Having a feeder shop to meet the demands of the ever expanding reptile trade is not a cakewalk nor is it for those who like a lot of sleep. When we prepare to order our inventory, there is no one place to get: waxworms, hornworms, silkworms, calci-worms, phoenix worms, crickets in all sizes, or even live mice in all sizes as well as frozen ones. Just about every food item comes from a place that specializes in that food item alone. That means lots of freight pick-ups.
In Alaska, where I live, it is even harder as some places won't ship except to the lower 48 (like we aren't really American). LOL. Our options are limited to USPS, UPS, FedEx, and air freight. If you want to make sure your feeders are all that they can be you will arrange for them to be held at the incoming facility, pray the shipper put your number on the box and pray even harder the workers will understand that they are alive and we want them to stay that way and that they should call us first after putting them somewhere safe.
We have found that if you let them deliver instead of picking them up they go through more hands, an unheated truck ride and get to you maybe on a timely basis. I always opt for picking them up as they go through fewer hands and transfers and are consequently not stressed, hurt, cold, or even dead.
Except for the frozen rodents, everything should be left in the box for a bit to warm up. I like to put the boxes in larger totes w/no tops so any hitchhikers and escapees can be easily found. After opening the boxes EVERYTHING in the box needs to be thrown out once the bugs are removed and safely transferred to their new home with fresh food and water gel. If you don't throw out the filthy travel boxes you run the real risk of having your store infested with some bug you probably didn't want. The ones you want you paid for so you don't want them running loose either. Do NOT reuse their food items or the egg crates since after being crammed with crickets they are full of sheds, feces, eggs from them and who knows what else.
Crickets, one of our most common feeders, are kept in large (bought just for them), clear plastic totes. As they are put away, a piece of tape with the date and the size is put on the rim of the tote and we try to keep them in order from small to large as the totes go around the room. Once they are in and no debris is raining down to the floor of the tote it is time to put (I use red peanut butter jar lids) a lid of fresh food and fresh water gels. I like using filtered water but the filter needs to be plumbed in since if you use pitchers that is one more thing to keep clean and believe me you get ring around the rim like ring around the toilet. Since we capture crickets all day long we feel more debris falls into and on the water gel. We change it twice a day so they can have clean water at night once we are closed. To catch them we have an empty tote that we use to gently pick up an egg crate from the right size and put it into the empty "catch-them" tote.
There are many ways to count crickets. One by one is by far the slowest. Having a tube with marks on the side where you have precounted how many fit to that mark is the best. Then they are put into a plastic bag with some clean paper towel or clean egg crate; the bag has its sides put together catching air and twisted tight and then rubberbanded. If you are not the cashier you write in marker the number of crickets in the bag.
After you have caught what you need you must remember to gently put the crickets back into their tote as the catching tote has no food or water gel. If you keep them CLEAN and well FED and WATERED you are able to rotate them to the next size up can as you get ready to clean the cans for the next shipment. If there was a good run on crickets and all sizes needed reordering because only a few of each size are left some feed shops will put all the left-over ones into a sale bin. Then the cricket bins are cleaned and readied for the new ones.
Never mix old shipments with new ones. I have run pet stores and the rule is always new fish go into new tanks, new birds go into clean empty cages, etc…you don't want to chance cross-contaminating your healthy ones with the new ones that haven't been evaluated, fed, and watered yet. If they come in sick you will have sickened all of the ones you so carefully cared for.
I like to use a good commercially prepared cricket chow that has been formulated just for crickets though I will admit I add powdered milk for calcium to their diet.
I will close with the admonishment to use your eyes (checking for cleanliness) , ears (for loose ones as that is a sign of a sloppy store), and mouth to just say no to badly maintained shops. If the floors and counters are not clean it's a sign you need to run and run fast. Your nose will tell you a lot about store also. There is no excuse for trails of rodent feces or the smell of it or of death. If an animal doesn't look healthy, i.e. clean clear eyes, nose, vent, ears, no ticks, good muscle tone and the salesperson is knowledgeable and friendly, willing to answer questions you have found a good place. Don't settle for substandard; your beloved pet deserves better.
I hope you like the pictures of crickets in their bins safe and sound getting gut-loaded for your loved one.
For my next article, I will write about how a shop gets its hornworms and how they should be cared for and what to look for before you buy.
Sharon D. Webb started in the pet industry at age 18 (she is now 60+) when she was hired to close the first pet store in Alaska. She turned sales around and bought the shop and turned it into the largest Pet Store in Alaska. the Anchorage Pet Palace. She has owned 3 different Pet stores, each with a grooming parlor and an isolation room for those needing TLC. She was the first person in the state to have Burmese pythons mate and lay eggs. She breeds most of her own live feeders and is in the process of opening Alaska's first reptile spa; which will include large, long tanks with water current for people to rent for their snakes, iquanas, and other water lovers to swim and get exercise. For 4 years she had a talk radio show called: Pet Talk; which was very popular. She has been a fixture in the pet industry in Alaska for over 40 years. She is proud to have been bitten and pooped on by some of the coolest critters in the world. She believes that: Pets are People Too!!! She hopes that the breeders of today will start keeping pedigrees and birthdates on the babies they sell.
In a recent blog on November 5, 2013 a writer by the name of Sharon Webb submitted an article on feeder shops in Alaska. This article contained a picture that did not belong to her. Sharon Webb was a volunteer for Dianna Smith at The Alaska Cricket Ranch and took a picture of the Cricket Room at Dianna's business. Sharon Webb's business The Anchorage Pet Palace was shut down many years ago and she has not been in the Pet Industry since age eighteen as stated by your writer. The Alaska Cricket Ranch would be happy to work with Gecko Times but please publish a comment that the picture was compliments of The Alaska Cricket Ranch. Please, contact Dianna Smith at (907)240-7111 or by email to clear up issues of copy write materials. The information supplied to Gecko Times was information, policies and procedures that are in place at the Alaska Cricket Ranch. Sharon Webb volunteered, learned how I run my feeder shop and sent all my practices into Gecko Times to be published. Please, investigate for your self to find the truth. Please go to dianna@alaskacricketranch.com to see the real story about feeder shops in Alaska. You will have an option to watch a news story about the Alaska Cricket Ranch and Dianna Smith. It is the only feeder shop in Alaska.
1. Regardless of the content of the photo, it was taken by Sharon Webb and does belong to her. However, Gecko Time hereby states that the photo of the totes in the article above was taken at the Alaska Cricket Ranch. There is no copyright issue since the photos were taken by Sharon Webb.
2. Sharon describes policies and procedures she uses to care for crickets. At no time does she state that she has invented these procedures. Gecko Time does not feel there is any need to make any changes to the article as published.


