- fixed several major and minor bugs.
* debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5.
* debian/copyright: Update copyright to new upstream release.
- fixed several other minor bugs.
GNU Automake 1.14; closes: #725516.
- add link to new upstream home site.
* debian/watch: Update to reflect upstream website changes.
* debian/rules: Add a working build-arch target, closes: #685418.
- fixed several other minor bugs, closes: #673378.
- update to reflect new upstream version.
* debian/rules: execute Bourne shell scripts with sh instead of perl.
* debian/watch: Use github.com directly instead of githubredir.
should improve cooperation with GNU tar.
* Adapt the "man-inst-paths" patch to the updated manual page.
- reformat debian/copyright to a list of "Header: value" pairs.
compat to reflect debhelper compatibility level (7).
replace "dh_clean -k" with "dh_prep" in rules.
- Add sanity checks to both decompressors.
- Remove input FILE operands.
- Implement options --keep and --force.
- Copy file attributes from original to (de)compressed.
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in the substituted $Id$ value in patches/makefile.
* Adapt line numbers in patches/man-inst-paths to updated manual page.
- Add -Wall to CFLAGS.
- Add descriptive headers to the makefile and manual page patches.
- close standard output after (de)compressing to it from file operands.
that the package can be built more than once in a row.
* debian/changelog, debian/control, debian/copyright: refresh e-mail address.
* Adapted "patches/man-inst-paths" to new upstream manual page.
- add "README.source" to make users aware of quilt.
getconf. Patch will be probably merged in a new upstream version.
* Update Homepage to lacos.hu.
verifying the package against sid's upgrading-checklist.txt.gz.
Justin B Rye on the debian-l10n-english mailing list.
- enable users to track peak memory usage with "malloc_trace.pl".
* Follow upstream's change from -O3 to -O2 in "debian/rules".
guidance. Thanks to Paul Wise for guidance and sponsoring.
* In lbzip2.1: debianized README and malloc_trace.pl pathnames.


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Q: Determining width of a layout after enabling visiblity of a child view I have a relative layout that has an ImageView and and a textview aligned to right of the ImageView.
I have a class that inflates this relative layout and adds in itself (as if it is that layout).
Initially textview's visiblity is set to GONE, hence the size of the view is just that of the ImageView.
Now, when the view receives focus, I set the visibility of textview to VISIBLE and set an animation to incrementally resize the view from imageView's width to (approximately)imageview+textview width (I am actually giving hard coded value in the program).
My question is, how can i determine the total width of the layout after i have enabled/diabled the visibility of the textview(since textview's width can be variable), so that i can specify that value to the animation as the final endpoint?
I had like to find this out right after i set the visiblity because if there is a delay in enabling the visiblity and starting the animation, the output is like the view with complete width (imageview+textview) is displayed first, then goes back to imageview size(start of animation), and then goes on to imageview+textview size(end of animation).
If these is no way to find it out at that time, then can anyone please suggesst me to manually calculate what the final size could be?
----EDIT----
For the effect I wanted to achieve, there didn't seem to be any way. Final dimension of a view can be computed only after layout for that view is done by Android. The final dimension cannot be computed right after you enable the visiblity of a child view
Hence for my solution, I kept the parent layout (Relative layout) set to fill_parent for the width, had another child layout (background) whose size I could control through program, and then on top of this I have my imageView (Parent Left aligned) + textView (right of imageView, fill_parent).
So when the view is created for the first time, parent layout is always fill_parent, background layout has size of the imageview only and set textview's visiblity to invisible. And when a text is added to the text view, few milliseconds later (Using countdowntimer), I fetched the final dimension, set the animation to scale the size from imageView's width to imageView+textView width, and after end of animation set the visiblity of text view to visible.
Am not sure if my solution is the best but it seems to work properly without any glitches.

A: set your RelativeLayout width value as "wrap_content" so whatever the content have the size that much of size will be set to the RelativeLayout.
<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_layout" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <ImageView
    android:layout_width="wrap_layout" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
    <TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_layout" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</RelativeLayout>

no need to set with hard code value

A: If I understood your question right, using getWidth() and getHeight() in the view you want will return the dimensions you seek.

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Q: How to extract partial string based on the percentage of the length of dataframe elements? str1 <- c("youaremyfriend","youarethebest")
str2 <- c("ABCDEFGHIJKLMN","thisismydata","thereisabird")
df <-c(str1,str2)
#the ideal research
"youar" "youa" "ABCDE" "this" "ther"

Hello, I want to extract the first one-third of string from all elements of df. For example, "youaremyfriend" the length is 14,so the result should be "youar". How can I do that? Thank you :)

A: If you have a string, you can use built-in functions nchar and substring (no libraries needed)
str1 = "youaremyfriend"
str1_length = nchar(str1)
substring_wanted = substr(str1, 1, round(str1_length/3)

"youar"

A: With stringr this can be done like this:
library(stringr)
str1 <- c("youaremyfriend","youarethebest")
str2 <- c("ABCDEFGHIJKLMN","thisismydata","thereisabird")

string <- c(str1, str2)

str_sub(string, start = 1, end = round(str_length(string)/3))
# [1] "youar" "youa"  "ABCDE" "this"  "ther"

A: Another solution in base R:
str1 <- c("youaremyfriend", "youarethebest", "BBBAAAKKK")
str2 <- c("ABCDEFGHIJKLMN", "thisismydata", "thereisabird")
df <- data.frame(str1, str2)

c(apply(df, c(1, 2), function(s) {
  strtrim(s, width = nchar(s)/3)
}))

Your first column was missing an entry so I added one to construct the dataframe.


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Mapping the March of Wales
Davies, R. R., Lordship and Society in the March of Wales, 1282–1400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978).
Griffiths, Ralph A. et al. (eds), Gwent County History; Vol. 2. The Age of the Marcher Lords c. 1070–1536 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009).
Holden, Brock, Lords of the Central Marches: English Aristocracy and Frontier Society, 1086–1265 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Lieberman, Max, The Medieval March of Wales: The Creation and Perception of a Frontier, 1066–1283 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Palmer, A. N. and Owen, E., A History of Ancient Tenures of Land in the Marches of North Wales, 2nd edn (Wrexham, 1910).
Pughe, T. B. (ed.), Glamorgan County History, III (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1971).
Rees, William, South Wales and the March, 1284–1415 (London, 1924).
Example Article
Example Article July 15, 2015

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text: Q: Control over the audience targeting dialog I have a customer which find it non-userfriendly to have the option to choose between "Global Audience", "Distribution/Security Groups" and "SharePoint Groups". Instead they want to have a dropdown with, e.g. "Location", "Country" and then see the various groups beneath them. Is it possible to change these OOTB search scopes for audience targeting? Because now you have to know what group to search for, instead of seeing which groups are available.


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BSO BOON offers shelter at two locations in Amstelveen, ESCAPADE and DE MEERKAMP
BOON ESCAPADE
Escapade 9
1183NM Amstelveen
Located at Sportpark ESCAPADE at RKAVIC football club.
BOON has access to a (lit) artificial turf field, a private playground for the youngest children and a playground with tennis and basketball facilities. Other games and sports are also available on the playground.
BOON works closely with its neighbours and thereby also has the opportunity to use real tennis courts, a beach volleyball court and a real outdoor bootcamp course.
BOON children have the chance, for a fee, to have swimming lessons at HealthCity.
This location caters to children from all schools in Amstelveen.
BOON ESCAPADE is open from Monday to Friday.
BOON bij DE MEERKAMP
Van der Hooplaan 239B
1185LN Amstelveen
Located next to the DE MEERKAMP swimming pool.
BOON has access to a playground, that can be closed-off, with tennis and basketball facilities. Other games and sports are also available on the playground.
We can also use all outdoor facilities at DE MEERKAMP swimming pool (with the exception of the swimming pool itself). There are two children's playgrounds, a sandbox/beach volleyball court, a basketball court and several football pitches.
BOON children have the opportunity, for a fee, to take swimming lessons at DE MEERKAMP swimming pool.
This site caters to children from the following schools: Triangel, Westwijzer, Karel Eijkman, Willem Alexander, Cirkel and Pionier.
BOON bij DE MEERKAMP is open on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. On Wednesday (from 13 June 2018) and Friday joint daycare is offered at BOON ESCAPADE.
Placement on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays:
Children from schools in Amstelveen-Noord are placed at the BOON ESCAPADE location.
Children from schools in Amstelveen-Zuid are placed at the BOON DE MEERKAMP location.
Children from the following schools: Montessori de Linde and Palet Zuid are placed in consultation.
Placement on Wednesdays and Fridays:
On Wednesdays and Fridays, both locations are combined at the BOON ESCAPADE location.


