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The business of biodiversity conservation
By Rory Mccann
The first Global Business of Biodiversity symposium (GBOB) held earlier this month highlighted the need to make biodiversity conservation the business of every business. The symposium, at which BirdLife International was an event sponsor, joined together a wide array of high-profile businesses with government departments and environmental organisations. "Consideration of sustainability must become mainstream in all sectors of society. I think we are now starting to see a growing trend towards business reputations, best practices and the economic bottom line being linked to how effectively they incorporate biodiversity into their agendas", said Ade Long, BirdLife's Head of Communications, who attended the event. At the symposium BirdLife held a master class showcasing our work with CEMEX and Rio Tinto on aspects of strategic partnership development, looking at frameworks of biodiversity risk and opportunity assessment. BirdLife and CEMEX are three years into a 10-year global agreement with part of the work to refine CEMEX's biodiversity-related strategies, policies, and practices. BirdLife are also advising CEMEX on how to implement conservation projects at operational sites. The Biodiversity Scoping Study prioritizes CEMEX sites in terms of biodiversity sensitivity and opportunity, and is the cornerstone of their biodiversity strategy. "The master class led on to a thorough and insightful discussion on the integration of biodiversity into standard business practice through a process of strategic partnership, and on how such relationships can be developed, maintained and managed" commented Jonathan Stacey, Programme Manager for the Rio Tinto-BirdLife International Programme and organiser of the BirdLife session. "This symposium is a key milestone in the developing integration of business and biodiversity values, indicating a recognition that biodiversity has a crucial role to play in the economics and practice of sustainablilty for the business sector. " Stacey added.
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Oncologic Impact of Preoperative Hypoalbuminemia in Elderly Patients Treated with Radical Cystectomy for Urothelial Bladder Cancer
Madrid, Spain (UroToday.com) In this study, the authors attempted to evaluate the impact of hypoalbuminemia on the survival rates of patients older than 80, who were referred for radical cystectomy for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder.
This was a single center retrospective study taking place between 2007 and 2015 in Italy, with 450 patients referred for a radical cystectomy. Of these, 109 patients (24.2%) older than 80 were selected. Preoperative hypoalbuminemia was defined as serum albumin < 3.5 g/dL.
The median age was 84 (IQR 81-86, range: 80-92) years, and the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) was 3 (IQR 2-4). The preoperative data demonstrate that patients had median preoperative serum albumin of 4.0 (IQR 3.8-4.3) g/dL and hypoalbuminemia was seen in 16 (14.7%) patients. Clinical T3-4 and N+ were recorded in 11 (10.1%) and 9 (8.3%) of patients, respectively. Preoperative hydronephrosis was registered in 28.4% of patients.
Postoperative data revealed that pT3-4 and pN1-2 were recorded in 69 (63.4%) and 16 (14.7%) of patients, respectively. Median follow-up was 24.6 (IQR 14.5-35.1) months. The actuarial 3-year and 5-year overall survival was 40.9% (SE 5.4%) and 16.8% (SE 5.5%), respectively. The actuarial 3-year and 5-year CSS was 62.2% (SE 5.7%) and 45.7% (SE 10.2%), respectively. Patients with a rising preoperative albumin level had a significantly higher overall survival (p=0.01) and a higher cancer-specific survival (p<0.0001) (Figure 1). On multivariable analysis, preoperative hypoalbuminemia was independently associated with worse overall survival at both preoperative (HR: 2.22, CI95% 1.16-4.23, p=0.01) and postoperative (HR:2.06, CI 95% 1.13-3.78, p=0.02) models, after adjusting for established clinicopathological features.
In conclusion, patients older than 80 with preoperative hypoalbuminemia seem to have a worse oncologic outcome after radical cystectomy. The authors recommend measuring the preoperative serum albumin before radical cystectomy, as this could assist us in improving postoperative clinical outcomes and predict the prognosis of elderly patients. The limitations of this study included its retrospective nature, single institution data, and short-term follow-up. Also, it would be interesting to do a comparison with younger patients undergoing radical cystectomy and see whether hypoalbuminemia is also a risk factor in the younger population. In any case, according to the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) principles, patients (at any age), should be optimized before radical cystectomy. Therefore, a low albumin level should be treated and raised preoperatively to enhance patient outcomes.
Figure 1 – Cancer-specific and overall survival stratified by albumin level:
Figure 2 – Preoperative and postoperative multivariable Cox regression analyses models for overall survival in patients older than 80 undergoing radical cystectomy:
Presented by: Mary Andrea, Firenze, Italy
Written By: Hanan Goldberg, MD, Urologic Oncology Fellow (SUO), University of Toronto, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre @GoldbergHanan at the Global Conference on Bladder Cancer 2018 - September 20-21, 2018 Madrid, Spain

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The contrast with animals is the touchstone and the rock by which, and on which, the morality of men proves itself or splits asunder. It was animal wisdom which lured the first human beings from their duty. Today it is the same animal wisdom which serves as midwife to every sin. The history of the first lapse is the history of all straying from the right path.
Animal rights isn't about protecting cute furry things. As Hirsch also wrote (on Numbers 25:3), regarding the idol Baal Peor, it is "the kind of Darwinism that revels in the conception of man sinking to the level of beast and stripping itself of its divine nobility, learning to consider itself just a 'higher' class of animal." It is nothing less than the voice of the Serpent in the Garden.


