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Oh Wow Charmaine!!! You ain't playin arounf today girl. Can't wait to do this one. If I get off work on time.
Legless rope climb and Rx on the WOD - way to go girl!
Wow! I'm impressed! Angela is back!
good morning! im going for it today, thanks Charmaine.
For my water challenge i will eat broccoli and grapefruit. have a great day!!
Go heavy on today's WOD everyone. Give Charmaine the respect she deserves & feel the hurt.
Water- rich foods challenge: I added spinach and tomatoes to my breakfast this morning. Will snack on strawberries and cucumbers later today.
Happy Birthday AMY!!!!!! :-) hope you have a great day! Today Im going to eat strawberries and cucumbers... I always have them around! Today wod was AWESOME! and Tough! Just like its Maker! LOL Cant wait to see tomorrows!
Had a 2 baked bell peppers stuffed with SPINACH, mushrooms, onion and an egg a piece. It was overflowing with water when I bit into it!
I had some spinach with eggs and strawberries on the side.
I had a salad for lunch that had lots of water-rich foods in it (chopped spinach, tomatoes, broccoli, celery, radishes, sweet peppers & ice burg lettuce) and watermelon for dessert. I plain on having some cucumbers with my supper. Exercises done.
Water rich foods, I had spinach n strawberries in my smoothie.
Spinach, cucumbers, & tomatoes for my water rich food. Ready to kill this wod! Thanks for the challenge Charmaine!
Thanks for all the birthday wishes!!!
Cucumber and oranges for my water challenge today!
Happy Birthday Amy! You don't look a day over 21! Hope you are enjoying your special day!
I had spinach with my breakfast and strawberries with dinner. Not hard for me to eat those things! Loved the WOD today--woo hoo, Charmaine! George pushed me to go a little heavier on my front squats...guess I need that push! Great day!
Loved the Charmaine WOD today.
Happy birthday Amy!! I had cucumbers and strawberries.
I had a huge salad with spinach, tomatoes and peppers for my water!
I had huge strawberries...they were great. Hope it was a great Birthday Amy!!! Burpees..done!
Wod was killer, ate my water with spinach for breakfast & added tomatoes for dinner. Yum-o.
I had spinach with my eggs this morning for breakfast :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY!!!
I had some strawberries this morning. Happy birthday, Amy!!


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So here is something I really wanted to ask Bernice after class but I wanted to go home first to make sure I wasn't imagining things. Twice, she spontaneously started drawing at the end of class and when she was done, handed her paper right to me. First time, I thought, funny lady Bernice, of course, drawing in a writing class, I wouldn't expect anything less from her. When she gave me the paper, she also gave me a look like,"Here you go. This should speak for itself." So I took her cue and didn't ask. The same thing happened today, same spontaneous drawing, same "self-explanatory" transfer. And immediately I thought, isn't this the same exact image?
I ran home to my mini archive for this class (a folder of notebook pages.) And sure enough, it was like she ran her drawing from two weeks ago through a xerox machine and just pressed "80% smaller." Who is this? Is this person real or a figment of her imagination? The ultra-feminine super-dainty profile on the page looks nothing like the Bernice I've come to know: rowdy, tomboyish, mischief coming right out of her cheeks. Everything about this pair of drawings is a mystery to me. I laid them side by side and stared at them with my mouth open. My husband and I discussed them like paintings in a museum. We've never seen anything like this. We don't know what to make of them.
Bernice can really talk. Once she starts, she goes around and around like a rocket that you can't stop. Fiery opinion. Fiery humor. But here I am left with her soft, wordless pages. I wonder if I shouldn't ask her about them, and see if I get a third one the next time I see her.


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Q: Do ADrive.com have an API? Sorry for my English first.
I want to write an .net application to store file on ADrive.com cloud storage.
I can't find any document about ADrive.com API.
Do ADrive.com have an API? If they have one, how can i get it?
Thanks for any help.

A: There is no API from ADrive.com. In my opinion, it is just a cloud storage service and they try to get their software AND service to their customers on their own.
As you may know, their software available to all popular platform.