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Norma Talmadge in 'Within the Law' on Sunday, July 24 at Town Hall Theatre, Wilton, N.H.
A lobby card for Norma Talmadge in 'Within the Law' (1923).
I'm not sure what kind of attendance we'll get due to today's excessive heat, but I have high hopes for 'Within the Law' (1923), a Norma Talmadge drama that I'm accompanying this afternoon.
Showtime is 2 p.m. at the Town Hall Theatre in Wilton, N.H. Lots more details in the press release below.
Like all titles in this summer's "Women of the Silent Screen" series, it's a film I've never accompanied before.
But 'Within the Law' turns out to be what I would describe as a pre-feminist "revenge-against-the-paternity" drama, and darned interesting because of that.
I also read in the new Curtis biography of Buster Keaton that originally producer Joe Schenck (Norma's then-husband) planned to use English actress Margaret Leahy in 'Within the Law' after she won a publicity contest in Great Britain.
But then director Frank Lloyd (who would go on to direct Charles Laughton in 1935's 'Mutiny on the Bounty') discovered the unfortunate fact that Leahy simply could not act.
Schenck took Leahy off the picture and instead gave him to his brother-in-law, comedian Buster Keaton, then planning 'Three Ages' (1923), his first foray into features.
Buster, who was married to Norma's sister Natalie, was told to use Leahy, and he did.
Although 'Three Ages' wasn't nearly as demanding as the Talmadge drama, Keaton found it nearly impossible to get a usable performance out of her.
In addition, 'Within the Law' contains a juicy part for Ward Crane (who plays 'English Eddie,' a police stool pigeon), familiar to Keaton fans as the villain in 'Sherlock Jr.,' made the next year.
It's remarkable the discover the close links between such different films and filmmakers. The big factor, of course, is Joe Schenck, who seems to have moved performers and technicians around his various productions like pieces on a chess board.
Hope to see you in Wilton this afternoon. I'm sure the big old window-unit air conditioners are already running...
Norma Talmage (center) is 'Within the Law'...for now.
MONDAY, JULY 18, 2022 / FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norma Talmadge stars in 'Within the Law' (1923) on Sunday, July 24 in Wilton, N.H.
Screening of vintage drama is latest in Town Hall Theatre's series of silent films presented with live music
WILTON, N.H.—An intense drama starring one of the most popular actresses of the era is next up the Town Hall Theatre's summer-long salute to female stars of the silent screen.
'Within the Law' (1923) starring Norma Talmadge will be screened with live music on Sunday, July 24 at 2 p.m. at the Town Hall Theatre, 40 Main St., Wilton, N.H.
Admission is free; a donation of $10 per person is suggested to help defray expenses.
In 'Within the Law,' Talmadge plays Mary Turner, a shopgirl working for slave wages who winds up in prison for a theft she did not commit.
Mary is bitter over her ruined life and swears vengeance on her former employer, Edward Gilder (Joseph Kilgour).
When Mary is released from prison and cannot find work, she teams up with Aggie Lynch (Eileen Percy) to extort money out of elderly men.
The scheme takes an unexpected turn, prompting dire consequences.
'Within the Law' was partially filmed on location in New York City, providing glimpses of the Big Apple during the Roaring '20s.
Throughout the 1920s, the most famous sisters in the entertainment world were the Brooklyn-raised Talmadges: Norma, Natalie and Constance.
Norma (at left), the eldest, was a dramatic actress of great talent and restraint. She was loved by a public that identified with the brave, tragic heroine she often played of melodramas and tragedies.
Appearing in movies with high production values and helmed by some of Hollywood's finest directors, Norma developed into one of the great screen actresses of the period.
By 1920, she had eclipsed Mary Pickford as the top worldwide female box-office attraction.
The screening of 'Within the Law' is the latest in a Town Hall Theatre summer series featuring female stars of the silent screen, all with live music by accompanist Jeff Rapsis.
Here's the line-up of upcoming screenings:
• Sunday, Aug. 14 at 2 p.m.: Marion Davies in 'Beverly of Graustark.' Gender-bending 1926 comedy in which Davies stars as an American cousin of a European prince—and with whom she must switch places to keep the kingdom from unraveling. Newly released title!
• Sunday, Aug. 28 at 2 p.m.: Double feature with Gloria Swanson, Mae Marsh. Silent screen icon Gloria Swanson stars in 'Fine Manners' (1926), a comedy about a chorus girl trying to keep up with high society beau. In 'Daddies' (1924), Mae Marsh plays an unlikely orphan adopted by the head of the local Bachelor's Club. Hilarity ensues!
All titles in the series have never been shown as part of the Town Hall Theatre's long-running silent film programming.
"We specifically chose films that we haven't run before in Wilton, in part to explore the incredible range and surprising diversity of roles women played in Hollywood's silent era," said Jeff Rapsis, the Town Hall Theatre's silent film accompanist.
'Within the Law' (1923) starring Norma Talmadge will be shown with live music on Sunday, July 24 at 2 p.m. at the Town Hall Theatre, 40 Main St., Wilton, N.H.
For more info, visit www.wiltontownhalltheatre.com or call (603) 654-3456.
Posted by Jeff Rapsis at 12:09 PM
Labels: Buster Keaton, Jeff Rapsis, Joe Schenk, Norma Talmadge, silent film, silent film music, Town Hall Theatre, Within the Law
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Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicRock and Pop · 8 years ago
music homework (1950s rock bands)?
I've been trying to find all this info for my homework but it is very hard to find on google (i search something and nothing related comes up)
1. 3 1950s rock bands or groups (not sure if there's a difference)
2. the year the groups were formed
3. which members of the group played which instrument
4 the groups.4 hit songs
5. the members nationality
6. how many members in the groups
- why was music so important to film
- how many #1 hits did Elvis Presley produce in his life time
-why did the older generations of the 1950s did not like rock and roll
Norm Jones
1) 3 bands?
Bill Haley and the Comets
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
2. Year formed?
Bill Haley formed his band in 1949. They were originally called Bill Haley and the Saddlemen (played country western). They changed the name in 1952 From 1949 to 1952 they recorded under many names, including Johnny Clifton and his String Band and the Four Aces of Western Swing. In 1952 they changed to Bill Haley and the Comets
Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery started singing together in 1952. By 1955, they had formed Buddy Holly and the Crickets.
Harry Webb formed a skittle band in 1957 . Then he sang for the Dick Teague Skittle Group. He changed his name in 1958 to Cliff Richard when his back up band was called the Drifters. His back up band reformed (new members) and the name was changed to the Shadows about 1958.
3) Which members play which instrument?
The original members for Bill Haley were: Johnny Grande on piano, Billy Williamson on steel guitar, Al Thompson on bass and of course Bill Haley. By the time they changed to the Comets, the group included Bill Haley, Grande, Williamson and Marshall Lytle (now on bass).
Buddy Holly and the Crickets. By the time the Crickets were formed the group was: Buddy Holly on guitar, Niki Sullivan on guitar, Joe Maudlin on bass and Jerry Allison on drums.
Cliff Richard and the Shadows. Cliff Richard sang. The back up band had Hank Marvin on guitar, Bruce Welch on guitar Tony Meehan on drums and Jet Harris on bass.
4. 4 hit songs?
Bill Haley and the Comets. Rocket 88, Rock the Joint, Rock Around the Clock and Shake Rattle and Roll.
Buddy Holly and the Crickets. That'll Be the Day, Peggy Sue, Maybe Baby,and Its So Easy.
Cliff Richard and the Shadows: Apache was the break through number for the back up band on its own followed by Kon Tiki. For Cliff Richard, Livin' Lovin' Doll and High Class Baby were two of his early hits.
5 nationality?
All of the first 3 groups were American. Cliff Richard and the Shadows were English.
6. How many members.
You have the members in Question 3. The groups changed some members. One added a drummer because they did not originally have one.
Importance to film? To draw a young market. Rock appealed to teenagers so to draw teens to the movies, they used rock music in the films.
#1 Hits by Elvis. He had 18 No 1 hits in the US.
Older generations not like rock and roll? It was different from what they grew up listening to. Folks who grew up listening to swing music or pop (like Frank Sintra) would find rock and roll very different. Folks who grew up listening to Elvis found the Beatles and later acid rock very different. And so on. Each generation seemed to think the music of their youth was the best and later music was not as good.
The comments about sex being in rock music is not really accurate. The music of the 50s was quite tame. The 50s really was a pretty innocent era. Sexs, drugs and Rock N Roll did not come around until the late 60s.
David Sylvester
1. 3 1950s rock bands or groups (not sure if there's a difference) -> the difference is between Rock and Doo Wop. Doo Wop had a "group" focus, primarily on the singers. Rock placed an emphasis on bands moreso because the instrumentation + vocals were equally important. 3 Groups: Coasters, Del Vikings, Drifters
2. the year the groups were formed (see wiki)
3. which members of the group played which instrument (see wiki)
4 the groups.4 hit songs (wiki)
5. the members nationality (same)
6. how many members in the groups (same)
- why was music so important to film: it's just as important now as it it's ever been and it was important prior to fifties. This is basically asking what the role of music is in movies.
- how many #1 hits did Elvis Presley produce in his life time (wiki)
-why did the older generations of the 1950s did not like rock and roll: more complicated. Check the usual resources. First, every previous generation dislikes the current generation's music tastes. Second, rock had a racial element. Third, it was easy to play (in contrast to what had always been known as music). Fourth, many simply found the sound of it to be grating. Fifth, the lyrics suggested changes in mores that elder generations were worried about.
Sad Eyed Lady Of New Zealand
The 1950's music scene was more orientated towards solo artists, here's a few to pick out and google, I'm not doing all your homework for you!?
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Music and Film were so linked because TV was still a relatively new medium and older generations didn't like Rock and Roll because the 50's generation pretty much invented the teenager. Before that you left school, got a job and basically grew up and left your childhood behind, there was no transitional period between childhood and adulthood. Parents also saw the music as subversive and a bad influence with subjects like sex, that had never been so blatantly mentioned in popular song.
I'll have to get back to you on that. At least I'll give info that I know:
3 1950s rock'n roll singers: Elvis Presley, Chuck Barry, Buddy Holly
Each of these guys played guitar.
Hit songs:
Elvis Presley-Jailhouse Rock, Hound Dog, Heartbreak Hotel
Chuck Barry-Johnny B Goode
Buddy Holly-Peggy Sue
Source(s): That's all I can think of. I hope it's good enough. Try looking on wiki to see what you can come up with.
Green Day vs Queen?
What is the best Beatles song? I think it is 'While my guitar gently weeps' or 'Help!'?
Why is Justin Bieber better than Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd combined?
looking for SPACE songs!!!?
What's your favorite genre?
What is the best David Bowie live CD or DVD from a 1974 to 2003 concert?
Who originally wrote the song Island in the Sun...was it pixies or weezer or someone else?
What are your thoughts on this interesting rock song?
Good tune amps for cheap money?
Singers/groups that are similar to Taylor Swift?


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Q: How can we keep our tasks accessible to view and report on while not having them count against the data storage limit? The org I am working with right now is using 210% of its allotted data storage. Most of the storage space is taken up by tasks (over 31M records). Is there a way to decrease the data usage while keeping those tasks accessible (without buying more storage)? Here are some of the options I have thought of, but I don't know enough to decide if any of them are viable:

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*since the org's data gets backed up daily via an Oracle database, maybe there's a way to have only the tasks for the last three months displayed on objects (so only those would be stored in Sf), and have a custom button/link that would allow to load more from the database on demand;

*perhaps there's a third-party tool that would allow for a similar functionality;

*maybe storing those Tasks with Heroku/Amazon Web Services and pulling in into Sf via code would be the best option.
The important part is that those tasks don't need to be merely exported and stored somewhere, but must have the ability to be pulled up quickly on demand.
I have been looking into External Objects/Lightning Connect, but those don't allow for reporting, and that's an important feature for us to have for those Tasks.
If anyone has any ideas/experiences to share, I would appreciate it greatly. Thank you!

