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Stilbia is een geslacht van vlinders van de familie Uilen (Noctuidae), uit de onderfamilie Hadeninae.

Soorten
S. algirica Culot, 1914
S. andalusiaca Staudinger, 1892
S. andalusica Staudinger, 1892
S. anomala (Haworth, 1812)
S. bongiovannii Turati, 1924
S. calberlae (Failla-Tedaldi, 1890)
S. faillae Pungeler, 1918
S. nisseni Stertz, 1914
S. philopalis Graslin, 1852
S. powelli Boursin, 1940
S. syriaca Staudinger, 1892
S. turatii Lucas, 1910

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Switching from Android to iPhone is going to get even easier.
Attention Android users: Switching to iOS will soon be a pain-free experience.
Nestled at the bottom of Apple's iOS 9 website is mention of a "Move to iOS" app, which will allow Android users to "wirelessly switch" to iOS.
The app will transfer everything from your contacts, to messages, photos and videos, online bookmarks, calendars, email accounts, wallpaper, e-book and even DRM-free music.
The migration app will even help you find all of the free apps you had on your Android device and download them automatically on your new iOS device; paid app equivalents will be added to your iTunes Wish List.
Apple doesn't specify which wireless protocol the app will use, but it's likely Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
Apple's Move to iOS app transfers your data from Android to iPhone wirelessly.
During Apple's 2015 Q1 earnings call, CEO Tim Cook was ecstatic about the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus's continued success, saying a "majority" of switchers were defecting from Android.
Apple offers a trade-in program that lets customers trade in their Android (and BlackBerrys and Windows Phone devices) in exchange for store credit towards an iPhone.
The new Move to iOS app appears to be yet another move towards helping Android switchers find a new home on iPhone.
Apple isn't the first company to offer a smartphone migration app. Motorola has long offered its Migrate app for switching from other Android smartphones, as well as from iPhone.
The app will presumably become available this fall when iOS 9 is released to the public.