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Indian hockey 2018 review: Promise unfulfilled
For Indian hockey, 2018 was marked by frequent chopping and changing of personnel, and dashed hopes.
New Delhi 28 December, 2018 16:53 IST
Harendra Singh (in picture) was put in charge of India's women's team in September, 2017, and a few months later, the men's team. - Biswaranjan Rout
The year 2018 was a year of missed opportunities for Indian hockey.
India was expected to defend its Asian Games title in Jakarta, thereby directly qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It was also expected to make the semifinals at the World Cup in Bhubaneswar. The hope did not turn into reality.
India started 2018 ranked sixth in the world, and ended the year fifth. Frequent chopping and changing marked an unfulfilled year.
Disappointing outing
India had a disappointing outing at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in March, 2018. Sardar Singh, the veteran, had returned to lead the side, but India, with a win and a draw in the competition, finished fifth. Later, in May, 2018, Hockey India appointed Harendra Singh the coach of India's men's hockey team. Harendra had replaced Sjoerd Marijne, who had been given the responsibility following the departure of Roelant Oltmans in September, 2017.
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Marijne was back to coaching India's women's team.
The swap followed a weird scenario where Harendra, who had never coached a women's team before, had been the head coach of the women's team, and Marijne, who had never coached a men's team before, the head coach of India's men's team. The arrangement came to an end following India's loss to England in the bronze-medal match at the Commonwealth Games in April, 2018.
Sardar's comeback
The captaincy also passed many hands. Sardar was dropped from the Commonwealth Games squad and Manpreet had replaced him as captain.
Hockey India had replaced Roelant Oltmans (in picture), the head coach of the men's team, with Sjoerd Marijne, who had never coached a men's team before. Photo: K. Murali Kumar
After Harendra took over as coach of the men's team, Sardar made a comeback alongside goalkeeper P. R. Sreejesh, after a long injury layoff. They returned for the final edition of the Champions Trophy in Breda, Netherlands, where India recorded its best result of the year; it finished second, losing to Australia in the shootout.
Sardar was one of India's best performers in the Champions Trophy. He marshalled the midfield with aplomb, and duly earned a place in the Asian Games squad. India went into the competition as favourite to retain the gold medal, but returned with a bronze, having lost to Malaysia in a shootout in the semifinal.
Wholesale changes
The failure to defend the Asian Games title and to have missed out on a direct berth in Tokyo Olympics was a serious setback. Sardar was the first casualty; he was dropped for the Asian Champions Trophy in Muscat, forcing the hurt midfielder to announce retirement. In the competition, India shared the title with Pakistan as the final was washed out.
Sardar Singh retired after having been dropped from India's squad for the Asian Champions Trophy. Photo: PTI
Harendra decided to make wholesale changes in the World Cup squad. He put his faith on World Cup-winning junior players; they were brought in place of experienced campaigners like Rupinder Pal Singh and S. V. Sunil, among others.
India's World Cup squad comprised only six players with over 150 international caps. Champion Belgium, on the other hand, had 12 players with over 150 caps. India expected the young squad to rewrite history after 43 years but that was not to be as after an impressive pool campaign, during which it drew 2-2 with Belgium, the home team lost 2-1 to Netherlands to crash out in the quarterfinals.
Sixth place at World Cup
Nonetheless, the Indians did impress and finished sixth in the World Cup, its best finish in the mega-event after securing the fifth spot in the 1994 edition in Sydney.
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The Indian women's team had moments to celebrate in the year gone. It reached the final of the Asian Games for the first time in 20 years. But its dream of breaking a 36-year-old gold jinx remained unfulfilled; it lost 2-1 to Japan in the final in Jakarta.
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The main objectives of this study were to find out the problem of refuse disposal in Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area. This work also aimed at the possible solution in solving this ugly trend and also the use of public collection to enhance the problem of refuse deposal in Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area . To achieve the laid down objective, the researcher carried out the investigation by designing a well structured questionnaires for 100 respondents for the area. The data generated was interpreted using simple percentage statistical analysis. The study revealed that inadequate personnel and improper supervision is responsible for discriminate refuse disposal in the Local Government Area. Recommendations were further made by researcher based on findings.
In Nigeria today, people have found it necessary in every where to keep their environment clean, to most major factor to be identified in commercial house, industrial or domestic homes is the tidiness of the environment with much emphasis to the disposal waste or refuse. Healthful living has much to do on the control of waste commonly referred to as refuse. The importance attached to the hygiene disposal of refuse in our village and home cannot be over emphasized. In 1984 then the federal military government enacted on edict which stipulated that the last Saturday of every month should be observed as an environmental sanitation day. The day is set aside by every home for cleaning the stores, homes and compounds (environment) sanitation day for every market in Edo State for cleaning the refuse or waste in the market.
This topic is therefore met to find out why refuse in Colben in Ovia NOrth East Local Government Area of Edo State in particular from be properly disposed off from the information gathered. From the health department in this area, there is a high incidence of microbial food poisoning, helminthes, skin dioceses gastro enteritis, typhoid and other disease caused by the sanitary environment. Though there are salary ways to dispose these wastes from Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area with the help of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the environmental board of Egor Local Government there is still a clean indiscriminate dumping of refuse which generate such epidemic above. Refuse are heaped in often places containing all sorts of wastes. There, flies drift from, the refuse to homes, thereby causing some infectious disease, it is in the central places near homes that some dead domestic animals are thrown into the refuse there by creating an offensive odour aid therefore air is thereby polluted. Isu (2005) has noted that 87% of Nigeria use unsanitary is an important disease. Environmental sanitary is an important tell for the achievement of the world health organizations (WHO'S) target of health for all, by the year 2000 and beyond.
Since local government authority is responsible for the environmental sanitation of every town in Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area, provision of personnel and materials resources such as hand glove, van etc should be made for easy refuse disposal. Every home should provide a dust bin with a lid to be used b y each household in the community.
According to UNESCO/UNICEF/WHO in their books known as "facts for life" illness can be prevented by buying household refused. They maintained that germs can be spread by flies, which breed in refuse dumps such as food scraps and leaching from fruits pit where household refuse is buried or burned everyday. Nigeria being one of the most popular countries in Africa is a classic example of a developing country in the world. The total population of Nigeria increase at the rate of 2% annually, the urban population was growing at the rate of 5.5. % per annum.
People against this background of high and uncontrolled rate of urbanization, our major cities like Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Ibadan and Benin, to mention a few have been confronted with environmental issues of far reaching implications. In our cities today, we have struck most forcible at out complacency regarding the planning and management of our urban environment. To further aggravate the unhealthy situation of these cities especially in Benin is the fact that injurious and corrupting elements are introduced into the environment this fouling it, as well as reducing satisfaction and utility entrained from growing and developing.
Refuse heaps are among prominent features of Edo State. In several quarters of the Colben in Ovia NOrth East Local Government Area , refuse heaps have encroached on or completely blocked roads thereby causing hold up and market. These refuse that are heap block gutters and other drainage channels thereby execrating flood disposal give rise to offensive odour and stench, which are i8nujurious to health (Okpala, 1998).
Refuse collection and disposal in most community and villages in recent bines are not getting the required attention. As it has been a common case in our time, if this ugly situation is allowed to go unchecked, the health of the population will be in danger. At times the situation gets worse when domesticated animals such as sheep, goats, hen and dogs go around and into the refuse far and near into the containers in search of food ruminant and in the process scatter the refuse far and near around the dump site which may lead to spread of diseases especially to the owners of the domestics animals. Also, natural (factors such as rain, wind or slight breeze also disperse refuse materials from the over field receptacles or depots back to the cleaned environment and in most cases the dispersed refuse materials fall into the gutters and block the drains.
Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State thickly populated with traders are not left out in these societal problems of indiscriminate disposal of refuse. The local government authority that should be charge with the responsibility of educating members of the local government on proper ways of collecting and disposal of refuse are equally handicapped in respect of funds and manpower to handle the problem. More so, the resident of Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State like in most sections of Benin City have not been able to adopt the expected level of performance of environmental cleanness. Although some residents are within a walking distance of the refuse depot still prefer to dump their refuse into gutters and the sides of main roads.
It is quite clear that due to lack of funds, the effective cleaning of the refuse by the authority could not be done. According to Turner (1989) he mentioned that the failure to dispose satisfactory contributed to the pollution to air, water, soil and propagation of diseases and rectors "he further stated that our lives are been threatened by waste disposal pollution which undoubted pose enormous danger to the health of man".
Improper disposal of refuse in Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State constitute a great danger to the life of the people as fire out break could result from such un-wholesome behaviour. However, for the purpose of this project, refuse will be regarded as the non-gaseous, non-liquid discarded materials that results from household domestic activities. The problem of waste management become important in environmental studies because of its resultant effect mortality that is if refuse are not properly disposed, it could lead to an epidemic or serious health hazards as the heaps of refuse serve as hatching grounds to houseflies which are well known agents of gastro intestinal diseases. This study therefore aims at finding out why refuse in Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State cannot be properly managed.
For the purpose of this study, the following objectives have been designed.
To examine how poverty and illiteracy aggravate health problems in Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.
To identify what make up of different types of refuse generated in Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.
To examine the present system of refuse disposal by household and what factors militate against efficient waste management.
To act as a reference for future study on the subject matter.
To identify the major constrains hampering effective refuse dispose in the Local Government Area.
This research book is intended to look into the problems currently facing the disposal of refuse in Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State and possibly to give useful suggestions on ways or method to be adopted to ensure its efficiency. Emphasis will be laid on how best to improve on the current method of disposal in the village. This will be yardstick for formulating environmental sanitation plans with regards to refuse disposal policies and help in educating the public, and also to act as a guide to all those partly engaged in the collection and final disposal of refuse in the Local Government Area.
Is the non-availability of funds responsible for the local authorities' inability to build incinerator?
Are poverty and ignorance factors responsible for indiscriminate disposal of refuse at various quarters of the local government area?
Are inadequate personnel and proper supervision responsible for indiscriminate refuse disposal in the local government area?
This research work takes a careful study and examination of refuse disposal in Colben in Ovia North East Local Government Area, Edo State. More emphasis was laid on the hostels and school vicinity.
Disposal of refuse: This is referred to the storage collection and disposal of refuse in any area of community.
Ashes: This is a result of combustion of wood for cooking and other purpose.
Dead animals: These include the remains of dead animals such as dogs, cat, rats, goats, sheep, cow, etc they decompose easily and cause offensive odour,. They are usually disposed off by deep barging.
Garbage: This includes all put refillable waste resulting from preparation and consumption of food. It include these remnants that are not eaten, such waste from the kitchen are vegetable, yam, peelings, unwanted parts of animals such as bone and intestines etc.
Rubbish: This means all non justifiable inorganic waste and consisting of combustible and non combustible solid wastes e.g. paper, leather, carton, tin bottles, metal.
Open Dumping: This is common and it is the commonest method of refuse disposal in the rural areas, where by rubbish is thrown in an open space. It is the oldest method of disposing refuse and it is always identified with numerous health hazard.