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1988 · United States
Blurring the line between fantasy and reality as well as between focus and obscurity in her work, multifaceted American artist Casey Jane Ellison explores the notions of the self and the gaze in a dynamic body of work.
Creating both film installations and still frame work, Ellison uses her skills as an animator to create imagery that on one hand feels authentic and photographic but on the other is clearly digitally manipulated. Frosted surfaces, blurred edges, and arbitrary colors inform the viewer that what they see is not necessarily so, but what makes this style so fascinating is that Ellison conveys it through the digital language of the modern day. In doing so, Ellison encourages conversations on the role of new media in art and where the artist falls in that discussion.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Casey Jane Ellison attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to attain a degree in film, video, and animation. In addition to creating art, Ellison is also a comedian. Her work has been featured in numerous prominent publications, such as The New York Times and Vogue, and she is also known for her voice-over and podcast work.


IUML slammed the remarks saying that BJP President Amit Shah's comments were not just derogatory but also demeaning for the people of Kerala.
The Indian Union Muslim league filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India against BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday for comparing Kerala's Wayanad with Pakistan. The complaint filed by IUML secretary Khorrum A Omer states that the BJP chief was making "irresponsible, communal and insulting statements, in order to mislead and divide the voters on religious and communal lines".
Addressing a rally in Nagpur On April 9, the BJP chief tore into Congress president Rahul Gandhi for contesting from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat other than Amethi. Shah said that the Congress president was contesting from a seat where "one cannot make out if the place is India's or Pakistan's" when a procession is taken out.
IUML also slammed the remarks in a Facebook post on Tuesday, adding the Amit Shah's comments were not just derogatory but also demeaning for the people of Kerala.
Congress and the IUML have been coalition partners since the 1960 elections. The party also plays a significant role as a constituent of the Congress-led UDF since the time of its inception.
What led to Amit Shah's comments and why?
Amit Shah's remarks came after pictures of Rahul Gandhi's April 4 roadshow in Wayanad went viral. Hundreds of Congress supporters thronged the roads on the day when Rahul was to file his nomination. However, what caught the attention of many was the overwhelming presence of green flags in the rally. The flags belonged to the IUML and led to people drawing similarities with the Pakistani flag.
The pictures of green flags of IUML spawned several social media posts saying that the green flags waved during Rahul Gandhi's rally were Pakistani and Islamic flags.


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Narratori delle riserve è un'antologia di prose contemporanee raccolte da Gianni Celati prima sul giornale romano "il manifesto" e poi come libro presso Feltrinelli.

Contenuto
Dopo una nota d'avvio in cui Celati dice che "ogni autore va per la sua strada" e si tratta di "un album di casi particolari" (p. 9), ogni autore è presentato con una paginetta di notizie e qualche racconto.

Fanno parte del libro racconti di Franco Arminio, Marco Belpoliti, Daniele Benati, Ginevra Bompiani, Rocco Brindisi, Rossana Campo, Patrizia Cavalli, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Alice Ceresa, Mara Cini, Enzo Fabbrucci (in versi), Elvio Fachinelli, Lino Gabellone, Daniele Gorret, Patrizia Guarnieri, Gabriele Latemar, Valerio Magrelli, Giorgio Messori, Luigi Monteleone, Nico Orengo, Roberto Papetti, Nino Pedretti, Sandra Petrignani, Claudio Piersanti, Massimo Riva, Maurizio Salabelle, Mauro Sargiani, Giuliano Scabia, Marianne Schneider, Beppe Sebaste, Lisabetta Serra e Gaetano Testa.

Edizione
Narratori delle riserve, a cura di Gianni Celati, Milano: Feltrinelli ("I narratori"), 1992 ISBN 8807014394

Raccolte di racconti di Gianni Celati

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Q: In objective c, is there any way to open a new view non modally, and close the current view? I have an application with many views.  Whenever I click the next button on the first view I present the second view.  Currently I am doing this as follows:
NextView *second = [[NextView alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:second animated:YES];

In this application, however, I don't need to keep any information from the first view any more.  Is there some way I can bring up the second view, and deallocate the first view from memory?  I was thinking that if I bring up 5 views in a row, and all of them are modal, then I will be using more memory that I really need.  If the user hits the back button, I would also like to open the first view, and remove the second from memory.
Is there some way to do this to save memory, or is this memory just something I should not worry about?

A: You should definitely try to use UINavigationController. With pushViewController:animated: you push a new view controller on the stack, and you get a navigation bar with a "Back" button for free. With popToViewController:animated: you can go back to the initial view controller.
UINavigationController is very well documented and there are lots of sample programs. I haven't used Storyboard yet, but that should make it even simpler to build a navigation controller based sequence of views.
You need not care about releasing the views from memory. Views are unloaded automatically if memory is low. If your view controller allocates huge amounts of additional memory, then you should implement didReceiveMemoryWarning to release that memory. See The View Controller Life Cycle for details.

A: I think you should use navigation bar and hide it and use the answer here marked correct.
iPhone - Replacing rootview in navigation controller

A: While going to next view,add release like
NextView *second = [[NextView alloc] init];
[self presentModalViewController:second animated:YES];
[second release];


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The wall paintings of ancient Thera are famous frescoes discovered by Spyridon Marinatos at the excavations of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini (or Thera).  They are regarded as part of Minoan art, although the culture of Thera was somewhat different from that of Crete, and the political relationship between the two islands at the time is unclear.  They have the advantage of mostly being excavated in a more complete condition, still on their walls, than Minoan paintings from Knossos and other Cretan sites.

Most of the frescos are now in the Prehistoric Museum of Thera on Santorini, or the  National Archaeological Museum of Athens, which has several of the most complete and famous scenes.

Importance
Excavated from 1967 to 1974, the wall paintings provide a crucial window into Santorini's history, depicting the early Aegean world as a highly developed society. Of all the findings unearthed at Akrotiri, these frescoes constitute the most significant contribution to present-day knowledge of Aegean art and culture. In their technique, style, and thematic content, the paintings are invaluable objects of study for archaeologists, art historians, zoologists, botanists, and chemists. Originally displayed on the walls of ancient Theran houses, the paintings render ancient figures, customs and historical events.

Technique and palette
To prepare the stone walls of the buildings for frescoes, the walls were first covered with a mixture of mud and straw, then thinly coated with lime plaster and lastly layers of fine plaster. The palette of the paintings consists of white (from the lime plaster), red (derived from ferrous earths and haematite), yellow (from yellow ochre), blue (either Egyptian blue, purple, or possibly azurite), and mineral black. The ancient Theran artists made full use of their colors: yellow was used for the golden fur of lions or the skin of youths, and as a stand-in for light green for painted plants such as myrtle. Blue was used as a dark gray to indicate birds, animal pelts, fish scales, and the shaven heads of young figures. Deep blue was also used to suggest the deep green of ivy, papyrus, lily, reeds, and palm trees. White indicated the pale skin of female figures while red was used for the darker, sun-tanned skin of males.

