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Flashcards: How to find consecutive integers
What is the sum of all of the four-digit integers that can be created with the digits 1, 2, 3, and 4?
First we need to find out how many possible numbers there are. The number of possible four-digit numbers with four different digits is simply 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 = 256.
To find the sum, the formula we must remember is sum = average * number of values. The last piece that's missing in this formula is the average. To find this, we can average the first and last number, since the numbers are consecutive. The smallest number that can be created from 1, 2, 3, and 4 is 1111, and the largest number possible is 4444. Then the average is (1111 + 4444)/2.
So sum = 5555/2 * 256 = 711,040.
Quantity A: The sum of all integers from 49 to 98 inclusive.
Quantity B: The sum of all integers from 51 to 99 inclusive.
For each quantity, only count the integers that aren't in the other quantity. Both quantities include the numbers 51 to 98, so those numbers won't affect which is greater. Only Quantity A has 49 and 50 (for a total of 99) and only Quantity B has 99. Since the excluded numbers from both quantities equal 99, you can conclude that the 2 quantities are equal.
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How we can use Global Construction 2025 to reinvigorate the industry
By Brian Green2013-07-16T10:44:00+01:00
Last week two reports came out with similar names but very different purposes. But they deserve comment and consideration together.
On the Monday Global Construction Perspectives and Oxford Economics launched its report Global Construction 2025, a global forecast for the construction industry to 2025.
The following day the Government unveiled the Construction 2025: industrial strategy for construction – government and industry in partnership.
Most of the similarities and differences will be pretty obvious on reading, so let's take them as read. What's not as obvious, but is fascinating, is how one can inform the other. What's depressing is how the Government seems not really to have grasped that as fully as it might.
The global construction industry is going through a revolutionary period which seems to have kicked off at the turn of the Millennium. The first few graphs tell the tale.
Since 2000 average GDP growth in the emerging economies, taken as a whole, has been no less than 2% higher than that of the major advanced economies (G7 as they were commonly known) and on average 4.6% higher. During the previous two decades the growth rates were much more closely aligned.
What we know about construction is that it is highly responsive to GDP growth, we see it here in the UK and it is much the case everywhere. This means that construction has been growing at a fantastic rate in the emerging markets since the Millennium.
It's tricky getting consistent comparative data for construction globally. But casting our eyes between the first and second graph reveals the coincidence of acceleration in GDP growth in the emerging economies (red line) with an upward trend in the proportion of GDP going into investment. Much of that will have been construction.
So not only are the economies expanding but an ever increasing share of that expansion would have been in construction
And, as we see from data kindly provided by the Global Construction 2025 team, this asymmetric growth between the developed and emerging economies fundamentally tipped the centre of gravity with more work now undertaken in the emerging markets.
And when we look at the prospects for the future. Graph 5 shows that while construction will grow modestly in the developed nations, it will mushroom in the emerging markets.
Now we could go into details about where and what, but I would suggest that is the job of the Global Construction 2025 report. The simple point I want to make is that this is new, or relatively new in that it has been happening for just a decade or so and for half of that we have been in a blind panic over the global financial crisis and its long-lasting effects.
The Global Construction 2025 team remains bullish about the future path of growth in emerging nations. It believes that growth there, and to a lesser extent in North America, will see the global construction market expand by 70% in the years to 2025.
You can check out the assumptions if you like, but they seem reasonably plausible to me in as much as we can ever know anything about the future and what will eventually shape it.
This rather brings me to the second report mentioned. I will not hide my disappointment. I feel we do rather too much strategising and rather too little research when it comes to construction. But maybe that's my vested interest and general cynicism talking.
The Construction 2025 document launched by the Government makes plenty of nods to the Global Construction 2025 forecast of a 70% expansion in the global market. Quite rightly. It's important.
My gripe, however, concerns how the strategic thinking, such as you can ascertain, is shaped by this information. Was I the only person who felt that the strategy read oddly? Yes it mentions BIM and a few other things that show it wasn't written four decades ago, but it reads as if the 1970s and 1980s transformation of Britain into a post-industrial nation never happened.
Here's an example – the report's take on external trade. Unless my reading is defective, the emphasis is squarely on materials. Indeed one of just four targets was a 50% improvement in exports of construction product and materials.
Now I would be the first to argue that there's nothing wrong with seeking to improve the competitiveness of Britain's construction materials industry and in looking to boost exports.
But such emphasis simply on increasing exports of building materials seems bizarre.
It would be absurd for a high-wage economy such as ours to expect to have a good export record in heavy and relatively low-cost building materials. Meanwhile even for many high-value products it may be more cost-effective to manufacture them abroad while developing and maintaining the intellectual property in the UK. We need only look to Dyson's decision to move production to Malaysia to see an illustration of that phenomenon.
The crude target as set seems disturbingly arbitrary.
It was a bit disappointing that the strategy didn't seem to recognise sufficiently the fantastic efforts being made by the UK's construction consultants in helping to improve the UK's trade balance.
The data are crude, but Graph 6 illustrates just how rapidly UK consultants are building work abroad. And I suspect that later figures will show a continued significant expansion. UK construction consultants have responded impressively to the downturn in the UK, grabbing overseas work to feed staff at home.
Filling the UK design offices with work from overseas would provide an excellent foundation for improving growth, improving the image of construction, for filling and expanding the excellent engineering faculties in British universities, for stimulating new thinking in materials design, for expanding the nation's pool of expertise in smart technologies…need I go on.
If we must freely spray political rhetoric relating to rebalancing the UK economy towards making things, let's be clear that making things is not just about physically putting them together.
Of course we need to improve the construction process at home. We need to find workable solutions. We need more research into what works and what doesn't, when and why.
Sadly, as reading the book Construction Reports 1944-98 makes plain, we seem to expend a huge amount of effort pontificating on the industry's problems every two to five years. We isolate the same problems and imagine we are seeing them for the first time. Sadly this process of strategising seems to find more fault than solutions.
The fantastic expansion of global construction represents a once in a century opportunity for the UK to establish itself as a place of expertise, to exploit a head start and a solid intellectual infrastructure already in place.
Let's pay less attention to winning some notional global race. The key for the UK Government should be to foster great jobs for those who live and work in this country, jobs that will help to preserve and enhance the fabric of the nation and an essential industry – construction.
Making the UK a hub of construction design, planning and innovation would do more to improve the image, increase exports, boost jobs and enhance the reputation of construction in this nation than almost anything I can imagine.
Let's not waste one of the biggest opportunities to reinvigorate Britain's construction industry by navel gazing and missing the main event.
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This chapter is about the Day of Atonement. This is also known as Yom Kippur. It's the holiest day of the year for people of the Jewish faith. Jewish people traditionally observe the day with a roughly 25-hour period of fasting & intensive prayer. This is usually done within the walls of a synagogue. (Wow. I feel like I just learned something. I found this out while doing the research for this.) Enjoy the read.
God spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron's 2 sons (Abihu & Nadab), who died when they approached God. God tells Moses, "Tell Aaron not to come whenever he dang well pleases into the Holy of Holies ("Most Holy Place"), that's behind the curtain/veil (We'll get that veil/curtain later. Believe me, it's a bigger deal than you think.) that's in front of the Ark. If he does come in whenever he feels like it, he's gonna die. Because I appear in the cloud over the Ark."
God then told Moses exactly how Aaron was to enter the sanctuary area. Here's the details: He (Aaron) had to have a young bull for a sin offering & a ram for a burnt offering. He's got to put on the sacred garments (as described in Exodus 28 & Exodus 39) & had to do a ritual bath (The text just says that he had to bathe. But it essentially becomes a ritual bath because Aaron had to do this EVERY SINGLE TIME!) before he put on the clothes. Also from the Israelite community Aaron has to take 2 male goats for a sin offering & a ram for the burnt offering. (This is going get rather complicated. Just to go into the sanctuary/Holy of Holies! Poor Aaron. Just because of his sons. That's what it looks like anyway.)
Aaron had to offer the bull for his & his households sins. Then he had to take the 2 goats & present them before God at the entrance of the Tent (of Meeting). Aaron then had to "cast lots" (Pretty much Aaron had throw dice or play eenie-meanie-minee-moe.) for the 2 goats. 1 lot for God, the other for the scapegoat. (It's exactly what you think. They're going to do some transference to the goat. Call it a transference effigy! Just you watch.)
Aaron then takes the goat who got chose to go to God & sacrifices it as the sin offering. The goat that was chosen to as the scapegoat is to be presented ALIVE before God to be used for making "atonement" by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat. (See. They just transferred all of their sins into the poor goat & then sent it out into the desert! That's some straight up animal cruelty. You're in the desert & you're just going to send out this goat into it. With no water, food, shelter.)
