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A nuclear bargain and a bleaker Middle East
Hisham Melhem Saturday 01 August 2015
Most people in the Levant, Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula will not read the full text of the Iran nuclear deal, technically known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). And even if it is implemented without major violations it will not alter in any meaningful ways the fact that already millions of them, in the words of Henry David Thoreau 'lead lives of quiet desperation'. Long before the deal was signed and sealed, some of these brittle societies were being brutalized by their governments and the modern equivalent of marauding barbarians, waving flags claiming divine mandates and calling themselves inter alia 'Islamic State' (ISIS), Jabhat al-Nusra, Hezbollah and The Badr Organization. Iran and its proxies are at the heart of these bloody upheavals. And long before the nuclear deal, and long before the ill winds of the Arab uprisings, the Levant Arabs have long chafed under their status of living in the shadows of their more assertive neighbors; the Israelis, the Turks and the Iranians. In recent years however, Iran's shadow loomed largest.
A bleaker landscape
The nuclear deal coming six and a half years after President Obama extended his hand to the Ayatollah's clenched fist and loosening it a bit, is seen by many Arabs as signifying the beginning of an American strategic shift towards Iran as the regional influential, at a time when they are locked in what they and the Iranians see as an epochal geo-political struggle with its attendant ugly sectarian overtones. To say that Arab-Iranian relations are complex is to state the obvious. Suffice to say that contradictory political and economic interests, with devastating proxy wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, cultural and historical rivalries masked in sectarian demonization and claims of leadership of the Muslim Ummah, all combine to make some of these tensions immune to solutions in the foreseeable future. The nuclear deal with Iran did not create the nightmarish agonies of Syrians, Iraqis and Yemenis, and even if one agrees with its supporters that it will severely limits Iran's nuclear ambitions, still the political and symbolic meaning of the deal, as thrusting this theocratic Iran on the road of normalizing relations with the rest of the world, is very likely to make an already bleak region even bleaker.
A resurgent Iran?
In a region where perception usually trumps reality, the nuclear deal comes at a time when many people in the region believe that America's influence in the Middle East and beyond is declining, and that Iran despite its economic woes and overextended security burdens, is a rising power. The nuclear deal, as touted by Iranian officials and their allies in Syrian, and Iraq and their hired media outlets is seen as a validation of Iran's narrative of its indispensable regional role, even for the United States as has been demonstrated in bold relief in the tacit alliance between Iran and the U.S. against ISIS in Iraq. Not only did the United States refuse to condition the nuclear talks on Iran stopping its malign activities in the region, The Obama administration refused to alienate its interlocutors by seriously attempting to undermine these activities particularly in Syria, in part because it was concerned that Iran might retaliate against American personnel in Iraq, and because it did not want the negotiations to be derailed. The great power was intimidated by the regional power.
President Obama himself reinforced this Iranian narrative, by his talk of Iran becoming 'a very successful regional power' without conditioning his recognition of this status on a shift in Iran's behavior. Obama spoke implicitly and approvingly of 'a practical streak to the Iranian regime', how Iranian leaders are 'responsive, to some degree, to their publics'. The President is betting also on ' those forces within Iran that want to break out of the rigid framework that they have been in for a long time to move in a different direction'. By contrast, President Obama spoke about the 'alienated youth' in Arab societies in the Gulf, and 'an ideology that is destructive and nihilistic, and in some cases, just a belief that there are no legitimate political outlets for grievances'. Some of these observations are undeniably correct, but their real impact was to heighten the perception that the United States is paving the way for a new relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Add to that, the impact of the 'pivot' to Asia (an inevitable shift that was exaggerated by Arabs) and the fracking revolution that made the United States a colossal energy producer, and one can understand the sense of Arab concern, again exaggerated, that the U.S. is gradually lowering its profile in the Middle East/Gulf region, and pushing it further under Iran's shadow.
On the road to Tehran
Regardless of whether sanctions relief will give Iran about $60 billion of its frozen assets as the Obama administration stresses, or more than $100 billion as its critics claim, Iran's depleted coffers will be boosted by new funds. The Obama administration and many outside experts say the new monies will be spent on domestic needs, but the fact remains that some of these funds will be given to the security structures including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to fund its operations and influence in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and beyond. Many countries and international corporations will see in these funds and new revenues from oil sales when sanctions on this sector are removed, as a big treasure to be tapped into. Already, we are seeing the beginning of a long caravan of eager diplomats, from Europe, Russia, and China and even from some Arab countries moving on the road to Tehran to do business. (Appropriately, the origin of caravan is the Persian kārwān). During the negotiations, the French staked a hard line position. But after the deal was signed, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius was the second senior European official to visit Tehran (after the German minister of the economy Sigmar Gabriel), to talk business and invite President Hassan Rouhani to visit Paris in November. When the nuclear sanctions are lifted, re-imposing them- the so-called snapback option- if Iran engaged in some cheating, will be very difficult and unrealistic, unless Iran decides to totally scuttle the deal, which is very unlikely.
Circling the wagons
Given that anti-Americanism is a central tenet in the ideology of the Iranian regime, a deal with the U.S. widely seen as a victory for the moderates, requires compensating the hardliners and the Revolutionary Guards with funds and more leeway to re-assert their anti-American credentials. Iran will continue to exert its political and military influence in Iraq, not only to confront ISIS, but also to secure that Iraq will remain in the future in its orbit to prevent forever the emergence of another Saddam Hussein to challenge its regional writ, and to make sure that Iraq's oil production will not be at its expense.
Iran will continue to deploy Arab Shiite militias and affiliated groups in its proxy wars in the region. Tehran's ability to fight Arabs with Arabs gives it tremendous power and flexibility, and allows it to deploy its elite forces only sparingly. It is true that the Syrian regime is fraying and it represents a huge financial burden on Iran which, according to some estimates spends $6 billion a year to prop up the Assad regime, but there is no solid evidence that Tehran is likely to drop Assad any time soon, although one could see this happening if it becomes clear that saving Iran's influence and huge interests in Syria requires ditching Assad for an acceptable alternative to Tehran that is less ideal than Assad, who gave Iran all the levers of power in Syria. Iran could live with a disintegrating Syria in the sparsely inhabited center and the East, and will help Assad, directly and through the Lebanese Hezbollah maintain tenuous control over Damascus and a strip of land adjacent to the Lebanese border all the way to coastal Syria, where most Alawites, Assad's co-religionists live. Defending a rump Syrian state will surely be hard but having more funds will help Iran maintain its supply lines to its most important regional and original proxy, the Lebanese franchise of Hezbollah.
Like Syria, Yemen is suffering from a 'perfect storm'; political and social fragmentations; regional and international states and groups are engaged in multiple fights, a secessionist movement in the South, the powerful Houthis of the north striking an alliance with Iran, the most active and dangerous Al-Qaeda branch and a diminishing water table. One cannot see Saudi Arabia co-existing with a regime in Sana'a that is not friendly to Riyadh. For all of these reasons Iran and the Arab states of the Gulf will do their version of circling the wagons for a protracted ugly shoot out.
The escalating human toll
Finally, the Iran nuclear deal as a new source of tension between Iran and its Arab neighbors, will inevitably contribute to tightening the repression in Arab societies in the name of galvanizing and uniting the people to fight Iran and its Arab proxies From Yemen on the Indian Ocean to Lebanon and Syria on the Mediterranean. Many Arab societies have been hollowed out and militarized long before the Iran nuclear deal and the Arab uprisings. But the historic collapse of the very foundations of the political order that prevailed for a century in the Levant and Mesopotamia in the last five years is irrevocably transforming and fragmenting the region's social, cultural and political fabric, leaving behind tattered identities. The dangers of the unprecedented Sunni-Shiite bloodletting, and the rise of the fanaticism of the non-state actors, will be magnified in the wake of the nuclear deal. The immediate future of the region will be millions of children deprived of structured schooling, to be added to the 21 million children already out of schools. In a region that has less than 5% of the world's population, the number of peoples who were forced to become refugees is almost half of the refugee population of the world. Syria's refugees, close to five millions, constitute the worst humanitarian crisis in the new century. In Yemen, people are dying of hunger; with one third of the population suffer from malnutrition. If one engages in the grizzly ritual of counting the daily harvest of blood in the majority Arab states in the region, one would be horrified, at the ability of the reaper to cut lives. Is anyone keeping up with the number of people who have disappeared in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya or even in Egypt? The misery index for the Arabs has given us new categories of Arab victims such as, migrant Arabs, and children warriors. The nuclear deal with Iran, may have capped temporarily the nuclear storm inside Iran's reactors, but the political fallouts of the deal will likely leave a long trail of human wreckage in its wake.
Hisham Melhem is a columnist and analyst for Al Arabiya News Channel in Washington, DC. Melhem has interviewed many American and international public figures, including Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, among others. He is also the correspondent for Annahar, the leading Lebanese daily. For four years he hosted "Across the Ocean," a weekly current affairs program on U.S.-Arab relations for Al Arabiya. Follow him on Twitter : @hisham_melhem
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Richard Bolles turned job hunting into an art form. In 1970, the Episcopal priest self-published What Color Is Your Parachute?, a manual on how to look for work and change careers. The title was inspired by conversations with unhappy parishioners who complained they wanted to "bail out" of their jobs, and Bolles—who had shifted profession several times—offered folksy, practical advice about everything from how to identify your own talents to how to ace an interview. To Bolles' enduring surprise, the book was picked up by an independent publisher and went on to sell more than 10 million copies worldwide. "I was just trying to help people be better prepared than I was when I was fired and started looking for a job," Bolles said in 2014.
Born in Milwaukee, Bolles studied chemistry and physics in college but was inspired to become a clergyman, said The New York Times. After he'd served as an Episcopal priest for nearly 20 years, his position was eliminated in a budget crunch, and he spent six months anxiously searching for work while he and his young family lived in a motel. He eventually landed a job "helping chaplains at campuses in seven Western states find new careers." They were the initial audience for his job-search manual.


