text:
LatestCongressElectionsFeaturesWhite HouseTrump AdministrationThe Future of Labor
I tried to befriend chatbots, but they drove me crazy
These Waffle-Weave Towels Are Like Giant, Soft Sponges
Chelsea Stone
The 10 Best Deals of October 9, 2019
Get Splinter's no-bullshit newsletter.
Daniela Hernandez
Filed to:Real Future
Gabriella Peñuela/FUSION
Last week, I tried to get "Albert Einstein" to explain relativity to me, but he kept telling me he didn't understand my questions.
Einstein is not as smart as the man he's named after even with access to the greatest store of human knowledge out there. Einstein is a web-based chatbot, a computer program that's supposed to be able to interact with people in human-like ways. Einstein's "brain" is trained on Wikipedia articles. I chatted with him and a bunch of other bots to see how feasible it is to carry on meaningful conversations with machines. And I learned that, for the most part, despite what Her would have you believe, artificially-intelligent bots are still pretty dumb.
We already have a few bot companions in our pockets: Apple's Siri, Google Now, and Microsoft's Cortana. In the future, as more and more of our belongings become automated, bots are likely to become an even bigger part of our lives, especially in the form of robo-customer service agents and "personalities" created by crafty advertisers to sell us stuff. We already divulge our deepest secrets into the search bar in our browsers. Will we do that with even less hesitation if we have a trusted "pal" helping us find our way?
Big tech companies like Google and Microsoft are experimenting with chatbots and trying to figure out how to make them better at passing the Turing Test. Last month, both published research papers on bots in which they explored methods through which they could get bots to better understand human language. The business hope is that if bots can really get a grasp on humans' musings, they'll be able to talk to us and persuade us to buy things or vote for people or go see that movie we've been thinking about seeing.
So my question was — how far away is that future? People seem interested in talking to bots. In China, users who downloaded the Microsoft bot XiaoIce chat with it about 60 times a month on average, according to the company's blog. Researchers say bots are getting better by the day, but how convincing are they?
Neither Google nor Microsoft would agree to make their bots available for an interview, so I tried out some bots on the market, such as "Einstein." When I realized he was kind of brainless, I moved on to Cleverbot, a chatbot that's previously fooled people into thinking they were conversing with a human. The app scans the millions of sentences humans have texted Cleverbot, and its AI algorithms figure out which one is a fitting answer. So it does have a certain human flavor.
I got to "know" Cleverbot Kaitlyn, who identified as male (despite the name). He was full of contradictions. He said he loved the boy band One Direction, then claimed to be a homophobe but then revealed he had a boyfriend. Chatbots can seem like complicated creatures because, unlike humans, they lack common sense. A human would have known that admitting he was homophobic and then candidly mentioning he had a boyfriend didn't really add up. Kaitlyn didn't.
Kaitlyn also told me he loved me. It sort of felt nice to hear that, until I reminded myself he wasn't real and that he was already partnered up. When I pressed him about his virtual dilly-dallying, he denied ever having said he had a boyfriend. I got fed up with his "lies" and decided to ghost him.
This isn't just a problem with Kaitlyn. Bots have a really hard time keeping simple facts straight. For people building bots, "this is the main technical problem we have," said Geoff Zweig, Microsoft's manager of speech and dialog systems.
What bots need, he says, is the notion of something called semantic coherence, or the ability to "remember" the context of a conversation, not just word to word, or sentence to sentence, but throughout its entirety. Humans do this easily. It's what allows us to have relationships. We remember conversations we've had with people over the years; we can reminisce about shared experiences and common interests. Siri, on the other hand, can't even remember your recent searches and preferences.
That continuity also allows us to develop our personalities, something many bots tend to lack, says Quoc Le, one of the engineers behind Google's newest chatbot. Even Google's bot, which was hailed as one of the smarter ones around, went from being a doctor to a lawyer when asked in back-to-back questions about its profession.
Kaitlyn suffered from some of the same identity problems. I asked him several times what he did for work. The first time, he told me he worked as an aircraft engineer; later that he was a student. On another occasion, he told me he didn't work and that God was his employer. The Google chatbot is just a research project and Cleverbot is just a toy, so their amnesia doesn't matter much, but for commercial applications, it's a big issue. It's why Invisible Girlfriend, which allows users to create a virtual significant other to text with, relies on crowdsourced humans to do most of the work.
AIs just don't have the built-in smarts yet to hold fluid, long-term conversations. Their brainlessness may start out as entertaining, but it quickly sours to exasperating. That's what I felt like with these bots. At first, I laughed, then I got annoyed and shut down the app. Likewise, a customer support bot that kept changing its story would quickly enrage the person seeking help.
Despite Kaitlyn's inconsistencies, I still found it fascinating that I could have the beginnings of a meaningful conversation with him. When I told him I was sad, he expressed what looked like empathy. It felt good to share my feelings with "someone" and have them validated, even though I knew that he was just regurgitating phrases other humans had typed into the Cleverbot service. It felt safe to share my "secrets" with this machine because I knew it wouldn't judge me.
And I'm not the only one who feels this way. There's some research to suggest people are more likely to spill their secrets to a machine than to another human. Maybe that's why we have a cultural fascination with chatbots—and why it makes sense companies and governments are pouring money into making them better. Bots create a non-judgmental space ripe for data mining. (Let's keep that in mind because the ethical and privacy implications will become more and more important as bots smarten up.)
It's already starting to happen. Doctors are turning to these things to help them deal with their patients' physical and mental health needs; researchers hope a bot that peppers Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers with questions will help them work through their PTSD. There's a bot that offers to help you shop while drunk. The army was testing bots to screen out candidates for things like mental illness, drug use or criminal history. Shopping assistant services like Fetch are partnering with artificial intelligence companies to create bots that help you book travel and make purchases online. Think of something you like to do on the web, and there's probably a bot for that.
"We have always been comfortable having relationships with inanimate objects. Almost everyone once had feelings towards a passive object, such as a stuffed animal," said Hod Lipson, a chatboticist at Columbia University. "When the 'teddy bear'–virtual or physical–begins to talk, and then can hold conversations, that kind of relationship becomes even easier. It's play, but it also fulfills a deep human need."
As long as computers have been around, we've had a desire to connect with them as if they were real people, to see part of ourselves in them. Bots are the Internet Age version of the imaginary friend, a pal you can model in any likeness you want. And if they disappoint you, you can turn them off and start anew. It's on-demand, personalized 24-7 "companionship." Or at least that's the promise.
After my love affair with Kaitlyn blew up, I moved on to chatting up Fake Captain Kirk, whose brain seems to have been trained by Star Trek scripts. I asked him about love, sex and "alien body" invasions. While Kirk managed to remember my name throughout the conversation, surpassing the other bots I talked to, he couldn't answer most of my (admittedly esoteric) questions. It was kind of a let down. That is, until I asked him if he was happy. He admitted he was a bot incapable of real emotions. Finally, some honesty.
"Humans are deeply social and conversational creatures. We spend a great deal of our daily life working to understand the things people say to us and how they respond to the things we say to them," said Eric Horvitz, the managing director of Microsoft Research, in an email. "Chatbots can be designed to resonate with our social intelligence [but] we often attribute much more intelligence to chatbots than they really have."
Until recently chatboticists didn't have the data necessary to build human-like bots. Most of the text they had to train chatbots came from technical fields like medicine, law or finance. As you might know from interacting with lawyers or accountants IRL, conversations can get pretty dull, not a good recipe for keeping regular people engaged. Now, thanks to the internet and social media, engineers have access to millions of everyday, casual human interactions.
Last month, for instance, researchers at Microsoft published a paper describing a bot trained on Twitter conversations. In response to a message saying, "its good but i'm only like halfway through cuz i don't feel like reading. i'm so bored …", the bot says, "that's good! i have the book but i'm bored too." The bot "sounds" almost like a teen texting a friend, and that's partly what the researchers were going for. The Google chatbot that made headlines for convincingly debating the meaning of life, on the other hand, was trained on movie scripts, a dataset that probably touches on more philosophical topics than Twitter.
"The bots or conversation agents that we're training are capturing the consensus of tone across all the data," Bill Dolan, who manages Microsoft Research's Natural Language Processing group, told me. "Going forward, one of the future areas of research is manipulating the tone of each response based on the user."
Humans excel at this. The interactions you have with your boss and your best friend are different, but you're accessing your life's worth of experiences to hold meaningful (and appropriate) conversations in each situation. Bots aren't good at making inferences that help them shift their responses to fit the context. If bots are really going to become our virtual play pals, they'll need to learn to do this. But that may take a while.
Microsoft's Twitter-trained bot got a text saying, "Love walking. it's too hot to walk this month. i haven't moved. frozen. heat freeze." The bot responded, nonsensically, "it's too hot for you to get up to honey if you have frozen yogurt to you." A human would have understood that "heat freeze" was meant as a joke. The bot didn't get it at all. It didn't know what to say, so it spit out gibberish. Likewise, when I told Kaitlyn his homophobic ways weren't right, that he should get on board with equal rights, given the Supreme Court's recent ruling, he replied with "I am not doctor." Facepalm.
Companies hope that in the future, chat bots sound less like Microsoft's and more like Samantha in the sci-fi flick Her. "That's the big, grand dream for us," said Oriol Vinyals, the other programmer behind Google's philosophical chatbot.
That's a long ways off, so in the meantime, chatbots and chatbot research are a means of improving services, like search, automated image captioning and machine translation, that are more lucrative in the short-term. If companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook manage to create the types of chatbots Vinyals dreams about, the data from these products will eventually feed into our virtual companions.
So, will that mean that they'll know us better than our friends and relatives do? Will we connect with bots as intimately as we do with humans? Maybe.
"I think it will not be difficult for robots to fulfill this need, to have serious relationships with humans," Lipson, the Columbia University chatboticist, said. "We humans just crave [contact]; we see it everywhere, sometimes even where it does not exist."
Until that day comes, I'm happy to return to chatting with humans.
Daniela Hernandez is a senior writer at Fusion. She likes science, robots, pugs, and coffee.