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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak review – one woman's story
The latest novel by an author under attack from the Turkish government is a profound and unflinching look at sexual violence
Mirza Waheed
Wed 12 Jun 2019 05.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 13 Jun 2019 06.04 EDT
City life … Galata Bridge in Istanbul. Photograph: Alamy
It's a source of great irony and outrage that the Turkish authorities have decided to investigate Elif Shafak for writing about sexual violence just as her latest novel, a profound, humanising narrative about the victims of sexual violence, is being published in Turkey and elsewhere. It starts with an explosive premise, as we dive into the mind of sex worker "Tequila Leila", who is dying in a rubbish bin on the outskirts of Istanbul. As her brain begins to shut down, Leila, assuming the roles of digressive raconteur and her own biographer, goes back in time to trace the story of the little girl from the provinces who ends up as a two-column crime story in the city's newspapers.
She recalled things she did not even know she was capable of remembering, things she had believed to be lost for ever. Time became fluid, a free flow of recollections seeping into one another, the past and the present inseparable.
Thus begins an extraordinary tale of a brutalised, broken but profoundly courageous woman who retains her humanity despite a world bent on crushing her at every turn. We see beautifully rendered, tender vignettes of her early life, as she remembers her birth and childhood in the house of well-to-do tailor Haroun, who has been waiting a long time for offspring from his two wives. As a free-spirited girl, Leila soon discovers that almost everything in life is either forbidden to her or predetermined by age‑old familial codes.
Early in the novel, having captured the minutiae of domestic and social life in the eastern province of Van, Shafak recounts a hair-raising scene when Leila is six, during a family picnic at a beachside hotel. It's this harrowing incident, almost unbearable to witness, that turns out to be the pivot around which young Leila's life turns. We are then hurled into the brutal realities of life in the city. "Istanbul was an illusion. A magician's trick gone wrong."
Brilliant storytelling … Elif Shafak. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
For more than half the book, the reader is guided by Leila's vibrant but soon to be extinguished memory, each reminiscence sparked by a smell or taste. It's a terrific device, taking us from the rubbish bin to a day in her childhood when she is banned by her pious father from playing with a hula hoop. We are also transported to the grand opening of the Bosphorus Bridge, which a grown-up Leila witnesses alongside a sea of proud Istanbulis, including the activist and artist who becomes her only true love and husband.
A picture of Leila's life, as well as that of her despondent and downtrodden mother, emerges from this buzzing, chaotic narrative. After a series of debilitating miscarriages, Leila's mother gives birth to a baby girl, only to be instantly deprived of her joy when her husband decrees that his first wife is to be the mother of this child, and she will be only an aunt, because "you can always have more babies".
In her youth and middle years, Leila is subjected to unspeakable cruelties in the metropolis, and Shafak does something remarkable here. She infuses Leila's personality with heart and soul and surrounds her with a set of "undesirables", five friends whose characters are sketched with beauty and pain. By revealing layer upon layer of her interior life, the novel draws a magnificently nuanced portrait of its protagonist. The dreamy girl from Van who refuses to be silent even when murdered becomes the conscience of "this manic old city".
Shafak takes a piercing, unflinching look at the trauma women's minds and bodies are subjected to in a social system defined by patriarchal codes. It's a brutal book, bleak and relentless in its portrayal of violence, heartbreak and grief, but ultimately life-affirming. Here, as in Shafak's previous work, we find the good old-fashioned art of intricate storytelling, something I miss sometimes in modern fiction. The mad, exhilarating final section, in which Leila is a corpse being driven away from the "cemetery of the companionless" by her friends, is a testament to Shafak's brilliance as a storyteller. People in Turkey and elsewhere should celebrate her work.
• Mirza Waheed's latest novel is Tell Her Everything (Context). 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak is published by Penguin (RRP £14.99). To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com. Free UK p&p on all online orders over £15.


