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Fostering higher production and inclusive opportunities in Georgia
Potato is a mainstay of the Georgian diet, eaten almost daily and used in traditional dishes such as kartopilis kinkali (potato dumplings). Georgians consume an average of 55 kg of potatoes annually, but farmers have trouble meeting demand due to average yields of only 12 tons per hectare (compared to the 30-40 ton yields common in Western Europe). It's hardly surprising that Georgia imported USD 3.5 million worth of potatoes in 2020.
To address this dilemma, the International Potato Center (CIP) has partnered with USAID, farmers, the private sector, the Georgian government and civil society organizations, to execute the Georgia Potato Program. This four-year initiative uses a gender-responsive, socially-inclusive approach to promote innovations and improved agronomic practices to expand Georgia's potato sector – sustainably and profitably!
In less than two years, the program has helped more than 2,300 smallholders adopt innovative technologies and farming practices and reached more than 1,700 – about a third of them women – through online workshops. Almost half of the participants in 2021 were women, and most beneficiaries increased their yields by 225-263% by using quality seed potatoes and good practices, the program also facilitated the evaluation of three high-yielding, disease-resistant potatoes recommended for release as varieties that will further boost production.
While the Georgia Farmers' Association (GFA) created a Potato Council to advance issues related to the crop, the Program helped farmers create a Potato Producers' Network (PPN), which is becoming a cooperative. Though small, the PPN is growing, and, given that half its members are women, that growth will be more inclusive.
"Women play a significant role in potato production and need information about innovations and good practices as much as men do," observes PPN member Nestan Vibliani. "As women become more involved in potato farming, their knowledge and experience are growing. This will allow them to earn better incomes, which means their families will become financially stronger," she says.
Priming productivity
The principal cause of Georgia's low harvests is that most farmers plant low-quality seed potatoes. Farmers in countries with high potato yields regularly purchase disease-free seed potatoes from specialized producers, but Georgia has never had a commercial seed potato sector. The country imported 600 tons of seed potatoes in 2021, but most farmers still plant locally-sourced, low-quality seed.
The Georgia Potato Program is working with agricultural businesses and smallholder farmers to catalyze quality seed production while aiding Georgia's Science Research Center for Agriculture to develop an effective seed certification system. One groundbreaking achievement was the inauguration of a model seed farm in Akhaltsikhe, in southern Georgia, managed by the PPN and the private company Rural Advisory Service Ltd, with support from GFA and CIP. The farm is equipped with an in-vitro lab, two greenhouses, and 4.5 hectares of irrigated plots. The staff applies a mix of hydroponics, aeroponics and apical cuttings to produce disease-free foundation seed used to grow certified seed potatoes. The farm produced 22 tons of foundation seed in 2021, that its staff and 640 smallholder farmers – half of them women – used to grow commercial seed potatoes. The farm's irrigated plots are expected to produce 150 tons of certified seed in 2022, with a market value of approximately USD 155,000.
To raise farmer awareness about the importance of quality seed, the Program coordinated 200 seed potato demonstration plots on small farms – 53 of them managed by women. Young farmers are also capitalizing on the opportunity. Twenty-five year old Giorgi Khitarishvili planted quality seed for the first time in 2021 and produced 33 tons per hectare – almost three times the national average yield!
Seeds of empowerment
Whereas the average size of Georgia's male-headed farms is 1.3 ha, the average size of female-headed family farms is only 0.77 ha. To help women farmers overcome such disadvantages, the Potato Program helps a growing number of women to produce quality seed, which sells for higher prices than table potatoes.
In 2021, 11 women were trained in producing apical cuttings, used to grow disease-free seed potatoes. They became members of a Seed Potato Multiplier Unit, certified by the Science Research Center for Agriculture. Their goal is to produce two million rooted apical cuttings in 2022, which should be enough to provide 10,000 farmers with quality seed potatoes.
Khatuna Bolkvadze, a widowed mother of two young girls, explains that producing apical cuttings has provided her with needed income and alleviated the sorrow she felt since her husband passed away. "The moment I started working in the greenhouse, I felt a strong sense of responsibility, because I know I'm helping other farmers improve their production," she explains.
Bolkvadze and hundreds of other women and men trained under the Program are helping build the foundation of a national potato seed sector with potential to transform the production and livelihoods of the Georgian farmers.
Funders: CGIAR Trust Fund donors; Republic of Austria; United States Agency for International Development.
Key partners: Georgia Farmers Association; Javakheti Agro Company Ltd; Marneuli Agro LLC; Rural Advisory Service Ltd; Science Research Center for Agriculture/ Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, Georgia.
Associated CGIAR Research Program: Roots Tubers and Bananas.
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Installing QIIME 2
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QIIME 2 can be installed natively or using virtual machines. The following pages describe how to install the :ref:`core-distribution` in either scenario.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   native
   virtual/index

.. _core-distribution:

QIIME 2 Core 2017.5 distribution
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The QIIME 2 Core 2017.5 distribution includes the QIIME 2 framework, ``q2cli`` (a QIIME 2 command-line interface) and the following plugins:

- ``q2-alignment``
- ``q2-composition``
- ``q2-dada2``
- ``q2-deblur``
- ``q2-demux``
- ``q2-diversity``
- ``q2-emperor``
- ``q2-feature-classifier``
- ``q2-feature-table``
- ``q2-phylogeny``
- ``q2-quality-filter``
- ``q2-taxa``
- ``q2-types``

.. note:: The QIIME 2 Core 2017.5 distribution includes plugins and interfaces that are developed, maintained, tested, and distributed by the QIIME 2 development team. The Core distribution is necessary to run the commands in the :doc:`QIIME 2 tutorials <../tutorials/index>`. If there are additional QIIME 2 plugins or interfaces you would like to install, please consult the relevant package(s) documentation. Other types of distributions may be made available in the future in addition to Core.