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Flavorwire: "Ferrante...made me take myself and my complex feelings about my many years of forgotten and enduring friendships seriously...I can't think of a greater feminist achievement for a piece of literature."
Date: Mar 10 2015
Female Friendship Is Life's Great, Thwarted Romance in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
By Sarah Seltzer on Mar 10, 2015 1:35pm
The more entrenched in adult life I become, the more spending time with my oldest girlfriends is a relief, akin to sinking into a pool on a hot day. Mostly, this is because it's impossible to feel self-conscious in front of those who knew you when braces and social humiliation were the order of the day. The fronts we all put on at work or at parties (or now, for some, with the babysitter) melt away.
At the same time, this glorious soak in selfhood can lead to a self-scrutiny that's less refreshing. How have I lived up to the promise I showed when I was the girl raising my hand in class and running to the lockers to retrieve forgotten textbooks? What have I done with the enthusiasm, ambition, and faith that once sat so easily on my shoulders — and presumably that attracted my friends to me? There's nothing like an old friend to make you feel comfortable, and also the opposite: to turn on a floodlight that illuminates your footsteps through the years.
Elena Ferrante's treatment of the push-pull dynamic of female friendship is one of the reasons I've become so obsessed with her Neapolitan novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, and Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, which will be followed by a currently unnamed fourth novel. Count me and Gwyneth Paltrow (she blurbed it!) among the members of the American reading public who have been utterly enraptured by narrator Elena's lifelong friendship with Lila, as laid out in a series of books written in Italian by Ferrante and translated by Ann Goldstein. Ferrante is a mysterious, reclusive author who only agrees to be interviewed through her publisher (even in the case of allegedly "in-person" interviews). There are rumors that Ferrante is a man writing under a pseudonym, or a couple, and they have gotten their share of criticism from female critics who think her writing encapsulates so much about modern womanhood that she must be one of us.
For instance: the repeating idea that Lila and Elena together are not just complementary but a single whole unit, forged in childhood. As they grow older and their girlhood competition over fearlessness and report cards begins to manifest as vastly different lives, the sense grows that neither can be happy and successful at the same thing at the same time. In the first book, Elena as a young teenager describes this belief with a kind of brutal frankness you don't usually see in fiction:
"I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences. In that period it became a daily exercise: the better off I had been in Ischia, the worse off Lila had been in the desolation of the neighbourhood; the more I had suffered upon leaving the island, the happier she had become. It was as if, because of an evil spell, the joy or sorrow of one required the sorrow or joy of the other; even our physical aspect, it seemed to me, shared in that swing. In Ischia I had felt beautiful, and the impression had lingered on my return to Naples …But Lila now had retaken the upper hand, satisfaction had magnified her beauty, while I, overwhelmed by schoolwork, exhausted by my frustrated love for Nino, was growing ugly again."
It seems a cruel way to think, but it's also a mindset that connects the two and elicits empathy from each towards the other. Later, in The Story of a New Name (volume 2), Elena forgets to think this way, so caught up is she in her own achievement. This results in a missed moment for them both: "It never occurred to me, as, in fact, it had on other occasions, that she had felt the need to humiliate me in order to better endure her own humiliation."
In Ferrante's treatment of a friendship's debris-strewn trajectory, we find the same themes that appear in Elisa Albert's masterful After Birth or, going back further, Toni Morrison's Sula. The forces of society — nuclear family units, marriage, sexual jealousy, economic need, even the whole capitalist concept of individuality and competition, sunder women's elemental cooperation. Yet because of what existed at the beginning, women's yearning for pure female friendship never leaves them, even when it is warped into envy or hatred.
The literary idea that friends' lives represent unmade choices, roads not taken, is applicable across gender and genre. Naturally, however, it has a particular resonance for women, because so many of life's choices have particular resonance for women. Whether in 2015 United States or in postwar, pre-feminist Italy, women still feel like they have to lean in the direction of either family or career, creative fulfillment or economic necessity. For Lila and Elena, escaping their impoverished, violence-stricken neighborhood where domestic abuse is only one part of being treated as "lesser than," involves marriage for one, academic success for the other. But then things switch, and switch again; the women end up crisscrossing through different means of self-sustenance. Each resents the other for squandering opportunities, but the question lingers: how many "ways out" are even possible?
There's a scene towards the end of the third novel when both women, now mothers, are at dinner with their extended families — including members the thuggish Solara clan, who serve as the series' complicated villains. The families begin comparing the women's careers, their intrinsic intelligence. In their efforts to demonstrate how the two women have transcended the petty rivalries of the neighborhood, of course, the families drag them right back in.
Now, when I mention my oldest friends, I'm speaking of the girlfriends I met when I was 12. None of my childhood friendships have lasted beyond cursory coffees. This is logical on one level, because such friendships are mostly about proximity and convenience, the ability to walk to each other's homes and have sleepovers. But on the other hand, I still feel like a part of me has been torn away, the part that created elaborate Barbie games, magic worlds, and lip sync performances. The part, in essence, that gave birth to my imagination. It's hard to explain that sense of loss — and I've often put myself down, or been put down, by dismissing the feeling as simple envy.
But consider Ferrante's treatment of The Blue Fairy, Lila's childhood book, that haunts both women for their lives. Elena realizes it's never left her, and showed up in her own book, hidden.
Lila's childish pages were the secret heart of my book. Anyone who wanted to know what gave it warmth and what the origin was of the strong but invisible thread that joined the sentences would have had to go back to that child's packet, ten notebook pages, the rusty pin, the brightly colored cover, the title, and not even a signature.
When Elena tries to make amends by returning the book to Lila, Lila burns it, as if to say that by using it for her book, Elena has stolen something from her that can't be reclaimed.
I think the girls' primitive collaborations have been taken away from them both, and in response they steal from each other for their whole lives. They compete over men, over families, over the experience of childbirth and whether it's painful or marvelous. Yet they need each other to fulfill the goals that each has fallen short of. It's hard to explain how true this feels. Yet seeing Ferrante take it so seriously, with rage and anger, made me take myself and my complex feelings about my many years of forgotten and enduring friendships seriously, too.
I can't think of a greater feminist achievement for a piece of literature.