Reproductions
3-D reproductions of the paintings were sponsored by the Thera Foundation as a commission to Kodak Pathé of France. The Kodak Pathé technique has also been used in the reproductions of the Lascaux cave paintings and the Tomb of Sennefer.

Exhibitions

Past
 Roemer and Pelizaeus museums, Hildesheim, Germany, 1993: "Egyptian-Minoan Relations"
 Vienna City Museum, Vienna, Austria, 1994: "Pharaohs and Foreigners, Dynasties in the Dark"
 Salon International de Musées et de Exposicion (SIME), Paris, France, 1994
 Petros M. Nomikos Conference Center, Santorini, Greece, 1997: "First International Symposium on the Wall Paintings of Thira"
 Paris, France, 1999–2000: "Europe in the Time of Ulysses, Gods and Heroes of the Bronze Age"

Present
The reproductions are currently on display at Santozeum, a museum in Santorini that doubles as a private residence. The reproductions are featured on the house's inner walls, presented as they were intended to be viewed in antiquity, as interior embellishments for Aegean homes.

Further reading

References

External links
 Wall Paintings of Thera - The Thera Foundation
 Santozeum

Ancient Greek painting
Minoan frescos


Novalis®, an alliance of top annual, perennial and woody ornamental growers who market exclusively to independent garden centers, re-wholesalers and landscape professionals, is making its mark in the green industry and changing gardening for plant lovers from coast to coast. Novalis®, which means "to cultivate new ground" in Latin, is a growing power in the horticultural industry today. A national alliance of wholesale nurseries whose plants are available in almost 2,000 independent garden centers across the country, Novalis® sells distinctive, high-quality plants under its Plants that Work® brand umbrella and provides consistent marketing and merchandising power to its network. This equates to plant solutions for home gardeners everywhere.
Who makes up the Novalis® network of growers?
The nine perennial growers who are currently a part of Novalis® – Armstrong Growers, Carolina Nurseries, The Conard-Pyle Company, Imperial Nurseries, Willoway Nurseries, Greenleaf Nursery Company, Fisher Farms, Hackney Nursery Company, and Windmill Nursery of LA – embody a combined wealth of horticultural wisdom, and between them they have been in business for over 300 years. In brief, these regional powerhouses have found national strength in numbers. The alliance, according to the growers, is about give-and-take, where everyone benefits. The growers share information and production tips, and they find the synergy of the alliance compelling.
In 2008, the Novalis® network will expand to include superior "color" growers in conjunction with the latest plant program, Plants that Work® by Color™. The most impressive expansion to-date of the Plants that Work® line, Novalis®, along with the newest members of the grower consortium, will bring more than 200 varieties of world- class "color" genetics to gardeners. Novalis® will continue to seek additional "color" growers who might have an interest in joining this top-notch network.
All of the Novalis® growers are marked by a compatible approach to business. They share the same high standards, and all Novalis® brand plants must pass the same quality control specifications before being sent to market.
What is Plants that Work®?
The Plants that Work® brand name, which initially was applied to a small percentage of Novalis plants, now includes all of Novalis®' offerings – which number in the thousands. The Plants that Work® name serves as a clear tell-tale for consumers. The name directly addresses consumers' primary fear – that plants will not grow or perform well in their gardens – and assures gardeners, homeowners and landscape professionals that the Novalis® plants they purchase will work beautifully in their locales.
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Novalis® offers independent retailers and landscape professionals proprietary plants that are not available in the "Big Boxes." They supply eye-catching display stands, helpful plant care literature, point-of-purchase materials, and educational plant tags that give consumers the needed confidence to purchase a plant.
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What sets Plants that Work® apart from other brands?
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Davenport, Iowa: The team at Cobham has secured an unnamed launch customer for its new, high performance and long-life Air Separation Module (ASM) for 737 Next Generation (NG) commercial airlines.
The ASM uses hollow fiber membranes to generate nitrogen to inert - or render safe from fire - aircraft fuel tanks by creating an atmosphere where fires cannot exist due to insufficient oxygen. The team at Cobham Mission Systems will supply the product directly to commercial airline customers, starting with its unnamed launch customer. Cobham's 737 ASM will provide more than $1.5M of cost savings for a fleet of ten aircraft during a decade of operation.
Work will be performed by the Cobham Mission Systems site in Davenport, Iowa, with deliveries commencing late 2015. Selection by this launch customer reflects the unrivalled experience of the Cobham team in the design, development, and delivery of nitrogen generation systems for a wide range of commercial & military aviation applications. The team at Cobham Mission Systems offers an expansive range of fuel tank inerting products, and has to date delivered systems for more than 3,200 military and commercial aircraft around the world.
At the signing of the agreement, Dean Cantrill, Vice President & General Manager of Cobham Mission Systems said: "Cobham Mission Systems is delighted this launch customer selected our product to provide the benefits our products are known for world-wide. This is an important milestone in our technology development to provide optimal solutions for our customers."
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Els gàlags (Galagidae) són una família de petits primats nocturns que viuen al continent africà. Tot i que generalment són considerats una família de l'infraordre dels lorisiformes, de vegades se'ls inclou com a subfamília dins dels lorísids.

El nom sud-africà nagapie (que prové de l'afrikaans i vol dir 'petites mones nocturnes') és degut al fet que se les veu gairebé exclusivament de nit.

Descripció
Els gàlags tenen un ulls grans que els proporcionen una bona visió nocturna, extremitats posteriors fortes, una oïda aguda, i llargues cues que els ajuden a mantenir l'equilibri. Tenen ungles a la majoria dels dits, excepte al segon dit dels peus, que té una urpa que fa servir per raspallar-se.

La seva dentadura és totalment simètrica (), i a la part inferior davantera de la boca, té la pinta dental característica dels estrepsirrins.

Ecologia
Tenen habilitats grimpadores destacables, inclosa la capacitat de saltar verticalment fins a 2 metres. Es creu que això és degut al fet que emmagatzema energia elàstica als tendons de les potes del darrere, el qual li permet fer salts molt més grans dels que serien normals per un animal de la seva mida.

Les femelles protegeixen el seu territori i el comparteixen amb les seves cries. Els joves mascles deixen els territoris materns després de la pubertat, mentre que les femelles hi romanen, formant grups socials constituïts per femelles estretament emparentades i les seves cries. Els mascles adults s'instal·len a territoris separats, que s'encavalquen amb els dels grups socials de femelles. Generalment, un mascle adult s'aparella amb totes les femelles d'una zona. Els mascles que no s'han establert en cap territori, de vegades formen petits grups de «solters».

Dieta
La seva dieta és una barreja d'insectes i altres petits animals, fruits, i eucaliptus.

Reproducció
Després d'un període de gestació que varia entre 110 i 133 dieas, les cries neixen amb els ulls
mig tancats i sense poder moure's per si sols inicialment. Entre el sisè i vuitè dia, la mare porta la cria a la boca, i la deixa a les branques mentre s'alimenta.

Informes de fonts veterinàries i zoològiques indiquen una esperança de vida en captivitat de 12 a 16,5 anys, el que suggereix una esperança de vida d'uns 10 anys a la natura.

Vocalitzacions
Els gàlags es comuniquen cridant-se els uns als altres, i marcant els seus camins amb orina. Al final de la nit, els membres del grup utilitzen un crit especial i es reuneixen per dormir en un niu de fulles, un grup de branques, o un forat en un arbre.

Relacions amb humans
Mentre que la seva conservació com a animals de companyia no és recomanable (igual que molts altres primats no humans, es consideren possibles fonts de zoonosi, malalties que poden creuar les barreres de les espècies), sense dubte es fa. Igualment, és molt probable que atreguin l'atenció dels funcionaris de duanes en la importació a molts països.