The 2013 batch of Scripps College olive oil has arrived! Thanks to those in the community who participated in this year's harvest or helped make this project possible.
The new tradition of olive harvesting for natural campus resources is not only sustainable, a great community builder, and a joyful experience, but it is a practice that helps support our recent graduates with experience in entrepreneurship, coordination of the olive oil process from start to finish, and community outreach," says Lola Trafecanty, director of grounds at Scripps College.
All proceeds from the sale will be allocated towards sustainability and community outreach programs at Scripps College. A 10-month, part time, sustainable entrepreneurship coordinator fellowship for Sara Estevez Cores 13′ was partially funded through last year's proceeds, and we hope to continue this opportunity for future Scripps alumnae.
Bottles of olive oil will be available for purchase on Friday, November 22 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm in Holden Court (north entrance of Malott Commons) and at the Sunday Claremont Farmer's Market, December 1 from 8:00am-1:00 pm. Bottles are $40 each. Please note: we can only take personal checks, cash, or Claremont Cash in lieu of payment.
If you pre-purchased a bottle, you may pick it up on November 22 during the sale; just bring your receipt. Bottles will be available for purchase at the Scripps Student Store and the Huntley Bookstore after December 1.
The inaugural olive oil bottle label was designed by Sarah Moos '09, an original participant in the olive oil project. This year, we held a label art competition, open to the Scripps community; by majority vote, Jennifer Livermore '14's submission (right) was chosen as the winning design.
Join us for a labeling party on Thursday, November 21, from 3:00-5:00 pm at the Scripps garage. All volunteers will be entered into a raffle to win one of two sustainable products baskets.


Going by the looks of the JBL Pulse 2, one can't help but be in awe. The slick portable speaker, which comes with a unique LED panel fixed on the exterior, has gotten louder, heavier and fancier. We find out how it scores.
JBL Pulse 2 is more than just sound. It's about experience, one that excites you from the moment you turn it on. Though heavier by a few grams from its predecessor, the Pulse 2 exceeds the awesomeness that its makers introduced to us in Pulse. The Pulse 2 has gotten bigger, louder, and is now splash proof, so, you can use it by the poolside or in bathrooms (just don't dip it in water). It's more cheery, especially the two side speakers, whose vibration provide a much-needed climax to your auditory sensors. We played our favourite tracks across genres — Thrill is Gone by BB King, Wake Me Up by Avicii, Hello by Adele and our special mix of Metallica hits — and we were satisfied.
The LED panel has gotten denser, and the LED light show, the main feature that sets it apart from other portable wireless speakers (including those from JBL), offers more customisation. Apart from a colour switcher, it features a colour sensor that allows you to change the colour of light by just pointing it to any object — it will automatically change the LED light to match with the colour of the object. You can also customise light patterns and movements using the app, JBL Connect, available for free on Android and iOS.
The Bluetooth range is good as well, and the battery lasts nearly 12 hours (the final output may vary depending on the volume and distance between the speaker and the music player such as your phone).
Though you may not find any distortion when playing directly to the device, when we played the same sets of songs in other portable speakers, we found the Pulse 2 to be noisier. The beats sound a bit coarse as compared to other devices available within the same price range. The problem, however, can be resolved if you bring down the volume, and make a few adjustments in the player equaliser.
Bluetooth is universally compatible, but offers shorter range, and audio is compressed. Wi-Fi music offers up to 150 feet range and audio is lossless, but often has compatibility issues.
The guide VERDICT The JBL Pulse 2 is undoubtedly one of the best portable speakers from the brand, offering more than just good sound output. It is a decent buy in the 15k range. However, the larger question here, that concerns all other Bluetooth speakers in the Indian market, is: Should you get a Bluetooth speaker when we are moving toward Wi-Fi music and there are devices in India that support both, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi music? The answer depends on what you want.


