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<Ui xmlns="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/
..\..\FrameXML\UI.xsd">
	<!-- Slot buttons to show the appearances icons -->
	<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonTemplate" inherits="ItemButtonTemplate" virtual="true">
		<Scripts>
            <OnLoad>
				IGWardrobeItemSlotButton_OnLoad(self);
			</OnLoad>
            <OnEvent>
				--InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButton_OnEvent(self, event, ...);
			</OnEvent>
            <OnClick>
				HandleModifiedItemClick(self.itemLink);
			</OnClick>
			<OnUpdate>
				CursorOnUpdate(self);
				if ( GameTooltip:IsOwned(self) ) then
					IGWardrobeItemSlotButton_OnEnter(self);
				end
			</OnUpdate>
            <OnEnter>
				IGWardrobeItemSlotButton_OnEnter(self, motion);
			</OnEnter>
            <OnLeave>
				GameTooltip:Hide();
				ResetCursor();
			</OnLeave>
        </Scripts>
		<NormalTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Quickslot2">
			<Size>
				<AbsDimension x="64" y="64"/>
			</Size>
			<Anchors>
				<Anchor point="CENTER">
					<Offset>
						<AbsDimension x="0" y="-1"/>
					</Offset>
				</Anchor>
			</Anchors>
		</NormalTexture>
    </Button>
	<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonLeftTemplate" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonTemplate" virtual="true">
		<Layers>
			<Layer level="BACKGROUND" textureSubLevel="-1">
				<Texture name="$parentFrame" inherits="Char-LeftSlot">
					<Anchors>
						<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" x="-4"/>
					</Anchors>
				</Texture>
			</Layer>
		</Layers>
	</Button>
	<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonRightTemplate" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonTemplate" virtual="true">
		<Layers>
			<Layer level="BACKGROUND" textureSubLevel="-1">
				<Texture name="$parentFrame" inherits="Char-RightSlot">
					<Anchors>
						<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" x="4"/>
					</Anchors>
				</Texture>
			</Layer>
		</Layers>
	</Button>
	<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonBottomTemplate" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonTemplate" virtual="true">
		<Layers>
			<Layer level="BACKGROUND" textureSubLevel="-1">
				<Texture name="$parentFrame" inherits="Char-BottomSlot">
					<Anchors>
						<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" x="-4" y="8"/>
					</Anchors>
				</Texture>
			</Layer>
		</Layers>
	</Button>
	<!-- Text Buttons for showing appearance names -->
	<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonTemplate" inherits="MagicButtonTemplate, TruncatedButtonTemplate" virtual="true">
		<Size x="114" y="36"/>
		<!--
			Interface\CharacterFrame\Char-Stat-Middle - black					- good
			Interface\PaperDollInfoFrame\UI-Character-Tab-Highlight-yellow  - round yellow
			Interface\PaperDollInfoFrame\UI-Character-Tab-Highlight  - blue					- Nice, but not for disable
			Interface\PaperDollInfoFrame\UI-Character-Tab-RealHighlight  - blue to white gradient
			Interface\FriendsFrame\UI-FriendsFrame-HighlightBar   - big yellow
			World\Expansion03\Doodads\Generic\Maelstrom\MaelstromWater_Highlight01
			Interface\ACHIEVEMENTFRAME\UI-Achievement-Category-Highlight  - Green			Good when titled horiz, but not tall enough
			Interface\BUTTONS\UI-DialogBox-Button-Highlight - Red							- Maybe, height issue
			Interface\BUTTONS\UI-Listbox-Highlight - yellow									- Maybe
			Interface\BUTTONS\UI-Listbox-Highlight2 - grey									- Closer...
			Interface\BUTTONS\UI-Panel-Button-Highlight - red								- too small, maybe if I knew how to stretch it?
			Interface\BUTTONS\UI-Panel-Button-Highlight2 - grey								- ditto
			Interface\BUTTONS\UI-Panel-Button-YellowHighlight - yellow						- ditto
			Interface\Calendar\EventHighlight - yellow frame								- ditto
			Interface\CHATFRAME\ChatFrameTab-HighlightMid-min - grey with white top and bottom gradient		Not tall enough
			Interface\CHATFRAME\ChatFrameTab-HighlightMid - grey with white top gradient
			Interface\HELPFRAME\HelpFrameButton-Highlight - yellow top and bottom gradient out to sides		not tall enough
			Interface\QUESTFRAME\UI-QuestLogTitleHighlight - grey							- ding I think this is it!
			Interface\TradeFrame\UI-TradeFrame-Highlight - transparent green with thick green border 	too much alpha
			Interface\WorldStateFrame\WORLDSTATEFINALSCORE-HIGHLIGHT - whiteish top and bottom grey in middle	nice, nice...