Tired of snow photos that are too blue or too grey, too dark or too dull? These tips will help you step up your game and take beautiful images of the white stuff.
March 10, 2015, 1:17 p.m.
If you've been shooting in auto mode and are interested in pushing outside your comfort zone, snow photos are the perfect opportunity. Photographing in the snow, with such a bright white backdrop, provides unique challenges. The best way to overcome them and get amazing photos is to start using your camera like the pros do. Here are five steps you can take to dramatically improve your photography in the snow.
If you've set your DSLR to save your images as JPGs, then you'll want to hop into your settings right this second and switch to RAW. Shooting in JPG has some advantages for saving space on your memory card, allowing you to shoot more photos before you fill up, but the downside is the data loss. JPGs save whatever settings you had in your camera, including white balance, saturation adjustments and so on, and saves them in a compressed format. Whatever adjustments your camera makes when it saves it are there for good. RAW format, on the other hand, records the data from the image exactly how it is without any adjustments or compression. Think of it as having the entire novel, rather than the CliffsNotes.
You may notice that your photos don't look as vibrant or rich when shooting RAW when you get them on your computer to review, but that's because the format allows you to maintain full control over every aspect of the photograph and those adjustments haven't been made yet. You now can control in post-processing how much you adjust exposure, bump up the blacks, increase or reduce saturation, and so on. You can make far more nuanced adjustments to create a perfect photograph with a RAW file than you ever could hope to do with a JPG.
If you haven't been shooting in RAW before, snow photography will show you the benefits because you're almost certain to get the exposure wrong on some shots, or have a wonky white balance every so often. You want to have complete control over fixing your errors in post processing, and RAW will give you that.
If you've been shooting in auto mode, or in a pseudo-auto mode like Program (P), Aperture priority (Av) or Shutter priority (Tv), it's time to take the leap into full manual mode. Just like with shooting in RAW, if you aren't yet convinced of the benefits of shooting in Manual mode, snow photography will help you realize how amazing it is to have total control over your exposure.
Odds are good that you're dissatisfied with your snowy photos because they come out much darker than the scene really is, or the white of the snow is completely blown out and overexposed. What's happening is that your camera is looking at the scene and trying to make a decision about what represents the middle ground on exposure, then selecting settings it thinks are correct. When dealing with the white blanket of snow, your camera is probably going to get the settings wrong — or at least not as right as you want. In manual mode, you make the decision about what the correct exposure is. You're much less likely to make errors when reading a scene because, well, you're a lot smarter than your camera.
If the idea of shooting in manual mode is scary, and if you don't feel ready to make the leap, there's a work-around using your camera's exposure compensation dial. Most cameras, even point-and-shoot cameras, have this capability. I won't go into great detail about how a camera decides on exposure and settings, but just know that when evaluating a scene that is mostly white, your camera is likely to underexpose your scene. So if you are shooting in P, Av or Tv modes, bump your exposure compensation up a little to make up for the difference. You may only need to bump it one-third or two-thirds of a stop (one or two bars on the slider scale). Or you may need to bump it up a lot more. Play around with it, and eventually you and your camera together will get the exposure right! Simply working toward getting proper exposure will make a world of difference in your snow photos.
Now that you know how important exposure is for improving your snow photos, it's time to talk about your best friend when shooting outside: the histogram. Most digital cameras have a histogram, and it will be to your benefit to learn what it is and how to show it on your camera's play-back screen when reviewing images. It is the graph that provides a display of your exposure, showing how you captured shadows and highlights.
On any day in the field, especially a bright snowy day, it's hard to judge from your LCD screen if you got the exposure right. Your screen may make it look like you got your exposure right when really you under or over exposed. Your histogram, on the other hand, will never lie to you.
Ideally, you want your histogram to look like a mountain, with all the peaks mostly in the middle (or better yet, erring on the right side of the histogram). Too far to the right and you'll have blow-out highlights, and too far to the left and you'll be underexposing.
Also, turn on your "blinkies," the setting that, when you're viewing your images on your camera, causes any areas of the scene that are so over- or underexposed that you have no data to blink on the screen. You'll be able to see in the image itself if you have overexposed to the point of not having any information in the highlights, which means you can't fix the exposure in post-processing because there's no data there to fix. If you have blinkies, you'll likely want to adjust your exposure and take the shot again.
Snow is white, right? Well … sort of. Snow is white but it's also reflective so can take on the tint of whatever is around it. Knowing this, it's important to pay attention to your white balance. You want it to be as true to the scene as possible. If your snow is coming out with too much of a blue tint, which is common, you can make an adjustment for white balance there in your camera and retake the photo, or you can adjust it in post processing. Remember, though, that snow does have a tiny bit of blue in it and if you try to warm up the scene too much with your white balance, you may end up with beige-looking snow.
White balance for snow photos is a delicate dance. Sometimes you want to make sure that your white balance is accurately capturing the way the snow is reflecting the pink light of a sunrise, or the orange glow of a sunset … but not too much so. Leaving this up to your camera's auto white balance can sometimes work, but a more reliable way to ensure an accurate white balance is to set a custom white balance when you're there in the field taking the images.
You'll benefit greatly by getting familiar with how to get the correct white balance when out photographing, and learning how to make adjustments in camera. When you have this down, you'll be able to capture the scene as it really looked.
One way that you can improve your snow photos with a single simple step is to increase the blacks in your image in post processing. Often snowy landscapes can look a little washed out. By increasing the blacks in your image, you can add back in a bit of contrast and color saturation to the image that gives it some extra oomph.
This works especially well for photos that were taken while it was snowing. The snow in the air can add to the overall photo by showing the weather condition, but snow also can take away from the background of the scene, such as trees in a forest or the outline of a barn or fence line, by making these things look more faded out. Bumping up the blacks can add a little extra contrast and detail to bring emphasis back to these elements and make them look like purposeful parts of the composition.
This tiny use of one slider bar in post processing can make all the difference in turning your snow photos from "oh, nice," to "oh, wow!"
Tired of snow photos that are too blue or too grey, too dark or too dull? Here's how to step up your game and take beautiful snowy photos.