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International climbers flock to Cornish coast: BMC Meet report
Posted by Becky McGovern on 21/05/2013
Benno Wagner (Germany) and Wojciech Szymanowicz (Cornish resident) on the rarely climbed Atlantic Ocean Wall, Land's End. Photo: Tom Last
Take 66 climbers from 22 different countries, add some Cornish sea cliffs, a packed evening programme, and a good dose of sunshine. What do you get? The BMC International Sea Cliff Climbing Meet 2013.
This is the second time the BMC has gone Cornish following the success of the first Land's End Meet in 2010. The aim of these Meets is to showcase the uniqueness of British climbing and its ethics and traditions, along with fostering international relationships. This year's event was located at The Count House, a 200 year old hut (owned by the Climbers' Club) perched above the majestic sea cliffs of Bosigran, from 12 to 19 May.
The week started off in true British fashion with climbers arriving in rain, drizzle and sea mist. Visibility was poor. "Where is the sea?" people were asking. Thankfully the next day dawned bright. The clag had cleared revealing the morning light catching the turbulent Atlantic Ocean. Let the climbing begin! People who had travelled half way round the world finally believed they were near sea cliffs. They ventured out and climbed all day experiencing how good it can be when the weather is kind.
Richard Ellis (UK) on Ochre Slab Route II, Bosigran. Photo: Tom Last
Then day two hit like a slap in the face, heavy rain everywhere. There was a two hour break in the weather which we now realise was the 'eye of the storm'. Some keen teams hot-footed it to Bosigran when the rain stopped to climb wet routes, only to end up assaulted mid-route by one of the fiercest storms locals had experienced in over 25 years. Tents blew away, power cables went down, and waterproofs were severely tested, that is if you managed to stay upright. Luckily no-one was hurt, and amazingly everyone was still smiling.
After a day like that the rest of the week felt like a blessing weather-wise. Any passing rain showers were simply brazened out with a "bring it on" attitude. Our international guests were paired with a UK climber who took them out and showed them the full delights of traditional climbing on some of the finest sea cliffs Britain has to offer. Throughout the week many routes of all grades were climbed and friendships were made. There was a great mix of climbers with a broad range of experience, both male and female, aged from 20 to 65 years. Some international guests had never trad climbed before having only experienced clipping bolts. It was great to see them acquainting themselves with placing gear and watching their confidence grow under the skillful eyes of the UK host climbers.
Siebe Vanhee (Belgium) on the first belay of The Dream in The Great Zawn. Photo: Tom Last
Highlights from the evening programme were 'In Extreme Danger'' by Frank Cannings (UK) about the BBC documentary of his epic Lundy rescue in 1971 and 'Sport Climbing in the Maltese Islands' by Simon Alden (Malta). The international guests got a great taste of some vintage British pastimes such as curry in the pub, fish and chips from the chippy, and a barn dance with local musicians and farmyard animals.
The BMC would like to extend its thanks to all the UK hosts who gave their time and care in taking the international guests climbing, to all the guests for travelling far and wide to be there, to the Climbers' Club for providing a superb venue, Toni Carver for organising the local bands, North Face for donating prizes, and finally (but by no means least) to 'Team Peters' for doing an awesome job of feeding 66 hungry climbers and helping to keep spirits up with their boundless positivity. Read on for the facts.
Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, USA and UK.
Over 140 routes from Diff to E6 saw multiple ascents.
Crags visited
Bosigran, Carn Barra, Carn Gloose, Carn Gowla, Carn Guthensbra, Chair Ladder, Cribba Head, Great Zawn, Gurnard's Head, Kenidjack, Land's End, Lizard, Pentire Head, Pordenack Point, Robin's Rocks, Sennen, St. Levan, St. Loy, Trewavas and Zennor.
Here is what the guests and hosts had to say
"Many thanks for the fantastic week at the BMC meet in Cornwall. What a memorable experience everyone from far and near will have in years to come. It couldn't have been ran better. I thoroughly enjoyed the full Cornwall experience!" Jonathan Redmond (Ireland)
"Thank you a lot for the amazing week, it was a great experience climbing on the sea cliffs and meeting so many fun people. I have to say I am a big fan of the concept!" Siebe Vanhee (Belgium)
"I think the meeting was amazing! So inspiring and well organized and absolutely fantastic climbing! Such a welcoming and positive atmosphere overall." Maria Pernemalm (Sweden)
"What a brilliant week! Great climbing & great folks. I managed to catch up with old friends and make many new ones as well as blasting some fine routes." Stu Bradbury (UK)
"Proper good time away! Loved every minute." Andi Turner (UK)
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It was excellent. All the "staff"...Iain Peters and family did a brilliant job of catering, and Becky McGovern did a blindingly good job of coordinating the whole thing and keeping a smile on her jolly face. 11/10
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Mister Saturday Night give it back
We quiz the New York-based party and label about their plans to donate profits to a local charity.
If you've read interviews with Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin (pictured above in their element) or spent some time chatting to the pair you'll understand that Mister Saturday Night is very much a community-oriented operation. Beyond their parties, the Mister Saturday Night label has drawn from a pool of local Brooklyn talent, whilst Juno Plus writer Brendan Arnott compared them to "a social services organisation" in the feature we ran on Mister Saturday Night last year.
The pair's endeavours to cultivate a community around the Mister Saturday Night operation have been strengthened with the public announcement via their website of plans to commit 10% of their 2014 net profits to the Robin Hood Foundation, a NYC-based organisation geared towards combating poverty in the city. The motivation behind this decision was a five part article by journalist Andrea Elliott published in the New York Times last December focusing on an eleven-year-old homeless girl named Dasani Coates, whose family lived in squalour less than a mile from the venues the Mister Saturday Night and Mister Sunday Afternoon parties were held. In order to gain a better idea about this, we spoke to both Justin and Eamon via email.
The announcement made it quite clear how much of an impact the New York Times article had on you both, were you previously aware of the contrasting conditions in the Fort Greene area?
Justin: Honestly, no. I'm generally aware that poverty exists around me, but when you walk by someone on the street who is less fortunate, it's easier to compartmentalize. You tell yourself it's an anomaly. You rationalize it because the person is an adult, and you imagine that he or she had some choice in the matter (though it's becoming clear to me that adult or not, that is rarely the case).
But the absolutely unjust reality that this story painted is inescapable. The girl who is the focus of the story is eleven years old. What could she possibly have done to bring this on herself? She and her seven younger siblings and her two parents were living in a single room in a shelter where the public bathrooms down the hall were often unusable, so the family resorted to using a bucket in their bedroom as a toilet. There's mold growing on the walls; there are rodents and roaches that swarm; and sexual predators are known to have lurked in the building. And this isn't a place where the girl and her family just stayed one night – they lived there.
It's sad to know that that's possible in this world at all. And then to think that it's happening half a mile from where Eamon and I live, in the richest country in the world, in a city where there is incredible wealth, where I can make a living off of people's disposable income – how does that happen?
In your feature with us last year you spoke about gentrification in Brooklyn – do you see this gentrification in the area as something that's brushing the plight of the less well off under the carpet?
Eamon: Gentrification is a complicated subject. It's a continuous evolving process in many cases, and depending on your perspective, you'll have a different view about what point on the spectrum gentrification has made the right level of improvement for any given situation. Personally I feel that gentrification that 1. supports organic development of a poverty- or crime-ridden neighborhood that is respectful of the existing communities 2. is sensitive to the pioneers who take risks on doing something positive and 3. generally improves the quality of life, diversity and the fabric of a neighborhood – can be good thing.
And this is where I think we've seen a different approach by the administration in New York City in the past ten years. The accelerated gentrification driven my mass rezoning of parts of the city, tax breaks to developers and, in turn, measurements of success which only look at the average price per square foot have left no room for these sensitivities. It has directly impacted the underprivileged in our communities.
Donating 10% of your net profits is quite a bold commitment – are you hoping this encourages others to follow suit?
Justin: Absolutely. Eamon and I talked for almost two months about how to go about this. We considered giving the ten percent and not making any announcement about it, as we didn't want this to look at all like we're trying to get a pat on the back or to get more people through the doors by attaching charity to our party.
We decided that even more important than us giving money, though, was our ability to reach people and hopefully show them that they have the ability to make a difference. Our hope is that people will see what we're doing and say, "Hey, if those guys can do this, so can I."
What's been the initial reaction to your plans to donate to the Robin Hood Foundation?
Eamon: Overwhelmingly positive. As Justin says, we discussed at length whether we should announce this publicly or not, and in the end the decision to do so was driven by a simple desire to draw attention to this issue and garner greater support and participation than our own. If we can raise awareness sufficiently, it will make a more impacting difference than just this gesture.
For those unfamiliar with the foundation, can you tell us a bit about what they do?
Justin: They are certainly better at explaining than I am, so you should have a look at what they have to say, but in a nutshell, Robin Hood raises money and distributes it to smaller organizations who have very specific strengths in very specific communities. When it's necessary it also helps those organizations with services ranging from planning and executing strategies to legal counseling and finding real estate.
They are quite selective about what organizations they choose. In Robin Hood's estimation, there are almost 10,000 poverty-fighting organizations in New York, and they work with only 200 of them.
We've chosen Robin Hood because they have a methodical, efficient way of targeting many of the problems that create poverty in New York – joblessness, homelessness, health issues, housing, and so on.
Do you have any further plans to help the wider community in New York City?
Eamon: In the past we've donated portions of the profit from certain parties to the Hurricane Sandy relief effort and to an LBGT homeless shelter called Trinity Place as part of the Pride celebration. We'll continue to look for those opportunities, but for now raising money to fight poverty via Robin Hood is our focus in 2014.


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Q: Setting UIImageView image affects layout constraints I am creation a simple UIImageView with the following constraints:
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The important one is the last one, which sets the width equal to the height of the image view and the height of the image view is being defined by top and bottom anchor.
Now this looks perfectly fine (see image below)

However when setting imageView.image the image is all over the screen and way too big.
This debugging process fixes it:
po for cn in self.imageView!.constraints { cn.isActive = false }
po CATransaction.flush()

This makes the image fit inside the imageView as it is intended but up until this point, the imageView is messed up.
What is interesting, before setting the image, the imageView itself does not have any constraints and then setting the image creates those two:
- 0 : <NSContentSizeLayoutConstraint:0x6040002b2120 UIImageView:0x7fa98f757b90.width == 488 Hug:250 CompressionResistance:750   (active)>
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Those constraints seem to break it, because disabling them fixes the problem. They are only added when setting an image

A: try to set clipsToBounds property to true for UIImageView and check, since for few contentMode options the image goes out of bound of image view if the bounds are not enough to fill the content.

A: Is your UIImageView masking to bounds? If the image is bigger than the UIImageView then by default it will extend past the bounds
imageView.layer.masksToBounds = true

Alternatively have you tried changing the content fit of the UIImageView to Aspect Fit for example?