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Q: How do Promoters Sign up for Online Pre-Registration?
A: Firstly, to make use of Online Pre-Registration, you must have a Full Listing. Since competitors will be entering Division Codes and/or Division Descriptions, they must have ready access to a Full Brochure to obtain this information. Without an online brochure, online registration simply doesn't work.
When entering your Full Listing Information or when Renewing an existing Full Listing, Check the "Online Registration w/Credit Card Payment" Option.
Once your credit card payment has been successfully processed, return to the Karate Tournament Central Home Page and click the "Update" button under the 'Promoters' heading.
Enter your Promoter ID and Password in the provided space and click the 'Submit Request' button. Once your ID and Password have been validated, you will recieve a Promoter Maintenance screen. Scroll to the bottom of this screen to the List of Events you have submitted. In the rightmost column of the event list is an 'UPDATE' link.
Click the word 'UPDATE' to the right of the event you enrolled in Online Pre-Registration.
You will recieve an update screen, similar to the New Event Entry Screen. Scroll to the bottom of this screen and Click the "Registration" button.
The next screen is your Registration Control Screen which allows you to establish your registration information and view data on competitors that have enrolled. Initially, you will need to complete the top portion of this screen with your regstration fees and control parameters.
Complete all applicable fields and Click the "Save Changes" button to save your new information.
a. The Event Name and Date are automatically completed for you.
b. The Registration Cutoff Date is the calendar date you want the system to STOP accepting online registration forms.
c. The Bottom Section of the form contains the credit card details and is used to process the competitors payment. For security reasons, this information is never saved on any system database.
e. Special Events 1 through 5 are provided for events and options that don't fit the previously described fees. Examples of these type items might include: Team Fighting, Video Taping Passes, and Coaches Passes. These fields are optional and may be left blank if not needed.
f. Check Name and at least one Check Address Line are Required. This information is used to write and mail your pre-registration checks. If the address is incorrect, your checks may be delayed or not reach you at all.
If you're hosting your own website, our technical staff will email you instructions on linking to the appropriate online registration forms. If we are building and hosting your brochure, we will add an "Online Pre-Registration" button at the bottom of your brochure.
Q: How do Competitors Pre-Register Online?
Competitors will receive a 3 part online pre-registration form.
a. The Top Section of the form contains the competitors personal details: Name, Address, Belt Rank, School, Etc.
b. he Middle Section contains the Release Statement and the Division Registration Information. As a competitor enters divisions and selects other registration items, the system automatically calculates the Total Registration Fee based on the parameters set by the Promoter.
When the application form is complete the Competitor will click the "Submit Application" button at the bottom of the form.
Our Server will submit the competitor's credit card information for bank processing and wait for the banks completion response.
If the credit card is rejected, the competitor will be returned to the completed application forms and will be given the opportunity to enter another credit card number. They may also write down thier application reference number, which is displayed on the screen, and return to thier application at a later time to enter new payment details.
When a competitors payment has been successfully processed, they will receive a screen that allows them to print a paper copy of thier application. On this screen, they are given instructions to sign the application and bring it with them to the event. Printed applications are marked as PAID and contain a credit card transaction reference number.
Paid competitors are also sent an email with a link to the printable application, allowing them to re-print the application again should the original copy be lost or destroyed.
When and unpaid competitor returns to the registration form, he or she will find a link at the top of the blank form that will allow them to retrieve the previously entered information. Please Note that Tsoft Does Not Store any credit card information so new credit card details must be entered each time a competitor returns to his or her application.
Once the Cutoff date that you specified has passed, competitors will no longer be granted access to the registration form. Instead, they will receive a message that pre-registration was closed on the cutoff date.
Q: How do you receive your Pre-Registration funds?
A: Once each week, Tsoft extracts all newly paid applications, deducts the bank's credit card processing fee (3.5%) and forwards the remaining amount to you in a single check, mailed to the address you specified in the Online Pre-Registration Setup Screen.
The bottom portion of the screen contains a list of all competitor registration forms. Paid registrations will contain a "Y" in the PAID column.
In the rightmost column of this list you will see the word "VIEW". Clicking this link will display a printable copy of the selected pre-registration form. While printing these forms is optional for the promoter, we do recommend that a copy of each paid application be printed to protect against competitors who lost or forgot thier copy of the application.
A link is available at the bottom of the screen to display a printable checklist of the competitor applications.
The day of the event, the competitor will report to the registration desk and present his signed online application, they will then receive thier ring cards or wristbands and be checked off the printed list.


Markets regulator Sebi Tuesday imposed a fine of Rs 6.7 lakh on Premium Industries for failing to obtain authentication with its online complaint redressal system along with redressing investor grievances within the stipulated time.
In an order, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said the Premium Industries is a listed company, but has neither obtained SCORES authentication within the deadline of September 14, 2012, nor has it done so subsequently.
"Six grievances of investors are pending for redressal for period of more than 3.4 years. Such persistent non-compliance does not inspire confidence of investors in the market, whose protection is Sebi's prime mandate," the regulator said.
Sebi imposed a total fine of Rs 6.7 lakh on the firm.
Launched in 2011, SCORES helps investors view, track and follow up the action taken on their grievances.


It's time to explain xcache.ini itself, finally, no matter if you do or don't have all the basics in mind.
Should be md5($your_password), or empty to disable administration.
Turn on to enable testing functionals. It will be explained where the option is needed.
Directory to save core dump on crash (SIGSEGV SIGABRT). Leave it empty to disable or something like "/tmp/phpcore/" to enable. Make sure it's writable by php (without checking open_basedir).
for *nix, xcache.mmap_path is a file path, not directory. for win32, xcache.mmap_path is anonymous map name, not a file path. Use something like "/tmp/xcache" if you want to turn on ReadonlyProtection, 2 group of php won't share the same /tmp/xcache.
If ReadonlyProtection is turned on, it will be a bit slower, but much safer. This option isn't available for /dev/zero.
Just a "slots" hint for hash, you can always store count(items) > slots. It can be (count(items) * n) where n is 0.2 to 1, or leave it as is. More slots means faster searching the cache but take more memory.
Ttl (Time To Live) value for the php entry (cached opcodes of a file), 0=forever.
Enable or disable opcode cacher. Not available if xcache.size is 0.
Do stat() to check if file updated.
Specify how many chunks to split the cache. Each chunk will use xcache.var_size/xcache.var_count amount of memory. See SplittedCache for details.
Same as above, but for variable data.
Default ttl for variables api, xcache_(get|set|inc|dec) etc.
A longer ttl when using variables api is limited to below max ttl.
Garbage collection interval for variables api.


But I'm not interested in simplistic Conceptualist copy and paste. The function of art shifts to an aggregation and recontextualization of information: how 'ideal' and 'real' are represented, implemented, and manipulated across various social contexts. Artist John Baldessari asks: "Where does art reside? Is it physically there in that painting? Is it in my head? Could it be a trace memory? Could it be a photo? What is necessary for it? Can you just talk about it?" For me, there's little difference between creating a cultural product, writing 'about' someone else's cultural product, or interviewing artists about cultural products they made. Warhol thought of his body of work as equally visual and vocal: Andy is not Andy without his interviews. Conversation as poem. The conversation in the media around a poem as poem.
Example: a poem by Kristen Stewart, a Hollywood actress, cannot be divorced from the reactions and retaliations it spawned. The content of Stewart's poem, her word choice or where she broke the line fades to the background as voices across the Internet use the poem as an opportunity to judge and humiliate her. I'm concerned with how capital P Poetry is represented in the mainstream, how people experience poetry outside the context of the small press world, and reclaiming such experiences as Poetry. Can a commercial that features Whitman be labelled as a poem? Can my writing about how Whitman is represented in an iPad commercial be a poem? Or, how does listening to a poem while observing one's surroundings influence one's experience of the poem? In the 'I listen' series, I try to acknowledge that poems do not create a world, but exist within one.
And I think of this book as lyric poetry, but my 'lyric I' must account for itself and its contexts. It must interview and interrogate itself. Even knowing what the lyric I is requires a privileged position. This must be acknowledged, and leads to a reckoning with former selves, former heroes. The 'multitudes' I contain are not my fellow citizens, but all the cultural products I've consumed in thirty years and how those products and individuals have changed me. I'm approaching cultural products and their contexts from a subjective, lyric, populist lens, trying to articulate each subject's intention, because for me it's in the absurdity of intention where the humor, or the poetry, or the 'real,' or 'profound experience of art' resides.


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Well, looks like you are in Florida, which gets a lot of sun. Unfortunately, sun and plastic don't mix well. So if your lights are out in the direct sun, they are going to discolor faster than if they were not. UV rays eat plastic!
Yes, but in full case quantities only, with the understanding that there are no warranty strands if something goes wrong. You would be better off using 50 count strands instead.
Depends a little on the string, but generally 25-35% off regular price. For example, 100 count Red M5 is on sale for $12.95 and regular price is $17.99, so that one is about 28% off.
hotrod1965 replied to vette-kid's topic in Lights, Lights, Lights!
The retros are the more expensive way to go. But, a C9 SMD will be significantly brighter than the ecosmart bulbs, so you do get what you pay for in this case.
I would buy the 12" spaced spool, then buy the bulb C9 sockets. Snap them on to give you 6" spacing. No need to buy a second spool. https://www.holiday-light-express.com/C9_stringers.php Pre sale is going now, so under $1 a bulb if you can buy in 25 packs. Gets under $0.80 if you buy in 500 packs.
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Yes, they are similar if not the same thing.
I dont stock them. But I can get them, you would just have to order in full case qualities. And I'd need to know ASAP. They are the same manufacturer than all our other bulbs, so the quality is real good. I'd say they look close to incandescent. Keep in mind, LED will never look the same, as it is a totally different light source.
1. Yes, we sell in-line SPT plugs so you can put a female plug in the middle of a section. https://www.holiday-light-express.com/SPT-1_Plugs.php 2. We have our pre-sale going on now, so it's the best time order lights.


