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Bazylika konkatedralna św. Jakuba Apostoła w Olsztynie – kościół zbudowany w II poł. XIV wieku.

Historia
W 1596 wieżę kościoła (w części drewnianą) zastąpiono nową. Utrzymana była, jak cały kościół, w stylu gotyckim. Miała 63 m wys. Kościół nie jest orientowany, aczkolwiek wieża kościoła wskazuje kierunek na Rzym. W 1721 przebudował go Piotr Olchowski z Reszla (kaplice boczne). W 1864 kościołowi groziło zawalenie i musiano go zamknąć. Oddano go do użytku po generalnym remoncie wykonanym w latach 1866-1868, ale prace nad restauracją wnętrza i nadaniem mu neogotyckiego koloru trwały jeszcze kilkanaście lat. W 1896 z nieznanych przyczyn wybuchł w kościele pożar i wyrządził sporo strat. Co najmniej od 1565 (brak danych dla wcześniejszego okresu) wygłaszano w kościele kazania po polsku. W 1599 proboszcz olsztyński, Ambroży Merten, prosił o zwolnienie z urzędu, ponieważ nie znał języka polskiego mowy swych parafian. Na początku XVIII wieku wszyscy księża olsztyńscy byli Polakami. W ciągu wieków odwiedzali olsztyński kościół, modlili się w nim wybitni Polacy: Jan Dantyszek, Marcin Kromer i Ignacy Krasicki, wszyscy trzej piastujący godność biskupów warmińskich oraz król Władysław IV (1635). W latach 1898-1900 był tu organistą Feliks Nowowiejski, kompozytor "Roty" i "Legendy Bałtyku", a w latach 1979-1981 biskup Józef Glemp (późniejszy prymas Polski) zarządzał stąd diecezją warmińską. Od 1945 prokatedra, od 1973 konkatedra, od 2004 bazylika mniejsza.

Wnętrze świątyni
W porównaniu z bogactwem swej architektury kościół ma znacznie skromniejsze wyposażenie wnętrza. W 1807, podczas wojen napoleońskich, Francuzi zamknęli w nim półtora tysiąca jeńców rosyjskich, a ci, broniąc się przed ostrym mrozem, spalili tu wszystko, co mógł strawić ogień. Mimo to zachowało się w kościele trochę zabytków ruchomych z okresu:
 gotyku (m.in. tabernakulum ścienne z kratą gotycką, tryptyk późnogotycki),
 renesansu (m.in. dekoracja malarska tabernakulum ściennego, tryptyk św. Krzyża, świeczniki),
 baroku (rzeźby apostołów św. Andrzeja i św. Jakuba Starszego, krucyfiks ponadnaturalnej wielkości, obraz Matki Boskiej Różańcowej, chrzcielnica i in.)

Zobacz też
 Zamek Kapituły Warmińskiej w Olsztynie

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Henryk Madej, Współkatedra św. Jakuba Starszego w Olsztynie, Warmińskie Wydawnictwo Diecezjalne, Olsztyn, 1980.

Bazyliki w Polsce
Konkatedry rzymskokatolickie w Polsce
Jakuba
Jakuba, Archikatedra olsztyńska
Świątynie pod wezwaniem św. Jakuba Większego Apostoła
Camino Polaco
Architektura gotyku w Olsztynie
Architektura I Rzeczypospolitej (Księstwo Warmińskie)


I loved this hotel. We arrived as part of a package holiday to go skiing and the hotel couldn't have been better. It was just the kind of place you want to go back to after a hard day on the piste. The room was clean and had a spectacular balcony and view of the mountains. The food was divine and there was a good choice every night. The hot chocolate in the mornings was a wonderful start to the day. I would highly recommend it here. To cap it all off, you only have to wander a short distance to the cable car, and the centre of Courmayeur with all its bars, restaurants and shops is right on the doorstep. The only slight downside was the inevitable 3am noise which you get from being in a centre of town hotel.


