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Launch of QianNow – The consumer financing arm of Minterest Group
The Minterest Group is pleased to announce the opening of our consumer financing business, QianNow. Selected and regulated by the Ministry of Law to pilot new consumer lending practices in...
Banking on the unbanked
TECHNOLOGY, and in particular Financial Technology or Fintech, has the ability to accelerate access to financial services for the unbanked and significantly reduce costs for businesses. Given that 70% of...
Charis Liau: Top 100 Fintech Southeast Asia Influencers 2019
Our Co-Founder and CEO, Charis Liau was named one of the Top 100 Fintech Southeast Asia Influencers 2019 by LATTICE80. LATTICE80 is a global Fintech Hub and a community with...
Minterest won Dun & Bradstreet Business Eminence Awards 2019
Minterest is honoured and humbled to be a recipient of the Dun & Bradstreet Business Eminence Awards 2019 which was held on 15 March 2019. Background The Business Eminence Awards...
New consumer finance model using psychometric and social media in Singapore
An algorithm that reads your social media feed, gets a fix on your digital personality and analyses your online interactions with friends and family may now be able to determine...
P2P Lending and Digital Lending Fintechs Active in Southeast Asia
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July 2, 2019 Industry News and Views
Singapore chosen by Bank for International Settlements for innovation hub centre
SINGAPORE – The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), dubbed the central bank for the world's central banks, will establish an innovation hub centre in Singapore in a move that Singapore's central bank said reflects the Republic's position as a leading international fintech centre.
BIS' Innovation Hub will span multiple locations. It will first set up centres in Basel, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, making use of existing BIS facilities there. Singapore will host its third hub centre, also as part of the plan's first phase.
Announcing this on Sunday (June 30), BIS said the role of the hub will be to identify and develop in-depth insights into critical trends in technology affecting central banking.
It will also develop public goods in the technology space geared towards improving the functioning of the global financial system and serve as a focal point for a network of central bank experts on innovation.
The move is the latest of recent fintech developments here. On Friday, Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced Singapore will issue up to five new digital bank licences, paving the way for non-bank players to break into the local financial service scene.
Global professional services firm EY reported last week that the fintech adoption rate among Singaporean consumers jumped from 23 per cent to 67 per cent in just the last two years, higher than the global average of 64 per cent.
Noting that the IT revolution has no borders, chairman of the BIS board of directors Jens Weidmann said: "The establishment of the BIS innovation hub will enable central banks to extend their existing collaboration with a view to identifying relevant trends in technology, supporting these developments where this is consistent with their mandate, and keeping abreast of regulatory requirements with the objective of safeguarding financial stability."
"There are significant economies of scale in such an endeavour, and the BIS is the ideal vehicle to realise them."
Mr Mark Carney, chair of the BIS economic consultative committee, added: "There is a new economy emerging driven by changes in technology, demographics and the environment."
"While the private sector is driving these innovations, their efforts will be more effective if the hard and soft infrastructure of the global financial system support this innovation, promote resilience and level the playing field on which to compete."
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in welcoming the setting up of a hub centre in Singapore, said this "reflects Singapore's position as a leading international fintech centre, with an advanced fintech ecosystem".
"In collaboration with other central banks, the Singapore hub centre aims to develop the technology architecture for an efficient and secure digital global financial system and facilitate experiments in the application of technology to enhance financial regulation," MAS added.
The Singapore centre will start operations once institutional arrangements – including its location and staffing arrangements – have been finalised.
In a statement, MAS managing director Ravi Menon noted the wave of technological innovations sweeping across financial services.
"To fully harness the benefits of these innovations while ensuring the resilience of the financial sector, central banks must also innovate – to modernise the technology infrastructure and regulatory arrangements that underpin digital finance and the digital economy," he said.
He added: "The BIS Innovation Hub initiative provides a compelling platform for central banks to collaborate in this effort, so as to maximise the benefits of cross-border digital connectivity and commerce. MAS looks forward to working closely with the BIS and the global central banking community to advance this visionary and important agenda."
BIS, which works to promote global monetary and financial stability through international cooperation, said hub centres will be added across the Americas and Europe in the second phase of implementation.
The article was contributed by The Straits Times.
Singapore to issue up to 5 licences to digital banks in liberalisation push
SINGAPORE will issue up to five new licences to digital banks and begin taking applications from August, in one of the biggest liberalisation steps taken by the city-state in years.
The maximum of five new digital-bank licences to be issued in time will comprise up to two digital full-bank licences, and up to three digital wholesale bank licences. They must all meet the same capital requirements as local banks. This is in addition to any digital banks that the local banking groups may also establish.
This was announced on Friday night by senior minister and the chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the annual Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) dinner.
"The new digital bank licences mark the next chapter in Singapore's banking liberalisation journey," said Mr Tharman.
The digital full-bank licence will allow licensees to provide a wide range of financial services and take deposits from retail customers. A digital wholesale bank licence will allow licensees to serve SMEs and other non-retail segments.
The aim, The Business Times (BT) understands, is to tackle the segments that may be underserved, such as small businesses. This is done without compromising the anchoring position of the local banks, which hold a significant market share collectively, to prevent systemic risk.
BT also understands there have been informal talks with potential applicants – from both Singapore and overseas – that are keen to tap this new licensing framework.
Application for the digital full-bank licences is open to companies headquartered and controlled by Singaporeans. Foreign companies can apply for these full-bank licences if they form a joint venture with a Singapore company. Applicants must have a track record in operating an existing business, or in technology and e-commerce fields. They must also show clearly how they can tackle unmet needs, and show it has a sustainable digital banking business model. Any competition deemed to be "value-destructive" will not qualify.
At the first stage, the digital non-wholesale bank – that is, the digital full bank – will operate as a restricted bank.
This restricted digital full bank will have an initial paid-up capital of S$15 million. Aggregate deposits will be capped at S$50 million and an individual's deposits will be capped at S$75,000. To add, the bank can only accept deposits from a small group of persons such as business partners, staff and related parties. With that, it will have to participate in the deposit insurance scheme, which protects deposits of up to S$75,000 per depositor in the event of the bank's failure.
Such a digital bank – at its restricted stage – can only offer simple credit and investment products. It cannot offer complex investment products such as structured notes, and cannot engage in proprietary trading. It will also be restricted in banking operations in no more than two overseas markets, and must be incorporated in Singapore. Its liquidity requirement will stand at 16 per cent of minimum liquid assets.
Once MAS deems that the restricted digital full bank performs to show, among other things, good quality of loans, and a well-managed business, the restricted digital full bank will be graduated to a full functioning digital bank by the regulator. No timeline has been set by MAS on this front. But at that point, a graduated bank will need to meet the minimum paid-up capital requirement of S$1.5 billion, and face the same liquidity requirements as local banks, which means a 100 per cent in net stable funding ratio, and 100 per cent in liquidity coverage ratio.
The application for up to three digital wholesale bank licences for SMEs and other non-retail segments is open to all companies – both Singapore and foreign ones. For such applicants, the minimum paid-up capital is S$100 million. They cannot take Sing-dollar deposits from individuals, except for fixed deposits of at least S$250,000. But they can open and maintain business deposit accounts for SMEs and corporates.
This comes as Hong Kong in March opened its doors to virtual banks, with some arguing that it is playing catch-up to the digital banking trend.
Singapore – a heavily banked country – has already seen several of the traditional banks here investing heavily in digital capabilities in recent times. The local banks are also fairly well-entrenched, with Singapore's top three banks estimated to hold a combined market share of just over 50 per cent. The market will watch if virtual banks – with their nimbleness but a much smaller asset base – will be able to wrest market share from the big guns here.
Hong Kong has already issued eight licences, with the most recent batch of four licences given out to entities linked to China's top technology companies including Ping An, Ant Financial and Tencent. The earlier batch of licences went to applicants that are joint ventures between traditional banks and non-bank entrants. These virtual banks in Hong Kong are roughly expected to begin operations in six to nine months.
The article was contributed by The Business Times.
December 11, 2018 For Borrower
Borrowers who repay loans early to benefit from new moneylending business model
Six companies in Singapore will pilot new business models for moneylending, which would grant borrowers better terms if they repay their loans early or on time, said the Ministry of Law on Tuesday (Dec 11).
The new models will also include more comprehensive use of data to assess creditworthiness, as well as use digitalised processes to lower cost.
This is part of an initiative to better protect borrowers though business-led improvements, said the ministry in a media release.
Of the six firms, three – Credit 21, Dey and Quick Credit – can apply to operate four moneylending outlets each. IFS Capital, Minterest and Xingang Investment are allowed to operate one outlet each.
"The six firms will be issued moneylending licences to operate the outlets they apply for, in a one-time lifting of the moratorium imposed on the issuance of new licences."
In 2012, a moratorium was imposed on new licenses for moneylenders. Since then, the number of moneylending outlets has decreased from 215 to 162 outlets.
"The six firms will be allowed to apply for licences for up to 15 new outlets in total, and this represents less than 10 per cent of the 162 outlets currently operated by the 157 licensed moneylenders," said the ministry.
The licensee will be allowed to operate for up to two years from next year onwards. The ministry will then evaluate the results of the pilot and consider options for refining the moneylending regulatory regime, it added.
The firms, which were selected among 38 applicants, were chosen as they met a set of stringent mandatory criteria, the Law Ministry said.
These include the soundness and completeness of the business model, participation in debt assistance schemes, professional debt recovery practices, customer and communication strategies and effective cost of credit and credit policies.
They also have paid-up capital of at least S$1 million and a track record in providing consumer credit, said the ministry.
Read more at Channel News Asia.
September 26, 2018 Industry News and Views
New trading platform to digitalise paper-based trade processes, grow trade opportunities
A single trade today can involve more than 25 parties, generating 30 to 40 documents and requiring 60 to 70 per cent of the information to be manually re-entered at least once.
But a new online trading service, which combines all customs and trade-related services into one platform, aims to cut back on such onerous paperwork.
The Networked Trade Platform (NTP), launched on Wednesday (Sept 26), brings together four government certification services required for trading in and out of Singapore, as well as another 25 value-added services by third-party firms geared towards trade. Three more government services will be moved to the new platform in the coming months.
The new service will eventually replace the Government's existing TradeXchange and TradeNet platforms. It aims to raise productivity by digitalising the paper trail, boost competitiveness by giving more accurate data analysis and create opportunities for the third-party service providers.
Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat, who launched the NTP at the Orchard Hotel on Wednesday, said the Government had sensed that more needed to be done with previous efforts in TradeNet and TradeXchange.
He noted that a single trade today can involve numerous parties and documents.
"Numerous digital solutions have sprung up around the world to address this. But, many of these function as either a purely regulatory or purely commercial platform," he said.
"If we can stitch the disparate standalone systems or digital islands together, and bridge the government agencies and business community, the potential value to the economy is significant and transformational."
First mentioned in Mr Heng's 2016 Budget speech, the platform went live in December last year, with around 800 companies from various industries joining it to date.
Originally known as the National Trade Platform, it was renamed at the launch event attended by close to 700 industry representatives from the trade, logistics and the public sector.
The NTP was developed by the Singapore Customs and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) over four years, and supported by more than 20 ministries, government agencies and working groups.
Firms have to pay a monthly $40 fee to use the platform.
The Government had conducted discussions and workshops with more than 400 industry experts and 200 organisations, said Dr Tan Kim Siew, co-chair of the National Trade and Logistics Inter-Agency Steering Committee (NTLSC).
Many participants highlighted the industry's paper-based processes, which require time-consuming manual data entry. Coordination with multiple business partners, including banking, insurance and logistics services, also led some traders to develop expensive proprietary digital systems.
"The NTP must help to achieve paperless trade and greater operational efficiency for our traders. Traders must be able to transact digitally with all their partners," said Dr Tan.
The digital platform can also enable cross-border trade linkages through technology.
Mr Heng said the Singapore Customs is currently in discussion with China on linking the trading systems of both nations, and the Netherlands on trade regulatory processes.
Asean member states are also looking into extending its Asean Single Window initiative to transmit more trade documents, achieving greater economic integration and expand intra-Asean and intra-Asia trade, said Mr Heng.
Building on the NTP's capabilities, one workgroup is also developing a digital information exchange project to speed up agricultural trade by removing the requirement for traders to print hardcopy certificates, he added.
The NTP can be found at www.ntp.gov.sg.
This article was contributed by The Straits Times.
April 19, 2018 Industry News and Views
Minterest is the founder member of Singapore Fintech Association's marketplace lending sub-con
The Singapore Fintech Association announces the launch of the Marketplace Lending committee in response to the rapid growth in the sector. Minterest is proud to be 1 of the founder members of this committee.
The SFA subcommittee in dedicated to ensuring the local crowdlending industry is a trusted, credited and viable mode mode of financing for businesses in Singapore.
In 2016, Southeast Asia's alternative finance market reached a record US$215.94 million, a growth of 362% compared to 2015. Data for 2016 showed that Singapore's alternative finance market size was valued at US$163.75 million, more than double the entire value from 2013-2015. This upward trend is reflected internationally.
The global lending market valued at US$3.5 billion in 2013, expecting to reach US$1 trillion by 2050, according to Statista, a market research company.
The core committee is representative of senior crowdlenders in Singapore: Crowdo, Funding Societies, Minterest, New Union and Validus Capital. All of them are licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore of the Capital Market Service License.
Their initial tasks are to design and promote the best practices, industry guidelines and codes of conduct in a collaborative and open manner. This is to encourage transparency between market participants.
Eddie Lee, head of Marketplace Lending Committee, CEO New Union
"Our shared purpose is to support the common interests of the industry. We are looking to nurture and build relationship among crowdlenders, financial institutions, regulators and other stakeholders."
The committee launch was celebrated via an industry event on Wednesday evening, with the return of the Fintech Titans debate series and a lively panel discussion. Topics under debate included the current lending landscape in Singapore, with insights shared from 5 lending founders.
Chia Hock Lai, President SFA
"With a growing lending marketplace in Southeast Asia, we felt there was a need for a consolidated and cohesive voice to lead the way among the community. Through this committee, we aim to enable Singaporean businesses to access to necessary financing options."
This article was contributed by Fintech News Singapore
December 15, 2017 Industry News and Views
Nine in 10 Singapore SMEs successful in securing debt financing: survey
About 13 per cent of Singapore's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) sought external financing in the past year and a bulk or 90 per cent of them were successful in their applications for debt financing, according to a latest survey by Spring Singapore.
Over two thirds or 60 per cent of SMEs that sought external financing this year did so for cash flow management, said Spring Singapore in a statement disclosing the findings from its second edition of the SME Financing survey.
Bank loans were the most popular form of external financing across SMEs of different sizes, industries and stages of development.
The majority of the remaining 87 per cent that did not turn to external financing, indicated sufficient funds to operate, while a smaller proportion (9 per cent) indicated a personal preference not to borrow.
The survey also found that larger SMEs were more likely to seek external financing given their growth needs and the approval rate for debt financing was higher compared to micro companies (companies with revenue below S$1 million). On the other hand, micro companies faced lower approval rates largely due to the lack of financial documents and/or weaker business performance to support their debt application.
Spring Singapore also said that a top finance-related challenge for SMEs was managing delays in customers' payment which affected cash flow and working capital management.
This article was contributed by The Business Times.
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Winity Telecom Picks Amdocs to Close Digital Divide
Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, has announced a six-year contract with Winity Telecom, a new nationwide Brazilian mobile operator-led by Patria Investments Group, to enable the rollout of its 4G and 5G networks across remote communities in Brazil.
In the first phase of the project, Amdocs will assist Winity Telecom's delivery of 4G connectivity to more than 600 small municipalities, including public schools, as well as over 35.000 km of federal highways, to help close the gap in the digital divide. Amdocs is designing Winity's networks to deliver optimum coverage and quality to ensure cost savings, quick time to market and agility.
"With 5G technology gaining more traction in Brazil and 4G's continued benefits to connect our communities, our goal is to build state-of-the-art infrastructure to bring more opportunities for all," said Estevam Araujo, CTIO Winity Telecom. "Through our partnership with Amdocs, we'll be able to leverage the latest technology and Amdocs' vast experience to ensure a smooth, rapid deployment of our networks."
"We're excited to partner with Winity Telecom on such an exciting project to help connect remote locations across Brazil, which will allow more local communities to flourish," said Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President of Technology and Head of Strategy. "Working together, we will deploy a flexible, robust end-to-end network to enable new consumer and business experiences, further closing the digital divide."
Amdocs will be showcasing network solutions at Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen, September 20-22, MWC Las Vegas, September 28-30, and GITEX, Dubai, October 10-14.
Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With its portfolio of software products and services, Amdocs unlocks its customers' innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers.
The company's 31,000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers' migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations.
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Celia Reyes-Martinez, Colorado state director of Mi Familia Vota, and Coloradans for Citizenship Now rally outside the Denver Republican Party headquarters on Tuesday to ask Congressmen Mike Coffman, Scott Tipton, Cory Gardner and Doug Lamborn to support comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Senate passed immigration legislation last week, and the bill now moves to the House.
WASHINGTON — As Congress heads home for a five-week summer break, the evolving and contrasting views of Colorado's seven House members on comprehensive immigration reform illustrate why an overhaul may be an impossible feat in this Congress.
Three of the four Republicans — Reps. Cory Gardner, Doug Lamborn and Scott Tipton — are noncommittal about supporting a path to citizenship or legal status for those who are here illegally, including the children they have brought with them, the so-called DREAMers.
The three prefer, instead, taking on immigration in bite-size chunks that could take years to accomplish: independently certified border security first, then perhaps the build-out of a guest worker program.
And Rep. Mike Coffman, an Aurora Republican in the political fight of his life, has lengthy and pricey qualifications to his pledge to bring a comprehensive immigration bill that includes legal status for the 11 million people who are here illegally.
Then there are the three Democrats, all of whom are pushing for a plan that includes a way for those here illegally, but who otherwise are following the laws, to become citizens.
Two of them, Reps. Ed Perlmutter and Diana DeGette, say they have little appetite for the piecemeal approach endorsed by Republican leadership.
What does this portend for the next five weeks?
Fireworks, according to immigrant-rights advocates who are already preparing an August onslaught in Colorado's four Republican-led Congressional districts to try to get them to change their minds.
Coffman is at the top of their list. He faces one of the most competitive races in the country next year to keep his seat thanks, in part, to a new district composed of 20 percent Latinos. Previously the third-term congressman had opposed any pathway to citizenship or the so-called Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. But he now says his new district has inspired him to evolve his views on immigration.
At a meeting on July 28 at the St. Pius X Catholic Parish in Aurora, in front of hundreds of constituents, Coffman read — in Spanish — a speech that called for a pathway to citizenship following a long list of qualifications that included first achieving certified border security.
But when pressed by immigrant advocates, the congressman answered "yes" to questions about whether he would work to pressure House leadership to bring a comprehensive immigration bill — with a path to citizenship — to the House floor by Sept. 30.
Coffman further agreed to "enter into conversations" with his Colorado GOP colleagues about the issue.
Immigrant advocates later trumpeted Coffman's affirmative answers and cast them as an embrace of immediate reforms that included legal status.
Asked about these statements, Coffman emphasized that there were certain requirements that needed to be met before anyone started on a pathway to citizenship.
"The borders would have to be secure and our laws enforced, as certified by an entity outside of the executive branch, before anyone can achieve a permanent legal status," he said in an e-mail.
The process of independent certification of border security could take years.
Gardner and Tipton, too, said they were eager to have a conversation about those here illegally — but they want to see a certifiable border security plan first.
Lamborn declined to talk last week about the DREAM Act, saying he wanted to hear from his constituents first. He has never supported a DREAM Act and has said he does not support comprehensive immigration reform.
The Senate passed a bill in late June that overhauls the visa system, throws $46 billion to securing the border and furnishes a 13-year path to citizenship for those living illegally in the United States.
GOP leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives has said they won't take up the Senate bill.
Gardner said he was disappointed there have been no House votes so far on immigration.
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition has a handful of events — voter registration drives, rallies, vigils — scheduled in Republican districts in August to prove constituent support for a path to citizenship.
Reps. DeGette and Perlmutter said taking immigration reform on in a series of smaller bills is not ideal.
Perlmutter, of Jefferson County, agreed.
"Immigration will continue to be an issue until Congress fixes our broken immigration system," he said.