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Home / General News / Africa / Technology making traditional media very vulnerable – Pratt
Technology making traditional media very vulnerable – Pratt
By Chambwa Moonga on October 15, 2018
KWESI Pratt Jr, a seasoned Ghanaian journalist, has advised conventional media organisations to pay extra attention to developing online platforms as the time for ordinary journalism seems to be up.
Pratt, the editor-in-chief of the Insight newspaper and proprietor of Pan African TV, all in Accra, Ghana, said technology was making traditional media "very vulnerable".
He explained that as society developed, new forms of communication would also emerge and that one of the new forms of communication which had emerged now was social media.
"There is no alternative for traditional media; we all have to go online as well now. The traditional media's time is up [because] new technological inventions are making them very weak. So, we need to diversify and pay attention to social media and other forms of media which will soon develop," Pratt advised in an interview.
On media freedom, Pratt said while journalists needed guaranteed freedom to operate, no country could be said to be entirely free in terms of media freedom "because freedom itself is a changing reality".
"So, every day we are confronted with new realities and so on. So, the duty of all journalists and indeed of all people is to constantly breach the boundaries of free expression. We will never get to a stage where we will say we've reached the ultimate and therefore, let's pack our weapons, let's stop advocating for freedom," Pratt noted.
On what journalists in newsrooms across Africa should do to champion political change in their respective countries, the media guru pointed out that it was important to recognise that there were all kinds of journalists in the world today.
"There are fascist journalists, there are journalists who tend to believe in socialism, and there are religious fundamentalists who are also journalists. All these journalists are pursuing their interests. For journalists who believe that there is a need for fundamental change in our societies, change which should involve a shift in the production relations,…. You cannot change anything if you don't know it," Pratt said.
"So, it's important for all of us to know our society by interacting with the people and reading our history. It's important for us also to realise that knowledge by itself does not change society if it is not acted upon. Therefore, it is important when you have acquired the knowledge to act upon it by giving a voice to the voiceless. We have to do the things that we believe in and avoid opportunism."
He said the dilemma of Africa was simply that "we happen to be the richest continent in the world and yet we are ridden with poverty, unemployment, high levels of illiteracy and so on."
Asked what could be done to neutralise the now entrenched inter-dependence in some African countries between politicians and religion, Pratt explained that: "My understanding of politics is that it is a science which aims at creating resources and ensuring that these resources are equitably distributed. Of course, other people have different ideas of what politics is. But it's important for us to realise that in all societies there are charlatans who take advantage of the illiteracy, ignorance in society."
"Our charge is to bring to life the activities of these charlatans and how these charlatans impact negatively on the lives of our people. It's important for us to understand also that religion is a very divisive phenomenon – exceedingly divisive phenomenon! If it's not tackled properly, it can blow up in our faces and so on," he explained.
Pratt said the duty of journalists was not to impose their reality on other people but to learn the reality of people.
"Our duty as progressive journalists is to shine the light where it matters most," said Pratt.
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"""This tests the performance of the AFF4 subsystem."""

from grr.lib import aff4
from grr.lib import data_store
from grr.lib import flags
from grr.lib import test_lib
from grr.lib.aff4_objects import aff4_grr
from grr.lib.rdfvalues import client as rdf_client

class AFF4Benchmark(test_lib.AverageMicroBenchmarks):
  """Test performance of the AFF4 subsystem."""
  labels = ["large"]

  REPEATS = 50

  def testAFF4Creation(self):
    """How fast can we create new AFF4 objects."""

    def CreateAFF4Object(object_type="AFF4Object", urn="aff4:/test"):
      fd = aff4.FACTORY.Create(urn, object_type, token=self.token)
      fd.Close()

    for object_type in [aff4.AFF4Object, aff4.AFF4MemoryStream]:
      self.TimeIt(
          CreateAFF4Object,
          name="Create %s" % object_type,
          object_type=object_type)

    self.TimeIt(
        CreateAFF4Object,
        name="Create VFSGRRClient",
        object_type=aff4_grr.VFSGRRClient,
        urn="C.1234567812345678")

  def testAFF4CreateAndSet(self):
    """How long does it take to create and set properties."""

    client_info = rdf_client.ClientInformation(
        client_name="GRR", client_description="Description")

    def CreateAFF4Object():
      """Blind write a VFSGRRClient with 1000 client info attributes."""
      fd = aff4.FACTORY.Create(
          "C.1234567812345678", aff4_grr.VFSGRRClient, token=self.token)
      fd.Set(fd.Schema.HOSTNAME("Foobar"))
      for _ in range(1000):
        fd.AddAttribute(fd.Schema.CLIENT_INFO, client_info)

      fd.Close()

    # Time creation  into an empty data store.
    self.TimeIt(CreateAFF4Object, pre=data_store.DB.Clear)

    # Now we want to measure the time to read one of these object.
    data_store.DB.Clear()
    CreateAFF4Object()

    def ReadAFF4Object():
      fd = aff4.FACTORY.Open(
          "C.1234567812345678", token=self.token, age=aff4.ALL_TIMES)
      self.assertEqual(fd.Get(fd.Schema.HOSTNAME), "Foobar")

    self.TimeIt(ReadAFF4Object, name="Read attribute from AFF4Object")

    def ReadVersionedAFF4Attribute():
      fd = aff4.FACTORY.Open(
          "C.1234567812345678", token=self.token, age=aff4.ALL_TIMES)
      for x in fd.GetValuesForAttribute(fd.Schema.CLIENT_INFO):
        self.assertEqual(x.client_name, "GRR")

    self.TimeIt(
        ReadVersionedAFF4Attribute, name="Read heavily versioned Attributes")

    def ReadSomeVersionedAFF4Attribute():
      fd = aff4.FACTORY.Open(
          "C.1234567812345678", token=self.token, age=aff4.ALL_TIMES)

      # Only read the top 5 attributes.
      for i, x in enumerate(fd.GetValuesForAttribute(fd.Schema.CLIENT_INFO)):
        self.assertEqual(x.client_name, "GRR")
        if i > 50:
          break

    self.TimeIt(
        ReadSomeVersionedAFF4Attribute, name="Read few versioned Attributes")

    # Using Get() on a multi versioned object should only parse one value.
    def ReadAVersionedAFF4Attribute():
      fd = aff4.FACTORY.Open(
          "C.1234567812345678", token=self.token, age=aff4.ALL_TIMES)

      x = fd.Get(fd.Schema.CLIENT_INFO)
      self.assertEqual(x.client_name, "GRR")

    self.TimeIt(
        ReadAVersionedAFF4Attribute, name="Read one versioned Attributes")

def main(argv):
  # Run the full test suite
  test_lib.GrrTestProgram(argv=argv)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  flags.StartMain(main)