A: Try to lower the content compression/hugging. I think (correct me if I am wrong) the UIImageView has by default a higher compression/hugging resistance than a UIView (251 to 250). You could try the code below:
someImage.setContentHuggingPriority(UILayoutPriority(rawValue: 249), for: .horizontal)
someImage.setContentCompressionResistancePriority(UILayoutPriority(rawValue: 249), for: .horizontal)
someImage.setContentHuggingPriority(UILayoutPriority(rawValue: 249), for: .vertical)
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Heart disease fact sheet
Coronary heart disease (CHD), also known as ischaemic heart disease, or heart disease, is the most common form of cardiovascular disease. Its two major clinical forms are heart attack and angina. (1)
Heart disease is Australia's leading single cause of death, with 18,590 Australian lives lost to heart disease in 2017. (2)
Even though heart disease deaths have decreased by 22 percent in the past decade, in 2017, 51 Australians died from heart disease each day. Heart disease was responsible for a death every 28 minutes. (2)
Heart disease was responsible for 13 percent of deaths in Australian men, and 10 percent of deaths in Australian women. Whilst heart disease was the underlying cause of 18,590 deaths in 2017, as an underlying and contributing cause, heart disease was a factor in nearly one in four deaths in 2017 (22% or 34,827). (2)
CHD was the main cause for 160,400 hospitalisations in 2016-17. Over the past ten years, the number of heart attack separations have remained steady. (3)
In 2014-15, close to three percent of the population reported having a long-term heart disease, accounting for more than 620,000 Australians. (4)
CHD prevalence increases with age, with five per cent of Australians aged 55-64 reporting a long-term CHD condition, increasing to 17% for Australians aged 75 and over. (4)
Overall, people in lower socioeconomic groups, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and those living in remote areas have higher rates of hospitalisation and death resulting from CHD than other Australians. Prevalence of CHD was higher amongst the lowest socioeconomic group and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. (1)
Burden of disease
In 2012-13, $1.5 billion was spent providing healthcare services to admitted patients with heart disease. This was a small decrease from 2011-12, however, on average, hospital admitted patient expenditure on heart disease patients has increased 1.9 percent per annum since 2004-05. (5)
The majority of patient admitted health expenditure is spent on males, accounting for over 70 percent of total patient expenditure in 2012-13. (5)
In a 2014 study focusing specifically on health expenditure on CVD, it found overall expenditure health expenditure on heart disease was $2,028 billion in 2008-09, with hospital admitted patient expenditure accounting for the majority (74.8 percent). Prescriptions were the next most expensive component (15.3 percent), followed by out of hospital medical services (9.9 percent). (6)
Awareness of heart disease as the leading cause of death
In 2017, approximately 2.5 million or 25% of Australians believe that heart related diseases are the leading cause of death for women. (7)
Awareness of heart related diseases as the leading cause of death was much higher for men, at 44%. (7)
Overall, Australians are more likely to see lifestyle risk factors such as poor diet (51%), lack of exercise (41%), or being overweight (30%), as a risk factor for heart disease, rather than clinical risk factors such as high cholesterol (8%), or high blood pressure (6%). (7)
Whilst high blood pressure is the largest attributable risk factor for heart disease, in 2017, more Australians nominated stress (8%), and alcohol consumption (12%), as key risk factors in place of high blood pressure. (7)
Told by a doctor
Close to three quarters (73 percent) of Australians aged 30 to 65 years reported having been told by their doctor they have at least one risk factor for heart disease. (7)
Find out more about risk factors for heart disease.
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Odell Beckham Jr, the fashion designer?
The New York Giants star hosted a private launch event yesterday for his new sportswear collection in collaboration with Twenty Tees and Bloomingdale's.
Beckham teamed up with knitwear brand Twenty Tees to design a minimal line which looks to have been inspired by the current athleisure trend.
The line dubbed "13 x Twenty" comes from Beckham's jersey number, 13, and twenty from David Helwani's line, Twenty Tees. The collection officially launched TODAY, and will be exclusively sold at one-stop shop Bloomingdale's.
The line carries an array of hoodies, tailored sweatpants, dad hats, and a unique varsity jacket that features Beckham's silhouette on the back. The perfect piece for you die-hard Beckham fans.
Our personal favorite is the Distressed French Terry Hoodie which retails for $185.
Prices range from $45-$595. Are you a fan?
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Weaknesses in the pension schemes: The high costs of Riester policies
The state-sponsored private retirement not only suffers from the low interest rates. She wears also a cost problem. This is exacerbated by the low interest rate
04 December 2020 Friday 11:19
The state-sponsored private retirement not only suffers from the low interest rates. She wears also a cost problem. This is exacerbated by the low interest rate. A on Thursday published a study of the movement of citizens and financial turnaround shows the proportions. A quarter of all paid-in contributions and allowances fins according to the investigation in to the costs of the provider and not in the rate of return for the savers. Every third examined Police, there were even more than 30 percent.
Philipp Krohn
editor in the business, responsible for "people and economy".
For the study of financial turnaround has examined 65 of the Riester policies of insurers. The data, derived from sample product information sheets for the provider in accordance with the requirements of the production information place of retirement (PIA), the certified offerings on behalf of the state. It was assumed that a 37-year-old savers for the next 30 years to pay 1200 euros including allowance in the policy. The authors criticize the high cost. "This is a multiple of the 10 percent that the Federal government models in", - stated in the study.
Because of the high cost and the poor return on fixed income investments, the earnings prospects are bad. Riester-products with less than 15 percent of the cost burden, however, to the part of the return is weak. "In General, the customer's rate of return after cost of under 0.5 percent. In one case it is 0 percent" to criticize the authors.
Projected yield to maturity is below the rate of inflation
The 67 pension insurance would, on average, to a possible (predicted) yield to maturity of 1.6 percent. This is below the average inflation rate for the past 30 years of 1.8 percent. However, you can stop here, contrary to the authors that Inflation is currently parallel to the low interest rates are also particularly low, so that the real rate of return is currently positive. How the Inflation will be up to the end of the term, cannot be predicted.
The Association of the German insurance economy (GDV) responded promptly to the inquiry. The financial turn-representation does not show the costs that will be deducted from the contribution. Instead, various costs relating to the capital investment that would Fund costs that rise with the value of development involved including. "Methodologically, the difference between the theoretical savings capital, without costs compared with capital costs (Reduction in Wealth method)", - said the Deputy GDV managing Director Peter Schwark by the F. A. Z.
In this way, the percentage of the moon would generate "values". Long lead times and high investment returns by this method to increase costs."Unlike the suggested ratio is in such a fictitious costs for more than 100 years of life and good income over 100 percent of the contributions is possible without that the performance would be at the same time is Zero or Negative," said Schwark.
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Earl C. Olson, 85, of 44 Royal Ave., died Thursday (Sept. 2, 2010) in the Heritage Park Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Facility. He was born March 14, 1925 in Woodlawn, N.Y., the son of Carl and Emma Olson. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. Prior to retiring, he was the self-employed owner of Earl C. Olson Realty, and in earlier years was part owner of Jamestown Construction Co. with his two brothers. He was formerly a member of Herman Kent Post #777 American Legion, Elks Lodge #263 B.P.O.E., War Vets Recreation, the Lakewood Celoron Moose Club, and the Chautauqua Lake Fishing Club. Earl loved his grandchildren, enjoyed life, and lived it to its fullest. Always a lot of fun, he was very social, and had the ability to make others feel as if they were the only person in the room. In earlier years he enjoyed flying (having owned his own airplane), golfing, and ?Dixie? music. He will be remembered for his very firm handshake. He is survived by his wife, Madelyn M. Stranigan Olson, whom he married Nov. 15, 1975; four stepchildren: Laurie Lepley (Eric) Zwieg of Marietta, Ga., Mary Beth Lepley (Tom) Schwarz of Charles Town, W.Va., Susan Lepley (Kevin) Jenkins and David Lepley, both of Jamestown; two grandchildren: Tristan and Venya Jenkins, both of Jamestown; and a brother, Normn (Alice) Olson of West Ellicott. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers: Charles and Kenneth Olson; and by a sister, Elsie Olson. A private service will be held at the convenience of the family. Tara Eastman of the First Lutheran Church will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Hill Cemetery. Visitation will not be observed. Messages to the family may be sent by visiting the website www.presentsixbeyfuneral.com. The family suggests that memorials may be made to the Alzheimer?s Association of WNY, 2805 Wehrle Dr., Williamsville, N.Y. 14221-7380. Powers, Present & Sixbey Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
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Where: Probably Bochastle Roman fort, at NN614079, on the river Teith, near Callander "Gateway to the Highlands".
Name Origin: Greek κερμα 'coin, slice', a word possibly derived from PIE *(s)ker- 'to cut', and related to Cermalus, one of twin peaks of a hill in Rome. Presumably this refers to the way that the old military road (modern A84) slices into the hills as it follows the river Leny (Garbh Uisge) through some quite steep valleys. Another possible parallel is cuirm, Scottish Gaelic for 'feast' or Old Irish for 'beer', which might fit with evidence for beer-making in ancient Scotland Nelson (2005) and the Gallo-Latin inscription NATA VIMPI CVRMI DA 'pretty girl bring beer'.
Notes: Archaeologists know of seven Roman forts near the edge of the Scottish Highlands, between the Clyde at Dumbarton and the Don at Aberdeen. It seems almost too good to be true that they match up well with six names supplied by RC (Cindocellum, Cerma, Veromo, Matovion, Ugrulentum, Ravatonium) plus one by Ptolemy (Λινδον).