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The Trail Went Cold – Bonus Episode – Kay Hall
September 30, 1987. Northumberland County, Virginia. The body of 45-year old Kay Hall is discovered on a back road underneath her pick-up truck. She has been run over and her husband, Bob Hall, immediately becomes the prime suspect. Even though Bob stood to collect on an inheritance Kay had just received and there are issues with his alibi, there is some question about whether he would have been able to track down Kay and commit the crime during a very narrow timeframe. Years later, Bob is charged and convicted of Kay's murder, but has his conviction overturned and after agreeing to enter an Alford plea, he is released from prison. Was Bob Hall really responsible for the murder of his wife, or was she simply the victim of a tragic accident? This special bonus episode chronicles an "Unsolved Mysteries" segment in which there is debate about the ultimate resolution.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
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Q: Cant get back to app after adding contact details Ive implemented a button that adds company details to the devices phone book.  When I've added the details I cant get back out to the app again from the contacts screen.  I have to hit home button and then restart app. I must be missing something basic here
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unknownPersonViewController.displayedPerson = (ABRecordRef)[self buildContactDetails];
unknownPersonViewController.allowsAddingToAddressBook = YES;
[self.navigationController pushViewController:unknownPersonViewController animated:YES];

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NSLog(@"building contact details");
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//Contact picture
NSData *dataRef = UIImagePNGRepresentation(contact.image);
ABPersonSetImageData(person, (__bridge_retained CFDataRef)dataRef, nil);

