg Heard a good louse story/A Tommy found a louse in his 'stache, picked it off & holding it up said 'What a deserter eh, Go back to the barracks'So saying he opened his shirt & tucked it in #wwi @BlackJackVowel #canadianletters pic.twitter.com/mgCMlLPeg6
— Alberta WWI Soldier (@BlackJackVowel) August 19, 2018
It was these grim, real accounts that prompted Carmichael to gather more than 100 stories from veterans into her book Tweets from the Trenches: Little True Stories of Life & Death on the Western Front.
Carmichael's research brought her to many of the 20,000 soldiers from Edmonton who fought overseas in the First World War.
Eugene Drader.
She discovered the bond of two Edmonton-based teachers, Harry Balfour and Robert Eugene Drader, through a "heartbreaking" letter Balfour sent to Drader's parents after he was killed in action.
"Since his death I am not the same; I cannot be," Balfour wrote. "For we were known as inseparables.
"Many, many hearts in Edmonton and Gull Lake will be very, very sad."
Balfour returned to Alberta following the war and was an educator across the province before settling down as a high school inspector in southern Alberta. A school in Grande Prairie is named in his honour.
Capt. George McKean, who immigrated to Edmonton from England at the age of 14, received three separate medals for acts of valour including the Victoria Cross. McKean made it out of the war, returned to England and was killed in a freak industrial accident in 1926 when a circular saw blade struck him in the head. His wife gave birth to their daughter two days later.
Canada's first Indigenous police officer from Edmonton, Alex Decoteau, wrote about feeling "awfully lonesome" in his last letter home to his sister in Sept. 1917.
"I am laying on the ground trying to finish this letter before dark. I hope I do for I don't know when I'll have another opportunity," he wrote. Decoteau was killed in battle a few months later.
Alex Decoteau.
It is first-hand accounts like these that need to be remembered and shared as the world looks back 100 years after the armistice ending the First World War, Carmichael said.
"I think if we don't look at (war) and recognize it and remember it, we could be doomed to repeat history."
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I have a TEdit control on my form. I would like to check whether the data entered by the user is either an alphabet or a number.
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I have a TMaskEdit control on my form and I want to restrict users to enter only numbers.
Can anybody post code samples how to do that ?
Any help is appreciated.

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Read the documentation on how the TMaskEdit.EditMask property works.  Set the mask to contain as many '#' characters as you want to allow users to enter digits.
Altrnatively, switch to TEdit and use the SetWindowsLong() function to give it the ES_NUMBER style.

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US — Nielsen has announced the launch of its e-commerce measurement solution in the US.
The capability is already available in eight markets globally. It is a combination of Nielsen retail data 'cooperators' across a number of channels, consumer-sourced data sets and demand-related analytics.
"We are excited to bring this comprehensive measurement solution to our clients and the industry," said Karen Fichuk, president, North America.
"While we have been helping clients understand the e-commerce landscape by developing strategies and marketing solutions, having the ability to share with clients how they are doing against their competitors and in various channels is something that has been years in the making."
The solution will be integrated within Nielsen's current measurement services and will be available to US clients later this year.


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Adventist Church president leads thousands in massive Brazilian outreach
Bern, March 28, 2012 [ANN]. Before the start of a massive March 24 evangelistic outreach in São Paulo, Brazil's largest city, Pastor Ted N.C. Wilson, General Conference president, had encouraging words: "Everyone can be part of God's remnant church."
March 28, 2012 | M. Kellner, Adventis Review - ANN. Picture A. Figueiredo
Speaking to a congregation of 2,000 at the São Paulo Adventist University Center (UNASP) Church – with another 5,000 to 6,000 viewing a broadcast at other locations -- Wilson said he planned to join thousands of church members that day in distributing what turned out to be 4 million copies of The Great Hope, an outreach book based on The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White, a pioneering co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist movement. A total of 25 million books are to be distributed throughout the South American Division in one day, he noted.
Adventist world church President Ted Wilson poses with a group of volunteers holding copies of The Great Hope, a sharing book based on church co-founder Ellen G. White's classic, The Great Controversy. Wilson led a March 24 distribution of 4 million copies of the book in São Paulo. [photos: Arumí Figueiredo]
Officials in the South American Division emphasized that the March 24 effort is not an isolated venture. The following Sabbath, March 31, will be a "friendship day" in which neighbors are invited to participate in an Adventist worship service and lunch with Adventist families. The goal of the "Impact Hope" campaign is to inspire Seventh-day Adventists in the South American Division to live a lifestyle of personal evangelism.
For his part, Wilson lauded the division's massive one-day literature outreach, and said other world church divisions could benefit from similar programs.
"The beauty of all of this is that it motivated the entire church on every socio-economic level to participate in distributing the book to loved ones, friends, neighbors, and others," Wilson wrote later in an e-mail message to Adventist Review. "It got the church out into the community to meet the people and the Holy Spirit blessed the efforts enormously. … It has shown that a single event approach, along with every other personal outreach activity and local church outreach, can be a huge rallying point to galvanize God's people for witnessing and missionary work. Divisions and unions around the world need to use this approach to bring church members together in something that is far bigger and grander than anything we could do individually."
Along with a burgeoning Adventist medical missionary outreach in the region, Wilson said literature distribution is a key means by which mega-cities such as São Paulo, with a municipal population of 11.3 million (and an additional 8 million in the surrounding metropolitan area) are to be reached. The city will also be one of 12 host cities when Brazil welcomes the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer championships.
"The world church has committed itself to distribute 175 million copies of The Great Hope and the larger version [The Great Controversy] this year and next year," Wilson told the congregation. "Can you imagine how many new Seventh-day Adventist believers we will have because of this? And we give God all the glory."
Wilson added, "God uses His Word to change people's lives. He uses books like this [The Great Hope] to change peoples' lives."
That change was evident in the life and testimony of Sheyla Guimarães, a homemaker from the city of Mineiros do Tietê, about 140 miles (225 km) from the city. Her heartfelt video testimony was played during the worship service, and described the story of a spiritual seeker who was dissatisfied. In October 2011, Sheyla's daughter found a copy of The Great Hope in the family's mailbox. She "devoured" the book, and said she found answers that were not provided in other churches. Today, she's a Seventh-day Adventist.
An Adventist volunteer tosses a copy of The Great Hope to a resident of Brazil's largest city.
Guimarães and her daughter came to the platform and were greeted by Wilson and other church leaders. She told Wilson and the congregation how happy she was to be a part of the family of God.
During his sermon, Wilson emphasized the role of the Seventh-day Adventist movement as "a unique people with a unique message." He explained that because of the gift of the Spirit of Prophecy, which Adventists believe was manifested by Ellen G. White during her 70-year ministry, the church has a special responsibility.
"We are told the greatest wealth of truth ever entrusted to mortals has been given to [the remnant] to give to the world," Wilson said. "When we understand that by grace we are saved, when we understand the completeness of salvation as explained by the sanctuary service, then we begin to understand that Jesus is our creator, isour redeemer, is our example, is our high priest and is our coming King. In Jesus we have everything we need to be saved. What a message it is to share with people today!"
Before joining the thousands at the UNASP church in going out to share The Great Hope, Wilson said he'd been told that São Paulo had the greatest population density of Seventh-day Adventists in Brazil.
"By God's grace, São Paulo will become even more populated with Seventh-day Adventists" as a result of the March 24 outreach, Wilson said. "Let us go into every corner of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Belém, Fortaleza, Manaus – and throughout every country of South America. Bring the wonderful news: Jesus is coming again!"
Following the worship, Wilson and other church leaders visited Jd. Colombo, one of the slum neighborhoods in São Paulo's Paraisópolis, or "Paradise" district to share that "great hope" with residents.
The day concluded in São Paulo with a rally of more than 60,000 Adventists celebrating the outreach effort. Combined youth choirs and a full orchestra, Wilson reported, led "a program organized of thanksgiving to God and, of course, thanks to the great efforts of so many people who dedicated themselves to this great missionary task."