In some very, very small circles, people ask me for advice using PowerShell. I know, it makes NO sense. Regardless, I like the attention and it pushes me to be a better person.
In today's example of my pathetic PowerShell skills I'll share the script I use to create Active Directory accounts in my SharePoint test environments. I build a lot of test environments, so it's handy to be able to crank out lots of users quickly. I've used a variety of PowerShell solutions, but this is the first one that hasn't sucked so much that I'm afraid to share it. It actually does a couple of cool things. Before I share this amazing code with you, let me tell you about a few of its finer features.
1) It checks to see if there's a problem creating the user, and if there is, reports it. This is handy for two reasons. First, the user you're running the script as may not have permission to create users. With the error checking in this script you get a message saying "Access Denied" so you know it's a permissions error. Also, this allows it to gracefully skip users that already exist. This is great because as you need to add new users to your environment you can just add them at the end of the existing users.csv file you use and run the script again.
2) It can handle accounts that have managers and ones that don't. Being SharePoint admins we all get to experience the User Profile Service. That gives us the fancy employee hierarchy thing, which needs each accounts' Manager field to be populated. One of things this script gives us is the ability to put our service accounts and our user accounts in the same users.csv file. In previous version of this I had two CSV files and changed the script to not try to add the Manager attribute for service accounts and bosses. In this version I don't need to do that.
3) It can add user pictures to Active Directory. Regardless of whether the user already exists or not, the script will look in the local directory to see if a file with the name user.jpg exists. If it's there, the script adds it to the user. Since the creation part gracefully skips existing users, you can gradually drop JPGs into this folder and run the script over and over to add user's pictures. This part doesn't have any of the Try-Catch error checking (yet), so if you don't have permission edit AD users, you might get some angry red text here.
31                         Write-Output "Could not create user $($user.SamAccountName), $_"
46                         Write-Output "Could not create user $($user.SamAccountName), $_"
49         # Put picture part here.
55                 Write-Output "Found picture for $($user.SamAccountName)"
If you'd like to download the code. You can grab it here. You can grab a sample CSV file here.
As always, be very, very afraid of any PowerShell you download from the Internet. Especially mine! While this script might very work as is in your test environment, you should really just consider it something to reference when you write your own script. This script might destroy your Active Directory, format your server, and replace your fresh brewed coffee with Folger's Crystals. You have been warned.
Let me know what you think. Be kind. I cry easily.
Since you are sooo good at PowerShell, do you know if there is a PS command that would give me all the settings in Central Admin. That sounds like a huge task, but I've been asked so I'm asking you!
Thanks for your kind words, and let me be clear, flattery will get you everywhere.
Interesting site. Kinda scary, but interesting.
Thanks for sharing this script, I switched jobs and forgot to back up scripts ahead of time. This helped me get started on a new one. I was curious if you had any hints on dealing with names like Aurèle and Eléna? The PowerShell processing doesn't seem to handle them well. Is it the encoding of CSV or something else?
In case anyone else needs to know make sure the file is Unicode Enocding and not ANSI. That seemed to fix it.
Shouldn't we all? :) Thanks for the followup.
Hey Todd do you have a sample csv file I can steal off you? I'm lazy!
I hate to incent laziness, but you're right, I should provide a sample CSV. I linked to one in the article right after the code sample.