Great interview. Very helpful and powering. I am looking for the post show interview and can't find it. I follow the podcast. Eric said to go to web site.
I'm glad you liked the conversation.
Great podcast! Filled in a few gaps for me after reading your insightful very helpful book. Thank you Hilary for your amazing work and writing about human emotions. It is clear that you think and feel deeply, have an amazing heart and excellent communiction skills!
I'm curious about your thoughts when guests have opposing views. For example, Hilary says there are core and universal emotions. A previous guest on emotions, Lisa Feldman Barrett, argues against universal emotions. Why didn't you bring up the criticism against universal emotions to Hilary? Is it to save time? Does it seem too confrontational? I appreciate how the show can get the listener to scrutinize his or her previously held beliefs. However, if everything one hears is taken at face-value, then an individual may develop contradictory beliefs. I would like to know your input. Thanks in advance.
Great comment and it's not the first time I and my colleagues have discussed the similarities and differences.
Hi Hilary…this is very helpful because as I was reading the book I had some of the same questions about you and LFB's work.
This is a good question. I contemplated bringing it up with Hilary. However due to time concerns and the wealth of knowledge I wanted to get out to the audience I chose to focus on her core teachings and not potential discrepancies between other guests. I would encourage no one to take everything said on the show at face value. I'm presenting ideas and opinions but they don't all agree with each other. There are almost always things in any guests work that I might not agree with or question. But I feel the listeners are best served by me trying to find what I think is most helpful from the guests work into the world. Hope that makes sense.
I got the book for Christmas & I'm excited to read it. Just a small correction in your article though as AEDP stands for Accelerated EXPERIENTIAL Dynamic Psychotherapy.
Hi Janet…fixed.Thanks for the catch.
Yes, that is a correction. I look forward to hearing your feedback on the book if you feel like connecting back. I am delighted you are reading it.
I am excited to listen more and learn more from this website! One thing I note immediately, however is the picture of the wolves. I love the parable. It creates a great visual. However, living in this world where there is so much racism, I wonder if we need to continue to think about portraying "bad" as black and "good" as white?


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Virtualization market eyes Microsoft SCVMM 2012 beta
Microsoft says it will offer virtualization users a more application-oriented cloud portal than VMware's vCloud Director; experts say VMware has 'home-court advantage' but should watch its back.
Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
Microsoft made System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 available for public beta testing last week, and experts say it will put VMware to the competitive test.
Due out in the second half of 2011, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 may bring greater feature parity with VMware's vCloud Director. New features include new administrative roles and workflows for self-service portals, which are meant to support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), plus automated, wizard-driven provisioning of virtual machine (VM), network and storage hardware through Virtual Machine Manager.
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All about apps
Microsoft also took pains to position SCVMM 2012 against VMware's vCloud Director. According to David Greschler, director of integrated virtualization strategy for Microsoft, SCVMM 2012 is more focused on the delivery of applications as a service than IaaS within enterprise environments.
"While the VMware method is still aggregating things in an attempt to manage applications, it's still fundamentally at an infrastructure level," Greschler said. "What we're doing in System Center is really monitoring it from an application level, and then applying changes or making modifications to resources as they apply to the applications. So rather than changing or affecting resources at the infrastructure level and then seeing what the result at the app level is, we're managing it directly from the app level."
Imagine, for example, needing to spin up more Web servers to bolster an under-performing website. "With [SCVMM], we're actively monitoring how that application is working, and we can actually pre-build not just orchestration but policies on what to do when this event occurs, so when the website becomes overloaded, not only do we know, but we can tell the orchestration engine to go ahead and dynamically add the correct amount of Web servers, and then verify that the problem is solved," Greschler said.
Some of this can be done today with the existing System Center 2008 suite, but the 2012 version will also be able to aggregate VMs, networking, storage, load balancers and application configuration templates into business services.
SCVMM 2012 earning beta tester's trust
One Hyper-V user currently beta testing SCVMM 2012 says he's excited about the new features, but that it will take time before the product makes it into production.
Rob McShinsky, senior systems engineer for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., has SCVMM 2012 running in a small test environment and hasn't gotten the chance to put the product through all its paces, but hopes it will bring better visibility into the infrastructure.
"A lot of the provisioning and components that allow us to monitor certain workloads that may be overtaxing a host are kind of lacking," he said. "We've done a lot of it manually …dynamic optimization built into Virtual Machine Manager would really [simplify] that."
McShinsky said the ability to deploy application services as a template of multiple VMs is also appealing. "I think we've done a great job with templating and getting things out quickly here, but it seems we always hit a new standard of expectation."
However, none of this will make it into McShinsky's production environment overnight. In theory, "Microsoft should know where the best fit for a particular VM would be on the fly," he said, but "with any technology, building the trust in it is where it has to prove itself."
Management, virtualization's new front
Between now and when SCVMM 2012 sees deployment, VMware has an advantage, having released vCloud Director well ahead of SCVMM 2012, industry watchers say. But VMware users would be wise to keep an eye on the rear-view mirror, especially because Microsoft is claiming SCVMM 2012 will be able to manage vSphere hosts as well.
"I think the tricky part for Microsoft, at least in the [virtualization] space, is that VMware has home-court advantage," said Gartner analyst Chris Wolf. "To counter that, what Microsoft has to do is build solutions that far exceed the good-enough part that VMware can do with vCloud Director [currently] and give customers compelling reasons to look at SCVMM, not only for Hyper-V, but also for non-Microsoft workloads."
On the surface, Wolf said, SCVMM 2012 looks promising along these lines. "One thing Microsoft has done well is provide a tool set that can manage the entire application lifecycle, and that's something that VMware still has to work on."
VMware does have some application monitoring offerings, such as AppSpeed and Hyperic, which have at least recently been more tightly integrated into vCenter. VMware has also recently begun offering vCenter Operations, a tool meant to aggregate performance-monitoring and capacity-planning information about virtual environments and perform automated root-cause analysis.
But these tools are also still developing, in Wolf's view. "To me AppSpeed and Hyperic are more check boxes," he said. "From a high-level view, you can say VMware has application management too, but when you look into it, I don't have the same awareness of application state, and ability to look at how an application is performing like I do with System Center."
On the virtualization management front, Wolf said he sees the competitive landscape as a nearly neck-and-neck race. "You have Microsoft and other management vendors that are very good in terms of managing the application, and they're trying to race from the top down, into the very lower-level parts of the infrastructure," he said.
"On the other side, VMware has that lower-level infrastructure nailed from the management side, and they're moving up into the application stack. Obviously there's going to be some place where they meet in the middle. But at the end of the day you have to ask what's going to be more difficult -- is it adding that application intelligence or is it adding the infrastructure intelligence?"
According to one U.K. Microsoft and VMware channel partner, vCloud Director does seem more geared toward IaaS. When it comes to things like federated access control, for example, "you need third-party products like newScale on top of it," said Chris Dearden, who asked that his company not be named. "Microsoft looks to have it more out of the box [with SCVMM 2012]."
Though, as always, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, Dearden said. "VMware can't afford to stagnate, by any means at all."
Beth Pariseau is a senior news writer for SearchServerVirtualization.com. Write to her at [email protected].
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We are excited to take what we learn with the Cohort and apply it to our classrooms!
As I mentioned before, sometimes I feel like I have it all together! This post is about the days that I don't. Areas that I can definitely improve upon in my teaching practice and of course, how I can fix those things.
After the student panel today I learned two things that I do (or don't do rather) that the students hold much more valuable than I do. I forget what it is like to be a high school student! It's been a long time, being a college student is so much more recent so when I try to get into the "student mindset" I think back to college so much more than high school. Obviously this isn't intentional, but I realized today that this is something I do, for better or for worse.
Putting grades in the grade book faster. Simple task, I could definitely make this happen. Grades just aren't as important to me. I check student work, I can quickly see what they are understanding and what they aren't by flipping through student work. I don't always put the work in the grade book. I forget how validating it feels to see that number in the garbed, like a pat on the back that they got that work done... they accomplished something. I didn't realize I was robbing them of that feeling!
Checking in with students one-non-one more often. I should spend more time with every student individually. I check in with them twice every six weeks, but it's at their will. I should go out of my way to check in with them, I need to do more than say my door is always open, I need to walk directly up to them and pull them through that open door.
In order to address both of those areas of growth I need to better organize my time. Prioritize grading and teacher-student conferences because that is what the students find important. The student panel today was really eye opening. I work with these kids everyday and I am still surprised by their minds and everything I can learn from them!
What am I proud of, what's going well right now? Well, there's only three and a half weeks left of school so I'm proud that I am showing up to work with two matching shoes at this point. That being said, I really am excited about the work my PLC team is doing right now. It's the eleventh hour, and we are still motivated to continue to make that shift toward active learning. I'm celebrating trying new things, and that some of those new things are really working for my classroom! I'm also pumped about going to my first Advanced Placement conference this summer!
The World History team engaging in the shift toward active learning. This year I feel that we have a great team of ladies working together to "upgrade" the World History curriculum if you will. We meet during our prep, after school, briefly when we run into each other in the bathroom during passing period. We are constantly emailing and adjusting and adapting our lessons, our assessments, our projects. It's been a lot of fun, and I truly feel our newfound motivation is contagious, because the kids are feeling it too!
Trying new things! I have been to a lot of professional development "things" this year and, as a new teacher, I am getting more and more comfortable with the idea of trying these out in my classroom. Sometimes they're great and the kids love it! Sometimes, they're a big flop. I appreciate the flops as much as the successes. The failed attempts give me an opportunity to check in with my students, hear from them where we all went wrong, and make those changes necessary to turn the flops into successes. It's been fun.
It's been quite the school year, it's the end of my second year. Sometimes I feel like it's the end of my 22nd year, but then something happens that brings me right back to the harsh reality that I am a very young teacher!
Human Geography and Wold History teacher at OHS.