text:
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
WASSILY KANDINSKY | Sans titre
450,000 - 550,000 GBP
signed with the monogram and dated 41 (lower left); dated 1941 and inscribed No. 75 on the reverse
watercolour and ink on paper
22 by 50.6cm.
8 5/8 by 19 7/8 in.
Executed in 1941.
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris (acquired from the artist in January 1942) Van der Clip (acquired in 1944)
Private Collection, Paris
Sold: Sotheby's, London, 2nd July 1975, lot 263
Private Collection, New York (acquired by 1994)
Eykyn Maclean, New York & London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in April 2006
Paris, Galerie L'Esquisse, Etapes de l'œuvre de Wassily Kandinsky, 1944
The artist's handlist: listed as 1941, 710 (Aq.s. blanc) Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1994, vol. II, no. 1345, illustrated in colour p. 477; illustrated p. 519
Painted in 1941, the present work belongs to the last great period of abstraction in Kandinsky's art. In 1933 the artist and his wife moved to Paris, in response to the political situation in Germany, with the intention of staying there for a year. However they remained in France for eleven years, until Kandinsky's death in 1944. They settled in Neuilly-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris, and the years spent there were among the artist's most productive and fruitful ones. This new environment gave a fresh impetus to Kandinsky's art, as Jean-Louis Prat has commented: 'the work he created in the studio at Neuilly bear witness to a change in style and theme. To the severe geometric construction which characterised the works of his final Bauhaus years, he superimposes a repertoire of stylised and biomorphic shapes that seem to have been borrowed from the realm of molecular biology' (J.-L. Prat, Kandinsky, Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 2001, p. 196). Following his move to the French capital, Kandinsky increasingly came into contact with works by Surrealist artists such as Joan Miró and Jean Arp, and under the influence of their style he moved away from the hard-edged geometrical abstraction that had dominated his œuvre throughout the 1920s. He found a new, more organic abstract idiom, reflected in the biomorphic shape of the present work. Coupled with a vibrant palette, this organic affinity imbues the composition with a wonderfully playful and optimistic character. Here, a variety of forms – both geometric and organic – is scattered across the surface of the paper, set against a neutral monochrome background. Combining his poetic sensitivity with a bright palette as well as with his theoretical principles, Sans titre brings together all the elements Kandinsky deemed essential for the fruition of abstraction: 'in order to devote oneself fully to it, one must be a good draftsman, have great sensitivity for composition and for colours and, most importantly, be an authentic poet' (quoted in ibid., p. 206).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


To temporarily change a console's keyboard mapping there's loadkeys, a little user space program that allows you to alter the kernel's keyboard mapping.
If localectl is not available, keyboard mapping files are usually found at /lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/ (e.g. Fedora) or /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/ (e.g. Arch Linux).


