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Bioversity International est un organisme international de recherche pour le développement créé en 1974 par le groupe consultatif pour la recherche internationale en agriculture CGIAR.

Bioversity agit dans le domaine de la biodiversité afin de favoriser le développement durable de l'agriculture. Il s'agit de l'organisation internationale de recherche la plus importante dédiée à la conservation et à l'utilisation de la biodiversité agricole.

Historique

 1974 : FAO, fut mise en place en réponse à la disparition alarmante de la diversité des plantes cultivées et ainsi assurer un rôle en matière de sécurité alimentaire.
Sa mission première était de coordonner un programme de ressources génétiques (végétales), incluant l'organisation de missions de collectes et l'établissement de banques de gènes au niveau national, régional et international.
 1991 : IBPGR devient l'IPGRI (International Plant Genetic Research Institute), une organisation totalement indépendante dont le siège est situé à Rome. Son rôle s'étend alors de la conservation des plantes cultivées dans les banques de gènes au soutien de programmes de recherche favorisant la conservation de la biodiversité à travers l'utilisation de ressources génétiques dans un but de développement.
 2006 : l'IPGRI (International Plant Genetic Resources Institute) et l'INIBAP (International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain) fusionnent sous le nom de Bioversity International.

Mission
Bioversity est une organisation internationale de recherche pour le développement. Elle apporte des preuves scientifiques et des solutions pratiques ainsi que des politiques adaptées afin de sauvegarder et utiliser la biodiversité agricole pour une sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle durable à l'échelle mondiale. cette organisation travaille avec des partenaires dans des pays à faibles revenus dans les différentes régions où la biodiversité agricole peut contribuer à l'amélioration de la nutrition, de la résilience, de la productivité et à l'adaptation au changement climatique.

Axes prioritaires

Les activités de Bioversity se focalisent sur :
 le développement et la mise en œuvre les stratégies pour la conservation et l'utilisation des ressources génétiques ayant trait à l'agriculture au niveau politique, des systèmes d'information et de la communication ;
 la conservation ex situ, in situ et l'utilisation de la diversité pour certaines espèces d'intérêt telle que le bananier ou les forêts ;
 la gestion de la biodiversité agricole pour une meilleure nutrition et pour le développement durable des systèmes de production ;
 la nutrition et les systèmes alimentaires durables ;
 les services écosystémiques.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Biodiversité, Agriculture
 semence
 banane
 nutrition

Liens externes

 Bioversity International
 Groupe Consultatif pour la Recherche Agricole Internationale

Organisation non gouvernementale internationale écologiste


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The component images for this mosaic were taken on Sept. 21, 2016, during the 4,501st Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's work on Mars. Exposures were taken through three of the Pancam's color filters, centered on wavelengths of 753 nanometers (near-infrared), 535 nanometers (green) and 432 nanometers (violet). The scene is presented here in approximately true color.


NBC's Today Show gets a new host with Hoda Kotb permanently replacing Matt Lauer. Kotb had been filling in the slot since Matt Lauer was fired on November 29, 2017 following accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct at the network. Kotb will now co-host the first two hours of the morning show with Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker will play second fiddle. She will continue co-hosting the fourth hour with Kathie Lee Gifford for time being. This gives Kotb an hour break before the fourth hour show. The Third hour show is current filled with Megyn Kelly's more newsy part of the Today show, named Megyn Kelly Today.
Cooper, Brian Williams and Carson Daly will recover. The last thing NBC needed was to take a chance on another man, who could, at any time, be accused as part of the sexual harassment problem, rather than being part of the solution. This means that the show, for the first time in history, is primarily led by two women, with men taking the lesser roles. The Today Show is a profit machine for NBC which generates huge amounts of revenue for the network, with very low production costs. The recent firing and cast line-up change hasn't hurt the show ratings, in fact it has increased ratings in many demographics leading NBC execs to consider more firings to boost ratings, but this surge may be a one-time deal.


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trailer mix Nov. 12, 2007
'Major Movie Star' Trailer: Jessica Simpson and Steve Guttenberg Together at Last
Tagline: "When you look like Megan Valentine, the world is your cupcake … but everyone wants a piece of your pie!"
Translation: You know, her pie. Get it? It's sexual.
The Verdict: Major Movie Star may be the ultimate Jessica Simpson project. In the film, she plays a bankrupt movie star who — through machinations too stupid to explain in the trailer — joins the military. She gets to play "hot" and "dumb" and "spoiled" and "proud American" all at once, in a film that seems dim and amateurish even by the standards of Disney Channel TV movies. Though the trailer seems to nudge at a sort of self-awareness in the way it mocks her shallow rich-girl persona, the actual meta commentary on Simpson's celebrity comes through in the way every character in the trailer either treats her as a product, berates her for being dumb and lazy, or ogles her Barbie-doll body. It'd be really, really smart if only it weren't so depressingly stupid! Also, Steve Guttenberg is in this thing? Is this what it's come to, Steve? —Matthew Perpetua
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Q: How to apply a function on all rows of a DataFrame I have a dataset as following
data = { "C1": [1.0 , 1.2 , 1.2,  1.30 , 1.29 , 1.30,  1.31] ,
         "C2" :[1.2 , 1.3 , 1.3 , 1.40 , 1.50 , 1.60 , 1.61] ,
         "C3": [1.3 , 1.0 , 1.2 , 1.21 , 1.31 , 1.42 , 1.33] }

data = pd.DataFrame(data)
data = data.T
print(data)

          0    1    2     3     4     5     6
Cell 1  1.0  1.2  1.2  1.30  1.29  1.30  1.31
Cell 2  1.2  1.3  1.3  1.40  1.50  1.60  1.61
Cell 3  1.3  1.0  1.2  1.21  1.31  1.42  1.33

I have a function that finds the non-decreasing sequences in list of numbers. For example if you consider the first row which is
[1.0 , 1.2 , 1.2,  1.30 , 1.29 , 1.30,  1.31]

there are two non-decreasing sequences:
1- [1.0 , 1.2 , 1.2,  1.30] and 2- [1.29 , 1.30,  1.31]

I am using the following function to get these non-decreasing sequences:
def igroups(x):
    s = [0] + [i for i in range(1, len(x)) if x[i] < x[i-1]]  + [len(x)]
    #print(s)
    return [x[j:k] for j, k in [s[i:i+2] for i in range(len(s)-1)] if k - j > 1]

My question: I want to apply function igroups on all rows of my dataframe. How can I do that?
I have attempted solving this problem using apply, for example
dt.applymap(lambda x :  igroups(x))

I know apply function works on cells and not a row and the reason last line of code doesn't work is due to that, I also know that I can solve this problem using loops (which I prefer not to).
The outcome of interest would be something such that there is a new column (new) that has the list of non-decreasing sequences of numbers:
0       1    2    3    4     5     6     7     new
Cell 1  1.0  1.2  1.2  1.30  1.29  1.30  1.31  [[1.0 , 1.2 , 1.2,  1.30 ], [1.29 , 1.30,  1.31]]
Cell 2  1.2  1.3  1.3  1.40  1.50  1.60  1.61  [[1.2 , 1.3 , 1.3 , 1.40 , 1.50 , 1.60 , 1.61]]
Cell 3  1.3  1.0  1.2  1.21  1.31  1.42  1.33  [[1.0 , 1.2 , 1.21 , 1.31 , 1.42]]

A: Use pandas apply with axis = 1. It will apply the function to each row and return a series.
df['new'] = df.apply(igroups, axis = 1)

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Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid icon, Nobel prize winner, dies at 90
Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu of South Africa has died in the early hours of today at the age of 90.
Tutu was famous for his anti-apartheid struggles and was a human rights activist of note, which earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
Tutu, a veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule, died on Sunday after a long battle with prostate cancer.
In a statement on behalf of the Tutu family, the Office of the Archbishop said he "died peacefully at the Oasis Frail Care Centre in Cape Town this morning," without revealing more details.
"Ultimately, at the age of 90, he died peacefully at the Oasis Frail Care Centre in Cape Town this morning," Dr Ramphela Mamphele, acting chairperson of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu IP Trust and Co-ordinator of the Office of the Archbishop, said in the statement.
South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa who also confirmed Tutu's death in a message, said:
"The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa."
READ ALSO: Govt deploys military, as 10 die in South African riots over Zuma's imprisonment
He "distinguished himself as a non-sectarian, inclusive champion of universal human rights", Ramaphosa added.
Tutu was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the late 1990s and, in recent years, was hospitalised on several occasions to treat infections associated with his treatment.
Tutu was often referred to as South Africa's moral conscience and the great reconciler of a nation divided by decades of racist politics.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his non-violent opposition to apartheid and a decade later, he witnessed the end of that regime and he chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up to unearth atrocities committed during the segregation period.
Tutu led numerous marches and campaigns to end apartheid from St George's front steps, and as a result it became known as the "People's Cathedral" and a powerful symbol of democracy, according to the local government.
Tutu was a longtime friend of Nelson Mandela and lived for a time on the same street in the South African township of Soweto, Vilakazi Street, the only one in the world to host two Nobel Peace Prize winners.
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Q: html2pdf special characters not rendered I am using html2pdf library for genarating pdf with bookmarked index. By default it seems to work well for English content but i need to generate content that includes English & Arabic text.  The "aefurat" font seems to work relatively good, except some special characters (', ', ", ", ...) that are rendered as boxes ([]).
The code I used is,
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/../html2pdf.class.php');
$html2pdf = new HTML2PDF('P', 'A4', 'en', true, 'UTF-8', 0);
$html2pdf->setDefaultFont('aefurat');
$html2pdf->writeHTML($content);
$html2pdf->Output('bookmark.pdf');

A Sample content that includes arabic and special chararacters is,

'This is Arabic' "العربية" Example With TCPDF... some text here some
  text here some "text here".