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https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/tr376abs
Study Reports
Abstract for TR-376
Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of Allyl Glycidyl Ether in Osborne-Mendel Rats and B6C3F1 Mice (Inhalation Studies)
CASRN: 106-92-3
Chemical Formula: C6H10O2
Synonyms/Common Names: Allyl 2,3-epoxypropyl ether; 1-allyloxy-2,3-epoxypropane; 1,2-epoxy-3-allyloxypropane; glycidyl allyl ether; ((2-propenyloxy)methyl)oxirane; 1-(allyloxy)-2,3-epoxypropane
Report Date: January 1990
FULL REPORT PDF
Allyl glycidyl ether is used as a resin intermediate and as a stabilizer of chlorinated compounds, vinyl resins, and rubber. Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies were conducted by exposing groups of Osborne-Mendel rats and B6C3F1 of each sex to allyl gylcidyl ether (greater than 97% pure) by inhalation for 6 hours per day, 5 days per week for 2 weeks, 13 weeks, or 2 years. Genetic toxicology studies were conducted in Salmonella typhimurium, Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, and Drosophila melanogaster. Studies of reproductive effects were conducted in rats and mice exposed to allyl glycidyl ether for 8 weeks.
Two-week studies
Exposure concentrations ranged up to 500 ppm in rats and 100 ppm in mice. All rats that were exposed to 500 ppm died; no deaths occurred at the next lower (200 ppm) exposure concentration. All male mice and 3/5 female mice exposed to 100 ppm and 2/5 male mice and 1/5 female mice exposed to 50 ppm died. Compound-related lesions in rats and mice included acute inflammation of the nasal passage and major airways.
Eight-week studies of reproductive effects
Rats were exposed to 0-200 ppm allyl glycidyl ether, and mice were exposed to 0-30 ppm, 6 hours per day, 5 days per week for 8 weeks. The mating performance of exposed male rats was markedly reduced; however, sperm motility and number were not affected. No deficiencies were seen in the reproductive performance of exposed female rats or male or female mice.
Thirteen-week studies
Exposure concentrations ranged up to 200 ppm for rats and 30 ppm for mice. All rats lived to the end of the studies. The final mean body weights of male rats exposed to 10-200 ppm were 7%-24% lower than that of controls. Clinical signs attributable to irritation of the upper respiratory tract and eyes were seen in exposed animals. Histologic lesions included squamous metaplasia of the nasal passage in all exposure groups (4 ppm, lowest concentration) and involved both the respiratory epithelium and the olfactory epithelium. The lesions were more severe anteriorly and dorsally and with increasing concentration. At 30 ppm and higher, erosion was seen in the nasal passage and squamous metaplasia was seen in the upper airways.
There were no compound-related deaths in mice. The final mean body weights of mice exposed to 30 ppm were 12% lower than those of controls for both males and females. Mice exposed to 10 or 30 ppm allyl glycidyl ether had squamous metaplasia of the nasal passage, involving both the respiratory epithelium and the olfactory epithelium, which tended to be more severe in the anterior and dorsal portions of the nasal passage. In mice exposed to 30 ppm, epithelial erosions were also found.
Two-year studies
Body weights and survival
Two-year studies were conducted by exposing groups of 50 Osborne-Mendel rats and B6C3F1 mice of each sex to 0, 5, or 10 ppm allyl glycidyl ether by inhalation for 6 hours per day, 5 days per week for 102 or 103 weeks. Mean body weights of the exposed rats were within 8% of those of controls throughout the studies. Mean body weights of mice exposed to 5 or 10 ppm were 5%-20% lower than those of controls. Deaths were seen in all groups of male rats beginning at 1 year of age (final survival-- control, 12/50; 5 ppm, 11/50; 10 ppm, 8/50). Survival of female rats was not exposure related (24/50; 30/50; 25/50). Exposed mice had slightly increased survival (male mice: 38/50; 39/50; 46/50; female mice: 33/50; 42/50; 41/50).
Nonneoplastic and neoplastic effects
In male rats exposed to 10 ppm allyl glycidyl ether, three apparently unrelated neoplasms of the nasal passage were found. Two neoplasms, a papillary adenoma and a squamous cell carcinoma, appeared to arise from different cell types in the respiratory epithelium. One poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma in the olfactory region was also found. One papillary adenoma of respiratory epithelial origin was found in a female rat exposed to 5 ppm. Exposure-related nonneoplastic lesions of the nasal passages in rats included inflammation, squamous metaplasia, respiratory metaplasia (replacement of olfactory epithelium by ciliated epithelium), hyperplasia of the respiratory epithelium, and degeneration of the olfactory epithelium. In male mice exposed to 10 ppm allyl glycidyl ether, a hemangioma and three papillary adenomas were present in the nasal passage. In female mice exposed to 10 ppm, a hemangioma and an adenoma were found in the nasal passage. Nonneoplastic lesions of the nasal passages in mice included inflammation, squamous metaplasia, hyperplasia, basal cell hyperplasia, dysplasia of the respiratory epithelium, and metaplasia of the olfactory epithelium. In male mice, there was an exposure-related decrease in the incidences of hepatocellular neoplasms; in female mice, there was a decrease in the incidences of pituitary gland adenomas.
Genetic toxicology
Allyl glycidyl ether was mutagenic in S. typhimurium strains TA100 and TA1535 with and without exogenous metabolic activation; no mutagenic activity was observed in strains TA98 or TA1537. Allyl glycidyl ether induced sister chromatid exchanges and chromosomal aberrations in CHO cells both in the presence and the absence of metabolic activation. A significant increase in sex-linked recessive lethal mutations was recorded in the germ cells of male D. melanogaster fed a sucrose solution containing allyl glycidyl ether, but no increase in reciprocal translocations occurred in these cells.
Under the conditions of these 2-year inhalation studies, there was equivocal evidence of carcinogenic activity of allyl glycidyl ether for male Osborne-Mendel rats, based on the presence of one papillary adenoma of respiratory epithelial origin, one squamous cell carcinoma of respiratory epithelial origin, and one poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of olfactory epithelial origin, all occurring in the nasal passage of males exposed to 10 ppm. There was no evidence of carcinogenic activity of allyl glycidyl ether for female rats. One papillary adenoma of the respiratory epithelium was present in a female rat exposed to 5 ppm. There was some evidence of carcinogenic activity of allyl glycidyl ether for male B6C3F1 mice, based on the presence of three adenomas of the respiratory epithelium, dysplasia in four males, and focal basal cell hyperplasia of the respiratory epithelium in seven males in the nasal passage of mice exposed to 10 ppm. There was equivocal evidence of carcinogenic activity of allyl glycidyl ether for female mice, based on the presence of one adenoma of the respiratory epithelium and focal basal cell hyperplasia of the respiratory epithelium in seven females exposed to 10 ppm. The sensitivity of the assay to detect potential carcinogenicity may have been reduced in male rats because of poor survival in all groups.
In exposed mice, body weights were decreased 10% or more, mortality was decreased, and there were lower incidences of liver neoplasms (males) and pituitary gland adenomas (females) compared with controls.
Significant exposure-related nonneoplastic lesions were restricted to the nasal passage in both rats and mice and induced inflammation, metaplasia, respiratory epithelial hyperplasia, and olfactory epithelial degeneration. Basal cell hyperplasia and dysplasia of the respiratory epithelium of the nasal passage were found only in the mice.
TR-376: Data
Target Organs and Levels of Evidence for TR-376
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"Yes to Europe means no to debt pooling"
As so often in the crisis, German tabloid Bild has captured a hugely complex debate - on the possible pooling of present and future liabilities among eurozone members - with a snappy illustration, depicting Merkel's 'rock solid' resistance to the idea after she said that "there will be no shared total debt liability for as long as I live".
Merkel's stance is warmly endorsed by former Handelsblatt editor Gabor Steingart who in a front page op-ed, under the headline "Nein! No! Non!", compares Merkel to a lioness and argues that her firm denouncement of debt pooling was the "best moment" of her Chancellorship, adding that "this is the Merkel that one wishes to see more often". He adds that:
"Now she has to explain to our friends at the summit that that it helps no one if Germany passes the fruits of its labour around liberally. It is actually the other way around: 'Yes' to Europe means 'No' to Barroso's ideas. The replacement of the main components of the market economy – work and effort – with consumption and credit has led us to where we are today… Europe needs to roll up its sleeves and not a parasitic philosophy, where everyone aspires to the wealth of their neighbours."
That's pretty strong.
However, for its part Bild does also cheekily notes other 'famous last words', such as DDR leader Erich Honecker's assertion that the Berlin Wall would stand for 100 years or former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's claim that his people loved him.
But still, a good illustration of how far away Germany still is from nodding through grand schemes for debt pooling.
Labels: Bild Zeitung, debt-pooling, germany, Merkel
It's all theatre and all fiction. How is anything they propose going to deal with the fatal flaw in the euro, that the PIIGS are completely uncompetitive and will remain that way ass long as they are in the Euro. The problem is simple and staring us all in the face but the Briusselsand EU idiots won't admit it so the inevitable crash may be further postponed but will be much worse for the postponement.
Well, Germany has been defeated by Italy, and Spain. And of course this means the tax payer will also have to buy the Irish banks and give the money back to the Irish state.
Wait to see if the German constitutional court will join in the celebrations.
No, the euro hasn't been saved yet
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Funding needs of Spanish banks could top €110 bill...
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Via Commodore C64, Atari ST, TT and Falcon I finally started using Linux with S.u.S.E Linux 11/94.
My first larger open source project was gnocl, a GTK+ and gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It is now maintained by William J Giddings.