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Time To Tackle Antisemitism – Seriously!
layoftheland376996452 Antisemitism, BDS, Holocaust Education March 18, 2021 5 Minutes
UN steps up to the plate at special virtual Conference
By Yair Chelouche
At Monday's United Nations Alliance of Organisations (UNAOC) virtual conference on "Exploring Holistic Approaches to Combating Antisemitism", Lay of the Land's Rolene Marks addressed the impressive gathering, which UN leading official Miguel Moratinos, called for "greater international recognition of antisemitism and more focus on the role of social media in the spread of online hate."
Rising to the Challenge. "Antisemitism is a global problem," says UN High-Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations Miguel Moratinos in Virtual Conference on Fighting Anti-Jewish Hatred (Photo: Screenshot)
Other speakers included Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Katharina Von Schnurbein, Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life at the European Commission; Lord Eric Pickles, the UK's Special Envoy for Post Holocaust Issues; Irwin Cotler, Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism Nihal Saad, Chief of Cabinet and Spokesperson for the High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and UNAOC goodwill ambassador Rabbi Arthur Schneier.
Talking Heads. Participants at the UN virtual conference on anti-Semitism with Lay Of The Land's Rolene Marks 6th from the left at the bottom of the screen.
Moratinos, who was appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in February 2020, to serve as the UN focal point for monitoring antisemitism and improving a system-wide response, said that although the majority of anti-Semitic attacks have taken place in Europe or the US, "our outreach efforts should extend beyond those regions to Africa, Asia and Latin America."
He also stressed that "it is equally important that any criticism directed towards the government of Israel is not used as an incitement towards Jews or sacred Jewish sites."
Stressing the urgency, Dr. Robert Williams, Deputy Director of International Affairs at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said "Antisemitism is worse now than at any point since 1948. So the time to act is now before it is too late and we must do it together."
Lay of the Land's co-founder Rolene Marks addresses at the United Nations Alliance of Organisations (UNAOC) virtual conference on "Exploring Holistic Approaches to Combating Antisemitism"
Representing the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO), hereunder follows Lay Of the Land Rolene Mark's address to the UN conference:
"Your Excellency's, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen
It is a great honour to speak here today on behalf of WIZO, the Women's International Zionist Organisation.
During our century's worth of work in civil society, WIZO has demonstrated the ability to recognize antisemitism in our Federations around the world and adapt and respond accordingly as well as work closely with the UN on the various bodies and cities where we are represented. Throughout history, antisemitism – the oldest hatred – has always manifested itself in different ways and often adapts to fit the unique political situation of a country. In our organisation's 100 year history, our global family has endured fascism, communism, Apartheid, the rise of the BDS movement that aims to challenge Israel's sovereignty, and conflict in Israel and with that, the usual scapegoating of Jewish communities – many times resulting in violence and even death. We have lost federations to the Holocaust but never the values and the will to ensure that we are in the forefront of fighting hatred.
Today, against the backdrop of the global Covid pandemic and the role of social media in creating communities of hate and propagating conspiracy theories, misinformation and sometimes sanctioning violence, civil society organisations like ours that have always responded to the needs of society, especially the most vulnerable, including minority communities, are committed to including education, resource sharing and the empowerment of our members to be able to confront the issues threatening both their communities and assaults on the legitimacy of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. We need to recognize the threats that come from the far left, who are often the leading voices on the assault on the legitimacy of Israel as much as the far right who are seen as the purveyors of a more sinister form of antisemitism.
People around the world are having important and necessary and long overdue conversations about racism and the imperative of tolerance. Antisemitism has to be a part of that conversation. WIZO has identified the need to expand the scope of our work to ensure that our federations have the tools and resources that are specific to the to the threats and challenges in their countries and knowhow to confront them as well as increase our outreach to other minority communities with similar concerns.
We have ensured that we are very much a presence wherever the opportunity to confront antisemitism and anti-Zionism presents itself. More often than not, having the word Zionism in our name makes us a target for antisemitism. Education about Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people could also be explored when putting together educational curriculum.
One of the areas needing greater focus is social media. If users are mandated by law to join using their full and proper names, as well personal images, it makes it that much more difficult to hide behind avatars and fake identities and easier to trace if they are hate speech super spreaders. Our young people, vulnerable to the rhetoric on social media are in the frontline of this battle – and many of them are too fearful to identify as Jewish, lest they are targeted. University campuses are hotbeds of hatred – especially during this month when the BDS led, Israel Apartheid Week that exploits the suffering of the victims of apartheid to push a hate filled agenda of delegitimisation winds its way across the world.
The adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism and the inclusion of Holocaust education in schools and universities around the world is vital in helping to combat this spreading virus of hatred. It is also recommended that traditional and social media platforms adopt IHRA so that they can better understand antisemitism, which is the forbearer of other hatred, while still providing a platform for free speech – just not hate speech.
We need to engage with and mobilise civil society organisations, work with educators and policy makers and leaders, business owners and social media influencers. It is particularly alarming to learn how many young people have little or no knowledge of the Holocaust. The next generation understands the language and message of social justice – we need to ensure that the dangers of antisemitism are part of that understanding by continuing to engage with them in the language that they speak. Human rights icon, Natan Sharansky spoke of the 3 D's of antisemitism – demonization, delegitimatision and double standards. We need to engage the next generation in another D – defeating it.
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New multi-family housing rides rollercoaster in 2017
Home Inside FCNews New multi-family housing rides rollercoaster in 2017
January 8/15, 2018: Volume 33, Issue 15
By K.J. Quinn
Builders and residential contractors experienced a rollercoaster ride serving the multi-family housing market in 2017, observers reported, as this volatile business saw demand fluctuate by quarter and macro issues impede growth.
"When the final data come in, we expect multi-family starts to be down almost 10% over the course of 2017," said Robert Dietz, senior vice president and chief economist, National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). "We expect multi-family development to record additional, slight declines [in 2018]." Multi-family housing includes low-rent units and market-rate rental units in addition to condominiums.
Multi-family housing starts and permits (five or more units) declined 12% in October 2017 compared to the same month in 2016, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Additional construction data from Dodge Data & Analytics—which includes some units the Census Bureau and HUD consider single family—provide further evidence the market is in decline. "The [numbers are still being crunched for 2017] but we're on track for multi-family housing starts as they are measured by Dodge to decline 7% to 475,000 units," Kim Kennedy, manager of forecasting, said at the end of 2017.
Like peeling an onion, additional layers must be uncovered to view construction data in its entirety. The latest Census Bureau and HUD housing data reveals multi-family housing starts consisting of five or more units jumped 37% from September to October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 393,000 units. Authorization of building permits in housing with five units or more rose 13% to 416,000.
New multi-family construction saw fluctuations in market conditions influenced by such factors as Mother Nature, the economy and changing homebuyer demographics. For example, the supply of apartments and condominiums surged in recent years as builders responded to rising demand fueled in part by young Americans who preferred to rent rather than purchase a home in the aftermath of the recession, according to published reports. "Rental housing demand should remain solid, but it is no longer growing as it did in the year immediately after the Great Recession," NAHB's Dietz said. "Thus, the multi-family sector is currently seeking a balance between supply and demand."
The market recovered approximately 96% of the previous, bubble-induced peak of 508,000 housing starts set in 2005, Dodge's Kennedy observed. "Because multi-family recovered quickly beginning in 2010, it is also peaking earlier than single-family housing for this construction cycle. The 2016 level is very likely the peak for this cycle."
Macro issues such as escalating building materials and labor costs are contributing to rising home prices while leaving less discretionary money for buyers to spend on flooring upgrades. Finding enough buildable lots to keep up with demand remains a major hurdle for the construction industry. And perhaps the biggest issue of all is a tightness in labor nationwide, which is reportedly contributing to keeping single- and multi-family housing markets from being overbuilt.
"Multi-family is solid, but there is some slowdown in new construction in certain markets," noted Jay Smith, president, FEI Group, a nationwide network of interior finish contractors and showrooms that includes MultiFamily Solutions by FloorExpo.
One trend expected to continue is the movement toward smaller home designs, which traces its roots to around the time when the housing bubble burst. The average multi-family property is reportedly getting smaller, following years in which builders disproportionately constructed high-end homes. This situation may be short-lived, however, as multi-family developers build more for-sale housing units in the years ahead and older millennials settle down and start raising families.
"There is a trend toward smaller units but this only means more units and not less square footage as overall building sizes aren't decreasing," explained Randy Rubenstein, owner, Rubenstein's Contract Carpet/North American Terrazzo, a Seattle-based flooring contractor. "But one trend we're noticing is the increase in amenity floors trending with higher-end finishes."
Demanding but lucrative
The overwhelming majority of residential flooring contractors are large, highly sophisticated and well-financed specialists. While multi-family housing can be a lucrative business given the amount of volume and growth prospects, it requires the necessary resources and financial wherewithal to keep up with daily service demands. "The overhead costs often exceed the margins," noted Ron Dunn, co-founder and co-CEO of Alliance Flooring, the parent company of brands CarpetsPlus/Color Tile, Carpetland USA Color Tile, Floorco and Clean Touch Pro. "Most flooring dealers that are doing property management work typically specialize in it, and it is their main business model."
Production building is a highly transactional business that requires builders' dealers to pay close attention to managing their daily operations and overhead. If they cannot provide timely, cost-effective, turnkey service, builders have more options at their fingertips. "Dealers [serving] these markets will need to bring speed of service, high levels of productivity, modern systems, deep capital position, the appropriate facilities and readiness to satisfy very demanding customers," FEI Group's Smith said.
While the segment is highly specialized, there are similarities with the commercial flooring business. "It's really no different than any other major commercial construction project, with all of the same challenges since the major high-rise multi-family projects are being built by the same large general contractors who are also doing non-residential work," Rubenstein said.
Finding and maintaining installation crews who can quickly install flooring in large projects is a major challenge given the restricted labor market and higher wages paid to skilled workers. "Dealers need a lot of installation crews and operational assets to service multi-family builders," said David Holt, Mohawk Industries' senior vice president of sales. "If they screw up with those builders, they're going to go out of business."
Similar to a doctor, dealers are always on call as notifications for next-day installations can be received in less than 24 hours. "This requires manufacturers and flooring dealers to be in sync with product and inventory needs like never before," said Brad Christensen, vice president, business strategy, builder, Shaw Floors. "Flooring dealers, in an attempt to become more efficient, have inventories as lean as possible and, as a result, they have been very savvy with the management of their SKUs and do their best to avoid duplication."
Working with flooring suppliers who provide high-quality products and, when necessary, are there to help minimize the impact of installation callbacks is imperative. "That way, the builder can continue to look forward to knowing you are there to take care of any problems," said Rob Brockman, channel marketing manager for contractor, builder, developer and property manager at Armstrong Flooring. "Building a strategic partnership focused on the builder's needs is the challenge that is built over time on a foundation of trust."
Flooring choices evolve
Whether it's inside a dealer or builder showroom, multi-family homebuyers are given opportunities to upgrade to better quality flooring. The incentive for builders and dealers to encourage upgrade purchases is two-fold: It ensures customers receive a good-looking, high-performing product that meets their expectations and profit margins are considerably higher than base-grade products. "Consumer knowledge and education result in higher sales dollars for the same amount of work," Alliance Flooring's Dunn pointed out. "It's a win-win-win for the builder, the homeowner and the flooring dealer."
Most flooring upgrades are allocated for kitchens and baths, experts noted, because both areas offer the greatest return on investment and time spent in the home. "Large kitchens and open-concept design are still things that homebuyers seem to want," Armstrong's Brockman said. "This creates an opportunity to sell upgrade flooring as there is no real separation of spaces in these open plans."
While flooring choices vary by region, carpet is the leading surface for multi-family spaces, though hard surfaces and higher-end goods are trending up, suppliers reported. "In multi-family homes, many people have pets," Mohawk's Holt noted. "So carpet is being replaced more frequently, usually within four to five years."
New hard surfaces such as LVT and WPC are reportedly gaining coverage in multi-family environments. "Buyer preferences are leaning toward hard surfaces—mainly LVT—because of their great looks, durability and water resistance," Brockman added.
Homebuyers still desire natural products such as ceramic tile and hardwood, which studies indicate add value to the home. Upgrades to these higher-priced products are becoming more prevalent given looser loan standards that help customers secure additional financing. "We've seen strong growth in town homes and patio homes in which higher quality floor coverings and better finishes are being selected," Alliance Flooring's Dunn said.
Looking ahead, the multi-family housing channel represents a lucrative opportunity for dealers who are well positioned to service the many needs of builders and homebuyers. "FloorExpo [believes] the multi-family and builder segments to be the most challenging in flooring," FEI Group's Smith said. "If done right, dealers can be very successful."
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Jul 21 Demetrious Johnson: The Champion Has Let Us All Down
Luke Byron
It was confirmed last night that UFC 215 will be headlined by Demetrious Johnson defending his Flyweight title against the 'Taz-Mexican' Ray Borg on September 9th at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta. The event will be co-headlined by Amanda Nunes defending her Womens Bantamweight title against Valentina Shevchenko. Fans have long been defending Demetrious Johnson when it seemed he was lacking support from the top brass in the organisation, but this time it seemed he finally could have had his breakthrough moment, and he let us all down.
Last month Dana White spoke to the Media and sounded off on how insane he felt it was for Demetrious Johnson to be turning down a fight with former UFC Bantamweight Champion TJ Dillashaw. TJ was previously slated to fight current champion Cody Garbrandt, but when 'No Love' was forced to withdraw from the bout with a back injury, he turned his attention to the self-proclaimed 'Greatest Champion Ever' situated in the weight class below.
Demetrious Johnson has only two losses on his record, and the most recent of those was way back in 2011 to Dominick Cruz. Johnson became the first ever UFC Flyweight Champion way-back in 2012 as he defeated Joseph Benavidez in the finals of the UFC's Flyweight Tournament; Demetrious has now defended the belt 10 times and is on course to break Anderson Silva's record for most consecutive title defences.
During the reign, 'Mighty Mouse' has defeated John Dodson (twice), John Moraga, Joseph Benavidez (again), Ali Bagautinov, Chris Cariaso, Kyoji Horiguchi, Henry Cejudo, Tim Elliott and Wilson Reis. Without being overly critical, it's not quite the death row line-up that Anderson Silva was forced to plough through, and I know that has never been his fault which is why I've never criticised him previously.
Johnson is as much of a complete MMA fighter as you're likely to find anywhere in the world, which is why it's a shame we're unable to see him seriously tested. Nobody really gets excited about a fight where the only topic of discussion is whether the fighter will win by decision or stoppage – this is the issue he's having. The Champion seems more inclined to post video streams on Twitch than promote his own personality (which he certainly does have, it's not like he's a boring guy), and admittedly some of the responsibility here has to go on the UFC, but why would they spend their money promoting a guy who has no legible competition.
Let's not get it twisted, TJ Dillashaw is certainly not the greatest fighter in the world, and it's no sure thing that he would beat Demetrious Johnson, WHICH IS THE EXACT REASON WE WANT TO SEE THE FIGHT – we just want to see him in a competitive, pick 'em match up. TJ was clearly very up for the fight (not like Conor pretending he wants to fight Khabib), he had begun cutting weight and was repeatedly pestering Dana as to whether it had been agreed yet. When all was said and done, Dana posed the question to DJ as to whether he was a man or a mouse, and in this instance the Champion took the easy way out and proved that he was (pardon the pun) a mouse.
Fans have no issue getting behind Johnson and supporting him in his routine defences, when we know that there is nothing better to offer; but when we know there was a better fight on the table, and Johnson gets the job done as always, it's going to leave a very bitter taste in the mouth of every person that threw their money at the PPV. Dana White said it was 'insanity' for DJ to turn down the fight, and TJ said it would ruin the Champions legacy – at this stage, it's hard to argue with either mans point.
If Demetrious wins this fight and then decides to move up in weight, then I'll look upon him in a slightly more positive light, but at this stage, I really believe he has let us all down.
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Masvidal v Woodley. That's the fight to make
Probably says a lot about how great Jones is that if he does anything other than completely smoke the opponent then he's labelled overrated
Imagine booing that fight
You can act as gangster as you want when you do gangster shit like that. Props to Masvidal
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Dardanus hessii (Miers, 1884)
Arthropoda (Phylum)
Crustacea (Subphylum)
Multicrustacea (Superclass)
Malacostraca (Class)
Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
Eucarida (Superorder)
Decapoda (Order)
Pleocyemata (Suborder)
Anomura (Infraorder)
Paguroidea (Superfamily)
Diogenidae (Family)
Dardanus (Genus)
Dardanus hessii (Species)
Dardanus Paulson, 1875
Pagurus hessii Miers, 1884
Pagurus hessii Miers, 1884 (basionym)
Pagurus semilimanus Yap-Chiongco in Estampador, 1937 (misspelling of similimanus)
Pagurus similimanus Henderson, 1888 (junior synonym)
(of Pagurus hessii Miers, 1884) Miers, A.J. (1884). Crustacea. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Crustacea. In: Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert' 1881-82. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert' 1881-82. British Museum of Natural History, London. 178-322, Plates 18-35. [details]
Lemaitre, R.; McLaughlin, P. (2019). World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. Dardanus hessii (Miers, 1884). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367582 on 2020-01-20
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original description (of Pagurus hessii Miers, 1884) Miers, A.J. (1884). Crustacea. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Crustacea. In: Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert' 1881-82. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert' 1881-82. British Museum of Natural History, London. 178-322, Plates 18-35. [details]
original description (of Pagurus similimanus Henderson, 1888) Henderson, J.R. (1888). Report on the Anomura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 27 (part 69): i-xi, 1-221, pl. 1-21., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-69/README.htm [details]
context source (HKRMS) City University of Hong Kong. (2006). Provision of Services for Species Identification and Data Analysis of Epibenthic Organisms from Hong Kong Water. Final report. Environmental Protection Department. Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University [details]
basis of record McLaughlin, P. A.; Komai, T.; Lemaitre, R.; Rahayu, D.L. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea. Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 23: 5-107. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Webber, W.R.; Fenwick, G.D.; Bradford-Grieve, J.M.; Eagar S.G.; Buckeridge, J.S.; Poore, G.C.B.; Dawson, E.W.; Watling, L.; Jones, J.B.; Wells, J.B.J.; Bruce, N.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Larsen, K.; Chapman, M.A.; Olesen, J.; Ho, J.; Green, J.D.; Shiel, R.J.; Rocha, C.E.F.; Lörz, A.; Bird, G.J.; Charleston, W.A. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232. [details]
Syntype NHM, geounit Arafura Sea [details]
Japanese アカユビヤドカリ [details]
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Pagurus hessii Miers, 1884)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (7 records)