Wondering if I need to use some other font or alter some configurations. Kindly advice me.


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HALLS OF MONTEZUMA
HALLS OF MONTZUMA
(director: Lewis Milestone; screenwriter: Michael Blankfort; cinematographers: Winton Hoch/Harry Jackson; editor: William H. Reynolds; cast: Richard Widmark (Lt. Carl Anderson), Jack Palance (Pidgeon Lane), Robert Wagner (Coffman), Karl Malden (Doc), Jack Webb (Correspondent Dickerman), Reginald Gardiner (Sgt. Johnson), Richard Hylton (Cpl. Stuart Conroy), Richard Boone (Lt. Col. Gilfilan), Bert Freed (Slattery), Skip Homeier (Pretty Boy), Neville Brand (Sgt. Zelenko), Don Hicks (Lt. Butterfield); Runtime: 113; 20th Century-Fox; 1950)
"A more than adequate telling of the standard 1950s hard-nosed war film"
An action-packed WW11 film about marines landing on a Japanese controlled Pacific island and overcoming rocket fire while badly outnumbered. A more than adequate telling of the standard 1950s hard-nosed war film, which is helped greatly by an outstanding cast. From its opening moments, the patriotic "Halls of Montezuma" song is played whenever there is a call for flag-waving. Lewis Milestone, the director of this ode to war film, was curiously enough noted for directing in 1930, one of the most renown anti-war films "All Quiet on the Western Front."
In "Halls of Montezuma," Milestone emphasizes the lives of the characters in the battle-tested 2nd Marine Company, rather than the battle scenes. In some battle scenes real documentary war shots are added to the film action, which gives the film a gritty look.
The respected company leader is Lieutenant Anderson (Widmark), who was a high school chemistry teacher before the war. He has led these marines through Guadacanal and his aim is to keep the seven survivors from his old platoon alive. But there is something noticeably wrong with him — he is having severe migraines. The film uses a flashback to show how the medical corpsman (Malden) has known about Anderson's condition for some time, but he has been asked to keep it private because if the authorities found out he would be sent home and he wants to finish the war fighting with his men. The corpsman feeds him pain killers when the headaches get really bad.
On the boat, before the men land on the beach, Cpl. Conroy (Hylton) asks Anderson to give him a discharge saying that he has mentally cracked after the last battle and is afraid of the up-coming one. Milestone changes the voice tone of Anderson's speech when we are hearing his private thoughts. With the aid of a flashback we see that Anderson while teaching high school, had a student in his class who stuttered. This was Conroy, who through Anderson's help was able to overcome his fear of speaking. With this in mind, Anderson convinces Conroy to not give in to this fear and to carry out his mission. Both headaches and stuttering are caused, according to Anderson, by fear.
After landing on the beach the men meet little resistance, but when they try to take a ridge they are met with heavy machine-gun fire from the pillboxes above. They secure their position after heavy casualties. Lt. Col. Gilfilan (Boone), their commanding officer, orders them to capture some Japanese prisoners rather than trying to kill them. The reason is that they are being attacked by rockets on the island and want to interrogate the prisoners to see if they can get the location of those rockets.
The colonel gets Anderson to take his squad along with a British-born sergeant, Johnson (Gardiner), who speaks Japanese, and he tells them to bring back some Japanese soldiers hiding in a cave. The danger in this assignment is that the Japanese soldier who told them where the Japanese soldiers were, might be leading them into an ambush.
The men from Anderson's company are all the typical stock characters found in these types of films: Robert Wagner is a radio man loyal to his fellow soldiers; Bert Freed is a tough marine private who is battle-experienced, but can't behave properly when there are no battles; Jack Webb is a war correspondent who is writing a book about the war, and is eager to experience a battle; Neville Brand is a tough sergeant who gets blinded, but still believes he is doing the right thing by fighting for his country; Skip Homeier is a troubled boy who doesn't want to be a nobody and is a little bit gun crazy, who joined the marines to become a man; Jack Palance is a boxer in civilian life, who is grateful that Skip saved his life and tries to straighten the kid out; and, Karl Malden is someone who gets shot and writes a patriotic letter that he wants read to the men, stating that America's cause is just and that God is on America's side.
The Japanese are de-humanized, as they are routinely called derogatory names and the officers say "A good Jap, is a dead one." The film doesn't pretend to be more than a routine WW11 war film reflecting the political mood of when it was made, that should be pleasing for those who like simpleminded action flicks. It is well-crafted by Milestone's even-handed direction and it ably presents the men and lets the story build in action after a slow start, so that when some of the men die you at least know who they were.
REVIEWED ON 5/18/2000 GRADE: C+
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Q: ReactJS and Google Places problems in IE9 I am using Google Places in my ReactJS application and IE9 has problems with the way I'm doing this:
Error: only call this function after the script has in fact loaded.

(that's on the first line in places.js)
Later IE versions have no problems (nor has other browsers).
The way I'm loading my Google stuff is that I'm using the ReactScriptLoader.
var ReactScriptLoaderModule = require('../utils/ReactScriptLoader.js');
var ReactScriptLoaderMixin= ReactScriptLoaderModule.ReactScriptLoaderMixin;
var ReactScriptLoader= ReactScriptLoaderModule.ReactScriptLoader;
var googleMapsURL = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.21.10&libraries=places&callback=initializeGoogleAPI';

window.initializeGoogleAPI = function() {
    ReactScriptLoader.triggerOnScriptLoaded(googleMapsURL);
}

This happens in my main App.jsx, before anything else happens. The callback ensures the dispatcher will tell the application Google is ready.
onScriptLoaded: function(){ AppActions.googleScriptsLoaded(); },

I suspect how that is handled is irrelevant here, just want to show what's going on and how I'm thinking with the loading of the script. What I'm thinking is that maybe something happens before the window is completely loaded, or something?
Any tips?

A: In general, my advice is now to avoid the ReactScriptLoader. It's a promising effort, but requires some bug fixes and some better docs. The problem is that calls of the sort:
window.initializeGoogleAPI = function() {
ReactScriptLoader.triggerOnScriptLoaded(googleMapsURL);
}

may happen before the component, which does all the map stuff, is even loaded. And since React frowns on putting JavaScript+script tags in other places such is within JSX, you may have a concurrency problem on your hands, and not just in IE9.
There are two three ways out:

*

*Read what these guys did. Ignore the CoffeeScript stuff:
http://revelry.co/development/2015/02/19/react-google-maps/

*Read this on refs http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/more-about-refs.html

*Read about the simple LoadJS hack on reddit (third comment): https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/37mm70/how_to_render_a_script_tag_in_a_component/
Good luck!


For Charlie & Paulchen, an online shop for finest German stamps and dies, I designed the DIY dressup doll Gerti, as well as some seasonal outfits for her! With stamps, dies and various materials, Gerti can be crafted onto cards.
The fall set "Gerti geht Gassi" (Gerti walks the dog) consists of 24 pieces, such as stamps and dies for pullover, jeans, rubber boots, raincoat, southwester hat, handbag, umbrella with closed and open roof, a dog's cape and some versatile accessories like belt, pockets, trimmings and even a little bow, which you are free to place wherever you please.
All those pieces can be combined freely – and you can even add ribbons, backgrounds, ephemera or whatever else, to dress Gerti always new and different, and to tell all the exciting adventures she experiences this fall!
Under her little coat, Gerti wears classic jeans and a pullover. For the umbrella, there is an opened and a closed version, so that Gerti is well equipped for indoors and outdoors adventures, and for all sorts of weathers!
With the help of those stamps and dies, which are available via Charlie & Paulchen's online shop from September 23rd, unique cards with all sorts of various materials and storytelling can be crafted!
Gerti und Tiger ganz klassisch in Ostfriesennerz, Südwesterhut, Matrosenpulli und Jeans, zum Pfützenspringen!
Gerti und Tiger stadtfein im schnieken Trenchcoat, mit roten Pünktchenmustern und herbstlichem Nieselregen!