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Seals forced to dive off cliffs after teens throw rocks at them
While the abuse is happening, one teen was seen filming the whole thing on her phone, probably hoping it would capture some social media attention.
NSFW Aww! Animals!
NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND — A group of teens in England's northeast were caught on camera throwing rocks at seals.
Posted by St. Mary's Seal Watch, three teens moved a warning sign on St. Mary's Island Nature Reserve near Newcastle before approaching a seal, then began throwing rocks at the poor animal.
The seal got so scared that it dived off a cliff to escape into the water. Once it got away, the group began to throw more rocks at other animals.
One teen filmed the whole thing on her phone, and St. Mary's Seal Watch shared the video on their Facebook page, saying it happened at about 9 p.m. on June 9. The group stressed that this was not to shame anyone in the video but to highlight the problems the wildlife faces on the reserve.
The Seal Watch group went on to explain that, without protection, St. Mary's Island Nature Reserve is not safe for the wildlife.
St. Mary's Seal Watch also urged visitors to report anyone they see ignoring signs or causing similar harassment of wildlife.
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College/dual credit courses are presently offered through Missouri Baptist University. MBU credits cost approximately $85.00 per credit hour, in addition to the regular CHS tuition prices. Students must have a cumulative 3.0 GPA to be eligible to take these courses. See course description for possible teacher recommendation and PLAN/ACT score requirements.
AP courses are offered at CHS. A testing fee ($91.00) is due early in the second semester. Students may receive college credit based on a score of 3 or above on their AP test in May (score requirements set by individual colleges/universities). Test results are received in July.
Students who learn differently may receive assistance in one or more subject areas. Fees for these services depend upon the level of assistance provided.
(a) Students must earn 1 credit for each year of attendance at CHS. If a student transfers in, it would be less.
(b) The State of Missouri requires students to pass a test over the Missouri Constitution and the U.S. Constitution. U.S. History is also required by the State of Missouri. Civics will be required for the Class of 2013 and beyond.
(c) Students may only receive 1 credit with a P.E. waiver in order to meet this requirement.
(d) College bound students should take at least 2 credits of a foreign language.
(e) All students will be responsible for accumulating community service hours each year they are enrolled at CHS.


Somewhere between a loveseat and a club chair lies the impossibly cuddly hybrid known as a chair-and-a-half. Despite their unparalleled coziness, they are not widely popular, which may be due to their uncommon dimensions. Too big to substitute for a chair and too small to replace a traditional living room sofa, they occupy a unique niche and fill a very particular set of needs. Read on to discover whether a chair-and-a-half might be just what your space could use.
1. Let there be light. In this open-concept living and dining space, a sofa by the back window wall would have blocked the entire lower third of the windows, while two standard armchairs wouldn't have filled the space. Using two chairs-and-a-half instead gives the room a more open and flexible feel that invites circulation around the chairs and provides access to the views.
2. Fireplace favorite. Merge easy conversation with fireside lounging and napping by facing two chairs-and-a-half toward each other instead of toward the fire. To many people, a seat by the hearth is the ultimate domestic luxury, and enlarging the fireside furniture is one way to enhance that feeling to its extreme. This type of furniture is ideal because, unlike a larger loveseat or sofa, it offers a more intimate cocooning effect while still providing ample room to stretch out, curl up or change positions at will.
Alternatively, you might pivot two chairs-and-a-half toward the fire so that you and your significant other can spread out lazily in your own oversized bliss. The chair-and-a-half is, by definition, wider and deeper than a standard club chair, making it perfect for tucking your legs underneath you or extending them onto an ottoman. If you prefer a firmer sit with your feet firmly planted, however, you may want to think twice.
3. Conversation starter. A conversation pit consisting of four armchairs facing inward around a central coffee table is a classic furniture arrangement. The chair-and-a-half takes the comfort of this arrangement to the next level, allowing four couples to snuggle and toast by the fire all at once. That's a whopping eight people seated comfortably in a fairly normal-sized room — no grand salon needed here.
4. Pair with a grand sofa. When you have an extra-long sofa and a large room, it can be a challenge deciding what furniture to pair with it. Enter the chair-and-a-half. Since they're about 50 inches wide each, spacing two of them 8 inches apart will mirror the length of a 9-foot sofa. Varying the height of the furniture and contrasting a tufted piece with non-tufted upholstery will add even more interest and break up the large masses of furniture in the room.
5. Movie theater magic. If ever there was a more suitable piece of furniture for TV and theater viewing, I haven't discovered it. A rounded chair-and-a-half is commonly known as a "cuddle chair" because of how well it embraces two people and enmeshes them into each other. This convivial media room allows each family member to cheer for the home team or enjoy a flick without having to share the remote.
6. Add it to your reading list. That same curved cuddle chair is a top choice for avid readers who want to lounge in luxury but only have a small corner of the home to work with. Its proportions make it easier to sneak into a room than a long, rectangular chaise, which often commands its own floor space and several feet around it. Any piece of furniture that allows itself to be "tucked" somewhere is surely the ideal book lover's lair. All you need is some soft throw pillows to prop yourself up and a good lamp.
7. Stylish slumber. Chairs-and-a-half are so great for napping, you might be inspired to recruit them to the bedroom, where they'll be a welcome retreat at the end of the day. Many models are built with twin-size sleepers inside, but these two beds appear to be made from high-back chairs-and-a-half that have been cleverly repurposed as headboards.
8. Dining room duo. A wider dining table can accommodate a chair-and-a-half at its ends that can serve as a host and hostess chair in one. However, because of their size and the difficulty of sitting upright in them, they might be better for show than for daily use.
9. A natural outdoors. One of the most common places to see a chair-and-a-half is outside. Outdoor-furniture makers have picked up on our collective desire to bask in the sun for hours and have long been designing cushioned chairs-and-a-half to accommodate us.
They look perfect for curling up while reading. When it's time to replace the recliner I believe that's going to be the answer. And, I like recliners.
The best for reading with a toddler or two!


Las Lomitas Elementary School District board member Diane Honda says that reports that she advocated arming teachers during a March 14 school board discussion are not true.
While no one from The Almanac attended the meeting, the next morning the contents of two different sets of notes taken at the meeting were shared with The Almanac by members of the school community who expressed concern that Ms. Honda seemed to be supporting arming teachers.
When contacted after the meeting, Ms. Honda said the comments attributed to her were merely hypothetical questions she had asked. "I would never arm teachers," Ms. Honda said.
Even if board members did want teachers to carry guns, state law would have to be changed first. Under California's Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1995, only law enforcement officers and trained security guards may have guns on the campus of any public or private school; the law has very limited exceptions. That law was not mentioned at the school board meeting, officials who were there say, which may have amplified what they characterize as a misunderstanding.
The Las Lomitas board had two agenda items prompted by the recent Parkland, Florida, school shooting. The agenda of the March 14 board meeting, which was held the day students nationwide staged anti-gun violence walkouts, included a discussion of school safety and the wording of a resolution the board might pass honoring those killed in Parkland and encouraging safer schools.
Ms. Honda said the confusion began when the two sample resolutions were brought up and board member John Earnhardt proposed that their resolution should say that guns should never be allowed on campus.
Because neither sample resolution before the board had such a statement, Ms. Honda, an attorney, says she asked a series of hypothetical questions. She told The Almanac that she asked: "What are you suggesting?" Would Mr. Earnhardt consider having an armed guard on campus if the district had received "a credible threat?" Would a teacher who was retired from law enforcement and had a permit to carry a concealed weapon be allowed to do so on campus?
"The only opinion I expressed was: I would never put a gun in the hand of someone who didn't want it, and I would never put a gun in the hand of a teacher," she told The Almanac.
Superintendent Lisa Cesario said that while the resolution will not be voted on until the next board meeting, board members reached a consensus that they "would like to make a statement to honor the Parkland shooting victims and in support of greater measures to promote school safety."
The resolution Ms. Cesario said the board will consider at its next meeting contains the statement: "Arming school staff is not an effective solution for ending gun violence on school campuses."
Ms. Honda said she supports that sentiment. "I don't think you arm school staff," she said.
School board President John Earnhardt confirmed that while "there were some hypotheticals that were discussed" at the meeting, "no one on the board advocated arming teachers."
The school boards in the Menlo Park City School District and the Portola Valley School District have recently passed similar resolutions honoring the Parkland victims. The Menlo Park district resolution also stresses the importance of mental health services and both emphasize school safety.
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Q: How to update a database table data from an PHP array? I need to update the information of a mysql table database from a php array.
I'm looking for the best approach to do this, what I want to do is to update an existing database table with new information, this means that there could be new rows, the existing rows could have new values in their fields, or rows deleted.
The approaches that I am thinking are:

*

*Erase all the data and rows from the current table and insert again all the rows with the most updated data provided by the php array. But I don't know if this is an expensive approach or indeed it is used.

*Another idea that I have is that maybe I could check if the field values from the rows had changed and if it is the case update then the values, also check the order of the rows to check if some rows were deleted and the order changed, and lastly insert new rows if it is the case, but i think this get really tricky and messy.