Effects: An uplifting high that offers an abundance of the pleasant type of energy instead of a jolt of adrenaline. Not as clear headed as say a Blue Dream; more euphoric and heady, especially at moderate and higher doses. I'm a huge fan of the Tangie experience in all its forms and hybridizations, such as the Tangerine Haze or the Tangie Ghost Train, to name a few.
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Ken Burns on historical documentaries
How can TV documentaries help us to understand the past? Ken Burns is a highly regarded American television documentary maker. He has made outstanding historical documentaries on such topics as the American Civil War, baseball, jazz and the 1930s Depression. In this 2004 ABC Words program, Burns speaks to James Griffin ...
Adoption of Indigenous Australian children
Imagine being taken away from your family and forced to live with people from another language, place and culture. This interview, recorded a week before the 1967 Referendum, captures an the perspective of Margaret Valadian, a prominent young Aboriginal Australian, on the practice of adoption and the removal of Aboriginal ...
Expeditions return home from 'New Holland'
Discover what happens when the expeditions of Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin return home. Both explorers brought back detailed maps and specimens, including live kangaroos and emus, from 'New Holland'. How will each explorer be celebrated and remembered? Watch this clip to find out.
Tragic consequences of Japan's modernisation
Japan went through a remarkable transformation between 1868 and the death of the Emperor Meiji in 1912. But Japan's modernisation was accompanied by its rise as an imperialist power, with tragic results. Watch this clip to learn about the consequences of Japan's dream of empire. This clip is last in a series of six.
Bigger than Texas, 1992: Founding of Western Australia
This clip shows that Western Australia had entrepreneurial beginnings and suggests that English settlers were attracted to the colony by an 'advertising campaign'. It opens with a series of re-creations that depict Sir James Stirling, founder of WA, as well as wealthy colonists, convicts, a landowner, and sailors who are ...
Genocide under the Nazis: timeline
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This resource is a module that examines the issues involved in creating a museum exhibition and how production decisions affect the 'history' that is presented to the public. Factors including an exhibition's purpose, audience, choice of items and challenges are considered. Part of the Home front: Wartime Sydney 1939-1945 ...
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By STEVE HOCHMAN
May 6, 1990 12 AM PT
"Party of One", Reprise
There's always been a laissez-faire quality to Lowe's records, as he has tended to coast on his knack for fooling with roots-pop styles and his gift for a witty turn of a phrase. This, though, is the first time he's sounded like he really really wanted to make a record since his giddy 1978 solo debut, "Pure Pop for Now People."
And why shouldn't he when he gets to play with guitarist Ry Cooder and drummer Jim Keltner (both of whom he first worked with on John Hiatt's "Bring the Family"), under the attentive but non-interfering production of his former Rockpile mate Dave Edmunds? The songs still sometimes sound more found than written, but Lowe has gone to rewarding effort to customize some numbers for the extraordinary players.
And, as with much of his work, the flippant wit often serves as a nearly transparent mask for the heartache implied by the album title. You can laugh and cry and sing along to the likes of "All Men Are Liars"--a nifty bouncer that rhymes Rick Astley with ghastly .
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One package contained a clipboard hijacker that replaced victims' Bitcoin addresses in an attempt to hijack funds from users.
The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate scans by a security engineer who goes online by the name of Bertus and has long been removed from PyPI before this article's publication.
All packages were put together and worked following a similar pattern. Their creator(s) copied the code of popular packages and created a new library, but with a slightly modified name. For example, four packages (diango, djago, dajngo, djanga) were misspellings of Django, the name of a very popular Python framework.
The people behind these malicious packages added malicious code to these newly-created, but fully functional projects, and more specifically to the setup.py files. Setup.py files contain a set of instructions that Python library installers like "pip" execute automatically when downloading and setting up a new package inside a Python project.
The nature of this extra code was to perform various malicious operations and varied per each malicious library.
Bertus discovered a first set of 11 malicious packages on October 13 (see table below), and another malicious package on October 21.
The first set of malicious libraries would attempt to either collect data about each infected environment, obtain boot persistence, or even open a reverse shell on remote workstations.
The twelfth package, named "colourama," was financially-motivated and hijacked an infected users' operating system clipboard, where it would scan every 500ms for a Bitcoin address-like string, which it would replace with the attacker's own Bitcoin address in an attempt to hijack Bitcoin payments/transfers made by an infected user.
This package, too, mimicked the name of a popular Python library, named "colorama."
According to the PyPI Stats service, 54 users had downloaded the package a month before it was taken down. The attacker's Bitcoin address contained the equivalent of only $40, with the last transfer being received way back in April, and suggesting that the colourama package failed to make any money.
"I provided the PyPI administrators with the package name, and they removed the package," Bertus told ZDNet in an email interview. "In addition, they also blocked the name colourama for any future package registrations."
The researcher told us he discovered all 12 packages by using an automated system he created himself that scanned the PyPI repository for packages with similar names --technically referred to as "typo-squatted" packages.
Bertus says he created the scanner after seeing a security alert sent out by the Slovak National Security Office last year that warned Python developers about ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI. Those libraries, too, had used typo-squatted names and waited for weeks for users to install them by accident or carelessness, before being taken down.
"At the moment, I am focused on improving the Python (PyPI) scanner, and I will be doing more regular scans," Bertus told ZDNet.


