Cruise holidays are fantastic for families of all sizes and ages, meaning that kids, mums and dads, grandparents, aunties and uncles and cousins can all holiday together, finding activities to suit their own tastes. Here we look at some of the best cruise ships for the whole family.
The upcoming liner from the Royal Caribbean takes to the water next spring and already has a number of exciting itineraries planned for passengers as well as a whole range of activities for all ages.
For the youngest charges aged 6-36 months, Royal Caribbean offers the Royal Babies & Tots nursery where babies and toddlers are kept entertained by trained professionals. Operating throughout the day and evening, parents can drop off their babies when they fancy some alone time.
The SeaPlex is to be the largest indoor activity space at sea, offering basketball courts, circus school, bumper cars and roller skating for kids of all ages. The comprehensive activity centre is complete with food trucks and a DJ spinning fresh tunes overhead.
Sometimes the most difficult demographic to satisfy, teenagers will find plenty to do aboard the Anthem of the Seas with a range of action sports available including rock wall climbing and surfing on the FlowRider wave simulator.
The Two70 venue is the incredible, adaptable performance and relaxation area that hosts a number of stunning shows at night. During the day the space offers 270 degree views of the seas and an ice-bar with highly-trained mixologists on hand to create your favourite cocktail.
Take a trip back to a bygone era in The Grande Restaurant, offering beautiful dining in a luxurious, formal setting. The varied menu and selection of wines are sure to satisfy even the most advanced of palates and offer a relaxing break from the kids and grandkids.
At just over two years old, the MSC Divina is one of the jewels in the Mediterranean Shipping Company's Crown. Specialising in cruises around Florida and the Caribbean, the MSC Divina is a fantastic option for a family holiday. The 'Kids Under 11 Sail Free' option certainly makes the Divina a more affordable option for all the family to sail.
MSC Baby Time is a fantastic activity club for those aged 10 months to 3 years with a comprehensive range of toys to play with in a supervised area.
The MSC Divina plays host to The Smurfs Club, a fun-filled area for the kids to play with other children of their age. The play area comprises of a dry section and a water park for the kids to explore and enjoy.
Teenagers can enjoy a bit of freedom and time away from the parents in the Graffiti Teen Disco. The Graffiti Teen Disco is adorned with fun and creative graffiti art and teens can enjoy games such as Foosball and the video games of the adjoining arcade.
The pirate-themed acrobatic and contortionist show continues to excite and intrigue passengers. For the sports fans on board, the American-themed sports bar shows all the latest action from the world's most popular games.
The Top Sail Lounge is an exclusive setting for Yacht Club passengers to enjoy the unparalleled views, drinks and the playing of the pianist. This is the perfect retreat after a day of looking after the grandchildren.
P&O Cruises are a charmingly British company dedicated to providing the highest levels of service. The Ventura is the largest ship in their fleet and dedicated to ensuring that everyone has a fantastic holiday.
The Ventura's cruises concentrate heavily on excursions, meaning that there are a lot of opportunities to plan private trips. These can be used to indulge the baby of the family and tailor your trips to their needs.
Little Miss Sunshine, Mr Bump and Noddy are just a few of the children's favourites that are regulars aboard the P&O Ventura keeping children happy and engaged.
The P&O Ventura has concentrated heavily on keeping teenagers entertained, providing a selection of great sporting activities. The active teens can choose from a large sports court, four pools and a fantastically-equipped gym.
The Ventura plays host to an awe-inspiring two-deck theatre that regularly puts on stunning cabaret shows, tribute acts as well as comedy and dancing shows. The Metropolis bar is a unique setting which offers a backdrop changing daily to represent a different cityscape.
P&O made a major coup when they acquired the services of one of the world's best-renowned chefs: Marco Pierre White. The celebrity chef's signature restaurant The White Room is hugely popular with guests and is joined by 11 other eateries on board.


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This month, the Book Group is welcoming Anna Mazzola to join us and talk about her work.
Anna will be reading from her novel, "The Story Keeper".
Anna Mazzola is a writer who, due to some fault of her parents, is drawn to peculiar and dark historical subjects. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, which won an Edgar award, is based on the life of a real woman called Sarah Gale who was convicted of aiding a murder in London in 1837. Her second novel, The Story Keeper, was published in July 2018 and follows a folklorist's assistant as she searches out dark fairytales and stolen girls on the Isle of Skye in 1857.
Anna studied English at Pembroke College, Oxford, before accidentally becoming a human rights and criminal justice solicitor. She now tries to combine law with writing, to varying degrees of success. She lives in South London with two small children, two cats and one husband.
Anna has recommended we discuss The Birds by Daphne du Maurier in our April Book Group. We'll also be watching Hitchcock's film on the same evening so we can discuss why du Maurier was critical of the Master of Suspense's treatment of her story.
A dark tale of folklore and disappearances on the Isle of Skye.
Audrey Hart travels to Skye and to the mansion of a reclusive folklorist to collect the folk and fairy tales of the local people. It is 1857, the Highland Clearances have left devastation and poverty, and the crofters are suspicious and hostile, claiming they no longer know their stories.
Then Audrey discovers the body of a young girl washed up in the bay beneath Lanerly, and the crofters reveal that it is only a matter of weeks since another girl disappeared. They believe the girls are victims of the restless dead: spirits who take the form of birds.
At first, Audrey suspects that the girls are being abducted, but as events accumulate she begins to wonder if something else is at work. Something which may be linked to the death of her own mother, many years before.


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This is a beautifully-styled women's midi dress that comes in solid black with white trim. The dress has a square neckline and well-crafted, three quarter length sleeves. It is fitted close to the body throughout the torso, and is true to size. The lower skirt portion of the dress is a snug fit that has a full and flirty ruffle at the hemline. The ruffle has a wide white stripe near the hemline. The length ends several inches below the knees. This dress closes in back with a long, hidden zipper.