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Before you get your hands on these, here's what you need to know. There are two types that target different skin types and they are the Real Calendula Energy Toner and Real Rose Floral Toner. The calendula version is more suited for those of us with oily skins as it helps to control sebum production, while the rose one is made for drier complexions to give it a radiant glow. Both of them contain centella extracts that help soothe irritations and calm the skin, prepping it for the next step of your skincare routine.
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She also brought in some Brazilian passion fruits for us to taste.
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Contemporary History
A History of France's National Identity Card
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What were the consequences — both politically and in terms of the sense of personal identity — of the introduction of a national I.D. card for all French citizens? Pierre Piazza answers this question from a historical perspective, stressing the role played by the Vichy government. His research is informed by many previously unpublished documents from public archives.
After outlining the lengthy process that led to institutionalising the national identity card, the author describes with precision the crucial role played by some public servants in rationalising systems and techniques of identification. His detailed examination of the internal workings of the State reveals the conflicts, contradictions and intrigues that govern relations between different departments.
Piazza highlights the reactions, discussions and multiple forms of resistance provoked by the various attempts made by the French State to introduce a system of national identification.
This book, about a complex, fascinating subject that had not been studied in depth until now, will help illuminate an important facet in the process of nationalising and establishing state control over society.
Pierre Piazza holds a doctorate in political science and is a research fellow at the French Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Securité Intérieure.
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A History of France's National Identity Card	Publication date : March 1, 2004
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Two class-action lawsuits have been filed against the exchange so far this month, and this one is going for the jugular. Coinbase is being accused of negligence tied to last year's rocky rollout of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and "tipping off" its employees before announcing publicly its plans to support the new cryptocurrency. The amount in question for all of the members of the lawsuit is more than $5 million before interest and costs.
Arizona resident Jeffrey Berk filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of himself and others affected, all of whom are being represented by Green & Noblin as well as The Grant Law Firm.
He's taking aim at Coinbase/dba GDAX as well as its co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong and director of communications David Farmer, alleging Armstrong knew of the alleged insider trading and promised an investigation, the results of which are unclear.
The plaintiff alleges that his BCH order was transacted at a price 100% higher than when he submitted the buy order.
These events preceded even greater confusion amid a series of steps in which the bitcoin exchange allegedly stopped and started trading in BCH, opening and closing the books again and again. The bottom line is the plaintiffs allege that non-insiders were forced to purchase BCH at inflated prices.
A separate class-action lawsuit was filed against Coinbase earlier this month accusing the bitcoin exchange of holding onto emailed cryptocurrencies that it shouldn't have that were left unclaimed for years.