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Trotsky: A Graphic Biography by Rick Geary
I remember, when I took a film course as an undergraduate, studying with a professor named Don Kerr. When we watched The Birth of a Nation he read to us from the local newspaper in Saskatoon, an article dating back to the film's release there. I still recall the amusement shared by all when the author claimed that henceforth, people could not longer criticize films for the decline in morality — "Films like this one can educate!" the article claimed — and that demon liquor was to blame. Huh? Social ills coming from either booze of movies? At a remove of several generations, it was clear to us that great evil could come of films, but not just the fun and entertaining kind: the racism that was inherent in The Birth of a Nation was as staggering to us as the fact that, as our professor pointed out, this racism was commonly tolerated in thee city. (He noted that in the phone directory for that year, the Ku Klux Klan actually had a Saskatoon contact number listed, directly after the Kiwanis Club.)
The reason I bring this up is not because we watched several Russian films in that course, but because of the discussion of history and its depiction that ensued for the hour following my professor's reading this article to us. Depiction is a slippery enough thing in fiction: in the writing of history, it is even more complex, challenging, and even dangerous.
The cover of the book shows that Rick Geary, too, is aware of this. Indeed, the images on the cover, taken from the first few pages of the book, show Trotsky as others saw him: as a sort of St. George slaying the top-hat-wearing "dragon of capitalist repression." The following picture is of Trotsky as a kind of devil figure, horned and sitting upon a bone-pile, "the ruthless and Satanic purveyor of bloody rebellion, the cold, detached theorist gone mad with power." Geary's following lines are the telling ones: "In truth, he fitted neither of these images. He was a writer, a thinker, and a nation builder — albeit a reluctant one — with deep roots in his Russia's agricultural heartland." This, then, is the "real" Trotsky.
A slippery thing, the "real Trotsky": Geary's list of texts for "further reading" includes six authors, one of them Trotsky himself. Doubtless those authors are good authorities on Trotsky. Yet one cannot help but wonder how much the text of Geary's book actually represents the "real Trotsky." Now, I am not one of those sorts of people who are convinced that to talk of the "real Trotsky" or the "real Wyndham Lewis" or the "real Ezra Pound" or indeed the "real Gord Sellar" is to talk of airy nothingness. Some will insist there is no "reality" to any of those figures, except in context and in whatever roles they happen to be playing in a social sense. I think there is such a thing as real persons, and while authenticity is a complex issue, we I've found that the brightest people around me can, like me, immediately sense when someone is being inauthentic and, like me, they tend to react negatively to it.
When we are discussing historical figures, of course, the problem is a little more complex: Trotsky and most everyone he knew is now dead. Trotsky no longer exists, and we cannot compare depictions of him — depictions filtered through individuals' perceptions, filtered through individuals' politics, and filtered through individuals' feelings about the world in general.
In the light of this, I much appreciated Geary's unspoken attempt to remain neutral much of the time. When, for example, Tortsky's wife was arrested and Trotsky fled to hide out in Finland for six months, only to return when the revolution of 1905 was in full swing, Geary makes no excuses, but also issues no condemnations. We are left wondering what his contemporaries, and indeed his wife, would have thought of this, but Geary leaves it for us to wonder. While the author does, of necessity, tell us the story somewhat from the point of view of Trotsky — comments like, "Trotsky later described this as…" or "Trotsky would later say that…" about crucial moments in his life — he also often uses quotations when he puts words into Trotsky's mouth, and even cleverly uses his approach to depiction to avoid lending misleading inferences to the images he uses to tell Trotsky's story. (See, for example, the image of Trotsky reunited with Natalia after her imprisonment, on page 33: their backs are turned to the reader, and instead of dialog simple facts are narrated about her release are narrated.)
Of course, a story cannot be told completely in this way, or in the space of a hundred pages, it will grow plain unreadable. There are villains in this tale: as anyone who knows anything of Trotsky's life would imagine, Stalin is one of them, and some of the depictions of Stalin — like the one on page 84, with his back turned to the reader, but his face still visible, what looks like an evil smile hidden by his moustache and shoulder, as he looks back over his shoulder at Trotsky (and the reader) with a giant knife in his hand, a thumb caressing the blade. This is pure silent film villainy, and one can almost hear the piano music in the background when gazing upon this image. Far be it from me to object to the any such depiction of Stalin, of course: it is widely agreed that the man was a literal monster, in what he did to his nation. But it still pays to be aware of the techniques of depiction being used, the kinds of narrative they engender, and so on. Stalin was Trotsky's rival. Stalin looking like a silent film villain, by the logic of silent films, implies that Trotsky is Stalin's inverse, the hero of the tale. Well, and we are each the heroes and heroines of our own lives, but history is not a silent film. It is easily possible that Trotsky was less a hero, and less the inverse of Stalin, than the image suggests. (We cannot know what Trotsky might have done had he ended up in the position Stalin eventually took, can we?)
This is not to criticize Geary — I point out these issues not to discredit his book, but because it is of interest to see what a difficult task he faced in writing and drawing it: too much absolute neutrality, and the book would have been not only impossible to draw, but also quite unbearable to read. On the other hand, too little neutrality and the book would have become a useless hagiography. There are times when Geary seems to be quite impressed with Trotsky, and seems to want his readers to be as well — "In service to the revolution, his energy was limitless," Geary writes on page 55, paraphrasing Trotsky's own recollection of his "hidden reserve of nervous energy" that kept him going through the "whirl of mass meetings" (all page 55) — but then, he was impressed enough by Trotsky to take on a book-length project about the man's life, and the hero of that book necessarily must be Trotsky himself. I think he does an admirable job of balancing the need to tell a story, and the task of depicting history fairly, in the end.
On a less analytical note, this book reminded me of the Value Tales books I read during my own childhood. Remember those? The illustrated kids' books that told the story of one historical figure, usually accompanied by a cute animal or object sidekick? Harriet Tubman, Ben Franklin, Florence Nightingale… eachh character's life was narrated, and then analyzed, the the character finally being held up as an exemplar of a specific value: courage, patience, dedication, sacrifice, imagination, and so on. It's been so long I barely recall them, but I do wonder what I'd see if I set the same analytical eye on those books that I have on this one. I suspect the liberties taken were far broader, and that respect for the ambiguities and problems of these historical figures' lives was much less than what we see in Geary's book. In any case, Hill and Wang (the publisher of Geary's Graphic Biography) seem to be taking on some of the characters that the Value Tales might not have handled so well, like Trotsky and Malcolm X. Maybe these are the Value Tales of the 21st century, and of teenagers and adults alike?
As for me, I think sometime I may check out the Malcolm X book. Maybe not soon… these little books are pricey, as enjoyable as they might be. But sometime.
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    handler->SetReadTR(kFALSE);
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  AliAnalysisTaskCheckHFMCProd *task = new AliAnalysisTaskCheckHFMCProd();
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Anapidae är en familj av spindlar. Anapidae ingår i ordningen spindlar, klassen spindeldjur, fylumet leddjur och riket djur. Enligt Catalogue of Life omfattar familjen Anapidae 145 arter.

