text:
Alison Smith, Head of Department
Our vision is to ensure that our high-quality discovery science contributes to tackling fundamental challenges in Global Food Security, Growing a Sustainable Bioeconomy, and Protecting the Environment. With this approach, we will increase the visibility of Plant Sciences in the global arena, train significant numbers of plant biologists across all scales of the discipline – from molecular biologists, to biological engineers, to conservationists, and in so doing drive advances in understanding of fundamental biology that will have major positive impacts on society.
The Department is made up of twenty research groups whose long-term aim is to contribute to the four global challenges above. A broad portfolio of grant income from diverse sources including UKRI, Government, Charitable Foundations and Industry supports 55 post-docs, 91 PhD students, and 14 research assistants. Strategic links both within Cambridge, as well as across the East of England and further afield allow us to make the best use of our science.
Locally, our discovery science is based on links with others in The University of Cambridge including colleagues in Applied Mathematics, Biochemistry, Engineering, Genetics, Land Economy, Physics and Zoology as well as the Sainsbury Laboratory. However, we also have a key strategic link with the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, and we formed the CambPlants Initiative to bring together all those working on plant and crop sciences in the local area. CambPlants involves policy makers, industry as well as academics. OpenPlant, a BBSRC-funded initiative, has cemented strong links with the John Innes Centre. In the International Arena, we have many links across the globe that are driven by our discovery science. However, we also have important strategic partnerships that aim to translate knowledge from improved understanding of fundamental biology into practice. These partnerships span East and Central Africa via the BecA-Hub in Kenya, include an additional 15 national agricultural agencies in Sub-Saharan Africa, and in India incorporate institutions such as NIPGR, The Punjab Agricultural University and ICRISAT.
Recent discoveries of note
Disorder in nanoscale ridges on petals has evolved repeatedly to help attract pollinators;
The smoke receptor in plants conditions recognition of symbiotic fungi;
Potent greenhouse gas production from lakes is influenced by neighboring vegetation;
Standardisation of DNA parts for use in plant synthetic biology;
Principles underlying the spread of disease in plant communities and crops;
Identification of molecular partners that allow circadian rhythms to be controlled by sugars.
International Standing
International Standing: Our staff are widely recognised as making leading contributions to each of their fields. This includes contributions to Faculty of 1000, as well as carrying out Editorial roles for journals such as BMC Plant Biology, Cell, Cell Host and Microbe, Current Biology, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, Genome Biology, Journal of Experimental Botany, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, New Phytologist, Phytopathology, Plant Physiology, Proceedings of the National Academy, Science, Scientific Reports, Tropical Plant Pathology, Virology, Virus-Plant Interactions.
Competitively awarded grant support totals ~£10 million per annum and comes from UKRI as well as international agencies including the BMGF, the ERC, the EU, HFSP and the NSF. Since REF2014 we have published in a broad spectrum of journals including ACS Synthetic Biology, Cell, Current Biology, Ecology Letters, Ecology, eLife, Functional Ecology, Genes and Development, Global Change Biology, Journal of Experimental Botany, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Nature Genetics, Nature Plants, Nature, New Phytologist, Plant Cell Environment, Plant Physiology, PLos Biology, PLos Computational Biology, PLos Genetics, PLos Pathogens, PNAS, Science, The Plant Cell, and The Plant Journal.


House Design Software Fresh Home Design Software House Design Software images that posted in this website was uploaded by mastercus.com. House Design Software Fresh Home Design Software House Design Software equipped with a HD resolution 1158 x 772 Pixel.You can save House Design Software Fresh Home Design Software House Design Software for free to your devices.
If you want to Save House Design Software Fresh Home Design Software House Design Software with original size you can click the Download link.


text:
The evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to trace with precision. A French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball. Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland. Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game by David Block in 2005 suggests that the game originated in England; recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position. Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of each other, and that the game's most direct antecedents are the English games of stoolball and tut-ball. It has long been believed that cricket also descended from such games, though evidence uncovered in early 2009 suggests that cricket may have been imported to England from Flanders. The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery. It contains a rhymed description of base-ball and a woodcut that shows a field set-up somewhat similar to the modern game—though in a triangular rather than diamond configuration, and with posts instead of ground-level bases. David Block discovered that the first recorded game of Bass-Ball took place in 1749 in Surrey and featured the Prince of Wales as a player
'Cyclists, Oarsmen, Ballplayers and Athletes Anti-stiff Medicine' from America in 1893 £6.99

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


against the Braille night sky.
to the middle-aged and weary.
while we dream electric dreams.
Robert T. Krantz is a poet and writer residing in southeast Michigan. He studied at Niagara County Community College, The University of Akron and the University of Arkansas. Since 2013, Robert has published several chapbooks and been featured in many literary journals, including Hamilton Arts and Letters, Antiphon, Grasslimb and the Pittsburgh Poetry Review.
Robert works in industrial sales in the Midwest and is father to one daughter who has recently started writing poetry.


text:
Chile deltog med 3 deltagare vid de olympiska vinterspelen 1998 i Nagano. Ingen av landets deltagare erövrade någon medalj.

Källor

1998 i Chile
Nationer i olympiska vinterspelen 1998
1998

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Home \ Hip-Hop \ NEWS \ KEHLANI EXPLAINS HOW SMOKING WEED COULD HAVE ENDED HER CAREER
KEHLANI EXPLAINS HOW SMOKING WEED COULD HAVE ENDED HER CAREER
Hip hop and marijuana are inextricably linked. Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y, and other artists rely on the flower, yet other people would rather go about their lives without it.
Kehlani stated on TikTok on Monday (August 2) that she decided to quit smoking cannabis in 2018 because she wasn't the most productive stoner. Many people mistook her for a smoker, but she addressed the situation.
"I used to smoke a lot of weed and now I speak on it in a past tense perspective," she said. "People think I'm shitting on weed, I'm not. I loved weed when I was involved with it. It's a beautiful plant with very nice properties when used correctly. I don't think that I was using it correctly. I think I was overusing it."
@kehlani
Reply to @_sethrogansbongwater_
♬ original sound - Kehlani
According to the singer of It Was Good Until It Wasn't, she abruptly ended her career when doctors informed her she only had a few years left if she kept tugging on Backwoods.
"It really really messed with my vocal cords and it really took a lot of energy from my day," she added. "I stopped to regulate my body and myself… I got to a point where I couldn't eat, sleep or be at a social gathering. I couldn't kick it without smoking weed and I just didn't want it to have that hold on my life anymore … And also my throat and lungs were tired of me."
She continued, "I'm not judging the weed smokers! Get it, girl."
Kehlani issued another explanation in April, this time about her sexuality. The artist openly declared her lesbian status on Instagram Live.
"Y'all think there's something new about me — you wanna know what's new about me?" she said in the clip. "I finally know I'm a lesbian."
Curren$y, hiphop, hiphopfightclub, hiphopnews, Kehlani, rap, rapnews, Singer, singers, smoking, Snoop Dogg, WIZ KHALIFA
BLAME IT ON BABY: COLORADO SUMMER JAM SHUTTERS WITH DABABY'S "RECENT COMMENTS"
THE MOTHER OF FETTY WAP'S 4-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER BLAME TMZ FOR ANNOUNCING THE CAUSE OF DEATH TOO EARLY


Onions have the ability to raise the HDL cholesterol levels if you eat a raw onion a day for atleast 3 months to see the HDL levels improve significantly. According to Dr. Victor Gurewich of Tufts University, when his patients with very low HDL levels ate a raw onion a day, an average of 30 percent raise in HDL levels was observed.
In the late 1960s, an Indian researcher found that when two ounces of grilled onions were eaten with a meal containing 90 percent fat, cholesterol levels didn't increase, blood platelets did not stick to each other and, and fibrinogen ( blood clotting compounds) were not produced. Onions are known to contain quercetin an antioxidant that decreases heart disease such as heart attack, hypertension, and hardening of the arteries.
Gall stone are also caused by high cholesterol levels. The 2009, British Journal of Nutrition findings reveals that raw and heated onions reduced the development of cholesterol gall stones by about 39 percent in mice. However, its effectiveness on humans, still remains elusive.
Research shows that onions affect the blood sugar in humans. Allyl propyl disulphide ( sulphur compound) found in onions may increase production of insulin and reduce the levels of blood glucose. As per the findings published in the Environmental Health Insights in 2010, red onions were effective at reducing the blood sugar levels in diabetics up to four hours after eating.
Studies indicate that raw onions have more nutrition than cooked onions. When onions are simmered, the quercetin amount does not get degraded. By simmering onions on low heat, the quercetin content can be preserved.


On April 19th, 2019 from 10:30 am - 1:30 pm BVES will host its 2019 Annual Earth Day Expo. In partnership with DWP, we're inviting more than a dozen organizations to host the community expo and educate the public on the importance of conservation and protecting our species.
Attendees will receive free giveaways, hot dogs fresh off the grill, snacks and waters (while supplies last).
Unable to make this year's Earth Day Expo? Visit our Energy Efficiency page to learn how you can protect the environment, conserve energy and lower your electric bill by clicking here.