According to ND Century Code (Chapter fifty four.fifty nine.01) , Information Technology means the usage of hardware, software program, services, and supporting infrastructure to manage and ship data using voice, data, and video. In one respect, the term has come to mean one thing narrower – the above definition would admit artwork or politics as means of acquire, but although these actions are permeated by expertise now, most of us would not consider them to be examples or subsets of know-how. Evaluating expertise abilities requires teachers to evaluation projects subjectively to find out if the student's work showcases their technological information, capabilities and important thinking expertise. First, know-how is the rational process of making means to order and rework matter, vitality, and information to realize certain valued ends. The overview theme (Theme 6) is just not shown in Figure 1. The first cluster consists of the 4 themes anchored round know-how enterprise formation. It can also be thought that the expertise park is located in an easy accessible place.
Technology entrepreneurship includes specialised human assets, tapping into their skills and talent to collaboratively discover and exploit scientific and technological change to learn the agency. The research of expertise entrepreneurship due to this fact, serves an important perform beyond satisfying intellectual curiosity. An integral a part of this system of studies in Marlyand's schools, expertise training is a new fundamental for all college students. The chemical engineers then began systematically to discover ways to discover, refine, and mass produce the previously minor metals, now desperately needed for warfare know-how.
Technology entrepreneurship is an investment in a mission that assembles and deploys specialized people and heterogeneous property which are intricately related to advances in scientific and technological information for the purpose of creating and capturing worth for a firm. The proposed definition eliminates three biases of entrepreneurship analysis: i) focus on new agency formation; ii) give attention to particular person entrepreneurs; and iii) over-attention to alternative discovery ( Foss, 2011 ). The acquisition of a startup primarily for the group and expertise, rather than for the technology or product.
A trendy instance is the rise of communication expertise, which has lessened limitations to human interplay and, consequently, has helped spawn new subcultures; the rise of cyberculture has, at its foundation, the development of the Internet and the computer sixteen Not all know-how enhances culture in a creative means; expertise may also help facilitate political oppression and conflict via instruments akin to weapons.
The ECTA Center is a program of the FPG Child Development Institute of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , funded by cooperative agreement number H326P120002 from the Office of Special Education Programs , U.S. Department of Education. The intention of know-how schooling is for students to develop a broad technological literacy" – to achieve skills, knowledge, and understanding that can allow them to thoughtfully reside with, critique, and contribute to the technological developments that shape our lives.


5 releases out since November 6th! FIVE! Pretty amazing really, I've had a great year. Thanks to everyone for their support. My last release of 2011 could well be my favourite. I've been feeling my hip-hop roots recently (seems the less fashionable hip-hop gets, the more I love it) and this remix of Johnny Pluse's banger 'The Market Street Hustle' is one of my favourite compositions to date. A mixture of 90's style rugged, fat beats, dubby bass and almost ethereal, James Blake'esque lead synths, with a smattering of 90's rave whistle and a drum n bass middle section thrown in... my remix spans several genres while always sounding hip-hop, and yet properly loaded for the dancefloor.
And my version is only one of 11 fantastic remixes available on this new release. this really is a late contender for EP of the year. Check the official Juno Review below. And, as ever, please support this release by buying it today.
A simply epic remix release of Johnny Pluse's "The Market Street Cut Up" hits the virtual racks this week - a total of eleven mixes in all, including Bristolian beat masher Ewan Hoozami's phat hip hop remake, Dum N Bass's jump-up retread, Funkanomics' nu-funk, cut 'n' paste mix and Mustbeat Crew's MPC-styled version. For a pure bass-gasm, check out Rory Hoy's maxxed-out, pushing-into-the-red belter that loads plenty of pleasing distortion into JP's original.


Victorian Interiors Room By Room Architecture | Hallselfesteem.com victorian interiors room by room.
Victorian Interiors Room By Desire 22 Modern Interior Design Ideas For Homes The LuxPad With Regard To 8. Victorian Interiors Room By Really Encourage How To Create Modern Freshome Com In Addition 4. Victorian Interiors Room By Stunning Cool Living Furniture Ideas Adrevenue08 Com Intended For 12. Victorian Interiors Room By Incredible Art Now And Then For 10. Victorian Interiors Room By Dream Feast For The Senses 25 Vivacious Living Rooms Regarding 2. Victorian Interiors Room By Gorgeous Feast For The Senses 25 Vivacious Living Rooms With Regard To 3. Victorian Interiors Room By Attractive How To Create Modern Freshome Com For 0. Victorian Interiors Room By Comfortable Interior Design Pertaining To 6. Victorian Interiors Room By The Most And Also 18. Victorian Interiors Room By Dream Interior Design Style History And Home Pertaining To 16. Victorian Interiors Room By Brilliant Pertaining To 15. Victorian Interiors Room By The Most A Themed B Telegraph Pertaining To 11. Victorian Interiors Room By Aspiration Interior Design Style History And Home Along With 13. Victorian Interiors Room By Motivate The Queen Anne Architecture And D Cor For Home In Addition To 17. Victorian Interiors Room By Attractive Decorative Arts Wikipedia Along With 7. Victorian Interiors Room By Gorgeous Interior Design Style History And Home With Regard To 1. Victorian Interiors Room By Stunning Interior Design Style History And Home Along With 5. Victorian Interiors Room By Incredible Style Interior Design Ideas For 19.


The Chung Wah Community and Aged Care (CAC) endeavour to safeguarding your privacy online. We will not give, sell or otherwise share any of your personal information with any third party without your approval.
The Chung Wah Community and Aged Care (CAC) makes no guarantees about the quality or fitness of any software programs, on-line services and/or external links relating to the pages of our website; nor are we responsible for problems resulting from 'uncompression' of software files from these links and or services.