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We took a little break from our review round-up last week in order to celebrate the holiday but we're back with more must-reads for your tbr! The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters A supernatural thriller in the vein of A Head Full of Ghosts about two young girls, a scary story that becomes far too real, and the tragic–and terrifying–consequences that follow one of them into adulthood. Red Lady, Red Lady, show us your face… In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the…
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Recently, the Ladies of Horror Fiction team have been enjoying the following: Husk by Rachel Autumn Deering In this all-too-real work of horror fiction, Rachel Autumn Deering explores the mind of a young man who is struggling to cope with the effects of post-war stress, drug addiction, self-doubt, and loneliness as they manifest themselves into his deepest, darkest fears. Kevin Brooks returns to his rural Kentucky hometown after a three-year-long tour of duty in Afghanistan. He has lost the grandparents who raised him, his lifelong best friend, and his trust in the government he once proudly served. When Kevin meets a kind, young girl named Samantha, he thinks his luck…
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Husk by Rachel Autumn Deering In this all-too-real work of horror fiction, Rachel Autumn Deering explores the mind of a young man who is struggling to cope with the effects of post-war stress, drug addiction, self-doubt, and loneliness as they manifest themselves into his deepest, darkest fears. Kevin Brooks returns to his rural Kentucky hometown after a three-year-long tour of duty in Afghanistan. He has lost the grandparents who raised him, his lifelong best friend, and his trust in the government he once proudly served. When Kevin meets a kind, young girl named Samantha, he thinks his luck might have finally taken a turn for the better. But something…