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Sustainability Basic Policy
The corporate philosophy and mission of the KONOIKE Group is "We pursue innovation at the foundations of our society that creates unique value, driven by respect for humanity and relationships of trust."
In addressing issues related to sustainability, we will also aim to achieve – through the execution of this corporate philosophy – a society that will bring happiness, safety, and a sense of security to various stakeholders surrounding the KONOIKE Group, which include clients, employees, shareholders, and regional communities.
1.We, the KONOIKE Group will assume an essential role for people to live their civil lives with a sense of security and fulfill its responsibilities. This will be achieved through business activities in a wide variety of industries and business sectors, from production contracting and logistics operations for material products, such as steel and chemicals, and general consumable goods, including food products and daily commodities, as well as service operations contracting, such as for the medical and airport industries.
2.Everyone at we, the KONOIKE Group, shares the value that safety and quality are of paramount importance. An example that expresses the sharing of this value is the corporate climate in which we wish each other safety through the greeting, "Safety first," which is exchanged naturally and on a daily basis. Ensuring safety and quality is, of course, a way to avoid the occurrence of negative events such as occupational injuries, vehicular accidents, and quality-related problems, but is also nothing less than protecting precious lives. What is more, it enables the maintenance of stable production activities as well as the ceaseless provision of services. We believe that it is a core element that contributes to the enhancement of value for clients and ourselves, and furthermore, to the enhancement of the productivity of society as a whole.
3.We, the KONOIKE Group, will utilize innovative technologies and digital transformation, and continue undertaking efforts for the resolution of issues, searching for new areas in which we may contribute, in accordance with the changing needs of society.
4.The source of the added value of the KONOIKE Group are work sites and the people who work there. What is more, the relationship of trust forged up to now with stakeholders is the bond and a precious intangible asset. We will not only respect human rights but also emphasize investing in human capital, such as through the promotion of diversity and human resources education and development, to actualize the "respect for humanity and relationships of trust" that is expressed in our corporate philosophy.
5.We, the KONOIKE Group, believe that when responding to issues related to sustainability, it is important to not only mitigate risks but also to consider it as an opportunity to earn profits. Toward the mid- to long-term enhancement of corporate value, we will promote efforts such as intellectual property investment, including the development of technologies, and business portfolio strategies.
6.To reduce the impact of economic activities on climate change, we, the KONOIKE Group will work to conserve resources and energy as well as proactively promote efforts toward decarbonization, such as the adoption of renewable energy. Through our business activities, we will positively engage in initiatives that will contribute to reducing the environmental footprint. At the same time, we will adopt technologies, promote the enhancement of performance, and contribute to the prevention of global warming and the formation of a resource recycling society.
This policy shall be implemented from November 19, 2021.
Representative Director, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
As of April 1 , 2022
※The committee has the authority to establish, revise or abolish a subcommittee as needed.
Activities of the Five Subcommittees
Internal Control Subcommittee
(Chair: Executive General Manager of the Finance/Accounting Division)
This subcommittee establishes and operates group internal controls (primarily J-SOX) and verifies KONOIKE Group responses to internal control issues.
Risk Management Subcommittee
(Chair. Executive General Manager of the General Affairs Division)
This subcommittee conducts regular risk assessments and selects identified risks to respond to changing operating environments. In addition to determining the departments that have jurisdiction over these risks and setting evaluation targets (control targets), the subcommittee monitors the progress of initiatives and otherwise works to reduce risk.
Information Security Subcommittee
(Chair: Executive General Manager of the ICT Promotion Division) This subcommittee maintains the Basic Policy on Information Security and related regulations, studies human, physical, and technological measures related to information security in general, monitors the state of information security, takes steps to prevent and detect incidents, and responds to emergency situations. The subcommittee has formed an Information Security Measures Team that establishes and periodically reviews specific measures for improvement. The team also conducts trainings and manages the (PDCA) cycle to maintain and advance information security.
Compliance Subcommittee
(Chair: Executive General Manager of the Corporate/Quality Division)
This subcommittee works to formulate and review compliance policies, manage PDCA cycles, and strengthen domestic compliance structures. Further, the subcommittee identifies cases related to the internal reporting system (Konoike Helpline).
Environmental Subcommittee
This subcommittee aims to ensure legal compliance and mitigate environmental impact by evaluating compliance with environment-related laws and regulations. The subcommittee also confirms the status of environmental conservation activities and discusses, drafts, and implements measures for improvement.
KONOIKE Group Integrated Report2021
Integrated Report(e-book)