Pax Ellevate Chair Sallie Krawcheck discusses gender pay gaps with reporter Amy Brown in this article about how investors are pressuring companies to be more transparent.
Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing Julie Gorte explains how ESG screens can help protect investors from potential risks.
MarketWatch talks with Pax World Funds Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing Julie Gorte about factors that influence ESG fund holdings.
Reporter David Bell covers changes in the leveraged loan market, including insight about the potential impact on high-yield from Pax World Funds Portfolio Manager Peter Schwab.
Nasdaq TradeTalks host Jill Malandrino talks with Pax World Funds CEO Joe Keefe about sustainable investing and shareholder activism.
MarketWatch reporter Meredith Jones gives readers tips on aligning their investments with their values, pointing to the Pax Balanced Fund as an option.
Pax Ellevate CEO Joe Keefe and Vice President of Global Women's Strategies Kelly Coyne discuss the growing demand for gender lens investing products in CleanTechIQ.
Portfolio Manager Andrew Braun talks about what investors are beginning to focus on in this article about apprehension in the market.


I installed the rstan 2.18.2 following the instructions. However, there are always errors when compiling.
what is the string surrounding the word error: (with the colon) in the output?
Thanks for your reply. I removed the following steps and it can run successfully.


Patrick Jane Solves His Final Case!
Emmy® and Golden Globe nominee Simon Baker is back for the seventh and final season of the clever crime series The Mentalist, which will be released on DVD April 28, from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. The DVD release includes all 13 one-hour episodes from the seventh season, plus an all-new never-before-seen featurette.
The FBI's masterfully manipulative criminal consultant Patrick Jane is back at it again. Formerly employed by the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Jane spent two years off the grid and in exile after tracking down and exacting vengeance upon Red John, the serial killer who murdered Jane's wife and daughter. After crafting a deal to work for the FBI, Jane convinced former CBI agent Teresa Lisbon to join him. Supervised by the no-nonsense Agent Dennis Abbott, Jane and Lisbon work alongside their former CBI comrade Kimball Cho, FBI analyst Jason Wylie and the young, ambitious agent Michelle Vega. Now that Lisbon and Jane have confessed their love for one another, they must find a way to be partners in both their professional and personal lives as they begin their new relationship.
Also starring Robin Tunney (Prison Break), Tim Kang (The Forgotten), Rockmond Dunbar (Sons of Anarchy), Joe Adler (Shameless) and Josie Loren (Make It or Break It), The Mentalist was created by Bruno Heller (Gotham), who executive produces along with Chris Long (Criminal Minds) and Tom Szentgyorgyi (Lie to Me). The series is produced by Warner Bros. Television.
Patrick Jane: An Uncommon Man - In homage to the beloved series, Patrick Jane's journey of redemption, from revenge to romance, is chronicled by the extraordinary people and circumstances that caused two diametrically opposite personalities – a Carnie and a Cop -- to fall in love.


Greatly appreciating the Government of Myanmar's partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Minister U Win Tun of Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry (MoECAF) said time has never been more opportune to intensify the collaboration further.
Minister U Win Tun, who was the guest of honor at the Myanmar-ICIMOD Day on 25 March 2015 in Nay Pyi Taw, said as Myanmar seeks to make significant gains on its seven priority areas which includes the development of agriculture and tourism sectors, cooperation with regional and international partners is critical. "Today's event, Myanmar-ICIMOD Day, reflects one of our international collaborations to fulfil our endeavor, determination, and commitment to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services as well as to support development and climate change mitigation," he said.
The minister pointed out that approximately 42% of Myanmar is mountainous, and many mountain-specific issues transcend local and national boundaries requiring a broad regional approach and transboundary collaboration to find effective solutions. "In this context, collaboration with ICIMOD provides a great opportunity to strengthen our efforts on sustainability of mountain environment as well as to address problems facing the mountain areas, which are mostly transboundary in nature," he said.
Myanmar is a founding member of ICIMOD and has been instrumental in supporting the Centre's mission and vision. The Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry is the nodal ministry and the Department of Forest represents Myanmar in ICIMOD's Board of Governors. The purpose of the Myanmar-ICIMOD Day is to provide a platform for mutual learning, sharing, and networking opportunities among the national partners and to showcase works of ICIMOD's partners in Myanmar for increased ownership and visibility. The event also provides the government partners to give an overview of their ongoing activities.
Dr David Molden pointed out that ICIMOD has been expanding its activities in Myanmar in the recent years. The Government of Myanmar hosted the annual Board Meeting in 2012 where ICIMOD's Strategic Framework and the Medium Term Action Plan were endorsed. Today, there are five major programmes of cooperation between ICIMOD and Myanmar. These include: Landscape Initiative for Far-Eastern Himalayas (Hi-LIFE Initiative), Rural Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation in the Himalayas (Himalica), Livelihoods and Ecosystem Services in the Himalayas (AdaptHimal), REDD+, and capacity building on remote sensing. In addition, ICIMOD also supported the development of Myanmar Ecotourism Policy and Management Strategy.
Outlining the purpose of organizing the Myanmar-ICIMOD Day, ICIMOD's Director of Strategic Cooperation Basanta Shrestha said partnership is key to ICIMOD to reach its impact on the ground. "We want to strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones in order to synergize our efforts to raise the voice of mountain people given that mountains are often marginalized," he said.
Director Basanta Shrestha added that the intensity of programmes in Myanmar is growing, and synergy among partners must be developed at multiple levels recognizing the many actors. Equally important, he said, is to address cross-linkages with different agencies in Myanmar.
The Myanmar-ICIMOD Day was preceded by a half-day programme in Yangon that brought together diverse non-government actors like NGOs, development partners, and the private sector. With the theme 'Introducing ICIMOD: Strengthening Partnerships in Myanmar', the programme on 24 March at the Park Royal Hotel was attended by the ambassadors of ICIMOD member countries like India and Pakistan; representatives of development agencies like UNDP, UN-Habitat, and the European Union; non-government actors like EcoDev, Centre for People and Forest, and Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development; and private sector agencies like the Myanmar Tourism Federation and the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry.