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using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing;
using Xunit;

namespace AuthSamples.FunctionalTests;

public class StaticFilesAuthTests : IClassFixture<WebApplicationFactory<StaticFilesAuth.Startup>>
{
    public StaticFilesAuthTests(WebApplicationFactory<StaticFilesAuth.Startup> fixture)
    {
        Client = fixture.CreateDefaultClient();
    }

    public HttpClient Client { get; }

    [Fact]
    public async Task DefaultReturns200()
    {
        var response = await Client.GetAsync("/");
        var content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

        Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, response.StatusCode);
    }

    [Theory]
    [InlineData("MapAuthenticatedFiles")]
    [InlineData("MapImperativeFiles")]
    public async Task EndpointRedirectsToLoginPageWhenNotLoggedIn(string scenario)
    {
        var response = await Client.GetAsync(scenario);
        var content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

        Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Redirect, response.StatusCode);
        Assert.Equal("http://localhost/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2F" + scenario, response.Headers.Location.ToString());
    }
}

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Fish Fry is the very tastiest side dish that nothing can ever beat. It goes very well with Dal, Rasam and Sambar. This is a easy fry recipe with less oil and less ingredients. It needs only 4 ingredients but it tastes very well. It can be made in a less time when we are out of time.
Take Chilly Powder , Turmeric Powder , Pepper Powder and Salt in a bowl and make a smooth Paste with water. Coat all the fishes with the paste.
Marinate For 30 Minutes and put oil on a Dosa tawa and heat it.
Cook one side on a low flame for 10 Minutes and flip over and cook another side and cook again for 10 Minutes on low flame.
Adjust Chilly powder according to your spicyness.
Low flame makes the fish to be cooked on all sides.
You can use any fish you like for frying.


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UNLEYLIFE 31 From the Star Force to Wayville Petra Churcher's life has taken many turns. From Germany to the elite Star Force, Petra now finds herself as General Manager of financial services firm, ipac sa based on Greenhill Road. The journey to get there however is filled with events many could not dream about. Petra moved to Adelaide from Germany as a child, star ting school without speaking a word of English. Af ter moving back to Germany for a period Petra returned and finished her schooling in Adelaide. She joined the police force and was quickly placed on the front line walking notorious strips such as Hindley Street. In 1983 she was one of only six female officers seconded to the Star Force as par t of Princess Diana's and Prince Charles VIP Protection unit on their Adelaide visit. Learning how to jump on grenades was one task Petra remembers clearly. Petra was also instrumental in introducing part-time work for working mothers at SAPOL. Petra then did an about turn and joined the financial services sector working her way up to lead her department at National Australia Bank. Today she spends the majority of her time on Greenhill Road managing more than 50 advisers at ipac sa. Petra has since fallen in love with Unley and couldn't imagine basing ipac sa anywhere else. "Accessibilit y and ser vices, shops and restaurants make Unley a highly attractive place in which to do business. I love how Unley is maintained, not overdeveloped hence maintaining its integrity," Petra said. John, who is a Life Member of the Clarence Gardens Bowling Club, was recognised for his outstanding ser vice to the sport in May when he was inducted into the Bowls SA Hall of Fame. John's first taste of bowls was in 1962 when he joined his local club in Mount Gambier. "I was getting a bit old for cricket so I decided to try bowls and it turned out I had a bit of talent for it," says John. Since then John has continued playing and has volunteered on a club, state and international level. A Life Member of Bowls SA, John has managed many tournaments including the Australian Bowls Carnival in 1983 and the Men's World Bowls Championships in 1996. John served as the Clarence Gardens Bowling Club Secretary for 10 years and was the Club President from 1974-1975. The 88 year old's passion for the spor t is still alive and he can be found on the green t wo or three times a week during warmer weather. John's induction into the Hall of Fame came as a pleasant surprise. "I put a lot of hard work into the management side of bowls," says John. " You don't do it for the recognition but it's nice when you get it." Fame on the green Being invited to Kuala Lumpur to coordinate the bowls events for the Commonwealth Games in 1998 is the highlight of John Jenkins five-decade bowls career. Petra Churcher. John Jenkins.


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Q: View scoped JSF bean is used in multiple tabs I have a simple example in which a JSF bean with view scope is called from different browser tabs
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
      xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">

<h:head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</h:head>

<h:body>
    <h:form>
        <p:panelGrid columns="3">
            <p:autoComplete value="#{testBean.item}"
                            dropdown="true"
                            completeMethod="#{testBean.completeItems}"
                            var="item"
                            itemLabel="#{item}"
                            itemValue="#{item}" />

            <p:commandButton value="submit" update="selectedValue" />

            <p:outputLabel id="selectedValue" value="Selected item: #{testBean.item}" />
        </p:panelGrid>
    </h:form>
</h:body>
</html>

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import javax.faces.view.ViewScoped;
import javax.inject.Named;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.Setter;

@Getter
@Setter
@Named
@ViewScoped
public class TestBean implements Serializable {

    private String item;

    private final List<String> items = Arrays
            .asList("item0", "item1", "item2", "item3", "item4", "item5", "item6", "item7", "item8", "item9");

    public List<String> completeItems(final String query) {
        return items.stream()
                .filter(i -> StringUtils.containsIgnoreCase(i, query))
                .collect(Collectors.toList());
    }
}

When I open the same page in a different browser tab, after selecting a value, I see the selected value from the other tab. I thought a view scoped bean would be created for each browser tab.
I am using Spring Boot v2.5.6, Glassfisch Jakarta Faces v2.3.17 and PrimeFaces v11.0.0
What I am doing wrong?


This tug is one of the most important equipments of bite work trainings. Its material is the toughest by far.
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Okay, so you're leaving work and you've had a long day. For some reason, nothing seemed to go quite right today. You skipped lunch because you desperately needed to complete a project by the end of the day. Now you're finally leaving work -- feeling tired, a tad bit anxious and extremely hungry.
We get it -- you're tired of working out. Who isn't?! To help, we've rounded up some of the best advice we could find to help you fight workout burnout.
Living an active life can also mean living a life on the go. Whether it's your car, purse or gym bag, if you are anything like me, you feel like your whole life is always portable. Over the years, I have discovered what basic essentials every gal needs to keep in her gym bag.
One thing that a lot of people find tricky is trying to maintain their healthy lifestyle and digestion during vacation. I know this isn't glamorous, but for example: One of the major issues many women have told me about their travel woes is being "backed up" -- if you know what I mean -- and it is quite an issue!
One of the things I love about cooking is that I get to experiment with all kinds of seasonings, spices, flavors and oils. A lot of folks, however, are afraid to put too much oil in their recipes, for fear of gaining weight from added calories.
Trekking poles allow support and shock absorption when hiking up steep and rugged terrain, while walking with your hands free allows you to react to falls and grab hold of trees to steady yourself in different situations. Which is right for you?


My name is Erin Hijmans (formerly Loyst) and I am a Humanist wedding officiant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
I am authorized to provide non-religious wedding ceremonies within the province of Ontario. I also perform celebrations of life and child naming/welcoming ceremonies.
You can verify my name (listed as Erin Hijmans) on the Ontario provincial list of registered religious officials (I know, I know…"you said non-religious!" I assure you this is the case, however, the province still classifies all authorized wedding officiants as religious officials, regardless of their religious affiliation – or lack thereof).
Please use the menu in the top right corner to explore my website, thanks for visiting!
I will be taking a short hiatus from ceremonies to prepare for the birth of my first child! I will be accepting bookings for dates after April 2019.
Describe the ceremony you envision.