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Title: Iso/iec 10116
Subject: ISO 3166, Block cipher, ISO 19114, ISO 217, ISO 39001
Collection: Iso/Iec Standards
ISO/IEC 10116 Information technology — Security techniques — Modes of operation for an n-bit block cipher[1] is an international standard that specifies modes of operation for block ciphers of any length.
The modes defined are:
Electronic codebook (ECB)
Cipher block chaining (CBC)
Cipher feedback (CFB)
Output feedback (OFB)
Counter (CTR)
The standard notes that some modes require padding, but states that "Padding techniques ... are not within the scope of this International Standard."[2]
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Telstra brings on two telco heavyweights to exec team
New recruits will oversee a newly created technology, innovation and strategy portfolio, as well as retail business
CMO staff (CMO)
Kevin Russell joins Telstra's leadership ranks
Telstra has added two telco heavyweights to its executive ranks across retail and technology, innovation and strategy.
Stephen Elop, the former CEO of Nokia from September 2010 to September 2013, joins the ASX-listed telco giant in the newly created role of group executive technology, innovation and strategy. He is tasked with leading Telstra's strategy to become a world-class technology company and reports directly to CEO, Andrew Penn. The role sees him based jointly in the US and Australia.
The role encompasses the chief technology officer, chief scientist, Telstra Software Group and corporate strategy and has direct links into product development functions.
As well as his stint running Nokia, Elop's heritage includes executive roles with Microsoft, Juniper, Adobe and Macromedia. He starts at Telstra on 4 April.
"Stephen will immediately add major firepower to our team with his extensive and deep technology experience and an innate sense of customer expectations," Penn said. "He is a recognised international technology leader and strategist from across a range of global organisations."
Telstra has also appointed Kevin former SingTel Optus country chief officer and CEO of consumer for Australia, Kevin Russell, as group executive for Telstra Retail. He replaces Dr Karsten Wildberger, who quit the post in December after just three months in the role and officially finished up on 31 March.
Russell has a long history in the telco space. Alongside the three years with SingTel Optus from 2012 to 2014, he was formerly chief operating officer then CEO of Hutchison Three UK, rising to the role after being the CEO for Hutchison Telecoms Australia, where we oversaw the launch of the 3 brand and mobile services in 2003.
At present, Russell is CEO for a Silicon Valley-based technology startup and will join Telstra in late April.
"Kevin has an impressive track record working for several of the world's largest telcos in a range of demanding markets," Penn said. "He has passionately worked to build customer experiences in new and existing major consumer brands and service business clients. He has managed major programs across national fixed and mobile networks and is well regarded in the local technology community."
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Russell said Telstra's commitment to improving customer services and being customer centric, and to simplifying and strengthening its core business were key to his decision to sign up.
More broadly, the market transition to the National Broadband Network and accelerating technology innovation presents growth opportunities and changing competitive dynamics requiring nimble execution," he commented in a statement.
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The Weinstein Company to Release Madonna's W.E. on December 9, 2011 in New York and L.A.
Love Story Stars Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James D'Arcy And Oscar Isaac
NEW YORK, June 29, 2011 -- The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it will release Madonna's "W.E." on December 9, 2011 in New York and Los Angeles. The film will expand to additional markets in December, with wide release anticipated by mid-January. Madonna's narrative feature directorial debut, W.E. is co-written by Madonna and Alek Keshishian, produced by Madonna and Kris Thykier and executive produced by Scott Franklin (BLACK SWAN). It stars Abbie Cornish (LIMITLESS), Andrea Riseborough (NEVER LET ME GO), James D'Arcy (MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD), Oscar Isaac (DRIVE), Natalie Dormer ("The Tudors"), Richard Coyle (PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME), James Fox (SHERLOCK HOLMES) and Laurence Fox ("Inspector Lewis"). The announcement was made by TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein and TWC President of Theatrical Distribution and Home Entertainment Erik Lomis.
"Madonna beautifully interweaves past and present in W.E. It's a very smart film, and a stunning feature directorial debut," said Weinstein. "I'm incredibly excited about this movie and I wanted to give it a prominent release date."
Madonna is represented by CAA and managed by Untitled Entertainment.
W.E. looks at the fabled romance between American Wallis Simpson and Britain's King Edward VIII, who famously gave up the throne to marry the woman he loved. More than six decades later, their story enthralls a young woman named Wally Winthrop, who thinks she sees in their devotion a stark contrast to her own unhappy marriage – and an example to follow as she searches for the meaning of true love. The cast features Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James D'Arcy and Oscar Isaac.
ABOUT THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
The Weinstein Company (TWC) is a multimedia production and distribution company launched in October 2005 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films in 1979. TWC also encompasses Dimension Films, the genre label founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein, which has released such popular franchises as SCREAM, SPY KIDS and SCARY MOVIE. Together TWC and Dimension Films have released a broad range of mainstream, genre and specialty films that have been commercial and critical successes, including Tom Hooper's THE KING'S SPEECH, winner of four 2011 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture. Since 2005, TWC and Dimension Films have released such films as GRINDHOUSE; I'M NOT THERE; THE GREAT DEBATERS; VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA; THE READER; THE ROAD; HALLOWEEN; THE PAT TILLMAN STORY; PIRANHA 3D; INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS; A SINGLE MAN; BLUE VALENTINE, THE COMPANY MEN; MIRAL; and SCRE4M. Upcoming releases include SPY KIDS 4, APOLLO 18, DIRTY GIRL, OUR IDIOT BROTHER, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT, and MY WEEK WITH MARILYN. Recently wrapped is COGAN'S TRADE.
TWC is also active in television production, with credits including the Emmy® Award-winning hit reality series "Project Runway," the new VH1 reality series "Mob Wives," and the critically acclaimed HBO comedy/crime series "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency." The company is producing two "Project Runway" spinoffs, "Project Runway: Masters" and "Project Runway: Accessories," which are expected to debut in 2011. The company currently has 17 series in different stages of development, including: "Marco Polo," a scripted historical series about the great explorer; "The Nanny Diaries," based on the hit book; and "The Mad Ones," adapted from the Mafia novel of the same name.
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The addictive opioids in wheat and dairy foods.
Wheat- and dairy products contain opioid peptides influencing endorphin receptors in the brain. These peptides are physically addictive, causing dependence, asthma, obesity, apathy, ignorance and numbness. The same goes for beta-carbolines from prepared food.
To obtain all required nutrients and to remain sharp and investigative; consume as much fruits (there are about 6000 different fruits), and some fresh raw animal food regularly (like sashimi or egg yolk). And for munch-food; only consume what you really, really love to eat (and not because they say it's healthy), containing little protein, but much fat and / or sugar, satisfying your cravings for munch-food.
Look around you; don't you see many zombies ?
Why do so many people act like zombies nowadays ?
It's not natural, for every specie has to react swiftly upon changes, and needs to explore new opportunities. You might say that humans are mainly 'followers', like it would be true for cattle. But by nature, humans do not live together in large numbers; we're not like cattle. Millions of years ago, humans at the most lived together by the dozens, and not thousands, or even millions. Therefore, lots of us humans should be curious, investigative and explorative.
What makes so many people so apathetic, slow and ignorant ?
Everybody knows that if one uses morphine, one is slow and apathetic. Simply because morphine is an opioid substance.
The only reason why we, and other animals, are sensitive to such substances, is because our body and brain contain receptors for opioid peptides. Why ?
When we have to flee from danger but are wounded, we have to be able to run away anyway. Therefore the body produces opioid peptides to ease the pain, when necessary. These opioid peptides are called endorphins. Marathon-runners know the action of these endorphins as 'runner's high' ; it enables them to go on even when exhausted. Without the proper receptors, these endorphins (and anesthetics !!) don't work.
But why do some foods contain opioid peptides ? And what foods ?
Milk is always, always mother's milk, meant for the suckling. We decided to consider mothers' milk from cows, goats, sheep, camels, or from whatever other animal as food for human beings, but by nature this, of course, it isn't true. Human-like beings have existed for 2 to 3 million years, and man did not start to drink mothers' milk from other animals until at the most 0.01 million years ago. For over 99% of our existence, we did not regard cow's milk as food for human beings.
Why do we so now ?
When humans migrated to areas where less fruits could be found, it was necessary to find other foods. Economically, it appeared to be more efficient to repeatedly take milk from the cattle than to slaughter them for meat. Where the least fruits could be found (Northern Europe), humans best adapted to consuming cow's milk; colored people are far more allergic to cow's milk-proteins and/or -lactose than white people.
But why does milk contain opioid peptides ?
The human head is relatively big, and that's why human infants come out to the world too early ; in comparison to other primates gestation length should be 21 months instead of 9. But by then the baby's head would be far too big to pass the pelvis. That's why human infants actually aren't ready for the outside world; they can't even walk !!
Besides a non-opioid peptide stimulating appetite (3), milk by nature contains different opioid peptides, hidden in milk-proteins such as caseïn, lactalbumin, beta-lactaglobulin and lactoferrin.
Unfortunately, adult milk-consumers also absorb those opioid peptides.
Because food-manufacturers want us to be physically dependent to the food they sell, you can find milk- and wheat-proteins in lots of different food-products. Even some meat-products contain milk- and / or wheat-proteins.
Plants use different tactics to scare off attackers. Some plants contain poison, others just anaesthetize their attackers, like wheat does with opioid peptides.
Because wheat contains opioid peptides, priests in ancient Egypt used wheat to hallucinate, and in bandages, to ease the pain of a wound. All wheat-products, like bread, pasta, pizza, cookies, cake and pastries contain opioid peptides. The roman rulers already new that the people wouldn't rise against them as long as they were entertained and fed bread.
Tyrosine-Glycine-Glycine-Tryptophane-Leucine (13) ,which is the most powerful one.
Tyrosine-Glycine-Glycine- is also the sequence of the first three amino acids in endorphins ; opioid peptides produced by the body, influencing the same receptors in the brain.
To compensate the analgesic effect of the opioid peptides, wheat-products very often contain rosemarin-extract, which is a powerful 'upper'.
Of course there are also advantages of opioid peptides; when your bowels move too much, you can consume wheat-products to slow them down. And when your stomach contains too much acids, milk products help. Having a toothache, chewing bread can relieve the pain for about 10 minutes.
Wheat- and dairy-products are not foods but drugs.
(1) Meisel, H. ,Frister ,H. in : Barth, C.A.& Schlimme, E., Milk Proteins : Nutritional, Clinical, Functional and Technological Aspects. Darmstadt 1988 / 143.
(2) Svedberg, J.et al, Demonstration of beta-casomorphin immunoreactive materials in in vitro digests of bovine milk and in small intestine contents after bovine milk ingestion in adult humans. Peptides 1985 / 6 / pag.825-830. , Loukas, S. et al, Opioid activities and structures of alpha-casein-derived exorphins. Biochemistry 1983 / 22 (19) / 4567-4573. , Zioudrou, C. et al ,Opioid peptides derived from food proteins. The exorphins. J. Biol. Chem.1979 / 254 (7) / 2446-2449. (3) Flood, J.F. et al, Increased food intake by neuropeptide Y is due to an increased motivation to eat. Peptides 1991 / 12 (6) / 1329-1332. , Koldovsky, O., Search for the role of milk borne biologically active peptides for the suckling. J.Nutr. 1989 / 119 (11) / 1543-1551.
(4) Teschemacher, H. et al, Chemical characterization and opiod activity of an exorphin isolated from in vivo digests of casein. FEBS Lett. 1986 / 196 (2) / 223-227. , Chang, K.-J. et al, Isolation of a specific mu-opiate receptor peptide, morphiceptin, from an enzymatic digest of milk proteins. J. Biol. Chem. 1985 / 260 (17) / pag. 9706-9712.
(5) Teschemacher ,H. et al, Milk protein-derived opioid receptor ligands. Biopolymers. 1997 / 43 (2) / 99-117.
(6) Bell, R.R. et al, The influence of milk in the diet on the toxicity of orally ingested lead in rats. Food and Cosmetics Toxicology 1981 / 19 / 429-436. , Lembeck, F. et al ,Substance P as neurogenic mediator of antidromic vasodilation and neurogenic plasma extravasation. Arch. Pharmacol. 1979 / 310 (2) / 175-183.
(7) Read, L.C. et al, Absorption of beta-casomorphins from autoperfused lamb and piglet small intestine. Am. J. Physiol. 1990 / 259 (3 pt 1) / G443-452.
(8) Koldovsky, O., Search for the role of milk borne biologically active peptides for the suckling. J.Nutr. 1989 / 119 (11) / 1543-1551. , Buts, J.P. Bioactive factors in milk. Arch. Pediatr. 1998 / 5 (3) / 298-306.
(9) Iacono, G. et al, Intolerance of cow's milk and chronic constipation in children. New England Journal of Medicine 1998 / 339 (16) / 1100-1104.
(10) Fukudome, S. et al, Release of opioid peptides, gluten exorphins by the action of pancreatic elastase. FEBS Lett. 1997 / 412 (3) / 475-479.
(11) Fukudome, S. et al, Gluten exorphin C : a novel opioid peptide derived from wheat gluten. FEBS Lett. 1993 / 316 (1) / 17-19.
(12) Max ,B., This and that : an artefactual alkaloid and its peptide analogs. Trends Pharmacol. Sci. 1992 / 13 (9) / 341-345.
(13) Fukodome, S. et al, Opioid peptides derived from wheat gluten : their isolation and characterization. FEBS lett. 1992 / 296 (1) / 107-111.
(14) Dohan, F.C. ,Genetics and idiopathic schizophrenia. Am. J. Psychiatry 1989 / 146 (11) / 1522-1523. , Dohan, F.C. ,Genetic hypothesis of idiopathic schizophrenia : its exorphin connection. Schizophr. Bull. 1988 / 14 (4) / 489-494. , Paroli, E. et al, Opioid peptides from food (the exorphins). World Rev. Nutr. Diet. 1988 / 55 / 58-97. , Morley, J.E., Food peptides. A new class of hormones ? J. Am. Med. Assoc. 1982 / 247 (17) / 2379-2380 , Ross-Smith, P. et al, Diet (gluten) and Schizophrenia. J. Hum. Nutr. 1980 / 34 (2) / 107-112.
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A Graptopetalum a kőtörőfű-virágúak (Saxifragales) rendjébe, ezen belül a varjúhájfélék (Crassulaceae) családjába és a fáskövirózsa-formák (Sempervivoideae) alcsaládjába tartozó nemzetség.