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Traffic Operators Successfully Reducing Congestion
5 years 9 months 1 week ago Friday, April 11 2014 Apr 11, 2014 Friday, April 11, 2014 7:00:00 AM CDT April 11, 2014 in News
By: Hanna Battah, KOMU 8 Reporter
COLUMBIA - A new traffic control system has helped reduce congestion in afternoon rush hours.
Columbia public works began using traffic operators at two intersections--along with other traffic control measures-- along Chapel Hill Road to mitigate traffic.
The traffic buildup resulted after road closures from the bridge construction on Scott Boulevard.
So far, Traffic Operator Joe Kochert said their work has paid off.
"We are out here in the week from four to six when people are just getting off work trying to help people move along," Kochert said. "We have been able to speed things up since the bridge construction and we have gotten a lot of compliments."
Kochert said the city plans to have the operators control traffic in southwest Columbia until early June.
The construction of the bridge on Scott Boulevard caused the increase in traffic congestion in southwest Columbia.
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Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events prolonged by phosphorus cycle feedbacks
"Oceanic anoxic events (OAEs) document major perturbations of the global carbon cycle with repercussions for the Earth's climate and ocean circulation that are relevant to understanding future climate trends. Here, we compare the onset and development of Cretaceous OAE1a and OAE2 in two drill cores with unusually high sedimentation rates from the Vocontian Basin (southern France) and Tarfaya Basin (southern Morocco). OAE1a and OAE2 exhibit remarkable similarities in the evolution of their carbon isotope (δ13C) records, with long-lasting negative excursions preceding the onset of the main positive excursions, supporting the view that both OAEs were triggered by massive emissions of volcanic CO2 into the atmosphere. However, there are substantial differences, notably in the durations of individual phases within the δ13C positive excursions of both OAEs. [...]"
Source: Climate of the Past
Authors: Sebastian Beil et al.
DOI: 10.5194/cp-16-757-2020
4/30/20 climate change oceanic anoxic events
Response of the western proto-North Atlantic margin to the early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) 1a: an example from the Cupido platform margin
-Gulf of Mexico, NE Mexico
"Integrated microfacies and geochemical analyses conducted on five stratigraphic sections in northeastern Mexico (ancentral western margin of the proto-North Atlantic) reveal major paleoenvironmental changes in shallow water and pelagic environments in the prelude and run-up of the early Aptian oceanic anoxic event (OAE) 1a. During the Barremian–Aptian transition, the replacement of photozoan rudist-coral by mesotrophic/eutrophic orbitolinid-miliolid communities in the Cupido platform occurred in association with increased nutrient input. [...]"
Source: Cretaceous Research
Authors: Fernando Núñez-Useche et al.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104488
4/27/20 oceanic anoxic events paleoceanography
High Resolution Osmium Data Record Three Distinct Pulses of Magmatic Activity During Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE-2)
"Oceanic anoxic Event 2 (OAE-2) occurred at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary (∼94.1 Ma) and was a time of profound global changes in ocean chemistry and the carbon cycle. This event was characterized by a positive carbon isotope excursion (CIE) caused by massive organic carbon burial, global greenhouse temperatures, ocean deoxygenation, and changes in ocean life driven by large igneous province (LIP) activity. LIPS throughout the Phanerozoic have had dynamic magma flux, with episodes of major eruptions interspersed with periods of relatively less intense eruptions. [...]"
Source: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Authors: Daniel L. Sullivan et al.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.04.002
Temperature-related body size change of marine benthic macroinvertebrates across the Early Toarcian Anoxic Event
"The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (TOAE, Early Jurassic, ~182 Ma ago) was characterised by severe environmental perturbations which led to habitat degradation and extinction of marine species. Warming-induced anoxia is usually identified as main driver, but because marine life was also affected in oxygenated environments the role of raised temperature and its effects on marine life need to be addressed. [...]"
Source: Scientific Reports
Authors: Veronica Piazza et al.
Neritic ecosystem response to Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, USA
"Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events (OAEs) were periods of geologically short (<1 million years) global change characterized by elevated temperatures, changes in ocean biogeochemistry, ecological turnover, and the global-scale deposition of black shales. After decades of OAE research, the intensity and spatiotemporal heterogeneity of ocean anoxia and its direct effects on marine ecology remain areas of active study. We present high-resolution organic geochemical and foraminiferal records from the western margin of the Western Interior Seaway (WIS) during the Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2, ~94 Ma) that indicate reorganization of a neritic ecosystem in response to sea-level rise, and dynamic changes in redox conditions that were likely driven by enhanced marine productivity. [...]"
Source: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Authors: F. Garrett Boudinot et al.
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109673
2/27/20 foraminifera oceanic anoxic events paleoceanography
Unravelling the sources of carbon emissions at the onset of Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) 1a
"The early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) 1a represents a major perturbation of the Earth's climate system and in particular the carbon cycle, as evidenced by widespread preservation of organic matter in marine settings and a characteristic negative carbon isotopic excursion (CIE) at its onset, followed by a broad positive CIE. The contemporaneous emplacement of a large igneous province (LIP) is invoked as a trigger for OAE 1a (and OAEs in general), but this link and the ultimate source of the carbon perturbation at the onset of OAEs is still debated. [...]"
Authors: Markus Adloff et al.
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115947
11/17/19 carbon dioxide oceanic anoxic events
"Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs) document major perturbations of the global carbon cycle with repercussions on the Earth's climate and ocean circulation that are relevant to understand future climate trends. Here, we compare sedimentation patterns, nutrient cycling, organic carbon accumulation and carbon isotope variability across Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events OAE1a and OAE2 in two drill cores with unusually high sedimentation rates from the Vocontian Basin (southern France) and Tarfaya Basin (southern Morocco). [...]"
Source: Climate of the Past (Preprint)
DOI: 10.5194/cp-2019-118
10/13/19 oceanic anoxic events paleoceanography
Atmosphere–ocean oxygen and productivity dynamics during early animal radiations
"The proliferation of large, motile animals 540 to 520 Ma has been linked to both rising and declining O2 levels on Earth. To explore this conundrum, we reconstruct the global extent of seafloor oxygenation at approximately submillion-year resolution based on uranium isotope compositions of 187 marine carbonates samples from China, Siberia, and Morocco, and simulate O2 levels in the atmosphere and surface oceans using a mass balance model constrained by carbon, sulfur, and strontium isotopes in the same sedimentary successions. [...]"
Source: PNAS
Authors: Tais W. Dahl et al.
10/2/19 biogeochemical cycling oceanic anoxic events
High-resolution records of Oceanic Anoxic Event 2:
Insights into the timing, duration and extent of environmental perturbations from the palaeo-South Pacific Ocean
"Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE 2), which took place around the Cenomanian–Turonian boundary (∼94 Ma), is associated with extreme perturbations to the global carbon cycle, affected ocean basins worldwide and was associated with significant biological turnover. Although this event has been well studied in the northern hemisphere, the evolution and character of OAE 2, particularly in terms of the vertical and lateral extent of anoxia, is poorly constrained in the palaeo-Pacific Ocean. [...]"
Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Authors: S. K. Gangl et al.
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.028
The far-future ocean: Warm yet oxygen-rich
"The oceans are losing oxygen. Numerous studies based on direct measurements in recent years have shown this. Since water can dissolve less gas as temperatures rise, these results were not surprising. In addition to global warming, factors such as eutrophication of the coastal seas also contribute to the ongoing deoxygenation. [...]"
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Q: Что означает item? chars = [ 'A' ,'B' , 'C' ]

print('\nElements:\t' , end = ' ' )
for item in chars :
    print( item , end = ' ' )

Объясните, пожалуйста, как это работает.
Я вообще не понимаю, что значит "item", и откуда оно вообще взялось, этого элемента ведь нет в списке. Эта какая-то функция языка?

A: item - это переменная, в которой на каждой итерации оказывается элемент списка (list) chars.
for item in chars - цикл по элементам массива chars (1-ая итерация - item='A', 2-ая итерация - item='B' и тд. )
print - функция вывода на экран, которая на каждой итерации будет выводить один элемент списка (item) и пробел за ним (тут указан end=' ', по умолчанию end='\n')
В результате выполнения кода будет выведено:
Elements: A B C

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Q: Boost include headers not found using cmake This question is very similar to Why is this boost header file not included, however the hints there don't (seem to) solve my problem.
I got a CMakeLists.txt
CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.8)
PROJECT(jetorigin)

SET(Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS "1.43" "1.43.0" "1.44" "1.44.0" "1.45" "1.45.0")
SET(BOOST_ROOT "$ENV{HOME}/usr")
MESSAGE(STATUS "** Search Boost root: ${BOOST_ROOT}")
FIND_PACKAGE(Boost 1.43 COMPONENTS filesystem regex REQUIRED)
 MESSAGE(STATUS "** Boost Include: ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR}")
 MESSAGE(STATUS "** Boost Libraries: ${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS}")
 MESSAGE(STATUS "** Boost Libraries: ${Boost_LIBRARIES}")

INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR})
LINK_DIRECTORIES(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS})

ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(src)

And include some boost headers in my code like this:
#include <boost/regex.hpp>
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
#include <boost/filesystem/fstream.hpp>

Now the output from cmake looks ok
-- ** Search Boost root: /home/oli/usr
-- Boost version: 1.43.0
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
--   filesystem
--   regex
-- ** Boost Include: /home/oli/usr/include
-- ** Boost Libraries: /home/oli/usr/lib
-- ** Boost Libraries: /home/oli/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem.so;/home/oli/usr/lib/libboost_regex.so

But I get this error:
error: boost/regex.hpp: No such file or directory

(and similar for the other includes). Full output from make VERBOSE=1 can be found here http://pastebin.ca/2039425. It looks as though there is no -I flag added even though Boost_INCLUDE_DIR seems to be set correctly.
I'm using CMake 2.8.1 by the way.
I would very much appreciate any hints on what is going wrong here..