// Name
ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty, @"Don Juan", NULL);

//Phone number

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ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(multiPhone, (__bridge_retained CFStringRef)@"0000000000", kABWorkLabel, NULL);
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// email
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ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(email, @"hotmail.com", CFSTR("email"), NULL);
ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonEmailProperty, email, &error);
CFRelease(email);

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ABMutableMultiValueRef address = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiDictionaryPropertyType);
NSMutableDictionary *addressDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
[addressDict setObject:@"High Street" forKey:(NSString *)kABPersonAddressStreetKey];
[addressDict setObject:@"0000" forKey:(NSString *)kABPersonAddressZIPKey];
[addressDict setObject:@"00000" forKey:(NSString *)kABPersonAddressCityKey];
ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(address,(__bridge_retained CFDataRef) addressDict,  kABWorkLabel, NULL);
ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonAddressProperty, address, &error);

// End of Address

if (error != NULL)
    NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);

return person;
}

A: try this :
after do presentModalViewController
for the ABPersonViewController *view
u should dismissModalViewControllerAnimated

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Q: Tiebreaker for maximum value in pandas row The sample of the dataset I am working on:
import pandas as pd
# List of Tuples
matrix = [(1, 0.3, 0, 0.7, 30, 0, 50),
          (2, 0.4, 0.4, 0.3, 20, 50, 30),
          (3, 0.5, 0.2, 0.3, 30, 20, 30),
          (4, 0.7, 0, 0.3, 100, 0, 40),
          (5, 0.2, 0.4, 0.4, 50, 30, 80)
          ]
# Create a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(matrix, columns=["id", "terror", "drama", "action", "val_terror", "val_drama", "val_action"])

My goal is to create a column referring to the highest value of a genre for each customer (considering only the first three columns at first). For example, in the first row the value for action wins.
But in the second row, we have a tie. Following the df.max(axis=1) function, we will get the first value that it observes as the maximum (which would be for terror). In those cases where there is a tie, I would like to receive the genre with the highest value, for example, in the second row it would be val_drama. Something like:

I thought of separating the dataframes into id's that have equal values and applying the max(axis=1) on both dataframes and then joining. But I'm not succeeding in this task.

A: Use numpy.where.
In the first two lines I create two subsets just for easier referencing.
Then I use numpy.where to check whether a rows maximum occurs more than once. If yes, I check the other three columns.
import numpy as np
ss1 = df[["terror", "drama", "action"]]
ss2 = df[["val_terror", "val_drama", "val_action"]]
df["largest_score"] = np.where(ss1.eq(ss1.max(axis=1), axis=0).sum(axis=1) > 1,
                               ss2.idxmax(axis=1).str.replace("val_", ""),
                               ss1.idxmax(axis=1))


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David Jude Heyworth Law (Lewisham, Londres, 29 de diciembre de 1972), más conocido como Jude Law, es un actor, productor y director de cine y de teatro británico. Es considerado como uno de los actores ingleses más conocidos y respetados en el cine de Hollywood, mayormente por sus roles en películas como A.I. Inteligencia Artificial, Enemy at the Gates, El aviador, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Sherlock Holmes, Hugo, Sherlock Holmes: Juego de sombras, El Gran Hotel Budapest y King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. A menudo trabaja con el cineasta inglés Guy Ritchie.

Biografía

Primeros años
Law nació en Lewisham, Sur de Londres, es el segundo hijo de los profesores Peter Robert Law y Margaret Heyworth. Su hermana Natasha es pintora y diseñadora gráfica. Se crio en Blackheath, una zona en el Municipio de Greenwich (Londres) y fue a la escuela primaria John Ball en Blackheath y Kidbrooke School en Kidbrooke, antes de asistir a Alleyn's School en Dulwich.

Vida personal
El actor se casó en 1996 con la actriz Sadie Frost, a quien conoció mientras filmaba Shopping, pero se divorciaron en octubre de 2003. Fruto de la unión, nacieron tres hijos: el primero, Rafferty, nació el 6 de octubre de 1996; la segunda, Iris, el 25 de octubre de 2000 (cuya madrina es la modelo Kate Moss) y el tercer hijo, Rudy, el 10 de septiembre de 2002. Fue el padrastro de Finlay Munro (nacido el 20 de septiembre de 1990), hijo de Sadie Frost con su primer marido, Gary Kemp.

Fue compañero sentimental de la actriz Sienna Miller, ambos se conocieron durante el rodaje de Alfie (2004), pero tuvieron serios problemas después de salir a la luz la infidelidad de Jude con la niñera de sus hijos. Si bien en diciembre de 2009 se hizo público que Law y Sienna Miller habían reavivado su relación, en febrero de 2011 se anunció que se habían separado de nuevo.

Anteriormente, el 29 de julio de 2009, se anunció que Jude Law se convertiría en padre por cuarta vez, tras una breve relación con una modelo neozelandesa, Samantha Burke, en 2008. Burke dio a luz a una hija, Sofia, el 22 de septiembre de 2009 en Nueva York.

El 16 de marzo de 2015 fue padre por quinta vez, de una niña llamada Ada, fruto de su breve relación con la cantante Catherine Harding.

En mayo de 2019, se casó en una ceremonia íntima con la psicóloga Philippa Coan, con quien mantenía una relación de 4 años. En mayo de 2020 anunció que estaba esperando su primer hijo con su actual esposa y el sexto en total. En septiembre de 2020 se confirmó el nacimiento de su sexto hijo.

En general, su vida sentimental ha sido bastante seguida por la prensa rosa. Law es amigo íntimo de los actores Rachel Weisz, Daniel Craig, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Downey Jr. y Ewan McGregor del cual fue compañero de habitación en su etapa estudiantil. Jude Law, junto a su exesposa Sadie Frost, el actor Ewan McGregor y Jonny Lee Miller se asociaron y fundaron una compañía productora llamada "Natural Nylon".

Trayectoria profesional

Teatro
Jude Law comenzó trabajando como actor en su adolescencia, apareciendo en series de televisión inglesas y en obras de teatro en el National Youth Theatre en 1987, personificando papeles en la obra The Ragged Child, galardonada por el Edinburgh Fringe. Uno de sus primeros papeles importantes fue el de Foxtrot Darling en The Fastest Clock In The Universe de Philip Ridley, y el papel de Michael en la producción de West End de la tragicomedia de Jean Cocteau Les parents terribles, dirigida por Sean Mathias, papel por el que fue nominado a un Premio Laurence Olivier como joven actor, y recibió el Ian Charleson Award por destacarse igualmente como revelación.
Dejó Inglaterra y se trasladó a Broadway, donde en 1995 actuó en Indiscretions, junto a Kathleen Turner, Roger Rees y Cynthia Nixon, papel por el cual fue nominado a un premio Tony y a un Theatre World Award.
No fue sino hasta mayo de 2009, que Law volvió a los escenarios de Londres para representar el papel principal en Hamlet de Shakespeare en el Donmar Warehouse de West End en el Wyndham's Theatre.