A storage solution with endless possibilities. The modules can be arranged to create storage walls, room dividers, bookcases, media centers and shoe organizers. Modules with backboards come with brackets for wall mounting.
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Hugo Ortega of Caracol, Hugo's and Backstreet Cafe is once again a finalist for the James Beard Best Chef Southwest award. This is his fifth time to be a finalist. Here, he is with wife and business partner Tracy Vaught, who was a semifinalist in the Outstanding Restaurateur category.
This year, there were more concurrent semifinalists for the annual James Beard Foundation Awards from Houston than ever before, but this year looks a whole lot like last year. Chefs Hugo Ortega of Hugo's and Caracol and Justin Yu of Oxheart are once again finalists. This is the fifth year in a row that Ortega has been a finalist and the third for Yu.
Interestingly, in previous years, Ortega was named for Hugo's, but this year, he was specifically named for his newer coastal Mexican seafood concept, Caracol.
This is chef Justin Yu's third time as a finalist for the James Beard Best Chef Southwest award.
Shut out this year were fellow Best Chef Southwest semifinalists Manabu Horiuchi of Kata Robata as well as Seth Siegel-Garder and Terrence Gallivan of The Pass & Provisions. Hopefully, their names will continue going into the hat in the future.
The same sentiment applies to all the other Houston semifinalists, including Helen Greek Food & Wine for Best New Restaurant; five-time Outstanding Bar semifinalist Anvil Bar & Refuge and the three Outstanding Restaurateur semifinalists who have Houston restaurants — Tracy Vaught (Backstreet Cafe, Hugo's and Caracol), Sam Fox (True Food Kitchen and North Italia) and Ford Fry (State of Grace).
The James Beard Awards will be held on Monday, May 2 at the Lyric Opera House of Chicago. Chef Carla Hall of ABC's The Chew will host.