The secret legal authorization from the Justice Department originally applied to a cybersecurity pilot project in which the military monitored defense contractors' Internet links. Since then, however, the program has been expanded by President Obama to cover all critical infrastructure sectors including energy, healthcare, and finance starting June 12.
EPIC obtained the documents though an FOIA lawsuit.


Julian Hibbard is a British photographer who is absolutely obsessed with the first and second World Wars. It all began with a chance meeting, as most good things do, and resulted in an experimental photo series that is as haunting as it is historically-based. This coming Memorial Day, we should all take a moment to remember the high cost of war on soldiers and their families as we go about our days. This series is a reminder of our collective history.Scroll down for photos.
Why did you decide to begin the series, "Tales of an Unknown Aviator" and how long do you expect it to go on?
The origins of this series go back several years. Whilst on a trip to southern Chile in 2008 I was by chance introduced to an old man. It turned out he spent the winters sat at a small kitchen table making miniature model planes -– not from kits –- but using recycled materials to reproduce in object form, the illustrations and photographs he studied in a vintage encyclopedia set. I instantly saw in him the spirit of a true outsider artist and his model planes seemed to connect with my own interest in objects that produce an emotional response triggered by memory. After a two-year period communicating back and forth by letter I returned to his hometown and photographed ninety one planes he personally selected from his larger collection, which by that stage numbered approximately three hundred in total. Luis Greenhill has since sadly passed away but this project continues to evolve as individual images are worked on one by one and I imagine that process will continue for another year or so until all are finished.
How did you achieve the vintage look of the photos?
The project is now a collaboration with my friend and fellow fine art photographer Demetrious Noble. I was aware of the powerful series "A Broken Home" he was undertaking in North Carolina. I felt the digital approach he was developing with that series could unlock the potential of the model plane images. As such the vintage look is in fact a digital technique developed and applied to each plane by Demetrious. His technique references surfaces, textures and fragments of information related to the project narrative, such as pages from the original encyclopedias and the letters Luis Greenhill wrote to me.
What's been one of your own favorite pieces so far? What is your relationship to it?
My currently favorite is the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. The way this image is layered and burnt speaks to me of memory, time, loss and the beauty of things delicate, imperfect and incomplete, which in essence, is the very definition of the project. All the planes photographed are scale models of real planes that relate to the first and second world wars. Interweaving the past with the present, the planes embody themes of power, struggle, trauma, sacrifice, change, invariance and self-reflection. From my perspective all the planes from the project, but this example in particular, help me glimpse and contemplate the truth of impermanence.
What artist or artwork has been influencing you lately?
Demetrious has complete freedom with regard to his intervention on the images. Many times his reaction on how to treat a particular plane is instinctive. Recently Demetrious has been looking at Cai Guo-Qiang's work with gunpowder. The cycle of life and death, destruction and creation is imbued in the model planes -– so to experiment with combustion and burning the images to create something mysterious and new is one line of enquiry he is also investigating.
Vanessa and Loretta Lux's work.
photographs and history of the planes appeal to many people on so many different levels, the possibilities for this project are constantly evolving. Our goal is to exhibit at other museums and galleries, return to present the images in Luis's native Chile and in due course publish the entire project in book form.