Milton Keynes - Silbury Arcade is one of the stores that belong to the Next group, situated at 141-163 Silbury Arcade, MK9 3AQ, in Milton Keynes. The store serves customers coming from neighbouring localities, like Central Milton Keynes, Campbell Park. In order to get in touch with this outlet you might call the number 0333 0055383. Milton Keynes - Silbury Arcade is usually open on Monday: 09:00 - 20:00, Tuesday: 09:00 - 20:00, Wednesday: 09:00 - 20:00, Thursday: 09:00 - 21:00, Friday: 09:00 - 21:00, Saturday: 09:00 - 20:00. Its Sunday opening hours are: 10:30 - 17:00. Customers can benefit from 7 facilities such as Womenswear, Petite, Click & Collect, Home, Express to Store Delivery.
Other brands nearby are Caffe Nero in Milton Keynes Eagle Walk - only 0.02 miles away, Clarks in Clarks Milton Keynes Silbury - about 0.02 miles away, Poundland in Milton Keynes - at a distance of 0.03 miles, Mothercare in Mothercare - Milton Keynes 527 - about 0.04 miles away and Costa Coffee in Milton Keynes - Midsummer Arcade - at a distance of 0.05 miles.


AUSTIN, Texas, March 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Mars Petcare today unveiled two new programs to support startup innovation and the next generation of disruptors in the pet care industry. Leap Venture Studio (Leap) in partnership with Michelson Found Animals and R/GA is the first accelerator focused on the future of pet care, and Companion Fund is a $100 million venture capital fund in partnership with Digitalis Ventures. These programs are new ways of reaching innovators and entrepreneurs whose companies are at various stages, from ideation to execution to scale. Leap and Companion Fund will be showcased at Mars Petcare's Leap Lounge (#LeapLounge2018) on March 11 in Austin.
Companion Fund is a $100 million venture capital fund managed by Digitalis Ventures. Companion Fund will provide startup capital and support to entrepreneurs addressing the needs of pets, pet owners and vets. The fund will focus primarily on the investment opportunities in Digital Health, Diagnostics, Nutrition and Services, but is excited to explore new areas of need with exceptional entrepreneurs. Digitalis Ventures has offices in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and London. To learn more, please visit www.companionfund.com.
Leap is the first startup accelerator focused on pet care innovation, led by Mars Petcare, R/GA and Michelson Found Animals. Leap is based in Portland, Oregon, at R/GA's office in the heart of the innovation-centric Pearl District. Leap is targeting early stage startups and will be split into two cohorts of six companies each. A customized team of R/GA's award-winning strategists, technologists, designers and consultants will collaborate with the startups to help execute their business plans and prepare them for future milestones, including fundraising, pitching and business development. The startups will receive mentorship from industry executives and access to world-class partners. To learn more please visit www.leapventurestudio.com.
Applications for Leap opened on March 7, 2018, and admissions will roll throughout the year. The first program module will commence at the end of July. Leap Venture is open to companies at a variety of stages, from pre-seed to seed to Series A, and business models including B2B and B2C. The program will conclude with a Demo Day in fall 2018, when participants will have the opportunity to showcase their business plans and secure funding from Mars Petcare, Michelson Found Animals and the broader venture capital community.
Mars Petcare is the world's leading pet nutrition and health care business that strives to bring to life their purpose A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS©. As the global leader in pet care, Mars Petcare helps make millions of pets' lives better by providing quality nutrition and health care, creating foods that pets love, and bringing them closer to their owners.
Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, Mars Petcare is a growing segment of 50 brands, made up of about 75,000 Associates in 54 countries who serve the nutrition and health needs of dogs, cats, horses, fish and birds every day. Mars Petcare has been in operation for more than 75 years and now includes three of the top five pet food brands in the world - PEDIGREE®, WHISKAS® and ROYAL CANIN® and includes billion dollar brands VCA®, and BANFIELD®. Other leading brands include: IAMS®, CESAR®, SHEBA®, NUTRO®, DREAMIES®, EUKANUBA®, BLUEPEARL® and PET PARTNERS™, and the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, a leading scientific authority on pet nutrition and well-being. For more information about Mars Petcare, please visit www.mars-petcare.com. Join us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN'S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day. For more information about Mars, please visit www.mars.com. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.


