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Accordion crimes
"Germans invented the accordion," Beutle explained to Messermacher. "A thousand things they invented, but accordions most of all. Because Germans think, Germans have brains. There was this feller, a musician, a German violinist, he ends up playing in the court orchestra in Russia, not Catherine the Great but around that time, he plays the violin. But because he's a German, Jesus Christ, he notices things, he notices when he hangs up his bow on a nail back in his room she also makes a nice little tone. From this he invents the nail violin, very beautiful tones, I have heard it. A circle of wood with nails sticking out, you run the bow on the nails and ooo aaa ooo aaa, a beautiful tune. One day this feller gets a strange thing from China, somebody gives it to him because interested in things he is—naturally, he is a German—and he sees a round bowl with some bamboo pipes sticking out, and on the bowl a mouthpiece. He blows on it. It's a fine sound. This thing the Jesus Christ Chinese put reeds inside the pipes, same as in the accordion, little reeds stuck on one end with wax, the other end can vibrate like this." He trembled his hand at Messermacher. "The German violin player learns the playing of this instrument, die liebliche Chinesenorgel, and from this he passes to other Germans the idea of the accordion—the free reed. That's how it begins. Later comes the bellows." (91–2)
By now readers of my blog will know how vital the sheng mouth-organ is to the ensemble accompanying north Chinese Daoist ritual—and I suppose it was the sheng that obscurely reminded to read Annie Proulx's miraculous 1996 novel Accordion crimes.
The book has long been popular with ethnomusicologists (e.g. this review), despite being a novel—or rather, near the fiction end of the spectrum from non-fiction to fiction; or near the readable end of the academic—engaging spectrum (cf. Bernard Lortat-Jacob's Sardinian chronicles, another engaging classic). Like ethnomusicologists, Proulx focuses on change and social function. In her Acknowledgements she lists an impressive array of sources, experts on their regional genres—it's amazing that all her detailed research took only two years.
On an epic scale, in the tradition of the Great American Novel, Accordion crimes has all the rich detail of ethnographic thick description. Indeed, it's timely that I should get round to reading it now, since it discusses the tribulations of poor, ill-fated immigrants. The human cast includes immigrant Italians, Germans, Poles, Irish (cf. the equally poetic Carson), Mexicans, French, and Norwegians—all against a backdrop of xenophobia, misanthropy, brutality. Their sad, tough, gory, gruesome tales are connected by the history of an old two-row button accordion for over a century, with other roles played by
a club style accordion
a little one-row button accordion
a chromatic accordion
a piano accordion
a bandoneon
a concertina
a Chemnitzer.
As I observed about that other ethno classic Lives in jazz, the book gives a perfect combo of music and social detail. Hooked on taxonomy, Proulx can never resist long lists; likely to be tedious in academic hands, hers never fail to enthrall. While poetic, her language is never pompous.
The novel opens with compelling detail from 19th-century Sicily:
It was as if his eye were an ear and a crackle went through it each time he shot a look at the accordion. The instrument rested on the bench, lacquer gleaming like wet sap. Rivulets of light washed mother-of-pearl, the nineteen polished bone buttons, winked a pair of small oval mirrors rimmed in black paint, eyes seeking eyes, seeking the poisonous stare of anyone who possessed malocchio, eager to reflect the bitter glance at the glancer.
He had cut the grille with a jeweler's saw from a sheet of brass, worked a design of peacocks and olive leaves. The hasps and escutcheons that fastened the bellows frames to the case ends, the brass screws, the zinc reed plate, the delicate axle, the reeds themselves, of steel, and the aged Circassian walnut for the case, he had purchased all of these. But he had made all the rest: the V-shaped wire springs with their curled eyes that lay under the keys and returned them to position in the wake of stamping fingers, the buttons, the palette rods. The trenched bellows, the leather valves and gaskets, the skived kid-skin gussets, the palette covers, all of these were from a kid whose throat he had cut, whose hide he had tanned with ash lime, brains and tallow. The bellows had eighteen folds. The wood parts, of obdurate walnut to resist damp and warpage, he had sewed and sanded and fitted, inhaling the mephitic dust. The case, once glued up, rested for six weeks before he proceeded. (17)
As the old accordion-maker arrives in New Orleans in search of fame and fortune,
In and out went Caramele through the scores of dives, tonks and jooks and barrelhouse joints that lined these streets, the accordion maker lurching after him through the musical din of drums and ringing banjos, shouters, pianos clinking away, squealing fiddles and trumpets and other brass snorting and wailing from every interior, and sometimes a string quartet sawing crazily. On the streets children watched and fought for discarded stogie butts, black street musicians and white played for coins, singing improvised songs of insult at those who failed to toss a whirling coin. (42–3)
In "Spider, Bite Me", Abelardo recalls to his son Baby,
"The accordion was so natural, a little friend. Easy and small to carry, easy to play, and loud, and can play bass rhythm and melody. Just the accordion and nothing else and you've got a dance. It's the best instrument for dancing in the world, the best for the human voice."
[…] On the weekends [Baby] played for dances with Chris, mostly rancheras and polkas; they sang in the classic two-part harmony, primera y segunda. […] The dances were exhausting, the strain of playing and the lights, the sweat and heat and thirst, the noise like pouring rain.
[…] Though so many turned to the big-band sound and the strange hybrid fusion of jazz, rumba and swing, would rather listen to "Marijuana Boogie," the Los Angeles Latin sound, than "La Barca del Oro", there was an audience that liked their music, found value in it. These new ones, many of them veterans back from the Korean War, some of them university students, embraced conjunto, and this music was not for dancing but for listening. It had a meaning beyond itself. (173–4)
The changing tastes lead to a heated argument between Baby and his put-upon sister Félida (191–8):
She passed her arms through the huge straps. […] She stared at the ceiling, said, "por Chencho, Tomás, por Papá Abelardo," then sang the heart-wrenching "Se fue mi amor," which Carmen y Laura had recorded in the last year of the war.
Her bellows control technique was extraordinary, with dramatic swells and choking, sforzati explosive effects. She scratched and rubbed and struck the keys, ran the back of her nails across the folds of the bellows. The accordion gave the perfect illusion that a bajo sexto and a bass as well as a highly original percussion player supported the accordion, and from it came the melting harmony of the missing sister's voice to twine and burn with the sweet, smoldering fire of Félida's sad voice.
"Hitchhiking in a wheelchair" (199–276) is fascinating too, as Dolor makes a pilgrimage to Canada in search of old-time French music:
The music was stunningly brilliant, joyous with life and vigor. The dancers sprang over the floor and now and then they would draw back and give room to a step dancer whose rigid back, erect head and straight-hanging arms accentuated the clattering, tapping, rapping, knocking, flinging feet whose steps stuttered in and out of the music. He wished Wilf could hear the fiddler, the sound like a flock of birds, a flight of arrows striking all around him, from a growling, clenched-teeth mutter on the G and D strings to harmonic shrieks and stair-tumbling runs—Jean something, a taxi-driver from Montréal.
This leads to "Don't Let a Dead Man Shake You by the Hand" (277–349) , where Proulx expounds on Cajun and zydeco in Louisiana; and "Hit Hard and Gone Down" on the Polish folk scene (351–426):
The Chez family from Pinsk lived across the street; later they changed their name to Chess, the two boys grew up to work in businesses, a junkyard, bars and nightclubs, finally making phonograph records featuring black singers moaning the blues, and by 1960 the good Polish neighborhood had turned black on all sides. (354)
"There'd always be somebody's polka band—two violins, you know, the bass fiddle and the clarinet, no accordion at all, they'd just play all afternoon and we'd dance. No music pages, they play from their heads, they were geniuses. You know, the dancers used to sing out a line of a song, or not even sing it, just shout it like, and the musicians they had to catch it, know it and play it back in the same key. Oh, they were so good. Well, your grandfather, he sees after a while there is some money starting to come to the polka band players and there was all kinds of places that wanted polka bands—Polish Homes, the Polish Club, not the culture evening but the Saturday night dance, little dance halls all over the place, the union halls, bars and Polka Dot restaurant, the Polish League of War Veterans, a lot of restaurants, Polonia Hall—oh, there was plenty of polka dancing, and a lot of fun, and weddings, weddings, weddings, everybody was getting married and you gotta have polkas." (371)
Hieronim's wake was something, the last of its kind in the neighborhood, in the old, old Polish style, and nobody would have known how to do it except Old Man Bulas from the Polish Club… He was the leader of the singing and knew the hymns, scores of them all written down in his śpiewnik, a thick, handsome book wrapped in black cloth. (383)
This is soon followed by a memorable wedding:
He told his wife that it was necessary to balance the solemn death rites of Hieronim with as much of the old wesele style as possible… (385)
But again, tastes are changing (404–14). As promoter Mrs Grab warns Joey:
"We don't want nothing weird or extreme, you know? There's rules now, the association's made rules. […] Only one song in Polish. Most people don't understand it, but one song gives a nice ethnic flavor. That's what we want to stress, ethnic flavor. Let me tell you something, Joey. Ethnic music is not that old-time stuff anymore. These days everybody is ethnic, might as well make money on it. […] They don't want that mournful folk music sound no more or those complicated couple dances going into cricles and weaving around and slapping their asses and crossing into the next lane. No more of that Kozaky na Stepie, Cossacks on the Steppe, stuff. Everything gets mixed up unless you got a Ph.D. in Polish clogging. It's no fun."
[…] The spare applause had hardly died down when a big guy jumped up, his thin long hair pasted to his sweating forehead, and began to shout at them.
"This is not Polish polka, not Polish music. I am a Pole from Poland and in Poland they would laugh at you as I do now—Ha! Ha!—for saying this garbage you play is Polish."
Now the bandoneon and tango make an appearance, as Joey meets a migrant from Buenos Aires, who muses:
"Piazzolla, with his little zips like the plastic zipper of a cheap jacket, his plotted silences, the squealing like rubbing two balloons together. That is a serious, unsmiling, hard music; the faces of the dancers frown furiously; and his tempo, the beat is like climbing cement stairs in a skyscraper with fire behind the doors. And there is that quality of a paper comb that sets the sutures of the skull trembling. Those passionate swellings are musical hives…" (416–18, cf. Alexei Sayle, no less).
"The Colors of Horses", with Basque and Irish musics as well as Appaloosa horses playing a major role, is another too, er, deaf 'orse. More fantastical lists:
…descendants of the ice-age horses painted on the cave walls of France, of the fabled horses of Ferghana, between the Syrdarya and the Amudarya rivers on the steppes of Central Asia in Uzbekistan, of Rakush, the spotted horse of the warrior hero Rustam, celebrated in Persian miniatures and in Firdousi's epic poem the Shah Namah, of the Chinese Celestial Horses from the Extreme West, the Blood-Sweating horses, of the galloping mounts of the Mongol Horde and Attila the Hun, of the Andalusian horses of Spain shipped to Mexico for the conquistadors' savage forays, of a shipload of spotted horses from the Trieste Lippizan herd landed on Vera Cruz around 1620, of the horses abandoned by the terrified Spaniards after the Pueblo revolt of sixty years later and traded north by an agricultural people more interested in sheep, to the Shoshone, Cayuse, Nez, Percé, Blackfeet, Blood, Arikara, Sioux, Cree, Crow, of the North American steppes known as the Great Plains, had been bred down to dog meat. (443–5)
The evocation of Irish song (483–5) is worthy of Ciaran Carson. Now we return to the original, battered old green accordion:
The silent reed suffered from a grain of rust jammed between the reed tongue and its vent, and this he eased out with a silk thread from his fly-tying box. The steel reeds were coated with islands of rust and he scraped at them with the blade of his knife but was afraid of lodging more fragments under the reed tongues. He cleaned the reeds with his toothbrush, blowing out the dust until he was dizzy.
He could see it needed everything—new bellows, new reed, new springs, reed plates reset, grille replaced, and more. But it had a wonderful voice, sonorous, plangent, shouting in grief to the mountain slope. (486)
The final section, "Back Home with Reattached Arms", is moving too, with Norwegian immigrants making an appearance:
His own parents had been obsessed with the prescriptions of a book, The Emigrant's Guide to Preserving Norwegian Culture, written by a homesick settler in Texas, a book that dwelt on the merits of the Norwegian language, twice-daily prayers, Norwegian hymns, clothes, food, and, after the fortune was made, return to the "elskede Nord" country. Daily they had sung "En Udvandrers Sang," "O Norges Son" and others. His mother wished to live in a Norwegian community where land was owned in common by all. But Gunnar shouted for independence and his own land, purchased a mighty, star-spangled flag… (496)
That discussion of the sheng, with which I opened, reminds me of the Li family Daoist band's concerts in German churches in 2013, the two mouth-organs filling the building with a majestic sound just like Bach on a huge organ with all the stops out (my book, p.339).
For a general introduction to the accordion, see here. For yet another wacky illustration of the joys of organology, see the aerophones classified under Sachs-Hornbostel 412.232 here.
Passages like this draw the reader towards archive recordings:
Abelardo had hundreds of records, his own recordings of the 1930s, a few with Decca, then with Stella, then with Bell, then Stella again. "In those days I sang in Spanish; those men with the record company said to me, 'we can't tell what you're singing, so don't sing anything dirty.' So of course I sang all the filthy ones."
[…] He had old recordings of Lydia Mendoza, of the great accordion players, the records of Bruno Villareal, half blind, a little tin cup wired to the side of his accordion, playing in 1928, "the first recording with the accordion as the star", Pedro Rocha and Lupe Martínez, Los Hermanos San Miguel, dozens of Santiago Jiménez discs.
[…] He would make them listen to all those old labels: Okeh, Vocalion, Bluebird, Decca, Ideal, Falcon, Azteca, especially the Ideals made in the garage of Armando Marroquín up in Alice. (148–9)
Of course, like all those books about Daoist ritual, it misses a lot by being silent—it cries out for a good playlist. More stimulating than this one is a Songlines list, but one is drawn back to the great 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music. We can find further clues among articles in The Rough Guide to world music.
And let's all explore youtube—here's a Polish tango from 1931:
But if we have to use words to evoke music, this is just the way to convey its messy exhilaration and flawed humanity.
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Maung Lay Khin (né le  en Birmanie) est un joueur de football international birman, qui évoluait au poste d'attaquant.