		-->
		<DisabledTexture file="Interface\CharacterFrame\Char-Stat-Middle" setAllPoints="true" vertTitle="true" HorizTile="true"/>
		<HighlightTexture file="Interface\FriendsFrame\UI-FriendsFrame-HighlightBar-Blue" setAllPoints="true" alphaMode="ADD"/>
		<NormalTexture file="Interface\WorldStateFrame\WORLDSTATEFINALSCORE-HIGHLIGHT" setAllPoints="true" vertTile="false" HorizTile="false"/>
        <Scripts>
            <OnLoad>
				--InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButton_OnLoad(self);
			</OnLoad>
            <OnEvent>
				--InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButton_OnEvent(self, event, ...);
			</OnEvent>
            <OnClick>
				IGWardrobeItemTextButton_OnClick(self);
			</OnClick>
			<OnUpdate>
				CursorOnUpdate(self);
				if ( GameTooltip:IsOwned(self) ) then
					--IGWardrobeItemTextButton_OnEnter(self);
				end
			</OnUpdate>
            <OnEnter>
				IGWardrobeItemTextButton_OnEnter(self, motion);
			</OnEnter>
            <OnLeave>
				GameTooltip:Hide();
				ResetCursor();
			</OnLeave>
        </Scripts>
    </Button>
	<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonLeftTemplate" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonTemplate" virtual="true">
		<Layers>
			<Layer level="BACKGROUND" textureSubLevel="-1">
				<Texture name="$parentFrame">
					<Anchors>
						<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" x="60"/>
					</Anchors>
				</Texture>
			</Layer>
		</Layers>
	</Button>
	<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonRightTemplate" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonTemplate" virtual="true">
		<Layers>
			<Layer level="BACKGROUND" textureSubLevel="-1">
				<Texture name="$parentFrame">
					<Anchors>
						<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" x="68"/>
					</Anchors>
				</Texture>
			</Layer>
		</Layers>
	</Button>
	<!-- Main Frame for wardrobe tab -->
	<Frame name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeFrame" enableMouse="true" parent="InspectFrame" hidden="true" useParentLevel="true" setAllPoints="true" id="2">
        <Layers>
            <Layer level="OVERLAY">
                <FontString name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeHeaderText" inherits="GameFontNormal" text="Transmogrification Appearances">
                    <Anchors>
                        <Anchor point="TOP">
                            <Offset>
                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="-27"/>
                            </Offset>
                        </Anchor>
                    </Anchors>
                </FontString>
                <FontString name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeMountText" inherits="GameFontNormalSmall" text="Currently mounted on ..." hidden="false">
                    <Anchors>
                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeHeaderText" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
                            <Offset>
                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="-3"/>
                            </Offset>
                        </Anchor>
                    </Anchors>
                </FontString>
				<!-- TODO put a background texture on here, or remove the below if not -->
				<Texture name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeFaction" file="Interface\Timer\Panda-Logo" hidden="true">
					<Size x="256" y="256"/>
					<Anchors>
						<Anchor point="CENTER" x="0" y="-10"/>
					</Anchors>
					<TexCoords left="0" right="1" top="0" bottom="1"/>
				</Texture>
            </Layer>
		</Layers>
		<Frames>
			<!-- Frame for all the item icons and appearance names -->
			<Frame name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemsFrame" setAllPoints="true">
				<Frames>
					<!-- Micro button for mount icon taken from  BlizzardInterfaceCode/Interface/FrameXML/MainMenuBarMicroButtons.xml -->
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeMountMicroButton" motionScriptsWhileDisabled="true">
						<Size>
							<AbsDimension x="28" y="58"/>
						</Size>
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="InspectFrameInset" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="-4" y="56"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
						<HitRectInsets>
							<AbsInset left="0" right="0" top="18" bottom="0"/>
						</HitRectInsets>
						<Layers>
							<Layer level="OVERLAY">
								<Texture name="$parentFlash" file="Interface\Buttons\Micro-Highlight" alphaMode="ADD" parentKey="Flash" hidden="true">
									<Size x="64" y="64"/>
									<Anchors>
										<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" x="-2" y="-18"/>
									</Anchors>
								</Texture>
							</Layer>
						</Layers>
						<Scripts>
							<OnEnter>
								MicroButton_OnEnter(self);
							</OnEnter>
							<OnClick>
								InspectorGadgetzan.Mount:Report(self.mount)
							</OnClick>
							<OnEnable>
								self:SetAlpha(1);
							</OnEnable>
							<OnDisable>
								self:SetAlpha(0.5);
							</OnDisable>
							<OnLeave>
								GameTooltip:Hide();
							</OnLeave>
						</Scripts>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeHeadSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectFrameInset" x="2" y="-4"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeHeadText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeHeadSlot" x="46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeShoulderSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeHeadSlot" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="0" y="-4"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeShoulderText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeShoulderSlot" x="46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeBackSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeShoulderSlot" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="0" y="-4"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeBackText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeBackSlot" x="46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeChestSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeBackSlot" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="0" y="-4"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeChestText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeChestSlot" x="46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeShirtSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeChestSlot" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="0" y="-4"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeShirtText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeShirtSlot" x="46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeTabardSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeShirtSlot" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="0" y="-4"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeTabardText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeTabardSlot" x="46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeWristSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeTabardSlot" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="0" y="-4"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeWristText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonLeftTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeWristSlot" x="46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<!-- First of the right hand column -->
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeHandsSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonRightTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="InspectFrameInset" x="-4" y="-4"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeHandsText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonRightTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeHandsSlot" x="-46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeWaistSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonRightTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeHandsSlot" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="0" y="-4"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeWaistText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonRightTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeWaistSlot" x="-46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeLegsSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonRightTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeWaistSlot" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="0" y="-4"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeLegsText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonRightTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeLegsSlot" x="-46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeFeetSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonRightTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeLegsSlot" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="0" y="-4"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeFeetText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonRightTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeFeetSlot" x="-46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeMainHandSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonBottomTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="130" y="16"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
						<Layers>
							<Layer level="BACKGROUND">
								<Texture inherits="Char-Slot-Bottom-Left">
									<Anchors>
										<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentFrame" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"/>
									</Anchors>
								</Texture>
							</Layer>
						</Layers>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeMainHandText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonRightTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeMainHandSlot" x="-46" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeSecondaryHandSlot" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemSlotButtonBottomTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeMainHandSlot" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT">
								<Offset>
									<AbsDimension x="5" y="0"/>
								</Offset>
							</Anchor>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button name="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeSecondaryHandText" inherits="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeItemTextButtonRightTemplate">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeSecondaryHandSlot" x="42" y="0"/>
						</Anchors>
					</Button>
					<Button parentKey="ViewButton" inherits="UIPanelButtonTemplate" text="Try On">
						<Size x="0" y="22"/>
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeFeetSlot" x="0" y="-41"/>
						</Anchors>
						<Scripts>
							<OnLoad function="IGWardrobeViewButton_OnLoad"/>
							<OnClick function="IGWardrobeViewButton_OnClick"/>
							<OnEnter function="IGWardrobeViewButton_OnEnter"/>
							<OnLeave>
								GameTooltip:Hide();
								ResetCursor();
							</OnLeave>
						</Scripts>
					</Button>
					<Frame name="DropDownMenuTryOn" inherits="UIDropDownMenuTemplate" setAllPoints="true">
						<Size x="80" y="22"/>
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeFeetSlot" x="-54" y="-39"/>
						</Anchors>
						<Scripts>
							<OnLoad function="DropDownMenuTryOn_OnLoad"/>
						</Scripts>
					</Frame>
				</Frames>
			</Frame>
		</Frames>
		<Scripts>
			<OnEvent function="InspectorGadgetzanWardrobeFrame_OnEvent"/>
		</Scripts>
	</Frame>
</Ui>


MamaMia Produce prides itself on quality produce, fast logistics - The Produce News - Covering fresh produce around the globe since 1897.