I see the same things among the people I teach kayaking again and again. Everyone is different and there are different ways to reach your goals, but drill a few things into your paddling and you'll be free to concentrate on that elusive next level.
There's a difference in kayaking style when you're in your comfort zone and when you set off down an intimidating rapid. When zoning into paddling a more difficult section of river I often notice a very tight grasp if not a white knuckle grip on the paddle shaft. A sort of fight response to an impending challenge. I would like to take a second to demonstrate how this is highly detrimental to your paddling style.
While you read this clench your right hand into a fist.
Now with your left hand feel your right forearm and bicep.
You will notice that be clenching down on say a paddle shaft you have engaged your arm muscles.
By engaging your forearm and bicep you over rely on these muscles instead of focusing of powering your kayak using trunk rotation and the larger more powerful muscle groups of your core.
The white knuckle grip often also means that you become rigid with full body stiffness . From your hips to your upper body you should be loose in order to react better to turbulent waters. If you are tensed up when kayaking, waves and cross currents are far more likely to knock you over. You should always aim to be loose and relaxed.
My biggest peeve is the instruction to paddle from your 'toes to your hips'. I could be diplomatic and make a case that the last part of your paddle blade exits the water at your hip. But that maxim has just caused too many people to develop poor paddling form that it should be thrown out. New paddlers bringing their hands back in line with their hip makes them bring their paddle out far too late. Forward power turns into a turning stroke, and your core is allowed to relax, losing the connectivity between your upper body and lower body.
So instead, paddle from your 'toes to your knees'. If you realise you have to start taking the blade out at your knees then you'll realise you must reach further forward by winding up your torso in order to get a good powerful stroke in. Your hands remain in front of your body during the recovery phase as the paddle begins its exit from the water at the optimum point between your knee and your hip.
Reaching forward toward your toes and bow (and the 'catch' of your paddle in the water) is the key to getting the most power from your back and avoiding short strokes. Next time you paddle make sure to check if your hands always stay in front of your body when you forward paddle.
This is the magic stroke in kayaking. Day one of a beginner kayak course in moving current. It's the stroke which unlocks the door to understanding core rotation. During a stern rudder you should be rotated enough so that if you were to let go of your paddle it would not hit any part of your boat. It makes breaking into and out of low-flow eddies a breeze and when it takes just a few strokes to ferry across the whole river you'll understand why its called 'ferry gliding' not 'ferry paddling'. You can use the current to your advantage, moving water is not something to be fearful of. In addition, surfing your first small wave with a stern rudder is super fun and gets people hooked on the sport.
The stern rudder comes in handy all the time, for adjustments when sliding down big rocky slides or surfing enormous river waves.
Too many needless strokes! The timeless advice of 'Paddle like F*#k' stuck with me for years and at times still comes back to haunt me. If you paddle non-stop downstream things come at you way faster and you have so much less time to pick smooth lines. The best paddlers paddle some of the most difficult whitewater, most of the time taking barely any strokes. Racers at the Sickline paddle like crazy on the flat sections but then relax during the rapids just focusing on those three or four key strokes they need.
The number one problem I see when teaching people to boof is taking a flurry of strokes right before the boof stroke and so missing the all important key stroke. The PLF mentality supposes that you're more stable when at speed. Ask yourself if you're are more stable after you've paddled full steam into a rock because you were focusing solely on your stroke rate. Frantic paddling is bad, smooth paddling is good. Beginners typically flip over on eddy lines and against rocks, not in the centre of the flow. It's more effective to build some speed on the entry to generate the right momentum, then slow down and focus on taking the strokes that matter.
Lastly, don't get into the habit of following another piece of plastic in front of you down the river. I always encourage even absolute beginners to lead down suitable rapids. Reading whitewater is just as important as learning to manoeuvre your boat. Yes, sometimes you'll choose the wrong lines but you will learn from it. It's far better that, than somebody who has been paddling for years but is still reliant on other paddlers to show the way. If you don't feel confident leading down rapids, then recognise that and take a step back. Focus on leading down rapids which are a step or two below your ability, work the river and make harder moves for yourself on easier rapids, then as you get confident not following the leader, use the leapfrog leading technique to share the lead on something harder with a friend.
Galway, Ireland. Andrew is happy coaching newcomers down their first river, racing the Clare Glens, throwing huge freestyle moves, or exploring waterfalls in remote wilderness. He has worked with one of the best Kayak Schools in the world at Wet Planet in White Salmon, WA. And also coached for First Descents, an organisation which gives young cancer fighters life-changing experiences in the outdoors. Between his studies to become a teacher, Andrew also co-organises Ireland's biggest whitewater festival, GalwayFest, and invites you all to come along and share the craic.


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Q: Gradient of a function with integral Let $\mathbf{x}$ be a $n\times 1$ vector. Let $\mu(\mathbf{x})$ and $\sigma(\mathbf{x})$ be scalar functions of $\mathbf{x}$. What is the derivative of the following function w.r.to $\mathbf{x}$ $$f(\mathbf{x})=\int_{-\infty}^{0} \exp(-\frac{(z-\mu(\mathbf{x}))^2}{\sigma^{2}(\mathbf{x})})dz$$

A: For simplicity, let the function in the exponential be $\Gamma(z, \vec{x})$ and the function under the integral $f(z, \vec{x})$. The function in question is integrable for every $\vec{x}$. $\\$
The partial derivative with respect to $x_i$ of your function:
$$ \partial_{x_i} = \exp (\Gamma(z, \vec{x}) \cdot \partial_{x_i}\Gamma(z, \vec{x}) = f(z, \vec{x}) \cdot \partial_{x_i}\Gamma(z, \vec{x}) $$
Since we're integrating on a different variable than any $x_i$, if the above is integrable over the same domain then you can switch derivatives and integrals, which means that the $i$-th component of the gradient:
$$\nabla_i \int_\infty^0 f(z, \vec{x}) dz = \int_\infty^0 f(z, \vec{x}) \cdot \partial_{x_i}\Gamma(z, \vec{x}) dz $$
I believe one can find the final expression from here. I'll fill in the final details as soon as I have a piece of paper to sketch the final result.