Aaron then brings the bull for his (& his household) own sin offering to make atonement for them. He had to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering. He couldn't let one of his sons (who were also priests) do it for him. He takes the censer (which is like one of those things you see in Catholic services that you see someone swinging back & forth, it's smoking like crazy. That's a censer.) from the altar before God & 2 handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense. He had to take them behind the curtain. He's to put the on fire incense before God & the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the "Testimony" (which is the Ark of the Covenant), so that Aaron won't die!!! (Yep.) Then he does some sprinkling of bull's blood around the atonement cover (So he's sprinkling bull's blood around the veil that separates the Ark from everyone.).
Aaron then slaughters the goat for the sin offering for the Israelites. He had to the blood of the goat & do the same thing he just did with the bull's blood in the previous paragraph. This is how he make atonement for the "Most Holy Place" (a.k.a. the Holy of Holies) because for the uncleanness & rebellion of the Israelites (yes, rebellion. I mean, they can't even keep it together when Moses went to do the 10 Commandments. Golden Bull, sigh.) or whatever they're sins may be. Aaron's to do the same for the Tent, which is among them in the center of their uncleanness. Here's the kicker: NO ONE is to be in the Tent from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Holy of Holies until he comes out. Having made atonement for himself, his household, & the WHOLE Israelite community.
Then he goes out to the altar & does some more bull blood sprinkling on the altar. He does it on the horns of the altar & 7x to cleanse it. And to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.
When Aaron has finished making atonement for Holy of Holies, the Tent, & the altar, he will bring forward the live goat (the scapegoat). He's to lay both his hands on the head of the goat & confess over it all the "wickedness and rebellion" of the Israelites, pretty much all their sins, & put them on the goat's head. Aaron then sends the goat away into the desert in the care of another man (who was chosen for this task). The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a solitary place. Then man will release it in the desert. Then Aaron is to go into the Tent & take off the linen garments that he put on before he entered the Holy of Holies. He's to leave them there. He then takes a another ritual bath, in a holy place & put back on his street clothes (the text says regular clothes/"garments.").
Then Aaron comes out & sacrifices the burnt offering for himself & for the people (2 separate offerings). He's to also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
The man who released the goat as the scapegoat must wash his clothes & take a bath. He then can come back into the camp (where the Israelites made their home). The bull & goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Holy of Holies to make atonement, MUST/HAD to be taken outside of the camp. Their hides, flesh, & offal (the innards, intestines, heart, etc.) are to be burnt up. The man (yes, it had to be a man. Sorry ladies, the ancient Israelites & God seem very sexist here.) who burns these things up must wash his clothes & take a bath. Then he's allowed to come back into camp.
On the 10th day of the 7th month, they had to fast (No eating anything.) & not do any kind of work (No cooking, no cleaning, nothing. A lot of orthodox Jewish to this day will still do this. They'll cook all of their meals the day before the fasting was/is to occur.). This went for everyone, Jews & non-Jews living among them (like servants, slaves, etc. I've always found it weird that the ancient Jews had slaves when they were slaves themselves, at one time.). It was because on this day atonement was made for them, to cleanse them. Then, before God, they were cleansed from all of their sins. It's a sabbath of rest.
The priest who's anointed & ordained to succeed Aaron as high priest is to make atonement. He's to put on the sacred linen garments & make atonement for the Holy of Holies, the Tent, & altar, all the priests, & all the Jewish community.
Atonement is to be made once a year for the sins of the all the Israelites.
Categories Books of the Christian Bible, Books of the Jewish Bible, Judaism, Old TestamentTags Aaron, Abihu, bible, DayOfAtonement, HolyOfHolies, Leviticus, Moses, Nadab, Religion, SonsOfAaron, Spirituality, TentOfMeeting
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NASA's Curiosity rover is in the midst of a four-day brain transplant that will give it the smarts to drive around, use its robotic arm and do all the things it's expected to do over the months and years to come.
The reprogramming marks the transition from Curiosity's space odyssey to its scientific mission. The old software, which helped Curiosity get through its "seven minutes of terror" and land safely, is being phased out. The new software is being phased in — first on the primary computer, and then on the backup computer. During the process, science is taking a back seat.
The switchover is required because of the limitations of Curiosity's onboard memory. There are only about 4 gigabytes available for data storage, said Ben Cichy, the mission's lead flight software engineer. When Cichy described the limitations during a briefing today at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., he made a joking reference to Curiosity teammate Bobak Ferdowsi, the "Mohawk Guy" who stirred up so much Internet buzz this week (and was sitting in the audience during today's briefing).
"My phone has a processor that's 10 times as fast as the processor on Curiosity," Cichy said. "It has 16 times as much storage as Curiosity has, and my phone doesn't have to land anything on Mars. All my phone has to do is follow Bobak's Twitter feed."
The memory limitation comes into play because the rover's hardware had to be certified as capable of standing up to the rigors of space radiation. At the time that the rover was designed and built, going back as far as eight years, Curiosity's computer firepower was considered the state of the art in radiation-hardened electronics.
Fortunately, Cichy said, JPL has a "lot of very, very talented software engineers" who could work out a system for uploading fresh software into the rover's memory during the eight-month-plus flight from Earth, and installing it while Curiosity is sitting inside Gale Crater on Mars. "When they're given a challenge, they solve it," he said.
The new software, known as R10, gives Curiosity the capability to move its 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) robotic arm and use all of its sampling devices, including a drill and a dust removal tool. It also upgrades the six-wheeled, nuclear-powered rover's driving smarts, so that it'll recognize obstacles autonomously and drive around them. That will be a key capability, considering that there's a 14-minute delay in communications between Earth and Mars due to the speed-of-light travel time. Past rovers were occasionally stymied because they encountered an obstacle and had to wait for instructions from Earth.
"Curiosity was born to drive," Cichy said. "So the R10 software includes the capability for Curiosity to really get out and stretch her wheels on the surface of Mars."
Devin Kipp, a member of the entry, descent and landing team for the Curiosity rover mission, gestures while teammates Gavin Mendeck (left) and Steve Sell (right) look on. Kipp said the picture of the spacecraft's working parachute, seen on the screen behind him, was "about the most beautiful picture I've seen in my life."
During the four-day reprogramming operation, Curiosity's science team will be analyzing the images that the rover took of its surroundings at Gale Crater and deciding what the next steps should be. Depending on how the operation goes, Curiosity's science checkout could resume on Tuesday. However, software transitions can be tricky: Shortly after the Spirit rover landed in 2004, a computer glitch took it out of action for two weeks. Fortunately, that rover recovered and went on to send back five years of scientific observations from Gusev Crater. Opportunity, Spirit's twin, is still going strong at Endeavour Crater, half a world away.
Scientists are hoping for even more from the larger and more capable Curiosity rover. The goals of its two-year, $2.5 billion mission are to analyze billions of years' worth of geological history contained in the rock layers of a 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain known as Aeolis Mons or Mount Sharp, and to look for the chemical signs of potential habitability. Although Curiosity isn't designed to detect life directly, its findings could point the way for future life-detection missions.
• The engineers on Curiosity's team for entry, descent and landing — or EDL for short — recapped the story behind Curiosity's seven minutes of terror. Guidance lead Gavin Mendeck reported that the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft weathered accelerations of up to 11 G's during the descent. "If you were a human on board ... it would be a rough ride," he said. The rover landed about a mile and a half downrange of the central aim point, probably due to tail winds and a last-minute maneuver, Mendeck said. "We're still happy where we landed," he said. A more detailed review will be conducted once all of the EDL data is downloaded.
• The mission's project scientist, John Grotzinger, explained why the map quadrangle where Curiosity landed was nicknamed Yellowknife, after the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories. "If you ask what is the port of call that you leave from to go on the great missions of geological mapping to the oldest rocks in North America, it's Yellowknife," he said. Similarly, Curiosity will drive off from its landing site to study what may be some of the oldest rocks on the Red Planet. "It's sort of a tradition that was started here on Earth, and we're trying to do it on Mars," Grotzinger said.
• Curiosity team member Allen Chen said it was a good thing that NASA delayed the launch of Mars Science Laboratory by two years, even though that added hundreds of millions of dollars to the mission cost. "We weren't ready in 2009," he said. "Having that extra time certainly gave us the opportunity to make sure everything was going to work right. The proof is in the pudding."
• The team members said they were gratified by the public response to the mission, but one of the engineers, Devin Kipp, said the "enormous feeling of accomplishment" tasted even sweeter than fame. All of them were clearly taking the public adulation in stride. "I got recognized in the pizza parlor ... that was a little weird for me," Chen joked.
• We featured Curiosity's picture of Mount Sharp as the subject of our "Where in the Cosmos" picture puzzle today on the Cosmic Log Facebook page, and it took mere seconds for Joe Chmill Jr. to tell us that Aeolis Mons is the alternate name for the mountain. (Aeolis Mons is actually the name that's recognized by the International Astronomical Union. Mount Sharp is an unofficial moniker.) To reward Chmill's quick wits and fast fingers, we're sending him a pair of 3-D glasses, as well as red-blue renderings of Aeolis Mons and yours truly. Several runners-up are also eligible to receive 3-D glasses: AZ Ducky, John Mulligan and Ken Mullins. Click the "like" button for the Cosmic Log Facebook page and limber up your typing fingers for next Friday's contest.