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Democrats Disgrace Themselves on Adegbile Vote
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Let's name some names. The Democrats voting not to confirm Debo Adegbile to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division were Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Mark Pryor (Ark.), John Walsh (Mont.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Bob Casey (Pa.) and Chris Coons (Del.). Here's what they have in common. They disgraced themselves, their party, and most importantly the bedrock Constitutional principle that a defendant, that's all defendants no matter how putrid some consider them and the crimes they're charged with to be, are entitled to counsel and a defense. These Democrats disgrace on all these counts was, of course, their vote against confirmation for Adegbile the former head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division .
Their stated reason for torpedoing the confirmation was that he was a legal counsel for cause celebre black activist and convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. They tried to cover their ludicrous and indefensible opposition by spouting Adegbile's GOP's opponent's line that Adegbile didn't just provide counsel for Abu-Jamal but was an active political advocate for him. The implication being that he somehow was an impassioned supporter of Abu-Jamal and worse, shared his radical views on the criminal justice system. This is beyond nonsense. If there was even a scintilla of truth to this slander, then countless judicial nominees including Supreme Court nominees and stalwarts from liberal jurist Thurgood Marshall to conservative jurist John Roberts would and by this silly logic should never have been confirmed. They all at one time or another represented accused murderers in appeals in capital cases.
Adegbile repeatedly answered the slur against him, not that he needed to, with simple facts. He did not represent Abu-Jamal in any of his trials. There were blatant issues of racial discrimination in the jury selection and improper if not outright biased jury instruction in Abu-Jamal's trial. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund as it has done countless times in countless numbers of cases through the years wherever there's been an issue of racial bias in court cases took Abu-Jamal's appeal. Adegbile did not argue the case before the appeals court, as the right-wing outrageously and hysterically claims, but worked on and signed the legal briefs submitted to the court. The Fund got it right. And the appellate court agreed and tossed Abu-Jamal's death penalty sentence and he received life imprisonment.
But let's be clear, the Democratic senators didn't care a whiff about whether Adegbile was really a cop killer cheerleader. They cared solely about re-election. Or more accurately, they were scared stiff that they'd be hammered by their GOP opponents in their re-election bid for voting to confirm. In the process, they shamelessly disgraced themselves and their party and Constitutional principles, and trudged another step down the dangerous road to reaffirm the lethal precedent, namely that all present and future administration appointments can be held hostage on the most spurious whim or reason by the hard core right-wing echo chamber.
The truth, of course, is that politics has repeatedly rammed its away into just about every crucial Obama administration judicial nominations and key appointments. Change the name from Labor Secretary Thomas Perez to Attorney General Eric Holder or former UN Ambassador Susan Rice or Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and one sees that the playbook the GOP is using again to slur Obama and his appointee is identical. The GOP picks what it considers the most vulnerable Obama nominee, then pecks away at a peripheral issue to malign the nominee, and then threatens to delay or block the nomination in either hearings before a Senate Committee, or on the Senate floor. All the while, it churns out the most ridiculous and scurrilous snippets of gossip, rumor, half-baked charges to poison the air and cast public doubts about the nominee, and by extension Obama.
Whether it succeeds or fails, it served its purpose namely to replant the seed that Obama's picks are tainted, incompetent, or political cronies. They added one more pejorative to their arsenal of slurs and slanders with Adegbile, and that's "cop killer nominee." The supreme tragedy as Obama noted in his righteous and biting denunciation of the Senate vote is that in tossing the appointment or nomination of a dedicated and imminently qualified public servant, the real loser is the public. In Adegbile, we would have gotten a sharp, energetic, and honest young man to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division; a Division which incidentally has been without a head thanks to the GOP's obstructionism for months on end. Someone, such as Adegbile, would have thoughtfully and aggressively enforced the nation's civil rights and voting rights which are exactly the very thing that the GOP has done everything possible to undermine. Now we can add a troop of timid and self-serving Democrats to that shameful list.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on American Urban Radio Network. He is the author of How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge. He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is host of the weekly Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour on KTYM Radio Los Angeles streamed on ktym.com podcast on blogtalkradio.com and on thehutchinsonreportnews.com
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Pastor Nazarene Ulfo graduated in natural sciences at the University of Messina, and received his diploma in theological education at the Biblical Institute of the Assemblies of God in Italy. Since 1992 he is exercising his pastoral ministry in the Chiesa Cristiana Evangelica "Sola Grazia" of Caltanissetta. He is the editorial director of the evangelical publishing house Alfa & Omega. He is teaching Church History in Catania, at the School of Ministry of the Evangelical Cultural Center..


David Cameron has been washing his hands for three-hours, after an aide mistakenly joked that poverty inside a Lebanese refugee camp was 'contagious'.
Cameron visited the camp amid the crisis triggered by war in neighbouring Syria, in what experts are calling a "PR exercise so transparent you could use it as a screen protector for your new iPhone 6s".
Most of his Lebanese visit has been postponed by a prolonged visit to a bathroom where could 'wash everything thoroughly'.
Cameron was asked if spending time with genuine refugees in need of help had made him consider taking a few more than the 20,000 he has committed to take in during this parliament.


Listen to the Charlotte-via-Berlin producer's dizzying new track.
I've been the guy standing on my roof for two years, shouting at the top of my lungs, "Donky Pitch is one of the best electronic labels going right now"—and that's because they are! Almost literally everything they've released has been engaging, out of left field, and as toothily melodic as sucking down a strawberry shake with a mouth full of cavities. And here we are with another woozy stunner from Charlotte-via-Berlin producer Tokyo Hands' "Stupid Pop Music," a dizzying array of synths and drum programming that sounds as if you put one of those Glaswegian synth heavyweights in spin-cycle. It's from his forthcoming release Underbrush, which sees release on March 30 digitally and via USB stick (really). Not a man of many works, here's what TH had to say about this one: "The type of music I make when I'm gettin' it. But I'm always gettin' it." OK!