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Tag / general intelligence
5-alpha-reductase deficiency, aging, america, ancient hominids, clannishness, cognitive neuroscience, de novo mutations, extreme altruism, family types, fertility, general intelligence, genes and autism, genes and cognitive abilities, godwin's law, honor, honor cultures, inbreeding and iq, individualism-collectivism, innate differences between boys and girls, intelligence, ireland, irish, islam, linguistic macrofamilies, linguistics, local evolution, macaques, macaques are people too!, marriage, mental noise, microbes, mtDNA, muslims, native americans, reading ability, recent evolution, religious factor, standard deviation, statistics, the maltese, the maori, tree of life, vikings, wine
'Tree of life' for 2.3 million species released – "A first draft of the 'tree of life' for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes — from platypuses to puffballs — has been released. A collaborative effort among eleven institutions, the tree depicts the relationships among living things as they diverged from one another over time, tracing back to the beginning of life on Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago. Tens of thousands of smaller trees have been published over the years for select branches of the tree of life — some containing upwards of 100,000 species — but this is the first time those results have been combined into a single tree that encompasses all of life."
Taste Mutation Helps Monkeys Enjoy Human Food – nice example of recent and local evolution.
SNP hits on cognitive ability from 300k individuals – from steve hsu.
General Cognitive Ability Is Almost Perfectly Stable from Early Adulthood to Late Middle Age – "[I]ndividual differences in general intelligence that exist at age 18 are almost perfectly preserved to age 60, after which this stability starts to slowly break down." – @ human varieties.
Genome-wide autozygosity is associated with lower general cognitive ability – "We found that increased levels of autozygosity predicted lower general cognitive ability, and estimate a drop of 0.6 s.d. among the offspring of first cousins (P=0.003–0.02 depending on the model). This effect came predominantly from long and rare autozygous tracts, which theory predicts as more likely to be deleterious than short and common tracts." – discuss. (~_^)
Study Reports Rare Genetic Mutations Responsible for Almost Half of Autism Cases – "Quantitative study identifies 239 genes whose 'vulnerability' to devastating de novo mutation makes them priority research targets."
Genetic transmission of reading ability – h/t to the siberian fox! who tweeted: "Heritability of reading ability is 62%. Previous estimates lower because of assortive mating (r=.38)."
Clannishness – the Series: Zigzag Lightning in the Brain – from jayman. see also: a few thoughts. from me! (^_^)
Inequality among 32 London Boroughs: An S factor analysis and The general religious factor among Muslims: a multi-level factor analysis – from emil kirkegaard.
It's official: The Maltese are the fattest in all of the European Union – "Despite Malta's weighty problem, the Maltese have a less than average prevalence of premature mortality from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease." – h/t staffan!
Support for linguistic macrofamilies from weighted sequence alignment – "This article reports findings regarding the automatic classification of Eurasian languages using techniques from computational biology (such as sequence alignment, phylogenetic inference, and bootstrapping). Main results are that there is solid support for the hypothetical linguistic macrofamilies Eurasiatic and Austro-Tai."
Our Mental Noise Grows More Intense As We Age, So Our Brains Lose Processing Speed Over Time
Ancient hominid ears were tuned to high frequencies – "A. africanus and P. robustus could have heard high-frequency consonants associated with the letters t, k, f and s better than either chimps or present-day people do, the team found."
Extreme Altruism – The Case of the Pathological Do-Gooder – from helian.
Personal values and intergroup outcomes of concern for group honor – h/t andrew sabisky! who tweeted: "group honour culture = more empathy, lower openness, more endorsement of violence towards Americans."
Scope Insensitivity in Helping Decisions: Is It a Matter of Culture and Values? – h/t robin hanson! who tweeted: "Contrast to westerners, collectivist Bedouin NOT more willing to help one concrete victim than a group of victims."
Indigenous Belief in a Just World: New Zealand Māori and other Ethnicities Compared – "Māori have more 'leftist' beliefs than non-Māori (i.e., nearly 60% of Māori blame an unfair society compared to 41% of non-Māori)."
Tiny mitochondria play outsized role in human evolution and disease
An architecture for encoding sentence meaning in left mid-superior temporal cortex – h/t steve pinker! who tweeted: "The most important paper in cognitive neuroscience in many years: How does the brain represent who did what to whom?"
Sex differences and stress across the lifespan – h/t kevin mitchell!
Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries – "[A]n expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family formation in the aggregate. Further, we find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the organization of the average family."
What is a standard deviation? A definition. – from pumpkin person.
Data analysis yields striking maps of human expansion in North American Holocene – "[A] group of paleoclimatologists and anthropologists analyzed data recorded in the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD), which aggregates 35,905 radiocarbon samples from archaeological sites across the North American continent, and was created by Dr. Richard Morlan of the Canadian Museum of History. By applying a kernel density estimation method to the data, the researchers produced the first maps of temporally distinct paleo-demographic trends that correspond well to existing evidence of human expansion across North America in the Holocene."
Scientists Discover 9,000-Year-Old Case of Decapitation in the Americas
Remains of 6,000-year-old first settlers [in ireland] found
Archaeological breakthrough could solve the mystery of Greenland's Vikings
Regional microbial signatures positively correlate with differential wine phenotypes: evidence for a microbial aspect to terroir
bonus: Growing a penis at 12: the 'Guevedoce' boys of the Dominican Republic – (O.O) – h/t @don_arete!
and the tweet of the week! (~_^) :
Only some kind of Nazi would test Godwin's Law. http://t.co/F0qNZhtlwI
— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) September 23, 2015
(note: comments do not require an email. 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.)
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African pygmies evolved their short stature twice – "In the rainforests of Africa, being small is so helpful that it evolved twice in separate groups. Luis Barreiro of the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, and his colleagues identified 16 regions of the genome associated with short stature in the Batwa pygmies of Uganda. They then compared these regions in 169 Batwa and 74 Baka pygmies from West Africa. 'In both groups, there was greater variation in those regions associated with being short, but no overlap between them,' says Barreiro. This suggests they evolved their stature independently instead of inheriting the same 'pygmy genes' from a common ancestor."
The strange history of the North American Arctic – "Archaeologists mapping ancient cultures in the North American Arctic — a region spanning present-day Greenland — have long puzzled over how different cultures relate to one another. Now, an unprecedented large-scale genomics study has traced many such cultures to the Paleo-Eskimos, a people who early inhabited the harsh environment continuously for 4000 years, only to vanish mysteriously about 700 years ago. The discovery could change how scientists understand migration patterns in the North American Arctic…. After comparing the ancient and modern genetic data, the researchers found that the Saqqaq and Dorset cultures belonged to one Paleo-Eskimo people, whose genetic lineage continued in the region for more than 4000 years, from 3000 B.C.E. to 1300 C.E., contradicting previous theories that the diverse cultures came from different peoples. The Paleo-Eskimos are genetically distinct from Native Americans and Inuits, which means they represent a separate, later pulse of migration into the New World, says evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, a co-author of the study. This contradicts previous theories that humans arrived in the Americas in three waves, painting a scenario of four waves instead — the Amerinds, the Na Dene Native Americans, the Paleo-Eskimos, and the Neo-Eskimo Thules…. What intrigues researchers most is why the Paleo-Eskimo lineage disappeared after the late Dorsets, around the same time that Neo-Eskimo Thules expanded rapidly to the Arctic. Archaeologists have found no evidence of violent conflict between the Thules and the Dorsets, but it would be hard to ignore contrasts between the two groups. The whale-hunting Thules lived in large, well-organized villages and boasted advanced technologies such as dog sleds and sinew-backed bows. The Dorsets, on the other hand, lived in small villages of 20 to 30 people and hunted with chipped stone blades. The researchers suspect that the Dorsets might have been pushed out to the fringes of the Arctic, or perhaps annihilated by a disease. 'It's just mind-blowing to imagine an entire people who just completely vanished,' Willerslev says." — see also Degüello from greg cochran.
Genetic changes transformed wild rabbits into tame bunnies, DNA study reveals – "When humans domesticated wild rabbits and turned them into pet store favorites, they also changed their genome, a study has found…. The domestication of rabbits happened much more recently than that of cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs, which happened between about 15,000 and 9,000 years ago. Monks in monasteries in the south of France first domesticated northwestern europeans rabbits around 1,400 years ago…. [T]he researches report in the journal Science, small pre-existing genetic variations — sometimes just one letter of DNA code — started to become more common in the animals as they became domesticated. These variations generally didn't affect the genes themselves, but rather acted on the genome's regulatory regions, which are in control of whether genes are turned on or off. 'Wild and domestic rabbits do not differ so much in actual protein sequences, but in how gene and protein expression is regulated,' says Andersson. Among the genes particularly targeted during domestication were those involved in rabbits' brains and nervous systems. That's to be expected, Andersson says, because the differences between domestic and wild rabbits are almost all behavioral, while physical differences are slight…. Domestication of rabbits was made easier because the wild variety is a highly polymorphic species that already possesses many of gene variants selectively enhanced during domestication, the researchers say. That is likely to have been the case with most domesticated species, they say. 'We predict that a similar process has occurred in other domestic animals and that we will not find a few specific genes that were critical for domestication,' Andersson says." — see also: Rabbit genome analysis reveals a polygenic basis for phenotypic change during domestication.
Comparative population genomics in animals uncovers the determinants of genetic diversity – h/t lars penke! who tweeted: "Across species, higher genetic diversity is not predicted by ecology, but by faster life history."
Genome-wide genotype and sequence-based reconstruction of the 140,000 year history of modern human ancestry — "We investigated ancestry of 3,528 modern humans from 163 samples. We identified 19 ancestral components, with 94.4% of individuals showing mixed ancestry. After using whole genome sequences to correct for ascertainment biases in genome-wide genotype data, we dated the oldest divergence event to 140,000 years ago. We detected an Out-of-Africa migration 100,000–87,000 years ago, leading to peoples of the Americas, east and north Asia, and Oceania, followed by another migration 61,000–44,000 years ago, leading to peoples of the Caucasus, Europe, the Middle East, and south Asia. We dated eight divergence events to 33,000–20,000 years ago, coincident with the Last Glacial Maximum. We refined understanding of the ancestry of several ethno-linguistic groups, including African Americans, Ethiopians, the Kalash, Latin Americans, Mozabites, Pygmies, and Uygurs, as well as the CEU sample. Ubiquity of mixed ancestry emphasizes the importance of accounting for ancestry in history, forensics, and health." — don't miss figure 2!
Seals May Have Carried Tuberculosis To The New World — thousand-year-old skeletons from peru suggest seals brought tuberculosis to americas.
Y Chromosomes of 40% Chinese Descend from Three Neolithic Super-Grandfathers – "This observation suggests that the main patrilineal expansion in China occurred in the Neolithic Era and might be related to the development of agriculture."
Blue Eyes Are More Common Than Any Other Colour in Britain – "The Blue Eyes Project has found that although all eyes in Britain were once brown, they are now 48% blue, 30% green and just 22% brown…. The study mapped eye colour across the UK and Ireland and found that Scottish and Irish people are more likely to have blue eyes than in other parts of the UK, particularly the south. Just over a third (35%) of the population of south-west England and 41% in east England have blue eyes, compared to 57% in southeast Scotland…. Blue eyes are the result of a variant in the HERC2 gene, which, when it mutates, switches off the supply of brown-eye forming melanin, researchers say. Green eyes are also a result of this change, because they arise from a combination of the blue variant with brown. The first gene mutation resulting in blue eyes is understood to have occurred in the Baltic region around 10,000 years ago."
Neanderthals in Europe Died Out Thousands of Years Sooner Than Some Thought, Study Says
The Other Neanderthal – h/t billare! who tweeted: "'Denisovans are an example of…how mitochondrial DNA [misleads], & only the nuclear genome tells the full story.'"
Admixture in South African Afrikaners — from razib.
Finland's love of milk dates back to the Stone Age – "A combined team from the Universities of Bristol (England) and Helsinki (Finland) have been examining examples of Corded Ware pottery found in the northern parts of Finland. The pieces examined were cooking pots dated at 3,900 to 3,300 BCE and also approx. 2,500 BCE. Astonishingly the pots from 2,500 BCE contained traces of milk fats. This proved that the inhabitants at that time, despite a climate where it can snow for up to four months of the year, had domesticated animals."
Holding a Mirror to Their Natures – "[U]nrelated look-alikes showed little similarity in either personality or self-esteem. By contrast, twins — especially identical twins — score similarly on both scales, suggesting that the likeness is largely because of genetics…. Personality traits do not appear to be influenced by the way people are treated because of appearance. Moreover, they found, there appears to be no special bond between look-alikes. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University who is also an identical twin, praised that study, saying it went to the heart of what makes people form a bond. 'Even in cases where a person is a dead ringer for another, the natural pull is not there,' Dr. Fisher said, 'which builds the case that there is an underlying biology to kinship.'" — h/t steve stewart williams!
On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits — from steve hsu. h/t richard harper! who tweeted: "cognitive ability gene search requires sample sizes of 10,000 genes across a million persons."
Genes Influence Young Children's Human Figure Drawings and Their Association With Intelligence a Decade Later – "Do genes influence individual differences in this species-typical behavior, and is drawing related to intelligence (g) in modern children? We report on the first genetically informative study of children's figure drawing. In a study of 7,752 pairs of twins, we found that genetic differences exert a greater influence on children's figure drawing at age 4 than do between-family environmental differences. Figure drawing was as heritable as g at age 4 (heritability of .29 for both). Drawing scores at age 4 correlated significantly with g at age 4 (r = .33, p < .001, n = 14,050) and with g at age 14 (r = .20, p < .001, n = 4,622). The genetic correlation between drawing at age 4 and g at age 14 was .52, 95% confidence interval = [.31, .75]. Individual differences in this widespread behavior have an important genetic component and a significant genetic link with g." – h/t rosalind arden!
Differences in intelligence between ethnic minorities and Han in China
The Canadian IQ calculated from the standardization of the WAIS IV eh? — h/t emil kirkegaard (no relation)!
Genome-wide screening for DNA variants associated with reading and language traits
Differences in cognitive abilities among primates are concentrated on G: Phenotypic and phylogenetic comparisons with two meta-analytical databases – "Using meta-analytic databases of ethological observations of cognitive abilities involving 69 primate species, we found that cognitive abilities that load more strongly on a common factor (which is here termed G, in line with the terminology developed in previous literature to describe aggregated measures of general intelligence) are associated with significantly bigger interspecies differences and bigger interspecies variance. Additionally, two novel evolutionary predictions were made: more G-loaded abilities would present (1) weaker phylogenetic signals, indicating less phylogenetic conservativeness, and (2) faster rates of trait evolution, as it was hypothesized that G has been subjected to stronger selection pressures than narrower, more domain-specific abilities. These predictions were corroborated with phylogenetic comparative methods, with stronger effects among catarrhines (apes and Old World monkeys) than within the entire primate order. These data strongly suggest that G is the principal locus of selection in the macroevolution of primate intelligence. Implications for the understanding of population differences in cognitive abilities among human populations and for the theory of massive modularity applied to intelligence are discussed." – h/t erwin schmidt!
The Flynn Effect: A Meta-Analysis [pdf] – h/t jelte wicherts! who tweeted: "IQ [continues] to go up with 3 points per decade. New meta-analysis shows no evidence of diminishing Flynn Effect."
The Elusive X-Factor, or Why Jonathan Kaplan Is Wrong about Race and IQ – @humanvarieties.
Coevolution of languages and genes – "[E]volutionary processes are more complex than simple models of gene-language coevolution predict, with linguistic boundaries only occasionally functioning as barriers to gene flow. More frequently, admixture takes place irrespective of linguistic differences, but with a detectable impact of contact-induced changes in the languages concerned." – h/t jayman!
Does Natural Law exist? – "While certain notions of right and wrong can apply to all humans, much of what we call 'morality' will always be population-dependent. What is moral in one population may not be in another." – from peter frost.
Morality: The Amazing Side-Taking Machine – "If there are so many evolutionary pathways to nice behaviors, and if many animals are cooperative, including bees, bats, hyenas, and monkeys, then perhaps the elaborate paraphernalia of human morality — explicit rules of behavior, moral taboos, moral debates, accusations, impartiality, punishments — are not needed to make people nice. Right? This is exactly what psychological research indicates. Developmental evidence shows that children are nice to people before acquiring adult-like moral judgment. Moreover, when children develop moral judgment, it does not prevent them from taking actions they judge wrong such as lying or stealing. In adults, research shows that moral judgments differ from and can even oppose altruistic motives. Research on hypocrisy shows that people are mostly motivated to appear moral rather than to actually abide by their moral judgments. Research on 'motivated reasoning' shows that people deviously craft moral justifications to push their own agendas. In short, people can be nice without morality and nasty with morality — altruism and morality are independent. In fact, humans are more eager to judge other people than to follow their own moral advice. Moral condemnation of other people's behavior is distinctly, perhaps uniquely, human. So, what is the evolutionary function of condemnation…? People can use moral judgment to assess the wrongness of fighters' actions and then choose sides against whoever was most immoral. When all bystanders use this strategy, they all take the same side and avoid the costs of escalated fighting. That is, moral condemnation functions to synchronize people's side-taking decisions. This moral strategy is, of course, mostly unconscious just like other evolved programs for vision, movement, language, and so on."