Flush casement refers to the opener part of the window being flush with the frame. This style of window has a more traditional feel and was derived from cottage style timber windows.
The timber alternative style of flush casement offers a solution to conservation Article 4 directives and meets most planning office challenges due to the sympathetic consideration to the original historical window design.
Available in a wide range of colours and shades to suit different architectural periods (Look at the possible range of colours and finishes) or, if you prefer to have a specific colour then you can also tailor your finish to be from the RAL chart of colours and any of these foil colours.
With elegant flush exterior, coupled with optional leaded or glazing bar effect, these windows can transform any home to look as though have traditional windows.
Because of its durability, uPVC looks better for longer. It's easy to clean and keeps the colour and doesn't need repainting every few years, as with timber.
Authentic hardware is also featured as part of this style and is hand forged for the creation of traditional period aesthetics.


text:
Ukraine: Democracies' energetic unity shows reserves of power
DemDigest February 28, 2022 February 28, 2022
A coalition of forty Ukrainian civil society groups today issued The Kyiv Declaration, a six-point appeal to the West's democracies, listing urgent humanitarian and military demands.
"There is no free and just Europe without a free and just Ukraine," said Natalia Popovych, Co-Founder and the Chair of the Board at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center. "The Ukrainian nation is fighting not only for our homeland, but for a world safe for democracy."
"Ukraine cannot win with courage and conviction alone," the appeal states, warning that the country's "way of life, democracy and freedom is being blown apart." The coalition asks the international community to stand with Ukraine by taking the following actions:
1) Establish safe zones in Ukraine….
2) Provide immediate defensive military aid – including lethal and non-lethal assistance…
3) Implement crippling sanctions to undermine Putin's war machine….
4) Provide immediate humanitarian aid….
5) Freeze the assets and revoke the visas of Putin's cronies….
6) Provide equipment to track war crimes immediately….
"Now is the moment the world must demonstrate its support not only for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, but also for the values of democracy, human rights and freedom," said Olga Aivazovska, chair of Elections Watchdog Opora (right).
There are many things which the world can do now, adds the 1st December Initiative Group, a group of Ukrainian human rights defenders and intellectuals, including dissidents under the totalitarian Soviet regime:
First, it needs to impose harsher sanctions against Russia, and significantly hit the Russian energy, banking, and defense sectors. It must impose a trade embargo on Russia and cut Russia off from the SWIFT international payment system, as well as substantially limit its capacity to sell its gas and oil to fill its military budgets.
Secondly, Russia must be cut off from all international fora.
Thirdly, Ukraine needs military support: air defense systems and protection against Russian missiles and bombings. The world must ensure a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Russia believes that it is waging the war against the U.S. and NATO in Ukraine, and NATO must therefore respond.
Fourth, Ukraine needs economic support, as the country is suffering catastrophic economic loss. Our country must emerge stronger from this war.
Defeating Putinism
The Ukrainian people's resistance not only inspires us to rally to their cause, but will inspire believers in the cause of freedom for generations, National Endowment for Democracy President and CEO Damon Wilson told the National Rally to Support Ukraine in Washington, DC (above and right).
"Their success is crucial to democracy's future. It is crucial to defeating Putinism," he said. "Only when Putin is out of Ukraine, only when Putin is out of the Kremlin, will our freedom be safe and secure."
Live footage from Reuters, below, shows the crowd of thousands singing patriotic songs, holding flags and placards demanding peace and calling for action to curb Russian aggression.
LIVE: Protest held in DC against Russia's invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/HcV5qQsjzo
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 27, 2022
If this conflict is a new cold war, it's one that the autocracies have been pursuing energetically and the democracies have been loath to accept. But now a sudden, energetic unity of the democracies shows the reserves of power that can be brought to bear against the autocracies without going to war, adds George Packer.
To be realist in our age is not to define American interests so narrowly that Ukraine becomes disposable but to understand that the world has broken up into democratic and autocratic spheres, he writes for The Atlantic: that this division shapes everything from supply chains and competition for resources to state corruption and the influence of technology on human minds and societies; that the autocrats have gained the upper hand and know it.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine, following its earlier efforts to stifle independence and democracy there, as well as in Georgia and Belarus, is the most dramatic but far from the last point of conflict between the two spheres, Packer observes.
The celebrated German Field Marshal von Moltke famously claimed that "no plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength" – a statement generally interpreted as "no plan survives contact with the enemy."
Heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson made the same point, albeit more pithily: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is the latest confirmation of such received wisdom – that wars rarely go to plan, especially if you believe your own rhetoric, notes Lawrence Freedman, the author of Strategy: A History. "Though the Russians may eventually prevail in battle, the first day of the war confirmed what has always seemed likely – that whatever the military victories to come this will be an extraordinarily difficult war for Putin to win politically," he writes for The New Statesman:
At times in democracies we lament the flabbiness, incoherence, short-sightedness and inertia of our decision-making, compared with autocrats who can outsmart us by thinking long-term and then taking bold steps without any need to convince a skeptical public, listen to critics, or be held back by such awkward constraints as the rule of law. Putin reminds us that autocracy can lead to great errors, and while democracy by no means precludes us from making our own mistakes, it at least allows us opportunities to move swiftly to new leaders and new policies when that happens. Would that this now happens to Russia.
Former NED board member Francis Fukuyama
Ukraine's push for NATO membership did not prompt Russia to invade it. Rather, Putin's motive was his intention to eradicate democracy from Eastern Europe, U.S. political scientist Francis Fukuyama told Nikkei.
"The issue for Russia in Ukraine is not NATO membership. They have been using that as an excuse. Nobody has been serious about having Ukraine join NATO for the last 15 years," he said. "The real issue is Putin's desire to reconstruct the former Soviet Union and to basically overturn the entire European security order that emerged after the breakup of the Soviet Union."
Putin's brazen and unprovoked assault on Ukraine is fast turning his fears of a more resolute Europe, and potentially expanded NATO alliance, into a self-fulfilling prophecy, The Los Angeles Times reports.
"Putin has behaved in a staggering, outrageous fashion to rip up what the Europeans thought were kind of inviolable norms," said Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, a risk assessment firm in New York. The shift among European leaders "shows that this is not about Ukraine, it's a change in the global order that we have slipped into a new Cold War with Russia."
Meanwhile, Hungary's announcement that it will not allow lethal weapons for Ukraine to transit its territory has attracted widespread condemnation.
"How much were they bought off for. Utterly shameful," former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves tweeted. "While Russia drops cluster bombs on and fires grad missiles on residential areas."
The Ukraine invasion does not presage a new Cold War, notes Catholic University's Michael Kimmage. But that conflict still contains lessons for us. One of them is to move slowly, to build internal resilience, and to have patience, he writes for Politico.
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney, who warned of the geopolitical threat posed by Russia back in 2012, is concerned about "isolationism and …… hero worship of an authoritarian like Putin."
'[P]eople are seeing real human beings suffer. And they recognize, this is not a war. It's not a battle between two militaries," he tells The Atlantic's McKay Coppins. "This is a brutal invasion of a free democratic people by an authoritarian thug, and there's no justification for it. And its brutality and vile nature is able to be seen by people all over the world."
2. RIA Novosti news agency accidentally published an article, tagged with a publication date of 8AM on February 26, already celebrating a Russian victory and collapse of the Ukrainian state within an anticipated two days. It's still on their site.https://t.co/oh6nT8Niro
— Thomas de Waal (@Tom_deWaal) February 28, 2022
The RIA Novosti news agency accidentally published an article, tagged with a publication date of 8AM on February 26, already celebrating a Russian victory and collapse of the Ukrainian state within an anticipated two days. It's still on their site, Carnegie's Tom de Waal tweeted.
The main theme is that the "operation" is a defeat for the West's project to defeat Russia. That Putin seized the moment to return Ukraine to its historic Slavic union with Russia and Belarus. Potential NATO candidacy is seen as a symptom of the problem, not the main cause. The author calls this a "new era" he adds. "Russia is restoring its historic unity: the tragedy of 1991, that terrible catastrophe of our history, that unnatural aberration, has been overcome."
Democracies must respond to the depredations Russia is now inflicting upon the people of Ukraine, says Christopher Walker, Vice President for Studies and Analysis at the National Endowment for Democracy. In the bigger picture, the United States and its democratic allies will need to come to grips with the advanced competition that has emerged to challenge democracy and the values that underpin it, he writes for Just Security:
This is a multidimensional challenge that will require democratic ambition and innovation in spheres that include but are not limited to: more successfully dealing with the transnational kleptocracy and strategic corruption that have metastasized in ways that subvert systems of all stripes; addressing a dysfunctional and unreliable information landscape; developing more effective capacities to communicate internationally in a far more complex and competitive information environment; and dealing with critical issues of emerging technology that will be integral to the future of freedom.
Since late last year, Western democracies have led an intense, coordinated diplomatic response to Russia's build-up of troops around Ukraine, says NED's Wilson. "This is just night and day between the reactions that Putin has faced in previous cycles, because we've learned if you don't stop him, his appetite grows and he goes for more."
Putin's aggression has in fact unified Ukraine, NATO, and even the U.S. itself, he told Christian Science Monitor. "There's not really a big debate here."
"We can't pull our punches or support for the aspirations of people who want a democratic future," Wilson added.
I don't know what will happen in Ukraine. But as a historian I do believe in the possibility of change. I don't think this is naivety—it's realism, adds historian, philosopher and author Yuval Noah Harari.
The only constant of human history is change. And that's something that perhaps we can learn from the Ukrainians. For many generations, Ukrainians knew little but tyranny and violence, he writes for The Economist. But they chose differently. Despite history, despite grinding poverty and despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Ukrainians established a democracy.
To reestablish the Russian empire, Putin needs a relatively bloodless victory that will lead to a relatively hateless occupation, adds Harari. By spilling more and more Ukrainian blood, Putin is making sure his dream will never be realized. It won't be Mikhail Gorbachev's name written on the death certificate of the Russian empire: it will be Putin's, he writes for The Guardian.
Washington and its allies have taken some valuable steps to punish Moscow, say David J. Kramer, John Herbst, and William Taylor. Berlin stopped Nord Stream 2, a natural gas pipeline running from Germany to Russia, and U.S. and European states blocked major Russian banks from accessing Western financing. But the free world has not responded forcefully enough, and democracies are at risk of repeating their unsuccessful response to Russia's first invasion of Ukraine, they write for Foreign Affairs:
Even the strongest sanctions will not be enough. The United States and its allies should expel Russian ambassadors from their capitals, close any remaining Russian consulates, and shut down the noxious, Moscow-controlled propaganda outlets RT and Sputnik. These outlets are dangerous purveyors of hate, and they are complicit in the Kremlin's outrageous acts. They cannot hide behind free speech claims.
Such a shift in strategy will not be politically easy for Western democracies to make, Edward Fishman and Chris Miller suggest. Russia's rulers benefit from a vast apparatus of repression that lets them suppress discontent. Western leaders, by contrast, must answer to voters who care deeply about their wallets. Such political calculations have already influenced policymaking, they write for Foreign Affairs.
As the U.S. administration marshals action on Ukraine, they will need to guard against the risk that the situation will offer a field day for authoritarians elsewhere, Frances Z. Brown, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Carnegie Endowment's Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Project, writes for Just Security. As such, to make good on their democracy and human rights agenda, Biden's team will need to continually ask: where else should we be exerting leverage? Where else should we be focusing attention?
We demand an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops and a commitment to political and diplomatic solutions to the crisis that will cause needless suffering and hardship for people throughout the country, said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. The US labor federation and its NED-affiliated Solidarity Center joined unions from around the world in expressing solidarity with union partners in Ukraine.
Putin believes that Russia has no choice but to remain as one of the agenda-setting powers of the world. His view of "sovereign democracy" is that a Russia that lacks the wherewithal to defend itself from outside pressure will find itself forced to adopt Western standards or a Chinese diktat, adds Nikolas K. Gvosdev, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and a non-residential fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Key to all of Putin's plans has been to ensure a friendly and pliable Ukrainian government. Ukraine's economy, resource base and population are critical for the success of any Russian-led Eurasian Union which is the manifestation of Russia's ability to create that independent "Eurasian pole of power" that counterbalances a China-led Asian sphere with the Euro-Atlantic world, he contends.
A kind of self-serving denialism pervades Western capitals and prevents us from seeing the obvious. Passionate pleas to defend post-Cold War European order have no meaning because this era is over, says Ivan Krastev (far right), the chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies, a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the author of "Is It Tomorrow Yet? Paradoxes of the Pandemic."
In 1993, the great German poet and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger predicted that the Cold War would be followed by an age of chaos, violence and conflict, he writes for The New York Times:
Reflecting on what he observed in Yugoslavia and the urban riots in the United States, he saw a world defined by an "inability to distinguish between destruction and self-destruction." In this world, "there is no longer any need to legitimize your actions. Violence has freed itself from ideology." Enzensberger was right. He was just too early.
The pro-democracy group Razom for Ukraine is "focused on purchasing medical supplies for critical situations like blood loss and other tactical medicine items [through] a large procurement team of volunteers that tracks down and purchases supplies and a logistics team that then gets them to Ukraine," John Woodrow Cox and Ian Shapira write for The Washington Post. Razom — which means "together" in Ukrainian — posted a list of the lifesaving supplies it has already purchased and is asking for more support here, they add in a valuable article on how you can donate to help people in Ukraine.
Russia's brazen military intervention in Ukraine is the latest evolution of the Kremlin's efforts to undermine democracy and splinter democratic unity, the NED's Sharp Power Research Portal adds. The Forum's research and reporting captures Russia's political and economic influence activities in Ukraine, including:
In Fog of Falsehood: Russia Strategy of Deception and the Conflict in Ukraine, Katri Pynnöniemi and András Rácz detail the emergence and evolution of Russian propaganda and disinformation in Ukraine since 2014.
Using data gathered from the Alliance for Securing Democracy's Hamilton 2.0 Dashboard, Joseph Bodnar, Kayla Goodson, and Bret Schafer report on the present-day messaging disseminated by Russia officials and state media since November 2021.
The Centre for Economic Strategy examines Russia's economic footprint in Ukraine and how Russia has exploited governance gaps to exert influence through the media, political parties, and government debt.
Peter Mandaville explores the politicization of religion in the Ukraine crisis in "How Putin Turned Religion's 'Sharp Power' Against Ukraine."
@NEDemocracy Afrobarometer Alliance for Securing Democracy Anne Applebaum Anti-corruption Carl Gershman China China Digital Times civil society coronavirus Corruption Countering violent extremism (CVE) Cuba democracy assistance democracy promotion democratization disinformation Egypt Elliott Abrams Francis Fukuyama Freedom House Hybrid warfare Illiberal democracy information warfare International Republican Institute (IRI) Iran Journal of Democracy kleptocracy Larry Diamond Michele Dunne National Democratic Institute (NDI) National Endowment for Democracy National Endowment for Democracy (NED). North Korea populism Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) promoting democracy Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program Russia sharp power Soft power Solidarity Center Tunisia Ukraine Venezuela
Analysis, Authoritarianism, Central/Eastern Europe, Democracy Digest, Ukraine
Ukraine crisis a transformative moment? Overreaching Putin 'sowing seeds of regime's demise'?
Nobel laureate Maria Ressa takes on 'gendered disinformation'