Dottertaxa till Anapidae, i alfabetisk ordning

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 Mandanapis
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 Minanapis
 Montanapis
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 Novanapis
 Octanapis
 Paranapis
 Pecanapis
 Pseudanapis
 Queenslanapis
 Risdonius
 Sheranapis
 Sinanapis
 Sofanapis
 Spinanapis
 Tasmanapis
 Victanapis
 Zangherella
 Zealanapis

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A statement by Cuba on the conflict in Ukraine
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We call for a serious, constructive and realistic diplomatic solution to the current crisis in Europe, via peaceful means, ensuring the security and sovereignty of all, as well as regional and international peace, stability and security.
Cuba rejects hypocrisy and double standards. It should be recalled that in 1999 the United States and NATO launched a major attack on Yugoslavia, a European country that was fragmented with a high cost in human lives, in pursuit of geopolitical objectives, disregarding the UN Charter.
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VW camper van: farewell to the symbol of 60s freedom
The last ever Volkswagen Type 2 Kombi van has rolled off the production line. We bid a fond farewell to the much-loved, multipurpose shed on wheels
It was the defining image of nomadic hippydom, gracing Bob Dylan album covers, hauling surfers and their boards in search of killer waves and serving as the vehicle of choice for Scooby-Doo and his hapless, ghost-busting gang. But this month the last ever Volkswagen camper van rolled off the production line, 63 years after it was first unveiled at the Geneva motor show – because it can't be fitted with an airbag.
Brazil is the last remaining country where the iconic Type 2 Kombi van is still produced, where more than 1.5m have been made since 1957. But new health and safety laws to be introduced in 2014, requiring every vehicle to have airbags and anti-lock braking, mean it is no longer compliant. Production in Germany was halted as far back as 1979, when the Kombi no longer met European safety requirements. It seems strangely fitting that the symbol of 60s freedom has gradually been hounded from existence by bureaucratic regulations.
The curvaceous minivan won hearts and minds after being promoted as not just a vehicle, but more of a holistic lifestyle choice. "Do you have the right kind of wife for it?" asked adverts for the van in 60s America. "Will she let your daughter keep a pet snake in the backyard? And invite 13 people for dinner even though she has service for 12?" Hell, with that kind of free spirit, you're clearly suited to driving a Kombi!
Transporting revellers to Woodstock and innumerable gap year travellers around Australia – all at the stately pace of no more than 60mph – more than 10m Kombis have been made since they were first manufactured in postwar Germany. Following the success of the Beetle, the Kombi was the second vehicle produced by VW, its name short for "Kombinationsfahrzeug", or "cargo-passenger van", a multipurpose shed on wheels.
The origins of the nine-seater love wagon are credited to the Dutch Volkswagen importer Ben Pon, who spotted an improvised vehicle while on a visit to the car plant in Wolfsburg – a Beetle chassis, jury-rigged for moving parts around the factory floor. He thought others could benefit from the flexibility of a big movable box, and so the Type 2, also known as the Transporter, was born.
With is trademark profiled wings that sweep around the front and down into a point, forming a valley beneath the split windscreen, it was an instant hit. Numerous iterations followed, including the Camper version, with a cooker, sideboard and folding bench seat, as well as models with trapdoor sunroofs and concertina pop-tops, which rose dramatically above the van like a great inflated accordions. To mark the momentous end of the beloved minibus, Volkswagen is releasing a final limited edition of 1,200 priced at about $43,000 (£26,000), which are expected to be snapped up by eager collectors.
A little house on wheels, the Type 2 has proved as versatile as the standard semi, being converted into everything from mobile restaurants to libraries and miniature music venues. In Brazil it has long been the workhorse of choice, used for everything from shuttling schoolchildren to transporting mail – and even used by funeral directors for carrying corpses. Anyone for a flower-power fun-hearse?
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Animation.Listener<T> Provides a means of being informed about changes to the progress value of an Animation.
AnimationCurve An AnimationCurve defines how the proportion of an animated quantity varies with the progress through an Animation.
AnimationRunner<T> Drives an Animation based on time.
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Annotation.Position Defines whether the annotation is positioned into front of or behind the data on the chart's plot area.
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Axis.MotionState States describing internally generated axis range changes.
Axis.Orientation The orientation of the axis.
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AxisStyle Visual style properties for the Axis.
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BounceDelayAnimationCurve This AnimationCurve describes a curve similar to that of the BounceAnimationCurve but where the bounce occurs over a shorter proportion of the progress (50%).
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ChartStyle Visual style properties for ShinobiChart.
ChartUtils Utility class to provide useful helper methods for drawing and updating the chart elements.
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Crosshair The Crosshair provides a small circle target with lines that extend to the axis.
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Crosshair.Mode The behavior mode for the crosshair when tracking series.
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DataValueInterpolator<Tx, Ty> Responsible for providing a modified copy of a given List of Data items.
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DateRange Subclass of Range that is specific to Date; each element is represented by a Date.
DateTimeAxis Subclass of Axis that is designed to work with date/time data points.
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DefaultTooltipView The android.view.View used by default by the Tooltip to present information to the user in response to a tracking gesture, such as a long press to activate the Crosshair or a swipe while the crosshair is active to move it.
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DelayBounceWithMinimumAnimationCurve This AnimationCurve describes a curve similar to that of the BounceAnimationCurve but at the start the curve is constant at 0.1.
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EaseInOutAnimationCurve This AnimationCurve starts off slowly at 0.0, creating a slow initial phase.
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FadeAnimationCreator Creates Animation objects that animate the getAlpha() property of a Series.
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GridStripeStyle Visual style properties for a set of axis grid stripes.
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Series.GestureSelectionMode What should be selected when the user taps the chart.
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SeriesStyle Common visual style properties for a Series.
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ShinobiChart.OnCrosshairDrawListener Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when a crosshair is about to be drawn.
ShinobiChart.OnGestureListener Interface definition for callbacks to be invoked when the user makes touch gestures.
ShinobiChart.OnPieDonutSliceLabelDrawListener Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when a pie or donut series label is about to be drawn.
ShinobiChart.OnPieDonutSliceUpdateListener Interface definition for a callback to be invoked after a pie or donut slice has been created.
ShinobiChart.OnSeriesSelectionListener Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when a series or point is selected or deselected.
ShinobiChart.OnSnapshotDoneListener Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when a snapshot has been taken and is ready for use.
ShinobiChart.OnTickMarkDrawListener Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when a tick mark is about to be drawn.
ShinobiChart.OnTickMarkUpdateListener Interface definition for a callback to be invoked after a tick mark has been created.
ShinobiChart.OnTrackingInfoChangedForCrosshairListener Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when the current series and data point tracking information has changed as a result of a user gesture.
ShinobiChart.OnTrackingInfoChangedForTooltipListener Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when the current series and data point tracking information has changed as a result of a user gesture.
StackingToken Used to group CartesianSeries so they can be stacked together.
SupportChartFragment Allows a chart to be placed inside an Android android.support.v4.app.Fragment.
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Jessica Backhaus
Andrew Bush
Toshio Enomoto
Steve Fitch
Andreas Gefeller
Jenia Fridlyand
Ron Galella
Gregory Halpern
Jacqueline Hassink
Jeroen Hofman
Gerry Johansson
Michael Lange
Raymond Meeks
Asako Narahashi
Mika Ninagawa
Mimi Plumb
Jacob Aue Sobol
Pentti Sammallahti
Steve Schapiro
Bryan Schutmaat
Han Singels
Mark Steinmetz
Andreas Trogisch
Sanlé Sory
Michael Wolf
Wouter van Leeuwen
Jessica Backhaus was born in Cuxhaven, Germany in 1970 and grew up in an artistic family. At the age of sixteen, she moved to Paris, where she later studied photography and visual communications. Here she met Gisele Freund in 1992, who became her mentor. In 1995 her passion for photography drew her to New York, where she assisted photographers, pursued her own projects and lived until 2009.
Jessica Backhaus is regarded as one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography in Germany today. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. To date, seven publications to her name; Jesus and the Cherries, 2005, What Still Remains, 2008, One Day in November, 2008, I Wanted to See the World, 2010, ONE DAY- 10 photographers, 2010, Once, still and forever, 2012 and Six degrees of freedom, 2015, all published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin. Her photographs are in many prominent art collections including Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany, ING Art Collection, Belgium, Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA and the Margulies Collection, Miami, USA.
Once, Still and Forever
Six Degrees of Freedom
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen | Hazenstraat 27 | 1016 SM Amsterdam | +31 6 5203 1540 | info@woutervanleeuwen.com


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Coryphellina cerverai is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.

Distribution
This species was described from Chile.

References

Flabellinidae
Gastropods described in 2007
Endemic fauna of Chile


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// Copyright (c) 2014 blinkbox Entertainment Limited. All rights reserved.
package com.blinkboxbooks.android.ui.shop;

import android.app.SearchManager;
import android.content.ComponentName;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.view.MenuItemCompat;
import android.support.v7.widget.SearchView;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuInflater;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.EditText;

import com.blinkboxbooks.android.R;
import com.blinkboxbooks.android.controller.PurchaseController;
import com.blinkboxbooks.android.model.ShopItem;
import com.blinkboxbooks.android.ui.BaseActivity;
import com.blinkboxbooks.android.ui.shop.preview.ComponentClickedListener;
import com.blinkboxbooks.android.ui.shop.preview.PreviewActivity;
import com.blinkboxbooks.android.util.AnalyticsHelper;
import com.blinkboxbooks.android.util.cache.TypefaceCache;

public class ShopActivity extends BaseActivity implements ComponentClickedListener {

    private static final String TAG_SHOP_FRAGMENT = "shop_fragment";

    public static final int[] tabTitles = {R.string.title_featured, R.string.title_categories, R.string.title_bestsellers_fiction, R.string.title_bestsellers_nonfiction, R.string.title_freebooks, R.string.title_newreleases};