Biographie

Carrière en club

Carrière en sélection

Il participe avec la sélection birmane aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972. Lors du tournoi olympique, il joue un match contre le Mexique.

Notes et références

Naissance en Birmanie
Naissance en juillet 1954
Footballeur international birman
Footballeur aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972

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The people of Vinegar Hill are opposing the opportunity for development in the neighborhood.
For this semester, we were asked to observe a particular neighborhood known as Vinegar Hill. We went on many tours and made various types of analysis of the neighborhood ranging from population, occupation, historical significance, flood damage, safety, and general activity.


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Q: Validate iOS auto-renewable subscriptions from multiple apps I work for a game developing company which releases at least one game a month. For our true fans we want to start providing a subscription to our games, so they can play all our games (on any platform) without constantly having to buy them.
The idea for iOS is to use the in-app auto-renewable subscription. This results into a receipt which we store in our backend. The backend can validate this receipt and provide the apps with information about the subscription of the user.
This system will solve a lot of problems: You can take the subscription in 1 game, and play all the games as well, on any device you like.
But now we come to the problem: After a month the receipt is not valid anymore, and we need to check in the iTunes store to see if the user still has a valid subscription.
My first idea was to use the "latest_receipt_info" field, to get the latest receipt and validate this. But according the documentation this feature should only be used for iOS 6 receipts:

"Only returned for iOS 6 style transaction receipts for auto-renewable
  subscriptions."
source:
  https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/General/ValidateAppStoreReceipt/Chapters/ValidateRemotely.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010573-

Even though I can actually still use this field with my brandnew iOS 10 receipt, I don't think it's smart to use it since it's deprecated.
(another source telling you shouldn't use it anymore: https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/156580#156580)
The advised solution of apple is to implement a SKPaymentTransactionObserver in the app. This will retrieve the latest receipt when it's available, and send this to the backend. Even though this is far from ideal, this could work... however:
This means the app has to be active to retrieve the latest receipt. And in our case it's very well possible a user takes a subscription in app1, and after a couple of days downloads app2, 3 and 4, but never uses app1 again. So in this case the latest receipt will never be fetched (because only the observer of app1 can access the receipt)
To fix this problem we should be able to fetch the receipts from this subscription from any app in our subscription group. But according the documentation on the apple site (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/ ) you can only access a subscription from 1 app, and you have to do the multiple app thing yourself:

You can offer auto-renewable
  subscriptions to access multiple apps in your portfolio. Each app must
  be approved to use auto-renewable in-app purchases and must be
  published under the same developer name on the App Store.
In iTunes Connect, you'll need to set up separate and equivalent
  auto-renewable in-app purchases in each app offered in the multi-app
  subscription so that users can subscribe from any app. To avoid users
  paying multiple times for the same offering, you are responsible for
  verifying that they are subscribers in one of the apps before showing
  any subscription options. To do this, consider maintaining an account
  management system in which users create an account with your business
  to sign in to each app.