What do you think? Some ideas for the better approach?
Thanks for your support.

A: The DBMS can do this for you. Just use the command:
  'INSERT INTO table ({target list}) VALUES({values}) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE val1={value} , val2={value},...'

A: You can use INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE to INSERT new rows and UPDATE existing rows.
Example:
INSERT INTO t1 (a,b,c) VALUES (1,2,3)
  ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=1,b=2,c=3;

You have to build DELETE statement using some trick in php.
Example:
<?php

$data = array(
    array( 'a'=>1, 'b'=>2, 'c'=>3 ),
    array( 'a'=>4, 'b'=>5, 'c'=>6 ),
    array( 'a'=>7, 'b'=>8, 'c'=>9 ),
);

$condition = implode( ',', array_map( function($temp){return sprintf("('%s','%s','%s')",$temp['a'],$temp['b'],$temp['c']);},$data));
$sql = "DELETE FROM t1 WHERE (a,b,c) NOT IN (" . $condition . ");";
echo $sql; // DELETE FROM t1 WHERE (a,b,c) NOT IN (('1','2','3'),('4','5','6'),('7','8','9'));

// OR

$condition1 = implode( ',', array_map( function($temp){return sprintf("'%s'",$temp['a']);},$data));
$sql1 = "DELETE FROM t1 WHERE a NOT IN (" . $condition1 . ");";
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Quiz: Can You Guess A Sitcom From A 'Jeopardy'-Style Answer?
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A genie is rescued and falls in love with an astronaut.
The Clampett family from the Ozarks move to Beverly Hills after they strike oil and become millionaires.
Best friends, roommates, and polar opposites work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee.
Seven people get stranded on an uncharted tropical island together.
A man and his sons who become a family with a woman and her three daughters.
A witch who twitches her nose to cast spells falls in love with a New York ad exec.
Two single girls need a roommate to share their Santa Monica apartment.
Two lovable young boys cause trouble for their parents Ward and June.
Members of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital care for the injured during the Korean War.
A loudmouthed bigot, his wife and their daughter all live in a working-class home.
A Milwaukee man owns a hardware store in the 50s.
A sheriff and his son live in the small town of Mayberry, North Carolina.
An attorney defends dozens of falsely accused people and manages to clear each and every one of them.
The patriarch of a ranching family live and work in Ponderosa, Nevada.
A lawyer and his socialite wife move to a rural farm.
Three women fight crime for a private detective agency in Los Angeles.
A wacky wife and her Cuban husband live in New York and try to break into show business.
A thirty-something single woman moves to Minneapolis and works for a TV news station.
Do you love Jeopardy just as much as you love old school television shows? Then we've got the perfect test for you! How many shows of the small screen can you name? Only someone who is savvy about classic TV shows will recognize all of these plot descriptions and be able to match them to the correct show titles!vHow well do you really know the biggest shows of 40s through 90s television? Do you remember all these iconic TV programs? As the decades go by, it becomes clearer and clearer that they just don't make television like they used to. In fact, we think the Golden Age of television was the 1940s through the 1990s. Think you can identify the following programs based on a Jeopardy style answer: I Dream of Jeannie, The Beverly Hillbillies, Laverne and Shirley, Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, Bewitched, Three's Company, Leave It to Beaver, MAS*H, All in the Family, Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Perry Mason, Bonanza, Green Acres, Charlie's Angels, I Love Lucy, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show? Do you know what show featured the Clampett family from the Ozarks moving to Beverly Hills after they strike oil and become millionaires? What about which show featured three women fighting crime for a private detective agency in Los Angeles? Or what about which show featured a witch who twitches her nose to cast spells falls in love with a New York ad exec? Sound familiar? Great! Let's see what you've got! We know you can get a coveted perfect score! Best of luck on this ultimate Jeopardy style TV trivia challenge!


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Wolany – kolonia w Polsce położona w województwie mazowieckim, w powiecie żuromińskim, w gminie Siemiątkowo.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość należała administracyjnie do województwa ciechanowskiego.

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DePauw University congratulates Shelby Lutz from West Harrison, on being named to the fall 2018 dean's list.
Alexis Schoenefeld of Lawrenceburg was named to the dean's list at Rochester Institute of Technology for the 2018 fall semester.
Sunman-Dearborn Schools will hold kindergarten registration the week of April 1.
Submitted photo: Pictured are Jackson Matthews, Kooper Witte, Isabel Pearson, Brayden Hurelbrink and David Mahan, referee.
Two local robotics teams will represent our area at the VEX IQ Challenge at Lucas Oil Stadium on March 9.


BBC News wished to do a piece that remarked upon the 50th anniversary of the visit of NS Savannah to Southampton, and other places in the UK during her big European tour, and to that end this last week contacted me (since I'm the Communications Director for the N.S. Savannah Association) to find out some facts and history.
I spoke to Justin Parkinson on the phone for something over a half hour, I think; he was well informed, and enthusiastic. I put him in touch with another member of the NSSA, Stan Wheatley, who was Chief Engineer of the ship when it went to the UK, because it was desired to speak to someone actually on board during that historic visit.
Although BBC didn't use all the material we spoke or sent, their piece came off quite well, I believe, and is a good example of the level sort of reporting that nuclear in general is getting these days over there.
•Click here to see the BBC article.
Oh - by the way. The photos on this piece that are credited "American Nuclear Society" were taken by me for the two articles we did on the ship. The illustration of the prospective UK nuclear powered ocean liner is mine, and will eventually be part of the NS Savannah Association collection.


Knight Piésold completed developmental environmental studies, environmental, social and biodiversity in the Onshore exploitation areas in the Neuquén Basin. Knight Piésold contemplated the development of environmental, social and biodiversity based studies for the area of Estacion Fernandez Oro.
More than 15 external specialists and 6 KP staff professionals attended the magnitude of the project, for 10 months.
Preparation of specific environmental studies to describe the physical, biological and socioeconomic environment, with their respective environmental components.


As a Producer(Engineer) I have been involved in productions with/for many Artists, Projects and Companies. Big and smaller Music-Acts, a lot of my own Projects. Sometimes as an Artist and sometimes more like a Ghost. I'm known for my creative Vocal-Design and my well engineered sound. I can handle to full process of a Production and bring it to a professional Level, from the first idea to the final Master.
I have a ton of cool Songideas in the drawer and I want to bring them to life and out there. Good Stuff is comin' :) If you're interested check my SocialMedia for news.
From the very beginning on I wanted to sound my Stuff as good as possible and I never wanted to be dependent on anyone else for that. So I put a lot of energy and time into being the best Audio-Engineer that I can be. Over the years I managed to gain a lot of experience working in different fields and Studios. At this point I have spent close to 20 years working in professional Audii while being 33. I regularly work for different Companies/People performing tasks like recording, mixing, mastering, editing and basically everything else that involves creating and enhancing Audio. 'Bad Sound kills good Ideas' - So let's make sure that doesn't happen!
I always wanted a Studio with a comfy feel and a High-Ends setup. Basically a Chill-Room stuffed with awesome Music-Toys and Tech. A Playground for myself and the performer in the Recording-Room. Also a little Style doesn't hurt :) - Welcome to the semCity!
I decided to make a full Restart. So in the last days of 2016 I started packing up the Tech and tore the old Studio to shreds. With nothing more than the Idea I started rebuilding and then later… planing :) While working fulltime as an Engineer in different Studios pretty much all of my free Time went into the building my new Studio. 2 Rooms were redesigned, renovated and treated acoustically. Next to that I completely reinvented the technical Setup. I designed a custom Table specified to my needs, tested Speakers, installed a new Computer, Interface…. Basically I upgraded all the Hardware/Software and even added some nice Instruments and DJ-Tools. I tried tons of new PlugIns, optimized Software and Sample-Libraries. To make this short(er): It took me about 2 years to build my dream Studio :) Thanks to hard work and the help of many friends I can now welcome you to the all new "semCity" Studio! You can find some pictures of the process on my Instagram.
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I have spent thousands of hours recording Vocals for pretty much everything. Music, TV-Shows, Movies, Audiobooks, Videogames, Radio, Jingles, DJ-Sets... I know how to create a clean, cut Vocalsound, perfect for further processing.
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Baltimore, 1962. Tracy Turnblad is a big girl with big hair and big dreams. Can she make it on the local TV dance show, win the heart of teen heartthrob Link Larkin and bring everyone together – whatever their colour, size or hairdo? Well if you want a change, you've really got to shake things up!
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As I've aged I've come to appreciate unique gifts or purchases. Gone are the days when I would head into a pyjama shop and knock folks off my Christmas list all in one shopping trip. It came to me in my mid-30s that personalized gifts matter more than the price tag.
Shocking isn't it, it actually took me that long! These days I enjoy browsing slowly through antique stores or artisan galleries with my husband, leisurely hunting down fabulous gifts for friends and family. As a woman who is online as much as I do, I was searching for an online alternative to my beloved shopping when a friend recommended I check out MyUrbanWare.ca.
my urbanware is a online marketplace for high quality, rare products made by Canadian artisans. We save you time by making it easier for you to source modern, stylish products at affordable prices. Many of our products are handmade, one of a kind or recycled with prices that compete with mass produced goods. All of our products are made by Canadians. You know who made your product as we highlight each of our artists on the product page and throughout the website. We hope you enjoy your visit and see you again soon!
See that…it's online shopping but it's unique products which are made by Canadian artisans! Nice, now I can support artists, fellow Canadians and score some very special items.
Catch up with the folks at My Urban Ware oneline by visiting their profiles on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.
Join us on Wednesday November 6th at 9pm EST for the #MyUrbanware Twitter Party. Win over $300 worth of great prizes and support some fantastic Canadian designers! Head over HERE and enter your Twitter profile url to RSVP.
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I like the purple winter infinity scarf.
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I really like the Coloured ribbon candle holder. It's very neat.
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I would put the Light and Texture Mirror on my wishlist–it is beautiful.
The Urban Shopper Tote is definitely on my with list?
My favourite is actually the Casual Leather Clutch, but if I were to win it (and thus not have to wish for it anymore!) then I would add the Euro Leather Satchel to my wishlist.