Cine y televisión
Después de una breve carrera en el teatro y la televisión, como en la serie Families (1990) que lo lanzó a la fama en su país natal, Jude Law se inicia en la gran pantalla en 1994 con el filme de ciencia ficción Shopping (1994), dirigido por Paul W.S. Anderson. Pero no fue hasta tres años más tarde, con la película Gattaca (1997) de Andrew Niccol, cuando realmente se dio a conocer al público en general. Posteriormente Clint Eastwood, le ofreció el papel de Billy Hanson en Medianoche en el jardín del bien y del mal (1997) y David Cronenberg se fijó en él para protagonizar eXistenZ (1999). Con su interpretación en El talento de Mr. Ripley ya mostraba un ascenso meteórico en el cine, algo que rubricó con Enemigo a las puertas (2001). Steven Spielberg, le escogió para dar vida a uno de los papeles más carismáticos de su carrera, el del robot Gigolo Joe en A.I. Inteligencia Artificial (2001). Al año siguiente apareció en Camino a la perdición junto a Tom Hanks y con el director de la película Sam Mendes, papel por el cual recibiría buenas críticas. Se encontró con Nicole Kidman en Cold Mountain (2003) y con Gwyneth Paltrow en El Capitán Sky y el mundo del mañana (2004). En ese mismo año estrenó Alfie, adaptación de la película protagonizada por Michael Caine en 1966, en la cual tuvo una destacada interpretación.

Ha trabajado con grandes cineastas como Martin Scorsese en El aviador (2004), con Kenneth Branagh en La huella (2007), o con Terry Gilliam en la película El imaginario del Doctor Parnassus (2009).

Su carrera se revitalizó gracias a su papel del Doctor John H. Watson, el compañero de Sherlock Holmes en la película Sherlock Holmes (2009), compartiendo protagonismo junto con el actor Robert Downey Jr., y con la continuación de la saga en Sherlock Holmes: Juego de sombras (2011).

Intervino en la película de ciencia-ficción Repo Men (2010) basada en una novela de Eric García, fue dirigido por Steven Soderbergh en Contagio (2011), y en Efectos Secundarios (2013), y volvió a ser dirigido por Martin Scorsese en La invención de Hugo (2011). Law prestó su voz al personaje del Coco en la película de fantasía Rise of the Guardians estrenada en 2012, luego realizó una notable interpretación como Alexis Alexándrovich Karenin, el esposo de Anna Arcádievna Karenina interpretado por Keira Knightley en la película británica Anna Karenina (2012).

Intervino en El Gran Hotel Budapest (2014), y poco después compartió créditos con Jason Statham y Melissa McCarthy en la comedia Espías (2015).

En 2020 volverá a interpretar al Dr. John H. Watson en la tercera entrega de Sherlock Holmes. Downey Jr. también estará de regreso para la película.

Filmografía

Cine

Televisión: películas y series

Contribuciones en bandas sonoras
 "Ah, Leave Me Not to Pine", (The Pirates of Penzance), de la película Wilde, (1997)
 "Tu Vuo' Fa L'Americano", de la película The Talented Mr. Ripley, con Matt Damon, Fiorello y Guy Barker International Quintet, (1999)
 "Avenues and Alleyways", canción original de Tony Christie (1973), de la película Love, Honour and Obey, (2000)
 "Rock On", canción de David Essex, para la película Love, Honour and Obey, (2000)
 "Opening song", interpretada para el programa de la NBC's Saturday Night Live, con Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph y Ashlee Simpson, (2004)

Obras de teatro

Reconocimientos

Distinciones
 Top Ten en la lista de las estrellas de cine en Hollywood de 2006, según criterios la Escala Ulmer.
 Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras ("Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres") por el gobierno francés, en reconocimiento a su contribución a las Artes del mundo del cine, desde el 1 de marzo de 2007.

Premios y nominaciones

Cine y televisión

Lista parcial, solo se muestran algunos de los premios y nominaciones más destacados. Para ver la lista completa: Premios y nominaciones de Jude Law

Teatro

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Actores de cine de Inglaterra
Actores de Londres
Actores de teatro de Inglaterra
Actores de televisión de Inglaterra
Actores de voz de Inglaterra
Candidatos al premio Óscar al mejor actor
Candidatos al premio Óscar al mejor actor de reparto
Directores de Inglaterra
Directores de televisión de Reino Unido
Ganadores del premio BAFTA
Ganadores del premio César Honorífico
Productores de cine del Reino Unido
Productores de Inglaterra
Ingleses del siglo XX
Ingleses del siglo XXI
Nacidos en Londres

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CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO HEADS TO FORCES TV
Forces TV has confirmed to TV Zone that Classic Doctor Who will be a regular addition to the schedule for the foreseeable future.
They will be showing a "selection" of 12 Doctor Who stories from 1970 to 1988 featuring five Doctors (Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy), starting on Tuesday 15th February as double episodes.
Forces TV is available on Sky 181, Virgin 274, Freesat 165 and Freeview 96.
Forces TV are set to air classic episodes of Doctor Who later this month.
Image: DVD artwork
The first episode the channel will show will be the 1970 story Spearhead From Space on Tuesday 15th February. The adventure is the first outing for Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor.
Spearhead From Space synopsis: "Exile! The Time Lords have banished the newly regenerated Doctor to Earth. But The Doctor isn't the only alien to have arrived, as a swarm of meteorites have crashed into the sleepy English countryside, bringing with them a terrible new threat to mankind...
"As the Nestene plan takes shape, UNIT, the Doctor and his newly appointed scientific advisor, Liz Shaw, race against time to stop humanity from being replaced by a terrifying plastic facsimile race...
"With an Auton army on the rise, and no TARDIS to help him, could The Doctor's latest incarnation be over before it has truly begun…?"
Part One and Two of the story will be show on 15th February from 7:55am, 1:25pm and 8:15pm. The next two parts will be shown on Wednesday 16th February. Details about further listings are to be confirmed.
It is currently unclear whether Doctor Who is regular addition to the schedule, and for how long they will continue showing episodes.
TV Zone has approached Forces TV for comment and further information. This post will be updated when more information is provided.
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The goal of this lab is to demonstrate Oracle Clusterware's fencing ability by forcing a configuration that will trigger Oracle Clusterware's built-in fencing features. With Oracle Clusterware, fencing is handled at the node level by rebooting the non-responsive or failed node. This is similar to the as Shoot The Other Machine In The Head (STOMITH) algorithm, but it's really a suicide instead of affecting the other machine. There are many good sources for more information online.
Start with a normal, running cluster with the database instances up and running.
In my 12.1.0.2 lab environment, the location of the clusterware log files now reside in diag_dest under the $ORACLE_BASE/diag/crs/$HOSTNAME/crs/trace directory.
[root@collabn2 ~]# ifconfig eth1 down Alternatively, you can also simulate this by physically taking the Internal Network interface offline in VirtualBox: Go to collabn2 -> Settings -> Network -> Adapter 2, uncheck Cable connected and click OK.
Following this command, watch the logfiles you began monitoring in step 2 above. You should see errors in those logfiles and eventually (could take a minute or two, literally) you will observe one node reboot itself.
If you used ifconfig to trigger a failure, then the node will rejoin the cluster and the instance should start automatically. If you used VirtualBox to trigger a failure then the node will not rejoin the cluster.
Which file has the error messages that indicate why the node is not rejoining the cluster?
Is the node that reboots always the same as the node with the failure? Why or why not?
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XHRRT-FM (branded as El Heraldo Radio) is a Mexican Spanish-language radio station that serves the Tampico, Tamaulipas market area.