Does medication reminder packaging help us to keep taking the tablets?
The problem of people not understanding basic health information has been in the news this week, with the publication in the BMJ of a study looking at health literacy, which found that of the UK adults included in the study almost half of those aged over 80, and a quarter aged 60 or under, were unable to answer correctly all four questions based on instructions similar to those found in a packet of aspirin.
Failing to take medication correctly, through lack of understanding or difficulty in remembering to take it, clearly has serious implications for health. There are many reminder systems designed to help people take their medication correctly, including simple things such as blister 'calendar' packs for pills, but do they work?
Mahtani KR, Heneghan CJ, Glasziou PP, Perera R. Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2011, Issue 9. Art. No.: CD005025. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005025.pub3.
BBC News Poor literacy increases early death risk for elderly. 16th March 2012.


represents a three-dimensional graphical image that works with anatomical entities as well as standard 3D graphics primitives and directives.
Using AnatomyPlot3D requires internet connectivity.
AnatomyPlot3D allows standalone anatomical entities to represent annotated 3D primitives, substituting the "Graphics3D" property of the entity.
Entities that appear inside of primitives act as coordinate specifiers, substituting the "RegionCentroid" of the entity.
AnatomyPlot3D is displayed in StandardForm as a graphical image.
PlotRange can be specified using anatomical entities, substituting the "RegionBounds" of the entity.
Coordinate values of the human and animal anatomical entities correspond to an average adult human male and average adult animal, respectively, measured in millimeters.


If you're reading this in The Standard, and it's after April 10th...there are cannabinoid gumdrops in your mini-fridge RIGHT NOW.
I've used a hotel minibar exactly once, room service never; barred by overdeveloped Puritan instinct for self-denial. But one time in Amsterdam, I was tired, it was late, and I opened the treasure-chest door of the tiny fridge. It glowed. I didn't know that by then, the events I set in motion that made the outcome inevitable. The glassy emerald sheen of a lukewarm Heineken turned me into a goblin; I stared, I snatched, I activated a sensor, and that's how I paid several euro too many for my first (and only) minibar beer.
Lord Jones lotions and enough gumdrops to give you a toothache!
The gumdrops are tempting on their own. Jewel-bright, rolled in sugar grit, they're flavored with fruit: lemon, blood orange, blueberry, mango. The minibars also offer cannabinoid-infused lotions, which Rosenheck says are great for post-workout aches.


On Friday 6 December, Joseph Carro conducted a star party for students of Georgia Brown Elementary School of Paso Robles. Three adults and eleven children enjoyed viewing the Moon, and the planet Venus. The night was clear, and several constellations were visible from a parking lot near Cuesta College. The students had many questions about stars, and were especially interested in the laser light used to point out the constellations.