MamaMia Produce LLC, headquartered in East Rutherford, NJ, has seven categories of fresh produce, three of which are available in both organic and conventional.
Mike Rozman, president of the company, told The Produce News that most of the company's products are available year round.
Distribution of all of its produce is done from MamaMia's New Jersey location so the company sees the exact condition of product. Mr. Rozman said this is why it has few rejections. It is then delivered to customers in temperature-controlled trucks to ensure that the cold chain is unbroken.
Mini greenhouse cucumbers are one of MamaMia's categories, and are produced in the Dominican Republic and in Mexico.
The company has a seasonal avocado program that runs from September through March. Mr. Rozman said that MamaMia is a leading shipper of Hass avocados from the Dominican Republic, most of which are produced in the southern part of the country near the Haiti border. The area is drier and therefore produces flavorful fruit. The company will be offering the avocados in net bags this year, in addition to its other offerings.
MamaMia is also known for its smooth-skinned avocados, especially the Carla variety from the Dominican Republic.
Another category for the company is its greenhouse sweet peppers that are available year round from Mexico and the Dominican Republic. The company sells a rainbow package of bell peppers under the "MamaMia" label.
"People are amazed at how thick and heavy these peppers are the first time they see them," said Mr. Rozman.
MamaMia also offers three colors of field-grown habanero peppers, two colors of Thai chili peppers and two colors of finger-sized hot peppers. These are from the Dominican Republic, and are available year round in loose packs and small clamshells.
The company's hard squash program, also from the Dominican Republic, begins in February and runs through June.
A new program for MamaMia Produce is its organic vegetables from Mexico. The company will offer organic artichokes, fava beans, cranberry beans, hybrid large, baby and purple artichokes and brussels sprouts.
"These items are currently on a trial basis, and will be commercially distributed in time for the fall and winter holidays," said Mr. Rozman.
MamaMia is working with its growers in the Dominican Republic and Mexico toward PrimusLab certification, and it is finalizing its HACCP certificate at its packinghouse.
The company vice president is Shimon Efergan, and its sales manager is Joe Sferrazza.


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Q: Using scroll-behavior: smooth for only one page with CSS When I enter the code
html {
    scroll-behavior: smooth;
}

I get the smooth effect that I want for anchor links. However, I only want this effect to apply to a single page, not my whole site. So I thought that perhaps this would work, using the class for the body tag of the single page that I want this effect on.
.landing-page {
    scroll-behavior: smooth;
}

However, once I do this the effect doesn't work, even though using the inspect tool shows that this attribute is applied to .landing-page. Why isn't it working, and what should I try next?
EDIT:
Here is the HTML. I am trying to have it that I smooth scroll to #how-it-works and only that anchor.

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A: Ok one of the issues on your code is that the smooth scroll is not supported by the body tag, try adding a class or an id to your html tag, or just add it on that page inline coded, but it really depends on what restrictions you would have.

html.landing-page {
  overflow-y: scroll;
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I met a police drone in VR—and hated it
Plus: Jailbreaking ChatGPT.
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I'm standing in the parking lot of an apartment building in East London, near where I live. It's a cloudy day, and nothing seems out of the ordinary.
A small drone descends from the skies and hovers in front of my face. A voice echoes from the drone's speakers. The police are conducting routine checks in the neighborhood.
I feel as if the drone's camera is drilling into me. I try to turn my back to it, but the drone follows me like a heat-seeking missile. It asks me to please put my hands up, and scans my face and body. Scan completed, it leaves me alone, saying there's an emergency elsewhere.
I got lucky—my encounter was with a drone in virtual reality as part of an experiment by a team from University College London and the London School of Economics. They're studying how people react when meeting police drones, and whether they come away feeling more or less trusting of the police.
It seems obvious that encounters with police drones might not be pleasant. But police departments are adopting these sorts of technologies without even trying to find out.
"Nobody is even asking the question: Is this technology going to do more harm than good?" says Aziz Huq, a law professor at the University of Chicago, who is not involved in the research.
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The researchers are interested in finding out if the public is willing to accept this new technology, explains Krisztián Pósch, a lecturer in crime science at UCL. People can hardly be expected to like an aggressive, rude drone. But the researchers want to know if there is any scenario where drones would be acceptable. For example, they are curious whether an automated drone or a human-operated one would be more tolerable.
If the reaction is negative across the board, the big question is whether these drones are effective tools for policing in the first place, Pósch says.
"The companies that are producing drones have an interest in saying that [the drones] are working and they are helping, but because no one has assessed it, it is very difficult to say [if they are right]," he says.
It's important because police departments are racing way ahead and starting to use drones anyway, for everything from surveillance and intelligence gathering to chasing criminals.
Last week, San Francisco approved the use of robots, including drones that can kill people in certain emergencies, such as when dealing with a mass shooter. In the UK most police drones have thermal cameras that can be used to detect how many people are inside houses, says Pósch. This has been used for all sorts of things: catching human traffickers or rogue landlords, and even targeting people holding suspected parties during covid-19 lockdowns.
Virtual reality will let the researchers test the technology in a controlled, safe way among lots of test subjects, Pósch says.
Even though I knew I was in a VR environment, I found the encounter with the drone unnerving. My opinion of these drones did not improve, even though I'd met a supposedly polite, human-operated one (there are even more aggressive modes for the experiment, which I did not experience.)
Ultimately, it may not make much difference whether drones are "polite" or "rude" , says Christian Enemark, a professor at the University of Southampton, who specializes in the ethics of war and drones and is not involved in the research. That's because the use of drones itself is a "reminder that the police are not here, whether they're not bothering to be here or they're too afraid to be here," he says.
"So maybe there's something fundamentally disrespectful about any encounter."
GPT-4 is coming, but OpenAI is still fixing GPT-3
The internet is abuzz with excitement about AI lab OpenAI's latest iteration of its famous large language model, GPT-3. The latest demo, ChatGPT, answers people's questions via back-and-forth dialogue. Since its launch last Wednesday, the demo has crossed over 1 million users. Read Will Douglas Heaven's story here.