History
XERRT-AM received its concession on April 16, 1961. It broadcast from Ciudad Madero on 1190 kHz as a 500-watt daytimer. By the end of the 1960s, XERRT had moved to 1270 kHz and began broadcasting with 250 watts during the day and 200 at night. A 1990s power hike brought XERRT to 2,000 watts during the day and 500 at night.

In 2011, XERRT was authorized to move to FM as XHRRT-FM on 92.5 MHz.

On June 4, 2018, XHRRT changed from Voz FM to One FM with an electronic music format.

On August 1, 2019, XHRRT changed again from One FM to the news and talk programming of El Heraldo Radio relaying XHDL-FM from Mexico City.

External links

References

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Radio stations in Tampico
1961 establishments in Mexico
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The Knickerbocker Suite
The Knickerbocker Suite features New York City landmarks, such as The Statue of Liberty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and NY sports teams, weaved into the time-honored holiday tale of The Nutcracker. Classic Nutcracker scenes like "The Land of the Snow" are transformed into a snowy frenzy of shoppers dancing in and out of stores like Macy's and Bloomingdale's for last minute gifts. Perhaps one of the more well-known scenes, "Mother Ginger and her Polichinelles," will be played by the Statue of Liberty and dancing immigrants who just arrived from Ellis Island.
With scenes of shoppers on Fifth Avenue, the angels at Rockefeller Center, the Statue of Liberty, NY sports teams and the romance of Central Park in the winter, The Knickerbocker Suite is a celebration of New York City, its culture and the magic of the holiday season. The production with a story by artist, Elliott Arkin, features an opening scene with narration by Tony Award winner, Michael Cerveris; the choreography of Deborah Wingert, Brian Reeder, Marina Stavitskaya & Natalia Boesch.
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Home/world/Corruption in the EU. The Belgian court has decided on Eva Kaila. Lawyers: "She feels that her partner has failed her"
Corruption in the EU. The Belgian court has decided on Eva Kaila. Lawyers: "She feels that her partner has failed her"
A Belgian judge ruled on Thursday that former deputy head of the European Parliament Eva Kaili will remain in custody for another month as part of an ongoing investigation into corruption allegations, Belgian prosecutors reported.
Kaili, who was dismissed as EP vice-president in early December, can appeal the decision within 24 hours. The Greek claims she is innocent.
Lawyers sought to place the former deputy head of the European Parliament under electronic surveillance.
Yesterday, Eva Kaili's lawyer, Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, who had a meeting with the Greek politician for several hours, stated that "there are many arguments for releasing her from custody." "She is not suspected of absconding and cannot tamper with evidence," the lawyer said.
Dimitrakopoulos reported that Kaili "feels let down by her partner". Francesco Giorgi, the private partner of the Greek woman, is one of the people detained and arrested in connection with the corruption scandal in the EU. During interrogations, he was to give the names of other people allegedly involved in this illegal practice.
According to Politico, Kaili is to base her defense on the claim that when she found out about the cash held by Giorgi, she "tried to put it back where it belongs" and told her father to "hide the money".
The MEP is awaiting the results of two investigations, in Belgium and Greece. In her home country, she faces up to 15 years in prison.
If Kaili is found guilty in Greece, the sentence handed down by the national judicial authorities will be more severe than in Belgium, where the sentences for the crimes she is accused of are less severe, ranging from three to five years in prison.
In Greece, Kaili is, among others, under the scrutiny of the money laundering office. The investigation conducted in her case is to determine whether she imported undeclared funds from abroad and invested them in Greece, mainly in real estate.
The former deputy head of the European Parliament was indicted and arrested by a Belgian court decision. Kaila and three others are charged with corruption, participation in a criminal group and money laundering.
The European Parliament dismissed Kaili as Vice-President and the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) called on the EP to lift her immunity. Earlier, the Greek authorities froze the assets of the MEP and her immediate family.
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New Yorkers who break social distancing rules will now face fines up to $500
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaking at the city's Emergency Management Warehouse on March 24 | Mark Lennihan/AP Photo
By Erin Durkin
New York City residents who break social distancing rules will be subject to fines up to $500, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.
As New York battles the spread of coronavirus, the state has ordered nonessential businesses to shut down, banned gatherings of any size and mandated that people stay six feet away from each other. Not everyone has listened.
Fines will be a last resort, but de Blasio has authorized police officers to give them out to people who are ordered to disperse but fail to do so.
There were 32,308 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the city on Sunday, and the death toll climbed to 678.
De Blasio said fines of $250 to $500 would begin for people found congregating in public spaces who fail to disperse when ordered, or return after officers have told them to move along.
"You've been warned and warned and warned again," the mayor said during a Sunday press conference.
"They're going to give people every chance to listen, and if anyone doesn't listen, then they deserve a fine at this point," de Blasio said. "I don't want to fine people when so many folks are going through economic distress, but if they haven't gotten the message by now, and they don't get the message when an enforcement officer's staring them in the face ... that person then deserves the fine, so we're going to proceed with that."
In another sign of how hard the city has been hit by the pandemic, a field hospital is being erected in the heart of Central Park to help cope with the influx of patients
Mount Sinai Hospital and the relief organization Samaritan's Purse are erecting the hospital in tents in the famed park's East Meadow, de Blasio said Sunday. It will hold 68 beds, and is expected to be up and running by Tuesday.
"We're going to be using every place we need to use," de Blasio said. "This is the kind of thing you will see now as this crisis develops and deepens."
As subway service cuts have led to crowded cars on some trains despite a massive drop in ridership, de Blasio also announced that NYPD and MTA workers would do checks of subway cars and force riders off cars that are too crowded.
It was not clear where they would send riders removed from a crowded train car to keep them at a safe distance.
The Staten Island ferry will cut service to one boat an hour, beginning at midnight. The ferry's ridership has dropped 86 percent.
The city is adding additional ambulances, tours and EMS crews as the number of 911 calls has swamped the emergency line. Late last week, the number of medical calls hit a level never before seen in history.
"The number of 911 calls have been skyrocketing and it's putting a huge, huge demand on EMS," de Blasio said. "We've never seen our EMS system get this many calls, ever."
On Saturday, the city sent out 1,400 more ventilators to hospitals across the five boroughs. New York still expects to need 15,000 of the life-saving devices by the time the crisis peaks, and is asking the federal government to send at least 400 more by Wednesday.