EDIT:
I've found the problem. Seems I pulled some ancient version of my standard CMakeLists.txt from the depths of my archives. It needs to be:
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})

(note the non-capitalized "Boost")...
Maybe older versions of CMake have been more tolerant in this respect or by bad luck I simply chose to start with a version of my CMakeLists.txt with an unfixed bug..

A: Since you did not specify a mode for find_package, it attempts to first use MODULE mode, and then CONFIG mode. As per the docs for the FindBoost module, the cache variable storing the directory containing Boost headers is named Boost_INCLUDE_DIR and not BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR. As per the CMake language docs' section on variables, CMake variable names are case-sensitive. I don't know why you had another CMakeLists.txt file with BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR working.


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Creative outlet: Many brewers begin homebrewing out of curiosity. | GETTY IMAGES
Food & Drink | Cultivating Craft
Homebrewing in Japan: Craft beer's creative foundation
by Jeremy Wilgus
Online: Jun 01, 2019
When Japan's beer laws changed in 1994, many companies took advantage of the new opportunities that opened up for them and, in the space of three years, more than 300 new breweries opened in Japan.
However, the initial boom quickly faded, and more than 100 breweries closed between 1998 and 2000. Only in the past couple years has the Japanese craft beer industry rebounded, with 312 breweries registered as of Jan. 1, 2018. Still, craft beer barely captures 2 percent of the total market in Japan compared to the 24 percent market share of the 7,000 craft breweries in the United States.
There is a larger reason for the disparity: Homebrewing beer, legalized in America in 1978, is functionally illegal in Japan, as home brewing is only allowed as long as the alcohol content is less than 1 percent by volume. When the craft beer boom started in Japan, unlike in America, there was no pool of experienced brewers to draw from.
Valuing experimentation: Jason Koehler, one of craft beer company DevilCraft's three founders, poses in front of a DevilCraft booth. | JEREMY WILGUS
"You can set an egg timer from when home brewing became legal to when craft beer sprang up in America," says George Juniper, head brewer at TDM 1874 in Kanagawa Prefecture. With his parents' assistance, Juniper began homebrewing at the age of 13. He has been exploring the science and craft of brewing ever since, catching the attention of the head brewer at Dark Star Brewing in the U.K. while still in university. "He preferred to hire someone who had experience with brewing to hiring someone fresh out of university with no practical experience," Juniper says.
According to estimates, there are just over 1.1 million homebrewers in America. In addition, the prevalence of homebrewing has helped create a wider understanding of beer and beer styles among the drinking public, whereas craft beer in Japan has yet to reach mainstream acceptance.
"Without the homebrewing experience," Jason Koehler, one of the three founders of Tokyo's DevilCraft brewery says, "there is a lack of knowledge about the raw materials. American homebrewers can explore the possibilities on a smaller scale, whereas most Japanese brewers, especially in the early days, followed recipes handed down to them." The barriers to experimentation, he adds, stifle creativity.
"So few breweries in Japan can make a wide variety of beer," says John Chambers, another founding member of DevilCraft. "The experience that many homebrewers build through practice is illegal, so new brewers have difficulty expanding their horizons."
In Japan, a solid community of homebrewers has developed where members can share information and, of course, beer. At their most recent get together, more than 300 brewers and enthusiasts shared more than 400 liters of beer, much of it homebrewed. Members of the group include hobbyists as well as amateurs-gone-pro, with more than a few members having managed to open their own breweries in Japan, taking care not to mention their homebrewing past.
"Mentioning homebrewing experience on your application for a brewer's license can have a negative effect," says one brewer. "Rather than seeing the positive aspect of granting a license to someone familiar with the craft, the tax office instead chooses to focus on following the letter of the outdated law."
Many homebrewers reference the negative consequences of laws banning homebrewing, particularly the effects on experimentation and creativity at the heart of craft beer. Many brewers, both foreign and Japanese, started homebrewing out of curiosity, but also because of a strong dissatisfaction with the beer available to them in Japan compared to what they could drink on trips abroad.
Strangely, while homebrewing is illegal in Japan, nearly all of the ingredients needed for brewing are available online, and more than a couple of brewers got their start with a brew kit sold openly at Tokyu Hands. Some brewers, active since the mid-1990s, spoke of the difficulty in finding information in the pre-internet era, requiring homebrewers to find help through message boards or directly emailing brewers and suppliers overseas.
While the Japanese government seems uninterested in updating its outdated laws, maybe a different argument is needed. Whereas many homebrewers talk about quality and innovation, it might behoove them to bring up the economic possibilities of craft beer. According to a recent report from the U.S.-based Beer Institute and National Beer Wholesalers Association, the 7,000 breweries in America directly employ 70,000 workers, and are indirectly responsible for more than 2 million jobs and over $101 billion (¥11 trillion) in wages, as well as a much wider overall economic impact through sales, construction, shipping and tax revenue.
As it stands now, the only legal way to brew beer in Japan is to work in a brewery, leaving a growing number of breweries scrambling for the relatively few people with brewing experience. The reality is a growing industry with no established labor pool to draw from. Most new employees need to be taught the very basics of brewing before they can do their job properly.
Craft beer in Japan is experiencing a second renaissance, becoming more refined through international collaboration and information sharing. However, many of Japan's breweries are still trying to catch up to the innovation and skill level of their overseas counterparts.
One can only dream of what Japanese beer could become with legalized homebrewing and the innovation that comes with it.
This is the ninth installment of "Cultivating Craft," a monthly series exploring the history and evolution of the craft beer scene in Japan.
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Businesses across Europe are using AI as a key innovation accelerator for their digital business transformation efforts. Philip Carnelley shares IDC's research into the AI market in Europe, including its 2018 survey of AI usage across hundreds of European organizations. Philip identifies and analyzes those organizations' goals, drivers, barriers, and approaches and draws on this research to explain why organizations looking for sustainable and enterprisewide digital transformation must establish a new digital platform based on big data and cloud technologies, with an intelligent core. Join in to learn how to apply these lessons to your organization's roadmap to AI-driven digital transformation.
Philip Carnelley is AVP for IDC's European Software Group, where he leads IDC's European research on enterprise applications and analytics, with a particular focus on big data and cognitive/AI software and solutions and their implications for digital business transformation. He heads IDC's multidisciplinary European Cognitive/AI Research Practice, and he also oversees IDC's European Software Tracker analyst team. He is also tasked with writing and presenting on broader enterprise software trends and the impact of emerging software technologies in the European region. Philip has over 20 years' experience of working in the IT industry as an analyst, consultant, and applications developer in a variety of industries around Europe. He is a regular keynote speaker and panelist at industry events.


