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Why is Lindsay Lohan suing Grand Theft Auto?
By Deborah Cicurel
Lindsay Lohan's been a busy girl - and not just restaurant-hopping in London. It seems that the Mean Girls actress is suing the creators of popular video game Grand Theft Auto, saying they used her likeness - without her permission - to boost sales.
The star, who has been dogged by legal problems including reckless driving, accuses the company, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., of creating a video game lookalike, famous actress Lacey Jonas, who gamers must rescue from swarms of paparazzi.
Lindsay's case says Lacey is an "unequivocal" reference to the Parent Trap star.
After players rescue her from the paps, Lacey reportedly complains about her fame and talks about being anorexic, while wearing outfits from Lindsay's real-life clothing line, and speaking in the same voice.
The game also includes images of Chateau Marmont Hotel in West Hollywood, where Lindsay once lived, adding fuel to the fire for claims of image violation.
We have to say, we've taken a peek at Lacey and she does bear a rather striking resemblance to LiLo.
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Java 8 includes a brand new time management API named java.time that was specified by the JSR 310 and implemented by the threeten project.
Incomplete concepts: no duration, period, interval hour (hours-minutes-seconds), date (year-month-day), etc.
java.time was inspired by Joda-Time and was mostly written by its author, Stephen Colebourne.
Too flexible. Each class can accept a calendar different from the gregorian calendar. java.time uses an global ISO calendar system (gregorian) by default.
java.time aims to have a simpler and more robust design than Joda-Time. This API is also available in Java 7 through a backport available at the central maven. The fluid API allows the manipulation of immutable and thread-safe objects in order to avoid errors. The time management classes are organized according to two views of time: machine time and human time. To make the transition less painful, it is easy to convert java.util.Date and java.util.GregorianCalendar objects to and from the new API.
A precise point in time.
The Instant class represents the number of nanoseconds since Epoch (January 1st 1970). It is very similar to java.util.Date.
Duration between two instants or duration in days/hours/minutes/seconds/milliseconds/nanoseconds.
Use Timezone to create ZonedDateTime and OffsetDateTime from an instant through the ZoneId and ZoneOffset classes.
ZonedDateTime and OffsetDateTime are the equivalent of GregorianCalendar.
Date and time (without the timezone concept).
An incomplete LocalDateTime: 03/18 (March 18th), 12:00 (noon).
"Human" representation of a duration, for instance 1 month (whether it has 28 or 31 days).
It is easy to convert an object to and from the new API.
As the code samples demonstrate, this new API corrects issues with previous APIs. It is easy to use thanks to its fluid syntax and intuitive concepts.
Some of the Joda-time features that have not made it into java.time are now in the threeten-extra project (available at maven central), and can be included in your projects.
One can hope this new API will be quickly integrated in the java frameworks developers use every day.


In India, treated municipal sewage is being used by industry for cooling water and in firefighting. The Hindustan Petroleum Company Limited (HPCL), located in Bombay, has used seawater for these purposes, but is in the process of converting to the use of reclaimed water (see the Indian Case Studies in Part C of this Source Book). The use of reclaimed water better meets the pollution control regulations established by the Central Pollution Control Board's MINAS (Minimal National Standard) regulations, and minimizes the operation and maintenance problems inherent in the use of the seawater for cooling and firefighting purposes. Use of reclaimed sewage also enables the refinery to reduce the number of blow downs from the cooling towers and thereby reduce the volume of cooling water effluent required to be treated to MINAS.
The components of the sewage reclamation, treatment and reuse process are a sewage pump housed in a dry well for easy access, a rising main to convey wastewater from the pump house to the factory premises, a water reclamation plant within the factory, a storage reservoir for the reclaimed water, and a distribution system to channel the reclaimed water to the cooling towers. A wet well is likely to be required to retain the incoming sewage from the sewer and balance flows to the treatment plant, and a mechanical screen should be installed in the system upstream of the pump to remove particulates prior to the wastewater entering the pump house.
The reclamation plant typically consists of a f lash mixer for mixing of chemicals with the incoming wastewater. An alum solution, used to flocculate particulates that have passed through the mechanical screen, is dosed in a chamber upstream of the flash mixer. Following dosing. The wastewater passes through a clari-flocculator to remove fine suspended matter and colloidal turbidity. The resultant clear liquid flows over a weir and is collected in the launder. The resultant sludge is collected in the bottom of the clarifier tanks and discharged via the excess sludge sump. The clarified wastewater is then filtered through a rapid sand filtration unit, using a layer of quartz sand and a layer of graded gravel, and separated into two streams. One stream is passed through an ion-exchange softener unit, prior to being recombined with effluent stream in proportions calculated to produce the desired degree of hardness. The blended, reclaimed water is then chlorinated using a vacuum type chlorinator.
This technology can be used in industries where a large volume of cooling water is required and an adequate source of wastewater is readily available.
Maintenance is related to the operation of the water reclamation plant and pumping system. Operations are generally conducted over a 24 hour period, requiring adequate trained human resources in at least three shifts to operate the treatment plant.
This technology may be implemented at the individual industry level or incorporated into a local government wastewater treatment scheme.
The total capital cost of a 15 million litre per day (MLD) reclamation system is about $ 4 million. The annual operation and maintenance costs are about $410 000, or about $ 0.02 per m3.
Use of reclaimed water is expected to reduce the cooling makeup water requirement from 4 500 m3/hr (or 108 000 m3/day) to about 625 m3/hr (or 15 000 m3/day). Suitability This technology is suitable where large quantities of wastewater are available nearby. Advantages Use of this technology reduces the problem of high TDS in the cooling water which occurs when sea water is used as cooling water. Where municipal water is used for cooling purposes, use of reclaimed wastewater also results in a net savings in the drinking water supply of a municipality since industrial demands on this source are reduced.
Domestic wastewater is best suited for reclamation as industrial wastes may contain contaminants that make such wastes unsuitable for reclamation. This technology has an high capital cost, especially if the sewage line is far away from the industry, and may have relatively high operation and maintenance costs, depending on the reclamation technology used.
No problems have been noted since the reclaimed water is not for human consumption.
The technology is readily transferable and can be used by other industries. New industries should consider the use of reclaimed water in their overall plan, which will make it cost effective to implement.
AIC Watson, The Sewage Renovation Project at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), Bombay, India. AIC Watson.


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Forefront Interior is spearheaded by Joey Pear, who was the General Manager/Senior Consultant of an established local interior design firm. His natural flair for design and impeccable service earned him a stream of satisfied clients mainly through word of mouth.
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Relix 44: Merch Designer Chris Kovach
Dean Budnick on September 25, 2018
Welcome to the Relix 44. To commemorate the past 44 years of our existence, we've created a list of people, places and things that inspire us today, appearing in our September 2018 issue and rolling out on Relix.com throughout this fall. See all the articles posted so far here.
A Lot Artist Earns His Merit Badge: Chris Kovach
For Chris Kovach, whose creative vision has enabled him to work with numerous artists and festivals over the years—including Fare Thee Well, Newport Folk, Newport Jazz, Coachella, LOCKN', the recent Bobby and Phil shows, moe. and Umphrey's McGee—it all goes back to his days as a fan, trying to support himself on tour.
"I started selling T-shirts on the Phish lot in 1993-1994," he recalls. "I was just out of college and I did really well. And, by that, I mean I made enough money to go to as many Phish shows as I wanted to. I worked with Amy Skelton, who ran their merch and made sure that my shirts were cool and didn't violate anything. Then, right after Jerry died in '95, she came to me and said, 'I can't let you sell shirts any more. We can't have the whole Grateful Dead lot scene hop onto Phish.' And I said, 'It was always about the music for me. I'll stop selling shirts immediately.'"
However, just as he began to re-orient his creative energies, Kovach received another call from Phish, this time soliciting his input for T-shirt ideas. One of his concepts was selected for the group's 1995 New Year's Eve run, kicking off a relationship that continues to this day. "I started working for them designing and producing T-shirts, and later made limited edition stuff like merit badges and pennants and coins. I typically work with them on the niche-ier stuff that appeals to more of the hardcore fans. Since I am a big Phish fan myself, I just make the stuff I'd want to buy."
In the late-'90s, he started a streetwear brand called Nucleus and landed his clothing line in stores like Urban Outfitters and Zumiez. Ultimately, he sold that business in order to focus on the music realm. And, despite his success and close proximity to many of his favorite acts, it's still about the music for Kovach. "I started to shiver and my knees buckled a little bit," he says of his reaction to hearing that Trey Anastasio was going to join the "Core Four" at Fare Thee Well. "That was just such a thrill for me as a fan."
This article originally appears in the September 2018 issue of Relix. For more features, interviews, album reviews and more, subscribe here.
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World Heritage sites can be found on every continent except Antarctica. Chosen for their natural or cultural signficance, these unique sites are protected and preserved by the countries—187, as of June 2010—that adhere to the World Heritage Convention.