A: $$\nabla_x f(x) = \int_{-\infty}^0\nabla_x \exp(-\frac{(z-\mu(x))^2}{\sigma(x)^2}) dz \\= \int_{-\infty}^0 \exp(-\frac{(z-\mu(x))^2}{\sigma(x)^2}) \left[2\frac{(z-\mu(x))\nabla_x \mu}{\sigma(x)^2} +2 \frac{(z-\mu(x))^2\nabla_x\sigma}{\sigma(x)^3}\right]dz$$.
The first part, $\propto \nabla_x\mu$, you may easily integrate by taking $\nabla_x\mu$ out of the integral and realizing
$$
2\frac{(z-\mu(x))}{\sigma(x)^2} = \partial_z \frac{(z-\mu(x))^2}{\sigma(x)^2}
$$
The second part has no closed form and may only be expressed in term of error-functions (as one may calculate by using the product rule und definition of $erf$):
$$
\int x^2 \exp(-x^2)dx = \frac{1}{4}(\sqrt{\pi}erf(x)-2\exp(-x^2)x) + C
$$


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It was the longest running foreign film at the Christchurch Arts centre.
That's The Theatre Royal in Castlemaine.
Yep. It's like a game of tennis in here today!
Travelling at 431 km/h is quite spectacular. Our group of 20-odd was challenged by our tourguide on the to & from journeys to try and get a photo of the opposite-bound train (the boom of which you can hear approaching for a good 5-ish seconds beforehand) at the track midpoint. Even with burst mode, only one of us managed it and even then only a tiny bit of it was visible in the shot.
Part of the India/Pakistan border?
I think @BAAKKEERRRR has it.
Is it the flag lowering ceremony?
Yes the border crossing at Wahga-Attari.
Both countries have built stadiums so people can watch the changing of the guard.
Was a little unnerving for Mrs Ace as both sets of crowds taunt each other across the fence and it gets quite willing.
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Neil Cowley Trio – "The Face of Mount Molehill"
My review of Neil Cowley Trio's new album The Face of Mount Molehill has been published on AllAboutJazz. You can read the original review: Here, at AllAboutJazz.
The danger of composing tunes with catchy hooks and enthusiastic infusions of a string ensemble for a jazz album is that it gets dismissed as gussied up pop music; not jazz, just jazzy. Either unaware or unconcerned with the risk, pianist Neil Cowley presents a series of warm tunes that wear their heart on their sleeve. It's not the first time that unguarded sincerity overcame risk and danger.
Cowley comes from a background more rooted in the rock, soul and funk of the UK scene, and that influence is evident from the first note. Here's an album with stylized grooves, fuzzy harmonies and rich melodies, and which could stunt double as a Badly Drawn Boy soundtrack. And, yet, Cowley finds a way to tether it to jazz.
Your album personnel: Neil Cowley (piano), Rex Horan (double bass), and Evan Jenkins (drums).
The first track, "Lament," opens with an introspective countryside walk on piano, odd percussion like sounds off in the distant city, and strings like sunlight streaking across the path. It's a tune thick with imagery, and it's a theme that repeats throughout.
The second track, "Rooster Was A Witness," provides an immediate contrast, with anthemic piano riffs and up-tempo rhythms that have at least one foot in rock territory. Strings make an appearance with a swirl and gust of harmony, adding buoyancy to an already lively tune.
This leads into "Fable," which knocks up the pulse count even higher. There's a nice push and pull with the rhythm on this song, and it has the strange result of providing more of a cerebral engagement and much less foot-tapping than would be expected at first blush.
Here's where Cowley brings the sledgehammer down upon the heart-strings. During the next several tracks, he unabashedly sends the string ensemble out to lead the charge, the piano trio following behind, and sometimes by more than a few steps; piano and bass frequently sound distant, an effect that's likely not unintentional. It's also quite powerful. And when he adds the eerie vocal effects of "Mini Ha Ha," the strangeness only serves to enhance the beauty of the song.
On "Slims," Cowley returns with some piano bounce. Jenkins' drumwork provides a sharp edge to the song, while Horan's bass navigates the trail between.
"Distance By Clockwork" is the best candidate for purest distillation of the soul of this album. Cowley has constructed a song within a song. Cyclical piano lines that seem to lead to new solos and new circumferences, perpetually bisected by hopscotch drum rhythms, while bass eddies and curls at the edges. And, of course, sweeping waves of string ensemble, sometimes providing an undercurrent of harmony, sometimes dramatically washing over everything in sight. It's a composition that could have easily failed and been canned as melodramatic were it not for the fact that Cowley pulls it off.
The title track is the only weak link on the album. It repeats some of the motifs of earlier anthem-rock tracks, but with a bit too much exuberance, making it sound like it had been hurriedly assembled.
The album ends with a trio of compositions that come off as an extended goodbye. They are suffused with an undeniable finality, but just as the album had multiple thematic devices, it appears that Cowley wished to send listeners off with an au revoir in each of those sounds. It's not a bad thing or a bad idea, but the album may have been stronger with a more definitive, and prompt, final note.
There are going to be those who aren't thrilled with the direction Cowley has taken with The Face of Mount Molehill, claiming it to be less experimental, less daring. They'd be wrong. When measured in terms of sincerity, honest displays of emotion carry a lot of weight, and that kind of impact shouldn't be dismissed. This is an album that deserves to be respected for what it is and not what others wish it to have been.
Album released on the Naim label.
Jazz from the London scene.
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How do Ethereum clients, like Ethereum Wallet or Eth-Lightwallet, generate unique addresses that haven't been used before, and what is the likelihood that these addresses have been used?
The address is derived from a random private key. The client does not check if it has been previously used because the chance of that happening is nearly zero.
I think the most important phrase in your question is 'what is the likelihood'.
The other answers are correct in determining that there is a 1 in 2^160 likelihood of finding a collision with 100% probability.
Due to the birthday paradox, cryptographers give a hash function with output bitlength 160 a bitwise security rating of 80. This is because with 2^80 addresses, it is more likely than not (i.e the probability is over 50%) that you will have an address collision.
For visual comparison with the above answers, the birthday problem implies a collision will occur with probability 1 in 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176, yikes.
Ethereum Wallet (the official wallet that will use Mist) uses web3.personal.newAccount to create an account. This is a web3.js call that does the equivalent of geth account new.
The address space in Ethereum is a 20-byte value (160-bit address space, same as Bitcoin).
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conXious ist eine Rockband aus Wien (Österreich).

Bandgeschichte
1991 wurde die Band zunächst von Alex Ghezzo (Gitarre), Michael Ghezzo (Schlagzeug) und Willie Brenner (Bass) gegründet. Zunächst namenlos schloss sich der Band ein Jahr später Ina Faerber an und wurde kurz darauf in Mindgallery umbenannt. Ab 1994 tourte man unter dem Namen Brainstorm, später Mindgallery in Wien und Umgebung. Um 1996, mit den neuen Mitgliedern Max Kainz und Clemens Faerber, änderte man den Namen in conXious. In der Besetzung Clemens Faerber (Gesang), Alexander Ghezzo (Gitarre), Marcus Kainz (Gitarre), Ina Faerber (Bass) und Michael Ghezzo (Schlagzeug) entstand das erste Album Studiodays. 2000 folgte der Nachfolger Portraits.

2003 wurde mit Alex Ranic Dimoski (Gesang), Alexander Ghezzo (Gitarre), Victor Gabriel (Bass) und Michael Ghezzo (Schlagzeug) ein fast komplett neues Line-up gefunden. In dieser Besetzung entstand das dritte Album Between Arrival and Departure, das im September erschien. Bereits 2004 stieg mit Albert Leibel aber ein neuer Sänger ein. Mit diesem erschien 2005 das Album Never Before / Never Again. Kurz darauf stieg Ina Faerber wieder ein.

conXious versuchte sich anschließend als Veranstalter für anspruchsvolle Veranstaltungen im Bereich Progressive Rock und Progressive Metal und trat vermehrt als Support für Bands wie Arena, The Flower Kings, Pain of Salvation, Spock's Beard, Sieges Even, IQ und Riverside auf. Des Weiteren änderte sich das Line-up kontinuierlich. Derzeit besteht die Band aus Christian Alexander Wurm (Gesang), Alexander Ghezzo (Gitarre), Michal Robert Piatek (Bass) und Michael Ghezzo (Schlagzeug).

2016 erschien ihr bisher letztes, selbstbetiteltes Album mit Michael G. Reiter als Sänger, welcher kurze Zeit später die Band verließ. Alle bisherigen Alben erschienen als Eigenproduktionen und wurden im bandeigenen Studio in Wien-Floridsdorf eingespielt.

2017 wurde Christian A. Wurm der neue Sänger der Band.

2018 fand am 4. März im Wiener Life Music Club Replugged der erste Gig mit Christian als neuen Sänger statt.

Musikstil
Der Tradition der klassischen Progressive-Rock-Bands (Yes, Fates Warning, Dream Theater) folgend, unterscheidet sich diese Wiener Rockband vor allem durch den Wegfall der sonst üblichen bombastischen Keyboard-Arrangements von den meisten Progressive-Rock-Bands. Das Line-up erinnert eher an eine Heavy-Metal-Band. Das Gitarrenspiel ist daher eher am Rock orientiert und wird bei den Studioaufnahmen durch zusätzliche Gitarrenspuren verdichtet. Ihr Stil wird gerne als purer Gitarren-Rock bezeichnet, in dessen Sound sich unterschiedliche Einflüsse anderer Musikstile wiederfinden.