GPT-3 is a confident bullshitter and can easily be prompted to say toxic things. OpenAI says it has fixed a lot of these problems with ChatGPT, which answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and rejects inappropriate requests. It even refuses to answer some questions, such as how to be evil, or how to break into someone's house.
But it didn't take long for people to find ways to bypass OpenAI's content filters. By asking the model to only pretend to be evil, pretend to break into someone's house, or write code to check if someone would be a good scientist based on their race and gender, people can get the model to spew harmful stereotypes or provide instructions on how to break the law.
Biotech labs are using AI inspired by DALL-E to invent new drugs
Two labs, startup Generate Biomedicines and a team at the University of Washington, separately announced programs that use diffusion models—the AI technique behind the latest generation of text-to-image AI—to generate designs for novel proteins with more precision than ever before. (MIT Technology Review)
The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire is bad news for AI
The disgraced crypto kingpin shoveled millions of dollars into research on "AI safety," which aims to mitigate the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. Now some who received funding fear Bankman-Fried's downfall could ruin their work. They may not receive the full amount of money promised, or could even be drawn into bankruptcy investigations. (The New York Times)
Effective altruism is pushing a dangerous brand of "AI safety"
Effective altruism is a movement whose believers say they want to have the best impact on the world in the most quantifiable way. Many of them also believe the most effective way of saving the world is coming up with ways to make AI safer in order to avert any threat to humanity from a superintelligent AI. Google's former ethical AI lead Timnit Gebru says this ideology drives an AI research agenda that creates harmful systems in the name of saving humanity. (Wired)
Someone trained an AI chatbot on her childhood diaries
Michelle Huang, a coder and artist, wanted to simulate having conversations with her younger self, so she fed entries from her childhood diaries to the chatbot and had it reply to her questions. The results are really touching.
The EU threw a €387,000 party in the metaverse. Almost nobody showed up.
The party, hosted by the EU's executive arm, was supposed to get young people excited about the organization's foreign policy efforts. Only five people attended. (Politico)
by Melissa Heikkilä
The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent
My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors.
Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
An MIT Technology Review investigation recently revealed how images of a minor and a tester on the toilet ended up on social media. iRobot said it had consent to collect this kind of data from inside homes—but participants say otherwise.
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With a commitment of $217 million, The BC government announced today that it is targeting the construction of up to 5,200 new student seats in Surrey.
The projects will be planned and led by a new joint executive project board with the Surrey School District.
"Young families are moving to Surrey because it's a great place to call home in British Columbia's strong economy," said Education Minister Mike Bernier. "We owe it to those families and their kids to make sure we are working together to build new school spaces for them as quickly as possible."
Bernier announced the additional funding and new project board today at the Surrey Board of Education office, alongside Surrey School Board chairperson Shawn Wilson. They also signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining the terms of reference for the Surrey Executive Project Board.
"Our board has been working very hard with the Ministry of Education to address the unique needs in the Surrey School District driven by our incredible growth," said Surrey School District board chairperson Shawn Wilson. "Trustees want to break the pattern of perpetual pursuit of classroom spaces, and we're proud to now have this significant capital funding and the dedicated, partnership project office that will help get us there."
Identifying new schools
The project team's first job will be to identify new schools or school expansions as quickly as possible so the proposals can be brought forward for provincial approval. That planning will involve defining the size of projects, as well as timing new school development to align with residential development.
"With this new project office, the City of Surrey is looking forward in continuing our partnership with the school board to deliver more schools for students in Surrey," said Surrey mayor Linda Hepner. "Today's provincial funding commitment will help address the critical need of new schools for our rapidly growing community."
Staff from the Surrey School District, Partnerships BC, and the Ministry of Education will make up the executive project board. The project team will include a project director, financial manager, city liaison, project managers and project technicians. The board may also consult engineering, planning, environmental and architectural experts as needed.
The new funding that will be part of Budget 2017 is on top of the $100 million announced last year to build a new secondary and elementary school, expand three elementary schools and purchase land for a future elementary school in Surrey, creating up to 2,700 new seats.
Since 2001, the Surrey School District student population has seen about a 20% increase in student enrolment, from 58,648 students to an estimated 71,115 in 2016-17.


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'Fake Sheikh' reporter Mazher Mahmood jailed for Tulisa drugs trial conspiracy
By Nicola Harley 21 October 2016 • 1:57pm
Mazher Mahmood, the self-proclaimed 'King of the Sting', in a police custody image released after he was found guilty of plotting to pervert the course of justice Credit: Metropolitan Police
Mazher Mahmood, the undercover reporter known as the Fake Sheikh, has been jailed for 15 months for tampering with evidence in the collapsed drugs trial of pop star Tulisa Contostavlos.
A jury found the 53-year-old self-proclaimed "King of the Sting" and his driver, Alan Smith, 67, guilty of plotting to pervert the course of justice.
Passing sentence at the Old Bailey, Judge Gerald Gordon said that, while he accepted he had done "some good work" in his long career, there could be no justification for what he had done and custody was inevitable.
He handed Smith a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, saying he had been motivated in part by "misguided loyalty".
As Mahmood was jailed, someone in the public gallery shouted "your turn now Mazher" to the journalist, who claims to have helped in the convictions of 100 criminals during his 25 years of investigative reporting.
Judge Gordon told the pair: "You have been convicted by the jury of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. You, Alan Smith, agreed to and did alter your original witness statement to remove the passage that you both realised could be used to support Tulisa Contostavlos's case in an entrapment hearing.
"Mazher Mahmood, it was your idea. You were the intended beneficiary and you made use of a loyal person, partly an employee, in order to achieve your purpose.
"The motive was to preserve and enhance your reputation. You wanted another scalp and Miss Contostavlos's conviction would have achieved that. And to achieve that, when you saw a problem, you were prepared for the court to be deceived."
The two-week trial had heard that Mahmood and Smith conspired to suppress evidence in the N-Dubz star's trial, which was thrown out at Southwark Crown Court in July 2014.
The singer had been accused of arranging for Mahmood to be sold £800 of cocaine by one of her contacts following an elaborate sting for The Sun on Sunday in May 2013.