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        // In case we come in here via a marketing deep link we want to track in Ad-X
        AnalyticsHelper.handleAdXDeepLink(this, getIntent());

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_shop);
        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

        if (savedInstanceState == null) {
            ShopFragment shopFragment = new ShopFragment();
            getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(R.id.container, shopFragment, TAG_SHOP_FRAGMENT).commit();
        }

        // Prevent the keyboard opening by default on the search view
        getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        //this is a dodgy hack for orientation changes - we check to see if the preview activity is
        //the current base activity of the purchase controller, if it is not destoyed/finishing
        //we do not set the base activity.
        final PurchaseController purchaseController = PurchaseController.getInstance();
        final BaseActivity baseActivity = purchaseController.getBaseActivity();
        if (baseActivity != null && baseActivity instanceof PreviewActivity) {
            if (!baseActivity.isDestroyedOrFinishing()) {
                return;
            }
        }
        purchaseController.setBaseActivity(this);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.shop_actionbar_options, menu);

        final SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
        final MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.search);
        final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(menuItem);

        searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(new ComponentName(getApplicationContext(), SearchActivity.class)));
        final boolean isPhone = !getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.isTablet);
        searchView.setIconified(isPhone);

        if (isPhone) {
            searchView.setOnSearchClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    getSupportActionBar().setIcon(null);
                }
            });
            searchView.setOnCloseListener(new SearchView.OnCloseListener() {
                @Override
                public boolean onClose() {
                    getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.actionbar_icon);
                    return false;
                }
            });
        }

        // Theme the SearchView's AutoCompleteTextView drop down.
        searchView.clearFocus();

        //Sets typeface for searchView
        EditText searchText = ((EditText) searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text));
        searchText.setTypeface(TypefaceCache.getInstance().getTypeface(this, R.string.font_lola_regular));

        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Shows the tab with the given title
     *
     * @param title
     */
    public void showTab(String title) {

        if(title != null) {
            ShopFragment shopFragment = (ShopFragment)getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(TAG_SHOP_FRAGMENT);
            shopFragment.showPage(findTabIndex(title));
        }
    }

    private int findTabIndex(String tabName) {
        Resources resources = getResources();

        for(int i=0; i<tabTitles.length; i++) {

            if(tabName.equals(resources.getString(tabTitles[i]))) {
                return i;
            }
        }

        return -1;
    }

    @Override
    public void backFromAuthorPressed() {
    }

    @Override
    public void authorPressed() {
    }

    @Override
    public void relatedBookClicked(ShopItem shopItem) {
    }

    @Override
    public void promotedBookClicked(ShopItem shopItem) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, PreviewActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra(PreviewActivity.ARG_SHOP_ITEM, shopItem);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}