Genoma
S'ha estat estudiant la seqüència del genoma del gàlag de Garnett. Atès que és un primat «primitiu», la seqüència serà particularment útil alhora de reconstruir les dels primats superiors (macacos, ximpanzés i humans) fins a no primats propers, com ara rosegadors. La cobertura de 2x prevista no serà suficient per crear un conjunt de genoma complet, però proporcionara dades comparatives en la majoria del genoma humà.

L'ADN dels gàlags s'assembla en un 58% al dels humans.

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Enllaços externs
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The Whistle Echoes is a sequel to Elizabeth Gaskell is classic English Novel, North & South. Margaret Hale has declared her love for John Thornton. The two lovers journey back to Milton to prepare for their wedding and to begin their new life.


Part of Growing Room 2019 Punch up at the patriarchy with an afternoon of witty poetry and prose featuring some of the most incisive and hilarious writers in the country—Ivan Coyote, Lucas Crawford, Molly Cross-Blanchard, Jo Dworkshack, Eden Robinson, Hana Shafi, and Lindsay Wong. Hosted by Samantha Nock (host of the podcast Heavy Content).Event Type: ReadingVenue: Red Gate Revue StageDate: Sunday, March 10, 1:30pm – 3:30pmCost: Pay What You Can (recommended: $12.50)ASL Interpretation Available by Request Before February 15, 2019 PANELISTSIvan Coyote is the author of eleven books, the creator of four short films, six full-length live shows, and three albums that combine storytelling with music.Lucas Crawford, genderqueer disabled poet, wrote Sideshow Concessions, The High Line Scavenger Hunt, and Belated Bris of the Brainsick (Fall 2019).
Lucas teaches at UNB and is from rural NS.Molly Cross-Blanchard is a Métis writer, MFA student at UBC, editor at PRISM international, and author of the chapbook I Don't Want to Tell You.Award-winning storyteller, entrepreneur, broadcaster and SFU Writer's Studio graduate Jo Dworshak produces the monthly show Story Story Lie at The Rio Theatre.Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla, British Columbia. Her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Her latest novel is Trickster Drift.Hana Shafi is a writer and artist who illustrates under the name Frizz Kid. Known on Instagram for her weekly affirmation series, she is also the recipient of the Women Who Inspire Award, from the Canadian Council for Muslim Women.Lindsay Wong holds a BFA in Creative Writing from The University of British Columbia and a MFA in Literary Nonfiction from Columbia University in New York City.
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, And My Crazy Chinese Family is her debut memoir.MODERATORSamantha Nock is a Cree-Métis poet, writer, and podcast host from Dawson Creek, BC. Her family originally comes from Ile-a-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan. The venue is wheelchair accessible and ASL interpretation is available by request before February 15, 2019. Detailed information about accessibility at Growing Room is available at: https://festival.roommagazine.com/venues-and-accessibility/. Growing Room takes place on the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish peoples.Growing Room is made possible thanks to support from our major sponsors and partners: Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council of the Arts, the BC Arts Council, the City of Vancouver, Creative BC, the Access Copyright Foundation, The Georgia Straight, and Massy Books.