During a meeting at the Metropolitan Hotel in London, Mahmood posed as a film producer and plied Miss Contostavlos with alcohol as they discussed an acting role alongside Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio.
As Smith drove the former X Factor judge home to Hertfordshire, she allegedly spoke about a family member who had a drugs problem.
When he was interviewed by police about the journey more than a year later, Smith, of Dereham, Norfolk, recalled the conversation.
Retired driver Alan Smith arrives at the Old Bailey on Friday morning ahead of sentencing Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA
But a day later, after speaking to Mahmood and emailing his draft statement, the singer's anti-drugs comments were removed, the court heard.
At a pre-trial hearing, Mahmood denied being an "agent provocateur" or that he discussed the drugs conversation with Smith.
But when he was questioned at length in the trial, Mahmood appeared to concede he had talked to Smith about what Miss Contostavlos said about drugs in the car. The case was subsequently thrown out.
Neither defendant gave evidence, but it was said on Mahmood's behalf that there had been a "misunderstanding" of his evidence as he was "steamrollered" with multi-faceted questions.
And Miss Contostavlos's comments in the car would not have stacked up against the "clear and incontrovertible evidence" against her, it was claimed.
Mazher Mahmood covers his face with his coat as he leaves the Old Bailey, accompanied by an aide, after the guilty verdict Credit: NEIL HALL/REUTERS
Defence lawyer John Kelsey-Fry QC told jurors: "Mr Mahmood is not a policeman. He is a journalist.
"Whilst the prosecution may say he boasts of the number of convictions resulting from his work, securing convictions is not actually his job."
He said Mahmood stood before the court as a "very frightened man".
Of the divorced father-of-one, Mr Kelsey-Fry added: "He has brought catastrophe upon himself and a lifetime's work will be forever tarnished."
He said Mahmood's whole investigation was about exposing the pop star's private face "smoking weed" and "arranging cocaine for mates" set against her public persona as a "role model".
Following the guilty verdicts, it was announced that 18 civil claims were being launched against Mahmood which could total some £800 million.
For more than 25 years, Mahmood has enjoyed a position as "King of the Sting" at the now defunct News of the World, Sunday Times and Sun on Sunday, with Smith as his "right-hand man".
Paedophiles, arms dealers and drug dealers have all found themselves at the centre of his stories, as have celebrities and public figures, including the Countess of Wessex, who was taped calling the Queen "the old dear", and Sven-Goran Eriksson, who revealed his plans to quit as England head football coach.
After her case collapsed in July 2014, Miss Contostavlos claimed to reporters she had been the victim of "a horrific and disgusting entrapment".
Profile | Mazher Mahmood
The Crown Prosecution Service has since dropped a number of live cases and reviewed 25 past convictions, involving 41 defendants.
Six of those involving mainly high-profile individuals have been taken up by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Mahmood, from Purley, south London, had been suspended by News UK since the collapse of the Tulisa trial and was sacked following his conviction.
Following the sentence, some of Mahmood's alleged sting victims gathered outside the Old Bailey to call on Parliament to "cleanse this stain on our democracy once and for all".
Former London's Burning star John Alford, whose case is among those being taken up by the CCRC, said: "It's taken over 20 years for some of us, but finally a judge and a jury of our peers has woken up to Mazher Mahmood's lies."
A News UK spokesman said: "Mazher has led scores of successful investigations during his 25-year career with the company. His work has led to the exposure of criminality and wrongdoing. It is a source of great regret that his time with the company should end in this manner.
"The previous criminal cases that have resulted from his investigations were tested by the courts or guilty pleas were entered.
"We are aware that the Crown Prosecution Service has reviewed some cases and understand that the Criminal Cases Review Commission is looking at whether a small number of matters should be referred back to the Court of Appeal. We await their decisions.
"We have noted the threats made after Mazher's conviction of civil claims against this company in relation to his previous work. Should such claims be brought, they will be vigorously defended."
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Toya Wright Is Not Here For Reginae Carter's Relationship: 'I Don't Like The Age Difference'
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Toya Wright doesn't approve of the age difference between her daughter Reginae Carter and her rapper boyfriend YFN Lucci.
In a teaser clip for T.I. & Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle, Toya expressed her concerns about Reginae and Lucci's relationship.
"I don't like the age difference," Toya said. "I don't like the fact that he have four kids because I mean, you trying to be stepmom, honey?"
Reginae, 19, is nine years younger than Lucci and the couple oftens display their romance on social media.
Toya knows first hands the struggles of dating a man in the industry and warned her daughter about the lifestyle that comes along with it.
"You know how I feel about that whole rapper thing," she added. "I dated your dad when I was younger than that and there's a whole lot that comes with that lifestyle. And that's the last thing I want or any mother want."
Despite her mother's cautionary experience with love, Reginae is enamored by Lucci and professed her love for him, earlier in the interview, saying, "I really like him. He's sweet and livin' life. Livin' our best life."
The clip was a preview of what's to come on T.I. & Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle and we can't wait. The refreshed reality show will also showcase the lives of Monica and Shannon Brown, LeToya Luckett and her husband Tommicus Walker.
Big news for The Walkers!! We're excited to be a new addition to @FamilyHustle along w/ @Tip @TinyMajorMama @MonicaBrown @ToyaWright & @colormenae on @vh1! You'll get a peek inside our 1st year of marriage & more!! Believe me…you do NOT wanna miss this!! pic.twitter.com/uyWnPUIv7W
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Canelo-GGG Outsold Mayweather, Despite Gaudy Money Levels
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Now that a little time has past, it's time to take a look back at the summer of creative insanity that was the boxing...
Now that a little time has past, it's time to take a look back at the summer of creative insanity that was the boxing world. T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas saw a pair of huge events in the span of four weekends: One, a top-end boxing match that ended with some controversy and the potential for another rematch down the road. The other, a spectacle created for no other reason than to generate big fat gobs of cash, particularly for the headlining fighter.
Make no mistake, the cash generated by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. taking on MMA star Conor McGregor was serious. According to Forbes, the final gate was $55.4 million. That's second only to Mayweather's 2015 showdown against Manny Pacquiao on the all-time list, and well ahead of the 2013 battle between Mayweather and Canelo Alvarez.