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Hardware taken hostage: Ransomware attacks may result in property damage, and property insurance may cover that damage
Home Perspectives Hardware taken hostage: Ransomware attacks may result in property damage, and property insurance may cover that damage
In an opinion with repercussions for insuring ransomware damage and losses, a federal court in Maryland recently held that a ransomware attack caused direct physical loss to a computer system sufficient to trigger coverage under the terms of a first-party property insurance policy.1 Although best practices support purchasing, when economically feasible, dedicated cyber liability insurance as pat of a larger insurance portfolio, the court's decision highlights the importance of holistically reviewing all insurance policies held by the company to see whether other policies may respond to a particular loss arising out of a cyber event.
Authors: J. Andrew Moss Max J. Louik Andrew M. Barrios
The lawsuit at issue arose after National Ink & Stitch (NIS), an embroidery and screen-printing business, was the victim of a ransomware attack.2 The attack prevented NIS from accessing data and software contained on its computer server, including artwork used in its printing business.3 Although NIS paid the ransom, the attacker demanded further payment and refused to release the software and data.4 NIS engaged a computer security company to perform remedial measures so that it could resume operations without purchasing new computer hardware, but these measures were unsuccessful in recovering all of the encrypted data and software (none of the artwork could be recovered), caused NIS's computer systems to run less efficiently, and left open the possibility that dormant remnants of the ransomware virus might re-infect NIS's systems in the future.5 NIS was thus left with two options: "wipe" its systems and reinstall all of the software and data; or purchase new computer hardware.6
NIS sought coverage for computer hardware replacement costs from its insurer, State Auto Property and Casualty Insurance Company (State Auto). NIS had a Businessowner Policy in place with State Auto, which included coverage "for direct physical loss of or damage to Covered Property ... caused by or resulting from any Covered Cause of Loss."7 The Policy also included a "Special Form Computer Coverage" endorsement that defined "Covered Property" to include "Electronic Media and Records (Including Software)," and that defined "Electronic Media and Records" to include both "electronic data processing, recording or storage media such as films, tapes, discs, drums or cells" and "data stored on such media."8 State Auto, however, denied coverage on the ground that because NIS "only lost data, an intangible asset, and could still use its computer system to operate its business, it did not experience 'direct physical loss' as covered by the Policy."9
The court disagreed. It held that NIS was entitled to coverage "based on either (1) the loss of data and software in its computer system, or (2) the loss of functionality to the computer system itself."10 With respect to NIS's loss of its data and software, the court focused on the plain language of the Policy - specifically, the Computer Coverage endorsement - which expressly defined Covered Property to include data and software, and "contemplated that data and software ... can experience 'direct physical loss or damage.'"11 The court observed that NIS did "not seek solely the costs of replacing its customer data," but instead sought "a fully functioning computer system not (1) slowed by the necessary remedial and protective measures, or (2) at risk of reinfection from a dormant virus."12 The court also found that the language of the Policy did not limit coverage to "tangible property," but instead expressly included data and software as categories of covered property.13 Finally, the court rejected State Auto's argument that NIS did not experience a covered loss because its computer "server still function[ed]."14 The court reasoned that "the plain language of the Policy . . . protect[ed] against not only 'physical loss' but also 'damage to' both the media and data," and that a computer system does not need to be "completely and permanently inoperable" to be deemed to have suffered damage.15
As for coverage due to the loss of functionality, the court rejected State Auto's argument that coverage would be warranted only where the computer system is rendered inoperable, holding that NIS "demonstrated damage to the computer system itself, despite its residual ability to function."16 The court reasoned that "the mere fact that the system retained some limited functions d[oes] not prevent" a "finding that [the insured] suffered physical damage."17 As the court further observed, "in many instances, a computer will suffer 'damage' without becoming completely inoperable."18 Such damage may include "loss of use, loss of reliability, or impaired functionality."19
National Ink and Stitch is among the first decisions to hold that coverage may be available under a traditional first-property policy for losses arising out of a ransomware attack. Although a dedicated cyber liability policy should respond comprehensively to a ransomware attack, traditional policies may also respond to particular losses or contain endorsements adding limited cyber liability coverage. Policyholders should carefully and holistically review their entire insurance programs to determine which policies may respond in the event of a ransomware attack or other cybersecurity incident. Outside coverage counsel can be helpful in identifying particular risks, potential coverage, and potential gaps in coverage.
If you have any questions about the content of this article, or the current state of your company's coverage for ransomware attacks and other cybersecurity incidents, please contact one of the authors of this article or any other member of Reed Smith's Insurance Recovery Group. We're here to help.
Nat'l Ink & Stitch, LLC v. State Auto Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co., No. SAG-18-2138, 2020 WL 374460 (D. Md. Jan. 23, 2020).
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The Big Serve – Scarborough's 10 and Under Tennis!
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Eugenie Bouchard Fever Growing!
Published by setennisclub at July 6, 2014
At Scarborough East Tennis, we are always keeping an eye on the latest trends in the tennis world. It was 10 years ago in 2004 when Maria Sharapova stormed onto the scene by winning Wimbledon as a 17-year old. Not only was this the first of her 5 majors, she also became one of the most marketable players in the sport.
2014 had a similar feel at Wimbledon with Eugenie Bouchard. The Canadian 20-year old made it to the finals at the All England Club before losing to Petra Kvitova. Even though "Genie" lost in the finals, she made a lasting impression. Her fashionable appearance, memorable smile and good looks had many people in the media world comparing her to Sharapova.
In Canada, Bouchard's popularity skyrocketed. She now is approaching 300,000 followers on Twitter. There is a Facebook page dedicated to to Bouchard called "Genie's Army." Even in the United States, shows like "Good Morning America" were running feature stories on Genie. GMA was pegging Bouchard as tennis' new "it" girl.
While some will be frustrated with the attention that Bouchard will receive despite not winning the Wimbledon championships, it is hard to argue that the attention she will bring the sport is good for tennis!
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Cornwall School Games & Whirlwind Sports join forces to inspire the young people of Cornwall to achieve their personal best!
Active Cornwall can confirm that Whirlwind Sports is the new partner for the Cornwall School Games ensuring over 32,000 young people in Cornwall have access to competitive sport and involving over 6,000 young people in county festivals.
The games, next year held on the 24th June in St Austell, will be supported and backed by Whirlwind Sports Ltd, which are based throughout Cornwall as well as online through www.whirlwindsports.com. They also have a Community Interest Company with the sole purpose to benefit the wider community (be that people, purpose or place) and to assist them in becoming the healthiest version of themselves possible.
CEO of Whirlwind Sports, Craig Billing said "We are very proud to be associated with the Cornwall School Games and to help promote activity within the Duchy" with Paul Billing, the founder, adding "We have been trading in the Duchy for over 30 years and all of our Whirlwind Sports family are very proud to partner with the Cornwall School Games"
Both organisations hope this collaboration will inspire young people in Cornwall to be the very best they can be and to raise aspirations for those young people to be active for life and represent their school in competitive school sport.
Whirlwind Sports are currently running a campaign called #ChooseToMove and as Active Cornwall look to encourage all children in Cornwall to be physically active for 60 minutes a day it is a perfect partnership.
In Cornwall, the School Games is delivered by schools, National Governing Bodies of Sport, Active Cornwall, School Games Organisers and other local partners. Each year over 32,000 young people engage in an annual School Games programme to not only participate in competitive school sport but also to improve school attainment, emotional resilience and their health and wellbeing.
The Games also have a strong inclusive element resulting in more meaningful opportunities being available for young disabled and disengaged young people.
Megan Hilley, the School Games Organiser at Active Cornwall celebrated the partnership, saying "We know that Children and Young People that are more physically literate, are more likely to be active, with the biggest factor to engaging in sports and physical activity being enjoyment. If we can use this partnership to make the Games an enjoyable experience for the children and young people of Cornwall, then hopefully we will see a rise in the amount of young people getting involved in school sport and being more active."
Working together with Whirlwind Sports, Active Cornwall and local School Games Organisers aim to make a clear and meaningful difference to the lives of even more young people through the School Games and this partnership, along with the continued investment from Sport England into the national programme, enables us to achieve this ambition.
Julie Ponting, School Games Organiser from Arena Sports Partnerships in East Cornwall said: We are extremely grateful to Whirlwind Sports for agreeing to be our headline partner for the School Games in Cornwall. This is part of a long-term partnership to enable the Cornwall School Games to provide even more young people with the opportunity to compete and achieve their personal best.
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Vascular plant
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Kingdom: Plantae (in part)
'Divisions'
Non-seed-bearing plants
Psilotophyta
Superdivision Spermatophyta
Pinophyta
The vascular plants are those plants that have specialized cells for conducting water and sap within their tissues, including the ferns, clubmosses, horsetails, flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, but not mosses, algae, and the like (nonvascular plants). They are set apart in two important ways:
Vascular plants have water-carrying tissues, termed tracheids, in their tissues, enabling the plants to evolve larger and more elaborate structures, while non-vascular plants lack these and are restricted to relatively small sizes.
In vascular plants, the principal generation phase is the sporophyte, which is diploid with two sets of chromosomes per cell. In non-vascular plants, the principal generation phase is often the gametophyte, which is haploid with one set of chromosomes per cell. See also alternation of generations.
Vascular plants are occasionally grouped as a single division (Tracheophyta) or subkingdom (Tracheobionta), but neither is very common and both conflict with other common systems.
Capillary action and transpiration work to allow xylem carry water and sap upward toward the leaves from the roots, while the phloem tissue carries organic nutrients throughout the plant.
In addition to this, there are vascular tissues. A vascular tissue is composed of xylem of phloem, this tissue can give the plant more strength.
A vascular bundle is groups of xylem, phloem and cambium cells in stems of plants descended from the procambium embryonic tissue layer.
Vascular cambium is a layer of lateral meristematic tissue between the xylem and phloem in the stems of woody plants. Lateral meristem tissue in plants that produces secondary growth.