The long term success of your business relies on the ability to generate a profit. Despite it's importance, profit isn't understood by many small business owners. Below we explain the three types of profit and how you can improve them.
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Cut Low Margin Products and Services - You can use a similar calculation to determine the gross profit of a single product or service. This could help you make decisions about which products or services to drop or keep. Here's the calculation: Revenue of Product A – Cost of Goods Sold of Product A = Gross Profit of Product A.
Reduce Cost of Goods Sold - This may mean negotiating with your suppliers for better deals. Consider asking your distributors for discounts for bulk-purchases or a discount for being a loyal customer.
Watch Out For Wastage - Learn how to forecast your inventory levels so you don't waste money on unused or spoiled inventory.
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Offer Employee Benefits - You pay payroll taxes on your employees. If you want to keep your payroll taxes down, offer employees added benefits instead of bonuses. You don't pay taxes on benefits so you can write them off as expenses.
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Chronic alcohol abuse and the acute sedative and neurophysiologic effects of midazolam
Lance O. Bauer, Jeffrey B. Gross, Roger Meyer, David J. Greenblatt
The aim of the present investigation was to examine benzodiazepine sensitivity in abstinent alcoholics. For this purpose, two escalating doses of the benzodiazepine midazolam were IV administered to nine alcohol-dependent patients after 2-3 weeks of abstinence and 12 healthy, non-alcoholic volunteers. A variety of dependent measures were examined, including the power spectrum of the resting electroencephalogram (EEG) and evoked EEG responses, saccadic eye movements, self-reported sedation, and vigilance task performance. Analyses revealed a significant association between plasma midazolam levels and changes in EEG beta power, pattern shift visual evoked potential amplitude, heart rate, and saccade amplitude and velocity. The patient and control groups differed significantly in the onset latencies of their saccadic eye movements, and marginally in EEG beta power, both before and after midazolam. However, no differences were detected between the groups in the dose of midazolam required to produce sedation or in midazolam's neurophysiological effects.
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Visual Evoked Potentials
Task Performance and Analysis
Control Groups
Power (Psychology)
Bauer, L. O., Gross, J. B., Meyer, R., & Greenblatt, D. J. (1997). Chronic alcohol abuse and the acute sedative and neurophysiologic effects of midazolam. Psychopharmacology, 133(3), 293-299. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130050404
Bauer, Lance O. ; Gross, Jeffrey B. ; Meyer, Roger ; Greenblatt, David J. / Chronic alcohol abuse and the acute sedative and neurophysiologic effects of midazolam. In: Psychopharmacology. 1997 ; Vol. 133, No. 3. pp. 293-299.
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Mavs 0-1 on the season after losing to Boise State (1-0). Boise State shoots 57% FG, 13-26 3PT to beat UTA 116-87 in Boise. UTA was outrebounded by 18, 44-26. Dowell scores 20.
Next up: Samford (1-0) in the UTA home opener tuesday night.
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Growers Pleased with the Development of the 2013 Almond Crop
Blue Diamond Almonds – Almond Bloom Report – April 15, 2013
The next scheduled report will be posted on April 29, 2013. In the event of any significant occurrences prior to that date, this site will be updated as soon as possible.
Northern California Almond Crop Bloom Report –
Mild temperatures accompanied the return of wet weather to the Sacramento Valley. Morning low temperatures were reported predominately in the 40's during the period, with warmest locations along the west side of the region reporting readings in the low to mid 50's. While daily maximum temperatures typically ranged from the upper 60's to lower 70's, highest temperatures were reported during the period's final week when readings reached into the mid and upper 80's under clear skies.
Rainfall returned to the region during the closing days of March and first week of April as a diffuse weather system moved across the Central Valley from the west. Official rainfall totals ranged from 0.8 inch to as much as 1.2 inches. Blustery north winds blew across the region in the wake of the rain with sustained speeds reported excess of 25 mph and gusts reaching over 40 mph. Fortunately, the winds were well forecast and almond growers were able to alter their irrigation schedules, which helped to enhance their tree's stability. While some degree of nut loss was reported and some almond trees were blown-over, observers are reporting that the losses due to the winds were minimal.
Observers are reporting excellent growth and development of the 2013 almond crop in the Sacramento Valley. The predominately above normal temperatures the region has experienced this year has promoted rapid growth since the completion of the bloom and equally rapid sizing of the nuts for this point in time. Nuts that failed to be pollinated have already fallen from the trees, no doubt aided by the blustery winds and the trees have now begun to shed those nuts that they are unable to support to harvest.
Owing to the predominately dry weather experienced this year, no signs of springtime fungal diseases have been observed. However, growers have begun treatments to susceptible plantings having a history of the summertime diseases Scab and Rust, which must be completed prior to infection. Growers have also been busy fertilizing their orchards to ensure adequate fertility levels and controlling weed growth in and around the orchards. While irrigation plans were altered during the period, the rainfall received did not significantly reduce the need for irrigation and growers in all areas have been working to maintain their orchard soils at adequate moisture levels.
In the coming weeks, growers will step up their irrigations as temperatures rise. All will be monitoring the insect populations within the orchards closely, both pest and beneficial species in order to maintain the highest possible quality at the lowest possible cost.
Central California Almond Bloom Report –
Conditions turned damp during the period with mild temperatures, rainfall, wind and even a bit of hail punctuating the weather. Morning minimum temperatures were reported predominately in the 40's with warmest readings reaching occasionally into the lower 50's. Daily maximums ranged from the upper 60's to mid 70's during the majority of the period, with readings reaching to or slightly above 80 degrees during the period's final week.
Rain swept across the region from the west during the last week of March and first week of April. Official rainfall totals for the period ranged from 0.8 inch to 1.5 inches. However, almond growers reported additional amounts falling from heavy, but isolated downpours that roamed through the region. Particularly heavy rainfall fell in areas of western Stanislaus and San Joaquin County on Sunday, March 31st as a strong storm cell moved from south to north through the area. While almond growers reported hail that damaged apricots south of Tracy, no damage was observed in the area's almond orchards.
Blustery winds dominated the weather in the days following the storm's passage with sustained speeds in excess of 25 mph and gusts reported as high as 40 mph. While almond growers reported some crop loss due to nuts being knocked from the trees, tree losses were minimal as the winds were well forecast and growers had held off irrigations in order to provide more stability for their trees.
Observers are reporting that the 2013 almond crop is developing well with little to no adverse impacts from the damp, windy conditions experienced during the period. Nuts of all varieties have broken free from their jackets and are growing well. As described in previous reports, nuts that were not pollinated have been shed from the trees and orchards are now entering a second period of shedding where nuts that the trees are unable to sustain to maturity are also being cast to the ground. Growers are commenting that the above normal temperatures the region has experienced this year has resulted in excellent growth rates, producing good nut sizing for this point in time.
Growers have been busy scheduling irrigations and applying fertilizer as they work to support the developing almond crop. The rainfall the region received provided only a small reduction in the need for irrigation and growers have been working diligently to maintain adequate soil moisture levels.
Observers have noted that the symptoms of Non-Infectious Bud Failure are visible in many Carmel plantings this year. A non-infectious genetic disorder, the condition significantly reduces crop loads and dramatically alters the growth and development of the tree.
While there is little to no evidence of disease at this point, growers are treating for the summer-time fungal diseases, Scab and Rust in plantings having a history of infection. Treatments to control these diseases must be completed prior to the start of infection. Significant, but fortunately isolated infestations of Oblique Banded Leaf Rollers have been spotted along the west side of the region. Almond growers are monitoring their orchards for signs of Leaf-Footed Plant Bugs that can be expected to move in from surrounding grasslands as these areas dry out. Growers will pay particular attention to their Sonora, Fritz and Aldrich plantings as they are preferred by this potentially damaging insect. Reports of high trap counts of Navel Orange Worm in the southern region have increased grower vigilance for this insect as well. Growers and Pest Control Advisors will be monitoring the situation and evaluating the best control practices should trap populations indicate that early season controls are warranted. For the first time, growers have a pheromone trap available to attract male adult Navel Orange Worm moths. This provides growers with a very valuable tool in managing the prime insect pest of almonds.
Southern California Almond Bloom Report –
Weather in the southern San Joaquin Valley turned a bit cloudy and windy during the period, with rain reported during the final week of March and first of April. Morning low temperatures remained at comfortable levels, with readings reported predominately between the mid 40's and low to mid 50's. While the preponderance of daily maximum temperatures were reported in the 70's, coolest readings in the upper 60's were recorded on the cloudier, wetter days with warmest readings reported under clear skies in the lower 80's.
Some degree of rainfall was reported in all areas of the region, with 0.2 to 0.4 inch reported in the Madera and Fresno County areas. Precipitation was a more sparse in the region's southern areas where official reports placed totals between a few hundredths of an inch to as much as 0.25 inch. As with the northern and central growing regions, blustery winds blew through the southern San Joaquin during the first week of April, particularly in the northern half of the region. Sustained speeds in excess of 20 mph were reported in Madera and Fresno County, with gusts reaching in excess of 35 mph in the windier areas. While observers reported some degree of nut loss and blown-over trees, the overall losses have been minimal.
Observers are reporting excellent nut development under the near-perfect growing conditions. While the winds and rain received during the period caused growers to alter their work plans, there have been little to no adverse impacts on the almond crop. Growers have been fertilizing and irrigating their orchards to support the developing crop and spent the days following the blustery winds removing blown-over trees and broken branches from the orchards. Irrigation schedules were altered in advance of the winds as growers worked to provide better anchoring for their trees.
Irrigation has become a prime concern for the region's growers as they face restricted supplies of surface water from irrigation districts. This has increased reliance on privately owned deep wells. Almond growers have been re-working existing wells and preparing additional wells as they struggle to ensure adequate water supplies. Some have reported rising bicarbonate levels in the water supplied by their wells, which can be toxic to the trees. Nut development and tree health to this point in time is reported as being quite good. The above normal temperatures the region has experienced this year has resulted in excellent growth rates and nuts that are quite well sized for the date.
While little to no evidence of infectious disease is found in the region's orchards at this time, almond growers are treating plantings with a history of Scab and Rust infections. Treatments for these potentially serious summer-time fungal diseases must be completed prior to the visible infection can be observed and growers have begun treatments to their most susceptible plantings. There have been reports of Leaf-Footed Plant Bugs in the Sanger area of Fresno County. Almond growers are monitoring their orchards for signed of this potentially serious pest, particularly in their Sonora, Aldrich and Fritz plantings, which the insect prefers. Growers in Madera County have also reported increasing activity of web-spinning spider mites. While not at treatable levels, growers will be monitoring their orchards, hoping that predatory insect populations can maintain mite levels below economic thresholds. Pest control advisors are reporting very high counts of Navel Orange Worm in the typically used egg traps. For the first time, growers and their advisors have the ability to deploy pheromone traps to monitor Navel Orange Worm adult populations within the orchards, which will be very useful in timing proper treatments to control this serious pest.
Almond growers with plantings of the Carmel variety have noted that Non-Infectious Bud Failure has become quite pronounced this year, with most of the region's planting showing some degree of symptoms. Delayed and altered growth are typical symptoms, which can significantly reduce crop loads. The Carmel is most susceptible to this genetic disorder, which never gets better once it's expressed in the tree.
Growers will spend the next month intent on meeting their orchards water requirements in order to safely get the crop to harvest.
Filed Under: Bloom/Harvest Reports
Tags: "Almond Bloom Report", "Almond Crop 2013", "Almond Crop", "Almond Ingredients", Blue Diamond Almonds, Blue Diamond Growers, Global Ingredients Division, harvest, Mark Jansen


Do you remember the last time you've read an article that was talking about future trends without using the word disruption? Even though the word was described as the emptiest buzzword by the Guardian in 2016, it's still the most practical and impactful synonym for revolutionary. Last year it happened with warehousing, manufacturing and distribution.