So is there any way to do what we want, without forcing the user to go back to the app he used to purchase the subscription every month?

A: On the last WWDC we went to StoreKit labs and personally asked StoreKit evangelist about this. We were told that the 'latest_receipt_info' field return by iTunes validateReceipt endpoint is exactly what we are suppose to use in order to check if the subscription was renewed or not.
This is not going to be deprecated in the near future but they do have plans for adding some server-to-server communication that solve few of the problems we ran into:

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*Your server will be able to get notification from Apple regarding any subscription renewal, cancellation, downgrades etc.

*In the latest_receipt_info returned by the validateReceipt endpoint few fields will be added, providing information like whether the subscription will be renewed after current one is expired, whether there was a problem charging the user's credit card etc.

Sources:
WWDC 2017 Session 303 - What's new in StoreKit
WWDC 2017 Session 305 - Advanced StoreKit

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This week I set out to write about healthy relationships and conflict resolution. I wrote out my draft, felt pretty good about it, and then BAM. That's the sound of pride followed by a fall. I failed majorly in this area. I was hardened toward a certain issue. I demanded honesty and directness from someone, but in a very indirect and borderline passive-aggressive way. Yuck. Thankfully, this conflict happened with a dear friend, who isn't afraid to call me out and call me to repentance.
I do not write to you as any kind of expert. I also do not write about things that I have somehow "mastered." Rather, the opposite is true.
This website is full of lessons I am currently learning and re-learning. Please do not ever "disqualify" yourself, or walk away from the GH feeling shame.
Now, back to conflict resolution.
We all have lines that we do not let others cross. Even the most people-pleasing prone individuals have a limit. We form these lines as a way to help protect our beliefs, our core values, our family, and ourselves.
Every so often though, we let other people blur these lines and push past our boundaries.
We let people bend our values because of shared-genetics, positions of power, or in order to gain social acceptance.
We smile and nod instead of redirecting gossip.
That off-colored joke just lingers, so we laugh awkwardly.
We don't want to come across judgmental, so we remain silent while others talk about people as objects.
We know someone is hurting, but we avoid it instead of addressing it. It's easier, and our own comfort matters more.
What we start to "keep the peace about" will continue to grow.
If we are not careful, we will find ourselves doing things, or allowing others to do things, that are the opposite of your core beliefs.
Why? Well, all for the sake of keeping the peace instead of making peace.
Silence is not always golden. It is important to speak the truth in love. However, do not be surprised when your attempts to make peace are avoided. People do not like having critical conversations anymore, especially not without the "safety" of hiding behind a screen. Keep pressing in and stand firm in your convictions.
Sometimes the best way you can build peace is to embrace confrontation.
Stop Making Excuses. Shared genetics does not give someone a free pass to engage in wrongdoing, or to be abusive. Do not allow others to cross your boundaries simply because they are "family." The same goes for anyone in a position of power in your life.
Setting and keeping boundaries is not hateful. Loving someone does not mean becoming their doormat. To love is to speak truth, to live with integrity, and to walk away if things cannot be resolved. God does His best heart-changing work when we surrender to His will, and we stop trying to fix other people.
Richard and I have had to make some tough decisions when lines were repeatedly being crossed. We did this in order to keep our children safe, and to follow the biblical guidelines for conflict. It cost us, it was not and is not easy, but peace-making is always worth it.
Beware of gossip in disguise. When peace is not in the midst of a relationship, be very careful about what you do next. "Processing" out-loud, venting, or even prayer requests, can all be forms of gossip. Indirect approaches to conflict do not work. Skip the sin-trap, and go directly to the person."If your brother sins against you, go and rebuke him in private. If he listens to you, you have won your brother. 16 But if he won't listen, take one or two others with you, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every fact may be established.
PeaceKEEPING is guarding our own comforts, above the all else.
PeaceMAKING wins others, restores others, and ultimately points to the Source of our peace.
Let's strive together to both be at peace, and to make peace.
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Under the agreement, announced in Vienna, Austria, Iran agreed to reduce its stockpile of enriched nuclear material and ceased further enrichment.
The agreement would extend the time it would take Iran to make a nuclear bomb from about a year to 10 years and would reportedly put safeguards in place for the U.S. and other world powers to inspect and stop the development of nuclear weapons.
Also, nearly $100 billion in Iranian assets would be unfrozen, officials said.
During a speech at the White House, President Barack Obama spoke about the past in discussing the agreement.
"This deal demonstrates that American diplomacy can bring about real and meaningful change – change that makes our country, and the world, safer and more secure. This deal is also in line with a tradition of American leadership. It's now more than 50 years since President Kennedy stood before the American people and said, 'Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.' He was speaking then about the need for discussions between the United States and the Soviet Union, which led to efforts to restrict the spread of nuclear weapons," Obama said.
"This deal meets every single one of the bottom lines that we established when we achieved a framework earlier this spring. Every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off. And the inspection and transparency regime necessary to verify that objective will be put in place. Because of this deal, Iran will not produce the highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium that form the raw materials necessary for a nuclear bomb," the president said.
However in discussing the agreement, members of the state's congressional delegation said the deal creates a precarious future.
"When these discussions began, President Obama claimed we would be able to diplomatically dismantle Iran's nuclear program. Initial reports on the details of the final agreement suggest this is far from the case. Leak after leak over the final weeks indicated that the President and his negotiating partners were willing — eager even — to give into every demand made by the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. The goalposts have moved from dismantling Iran's clandestine nuclear weapons program to containing it," Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark. said.
"The President claims that this agreement is built on verification, but that appears to be exactly where this deal is lacking any punch. It was hard enough to get the international community to commit to sanctions in the first place. With a reprieve of this nature, we will never be able to reestablish them should Iran not live up to their end of this agreement, which is a strong possibility given the Iranian regime's duplicitous actions in the past," he added.
"As a result of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, the President will not be able to unilaterally waive or suspend congressionally mandated sanctions on Iran before Congress has the chance to approve or disapprove of a final agreement. This gives my colleagues and me time to scrutinize each and every line of the deal. This agreement is likely to have a difficult time living up to that scrutiny. We have a responsibility to ensure that Iran never achieves its goal of becoming a nuclear power. This deal give us little confidence that we will be successful in this regard," Boozman said.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who serves on the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, said the agreement empowers Iran.
"The deal announced by President Obama today is a grievous, dangerous mistake. It will give Iran tens of billions of dollars to finance its sponsorship of terrorism against the United States and our allies. It will lift embargoes on conventional weapons and ballistic-missile sales to Iran. And, ultimately, it will pave the way for Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. If this deal is approved, it will represent a historic defeat for the United States," Cotton said.
"When I was a platoon leader in Iraq, my soldiers and I faced deadly roadside bombs, made and supplied by Iran. I tried to reassure them, but I could only tell them to hope it wasn't our day to die by Iran's roadside bombs. If Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, I fear the United States will only be able to hope it isn't our day to die by an Iranian nuclear bomb," said Cotton.
"If President Obama wants to liken this deal to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty or the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty then he should have followed our constitutional process and negotiated it as a treaty. Instead, he went at it alone and is now threatening to veto any attempts by Congress to conduct oversight. Over the coming weeks, I will work tirelessly to protect America from this deal and to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear-weapons capability. I am confident that the American people will repudiate this dangerous deal and Congress will kill the deal," he said.
Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, said the agreement showed a feckless foreign policy by the Obama administration.
"This Administration has demonstrated time and time again its inability to work in the best interest of the American people and the interests of our allies abroad. From ignoring self-declared 'red lines' to ceding chunks of Eastern Europe to an adversary, the Obama administration's dealings with the United States' enemies has hurt our standing abroad and our safety at home," Westerman said.
"There was a time when the United States of America, the world's greatest superpower, didn't negotiate with terrorists. The Administration's negotiations with the world's largest state-sponsor of terrorism was unlikely to ever produce a deal with terms satisfactory to the American people and our allies in the Middle East. If the terms of the deal reported by the media turn out to be true, it will be an easy choice to vote down this deal," Westerman said.
"Iran is the world's largest sponsor of terror. By paving the way for this most dangerous state to obtain nuclear weapons and a free flow of arms, this agreement will ultimately increase Iran's influence in Iraq and Syria and its ability to support violent extremists worldwide. I simply cannot condone a deal that legitimizes and empowers this regime and jeopardizes U.S. security, the Israeli state, and stability in the Middle East. I pray for the safety of our nation," said Womack.