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What Do Librarians Do?
In the 1980s, Monique le Conge Ziesenhenne was on her way to becoming a graphic artist: She earned her degree in graphic design and was working in the field. But it was a part-time job that would change the course of her career.
"I'd like to race sand crabs. Is there any place I can do that?" This was one of many questions Ziesenhenne, who is now president of the Public Library Association, sought to answer as a part-time information provider in the recreation department at her university. "Basically, any question that a student had, I would try to find the answer," she said. Those questions were what she now understands to be the types of questions you get at public libraries.
Contrary to the stereotypes we often hear about, working as a librarian isn't just filing books and maintaining order in the classroom. Instead, librarians are critical resources who, in addition to instilling an appreciation for literature, help communities strengthen their digital literacy skills and circulate credible information into comprehensible chunks for projects, initiatives and papers.
Today's librarians are facilitators who should aim to enrich, collect, curate and store information. Their new mission is to improve their communities by disseminating good information and making it easier for people to gain knowledge, explained R. David Lankes G'99, graduate of Syracuse University's School of Information Studies PhD program, in his book, The Atlas of New Librarianship.
Ziesenhenne, who is also director of the Palo Alto City Library, fell into the librarian profession serendipitously after her experience as an information provider segued into converting her department's manual filing system to a digital system, similar to an online database. It was in this role that her manager suggested she consider applying to a library and information science (LIS) master's degree program.
"Internships, jobs in school and public libraries turned into what's been a successful and happy 30-year career," said Ziesenhenne, who eventually left her design job after being accepted into a library program.
Whether individuals land in the role by chance or through extensive planning, fundamental questions are inevitably raised such as "what type of education does a librarian need?" or "what are a librarian's career options?"
The Basics: Education Requirements
Most librarians have a four-year undergraduate degree, according to the American Library Association (ALA). "But they're not all English majors, and people with undergraduate degrees in any of the arts and sciences can bring their own unique perspective to a career in librarianship," Ziesenhenne said.
Many librarians who are already in the field may pursue an online Master of Science in Library Science degree (MLIS), especially if they're interested in pursuing more managerial or supervisory roles.
Steve Ingeman, technical services supervisor at Mary Riley Styles Library in Falls Church, Virginia, earned an online MLIS while holding down his full-time job. Like Ziesenhenne, Ingeman didn't plan a career as a librarian. Instead, it found him.
"I worked my way through college in libraries. I didn't think, 'What field am I going to go into?' I was channeled into it by circumstance," he said. After graduation from the College of William and Mary, where Ingeman majored in philosophy, he turned what had been a part-time college job at the school's library into a full-time job as the library's stack supervisor.
When Ingeman later pursued his MLIS online, it was important for him to earn the degree from an ALA-accredited school, which many employers prefer. He noted the degree is considered a science because librarians use the Dewey Decimal System, a library classification system first developed in the late 1800s.
Sometimes other types of certifications and degrees are required or can help increase job prospects, depending on a librarian's area of focus. Law librarians, for example, tend to hold degrees in both library science and law. School librarians often earn a teaching certificate, and many states have certification requirements for school and public library professionals.
Librarian Job Descriptions
Kathryn Roots Lewis, president of the American Association of School Librarians, started her career in education as a classroom teacher before becoming a school librarian.
"I spent 13 years in the classroom as a special education teacher—everything from special needs infants to high school students. Then my sister and I decided to go back to school together," said Roots Lewis, who is also the director of media services and instructional technology for Norman, Oklahoma, public schools. It made sense considering she and her sister used to "play librarian" as children—and, Roots Lewis noted, they eventually made it a reality: "We both became librarians."
She may have found herself working in a school setting, but not all librarians will. In fact, librarians and their expertise are needed in a host of workplaces, including hospitals, medical schools, corporations, law offices, scientific societies, museums, government agencies, presidential libraries, and historical archives.
"Here in D.C., for instance, we have the Library of Congress," Ingeman said. The Library of Congress employs more than 3,000 permanent staff members and has many areas, including the Law Library of Congress, a rare book and manuscript collection, presidential papers, documents in foreign languages, music and film archives, and children's books—all requiring specialized library skills.
Some nontraditional jobs may appeal to individuals with library science degrees, too:
Database administrator: installs, manages, troubleshoots, and plans upgrades to the systems that organizations use for their day-to-day operations.
Data analyst: manages and interprets data so they can help organizations make better business decisions.
Digital asset manager: deals primarily with the preservation and storage of "born-digital" materials and digitized copies of analog materials; sometimes called a digital archivist.
Information architect: designs, builds, and manages the way information is organized and structured online to help people navigate websites, intranets, and online communities.
Information broker: connects clients with the information they need, which is often specialized information that basic searches online might not uncover. These expert searchers sometimes have law, science, or other specialized degrees.
Meanwhile, art aficionados can choose to work in a museum. Librarians in this setting specialize in the curation and management of antiquities, exhibition catalogs and art auction records, and rare books and manuscripts. They help a broad range of patrons, including curators, researchers from around the world, primary school educators and students, artists, graduate students and professors, and art collectors.