Summary (from the back of the book): Penny is ready to escape the pocket of home, ready to be in love, ready to find her way in the world. Navigating the choppy waters of teenage life, she confronts teh complicated truths of her not quite-normal family, the highs and lows of high school, her lost mother, and her lost best friend, and on alluring bad boy who just might be more adventure than she bargained for.
always too late to stop the house from burning down.
a diamond was nothing special."
The author has a great writing style that leave nothing out, but doesn't waste a single word. Each "chapter" or poem is one page or less long and they all connect to create Penny's story of 9th and 10th grade.
I read this book in one day and I think it's a great way to read it because you get into the flow of the verse and very quickly move through the book.
Rather than getting to know each character well as the reader does in a prose book, we get to know Penny. Others are on the periphery of our knowledge even if they play a huge role in Penny's life. There is no dialogue or opinions from other characters, just Penny and her thoughts. Penny could be any girl in high school. She wants to date, wants to be liked, worries about her friends, and doesn't want to be embarrassed, especially in front of her peers. She wants to escape her boring little town and what she considers her boring little life, but in the end she realizes how much she likes her life.
I haven't read anything written completely in verse. I am highly skeptical--I just don't know if that is a medium that I would respond positively to.
Stephanie--I was also very skeptical. For instance, I haven't read all the hugely popular Ellen Hopkins books for that very reason. But, this book worked for me, maybe because each "chapter" was so short (less than a page).
I stay away from verse books too - I tried a couple and they didn't work, but if I hear of a really good book, I do give it a try. Since you highly recommend this, I'll add it to my radar.


SWARTKOPS: The beheaded body of a murdered male was found in Swartkops last night. At about 21:30 Swartkops police were alerted to a murder after passers-by found the body of a male next to the M19 road close to Swartkops.
male had several stab wounds on the upper body and his head was also cut off by an unknown instrument. The murder victim is estimated to be between the ages of 20 to 30 years.


I've driven highway 101 between San Luis Obispo and Orange County hundreds of times. The Channel Islands frame a stretch of the highway, serving as place markers, letting me know I was about half way through. I never knew too much about them, or the beauty they behold.
When I began sailing lessons last year, the islands took on a new meaning. They became a destination. So on a beautiful day, we headed out to Santa Cruz. We motored out there and it took about 3 hours. We took care of "business" emptying the tanks past the 3 mile line, and learned that the closest oil platform's name is Gail. Opal continues to love having the wind in her face.
The highlight of the trip was all the dolphins. It was a true treat watching them play under the bow of the boat. I couldn't pull myself away from them to get my camera, so unfortunately no pictures of them. It's moments like this that make me feel honored to be doing what we are doing.
Opal and Finn kept me company while at the helm.
We're hoping to get out to Santa Cruz/Anacapa again on our way south and stay a couple nights. That way we can spend some time exploring the islands.


The 3.5mm Standard Broad TPLO plate is manufactured from medical grade 316L stainless steel. The proximal hole configuration has been updated to minimise the risk of crossing screws, to reduce surgery time and simplify the procedure. They require minimal further contouring.
Available in both left and right configurations.


Aids in Internet file searches of gopher servers.
The classes CGopherConnection, CGopherFile, CGopherFileFind, CGopherLocator and their members have been deprecated because they do not work on the Windows XP platform, but they will continue to work on earlier platforms.
CGopherFileFind::CGopherFileFind Constructs a CGopherFileFind object.
CGopherFileFind::FindFile Finds a file on a gopher server.
CGopherFileFind::FindNextFile Continues a file search from a previous call to FindFile.
CGopherFileFind::GetCreationTime Gets the time the specified file was created.
CGopherFileFind::GetLastAccessTime Gets the time the specified file was last accessed.
CGopherFileFind::GetLastWriteTime Gets the time the specified file was last written to.
CGopherFileFind::GetLength Gets the length of the found file, in bytes.
CGopherFileFind::GetLocator Get a CGopherLocator object.
CGopherFileFind::GetScreenName Gets the name of a gopher screen.
CGopherFileFind::IsDots Tests for the current directory and parent directory markers while iterating through files.
CGopherFileFind includes member functions that begin a search, locate a file, and return a file's URL.
Other MFC classes designed for Internet and local file searched include CFtpFileFind and CFileFind. Together with CGopherFileFind, these classes provide a seamless mechanism for the user to find specific files, regardless of the server protocol, file type, or location (either a local machine or a remote server.) Note that there is no MFC class for searching on HTTP servers because HTTP does not support the direct file manipulation required by searches.
In addition, when used with CGopherFileFind, the CFileFind member function IsDots is always FALSE.
For more information about how to use CGopherFileFind and the other WinInet classes, see the article Internet Programming with WinInet.
This member function is called to construct a CGopherFileFind object.
A pointer to a CGopherConnection object.
The context identifier for the operation. See Remarks for more information about dwContext.
The default value for dwContext is sent by MFC to the CGopherFileFind object from the CInternetSession object that created the CGopherFileFind object. When you construct a CGopherFileFind object, you can override the default to set the context identifier to a value of your choosing. The context identifier is returned to CInternetSession::OnStatusCallback to provide status on the object with which it is identified. See the article Internet First Steps: WinInet for more information about the context identifier.
Call this member function to find a gopher file.
A reference to a CGopherLocator object.
A pointer to a string containing the file name.
INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD Get the data from the remote server even if it is locally cached.
INTERNET_FLAG_SECURE Request secure transactions on the wire with Secure Sockets Layer or PCT. This flag is applicable to HTTP requests only.
INTERNET_FLAG_USE_EXISTING If possible, reuse the existing connections to the server for new FindFile requests, instead of creating a new session for each request.
After calling FindFile to retrieve the first gopher object, you can call FindNextFile to retrieve subsequent gopher files.
Call this member function to continue a file search begun with a call to CGopherFileFind::FindFile.
Gets the creation time for the current file.
Nonzero if successful; 0 if unsuccessful. GetCreationTime returns 0 only if FindNextFile has never been called on this CGopherFileFind object.
Not all file systems use the same semantics to implement the time stamp returned by this function. This function may return the same value returned by other time stamp functions if the underlying file system or server does not support keeping the time attribute. See the Win32_FIND_DATA structure for information about time formats. On some operating systems, the returned time is in the time zone local to the machine were the file is located. See the Win32 FileTimeToLocalFileTime API for more information.
Gets the time the specified file was last accessed.
Nonzero if successful; 0 if unsuccessful. GetLastAccessTime returns 0 only if FindNextFile has never been called on this CGopherFileFind object.
Gets the last time the file was changed.
Nonzero if successful; 0 if unsuccessful. GetLastWriteTime returns 0 only if FindNextFile has never been called on this CGopherFileFind object.
Call this member function to get the length, in bytes, of the found file.
The length, in bytes, of the found file.
GetLength uses the Win32 structure WIN32_FIND_DATA to get the value of the file size in bytes.
As of MFC 7.0, GetLength supports 64-bit integer types. Previously-existing code built with this newer version of the library may result in truncation warnings.
See the example for CFile::GetLength (the base class implementation).
Call this member function to get the CGopherLocator object that FindFile uses to find the gopher file.
Call this member function to get the name of the gopher screen.
The name of the gopher screen.
Tests for the current directory and parent directory markers while iterating through files.


This quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design study analyzed the impact of differentiating instruction through Readers' Theater on the reading fluency progression of second graders. Readers' Theater was used as an engaging and motivating instructional strategy to improve the fluency for the treatment group of five students. A control group of six second grade students did not participate in the Readers' Theater intervention. Both groups received daily, guided reading instruction. Students in the treatment group made a mean gain in their fluency of 21.6 words read per minute compared to a mean gain of 9.5 words read per minute for the control group, suggesting the Readers' Theater intervention made a statistically significant impact on fluency. The researcher also noted that the students who participated in Readers' Theater reported noticeable changes in perceptions of themselves as readers. Future research is suggested to further determine the utility of Readers' Theater for differentiating instruction and improving reading skills and attitudes about reading.