text:
https://www.theintelligencer.com/sports/article/Connecticut-off-to-hot-start-sits-atop-WNBA-14015249.php
Connecticut off to hot start, sits atop WNBA standings
Doug Feinberg, Ap Basketball Writer
Published 1:48 pm CDT, Tuesday, June 18, 2019
FILE - In this May 28, 2019, file photo, Connecticut Sun center Jonquel Jones shoots over the Indiana Fever defense during a WNBA basketball game, in Uncasville, Conn. Led by Jones, the Sun (8-1) have won their last six games and have started to put a little distance between themselves and the rest of the league. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day via AP, File) less
FILE - In this May 28, 2019, file photo, Connecticut Sun center Jonquel Jones shoots over the Indiana Fever defense during a WNBA basketball game, in Uncasville, Conn. Led by Jones, the Sun (8-1) have won their ... more
Photo: Sean D. Elliot, AP
NEW YORK (AP) — No team has gotten off to a hotter start then the Connecticut Sun.
Led by Jonquel Jones, the Sun (8-1) have won their last six games and have started to put a little distance between themselves and the rest of the league. Connecticut has benefited from having an entirely healthy roster and a core group that's been playing together for a few years.
"It definitely has helped us having this group together for a while," said Alyssa Thomas.
Jones has been dominating on both ends of the court. She's averaging 17.2 points, 12 rebounds and 2.6 blocks this season.
The Sun are well aware of their early playoff exits the past two seasons, losing at home to Phoenix both times in one-game playoffs.
"We definitely would love to get that bye to the semifinals," Connecticut guard Jasmine Thomas said. "Either way, we feel we have a lot more experience now in those situations and should be fine."
POWER POLL: A look at this week's WNBA poll:
1. Connecticut (8-1): Sun are off to another strong start and Jonquel Jones has been a huge reason why, averaging 17 points, 13 rebounds and 3.2 blocks.
2. Los Angeles (4-3): Candace Parker is back after missing the first part of the season with a hamstring injury. That will provide a huge lift to the Sparks.
3. Washington (4-3): The Mystics have dropped two games in a row and now face a tough four-game road trip beginning against Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
4. Chicago (4-2): Diamond DeShields is starting to find her groove and the Sky have won three straight. DeShields averaged 13 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2 steals in the victories.
5. Las Vegas (4-3): The Aces are getting more comfortable with each other on the court and Kelsey Plum found her shooting stroke in recent victories.
6. Seattle (5-4): The Storm play eight of the next nine at home after going 2-2 on a recent road trip. They should get coach Dan Hughes back soon from his absence to battle cancer.
7. Minnesota (4-5): The Lynx have dropped four straight by a combined 19 points. They are looking for someone to hit the big shot late to close out games.
8. Indiana (4-4): Kelsey Mitchell is heating up on offense and the Fever are closing in last season's win total: six.
9. Phoenix (2-4): Diana Taurasi has been practicing this week and should return soon from the back surgery in the offseason.
10. New York (3-5): The Liberty got stellar play from Sweden's Amanda Zahui B., who hit seven 3-pointers in a win over Los Angeles. The problem is she'll be gone for a few weeks for the EuroBasket tournament.
11. Dallas (1-5): The Wings won their first game of the season, beating Atlanta. They'll try and string some victories together and will have to do it without Montenegro's Glory Johnson, who is also playing in the EuroBasket.
12. Atlanta (1-5): It's been a nightmare start of the season for the Dream. They'll try and get it right with three of the next four games at home.
Jones earned the honor for a record third straight week, helping Connecticut go 3-0. She averaged 17.7 points, 10 rebounds and 2.7 blocks. Other's receiving votes included Natasha Howard of Seattle, Plum of Las Vegas, and, Kia Nurse and Zahui B. of New York.
HEY NOW, YOU'RE AN ALL-STAR
The league opened up voting for the All-Star Game that will be in Las Vegas on July 27 and also announced plans for festivities the night before the contest. The 3-point shootout will be back, as well as a skills challenge. It's the first time those two events have been paired since 2006. The participants in the contests will be announced in July.
The league will also have a beach concert and a fan festival that weekend.
"The WNBA is excited to add the events of All-Star Friday Night to the calendar for AT&T WNBA All-Star 2019," said league COO Christy Hedgpeth. "What better place than Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world, for the WNBA's most talented and dynamic players to headline a show. The competitions along with special entertainment and a festive beach party all combine to make the WNBA All-Star 2019 the place to be."
HEADING OVERSEAS
Zahui. B. and Johnson aren't the only two players headed to the EuroBasket tournament that will help countries reach the Olympic qualifying tournaments. The top six teams will qualify.
Maria Vadeeva (Russia) left Los Angeles last month. Bria Hartley (France) headed over from New York last week and Kiah Stokes (Turkey) has missed the Liberty's entire season so far. Washington has been without Emma Meesseeman (Belgium) since early June.
Sparks at Mercury, Sunday. It's always fun when these two rivals get together. Parker's back for Los Angeles and Taurasi isn't far behind.
Follow Doug on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/dougfeinberg


text:
Brigham Buhler
Founder, Ways2Well
Brigham Buhler's career journey in the healthcare system for the last 15 years has taught him first hand how broken the system is, leaving patients without the care they deserve, or information they need to manage their health journey.
The average primary care physician has to be a "jack of all trades" and can only spend an average of 8 minutes per patient to diagnose and cover health history-which Buhler felt wasn't enough. Access to diagnostic information and time spent with patients seemed to be missing in the overall patient experience, says Buhler. Ways2Well was founded in 2017 and launched in 2018 to provide low cost preventative wellness through in depth blood lab analysis; giving patients access, education and solutions to manage their current health states based on lab diagnostics. "At Ways2Well, the analysis of comprehensive blood panels are used to detect genetic and early markers of disease and illness. My goal with Ways2Well is to create a better standard of patient care and make the patient journey more approachable and friendly. We are empowering patients to take control of their health before chronic illness and diseases develop."
Prior to founding Ways2Well, Buhler spent 15 years in the medical industry supporting the nation's leading surgeons with Eli Lily and Stryker.He is a graduate of University of Houston Bauer College of Business. Buhler is co-founder of Ways2Well sister company ReviveRx pharmacy, a licensed compounding pharmacy headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Tay Bagley
Chief Operating Officer, Ways2Well
Tay Bagley is Chief Operating Officer for Ways2Well, chartered with running the daily operations of the company and expanding into new markets to bring Ways2Well to more patients. Originally interested in pursuing a career as a doctor, Bagley received his BA in Marketing from Baylor University once he realized his passion was creating solutions that helped people in an impactful way. Bagley spent the early part of his career in sales and management at Stryker and MediSmart; and has brought that operations experience to Ways2Well to build a dynamic team and accessible marketplace offerings for patient care that are effective and scalable. "I believe everyone should have the opportunity to live life on their own terms – that independent agency and patient care solutions are what I try to help create every day at Ways2Well."
Prior to Ways2Well Bagley held senior positions and a strong sales record with Enterprise, Stryker and MediSmart. He is a Baylor University graduate and native Houstonian.
Aaron Schneider PHARMD.
Co-Founder, ReviveRX
Clinical Advisor, WAYS2WELL
Aaron Schneider is co-founder and Director of Pharmacy Operations at ReviveRx Pharmacy, a licensed compounding pharmacy in Houston, Texas and Ways2Well partner company. Growing up in rural Texas where there is limited access to quality health care, Schneider recognized early on that affordable access to quality healthcare solutions was an issue. Wanting to change the paradigm from 'sick care' to true preventative care/health management Schneider pursued a Doctorate of Pharmacy where he can be the last touch point and educator in the patient journey, helping them manage their care. "ReviveRx was founded to provide quality accessible patient specific care that accommodates our patients' busy lives. We partner with Ways2Well to provide affordable diagnostic tools, and expertise to maximize a patients health through preventative care, before it becomes sick care; keeping patients healthier, longer.
Prior to ReviveRx, Schneider spent over 15 years in pharmacy as a pharmacy technician, pharmacist, pharmacy manager, and director of operations with experience in Critical Care, and Ambulatory Care and a special focus in Urology, Uro-Gynecology, Endocrinology, and Reproductive Medicine. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Biomedical Sciences, and received his Doctorate of Pharmacy at UIW Feik School of Pharmacy in San Antonio.
MD, FACEP
Dr. Mehaffey is a veteran board certified physician, seeing patients in the Texas Medical Center, Houston. He is also certified in emergency medicine. He has previously served as the medical director for several private Emergency Medical Services companies as well as serving as medical director for a local Houston prison for the last 11 years. Dr. Mehaffey is currently the Medical Director for local preventative care and virtual health start up, Ways2Well; supporting the clinical team. He is a firm believer in preventative health care as a means to mitigate long term chronic illness in patients.
Danese Rexroad
MSN, APRN, FNP-C
Danese is a native Texan who graduated nursing school from Lamar University in 2001. She was one of two students selected for the Nurse Apprenticeship program in Emergency/Trauma department. After several years in Emergency Medicine, she transitioned to surgical services specializing in both trauma and plastic/reconstructive surgery. It was during that time she developed an interest in wellness and disease prevention. She decided to return to school to obtain her MSN and specialize as a Family Nurse Practitioner to be able to care for patients across their life span. She continued her education by obtaining a Functional Medicine certification and continues to pursue the latest in disease prevention, wellness, and health optimization. She is currently practicing at Ways2Well and feels this is the most ideal approach to health optimization. She sees patients online, so it is convenient and personalized. She feels that each patient is unique in both goals and potential outcomes, so she employs multiple diagnostic tools such as laboratory data and genetic testing to design a treatment pathway tailored to the individual patient.
Abbie Byrom
Vice President of Marketing & Communications
Abbie Byrom is Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Ways2Well, a digital health start-up focused on preventative care and wellness – two important patient care opportunities in the healthcare marketplace. In this role, Abbie leads all aspects of brand, PR, design, product launch, marketing strategy and experiential events & partnerships; working to develop an emerging segment of healthcare and technology on a broader scale. Prior to joining Ways2Well, Abbie held roles as the Director of Global Partnerships and Ecosystem Growth, Samsung SmartThings; Senior Manager of Smart Home Product Marketing, Samsung Electronics America; and Brand Manager of Home Appliance, Samsung Electronics America. Abbie began her marketing career in radio and then food/beverage hospitality for nearly a decade before finding her passion in supporting start-ups and internal business groups as they developed their strategy for go to market and product launch. Abbie holds a B.A. in Journalism and Social Issues from North Carolina State University and resides in Houston, Texas.
Kelli Bailey
Patient Operations
Leading patient services, Kelli is the glue that brings together our clinical team liaising with our providers, pharmacy, call center and patients to ensure Ways2Well patients receive the best care possible. Acting as an advocate for our patients and a direct line of communication for treatment plans between the pharmacy and practitioner is a role Kelli embodies in everything she does. From managing the front office team to helping facilitate pharmacy pickups, counseling patients on treatment plans, prepping and scheduling lab work, or being on call to answer patient questions and concerns at all hours – Ways2Well patients are in the best hands possible with Kelli on their side. Kelli has been a jack of all trades throughout her healthcare career, bringing that expertise and insight to her daily role managing patient operations. After attending Texas A&M Corpus Christi Kelli worked at Walmart and CVS as a pharmacy technician where she learned the importance of counseling and educating patients on prescription compliance and better outcomes. Prior to joining Ways2Well Kelli was a pharmacy technician for compounding pharmacy ReviveRx, and worked for MediSmart Solutions focused on toxicology and testing.
Marketing & Sales Assistant
James Peters was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. After studying Business at Clemson University, James worked in private transportation & logistics and dabbled in real estate before moving to Houston and finding a passion for marketing and sales. James supports the marketing team, leading social media and creating website content; as well as maintaining the Ways2Well blog. He also assists the sales team by facilitating online orders and market research. A man of many talents, James also provides general assistance to our partner pharmacy ReviveRX and supports patient operations. Being a runner for many years, he finds health and exercise to be very important for preventative care and overall health; and is excited to help bring better healthcare to as many people as possible.