In an online article, former assistant librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lisa Harms, described her job at The Met's research library as enjoyable, different every day, and sometimes hectic.
On any given day, she said, "The library may have a reading room packed with visiting researchers, studying and typing away on their laptops. There may be several curators checking books out at the Circulation Desk. The reference librarian may be helping a graduate student find information online about a Met painting. And there may be a group of people scanning images on our digital scanners. … In addition to all of this, there will be scholars browsing the stacks for the perfect book."
How much do librarians earn?
Salaries for librarians vary based on the type of library, the size of the collection, the number of patrons, the part of the country in which they're located, and a librarian's years of experience. Academic librarians tend to earn higher salaries, and librarians in urban areas generally make more than those working in rural areas, according to the ALA.
Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows the mean annual salary for librarians was $61,530 in 2018. Employment is projected to grow 9 percent from 2016 to 2026, about as fast as the BLS average for all occupations.
Jobs for elementary and secondary school librarians saw the highest levels of employment with 44,180 jobs in their field in 2018, compared with only 4,410 for junior college librarians.
Skills Librarians Need
The skills required by today's library professionals have changed rapidly over the last few decades. Where once knowing how to access paper records and books and maintaining card catalogs were high-priority skills, now digital expertise is valued.
Today's librarians adapt to rapidly changing library and information services and technologies in a multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual global society. They must create and manage user-centered information services and systems to meet the needs of changing and diverse communities, and they learn to manage information resources through a variety of techniques including identification, selection, acquisition, analysis, and evaluation.
Much of Ingeman's job as a technical services supervisor at a public library involves digital skills. "We're doing a lot of database maintenance," he said. This involves getting the books into the digital catalog and processing Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) records—a complex series of tasks that requires strong technical skills.
"The MARC records are extremely condensed, with lots of codes that make no sense to an outside person," Ingeman said. "So, navigating the MARC record is the biggest technical challenge, but there are also any number of databases that we have to adapt to, plus different ways of querying those databases."
Ingeman further explained that MARC records underpin most of the database functionality of the Integrated Library Systems (ILS) cataloging and circulation functions, so having technical and digital literacy skills is important. He added that law and medical librarians need to be proficient in database skills now as well, and they require knowledge of unique search methodologies. For example, law librarians use WestlawNext and ProQuest Congressional to call up sources and documents required by legal experts.
Similarly, an experienced medical librarian uses medical databases—including MEDLINE and FDA drug approval and adverse event databases—to help doctors dig up information on rare diseases, pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, and hard-to-find research. Medical librarians have increasingly become informatics experts who understand data lifecycles and "create gold standard search filters used to retrieve high-quality information," as reported in an article in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. Their work affects patient care, too: When a medical librarian is part of a patient's clinical care team, it can have a positive impact on a medical provider's decision-making, according to a study in the journal Academic Medicine.
The ALA lists other skills that are key to succeeding in the profession:
Thinking analytically and able to develop new or revised systems, procedures, and workflow processes.
Exercising initiative and independent judgment.
Preparing comprehensive reports and presenting ideas clearly and concisely in written and verbal form.
Making administrative decisions, interpreting policies, and supervising staff.
Working with computers, the internet, and library software.
Having knowledge of additional languages and experience working with special needs populations is also a plus.
Other Important Qualities Any Good Librarian Should Have
While hard skills are important to be effective, character traits are equally important to become a well-rounded librarian.
"The qualities I look for in new library staff are curiosity, flexibility, and service-oriented. I like to see if they're asking us good questions. Have they done their homework? I first ask them in an interview to tell me what they know about our library," Ziesenhenne said, who noted that the up-and-coming generation of librarians is redefining the profession.
The field needs people who are not just booklovers and technicians, but also have "soft skills." "They need good listening skills to be able to synthesize information and be emotionally intelligent," she said.
The flexibility component is a big one because technology is changing quickly, and librarians need to be willing to adapt and learn new skills, such as helping patrons with 3D printing.
Calling All Poets, Novelists and … Spies?
It's no surprise then that people who are flexible and shift careers into the world of librarianship—such as Ziesenhenne and Roots Lewis—make for successful leaders in the field. In fact, some of history's most famous librarians had other livelihoods, including writers (Beverly Cleary and Lewis Carroll), poets (Jorge Luis Borges), artists (Marcel Duchamp), political figures (Mao Zedong), inventors (Benjamin Franklin), spies (Giacomo Casanova), and even a U.S. first lady (Laura Bush). Their abilities to adapt and manage change effectively are the very qualities that serve them well in their second profession.
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I went in for Sudafed and came out with oh so much more.
Are you sitting down? If not, you might want to think about it. I'm not up for a blog lawsuit when you see what I found.
I was so excited when I saw it. I seriously couldn't resist. That guy has sucked me in with every single one of his infomercials. But I just can't get myself to buy stuff via informercials, put it in Walgreens and it's a whole different story.
I don't know who was more excited Brad or me. When I surprised him with it, he immediately opened the box and claimed a towel for "washing his car".
I'll be sure to let you all know how they work out.
Say it with me, "ShamWOW"!!