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Magnetic resonance imaging of the liver: apparent diffusion coefficients from multiexponential analysis of b values greater than 50 s/mm2 do not respond to caloric intake despite increased portal-venous blood flow
Pazahr, Shila; Nanz, Daniel; Rossi, Cristina; Chuck, Natalie; Stenger, Ingo; Wurnig, Moritz C; Schick, Fritz; Boss, Andreas (2014). Magnetic resonance imaging of the liver: apparent diffusion coefficients from multiexponential analysis of b values greater than 50 s/mm2 do not respond to caloric intake despite increased portal-venous blood flow. Investigative Radiology, 49(3):138-146.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to measure potential changes of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in diffusion-weighted imaging of the liver before and after caloric challenge in correlation to the induced changes in portal vein flow. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was approved by the local ethics committee. Each of 10 healthy volunteers underwent 4 measurements in a 1.5-T whole-body magnetic resonance scanner on 2 different days: a first scan after fasting for at least 8 hours and a second scan 30 minutes after intake of a standardized caloric either a protein- or carbohydrate-rich meal. Diffusion-weighted spin-echo echo-planar magnetic resonance images were acquired at b values of 0, 50, 150, 250, 500, 750, and 1000 s/mm. In addition, portal vein flow was quantified with 2-dimensional phase-contrast imaging (velocity encoding parallel to flow direction, 60 cm/s). Mean ADC values for regions of interest in 3 different slices were measured from b50 to b250 and from b500 to b1000 images. RESULTS: Carbohydrate- and protein-rich food intake both resulted in a substantial increase in the portal vein flow (fasting state, 638.6 ± 202.3 mL/min; after protein intake, 1322 ± 266.8; after carbohydrate intake, 1767 ± 421.6). The signal decay with increasingly strong diffusion weighting (b values from 0 to 1000 s/mm2) exhibited a triexponential characteristic, implying fast, intermediate, and slow-moving water-molecule proton-spin ensembles in the liver parenchyma. Mean ADC for high b values (b500-b1000) after fasting was 0.93 ± 0.09 × 10 mm/s; that after protein intake, 0.93 ± 0.11 × 10; and that after carbohydrate intake, 0.93 ± 0.08 × 10. For intermediate b values (b50-b250), the signal-decay constants were 1.27 ± 0.14 × 10 mm/s, 1.28 ± 0.15 × 10, and 1.31 ± 0.09 × 10, respectively. There was no statistically significant difference between fasting and caloric challenge. CONCLUSIONS: The postprandial increase in portal vein flow is not accompanied by a change of liver parenchymal ADC values. In clinical diffusion imaging, patients may be scanned without prescan food-intake preparations. To minimize interference of perfusion effects, liver-tissue molecular water diffusion should be quantified using high b values (≥500 s/mm) only.
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Pazahr, Shila
Nanz, Daniel
Rossi, Cristina
Chuck, Natalie
Stenger, Ingo
Wurnig, Moritz C
Schick, Fritz
Universitätsklinikum Tübingen Medizinische Fakultät, Tubingen, Germany
Boss, Andreas* Corresponding author