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Coen backs young Mayo stars to be up for Dublin challenge
Dublin's Seán Bugler and Mayo's Stephen Coen in action during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Final between Dublin and Mayo at Croke Park Dublin on December-19-2020. Pic Philip Walsh.
By Paul Keane
13 August, 2021 01:00
IT was two years ago last Tuesday that Dublin buried Mayo in a barrage of third-quarter scoring to win their 2019 All-Ireland semi-final tie by 10 points.
Looking back now, Mayo defender Stephen Coen maintains it wasn't a watershed moment for the group but it's hard to view it in any other light.
Six of the Mayo players that featured that evening have since retired while just seven of the team that started against Dublin in 2019 were in the recent Connacht final lineup.
Mayo are clearly a different team now, full of pace and power and playing a different way though one constant in their setup is Aidan O'Shea.
Like Coen, he was there in 2019 and is still there now, wearing the captain's armband and hoping that on his 152nd appearance for Mayo tomorrow evening, he can finally overcome Dublin at Croke Park.
"Aidan in fairness would be the ultimate professional and that shows in the amount of appearances he's made and all the games he's been involved in," said Coen.
"He always makes himself available, he's always hungry to perform, a real leader in the group and someone that a lot of the guys would model themselves on.
"He minds his body, his nutrition, recovery, that would all be top notch, would never be questioned. He's just been brilliant for us for, I don't know how many seasons he's been in with us, is it 13 or 14 seasons probably?"
O'Shea won't win too many straight line races with younger colleagues like Tommy Conroy or Ryan O'Donoghue. He's never been a prolific scorer either but for sheer hard graft and, particularly his effectiveness in the tackle, there are few better than the big Breaffy man.
"I think with any team you play against you try not to go into contact when it's not necessary, but especially when you're playing against Aidan," said Coen.
"Anyone that goes near him, the ball kind of pops out easily. And for a guy of his strength, he's always looking to get stronger, to get faster, to get more explosive. He never lets himself rest, he's always pushing on, trying to improve himself. That kind of sums up his attitude and his application."
Since the 2019 semi-final loss, when Dublin memorably scored 2-6 without reply in a 12-minute period in the third quarter, Mayo have introduced some thrilling young talent. Oisin Mullin, Tommy Conroy and Eoghan McLaughlin were all nominated for the Young Player of the Year award in 2020 while O'Donoghue has taken his opportunity up front too.
Out the exit door have gone Chris Barrett, Donie Vaughan, Seamus O'Shea, Keith Higgins, Andy Moran and Tom Parsons.
Coen isn't convinced that all those changes were necessarily a reaction to being pummelled by Dublin in 2019.
"I don't think it was because of that specific game," he said.
"Those changes just happened naturally. I suppose in a county like Mayo, there's always brilliant talent coming through. We're just really fortunate that there was a really good generation of players at one age group and there's been really good lads that have come through since then.
"When you've got players of that quality, you have to play them. A lot of their strengths are pace, explosiveness, power, getting up the field, supporting attacks, being good at defending. We're just very lucky to have them and any way at all we can help them to keep improving, that's all we can do."
With all that raw talent, it was Mayo that displayed the third quarter explosiveness in the recent Connacht final, reeling off 1-6 without reply to come from behind against Galway and bury their old rivals.
"We're playing with freedom and a lot of energy and we're just trying to harness all that properly," said Coen. "But then if we had a brilliant 70 minutes the last day, we'd still be trying to improve it for 78 or 79 minutes the next day.
"We're just trying to maximise things when we're going well and then manage it well when you might be struggling a bit."
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Errol Thompson, Clive Chin, and Augustus Pablo at Studio 17
Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes Film Premieres on Tidal and Qwest TV
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A treasure trove of rescued tapes revives the golden age of reggae music and reveals the fascinating story behind oneof Jamaica's most legendary recording studios, Randy's Studio 17.
STUDIO 17: THE LOST REGGAE TAPES opens a door into the creation of a musical form that changed the sound of popular music around the world and takes a hard look at the real lives of the poor musicians who created it. Located in the heart of downtown Kingston, Studio 17 was a nerve center of Jamaica's vibrant music scene. Shot in Jamaica, London, and Hamburg, the film follows Clive Chin's own battle to secure the rights to the Randy's archive so that the music will be heard by future generations. We also see his emotional struggle to overcome the murder of his son Joel Chin, who was head of A&R for VP Records and worked closely with dancehall stars like Sean Paul & Beenie Man.
Widestream Films and Iambic Dream Films in association with BBC Music presents 'STUDIO 17: THE LOST REGGAE TAPES.' The feature-length documentary was a hit on British TV and at select film festivals before the Coronavirus pandemic. It will have its U.S. debut starting on February 1, 2021 for Reggae Month on Qwest TV, Quincy Jones' video-on-demand service for lovers of great music.
The film will also be available for a limited time on Tidal, the streaming service founded by hip hop mogul Jay-Z, as part of a special Reggae Month campaign on the Tidal home page starting February 1.
Listen to David Rodigan's BBC 1Xtra feature on STUDIO 17: THE LOST REGGAE TAPES
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'STUDIO 17: THE LOST REGGAE TAPES' features an unreleased track from the Studio 17 archives by Dennis Brown, the late great Crown Prince of Reggae. The legendary singer's 64th birthday on February 1 kicks off the worldwide celebration of Reggae Month.
The song was produced by Clive Chin in the mid 1970s at Studio 17 and left unfinished and unreleased until being rescued by Clive many years later. After forty years, the internationally acclaimed musician, songwriter, and producer Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame collaborated with Clive to finish the tender love song, adding vocals by teenage singer Hollie Stephenson to make a moving duet that can be heard for the first time in the documentary.
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ABOUT THE FILM:
STUDIO 17: THE LOST REGGAE TAPES includes original interviews with iconic figures like Jimmy Cliff, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sly Dunbar, Maxi Priest, Ali Campbell of UB40, King Jammy, Lord Creator, Ernest Ranglin, the late trombonist Rico Rodriguez, and the late producer Bunny Lee, who passed away in 2020 due to Covid-19. The film tells the story of the birth of reggae as it rose from humble beginnings to become a worldwide phenomenon.
The in-depth documentary tells the story of how Lord Creator fell on hard times after recording early hits for Randy's and other producers. Years later he was homeless and destitute until the British reggae band UB40 covered one of his classic songs and changed his life forever.
"One of the finest reggae documentaries ever made"
—John Masouri, Echoes
"A magical piece of work…fascinating insight into the earliest period of the music" —David Rodigan, BBC 1Xtra
"A good slice of truth that is going to inspire other stories to be told because the truth doesn't go away" —Pat McKay, SiriusXM
ABOUT THE STUDIO:
Located in the heart of downtown Kingston at 17 North Parade, Randy's Records and Randy's Studio 17 were founded by Vincent and Pat Chin, becoming a nerve center of Jamaica's vibrant music scene. Amidst the political strife of the late 1970s, the Chin family relocated to America to start a new life. Years later, Vincent's eldest son Clive Chin returned to salvage hundreds of precious reels that were left behind, painstakingly restoring these lost recordings by many legends of ska and reggae.
During the late 1950s Vincent "Randy" Chin was working for a jukebox company, changing out worn records all over Jamaica. Instead of throwing the used records away, Vincent had the bright idea of selling them at a reduced price. By his side from the start was his wife Pat, who had given up a career in nursing to join Vincent as he travelled around the island. Together they set up Randy's Records, just as a spirit of excitement was starting to grip Jamaica with the onset of independence from Great Britain. In 1962, Vincent produced his first record, "Independent Jamaica" by Lord Creator, a charismatic singer of the time. The song became a huge hit, launching Vincent Chin into a lifetime of record production.