text:
Understand Scientists
What Does In Situ Mean Chemistry
Experimental aerosol research dates back more than 100 years ago, when John Aitken built a device to count dust particles in the air 1. He discovered that several meteorological phenomena.
Mathematical Introduction To Robotic Manipulation A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation, 1994. Richard M. Murray and Zexiang Li and S. Shankar Sastry A bit old but still in use for Berkeley's courses. INTRODUCTION. This article surveys manipulation with a broad perspective, including all agents, whether natural (animals, including humans), artificial ( robots), a mathematical introduction to robotic manipulation Download a
Definition of in situ hybridization in the Definitions.net dictionary. Meaning of in situ hybridization. What does in situ hybridization mean? Information and translations of in situ hybridization in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.
Situ can refer to: ⁕in situ, Latin phrase meaning on-site or in-place ⁕In-situ compaction, a term for spray forming or spray casting ⁕In situ oxidation, in situ chemical oxidation is a technique to clean up some types of environmental contamination ⁕In situ polymerization, in polymer chemistry, means "in the polymerization mixture" ⁕Ductal carcinoma.
A Pap test, also called a Pap smear, is primarily used to screen for cervical cancer. Learn when a Pap smear is done and what the results of a Pap test might mean.
Python For Scientists And Engineers Reddit A team of researchers from the University of Washington eScience Institute, in collaboration with scientists and engineers from the National Center. that build on existing open-source tools (e.g. Hungry Shark Evolution Crab Lair I FINALLY HAVE IT!!! after so many hours and hours of playing i managed to unlock the mosasaurus. But is it any
In chemistry, in situ typically means "in the reaction mixture." There. How does the DuckDuckGo app/extension protect my privacy? For over a.
The method is based on the in situ adaptive tabulation (ISAT) of the accessed. All physically possible values of φ define the realizable region of the. where S is the rate of change due to chemical reactions, and M is the rate of change due.
Difference Between Molecular Geometry And Electron Geometry Covalent molecular. ordered geometry and with precise metrics describing where the binding sites are located on the internal surface of the framework. Because the backbone remains unchanged when. It makes no difference to the scheme. In the case of CH4, the molecule is actually tetrahedral in shape with a perfect. In these cases, the electron-domain
In situ seismic simulation experiments were carried out and show. collected from the Kopanang gold mine borehole and the nearby Vaal River. Morphometrics does not show significant differences. In.
Inside the SEM, precise positioning of the flat punch on the micropillar can be enabled with in-situ. mean modulus value of PA66 is statistically different than those of COP, CoPA, and PET. Despite.
Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Situ can refer to: ⁕in situ, Latin phrase meaning on-site or in-place ⁕In-situ compaction, a term for spray forming or spray casting ⁕In situ oxidation, in situ chemical oxidation is a technique to clean up some types of environmental contamination ⁕In situ polymerization, in polymer chemistry,
with 100 meaning fully protected. Any plant rated 75 or higher is "sufficiently conserved." Low, medium and high priority for conservation is reflected by scores of 74-50, 49-25 and 24-0, respectively.
Definition of situ in the Definitions.net dictionary. situ polymerization, in polymer chemistry, means "in the polymerization mixture" ⁕Ductal carcinoma in situ,
For most applications, it does not matter whether Fe 2+ or Fe 3+ salts are used to catalyze the reaction — the catalytic cycle begins quickly if H2O2 and organic material are in abundance. However, if low doses of Fenton's Reagent are being used (e.g., < 10-25 mg/L H2O2), some research suggests ferrous iron may be preferred.
In chemistry, it is the formation. In situ basically means when something is in position, thus atampon in situ would mean when the tampon has been inserted intothe vagina. share with friends.
With the in situ method it is essential that the coupling agent dissolves in the. Meteorological services do not adopt new instrument types without. M.-L. Tong, X.-M. Chen, in Modern Inorganic Synthetic Chemistry (Second. arm, which also decreases with densification, is measured by means of a vertical laser scanner.
In chemistry, an ester is a chemical compound derived from an acid (organic or inorganic) in which at least one –OH (hydroxyl) group is replaced by an –O–alkyl group. Usually, esters are derived from a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. Glycerides, which are fatty acid esters of glycerol, are important esters in biology, being one of the main classes of lipids, and making up the bulk of.
Mar 14, 2016 · This phenomenon is known as Hybridization. There is sp3, sp2, sp etc. hybridization and also dsp2 etc when considering d-orbital. For eg. considering sp3 hybridization there is one s orbital combining with 3 'p' orbitals giving a total of 4 hybrid orbitals etc for understanding for a basic learner in chemistry.
http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/q.g-under-reflux. In situ is a Latin phrase used in lots of different contexts, and it just means "in that.
The annealing temperature range for Type 321 is 1800 to 2000° F (928 to 1093° C). While the primary purpose of annealing is to obtain softness and high ductility, this steel may also be stress relief annealed within the carbide precipitation range 800 to 1500° F (427 to 816° C), without any danger of subsequent intergranular corrosion.
There are a number of processes and classes of in-situ composites, ro is the cut-off radius, and is the mean interparticle separation on the slip plane. The strength of these alloys, with corrections to account for alloy chemistry, were found.
Aug 23, 2011. Since plants do not take up large quantities of soil lead, the lead levels in soil. Ex situ means that the contaminated soil is moved, excavated,
What does it imply? Was it expected by scientists or is it a total. This material was mainly macromolecular, meaning that it was made of large structures put together in a totally disordered and.
When and why does a rechargeable battery lose capacity or go bad? This is a question that is surprisingly difficult to answer; yet, it lies at the heart of progress in the fields of consumer.
The Quad Technologies reagents further leverage Bio-Techne's industry-leading collection of research and GMP-grade Cytokines, Antibodies, Small Molecules, In Situ Hybridization Probes. looking.
In situ is a Latin phrase that translates literally to "on site" or "in position." It can mean "locally", "on site", "on the premises", or "in place" to describe where an event takes place and is used in many different contexts. For example, in fields such as physics, Geology, chemistry, or biology, in situ. "in situ conservation" ( also "on-site conservation") is the process of protecting.
Jan 2, 2007. relation to ambient nutrient availability and chemical composition of mature blades, the primary site of. independence of variances and means before applica-. duced a better estimate of the parameters than does the.
Insinkerator Evolution 1 Hp HP HP Models with the least powerful, 1/2-hp motor can handle bones and softer waste such as carrots and corn kernels. But if your kitchen waste typically includes tougher stuff, look for a more. 1 HP Dura-Drive motor provides quiet operation and long life MultiGrind technology with three grind stages to quickly grind virtually any
Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. Dear Hussein Al-Wadhaf, As Dr. Nizar has also rightly mentioned, In-situ a Latin phrase which means "on site" or "in.
Jul 14, 2014. Three-dimensional structures were generated by means of two-photon. used in situ method to prepare the polymer/TiO2 nanocomposites, which is shown in Figure 1. E.A.; Rawn, C.J.; Hunt, R.D. Wet-chemical synthesis of.
Question: What does in situ mean in chemical reactions? specifically in this reaction. Trans-stilbene+Br2-. Trans-stilbene+Br2-. What does in situ mean in chemical reactions? specifically in this reaction.
Well, if you don't make it in situ, you would have to add the nitrous acid you have already kept in your laboratory shelf, and surprise! It's not.
Kuiper used a spectroscopic technique to determine that Titan had an atmosphere composed of methane. With a mean radius of 2576 ± 2 km and. to be a prebiotic environment rich in complex organic.
Definition of in_situ. refers to processing steps or tests that are done without moving the wafer. Latin for "in original position.". [SEMATECH]
Answer to What does "in situ" preparation of a reagent mean?. Skip Navigation. Chegg home. home / study / science / chemistry / chemistry questions and answers / What Does "in Situ" Preparation Of A Reagent Mean? Question: What does "in situ" preparation of a reagent mean? What does "in situ" preparation of a reagent mean.
Here we report that chemical disorder, with an increasing number of principal elements and/or altered concentrations of specific elements, in single-phase concentrated solid solution alloys can lead.
Environmental remediation deals with the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water.This would mean that once requested by the government or a land remediation authority, immediate action should be taken as this can impact negatively on human health and the environment.
NASA's next major mission to the Red Planet will store samples for eventual return to the Earth NASA's planned Mars 2020 rover likely will both continue. life and whether traces of life or.
This information will provide improved insight into the chemistry and thermodynamics of adhesion and. and the importance of using surface characterization techniques under in situ (that is,
Jun 3, 2015. Diel ranges in temperature and carbonate chemistry parameters coupled with seasonal changes in the mean conditions define periods. of one-way analysis of variance and does not assume normal distribution of datasets;.
Error bars are standard error of the mean. Based on our data. which is directly comparable to the toxicity assays in terms of application site and brood age – does not mirror the outcome of the.
In situ chemical stabilization of trace element-contaminated soil – Field demonstrations and barriers to transition from laboratory to the field – A review
These 12-year follow-up data from the only prospective, randomized trial to compare recurrence outcomes after treatment for low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS. We found that radiation does.
In this case, in situ sampling is simpler and cheaper than grab or automatic sampling, and. Dissolved oxygen (DO) is the amount of oxygen dissolved in water.
Jun 17, 2015. In situ burning is the process of burning spilled oil where it is on the ocean. Releasing chemical dispersants, usually from a small plane or a response. That means these tools become ineffective at night, during certain.
In situ. View all stories with this category. An illustrated portrait of Omar Yaghi. Opinion. Malika Jeffries-EL: Pineapple does not belong on pizza! 20 August.
As a comparison, gold occurs in nuggets, but aluminum never does. This occurrence is extremely rare on Earth. The grains are the first documented to be found in situ (as is) without having to first.
In situ definition: If something remains in situ , especially while something is. will help you to find out how to get to places and do things such as buy tickets.
Date: 2013/08/25 (Rev. 2017/04/06) Thomas C. Weiss – Disabled World Synopsis: Article provides information regarding red and white blood cell count used to identify diseases and to monitor human health problems. Blood counts may be used to identify diseases and.
Aug 23, 2007 · In situ, does NOT mean 'in laboratory'. In conservation, we use the term to mean dealing with an organism in its natural environment. The opposite would be ex situ, where we take an organism from its natural environment for various reasons.
9th Grade Science Standards California The teaching technique has been around since the early 2000s, and educators have applauded the idea for helping teach science, especially at a time when California and other states are phasing in the. The California Standards-Based Tests: English-Language Arts. Algebra II; Geometry; High School Math; Integrated 1; Integrated 2; Integrated 3. Science Grades 5,9-11 Blueprints.
In-situ hybridization (ISH) is a powerful technique used for focusing on specific nucleic acid targets within fixed tissues and cells, to obtain temporal and spatial information about gene expression.
This "in situ" validation work is important to avoid. high resolution present in the team's DNS simulations, it does allow the team to run simulations with higher Reynold's numbers, meaning it can.
It is 60% greater than our own atmosphere, meaning it exerts the kind of pressure you feel at. some or most of the ingredients necessary for life as we know it. But how does Titan compare? First of.
This lesson will cover the differences between ''in vivo'' and ''in situ'' experiments. We will briefly cover the advantages and disadvantages of each type.
At the same time, our experimental data clearly showed a steep deceleration, but never a complete standstill – meaning that the wave shifts gears, but does not stop. Exit resonance." Van der Heijden's.
In addition, oxygen that is produced in-situ by photogranules could reduce or entirely eliminate. Note that the label "Ø35.4" on the bottles identifies the sample and does not indicate a diameter.
SEATTLE–Newer, costlier, and higher tech don't necessarily mean improved–and computer-aided detection. CAD did find more noninvasive, stage-0, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), but finding more.
Anatomy And Physiology Chapter 1 Review Guide Answers
Applying Your Knowledge Of Chemistry In The Future
Specify Whether The Molecule If5 Is Polar Or Nonpolar And Explain Why.
How Does Math Relate To Basketball
Best Physics Games For Android
Which Molecule Has Hydrophilic And Hydrophobic Properties And Would Be Found In Plasma Membranes
Foreclosures In Science Hill Ky
Pollution Control By Green Chemistry
"guerilla Toss – "meteorological" Meaning"
Bachelor Of Social Science Media Studies
Exercise Science Jobs Texas
Which Is Science Conducted In English
Science And Enlightment 738
Developmental Biology Dr. Calestani Test
Universities That Offer Zoology Majors In Texas
Text Book Of Polymer Science
San Antonio Botanical Gardens Events
Career Opportunities In The Field Of Mathematics
Why Do Zoologist Study Extinct Animals
Is Human Evolution A Fact
Taking A Stand The Evolution Of Human Rights
Brian Wecht Math Man
Squam Lake Natural Science Center Holderness
Glow At Cleveland Botanical Gardens
Current Technologies In Computer Science
National Zoological Gardens Of South Africa
Introductory Chemistry A Foundation 5th Edition Online
Fleetwood Evolution 3 For Sale
Atomic Scientist Who Determined Chemical Properties Of Elements
Colleen Drake Marine Biologist
How To Incorporate Math Into English
Singularity Reactor Scientific Theory
Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie Online
Eevee Evolution Pixel Art
Determine The Molecular Geometry Of Each Of The Following Molecules. Sio2
Acs Chemistry Exam How To Study
What Type Of Background Does A Zoologist Need To Have
Free Ged Practice Test For Math
Music And Mathematics From Pythagoras To Fractals
Botany Of Desire Dvd
©2020 Welcome	| Built using WordPress and Responsive Blogily theme by Superb


Small Size Laminated Hanger is Good for Hanging Children's Clothes.
Anti-Slip Plastic Grip on Bar to Prevent Pants Slipping Off.
Bamboo Wood Hangers, Non-Slip Hangers, Perfect For Shirt, Dress, Jacket, Underwear Etc.