The Late Antiquity and medieval fortress Palmatis near the town of Onogur, Tervel Municipality, in Northeast Bulgaria, which has never been seen archaeological excavations before, is to be excavated for the first time.
Bulgaria's National Institute and Museum of Archaeology, a body of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, has published a new volume of its digest (bulletin) of academic papers.
The local authorities in Bulgaria's Black Sea resort of Balchik are mulling "moving closer to the sea" a well preserved temple of ancient goddess Cybele, which was discovered by accident in 2007.
The city of Stara Zagora in Southern Bulgaria has seen an increase in the number of tourists visiting it largely thanks to its archaeological and historical heritage and the promotion of cultural tourism, according to a senior Bulgarian official.
The Black Sea town of Primorsko in Southeast Bulgaria has started with its own funding the 2016 archaeological excavations of the Ancient Thracian fortress Pharmakida, which was first discovered in the summer of 2015.
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The Museum of Mosaics from the Roman and Byzantine city of Marcianopolis (Marcianople) in the town of Devnya, Varna District, in Northeast Bulgaria, is going to celebrate the 30th anniversary since its opening.
The Regional Museum of History in the western Bulgarian city of Kyustendil has published a new information brochure on the 10th century church "St. George", one of Bulgaria's best preserved and most famous medieval monuments.
A poster exhibition entitled "Bulgarian Archaeology – Past and Present" has been unveiled in Tsaribrod (formally known as Dimitrovgrad), a town in Southeast Serbia historically populated by ethnic Bulgarians.