Here, Victoria Falls—created by the Zambezi River plunging up to 324 feet (99 meters) into basalt gorges—stretches from southern Zambia into Zimbabwe. The Mosi-oa-Tunya/Victoria Falls World Heritage site includes a conservation area covering 7,142 square miles (18,500 square kilometers).

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Victoria Falls, Zambia and Zimbabwe
World Heritage sites can be found on every continent except Antarctica. Chosen for their natural or cultural signficance, these unique sites are protected and preserved by the countries—187, as of June 2010—that adhere to the World Heritage Convention.
Here, Victoria Falls—created by the Zambezi River plunging up to 324 feet (99 meters) into basalt gorges—stretches from southern Zambia into Zimbabwe. The Mosi-oa-Tunya/Victoria Falls World Heritage site includes a conservation area covering 7,142 square miles (18,500 square kilometers).
More about this World Heritage site >>
Photograph by Christian Heeb, laif/Redux
See photos of UNESCO World Heritage sites.


Harvest Thyme Homestead: Got Lambs? Gotta Sell? Gotta stay!
After much aggrevation, delated pictures, waiting to upload I finally would like to share some of the lambs that were born this year. This was my first real lamb crop and I pretty excited about them. Little Country Acres Jed, a polled black gulomoget is the sire of all the lambs.....thank you Juliann!
Above is a black ram lamb. He is polled, just like his father. Born in April, mom is a fawn kat with VERY NICE fleece. He is for sale & I can definitely get better pics if interested. I am asking $200 for him.
This is too cute....I mean a moorit, yuglet, flecket, sokket ewe lamb:)( did I say that right?) She is really coming along nicely. I am going to keep her so then I do not have to keep hoping I have a spotted ewe like Stephen at Sheltering Pines!
Okay, now is this not the darn coolest ram lamb? I asked Juliann about the markings, and we have decided on a black gulomoget, flecket (so close to being yuglet!!) sokket ram. What do you think??? Okay, seriously, I want to keep him in the worst way BUT I am going to put him out there for sale. I am asking $425.......did I mention he has extremely small scurs?? He was born the last week of June.....did I mention I think he is really cool?
These are 2 ewe lambs, not related. The one on the left is marked????? Her fleece is very taupe in color...and the face is marked??? She is out of a spotted, fawn kat...my Abigail who is my #1 favorite ewe...I am going to keep her because her fleece is very nice and because she is so unique. The one on the right is a black gulomoget ewe.....very shy and quiet. She is out of Windswept Savannah Grace...a beautiful mioget ewe. I am asking $300 for her. I can send better pics if anyone is interested.
This moorit ewe above is the twin to the black gul. ewe above. Her facial features are just stunning....just like her mom. She is a talker too! She is for sale at $250.
This little black smirslet ram lamb is the twin to the moorit flecket, yuglet ewe way above. He has small, about 1/2 scurs on his head. He loves my cardigan corgis and loves to have his face licked. He was born on July 4th!!!!!! Perhaps he could be called "Firecracker"? He is for sale at $175......actually I think he would be great as a wether/fiber pet too. If interested in him as a wether let me know and of course the price would be adjusted.
Saw your name on Michelle's blog. Wonderful blog and beautiful sheep! Your place looks so inviting! I dream of having a Corgi some day to help out with the sheep. Does your Corgi work to sheep with you?
thank you for visiting & your kind comments:) My corgis is in "training" as she is also a show dog. She is a cardigan which I think are more laid back with a sense of humor verse the Pembroke which tend to be, in my opinion, serious and attentive but I love both kind. Dixie, the corgis, is wonderful with the lambs & is a right barn helper!
You have some pretty awesome looking lambs I'd say for your first 'crop'. What lovely markings and colors. It would be so hard to decide who goes and who stays! That little yuglet ewe lamb is way too cute. I would call your gulmoget ramling a smirslet/sokket, as I'm not sure he qualifies for flecket (of course he may be more marked than he appears in the pix too)? Definately would think the face marking qualifies for a name though. ;-) Gets pretty tricky at times. Regardless he is a beauty too and very colorful.
Isn't it cool how we all kind of end up in the same places? I followed your link from Michelle's also, very nice lambs!
Pretty lambs too! I look forward to watching them grow.
Lovely lambs, from another middle school teacher (retired). I looked for a Corgi about 3 months ago but couldn't find one. Yours is a doll.
What do you teach? I did 7th; my praise to you. Eighth grade girls can be bane to the existence of all mankind.
yep, you are right, I should have said smirslet...thank you for noticing:)& thanks for the complaints!
Sittin in spin...I could not find your first name, even on the website..Help!!! don't worry about the shetland thing, I'm probably the only one that can't spin!
so you so understand! I teach 7th & 8th grade history & I can roll my eyes & smack my lips just as good as the girls...oh & I have the hand thing down pretty good too. I tell them I learn from the best! thank you 4 stopping by!
What's not to like? Lots of pretty colors, patterns and spots, and polled genetics, too! Why don't you live closer???
i love spotted gulmoget lambs! And the smirslet gul/kat ewe lamb you have. Wow first year and you get one! How cool! congrats!


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This is the best way I have found to use leftover pork. I have done it several times and it is always a hit.
Position an oven rack 6 inches from the broiler element and heat the broiler to high. Toss the chiles with the oil, 1/4 tsp. of the salt, and a few generous grinds of pepper. Set on a rimmed baking sheet lined with aluminum foil and broil the chiles, flipping every 1 to 2 minutes, until they brown, blister, and blacken all over, about 5 minutes total. Remove the chiles from the oven, wrap in the foil, and let cool to room temperature. Then peel off the skin and core and seed them. Cut them into 1/2-inch pieces.
Cook the bacon in a large Dutch oven over medium heat until it browns and renders much of its fat, about 6 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to a plate lined with paper towels. Add the onion and garlic to the pot, sprinkle with the remaining 1/2 tsp. salt, and cook, stirring, until they soften and brown in places, about 6 minutes. Add the cumin and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds.