Spiritual Musings: What is Your Legacy?
I was given a copy of The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe (http://amzn.to/2ljM7LR) last summer. I hadn't heard of Mr. Schwalbe or his mother and wasn't sure about reading about death. But I was out of interesting books to read when I ran across it in a pile, so I started reading it.
As I read it, I fell in love with how Mary Ann Schwalbe raised her three children and work successfully in many different high profile roles. She the kind of life I would love to be and gave back to society and across the world. One of her pet projects was seeing a library was built in Afghanistan. She was diagnosed with panarctic cancer in 2007, I think it was, so her middle son, Will, and she decided to share what she taught him most: share their love of reading.
In the two or three years she had left, they chose books to read together and they discussed them during her chemo treatments. Many of the books they discussed, I had not heard of, but am interested in finding so I can read them, too. A few of them, I had read, like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It interesting to read they enjoyed that book, whereas I was less taken with it.
All through The End of Your Life Book Club, I found myself reflecting on my own life, and how it would be so different if I had believed in myself more and not allowed others who discouraged me. If I had not listened to my mom who said others knew more than me.
One of my goals in my youth was to be able to give back to others. To set up funds for groups to aid in organizations, like helping with literacy, and creative endeavors. Mary Ann Schwalbe could help with many originations. She left a legacy behind and many people benefited from her social fundraising and love of seeing others benefit from books and libraries. Of course, she had the financial ability as well as the social connections to assist with her raising the money.
Mrs. Schwalbe did not look back with regret. Nor did she allow the times she was raised in prevent her from living life to the fullest. The more you give to others, the more others will give back to you.
As I read this book, I thought back to the deaths of my own parents, wishing I could have been there and be able to forgive as well as have those last few years or days with them, with a clear understanding of what they had given me and what the really wanted me to learn. So much time I lived in anger and resentment that they did not allow me to be the person I wanted to be. So often, I felt judged, strangled and like I could not move. As I look back, perhaps I was also strangling myself by keeping my own anger and resentment in front of me, living the past instead of learning to let go, forgive and create a new life for me. I kept my mom's fear as my own fear, instead of recognizing it was her fear and I did not have own it.
It is true, not all of us are blessed with the ability to travel the world and help in refugee camps, like Mary Ann Schwalbe, but we can find local areas to volunteer at that can make a difference.
Let go. Share your love of books with others. Share your life with your parents, if you still have them. Open your heart to your spouse and your children. Give your favorite books to your children and grandchildren. Encourage all to read and discuss them. Give back to others any way that you can.
This is one amazing read, if you're looking for some motivation and would love to get this to my GF who is fond of reading some good stuff.
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Review of Frogkisser! by Garth Nix
Frogkisser!
by Garth Nix
Scholastic Press, February 2017. 372 pages.
Starred Review
This one's fun. Garth Nix, the author of dark and mysterious tales of necromancy in the Old Kingdom has here taken a light-hearted and more traditional route. In a tale peppered with cleverness and delightful twists on tropes, we meet Princess Anya, whose wicked stepstepfather wants to take over her sister Morven's kingdom.
He's her stepstepfather because he married her stepmother. The stepmother "was expected to be quite evil but mainly turned out to be a very enthusiastic botanist." But Anya's father died a year after marrying the stepmother, and her stepmother married Duke Rikard.
So the girls had two stepparents. Their stepmother the botanist wasn't a huge problem, but as it turned out, their stepstepfather was evil and wanted to be the king. Though Morven should by rights be crowned when she turned sixteen, in three months' time, it was fairly certain Duke Rikard would somehow prevent this from happening.
Anya's adventures begin when Duke Rikard transforms the current prince Morven's in love with into a frog. But then he jumped into the moat with thousands of other frogs. Morven gets Anya to make a Sister Promise that she'll find him. Anya makes a magical dowsing rod with the help of Gotfried, their castle librarian/sorcerer, to figure out which frog is Denholm, using hair from Morven's locket.
But when she brings the frog to Morven, her sister refuses to kiss a frog. Fortunately, Gotfried has one dose left of Transmogrification Reversal Lip Balm. This works best when a princess uses it, so now Anya gets to kiss the frog.
But when Anya does so, the frog turns out to have been a different former love of Morven's, not Denholm. And then her stepstepfather, who notices someone has tampered with his spell, decides to send Anya to a distant land to school, and he's got a new prince for Morwen who Anya realizes is a transformed magpie – with no actual family or kingdom to help Morwen take her rightful place as queen.
Anya does manage to find Denholm, in the hands of the local frogcatcher. But then consultation with the Royal Dogs convinces her the time has come for her to go on a quest.
"You can't hide away," the elder dog informed Anya. "You can't even go back to the castle now. It is time that you sought help against the Duke. He grows in strength and power, and he clearly feels he can move against you and Morven now. This is your Quest: to find those who can help you defeat the Duke."
When Gotfried gives her a copy of the spell for the making of "Fairly Reliable Transmogrification Reversal Lip Balm," Anya gives in and adds to her quest a search for the ingredients to the spell, which include witch's tears, a retired druid's blood, and feathers fresh-pulled from a cockatrice's tail.
Along the way, Anya collects allies – but many of those have also suffered transmogrification. Anya will get their help if she promises to reverse their transformation once she makes the lip balm. And so she assembles a motley crew. Once the heralds give her the name Frogkisser, her reputation spreads. When she finally assembles the ingredients, Denholm manages to break free and get into a pond with many other transformed frogs – so the Frogkisser name is apt.
This book is full of silly fun, with a nice traditional quest and amusing obstacles.
I enjoyed it immensely – so I'm not quite sure why it took me a very long time to finish. Probably the episodic nature of the story made the book easy to put down. This is light-hearted magical fun that makes me smile as I write the review.
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What is the heart of a writing class, and what is its spine?
When I think of "heart" as a metaphor, I think of a center, the pivot, a beat. When I think of "spine" as a metaphor, I think of the actor's through-line.
Wikipedia has a nice, short entry on the idea of "through-line," which Stanislavski proposed as the spine that links a characters objectives in the many discrete scenes of a play. That through-line pushes the character forward in the narrative. I'm not an actor. I don't know how concrete the through line has to be. I imagine an actor conceives of the character's objective in a given scene fairly concretely. It's hard to act an abstraction, after all.
So, for example, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, like many of the characters Bogart favored, lives a lonely authority that comes from a code, a code that both maintains his honor and separates him from others. The crooks and con artist dissemble to survive. They delude themselves that the big score is a rumor away. The cops act in dull increments, hemmed in by the roles they play.
Everything Rick does manifests his through line: the need maintain his particular code. For the psychologically minded actor, I'm sure there's another layer to be intimate with. Memories of a father who abandoned the family? A terrible loss for which Sam feels responsible? Who knows. That's why I admire actors. They do know.
We don't need to be actors to know what a through line is. We ask ourselves why we make the same mistake, or push people away, or what have you– pick your poison. Your therapist or friend or partner or some anyone fixing to get you, someone who wants to let you have it, will tell you why all of these little actions, this tiny discrete things (forgetting to call, forgetting the birthday) are sparks thrown off by the through line.
I am much clearer on the heart that beats in a writing classroom. For me, the heart is the set of activities, usually pretty simple ones, that lend themselves to greater complexity as the tasks get more difficult, but are rather limited and simple when you get down to it. A way to read, a way to rewrite, a way to produce text, a habit of attention, a few crafty techniques. The spine, the through line, that extends over the course of the term, that's another story. I suppose that the "course objectives" and "outcomes" are expressions of a spine. But that might be like saying the score is the game. It is both true and not enough at the same time.
So, your class: what is heart? What is the spine?
Many, many years ago, I felt hopelessly blocked, unable to write. Not blocked on a project, but thwarted when it came to writing at all. Natalie Goldberg's book, Writing Down the Bones simplified things for me. "All" I had to do was write for a fixed amount of time, consistently, over a period of time. Of course, it's a lot harder than it looks. Even today, finding ten minutes can seem impossible in days filled with minutes that are thrown away. The task seems big, bigger than than the time.
Non-stop writing answers the "How long" question with "It'll be as long as whatever writing for ten minutes non-stop will be." I can always tell when students I've asked to practice the technique find that time an uncomfortable committment, because all of the entries in their notebooks are a paragraph long, or two thirds of a page long. Those who make the ten minutes a habit tend to settle into one and a half to three pages in ten minutes, depending on the urgency of their writing.
In a way, the feeling about finding those ten minutes is the inverse to the basic principle of the task. The task says, "All you have to do is write for ten minutes," which seems simple, and slight. But psychic time is like feeling a tooth with your tongue on the inside of your mouth: it seems enormous. In psychological terms, being asked to write for ten minutes can feel like being asked to write twenty pages.
Non-stop writing helped for many reasons, reasons that others, like Peter Elbow and Natalie Goldberg explain so well. But it helped me in two simple ways. I developed the confidence to know that whatever the prose turned out to be like, I could, on demand, produce it. Within the inner landscape of writing that had become harsh, barren, and unforgiving, nonstop writing helped me find a place I could return to, again and again, small lush place, where the words both mattered and didn't matter at the same time.
Often, if you write, you struggle with time. Something that helps me is to remember that it all counts. By that I mean, all of the writing you do, whether it's taking notes, or free writing, or organizing your files, rewriting paragraphs or reading– all of it counts. True, you'll have projects that have deadlines and goals. There will be times when you need to change the way you work to suit the deadline, to finish. Most of your writing life won't be that though. It will be showing up at your desk, making choices, keeping committments that for a good deal of time are only to yourself. You'll arrive at the point– a point you want to reach again and again if you continue to write– when it's time to finish. In the meanwhile, your goal is to show up for yourself and you work. Always have something to do. Be generous in how you understand what that is.
I read an interview with Grace Paley in the Village Voice 25 years ago. One exchange stuck. The interviewer asked her what she'd done that day and she replied that she'd written ten pages and all of it was "crap." I paraphrase, but the sentiment is what matters. If you're going to be the kind of person who devotes time to producing something your proud of, you also have to be the kind of person who's willing to devote your time to more than a few crappy pages.
Since I use Ponsott and Deen's The Common Sense in class, I get to use their chapters about sentences, grammar, and puncution . Like the folks say t it's baked right in. That's important because in another class I teach, a first year academic writing class, we don't have much time to talk about sentences and the way we talk about grammar and punctuation is in the context of corrected a essay. Ponsott and Deen, however, talk about "grammar power." They offer students the view that knowledge of sentences, grammar and punctuation (they make very clear distinctions, but it all rolls into the same sensibility) gives them authority over their writing. A significant number of college students I meet do not experience that power.
Ponsott and Deen, especially early in the semester, ask a class to rewrite a colleague's sentence, then listen to them. They aren't arbitrary teacher produced sentences, but sentences produced by students as part of drafting. In a way, all that grammar power grows with the experience of something novice writers do not take for granted: you can rewrite a sentence many ways, and rewritng it an be the path to clarity of thought and expression. But it helps to be able to recognize, or identity, a few common features that go a long way towards helping you know where you might interven ein a sentence to see it differently.
When they hear each others versions of a sentence, of course, right away, they see that a colleague's sentence can be expressed in sixteen different ways. We prove that together. And as we do it more, and listen more to the sentences we make, we become tuned into what exactly makes one different than another, and how some express a nuance that the original sentence did not.
There's a song that's been going through my head the last week as a new academic year began: Bob Marley and The Wailers' Small Axe.
At the heart of my writing life are a pattern of activities I return to depending on the stage of the work. They come down to cerain things that help me get the work done at various stages: days of free writing, times I review journals and search for lines, times I review poems to see where the poem I meant to write is so I can take away the rest. There are the things I do when I'm lost and the things I do when I'm finishing up, the things I do when I'm waiting, and the things I do to maintain momentum.
I've become extremely economical about the choices I make, especially since I can confuse myself so easily. Ingenious solutions take on a life of their own; I am susceptible to fads of my own making.
When it comes down to it, I've learned that the small axe, used with persistence, striking at the right spot, gets the big tree to fall. When I teach, what I want to do is teach students to craft a small axe and use it.