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A Graptopetalum-fajok eredeti előfordulási területe az Amerikai Egyesült Államokbeli Arizona és Új-Mexikó, valamint Mexikó legnagyobb részén van. Az ember sikeresen betelepítette Portugáliába és az ausztráliai Queenslandba.

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Alnemzetségek, fajsorok és alfajsorok
Az alábbi fajokat a következő alnemzetségekbe, fajsorokba és alfajsorokba sorolják be:

Graptopetalum subg. Glassia V.V.Byalt
Graptopetalum subg. Graptopetalum Rose
Graptopetalum sect. Byrnesia (Rose) Moran
Graptopetalum ser. Fruticosa V.V.Byalt
Graptopetalum ser. Pachyphylla V.V.Byalt
Graptopetalum ser. Paraguayensia V.V.Byalt
Graptopetalum sect. Graptopetalum Rose
Graptopetalum ser. Filifera V.V.Byalt
Graptopetalum ser. Graptopetalum Rose
Graptopetalum ser. Marginata V.V.Byalt
Graptopetalum ser. Stolonifera V.V.Byalt

Fajok
A nemzetségbe az alábbi 17 faj tartozik:

Graptopetalum amethystinum (Rose) E.Walther
Graptopetalum bartramii Rose
Graptopetalum bellum (Moran & J.Meyrán) D.R.Hunt
Graptopetalum bernalense (Kimnach & R.C.Moran) V.V.Byalt
Graptopetalum filiferum (S.Watson) Whitehead
Graptopetalum fruticosum Moran
Graptopetalum glassii Acev.-Rosas & Cházaro
Graptopetalum grande Alexander
Graptopetalum macdougallii Alexander
Graptopetalum marginatum Kimnach & Moran
Graptopetalum pachyphyllum Rose
Graptopetalum paraguayense (N.E.Br.) E.Walther
Graptopetalum pentandrum Moran
Graptopetalum pusillum Rose - típusfaj
Graptopetalum rusbyi (Greene) Rose
Graptopetalum saxifragoides Kimnach
Graptopetalum superbum (Kimnach) Acev.-Rosas

Források
Graptopetalum Rose Plants of the World Online
Accepted species Plants of the World Online
Rose, J.N. 1911. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 13: 296.
Byalt, V.V. 2012. A new system of the genus Graptopetalum Rose (Crassulaceae) [in Russian]. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii 43: 70–83. Full issue PDF. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Graptopetalum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (2019). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi, J., Penev L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Dec 05.

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Sowmya Parameswaran, Iqbal Ahmad; HMGA2 regulates the self-renewal of retinal progenitors. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(15):2214.
Purpose: Retinal progenitors unlike neural stem cells do not self-renew under normal culture conditions in vitro. Our recent study demonstrates that retinal progenitors can self-renew, but this property is non-cell autonomous, requiring interactions with other cell types. Here, we have examined the role of non-histone chromosomal high-mobility group protein A2; HMGA2 in the self-renewal.
Methods: HMGA2 expression was determined by Q-PCR, immunohistochemistry and Western analysis in embryonic day 18 (E18) progenitors. Its involvement in self-renewal of E18 progenitors was determined by neurosphere assay in the presence of conditioned medium obtained from cultured endothelial cells (ECCM) and Hmga2 siRNA.
Results: To determine the physiological relevance of HMGA2 in retina, we analyzed its temporal expression by Q-PCR, which revealed a temporal decrease in Hmga2 expression during retinal development in vivo. Analysis of spatial localization of HMGA2 by immunohistochemistry on E18 retinal sections showed a center to peripheral gradient of HMGA2 distribution, co-localized with BrdU positive progenitors. Involvement of HMGA2 in self-renewal of retinal progenitors was examined in ECCM generated neurospheres. A significant increase in Hmga2 transcript levels and Hmga2+ BrdU+ cells was observed in ECCM generated neurospheres compared to EGF controls. To determine whether Hmga2 regulatory axis is involved in ECCM mediated self - renewal, HMGA2 expression was attenuated using siRNA lentivirus in E18 retinal dissociates. HMGA2 knockdown led to decrease in the number of neurospheres and BrdU positive cells suggesting the loss of self-renewal. Data on HMGA2 axis involved in self-renewal of retinal progenitors will be provided.
Conclusions: Retinal progenitors display a non-cell autonomous self-renewal property, which is likely to be regulated by a molecular axis, underpinned by HMGA2.