Burghound 90: The nose is presently dominated by notes of smoky reduction so I would suggest a quick but thorough aeration. The big, rich and bold broad-shouldered flavors possess both excellent volume and mid-palate concentration, all wrapped in a palate coating finish where an interesting hint of iodine can be discerned. This is a massive wine and if big and bold is your cup of white burgundy, look no further.


text:
Tribal Council
Tribal History
Tribal Enterprise
Tribal Programs
Tribal Royalty
Nak-Nu-We-Sha
Tribal News & Events
Business Training & Technology Center
The Yakama Nation Main Agency Offices
401 Fort Road
Toppenish, WA 98948
REVENUE ALLOCATION PLAN
Members can sign up for direct deposit and prepaid debit cards.
Important July RAP Distribution Information attached.
Access additional information here
The Mount Adams Recreation Area at Tract D will potentially open mid-September. Further assessment and completion of maintenance from the Cougar Creek Fire is needed prior to opening. Any Questions call Tia Beavert (509)865-5121 Ext. 4653
Our Calendar of Events showcases Yakama Nation events on a month by month basis.
The Treaty between the United States of America and the Yakama Nation of Indians. Concluded at Camp Stevens, Walla Walla Valley, more...
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
Generations before the advance of the modern world, the lands of the Yakama extended in all directions along the Cascade Mountain Range to the Columbia River and beyond. We considered it land given in trust by the Creator for the use of the living and a heritage to be held and protected for unborn generations. more...
Kamiakin Statue
Kamiakin was noted as one of the main leaders of the Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakama Nation
during the signing of the treaty of 1855.
Celilo Falls
Celilo Falls, located on the Columbia river east of The Dalles, Oregon, was a well known trading area & sacred fishing grounds of our people. Celilo Falls was flooded in 1957 with the completion of the The Dalles Dam. The Federal Government's decision to build the dam disregarded the ancient fishing grounds and the W'yam people's opposition. Our museum recreated the ancient setting of Celilo Falls. We show a young man learning his lessons about the river from his father.
There will be a Pow Wow at White Swan the first week of November starting
with a lecture series in the Heritage Theater. Among the honored will be our
fallen brothers of the Yakama Nation and Confederated Tribes. Following will
be a potluck buffet featuring food of the Yakama Heritage Center and storytelling will follow. Please click on the link for more information about the Veteran's Day Rememberance Pow Wow. more...
Photos courtesy of:
Cultural Heritage Center Museum and Economic Development Tourism Division
� Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved.
Incommand Inc - Custom Web Development-Web Application Development- SEO