The Randy's archive contains hundreds of reels featuring many unheard and unreleased songs by The Wailers, Peter Tosh, Dennis Brown, The Skatalites, Alton Ellis, Gregory Isaacs and many more legendary stars of Jamaican music. Somehow these precious tapes survived years of neglect as well as looting, hurricane Gilbert, and intense tropical heat. The songs were produced by Vincent "Randy" Chin and his son Clive Chin at Randy's Studio 17, which was located upstairs from the family's bustling record store at 17 North Parade, forming Jamaica's first fully integrated production and sales outlet.
In its prime, Studio 17 was a magnet for top Jamaican talent, including Bob Marley & the Wailers, Peter Tosh (who also worked there as a studio musician), Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Carl Malcolm, Jimmy London, The Skatalites, American soul star Johnny Nash and many more. Legendary producers like Lee "Scratch" Perry and Bunny Lee booked out Studio 17 regularly while Vincent mentored his son Clive Chin in the art of engineering and production. Clive's sessions with Augustus Pablo yielded the historic Java Java Java LP, the first dub album in music history. But the good times would soon come to an end.
Political turmoil gripped Jamaica in the late 1970s forcing the Chin family to flee to New York, abandoning the recording studio and hundreds of session tapes in their haste. Vincent and Pat went on to establish VP Records, which became the world's largest independent distributor of reggae music. Meanwhile in Jamaica stacks of original session tapes languished inside Studio 17, surviving violence, looting, Hurricane Gilbert, and sweltering tropical heat.
Years later, Clive Chin undertook a mission to rescue the treasure trove of original Studio 17 tapes. Inspired by the tragic death of his son Joel Chin, a VP Records employee who was murdered in a still-unsolved shooting in 2011, Clive resolved to digitize and re-master these stunning recordings from reggae's golden age. Listening to session tapes with ace musicians bantering between takes is like stepping into a time machine, an experience that unleashes a flood of wonderful memories from Clive Chin's years working alongside his father.
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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION:
Director: Mark James
Producer: Reshma B / Mark James
Camera: Chris Morphet
Film Editor: Paul Burgess
Executive Producers: Waël Kabbani, Iambic Dream, Jan Younghusband, BBC
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES:
Mark James: Director
Mark is an award-winning director, editor, and cinematographer. He studied fine art at Goldsmiths College and film production at the Royal College of Art Film School. He went on to direct a number of films for television including FREEZE, the controversial first film on artist Damien Hirst and the new wave of YBA's (Young British Artists) for BBC 1. Since then Mark has filmed, directed, and edited many films for television on music and the arts including Bryan Ferry, Dave Stewart, Phil Collins. His first feature film VAMPIRE DIARY won 4 awards at the Milan International Film Festival, including Best Film. More recently, Mark directed, filmed, and edited A BIPOLAR EXPEDITION, a feature documentary for Channel 4's True Stories, as well as 3D dance spectacular DANCE DANCE DANCE for Sky Arts that won a 3D Society International Award. Mark has several new documentary projects in development, as well as 3 feature films that he has written.
Reshma B: Producer & Reggae Journalist
Reshma B is a music journalist and filmmaker who specializes in reggae and dancehall music. Her work appears on media platforms such as BBC, Billboard, Pigeons & Planes/Complex, VIBE and Boomshots. She is also the reggae and dancehall curator at Tidal. She has conducted extensive interviews with most of the top acts in Jamaican music including Shabba Ranks, Supercat, Vybz Kartel, and Popcaan. She writes the column "Murda She Wrote" highlighting the latest dancehall releases which currently runs on Tidal Magazine accompanied by its own playlist. This Reggae Month Reshma B rolls a special feature on Tidal's homepage to paying tribute to Jamaican music. The "Reggae Girl About Town's" in-depth cultural knowledge and strong relationships with leading artists have made her a popular figure within the scene, she has produced music docs for TV, radio and internet as well as hosting events and on camera interviews. In her documentary 'Jamaica Inna Real Life' she and a camera crew followed New York–based recording artist Hood Celebrityy on her first trip home to Jamaica since she was a little girl. STUDIO 17: THE LOST REGGAE TAPES is her first feature-length project. She is currently producing an upcoming documentary on Grammy nominee Skip Marley and will host her own radio show "Murda She Wrote" on SiriusXM's new Bob Marley Tuff Gong Radio.
Waël Kabbani: Executive Producer
Waël Kabbani, Iambic Dream Films executive creative director, provides leadership and guidance, and drives the company's mission to engage through all forms of storytelling. He is passionate about the power of creativity and the people who make it happen. Waël is truly a global citizen, with a Syrian-Saudi background, school years in Switzerland, a decadent decade and a half in California, a vibrant life in London and a home base in Montreal. Waël passionately tells his stories through music, film, and animation, often combining all three creative mediums in one project. Waël has recently produced 'We Are Many' about the 2003 global anti-war protests, that has been a festival and cinema smash around the world this summer and now in the running for the Oscars.
Paul Burgess: Editor
Paul has over 25 years of experience making high quality broadcast television. After graduating in Film and Literature at Warwick University, he built his reputation as one of the U.K's foremost documentary editors, earning awards, nominations, and critical acclaim for his work. Persuaded to bring his story-telling skills outside the cutting room he has gone on to forge a parallel career as Producer and Director, making films on a wide range of social, cultural and historical subjects for all major international broadcasters including BBC, PBS, ARTE, CBC, Discovery and National Geographic.
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Quotes Uncovered: Fools and Theory
Quotes Uncovered
Here are more quote authors and origins Shapiro's tracked down recently.
Songs and Dancing
The Punchline, Please
Brides and Fruit Flies
A while back, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and more recent researches by me. Hundreds of people have responded via comments or e-mails. I am responding as best I can, a few per week.
psychohistorian asked:
"You can fool all the people half the time, and half the people all the time." I seem to recall this being attributed to Lincoln. I also recall a professor who had gone through most or all of Lincoln's works and never found it.
The Yale Book of Quotations, which attempts to trace all famous quotations to their earliest findable appearances, has the following:
"You can fool all of the people some of time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln in The New York Times, August 27, 1887. According to The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, "Tradition has come to attribute to the Clinton [Illinois] speeches [September 2, 1858] this "most famous" of Lincoln's utterances. Basler indicates, however, that there is no evidence of this saying in Lincoln documents. P.T. Barnum has also been a putative source for the quotation.
Frederick Michael asked:
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." "Predictions are difficult, especially when they involve the future." They are falsely attributed to Yogi Berra and Niels Bohr, respectively.
The first quote is presumably an apocryphal Yogiism. For the second one, The YBQ says:
"It is difficult to predict, especially the future." Attributed to Niels Bohr in Marc Kac, "Statistics" (1975). Kac states that this saying may have been "an old Danish proverb." K.K. Steincke, Goodbye and Thanks (1948), quotes it as a pun used in the Danish Parliament in the late 1930's.
Michael in Iowa City asked:
I'm very curious if the expression "hard-knock life" existed before the musical Annie.
A search of the vast ProQuest database of historical newspapers and magazines does not reveal any pre-Annie usages, so I would conjecture that it was probably not in use before the musical.
Do any readers have any other quotations whose origins they would like me to attempt to trace?