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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order on April 30th that authorized the Marijuana Regulatory Agency to take over licensing for medical marijuana cultivators, manufacturers, and retailers. Since then there has already been a dramatic improvement in the amount of licenses issued. In an unprecedented move, the agency has already licensed three medical marijuana delivery services and six facilities.
The medical marijuana delivery licenses were issued to dispensaries that were expanding into home delivery. Lake Effect, BotaniQ, and Utopia Gardens received their licenses last week and are already making deliveries. General manager of Lake Effect, Jevin Weyenberg noted that, "We know a lot of the patients we're going to be delivering to -- a lot of them are in wheelchairs. Convenient access to medicine -- you can never put a price on that. It's life-saving for some people."
Medical Marijuana Delivery Rules
Michigan's Marijuana Regulatory Agency has established some specific rules in regards to medical marijuana delivery to ensure that all sales are tracked. Every dispensary that offers delivery must hire its own drivers, carefully document the inventory sold and track the delivery route with a GPS system.
Additionally, dispensaries can only deliver to a patient's home address, and must obtain a copy of their driver's license and medical marijuana card before the delivery. The delivery address must match the patient's addresses on their driver's license and medical marijuana card. Each medical marijuana patient will only be allowed to purchase 2.5 ounces of marijuana flower.
Spokesman for the Marijuana Regulatory Agency, David Harns, was very deliberate in pointing out that dispensaries can deliver marijuana to patients who live in cities where medical marijuana sales have been banned or where the local government has not opted in to the program.
Blackmarket Marijuana Businesses
Weyenberg commented saying, "It's the first time it's ever been done in the state of Michigan legally. We want to make sure everything is secure … we want to make sure we're a hard target for any criminal that might try anything." There is still a black market that exist in Michigan especially for delivery. Weedmaps now allows customers to order through their website but most of these businesses are unlicensed and illegal.
In response Weyenberg stated that, "We want to be able to compete with them. They are taking some of the business via that route because there's a demand for it. There's just a massive amount of demand, and the demand manifests itself in a lot of different ways. Delivery is one of them."
The Michigan State Police are taking more of a proactive approach in eliminating these black market marijuana businesses. Recently a special unit was formed comprised of 40 detectives and analysts to crack down on illegal operations. Not only is it unlicensed businesses and delivery services but also a new practice called "gifting" where a recreational consumer will purchase something that is overpriced to then be gifted a certain amount of cannabis.
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Do you have a chronic illness such as Bronchitis, Diabetes, and Heart Disease? If so did you know that you are at high risk of serious illness if you get the flu? Individuals with a chronic illness have a weaker immune system to fight off the flu. The flu can be treated. There are "antiviral" medicines that can be used to treat the flu. These medicines fight the influenza viruses in your body. Treatment with antiviral drugs can mean the difference between having a milder illness instead of a very serious illness. For seniors this could mean avoiding a hospital stay.
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The antiviral drugs can lessen the symptoms and shorten the time you have ill. This is particularly important for high-risk patients with chronic health conditions. Other treatment options are taking medicine such as acetaminophen to reduce fevers and chills. Drink plenty of fluids to stay hydrated. Eat light meals such as soups and teas. Using good hygiene with good hand washing, and covering your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze prevents spreading the flu to others.
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Since its founding in 1908, LCDS has thrived because of the generosity of families, alumni, and friends who believe in our mission and who are committed to our future. There are many ways to support our school:
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The Excellence Fund is the annual and recurring effort that benefits every aspect of the LCDS experience, including arts, athletics, technology, and, of course, academics. The Excellence Fund truly impacts every student and helps ensure the vibrancy and vigor that define LCDS. Because of its profound impact on the experience we are able to offer, we ask everyone within our community to make The Excellence Fund their highest philanthropic priority.
GIFTS FOR PENNSYLVANIA TAX CREDIT - EITC AND OSTC
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania recognizes LCDS as an approved scholarship organization within the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs. These programs allow companies to make significant contributions to LCDS and to receive 90% tax credits in return. Any business with a Pennsylvania tax liability is eligible to participate. Last year, corporate partners gave LCDS more than $350,000. Corporate gifts range from $1,000 to more than $50,000. For more information, visit the PA Dept. of Community and Economic Development, our Gifts for Tax Credit or contact the LCDS Chief Advancement Officer.
The LCDS Campus Master Plan was drafted in 2013 and calls for four major areas of facilities upgrades to occur over the next two decades. The plan's first phase was realized in summer 2016 with the renovation of our Lower School and the creation of President Avenue access and additional parking. The second phase, a new Physical Education & Athletic Center, opened in the fall of 2017. Future phases call for the construction of a new theater and science center. The $14,000,000 Room to Grow capital campaign project makes these improvements possible.
PLANNED AND OTHER GIFTS
Have you included LCDS in your estate plans? There are a variety of giving strategies that help you provide for LCDS, while also advancing your own personal objectives. Our Heritage Society recognizes individuals who have made provisions for Lancaster Country Day School.
ENDOWMENT GIFTS
Lancaster Country Day School is fortunate to have an endowment in excess of $24 million. The principal funds are protected so that every year a portion of the endowment's interest revenue may be designated in support of scholarships, programs, and faculty salaries. LCDS is grateful to members of the community who invest in existing endowed funds, those who create new funds within their lifetimes and others who create funds through estate provisions. If you wish to make a lasting tribute to a classmate, teacher or friend, please contact Chief Advancement Officer Shelby LaMar at (717) 397-7240.
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Jack Wilshere 'reveals real reason he's not going to Russia' as Arsenal star tries to make light of his World Cup snub
The Arsenal midfielder failed to make Gareth Southgate's England squad for the 2018 World Cup
Jack Wilshere learned he wouldn't be representing England in the 2018 World Cup this month, and the Arsenal midfielder took the news badly.
"Think its about time I had my say," wrote Wilshere on Twitter, a few days after Gareth Southgate's 23-man squad for the tournament in Russia was revealed.
"It goes without saying that I'm naturally incredibly disappointed to have been left out of the England squad for the World Cup. I've felt fit, sharp and strong all season and believe I should be in the squad.
"And given the chance I could have made a real impact. However, I have to respect the manager's decision and would like to wish the whole squad all the very best for the tournament.
Jack Wilshere learned he wouldn't be representing England in the World Cup this month (Image: Getty Images Europe)
"I will always be an England fan and will be supporting the boys with the rest of the nation."
Southgate pointed to Wilshere's lack of form, rather than fitness, behind his decision not to include the 34-cap international in his 23-man party.
"Jack had a good spell in the lead up to Christmas and just after. He was not as effective towards the end of the season," said Southgate.
The Arsenal midfielder took the news badly that he wouldn't be playing in Russia (Image: Arsenal FC/Getty)
"He hasn't played a game for us. We were really pleased with the way the team played in November and March.
"The only player we've added into midfield area is Fabian Delph. Once you make a call, particularly with senior players, then you have to look at the standby list as a separate entity."
But it seems that there was in fact another reason for Wilshere's World Cup snub - according to the player himself - who joked on social media.
Wilshere is attempting to make light of his disappointing situation (Image: jackwilshere /Instagram)
The Arsenal star posted a picture to Instagram of the passport office along with the caption: "Passport expired. Day 14. The real reason I'm not going to Russia."
He completed the post with a rolling eyes emoji. At least he's attempting to make light of his disappointing situation.
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Q: How to add buttons to android navigation bar (not bottom bar) How can I learn how to cuztomize the android navigation bar?
I know that it is not recommended because of the material ui commandments (but I wanna do it anyways).
There is a few applications out there who supports this - and I was looking into them to see if I can learn it from them.
Lichess
I know a chess app called lichess which added 2 buttons in each side of the navigation bar - and the code is open source on github, but I can't find where the specific buttons are implemented. Also many things in the app is developen in typescript and scala with a wierd html dls.
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I see that lichess is implemented in webview and they might just have created their own "fake" navigation bar in typescript.

CustomNavigationBar
Also there is another app called CuztomNavigationBar which should be able to change the settings for the android navigation bar on a global scale, so that it will persist after the app is closed.
This code is not open source so I cannot find out how he did it. Here is a tutorial how to use his app
Thank you in advance
Here is a image of the bottombar on lichess.

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I'm going through everything I own to simplify my life... ahhh it feels so refreshing and freeing.
Anyways, I keep coming across memories of my pregnancy and Lily's life. Today I found information from the funeral home where Lily went after leaving the hospital... instead of home with me. Her name was on this instead of a birth certificate. Instead of paying for newborn photos, we were charged for funeral and burial services.