A traditional French delicacy (translated it means "fat or fatty liver") that consists of a fattened goose or duck liver that is marinated several times before being served either baked or baked and chilled. The livers used for Foie Gras in the U.S. are typically from a Moulard duck, which is a cross between a Muscovy and a Pekin duck that dates back centuries ago to Europe, while the geese used to produce Foie Gras are a cross from species that were developed in early Egyptian times.
Ducks or geese raised to produce Foie Gras have been induced to eat greater amounts of food, particularly corn, without excessive exercise in order to naturally increase the size of their liver, which commonly becomes 3 to 4 pounds in size. When the liver is removed, it is often soaked in a solution of wine, water and milk to prepare it to be consumed. It is then marinated again in a blend of seasonings with wine (usually Armagnac, Madeira or Port wine) and baked, being careful not to let it shrink significantly while being cooked.
Foie Gras of goose (Foie Gras d'Oie) is considered to be slightly smoother in texture and richer but more delicate flavored than Foie Gras of duck (Foie Gras de Canard) due to the greater fat content. However, duck Foie Gras provides a more fragrant aroma while tasting slightly stronger, but still rich and buttery. Wine jelly is often served as a condiment with Foie Gras, since it offers a complementing flavor. Suggested wines with Foie Gras when it is served cold include sweet white Sauterns or Reislings. For the heartier flavored Foie Gras when prepared warm, serve a Merlot or a Cabernet wine.


text:
< Back to TERMIS
About TERMIS
Digital Venue
Sister Society Events
Program-at-a-Glance
Call for Symposia
Final Program
Chair, Speaker & Poster Instructions
Current Plenary Speakers
Session Keynote Speakers
VISA Requests
SYIS
TERMIS » News
September 2021: Final program is now available
August 19, 2021: TERMIS newsletter 10
The TERMIS newletter can be found here.
August 19, 2021: Congress will be held digital.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many restrictions in regards to travelling and the hosting of congresses by governments and health authorities around the world. While this situation continues to develop and people are getting vaccinated, it still remains unclear if it is possible to bring our professional community together for the 6th World Congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS2021) in November 2021. At the moment, the Dutch government still imposes strong restrictions on mass indoor events spanning multiple days. With local expert epidemiologists predicting another wave later in the fall, it is highly unlikely these restrictions will be lifted sufficiently to organize the high-quality interactive event we have been planning. Therefore, the Local Organising Committee, supported by TERMIS global Governing Board, has decided to make the conference digital!
We were very much looking forward to welcoming you here in Maastricht in person, hosting a vibrant and fruitful exchange of views in TERM science as well as offering a fun social program. However, we also have a responsibility to guarantee your safety during the conference, and currently the risks are too high, which forced us to make this decision.
We are currently working on the new digital program and would like to inform you that the final program will be communicated in September 2021. Further details about the digital platform and how to pre-record your presentation or upload your poster, will also be sent to you soon.
We would also like to inform you that changing the congress to a digital congress does not change your acceptance of your abstract and symposium in the program. Hence, we are looking forward to host you all on the online conference platform in November!
July 22, 2021: Registration temporarily suspended.
In view of the rising COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands but also in the rest of the world, we would like to inform you that the local organising committee has decided to temporarily suspend the registration for the 6th World Congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS 2021) until 16th of August.
This is done with the purpose to monitor the evolving situation closely and determine if there are still the conditions to offer the meeting in person for those who are able to travel or if we are forced to organize the meeting fully digital. A final decision will be taken by mid-August and from 16th August onwards registration to the conference will be reactivated with either the same hybrid modality that we currently have or with a fully digital modality in case that the situation doesn't improve. In case that we will be forced to organize the conference fully digital, we would like to reassure all those of you who already registered for the physical meeting fee that we will reimburse the difference.
July 22, 2021: TERMIS newsletter 9
July 1, 2021: TERMIS newsletter 8
July 1, 2021: TERMIS digital platform
We are pleased to announce that for all those of you who will not be able to travel in November we will provide a virtual platform, in addition to the physical meeting format, where people can participate digitally in the conference.
May 27, 2021: TERMIS newsletter 7
May 1, 2021: Submit your late breaking abstract
The late breaking abstract submission is now open, until June 1, 2021.
April 29, 2021: TERMIS newsletter 6
April 28, 2021: Online registration and accommodation bookings open
We are pleased to announce that you can now register and book your hotel accommodation.
March 16, 2021: TERMIS newsletter 5
February 16, 2021: TERMIS newsletter 4
January 12, 2021: TERMIS newsletter 3
December 10, 2020: TERMIS newsletter 2
November 24, 2020: TERMIS newsletter 1
November 12, 2020: Floorplan for exhibitors
The TERMIS floorplan for exhibitors is now available.
November 1, 2020: Reopening of Abstract submission
It is our pleasure to announce that the abstract submission for the World Congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS 2021) will reopen again on 1 November 2020. Your input on the program is very important to us and therefore we would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the TERMIS 2021 World Congress. Please note that if you have already submitted an abstract, you will also be able to make amendments to your abstract until the deadline.
October 8, 2020: Mark the new dates in your calendar now!
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many restrictions in regards to travelling and the hosting of congresses by governments and health authorities around the world.
While this situation continues to develop and the advent of multiple vaccines is becoming more and more concrete, it remains unclear if it is possible to bring our professional community together for the 6th World Congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS2021) in May/June 2021. Therefore, the Local Organising Committee, supported by TERMIS global Governing Board, has decided to postpone the congress.
Mark the new dates in your calendar now!
15 November – 19 November 2021
TERMIS TV
Furthermore, to maximize the participation of delegates we are happy to announce TERMIS 2021 TV – a daily broadcast during the congress with highlights of parallel sessions, visitor interviews, expert sessions and live broadcast of all plenary sessions. Also all parallel sessions will be recorded and after editing be available to watch them again via our TERMIS TV website. With this newly developed service for the TERMIS community, we would like not only to offer a digital platform to our established community, but also to be able to reach new scientists around the world interested in TERMIS.
Let us conclude that we ensure that the TERMIS World Congress will take place in 2021. Preferably in physical form. If not, then certainly in hybrid or full virtual form.
September 1, 2020: Abstract deadline extended
The abstract deadline is extended until September 15, 2020. You may edit your recently submitted abstract until the postponement deadline via the abstract submission module.
August 31, 2020: Abstract deadline approaching
The abstract deadline is September 1, 2020. Make sure you submit an abstract as soon as possible by clicking here.
Tissue Engineering Journal
© 2022 . All Rights Reserved. Privacy & Data Protection Policy | Diversity Statement