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Watching Andrew Wyeth's critical life after death play out in real time truly fascinates me. Very little about Wyeth's art can be described in black and white terms, and the way that normally talented critics stumble over these grey areas says a lot about contemporary art criticism and how it makes or breaks certain artists. Although there have been some truly great tributes to the man and his art, most write-ups on Wyeth range from tepidly uninformed to almost defiantly uninformed. For example, The Boston Globe's Sebastian Smee says in "Wyeth's Works Inspired Condescension, Postwar Public," "His finest paintings were lifted out of the ordinary by a haunting sensitivity to the emotional effects of open space. But he also peddled in kitsch. His painstaking technique had something mildly self-congratulatory about it, and the world he conjured was too pristine by half." For Smee, Wyeth was a great technician but lousy chooser of subject material. I don't understand how Wyeth's world could be "too pristine" considering how he depicted poor African-Americans, simple farmers, and even disabled women in their disheveled natural environments with almost brutal honesty. Critics such as Smee simply cannot call upon the same sense of empathy that allowed Wyeth to enter into the world of these people. Wyeth's "world" isn't really "his," it's the world of his models made transcendent through his skill.
A great, yet unfortunately typical offender against Wyeth is Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker. Schjeldahl, winner of the 2008 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, normally speaks and writes eloquently on art. When participating in a recent radio show focused on Wyeth's art and legacy, Schjeldahl admitted he didn't give Wyeth "a second thought," because Wyeth lacked importance in the contemporary art scene dominated by the other Andy—Andy Warhol. In a perfect tautology, Wyeth doesn't get a second thought because he's not important, and isn't important because he doesn't get a second thought. Schjeldahl cites Wyeth Christina's World (above, from 1948), readily at hand for the critic at the MoMA in New York City, as his idea of Wyeth's art. Somehow Schjeldahl decided that one famous work painted 60 years before defined an entire 70-year career. Another prominent anti-Wyeth critic, The Guardian's Jonathan Jones titled his take on Wyeth's legacy in his blog, "Andrew Wyeth's Work Represents the Worst of America." Jones linked the end of the Bush presidency with the end of Wyeth and somehow arrives at the idea that Wyeth's and Bush's worlds are one and the same. "Good riddance," Jones says to both, calling them "retrogressive, short-sighted, and strangely empty and banal." Jones, too, remarks upon Christina's World, recalling how he was "stunned by its triteness" upon seeing it in person for the first time. If Jones had ever studied Wyeth's paintings of the poor, normally unseen and uncelebrated people of America, he would never equate Wyeth with the elitism of the Bush regime. Again, ignorance of the facts has its price, but Wyeth rather than critics pays.
Jones echoed Schjeldahl's modernist prejudice by contrasting Wyeth with his contemporaries, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, whom he sees as courageous in their experimentation. "Wyeth by contrast is the artist of dishonest, selfish, conservative America," Jones concludes. "And no, it is not more complicated than that." Actually, it is. When one of the other critics on the radio show with Schjeldahl mentioned Wyeth's Otherworld (above, from 2002), The New Yorker's award-winning critic admitted that he was unaware of such a work and would be interested in seeing it. Jones and Schjeldahl never took the time to understand Wyeth's "other world," whether it be the classic Wyeth works of rural life or the nearly surreal images such as Otherworld. It's disheartening to think that even such prominent critics refuse to take the time to give Wyeth a "second thought," especially at this important juncture in Wyeth's career, when the general picture of Wyeth as an artist is taking hold for what most likely will be the next generation or two. Ironically, both Schjeldahl and Jones praised a different American as a contrast to Wyeth—Norman Rockwell. Rockwell endured decades of critical mockery before he received the reevaluation that has made it "trendy" and "edgy" today to say that Rockwell's a great artist. Is it too much to ask that the critics learn the lesson of Rockwell's life after death and apply it to Wyeth by reevaluating his work now, thus saving him from the torture of misrepresentation for years? How many other artists have suffered or will suffer the same critical fate? Doesn't the public following these critics deserve better service? Ultimately, Wyeth's fate rests in the hands of those who set the standards for the times. Is it too much to ask for those standard-makers to live up to some standards themselves?
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Well expressed!
I enjoyed your Wyeth blog entry.
I taught art in high school for 33 years and I can still hear myself explaining Wyeth's work to my students. "He is an illustrator not an artists." I also explained away Rockwell's work with same flippant remark.
The abstract expression movement influenced my art and teaching. My teachers and colleagues had no tolerance for mere illustrators. I blindly followed the "arbiters of taste" and ignored the real meaning of art and discounted the "taste of the masses".
I wish I had " lived up to some standards".
Enkidu said...
Bob Bob Bob! Why get involved in a cat-fight with art critics, especially when at least one is just politics masquerading as art criticism.
I first encountered Wyeth, (in reproduction - Christina's World, inevitably) when I was about 12. My first reaction was "why is the woman rolling around in a paddock" , which shows how much I knew. But I was attracted to the starkness and the composition. Having confronted it recently at MOMA I thought it somehow diminished (always imagined it to be larger) and, yes, perhaps a little dull. Still, the anguish of disability does come through.
Surely the point is not whether he was an artist of "dishonest, selfish, conservative America", but how well he portrayed it, how well its essence emerges?
I do like many aspects of Wyeth's work but I wouldn't put him in the top rank and I doubt if he will suffer much torture from re-evaluation, whether good or bad. If he was good he will be remembered, if bad not.
Ron: Don't beat yourself up, we're all followers of fashion! He was also an illustrator, nothing wrong with that.
WelcometoLA said...
I wouldn't worry that critics will get the last word. Just last weekend in Palm Beach, a small Wyeth sold for $5 million. That says it all.
The critics you cited are obviously trend followers, hacks. Suggestion: Get better critics.
Wyeth, I guess you could say that he dealt in "brutal honesty," but filtered through a rather small sentimentality. He dresses up trite ideas in high-fallooten technique, seeming to use his remarkable technical skills to make up for the unremarkability of the ideas.
What is that Otherworld thing? Some kind of stab at something between Norman Rockwell and Edward Hopper? Seems confused to me. You described it as "nearly surreal..." I think the operative word in that description is "nearly," which is what Wyeth is for me, close but no cigar.
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def func():
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After execution I can see the line is empty:
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    "line_no" : "23",
    "line" : "",
    "msg" : "integer division or modulo by zero",
    "function" : "func",
}