Sales come first! That's a popular ethos in the world of contract catering. Having a healthy pipeline and impressive annual growth is vital for many reasons. Apart from the obvious financial benefits, it creates positive PR, giving confidence for prospective clients by demonstrating an ability to consistently cope with increasing scale as well as making a company more attractive on the recruitment stage. It also helps create new opportunities for the existing team, aiding in team retention and career development.
Despite the benefits of new business coming in, there are pitfalls. The sales process for each new contract can take months of work with costs ranging from several to tens of thousands of pounds with no guarantee of winning. The bartlett mitchell mission statement is to build long-term relationships through delicious food and great service with an inspirational creative edge. It is this fundamental focus that makes all the difference to how we approach our business. It makes little business sense to invest in all the work and risk of chasing new business if you allow it to simply leak out the bottom by not retaining your existing client base. There is also the added benefit of your existing clients helping you grow your business through references and word of mouth. The old adage is true: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." If a company is in the service industry, which we are, surely valuing your existing customers and team members should be at the core of what you do.
Retaining business has huge benefits. It is vital to maintaining company turnover and profit. It allows you to continue developing your team members, rather than losing them to you competitors, so you have people ready to step into new roles as they grow with the company. Possibly more important than anything, it is the single biggest influencer to your reputation. Why would any client or catering professional want to work with a company that had a reputation for losing its contracts?
Many companies do focus on retention, but they go about it the wrong way. They win a contract, give it a huge amount of focus during the initial opening period, coast for the mid term, then pull out all of the stops when the contract is 3 to 6 months away from its end in the desperate hope that they will retain it. That approach simply doesn't work. Client and teams see right through the last minute efforts, as they just highlight how little focus they've had since their "grand opening".
At bartlett mitchell, we start from the ethos that you must treat every year as if it was the last. We do not allow complacency and stagnation to set in. We ensure that we have a constant influx of new ideas. As an independently owned company that does not have its profits being funnelled out to share holders, we are able to invest 100% of our profit to constantly improving ourselves. Building a better infrastructure, improving our IT platforms, investing in research and development to deliver more and more innovation is our ethos. Investing in our teams and their development and leveraging better, mutually beneficial deals with our suppliers, enables us to pass all of that on to our clients. As the company grows, so does the value we can offer all of our existing clients and teams.
Every week, our senior team meets to specifically discuss the retention of every one of our existing clients. We set annual business plans for every contract and review these throughout to ensure we are delivering on our promises. We have quarterly strategy sessions to brainstorm new ideas and review our previous actions to ensure they're adding value. We do not have one AGM, we have two, as we want our teams to be engaged and empowered. We have quarterly team meetings and have internal social media channels to ensure we're sharing best practise and new ideas.
We have monthly innovation days where we take team members out to see farms, suppliers, markets and high street offers. We have invested hugely in building our talent team, that not only supports our business during holidays, sickness and vacancies, but creates a pipeline of new talent that is constantly joining the bm family. We have invested in a People Experience Manager whose only role is to ensure our teams are getting the best possible experience as they develop their careers with bartlett mitchell. Our culinary support team has quadrupled in the last 5 years. We have developed a partnership with Adam Byatt at his Michelin starred restaurant Trinity, where we host monthly masterclasses to add to the inspiration available to our chefs. Our IT infrastructure is designed to work more efficiently than any other system on the market, allowing our teams to focus on what's important… food and customers, not sitting at a desk! Our supply chain is one of the most highly decorated in the industry for it's sustainability, competitive pricing and quality. Our coffee brand Perkee is the most highly decorated in-house coffee brand in our industry, having won multiple awards for CSER and marketing and it is the only brand in contract to have won the 2 stars at the coveted Taste award for quality.
All this focus on enhancing what we do is part of our DNA. It is what makes the company an exciting place to work and continually adds value for our existing clients. And it would seem to be working. We have one of the highest retention rates in our industry at 98.2% and, because of that, we have been able to sustain consistent growth year on year as we not only gain new contracts, but organically grow our existing business.
Our mission statement hasn't changed since Wendy and Ian founded the company, and it is this focus and commitment to our existing clients and teams that will continue to make us success no matter what the future brings.


There's a blown-up map of Southeast Austin in the office of District 2 Council Member Delia Garza, with multicolored overlays providing a look at the total scope of residential and commercial development in progress in the area.
There are dozens of them, which shouldn't be much of a surprise since low property values east of Interstate 35 have helped to draw much of Austin's growth that way in recent years. In neighboring districts – 1 and 3 specifically – that growth has caused waves of displacement and gentrification and the attendant concerns that come with longtime residents being priced out of their homes.
Gentrification isn't the main concern Garza expresses when discussing all the new rooftops coming to her district, since much of the development is taking up property that was previously vacant or underused. Instead, her hope is that the families and newcomers moving into District 2 will start to attract more city services and bring commercial offerings closer to residents in traditionally low-income areas like Del Valle, where she said residents have been waiting more than a decade for a proper grocery store.
There are improvements on the way, with fire protection improvements coming with funds approved in November's bond vote, and more medical services coming through the work of Central Health and other community organizations. But other quality-of-life issues remain.
The growth coming to District 2 also makes Garza concerned about the city's stalled land development code rewrite, specifically because the limits on multifamily, "missing middle" housing options mean in most cases that developers have to build more expensive single-family units to cover construction costs.
"A big, big part of that issue is when the land is expensive and the land use code limits what you can do, that means only one rich person can live there, as opposed to if our land use code said you can build a fourplex there, and that means four people who are splitting the high property taxes," she said.
On the issue of restarting the CodeNEXT process in 2019, Garza said she and other Council members realized too late in the initial process that there was significant opposition to large-scale zoning changes. That lesson learned, she plans to be more vocal and involved in pushing for comprehensive reform instead of using the patchwork approach advocated by others.
"For me there were assumptions made that everybody was on the same page, and that we needed to do something as soon as possible … for those of us who were ready for reform and were ready for more progressive land developing code, we sat back a little bit and didn't get as involved in the process early enough," she said. "By then the only voices being heard were those that were consistently against the changes, or slowing things down.
From a business perspective, Garza sees the revision of the city's Chapter 380 agreements for incentives as a potential game-changer. With new policies targeted at helping grow small businesses and middle-income jobs, she said the district is hospitable to manufacturing and food production jobs that pay around $50,000 per year and can provide stability for struggling families.
As a board member for Capital Metro, Garza said the coming year should see continued messaging about the importance of an aggressive mass transit plan for the city, with a public vote of some kind most likely coming in 2020.
With two new City Council members – Natasha Harper-Madison in District 1 and Paige Ellis in District 8 – who have spoken in support of large-scale transit, Garza is optimistic the 2019 Council will embrace proposals that can get more residents out of single-passenger cars.
District 2: District 2 is primarily south and east of Ben White Boulevard and east of Interstate 35. Its two major landmarks are Austin Bergstrom International Airport and the Circuit of the America's Formula 1 race track. Its eastern edge blends into the southeast portions of Travis County.