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Q: How to load custom UIView from xib using Swift 2? The task is to create custom UIView that loads UI from .xib file using Swift. How do I do that?
I tried to do that using the code:
import UIKit

@IBDesignable class CustomView: UIView {

var view: UIView!

@IBOutlet weak var label: UILabel!

override init(frame: CGRect) {
    super.init(frame: frame)
    xibSetup()
}

required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
    super.init(coder: aDecoder)
    xibSetup()
}

func xibSetup() {
    view = loadViewFromNib()
    view.frame = bounds
    view.autoresizingMask = [UIViewAutoresizing.FlexibleWidth, UIViewAutoresizing.FlexibleHeight]

    addSubview(view)
}

func loadViewFromNib() -> UIView {
    let bundle = NSBundle(forClass: self.dynamicType)
    let nib = UINib(nibName: "CustomView", bundle: bundle)
    let view = nib.instantiateWithOwner(self, options: nil)[0] as! UIView

    return view
}

}

It runs, but crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS and shows me the message:
warning: could not load any Objective-C class information. This will significantly reduce the quality of type information available.

Actually, I need to translate code given here http://qnoid.com/2013/03/20/How-to-implement-a-reusable-UIView.html to Swift 2.0, but I have no idea how to do this.

A:
Try

let yourView = NSBundle.mainBundle().loadNibNamed("youViewNibName", owner: self, options: nil).first as! YourView

Do it in your ViewController class, then you can access the view in required init with coder, where you should call xibSetup().

A: Is it correct, that your class is called CustomView and you're loading CustomView.xib where the class for the view in xib is CustomView?
If that is so you probably do not understand what you're doing


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Lloyd Speaks on Patti LaBelle, Relationships and Why He's the 'King of Hearts'
by Singersroom February 14, 2011
In between the rising success of "Lay It Down" and "Let's Get It In", R&B sensation Lloyd takes the time out to give Singersroom an exclusive interview. The confidence and determination of this superstar cannot be denied and "King of Hearts" is the proof. He assures us this is his "best work to date" and fans will surely be pleased.
Singersroom: How are you planning to cater to the ladies during your Love Faces tour with Trey Songz?
Lloyd: By wearing the least amount of clothes as possible. It seems to work every time.
Singersroom: By pushing back your album what extras will your listeners be able to enjoy?
Lloyd: They will be able to enjoy a second video. They will also be able to enjoy some exclusive releases that I am going to make between now and the album release time. It's funny how time flies, and we just want to make sure that people really have a chance to understand why this album is so great in the first place. It really is my best work to date. Anytime that you are working with a mindset or in the early stages of releasing what you consider a masterpiece, you want to make sure everything is right and all the stars are aligned. I think time is very valuable. Being able to have time to do things the right way is really a luxury – its just good that we can afford that luxury.
Singersroom: What was your inspiration for the name of the upcoming album "King of Hearts?"
Lloyd: One, because I am the King of Hearts. Two, the music we were making was really forward and cocky without being arrogant. It's really confident and you have to be confident in your abilities to please the opposite sex.
Singersroom: Have you ever experienced heartbreak and what is your best advice for dealing with it?
Lloyd: Luckily, I'm the heartbreaker. Which probably works in my favor when it comes to those kind of things. But yea, I have experienced a little bit of it and I know it's not a good feeling.
Singersroom: For many people music can get you through tough situations, especially matters of the heart. What songs, if any, got you through past relationships?
Lloyd: Well there's actually a song on my album called "Since You Left Me". It's basically how Beyonce had "Irreplaceable" which was her anthem of heartbreak – mine is "Since You Left Me". Since you left me, I've been hanging out with the fellas and doing my own thing. The thing that hurts the most is that the person doesn't realize that you are a good man or good woman and you just want them to see that.
Singersroom: Why did you choose "Lay It Down" to be the first single released from the album?
Lloyd: Because it's a great song. You have to really dig deep in order to perform that song. I just knew it was something that would wake people up. There's so much on the radio now to choose from that you want to have something that stands out and grabs people's attention very early.
Singersroom: Why did you choose to feature Patti LaBelle on "Lay It Down Pt. II" and how was your experience working with such an iconic singer?
Lloyd: I felt like Patti would make it "hater-free". Everyone always has an opinion about music. Sometimes in being so opinionated they don't respect the fact that it really is a gift to be able to make good music. You just want to find a way to make people respect it at the same time. I just think that by having Patti, it definitely brought a different appreciation to the song.
Singersroom: In the song LaBelle is singing more from a mother perspective – how has your own mother helped you with advice in this area?
Lloyd: Yea, my mom definitely is a wonderful woman. At the same time there was some growing up to do on her end. So just being there to witness that definitely helped out a lot.
Singersroom: "Let's Get It In" is your newest single release from the upcoming album. In playing off the words from your song, "I wish I had time to get to know you but I don't. I wish I could be here in the morning but I won't. So lets get it in girl". Do you feel that making that move hinders you from getting to know someone?
Lloyd: No, because sometimes that's what people want. Sometimes they don't want all the holding hands, the lovey dovey and the romantic stuff. Sometimes they want honesty, truth, and transparency. In today's society I would rather have someone who was transparent so I know who I'm dealing with than someone who lies about what they want and I find out the hard way. So I think there is something to be admired about just being honest with yourself and with your partner.
Singersroom: With Valentine's Day is coming up, all the ladies want to know what are your plans for your special someone?
Lloyd: Well I'll be on tour that day. So I'll be doing something special for the ladies at my show and the fans. Definitely!
Photo Source: Bossip
—— By: Interview By Aleta Watson
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The order was unclear at the time it was written and should have been flagged for clarification first by the nurse taking the order and then by the Pharmacy. In any case the person administering the medication is the last defense and in this instance due to the hour-the dose for sleep, given and the q 8hr.prn dose requested marked as 'not given' and the reason; that way, the patient may have gotten her needed sleep and the creative nurse would not be losing sleep over an unnecessary error.
Mr. 158 has had it with ostomy-care instructions; and is ready for discharge.
Excuse me, but is this where the Pub Crawl Is supposed to start?
I got wasted, spent my entire weekend doing " Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do."
Been reassigned as a "Physician's Lounge" nurse's are happy just getting to the bathroom.
If I told you once, I've told you a thousand times;procedure calls for the scary red bags...!
Actually, The sign should read, "Nurse's Breakdown Room"...!
They call it BREAKROOM because Nurses know the only way they'll catch a BREAK is to break something!


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Il Ghiacciaio Rutkowski (in lingua inglese: Rutkowski Glacier) è un ghiacciaio antartico che fluisce in direzione est dalla porzione settentrionale della calotta glaciale del Dominion Range, catena montuosa che fa parte dei Monti della Regina Maud, in Antartide.

Il ghiacciaio è posizionato a est del Mount Mills e scende in direzione nordest verso il Meyer Desert dove termina senza andare a confluire nel Ghiacciaio Beardmore.

La denominazione è stata assegnata nel 1966 dal Comitato consultivo dei nomi antartici (US-ACAN) in onore di Richard L. Rutkowski, meteorologo dell'United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) presso la Base Amundsen-Scott nel 1962.

Note

Voci correlate
 Monti della Regina Maud
 Dominion Range

Collegamenti esterni

 Rutkowski Glacier su geographic.org

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Q: isometric quadratic spaces over a prime field Let $(V, \gamma)$ be a quadratic space, where $V$ is an $n$-dimensional $\mathbb{Z}/(7)$-vector space and $r = r(\gamma)$ is the rank of the bilinear form.
I want to show: either, $(V, \gamma)$ is isometric to $(V, \gamma')$, where $\gamma'$ is given by the associated matrix
$$ \begin{pmatrix}
        E_r & 0 \\
        0 & 0 \\
        \end{pmatrix}$$
or, it's isometric to $(V, \gamma'')$, where $\gamma''$ is given by the associated matrix
$$ \begin{pmatrix}
        E_{r-1} & 0 & 0 \\
        0 & 6 & 0 \\
        0 & 0 & 0 \\
        \end{pmatrix}$$
where $E_m$ is the identity matrix of size $m$.
Thanks in advance. I thought that this might be solved via induction over $r$, but I don't really know how to do it.