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Project Visio.M:
Electric mass mobility for urban environments
MUTE serves as test carrier for the Visio.M-Project - Photo: Florian Lehmann / TUM
Electric vehicles powered by electricity from renewable energy sources are an attractive option for mobility within the urban area and beyond. However, previous approaches lead to vehicles that either are too heavy and too expensive or do not meet mass-market safety requirements. Within the joint research project Visio.M scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), in cooperation with engineers from the automotive industry, will develop concepts to produce electric cars that are efficient, safe, and inexpensive. Lead manager of the project is BMW AG. The project has a total volume of 10.8 million euros and is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).
Electric cars are silent and cause no emissions where they go. Therefore, they are considered an important option for future individual mobility in urban areas and beyond. But on the way to mass production of electric vehicles, there are still significant technological hurdles to overcome. Previous small electric vehicles offer only a minimum level of vehicle safety and therefore are not mass-marketable. Electric cars that were derived from gasoline-powered models are usually too heavy and require large and expensive batteries.
Within the joint research project Visio.M well known companies of the German automotive industry, together with scientists from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, explore how the price and safety of small, efficient electric vehicles can be brought to a level enabling them to achieve a significant share of the mass market. The mobility concept deriving from these visionaries will be a vehicle with a power of 15 kilowatts and a maximum curb weight of 400 kg (without battery), meeting the requirements of the European regulatory category L7e.
The consortium partners use the electric vehicle prototype MUTE developed by the TU Muenchen as their test carrier to explore innovations and new technologies for vehicle safety, propulsion, energy storage, and operational concepts for implementation under the framework requirements of large-scale production. Special attention is given to safety-related design issues. Despite minimal weight, Visio.M is expected to achieve a level of protection equal to that offered by conventional cars with combustion engines.
Participants in the Visio.M consortium are, in addition to the automotive companies BMW AG (lead manager) and Daimler AG, the Technische Universitaet Muenchen as a scientific partner, and Autoliv BV & Co. KG, the Federal Highway Research Institute (BAST), Continental Automotive GmbH, E.ON AG, Finepower GmbH, Hyve AG, IAV GmbH, InnoZ GmbH, Intermap Technologies GmbH, LION Smart GmbH, Neumayer Tekfor Holding GmbH, Siemens AG, Texas Instruments Germany GmbH and TÜV SÜD AG as industrial partners. The project is funded under the priority program "Key Technologies for Electric Mobility - STROM" of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).
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Compact Groups
Fossil Groups
Proto-Groups
Galaxy group
Four of the seven members of galaxy group HCG 16.[1]
A galaxy group[2] or group of galaxies[3] (GrG[4]) is an aggregation of galaxies comprising about 50 or fewer gravitationally bound members, each at least as luminous as the Milky Way (about 1010 times the luminosity of the Sun); collections of galaxies larger than groups that are first-order clustering are called galaxy clusters.[5] The groups and clusters of galaxies can themselves be clustered, into superclusters of galaxies.
The Milky Way galaxy is part of a group of galaxies called the Local Group.[6]
Groups of galaxies are the smallest aggregates of galaxies. They typically contain no more than 50 galaxies in a diameter of 1 to 2 megaparsecs (Mpc).[NB 1] Their mass is approximately 1013 solar masses. The spread of velocities for the individual galaxies is about 150 km/s. However, this definition should be used as a guide only, as larger and more massive galaxy systems are sometimes classified as galaxy groups.[7]
Groups are the most common structures of galaxies in the universe, comprising at least 50% of the galaxies in the local universe. Groups have a mass range between those of the very large elliptical galaxies and clusters of galaxies.[8] In the local universe, about half of the groups exhibit diffuse X-ray emissions from their intracluster media. Those that emit X-rays appear to have early-type galaxies as members. The diffuse X-ray emissions come from zones within the inner 10-50% of the groups' virial radius, generally 50-500 kpc.[9]
There are several subtypes of groups.
A compact group consists of a small number of galaxies, typically around five, in close proximity and relatively isolated from other galaxies and formations.[10] The first compact group to be discovered was Stephan's Quintet, found in 1877.[11] Stephan's Quintet is named for a compact group of four galaxies plus an unassociated foreground galaxy.[10] Astronomer Paul Hickson created a catalogue of such groups in 1982, the Hickson Compact Groups.[12]
Compact groups of galaxies readily show the effect of dark matter, as the visible mass is greatly less than that needed to gravitationally hold the galaxies together in a bound group. Compact galaxy groups are also not dynamically stable over Hubble time, thus showing that galaxies evolve by merger, over the timescale of the age of the universe.[10]
Fossil galaxy groups, fossil groups, or fossil clusters are believed to be the end-result of galaxy merging within a normal galaxy group, leaving behind the X-ray halo of the progenitor group. Galaxies within a group interact and merge. The physical process behind this galaxy-galaxy merger is dynamical friction. The time-scales for dynamical friction on luminous (or L*) galaxies suggest that fossil groups are old, undisturbed systems that have seen little infall of L* galaxies since their initial collapse. Fossil groups are thus an important laboratory for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies and the intragroup medium in an isolated system. Fossil groups may still contain unmerged dwarf galaxies, but the more massive members of the group have condensed into the central galaxy.[9][10] This hypothesis is supported by studies of computer simulations of cosmological volumes.[13]
The closest fossil group to the Milky Way is NGC 6482, an elliptical galaxy at a distance of approximately 180 million light-years located in the constellation of Hercules.[14]
Proto-groups are groups that are in the process of formation. They are the smaller form of protoclusters.[15] These contain galaxies and protogalaxies embedded in dark matter haloes that are in the process of fusing into group-formations of singular dark matter halos.[16]
Notable groups
Local Group The group where the Milky Way, including the Earth, is located
Stephan's Quintet One of the most photogenic groups
Robert's Quartet Another very notable group
Bullet Group The merging group exhibits separation of dark matter from normal matter
This lists some of the most notable groups; for more groups, see the list article.
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^ see 1022 m for distance comparisons
^ "Hubble views a bizarre cosmic quartet". Retrieved 19 June 2015.
^ Bärbel Koribalski (2004). "The NGC 6221/15 Galaxy Group".
^ Hartmut Frommert & Christine Kronberg. "Groups and Clusters of Galaxies with Messier objects". SEDS.
^ "Object classification in SIMBAD". SIMBAD. November 2013.
^ Sparke, L. S. & Gallagher, J. S. (2007). Galaxies in the Universe: an Introduction (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 278. ISBN 9780521671866.
^ Mike Irwin. "The Local Group". Retrieved 2009-11-07.
^ UTK Physics Dept. "Groups of Galaxies". University of Tennessee, Knoville. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
^ Muñoz, R. P.; Motta, V.; Verdugo, T.; Garrido, F.; et al. (11 December 2012). "Dynamical analysis of strong-lensing galaxy groups at intermediate redshift". Astronomy & Astrophysics (published April 2013). 552: 18. arXiv:1212.2624. Bibcode:2013A&A...552A..80M. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201118513. S2CID 17865754. A80.
^ a b Mulchaey, John S. (22 September 2000). "X-ray Properties of Groups of Galaxies". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (published 2000). 38: 289–335. arXiv:astro-ph/0009379. Bibcode:2000ARA&A..38..289M. doi:10.1146/annurev.astro.38.1.289. S2CID 1427929.
^ a b c d Paul Hickson (1997). "Compact Groups of Galaxies". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 35: 357–388. arXiv:astro-ph/9710289. Bibcode:1997ARA&A..35..357H. doi:10.1146/annurev.astro.35.1.357. S2CID 18870169.
^ M. Stephan (April 1877). "Nebulæ (new) discovered and observed at the observatory of Marseilles, 1876 and 1877, M. Stephan". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 37 (6): 334. Bibcode:1877MNRAS..37..334S. doi:10.1093/mnras/37.6.334.
^ Hickson, Paul (April 1982). "Systematic properties of compact groups of galaxies". Astrophysical Journal, Part 1. 255: 382–391. Bibcode:1982ApJ...255..382H. doi:10.1086/159838.
^ Dependency of halo concentration on mass, redshift and fossilness in Magneticum hydrodynamic simulations
^ An old galaxy group: Chandra X-ray observations of the nearby fossil group NGC 6482
^ Yujin Yang (2008). Testing Both Modes of Galaxy Formation: A Closer Look at Galaxy Mergers and Gas Accretion. University of Arizona. p. 205. ISBN 9780549692300.
^ C. Diener; S. J. Lilly; C. Knobel; G. Zamorani; et al. (9 October 2012). "Proto-groups at 1.8<z<3 in the zCOSMOS-deep sample". The Astrophysical Journal (published March 2013). 765 (2): 11. arXiv:1210.2723. Bibcode:2013ApJ...765..109D. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/765/2/109. S2CID 17700696. 109. CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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flocculent
Magellanic
Dwarf galaxy
spheroidal
Elliptical galaxy
Active galactic nucleus
Dark matter halo
Disc galaxy
Galactic center
Galactic plane
Galactic ridge
Interstellar medium
Protogalaxy
Spiral arm
Supermassive black hole
Active nuclei
Markarian
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Seyfert
Energetic galaxies
Lyman-alpha emitter
Luminous infrared
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Hot dust-obscured
Low activity
Low surface brightness
Ultra diffuse
Dark galaxy
Galactic tide
Groups and clusters
Interacting
Stellar stream
Superclusters
Voids and supervoids
void galaxy
Galaxies named after people
Polar-ring
Large quasar groups
Voids
Extragalactic astronomy
Galactic coordinate system
Galactic habitable zone
Galactic magnetic fields
Galactic orientation
Galactic quadrant
Galaxy color–magnitude diagram
Galaxy formation and evolution
Galaxy rotation curve
Intergalactic dust
Intergalactic stars
Intergalactic travel
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Marcedes Alexis Lewis, né le  à Los Alamitos, est un joueur professionnel américain de football américain.

Depuis la saison 2018, ce tight end joue en National Football League (NFL) pour la franchise des Packers de Green Bay après avoir joué de 2006 à 2017 pour les Jaguars de Jacksonville.

Références

Naissance en mai 1984
Naissance à Los Alamitos
Joueur américain de football américain
Tight end
Joueur sélectionné au Pro Bowl
Joueur de football américain des Bruins de l'UCLA
Choix de draft des Jaguars de Jacksonville
Joueur des Jaguars de Jacksonville
Joueur des Packers de Green Bay

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AS Roma are through to the quarter-finals after a narrow 1-0 victory over 10-man Shakhtar Donetsk. It is that crucial away goal which gives them the advantage in a 2-2 aggregate result.
Dzeko edges Italians through on away goals. Shakhtar Donetsk fell short of just a second Champions League quarter-final appearance as their 10 men were beaten by Roma and Edin Dzeko.
A second-half Edin Dzeko goal earned Roma a 1-0 Champions League last-16 second-leg win on Wednesday, enough to narrowly knock out a blunt Shakhtar Donetsk side on away goals after a 2-2 aggregate draw.
Cengiz Under's strike and a string of Alisson saves had kept Roma in the tie in the 2-1 away first-leg defeat, allowing Eusebio Di Francesco's men to edge to victory in the second leg and reach the quarter-finals despite a dismal display in which Dzeko's winner was scarcely deserved.