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Elite Private School's Math Class Trains Students to Find 'Systematic Oppression' in Public Policy
by Reagan Reese
An elite private school in New Hampshire is offering a math class that teaches students how to uncover factors that lead to "systematic oppression."
Phillips Exeter Academy provides "Mathematics of Social Justice" which focuses on how public policy can lead to "discrimination, systematic bias and inequity," according to the school website. Students in the math class will study "inequity in the justice system, healthcare inequity and wealth disparity" using concepts such as mathematical modeling and statistical inference.
"The school hasn't just embraced critical race theory; like so many other elite private schools, it has embedded it into the math and science curriculum," Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, a group focused on parental rights in education, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The class will also study gerrymandering and voter suppression and how they contribute to "negative outcomes for identifiable groups in the United States," the school website stated.
Phillips Exeter is one of the more prestigious private boarding schools in the country, boasting notable alumni including Mark Zuckerberg and requiring a yearly tuition of over $60,000. To be accepted into the school, students must be within the top 10% of their class and place within the 90th percentile on the Independent School Entrance Exam, according to Solomon Admissions Consulting.
The school also offers "Science Health and Race" which focuses on "race and racism in science and medicine" and students will "interrogate the foundations of race-based thinking," the school website said. Through "creative hands-on laboratory experiments" students study the "distrust of physicians and incidents of medical experimentation on the black community."
"The sad reality is that people will pay top dollar to have their kids learn about the 'respective benefits and dangers of whiteness and blackness' in a science class," Sanzi told the DCNF.
Phillips Exeter Academy did not immediately respond to the DCNF's request for comment.
Reagan Reese is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
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In a tranquil setting close to the city, Galiano Oceanfront Inn and Spa serves as an ideal getaway for weddings. Just minutes from Vancouver, this magical boutique resort is located on a stunning island. It features a peaceful West Coast style and an oceanfront environment. Wedding guests can enjoy the venue's views, relaxing spa, and impeccable gardens.
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In a Cornell College science lab, you'll find three student researchers.
Their minds, however, are really out in the Caribbean exploring the coral reef.
Alex Place '17, Glorisette Santiago-Rivera '17, and Winfield Miller '17 are looking at samples of fire coral that Professor Craig Tepper has collected with former classes in Belize and the Bahamas.
"We are using DNA analysis to look at both coral and the symbionts in the coral in order to study how they are currently reacting to different warmer ocean temperatures and how they might continue to do so as global warming continues to advance," Miller said.
The group is using DNA analysis to determine which symbionts are present in the coral samples. When water temperatures rise, the coral can switch or expel symbionts.
"It will allow us to see if there's any type of benefit from a certain symbiont to the fire coral and figure out if it helps it to be more resistant to thermal stress, in comparison to other types of coral and other types of symbionts," Santiago-Rivera said.
This is their 2016 Cornell Summer Research Institute project. They are one of many groups working on intensive research projects for ten weeks.