The roots of human altruism – "[T]he willingness to provision others varies greatly from one primate species to the next. But there was a clear pattern, as summarized by Burkart: 'Humans and callitrichid monkeys acted highly altruistically and almost always produced the treats for the other group members. Chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, however, only did so sporadically.' Similarly, most other primate species, including capuchins and macaques, only rarely pulled the lever to give another group member food, if at all – even though they have considerable cognitive skills. Until now, many researchers assumed that spontaneous altruistic behavior in primates could be attributed to factors they would share with humans: advanced cognitive skills, large brains, high social tolerance, collective foraging or the presence of pair bonds or other strong social bonds. As Burkart's new data now reveal, however, none of these factors reliably predicts whether a primate species will be spontaneously altruistic or not. Instead, another factor that sets us humans apart from the great apes appears to be responsible. Says Burkart: 'Spontaneous, altruistic behavior is exclusively found among species where the young are not only cared for by the mother, but also other group members such as siblings, fathers, grandmothers, aunts and uncles.' This behavior is referred to technically as the 'cooperative breeding' or 'allomaternal care.'"
Feminist activist women are masculinized in terms of digit-ratio and dominance: A possible explanation for the feminist paradox – "The feminist movement purports to improve conditions for women, and yet only a minority of women in modern societies self-identify as feminists. This is known as the feminist paradox…. We measured the 2D:4D digit ratios (collected from both hands) and a personality trait known as dominance (measured with the Directiveness scale) in a sample of women attending a feminist conference. The sample exhibited significantly more masculine 2D:4D and higher dominance ratings than comparison samples representative of women in general, and these variables were furthermore positively correlated for both hands. The feminist paradox might thus to some extent be explained by biological differences between women in general and the activist women who formulate the feminist agenda."
Global genetic variations predict brain response to faces – "[A] significant proportion of the brain response to facial expressions is predicted by common genetic variance in a subset of regions constituting the face network. These regions show the highest inter-individual variability in the number of connections with other network nodes, suggesting that the genetic model captures variations across the adolescent brains in co-opting these regions into the face network." – h/t razib!
Brain, behavior and genetics – "Regardless of where the science now lies, we know that biology controls behavior. Our actions and thoughts aren't magic, they rely on the biochemistry of neurotransmitters and nerve signals. They have physical substrates that are controlled by our genes…."
The impact of neighbourhood deprivation on adolescent violent criminality and substance misuse: A longitudinal, quasi-experimental study of the total Swedish population — "We found that the adverse effect of neighbourhood deprivation on adolescent violent criminality and substance misuse in Sweden was not consistent with a causal inference." — see also Depraved on account of being deprived? from dr. james thompson.
Does Urban Living Cause Mental Illness? – h/t jayman! who tweeted: "Interview w/ @AmirSariaslan, on his work showing that adverse environments don't cause schizophrenia, & killing GxE."
Daughters provide as much elderly parent care as they can, sons do as little as possible — h/t frau katze!
Honor: The Cause of — and Solution to — All of Society's Problems – "Centuries-old cultural norms don't change overnight…." — gee, i wonder why? (where does culture come from?)
Social sciences suffer from severe publication bias – "Survey finds that 'null results' rarely see the light of the day." – h/t claire lehmann!
Haidt: "Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science" – from steve sailer.
How Do Liberal and Conservative Attitudes About Obedience to Authority Differ? The Surprising Result of My Study — "Together with my collaborators Dr. Danielle Gaucher and Nicola Schaefer, we asked both red and blue Americans to share their views about obeying liberal authorities (e.g., 'obey an environmentalist'). In an article that we recent published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, we found that liberals were now the ones calling for obedience. And when the authorities were viewed as ideologically neutral (e.g., office manager), liberals and conservatives agreed. Only when people perceived the authority to be conservative (e.g., religious authority) did conservatives show a positive bias."
The Kennewick Man Finally Freed to Share His Secrets
Measuring Inbreeding in the Greek Gods — "it seems that Ares has an inbreeding coefficient of 37.5%. This is due to the fact that his parents—Zeus and Hera—are siblings, as well as his grandparents with each other. Zeus has an inbreeding coefficient of 25%." — (^_^)
bonus: Walking fish raised on land mimic ancient evolutionary transition
bonus bonus: Why are all our wagtails vanishing? Scientists baffled by long-term decline of three species in Britain – "The three wagtail species spotted on our shores are the Yellow Wagtail, a farmland bird that migrates to sub-Saharan Africa, and two which largely remain in the UK over the winter, the Grey Wagtail, a river specialist, and the familiar Pied Wagtail. Researchers said the races of both Pied and Yellow Wagtail breeding in the UK nest almost nowhere else in the world…. Sarah Harris, BBS Organiser at the British Trust for Ornithology, said: 'I find it fascinating that three seemingly similar birds, the Yellow, Grey and Pied Wagtail can lead such different lives and face such a variety of challenges. With the UK races of two of these species – Pied and Yellow Wagtails – being largely confined to our islands, these population changes are of global conservation significance….'" – ornithologists are soooo waaaaycist! they make me sick! (~_^)
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Your Ancestors, Your Fate – "The notion of genetic transmission of 'social competence' — some mysterious mix of drive and ability — may unsettle us. But studies of adoption, in some ways the most dramatic of social interventions, support this view. A number of studies of adopted children in the United States and Nordic countries show convincingly that their life chances are more strongly predicted from their biological parents than their adoptive families. In America, for example, the I.Q. of adopted children correlates with their adoptive parents' when they are young, but the correlation is close to zero by adulthood. There is a low correlation between the incomes and educational attainment of adopted children and those of their adoptive parents. These studies, along with studies of correlations across various types of siblings (identical twins, fraternal twins, half siblings) suggest that genetics is the main carrier of social status." – from gregory clark. see also The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility.
Reductionism! Determinism! Straw-man-ism! – " The main problem, it seems to me, is a fundamental misunderstanding of what genetics as a science studies and how it relates to the function of complex systems. The following statements are not contradictory: 1. The function of a complex system emerges from the complex and dynamic interactions between all of the components of the system, in a context- and experience-dependent manner. 2. Variation in single components of the system (or in multiple components) can affect how it functions. Geneticists investigate the second question. Showing that variation in Gene X affects the behaviour or outcome of a system is not the same as saying that Gene X fully determines that behaviour or fully accounts for the entire system. Gene X is just a piece of DNA sitting in a cell somewhere – it doesn't do anything by itself. But a *difference* in Gene X can account for a *difference* in how the system works." – from kevin mitchell.
The Problem with HBD, the Dark Enlightenment, Neoreaction, Alt-Rightism, and All That Jazz – READ THIS! – from jayman (and misdreavus).
There's nothing wrong with looking for 'gay genes' – "The Left loves to tell the Right that it's anti-science, pointing (not without reason) to the correlation between conservative beliefs and a failure to come to terms with the scientific facts of evolution and human-caused climate change. But there's a subtler tendency on the Left; a fear of research into human nature, in case the findings are in some way politically uncomfortable."
Evolution equally efficient in removing deleterious variants in Europeans and West Africans – "…but apparently not in Denisovans who accumulated deleterious mutations at a higher rate than modern humans." – @dienekes'.
Scientists unlock a 'microbial Pompeii' – "An international team of researchers have discovered a 'microbial Pompeii' preserved on the teeth of skeletons around 1,000 years old. The key to the discovery is the dental calculus (plaque) which preserves bacteria and microscopic particles of food on the surfaces of teeth, effectively creating a mineral tomb for microbiomes."
The effect of paternal age on offspring intelligence and personality when controlling for paternal trait level [pdf] – "We examined the effect of father's age at birth on offspring intelligence, head circumference and personality traits. Using the Minnesota Twin Family Study sample we tested paternal age effects while controlling for parents' trait levels measured with the same precision as offspring's. From evolutionary genetic considerations we predicted a negative effect of paternal age on offspring intelligence, but not on other traits. Controlling for parental intelligence (IQ) had the effect of turning an initially positive association non-significantly negative. We found paternal age effects on offspring IQ and Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire Absorption, but they were not robustly significant, nor replicable with additional covariates. No other noteworthy effects were found." – from lars penke.
Reversed hierarchy in the brain for general and specific cognitive abilities: A morphometric analysis – "Here, we analyze gray matter with three morphometric indices (volume, cortical surface area, and cortical thickness) at three levels of the intelligence hierarchy (tests, first-order factors, and a higher-order general factor, g)…. The key finding reveals substantial variability in gray matter correlates at the test level, which is substantially reduced for the first-order and the higher-order factors. This supports a reversed hierarchy in the brain with respect to cognitive abilities at different psychometric levels: the greater the generality, the smaller the number of relevant gray matter clusters accounting for individual differences in intelligent performance." – h/t ben southwood!
A nice bunch of flowers – "The general factor of intelligence is strongest at lower levels of intelligence. It may be a case of 'All neurones to the pump'. When abilities are low, most problems are difficult. In such cases, all resources have to be thrown at the problem. When abilities are higher there is more spare capacity for differentiation of abilities. Brighter persons have a lower proportion of their abilities accounted for by a common factor, even though the have higher absolute abilities." – from dr. james thompson.
GED scores by Ethnicity and Nation – from chuck @human varieties.
The Unfortunately Innate Nature of Intelligence – "You cannot blame people for being what they were born, and you cannot expect them to do what they cannot."
Psychologist on a mission to give every child a learning chip – "Prof Robert Plomin wants educators to take notice of genes, and has a new big idea – personalised learning."
Fruit-loving lemurs score higher on spatial memory tests – "Food-finding tests in five lemur species show that fruit-eaters may have better spatial memory than lemurs with a more varied diet. The results support the idea that relying on foods that are seasonally available and far-flung gives a competitive edge to individuals with certain cognitive abilities — such as remembering where the goodies are."
What Does Our DNA Say About How We Look? – "A biologist aims to profile suspects from genetic material left at crime scenes.' – h/t matthew wygant!
Four Lame Responses to Sam Harris' Moral Landscape Challenge – "Moral emotions, like every other evolved trait, exist because their presence increased the probability that the genes responsible for the existence of those traits would survive and reproduce. Moral emotions, and the associated illusions of the existence of Good and Evil as things in themselves, exist as subjective impressions in the minds of individuals." – from helian.
Free will beliefs and motivation to punish – "In a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Cory J. Clark and co-authors provide evidence that widespread belief in the existence of free will is bolstered by a fundamental desire to punish wrongdoers…. As Clark et al. put it, 'There seems little doubt that the subjective experience of choosing and acting supports people's belief in free will, but our findings suggest another powerful motivating factor: the human impulse to blame and punish. People believe in free will – at least in part – because they wish to affirm that people who do immoral things could have and should have acted differently'."
A small contribution to the free-will thingy – from elijah.
Is there a 'dark intelligence'? Emotional intelligence is used by dark personalities to emotionally manipulate others – "Narcissism and psychopathy increased link between emotional intelligence facets and emotional manipulation." – h/t claire lehmann!
Theory of mind: did evolution fool us? – "Although sophisticated ToM is believed to have high adaptive fitness, broad experimental evidence from behavioural economics, experimental psychology and linguistics point towards limited recursivity in representing other's beliefs." – h/t neuroskeptic!
Creativity and personality in classical, jazz and folk musicians – "[J]azz musicians are more frequently engaged in extracurricular musical activities, and also complete a higher number of creative musical achievements. Additionally, jazz musicians show higher ideational creativity as measured by divergent thinking tasks, and tend to be more open to new experiences than classical musicians. This study provides first empirical evidence that jazz musicians show particularly high creativity with respect to domain-specific musical accomplishments but also in terms of domain-general indicators of divergent thinking ability that may be relevant for musical improvisation." – h/t mary louise cowan!
Migration and interaction in a contact zone: mtDNA variation among Bantu-speakers in southern Africa – "In this study, we analyze complete mtDNA genome sequences from over 900 Bantu-speaking individuals from Angola, Zambia, Namibia, and Botswana to investigate the demographic processes at play during the last stages of the Bantu expansion. Our results show that most of these Bantu-speaking populations are genetically very homogenous, with no genetic division between speakers of Eastern and Western Bantu languages. Most of the mtDNA diversity in our dataset is due to different degrees of admixture with autochthonous populations."
Silver Blaze – "[I]n most parts of Europe, it looks as if modern populations inherited the three EEF/WHG/ANE groups (Levantine farmers, West Hunters and Sibermen) via only two proximate ancestral populations. Europe at the time was almost entirely occupied by Sardinian-like farmers – then another population moved in, one that had about 3 times as much West Hunter as Sibermen." – from greg cochran.
Replacement or continuity? – "Ancient DNA seems to promise a clearer picture because the only source of uncertainty is the age of the skeletal material. Unfortunately, this new method is more sensitive to uncertainty from another source: natural selection. Late hunter-gatherers and early farmers had to adapt to different environments. There certainly was a genetic divide between the two, but did it result from differences in origin or from differences in natural selection?" – from peter frost.
Dystopian diversity – from the awesome epigone.
"I regret studying social anthropology" – me, too. *sigh* – see also the original post.
The parasite that escaped out of Africa: Tracing origins of malaria parasite – "An international team has traced the origin of the second-worst malaria parasite of humans to Africa. The closest genetic relatives of human *Plasmodium vivax* were found only in Asian macaques, leading researchers to believe that *P. vivax* originated in Asia. This study overturns that, finding that wild-living apes in central Africa are widely infected with parasites that, genetically, are nearly identical to human *P. vivax*." – h/t hbd bibliography!
Are Rich People Really That Selfish? – New Queendom.com Study Looks At Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Altruistic Tendencies – "'Our personality impacts every aspect of our life – the choices we make, the people we surround ourselves with, the career we pursue, the way we respond to life experiences, the way we manage our finances, and whether or not we share our good fortune,' explains Dr. Jerabek, president of the company…. [H]ow individuals conduct themselves when they have money has everything to do with who they are as a person. Money doesn't make a person more or less selfish. If you are a genuinely kind and giving person, you'll continue to be that way no matter how many zeros are on your paycheck.'"
Babies born in England and Wales to non-UK born mothers infographic – "Total Fertility Rate in England/Wales by where mother born: 4.3 Afghanistan, 3.8 Pakistan, 3.3 Nigeria, 2.4 India, 1.8 UK."
The Tale of a CRISPR Clone – from razib.
Graft Probe in Scientific Community Widens in Southern China – "A corruption probe has so far snared more than 50 scientists and research administrators in Guangdong, one of China's wealthiest provinces."
Quick Winter Olympics Digit Ratio Note – from sisyphean the mad contrarian.
Scientist proposes revolutionary naming system for all life on Earth – "…a naming convention based on genome sequencing to enhance the way organisms are classified." – h/t super mario!
Burials uncovered in Ireland reflect fusion of Paganism and Christianity – "Excavations at Caherconnell in County Clare, Ireland, have uncovered ancient burials that reflect a fusion of Pagan practices with Christianity. Although it was initially believed that Christianity was well established in Ireland by the 5th Century, the latest finding reveals that Celtic Paganism was not quick to die out." – h/t derek hopper!
The Society of Mutual Autopsy – "The Society of Mutual Autopsy was an organisation formed in the late 1800s to advance neuroscience by examining dead members' brains and to promote atheism by breaking sacred taboos."
Heavy metal bands per 100,000 people – global map.
A Campus More Colorful Than Reality: Beware That College Brochure – h/t conrad hackett! who tweeted: "The whiter the college, the more diversity depicted in the brochures."
bonus: Confirmed: Oldest Fragment of Early Earth is 4.4 Billion Years Old
bonus bonus: Hubble Finds Possible Oldest Object Ever Seen – "The Hubble Telescope's new set of Frontier Fields images includes a galaxy some 13-billion light-years away, which makes it a candidate for the most distant object ever seen."
bonus bonus bonus: Rust Cohle, Guidance Counselor – heh. (~_^)
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Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look
Goodbye, Genetic Blueprint – "What the new field of epigenetics reveals about how DNA really works."
Effects of stress can be inherited, and here's how – "[V]arious stresses can change gene expression without DNA sequence change."
Pre-schoolers prefer same-ethnicity playmates: study – "Along with finger painting and story time, Canadian preschools are also spilling over with ethnic tension, according to a study released by Concordia University."
The mechanics of speciation – on sympatric speciation.
Childhood autism spikes in geek heartlands
Carrying Capacity, IQ – from the occidentalist.
Women really do have a 'gaydar' and can tell sexuality just by looking at a man – "The study by psychologists from the University of Toronto…compared the results to the women's cycles and found those at their most fertile had the most accurate male 'gaydar.'"
What is g?
IQ by religion – from the audacious.
Each Half of the Brain Has Its Own Memory Storage – i hope they consult with each other every now and again. (~_^)