Diskografie
 1998: Studiodays
 2000: Portraits
 2003: Between Arrival and Departure
 2005: Never Before / Never Again
 2016: conXious

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website
 conXious im SR-Archiv österreichischer Popularmusik

 conXious auf FM4

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Kodaline have announced their forthcoming second album -Coming Up For Air'!
The album's first single -Honest' had its first play on BBC Radio One in the UK and is now live to purchase.
A pseudo video has also gone live on VEVO.
-Coming Up For Air' will be released in Australia on February 6 2015.
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Revered TV journalist Michael Maclear achieved historic scoops
By	Fred	on	January 5, 2019	in	Articles	with	0 Comments
Michael Maclear, who died in Toronto on Christmas Day at the age of 89, was a pioneering foreign correspondent for CBC Television. His work took him to more than 80 countries, but his greatest achievement came in Vietnam. There he attained what no other TV news reporter dared to hope for: access to North Vietnam, which was then being bombed "back into the stone age," in the words of General Curtis E. LeMay, the chief of staff of the United States Air Force.
"He was unique, in my experience, in being able to get ahead of historical news and being on the scene with cameras to report on news events as they unfolded," said Bill Cunningham, a fellow CBC foreign correspondent. "He was covering Castro the night he took over Cuba. He arrived in Hanoi the day Ho Chi Minh died. He was in Hanoi when the U.S. bombed the French embassy."
In September, 1969, Mr. Maclear was the only Western reporter in Hanoi at the funeral of Ho Chi Minh, the father of Vietnam's Communist revolution. He was then the CBC's London correspondent and had managed to get into Vietnam on a flight from Laos, aboard a prop plane.
The North Vietnamese tried to stop him, saying there were floods, but there was no flooding. When Mr. Maclear and his Japanese camera crew filmed Ho Chi Minh's funeral, it was a world scoop. There was no Internet, no videotape. Everything was shot on film that Mr. Maclear flew out of Vietnam on a private plane owned by Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk. CBS News chartered a flight to transport the film from Phnom Penh to Tokyo to be developed.
The processed film was then sent by satellite to Toronto and New York. It gave the West its first look at the North Vietnamese capital at the height of the Vietnam War. Not only was Mr. Maclear's report the lead item on the CBC's newscast, it also ran at the top of Walter Cronkite's newscast on CBS, the most popular TV news program in the United States.
It was the start of Mr. Maclear's lifelong fascination with Vietnam.
"He covered the widespread devastation of the U.S. bombing while the U.S. claimed it was not hitting civilian targets. He stood up to potential censorship when he was severely challenged by
his bosses after his exclusive interviews with U.S. prisoners of war in the Hanoi Hilton [a prison that was notorious for its terrible conditions]," Mr. Cunningham said.
He made three trips to Vietnam during the war, and when that war was over, the victorious Communist regime gave him 20,000 feet of film, raw footage showing the war from their side. That was more than nine hours of footage, the basis of documentaries Mr. Maclear produced, including his major work: Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War, a 26-part series that aired on the CBC in 1980-81 and on Britain's Channel 4 in 1985.
Michael Patrick Maclear was born in London on Dec. 19, 1929. His father, Hugh Maclear, was not in his life until his late teens and his mother, Carlynne Gallagher, died young. He was brought up in a foster home in Beckenham, an outer suburb of London. He stayed close with his mother's sister, and later in life his two half-brothers from his father's second marriage.
"He was bombed out of his foster home during the Blitz," said his daughter, Kyo Maclear. "All of this I think shaped his compassion for civilian victims of war." He left school at the age of 14, though he had an enduring love of words. His Aunt Kenie gave him an Oxford English Dictionary as a boy and he read everything he could.
"He was self-taught," said his daughter, who received an Oxford English Dictionary from her father when she was a child.
Mr. Maclear landed a job as a copy boy for the Daily Telegraph. He did some reporting there, then landed a job as a London-based reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where he worked for about three years covering the death of King George VI and the coronation of the Queen for his Midwestern American audience.
When Mr. Maclear immigrated to Canada in 1954 there was still post-war rationing in Britain and the gangly six-foot-four Englishman was amazed at this land of plenty.
"I wandered into a restaurant, and there were people eating steak and eggs for breakfast," he told Kealy Wilkinson of the Canadian Broadcast Museum in a long 2006 interview. "I said to myself, 'Where am I?'"
It took a while to find his first newspaper job, at the Oakville Record-Star. That was short-lived. Then he moved to The Globe and Mail, where he lasted nine months. He and a colleague put a tiny Fiat car into a freight elevator and drove it into the newsroom. The Globe fired him.
His next job was at the CBC, where the news department was in its infancy. Announcers would rip wire copy from a printer and read it on the air. Fascinated with the possibilities of using film, Mr. Maclear was soon producing a half-hour weekly program called Newsmagazine. His colleague Morley Safer would go on to work at 60 Minutes for 46 years.
Soon the two men were sent with film crews to global hot spots to record programs for Newsmagazine.
"It's fair to say that Morley and I were probably the first TV correspondents for CBC," Mr. Maclear said in 2006. "It was a whole new medium and had a whole new impact, and very quickly everyone realized they wanted to be in."
They started their travels in 1956, a tremendous year for world news. There was the Suez crisis, when Britain, France and Israel invaded Egypt after the Suez Canal was nationalized. Mr. Maclear interviewed Lester Pearson, then secretary of state for external affairs, who won a Nobel Peace Prize the following year for proposing a UN peacekeeping force that effectively resolved the crisis.
"Canada really entered the world in terms of foreign policy with Lester Pearson's peacekeeping format. Wherever I travelled in subsequent years, to say you were a Canadian correspondent with the CBC network really opened doors," Mr. Maclear said.
The Hungarian Revolution later in 1956 was an event made for television, including high drama when the Soviet Union invaded and put down the revolt. The fledgling foreign correspondents couldn't make it behind the Iron Curtain, but the story received a great deal of play on Newsmagazine.
By 1961, the CBC sent Mr. Maclear to cover the world from a new bureau in London. He met his wife-to-be, Yoko Koide, in Japan and the newlyweds lived in London. One of their friends there was Yoko Ono before she met John Lennon.
"She would call me up at the CBC – she was always arranging what she called happenings. One of them she was going to pump detergent into the fountains at Trafalgar Square. Would I come and film it?" Mr. Maclear remembered.
He turned that one down.
During the Swinging Sixties he did items on the Beatles phenomenon and one long piece called The Permissive Society. David Halton, who was the Paris correspondent for the CBC worked with Mr. Maclear at the time.
"When I started as a reporter, Maclear was already an awesome figure. He was the hard-driving, hard-drinking quintessential foreign correspondent with a talent for being first into many of the world's hot spots," Mr. Halton recalled. "As a television journalist, his scripts were often brilliant examples of sharp, evocative writing. His company was a pleasure too. Mike would frequently hold court in after-hours drinking clubs in London, where he would delight his colleagues with his dry wit and scathing comments about our CBC bosses."
In 1971, Mr. Maclear left the CBC – not on the best of terms – and moved to CTV, where he produced long documentaries for W5 and then a program called Maclear. Ian McLeod was a researcher on those early programs, who worked with Mr. Maclear for 10 years.
"I marvelled at the way he worked. He would shoot his stories, and then he would send a full edit script with the visuals on one side and the copy on the other side, and it was remarkable how well it turned out. He knew where the clips [interview segments] were, and he knew where the pictures were, and he was able to put it all together in his head," Mr. McLeod said.
He worked with Mr. Maclear on The Ten Thousand, Day War, a 26-part documentary series that played around the world. Mr. Maclear had quit his network job to produce the series, which was a gutsy move, but he liked to gamble – at work and play.
Mr. McLeod said he lost a lot of money playing poker with Mr.Maclear.
"Poker, darts, cribbage, almost any activity that could support a wager, Michael Maclear was in the thick of it," said the late Morley Safer in a roast-like comment on Mr. Maclear's 75th birthday. He then complimented him. "Whatever small success I've had I owe to that skeletal Englishman. He is a great teacher, a great risk-taker, an unconventional thinker."
After growing up in foster care, Mr. Maclear was a warm family man who had a loving relationship with his daughter, Kyo. She inherited his love for words. Her book Birds Art Life won the Trillium Literary Award last year.
"I grew up with all these great journalists, Bill Cunningham and Tom Gould, sitting around the dinner table discussing world politics," Ms. Maclear said.
"From writing cablese for newspaper stories and then writing for film, he was very economical with words. When I was in school, he would correct my essays, crossing out unnecessary words. But he was a real softie. As my uncle said, he was a super resilient man, made of iron, love and compassion."
Mr. Maclear leaves his wife, Yoko; daughter, Kyo; son-in-law, David Wall; two grandchildren; and two half-brothers, Andrew and Robin.
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