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HOME | Monitor | Anchorage International Airport Named Best Air Cargo Airport in North America
Anchorage International Airport Named Best Air Cargo Airport in North America
Jun 20, 2019 | Monitor
A FedEx cargo plane after departing Runway 32 of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
ANCHORAGE—Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) was named the 2019 Best Air Cargo Airport for North America at the Asian Freight, Logistics & Supply Chain (AFLAS) Awards in Hong Kong. The awards are voted on by companies in the freight, logistics, and supply chain industry throughout Asia.
"This award clearly demonstrates to business leaders across North America and around the world that the State of Alaska is open for business," said Governor Michael Dunleavy. "Our geographic location, business friendly environment and excellent airport facilities are here to serve a wide range of industries looking for new growth opportunities."
"We are very excited to win this prestigious award because it is voted on by our customers," said Jim Szczesniak, ANC Airport Manager. "We have placed an emphasis on helping our customers succeed at ANC, and this award shows our efforts are paying off."
ANC is the world's fifth busiest air cargo airport and handles just under 3 million metric tonnes* of air cargo annually. Asia to North America is the world's largest air cargo trade lane and 79 percent of all Asia to North America freighter aircraft take advantage of ANC's strategic location, excellent service, and special air cargo transfer rights to run more efficient air cargo operations.
"This award is a reflection of the efforts made by the entire ANC team," said Szczesniak. "Airport Operations, and Field Maintenance staff do a tremendous job keeping the airport operating efficiently during winter weather events, and throughout the construction seasons. Following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake on November 30, 2018, Airport Operations had the runways inspected, and open for the first cargo plane to land in fifteen minutes. Airlines know ANC is reliable. We must also thank our finance staff. Effective July 1, 2019, we will have reduced our landing fees by 23 percent since June 30, 2018. Customers are always happy when you can add to their bottom line."
The airport recognizes the important role of cargo community service providers, and federal partners in receiving this award. These partners are vital to the world class service that air cargo carriers experience at ANC. Our partners include Pegasus Aviation Services, Swissport International, FEAM Aero, the Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Controllers, US Customs and Border Protection, and the Transportation Security Administration.
*One metric tonne is equal to 2204.62 pounds
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Слава России — многозначный термин.

Корабли
 «Слава России» — парусный линейный корабль Балтийского флота России, спущенный на воду в 1733 году.
 «Слава России» — парусный линейный корабль Балтийского флота России, спущенный на воду в 1774 году.
 «Слава России» — шхуна, построенная для участия в экспедиции И. И. Биллингса и Г. А. Сарычева.

Альбомы
 «Слава России» — альбом группы «Пилигрим» 2007 года.
 «Слава России» — демозапись группы «Коловрат» 1995 года.

Лозунг
 Слава России — лозунг и приветствие движения Русского национального единства.
 Слава России — лозунг российской Партии Родина.
 Слава России — один из лозунгов Русского Марша.
 Слава России — один из лозунгов АНС.

Другое
 Слава России — мыс в штате Аляска (США).


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La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil è un film del 2015 diretto da Joann Sfar.

Il film è l'adattamento cinematografico dell'omonimo romanzo di Sébastien Japrisot, già soggetto del film del 1970 La signora dell'auto con gli occhiali e un fucile.

Trama
Dany, fiammeggiante ragazza rossa senza autostima, è una dattilografa in un'agenzia pubblicitaria. Il suo direttore le affida un giorno un lavoro per il giorno dopo quando lui si dovrà recare in Svizzera. Per risparmiare tempo, lei si offre di scriverlo a casa. Al mattino presto, il regista chiede a Dany di portarlo, assieme alla sua famiglia, all'aeroporto e poi portare l'auto, una splendida Ford Thunderbird, a casa sua, ma Dany decide, per capriccio, di andare a vedere il mare e si mette in viaggio verso la Costa Azzurra, non rendendosi conto di aver appena messo piede in un ingranaggio infernale...

Produzione
Joann Sfar girò il film in Belgio nell'estate del 2014, dove si riconoscono il cantiere navale ed il viadotto di Beez, su richiesta delle sconeggiatore e produttore Patrick Godeau. Dichiarò inoltre che il film sarebbe stato fedele al romanzo nonostante questo venisse considerato non adattabile per un soggetto cinematografico con un'atmosfera "alla David Lynch".

Il regista, tuttavia, subì alcuni contrattempi durante le riprese del film. Estimatore del romanzo, voleva realizzare un film "appiccicoso, quasi soprannaturale" ma si rese presto conto che la produzione non gli avrebbe permesso di toccare la sceneggiatura già scritta. Anche il budget venne ridotto e il regista dovette fare del suo meglio per finire il film in questa delicata atmosfera.

L'uscita del film, inizialmente prevista per l'aprile 2015, venne posticipata al mese di agosto.

Note

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  La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil su Unifrance

Film polizieschi


Will AI Take InfoSec To The Next Level?
Artificial intelligence has become a very large part of the business and car industries. It is now time for AI to become ingrained in InfoSec, or Information Security industry. Some people have reservations about AI becoming an integral part of the Information Security industry. Combined with converged systems and other technological tricks, artificial intelligence can actually be more helpful than what conventional wisdom may believe.
At present, the main purpose of Artificial Intelligence is to build machines that are able to perform tasks normally completed by humans. Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming able to protect business and homeowners from hackers and to detect new attacks, update security systems more efficiently, create virtual analysts, and share threat patterns.
A group of scientists at MIT have created a security system, using artificial intelligence, that is able to defend against virtually all threats to privacy and security. In testing they realized that their new system is able to discover 85 percent of cyber-attacks before they can cause any damage.
When users combine artificial intelligence with InfoSec, the computer is able to detect new attacks before they happen. Artificial intelligence allows the contextual modeler to continuingly update and make changes when necessary. An alert will be generated if it is discovered that a new set of behaviors seem similar to the set of abstract variables. Artificial intelligence can detect new attacks in all forms that they can be received such as a different communication interval, new file size, or the amount of data that is sent and received.
A goal for artificial intelligence is to be fast enough to catch attacks at an early stage before they cause damage to the source data. Attack strategies are always changing which means security systems need to adapt and keep up with the changing strategies. As businesses get bigger, owners need systems that continuously and automatically update. The faster the hackers, the faster the updates need to be. The standard process for updating security systems can be completed in six steps. These six steps include retrieve a "batch", clean, train, validate, test, and deploy. It usually takes weeks, sometimes months, to get through the standard updating process.
If a new attack is found, it puts the business in jeopardy to be unprotected for weeks or even months. If the standard updating process is automated by adding artificial intelligence, it will allow for the process to be started automatically. As long as the process and the steps stay the same, artificial intelligence can help machines update faster.
A good and successful analyst is a key resource for any type of security. The goal of software companies is to create a virtual analyst that is able to do the job and duties of a human analyst and allow a group of virtual analysts to be run by a single human analyst. With this being such a large goal, companies need to develop an advanced software that is able to program the virtual analysts.
The technology needs to accurately identify whether an activity is safe or a threat, similar to what a human analyst would do. Researchers have found that a team of virtual analysts with the insight and skill of a human analyst can increase the effectiveness of InfoSec.
A company's reaction strategy when a new threat is found has been spoonfed to employees for years. However, preventing a threat before it happens is a new skill that companies have just started to learn. One way to convert the company from reactive to proactive is by using shared threat patterns. This allows that when a threat is found by one business or company, another organization using the same network can automatically be prepared for the threat.
Although artificial intelligence may seem like a risky business tactic, it actually has the ability to help companies and owners excel in the business industry. Artificial intelligence is made up of software, patterns, protection tactics, programs to prevent and stop attacks, and security systems that continually are updated. Combining artificial intelligence with Infosec can protect a company at new levels from threats that a couple of years ago would have been almost impossible to prevent.