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Estrangeiro () is a 1989 album by the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso. It was produced by Peter Scherer and Arto Lindsay and features Naná Vasconcelos, Carlinhos Brown, Bill Frisell and Marc Ribot. Robert Christgau named it 27th on "The 1989 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll" of best albums released in that year.

Track listing

Personnel
Caetano Veloso: vocals, acoustic guitar (on tracks 3, 8, 10)
Peter Scherer: keyboards (on 1–7, 9)
Arto Lindsay: guitar (on 1, 3–5, 9) and voice (on 4)
Bill Frisell: guitar (on 1, 6)
Marc Ribot: guitar (on 1, 7)
Toni Costa: guitar (on 2, 9) and acoustic guitar (on 10)
Tavinho Fialho: bass (on 2, 9)
Tony Lewis: drums (on 1)
Cesinha: drums (on 2, 9)
Naná Vasconcelos: percussion (on 1, 5–8)
Carlinhos Brown: percussion (on 2, 4, 9)

References

1989 albums
Caetano Veloso albums

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package org.apache.xml.security.keys.keyresolver.implementations;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.PrivateKey;
import java.security.PublicKey;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.apache.xml.security.c14n.CanonicalizationException;
import org.apache.xml.security.exceptions.XMLSecurityException;
import org.apache.xml.security.keys.KeyInfo;
import org.apache.xml.security.keys.content.KeyInfoReference;
import org.apache.xml.security.keys.keyresolver.KeyResolverException;
import org.apache.xml.security.keys.keyresolver.KeyResolverSpi;
import org.apache.xml.security.keys.storage.StorageResolver;
import org.apache.xml.security.signature.XMLSignatureInput;
import org.apache.xml.security.utils.Constants;
import org.apache.xml.security.utils.XMLUtils;
import org.apache.xml.security.utils.resolver.ResourceResolver;
import org.apache.xml.security.utils.resolver.ResourceResolverContext;
import org.apache.xml.security.utils.resolver.ResourceResolverException;
import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * KeyResolverSpi implementation which resolves public keys, private keys, secret keys, and X.509 certificates from a
 * dsig11:KeyInfoReference element.
 *
 */
public class KeyInfoReferenceResolver extends KeyResolverSpi {

    private static final org.slf4j.Logger LOG =
        org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(KeyInfoReferenceResolver.class);

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    protected boolean engineCanResolve(Element element, String baseURI, StorageResolver storage) {
        return XMLUtils.elementIsInSignature11Space(element, Constants._TAG_KEYINFOREFERENCE);
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    protected PublicKey engineResolvePublicKey(Element element, String baseURI, StorageResolver storage, boolean secureValidation)
        throws KeyResolverException {
        try {
            KeyInfo referent = resolveReferentKeyInfo(element, baseURI, storage, secureValidation);
            if (referent != null) {
                return referent.getPublicKey();
            }
        } catch (XMLSecurityException e) {
            LOG.debug("XMLSecurityException", e);
        }

        return null;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    protected X509Certificate engineResolveX509Certificate(Element element, String baseURI, StorageResolver storage, boolean secureValidation)
        throws KeyResolverException {
        try {
            KeyInfo referent = resolveReferentKeyInfo(element, baseURI, storage, secureValidation);
            if (referent != null) {
                return referent.getX509Certificate();
            }
        } catch (XMLSecurityException e) {
            LOG.debug("XMLSecurityException", e);
        }

        return null;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    protected SecretKey engineResolveSecretKey(Element element, String baseURI, StorageResolver storage, boolean secureValidation)
        throws KeyResolverException {

        try {
            KeyInfo referent = resolveReferentKeyInfo(element, baseURI, storage, secureValidation);
            if (referent != null) {
                return referent.getSecretKey();
            }
        } catch (XMLSecurityException e) {
            LOG.debug("XMLSecurityException", e);
        }

        return null;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    public PrivateKey engineResolvePrivateKey(Element element, String baseURI, StorageResolver storage, boolean secureValidation)
        throws KeyResolverException {

        try {
            KeyInfo referent = resolveReferentKeyInfo(element, baseURI, storage, secureValidation);
            if (referent != null) {
                return referent.getPrivateKey();
            }
        } catch (XMLSecurityException e) {
            LOG.debug("XMLSecurityException", e);
        }

        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Resolve the KeyInfoReference Element's URI attribute into a KeyInfo instance.
     *
     * @param element
     * @param baseURI
     * @param storage
     * @param secureValidation
     * @return the KeyInfo which is referred to by this KeyInfoReference, or null if can not be resolved
     * @throws XMLSecurityException
     */
    private KeyInfo resolveReferentKeyInfo(Element element, String baseURI,
                                           StorageResolver storage, boolean secureValidation) throws XMLSecurityException {
        KeyInfoReference reference = new KeyInfoReference(element, baseURI);
        Attr uriAttr = reference.getURIAttr();

        XMLSignatureInput resource = resolveInput(uriAttr, baseURI, secureValidation);

        Element referentElement = null;
        try {
            referentElement = obtainReferenceElement(resource, secureValidation);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            LOG.debug("XMLSecurityException", e);
            return null;
        }

        if (referentElement == null) {
            LOG.debug("De-reference of KeyInfoReference URI returned null: {}", uriAttr.getValue());
            return null;
        }

        validateReference(referentElement, secureValidation);

        KeyInfo referent = new KeyInfo(referentElement, baseURI);
        referent.setSecureValidation(secureValidation);
        referent.addStorageResolver(storage);
        return referent;
    }

    /**
     * Validate the Element referred to by the KeyInfoReference.
     *
     * @param referentElement
     * @param secureValidation
     *
     * @throws XMLSecurityException
     */
    private void validateReference(Element referentElement, boolean secureValidation) throws XMLSecurityException {
        if (!XMLUtils.elementIsInSignatureSpace(referentElement, Constants._TAG_KEYINFO)) {
            Object[] exArgs = { new QName(referentElement.getNamespaceURI(), referentElement.getLocalName()) };
            throw new XMLSecurityException("KeyInfoReferenceResolver.InvalidReferentElement.WrongType", exArgs);
        }

        KeyInfo referent = new KeyInfo(referentElement, "");
        if (referent.containsKeyInfoReference() || referent.containsRetrievalMethod()) {
            if (secureValidation) {
                throw new XMLSecurityException("KeyInfoReferenceResolver.InvalidReferentElement.ReferenceWithSecure");
            } else {
                // Don't support chains of references at this time. If do support in the future, this is where the code
                // would go to validate that don't have a cycle, resulting in an infinite loop. This may be unrealistic
                // to implement, and/or very expensive given remote URI references.
                throw new XMLSecurityException("KeyInfoReferenceResolver.InvalidReferentElement.ReferenceWithoutSecure");
            }
        }

    }

    /**
     * Resolve the XML signature input represented by the specified URI.
     *
     * @param uri
     * @param baseURI
     * @param secureValidation
     * @return the XML signature input represented by the specified URI.
     * @throws XMLSecurityException
     */
    private XMLSignatureInput resolveInput(Attr uri, String baseURI, boolean secureValidation)
        throws XMLSecurityException {
        ResourceResolverContext resContext = new ResourceResolverContext(uri, baseURI, secureValidation);
        if (resContext.isURISafeToResolve()) {
            return ResourceResolver.resolve(resContext);
        }
        String uriToResolve = uri != null ? uri.getValue() : null;
        Object[] exArgs = { uriToResolve != null ? uriToResolve : "null", baseURI };

        throw new ResourceResolverException("utils.resolver.noClass", exArgs, uriToResolve, baseURI);
    }

    /**
     * Resolve the Element effectively represented by the XML signature input source.
     *
     * @param resource
     * @param secureValidation
     * @return the Element effectively represented by the XML signature input source.
     * @throws CanonicalizationException
     * @throws ParserConfigurationException
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws SAXException
     * @throws KeyResolverException
     */
    private Element obtainReferenceElement(XMLSignatureInput resource, boolean secureValidation)
        throws CanonicalizationException, ParserConfigurationException,
        IOException, SAXException, KeyResolverException {

        Element e;
        if (resource.isElement()) {
            e = (Element) resource.getSubNode();
        } else if (resource.isNodeSet()) {
            LOG.debug("De-reference of KeyInfoReference returned an unsupported NodeSet");
            return null;
        } else {
            // Retrieved resource is a byte stream
            byte[] inputBytes = resource.getBytes();
            e = getDocFromBytes(inputBytes, secureValidation);
        }
        return e;
    }
}

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Nathan Fillion stars as Nathan Drake in a totally unauthorised Uncharted short film
Nathan Fillion as Nathan Drake. If you know both those names, you should get that it's such a good fit. And some things are just too perfect to live.
But here we are. A completely unofficial Uncharted 'fan film' made with real Hollywood talent in front of and behind the camera.
Watch it below and hope it will not be taken down too quickly by Sony for showing such love for its intellectual property.
It's slick, it's fun, and it's got cool people delivering 14 minutes and 48 seconds worth of performances that we'd be perfectly happy seeing fleshed out into a longer form.
Of course… what makes for a great short flick doesn't always translate. But this is good and we'll take what we can get for now.
And when we talk of 'fan films', that's quite the disservice to Canadian director Allan Ungar, who has two action feature films (Tapped Out, Gridlocked) to his credit already. But we're very happy to see experts throw their talents at some passion projects for the web to enjoy.
In revealing the project, Fillion dropped this message on his Instagram:
A lot of love and no small expense has clearly gone into this project, so let's hope it stays available for fans to enjoy!
At very least, this could tide us over until the official film being directed by Shawn Levy and starring a way-too-young-for-Drake Tom Holland and probably-a-good-fit-for-Sully Brian Cranston eventually gets made.
Hearthstone Ranked Ladder gets a March update!
10 years of Bioshock: The genius of Rapture
The grand ambition of Dreams, led by Siobhan Reddy


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Це стаття про державну нагороду Російської Федерації. Про орден СРСР див.: Орден Кутузова.