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Vicenç Cuyàs i Borés (Palma, Mallorca, 6 de febrer de 1816 - Barcelona, 7 de març de 1839) fou un compositor conegut gairebé exclusivament per La Fattucchiera, considerada la primera òpera romàntica catalana. Estrenada el 23 de juliol de 1838 al Teatre de la Santa Creu de Barcelona, va tenir 24 representacions seguides. Cuyàs probablement hagués esdevingut un compositor d'òperes important si no s'hagués mort, de la manera típicament romàntica, de tuberculosi el dia de l'última funció de la seva única òpera, als 23 anys.

Biografia
Era fill de Joan Cuyàs Artigas i de Ramona Borés i Cantarell, família establerta a Barcelona, però va néixer a Palma perquè la seva família s'hi havia refugiat durant la Guerra de la Independència. Després del seu naixement, la família va tornar a Barcelona. Allà havia de començar els seus estudis de Medicina, però mai ho va fer perquè "sempre havia sentit repugnància envers ella". Per un altre costat, va estudiar dibuix i als 17 anys començà a aprendre música amb Ramon Vilanova, un dels més prestigiosos mestres de la Barcelona de començaments del , el qual al seu torn s'havia format a Milà amb Piantanida. Dos anys van ser suficients perquè Cuyàs conegués les tècniques pianístiques i del cant.

Les seves primeres obres consisteixen en fragments i divagacions operístiques que es van donar a conèixer en salons privats barcelonesos i en concerts lírics. Tanmateix, és el teatre barceloní de la Santa Creu el que acull i estrena la pràctica totalitat de la seva producció. La Simfonia Primera de Cuyàs està datada el 1835 i és en realitat una extensa obertura operística d'un sol moviment. De la seva Segona Simfonia, tan sols es conserva un fragment, però d'aquest mateix any daten diverses àries i duets compostes per a un drama d'Antoni Ribot (dins hi trobem l'"Aria de bajo" i la "Canción del Paladín").

Així es va anar afermant el prestigi del compositor que hauria d'acabar sorprenent la ciutat amb l'estrena de La Fattucchiera el juliol de 1838. Realment, es va titular "La Fattucchiera, melodramma in due atti, Poesía de Feliche Romani, da reppresentarsi nel'Teatro dell'eccellentisima cittá di Barcelona l'anno 1838". L'òpera està basada en una novel·la del vescomte d'Arlincourt que ja s'havia convertit en un èxit en la literatura sentimental de l'època. L'obra la van representar Micciarelli, María Fernández, De Galbis, Antoldi i Barraul, i van arribar a fer-se vint representacions, una de les quals va ser en benefici del compositor (fet excepcional a l'època). La crítica la va considerar com una obra que apuntava un futur prometedor i marcava el naixement d'un mestre de la vàlua de Bellini i Donizetti.

L'acció transcorre el , després de la tercera Croada, i en l'argument, les referències històriques es barregen amb una truculent ficció d'amors, màgia i ultratomba que ja va ser utilitzat com a motiu operístic en altres ocasions. Felice Romani havia escrit un llibret basat en el mateix argument per al melodrama Ismalia, ossia morte ed Amore, al qual va posar música Saverio Mercadante i que va ser estrenat a La Scala sis anys abans. Per la seva part, Ramon Carnicer també va utilitzar el mateix llibret per a una òpera homònima estrenada a Madrid el mateix any de l'estrena barcelonina.

Cuyàs parteix de la melodia belliniana, la qual cosa suposa una evidència més de l'italianisme a Espanya, però amb l'afegitó d'una gran varietat de ritmes i una brillantor instrumental que va atrapar al públic. D'aquesta manera va produir una obra de valor en el moment àlgid de la influència italiana, provocada per Donizetti, Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante i Pacini.

Tot i l'èxit de l'obra, l'esforç que va haver de fer el compositor per acabar-la va deteriorar la seva salut. És possible que això, junt amb la mort del seu pare poc abans, causés la mort de Cuyàs l'últim dia de representació de La Fattucchiera. Tot i morir en un estat d'extrema pobresa, van aparèixer diverses poesies al Diari de Barcelona i en El Guardia Nacional. En el Museu de les Famílies es va publicar l'únic quadre que existeix del compositor, fet pel pintor Graset. La seva mort va ser considerada com una pèrdua per a la música espanyola, fins al punt de convertir a Vicenç Cuyàs en un símbol a causa de la seva mort prematura i del seu talent.

Referències

Bibliografia
 V. Balaguer: "D. Vicente Cuyás. Biografia", El Barcino Musical, Barcelona, 28-VI-1846
 A. Fargas y Soler: "Biografía de los músicos más distinguidos de todos los países", La España Musical, vol. I, Barcelona, 1866, 438
 F. Virella: La ópera en Barcelona, Estudio histórico crítico, Barcelona, Redondo y Xumetra, 1888
 A. Elías de Molins: Diccinoario biográfico y bibliográfico de escritores y artistas catalanes del siglo XIX, vol. I, Barcelona, 1889

Enllaços externs
http://www.riusfrancesc.com/treball%20sobre%20la%20fattucchiera.pdf  Tesi Musica italiana o francesa, a l'òpera de Vicenç Cuyàs, La Fattucchiera? de Francesc Rius

Compositors d'òpera catalans
Músics palmesans
Compositors mallorquins
Palmesans contemporanis
Morts de tuberculosi
Morts a Barcelona
Compositors balears contemporanis
Artistes mallorquins contemporanis


Aaron choe exhibition "Funky Forest"
The series "Funky Forest" was taken with the help of a forager friend who took me along on his trips through various mountains in Korea. There's a Korean saying, "don't look at the tree, look the forest" which means to look at the big picture but with my photos I was trying to convey the opposite through the beautiful and psychedelic textures. By looking at a mushroom or a tree for example, I hope the viewer get's a sense of the woods as a whole and experiences what I experienced.
07/26 Aaron choe exhibition "Funky Forest"


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Q: Android first step? Может покажусь ТП, но инфа в сети либа устарела, либо я не понимаю ничего. Запускаю Android Studio. Все тормозит, создаю проект. Пытаюсь запустить - получаю
C:\Users\Des\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\emulator.exe -avd Nexus_5_API_21_x86 -netspeed full -netdelay none
emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration!
Please ensure Intel HAXM is properly installed and usable.
CPU acceleration status: HAX kernel module is not installed!

пытаюсь скачать - получаю
ось - win7 x64

есть релевантные ссылки для новичков?
UPD
кто-то пишет что мона эклипсе писать
пытаюсь загрузить adt
получаю

как понимаю самая трабла в том что проц AMD

A: Вы попытались запустить ваше приложение на эмуляторе Nexus 5 с архитектурой х86. Для работы этой архитектуры вам (почему-то) требуется установить Intel HAXM, для которого требуется поддержка процессором VT-x технологии. Ваш проц ее не поддерживает(или она выключена в BIOS).
Вывод: Запускайте на реальном устройстве, создайте эмулятор с архитектурой ARM, или используйте альтернативный эмулятор.(Genymotion)

A: VT-x - это железная технология, которая поддерживается практически всеми современными настольными процессорами intel.
Обычно включается в bios-е.