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Two NJ businesses secure deals from Walmart Open Call event
Catherine Nguyen
Courier News and Home News Tribune
For Kelly Denti and her daughter, it was the dust of gym chalk. For John Caravello, it was the leftover labels he would take home after work.
These were the inspirations for Magic Ninja Dust and GOT LINT? – products created by Dentis and Caravello, respectively. Driven by the urge for entrepreneurship, both submitted their pitches to Walmart's Open Call, a two-day event giving local, American-sourced businesses the opportunity to meet with buyers to have their products sold in Walmarts across the country.
Denti, of Flemington, said the decision to apply was made on a whim, while she was visiting her family in Seattle.
"I was just Googling the internet and said 'hmm, let's do this,'" she said.
Caravello, of Bergen County, on the other hand, is no novice when it comes to sending pitches for GOT LINT? – he has also reached out to big-box stores, such as Walgreens, Target, Petco and Dollar General to get his product on shelves.
"Every month, they look for new products," he said. "I have to always go on the site and see if my category, which is impulse buying, is there."
Magic Ninja Dust is a no-mess liquid chalk that goes on like a lotion when first applied but later dries like a powder for easier grip at the gym. Denti, who for more than a decade has been the owner of an America Ninja Warrior gym, wanted to find an alternative to traditional gym chalk because of the time she had to spend cleaning up the chalk residue on floors and equipment.
She tried purchasing liquid gym chalk from China, but found that faults with the formula, so she added an ingredient to improve it. This was the start of Magic Ninja Dust, whose name comes from the kids who came to the gym and kept asking for "magic ninja dust."
"It just stuck. For weeks after that, kids were coming up to me and saying they wanted 'magic ninja dust,'" she said.
Most people use lint rollers to get lint and dust off their clothes but GOT LINT? does the job with sticky sheets similar to packaging labels, which is especially fitting considering Caravello owns a printing company.
After work, Caravello would take home the "waste" labels and recycle them by taking off lint, dust and even dog hair off chairs, couches and his clothes. The labels made their way to Caravello's father, who worked at a funeral home and began using the labels to take the lint off bodies.
"It's pretty crazy," he said. "It saved them a lot of money because every time you show somebody, there's lint all over the place and they'd have to use Scotch tape."
At the Open Call, which took place in Bentonville, Arkansas, about 500 entrepreneurs attended informational seminars, met the CEO of Walmart and eventually pitched to buyers. Denti said she was waiting to secure the supplier agreement, but anticipated Magic Ninja Dust to start appearing in local stores anywhere from three weeks to three months from now. Caravello said he shifted his product from the organization, laundry and luggage category to impulse buy category, and that buyers would start testing out the product in stores sometime next year.
While they sell vastly different products, both have always had an entrepreneurial mindset. Denti worked as a banker for 16 years but quit her job to open up her own America Ninja Warrior gym because she realized that there were few options for practicing sports indoors in the winter.
Caravello has been in the business of selling food labels, from barcodes to nutrition facts, for a long time, and added that he was always trying to think of new ideas.
"I always think of ideas and never follow through with anything, so this is the first one I've followed through with," he said.
Walmart has been hosting its Open Call event for six years, ever since they announced their commitment to purchase $250 billion worth of American-made, sourced or grown products. Not only is there a diverse range of people — a quarter of last year's businesses were female-owned and participants came from 46 different states — there is also a wide variety of products, from toys, natural clothing, food to beauty items.
READ:Somerville Lumber named Entrepreneur of the Year
"Everybody was just so passionate about their products. There was so much energy in the room… it gave me a new lease on life," Denti said.
READ:PHOTOS: 2018 Hunterdon County Business Award
Her goals for the future are for Magic Ninja Dust to appear in gyms across the country. Caravello hopes to not only market to funeral homes, but also possibly collaborate with hotels to give them to guests as a toiletry item.
"That's gonna be our next thing. There's a lot of different ways we can do this, it's just a matter of going out and doing it," he said.
Editorial Intern Catherine Nguyen; (908)-243-6616; cnguyen@mycentraljersey.com; Twitter @catherine_v_n.