Орден Кутузова () — державна нагорода Російської Федерації.

Історія нагороди
 Указом Президії Верховної Ради Російської Федерації № 2424-I від 2 березня 1992 року «Про державні нагороди Російської Федерації» радянські ордени Суворова, Ушакова, Кутузова, Нахімова та Олександра Невського були збережені у системі нагород Російської Федерації до прийняття Закону про державні нагороди. Указ був затверджений 20 березня 1992 року Постановою Верховної Ради Російської Федерації № 2557-I. Проте, ці ордени як державні нагороди Російської Федерації не мали статутів й офіційного опису до 2010 року.
 Указом Президента Російської Федерації від 7 вересня 2010 року № 1099 «Про заходи щодо вдосконалення державної нагородної системи Російської Федерації» затверджені нині діючі статут та опис ордену.

Статут ордена
1. Орденом Кутузова нагороджуються командири військових частин та їх заступники, а також командири батальйонів і рот:
 за вмілу організацію і проведення операцій, в ході яких, незважаючи на чисельну перевагу противника, були досягнуті цілі операції;
 за проявлену завзятість при відбитті ударів противника з повітря, суші і моря, утримання зайнятих військами призначених зон відповідальності, створення умов для ведення подальших операцій з наступальними цілями;
 за вмілу організацію управління військами (силами), створення підготовленої оборони, підтримання тісної взаємодії між військами (силами), які беруть участь в операції, що забезпечили поразку противника на всю глибину його побудови і позбавили його можливості продовжувати наступ;
 за вміле проведення бою на суші і в повітрі в оточенні переважаючих сил противника й організацію прориву з виведенням своїх військ з оточення без значної втрати боєздатності;
 за захоплення з незначними втратами для своїх військ великого вузла опору противника, його комунікацій, розгром його тилових гарнізонів і баз, захоплення і утримання життєво важливих районів території, рішучу відсич контратак противника з повітря, суші і моря;
 за успішне виконання бойового завдання, виявлену при цьому особисту хоробрість, що призвели до знищення критично важливих військових об'єктів та техніки супротивника на суші, у повітрі і на морі.

2. Орденом Кутузова можуть бути нагороджені військові частини, що брали участь у проведенні операції, в ході якої, незважаючи на запеклий опір противника, були досягнуті цілі операції з повним збереженням боєздатності військових частин.

3. Орденом Кутузова можуть також нагороджуватися іноземні громадяни — військовослужбовці військ союзників з числа офіцерського складу, які брали участь нарівні з військовослужбовцями Російської Федерації в організації та проведенні успішної операції коаліційних угруповань військ (сил).

4. Нагородження орденом Кутузова може бути проведено посмертно.

Порядок носіння
 Знак ордена Кутузова носиться на лівій стороні грудей і за наявності інших орденів Російської Федерації розташовується після знака ордена Жукова.
 Для особливих випадків і можливого повсякденного носіння передбачено носіння мініатюрної копії знака ордена Кутузова, яка розташовується після мініатюрної копії знака ордена Жукова.
 При носінні на форменому одязі стрічки ордена Кутузова на планці вона розташовується після стрічки ордена Жукова.

Опис ордена
 Знак ордена Кутузова являє собою срібний чотирикінцевий прямий хрест з кінцями, що розширюються. Між кінцями хреста — позолочені штрали.
 У центрі хреста — покритий білою емаллю срібний медальйон з широкою позолоченою каймою, в якому розміщено лаврово-дубовий вінок. З внутрішньої сторони до каймі примикає стрічка, покрита білою емаллю. У полі медальйона — позолочений погрудний портрет М. І. Кутузова в профіль, звернений вліво. У нижній половині медальйона, за портретом, — зображення кремлівської стіни.
 По бічних сторонах стрічки напис прямими рельєфними позолоченими буквами: «МИХАИЛ КУТУЗОВ».
 Відстань між протилежними кінцями хреста — 40 мм, між протилежними штралами — 40 мм. На зворотному боці знака — номер знака ордена.
 Знак ордена за допомогою вушка і кільця з'єднується з п'ятикутною колодкою, обтягнутою шовковою, муаровою стрічкою.
 Стрічка темно-синього кольору шириною 24 мм. У центрі стрічки — помаранчева смуга шириною 5 мм.
 Мініатюрна копія знака ордена Кутузова носиться на колодці. Відстань між кінцями хреста −15,4 мм, висота колодки від вершини нижнього кута до середини верхньої сторони — 19,2 мм, довжина верхньої сторони — 10 мм, довжина кожної з бічних сторін — 16 мм, довжина кожної із сторін, що утворюють нижній кут, — 10 мм.
 При носінні на форменому одязі стрічки ордена Кутузова використовується планка висотою 8 мм, ширина стрічки — 24 мм.

Нагороджені орденом Кутузова
 45 окремий гвардійський ордена Олександра Невського полк спеціального призначення ПДВ Росії (9 лютого 2011)
 393 авіаційна база армійської авіації Росії (12 червня 2012)
 74-а окрема гвардійська Звенигородсько-Берлінська ордена Суворова II ступеня мотострілецька бригада.

Примітки

Нагороди Російської Федерації
Нагороди, засновані 2010
Військові нагороди
Засновані в Росії 2010


After ten years of hard work and planning, this momentous day will happen on Saturday 16 April from 10am with Tracey Emin and Jools Holland opening the new Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate .
www.thisismargate.co.uk or call 01843 577577 for full details.
Chamber members and businesses across east Kent with automatic fire alarm systems are urged to check their fire safety risk assessments and fire alarm systems are in order and working correctly ahead of new proposals that could affect them.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) has been called out to 30,000 automatic alarms in the last five years, of which 99.07% were false alarms. These were often caused by dust or faulty equipment and the responsibility to maintain equipment lies with the responsible person. KFRS intends to stop attending calls to automatic alarms, unless they get a 999 call in the normal way to say there is actually a fire.
There is no legal requirement for fire and rescue services to attend calls to fire alarms sounding, however KFRS will be considering at-risk sites and ensuring that it continues to protect vulnerable communities. The requirement for maintaining and managing a fire alarm system sits with the responsible person for the building or site. This includes a responsibility to make sure the system operates correctly and does not produce unwanted calls.
KFRS shall be meeting with a wide range of stakeholders to raise awareness of the proposed changes and to discuss any concerns people may have. A period of public consultation is also planned later in the year.
Grand Auctions, a new auction house based in Folkestone AND Channel Chamber member, has established a new world record for an Alan Lowndes painting of £30,000.
Grand Auctions established this world record price for British artist Alan Lowndes's 'Beach Scene' (oil on board, 32 x 48 inches) at their inaugural auction held recently held at a clifftop venue in Folkestone with views across the channel to the French coast.
Eight young employees at Oriac House Learner Centre have recently passed the ECDL qualifications – giving them proof of skills gained when they seek employment in the future.
Their certificates will be presented by the Mayor of Folkestone on Wednesday 20th April at 11.00hrs at the Oriac House Learner Centre, in Folkestone.
Similar to Channel Chamber's own Future Jobs Fund programme, Oriac, has employed 8 young people who were previously on Jobseekers' Allowance.. Each has been employed full time by the Learner Centre as tutors and IT technicians and during the first month they were required to study and sit the ECDL (European Computer Driver's Licence) exams, in order to become qualified IT Tutors.
The FJF employees are all actively involved in another community project as part of the government's UK Online scheme to try to get as many digitally excluded people as possible using the internet by 2013.