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Pollen Revolution
Akira Kasai
Performance Asia TOPA
Image: Daido Hiroyasu
20—22 Feburary 2020
Tickets from $18
Due to popular demand, we have extended the season for this previously sold out show to include Thursday, February 20th.
Part of the Asia TOPA Dancehouse Japan Focus alongside Matou and Good Luck. Also a part of Dancehouse's Asia TOPA program is Eko Supriyanto's Ibu-Ibu Belu.
Akira Kasai's own son performs this riveting solo, a surreal and startling journey through time, cultures, and states of being. Kasai's striking onstage personae morph from kabuki performer to street dancer to solitary actor while his movement shifts between classical Japanese, hip-hop and the soulful otherworlds of butoh.
Beginning with what may seem like traditional Japanese dance, this daring solo performance sees costumes fly away, madness unleashed and representations of gender probed. Pollen Revolution is a masterly work from a choreographer who is still reshaping and reinventing butoh itself.
Choreographer: Akira Kasai
Dancer: Mitsutake Kasai
Lighting designer: Michino Oono
Producer: Hisako Kasai
Asia TOPA Dancehouse 2020
Dancehouse's Japan Focus includes Japanese National Treasure, Akira Kasai, heralded as the 'Nijinsky of butoh,' with his critically acclaimed work, Pollen Revolution; in addition to phenomenal enfant terrible Takao Kawaguchi and exceptional emerging choreographer Ruri Mito. The Japan Focus delves deeper into how Japanese traditional forms find expression within contemporary dance and, by implication, within contemporary society. This program opens up multiple invitations: to perceive time beyond the linearity of Western thought; to conceive of tradition as a continuum of contemporaneity; and to understand specific dance forms and lineages as trans-national and trans-historical.
Akira Kasai (1943) is a Japanese butoh dancer and choreographer who, despite being significantly younger than his mentors Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the artform along with them. Kasai trained in other forms of dance but turned to Butoh in the 1960s when he met and began to work with both Ohno and Hijikata. He started his own studio in 1971 but closed it in 1979 to move and study Eurythmy in Germany. He did not dance professionally at the time and for years after his return to Japan in 1986 he stayed off the stage stating that he felt too disconnected from Japanese society to perform. He returned to professional dance in 1994, with the work 'Saraphita' and revived his studio Tenshikan, now influenced by Eurythmy and other dance principles. He has since performed, choreographed and taught in Asia, North America and Europe, and his choreography is famed for its authenticity, its radicalness, its playful mix of genres and its extreme precision.
Dancehouse's Japan Focus has been supported by Sidney Myer Fund and Arts Centre Melbourne.
Dancehouse would like to warmly thank THE SAISON FOUNDATION JAPAN and in particular Atsuko Hisano and Taro Inamura, for the most generous support during Angela Conquet's fellowship in Japan in 2019 which inspired this ASIATOPA program. Most warm thanks are also extended to our Japanese colleagues Mr. Shinji Ono and Mrs Ritsuko Mizuno for their insightful curatorial advice and to Yumi Umiumare for her committed assistance with production and logistics.
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A real-life encounter between beloved authors Roald Dahl and Beatrix Potter serves as the inspiration for Sky's Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse. Director David Kerr tells DQ about the magic behind this festive family film and discusses working with animals.
As authors, there doesn't appear to be much in common between Roald Dahl and Beatrix Potter. One is famous for his fantastical adventures that often featured grotesque characters, while the other is renowned for her numerous children's books about animals.
But a festive feature-length drama coming to the UK's Sky1 dramatises the chance encounter they shared together and the effect that meeting would have on both of their lives.
Produced by Hartswood Films (Dracula, Sherlock), Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse sees Dawn French (The Vicar of Dibley) play Beatrix as she is coming to the end of her career. With her publisher (Nina Sosanya) hounding her for her next manuscript, Beatrix has lost her motivation to write children's books and is trying to keep both her long-suffering husband William (Rob Brydon) and her disobedient farm animals in line.
Meanwhile, six-year-old Roald (Harry Tayler), grieving the loss of his father and sister, finds solace in his love of books. He is then encouraged by his mother Sophie (Jessica Hynes) to follow his dreams and visit his hero, Beatrix Potter.
Dawn French and Harry Tayler take the titular roles in Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
"Human relationships are the core of it, really," director David Kerr tells DQ. "You've got Beatrix effectively going through a bit of a mid-life crisis. She's struggling to find a creative direction and her publishers just see her as a bit of a cash cow. But from the script stage, I loved the bickering relationship she has with William. It just felt very believable, and the way Rob and Dawn play is beautiful to watch.
"Similarly with Roald and his family, particularly his mum Sophie, there's a mother basically nurturing the creative spirit of her child. It's not a theme I've seen explored a lot. I was a big Beatrix Potter fan and then became a huge Roald Dahl fan. I devoured [Dahl's] stories of The Twits, Fantastic Mr Fox and, of course, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. But if you look again at Beatrix Potter's books – and we touch on this in the film – it's not a syrupy, saccharine version of nature. It's nature red in tooth and claw. There is always the threat of death hanging over these very beautiful, lively animal characters.
"That's a lot less common now in children's stories and yet Beatrix, as somebody who adored the countryside, was very comfortable with that idea that you could bring up animals and then kill them for your table. There's a frankness and honesty alongside the kind of magical anthropomorphism and the fantastical aspect of talking creatures wearing clothes."
Though Beatrix and Roald's meeting is actually just a small part of the film, it ends up being a pivotal moment for both of them.
French on set with director David Kerr
"Beatrix convinces him there is something special about the way you see the world as a child that perhaps you don't want to lose sight of as you get older," Kerr explains. "For Beatrix, it's her understanding that children can cope with all sorts of tragedy, bereavement and difficulty and still have a love for life and a vivid imagination. That spurs her on to write the book she wants to write, regardless of what her publishers would like her to do. There's a great sense of tectonic plates shifting and of destiny resetting for each of them and giving them a purpose in the future."
Christmas specials are known for their short turnaround times, but when the coronavirus pandemic struck earlier this year, not even Kerr thought Roald & Beatrix would make it through production in time to air this year.
He was first sent the script in January and was gearing up for pre-production ahead of a provisional filming date in June. Then when the UK was put into lockdown in March, those plans were put on hold.
"We were not even sure if the film would happen at all. It wasn't greenlit," Kerr says. "I was just assuming that was the end of that and I'd better start thinking about other things." Sky commissioning editor John Mountague had other ideas, however, and backed the project at a time when productions were struggling to find their feet amid new health and safety requirements and a lack of insurance cover.
Roald & Beatrix began filming in August amid the Covid-19 pandemic
"Sky had always conceived it as a Christmas treat, so the big question was, 'Can we get this on for Christmas?' It was not a straightforward shoot. It's quite ambitious and there are elements like stop-frame animation, puppetry and quite a lot of visual effects. It was a case of literally counting the weeks and figuring out how much we needed for the score, the visual effects and all of the post-production and grading, and then working backwards."
Under the supervision of a Covid advisor, shooting began in August and was completed across five weeks in Wales, with the Vale of Glamorgan doubling for Potter's home in the Lake District. Roald's house was shot in Penarth, while interior scenes were filmed at Seren Studios in Cardiff.
Though the drama is not one filled with car chases or action sequences, Kerr and the creative team were tasked with changing certain scenes to ensure social distancing and other safety measures could be followed.
"There was a scene set in a funeral, which would have needed maybe 50 extras, which we ended up turning into a scene at the wake in the Dahl house, and actually it's probably a more poignant and intimate scene by relocating it to the house and scaling it down," Kerr says. "In some ways, it forced us to be a bit more inventive. It also allowed me to shoot with a single camera, which I tend to love to do anyway because you get much more control over each frame. The big Covid message was basically reducing the number of people on set.
Welsh actor and comedian Rob Brydon plays William, Beatrix's husband
"The other big decision was that we ended up building a lot of sets for our interiors. But there was a creative payoff because it meant I had complete control over the dimensions, the layout and the colour palette."
Covid guidelines meant anyone in contact with the cast – and the actors themselves – was tested weekly, while temperature checks were daily for everyone on set. Cast and crew were also encouraged to limit their social activity during production, while Kerr was prevented from travelling to set in the same car as his first AD and the director of photography to ensure they wouldn't all have to isolate if one became ill or had been in contact with someone who tested positive for the virus.
It wasn't just human performances Kerr had to consider, however, as Abi Wilson's script also called for stop-frame animation, puppetry and visual effects to bring the magical elements of the film to life. John Hannah's narration also adds a storybook quality to the drama, which is distributed by NBCUniversal Global Distribution.
"The challenge was trying to find a way of designing the animation so it felt charming and handmade, and had a bit of life to it and didn't feel too clinical," says Kerr, who worked alongside stop-motion animator Thomas Harnett O'Meara (The Wind in the Willows) to bring some characterful mice to life. "We worked through storyboards together and designed the action. Then he oversaw all of the sequences. What I didn't want was for it to feel as if we just switched channel and suddenly we're watching this kids' animation and then we're back in a drama. It was very important the animation should feel integrated."
Puppeteers were also involved in scenes involving a talking doll and a wise-cracking fox stole that speaks to Roald while it is draped around a woman's neck.
Kerr with Jessica Hynes, who plays Roald's mother Sophie
"It just felt so rich to be able to present plausible human relationships, but also to dial up the magic with some really wonderful heightened effects, stop-frame animation and puppetry," the director says. "They helped everything feel real and not cold."
Working with numerous animals on set further complicated the shoot, with a dog, guinea pig, rabbit and duck all on the call sheet. But while the behaviour of Sago the runner duck was exemplary, less can be said for Sally the pig, according to the director.
"We'd had conversations with the animal handler [about working with a pig], but cut to us on the set and we're watching this pig refusing to move," he recalls. "We ended up taking some pastry and pulling it on a piece of string and thankfully the pig moved, but it moved at a glacial pace. There was never a sense of breaking speed limits.
"If you're smart with animals, you have to be thinking, 'What is the minimum I can get away with?' Then on the day, you do your best to get at least what you need, because ultimately you are in the hands of the pig or the dog or whatever it is. If they're not playing ball, it's tough. You can't get on the phone to their agent, so you're very much at the mercy of the menagerie. That was probably the toughest thing about the show, frankly."
Drawn to the emotionally rich story that would prove challenging to realise visually, Kerr says he was keen to instil a sense of wonder in Roald & Beatrix, which balances complex human relationships with magical, sometimes grotesque qualities of the characters who inhabit this world. It all adds up to perfect festive family viewing that throws in plenty of laughs for good measure.
"There are some really good, funny moments but there's also an emotional depth to it that really embraces you and makes you value the relationships you have, whether it's your close family or people you come into contact with," notes Kerr, who is represented by Casarotto Ramsay.
"I'm really hopeful there's something in this for everybody, particularly after the year we've had where so many of us have had to worry about threats to our health or deal with bereavement. So much of this story is about coming to terms with loss, but it's about finding a way forward and finding the wonder in the world. That's just a wonderful message for all of us at Christmas."
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Take a Chance on It
By K.A. Mitchell
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Sequel to Risk Everything on It
Ready or Knot: Book Three
Left at the altar by his long-time lover, Spencer, and in desperate need of quality health insurance, Dane Archer can't say no when his best man and best friend, Gideon DeLuca, steps in. But Dane and Gideon have history, tangled and passionate and complicated.
After seventeen years of cat and mouse, Gideon has realized Dane isn't the kind of man who ever wants to be caught, and he's stopped playing Dane's game.
For Dane, it's never been a game, but sexual fidelity isn't his strong suit. Love is too beautiful for limits, something he's never been able to get Gideon the control freak to understand. Now Dane has nothing but limits, including the timeline on his paper-only marriage to Gideon.
Gideon's the only person Dane trusts enough to lean on, and Gideon will do anything to get Dane through this crisis. Anything but fall for Dane again.
Living together forces Dane and Gideon to stop circling and face what's been between them all these years. They just don't know if they have the power or the time to make things right.
What they do know is that they're not ready for it to be over.
Series Ready or Knot | Book Three
Emotional roller-coaster
By Felicity
When I discovered that this was the third in a series of three I decided to read them all in the right order. So while reading the first two I couldn't wait to get to this one, as I felt that Dane and Gideon's story was going to be emotionally tough and captivating. Well, I guess I was right and I loved every single line!
I also liked the other two books of course, but this stole my breath!
Utterly Facinating
K.A. Mitchell has been a favorite author of mine for many, many years now. Her unique way of telling a story keeps her on my auto buy list, no matter what she writes. Take a Chance on It is the third book in her Ready or Knot series, and she saved the best for last. I don't think this should be read as a standalone, as these books are about a group of friends and their differing views on marriage and relationships. As such, previous events and experiences play a significant part in the story of Dane and Gideon and if you don't understand their history, the point of the story is pretty much lost.
Dane Archer and Gideon Deluca have been best friends for most of their lives. They've been having sex off and on for seventeen years. Dane doesn't believe in sexual fidelity, even when he's in a committed relationship. He's recently found out he has cancer, though he hasn't told any of his friends. He's finally asked Spencer, his boyfriend of ten years, to marry him, only to be left at the altar. With no health insurance now and desperately needing expensive treatment to fight his illness, Gideon and Dane get married. Gideon has been in love with Dane for years, though he's resigned himself to Dane never being what he needs him to be. This conflict is of course at the heart of Take a Chance on It.
I found this book utterly fascinating because of the way K.A. Mitchell has portrayed both of these men. Dane is such a complex character and the history between these two is so inherent to the people they are now. Gideon will do anything to help Dane fight the cancer, even knowingly letting his heart get broken, again, by Dane. Being together in such close proximity and for extended periods of time brings all the feelings both have fought so hard to keep hidden bubbling to the surface. Gideon sees Dane at his absolute worst--gaunt, vomiting into a toilet for hours at a time from the chemo, bald, weak--but that doesn't stop him from being hopelessly in love with Dane. For Dane, being vulnerable, showing weakness, is something he tries to avoid at all costs but fighting the cancer is taking everything he has. The more time these two spend together, the closer they get. It's not just the sex, though there is that, but it's finally the emotional connection that brings these two men together.
This book is emotional. It's frustrating and sexy and sad and hopeful. It'll challenge your views on relationships and how there are many types for different people. It will make you smile. It will show you a side of living with cancer many might not see. It will make you root for these two to get their HEA. I'm sad this series is over, but I can't wait to see what K.A. Mitchell does next!