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Toronto's urban landscape runs along the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. Punctuated by the soaring CN Tower, the skyline is best viewed on a boat shuttling between the city and the Toronto Islands. Hidden within that skyline are some remarkable architectural highlights, from the quaint bay-and-gable homes in historic Cabbagetown to the modern Royal Bank Plaza building and its windows covered with a very thin coating of 24-carat gold leaf, from the preserved Victorian-era industrial architecture in the Distillery District (the largest such collection in North America) to the controversial (and fatuous) addition to the Royal Ontario Museum. These are my favorites.
Casa Loma, just a short subway ride from downtown Toronto, resembles a Scottish castle more than a Canadian house — a conglomeration of five-sided bay windows, stone turrets and towers, conical roofs, soaring battlements, and about a dozen chimneys. Part fortress, part castle, part home, the "House on the Hill" took Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, a prominent financier and industrialist, three years to build, from 1911 to 1914. He and his wheelchair-bound wife spent $3.5 million constructing, furnishing, and decorating their residence. Fewer than 10 years later, however, the house remained incomplete and the now-bankrupt Pellatts were forced to move out. The auction of everything they owned — including "the invalid's wheelchair" — raised less than 10 percent of what they had spent. During the next decade, Casa Loma alternated between a hotel, nightspot, and abandoned pile. In 1937, it was reopened as a tourist attraction, and remains so today, enabling visitors like me to enjoy what had been the most elegant home in the city and the largest private residence in Canada, complete with the first elevator in the country ("Otis 1") and more than 50 telephones, generating more calls per day than the rest of Toronto at the time. When I arrived, a symphony orchestra was rehearsing in the enormous great hall with its 60-foot-high timbered ceiling and organ pipes, providing an appropriate soothing soundtrack as I roamed around this whimsical fantasy house, searching for the secret passages between its 98 rooms. The grand ground-floor rooms, including the library, dining room, and Pellatt's study, are outfitted with polished oak, mahogany, and walnut, while the huge conservatory, filled with light pouring in through large windows and a stained-glass dome, features both Italian and Ontario marble, and steam pipes that kept the flower beds warm during the winter. Spacious bedroom suites on the second floor the size of full apartments were made for more than just sleeping — I could imagine spending days there without the slightest inconvenience or want. The best spot to take in all of its 64,700 square feet is outside on the five acres of well-maintained estate gardens, including terraces and fountains. Had Pellatt's land speculation turned out right — he bet that wealthy people would move to this area after he built his house, but World War I made that a losing wager — those neighbors would have had one remarkable site to gaze upon every day.
Since it opened in Queen's Park on April 4, 1893, after six years of construction, this striking provincial parliament building has been the meeting place of Ontario's legislature. Constructed of rose-tinted sandstone and granite in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the building features heavy stonework; rounded archways; domed towers; a porte-cochère; elaborate carvings of leaf patterns, grotesques, and the architect's initials; and lancet, rose, bull's eye, and dormer windows. Toward the top of the central block, an allegorical frieze measuring more than 65 feet long and about 20 feet high depicts figures and objects representing aspects of society and government. My accidentally private 30-minute tour of the Ontario Parliament Building — no one else had shown up on this particularly muggy summer day — began in the airy lobby. The guide led me up the grand slate staircase with mahogany railings and decorative ironwork to the Chamber Landing, lined with busts of key Ontario politicians. In the East Wing, light pours in from the colorful stained-glass laylight above. Cast iron columns support the ceiling and roof, the base of each column decorated with a dragon motif. The West Wing, redesigned after a fire in 1909, is dramatically different, with Italian marble balustrades and Corinthian columns and mosaic floor tiles. Along the way, I admired the original gasolier light fixtures, the oak floors and wainscoting, and the random Ontario-centric objects, like a block of nickel from Sudbury, impressed by the vocabulary of strength, purpose, and reliability employed in the building's architecture that truly reflect the ideals of government.
Like the Parliament Building, Toronto's Old City Hall is a Richardsonian Romanesque masterpiece. Completed in 1899 as the largest civic building in North America, the façade of massive red sandstone blocks with darker brown horizontal bands presents tremendous curb appeal. At 340 feet high, the clock tower was the tallest structure in Toronto, with faces that measure 20 feet in diameter and enhanced by stone gargoyles that have since been replaced by bronze replicas for safety reasons. Countless miniature human faces representing councilors of the time are carved into the sandstone in the arches and column heads. Urban legend holds that they're surrounded not by leaves but by the flames of hell — a deliberate dig by the architect, Edward James Lennox, who was brutally criticized by these politicians when the building started racking up cost overruns and construction delays. As punishment, they denied Lennox a plaque on the completed building acknowledging him as the architect. But Lennox got the last laugh: He had the stonemasons carve into the corbels beneath the upper-floor eaves around the entire building this sempiternal message: EJ LENNOX ARCHITECT AD 1898. The interior is fitted with marble columns, a grand staircase, mosaic inlaid tiles on the floor, and murals depicting Toronto's pioneers. A stained-glass window titled "The Union of Commerce and Industry" definitely grabs attention: Topped by the city's coat of arms, the window, at 16 feet wide by 23 feet high, is organized in three arches and features a dozen life-size figures amid scenes of Toronto's busy waterfront. When I exited the building, I took a seat at the reflecting pool, comparing and contrasting this extraordinary building with the New City Hall across the street — a cold, modern atrocity that looks like it belongs in, say, São Paulo. Clearly, there's no comparison.
Founded as the Upper Canada Academy in 1836, Victoria College emerged as an independent college in 1841 and remained so until 1884, when it merged with Albert University to form Victoria University, which, in turn, was absorbed into the University of Toronto as one of its colleges. Old Vic, the college's oldest building, was constructed in 1892 and bears striking similarities to the Old City Hall, on a less massive scale, with its use of sandstone and stronger brown accents in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The asymmetrical edifice features a rusticated stone face on the first story. A broad arch at the entrance, next to the base of the central tower, with a large stone daisy on either side, and a three-arched entrance at the base of the side tower both welcome students, faculty, and visitors in a grand manner. Both octagonal towers sport red-tile roofs. Lots of slender turrets protruding from the walls lend a baronial air to it. Going to class here must have been, and I'm sure still is, an inspiration.
The current Cathedral Church of St. James — the fourth building on the site — opened in 1853 after a devastating fire took out the third church, as well as much of Toronto's Old Town. It wasn't until the mid-1870s, however, that work was complete, work that included Canada's tallest church tower, at 305 feet high. The 10 carillon-style bells that were added still ring every 15 minutes, as well as for services and weddings, and the clock donated by the citizens of Toronto still runs. As I admired the white brick and Ohio sandstone exterior of this Gothic Revival church, the sound of music emanating from within caught my attention. I stepped inside and walked halfway down the 200-foot-long church to take a seat in a pew to listen to a practice session of a rather talented boys' choir. I noticed the memorials along the walls, some of which date back to parishioners who fought in the American Revolutionary War, as well as the stained-glass windows from Germany, England, Canada, and the United States. When the choir wrapped up for the day, I took a closer look at the German-made stained-glass window at the chancel called "The Works of Mercy" window, which illustrates, in six separate panels, those works: tending the sick, sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry, visiting the imprisoned, clothing the naked, and giving drink to the thirsty. The window was a direct reminder to the financially secure members of the church to be responsible for those who were less fortunate than they and of what was expected of them as good Christians.


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Q: How can we Get the Latest timestamp by comparing the timestamp dynamically in WSO2 How to get the latest timestamp by comparing the timeStamp received from soap dynamically with the latest timestamp by using Script mediator.
Input will be like 2018-04-26T05:59:38.226-07:00
<iterate expression="/Customer" id="" sequential="true">
                <target>
                    <sequence>
<property expression="CustomerID" name="CUS_ID_TO_UPDATE" scope="default" type="STRING"/>
<property expression="UpdateDate" name="LATEST_DATE" scope="default" type="STRING" />
</propertyGroup>
<script language="js"><![CDATA[
var log                = mc.getServiceLog();
var simpleDateFormat   = Packages.java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
var Customer_Id        = mc.getProperty('CUS_ID_TO_UPDATE');
var Updated_Date       = mc.getProperty('LATEST_DATE');
var format             = new simpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX");
var Time               = format.parse(Updated_Date);
var Latest_Updated_Date = "";
var Latest_Customer_Id  ="";
if (Time.getTime()>Latest_Updated_Date)
{
Latest_Updated_Date = Time;
Latest_Customer_Id = Customer_Id;
}
else
{
Latest_Updated_Date;
Latest_Customer_Id;
}
log.info(Latest_Updated_Date);
log.info(Latest_Customer_Id);

mc.setProperty('Date',Latest_Updated_Date);
mc.setProperty('ID',Latest_Customer_Id);]]></script>
<log>
<property expression="get-property('Date')" name="Date"/>
<property expression="get-property('ID')" name="ID"/>
</log>
                </sequence>
            </target>

A: Here is an example.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<api context="/time" name="Time" xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse">
    <resource methods="POST">
        <inSequence>
            <property expression="//time1/text()" name="time1" scope="default" type="STRING"/>
            <property expression="//time2/text()" name="time2" scope="default" type="STRING"/>
            <script language="nashornJs"><![CDATA[
            var time1 = mc.getProperty("time1");
            var time2 = mc.getProperty("time2");
            var eTime1 = new Date(time1).getTime();
            var eTime2 = new Date(time2).getTime();
            if(eTime1 > eTime2) {
                mc.setProperty("latestTime", time1);
            } else {
                mc.setProperty("latestTime", time2);
            }]]></script>
            <payloadFactory media-type="xml">
                <format>
                    <LatestTime>$1</LatestTime>
                </format>
                <args>
                    <arg evaluator="xml" expression="$ctx:latestTime"/>
                </args>
            </payloadFactory>
            <respond/>
        </inSequence>
        <outSequence/>
        <faultSequence/>
    </resource>
</api>

Request
<request>
    <time1>2018-04-26T05:58:38.226-07:00</time1>
    <time2>2018-04-26T05:59:38.226-06:00</time2>
</request>

Response
<LatestTime>2018-04-26T05:59:38.226-06:00</LatestTime>


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Online Learning Update
Grassroots Football Online Learning Opportunities
Support for Essex Clubs, Referees and Coaches on YouTube
Looking for online learning content from the comfort of your own home? Members of the grassroots football community are benefiting from development opportunities, at a convenient time, thanks to the Essex County FA YouTube channel.
Continuing Professional Development (CPDs) and club development webinars are just some of the features on the channel. Individual videos, as well as longer-running features, can be accessed via the 'EssexFA' portal, providing access to an extended wealth of educational programmes.
By visiting, coaches and volunteers can glimpse into popular courses such as FA Playmaker, plus educational support, while safeguarding, marketing, community engagement and funding videos are also included. You can additionally find intriguing referee scenarios and interviews with ambitious Essex referees.
Plus, The FA have recently launched their own 'FA Learning' portal, which has been set-up to offer coaches a new way to brush-up on new ideas. Open to any coach, at any level, it provides a range of content across various 'playlists' and the activities are created by FA Education staff up and down the country, featuring interviews with leading coaches.
One of FA Learning's features is the 'Boot Room' portal, where coaches can find interesting articles, interviews, ideas and resources. A wide range of football content is being shared to help support individuals to incorporate innovative practices into their sessions, developing both themselves and their players. The Boot Room also features additional learning, such as:
* In the Coaching section, more than 90 sessions, guides and top tips have been published which are all easily searchable. Select a topic you're interested in and see relevant articles, sessions and guides.
* The Interviews area has insights from over 40 of the biggest names across football. While in the 'Courses' section, you can browse FA learning opportunities and find the next step on your coaching journey.
* There's also a dedicated news page for coaching updates, and a new home for support initiatives such as the FA Coach Mentor programme, coach bursaries and Elite Coach Menteeship opportunities.
* The England DNA is also on the Boot Room. It's easier than ever before to discover the coaching and playing principles which support all England teams.
You can subscribe to the Essex County FA YouTube channel by following this link, while the new FA channel is available via this link. Meanwhile, the Boot Room is free-to-access and open to all coaches, either by visiting FA Learning or by clicking on the 'Learning' tab on the FA website.