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Star City Was a Family Favorite, And It Might Never Be the Same Again
The theme park that just burned down was a holiday destination for many Filipino families.
By Maan D'asis Pamaran | Oct 2, 2019
IMAGE STAR CITY
For some reason, my family likes going to amusement parks. It started during the days of Fiesta Carnival in Cubao, with my mama patiently waiting on the ground for my brother and I to finish our carousel ride, waving back dutifully each time we passed her.
In our teenage years, Payanig Sa Pasig rose from the ground every Christmas season, and we would get our shoes all dusty from trekking through the attractions such as the Ovaltine jungle adventure, then burning cash to see attractions like the Headless Woman who lay down in a diaphanous gown waving to people, who paid to see the illusion which we, as grownups now, know was done with mirrors. There was another guy too, who ate live chicken, but we did not have the stomach for it even if he did.
Christmas simply meant we had to do something exciting as a family, so by the time December rolled around, my dad would start planning how to bring his entire brood to Star City. There are other theme parks around, like Enchanted Kingdom, but this was our default for several reasons: One, it is located about halfway between their house in Quezon City and mine in the South; Two, it is 90 percent roofed-over and air-conditioned in case it rains (it did one year); and Three, it had a relatively inexpensive entrance fee, which was a good point, considering there are 18 of us in the entire tribe—grandparents down to the grandkids.
A fire broke out on the grounds before dawn this morning, with early reports saying that the fire was so massive that it damaged 80 percent of the park. There is no way that it will be open in time for Christmas.
Photo by STAR CITY.
Star City was established in 1991 as an offshoot of the annual Toys and Gift Fair, a Christmas trade exhibition by the Philippine Center for International Trade and Exhibit (PhilCite) which first organized in 1976. Under Fred Elizalde, the fair evolved into an amusement park later named Star City. The former PhilCite building upon which the park was based upon was pulled down in the late 1990s to make way for the park's indoor rides.
In 2012, the park announced that it had the biggest "Ferris Wheel in the Philippines," at a height of 60 meters, with 32 air-conditioned gondolas that can seat six people each. When my brothers heard about it, we were sold and thus, our park visits began.
Raucous fun
One of the first things we would encounter on our annual trip were lines. Lines for parking, lines for the entrance tickets, and lines for the rides. If you get hungry, you'd have to line up at the food carts too, for sodas and hotdog sandwiches that were a tad expensive, but one does work up an appetite and a big thirst wandering about the complex which is 35,000 square meters of family fun and entertainment, so you give in and buy the kids their snacks.
The throng of thrillseekers was understandable. With the amusement park located in Pasay City, it was easily commutable. One also saw jeeploads of families coming in, most eating their baon of rice and ulam for dinner before heading into the park, to save on food costs. As a result, the lines for the rides were long and winding, with some stranger's kids darting through your legs or kicking you from the back. Of course, I am one to talk - I may or may not have "temporarily misplaced" one or two kids during one of our yearly trips there. Let me assure you it was more traumatic for me than it was for them.
Popular back then were the aforementioned Ferris Wheel (whose record height has been beaten by Tagaytay's SkyRanch ride at 63 meters), along with the Zyklon Loop (taken down some time ago after an accident if I recall correctly), Star Frisbee, and the Star Flyer, all designed to get you to scream until you run out of air, wet your pants, or give up some good old-fashioned projectile chum. The noise from the rides was so that every few minutes, you would hear ear-piercing shrieks on top of the rumblings of the machines. It was gloriously riotous.
Luckily, the entrance tickets were also such that you can simply opt to pay for the rides that you wanted instead of a ride-all-you-can deal, which was never sulit for scaredy-cats like me and my mama. My main attraction each year would be the two-level Grand Carousel, and that was it.
My bravest Star City moment was going on the Wild River Ride. It was a first for the four of us siblings. True to our roots, none of us wanted to sit in front. It ascended and dipped, soaking its riders in water that would definitely not pass for Evian, but it was fun.
Ice and other pursuits
There are other non-ride attractions too. Aside from the requisite Horror House, there was one called Snow World that I went into on one of my boys' school field trips. It was exactly how it was advertised. Icy temperatures that allowed you to experience the sensation of breathing frost and succumbing to mild frostbite, all while clad in a provided arctic jacket that smelled mildly of mildew. You get to walk through ice igloos and even go down an ice slide. Elsa would be proud.
Because it was an Elizalde initiative, there were cultural aspects to it, too. I faintly remember attending one of the free shows that were offered in a theater with a ballet performance included, I believe, by Lisa Macuja-Elizalde's Ballet Manila dancers.
I must admit, though, that the main attraction for me was the tiangge. Before all the Christmas bazaars became popular in all the different malls and events places in Metro Manila, Star City already had its air-conditioned area for toys, clothing, and gifts which were a little cheaper than Greenhills prices. Forgot to buy a gift for a favourite niece? Disappear for a few minutes and come back with a Barbie sando and shorts set. Ditto for affordable toys that the boys can bring home as souvenirs.
With Star City not operable this holiday season, my family will have to look at other raucous, riotous destinations to bond. We can only hope that they can rebuild soon because there are a lot of other families who will miss out on their Christmas fun
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Gunnar Nielsen (born 7 October 1986) is a Faroese professional footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for Icelandic club FH. Nielsen has also represented HB, Boldklubben Frem, Gøtu Ítróttarfelag, Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Wrexham, Tranmere Rovers, Silkeborg, Motherwell, Stjarnan and the Faroe Islands national football team at all age levels.

Club career

Born in Tórshavn, Nielsen was signed by Blackburn Rovers for a "small" but undisclosed fee on 2 July 2007 from BK Frem. Nielsen, who was on trial with Rovers in May, told the club website: "I am very pleased – it is a massive chance for me just to develop. I'm glad the manager and staff believe in me and I won't let them down." He transferred Motherwell of the Scottish Premier League on a six-month loan on 8 August 2008, before returning to Blackburn on 30 December 2008.

Nielsen signed for Manchester City on a two-and-a-half-year contract in 2009 and joined Conference National side Wrexham on loan shortly afterwards. He made his debut in a 1–0 defeat to Histon on 28 March. He was suspected to have sustained a thumb injury during a game against Oxford United in April, meaning he returned to City for a scan, which confirmed the suspected injury. Nielsen made his Premier League debut on 24 April 2010 as a substitute for injured Shay Given in the 76th minute during Manchester City's stalemate against Arsenal. As a result, he became the first Faroese footballer to play in the Premier League. In the summer of 2010, he signed a contract extension with Manchester City that ran until 2012.

On 23 July 2010 Nielsen joined League One team Tranmere Rovers on loan until January 2011. He made his debut for Tranmere in a 2–1 defeat by Oldham Athletic on 7 August, After picking up an injury on international duty, he spent over three months out, before returning to the first team at Tranmere in December 2010.

He was released by Man City at the end of the 2011–12 season.
However, weeks later he rejoined the Manchester City squad, but was again released by the club after signing former England international Richard Wright on transfer deadline day. He officially left the club on 7 December and told the Manchester City website he hopes to join a team in England or the Scandinavian Region in January 2013.

In early April 2013, Nielsen signed for Silkeborg of the Danish Superliga. Nielsen immediately debuted for the club on 8 April 2013, a 1–0 defeat to Aalborg.

On 3 July 2013, Nielsen signed a 2-year deal with  Motherwell where he had previously spent six months on loan in 2008. He left Motherwell on 4 March 2015, by mutual consent.

On 4 April 2015, Nielsen signed a one-year contract with the Icelandic club Stjarnan. He made his debut for them on 27 April, in an Icelandic Super Cup win over KR. At the end of the 2015 season, Nielsen was elected player of the year for Stjarnan both by the players and the management. On 28 October 2015, Nielsen signed a three-year contract with 2015 Icelandic champions FH.

International career
Nielsen made his international debut for the Faroe Islands after starting in a 2–1 win over Iceland on 22 March 2009.

On 3 June 2016, he captained the team for the first time in a 2–0 friendly defeat against Kosovo in Frankfurt.