Loren Ryder and Charles R. Daily of the Paramount Studio Sound Department for the design, construction and use of the first dial-controlled step-by-step sound channel line-up and test circuit.
Michael S. Leshing, Benjamin C. Robinson, Arthur B. Chatelain and Robert C. Stevens of the 20th Century-Fox Studio, and John G. Capstaff of the Eastman Kodak Company for the 20th Century-Fox processing machine.
Robert J. Kern - "National Velvet"
For his six years service as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder - "The Lost Weekend"
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For tolerance short subject ; produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy; directed by Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay by Albert Maltz; song "The House I Live In" music by Earl Robinson, lyrics by Lewis Allan; starring Frank Sinatra; released by R-K-O Radio Pictures.
James Dunn - "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
Anne Revere - "National Velvet"
Ray Milland - "The Lost Weekend"
Joan Crawford - "Mildred Pierce"
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To Hollywood studios, executives, and the personnel of our industry whose generosity and cooperation made this program possible.
To Mr. Charles Skouras and Fox West Coast Theatres for donating the facilities of Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
To the artists who are appearing on the program.
To the many Academy Committees and individual members who have contributed invaluable time and effort.
To the Screen Actors Guild, the Screen Directors Guild, the Screen Writers Guild, the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Theatre Authority, Musicians Mutual Protective Association, and Radio Corporation of America for their cooperation.
Tonight, for the second consecutive year, the American Broadcasting Company broadcasts coast-to-coast the ceremonies attending the 18th Annual Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Once again, through the medium of radio and the film industry, all America will have the opportunity of sharing this program.
Tickets were availible to the public for $37.50 each —ED.
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We celebrate with our Christian sisters and brothers.
We celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12th. On October 12, 1945, Pope Pius XII, decreed that "Santa Maria, de Guadalupe"(Our Lady of Guadalupe) was the "Patroness of all the Americas." The symbolism of Our Lady of Guadalupe is easily recognized by the Mexican people....
Saint Martin De Porres, OP
Saint Martin's feast is celebrated on November 3rd. St. Martin De Porres, OP, a mulatto abandoned with his mother and younger sister by his Spanish father in 16th century Peru, grew up poor and marginalized. He gave himself as a volunteer [donado] to the Dominican community in Lima and was...
Reformation 500th Anniversary
On Sunday, October 29, 2017, we commemorate and celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The Reformation created a schism in the Catholic Church; Martin Luther is credited with initiating it with the posting of his ninety-five theses in 1517. Luther wanted reform and criticized real abuses in the Church...
September 17th marks the anniversary of the death of Hildegard of Bingen, named a Doctor of the Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI on October 7, 2012. We celebrate the anniversary of her death by sharing this poetic vision of her faith....
On August 8, Dominicans celebrate the feast of Saint Dominic! Dominic is our patron and the founder of our Dominican Order (the Order of Preachers). Dominic was described as joyful and prayerful, one whose preaching challenged the heresies of his day. The Dominican motto is veritas (truth) and it is...
Saint Ignatius
On July 31st, we join in celebration with our Jesuit Brothers on the Feast of Saint Ignatius, their patron and founder. Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) was a priest, theologian, and spiritual director who is best remembered and celebrated for two primary gifts to the world – the Society of...
Saint Mary Magdalene
The feast of Saint Mary Magdalene is July 22nd. Mary of Magdala is one of the renowned and celebrated women who followed Jesus. Scripture tells us that seven demons were cast from her but scripture permits interpretation about what that means. The memory of Mary has been maligned by the...
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
July 14th is the feast of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, an Algonquin-Mohawk woman. She is colloquially known as the Lily of the Mohawks. Saint Kateri became Catholic at the age of nineteen and at her baptism she was named Catherine after Saint Catherine of Siena. Saint Kateri was a holy woman...
Saint Catherine of Siena was a great Dominican saint. She dedicated herself to prayer, she contributed to the study of theology, and she was involved in her world. She worked for peace and the transformation of Church and society. ...
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Q: How to add reserved keywords in liquibase OracleDatabase? Trying to make my spring boot JPA application compliant with Oracle DB, already running with MySQL and H2.
The data generated by liquibase unfortunately uses some of Oracle's reserved keywords as table or column names.
The good news is that hibernate and liquibase implementations can detect these keywords and "quote" them when querying database (using objectQuotingStrategy="QUOTE_ONLY_RESERVED_KEYWORDS" for liquibase, and spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.auto_quote_keyword: true for hibernate).
The bad news is hibernate and liquibase do not share the same list of reserved keywords for Oracle.
For example, value is not recognized as a reserved keyword by liquibase, but is by hibernate (which uses ANSI SQL:2003 keywords).
One of my liquibase changeSets creates a table with a lower case value column, so Liquibase creates the table with an unquoted lowercase value column, and Oracle DB turns it automatically in an upper case VALUE column. Now when hibernate tries to fetch
that column, it recognizes value and quotes it (`SELECT "value" from ...), which makes it case-sensitive, so the column is not found (ORA-00904).
I thought I found a workaround for it by extending SpringLiquibase and adding my custom keywords, as described here : https://liquibase.jira.com/browse/CORE-3324. The problem is that this does not seem to work with OracleDatabase implementation, which overwrites SpringLiquibase's set of reserved keywords (and of course, the isReservedWord() method uses OracleDatabase's set).
For now, I'll use the QUOTE_ALL_OBJECTS quoting strategy for liquibase and hibernate.globally_quoted_identifiers.
But, just out of curiosity, I wanted to know if the set of reserved keywords used by liquibase for Oracle could be appended.

*

*spring boot version: 2.3.9.RELEASE.

*hibernate-core version (spring boot dependency): 5.4.28

*liquibase-core version (spring boot dependency): 3.8.9

A: Hmm in case of Oracle you have keywords and reserved words.

*

*reserved words can not be used as identifiers

*keywords can be used as identifiers but it is not recommened.

You can get list of them directly from database:
select KEYWORD, RESERVED from v$reserved_words;
...
1864 rows selected

What about using uppercase names everywhere in the source code?
It looks like Liqubase depends on some JDBC driver functionally - which does not work.
OracleDatabase.java:
public void setConnection(DatabaseConnection conn) {
    //noinspection HardCodedStringLiteral,HardCodedStringLiteral,HardCodedStringLiteral,HardCodedStringLiteral,
    // HardCodedStringLiteral
    reservedWords.addAll(Arrays.asList("GROUP", "USER", "SESSION", "PASSWORD", "RESOURCE", "START", "SIZE", "UID", "DESC", "ORDER")); //more reserved words not returned by driver

    Connection sqlConn = null;
    if (!(conn instanceof OfflineConnection)) {
        try {
            /*
             * Don't try to call getWrappedConnection if the conn instance is
             * is not a JdbcConnection. This happens for OfflineConnection.
             * see https://liquibase.jira.com/browse/CORE-2192
             */
            if (conn instanceof JdbcConnection) {
                sqlConn = ((JdbcConnection) conn).getWrappedConnection();
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new UnexpectedLiquibaseException(e);
        }

        if (sqlConn != null) {
            tryProxySession(conn.getURL(), sqlConn);

            try {
                //noinspection HardCodedStringLiteral
                reservedWords.addAll(Arrays.asList(sqlConn.getMetaData().getSQLKeywords().toUpperCase().split(",\\s*")));
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                //noinspection HardCodedStringLiteral
                Scope.getCurrentScope().getLog(getClass()).info("Could get sql keywords on OracleDatabase: " + e.getMessage());
                //can not get keywords. Continue on
            }

If Liquibase calls sqlConn.getMetaData().getSQLKeywords() and this does not return proper output, then your chances are limited. It might be a bug in JDBC drivers, or your application does not have SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE privilege and does not see v$reserved_words view (if JDBC queries this internally).