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Name: LEJ's Louisiana
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Leonard Earl Johnson (photo credit Frank Parsley) covered Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005), and the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for ConsumerAffairs.com. He is a contributor to Gambit Weekly, New Orleans Magazine, SCAT, Baton Rouge Advocate, Advocate Magazine, The Times-Picayune, Country Roads Magazine, Palm Springs Newswire and the books FRENCH QUARTER FICTION (Light of New Orleans Publishing), LOUISIANA IN WORDS (Pelican Publishing), LIFE IN THE WAKE (NOLAfuges.com), and more. Johnson is a former Merchant Seaman, and columnist at Les Amis de Marigny, New Orleans; and African-American Village. Attended Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Maryland. Winner of the Press Club of New Orleans Award for Excellence, 1991, and given the Key to The City and a Certificate of Appreciation from the New Orleans City Council for a Gambit Weekly story on murder in the French Quarter.
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La Porte, Tx. to the Promised Land / December 2019...
JFK / November 2019
Remembering Cokie Roberts / October 2019
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco ~ Obit / September 2019
Trains Make Great Walls ~ A Dream / August 2019
Leah Chase, Cutting Loose the Body / July 2019
More Tales of the Festivals / June 2019
Late Train to NOLa, Tales of the Fests / May 2019
Aussies on the Train from New Orleans / April 2019...
The Cons are Coming, Retire Now! / March 2014
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The Cons are Coming, Retire Now!
by Leonard Earl Johnson
Governor's Lift Baton Rouge
"Retire as soon as you can," L. A. Norma said to a younger couple standing beside us on Royal Street watching the passing Krewe du Vieux, the first and cheekiest Carnival parade in New Orleans. Led this year by John Barry, author of RISING TIDE.
Al Johnson's "Throw The Baby Out The Window, It's Carnival Time," danced in our heads, and a float passed displaying what looked like Governor Bobby Jindal bent at the waist blowing white fart-clouds in the face of Louisiana.
Norma, talking loud over the band, said, "Like your bum nephew, they are fishing your Social Security check out'a your mailbox."
The young couple edged away, inspecting the mule team pulling His Excellency blowing farts in our faces.
Krewe du Vieux New Orleans First Carnival Parade
"It will be harder for them if you already are getting a check," she called after them.
Amtrak's Sunset Limited was an hour late leaving Lafayette for New Orleans. In Winter, this means the entire run was in the dark. A train at night is an entirely different experience. More akin to flying, with nothing to see but unidentifiable lights. And, on a train, your reflection in the large windows.
The Mississippi River, according to the pubic address system, was beneath us, as we clattered across the Huey P. Long Bridge. Downtown-lights twinkled in the downstream distance. For us the bright lights of big box stores and little strip malls lay in wait at the foot of the bridge.
Trains from the west circle wide around the edge of New Orleans. Coming up first on the newly built City Beltway Depot and then running along Airline Highway, the road Huey P. built to make a straight-line link from his offices in Baton Rouge to the lobby of the Hotel Roosevelt in Big Swamp City, New Orleans.
"This is where the commuter trains from Baton Rouge would have come," Norma said, tapping the window, "if Governor Lapdog Millionaire Jindal weren't running for President on the New Know-Nothing ticket.
"Jindal thinks he can whip us like a mule team proving himself master of the voters. Wee-the-people pulling his weasel-ass up on the Republican National lap by the sting of his economic lash."
Bean-counting demographers, flood-mapping cartographers, and L. A. Norma agree on one thing, New Orleans population is drowning on the coastline and shifting along The River towards Baton Rouge. Since Katrina, five thousand daily commute this route. North by Northwest lies New Orleans' future faubourgs, and Governor Bobby Jindal turned down a Federal grant to build a commuter line. If the Feds build it, he sagely observed, "We would still have to run it."
"A business-trained mind gone off the rails," Norma said, drumming on the train window, "but still smart as the weasel he is, bought and sold by the Texas Koch brothers, Louisiana be damnd!
"His people are soulless members of 'America Next,' from D. C., or local true-believers with torches and pitchforks. They do not care one wit about good government. They mostly do not even believe there is such a thing. Government that governs in chaos is their idea of government that governs best."
Norma does not like Bobby Jindal.
We remained in New Orleans the next few weeks.
One night at a Faubourg Marigny Association party in Buffa's back room, we ate, schmoozed and drank to music like it was first meant to be heard. Acoustic Guitarist/Banjo man, Mike Dill, poured life into an old boxer song about the great Boom Boom Mancini, a killer and a man. Cheers from here to the bandstand!
Another night, Uptown, on a dimly lighted street, poison shrimp and pasta attacked without warning. Three days in bed and you know where...
"Fitting," Norma told everyone who cared and some who did not, "he has a three-day headstart on this year's penance. The Vatican will be pleased."
In good spirits again
We attended the Historic New Orleans Collection, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra's extravaganza, POSTCARDS FROM PARIS (filmed for airing later by Louisiana Public Broadcast), inside the Basilica of Saint Louis Cathedral.
Everything was heavenly, but the Doctor Michael White arrangement of Sidney Bechet's 'Petite Fleur' made musical history. White was on clarinet; Anthony Brown, banjo; Kerry Lewis, double bass. The spirit of Bechet and a thousand other musicians blessed their notes. "Fit for Himself and us too," Norma whispered. We stayed afterwards and lit a candle for the evening.
We attended the Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association's monthly meeting and potluck where a representative from Krewe du Vieux spoke on the matter of being a good Carnival neighbor. An artist/former Park Service guide off Amtrak's line to Chicago rose to speak against so many penises in the parade. There are paper mache phalluses riding on floats; a sub- Krewe of Sperm marching with huge spermatozoa on sticks held high over their heads; and, some years, a band of jolly phalos-costumed celebrants marching from side to side and on down the street.
No one spoke in support of the poor male member. Till Norma stood, "I wish to say a word in favor of penises," she said, and then sat down. The meeting adjourned with the future of the penis in Faubourg Marigny unsettled.
You Are My Sunshine, by Governor Jimmie Davis
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Q: AWS Customized AMI - number of running instances I have created a public customized AMI. Is there any way to know how many instances have been launched from my public customized AMI?

A: There is no any way from AWS side to find that. What you can do is customize a Sendmail in your AMI which will email you when some body launches the instance using your public AMI.


Description.Physical 1 photographic print - b&w - 25 x 20 cm.
Description Members of the 21st General Hospital awaiting truck transport to the dock at Oran, Algeria. Foreground, left to right: 2nd Lt. Amy Tabor, ANC; 2nd Lt. Kathleen R. Creech, head dietician; and 2nd Lt. Metta L. Baxter, physiotherapist. Tabor was a graduate of the Washington University School of Nursing. Metta Baxter received the Legion of Merit in July 1944 - she was the first physical therapist and one of the first women to receive that recognition. Photograph was probably taken in late November 1943 as the unit was leaving North Africa for Italy.
Subject.PersonalName Baxter, Metta L.; Creech, Kathleen R.; Tabor, Amy O.


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Q: Undefined Control Sequence in bibtex I do not understand why my bibliography is not showing: I ran a very simple file to test it and I get the same error as in my main file.
\documentstyle{amsart}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{amsplain}
\bibliography{C:\Users\...\References}
\end{document}

I get on line 5 (\bibliography)
! Undefined control sequence.<write> \string \bibdata {C:\Users\...\Bibliography ... ...rdo\...\References}

I am running the correct sequence on TeXMaker to get the bibliography and I even did get an output on other files. the bibtex file is not in the same folder as the script, but there is no difference when they are together.
What is wrong?
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 \begin{document}
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A: \Users is an undefined command. Use / as the path separator.


Firstly...thanks for a cool little app, i've been using this for years....but I just installed openselected url in IE7 (7.0.5730.13).
When I try to open selected url in new tab, it opens in new window (Not tab), and the window I've opened it from, steals the focus. (The newly opened window drops behind the previous).