Natalie Bennett has been the leader of the Green Party since 2012 and is our candidate for Holborn and St Pancras in the 2015 General Election.
Born in Sydney, Australia, she started her career as a journalist and worked for The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and The Times, and was the editor of The Guardian Weekly for five years.
Prior to her arrival in London in 1999, Natalie received a degree in agricultural science from the University of Sydney and worked for both the World Health Organization and International Labor Organisation.
Natalie founded the Green Party Women's Group and is a trustee of the Fawcett Society, Britain's pre-eminent women's issues group.


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Since 2008, the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès has supported the Programme Recherche et Composition Chorégraphiques (PRCC) of the Fondation Royaumont. Every year, young talents are selected to perfect their choreographic composition skills in an exceptional architectural setting.
The Fondation Royaumont was created in 1964 to preserve and restore the Abbaye de Royaumont in the Val d'Oise. Since its foundation, however, it has also sought to integrate this unique heritage site into a cultural project. Over the years, the Fondation Royaumont has forged a programme that unites training and the creation of new works, and which is open to the full range of contemporary musical and choreographic languages. It was in this spirit that the Programme Recherche et Composition Chorégraphiques (PRCC) was inaugurated in 1995.
Since its own beginnings in 2008, the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès has supported the Fondation Royaumont's PRCC programme. Between 2008 and 2013, choreographer Myriam Gourfink was the programme's artistic and educational director and organised a training programme entitled "Transforme". Conceived as a humanist academy, over the course of five years it offered a space of exchange in which dancers could enrich their artistic and intellectual output.
In 2013, Myriam Gourfink handed the reins to Hervé Robbe, who created two training cycles for choreographers: "Prototype" (from 2013) and "Dialogues" (from 2016). Each year "Prototype" offers eight choreographers a unique parenthesis in their careers, a time to experiment with and model a new choreographic purpose. Musical composers are also invited to apply to this programme. "Dialogues", meanwhile, specifically addresses choreographers who are looking to question modes of transmission and the tools that they use and invent in their relationships with dancers. This second programme hosts four choreographers each year.
Accompanied by seasoned artists and creators from other artistic domains, the participating choreographers have the chance to perfect their art within the unique setting of the Abbaye de Royaumont. The exchange of skills that this environment facilitates is particularly fruitful for the creation of choreographic prototypes.
The Fondation d'entreprise Hermès supports this initiative as part of its Artists in the Community programme, and in line with its commitment to accompanying young creators. By providing them with the tools with which they can master their art and establish themselves in the domain of contemporary dance, these young artists are encouraged to shape their discourses and positions, and to reflect on the nature of their personal artistic contribution to the wider field.
Two programmes enable young creators to hone their choreographic skills.
"Prototype" and "Dialogue" encourage the exploration of new forms in the choreographic field.
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PRODIGAL (proactive discovery of insider threats using graph analysis and learning) is a computer system for predicting anomalous behavior among humans, by data mining network traffic such as emails, text messages and server log entries. It is part of DARPA's Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS) project. The initial schedule is for two years and the budget $9 million.