Fishing for Life provides free fishing and outdoor programming for youth and families. We have a special focus on military families and youth from inner city areas. We host many events each year that involves volunteers teaching kids how to fish. We also have a program to refurbish used fishing equipment and distribute it to Youth who need it.


text:
Q: Python: What is the best approach to find and replace attribute values for an XML tag type? For some attributes, I wish to validate the values and replace some of them with more succinct ones.
<data source="file:\\c:\main\data.txt"/>

Replaced by:
<data source="c:\main\data.txt"/>

A: I think you can use BeautifulSoup, you can use it to parse and modify a xml file:
>>> s=r'''<data source="file:\\c:\main\data.txt"/>'''
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(s)
>>> t = soup.find("data")
>>> t['source']
'file:\\\\c:\\main\\data.txt'
>>> t['source'][7:]
'c:\\main\\data.txt'
>>> t['source'] = t['source'][7:]
>>> print str(soup)
<data source="c:\main\data.txt"></data>

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Names pour in for vaunted football clash
After Friday's typically insane Shelby-Crest football encounter, I thought it might be fun to let you in on what a number of readers and followers shared regarding that rivalry.
In a pregame column, it was mentioned that it would be great if that annual encounter had a name, mentioning the "Battle of Buffalo Creek" label between Shelby and Kings Mountain as a guide. A few others in existence on the high school level are the "Battle for the Bell" between Concord and Kannapolis, plus the Freedom-East Burke contest that was long known as "Fat Friday."
I don't have a preference, but here are some of the suggestions that came in: "The 6- or 8-mile War," referring to how you read a map as far as the distance between the schools; the "Battle of the Beasts"; the "Battle of the Champions"; the "Battle of Brushy Creek"; and the "Broad River Shootout."
A few others shared "The Battle for Highway 74," the "Barbecue Bowl" and the "Taylor Bowl," in reference to the brothers (John and Jim) who were once head coaches in this matchup.
In the meantime, the notation "Shelby-Crest" will have to do.
Familiar faces gather
It was old home week in the press box at Sid Bryson Stadium on Friday evening.
Former announcer Larry McEntire was back on the P.A., filling in for David Wacaster, who had a conflict.
Also returning was local radio announcer Andy Foster, sidelined this season with back issues.
Chicago Bears defensive lineman Jonathan Bullard was on hand to see his younger brother, Wesley (Crest wide receiver), in action. He made a stop up top to allow most of the crew time to take plenty of selfies.
And, as proof you can't keep a good man down, former Olympian Manteo Mitchell made it up the stairs on crutches into the press box during the post-game only a day after being injured in a serious car wreck.
Back to football
It's got to be some kind of record.
At the conclusion of play in the South Mountain Athletic Conference this season, all four Cleveland County schools have at least a tie for the top playoff seed in their respective divisions.
Shelby, of course, won the SMAC crown outright and the 2A top seed. Burns, Crest and Kings Mountain shared the 3A top spot in the league. Seedings won't be decided until a drawing Monday evening when the league coaches gather for their annual all-conference meeting.
Of course, no one will know their specific playoff path until the NCHSAA announces pairings Nov. 19, with the brackets pushed back a week this year because of the devastation of Hurricane Matthew down east.
Looking at the numbers, the four county schools have an overall 36-8 record but, six of those losses came in clashes between local rivals. It sets up county fans for what should be another exciting postseason.
Cleveland County has had at least one team in the state finals every season beginning in 2011, with five collective titles in that time. Last year, two squads (Shelby and Crest) brought home championships, with a third (Kings Mountain) reaching the semifinals.
Contact Star Sports Editor Alan Ford online at aford@shelbystar.com, by phone at 704-669-3336 or via Twitter @starsptseditor.


A group to discuss admission related information in Canadian universities and colleges.
We help students towards their chosen career paths at the destinations of their choices.
Hey guys I have admission offer for marketing management from Humber college. What do you guys suggest? Is it worth joining?
@Rockybalboa2 greetings from Canada Education Connect. what is your current academic profile? It is challenging to comment on a program without knowing your full academic/professional experience details.
I am Shait and 32 years old from Gurgaon, have 9+ years of IT experience and done MCA. I am looking for transition from IT to Managerial roles. For this wanted to pursue MBA from a good reputed university in CANADA.
Any pointers/ suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in Advance!
You will need to take the GMAT first! The list of schools can only be shortlisted once there is clarity on your GMAT score. The time you take will be largely dependent on your level of preparation! Should you have any further queries, feel free to reach out to us.
@Shaitender greetings from Canada Education Connect. We work with a number of B Schools in Canada. Not all of them require a GMA or GRE score. A lot depends on your past educational profile, current work experience and future goals etc. For better uderstanding I suggest you contact me vijay.bhashyakarla@cedc.ca, +19024155566. We have successfully placed many students into B schools and I will be happy to help you out. I look forward to hearing from you.
Director, Canada Education Connect, Dalhousie University representative for Management (MBA, MPA, MLIS) programs, Internetworking etc. University of New Brunswick St John MBA representative.
Yes, you could go ahead with a PG Diploma. We recommend you run a search of the best universities offering a PG Diploma in the course you are looking at. You may then run a comparison of the same with some other top universities around the world.
Can you suggest some good universities in Canada for MIS?
PS: If anyone is pursuing currently or has completed,kindly let me know.
No battle was won without a plan;no battle was won according to the plan.
IT is in the short term & long term skill shortage in New Zealand. Why are you not interested in New Zealand ?
Getting into a good university in Canada also depends on your GRE/GMAT and IELTS/TOEFL score (if the university asks for it). On an average, 1 or 2 years work experience is preferred by universities and you have a decent work experience. You can try applying at University of British Columbia, Queens University, York University, University of Ottawa, Alberta School of Business, Concordia University Montreal, since these universities have good MIS programs.
kindly clarify experts: i want to pursue masters in IT or MBA from a reputed foreign university ONLY.most reputed universities have eligiblity rule of 16 years of education i.e. 10+2+4.i am mumbai university commerce graduate hence i have 15 years of education i.e. 10+2+3.i want to play safe so i wiil be pursuing indian mba FULL TIME called as PGDM(post graduate diploma in management).
MY QUESTION IS SINCE PGDM IS 2 YEAR DIPLOMA COURSE WILL IT BE CONSIDERED AS 2 YEAR FULL TIME FORMAL EDUCATION and make in my case 17 years of formal education thus clearing 16 years eligiblity?
if no what if i pursue mba/mms from mumbai and pune university will it make in my case 17 years of formal education clearing 16 years eligiblity?
Hello, i have 3.8 years of work ex in IT, with good academics and overall profile.
i want to study management MIM, what exams i have to give?
Considering that universities usually expect at least 1-2 years of experience, you have a good profile there. For MIM, entrance exams depend on the university you want get in. Some universities expect GRE scores, while others might ask for GMAT score. Option to choose between the two might also be given. Same applies for TOEFL and IELTS as well. A four year bachelors degree with a good academic record is also expected.


text:
Gregory Areshian ( à Erevan –  à Erevan) était un archéologue et historien arménien qui a dirigé les fouilles de Areni-1 de 2008 à 2010 avec Boris Gasparyan.

Publications sélectionnées
 2013  Empires and Diversity: On the Crossroads of Archaeology, History, and Anthropology. Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives, 7, Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, 256 pages + ill (Editor and contributing author).
 1996 Haykakan čartarapetutyan patmut'yun, Hator A (History of Armenian Architecture, Vol. I: The Architecture of Armenian Highlands from the Earliest Times to the 3rd Century AD). Co-authored with K.K. Ghafadaryan, K. L. Hovhannisian, and A.A. Sahinian, Yerevan: HH GAA "Gitut'yun" Hratarakchut'yun ("Gitut'yun" Press of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences), Pp. 298 + pl. 48.
 1993  Hnagitakan ashkhatank'nerǝ Hayastani norakaŕuytsnerum,1986-1987 t't' peghumneri ardyunk'nerǝ (Archaeological Investigations of Construction Development Sites in Armenia, Excavations Reports for 1986-87), Vol. 1. Co-edited with G.A. Tiratsian and A.A. Kalantarian, Yerevan: Publishing House of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, Pp. 171+ pl. 190.
 1992  Editor of Hayastani hnagitut'yun, h. 1: K'ari Dar - Ush Bronzi Dar (Archaeology of Armenia, vol. 1: From the Stone Age through the Late Bronze Age), by S.A. Yesayan, Yerevan: Yerevan University Press.
 1990 Mezhdistsiplinarnye issledovanija kul'turogeneza i etnogeneza Armjanskogo nagor'ja i sopredel'nykh oblastej, Sbornik dokladov (Interdisciplinary Studies of Cultural and Ethnic Processes in the Armenian Highland and Adjacent Regions, A Collection of Papers). Co-edited with S.A. Yesayan, Yerevan: Izdatel'stvo Erevanskogo Universiteta (Yerevan University Press), Pp. 294.

Références

Liens externes

Historien arménien
Archéologue
Naissance en mai 1949
Naissance à Erevan
Naissance en RSS d'Arménie
Décès en août 2020
Décès à 71 ans
Décès à Erevan
Mort de la maladie à coronavirus 2019 en Arménie
Étudiant de l'université d'État d'Erevan
Étudiant de l'université d'État de Saint-Pétersbourg