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news, local-news, Shoalhaven, Fieflies, Kangaroo Valley, South Coast, Gloworms, Jervis Bay, bioluminescence
Local Matt Jeffrey has contributed photographs to the South Coast Register for a number of years. He's produced photos of everything from fires, floods, lightning storms, sunsets and sunrises you name it - overall just beautiful work. And the North Nowra resident has been at it again, this time capturing, of all things, fireflies. Matt has dabbled over the years, like most keen local photographers, in capturing the brilliant blue bioluminescence when it appears from time to time in Jervis Bay. But this time he has captured a bioluminescence of a different kind. Read more: Fireflies or Lightning bugs, yes they are here in Australia, and yes here in the Shoalhaven. And it's bioluminescence - that's how these glitterbugs get their gleam. Fireflies are masters of bioluminescence, which is the production of light in a living organism by the chemical reaction chemiluminescence. Fireflies have light-producing organs called lanterns under their abdomen. The lanterns contain photocytes, specialised cells that convert chemical energy into light. And that's what gives these insects their trademark glow. Matt captured the rare insects at a "secret" northern Shoalhaven location. "I'm so glad that last year's fires missed this area," he said. The only other local spot he knows of where the insects appear is in Kangaroo Valley which was largely burnt in the catastrophic 2019-20 Christmas New Year fire. Mr Jeffrey found the colony about three years ago. "I was coming back from photographing a sunset and there were these lights in the bush," he said. I initially thought someone had followed me and was watching me. "Then I realised they were fireflies. "It was just brilliant. "It is incredible to watch - they are smaller than a paperclip but just incredible. "It's amazing just to sit and watch them - you could do it for hours." Even if at times you have to battle mosquitoes and like his photo session earlier this week even suffe "stings from various trees". "To capture fireflies in action and even just watch them is worth it," he said. Matt's passion for photography sees him travel all over the Shoalhaven in an attempt to get "that perfect shot". "I just love photography," he said. "It's definitely a passion. It's not my job and I don't do it to make money, I think I've sold one photo in the last three years and I haven't tried to. "I just like capturing the beauty of the area and putting it on social media for everyone to enjoy. (you can check out his stunning work on the Matt Jeffrey Photograph Facebook page)." His work also features strongly on other local photography social media pages. "For me it's a way to relax," he said "it gets me out of home, outside in the fresh air and not sitting back and watching television." Covering the disastrous South Coast bushfires last year also inspired him to join the Rural Fire Service. "I photographed the fire and saw the amazing work our RFS volunteers did during those blazes and have joined the Cambewarra RFS," he said. "With COVID etc, it's taken a bit longer than usual to complete all my training, but I love it, it's great and importantly is a way to do something for my community." He said his next "mission" is to capture glowworms in the local area. Firefly light is usually intermittent, and flashes in patterns that are unique to each species, of which there are 2000 varieties. Each blinking pattern is an optical signal that helps fireflies find potential mates. Scientists are not sure how the insects regulate this process to turn their lights on and off. Few realise that fireflies are actually beetles, nocturnal members of the family Lampyridae. Most fireflies are winged, which distinguishes them from other luminescent insects of the same family, commonly known as glowworms. There are about 2000 firefly species. These insects live in a variety of warm environments, as well as in more temperate regions.
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Shoalhaven's Matt Jeffrey photographs fireflies in an "amazing experience"
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WOW: Local photographer Matt Jeffrey's picture of a light posse of fireflies in the northern Shoalhaven.
Local Matt Jeffrey has contributed photographs to the South Coast Register for a number of years.
He's produced photos of everything from fires, floods, lightning storms, sunsets and sunrises you name it - overall just beautiful work.
And the North Nowra resident has been at it again, this time capturing, of all things, fireflies.
Matt has dabbled over the years, like most keen local photographers, in capturing the brilliant blue bioluminescence when it appears from time to time in Jervis Bay.
But this time he has captured a bioluminescence of a different kind.
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Fireflies or Lightning bugs, yes they are here in Australia, and yes here in the Shoalhaven.
And it's bioluminescence - that's how these glitterbugs get their gleam.
Fireflies are masters of bioluminescence, which is the production of light in a living organism by the chemical reaction chemiluminescence.
Fireflies have light-producing organs called lanterns under their abdomen.
STUNNING: Matt Jeffrey's sparkle of fireflies in the northern Shoalhaven.
The lanterns contain photocytes, specialised cells that convert chemical energy into light.
And that's what gives these insects their trademark glow.
Matt captured the rare insects at a "secret" northern Shoalhaven location.
It's amazing just to sit and watch them - you could do it for hours.
Photographer Matt Jeffrey
"I'm so glad that last year's fires missed this area," he said.
The only other local spot he knows of where the insects appear is in Kangaroo Valley which was largely burnt in the catastrophic 2019-20 Christmas New Year fire.
Mr Jeffrey found the colony about three years ago.
"I was coming back from photographing a sunset and there were these lights in the bush," he said.
I initially thought someone had followed me and was watching me.
Some of Matt's Jeffrey's stunning photos.
"Then I realised they were fireflies.
"It was just brilliant.
"It is incredible to watch - they are smaller than a paperclip but just incredible.
"It's amazing just to sit and watch them - you could do it for hours."
Even if at times you have to battle mosquitoes and like his photo session earlier this week even suffe "stings from various trees".
North Nowra photographer Matt Jeffrey has described capturing fireflies as an amazing experience.
"To capture fireflies in action and even just watch them is worth it," he said.
Matt's passion for photography sees him travel all over the Shoalhaven in an attempt to get "that perfect shot".
"I just love photography," he said.
"It's definitely a passion. It's not my job and I don't do it to make money, I think I've sold one photo in the last three years and I haven't tried to.
INCREDIBLE: North Nowra photographer Matt Jeffrey has described capturing fireflies as an amazing experience.
"I just like capturing the beauty of the area and putting it on social media for everyone to enjoy. (you can check out his stunning work on the Matt Jeffrey Photograph Facebook page)."
His work also features strongly on other local photography social media pages.
"For me it's a way to relax," he said "it gets me out of home, outside in the fresh air and not sitting back and watching television."
Covering the disastrous South Coast bushfires last year also inspired him to join the Rural Fire Service.
"I photographed the fire and saw the amazing work our RFS volunteers did during those blazes and have joined the Cambewarra RFS," he said.
IN FLIGHT: North Nowra photographer Mat Jeffrey has described capturing fireflies as an amazing experience.
"With COVID etc, it's taken a bit longer than usual to complete all my training, but I love it, it's great and importantly is a way to do something for my community."
He said his next "mission" is to capture glowworms in the local area.
BEETLE: A close up of a firefly and how they compare to the size of a small paperclip.
What is a Firefly?
Firefly light is usually intermittent, and flashes in patterns that are unique to each species, of which there are 2000 varieties.
Each blinking pattern is an optical signal that helps fireflies find potential mates.
Scientists are not sure how the insects regulate this process to turn their lights on and off.
COMMON NAME: Fireflies
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Lampyridae
TYPE: Invertebrates
AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: About two months
SIZE: Up to one inch (2.5 centimetres)
Few realise that fireflies are actually beetles, nocturnal members of the family Lampyridae.
Most fireflies are winged, which distinguishes them from other luminescent insects of the same family, commonly known as glowworms.
There are about 2000 firefly species.
These insects live in a variety of warm environments, as well as in more temperate regions.
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Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a treasure map that leads them to a wishing well, which for a penny will grant any wish (through old cartoon footage). Daffy sets up a resort around the well and various Looney Tunes characters have their dreams come true. Meanwhile, Yosemite Sam and the Tasmanian Devil hunt for the varmints who stole their treasure map!


CALGARY, Alberta, March 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Parkland Fuel Corporation ("Parkland") (TSX:PKI), North America's fastest growing independent marketers of fuel and petroleum products, announced today the pricing of its previously announced private offering (the "offering") of US$500 million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2026 (the "notes"). The notes will bear interest at a rate of 6.0% per annum and were priced at par. Parkland intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay certain outstanding amounts borrowed under its credit facility. The closing of the offering is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to occur on March 23, 2018.


High calibre executives are being attracted away from the capital to take up new roles in the regions.
That's according to property consultants Bruton Knowles, who say their ongoing success, coupled with a clear strategy for growth and a great working environment in which to develop and support each other is encouraging more London-based executives to the West.
The firm has made a number of senior appointments at the Gloucester headquarters aimed at steering the firm's strategic development.
Their latest appointment is Anthony Martin, who moves from London-based Cluttons to join Bruton Knowles as Partner and Head of Valuation Faculty.
With key banking contacts including major financial institutions, Anthony will coordinate Bruton Knowles' valuation teams across the office network to ensure consistent and high quality delivery.
He has also worked on valuation mandates and projects for a wide range of client groups including the Royal Society of Public Health, Westminster City Council, Newsquest Pension Fund, Eyre Estate, EIG, Pensions Trust, Helix Properties and the London Diocesan Fund.
Patrick Downes said: "Anthony is a highly experienced commercial property valuation specialist who has been working in London for more than 30 years.
Anthony Martin said: "There are big challenges ahead for the UK economy but it's good to joining the Partnership in time to help steer the company through the latest phase of its development.
Anthony will work on local and national client portfolios in conjunction with partners across Bruton Knowles' regional network.
Anthony specialises in valuing core commercial and mixed use properties for investors, developers and owner-occupiers and is experienced handling national portfolios for institutional and corporate estates.
His appointment is one of a number of key senior appointments at Bruton Knowles.