What's wrong?

A: The code is passing a str object to linecache.getline.
line_no = str(tb.tb_lineno)
          ^^^

According to linecache.py source code, the passed line number is compared to 1 and total number of line:
    if 1 <= lineno <= len(lines):
        return lines[lineno-1]
    else:
        return ''

Because the lineno is str object, the predicated is evaluated as False in Python 2.x (raise an exception in Python 3.x because comparison between str and int is not allowed)
>>> 1 < '2' < 3
False

You get an empty string.

You should pass an int object.
line = linecache.getline(filename, int(line_no))

or
line = linecache.getline(filename, tb.tb_lineno)

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Q: Creating a Unit Test of a Chunk Tasklet with Mockito I have a Chunk Tasklet with a reader and writer, and I am trying to make a Unit Test for it, but I face multiples issues.
I used the answer of the question below, to help creating my Unit Test:
How define a spring batch chunk in the tasklet with code
Its seems to be the closest to, what I want to make.
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@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class KpiMetricFromCsvFileTaskletTest extends RegistryServiceImplTest {

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("kpiMetricCsvItemReader")
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    @Before
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            }
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*I have two configuration files. One of them contains a reader bean kpiMetricCsvItemReader and a writer bean kpiMetricCreatorWriter.

*In my Unit Test init method, I change the service attribute of my writer to a mock service object, I also mock the context objects, just like in the answer of the link above.

The problem is that, in the testTasklet method, I want to create a Tasklet and execute it, but when I run the program, I get the error:

org.springframework.batch.item.ReaderNotOpenException: Reader must be open before it can be read.

I understand that the file is not opened, but when I launch my Job with Spring Batch, I don't get that error, so Spring should be opening my file by itself.

Now to solve this, I should either manage to open the file for the reader or delegate the creation of the tasklet to something else, that will handle it, but how?