Worry. It's a sneaky thing. Worrying is just a symptom of fear.
It is actually a very comfortable place for your ego personality to hide out. It becomes consumed and distracted running through all the negative possibilities that it can imagine might happen.
It is endless. Once you have developed the habit of slipping into worry, it can become a part of your daily script.
It can become overwhelming and pervasive. I recently heard someone say they were worried about going out shopping because they might get hit by a car…….. !
You can see how far this can go, it can get crazy.
Sometimes having a bit of worry is OK, it could be just a fleeting thought of concern that acts like a warning signal. It's telling you to remember something that could come up later or reminding you to take some other proactive action. This is not really worrying.
The worrying I'm talking about is all consuming. It becomes a filter that you see the world through.
In general worrying is self-indulgent and really very polluting and toxic, first to anyone you are 'worried" about and then especially to yourself.
By worrying about someone, you place a huge burden on that person. You are taking any fears or doubt they may already have and bringing their focus onto it and then they really start to worry and it expands…..
Not to mention how much you are trashing your own energy by focusing on negativity.
And by worrying and thinking about negative possibilities you are actually attracting the negative results you are worried about! You are sending out the vibration of what you don't want instead of what you do want as an outcome.
And that's what you'll get- the exact thing you were worried about!
There is a concept called "Pareto's Principle" or the "80/20 rule". It says that 80% of the things you worry about won't happen and the 20% that do happen won't be as bad as you thought it would be.
So try to remember that.
But how do you shift from living in fear or worry? You need to move up a level or two on the emotional scale. It's difficult to shift in one fell swoop into very high energy level, it is much easier to move up incrementally.
Try this. The next time you feel yourself worrying, sit down and draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper. (This is a variation of an exercise called "Clarity through Contrast").
On the left side, write down what you are worried about (what you DON'T want). You can list several things or just the dominant worry you are having today.
On the right side, write down what you would prefer to happen (what you DO want).
Now go down the list of items, which thought feels best? What you DON'T want or what you DO want?
When looking at what you DO want, try to see how it would look and how it will feel when it happens. It feels better, right? I'll bet much better.
By focusing your attention on the desired outcome and feeling it, you can shift towards new possibilities instead of being mired in limitation.
So the next time you feel yourself slipping back into worry, try to remember what you DO want. Or since it is difficult to stop some thoughts, (you can try saying "cancel!", it works for me) tell yourself I'll think about that later, then when you can, take another look at your list.
Don't let your mind be sabotaged by fear.