In the wake of the 2017 Women's March and the ubiquitous handmade pink knit hats that were its most distinguishing visual feature, it's no surprise that craftivism—the intersection of crafting and activism—is having a moment.
Betsy Greer, who wrote her master's dissertation on knitting, DIY culture, and community development, is credited with popularizing the term. She launched the website Craftivism in 2003 and has since written Knitting for Good! (Roost, 2008) and edited Craftivism (Arsenal Pulp, 2014).
The movement gained momentum in 2009, when Sarah Corbett founded the Craftivist Collective as a home for activists like herself who weren't satisfied with traditional protest activities like marching and signing petitions. Corbett recently ran a successful crowdfunding campaign via Unbound to self-publish How to Be a Craftivist (Oct.), reaching 156% of her funding goal with 760 backers. It's one of several forthcoming titles that continue the conversation about how crafting can fit in with community activism.
Jamie Chalmers, whose The Mr. X Stitch Guide to Cross Stitch is due out in August from Search Press, started working as Mr. X Stitch in 2008 and honed his understanding craftivism through several collaborations with Corbett. He, too, ran a crowdfunding campaign, raising money on Kickstarter to launch XStitch, billed as "a cross stitch magazine for the modern world." Having exceeded his £6,000 goal to raise more than £14,000, he published the first issue—featuring an excerpt from Corbett's book and an article by Greer—in July.
Jayne Parsons, publishing director at Bloomsbury, worked with several contributors on Protest Knits and Really Cross Stitch (both Oct.), the first new titles from Bloomsbury's revived Herbert Press imprint, which focuses on arts and crafts. Parsons says she was inspired by the Women's March pussyhats and the Boundless Across Borders action held on Inauguration Day, when women in El Paso, Tex., and Juárez, Mexico, braided their scarves and hair together to protest the proposed border wall between Mexico and the U.S.
Heather Marano and Lara Neel, coauthors of Crafting the Resistance (Skyhorse, Aug.) are taking their activism a step further, donating 10% of their royalties from the book to Planned Parenthood. "Women, in particular," Marano says, "have always turned to crafts as a sometimes subtle, sometimes pointed way to express their political views." Their book incorporates various disciplines—sewing, knitting, hot-iron transfer, stenciling, needle felting, wet felting, basic quilting, and crochet—for projects including clear vinyl totes that allow quick passage through security at protests, a T-shirt that identifies the wearer as a "bleeding heart," and small knitted ornaments to hang publicly with protest signs.
Rockport, part of the Quarto Group, is reaching out to the next generation of activists with Amazing Women by Anne Bentley (Dec., ages 8–12), part of its Scratch & Create series. The book is packaged with a two-sided scratch-off tool that allows users to reveal the names and full-color illustrations of Marie Curie, Billie Holiday, Yayoi Kusama, and others, with biographical details on each facing page.
Artist Renee Rominger has her own take on girl power. She began selling embroidered feminist slogans through her Etsy store, Moonrise Whims, in 2014, and the following year was mentioned prominently in a Time article, "What Hillary Clinton's Campaign Can Learn From Etsy." In September, Page Street will release Rominger's Edgy Embroidery, a book of 25 patterns.
Lauren Knowles, associate editor at Page Street, says that Rominger pushes back on the "traditionally feminine" art of embroidery by pairing the florals for which the craft is known with blunt statements including "don't be a prick" and "can u not." In doing so, Knowles says, she challenges crafters to rethink quaint embroidery stereotypes and perhaps, by extension, other cultural stereotypes as well.
Catherine LaSota is a writer in New York. She earned her M.F.A. in sculpture from Parsons School of Design and runs the LIC Reading Series in Queens.
Below, more on the subject of hobbies and crafts books.
To connect with their hands-on readership of fiber artists, crafting publishers are getting creative online.
In a time of rapid-fire media and tossed-off tweets, books on hand lettering teach readers to slow down their words and pick up a pen.


I've been using the command line (CLI) version of Dropbox on my Centos 6.5 server as an offsite backup and it has been working well, the recent 1TB storage upgrade makes this a decent backup option.
One problem I've been having is that sometimes the Dropbox process seems to die, I tried several different scripts to keep track of the status of dropbox via the dropbox.py python scripts but I eventually found this bash script to work. I've set it as an hourly cron job in /etc/cron.hourly and it's working well so far.
It doesn't take a genius to note that mobile devices are pretty much overtaking the web, and that a huge amount of people – the majority depending on the statistics you pay attention to – are accessing the web via a mobile device such as an iPhone, iPad or other smartphone / tablet.
As such there has been a huge buzz about responsive design and how to make sites adapt well between a range of screen sizes and resolutions, and moving away from the concept of a fixed size of screen such as the ubiquitous 960 pixel grid framework. One of the biggest challenges in this new era of web design and development has been the lack of good tools to aid you in the process of creating responsive, adaptive websites.
The ability to work in code and create media queries to handle various device widths and related styles has been possible for a while, but it can be a bit mind-melting trying to keep track of all of this and to test as you work through the development process. Fortunately we are now beginning to see a range of tools to help you develop responsive sites, one of the most recent being Adobe's new Edge Reflow tool which is an app that lets you visually adjust the viewport and tweak the CSS of various media queries. It's a simple, focused app that lets you resize the viewport and tweak the styles as you go. At the time of writing it hasn't been released yet but when I get a chance I will definitely be checking it out and writing something about it.
Thankfully there are now tools being developed to allow remote access to the code running on the device itself, Adobe developed a tool codenamed 'Shadow' (now formally released as Edge Inspect) which works by providing apps for various mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets.
Adobe Edge Inspect (formerly Shadow) is a great tool, but what if, like me, you prefer to work in desktop Safari as your main browser and don't want to or can't use Chrome to test sites? In case anyone thinks this is just down to a matter of personal preference of browser I can give a legitimate example of why having to use Chrome can be a problem – Chrome's in-built support for Flash gets in the way of testing content that is intended as fallback or alternative content on the desktop.
Fortunately the recent release of iOS6 offers a new feature that enables remote web inspection of mobile Safari on iPhone or iPad.
To make use of it you need to go into the 'Settings' app on your iOS device, and drill down into 'Safari->Advanced' where you'll find a new toggle button for 'Web inspector', (this replaces the old 'Debug' option in mobile Safari which really offered little functionality).
Switch this on and you'll see a small paragraph of text appearing which explains that you need to connect your device to your computer with a cable for this feature to work.
You can select the device and then it opens up a menu showing the available applications that web inspector can open. Note that you need to have mobile Safari open on your iOS device for any sites to be listed in the menu, if they're not open then you'll get a message saying 'No Inspectable Applications'.
In a recent jQuery mobile based site I was developing I encountered code that was failing in mobile Safari but working fine in Safari on my Mac – exactly the kind of situation I mentioned earlier in this article where code is handled differently in mobile Safari. But thanks to this new remote web inspector functionality I was able to easily add some console messages and figure out what was going on and adjust the code to work around the problem.
iOS6's remote web inspection functionality is definitely a huge improvement if you are making sites that you need to test on iOS devices. With the increase in Android-based devices such as Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets you will of course need to test on other devices besides iPhones and iPads. So tools like Adobe's Edge Inspect are definitely something you will need to make use of too for testing across the various platforms and devices, but the simplicity of this iOS-specific testing workflow is very easy to set up and work with. A definite two-thumbs up from me!
I'm going to take a look at some of the other tools available to aid in the contemporary web development workflow of responsive, mobile-friendly design and write some more posts about them soon. In particular an updated look at Adobe's Edge Animate tool and also a look at the Edge Reflow tool once it has been released.


In this study, we investigated the variability in morphological traits of seedlings from five Euonymus japonicus cultivars. We measured seedling heights, root collar diameters, leaf lengths and widths, root lengths, root numbers, and twig numbers of 60 seedlings from each cultivar. The E. japonicus cultivars Variegate and Green Rocket had the highest (95.8%) and lowest (70.3%) rooting percentages, respectively. With the exception of root lengths (p > 0.05), all morphological characteristics significantly differed among all cultivars (p < 0.05). In particular, the cultivar Green Rocket performed better than all other cultivars, with greater seedling heights and root collar diameters. These data warrant further studies for quantifying differences in traits among these cultivars.
Mehmet and Hakan conceived and designed the experiments. Cengiz, Halil, Hakan, and Mehmet performed the experiments. Cengiz, Halil, and Mehmet analyzed the data. Cengiz, Mehmet, and Hakan contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. Halil, Cengiz, and Mehmet wrote the paper.
Orwa, C., Mutua, A., Kindt, R., Jamnadass, R., Anthony, S., (2009). Agroforestree Database: a tree reference and selection guide version 4.0 (http://www.worldagroforestry.org/sites/treedbs/treedatabases.asp).


, choices the very best collections with ideal resolution just for you, and this photos is usually one among photos choices in your finest graphics gallery regarding Graphiti Math Worksheets. Lets hope you can want it.
published through George Mendez with 2018-09-06 19:44:04. To discover many pictures throughout Graphiti Math Worksheets photos gallery remember to comply with this website link.


text:
30 Nov, 2021 15:50 30 Nov, 2021 15:50
One Media IP Group trades in line despite 'general economic turbulence'
Digital music rights acquirer One Media IP Group said on Tuesday that it continues to trade in line with expectations despite "general economic turbulence" and wider shifts in the music industry.
One Media IP Group
One Media stated it now expects to report full-year revenues of roughly £4.4m and underlying earnings of £1.65m for the 12 months ended 31 October, a year-on-year increase of 10% and 11%, respectively.
However, One Media acknowledged that unfavourable foreign exchange rate movements had impacted its underlying earnings performance when compared to the previous trading year.
The AIM-listed group also highlighted that it retains "a healthy cash position", with an unaudited cash balance of £2.6m and with £1.9m in structured debt as of 31 October 2021.
Chief executive Michael Infante said: "Our cautious acquisition program and keeping to within the board's agreed range of multiples payable will serve the business well in the longer term. The music industry remains robust, in particular in the areas where One Media has been active. We have an ongoing pipeline of profitable and cash yielding opportunities where we would invest via the Harmony IP initiative. We are confident of continued steady growth."
As of 1550 GMT, One Media shares were down 6.67% at 7.0p.