EDIT
Perhaps showing the reader configuration file should help :
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        <property name="resource" value="classpath:${kpiMetricCsvFile}" />
        <property name="linesToSkip" value="1"/>
        <property name="lineMapper">
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                </property>
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A: When used outside a chunk-oriented step, an item reader/writer should be opened/closed manually. So in your case, you need to open the reader yourself before using it to read data.
You can refer to the unit test of the FlatFileItemReader itself as an example.


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Build strong relationships in the country in order to understand and support the needs from functions and to be a competent and trusted business partner.
Lead competence development and succession planning in risk areas in China. Communicate, create awareness, coach and train co-workers to ensure that IKEA intended level of health, safety & security are known and implemented.
Secure that Inter IKEA level of protection is in accordance with applicable health, safety, fire prevention, security and investigation standards in all units and with Inter IKEA intended level of protection.
Conduct compliance checks & reviews on health, safety and security standards (in units relevant for the country), document them, and ensure that actions are implemented and followed up by the responsible.
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Tested: Audi SQ5 Review – Highs and Lows of Today's Technology
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Driving the latest version of Audi's sporting mid-sized SUV, it's very soon that you will see the epic highs and miserable lows of automotive technology currently on our roads.
Let's start with the highs which, ironically, includes the pinnacle of powertrain technology that most European nations will soon be submerging in an electronic version of the primordial slime only for future generations to dig it up and admire the fossilized remains of the excellence of past engineering. The 3.0-liter turbo-charged diesel powerplant has to be one of the best oil-burners I've ever tested.
This work of automotive art combines outrageous performance with creditable real-world fuel economy of at least 37mpg in mixed highspeed and urban use. I can visualize the collective throwing up of hands by the BEV brigade aghast but oblivious of the technology's superior climate credentials for the bulk of the world's nations producing electricity heavily dependent on burning fossil fuel in old inefficient power stations.
Microplastic emissions
True, the engine will never be as healthy for urban dwellers compared to BEVs albeit those heavier battery-boulders will be emitting much more microplastics from brakes and tires much of which can also be inhaled within 50-meters of a busy highway.
So, let's start on that peach of a motor. It's a 3.0 V6 TDI engine which, together with its electric compressor, allows a claimed acceleration for the Audi SQ5 of 0-62mph in just 5.1 seconds. That's thanks to a claimed power output of 415bhp and torque of 516ft-lbs fed through an 8-speed Tiptronic gearbox.
Nice stats but it's on the road that all that instantaneous power really comes into play. The car can 'bend' time just as high-performance sports vehicles have a habit of doing. Journeys end much quicker than expected and over-take maneuvers lose any sense of stress because the driver knows the car will pass and return to its side of the road well before the on-coming vehicle gets anywhere close. Possibly the only sad thing about the engine is that it's doomed to sit in a beefy SUV package when, where it really belongs, is in a rear-wheel drive sports sedan.
Naturally, the rest of the car is typically Audi and typically faultless in terms of quality of build and ergonomic design. Comfortable and airy, the cabin is a joy to be in for all of its occupants backed up by a ride that offers the choice of comfort, automatic or dynamic to tighten up the suspension for those wanting to exploit what they can from an SUV that shouldn't be able to handle that well at speed.
Only one fly stubbornly paddles about in this ointment of excellence – the advanced adaptive cruise control system. I'll hold my hand up and say that there are few of such systems that I'm much enamored of largely because I enjoy driving and do not want the technology interfering when I don't want it.
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I particularly object to systems that take over throttle and brake control, albeit that even some ABS can irritate the hell out of me! However, with the SQ5 my ire is reserved for one particular feature embedded in its Audi Pre-Sense suite – that of speed recognition and automated adjustment to meet the road's current speed limit. To be fair some owners might like this feature although a quick look at SQ5 forums will reveal that many owners do not. Further, several also have experienced the irritating and even dangerous nature of this technology as I have myself.
Cruising through France returning from the Paris Motor Show 2022, several times the vehicle slowed down from its selected cruise speed because it mistook the off-ramp speed limit for the main carriageway's higher speed limit. This became irritating in the extreme and it was only after the trip, and with the help of the forums, that I worked out how this feature can be turned off. However, to make things even more irksome, the driver has to repeatedly disable the function every time the car has been turned off – some, including myself, would see this as a total deal breaker in choosing a vehicle to buy. Why do I feel so strongly? For what ultimately happened on that trip through France.
Cruise control set just below the legal speed limit, my car was approaching two trucks in the inside drive lane as I indicated to pull into the overtake lane. Approaching the trucks, the first one pulled out to overtake the slower one in front.
My car gradually adjusted its speed to suit slowing to about 100kmh before accelerating to return to 130kmh as the truck pulled in after its overtake. Suddenly, the car slammed its brakes in an almost emergency braking maneuver with a car following behind mine having to brake hard too filling my rearview mirror with its proximity. I had to stamp on the accelerator to override the system and avoid a potential collision.
It was only then that I saw a small 60kmh sign, mimicking the legal road sign, stuck on the truck's rear tailgate to advise others of its speed limit in certain situations. So, the car's technology could not distinguish between that replica sign and the highway's actual speed limit. This camera-based technology is obviously not fit-for-purpose with mission-critical automotive functions and owners must be allowed to disable it, if and when they want, without having to scroll through touchscreen display menus.
So, there we have it and, ironically, it's a tragedy that the best technology on the SQ5 is the outgoing diesel ICE powertrain while the automated function above must be revised as a matter of urgency because it is simply too dangerous to trust in all situations.
— Paul Myles is a seasoned automotive journalist based in Europe. Follow him on Twitter @Paulmyles_
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Join the 2018 Grey Matters Planning Committee for an evening to mix and mingle with delegates, as a warm up to the convention. At the Mid Autumn Festival you will learn the Chinese traditional story and have an opportunity to build your own lantern, learn some calligraphy skills, and enjoy additional entertainment and light snacks.
"Johnny Mo" is a two-time World Curling Champion and two-time Olympic Gold Medalist. John recently returned from the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea where he and his partner Kaitlyn Lawes made history by becoming the first ever Mixed Doubles Champions in the Sport of Curling. He also won Gold at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 with the men's curling team.
In addition to his curling career, John has a passion for serving his community as a Firefighter at the RockyView Fire Department. John is also an active member of the Big Hearted Mavericks - a group of 25 dedicated businessmen out of the Calgary area who run various charity events throughout the city. The group has raised over 4 million dollars for Children's Charities since their inception. He is a certified holistic nutritionist and gourmet chef.
Accompanying John will be his father, Earle Morris, a legend in the curling world and a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame. After a lengthy playing career, Earle moved into coaching and has been at it for over 20 years. He has won 6 Canadian Championships. At the World level he has won 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. Earle decided to retire from full-time coaching after the 2016 season and began offering his services to train high performance (HP) coaches. Earle's coaching seminars focus on areas of training that can truly make a difference in team success.
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Dr. David Posen was a family physician for 17 years before devoting his time exclusively to stress management, lifestyle counselling and psychotherapy in 1985.
Stress is a fact of life - but it doesn't have to be a way of life. Bestselling author, speaker and physician, Dr. David Posen, is one of North America's leading experts on stress mastery, work-life balance, health, and wellness. His dynamic presentations have empowered thousands of people to take control of their lives…and come out on top. Combining humour and practical analogies, Dr. Posen helps unlock the mysteries of stress and wellness.
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Tenure-Track Associate or Full Professor of Technology and Public Policy
Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
The Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor in the field of Technology and Policy, broadly construed. We also welcome applications from advanced assistant professors who could be appointed at the rank of Associate Professor. We encourage applications from scholars who study questions related to technology and public policy, including cybersecurity, scientific innovation, artificial intelligence, data science, financial technology, social media, ethical and equitable use of technology, global politics of regulating policy, and more.
The successful candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary hiring initiative at Cornell's new Brooks School of Public Policy. This position is 50% research and 50% teaching and advising. Qualifications: Ph.D. in a field related to Public Policy and/or a field related to public policy or technology.
Review will begin immediately and continue until a candidate is selected. Applications must include: (a) Cover letter; (b) Curriculum vitae; (c) up to three examples of written work(s); (d) Statement of contribution to diversity: https://facultydevelopment.cornell.edu/department-resources/recruitment/contribution-to-diversity/; and (e) Names of three references (final candidates will be asked to submit letters later). Questions about the position and the search can be sent to the search committee chair, Sarah Kreps, sarah.kreps@cornell.edu.
visit https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23587
The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy is tackling complex U.S. and global societal challenges. We develop practical solutions that policymakers and other decision makers can use to improve the health, wellbeing, and prosperity of our population. Cornell University established the Brooks School in 2021 and is positioning it to quickly become a leading school of public policy with expertise in areas that resonate with Cornell's unique strengths as an academic institution, including data science and technology policy. In service to these goals, we seek to hire several world-class public policy research scholars oriented toward policy engagement and impact across a variety of disciplines.
Diversity and Inclusion are a part of Cornell University's heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. We also recognize a lawful preference in employment practices for Native Americans living on or near Indian reservations. Cornell University is an innovative Ivy League university and a great place to work. Our inclusive community of scholars, students, and staff impart an uncommon sense of larger purpose, and contribute creative ideas to further the university's mission of teaching, discovery, and engagement.
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Specialty: Higher Education
Location: Ithaca, New York, United States
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The 2017 Expanda Outback is spacious for a couple or suitable for the whole family.
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You can pick up our van onsite, have it delivered to you, delivered and set up at your chosen caravan site, or taken on your outback adventure of a lifetime. Our van comes with a fully equipped kitchen, all caravan needs such as solar and battery, ground matting and awning shades, storm/privacy covers, ect.
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FCC To Act On Data Roaming In April?
BY Heather Greenfield
Sprint, T-Mobile and associations representing rural wireless carriers are asking the FCC to put action on data roaming on its April agenda. In its National Broadband Plan released almost a year ago, the FCC indicated a need to issue rules on data roaming to make customers' wireless service more reliable and interoperable while preserving consumer choice among carriers.
The FCC already has adopted a voice roaming rule, but data service, which allows customers to email, text message and use apps like Twitter is the future.
Rural wireless carriers have to ensure their customers can still transmit and receive data over their phones when they leave their regular service area. That means reaching a data roaming agreement with AT&T or Verizon, depending on which technology is compatible with the particular smaller wireless carrier. Without a roaming agreement, a rural customer would have to carry (and pay for) one mobile phone to use where they live and another when they cross the boundary into an another town or region.
"This is a consumer issue because they expect their smart phone will work wherever they're going to go," Charles McKee of Sprint told reporters during a news conference Thursday.
Wireless carriers complained during the meeting that sometimes AT&T and Verizon would only offer a roaming agreement to a smaller carrier if they agreed to pay anti-competitive "above retail" rates. T-Mobile, for example, said it still didn't have a 3G roaming agreement with AT&T.
What's making data roaming such a critical issue now is that many of the voice roaming agreements will be soon be obsolete as everyone shifts to new technology to transmit voice calls as data in IP bitstreams.
What this means for rural carriers is they might spend money building out their high speed wireless broadband networks to more areas, only to find that they can't really offer full service to customers if they can't get AT&T or Verizon to enter into a roaming agreement with them.
Another situation further down the road is that the big growth will be in device-to-device wireless technology that customers use. So if someone has a pacemaker and a wireless heart monitor that checks the pacemaker and sends an alarm, the customer would want to be really sure their carrier has a solid roaming agreement.
"If your heart monitor is connected (wirelessly) to your pacemaker, you don't want to worry whether it can communicate because of roaming," McKee said.
Having an FCC rule on data roaming would give the independent wireless carriers legal recourse at the FCC if AT&T and Verizon refuse to enter into a roaming agreement that's reasonable.
Now carriers including T-Mobile, Sprint, the Rural Telecommunications Group and the Rural Cellular Association are hoping leadership from the White House will mean action – and that more members of Congress will realize this is not just an issue a few wireless customers, but a broadband connectivity and jobs issue for whole regions of the country.
President Obama's goal in the State of the Union address was to ensure high speed broadband available to 98 percent of Americans in 5 years. Without roaming agreements that won't be possible.
While AT&T and Verizon are lobbying against data roaming, Senators from rural states, like Sens. Begich, Cochran and Kohl have written the FCC asking the FCC to adopt a data roaming order.
The President of the Rural Cellular Association, Steven Barry, told reporters Thursday that he has provided the FCC with a study showing that if the FCC issued a data roaming rule, it would create 117,000 jobs in the rural areas that don't yet have data roaming.
McKee noted the unusual situation of being in a roomful of wireless carriers which generally oppose all federal regulation. But McKee said the FCC has a duty to take action to make mobile broadband competition possible and preserve consumer choice.
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CCIA Applauds FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on 12GHz Band of Spectrum
Washington– FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has circulated an NPRM to the Commission to consider the best use of the 12GHz band of spectrum. CCIA has supported such an NPRM to leverage this band of spectrum for fifth generation ("5G") wireless broadband purposes. The following statement can be attributed to CCIA President Matt Schruers: "CCIA applauds…
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CCIA Statement On FCC Vote Against Net Neutrality
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CCIA Expresses Concern About FCC Plans To Alter Legal Protections For Services Facilitating Free Speech Online
Washington — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai issued a statement today on liability rules for services that facilitate free speech online, saying he planned to move forward with steps to alter the law in response to a request from President Trump and later the Commerce Department. The rules under Section 230 of the Communications…