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True Crime Quinn Myers December 1, 2021
Digital Bandits: The New Art Thieves Selling Stolen Works As NFTs
It may not be as cinematic as a museum heist, but this new form of art theft is quickly becoming a lucrative criminal payday that negatively affects pretty much any artist who posts their work online
Over the course of a decade, 32-year-old RJ Palmer built a career as a digital artist in the gaming world. But while working various gigs for video-game companies like Ubisoft, he also grew an audience of his own by uploading his artwork to online galleries, selling merchandise and prints in the process.
Basically, everything was more or less going according to plan — until the morning he woke up to a flood of notifications from the online gallery DeviantArt. "Pretty much all my work was stolen, dating back to something I made in 2008," Palmer tells me. "Someone went to DeviantArt, took a ton of my work, minted all the images as NFTs and uploaded them to OpenSea."
This is how much of my work was stolen and minted as NFTs just today. The DeviantArt NFT protection is great but man this sucks to see. pic.twitter.com/uNHinQsAGV
— RJ Palmer (@arvalis) November 23, 2021
For the unfamiliar, NFTs are "non-fungible tokens," which purportedly show proof of ownership or authenticity of digital content via the blockchain, and OpenSea is the "King of the NFT Market" for buying and selling NFTs using cryptocurrency. Without getting too far into the impenetrable NFT weeds, when someone buys an NFT for digital content, they're buying a token that represents the artwork, which is often a link to the website that hosts the image.
All of which gives rise to a whole slew of questions regarding the intrinsic value of an NFT — like what exactly you own when you purchase an NFT and whether or not NFTs are rendered completely worthless if the site hosting the content goes offline. But in Palmer's case, the art thieves had an upper hand because the system allows anyone to create an NFT of any image, regardless of whether they created the content or own the IP. And without any semblance of regulation, thousands of artists like Palmer have found themselves the victims of digital art heists on a daily basis. In fact, per DeviantArt's company blog, its stolen art NFT detection tool spotted more than 11,000 pieces of pilfered artwork on OpenSea between July and September.
I searched my name to make sure my art hadn't been stolen and turned into NFTs, and sure thing, an obscure old piece from my DeviantArt is randomly on the front page of the marble cards NFT website? How is this allowed… pic.twitter.com/EE1jXLuQDL
— Devin – Store Open! (@DevinElleKurtz) March 12, 2021
I tried to ignore whole #NFT hysteria but WHAT THE FUCK
I don't give any permission (ESPECIALLY to random jerks) to make tokens from my content and I feel so angry pic.twitter.com/E9UKF1AXug
— don't give up, skeleton (@WeirdUndead) March 9, 2021
"Everybody at every level of art is getting their stuff stolen," Palmer tells me. "And it turns out, my stuff had been getting stolen for years; I just didn't know about it. Someone had just sourced a bunch of art from DeviantArt, from all sorts of artists, and of course none of us knew, because why would we?"
"It's just become part of the job with the internet — if you do cool stuff, people are going to want to take it," he continues. "But if somebody's going to sell a shirt or print with my artwork on it, at least they have to have access to some sort of means of production, which slows the whole process down. With NFTs, though, they don't need a printer or T-shirt press. They just need to steal your image and then they're set. It's fucked."
Artists often take to Reddit and Twitter with exasperated pleas for guidance after discovering that their work has been stolen and posted to an NFT marketplace. "Some of the 3D art I made and put on Instagram was put on Rarible [another NFT marketplace] and sold without my permission," writes redditor wilder_beast in a post on the NFT subreddit. "They minted 21 copies and sold two, [Rarible] returned the money and transferred [the] rest of the art back to me, but the artwork they made is very special to me and didn't wish to sell at all. What can I do about this?"
This afternoon, someone tagged a NFT account on my Spinosaurus painting.
As such, I have deleted all my art tweets. I am reposting them here with watermarks.
It's a bit of a gamble for me so retweets are very much appreciated and help me get my art back out there pic.twitter.com/mFABVSozmX
— Corbin Rainbolt (@CorbinRainbolt) March 9, 2021
To answer wilder_beast's question, the process of trying to get artwork removed from NFT trading platforms certainly isn't easy (not surprisingly, the platforms themselves have largely avoided taking any responsibility in verifying authenticity or preventing fraud). "Once you get notified by DeviantArt, you have to contact OpenSea and get them to delete it," Palmer tells me. "The problem with that is, the 'report' button OpenSea installed on the actual NFT product page doesn't do anything, so I had to find an email to get them to respond, which has actually worked so far."
Others aren't so lucky. In the case of artist Brittany Fanning, multiple requests to OpenSea to have her stolen artwork removed were ignored, as were her attempts to report the image as fraudulent with the aforementioned report button. According to her account on Reddit, it was only after she found and messaged the thief himself that the post was taken down. "I think [the thief] only took it down after I found his phone number," she wrote. "OpenSea is useless."
Someone stole my original artwork and they're trying to sell it on Open Sea. I asked them to take it down and they ignored me. It's been reported to Open Sea several times, but nothing has happened. Suggestions? Link in comments. from opensea
Moreover, Palmer adds, "People can steal the same image again. There are no safeguards in place to stop this," pointing to a piece he reported this morning that hasn't been removed yet.
Click over to the month-old OpenSea profile of the person who stole Palmer's work, and you'll find that they've uploaded hundreds of other stolen pieces of artwork, many selling for upwards of $4,000. "This is the typical type of account that steals my stuff, just scams all the way down," Palmer explains. "They'll just search 'werewolf' and scrape every drawing of a werewolf ever uploaded to DeviantArt and try to sell it as an NFT. They just want to make money so they get thousands of images, mint them all as cheap NFTs, then hope that maybe a dozen of them sell. That's how they make a quick buck."
"Even if they don't end up selling anything, the whole thing is frustrating," he continues. "I just don't want some anonymous scammer to have the opportunity to make money off of my work in the first place. It's just such a fuckin' scam, and one that I never thought I'd have to deal with, let alone almost every day now."
Ultimately, though, it's not the internet art thieves that keep Palmer up at night. Instead, it's the prospect of NFTs becoming the art-world norm. "The whole thing feels powered by the notion of Silicon Valley trying to 'disrupt' something that doesn't need disrupting," he tells me. "And in many ways they've already succeeded. The whole thing has torn the art community apart, and made everything more convoluted."
To be sure, Palmer isn't alone in that thinking. "The minting of NFTs without artists' permission has the potential to destroy how we as a society value creativity," the Design and Artists Copyright Society wrote in a statement to Artnet News. "As the art market evolves with new and emerging technology such as NFTs, we must ensure that we protect both the creative, intellectual and moral rights of artists."
"What if younger artists see these stupid low-quality pieces selling for so much money and decide to pursue the quick profits from those instead of working on different skills, developing more interesting ideas or getting into the games industry?" Palmer asks. "That's what really worries me."
Quinn Myers
Quinn Myers is a staff writer at MEL. He reports on internet culture, technology, health, masculinity and the communities that flourish within.
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Jen is a British mother who is raising her children to speak German, French and English. She blogs about her experiences with raising trilingual children on her blog Trilingual Trio.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your family. Are you monolingual? Multilingual? In which way are you raising bilingual children?
We are a family of two originally monolingual parents, speaking respectively English (in my case) and German (in my husband, Thomas' case), now raising three trilingual children. The oldest is a 5 year old boy, then there is a girl aged 3 (nearly 4) and a baby girl who just turned 1. We practice OPOL (one person, one language): the children and I speak English together, while Papa and the children speak German together.
The third language comes in because we live in a French-speaking area (just to complicate things for us even further, we live on the border between France and Switzerland). So the community language is French and the children's daycare is entirely French-speaking. Thomas and I both speak English and German fluently, so at home we tend to interchange the two. I also speak pretty good French, and Thomas can speak the French he needs to manage everyday life and conversations in a francophone environment. This is such a long answer to a short question!
Why is it important to you that you raise your children to be bilingual? Why is bilingualism important to you?
Being multilingual is not so much important to us for some abstract intellectual reasons, it's simply part of the fabric of our everyday life. Thomas and I ended up living in this area for his work, so even without the children we lived multilingually simply because we spoke our languages at home (and often at work too) and there was another language outside the door. When the children were born, we didn't have to think about it for very long, it just seemed obvious to us that they should speak our heritage languages, so that they could communicate with their relations and have the option of "returning" to where we had come from if that ever became possible or desirable. How could we ever have decided between English and German, and exclude one set of (monolingual) grandparents from talking to our children?
Also, there was just no question of us speaking French with them, as our French (and in particular Thomas') was not up to it. He wouldn't have understood most of what I was saying to them and I'd have had to translate into English or German anyway. We also decided that the children should learn the best French they could so that they wouldn't face the difficulties we sometimes have only speaking the local language imperfectly. Having said all that, we were also aware that however good our plans and intentions, things might work out differently in reality. So we have always been ready to either change the set-up or even give up on a language should that in the end be the best thing for us and the children.
What have been your greatest successes or celebrations in raising bilingual children?
I am quite proud that right now I have three balanced trilingual children (OK, so the baby isn't talking just yet, but I know she differentiates between languages because she looks surprised if I happen to forget and speak or sing to her in French, and she shows the same amount of understanding – as far as you can tell at that age – in all three languages). The children's English has always been strong, I suspect because I have worked part-time since they were born, so they always heard lots of English. I have never had any indication that their French was less good that of other children of their own age, probably because they have all been in part-time French-speaking daycare since they were four months old. I find it a little difficult to judge their level in French though, because we very rarely hear it at home.
Now, their German used to be weaker than their French and English, and our great success has been in bringing it up to strength. I said at the beginning that they speak German with their father, but that hasn't always been the case. They used to use a lot of English with him, because I used to speak English with him sometimes too, so we showed them that was okay. Also, they heard less German because he was working full-time whereas I was part-time. So we thought about how we could increase their exposure to German and basically make it easier for them to use German with Thomas. When the last baby was born, we decided to get a German-speaking au pair to: a) help with looking after three small children and b) try and boost their German. It has worked a treat – to the extent that I think that maybe the next au pair should be an English speaker, because I have the feeling that the children's German is getting a little more fluent than their English!
What challenges have you faced as a parent who is raising bilingual children?
I think our biggest challenge is that maintaining their balanced trilingualism (and extending it from oral skills to literacy skills in three languages) is going to be a never-ending task. You're always on the job, keeping an eye out for changes in this language, wondering whether a boost in one is the sign of a deficit in another (not necessarily!). For example, I've been noticing recently that we seem to have fewer and fewer books in English. Most of the ones we have acquired recently are in German or French, so I need to do something about that. And as we get into more school-based language skills this is going to become even more important. But it is the same with my own language skills, which vary with life circumstances. I used to work, read and write a lot in German, but I've been using more English recently, so now I'm wondering what I should do to counter that for myself too.
What tips or suggestions do you have for other parents who are raising bilingual children or would like to raise bilingual children in the future?
If you're living in a multilingual environment, it is rarely static. Life circumstances do vary and with them possibilities for using and learning (and forgetting!) languages. I think if you bear that in mind and try to provide your children with the potential to exploit whatever languages are going to be useful to them at different stages in their lives, then you're doing a good job as a multilingual parent. So for example, had our children not started using German with their Papa, I would still have continued their exposure to German so when they did have to communicate with monolingual German-speakers, they would have had the capacity to develop the active skills very fast. I recently read about a similar situation where it took as little as a two-week stay with relatives to enable a little girl to activate her knowledge of her minority language, because it was useful to her there – and she then continued to use the minority language in the appropriate places even when she returned to her majority language environment.
In our international situation (we tend to hang out with other international colleagues and friends rather than socialise with locals) it's pretty much the norm to be multilingual. For a children's birthday party last month I wanted to write some forfeits for a pass-the-parcel game and I had to go through my list of the 10 or so children invited to work out what language to use – turned out to be French, because they all go to French-language pre-school or creche – and all of them spoke two or three languages. So while we still have some of the issues about getting hold of resources and how to create the exposure to our home languages which would normally come from the outside environment, we are in the privileged position of not having to convince our children that it's okay and useful to speak another language. I think we benefit a lot from this – I wish it were something you could transfer to all bilingual families!
Bio: Jen is a British mother of three children under five who is married to a German and lives in a French-speaking area. Jen has lived in the UK, Germany and France, working at various times in research, communications and adult education, including for the United Nations. You can also find her writing on her blog Trilingual Trio.
Parent to Parent is a weekly interview series that features parents who are raising bilingual children. If you would like to participate in the interview series and share your experiences with other parents, please contact us at multilingualmania(at)yahoo(dot)com.
What a fantastic gift that Jen and Thomas are giving their multilingual, multicultural children!
Your readers might also like to check out the family profiles that I have posted on my blog at http://babybilingual.blogspot.com/search/label/profiles.
I totally agree that with globalization "Being Multilingual is Part of the Fabric of Our Everyday Life". In California, U.S where I live there are many immigrant families and I see a lot of bilingual and trilingual kids. They are doing very well.


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