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Q: Query Expression With Join on Multiple Columns Causes ArgumentException During Test Run But Not At Runtime This snippet of code causes the ArgumentException, shown below. What's weird is that it only occurs during unit test execution. When the app runs, this code runs, and works. I guess that could mean it's a data issue? I can look further into that.
I've tried setting the anonymous types, in the join, to have the same column names, by doing something like A = ... and B = ... in both anonymous types, but that doesn't change things.
Below is my query:
var query =
  (from account in db.AccountDetails
    join team in db.Teams on new { account.CompanyId, account.TeamCode }
      equals new { teams.CompanyId, teams.TeamCode } into groupedTeams
    from team in groupedTeams.DefaultIfEmpty()
    where account.CompanyId == message.CompanyId && account.ProcessId == message.ProcessId
    select new
    {
      AccountDetail = account,
      Team = groupedTeams.FirstOrDefault()
    }
  );

Exception:
System.ArgumentException: Expression of type '' cannot be used for parameter of type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.Tax]' of method 'System.Linq.IQueryable`1[<>f__AnonymousType0`2[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.AccountDetail,System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.Tax]]] GroupJoin[AccountDetail,Tax,<>f__AnonymousType1`2,<>f__AnonymousType0`2](System.Linq.IQueryable`1[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.AccountDetail], System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.Tax], System.Linq.Expressions.Expression`1[System.Func`2[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.AccountDetail,<>f__AnonymousType1`2[System.String,System.String]]], System.Linq.Expressions.Expression`1[System.Func`2[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.Tax,<>f__AnonymousType1`2[System.String,System.String]]], System.Linq.Expressions.Expression`1[System.Func`3[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.AccountDetail,System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.Tax],<>f__AnonymousType0`2[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.AccountDetail,System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[Packing.ColdCamperEtl.Business.Data.Elmer.Models.Tax]]]])'
   at System.Linq.Expressions.Expression.ValidateOneArgument(MethodBase method, ExpressionType nodeKind, Expression arg, ParameterInfo pi)
   at System.Linq.Expressions.Expression.ValidateArgumentTypes(MethodBase method, ExpressionType nodeKind, ReadOnlyCollection`1& arguments)
   at System.Linq.Expressions.Expression.Call(Expression instance, MethodInfo method, IEnumerable`1 arguments)
   at System.Linq.Queryable.GroupJoin[TOuter,TInner,TKey,TResult](IQueryable`1 outer, IEnumerable`1 inner, Expression`1 outerKeySelector, Expression`1 innerKeySelector, Expression`1 resultSelector)

Why would this be happening?

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You have explored the showhomes while considering the community and the lifestyle you want to live. Now you've decided on the right home and it's time to buy. Buying your new home is likely the biggest purchase you will ever make. Being such a large purchase, it's important that you're aware of every last detail; including everything that you're paying for when you buy your home. Of course you get a beautiful home and often, you also get the lot; but there is much more than meets the eye to purchasing a home.
There are so many small additional costs that it can be overwhelming. Here, we break them down into a few different categories to help simplify the concept and make it easier to understand. When you choose to buy a new home, the builder sometimes covers costs associated with inspections or surveys, but there are other costs that the buyer is always responsible for. To make sure you know all of the associated costs, here's what's included in the purchase price of a home.
When purchasing your new home, legal fees and disbursements in Alberta typically range from $1,000 - $1,500 on top of the list price of your home. It's just one of many costs that buyers often don't consider when purchasing their new home.
Like the purchase of any product, when you buy a home, it is subject to sales tax. Some builders include the sales tax in their list price, however the majority of builders do not do not. This can be a significant cost when buying a home that many buyers often forget about. Though GST can be a big financial hit when buying a new home, you may qualify for a rebate. To learn more about the new housing GST rebate, find out more from the Government of Canada website here.
The phrase "closing costs" is an overarching term used to explain the miscellaneous expenses over and above the price of the property that buyers incur while completing the purchase of their new home. Closing costs include property taxes, insurance and deposits with utility companies. Often, closing costs can amount to anywhere from 2% - 5% of the price of your home. Like sales tax, this can be quite a surprising figure if you're unaware of it going into the purchase, so make sure you're prepared with a few extra thousand dollars available to cover your closing costs.
Remember, when you buy your new home, not all of the costs will be written in that contract. Small costs such as moving expenses, maintenance and any shopping you may need to do to decorate and furnish your home will take a toll as well! Be sure to factor that in when you're preparing to make your move.
Beyond all of your closing costs, it is important that you are also aware of any other costs you may incur with your new home. This includes possible Resident's Association fees, property taxes and property insurance.
If you're ready to make the biggest purchase of your life with a new home, remember; the list price isn't everything you need to know. With all of the associated fees, taxes and required insurance payments, there is a lot more than meets the eye when it comes to the price of a home. Make sure that you're an educated homebuyer by being prepared for all of the factors that are actually included in that home's purchase price.