Vascular cylinder is a central column formed by the vascular tissue of a plant root; surrounded by parenchymal ground tissue.
Vascular parenchyma is Specialized parenchyma cells in the phloem of plants.
Vascular plants is a group of plants having lignified conducting tissue (xylem vessels or tracheids).
Vascular system is Specialized tissues for transporting fluids and nutrients in plants; also plays a role in supporting the plant; one of the four main tissue systems in plants.
Spore-bearing vascular plants
Equisetophyta ~ horsetails
Lycopodiophyta ~ clubmosses, spikemosses, quillworts
Psilotophyta ~ whisk-ferns
Pteridophyta~ ferns
Seed-bearing vascular plants - Superdivision Spermatophyta
Pinophyta ~ conifers
Cycadophyta ~ cycads
Ginkgophyta ~ ginkgos
Gnetophyta ~ gnetophytes
Magnoliophyta ~ flowering plants
Fern allies
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Croft & Davison, Foundation Maths, Prentice Hall, 2003.
Dean N, The Essence of Discrete mathematics, Prentice Hall.
Nissanke N, Introductory Logic and Sets for Computer Scientists, Addison Wesley.
Page SG, Mathematics: a second start, Ellis Horwood, 1986.
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November 13, 2019 Robothusiast The Robot Report
Crowdsourced talent, artificial intelligence, and drone racing — AlphaPilot has a unique combination of ways to promote innovation.
Lockheed Martin, HeroX, and the Drone Racing League have partnered on the AlphaPilot AI Drone Racing Innovation Challenge, which the organizers claimed is the first large-scale open innovation challenge of its kind. The next race in the World Challenge will continue tomorrow in Baltimore, kicking off the Artificial Intelligence Robotic Racing Circuit.
HeroX is a spinoff of XPRIZE co-founded by Peter Diamandis. It offers cash to individual problem solvers in a "Crowdsourcing 2.0" model.
Six years ago, serial entrepreneur Christian Cotichini had sold his fourth company to Dell when he met Diamandis. "We started collaborating on the idea of democratizing the XPRIZE model, which passed the 'shower test,'" said Cotichini, co-founder of HeroX. "We wanted to make the power of the crowd available to everyone and to make a global labor market for the knowledge economy."
"We're really proud of what we'e accomplished with minimal capital," Cotichini told The Robot Report. "We're ready to scale and are looking to be the Airbnb of ingenuity."
He and Kyla Jeffrey, leader of the HeroX customer success team, answered the following questions:
Competition for technical talent is particularly tight right now — how do challenges such as AlphaPilot address that need?
Cotichini: Crowdsourcing is a medium, a labor model. There are many different use cases. Lockheed Martin found it was a good approach for them, robotics, and AI.
Christian Cotichini, HeroX
With more than $2 million in prizes, this is the Olympics of crowdfunding, acting as a spotlight on the development of autonomous drones.
This is also a platform for learning and developing skills to contribute to the global talent pool and Lockheed Martin's network of innovators. It will change the lives of hundreds of people.
What makes HeroX and AlphaPilot different from other challenges?
Cotichini: HeroX is the only general-purpose crowdsourcing platform that has hit enough scale to do large volumes of projects like this. By "general purpose," we mean that any company can send out for any problem that's ethical, legal, and safe.
Horizontal positioning is important to us — it creates a true capacity for organizations to try a "boil the ocean" strategy that incubators tell you not to do.
Competitors are intrinsically motivated by the vision of the challenge rather than just the monetary prize and are going for audacious breakthroughs. HeroX has hundreds of teams, and the power of crowdsourcing talent is that they're hiring the project, not the project hiring them.
AlphaPilot is at the finalist phase with nine teams, but 2,600 solvers signed up. Lockheed Martin gets use cases for solutions.
How does HeroX handle so many potential solvers?
Kyla Jeffrey, HeroX
Jeffery: It's how the projects are set up. In this case, Lockheed Martin set up three sequential tasks for a quantitative assessment by a panel of judges aggregated from experts in the field.
We set criteria so that submissions would be easy to judge. In AlpaPilot, Phase 2 was a vision test, and teams had to identify gates with machine vision algorithms. The third task was building a model to fly in simulation at MIT's AI lab.
Cotichini: This follows a lot of best practices we'd apply to crowdfunding. We have separate qualitative and quantitative or subjective and objective criteria, and we work with clients to remove biases. Rather than screen for skill sets, we look for results.
With our criteria, we have an automated scorecard. Using an API [application programming interface], the simulation generated scores and a leaderboard for Phases 2 and 3 of AlphaPilot.
We're really looking to provide gamification as part of our toolkit. With a World of Warcraft model, solvers can see how to iterate and how they're doing.
What hardware is AlphaPilot using? How much customization do teams do?
Cotichini: Lockheed Martin provided the teams that move on in the drone races use NVIDIA Xavier GPUs as well as drones meeting the specifications of the Drone Racing League.
On the software and AI side, what's the baseline? Is code reviewed, or just drone performance?
Cotichini: During the qualifying tests this spring there was a review of the teams' frameworks to to see if their code was elegant and scalable, but the three tasks heavily weighted toward quantitative results.
Lockheed Martin wanted to make sure the software met the criteria for the challenge and didn't pose any intellectual property risks.
For the World Challenge, the Drone Racing League has the perfect test bed for testing AI pilots. It's egalitarian and transparent.
Are the milestones visible to the public?
Cotichini: The Drone Racing League event, "Humans vs. AI," will be live-streamed and televised on NBC Sports.
Is mentoring or other support available to the teams?
Jeffery: HeroX and Lockheed Martin offered webinars early on in which participants could ask questions live.
There are nine teams left with about 70 people total. Outside of looking for mentors, they're also looking for people to work with. After the number of teams was reduced over the summer, some runner-up teams merged with the top teams.
At HeroX, we're pleased to see collaboration and bringing in outside parties.
How have the organizers collaborated on AlphaPilot?
Cotichini: The Drone Racing League has lots of participants.
Jeffery: The team at MIT also played a critical role for simulation and testing. Everyone is committed to the end goal of improving drone autonomy.
I had a background in B2B startups, and when I first started with crowdsourcing, I had anxiety at first. I've learned a lot in the past five years. When you give people a chance to participate, don't micromanage it — there's a fundamental human desire to compete. It's not about winning; it's about inclusion, which is powerful.
I'm also amazed to learn that we're wired to collaborate; we're social animals. We see that desire in a lot in these crowdsourcing projects, bringing talent to our customers. That's the egalitarian nature of HeroX.
How important is machine learning to autonomous drone operations, and what level are you looking for? Is this applicable to all potential drone applications?
Cotichini: There are two prize levels. One is for the AI that beats all other AIs. Just finishing a race would be amazing. The furthest and fastest team will get $1 million.
The other prize is a stretch goal — if any AI beats professional human racers, its team can win an additional $250,000. We don't really expect this to happen this year.
Drones must be completely autonomous — not in cloud. One of the reasons that Lockheed Martin went to the cloud is that AI is very much focused on cloud computing and unlimited electrical power. The question was how to start with the idea of an AI pilot running on milliwatts and letting innovators come up with solutions it's not going to get from experts.
Will you circle back with promising advances by runners-up?
Cotichini: We're looking at HeroX as a new labor model, and we'll see how hard it is to win this competition. You can't have innovations without massive amounts of failure.
But in a knowledge economy, a lot of things are more routine. Jobs are still scored, but with more of a reputational scoring, like in the gig economy.
We're on a power curve, where on the high end is the breakthrough $1 million crowdsourcing, then a long tail of gigs. We want to give HeroX solvers the opportunity to participate and engage in the overall ecosystem.
The aspiration of the platform is solvers as heroes. HeroX lets them follow a "hero's journey" through a career path, expanding from similar knowledge work through smaller prizes.
Beyond the monetary prize, does Lockheed Martin gain access to the advances of AlphaPilot's winning teams, or can they develop it further and commercialize it themselves?
Cotichini: The intellectual property stays with the team. Lockheed Martin will ultimately work with winner and can negotiate to acquire the technology.
It's a great way to find talent to contract with or to hire. $1 million is not a lot for AI or drone development. It's a good bang for your buck to get talent and build a positive brand.
What's the proportion of large to small prizes at HeroX?
Cotichini: There are three major brackets. Every challenge is personalized and unique, but the high end is more than $200,000, similar to XPRIZE.
At the midrange are more technical solutions and larger ideation challenges, such as how to inspect oil storage tanks. We did a challenge for a venture capital firm that works with limited partners to find specific solutions to invest in, doing a deal flow with crowdsourcing. It had a problem one of its investors wanted to solve and want to find someone with a solution.
On the low end is ideation, picking logos, writing content — smaller tasks. Our platform is like a tool kit to build multiphase challenges with reusable templates. We're working with consulting companies and other crowd vendors so they can provide expertise and use our network for publishing challenges for crowdsourcing and innovation.
The Robot Report is launching the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum, which will be on Dec. 9-10 in Santa Clara, Calif. The conference and expo will focus on improving the design, development, and manufacture of next-generation healthcare robots. Learn more about the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum, and registration is now open.
How does crowdsourcing talent at HeroX change the model for innovation?
Cotichini: We look at the demand side versus supply side, which is different from every other crowdsourcing model. Others mostly recruit a crowd with specific expertise and then sell it to companies. We don't do that — 80% of 2,600 solvers we recruited for AlphaPilot were off our platform, not in the HeroX community. There are 900 million potential solvers accessible on the Internet, according to Harvard Crowd Innovation Lab — that's an overwhelming talent pool to target. More than half of college graduates get jobs outside their field of expertise.
Jeffery: I have a degree in marine biology. Like a high school diploma, getting a college degree is a solid choice. You choose the field you're interested in, and it's factory-installed, like an app on an iPhone. You can always add more apps or skills.
With specialization, degrees not seen as that important. If you want to learn engineering, there are resources online that weren't available 20 years ago. Anyone can become an expert in something.
Crowdsourcing gives the opportunity to prove your talent and genius. We're birthing new careers from these projects that people can put on their resumes — "I was a finalist in the Lockheed Martin AlphaPilot challenge."
Millennials get that they're in charge of their own education, learning on demand. We can never stop learning, especially in technical professions.
Part of mission at HeroX is creating job liquidity, moving to an optimum we've already created with the Internet and the knowledge economy. We want to help make that global market. Once employers have to compete for talent rather than talent competing for jobs, we'll start to see balance in the income disparity, which is a current existential threat to economies and politics.
Like social marketing, crowd enablement will eventually be a standard tool because of competitive forces — that's beauty of the free market. We're also adding to academia and corporate labs what's possible for innovation.
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package org.enricogiurin.sushibar.controller;