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Homepage : News : Main points of Nagorno-Karabakh 'peace deal'
Main points of Nagorno-Karabakh 'peace deal'
The deal was signed by Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani representatives. [Getty]
The two sides will maintain positions in the territories they currently hold, a gain for Azerbaijan after it reclaimed some over 15 percent of lost territory.
Armenia, Azerbaijan, ceasefire, deal, explainer, Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on Tuesday to a Russian-brokered peace deal to end weeks of heavy fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh and find a long-term solution to the dispute over the region.
Here are the main points of the deal, which came after Azerbaijan managed to retake significant territory it had lost to Armenian separatists in a 1990s war over the region.
The deal was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
A complete ceasefire and cessation of all hostilities was agreed from midnight Moscow time on Tuesday.
The two sides will maintain positions in the territories they currently hold, a significant gain for Azerbaijan after it reclaimed some 15 to 20 percent of lost territory including the key town of Shusha.
A Russian force of 1,960 military personnel with small arms, 90 armoured personnel carriers and 380 units of automobile and special equipment will deploy to the region to act as peacekeepers along the frontline and secure the Lachin corridor that links the region to Armenian territory.
The peacekeeping mission will last for five years and be automatically renewable for five-year periods as long as no party withdraws from the deal.
Return of territory
Armenia will return control to Azerbaijan of the Aghdam district by November 20, the Kalbajar district by November 15 and the Lachin district by December 1.
The five-kilometre wide Lachin corridor will connect Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, bypassing its previous route through Shusha.
Prisoner exchange, refugees return
Internally displaced persons and refugees will return to the region and adjacent districts formerly under Armenian control.
The two sides will exchange prisoners of war and other detained persons, as well as bodies.
Read also: Turkey hails Azerbaijan 'gains' after Karabakh deal
Armenia will guarantee transport through the country from Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic exclave on the border with Turkey, and the construction of transport communications will be provided.
The agreement makes no mention of the future status of the Armenian-populated areas of Nagorno-Karabakh or of the format of future negotiations to settle the conflict.


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New York Times' Bret Stephens criticized for Nazi 'bedbug' mention
Benjamin Goggin
Conservative New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens was at the center of ridicule again after a column published Friday mentioned bedbugs in reference to the horrors of WWII days after he let loose on a Twitter user for comparing him to the pest.
Stephens' column highlighted parallels in the Nazis' plans to slaughter of Jewish people to "delousing" and "bedbugs."
"The political mind-set that turned human beings into categories, classes and races also turned them into rodents, insects and garbage. 'Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing,' Heinrich Himmler would claim in 1943. 'Getting rid of lice is not a matter of ideology. It is a matter of cleanliness.' Watching Warsaw's Jewish ghetto burn that year, a Polish anti-Semite was overheard saying: 'The bedbugs are on fire. The Germans are doing a great job.'"
David Karpf, a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, tweeted Tuesday about the news that the Times's Manhattan newsroom had been infested with bed bugs, and wrote on Twitter that Stephens was one of the bedbugs in question.
"The bedbugs are a metaphor," he wrote. "The bedbugs are Bret Stephens."
Stephens lambasted Karpf over an email that was also directed at his university provost. Later that day, Stephens took to MSNBC to insist that "analogizing people to insects is always wrong… Being analogized to insects goes back to a lot of totalitarian regimes in the past."
Many Twitter users reacted to the column with disbelief, referencing Stephens' Twitter blow-up that led to him deleting his account and earning ridicule from people including New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Read more: 'My own friends roast me harder than that': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weighs in on New York Times columnist Bret Stephens lashing out over 'bedbug' comment
Several more Twitter users pointed out that the link that was embedded in Stephens' piece was the result of a Google search for "Jews as bedbugs."
One user pointed out that despite his expressed horror of comparing people to bugs, Stephens himself had compared Palestinian people to mosquitoes in a 2013 column for the Wall Street Journal.
Karpf responded to the column with horror, tweeting Saturday that the comparison in the major newspaper meant the saga had "stopped being funny."
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Born in 1966, in Slough, Berkshire, UK.
Kernick had a passion for crime fiction writing from a young age and produced many short stories during his time at Brighton polytechnic. After graduating he joined MMT Computing in London but left the company after 4 years in the hope of trying to secure a publishing deal. Despite interest from a number of publishers Kernick was unable to secure a deal, so he joined the sales force of the specialist IT and Business Consultancy Metaskil plc in Aldermaston, Berkshire in 1998 where he remained until he secured his first book deal (The Business of Dying) in September 2001.
His novel Relentless was recommended on Richard & Judy's Summer book club 2007. It was the 8th best-selling paperback, and the best-selling thriller in the UK in the same year
Simon lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and two daughters.
You wake up in a strange room on a bed covered in blood.
You have no idea how you got there.
Beside you is a dead girl. Your girlfriend.
The phone rings, and a voice tells you to press play on the room's DVD machine.
The film shows you killing your girlfriend. Then you're told to go to an address in East London where you're to deliver a briefcase and await further instructions.
There's no way out.
If you're to survive the next 24 hours, you must find out who killed your girlfriend, and why. Before they come for you too...
Link to Buy paperback
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Link to Buy eBook
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Who will survive? The new bestseller from the master of the race-against-time thriller.
LONDON. THE STANHOPE HOTEL, PARK LANE. 16.00 A normal afternoon.
Newly engaged Elena Serenko has just made the life-changing decision to quit her job and start a new life in Australia.
THE GUESTS
Upstairs, a young woman waits for her lover; a visiting family prepare for an evening out; and a sick man contemplates his own mortality.
High up amongst the penthouse suites, a skilled and dangerous killer is hunting a quarry who's eluded him for far too long.
What none of them know is that a group of ruthless gunmen are about to burst into the Stanhope, shooting indiscriminately, and seizing hostages.
As darkness falls and the gunmen become increasingly violent, only one thing matters. Who will survive?


The full form of B. Ed is the Bachelor of Education, which is a professional graduation degree. It is basically a course program for the students, who want to be a teacher later in their life. It is a process to educate the students where they can again educate their future students and prepare them for a better world. It is a qualification, a validation to teach.
Ed degree is needed for those who want to teach in Secondary and Higher Secondary schools, which are commonly known as High schools. The minimum qualification, which is needed to enroll one for a B. Ed course is a bachelor degree in Arts, Commerce or Science. The students, who do their graduation in Arts, can enroll themselves in order to teach subjects like English, Bengali, Hindi, and History while students of Science are eligible for teaching Mathematics, Geography, Physics and Chemistry. There are many reputed B. Ed institutions, which offer a course for the aspiring teachers. Before entering these institutes, one needs to sit for an entrance examination. If they pass the examination, they can pursue with the course further.
The main thing that one has to keep in mind is that educating children is not very easy. They are the future of this country. A teacher has a huge responsibility towards them. They are not only enrolled to teach a text book or the regular courses offered in a school. They are enrolled to teach the students the basic essence of life, their responsibility towards society and human nature. If they fail to teach them, the basic things of life, they themselves fail as teachers.
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Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (* 17. srpna 1933 Toledo, Ohio) je americký letecký inženýr, bývalý stíhací pilot a vysloužilý letový ředitel a manažer NASA. Jako letový ředitel řídil mise programů Gemini a Apollo, včetně Apolla 11, první mise přistávající na Měsíci. Je nejlépe známý tím, že úspěšné řídil tým Mission Control při záchraně posádky Apolla 13. V roce 1995 byla jeho práce při záchraně Apolla 13 vylíčena ve stejnojmenném filmu, kde jeho postavu ztvárnil Ed Harris. Je také známý svým krátkým účesem a elegantními vestami různých stylů a materiálů, které mu šila jeho manželka Marta Kranz.

Je osobním přítelem amerických astronautů té doby a zůstává prominentní postavou v americké historii průzkumu vesmíru s posádkou. Jeho kariéra byl předmětem několika celovečerních filmů, dokumentárních filmů, knih a článků v časopisech. Je držitelem prezidentské medaile svobody. V roce 2010 se v průzkumu Space Foundation stal nejoblíbenějším vesmírným hrdinou.