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Witnesses identified Campbell, whose friend had been involved in a fight with other young men at Norland High in North Miami-Dade. When his friend encountered a 15-year-old rival at the club, Campbell pulled a weapon and fired "point blank in the stomach," Orosa said.
Then as Campbell ran away, he squeezed off a volley of rounds, hitting the other club goers. The teen wounded in the stomach is in critical condition.
Miami homicide detectives, with help from Miami-Dade schools police investigators, had been looking for Campbell since Friday.
"We need to show people you cannot go into an establishment and shoot indiscriminately and get away with it," Orosa said. "A lot of innocent people were hit by bullets."
Campbell had been kicked out several schools in recent months, Orosa said.
In recent years, Campbell had gotten in trouble at Central and Jackson high schools for possessing marijuana, fighting, carrying a knife on school grounds and truancy. He had been arrested once, on a charge of resisting with violence, back in May 2013, according to state records.
Campbell will be booked as a juvenile, but will likely be charged as an adult in the coming weeks.
Miami police detectives, who were interviewing Campbell on Monday night, are still looking for the get-away driver and anyone else involved in the crime.
In all, the 15 shot in and outside The Spot ranged in ages from 11 to 25.
The Spot is a licensed restaurant that can seat up to 50 people. It has a beer and wine license, and teens and children are allowed inside.
Police don't know if juveniles inside the club were buying drinks, but said federal agents are also investigating the incident.
After the shooting, club manager Tiffany Johnson was cited for distributing alcohol with only a beer and wine license, for not having permits for a jukebox and a pool table, and for buying beer at Presidente Supermarket, which isn't a legal distributor.
The citations, which also came with a recommendation to remove The Spot's certificate of use, were issued by the Operation Safe Club Task Force, a group composed of city police, code enforcement officers and members of the state alcohol, tobacco and beverage agency.
For at least the past month The Spot has been advertising Saturday evenings as a teen night, hiring local music talent to attract kids. Also known as The Caribbean Spot, it's been popular over the years as a hangout for an older crowd that enjoyed island music and fried fish, pigeon peas and cabbage.
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package fr.univrouen.poste.web.admin;

import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.RooWebScaffold;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;

import fr.univrouen.poste.domain.LogAuth;
import fr.univrouen.poste.domain.User;
import fr.univrouen.poste.web.searchcriteria.LogSearchCriteria;

@RequestMapping("/admin/logauths")
@Controller
@RooWebScaffold(path = "admin/logauths", formBackingObject = LogAuth.class, create=false, update=false)
public class LogAuthController {

    @ModelAttribute("command")
    public LogSearchCriteria getLogSearchCriteria() {
    	return new LogSearchCriteria();
    }

	@ModelAttribute("users")
	public List<String> getUserIds() {
		List<String> userIds = User.findAllUserIds().getResultList();
		userIds.add(0, "");
		return userIds;
	}

    @RequestMapping(params = "find=ByActionEqualsAndUserIdEquals", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String findLogAuthsByActionEquals(@ModelAttribute("command") LogSearchCriteria searchCriteria, @RequestParam(value = "page", required = false) Integer page, @RequestParam(value = "size", required = false) Integer size, @RequestParam(value = "sortFieldName", required = false) String sortFieldName, @RequestParam(value = "sortOrder", required = false) String sortOrder, Model uiModel) {
    	if("".equals(searchCriteria.getStatus()) && "".equals(searchCriteria.getUserId())) {
    		return this.list(page, size, sortFieldName, sortOrder, uiModel);
    	}
    	if (page != null || size != null) {
            int sizeNo = size == null ? 10 : size.intValue();
            final int firstResult = page == null ? 0 : (page.intValue() - 1) * sizeNo;
            uiModel.addAttribute("logauths", LogAuth.findLogAuths(searchCriteria, sortFieldName, sortOrder).setFirstResult(firstResult).setMaxResults(sizeNo).getResultList());
            float nrOfPages = (float) LogAuth.countFindLogAuths(searchCriteria) / sizeNo;
            uiModel.addAttribute("maxPages", (int) ((nrOfPages > (int) nrOfPages || nrOfPages == 0.0) ? nrOfPages + 1 : nrOfPages));
        } else {
            uiModel.addAttribute("logauths", LogAuth.findLogAuths(searchCriteria, sortFieldName, sortOrder).getResultList());
        }

        uiModel.addAttribute("command", searchCriteria);
        uiModel.addAttribute("finderview", true);

        addDateTimeFormatPatterns(uiModel);
        return "admin/logauths/list";
    }

}

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Darren Balsley (born October 27, 1964) is a baseball coach. He was the pitching coach of the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball from 2003 to 2019.