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Jeju: In the Crosshairs of War
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This is the brief story of the struggle to prevent the construction of a massive naval base in the tiny village of Gangjeong, on Jeju Island, S. Korea.
In order to understand why the villagers have been opposing the construction 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for five years and risking bodily harm and imprisonment, one must understand the broader context.
Beginning on April 3rd, 1948 the U.S. Military Government in Korea approved the massacre of as many as 80,000 Jeju Islanders who were resisting the occupation by the U.S. Army and the viscous, dictatorial regime of Syngman Rhee. The villagers were labelled "communists," when in fact they were fighting for self-determination, freedom, and human rights.
The people opposing the construction of this massive base that will accommodate America's global military expansion are the survivors and descendants of that horrific massacre and once again find themselves in the cross hairs of another war between the United States and China.
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For an element with class="c1 c2" my rule matches fine
However for an element with class="c1 c2 [..other classes]" my rule does not match and the third party's rule does.
How can I get my rule to match over the third party's rule in this case (without knowing in advance of the other classes and without changing the third party's rules) ?

A: The only absolute way to make sure your rule will take precedence over the others is to use the !important keyword:
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yellow due to .c1.c3

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A: if its specific to a single element you could also try using the id attribute as id defined css usurps classes.
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A: Syntax; When using multiple classnames for an set of CSS rules you need to seperate them with an comma.
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You can also use declaration order instead of !important but its more organized to remove the rules from .c1 and .c2 which should be same.


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X Factor Judges were shocked
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Judges Louis Walsh, Nicole Scherzinger and Simon Cowell at the first round of auditions
Howie Mandel's harsh words
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Brendan Cole and Jeremy Edwards on ITV's Lorraine discussing their time on the show so far
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Richard P. Grant
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Floral bouquets are the most ephemeral of presents. The puzzle of how flowers get their shape, however, is more enduring. It's a question that has kept Enrico Coen, a plant biologist at the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom, busy for more than twenty years. Now he thinks he may finally have a handle on the answer, thanks to a clever combination of detailed image analysis and computer modeling—an approach typically applied to engineering problems.
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What would you need to do to grow from a simple starting shape to produce a final snapdragon flower?
—Enrico Coen
Coen and his team first modeled genes controlling different growth rates in different parts of the flower. "Most people would assume that's what genes do," says Coen. But they soon ran into problems. "It wasn't easy to get a good snapdragon out of it," he says, as the model led to swelling in the tubular part of the flower that they couldn't correct. So they tried a new model in which genes also controlled the orientation of growth.
Video: Two different approaches by the Coen Lab for modeling the growth of Snapdragon flowers.
Cells have different molecules at each end, which give them polarity. "It's not obvious," Coen says, "but there's a little arrow in every cell." So in a tissue, if you could see all these arrows it would look like a magnetic field. The researchers suspected that this field of orientations was controlled genetically, so they postulated the existence of tissue-polarity-organizing genes. Once they modeled these, they found that the computer could produce good-looking snapdragon flowers.
It took several years to get to that stage, though, as Coen and his team learned how to use the model and understand the results it gave them. Coen says that thinking of flower formation in terms of a two-dimensional, growing sheet was a new experience for them all. Groping their way around this "very peculiar world" was a slow process, but "extremely satisfying," he says. Only after mastering this could they experiment with the positions and effects of polarity-organizing genes.
F1000 Member Jan Traas, at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, calls Coen's findings a "quantitative framework to describe gene function in terms of geometry." The framework can be used to make predictions about the functions of genes thought to be involved in the generation of flower shape, which can then be tested by making mutants and examining their effects in real plants. Traas notes that these models were not possible 20 years ago, because the computer power was not available.
Researchers at the Coen lab, in collaboration with the nearby Andrew Bangham lab, are developing finite-element methods for modeling the growth and development of curved, two-dimensional tissues such as leaves and petals. This example is exploring the development of wild-type snapdragon flowers (left) and various symmetrical mutants (middle and right).
COURTESY OF COEN LAB
Next, Coen wants to identify the molecular players behind the geometric organization he's modeled, searching for genes and proteins in real flowers. He says that the genes involved are probably already described, but because the infrastructure to study their function didn't exist before, other researchers hadn't appreciated them for what they really were. "We're looking through the literature and thinking, 'Oh yes, that shows the right behavior: they just didn't realize it.'" Coen and his colleagues are also extending the methodology to other tissues, including the leaf, before moving on to models of an entire plant.
The Hidden Jewel refers to an article evaluated in Faculty of 1000 that was published in a specialist journal. You can read evaluations of Coen's article at http://bit.ly/FlowerShape.
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