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Biografia
Dopo gli studi di medicina presso lo University College Hospital si specializzò in psichiatria insieme al futuro marito. Poi iniziò a lavorare con lui presso il Maudsley Hospital di Londra.

Avendo avuto una figlia autistica (Susie, nata nel 1956) si fece coinvolgere nella ricerca sui disturbi dello sviluppo, in particolare su quelli che rientrano nella gamma dell'autismo. Unitamente ad altri genitori di bambini autistici fondò la National Autistic Society nel Regno Unito nel 1962. Nel corso degli anni settanta, con il marito John Wing e la collega Judith Gould, articolò una serie di ricerche epidemiologiche e nosologiche sui disturbi autistici proponendone una classificazione più moderna rispetto a quella classica di Leo Kanner. Fu lei ad utilizzare per la prima volta il termine "sindrome di Asperger" nel 1981, quando pubblicò uno storico studio su questa variante dell'autismo, ancora poco conosciuta a quei tempi. Nel 1996 pubblicò un volume sui disturbi dello spettro autistico che ebbe particolare diffusione internazionale, The Autistic Spectrum.

Nel 2012 venne nominata fellow dello University College London.

Nel 1994 era anche stata insignita del titolo di Ufficiale dell'Ordine dell'Impero Britannico (O.B.E., Order of the British Empire).

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Collegamenti esterni

Morti nel Kent
Autismo


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Lowland raised mire
Domes of peat 10,000 years in the making
The Solway mosses are peat domes which rise above the surrounding landscape. The formation of these bogs goes all the way back to the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago!
The retreating glaciers left behind a landscape of humps and wet hollows, which were filled in over time by dead plant material. The peat forming sphagnum mosses colonised these stagnant shallow pools, as dead material built up, the bog grew upward and outward to form the typical raised dome shape.
The Solway Mosses are internationally important as they are among the last surviving remnants of a habitat rich in wildlife and history. 94% of lowland peat bogs in the UK have been damaged or destroyed due to peat extraction for domestic use or due to drainage for agriculture. As well as being an important refuge for wildlife, undamaged peat bogs store vast amounts of carbon and therefore play an important role in reducing global climate change.
Where the bogs have been drained in the past, conservation organisations are now working to restore these habitats, through blocking old drainage ditches and creating pools where sphagnum moss and other bog vegetation can begin to re-grow.
Being raised above the surrounding landscape, the bogs are entirely rain water fed, creating nutrient poor, slightly acidic conditions. This environment supports a highly specialised, unique community of plants and animals. During the Summer, the bogs turn white with cotton grass coming out into flower. Look out for the carnivorous sundew which traps and ingests insects using specially adapted sticky leaf pads. Listen overhead for Snipe which create their distinctive drumming sound using modified tail feathers. The bogs are home to an array on uncommon butterflies including the large heath butterfly which is out on wing in June/July, and dragonflies, including the 4-spotted chaser. The bogs provide a refuge to uncommon reptiles; common lizards can often be seen basking on boardwalks.


Check out 'Iain and Deanna'.
Published: 5:34 pm, January 22, 2019Words: Sam Taylor.
Flight of the Conchords have announced a new live album.
Recorded at the Eventim Apollo during their UK tour last year, 'Live in London' will be released on 8th March via Sub Pop.
The record features seven new songs: 'Iain and Deanna', 'Father and Son', 'Summer of 1353', 'Stana', 'Seagull', 'Back on the Road', and 'Bus Driver'.
Check out 'Iain and Deanna' below.