This was the most challenging cake I've been asked to create, yet surprisingly once I finally figured out how best to make this, the final Uncle Sam Hat Surprise Cake came together quite easily. I just made a lot of mistakes along the way. I spent several days and used 12 cake mixes, before I got it right. I gave away a lot of cake to friends and family. I didn't hear any complaints. Everyone enjoyed the rejects. It was stressful, to say the least, but when I finally got my act together, and made the completed cake that you see here, it was really quite fun. That's the beauty of having someone like me figure out just how something needs to be made so you don't have to.


I knew the skills I would acquire at Prudential Capital Group were the type of capabilities I wanted to develop after business school.
Following in her father's footsteps, Kimberley graduated with a degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University and began working in the oil and gas industry. After a few years in the workforce as an engineer, Kimberley discovered that she had an interest in the financial aspect of the oil and gas industry.
"I really enjoyed working as an engineer, but I wanted to learn about the industry from a financial perspective, not only a technical one." Kimberley continued, "I saw how different operations worked but I also wanted to learn how oil companies themselves work." This realization prompted Kimberley to pursue an MBA at the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business.
Kimberley interviewed with Prudential Capital Group early in the recruiting process and accepted a Senior Associate Position with the Energy Finance Group, specializing in oil and gas.
For Kimberley, the most rewarding aspect of her Senior Associate role was meeting with new companies. "Listening to people describe what they are passionate about and what they are building is very gratifying, especially when we can play a role in that process," she added.


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namespace Acf\AdminBundle\Form\BulletinInfoContent;

use Acf\DataBundle\Entity\BulletinInfoTitle;
use Acf\DataBundle\Repository\BulletinInfoTitleRepository;
use Sasedev\Form\EntityidBundle\Form\Type\EntityidType;
use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Form\Type\EntityType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\TextType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\TextareaType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver\OptionsResolver;

/**
 *
 * @author sasedev <seif.salah@gmail.com>
 */
class NewTForm extends AbstractType
{

    /**
     *
     * @var BulletinInfoTitle
     */
    private $bulletinInfoTitle;

    /**
     * Form builder
     *
     * @param FormBuilderInterface $builder
     * @param array $options
     *
     * @return null
     */
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $this->bulletinInfoTitle = $options['bulletinInfoTitle'];

        if (null == $this->bulletinInfoTitle) {
            $builder->add('bulletinInfoTitle', EntityType::class, array(
                'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.bulletinInfoTitle.label',
                'class' => 'AcfDataBundle:BulletinInfoTitle',
                'query_builder' => function (BulletinInfoTitleRepository $btr) {
                    return $btr->createQueryBuilder('bt')->orderBy('bt.title', 'ASC');
                },
                'choice_label' => 'title',
                'multiple' => false,
                'by_reference' => true,
                'required' => true
            ));
        } else {
            $btId = $this->bulletinInfoTitle->getId();
            $builder->add('bulletinInfoTitle', EntityidType::class, array(
                'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.bulletinInfoTitle.label',
                'class' => 'AcfDataBundle:BulletinInfoTitle',
                'query_builder' => function (BulletinInfoTitleRepository $btr) use ($btId) {
                    return $btr->createQueryBuilder('bt')->where('bt.id = :id')->setParameter('id', $btId)->orderBy('bt.title', 'ASC');
                },
                'choice_label' => 'id',
                'multiple' => false,
                'by_reference' => true,
                'required' => true
            ));
        }

        $builder->add('title', TextType::class, array(
            'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.title.label'
        ));

        $builder->add('content', TextareaType::class, array(
            'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.content.label',
            'required' => false
        ));

        $builder->add('theme', TextType::class, array(
            'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.theme.label',
            'required' => false
        ));

        $builder->add('jort', TextType::class, array(
            'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.jort.label',
            'required' => false
        ));

        $builder->add('txtNum', TextType::class, array(
            'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.txtNum.label',
            'required' => false
        ));

        $builder->add('artTxt', TextType::class, array(
            'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.artTxt.label',
            'required' => false
        ));

        $builder->add('dtTxt', TextType::class, array(
            'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.dtTxt.label',
            'required' => false
        ));

        $builder->add('artCode', TextType::class, array(
            'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.artCode.label',
            'required' => false
        ));

        $builder->add('companyType', TextType::class, array(
            'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.companyType.label',
            'required' => false
        ));

        $builder->add('dtApplication', TextType::class, array(
            'label' => 'BulletinInfoContent.dtApplication.label',
            'required' => false
        ));
    }

    /**
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getName()
    {
        return 'BulletinInfoContentNewForm';
    }

    /**
     *
     * {@inheritdoc} @see AbstractType::getBlockPrefix()
     */
    public function getBlockPrefix()
    {
        return $this->getName();
    }

    /**
     * get the default options
     *
     * @return multitype:string multitype:string
     */
    public function getDefaultOptions()
    {
        return array(
            'validation_groups' => array(
                'title',
                'content',
                'theme',
                'jort',
                'txtNum',
                'artTxt',
                'dtTxt',
                'artCode',
                'companyType',
                'dtApplication'
            ),
            'bulletinInfoTitle' => null
        );
    }

    /**
     *
     * {@inheritdoc} @see AbstractType::configureOptions()
     */
    public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
    {
        $resolver->setDefaults($this->getDefaultOptions());
    }
}