import org.enricogiurin.sushibar.dto.LoggedUserDTO;
import org.enricogiurin.sushibar.security.JwtTokenUtil;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User;
import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetails;
import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.CrossOrigin;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/user")
@CrossOrigin
public class UserController {

    @Value("${jwt.header}")
    private String tokenHeader;

    @Autowired
    private JwtTokenUtil jwtTokenUtil;

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("userDetailsServiceImpl")
    private UserDetailsService userDetailsService;

    @GetMapping(produces = "application/json")
    public User getAuthenticatedUser(HttpServletRequest request) {
        String token = request.getHeader(tokenHeader).substring(7);
        String username = jwtTokenUtil.getUsernameFromToken(token);
        UserDetails userDetails = userDetailsService.loadUserByUsername(username);
        return new LoggedUserDTO(userDetails);

    }

}

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Q: Use of Android VpnService MTU parameter I'm building a VPN application which acts as a packet sniffer and then forwards the packets to the active device network.
Gmail is having intermittent attachment download issues when my VPN is on. I do not set the MTU on the VPN.
Android VpnService.Builder exposes a method to set the MTU https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/VpnService.Builder#setMtu(int)
While creating a VPN service, what can be the issues if this parameter is not set. The documentation says,

If it is not set, the default value in the operating system will be used.

I'm trying to figure out if there can be issues related to speed or Android DownloadManager, if the MTU is not set properly.

A: I found out the problem to be a known bug in Android related to split tunnelling, existent on Android 8 - 9.
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/111574523

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Between 1918 and 1925, the newspaper published 4 letters and 2 articles written by Arthur Conan Doyle and 2 interviews.
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