A: HAXM не встанет на процессор от AMD и на урезанные ноутбучные версии процессоров типа celeron. Если у вас Intel то можно попробовать включить в биос, мне удалось таким образом запустить на десктопном селероне.
Если проц АМД то сразу идите качайте Genymotion - он вполне юзабельный и бесплатный.
Но налучшим решением безусловно будет реальное устройство т.к. много вещей невозможно протестировать не симуляторе в принципе, или они работают некорректно.

A: Необходимо использовать Intel HAXM, это небольшое приложение-драйвер для запуска x86 эмулятора. По идее можно попробовать установить его и на процессоры AMD, но только на неурезанную версию (линейки 83xx и 97xx), но тут как повезет с остальным железом.
Если вы не стали счастливым обладателем такого процессора, то всегда можно развернуть Android на VirtualBox.


On Sept. 11, 1857, a group of California-bound pioneers camping in southern Utah were slain by a Mormon militia and its Indian allies. The massacre lasted less than five minutes, but when it was over, 120 men, women and children had been clubbed, stabbed or shot at point-blank range. Their corpses, stripped of clothes and jewelry, were left to be picked apart by wolves and buzzards.
It was one of the worst American civilian atrocities of the 19th century. "The whole United States rang with its horrors," Mark Twain recalled years later. But despite two trials, one execution and numerous official investigations, the incident -- known as the Mountain Meadows massacre -- remains shrouded in mystery and rumor.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- the Mormon church -- has steadfastly denied responsibility, first blaming Indians and later a rogue church official for the crime. But now two authors who have studied the massacre say the prophet Brigham Young, the formidable church leader who built a Mormon kingdom in an oasis in the arid wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, masterminded the killings and then conspired to cover up his role.
"He did it," said Will Bagley, a history columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune whose book "Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows" (University of Oklahoma Press), has been a best seller in Utah since it appeared in late July. "The evidence is unambiguous."
Sally Denton, an investigative reporter based in Santa Fe, N.M., whose book "American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows," will be published by Knopf next summer, also holds Young responsible for the crime. "He was an absolute dictator," she said. "Nothing happened in the place that did not happen under his direct orders."
That conclusion is vigorously disputed by three Mormon church historians, who vow their own history of the massacre, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2004, will exonerate Young. "It's clear to us that this was not a headquarters-orchestrated project," said Glen Leonard, director of the Mormon Church's Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City and one of that book's co-authors. "It was locally planned and carried out."
The current round of debate may be the bluntest yet about the episode, which, in addition to investigative accounts, has inspired at least five novels in the last several years. The massacre stands out not only for its gruesomeness but also for the act of treachery that preceded it.
After enduring a four-day gun battle with their attackers, the pioneers accepted a truce that turned out to be a deadly ploy. Promised safe passage from the area in exchange for surrendering their weapons, the besieged group complied only to be systematically slaughtered. Seventeen children, all under 7 years old, were spared. Taken in by local families -- including those of men who had participated in the attack -- the children were eventually returned to relatives, some later providing devastating testimony about the massacre.
Federal investigators suspected Brigham Young of having had a hand in the crime but failed to produce sufficient evidence to convict him. In an 1858 report to the federal Indian commissioner, Young blamed local Indians and, by implication, the U.S. government, whose "fatal policy," he wrote, "treats the Indians like the wolves, or other ferocious beasts."
Then, in 1870, Young excommunicated John D. Lee, a Mormon official and militia leader in southern Utah, because of his participation in the massacre. Lee was tried twice for murder (he was convicted the second time) and executed in 1877. But rumors of a church-sponsored cover-up persisted. Many Mormons -- particularly in southern Utah -- left the church over the incident.
A plaque at the massacre site, erected by the Mormon church in 1990, carefully avoided assigning blame, referring with baffling vagueness to "a company of more than 120 Arkansas emigrants" being "attacked while en route to California."
By early 1857, the Mormons were stockpiling weapons, and all but one of the federal judges and officers overseeing Indian affairs in the territory had fled, fearing for their safety. In response President James Buchanan named a new governor to replace Young and sent him west along with 2,000 U.S. troops. Young retaliated by declaring martial law. The standoff, which lasted until the Army entered Salt Lake City and installed the new governor in June 1858, is known as the Utah War.
How this hostile atmosphere led to murder in a mountain valley 300 miles south of Salt Lake City, however, is fiercely contested.
And though Bagley and Denton marshal an astonishing number of archival sources, their case against Brigham Young remains circumstantial.
According to the version traditionally told by Mormon scholars -- for example in a well-regarded 1985 biography of Young -- the Fancher party provoked ill-will by taunting Mormon settlers in southern Utah. Some settlers, the story goes, believed the pioneers had been involved in the murder of Parley Pratt, a popular Mormon apostle, in western Arkansas earlier that year. Others believed the group was an advance guard for the Army.
More decisive to its fate, the Fancher party was said to have incited the murderous wrath of local Indians by poisoning their wells and livestock. In a confession made just before he was executed, Lee, the only person ever tried for the crime, blamed the Paiute Indians. The Indians initiated the assault, he wrote, and Mormon settlers joined them only reluctantly, fearing reprisals if they did not. Bagley and Denton dismiss these explanations as falsehoods planted to deflect blame from church headquarters.
Though obviously guilty of murder, Lee was the crime's scapegoat, not instigator, the authors argue, and the Indians had little to do with it. "The idea that this was an Indian massacre is just absurd," Denton said, citing a 1999 forensic analysis that found that many of the victims had died from gunshot wounds to the head. "There is no evidence the Indians had weapons required for a slaughter of this magnitude," she said.
Denton, who is descended from Mormon settlers, said the killings were inspired primarily by greed. For the desperately poor Mormon settlers in southern Utah, the Fancher party, with its hefty supply of cash, arms and hundreds of valuable horses and cattle, was simply irresistible. "It was the wealthiest wagon train ever to traverse the country," she said. "They had 1, 000 head of longhorns, and longhorns had never been seen in Utah before." Children who survived the massacre later described seeing their parents' clothes and jewelry on the bodies of local settlers.
Bagley, who says he is a "Jack Mormon," or lapsed believer, contends that the attack had less to do with greed than ideology. According to Mormon doctrine, he points out, murder in defense of the faith could be considered just. In this case, he argues, Young saw bloodshed as a righteous act, one that would avenge the Arkansas murder of the apostle, Pratt, and send a sober warning to the U.S. government about the risks of invading the Mormon state.
"The party from Arkansas was probably doomed from the moment the Mormons learned of the death of Parley Pratt and the approach of the American Army," he writes in his book. "The emigrants fell victim to Brigham Young's decision to stage a violent incident that would demonstrate his power to control the Indians of the Great Basin and to stop travel on the most important overland roads."
Bagley cites a diary entry made by Young's brother-in-law and Indian interpreter, Dimick Huntington, after a meeting between the Mormon leader and Paiute chiefs on Sept. 1, 1857.
The crudely worded entry appears to refer to the Fancher party and suggests that Young encouraged the Indians to steal the group's cattle and engage them in a fight. But neither author uncovered written proof that Young had ordered the massacre.