But those numbers feel somewhat hollow.
With due respect to Mr. McGregor, who acquitted himself quite well, that fight was for the marks. Anyone who's ever covered the fight game professionally knew that there wasn't a snowball's chance on a hot day that a man in his first professional boxing match was going to come close against one of the best defensive fighters that has ever stalked the ring.
On the other hand, you have the Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin fight in September. Two highly respected professional fighters, limited circus atmosphere, and a solid battle that could have been scored either way according to most (though we feel it was GGGs win, for the record).
That fight may have come in way behind in the money grab, but it was an infinitely better show – better in-ring product, better atmosphere, and better bang for the fan's buck. With a sellout crowd of 17,318 and ticket prices that started substantially below the gaudy ask of $500-10,000 and beyond for Mayweather-McGregor, it was just a better fight night, and that's something that event producers should also consider in addition to how much gets into their pockets at the end of the day.
It's not shocking – "Money" Mayweather has made no secret of his ambitions to turn air into cash at any opportunity. He also had the small matter of a $20M-plus tax bill he owed the IRS, which he asked to pay after the fight.
But really, reports from that fight in August were kind of a bummer for the fight fan in me. Apparently the room was more or less empty for most of the preliminary bouts, with much of the upper reaches of the stadium staying that way. A $2,500 minimum asking price for most of those empty seats will do that.
We've gone over most of the reasons why this fight fell on its face (in every way but how much money Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor and their various pals and hangers on now have in their respective savings accounts), but they bear repeating, if only for the thought that someone down the road may look back and realize that when you put this much pressure on maximizing the dollar on an event, it's going to fail.
1. Anyone With a Brain Saw Through the Hype
Promo events that saw ridiculous insults thrown between two men who have never been operating in the same sport or business world may have convinced some people there was bad blood. But not many.
2. They Made it Hard to Buy
If you want people to buy into a night out that will start at $5K, maybe turning on Verified Fan, restricting ticket purchase to two per person, and making the tickets local pickup only isn't the best idea.
3. They Scared Away Brokers
Besides making it hard for those in the secondary world who might have wanted to scoop as many tickets as possible, there were apparently representatives of both fighters' camps who shopped blocks of tickets that turned out to have either been misrepresented, or promised to multiple people at one time. It got to the point where RCN Capital canceled a loan intended for purchase of one such block because the financing seemed too risky to take on.
4. They Didn't Engage the Tour/Hospitality Biz
Word is, only one casino had access to any number of tickets from promoters. Instead of engaging tour companies or casinos that would have put together packages for high rollers to make a big splash at the fight night, promoters tried to keep it all to themselves. Better gate for them, but empty seats as far as the eye can see.
5. They Didn't Do Anything to Fix It
Probably, to me, the most damning. It was clear from the jump that this one had fallen flat. I had registered for the Verified Fan sale, and was getting retargeting adds and emails from Ticketmaster daily to remind me that tickets were still available. But they left the too-high prices in place, rather than scale down in an attempt to get a full house and the related bump in excitement and prestige.
Ultimately, this fight was always destined to become a footnote in the annals of Floyd Mayweather's great career. It rounded out his record at 50-0, gave Conor McGregor an "in" to the boxing world should he choose to hang up his MMA career, and made both a ton of cash. The fan experience was never really a part of that equation, and it shows.


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RGIII's tell-all book should have Dan Snyder worried
Nine years ago, Robert Griffin III was supposed to be the bedrock beneath Dan Snyder and the NFL's Washington franchise. Now the former Offensive Rookie of the Year is shaping up to be the latest trapdoor to open under Snyder's feet.
At least that appeared to be what RGIII was promising Tuesday, when he announced a forthcoming book in the summer of 2022.
As Griffin framed it in an announcement on social media:
"I'm so excited to announce that I wrote a book and it's coming out in August 2022, titled 'Surviving Washington.' Now every experience I've ever had has made me a better husband, a better father and a better player. But I want you to take this journey with me, as I walk you through one of the most dysfunctional franchises in all of sports. I'm going to tell you the truth about what happened in that playoff game in 2012 against Seattle. I'm going to detail the medical mismanagement that I received during my time in Washington. I'm going to open your eyes to the sexual harassment that permeated the walls of that building and give you a deep dive into a power struggle between one of the most powerful coaches in all of sports and an owner that many of you want gone."
Dan Snyder probably won't be shaking hands with Robert Griffin III once the ex-quarterback's book comes out. (Photo by John McDonnell / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Frankly, Griffin hasn't added a great deal to the NFL's orbit since his breakout 2012 season as a rookie, a year that ended with him re-injuring ligaments in his knee (and arguably altering his career forever) during that aforementioned playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks. But there's no question that he had a front-row seat during a very turbulent and very relevant time in Snyder's ownership. There was a power struggle between head coach Mike Shanahan and Snyder, as well as persistent drama inside a locker room that was often divided between loyalties to Griffin and former Washington quarterback Kirk Cousins.
It is within reason to believe that Griffin is going to have significant dirt to throw around. And plenty of it is going to land on Snyder and other notable names who were in power during his four years in Washington from 2012 through 2015. Lest anyone forget who else was inside the team at that time, it was a leading cast of prominent names that went far beyond Mike Shanahan. The list includes: current head coaches Kyle Shanahan (San Francisco 49ers), Matt LaFleur (Green Bay Packers) and Sean McVay (Los Angeles Rams), as well as defensive coordinators Raheem Morris (Rams) and Joe Barry (Packers) and offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel (49ers).
Griffin also overlapped with executive Bruce Allen, whose emails with Jon Gruden sparked a lawsuit from the former Las Vegas Raiders coach against the NFL, and former Washington general manager Scot McCloughan, whose tenure ended very badly with the franchise. As four-year eras go, it's fair to say Griffin saw an extremely messy snapshot in one of the most controversially managed teams in league history.
That's bound to sell books, particularly if Griffin delivers what his publisher is touting as being "explosive." From the publisher:
"A one-of-a-kind, explosive tell-all from former franchise savior, Robert Griffin III, detailing the shocking mismanagement and toxic culture within the most dysfunctional professional football team in America. … [I]n this eye-opening and moving memoir, Griffin shines a light on that infamous playoff game, along with the toxic environment he witnessed with medical mismanagement and sexual harassment in the most dysfunctional organization in sports today, overseen by Daniel Snyder."