Balsley was a minor-league pitcher before he decided to go into coaching. He went to Mount Carmel High School in San Diego and attended Palomar College.  He had been in this role since May 17, 2003. Under his tutelage, the Padres pitching has greatly improved, with the team ERA going from 4.87 in 2003 to a Major-League best 3.70 in 2007 and again Major-League leading best 3.07 ERA in 2010. Many pitchers have gone on to have some of the best years of their careers under his coaching. These players include Heath Bell, Jake Peavy, Cla Meredith, Chris Young, Akinori Otsuka, and Kevin Cameron.

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Minor League Ball Community Discussion: Baseball, the best it has ever been?
By John Sickels@MinorLeagueBall Oct 20, 2015, 1:00pm EDT
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Last night I made a quick tweet about the quality of baseball today:

The talent level in baseball is the best it has ever been in my view.
— johnsickels (@MinorLeagueBall) October 20, 2015

I had been thinking about complaints we often hear about how players "don't know fundamentals" like they used to and that the game is not as good as it was when the complainer was young. Many people have pointed out that such complaints are as old as the game itself. Christy Mathewson in 1901 probably heard complaints from Giants fans that he wasn't as durable as Mickey Welch and Tim Keefe.
After sending the tweet, my initial thought was "well that was a banal thing to say." But it turns out that not everyone agrees. Some people do complain about players lacking polish. I still think that is an old saw, but others point out that basketball, football, and rising sports like soccer continue to skim off many of the best athletes who would have played baseball back in the old days.That's true, but the counter-argument there is that an influx of players from Latin America and other countries has made up for any diminution in talent flow from United States colleges and high schools.
Fleshing this out a bit more, I would argue that the talent level (and the game itself as a whole) is excellent for the following reasons:
***A wider population base from which to recruit players. Greater access to talent in Latin America and Asia. Breaking of the color barrier.
***Better medical care. Players still get hurt a lot and always will: baseball is tough on the body, but before the 1980s a serious arm injury was usually a death sentence for a pitcher's career. That is no longer true. Recovery is still not guaranteed but depending on the injury it is a lot more likely than it was 50 or 30 or even 10 years ago.
***More sophisticated training and exercise regimes. Better nutrition.
***Better pay eliminates the need for players (at least established ones) to take off-season jobs, enabling them to concentrate more of their physical, mental, and emotional energies on the game.
***Better appreciation of sabermetric insights by front offices and application of new technologies (PITCH/fx, etc) have certainly changed the game.
***Labor peace. Younger fans may not fully appreciate what a relief it is (for players and front offices as well as fans) not to have to worry about a strike or lockout every three years.
None of these things have made baseball any easier. It is more competitive than ever, and players who succeed have to be at the very top of their game and have to work harder to stay there.
That's my view, anyway. What do you think?


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Central Texas Floods Destroy Bridge, Force Evacuations
Fast-moving floodwaters destroyed a bridge, forced the evacuation of riverside homes and led to numerous water rescues in Central Texas on Tuesday after more than a foot of rain fell in recent days.
The bridge crumbled as it was overrun by the bloated, roiling Llano River in Kingsland, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) northwest of Austin. The Llano and Colorado rivers meet at Kingsland, and the National Weather Service said both were experiencing "major flooding." A flash flood warning was in effect.
Residents were evacuated from homes in Kingsland and in nearby Marble Falls, which was being overwhelmed by the Colorado River. Several school districts closed for the day, and emergency personnel blocked access to more than 150 low-water crossings.
Gov. Greg Abbott released a statement urging "all Texans to take their safety into their own hands by closely monitoring changing weather conditions and heeding warnings from local officials."
The governor's warning came little more than a week after four people were washed away when the South Llano River, which becomes the Llano River downstream, overran an RV park in Junction, Texas. Three bodies have been recovered. The search for the fourth has been suspended due to the heavy rain.
The most dramatic scenes Tuesday played out in Marble Falls, where an extraordinary amount of water poured over the Starcke Dam, carrying with it riverside docks and other large debris.
Homes also were being evacuated in nearby Granite Shoals, and people were sheltering at a middle school.
Bill and Laura Villella awoke early Tuesday to about 12 inches (30.5 centimeters) of water in their Llano home. The rising water forced them to stand on their kitchen counter before emergency personnel in a boat pulled them to safety.
"We honestly did not believe it would go up that high," Bill Villella told the Austin American-Statesman. His wife added: "I've been through a lot in my life, but that's the scaredest I've ever been."
Water levels along the Llano River at Llano have subsided but are still well above major flood stage. Levels rose to just under 40 feet (12 meters) on Tuesday but fell as the morning progressed, settling at little more than 35 feet (11 meters), according to the National Weather Service. Major flood stage is 23 feet (7 meters), and the river isn't expected to drop below that stage until Wednesday.
Heavy rains were also impacting other parts of the state.
Flood warnings were issued for areas north of Houston, and the Fort Worth Fire Department said it responded to some 80 traffic accidents blamed on slick roads and poor visibility Tuesday morning. Officials in Dallas said the rain was causing sewer overflows in several parts of the city but added that its water supply wasn't affected.
In Austin, fire officials temporarily banned all watercraft. Flooding was also occurring in Kerr County, northwest of San Antonio, and other parts of Texas Hill Country, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. The Guadalupe River at Comfort, northwest of San Antonio, was forecast to rise from about 5 feet (1.5 meters) up to more than 28 feet (8.5 meters).
Patricia Sanchez, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, said the transition from fall to winter usually brings elevated levels of rainfall – but nothing compared to the amount of precipitation over the last month.
"The ongoing multiple days of rain and the extraordinary amount is of course not normal," she said. "Not for this time of year."
Recent tropical systems and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico are contributing to the amount of rain Texas has seen, she said. Light to moderate rain will continue for the next couple of days but taper off as the weekend approaches, she said.
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Morgan Lewis Expands International Trade Capabilities in Washington and Philadelphia
WASHINGTON, November 17, 2011: Morgan Lewis today announced the addition of Margaret M. Gatti—an international banker turned international trade practitioner and current chairperson of the Mid-Atlantic District Export Council—as a partner, resident in Washington and Philadelphia. She brings more than 20 years of experience advising U.S. and non-U.S. clients in the full range of international trade, national security, and U.S. government contract matters.
"For two decades, clients have relied on Margaret to help them address complex international trade issues both proactively—through compliance counseling and training—and in instances requiring disclosures, corrective actions, settlement negotiations, and debarment proceedings," noted Scott A. Stempel, leader of the Antitrust practice at Morgan Lewis. "Her business acumen, paired with her experience on exports and customs, government contracts, as well as national security issues will be a winning combination for our clients."
Ms. Gatti's practice encompasses export control and customs law, embargoed country regulations, international tax and trade law, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters. Her international trade practice includes export control regulations, embargoed country regulations, customs law, free trade agreements, anticorruption laws, INCOTERMS, and international commercial transactions. Ms. Gatti serves as co-counsel for the National Council on International Trade Development.
Ms. Gatti also represents manufacturers, exporters, importers, and brokers involved in the defense industry before the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC); the U. S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS); the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE). She frequently assesses export control jurisdiction for exported products, determines the appropriate U.S. Munitions List Categories and Export Control Classification Numbers, and drafts Commodity Jurisdiction Requests to the DDTC and Classification Requests to the BIS.
In addition to her work in the international arena, Ms. Gatti maintains a corporate practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, and corporate governance matters.


CCL has been providing training for the UK's financial services industry since 1988. In 2004 we established a separate training division designed to focus solely on training our clients on the various roles, responsibilities and requirements associated with the ever changing regulatory environment.
In 2006 we opened our first international office in Dubai, with the objective of delivering the same high standard of consultancy and training services to the developing Middle East and African markets.
During this time, we have worked with the majority of the world's leading financial institutions. Our clients businesses span the full range of financial services including full-scale investment banking, corporate banking, retail banking, brokerage, asset management and insurance.