Honours
FH

 Úrvalsdeild: 2016

Stjarnan

 Icelandic Super Cup: 2015

Career statistics

References

External links

 Boldklubben Frem profile
 Faroesoccer.com – see Landsdystir (statistics regarding the Faroe Islands national team)

1986 births
Living people
People from Tórshavn
Faroese footballers
Faroe Islands international footballers
Faroese expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
Association football goalkeepers
Havnar Bóltfelag players
Boldklubben Frem players
Blackburn Rovers F.C. players
Motherwell F.C. players
Manchester City F.C. players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
Tranmere Rovers F.C. players
Premier League players
English Football League players
Scottish Professional Football League players
National League (English football) players
Faroese expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in England
Expatriate footballers in Scotland
Faroe Islands under-21 international footballers
Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar players
Stjarnan players
Expatriate footballers in Iceland
Úrvalsdeild karla (football) players
Faroe Islands youth international footballers
Faroese expatriate sportspeople in England
Faroese expatriate sportspeople in Wales
Faroese expatriate sportspeople in Iceland


Abstract: I review the subject of the cosmological evolution of galaxies, including different aspects of growth in disk galaxies, by focussing on the angular momentum problem, mergers, and their by-products. I discuss the alternative to merger-driven growth -- cold accretion and related issues. In the follow-up, I review possible feedback mechanisms and their role in galaxy evolution. Special attention is paid to high-redshift galaxies and their properties. In the next step, I discuss a number of processes, gas- and stellar-dynamical, within the central kiloparsec of disk galaxies, and their effect on the larger spatial scales, as well as on the formation and fuelling of the seed black holes in galactic centres at high redshifts.


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Genevra (formerly, Berlin and Genevra Station) is an unincorporated community in Colusa County, California. It lies at an elevation of 98 feet (30 m).  The place was named Berlin in the 1870s by officials of the Southern Pacific Railroad on whose tracks it was established.  The post office was established in 1876, and renamed from Berlin to Genevra during World War I; the post office closed in 1934.

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Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Colusa County, California
1876 establishments in California


She was involved in a minor traffic incident, but that's no excuse for this.
it seems like the world has made a lot of progress over the past decade or so when it comes to the wider acceptance of the transgender community, but then a video like this emerges which proves that there's still a hell of a long way to go before we get where we need to be.
I mean that's a pretty horrific beating, regardless of whether or not the person receiving it was transgender or not.
Following the incident, Booker reported it to police, stating that she was involved in a minor traffic accident which led to this and that the men who attacked her used homophobic slurs throughout the beating. Thomas has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault, with the charge likely to be tried as a hate crime given the language that he used. Hoping that he goes down for a long time because this kind of reaction just isn't acceptable.
For more of the same, check out this story about a transgender woman finding love with the man who rejected her when she was male. Heartwarming.


It might have just gotten easier to pinpoint exactly when the Federal Reserve will finally raise interest rates. The odds of that happening next month have noticeably surged this week.
"The chances of an interest-rate increase next month reached 52 percent Wednesday, up from just 38 percent just two days earlier. What's fueled the change of heart? Hawkish comments from Fed Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart on Tuesday, and a surprisingly strong report on U.S. service-sector growth Wednesday morning," reports Alexandra Scaggs for Bloomberg.
With traders betting the central bank is going to hike rates at its September meeting, bearish Treasury exchange traded funds, already among this year's top-performing fixed income ETFs, could received renewed attention.
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With 10-year Treasury yields up 16.4% over the past six months, TMV has climbed more than 8% over that period. Friday's July jobs report will play a pivotal role in how soon the Fed raises interest rates. A large number of added jobs and a drop in the unemployment could give the Fed the room it needs to lift rates.


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Q: Creating compass for app but compass not working if Orientation changes I am building a compass into an IOS app that I'm developing. Currently I am building on iPad but am facing a huge issue when switching orientations whilst on the view
IF I open the view while the app is already in landscape/portrait mode, the compass appears perfectly fine (like 1st image) however IF i go in Portrait mode for example and then turn to landscape, the whole UI of the compass goes crazy (see second image)
My code in ViewDidLoad looks something like this:
//start updating compass
locationManager=[[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest;
locationManager.headingFilter = 1;
locationManager.delegate=self;
[locationManager startUpdatingHeading];

//get coords of current location
CLLocation *location = [locationManager location];
CLLocationCoordinate2D fromLoc = [location coordinate];

//mecca:
CLLocationCoordinate2D toLoc = [location coordinate];
toLoc = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(21.4167, 39.8167);

//calculate the bearing between current location and Mecca

float fLat = degreesToRadians(fromLoc.latitude);
float fLng = degreesToRadians(fromLoc.longitude);
float tLat = degreesToRadians(toLoc.latitude);
float tLng = degreesToRadians(toLoc.longitude);

float degree = radiandsToDegrees(atan2(sin(tLng-fLng)*cos(tLat), cos(fLat)*sin(tLat)-sin(fLat)*cos(tLat)*cos(tLng-fLng)));

if (degree >= 0) {
    bearing  = degree;
} else {
    bearing = degree+360;
}
NSLog(@"bearing: %f", bearing);

//rotate the needle from true north
float MnewRad =  degreesToRadians(bearing);
needleImage.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(MnewRad);//rotate the number of degrees from north

}

- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateHeading:(CLHeading *)newHeading {

//compass
float oldRad =  -manager.heading.trueHeading * M_PI / 180.0f;
float newRad =  -newHeading.trueHeading * M_PI / 180.0f;

CABasicAnimation *theAnimation;
theAnimation=[CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"transform.rotation"];
theAnimation.fromValue = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:oldRad];
theAnimation.toValue=[NSNumber numberWithFloat:newRad];
theAnimation.duration = 0.3f;
[compassView.layer addAnimation:theAnimation forKey:@"animateMyRotation"];
compassView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(newRad);

}

I'd really appreciate some help with this because its driving me crazy! Thank you

A: I am making a Qibla functionality for another app, and have compass issues, but I have to say your issue is completely unrelated to the compass functionality.
You said, when you rotate the device, the views get messed up. That seems like an obvious view layout problem. Depending on whether you are using auto layout or not, I would at least suggest that you add all the compass views into a single view container, first. That view should have a fixed size and centered in the view. (aka UIAutoResizingMaskFlexibleTopMargin, BottomMargin, RightMargin, LeftMargin).
Then, I am not sure if the rotation is working well for you, but I use transform.rotation.z, because the rotation happens on the z axis.
Finally, I suggest you would make the animation duration equal to the location update period, i.e duration = 0.1 or something
btw, I switched from using CoreLocation and moved to CoreMotion. It has a simpler compass API, and is much less resource demanding.

If you need to see code, here is my old code that uses CoreLocation:
- (int)fixOrientation {
    switch ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation]) {
        case UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait:
            return 0;
        case UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft:
            return 90;
        case UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight:
            return 270;
        case UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown:
            return 180;
    }
}

CLHeading* newHeading = [MCLocationTracker sharedTracker].currentHeading;

[self dismissAlert];

float headingFloat = - newHeading.magneticHeading;
orientationCorrection = [self fixOrientation];
double angle = [[MCLocationTracker sharedTracker] qiblaBearing];

[UIView animateWithDuration:0.05f
                      delay:0.f
                    options:(UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut | UIViewAnimationOptionBeginFromCurrentState)
                 animations:^{
                     self.compassImage.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(toRadian((headingFloat + orientationCorrection)));
                     if (fabs(kMCLocTrackerUndefinedAngle - angle) > 0.1f) {
                         self.arrow.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(toRadian((headingFloat+angle) + orientationCorrection));
                     }
                 }
                 completion:NULL];

A: didUpdateHeading is called multiple times per second, so you don't need any animation here. I suspect you aren't seeing anything dues to the 0.3f second animation lag. Set your angle rotation to the new value directly and it will still look smooth.