If you've got your scorecard, that's a publisher aiming for a bingo with some words that have been swirling around the team of late. From the "toxic environment" and "sexual harassment" angles that appear to lean into the most recent investigation of the team, to the "medical mismanagement" which has been long debated when it comes to how the team handled Griffin's knee injury, the "dysfunctional organization" tag that has come to define Dan Snyder's reign.
There's no telling what Griffin can bring into the light, but he was one of Snyder's favorites at one point in his career, so there's no denying the access he had inside the franchise. At the very least, his promise of full disclosure should be enough to make some people nervous.
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It is easy to forget that your most precious memories stored on film and tape can easily deteriorate over time. It is absolutely vital that they are stored correctly to ensure proper playback for conversion to DVD.
Cine films are extremely robust and will last decades providing you look after them. All cine films do not like light and should be stored in a sealed box to prevent the light from getting at them when they are not being used. Cine film exposed to long periods of light will fade with time – it usually starts with the film becoming pink and will end with the film becoming completely clear. This is down to the type of film used and also the processing of the film. If your films are taking on a rather pinkish look then you should get them transferred to DVD now. Depending on how bad they are you can usually adjust the colour to compensate for the pink tinge in the mid to dark tones of the film but the highlights will already be turning clear and are unrecoverable. As time goes by this progressively gets worse until it cannot be recovered.
Colour Kodachrome cine films tend to be the most robust and fortunately for most people they are also the most abundant cine films around. Other manufacturers vary greatly and it really depends on the quality of their films. Some are just as good as Kodachrome and others are not.
Practically all black and white cine films last an incredibly long length of time – over a hundred years if they are stored correctly. This is partly due to the amount of silver halides that have been used in the processing stage – no health and safety back then! Also the film base for black and white films is much more robust than colour cine films.
The processing stage of cine films also directly affects the length of time that they will last. The last step in all photographic processing (including paper prints) is a wash tank. The wash stage should consist of water and stabiliser. The key is stabiliser – it forms a barrier on the film that prevents grubby fingers harming the film and helps to wash off any residual chemicals from the developing stage. The trouble is stabiliser isn't cheap and so many labs either diluted the stabiliser down more than they should have, or worse they didn't bother and just used water. These people should be ashamed of themselves, as the result is a lot of the processing solution was left on the films. They all look great at the time the customer receives them and as time goes by they will fade because the residual chemicals are left on the film. When the film is exposed to light they carry on processing and then start fading.
Cine films do not like damp. I constantly hear of disaster stories from people who wrap up their films and return to them ten or twenty years later only to find that they are covered in fungus and it is literally eating the film. Fungus loves cine film and it is important to keep your films in a dry place.
Do not use rubber bands or sellotape on films. Rubber bands perish over time and stick to films leaving marks on them. The same is true with sellotape. The proper way to join cine is with film cement - not sellotape. Sellotape becomes brittle in time and falls off leaving you with two halves of the same film. It also marks the film where the joins were and can leave a sticky mess that can jam in the projector ruining part of you film. If some of the sticky gets into the projector then it will smear the whole film as you are viewing it and ruin a perfectly good film in the process.
Cine films like the cold but not freezing. All films are chemical based which means they react quicker as the temperature rises. By reducing the temperature you slow down any chemical reactions and thus preserve the films. Don't go too cold though as the film can become brittle and break.
So, what is the best way to store cine films? Anywhere dark, dry and cool is great. The loft is a perfect place for cine films to be stored.
One last thing – label up your films with who is on them. Please! So many people "inherit" these films and most of the time they have no idea who is on them or where it is or when it was. What was the point in capturing a moment in time if you intend to let it disappear into obscurity?
Magnetic tapes are not as robust as film. They are prone to drop outs and signal degradation as time goes by. Analogue magnetic tape will always give a signal of some sort but tends to result in a poor picture playback. Digital, on the other hand, will always give a much better picture playback right up until the tape degrades too much and then it won't give any signal for playing at all, resulting is no picture at all. In many respects analogue will outlive digital recordings because of this. So if you have any mini DV tapes, digital 8 tapes or even dat audio cassettes then they should prioritised first.
Video and Camcorder Tapes should be kept away from anything magnetic. So if you are leaving your old videos lying around on top of the hi-fi speaker sitting in your living room (with large magnets inside) then you are asking for it!
Video players and camcorder players do not like dust. It is one of the single biggest reasons for poor playback as the video heads get compacted with dirt from the tapes, so store your video tapes and camcorder tapes in the boxes that they came with. Why risk ruining your precious memories for the sake of tidying up as you go?
Videos do not like excessive heat such as direct sunlight - they like room temperature for storage. They also do not like the cold. Analogue VHS video and camcorder tapes exposed to heat and cold start to have odd playback colours. Digital can fail completely to playback. It is not uncommon for shimmering light effects to start appearing on videos because of this. Once this has happened there is nothing you can do to resolve this other than some sophisticated (expensive) tinkering on the computer. Whatever you do – do not store video tapes or camcorder tapes in the loft where they will get exposed to cold temperatures.
All magnetic media stored on reels start to degrade from the outside of the tape inwards. So, if you have your precious wedding video sitting somewhere then it is best to leave the tape fully unwound to the end. i.e. do not store tapes rewound to the beginning. The reason for this is the tape in the middle is protected by the tape on the outside, and the more tape on the outside the better it is preserved. So if you are still using video for storage or camcorder tape then let the tape run for a bit at the start before you start recording and then store them fully unwound. That way they are more likely to be played in the future.
Camcorder tapes and video tapes will be very badly affected by moisture. Inside the cassettes are metal pins where the tape runs around. If these rust then it will damage the tape as it goes past. Likewise the tape can stick to itself resulting in terrible playback and also the magnetic particles can completely come away from the tape base. A bad cassette can completely ruin a good film inside. If you suspect the tape has been exposed to moisture then try opening it *** carefully *** and look inside. You will see if there has been any damage. If you suspect the tape is faulty then you can "transplant" the tape into another cassette for playback.