Peter Drucker, the guru of management consultants, once asserted: "Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two and only two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs." The permeation of internet and mobile into today's life has corroborated his opinion with a clamour, highlighting the importance of the customer. A brand's ability to connect with the consumer is being redefined by the proliferation of modes through which a consumer can interact with a product or service.Brands need to be on their toes to incessantly revamp their consumer facing applications like e-commerce sites, sales or lead generation engines, brand destinations, mobile applications, as well as every other consumer facing property. In order to adapt to the changing behaviour of consumer, it has become obligatory for them to concentrate on mobile readiness or mobile enablement.
For such a massive transition, brands require the right strategy, as well as the right implementation partner to create mobile ready experiences that are powered by intuitive designs and cutting edge consumer technologies. They cannot rely on digital agencies that do not focus on engineering. At the same time, they cannot depend on traditional IT firms either, as those firms are too large to deliver the agility required for a brand's marketing department. Such large IT firms are also sometimes hesitant to devote time to improvement of design and user experience. Kuliza, headquartered in Bangalore, solves this issue by providing custom engineering services, as well as proprietary solutions to help brands become digitally smart. Kuliza's custom engineering solutions include crafting custom web applications and mobile applications for brands, custom e-commerce stores for brands and IoT and big data applications. Its proprietary solutions include full-fledged e-commerce solutions such as sites, applications and tools, mobile applications for engaging consumers and deriving business, online sales engines for auto companies, iBeacon powered smart stores for retailers and hospitality and an IoT framework to make consumer products smart. By helping CMOs leverage emerging digital technologies, Kuliza plays a significant role in producing consumer facing applications for a mobile ready world.
"User experience and usability are the lifelines of our offerings. At Kuliza, we believe that user experience and interface design is an amalgamation of science and creativity. This mix is what converts a visitor to a site or app visitor into a customer." says Kaushal Sarda, CEO of Kuliza. Team Kuliza is oriented towards providing attention to detail, researching about consumer behaviour, and analysing the clicks, analytics as well as the information flow of the application while designing the solution. As all these aspects vary for different brands, the end result is an offering customized as per the expectations and requirements of the customer.
Kuliza follows an extremely robust design and engineering process which is employed to ensure transparency to clients and creation of world class applications. The design process involves multiple stages. It begins with primary research (executed through focused interviews and other ethnographic studies), followed by secondary research to understand user preferences and prejudices. What comes next is benchmarking and inspiration research. The company then designs the information architecture of the application and undertakes click analysis for complex user flows. Lastly, Kuliza enters the wire frame and visual design stage, with multiple rounds of iterations to fine tune the experience. "We follow the agile methodology for engineering applications. This essentially means the technical architecture is followed by versioning and software releases. Frequent scrums (meetings) and demos are conducted to provide visibility to the client and track progress." adds Kaushal.
Engineering for scale is of utmost importance for consumer facing applications. Brands launch various consumer facing applications to experiment on limited markets. When the experiment is successful, scale becomes an obvious next step, with brands wanting their applications to reach millions everyday. With this prescience, Kuliza ensures that whatever it engineers is architected for scale, so that brands can adapt to market, traffic and transactional fluctuation easily, and can scale seamlessly without delays. The scope of scalability has found a new dimension with the advent of mobile phones and cloud computing, as every user has a super fast computer in his/her pocket. This change has led to a significant number of consumers having the opportunity to connect with brands anytime, anywhere. Realizing this potential, Kuliza focuses on cloud computing and cloud data management services. "We believe that cloud powered consumer applications are a great channel to bring together seamless, secure and scalable experiences to the end customer. We have also found that the CMOs are very open to adopting the cloud for their consumer facing applications." shares Kaushal.
The majority of investments made by brands on mobiles have been directed towards building simple consumer facing mobile applications. Though these apps may look incredibly attractive, most of them are not developed to enhance current customer experiences. The need of the hour for brands is to think of mobile enablement and not just mobile apps. The low cost of sensors, advancements in data storage and distributed computing has made it possible for brands to extend current customer experiences through smart phones. The data resulting from these interactions can be easily collected and analysed to create constant feedback for improving key customer facing processes. Kuliza has a proprietary four tier framework to enable any customer facing experience via a mobile phone. This framework can leverage functionality of existing solutions via restful APIs and then extend them to various new interactive interfaces like smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, etc. The move to mobile engagement architecture starts with creation of engaging designs and it is followed by leveraging of expert development tools and frameworks to create apps that are usable, reliable and scalable. Finally, the audience for the app is targeted in real time, based on interests to drive app downloads and usage.
The success mantra for Kuliza is: alloying business, technology and user experience to form digital business experience design. The company validates the business requirement, fulfils it through the enabling technology and establishes commendable user experience to create valuable digital business experience design. Kuliza offers design that meets technology. Although there are separate experts for each field, it is difficult to find companies which work at the horizon. When it comes to scalability, although the industry witnesses brands investing millions into consumer facing apps, it can all go down the drain if the applications are unable to meet the demand of scalability. Owing to its vast experience in building for scale, Kuliza is one step ahead of its competitors. "We play the role of a reliable technology partner for brands. Brands require a partner that can understand marketing concerns, can quickly bring solutions to the market and has the engineering capability to work on complex technologies, interact with IT departments and also integrate with their systems. We offer all this and more." says Kaushal.
Team Kuliza sees a great potential in the market, considering the fact that there is a tremendous shift in consumer preferences. The company plans to target both Indian, as well as the US brands with its major focus on the CMOs' budgets for building consumer facing applications and experiences. The organization is looking to roll out a host of solutions to help brands create smart products and experiences. Kuliza's R&D team is working hard to come up with exciting consumer facing solutions. "Our expansion plans include opening accounts offices at multiple locations, building the right delivery engine to execute projects and creating an amazing company culture to attract the best people." signs off Kaushal.


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A Hand Up with a Down Payment
on	 June 1, 2021 ABA Banking Journal, Community Banking, Mortgage
By Sam Kunjukunju
James Truslow Adams, who coined the term "American dream" in 1931, defined the concept as a "better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank." Today, the notion is now intricately tied to homeownership as a means of building wealth. Yet, as we celebrate American Housing Month this June, we must recognize that for many Americans, attaining homeownership—and by extension, the American dream—seems all but impossible.
Purchasing a home usually requires a down payment. Prospective buyers must usually provide an initial upfront payment of 20 percent of their home's purchase price if they want to avoid paying for private mortgage insurance. With median home sale prices up to almost $350,000 according to St. Louis Federal Reserve data, 20 percent would equal nearly 1.4 times the median salary for a full-time American worker. With the median net worth among renters at about $6,300—an amount 40 times less than what homeowners possess, according to the 2020 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances Report—saving for a down payment is no small feat.
Additionally, there are racial and ethnic disparities that further compound the problem. According to the Federal Reserve, "the typical White family has eight times the wealth of the typical Black family and five times the wealth of the typical Hispanic family." Therefore, it's no surprise that the National Association of Realtors' recent analysis indicates that the homeownership rate among Black families is nearly 30 percent lower than white families—a gap that the Urban Institute characterizes as wider than in the 1960s.
Recognizing the need to address homeownership disparities, banks have stepped up to help. Based in Rockville, Maryland, Capital Bank hired a community lending manager and established a branch in an underbanked neighborhood within the nation's capital. Nearly every loan in the branch goes to first-time and low-to-moderate-income home buyers. In providing the loans, the bank prepares borrowers, most of whom are from racial minorities, to apply to down payment assistance programs to receive matching funds, interest-free loans or closing cost assistance.
Additionally, the bank schedules borrowers for first-time home buyer classes. Through its work, Capital Bank aims to address the wealth imbalance in Washington, D.C., where the net worth ratio between whites and Blacks is 81 to 1, according to the Urban Institute. "We see homeownership as a major factor in family stability," says Lola Pol, the bank's CLM. "It is our goal and our mission to help as many people as possible achieve this stability."
Austin Bank, based in Jacksonville, Texas, takes a related but different approach. The bank created AB Community Investment Company, a subsidiary established to assist LMI and credit-constrained people purchase their first homes. Through ABCIC, buyers may receive up to 100 percent financing for home purchases with reduced closing costs. Loan officers make use of alternative credit data, relying on letters from landlords or utility companies to build credit files. The applicant's debt-to-income ratio must not exceed 43 percent, and purchasers pay a minimum of $500 towards closing costs or a down payment. Applicants also receive homeowner counseling sessions. Over the past 17 years, ABCIC has funded 258 loans in excess of $16 million. The "subsidiary is an avenue to proudly assist deserving East Texas families with homeownership and to help them navigate the mortgage process," says Russ Gideon, Austin Bank's president and CEO.
Through such assistance programs, more banks can help more people afford safe and stable homes. Doing so not only enables individuals to access the American Dream, but also cultivates thriving neighborhoods, bridging gaps in communities—which in turn strengthens the economy.
Sam Kunjukunju is senior director of banker community engagement at ABA.
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Q: my contact not add in addressbook in ios 7 I am a beginner in iOS development; this code is working in iOS 6 but does not work in iOS 7 ...
My code is below, I want to add contacts into my address book. I am developing an app where I have gone through many links, and I have following code, but now I am stuck...
I have imported:
#import <AddressBook/AddressBook.h>
#import <AddressBookUI/AddressBookUI.h>

ViewController.m file
ABAddressBookRef ab = ABAddressBookCreate();
    // To add a new ab entry with telephone number
    ABRecordRef newPerson = ABPersonCreate();

    ABRecordSetValue(newPerson, kABPersonFirstNameProperty, (__bridge CFStringRef) nameFirststr, nil);