text:
Lipulekh, Limpiyadhura, Kalapani integral parts of Nepal: Govt
Nepal's active caseload crosses 25k mark as 4,534 new cases surface on Sunday
Lowest bidders a major threat
Hasana Lawaju
By Agence France Presse
Published: 05:27 am Mar 25, 2017
Workers renovating a heritage site at Basantpur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on February 8, 2017. Photo: AFP
Kathmandu, March 24
Caretaker Deepak Shrestha padlocked the quake-ravaged remains of the Trailokya Mohan Narayan temple in Kathmandu to keep out the contractors who are meant to be rebuilding it.
The 17th century monument's three-tiered pagoda completely collapsed in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the country in April 2015, leaving the main statue standing exposed on a high plinth.
Shrestha, whose family has looked after the Hindu temple for generations, is now on a mission to protect it from a government system that grants contracts to rebuild the quake-damaged heritage sites to the lowest bidder.
"We had our doubts about the contractors but it was confirmed when they started digging the foundations haphazardly, disregarding the community's involvement and our sacred rituals," Shrestha, 56, told AFP. "We don't believe the cheapest contractors will rebuild our temple sincerely. We demand that the government dismiss such a system."
The temple was among more than 700 heritage sites damaged in the disaster which killed nearly 9,000 people and destroyed half a million homes.
Residents cannot tolerate an attack on our heritage
Nepal's laws state that construction contracts valued at more than Rs 5 lakh must be granted through a tender process to the lowest bidder — and the same rules govern the restoration of ancient temples and buildings.
The system has raised alarm over the quality and techniques being used to rebuild historical sites — with experts saying the Kathmandu Valley's status as a UNESCO World Heritage site could be under threat. "The lowest bidder is not necessarily the best," Christian Manhart, head of UNESCO in Nepal, told AFP.
"There are strong chances that it can be in the world heritage in danger (list)," he added. When the UNESCO World Heritage committee met in July last year, it narrowly avoided putting the Kathmandu Valley on its "List of World Heritage in Danger", but warned it could be added in 2017 if progress was not made.
The government estimates that rebuilding the centuries-old temples and monuments damaged by the quake will cost over $300 million.
Several countries who have pledged support to help Nepal rebuild its cultural heritage have also expressed concerns about the tender process and the slow pace of work.
Bhesh Narayan Dahal, chief of Nepal's archaeology department, said he was aware of concerns about the construction contract system and is hopeful the government will respond.
"The demands of local communities are justified... but we are helpless, we cannot work beyond the limits of the government's laws, acts and rules," Dahal said.
In deeply religious Nepal, where temples and heritage sites are an integral part of people's lives, other communities are now demanding that the government process be scrapped and they be allowed to take lead in rebuilding. However, dozens of contracts to rebuild cultural monuments have already been granted.
Experts also worry that contractors who lack experience of working on heritage projects won't have the contacts to hire traditional wood carvers, stone sculptors and metal workers.
Birendra Bhakta Shrestha, who is leading a campaign to rebuild Kathmandu's Kashtamandap temple with community involvement, said, "Lowest bidders cannot maintain quality... Residents of Kathmandu can tolerate anything, but cannot tolerate an attack on our heritage."
Kathmandu Valley's heritage at stake
#UNESCO #reconstruction #Kathmandu Durbar Square #Deepak Shrestha #Trailokya Mohan Narayan temple #Lowest bidders #World Heritage #Bhesh Narayan Dahal #Nepal archaeology department #Basantpur Durbar Square
Ruling NCP's Dahal-Nepal faction expels Oli from general membership


Churches across Sussex are being encouraged to host a Big Brekkie and help make a difference in Christian Aid Week.
12-18 May is Christian Aid Week and we're inviting people to come together to tuck into a Big Brekkie fundraising breakfast and serve up better healthcare for mums in poor countries (such as Sierra Leone – the world's most dangerous place to give birth).
Find out more about the Big Brekkie right here and join a massive movement of Christians proclaiming God's justice.


DUAL LED Turbostrip is a customised linear LED product with exceptional light output. It is designed for linear LED lighting applications requiring extremely high light output and performance. DUAL LED Turbostrip incorporates the same V-LED technology as the Generation-3 LED Turbostrip.
Typical applications include high intensity backlighting, and other demanding indirect lighting projects. When used in conjunction with the SL8550 LED mounting profile, DUAL LED Turbostrip is suitable for many task lighting projects and general area lighting applications.


text:
Q: Create a new column with a sum based on the value of three other columns I have a data frame and I want to create another column based on the information of three different columns. I am using R.
I want to start counting on 0 and to add 2 in each new cell, based on a column Time and on Item and Participants information. I want to have 0 for the beginning of the Time counting (which is in ms) for each item of each participant.
df <- data.frame(Item=c(1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2),
             Part=c(1,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,2,2,2),
            Time=c(1234,1235,1236,345,346,347,1546,1547,1548,234,235,236))

   Item Part Time
1     1    1 1234
2     1    1 1235
3     1    1 1236
4     1    2  345
5     1    2  346
6     1    2  347
7     2    1 1546
8     2    1 1547
9     2    1 1548
10    2    2  234
11    2    2  235
12    2    2  236

With the new column the table would be something like:
   Item Part Time NewColumn
1     1    1 1234         0
2     1    1 1235         2
3     1    1 1236         4
4     1    2  345         0
5     1    2  346         2
6     1    2  347         4
7     2    1 1546         0
8     2    1 1547         2
9     2    1 1548         4
10    2    2  234         0
11    2    2  235         2
12    2    2  236         4

Many thanks in advance.

A: In case the structure stays as it is
library(dplyr)
result <- df %>% group_by(Part, Item) %>% mutate(NewColumn = seq (0,4,2))

I group by Item and Part and create a new column that counts 0, 2, 4
   Item Part Time NewColumn
1     1    1 1234         0
2     1    1 1235         2
3     1    1 1236         4
4     1    2  345         0
5     1    2  346         2
6     1    2  347         4
7     2    1 1546         0
8     2    1 1547         2
9     2    1 1548         4
10    2    2  234         0
11    2    2  235         2
12    2    2  236         4

In order to be more flexible (if you have more than 3 rows per group), you can use
result <- df %>% group_by(Part, Item) %>% mutate(NewColumn = 2* (row_number()-1))

which will will generate numbers in the sequence 0, 2, 4, 6, 8,...

A: library(data.table)
df <- data.table(df)
df[, NewCol := seq(0,nrow(df),2), by=list(Item,Part)]

A: Er... df = cbind(df,NewColumn=c(0,2,4))?

A: +1 for library(plyr)
    library(plyr)
    ddply(df, c("Item","Part"), mutate,NewColumn = seq(0,4,2))

    Item Part   Time NewColumn
     1    1     1234    0
     1    1     1235    2
     1    1     1236    4
     1    2     345     0
     1    2     346     2
     1    2     347     4
     2    1     1546    0
     2    1     1547    2
     2    1     1548    4
     2    2     234     0
     2    2     235     2
     2    2     236     4


Brother Jesse Blog: Community United for Change in New Orleans helping victims of police brutality and corruption!
(FinalCall.com) - The recent federal investigation into the New Orleans Police Department by the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division has placed it under great scrutiny with four officers now pleading guilty to assisting with the cover up in the shooting of six civilians on the Danziger Bridge after Hurricane Katrina.
The investigations are exposing criminal behavior within the NOPD ranks which is all too familiar to activists, who are organizing to keep the pressure going on the federal government to act swiftly.
"We have contacted U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder via correspondence to demand that he intervene in this investigation. There needs to be a complete overhaul of the NOPD," Wes Johnson told The Final Call.
On April 28, Robert Barrios became the fourth NOPD officer to plead guilty to participating in the Danziger Bridge cover up. The former officer pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice.
"But it is not only the NOPD that needs change. We need changes immediately in the Coroner's office, the Sheriff's Department, and the District Attorney's office," said Mr. Johnson.
Mr. Johnson is the co-organizer of the newly formed group Community United for Change (CUFC), which includes several organizations, clergymen and activists demanding that the U.S. Department widen its investigations to look into older cases where citizens lost their lives at the hands of NOPD.
At a public hearing on April 22 at St. James African Methodist Church, several victims came out to give recorded testimonies. Terry Simpson talked about how he has suffered from police harassment and false arrest after refusing an officer's attempt to persuade him to be an informant. The father of Adolph Grimes III spoke about the loss of his son on New Year's Eve in 2009.
The audience also heard from Dwight Leblanc, who served twelve years in jail for a bogus drug charge; the aunt of Michael Anderson, a young man who was charged with the murder of five teenagers; and Cynthia Parker who believes her son was falsely imprisoned.
All of them pointed out that some of the officers who have pleaded guilty to obstructing justice in the Danziger Bridge shooting were involved in these cases or the cases of their loved ones.
"We wanted New Orleans victims to give their stories and record them for the purpose of presenting these facts to the FBI," Malcolm Suber told The Final Call.
"We have galvanized citizens to step up and speak out. Before, many of them were afraid to give testimonies because they feared retaliation from the NOPD," said Mr. Johnson.
According to Mr. Suber, the coalition is planning a series of public hearings throughout the city over the next several months.
"Yes, those officers may be pleading guilty in the Danziger Bridge case but they are only pleading guilty to civil rights violations and conspiracy. We want the state to charge them with murder," said Mr. Suber.
The family of inmate Jamil Joyner is also calling for a federal investigation as he faces 20-50 years after being convicted of shooting a NOPD officer post-Katrina despite no evidence linking him to the crime. His mother, Bridgette Khan, is hoping her son gets the lowest possible sentence as his legal team prepares to appeal.
"My son was a prominent entrepreneur and employer in the city. He would not hurt a fly. It can't end like this. If it takes every dime we have, we're going to keep fighting," Ms. Khan told The Final Call. She has called on people to submit character witness letters via a dot com in her son's name.
"The testimonies of those who participated in the hearing show that there is an element within the NOPD that uses their authority to terrorize people instead of helping. Victims of police brutality and those who have lost loved ones because of it deserve justice and CUFC is helping them in their fight to get it," stated Student Minister Willie Muhammad, who also recently led a letter writing campaign that caused the local D.A. Leon A. Cannizzaro, Jr. to explain why his office has been relatively silent about the ongoing investigations.
"I have agreed to stand down any investigation in the cases involving the Danziger Bridge and Henry Glover while the Federal investigation is ongoing," stated Mr. Cannizzaro in an e-mail response.
GREAT ARTICLE BRO! And you know this isn't exclusive to NOPD. Look at the situation in Detroit with our baby being killed. You can find the corruption everywhere! large city , small town - it doesn't matter. the mind that creates this unjust treatment prevails throughout this country, and the world!
THANK YOU for this important article, jesse!! I'm glad to see such great coverage of the CUFC's crucial work!


Please read these Terms of Service carefully before using the www.professionaltaxsoftwarereviews.com website.
Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms of Service. These Terms of Service apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.
By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access the Service.
Our website may contain content, logos, marketing material or links to third-party web sites, services or organizations that are not owned or controlled by ProfessionalTaxSoftwareReviews.com.
ProfessionalTaxSoftwareReviews.com has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites, services or organizations. You further acknowledge and agree that ProfessionalTaxSoftwareReviews.com shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites, organizations or services.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms of Service at any time. If a revision is material we will try to provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.
Any claim relating to ProfessionalTaxSoftwareReviews.com shall be governed by the laws of The United States of America.