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'use strict';

var kafka = require('kafka-node');
var fs = require('fs');
var Ajv = require('ajv');

const NEW_PROPOSALS_RECEIVED_TOPIC = 'new-proposals-recvd';
const PROPOSALS_REVIEWED_TOPIC = 'proposals-reviewed';
const SPEAKER_PROPOSAL_SCHEMA_FILE_NAME =
  './schemas/speakerProposalSchema.json';

var consumer = new kafka.ConsumerGroup({
  fromOffset: 'latest',
  autoCommit: true
}, NEW_PROPOSALS_RECEIVED_TOPIC);

var producerClient = new kafka.Client(),
  producer = new kafka.HighLevelProducer(producerClient);

// Use incoming JSON message.
// Use JSON.parse() and JSON.stringify() to process JSON.
consumer.on('message', function(message) {
  // console.log('received kafka message', message);
  processProposal(message);
});

consumer.on('error', function(err) {
  console.log(err);
});

process.on('SIGINT', function() {
  console.log(
    'SIGINT received - Proposal Reviewer closing. Committing current offset on Topic: ' +
    NEW_PROPOSALS_RECEIVED_TOPIC + ' ...'
  );

  consumer.close(true, function() {
    console.log(
      'Finished committing current offset. Exiting with graceful shutdown ...'
    );

    process.exit();
  });
});

function processProposal(proposal) {
  var proposalAccepted = decideOnProposal();
  var proposalMessage = proposal.value;
  var proposalMessageObj = JSON.parse(proposalMessage);

  console.log('\n\n');
  console.log('proposalMessage = ' + proposalMessage);
  console.log('proposalMessageObj = ' + proposalMessageObj);
  console.log('Decision - proposal has been [' +
    (proposalAccepted ? 'Accepted' : 'Rejected') + ']');

  if (isSpeakerProposalValid(proposalMessageObj) && proposalAccepted) {
    acceptProposal(proposalMessageObj);
  } else {
    rejectProposal(proposalMessageObj);
  }
}

function isSpeakerProposalValid(proposalMessage) {
  var ajv = Ajv({
    allErrors: true
  });

  var speakerProposalSchemaContent = fs.readFileSync(
    SPEAKER_PROPOSAL_SCHEMA_FILE_NAME);

  var valid = ajv.validate(speakerProposalSchemaContent, proposalMessage);

  if (valid) {
    console.log('\n\nJSON Validation: Speaker proposal is valid');
  } else {
    console.log('\n\nJSON Validation: Error - Speaker proposal is invalid');
    console.log(ajv.errors + '\n');
  }

  return valid;
}

function decideOnProposal() {
  return Math.random() >= 0.5;
}

function acceptProposal(proposalMessage) {
  var acceptedProposal = {
    decision: {
      accepted: true,
      timeSlot: {
        date: "2017-11-06",
        time: "10:00"
      }
    },
    proposal: proposalMessage
  };

  var acceptedProposalMessage = JSON.stringify(acceptedProposal);
  console.log('Accepted Proposal = ' + acceptedProposalMessage);
  publishMessage(acceptedProposalMessage);
}

function rejectProposal(proposalMessage) {
  var rejectedProposal = {
    decision: {
      accepted: false
    },
    proposal: proposalMessage
  };

  var rejectedProposalMessage = JSON.stringify(rejectedProposal);
  console.log('Rejected Proposal = ' + rejectedProposalMessage);
  publishMessage(rejectedProposalMessage);
}

function publishMessage(message) {
  var payloads = [{
    topic: PROPOSALS_REVIEWED_TOPIC,
    messages: message
  }];

  producer.send(payloads, function(err, data) {
    console.log(data);
  });
}

producer.on('error', function(err) {
  console.log(err);
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Upate September 4: Well we were originally told by owner Kathy Bussing that today, September 4, would be the last day for Kathleen's and she had asked that we hold back on sharing that until today.
But now we're hearing chatter that Sunday may actually be the last day. I'll be honest, I'm tired of chasing this puppy, but rest assured that tonight is the last Saturday and the last night to really give Kathleen's a send off if you like to part.
Kathleen's Bar & Grille, which opened on Bay Street in June 2003, is about to close their doors for good.
We first caught wind of this through a Twitter update from a member of Kathleen's staff, and it was confirmed by a member of the restaurant's management.
We have been sitting on this one for while and will update with a few more details on Saturday, but the news is definitely public now as there's a lengthy thread over on the restaurant's Facebook page.
As for why the closing down, in part owner Kathy Bussing says: "The emotions are still running high, but the happiness I have brought to myself and my family will overcome the sadness of it all. I lived through the 'She won't make it 6 months,' 'She won't make it a year' and more.
"I feel I have overcome some of the toughest times in the last 14 years in Beaufort. I lived through my first year with a motor cycle accident leaving me with high medical bills and physical therpy, our waterfront park closure, the bridge closure, the falling economy, a battle with skin cancer, the downtown music issues, the parking, the crime and now all I have worked for 25 years gone."
If you're sad to see the spot go, hop onto the Facebook thread and swing by the spot sooner than later.
Kathleen's is at 822 Bay Street and occupies the storefront that once held Ollie's By The Bay. Kathleen's kept a lot of the same feel that Ollie's had, including live music on the back deck most weekends.
Will be interesting to see what can fill the space in this economy. And it's also worth noting that this news comes just after word that Bay Street Trading is closing this month as well and we just saw a report that "tourism is doing well."


I received a letter from Arrow Financial Service about a debt. I sent a DV letter and they responded with another letter saying they received my request and per the fdcpa they must mail verification before they take any further steps to collect. Then: If we choose to engage in further collection activity, we will first mail to you verification of this debt. Does this mean they can't validate or what? Has anyone else received anything like this. I never did receive any phone calls from Arrow (thank goodness). They also stamped the green card with "Lock Box Services, JP Morgan Chase", no signature.
This is the second CA to have this debt (which I believe is not mine). Thanks!
Sounds like they can't validate, and they know it.
"...we will first mail to you verification of this debt."
Respond back to this letter that you are requesting VALIDATION not Verification that they indicated.
I would put that letter someplace safe. It sounds like they can't validate, or are simply buying time till they can.
I would leave it well enough alone for now, see what, if anything, they do.
Is this on your credit report? If it is then it is a whole different situation, because you don't want it just hanging there. In that case I would press them by disputing the accounts on the reports, that way if they verify, they have just committed a violation.
Cellular makes a great point--too many CA's try to interchange verification with validation. Verification means nothing more than checking your name and address. If they send you anything else on this debt, let us know and we can help you go through their "validation". Often, these companies send something that is absolutely worthless and call it proper validation.
Well after receiving the last letter from Arrow on 03/12 stating:"...if we choose to engage in further collection activity, we will first mail to you at the above-address verification of this debt", they've started calling me again about the same debt. I told them I sent a validation letter in March which they received (have green card). They told me it didn't say they couldn't call me, was just asking for validation (which they never provided). Of course I did put on the letter that they were not to contact me except by mail. They claim that there was nothing on the letter about that. Sorry there was. I have a copy of the letter I sent them.
I thought they couldn't continue to collect if they haven't provided validation?
Last paragraph of my DV letter: "Per the FDCPA, I do not want to be called at home and all the necessary communications should be done via US mail. I was advised that not validating the debt and still continuing to collect on the debt is a violation of the FDCPA law under Section 809."
Sorry, I'm just tired of this crap.
I don't blame you Scooter, I am dealing with Arrow right now, it's a long longggggggg story, but they have even admitted in court documents they do not have any documentation regarding this debt, then they went on to say; the defendant (me) has the documentation supporting this claim. lolol! They're dumber than rocks, pleaseeeeeeeeee go after them!!!
I hope Scooter does not have to go through all the crap you have been through Shazz. I think in your case Scooter it would be best if you collect up a bunch of fdcpa violations and FCRA violations and make the first move by filing a suit against them otherwise the might do to you what they have done to Shazz starting with improper service and a vacated judgment after a lot of work on her part.
Unfortunately there are no fdcpa cops to report them to. You can file complaints with the FTC, BBB, your and their states AG's and the ACA. If they have not validated the debt and your DV was timely, then further collection activity is a violation. Send a 2nd DV along with a copy of the first and the green return receipt.