    ABRecordSetValue(newPerson, kABPersonLastNameProperty, (__bridge CFStringRef)@"Jones", nil);

    //phone
    ABMutableMultiValueRef phoneNumberMultiValue =  ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiStringPropertyType);
    ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(phoneNumberMultiValue ,(__bridge CFStringRef)myphone,kABPersonPhoneMobileLabel, NULL);
    ABRecordSetValue(newPerson, kABPersonPhoneProperty,  phoneNumberMultiValue, nil);

    // Adreess
    ABMutableMultiValueRef multiAddress = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiDictionaryPropertyType);
    NSMutableDictionary *addressDictionary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];

    if (Address)
    {
        if (Address)
            addressDictionary[(NSString *) kABPersonAddressStreetKey] = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@\n%@", Address, Address];
        else
            addressDictionary[(NSString *) kABPersonAddressStreetKey] = Address;

        //    if (true)
        //        addressDictionary[(NSString *)kABPersonAddressCityKey] = @"city";
        //    if (true)
        //        addressDictionary[(NSString *)kABPersonAddressStateKey] = @"city";
        //    if (true)
        //        addressDictionary[(NSString *)kABPersonAddressZIPKey] = @"city";
        //    if (true)
        //        addressDictionary[(NSString *)kABPersonAddressCountryKey] = @"city";
    }

    ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(multiAddress, (__bridge CFDictionaryRef) addressDictionary, kABWorkLabel, NULL);

    ABRecordSetValue(newPerson, kABPersonAddressProperty, multiAddress, nil);

    // email

    if (emailstr)
    {
        ABMutableMultiValueRef emailMultiValue = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiStringPropertyType);
        ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(emailMultiValue, (__bridge CFStringRef) emailstr, kABWorkLabel, NULL);

        ABRecordSetValue(newPerson, kABPersonEmailProperty, emailMultiValue, nil);
    }
    if (Organization)
    {
        ABRecordSetValue(newPerson, kABPersonOrganizationProperty, (__bridge CFStringRef)Organization, nil);

    }
    if (title)
    {
        ABRecordSetValue(newPerson, kABPersonJobTitleProperty, (__bridge CFStringRef)title, nil);

    }
    if (notes)
    {
        ABRecordSetValue(newPerson, kABPersonNoteProperty, (__bridge CFStringRef)notes, nil);
    }

    if (webUrl)
    {

        ABMutableMultiValueRef urlMultiValue = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiStringPropertyType);
        ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(urlMultiValue, (__bridge CFStringRef) webUrl, kABPersonHomePageLabel, NULL);
        ABRecordSetValue(newPerson, kABPersonURLProperty, urlMultiValue, nil);
    }

    ABAddressBookAddRecord(ab, newPerson, nil);
    ABAddressBookSave(ab,NULL);
    if (ABAddressBookSave(ab, nil)) {
        NSLog(@"\nPerson Saved successfuly");
        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:nil message:@"Your contact sucessfully Add" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:@"Ok", nil];
        [alert show];
    } else {
        NSLog(@"\n Error Saving person to AddressBook");
        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:nil message:@"Error...!!!" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:@"Ok", nil];
        [alert show];
    }

A: check if addressbook is allowed
    ABAddressBookRef addressBookRef = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, NULL);

if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined) {
    ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion(addressBookRef, ^(bool granted, CFErrorRef error) {
        // First time access has been granted, add the contact
        [self addContact];
    });
}
else if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusAuthorized) {
    // The user has previously given access, add the contact
    [self addContact];
}
else
{
    UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Access Denied" message:@"Please give access to AddressBook via settings." delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
    [alert show];
    // The user has previously denied access
    // Send an alert telling user to change privacy setting in settings app
}

also replace first line
    CFErrorRef * error = NULL;
    ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, error);

A: try this code...
ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *peoplePicker=[[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init];
    ABAddressBookRef addressBook = [peoplePicker addressBook];

    // create person record

    ABRecordRef person = ABPersonCreate();
    // set name and other string values

    UIImage *personImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"cinema.png"];
    NSData *dataRef = UIImagePNGRepresentation(personImage);

    NSString *firstName=@"Raj";
    NSString *lastName=@"Patel";

    NSString *organization=@"Ilesh  Pvt Ltd.";
    NSString *jobTitle=@"iPhone App Developer";
    NSString *departMent=@"Mobile Division";
    NSString *webURL=@"http://www.google.com";
    NSString *personEmail=@"goel.anjan@gmail.com";
    NSString *phoneNo=@"913654985 or 76876879 or 845676764";
    NSString *personNote=@"I am just a kid";

    NSString *addressOne=@"Ahmedabad";
    NSString *addressTwo=@"Ahmedabad";

    NSString *cityName=@"Ahmedabad";
    NSString *stateName=@"Gujarat";
    NSString *pinCode=@"38008";
    NSString *country=@"India";

    CFErrorRef cfError=nil;

    ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonOrganizationProperty, (__bridge CFStringRef)organization, NULL);

    if (firstName) {
        ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty, (__bridge CFTypeRef)(firstName) , nil);
    }

    if (lastName) {
        ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonLastNameProperty, (__bridge CFTypeRef)(lastName) , nil);
    }

    if (jobTitle) {
        ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonJobTitleProperty,(__bridge CFTypeRef)(jobTitle), nil);
    }

    if (departMent) {
        ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonDepartmentProperty,(__bridge CFTypeRef)(departMent), nil);
    }

    if (personNote) {
        ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonNoteProperty, (__bridge CFTypeRef)(personNote), nil);
    }

    if (dataRef) {
        ABPersonSetImageData(person, (__bridge CFDataRef)dataRef,&cfError);
    }

    if (webURL)
    {
        ABMutableMultiValueRef urlMultiValue = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiStringPropertyType);
        ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(urlMultiValue, (__bridge CFStringRef) webURL, kABPersonHomePageLabel, NULL);
        ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonURLProperty, urlMultiValue, nil);
        CFRelease(urlMultiValue);
    }

    if (personEmail)
    {
        ABMutableMultiValueRef emailMultiValue = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiStringPropertyType);
        ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(emailMultiValue, (__bridge CFStringRef) personEmail, kABWorkLabel, NULL);
        ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonEmailProperty, emailMultiValue, nil);
        CFRelease(emailMultiValue);
    }

    if (phoneNo)
    {
        ABMutableMultiValueRef phoneNumberMultiValue = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiStringPropertyType);
        NSArray *venuePhoneNumbers = [phoneNo componentsSeparatedByString:@" or "];
        for (NSString *venuePhoneNumberString in venuePhoneNumbers)
            ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(phoneNumberMultiValue, (__bridge CFStringRef) venuePhoneNumberString, kABPersonPhoneMainLabel, NULL);
        ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty, phoneNumberMultiValue, nil);
        CFRelease(phoneNumberMultiValue);
    }

    // add address

    ABMutableMultiValueRef multiAddress = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiDictionaryPropertyType);
    NSMutableDictionary *addressDictionary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];

    if (addressOne)
    {
        if (addressTwo)
            addressDictionary[(NSString *) kABPersonAddressStreetKey] = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@\n%@", addressOne, addressTwo];
        else
            addressDictionary[(NSString *) kABPersonAddressStreetKey] = addressOne;
    }

    if (cityName)
        addressDictionary[(NSString *)kABPersonAddressCityKey] = cityName;
    if (stateName)
        addressDictionary[(NSString *)kABPersonAddressStateKey] = stateName;
    if (pinCode)
        addressDictionary[(NSString *)kABPersonAddressZIPKey] = pinCode;
    if (country)
        addressDictionary[(NSString *)kABPersonAddressCountryKey] = country;

    ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(multiAddress, (__bridge CFDictionaryRef) addressDictionary, kABWorkLabel, NULL);
    ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonAddressProperty, multiAddress, NULL);
    CFRelease(multiAddress);

    //Add person Object to addressbook Object.
    ABAddressBookAddRecord(addressBook, person, &cfError);

    if (ABAddressBookSave(addressBook, nil)) {
        NSLog(@"\nPerson Saved successfuly");
    } else {
        NSLog(@"\n Error Saving person to AddressBook");
    }

A: modified code:
CFErrorRef * error = NULL;
    ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, error);
if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined) {
    ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion(addressBookRef, ^(bool granted, CFErrorRef error) {
        // First time access has been granted, add the contact
        [self addContact];
    });
}
else if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusAuthorized) {
    // The user has previously given access, add the contact
    [self addContact];
}

A:  ABAddressBookRef addressBookRef = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, NULL);

if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined) {
    ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion(addressBookRef, ^(bool granted, CFErrorRef error) {
        // First time access has been granted, add the contact
        [self addContact];
    });
}
else if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusAuthorized) {
    // The user has previously given access, add the contact
    [self addContact];
}
else
{
    UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Access Denied" message:@"Please give access to AddressBook via settings." delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
    [alert show];
    // The user has previously denied access
    // Send an alert telling user to change privacy setting in settings app
}

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