From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Serendipity. I love the word and the happy accidents that it defines. I've had more than my share of kitchen disasters, but they are outnumbered by mishaps that end happily and lead to something new or absolutely delicious. My recipe tonight is the result of a serendipitous kitchen mishap. Several years ago, I had planned to make a Nordic-type cookie. As I set to work, I had a vague recollection of the ingredients I'd need, but drew a blank when it came to their assembly. A search for the recipe was neither quick nor successful, but I was stubbornly determined to use the ingredients I'd set out and decided to create something new. For some reason, candy came to mind and I started to make an oatmeal brittle. I experimented a bit to get the proportions right, but within the hour I had an oatmeal brittle that was really tasty. There was, however, a problem. What do you do with oatmeal brittle? It may be delicious, but it doesn't exactly scream "eat me". I decided to break it into coarse crumbs and use it as a topping. I had some ice cream in the freezer and quickly shaped it into balls that I rolled in the brittle crumbs. I called the Silver Fox into the kitchen for a consultation and taste test. I was still actively participating in recipe contests at that time and he was my best and most honest critic. He was also use to being called into the kitchen at all hours of the day and night. He had several spoonfuls before opining that it tasted like fried ice cream to him. That's basically how oatmeal brittle morphed into mock fried ice cream.
This is one of those stupid-simple recipes that somehow manages to produce a dish that can make your socks go up and down. It is made from readily available ingredients and it will take less than 30 minutes of your time to complete. Not much can go wrong here if you keep your eye on the oatmeal as it cooks. It takes a while to brown, but once it does you have to watch it carefully. It can go from golden to black in seconds and if it goes too dark or starts to smoke, you'll have to throw it out. I do hope you'll give this recipe a try. It is perfect to serve at this time of year, and, yes, it really tastes like fried ice cream. If you'd like to add a more Mexican touch to it, feel free to add some cinnamon to the mix. Here's how the mock fried ice cream is made.
1) Scoop ice cream into six balls. Place on a cookie sheet and freeze again until solid.
2) Melt butter in a large nonstick skillet. Stir in sugar and cook until mixture begins to bubble. Add oatmeal and salt; cook, stirring, over medium heat for ten minutes or until oatmeal is a deep golden brown. Remove from heat. Stir in corn syrup. Rinse a cookie sheet with cold water; shake off excess water but do not dry pan. Scrape oat mixture onto pan and smooth into a thin layer with a wooden spoon. Allow to cool. Break into coarse crumbs and put in a 1-gallon zip lock bag.
3) When ready to serve, add ice cream balls, one at a time, to bag and shake to coat with oatmeal topping. Transfer to dessert plates or bowls. Garnish with mint if desired. Yield: 6 servings.
Do you associate fried icecream with Mexican food? In Australia you always used to get it at Chinese restaurants! I love it - but this way looks much less scary.
It does seem easy to prepare Mary and tasty too!
I feel like a little kid...I want some...now!
Given my adoration of fried ice cream...this was definitely a happy accident on your part!!
A happy accident indeed!!! Fried Ice Cream is one of my favorite indulgences!!
Love your mock fried ice cream :D The combo of crunchy , sweet and cold sounds fantastic !
Oh, what a fun recipe, Mary!! Thanks for sharing this summer treat.