It uses graph theory, machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and high-performance computing to scan larger sets of data more quickly than in past systems. The amount of data analyzed is in the range of terabytes per day. The targets of the analysis are employees within the government or defense contracting organizations; specific examples of behavior the system is intended to detect include the actions of Nidal Malik Hasan and WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning. Commercial applications may include finance. The results of the analysis, the five most serious threats per day, go to agents, analysts, and operators working in counterintelligence.

Primary participants
 Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
 Georgia Tech Research Institute
 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
 Army Research Office
 Science Applications International Corporation
 Oregon State University
 University of Massachusetts Amherst
 Carnegie Mellon University

See also
 Cyber Insider Threat
 Einstein (US-CERT program)
 Threat (computer)
 Intrusion detection
 ECHELON, Thinthread, Trailblazer, Turbulence (NSA programs)
 Fusion center, Investigative Data Warehouse (FBI)

References

Applied data mining
Computer security
Georgia Tech Research Institute
DARPA
Parallel computing


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Yes. If you get a commander stuck in a choke point and try to pull back, everything gets stuck there. It's really annoying especially if you lose units too. Maybe instead of folowing the comander we could just tell all the units to move to the same point as the commander is heading towards?
The current system is like that. Just right click on a unit to iduvidually select it. I disagree with the radius though. In game it would be very tedious and it would stump newbies (stump them even more) and wouldn't they commander have radio contact with that unit?
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(Yay. First post) Pretty much all my skirmish games are T3 with advance bases on teams. So I love to turtle. You should turtling on the map Hide'n'Seek (personal favorite). Even though there isn't much room in your base to move around the choke points to the side of the walls are perfect for turtling.


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Samhathi - Germany
Mr.Elmar Weber
PRESIDENT OF SAMHATHI-GERMANY
Elmar is an English Teacher at Hans Carossa Gymnasium, Landshut and has been working for Samhathi since 1996. His focus is on attracting sponsors, intensifying communication at all levels, and constructive cooperation between all three samhathi organizations. He has built up a strong basis for samhathi in Germany and has placed Samhathi-Germany on the path of significant growth.
Dr.Timm Schneider
VICE PRESIDENT OF SAMHATHI-GERMANY
Dr.Timm is a specialist Medical Doctor and has been actively involved with Samhathi since 2011 in the Community Based Palliative Care Project in India. He is the founder of an initiative called "Doctors For Kerala" and My Indian Patient (MIP) Project.
Ms.Petra Hanrieder
TREASURER of SAMHATHI-GERMANY
She started as a member of Samhathi-Germany several years ago and since 2012 she is the Treasurer of Samhathi-Germany. By profession she is a medical nurse and works in outpatient hospice in Germany.
Ms.Hanna Bierhals
Secretary of Samhathi-Germany
Secretary of Samhathi-Germany.Hanna was in India in 2014 for the first time spend some days at Samhathi-Inndia and visited the activities in the villages. Soon after her visit she became a member of Samhathi-Germany and last year she took over as the Secretary of Samhathi-Germany.By profession she is a teacher and lives in Munich with her family.
Ms.Katharina Pfaffel
BOARD MEMBER OF SAMHATHI-GERMANY
Katharina joined Samhathi in 1998 as student at Albertus Magnus Gymnasium, Regensburg and continued to be an active member. She led Samhathi-Germany as its President for several years and continued to be a Board Member since then. Now she is mother of twins and a medical nurse. She has played very significant role in the development of Samhathi both in Germany and in India.
Dr.Gottfried Rokita
He is a retired High Court Judge and is currently working as lawyer for social law and general administrative law. Since 2010 he has dedicated himself to the cause of poor through Samhathi in particular for the promotion of My Indian Family (MIF) Project in Germany.
Ms.Christine Baierer
Board Member of Samhathi - Germany
She is a Board Member of Samhathi-Germany. By profesion she is a teacher at Hans Carossa Gymnasium, Landshut. She is an active member of the Hans Carossa Group which is supporting Hans Carossa study Centre in India since 1996. She has also extended strong financial support to the various activities of Samhathi in India.
Samhathi-Europe Team in 2016


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Home » news » Could Injured Fred Vanvleet Trade From Raptors To Lakers
Could injured Fred VanVleet trade from Raptors to Lakers?
Antonio Kozlow
What a rollercoaster of a season it's been for Toronto's Fred VanVleet up to this point. He's either been saving the Raptors with stunning performances, on trade speculation headlines, or impatiently watching the games from home as he slowly progresses from his lower back injuries.
Today, Raptor reporter Vivek Jacob announced on the team's official website that the point and shooting guard is questionable for tonight's clash with the New York Knicks, as he continues to struggle with his back stiffness. This past Saturday he was able to play 26 minutes into the game against the Hawks, as he produced only three points during the match, but complemented his weakened performance with six rebounds and four assists.
Unfortunately for the Raptors, it was Atlanta who took the win with an enormous Trae Young display, scoring the most points (27) and assists in the game (9).
Final pic.twitter.com/iVMPVcNlBs
— Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) January 15, 2023
This season Toronto has tried to limit VanVleet's minutes as coach Nick Nurse is wary of how difficult it's been for the guard to recover in its enterity. It all started earlier this championship as he had been pulled out of a match in December against the Los Angeles Clippers when he first felt lower back problems. After that, he was given two games to restore and finally start fully recovered for the New Year's. It hasn't gone as planned…
VanVleet holds franchise's point per game record when he scored 54 against the Orlando Magic back in February 2021. Truth is, the shooting guard has struggled to show his best offensive version so far. Whether it's been a simple slump or a back injury, he's lost confidence in his shooting (averaging 32.5% from behind the three-point line).
As we close by the transfer deadline, numerous rumours have been circulating around VanVleet lately, speculating he might be a great asset for the Los Angeles Lakers. Although he didn't make our Top 5 trades we expect to happen before February 9th, there's been plenty of theorizing over this possibility.
VanVleet has played 35 games so far, averaging 36.5 minutes a match, which is a good amount considering his current context. As for his season's playing stats, he's averaged 17.7 points per game (one of his lowest in recent years), 4.3 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game.
How should Toronto line up?
If VanVleet is unable to go Monday afternoon, the Raptors will probably need to line up Scottie Barnes as the team's point guard. This way the substitute would get to share the responsability of conducting the ball with Pascal Siakam. As for center, it would make sense to see Precious Achiuwa step up, as for bigger backcourt roles for Malachi Flynn and Gary Trent.
Toronto face the Knicks today for a Eastern Conference showdown at Madison Square Garden in New York (2:00pm CST). The Knicks are probably favourites to win as they carry a 25-19 record in the East's sixth place, as for the Raptors who stand 11th with a poor 19-24 track. Toronto will then follow two more games this week on the road, as they encounter the Milwaukee Bucks on January 17th and the Minnesota Timberwolves on January 19th.
Antonio is a life long sports enthusiast and professional journalist, who shares an obssesive urge to find and dig up the most interesting facts to guide gamblers towards more exciting, yet safe bets. In his own words, ''you can never really know enough about the things you love''.