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Need to Focus? This Startup Promises It Has the Perfect Music for You
The founders of Brain.fm use sound frequency to zap your mind to attention.
Distractions have never been more ubiquitous than they are today: social media apps, text messages, web browsers, pop-up ads, email, and messaging platforms, not to mention the offline stresses of everyday life. If only you had the brain power to focus more, right?
One startup thinks it has the solution. Brain.fm has developed a platform that plays music specifically engineered to help your mind do one of three things: focus, relax, or sleep. The company claims that the musical tracks feature frequencies that closely align with those naturally present in your brain, helping zap or lull it into the desired state. The tracks change based on how your brain responds to them--and each is composed entirely by a computer.
The startup is the brain child of Adam Hewett and Junaid Kalmadi, two entrepreneurs who had previously founded their own companies: Kalmadi started a networking app and Hewett launched a music composition software called Transparent. Hewett, a musician himself, founded that company in 2003 after reading about the effects music and rhythms can have on the brain. Instead of a product for consumers, Transparent's software was geared toward scientists looking to engineer their own tracks.
When the two met at a conference in 2014, Kalmadi was fascinated.
"I started experimenting with the technology myself and started to believe in it," says Kalmadi. "I asked, 'Why is this still in the lab? Why can't anybody use this as therapy?'"
The two decided to partner up. Hewett drained his retirement account and Kalmadi pooled his cash, and with a collective $100,000, the pair co-founded Brain.fm.
Listening to a "focus" session, which is what 90 percent of Brain.fm users choose, is a calming experience. Press play and the music starts--a soothing, gently pulsing track that combines ambient sounds with slight melodies.
You're supposed to listen through headphones to full take advantage of the way the music was composed to move around in a 3-D plane: The track begins at the sides of your head, then gradually moves toward the front, hopefully pulling the listener's attention along with it.
This movement also helps prevent habituation--the brain's method for drowning out repeated stimuli. While a thunder clap out of the blue is startling, for example, the brain will get used to it over time. By subtly moving the noise in that 3-D space, the platform helps prevent that conditioning and maintain the music's effectiveness. But there's a fine line between keeping the user's attention and being distracting. "It's a very subtle interplay, and it took us a long time to get that right," Hewett says. "Thirteen years to be precise."
Robot composers
Hewett's experience with Transparent helped him understand the intricacies of creating these brain-focused tracks. After he and Kalmadi decided in 2014 that they would make a consumer-driven product, Hewett spent five months preparing the algorithm. Instead of composing the music himself, Hewett used a form of machine learning known as emergent technology. Thousands of "mini-bots" were all assigned identities--a drum beat, a violin note--that then compete to arrange themselves within a track. When patterns emerge in the first several dozen measures, the bots arranging themselves in future measures learn to mimic those patterns. The result is a musical track with gentle, functional, pulsing beats. "This isn't for composing Billboard hits," Hewett says.
Brain.fm now has hundreds of tracks, each with a theme: rain, beach, or forest, for example. A listener who presses play hears the music, and after several minutes the app asks him to rate its effectiveness. Since each person's natural brain frequency can vary slightly from the next, the algorithm tries again until the user rates it as being very effective.
Neuroscientist Dr. Giovanni Santostasi has been performing controlled studies on Brain.fm's users. The results: Users of the "focus" sessions performed significantly better on tasks than those listening to a placebo version. Hewett and Kalmadi think they're onto something big--and that customers will be willing to pay for their product.
Users get seven free sessions, then have to pay at a rate of $9.95 per month or $59.88 per year. Hewett and Kalmadi say they're still tinkering with these price points, and that they currently have 22,000 subscribers and expect that number to climb to 83,000 within the next six months. The company, which launched in November and has nine employees who all work remotely, became profitable in March.
The science--and the skepticism
The scientific concept behind Brain.fm is known as brainwave entrainment, a method of stimulating the brain with pulsing sound or light. The music is supposed to coerce the brain into a desired state of focus or relaxation by emitting the frequency that corresponds with it.
Research on entrainment dates back several decades, but scientific studies pointing to its merits began springing up in the mid-aughts, around when Hewett founded Transparent. A peer-reviewed 2015 study in science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that entrainment "is tightly coupled to ... task performance." Some therapists use it--like those that purchase Hewett's own Transparent--but Brain.fm is among the first to try to make this kind of therapy broadly commercially available.
Not all experts are convinced technology like this is based in hard science.
"The topic of brain rhythms is a complex and highly controversial one, even among experts, and there is no established consensus on what role such rhythms really play," says Jan Schnupp, professor of neuroscience at Oxford University and author of Auditory Neuroscience: Making Sense of Sound. "However, the nice thing about music is that it really lends itself to harmless and fun self experimentation. If it works for you, great, and if it doesn't work for you then any claim that science says it could work won't be much help."


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Q: How can I install missing perl modules on an embedded system? I'm running Linux on an embedded system, specifically Yocto Linux on a Cyclone V FPGA. I'm able to use Perl in its most basic form, but I'm unable to load any Perl modules. For example, when trying to use the GetOpt::Long module, I get the following error
root@socfpga_cyclone5:/mnt/sdcard# ./test.pl
Can't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
  /etc/perl
  /usr/lib/perl/site_perl/5.14.2/
  /usr/lib/perl/site_perl/5.14.2
  /usr/lib/perl/vendor_perl/5.14.2/
  /usr/lib/perl/vendor_perl/5.14.2
  /usr/lib/perl/5.14.2/
  /usr/lib/perl/5.14.2
  /usr/local/lib/site_perl
  /usr/lib/perl/5.14.2
  .) at ./test.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./test.pl line 3.

Does anybody know how I can go about installing these modules? Do the modules depend on hardware architecture at all? Is it reasonable to just copy and paste the .pm files somewhere from some source (and where would I be able to find and download these .pm files)?

A: I know your question is more than two years old, but it's a good question and I'm sad that nobody has answered it.
The perl ecosystem is very large, and the disk footprint of a full-featured perl installation is a problem on embedded systems. For that reason only a minimal system is installed when you add perl to your image. Other perl modules are available as bitbake packages.
Most of the time you can figure out what packages a recipe offers from the recipe, but the perl recipe is very complicated. The easiest way to find out what packages are built by the perl recipe is to build it (bitbake perl) and then look in the packages-split directory, which you will find in your bitbake work directory. For my system (cortex A8) that looks something like this:
$ ls -1 /poky/build/tmp/work/cortexa8hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/perl/5.20.0-r1/packages-split
perl
perl-dbg
perl-dev
perl-doc
perl-lib
perl-lib.shlibdeps
perl-misc
perl-misc.shlibdeps
perl-module-anydbm-file
perl-module-app-cpan
perl-module-app-prove
perl-module-app-prove-state
(...)

If the module you want is listed, just add it to IMAGE_INSTALL like this:
IMAGE_INSTALL += "\
    perl \
    perl-module-base \
    perl-module-bytes \
    perl-module-data-dumper \
    perl-module-digest-md5 \
    perl-module-file-spec \
    perl-module-file-spec-functions \
    perl-module-findbin \
    perl-module-getopt-long \
    (...)"

If you want a module that isn't already being build, you will need to make your own recipe for it using the cpan class. See the examples in poky/meta/recipes-extended/perl and /poky/meta/recipes-lsb4/perl.
Editorializing, I've not been very happy with using perl on embedded systems. The biggest issue is the deferral of dependency resolution until runtime. It's too easy to mess this up and end up with Can't locate foobar.pm in @INC errors.

A: Have a look at this thread: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-July/015198.html
It sounds like perl modules have been packaged by whatever other thing needed first, but someone is working on making them available separately.
Some modules could be installed by just copying; others require a compiler or other build steps first.  You are best off using whatever tools the yocto project provides.