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Katakremnismos () war eine Todesstrafe im Griechenland der archaischen Zeit.

Katakremnismos bezeichnet das Herunterstürzen eines Verurteilten von einem Felsen. Der Vollzug der Strafe hatte den Status eines kultischen Opfers, dementsprechend gingen Überlebende solch eines Sturzes als Überlebende eines göttlichen Urteils straffrei aus. Die Strafe wurde in mehreren Stadtstaaten angewandt. Bekannt ist etwa, dass in Athen die Verurteilten in das Barathron gestürzt wurden, in Sparta in den Kaiadas und in Delphi, wo die Strafe wegen hierosylía (Tempelraub) angewandt wurde, vom Hyampischen Felsen. In nacharchaischer Zeit galt die Strafe als besonders grausam.

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  (Digitalisat).
 Gerhard Thür: Die Todesstrafe im Blutprozeß Athens. In: Journal of Juristic Papyrology 20, 1990, S. 143–155 (Digitalisat).

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Rechtsgeschichte (griechische Antike)
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Il Santo di Padova –  Basilica di Sant'Antonio di Padova
Il Santo – romanzo di Antonio Fogazzaro del 1905
Il Santo – soprannome di Gaetano Lipari, personaggio della serie televisiva Squadra antimafia - Palermo oggi
Simon Templar detto Il Santo – personaggio letterario creato da Leslie Charteris
Il Santo – serie radiofonica del 1939 basata sul personaggio di Simon Templar
Il Santo – serie televisiva con Roger Moore basata sul personaggio di Simon Templar
Il Santo – film del 1997 diretto da Phillip Noyce basata sul personaggio di Simon Templar
El Santo – lottatore di lucha libre e personaggio popolare in Messico


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Q: Change size of TD in an HTML table I currently have a table that looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/m7vrXyj.png
I want to move the two textbox TDs right next to TDs left of it (as seen in the image above).
I've already tried things such as min-width and white-space: nowrap, however, nothing has been working. How can I fix this issue? Or is it just impossible?
The code of the table is:

        Name

            <input type="text" name="user" placeholder="Your Name" maxlength="20">

        Email Address

            <input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Your Email Address">

Message

            <textarea rows="10" cols="50" name="message" maxlength="500"></textarea>

A: You're looking for the colspan attribute of TD's and TR's. It defines how many columns should be grouped into one.

        Name

            <input type="text" name="user" placeholder="Your Name" maxlength="20">

        Email Address

            <input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Your Email Address">

Message

            <textarea rows="10" cols="50" name="message"></textarea>

Here's the above example on jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/5Nc6x/


A delegation from One Belt One Road Financial Project Operations office from the Peoples Republic of China headed by Mr Chen Wenying has paid a courtesy visit to the honourable Minister of Youth and Sports development.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr Adesola Olusade, while receiving the delegation, extended the apologies of the Honourable Minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung who was unavoidably absent. He also extended the gratitude and appreciation of the honourable Minister for the visit.
He thanked them for their interest in the developing of the sport of badminton in Nigeria while acknowledging the supremacy of China as the number one badminton playing nation in the world.
The Permanent Secretary, Mr Adesola, speaking on behalf of the Honourable Minister, promised the full support of the Sports ministry towards a successful partnership with a view to developing the game of badminton in Nigeria.
The Permanent Secretary informed the delegation that the democratization of the various sports federations by the Honourable Minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung on assumption of office in 2015 had attracted people with genuine passion into sports.
He commended the President of the Badminton federation of Nigeria, Mr francis Orbih under whose leadership the game of badminton has been growing from strength to strength.
In his response, the leader of the delegation, Mr Chen reiterated their commitment to helping to fund the construction of a badminton gymnasium that will accommodate 10 courts and other facilities.
In his address, the President of the Badminton Federation of Nigeria, Mr Francis Orbih, informed the Permanent Secretary that the visit of the Chinese delegation was a follow up of his earlier visit on the invitation of Badminton federation of China.
According to Mr Orbih, he had whilst on his visit to China secured a memorandum of understanding for players training and a possible window for coaches training. He was also able to secure scholarships and sponsorship for two players who have qualified for the world championships in China.
The President of BFN was accompanied on the visit by, Mr Gabriel Gbayan(BFN board member and Chairman Technical sub-committee) and Ocholi Edicha( BFN board member/players Rep on the board) and former African Champion.
The Badminton Federation of Nigeria is expected to work with the Ministry's technical department to come up with a design which the Chinese will take up and develop further.


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New polling by Public Policy Polling shows that Gov. McCrory's total approval rating has dropped 26 percent in five months.
The first polling results have been released since Republican North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed SB 353, an omnibus anti-choice bill that has the potential to close many of the abortion providers in the state, and the governor's approval rating has taken a hit.
Soon after signing SB 353 into law, the governor brought a plate of cookies out to reproductive rights advocates who were protesting outside the governor's mansion. Of those polled, 57 percent said it "was inappropriate for him to give protesters cookies instead of meeting with them," and only 26 percent considered the move acceptable.