Toronto got it's first real winter storm yesterday and though there wasn't enough to call out the army, there was indeed enough. Joe told me, on returning from helping carry out stuff to their car that Ruby and Sadie that they threw themselves on the lawn out back and immediately made snow angels. I told Joe that I wanted to go out for a bit and asked if he'd come with me, I get a bit claustrophobic after one whole day in and after two ... really need to get out. We decided to head over to the Bay and see what's up with Boxing Day sales. I had noticed a really nice sweater on one of the mannequins there before Christmas, I thought it would look great on Joe and when I went to pick it up discovered it cost just under 300 dollars. Way too rich for our lifestyle, maybe Boxing day would bring it into range, say if they had a 83 percent off sale.
We left the building by the back doors because we had recycling to drop off. As we left the lane way behind the building I noticed that the snow hadn't been removed from the curb cut and the way to the road was completely impassible. What with this being our first winter storm here this year and what with the fact that we didn't have one last year, I'd forgotten about snow and it's effect on accessibility. I made my way up to the next corner on the sidewalk, which had been shovelled, and it too was impassible. The driveway to the building is a circular one and the first curb cut was clogged with snow. Joe suggested I make my way around the drive to the far entrance as he walked on the sidewalk and we'd meet and check out the final possible way out.
As I made my way along the drive I looked over and saw Joe trudging along the sidewalk and behind him, by about 15 feet another fellow equally bundled up against the snow and cold. I got there before Joe did and, though it was clogged with snow too, there did look to be a passageway that I could at least attempt. I learned, a few years back, that I had to think about both getting out and getting back, that getting DOWN a snowy curb cut was very different than getting UP one. I thought this one would be passable each way. Joe joined me and I told him I'd try here. I waited seeing the other fellow coming as I decided to try this without an audience. He saw me waiting, seemed to know what I was doing and sped up his pace.
As he passed by he said, "It must be really frustrating when people don't clear paths for EVERYone." I nodded in dumb shock at the fact that he understood so easily. Then he said, "Good luck and Happy New Year, eh." I called out 'Happy New Year to you too." Then, I slid down the curb cut and on to the road and we were off.
We went over to Yonge Street, knowing that the curbs there would be passable, if not because of being shovelled, then because of the high volume of foot traffic. A block or two later we talked about that brief, tiny, interchange. About how pleasant and kind that fellow had been. About how easy it is to do something, small, that has such an enormous effect. Both of us agreed that his friendly tone and his willingness to pass along good cheer had made a positive impact on our day.
Something so easy to give.
He'll never know that I've had a tough few days. He'll never know that at that moment I was beginning to allow frustration to turn to despair as my sense of humour and my sense of proportion has been dulled. He'll never know that a couple of kind words made the world of difference to me.
Ruby and Sadie love making Snow Angels. I love, when it happens, meeting them.
Thanks, reading that you are still writing makes me feel better too.
I was away for a while, and way too busy to spend more time than absolutely necessary on the Internet, so I just caught up on the last six posts. I'm sorry you were hurt. I love reading your blog, but the most important is that you take care of yourself, and if that means not posting regularly for a while, I'll still be there when you're back. I hope people like this snow angel help alleviate the pain somewhat.


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Dahabshil is a nice entity whose service I have used before and will continue to, says German rider in Africa for the first time
A motorcyclist who has visited 15 countries in the world spoke about his affinity to the Dahabshiil company when he arrived in the capital of Somaliland, Hargeisa.
The German-born 27-year-old tourist rider, Friedrich Schatz, said that he has traveled to several countries in Europe and Asia hence have just embarked on his Africa tour.
He pointed out that he has just entered Africa for the first time through Somaliland.
When he told the media about the purpose of his trip, Mr. Friedrich said, "I traveled from Germany to Africa with my motorbike. I visited Turkey, Iran, UAE, and Oman".
He explained, "When I was traveling through Oman, I shipped my motorcycle, took a plane, and later retrieved it from the port at Berbera then rode on to Hargeisa".
Tourist Friedrich said that Somaliland is the first country in Africa that he visited in his trip, and it is his gateway to the whole continent as he continues his journey to other African countries.
The most amazing thing that he says he sees in Somaliland is an international city, where "you see people from countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, and other places, I didn't expect".
When asked about the purpose of his journey, Friedrich said, "It's a tough question. I traveled to learn about new countries and people and their way of life".
The tourist thanked Dahabshiil company, saying that they welcomed him to the country
"Dahabshil Group welcomed me to the country of Somaliland, I am very grateful. They are a great company and they made my trip enjoyable", he beamed.
He further lauded the company saying, "Dahabshil is a nice entity, and I used their service before and hope to continue doing so in the future".
He continued, "The first time I saw Dahabshil company and used their services was in the Arab nations of UAE and Oman and here Somaliland", hence adding. "and I hope they will ease my travels to other African countries".
He said that Somaliland travel through Ethiopia and Uganda on his way to South Africa.
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The Brazilian Workers' ABC
Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern São Paulo
By John D. French
406 pp., 6 x 9
John French analyzes the emergence of the Brazilian system of politics and labor relations between 1900 and 1953 in the industrial municipalities of Santo Andre, Sao Bernardo do Campo, and Sao Caetano do Sul. These municipalities, which constitute the so-called ABC region of greater Sao Paolo, were made famous in the late 1970s as a result of a series of strikes by militant autoworkers. French challenges a scholarly consensus that has portrayed Brazilian populism as a "demobilizing" experience in which workers and their leaders were seduced and co-opted by charismatic politicians while being subjected to pervasive domination by the state.
This revisionist, grass-roots view of Brazil's corporatist system of state-linked trade unionism in the 1930s examines the tumultuous political transition after World War II, when workers entered into electoral politics on an unprecedented scale. In examining the interplay between the industrial working class, its leaders, and politicians such as Getulio Vargas, Luis Carlos Prestes, and Adhemar de Barroas, French shows that workers were active and resourceful political political actors whose participation propelled Brazilian politics in a new, more democratic direction.
John D. French is assistant professor of Latin American history at Florida International University.
For more information about John D. French, visit the Author Page.
"A major contribution to the study of Brazilian labor history. French's analysis is based on extensive archival and oral history research and on an exhaustive review of the secondary literature on Brazilian labor politics. His community-level work helps establish the empirical basis for better comparative analyses of labor politics in Latin America."--Industrial and Labor Relations Review
"A penetrating analysis of the ups and downs of labor mobilization during the first half of the twentieth century, The Brazilian Workers' ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern São Paulo illustrates how workers consciously and skillfully used any political opening to advance their interests and aptly confronted the tremendous constraints they faced."--Latin American Research Review
"French's pioneering study of worker politics in the heavily industrialized ABC region of São Paulo challenges prevailing assumptions about the origins and impact of populist alliances in Brazil. His carefully crafted account of worker struggles and government policies raises the discussion of labor and populism to a new level of sophistication."--Barbara Weinstein, State University of New York at Stony Brook
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More than 40 pupils from Northern Ireland will be taking part in next week's BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) in Dublin, which is expected to attract more than 50,000 visitors.
15-year-old Harvey Donnelly from Wellington College in Belfast is hoping to impress judges with his project, which uses a computer programme to model electrochemical cell reactions to build better batteries.
The 4th year student will present his research alongside 550 other science and technology projects, which are all competing for the coveted title of 'BT Young Scientist & Technologist'.
Harvey says: "I'm really excited about going to Dublin and seeing what all the other students have come up with. It's the same week as my mock exams and one of these has had to be re-scheduled but I wouldn't miss it for the world.
The BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition has teamed up with The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DofE) so that participants, like Harvey, can use their project work to count towards the Skills section of their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh's Award.
Kate Thompson, DofE Director in Northern Ireland, says: "The Duke of Edinburgh's Award is the world's leading youth achievement award. It's valued by employers and universities – just like participation in the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.
Peter Morris, Head of Service Delivery for BT in Northern Ireland, says: "It's great to see young people like Harvey developing a real interest in science. Talking to him, I can see how much time and effort he has put into his project.
"The BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition is all about encouraging students to gain new science and technology skills outside the classroom and, by teaming up with The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, we're allowing participants to make the most of their new skills and knowledge, rather than asking them to choose between different extra-curricular activities.
For further information visit: www.DofE.org, www.theawardni.org and www.btyoungscientist.com or follow BTYSTE on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube or Snapchat (username: BTYSTE).


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