Arntzen de Besche Advokatfirma AS ('AdeB') has become the 25th Nordic law firm to adopt Luminance's machine learning technology for M&A transactions.
AdeB conducted a pilot of the technology, directly comparing Luminance's findings during a historic M&A transaction with those achieved manually. The firm immediately recognised the potential for efficiency increases that Luminance could deliver, and in the long term, AdeB believe that the time spent on manual review can be cut by over 30%. In addition, the firm believes that Luminance will be an important tool for communication in due diligence projects.
Luminance has over 120 customers across six continents since launching in September 2016, including 14 of the Global 100 law firms and three of the 'Big Four' accountancy firms. The company also has offices in Chicago and Singapore to meet demand from AmLaw 100 firms across the globe.


More details have finally become available on the new 350-room hotel being constructed near the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin hotels.
The new hotel, which will be leased to the Tishman Hotel Corporation just as the Swan and Dolphin are, will be adjacent to Fantasia Gardens Mini-Golf. The yet-to-be-named hotel will be 13 stories tall, contain 350 guest rooms (151 suites, 199 standard), meeting space, a fitness center, elevated pool deck, and a rooftop restaurant and lounge.
The rooftop restaurant and lounge will feature a dedicated ground floor entrance and elevator for those not staying at the resort. It will be a 375 seat upscale restaurant with a partial expo kitchen. The bar will have about 40 seats. The windows will be floor to ceiling to provide a great view of Walt Disney World, including a rooftop trellis area for unobstructed views.
The pool will be about 2500 square feet in size, featuring an inside and outside bar.
The new parking lot will accommodate 321 vehicles, with 50 spaces reserved for mini-golf parking. The Fantasia Gardens mini-golf will continue to operate mostly unchanged, with the exception of the entry area and some new backstage facilities necessitated by the new construction.
No completion date for the project has been given, but construction is set to begin soon.
They've turned all of WDW into the "LBV Official Hotel" district of boring, soul-less, non-descript mid-rise hotel towers you can find in any suburb anywhere in the country. So much for the WDW Bubble. Awful suburban sprawl as found throughout the rest of Orlando.
I loathe the people who run the Company and WDW.
You also don't understand what the word "suburban" means but you seem passionate and that's all you really need these days, so rage on!
Kenny: In this case, the dictionary definition of "suburban" may not matter. The reality is that this building looks like many of the new hotels currently being thrown up by the airports and in the suburbs of most major cities around the country. It is unimaginative, and it does not fit well with Graves' Swan and Dolphin. You would expect something more on this high-profile site.
The swan and dolphin look like a grandmas idea if luxury. Sorry this new building seems to ruffle those geriatric feathers. You could always not stay there and move on with your life.
Kenny – why so edgy? Again, the design isn't bad, just generic. Clearly you are not fan of the Swan and Dolphin, but they do have an over-the-top style. The new building would be great at the Akron airport, but it does clash with its neighbors. The new hotel will likely be very nice, and the view from the top will probably be great.
Coincidentally, my grandma is like you, she likes the new hotel's non-design better than anything that noted architect Michael Graves has ever built.
And please feel free to go back to seawing doilies for your Thomas Kincaid paintings and Precious Moments figures.
Don't stay there, or shield your eyes when you move past it……..crybaby.
Looks cool to me, I'll definitely hit that rooftop restaurant/bar.
And the extra guests in the area will add more action/energy to the Boardwalk.
I think that skyliner might do that.. unfortunately.
Dear god.. it looks like a hospital, where as the ambulance approaches the patient says: "you know what, never mind… take me back home".
All I could think of when I saw the building is how sad it is that Michael Graves isn't with us anymore.
Yeah we could use more beige buildings with stupid statues.
I like the post office. And if you are referring to the Seven Dwarfs as "stupid statues" then I have nothing else to say.
It sort of has a classic Project Florida: EPCOT Mid-Century vibe to it, this is becoming the "luxury" look for hotels today. Themed motel style rooms spread out among gardens are not in vogue anymore.
Wish it would've been a themed hotel.. to echo another comment above, Disney is so experienced at creating themed hotels, I don't usually care for the "modern" themed hotels on property.. kind of already have that with the Contemporary (I stress "kind of").
Are they going to just close the theme parks and put in more hotels. Not much for the people staying here to do, except stand in increasing long lines. The new attractions they're building aren't nearly enough, and they cut more than they add, every month.
Gee, something new at WDW and people are complaining? How original.
Typical. Disney public relations complaining about fans bothered that more land taking over by boring money making ventures akin to a Marriott instead of attractions or experiences, which is what brings people to WDW to begin with.
How dare Disney build something new that is completely optional to stay at? Walt must be rollin' in his grave!!
I guess "vanilla" is this year's flavor. First Universal's Aventura hotel. Now this one at WDW.
This hotel design is bland, disappointing, and ugly for a WDW Resort. That said, I'm sure they will sell out every weekend, holiday and peak vacation time.
I have to agree, Eisner oversaw some great hotels and was instrumental in bringing us new theme parks and water parks. He saw that the property was great.y under developed and should be credited for many of the great things we enjoy today. I'm not keen on some of the bland hotel designs. The theming of this new square hotel, the Coronado Springs tower, and the new Riviera DVC are not very impressive or unique.
There's a time and a place for a "design" like this…1983 and Hotel Plaza Boulevard.
But who is the architect????


text:
A barátpapagáj vagy remetepapagáj  (Myiopsitta monachus) a madarak osztályának papagájalakúak (Psittaciformes) rendjébe és a papagájfélék (Psittacidae) családjába tartozó Myiopsitta nem egyetlen faja. Egyes szervezetek a valódi papagájformák (Psittacinae) alcsaládjába sorolják.

Rendszerezése
A fajt Pieter Boddaert holland orvos, biológus és ornitológus írta le 1880-ban, a Psittacus nembe Psittacus monachus néven.

Alfajai
Myiopsitta monachus monachus (Boddaert, 1783) – Brazília délkeleti része, Uruguay és Északkelet-Argentína
Myiopsitta monachus calita (Jardine & Selby, 1830) – Argentína nyugati és déli része
Myiopsitta monachus cotorra (Vieillot, 1818) – Délkelet-Bolívia, Paraguay, Észak-Argentína és Dél-Brazília
Myiopsitta monachus luchsi (Finsch, 1868) – egy izolált populáció Bolíviában

Előfordulása
Argentína, Bolívia, Brazília, Paraguay és Uruguay területén honos. Természetes élőhelyei a szubtrópusi vagy trópusi síkvidéki esőerdők és szavannák, valamint emberi környezet. Állandó, nem vonuló faj.

Kedvelt kalitkamadár. Mivel fészkei karbantartása miatt egész évben viszonylag helyhez kötötten él, ezért sok helyütt félig vagy teljesen szabadon tartják állatkertek és magángyűjtők is. Ezek közül a madarak közül olykor néhány pár elszakadva a kolóniától teljesen önálló életet kezd máshol, így betelepült madárként több, számára alkalmas helyen megjelent már. Ilyen önállóan költő kolóniái vannak az Egyesült Államokban, Puerto Ricón, a Bermuda-szigeteken, az Egyesült Királyságban, Franciaországban, Belgiumban, Hollandiában, Portugáliában, Spanyolországban, Olaszországban, Izraelben és Japánban is.

Megjelenése
Átlagos testhossza 29 centiméter, szárnyfesztávja 43-48 centiméter, testtömege 90-140 gramm. Homloka világosszürke, a fejtető és a tarkó zöldes, pofatájéka és torka világosszürke. Testének többi része barnás-, illetve sárgászöld.

Életmódja
Kifejezetten közösségszerető madár, több család kolóniát alkotva együtt él. A táplálkozóhelyeken több száz madár is összeverődik. Tápláléka magvakból, gyümölcsökből, rovarokból és azok lárváiból áll.

Szaporodása
A téli hónapokban költ. A papagájfélék többségétől eltérően nem odúban költ, hanem hatalmas, faágakból és vesszőkből összeállított fészket épít a kolónia. A fészekben minden párnak külön költőkamrája van. Fészekalja 5-8 tojásból áll, amin 26 napig kotlik.

Természetvédelmi helyzete
Az elterjedési területe rendkívül nagy, egyedszáma pedig növekszik. A Természetvédelmi Világszövetség Vörös listáján nem fenyegetett fajként szerepel.

Jegyzetek

Források

Handbook of the Birds of the World Vol 4,  Josep del Hoyo editor,
"National Audubon Society" The Sibley Guide to Birds, by David Allen Sibley,
 "Parrots Have Colonized the Wilds of Brooklyn" Washington Post
 "Parrots In The City" One Bird's Struggle for a Place on the Planet, by Mattie Sue Athan, JoAnn and Jon-Mark Davey,
Birding.hu - magyar neve

További információk
Képek az interneten a fajról

Myiopsitta
Madárfajok
Argentína madarai
Bolívia madarai
Brazília madarai
Paraguay madarai
Uruguay madarai
Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok betelepített madarai
Puerto Rico betelepített madarai
A Bahama-szigetek betelepített madarai
Bermuda betelepített madarai
Chile betelepített madarai
Franciaország betelepített madarai
A Dominikai Köztársaság betelepített madarai
Martinique betelepített madarai


I am always trying to come up with the latest and greatest Friendsgiving (or just Thanksgiving, if you have no friends and are stuck with your family) recipe.
The Cheetos cranberry sauce didn't go over so well, so I settled for sweet potato chip nachos. Slap me twice and call me Sally! These were so good I suggest making two servings. One to bring the Friendsgiving/Thanksgiving, and one to eat at home on black Friday. While you hide from the general hideous public.
To begin your sweet potato chip nachos, spread sweet potato chips onto a pizza stone. Scoop marshmallow cream into a sandwich storage bag. Cut the tip, then piped all over. You can just spoon marshmallow cream on top of chips if you really want to!
Spread the rest of the toppings over the marshmallow cream. Place in oven and turn broiler setting on low. Watch nachos, as it only take a few minutes for it to brown! Once lightly toasted, remove from oven and serve.
Eat these sweet potato chip nachos after getting drunk on Thanksgiving eve. It's delish. Just don't forget it in the oven, dummy.
Sweet potato chip nachos are a super easy and unique recipe to bring to Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving. Serve as an appetizer, or for dessert. Perfect recipe for non-cooks!
Spread sweet potato chips on a pizza stone. Cover in marshmallow cream, then the rest of the ingredients. Place in oven on low broiler setting. Watch until mini marshmallows start to brown. Remove from oven and serve immediately.