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Millennial Food Innovators: How agrilution Is Democratizing Vertical Farming
Guest post by Lorena Galvan, Thought For Food ambassador.
Millennial food innovators are pioneering a better food future from farm to fork. Our Millennial Innovators Uprooting Our Food System series profiles the bright, creative and driven university students from around the world that make up Thought For Food (TFF), a next generation food innovation platform. A global community as well as a summit and business competition, TFF empowers breakthrough solutions to feed nine billion people by 2050. During this month-long series, we will highlight the work of select TFFers who are working to transform our food system.
In our second series post, we interview agrilution co-founder Max Loessl. The germany-based startup has created plantCube, a fully automated vertical farm the size of a dishwasher. Loessl started the company when he was a student at HAS University in the Netherlands after earning funding as a 2013 Thought For Food Challenge participant. He is also the Founder of the Association for Vertical Farming (AVF), a global vertical farming community that aims to propel the development of vertical farming and urban agriculture. His dream is to make vertical farming accessible to the masses and to improve our global food system and feed nine billion people by 2050. Our interview has been edited for brevity.
Thought For Food: What was the inspiration for starting agrilution?
Max Loessl: I've always been interested in the Global Grand Challenges and in my personal opinion solving the food challenge is the most important one. I first came across the topic of vertical farming roughly 4 years ago – through a book called The Vertical Farm written by Dr. Dickson Despommier. I was so fascinated by the concept of vertical farming because it combined local food production with technology. I reached out to the author and he immediately replied to me. We exchanged e-mails and I asked where I could study this technology when he suggested HAS University in the Netherlands. I applied, moved and dove into The Internet and meeting with experts for initial research.
There was a disconnect in that vertical farming had tremendous benefits for so many of the challenges traditional agriculture was facing, but no one really knew about it. I wanted to show people this technology was available and profitable today. Founding agrilution and AVF in early 2013 let me create awareness for vertical farming by democratizing the technology and making it available to the masses.
TFF: What is your background and how has that helped agrilution?
ML: I studied International Food and Agribusiness, it helped me because I got an overview on the global grand challenges and learned the basics of starting a company. Although, in my opinion the biggest learning curve comes when you just start doing whatever it is you have dreamt up. I would say I am outgoing, open, honest and "self-taught" entrepreneur and that has helped me a lot so far.
TFF: Agrilution was selected as a finalist and awarded funding at the 2013 TFF Challenge. What was the TFF experience like?
ML: TFF came at exactly the right time. It made us really sit down and focus on what it is we wanted to do as well as build a real functional prototype to demonstrate our concept. The best thing, however, was meeting the TFF community. It was extremely inspiring to meet so many people from around the world that shared our/my mindset and wanted to improve the way our food system works through innovation and bold out-of-the-box thinking.
TFF: Since participating in the 2013 TFF Challenge you've launched plantCube and successfully raised some funding. And any tips for successful fundraising?
ML: It's taken us almost two and a half years now to develop plantCube from idea to a functional, physical working product. Fundraising always takes way more time than anticipated. Try to get yourself in the situation to be picky with the money you accept and look for someone that believes in your venture and offers more than just money. The best investors are those that offer a network and advice and don't just look for a high ROI.
TFF: Tell us about the Association for Vertical Farming and what can we expect from AVF in the near future?
ML: With AVF, I wanted industry players, universities, experts and entrepreneurs from around the world to be able to connect, share best practices and collaboratively push the technology further. This culture of collaboration has served AVF well, with pretty rapid growth we now have a team of 19 people with regional chapters in the US, China, India and Europe with 57 companies and universities as well as 150+ individuals members.
We organize events, democratize the knowledge of vertical farming and are currently working on an e-learning platform. There are a lot of very interesting projects in the pipeline for 2016 which you can stay on top of by signing up to our monthly newsletter on.
If you are a university student passionate about disrupting our food systems, form a team and submit an idea to the 2015/16 Thought For Food Challenge by December 1. Ten finalist teams will win a trip to the TFF Summit in Zurich, Switzerland, where they will compete for a chance to win up to $15,000 to launch their ideas. Learn more about Thought For Food.
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Fornjótr è un personaggio della mitologia norrena. Descritto come un gigante, e associato alle tempeste, fu padre di Ægir, Kári e Logi. Il significato del nome non è chiaro, potrebbe derivare da forn "vecchio" e jótr gigante, o potrebbe essere for "antico" e njótr "distruttore". Fornjótr è anche, secondo una particolare genealogia, il più antico antenato conosciuto di Guglielmo I d'Inghilterra e antenato di molte famiglie nobili europee e islandesi.

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Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga 2011/2012 var den 100:e säsongen av österrikiska högstaligan i fotboll. Sturm Graz var inför säsongen regerande mästare men man lyckades inte försvara titeln, istället tog Red Bull Salzburg hem mästerskapstiteln.

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