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The winter storm moving up the east coast reached the mid-Atlantic states, dropping snow in coastal areas of Maryland and Delaware. It made roads dangerous in North Carolina and could drop over 20 centimetres of snow on the Boston area on Thursday. (The Associated Pre
Winter storm pummels Atlantic Canada, eastern U.S., with high winds, snow, record cold
By Susan HaighThe Associated Press
Dave Collins
Thu., Jan. 4, 2018timer6 min. read
updateArticle was updated Apr. 13, 2018
HARTFORD, CONN.—A massive winter storm roared into the U.S. East Coast on Thursday, threatening to dump as much as 45 centimetres of snow from the Carolinas to Maine and unleashing hurricane-force winds and flooding that closed schools and offices and halted transportation systems.
The powerful storm also pummelled Atlantic Canada on Thursday, shutting down everything from schools to bridges with an intense mix of high winds, rain and snow.
Forecasters expected the storm to be followed immediately by a blast of face-stinging cold air that could break records in more than two dozen cities and bring wind chills as low as -40 C this weekend.
"This is definitely a very serious and very intense winter system," said Environment Canada meteorologist Ian Hubbard.
Social media images showed one Halifax house with its roof gone, and another building that had partially collapsed.
While parts of Nova Scotia were whipped by wind and rains amid temperatures well above freezing, New Brunswickers faced heavy snow that made it impossible to see across the street.
"If you are in your home and don't need to travel, don't travel," said Greg MacCallum, director of New Brunswick's Emergency Measures Organization, who called it a "serious storm."
Environment Canada warned high waves combined with storm surges could cause damage along the coast in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island later in the evening, and that flooding was also likely in those areas.
The forecaster warned that people should not attempt to travel across flooded roads because shallow, fast-moving water can sweep a vehicle away.
The agency issued warnings for everything from wind and rain to blizzards and storm surges along much of the Atlantic Coast.
"It's the whole spectrum of weather with this system — you pick a weather and it's forecast somewhere in Atlantic Canada, it seems," he said.
The federal agency had issued a range of winter storm warnings and watches for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I. and parts of Newfoundland and Labrador, saying the low-pressure system would bring fierce winds that could gust up to about 130 kilometres an hour and snowfall amounts of up to 40 centimetres.
Nova Scotia was expected to see up to 50 millimetres of rain, possibly causing localized flooding.
By Thursday afternoon, many lights were out across Nova Scotia. About 48,000 utility customers were without power as of about 4:30 p.m., many along the Atlantic Coast.
Environment Canada issues extreme cold warning for Toronto
No, Niagara Falls hasn't stopped falling, it just looks that way
Winter storm dumps snow on U.S. South, could strengthen into 'bomb cyclone'
The severe weather prompted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to urge Atlantic Canadians to be vigilant.
"To everyone in Atlantic Canada — stay safe, stay indoors and stay updated on the latest," he said on Twitter, linking to the Environment Canada website.
All of New Brunswick was under a winter storm warning and the central and northern parts of the province were expected to see roughly 40 centimetres of snow, along with wind gusts of up to 90 km/h in some areas.
P.E.I. was expected to be hit by fierce winds and up to 25 centimetres of snow before it changes to rain in the evening.
In the U.S., blizzard warnings and states of emergency were in wide effect. The National Weather Service warned of wind gusts hitting almost 113 km/h in some places. Eastern Massachusetts and most of Rhode Island braced for snow falling as fast as 7.5 centimetres per hour.
Three people were killed in North Carolina after their vehicles ran off snow-covered roads, authorities said. Another fatality was reported near Philadelphia when a car could not stop at the bottom of a steep, snow-covered hill and slammed into a commuter train. A passenger in the vehicle was killed. No one on the train was hurt.
Tens of thousands of power outages were reported, depriving many people of heat. More than 100 warming centres were open in 34 towns across Connecticut, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said.
In Maine, the problem was a shortage of drivers to deliver heating fuel. Small independent fuel merchants in particular were overwhelmed by customers who do not have automatic refill service, the Portland Press Herald reported.
The high winds caused coastal flooding from Massachusetts to Maine, and the rising waters stranded people in homes and cars.
The Massachusetts National Guard said it helped rescue a woman and her two children from a car in Marshfield. Flooding in Newburyport forced evacuations on Plum Island, and the only road from the island to the mainland was closed, police said.
The massive storm began two days ago in the Gulf of Mexico, first hitting the Florida Panhandle.
Wind gusts of 80 km/h to 95 km/h, strong enough to cause downed trees and power lines, are predicted in places where the National Weather Service has issued blizzard warnings. They include the Delmarva Peninsula, which includes parts of Delaware, Virginia and Maryland; coastal New Jersey; eastern Long Island, New York; and coastal eastern New England.
More than two-thirds of flights in and out of New York City and Boston airports were cancelled. The flight-tracking site FlightAware reported about 4,900 cancelled flights across the United States.
More than 50 departures and arrivals were cancelled at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Marine Atlantic also cancelled sailings between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, while Bay Ferries shelved its crossings between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Rail service was affected too. Amtrak planned to operate a modified schedule between New York and Boston on Thursday. Northeast Regional Service between Washington, D.C., and Newport News/Norfolk, Virginia, was cancelled for Thursday.
The storm shut down much of eastern Virginia, but some people took it in stride.
Mark Schoenenberger, a 45-year-old NASA engineer who lives in Norfolk, Va., put on his cross country skis so he could make a half-hour trip to the bagel shop for some breakfast for his family.
"It's like 'Yay, I get to go out," he said.
The only concern he seemed to have was telecommuting while his kids were home from school. But "it's just noise," he said.
Waiting just behind the storm was a wave of bracing cold.
National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Peterson said record low temperatures were predicted for 28 major cities across New England, eastern New York and the mid-Atlantic states by dawn Sunday.
Boston expected a low around -23 C overnight Saturday into Sunday. Portland, Maine, and Burlington, Vermont, could see -26 C and -18 C, respectively, the weather service said.
State and local officials urged people to stay home so crews could clear streets and roads of snow. There were concerns in Boston and elsewhere that if roads were not properly cleared, they could freeze into cementlike ice after the cold blast arrives.
In other areas, plummeting temperatures had already caused water mains to burst. Jackson, Mississippi, was under a precautionary boil-water notice after pipes failed. Portable toilets were placed outside the state capitol because some of the toilets would not flush.
It was so cold in South Florida that iguanas fell from their perches in trees in suburban Miami. The reptiles became immobile when temperatures dipped below 5 C.
Green iguanas are an exotic species in Florida known for eating through landscaping and digging burrows that undermine infrastructure.
In Charleston, S.C., 12.5 centimetres of snow was enough for Chris Monoc's sons, ages 4 and 2, to go sledding.
"They probably will be teenagers the next time something like this happens, and that's kind of sad," Monoc said. "But we'll enjoy it while it's here."
With files from The Canadian Press


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2021 Lexus LC 500 Inspiration Series Is A Limited-Edition Dark Knight
You can have any color you want, as long as it's black.
Jan 12, 2021 at 6:38pm ET
By: Christopher Smith
If this 2021 Lexus LC 500 Inspiration Series was a gambling man, he'd say always bet on black. That's because Lexus has well-and-truly doubled-down on black for this limited-production LC 500. Aside from a bit of interior and exterior trim, black is pretty much the order of the day for this new offering and yes, it's the only color offered. It's not just an LC with an abundance of black paint, however. Mostly, anyway.
Carbon fiber generally looks black, and you'll find some of that here. Specifically, the roof gets the special treatment, along with a rather large wing on the decklid. Actually, calling it a wing is rather appropriate in this instance, as Lexus says it was designed after studies involving aircraft from the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. In addition to following the curvature of the LC 500's backside, downturn canards at the corners are designed to "create a vertical cortex that helps smooth out the turbulence generated from airflow along the car's flanks."
Gallery: 2021 Lexus LC 500 Inspiration Series
Whether or not that actually helps the Inspiration Series with grip or aerodynamics is unclear. Lexus doesn't elaborate further, except to say the wing is carbon-fiber reinforced plastic, and it pairs well with the black 21-inch forged wheels. Moving inside, the Inspiration Series gains Alcantara-trimmed sport seats and more carbon fiber for the door scuff plates. It's not an entirely dark cabin, as tan accents are present on the seats and doors. The seat belts are also tan, and a badge on the center console lists the specific production number of a 100-unit production run. Yes, only 100 of these Batman-approved rides will be built.
More LC Love From Lexus:
2021 Lexus LC 500 Convertible Priced From $101,000, Options Aplenty
2022 Lexus LC 500 Gets Updated Suspension, Bespoke Build Customization
Under the dark skin, you'll find standard-issue LC 500 power from a naturally aspirated 5.0-liter V8 making 471 horsepower (346 kilowatts). Power is sent rearward to a Torsen limited-slip differential, included as standard equipment for the LC 500 Inspiration Series. The Yamaha-sourced rear performance rod with damper is also standard, as is a head-up display for the driver, the Lexus SmarAccess Card Key, and a 915-watt sound system in case the high-revving V8 exhaust note gets boring.
save over $3,400 on average off MSRP* on a new Lexus LC
Lexus doesn't offer pricing information for the LC 500 Inspiration Series, but the car will be available at dealerships later in the winter.
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#include <Windows.h>

namespace CWUtils
{
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

#define LIKELY
#define UNLIKELY
#define ATOMIC_READ( X )      InterlockedCompareExchange( reinterpret_cast<volatile LONG *>( &X ), 0, 0 )
#define ATOMIC_ASSIGN( X, Y ) InterlockedExchange( reinterpret_cast<volatile LONG *>( &X ), Y )
#define ATOMIC_INC( X )       InterlockedIncrement( reinterpret_cast<volatile LONG *>( &X ) )
#define ATOMIC_DEC( X )       InterlockedDecrement( reinterpret_cast<volatile LONG *>( &X ) )
//#define __VA_ARGS_NUM__ (...)       ( ( sizeof((size_t[]){__VA_ARGS__}) / sizeof(size_t) ) - 1 )
#define NUM_TO_TEXTA( aNum ) ( #aNum )
#define NUM_TO_TEXTW( aNum ) ( L#aNum )
#define NUM_TEXT_PAIRA( aNum ) \
    {                          \
        aNum, #aNum            \
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    {                          \
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    }
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#ifndef CP_BIG5
#    define CP_BIG5 950
#endif

EXTERN_C IMAGE_DOS_HEADER __ImageBase;
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VOID ShowDebugMsg( CONST WCHAR * aReason = L"Reason", BOOL aShowInRelease = FALSE );
VOID WriteDebugMsg( CONST IN CHAR * aFormat, ... );

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var gulp = require("gulp"),
  rimraf = require("rimraf"),
    glob = require("glob"),
    path = require("path"),
  fs = require("fs");

var paths = {
    bower: "./bower_components/",
    vendors: "./" + "Libs/"
};

gulp.task("clean", function (cb) {
    rimraf(paths.vendors, cb);
});

gulp.task("copy", ["clean"], function () {
    var bowerStrict = {

        "angular": "angular/*.{css,js,map}",
        "angular-route": "angular-route/*.{css,js,map}",
        "angular-resource": "angular-resource/*.{css,js,map}",
        "angular-odata-resources": "angular-odata-resources/build/odataresources.min.js"
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        console.log(destinationDir);
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          .pipe(gulp.dest(paths.vendors + destinationDir));
    }

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    return fs.readdirSync(srcpath).filter(function (file) {
        return fs.statSync(path.join(srcpath, file)).isDirectory();
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import React, { Component } from 'react'

class Loader extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = {}
  }
  render() {
    if ( this.props.on ) {
        return (

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    } else {
        return (

        )
    }
  }
}

export default Loader