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Zulresso wins FDA approval as the first post-partum depression drug
Shikha Sinha March 22, 2019 Pharmaceuticals
Zulresso will be provided through a restricted program in which a healthcare expert administers the drug in an authorized health facility
Reports confirm that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently approved Zulresso injection for the treatment of Post-Partum depression (PPD) in adult women. It has become the first drug to be approved by the FDA specially for treating PPD.
Postpartum depression is a condition in which women may experience absurd thoughts of harming themselves or harming their child. FDA's acting director of the Division of Psychiatry Products at Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research, Tiffany Farchione, M.D., mentioned that this drug provides a vital new treatment option and has been specifically approved for the treatment of postpartum depression.
Citing reliable sources, due to major serious risk concerns which include abrupt loss of consciousness or excessive sedation while being administered, Zulresso (brexanolone) has been authorized with Risk evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), accessible to patients only through a restricted distribution program at authorized health care facilities, where the health care expert first monitors the patient meticulously.
According to the sources, Zulresso will be provided through a restricted program named Zulresso REMS program in which a health care expert administers the drug in an authorized health care facility. The primary requirement of REMS is that prior to administration of the drug the patient should be enrolled in the program.
Zulresso administration is supposedly managed as a continued IV infusion of total 60 hours (2.5 days). To avoid abrupt loss of consciousness or risk of major harm, patients must be examined efficiently and continuously, besides monitoring oxygen levels in the blood. Patient would be explained about the risks of Zulresso treatment as well as informed that they must be examined at health care facility for all these effects for the whole 60 hours.
In two clinical studies, the potency of Zulresso has been shown in those participants who received a 60-hour continuous administration of Zulresso and placebo, then followed for 4 weeks. In the studies, Zulresso demonstrated the improvement of depressive symptoms by the end of continuous 30-day follow-up period.
An electrical & electronics engineer by qualification, Shikha Sinha has been working in the research and content domains for quite a while. Currently penning down informative pieces for page125.org, Shikha is also an active contributor on a variety of business portals spanning healthcare, ICT, renewables, etc. While she isn't harnessing the power of the pen, Shikha loves to cook, read, and travel. She can be contacted at- [email protected] | https://twitter.com/shikhas999/
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QIN PISTON RINGS FOR STEAM LOCOMOTIVES.
by admin | Dec 1, 2021
Not all the work we do involves manufacturing piston rings from modern base materials and applying chrome ceramic coatings to them, far from it…
We regularly work with the Austrian Society for Railway History (ÖGEG), and supplied them with a set of rings earlier this year for one of their locomotives which is nearly 80 years old. Here is what they told us about this project.
"Our locomotive has been built in 1944 by company Franco-Belge in occupied France as a part of the German war effort. These locomotives were built to a war standardization program intended to build standardized locomotive types with minimized use of materials and work. Accordingly these locomotives were kept very simple and also were designed to work on temporary light railway tracks and were built for different gauges from 600 mm to even 1435 mm.
At the end of WWII, our locomotive with some others of this type found itself in Austria, with members of its class spread all over Europe and examples now preserved in Austria, France and even the UK.
The Austrian Federal Railways modified four locomotives of this type to tender locomotives and renamed these locomotives to series from 699.0 to 699.1. During its working life our locomotive 699.103 served on the now closed Carinthian narrow gauge railway line Völkermarkt-Kühnsdorf to Eisenkappel and after closure of this line was transferred to the Upper Austrian Steyr Velley line, where it was, due to its low speed but high tractive effort mainly used for freight line traffic.
After this narrow gauge line was also closed in 1982 after a land slide, the locomotive was waiting for an uncertain future in the loco shed in Gartsen. In 1984 the Austrian Society for Railway History (ÖGEG) managed to take over a 17 km long part of the Steyr Valley Line from Steyr to Grünburg and to purchase 3 of the locomotives used in the final years of pre-preservation operation of the line.
In 1985 preservation service was established and locomotive 699.103 was recommissioned for operation on the Steyr Valley Railway line. After it's second general overhaul in preservation era completed in 2021 locomotive 699.103 is now ready to pull happy guests on special trains again.
We are very happy with the support given to us by QIN on this project."
More information can be found on their website: www.oegeg.at and they can also be followed on FaceBook.
Marine engine piston rings, locomotive piston rings, industrial piston rings, steam turbine sealing rings, power plant engine piston rings: we cover all these applications here at QIN across a bore range which extends from 160mm up to 600mm.
QIN's support is always just a phone call or an email away.
Contact us now at websales@q-in.eu to find out more.
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Contra Costa Times editorial: Elect Nathan Bell…
Contra Costa Times editorial: Elect Nathan Bell to help fix Moraga Orinda Fire District's huge debt
PUBLISHED: October 23, 2014 at 5:36 p.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 10:18 a.m.
We hate to tell you we told you so, but we did.
The humongous retirement debt of the Moraga Orinda Fire District, which we warned about five years ago, has constrained its ability to provide service. While the district's budget has grown 15 percent since 2009, staffing has been cut by 16 percent.
The reason: The district, formed just 17 years ago, has run up a $77 million debt from its underfunded pension and retiree health plans. That works out to more than $6,400 per household. Put another way, it's more than 10 times what the district spends on base salaries each year.
Paying down that debt drives up the district's pension costs. For every dollar the district pays in base salary to firefighters, it pays another $1.10 for pensions and pension debt.
That's the backdrop to the Nov. 4 election. The five district board members are chosen by geographical zones, called divisions. This year, there is only one competitive race, in Division 1 in Moraga.
Voters there should elect Nathan Bell, a Harvard MBA graduate and managing director of a private equity fund. Unlike his opponent, Bell recognizes that the ability to provide emergency services hinges on understanding and addressing the district's debt.
"I believe we have a very serious long-term problem," he says, and he's right. "Everything else plays into that."
He's running against Kathleen Famulener, an Alameda County deputy district attorney appointed to a fire board vacancy in 2013. She is now standing for election to try to keep her seat. Like directors before her, Famulener doesn't understand basic fundamentals about the district's retirement debt.
This was apparent as she spoke about how the district could wipe out its unfunded liability for retiree health care. She said it could borrow the money, but seemed unfazed that the same amount then would be owed to the lender. That was one example.
Those who do not learn from mistakes are destined to repeat them. For years the district board ignored the mounting unfunded liabilities.
Indeed, in 2008, directors helped their retiring fire chief spike his starting pension by as much as 20 percent, to about $241,000 a year. Chief Peter Nowicki's inflated retirement pay made the district a national poster child for pension abuse.
Fortunately, after November only one of the board members from six years ago, Fred Weil, will remain. The last thing residents need is another director who ignores the severity of the problem.
Lamorinda
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This service is part of the Annual Conference of the North Alabama Annual Conference of the Unite Methodist church. Our Bishop Deborah Wallace-Padgett will preach at and lead the service. Men and women will be ordained as clergy in the church as well. IOt is a powerful service. It will be help at 7:00pm at Trinity UMC off of Airport road in Huntsville. I recommend going early as seats go fast. All clergy in our conference our required to be there. I was ordained at this service in 2015.


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Speed skating rink
A speed-skating track (or Eisschnelllaufhalle, Eisoval ) is an ice rink (sports site ) could be carried out on the speed skating competitions.
A standard speed skating track is defined by the rules of the International Skating Union ( ISU). It consists of a carrier which is divided into two tracks, with the two curves of 180 °. The radius of the inner curve shall not be less than 25 meters and not greater than 26 meters. The inner track must be four meters. The outside lane may be greater but not less than four meters. This results in the radii for the outside curve of a maximum of 30 and a minimum of 29 meters. The finish line opposite is the exchange line ( crossover region ) where the athletes have when they come out of the curve, change.
For international competitions, the track must be 400 meters long, which is equipped with a running track ( warm-up lane ) that is at least four meters wide. For the Olympic Games a tempered hall with artificial ice is mandatory. This requirements are only minor changes since the founding of the ISU in 1892.
Measuring the web is half a meter next to the inner boundary line (in the track). The total length of the track (one lap ) is the distance that a competitor has to run per round. This includes two lines ( the crossing of the alternating straight caused an approximately 7 cm longer path ), an inner curve and an outer curve. The boundary line is introduced in the ice 7 cm wide blue line, which is equipped with non- fixed red blocks.
More train types
As opposed to standard tracks may also have other lengths tracks. 200 meters, with a radius of the inner curve of 15 meters and a straight of at least 40 meters must not be exceeded. An example of a non- default path is 333.3 meters long Ostragehege rink in Dresden.
Speed skating halls
This list displays all the speed skating halls in the world. Halls were designed without the air -conditioning (heating / dehumidifier ) are marked with ( cold).
The Hall is no longer used for the Speed Skating Hall is under construction.
NC - not completed - incomplete
Kometa, Kolomna
Vikingskipet, Hamar
M-Wave, Nagano
Semi-open speed skating tracks
The widespread mainly in the Netherlands semi-open speed skating tracks are tracks that have a roof over the spectator seating as well as the race track. The cost alternative to the hall asks protection from wind and weather. Low temperatures and rain and snow into the falls diagonally into the hall continues to affect the operating speed skating as is the case with an open-air car. In the course of time, some semi-open paths were covered later in the interior. Sodas half open and the classification according to Hall (cold) can change.
SpaarSelect Kunstijsbaan, Breda
IJssportcentrum Eindhoven, Eindhoven
De West Friesland, Hoorn
Outdoor tracks
Outdoor paths differ between those of natural ice, such as lakes, rivers or flooded areas and those that were created artificially by cooling systems. There are over 180 400 meters long outdoor tracks that are located worldwide in training and competitions. Of these, 76 of artificial ice. This list is not complete and shows a selection of artificial and natural Freiluftbahenen.
The railway is no longer used for speed skating
Davos Ice Stadium ( natural ice ), Davos
Risenga Kunstisbane Asker
Misurinasee ( natural ice )
Medeo, Almaty
Minsk-Arena Calgary Olympic Oval Richmond (British Columbia) Richmond Olympic Oval Changchun Berlin Erfurt Inzell Oval Lingotto Nagano, Nagano Obihiro, Hokkaido Alau Ice Palace Gangneung Gangneung Sports Complex Speed Skating facility Groningen Thialf Tilburg Bjugn FosenHallen Stavanger Moscow Adler Arena Skating Center Salt Lake City Utah Olympic Oval Alkmaar The Hague Assen Deventer Haarlem Kazan Sarajevo Olympic Hall Juan Antonio Samaranch Chemnitz Grefrath Albertville Budapest Amsterdam Ede, Netherlands Larvik Bislett-Stadion Warsaw Eskilstuna Sundsvall Butte (Montana) Lake Placid, New York Roseville (Minnesota)


This slim fitting structured dress is feminine and fun with a voluminous peplum waist. The textured cotton fabric, with slight metallic sheen and varying flecks of grey, add extra drama. The pencil skirt has a generous back vent that ensures ease of movement. A slim fitting sleeve sits between the elbow and wrist.
Care Instructions: /// Hand wash.


Today I added another digital painting to my istockphoto library of images. I decided to take a break from destroying cities and have a cuppa coffee!
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Popular dive sites such as Manta Point/Karang Makassar are known for stronger drift, the manta's love to play in the current! Castle Rock is famous for it's sharks but a negative entry is often required. We will offer to you the best option based on your experience level or offer to top up your learning through interesting lectures & experiences such as Adventure Drift and Adventure Deep Dive.
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