In summary, keep your VHS videos, Betamax videos, Mini DV camcorder tapes, Hi 8 camcorder tapes, Digital 8 camcorder tapes and VHS-C tapes at room temperature in a dry, dark place and away from anything magnetic or electrical.
Okay, here is the usual scenario: You go about your daily lives working, looking after the kids and a little bit of "me" time thrown in now and then. Most days the idea of checking or viewing your old cine and camcorder footage never even gets a look in until one day you decide that these would make a great Birthday present / Anniversary present as you haven't seen them in ages. You then dig out the old cine projector / camcorder player / video player, bung in a film and start to play it to see what is on it and in the process completely wreck the film….
Before you do anything with the cine films, check the projector is running correctly. Then try a film that is not as important to you. Never put your precious film in without checking the projector.
Be ready to switch off the projector very quickly should a problem occur. i.e. Don't set up the projector and the screen, load up a film and then sit down in a comfy chair away from the projector. By the time you have worked out there is a problem, reacted to it by walking to the projector, fiddled with the unfamiliar knobs and switched it off you could have mangled several feet of cine.
Film does not like grubby fingers - your sweaty fingers can leave horrible marks all over the film. So get yourself some cotton gloves to wear before handling the film.
Cine projectors require a certain amount of skill both to load the film and also when viewing it. If you try to load the film and the belts have deteriorated with age then the take up spool might not work properly and you could end up with a rat's nest of film on the floor. This can be stood on and will definitely get dust and blobs of dirt all over the film, which will only make it worse for playback when transferring it to DVD.
Cine film can jam in the projector and unlike your modern day computers with the worst situation being a rude "beep" at you, if a film jams then the lamp will burn a hole in the film – it's hot! It can even set fire to the film if left unattended. Likewise films that have bad sprockets can tear and split in two. Films that have been joined with sellotape that has come loose will jam in the projector and chew up the film. You can even scratch cine film by having grit in the projector which will drag right through your precious film top to bottom creating a lovely big scratch in the process. The bad news is this is difficult to remove effectively.
Do not try to clean cine film – get a professional to do it. Not only do you run the risk of making it worse by introducing more dirt than it had previously, but more importantly if you don't do it correctly you can lift the emulsion layer completely of the film and then you have a perfectly clean but completely blank film. Cine film will stick to itself when it gets wet. Once it has stuck to itself it will not come away from the film it is stuck on without lifting the emulsion off from the part it is stuck to. This will result in some freaky playback with weird "ghosts" appearing momentarily from nowhere.
When was the last time you used your video and camcorder? Still think it is in pristine condition? After all it went into the loft in perfect working order so it should be perfectly fine for playing video tapes / camcorder tapes now, shouldn't it? Wrong! You need to appreciate that despite its perfect working order when you last used it there is a probability that it won't be in perfect working order now.
There is grease applied to the playback mechanism in camcorders and vcr's which can harden with age, especially if it has been stored in a cold loft. This can cause things to stick and stop working properly. When a tape is inserted into a camcorder or video player the flap at the front is lifted and the tape is pulled out into a big loop which goes around a metal drum where the heads for recording and playback are situated. If any one of these mechanisms fails and jams then the tape will snag and become twisted in the player. You then have a tape jammed in the player. Test the player first with a tape that is not important, and not just once – insert and eject it a few times to be certain.
IMPORTANT: If you have a jammed tape in a camcorder or video then seek professional help. If you try to release it yourself then the flap can close crushing the tape or the tape can snag on a part in the player and result in stretching when removed or worse snap. Snapped tape is not easy to repair.
Bad capacitors in old camcorders fail with age and everything from the screen to view the playback to the actual electronics controlling playback can break. Still want to bung your old camcorder tape in to view it? Use a blank tape first to see if it is in working order before putting that precious tape in. Try recording something and then playing it back. If it is fine then put the tape in that you want to view.
Some camcorders have batteries in them to remember the date and time. If these batteries leak they can damage the electronics – check carefully.
Dirty heads are also a big no-no. This mostly applies to video players as they tend to play the most tapes but it can also apply to camcorders as well. If your video player has dirty heads and you put a perfectly good recording into the video player then some of the dirt from the heads can transfer onto the tape which will mean it will not play back as well. Test the player first and if necessary get either a cleaning tape or carefully clean the heads with some isopropyl alcohol.


For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.
Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; My heart is appalled within me.
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your doings; I muse on the work of Your hands.
Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies; I take refuge in You.
For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
And in Your lovingkindness, cut off my enemies And destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am Your servant. 144 Prayer for Rescue and Prosperity. A Psalm of David.
My lovingkindness and my fortress, My stronghold and my deliverer, My shield and He in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people under me.
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Send out Your arrows and confuse them.
Who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues David His servant from the evil sword.
Let our cattle bear Without mishap and without loss, Let there be no outcry in our streets!
How blessed are the people who are so situated; How blessed are the people whose God is the LORD! 145 The LORD Extolled for His Goodness. A Psalm of Praise, of David.
Iwill extol You, my God, O King, And I will bless Your name forever and ever.
Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, And His greatness is unsearchable.
The LORD keeps all who love Him, But all the wicked He will destroy.


This Fried powder gives your chicken an extra crispy golden outside while keeping your meat tender and juicy on the inside. Just add water to the powder and coat the outside of your food.
Best Used with: All types of fried foods.


Cats are a big time attention seekers. They can do anything to get their owner's attention. In this clip this cat is doing the same. Feline wants to play with its master and in order to seek attention it is pushing a carpet inside the room through door.
This video is irresistibly cute. Owner is also enjoying it and pushing that carpet piece away from her. However, cat won the game and successfully moved the rug all inside. Seemed like she wanted to prologue it as she stoped for once but then continued the game and succeeded. Such an attention seeker!


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Visiting Scientists and Students
IAPN in Dialogue
Annual DGP Meeting 2019
The transfer of knowledge and establishing international networks in the field of plant nutrition are important tasks of IAPN. Visiting scientists and visiting students are therefore very welcome at the institute. Funded by public institutions like German Academic Exchange Service DAAD, non-governmental organizations or the private sector during their visit, they spend different amount of time at IAPN.
Some bring in their own research ideas and in one way or another, all of them get involved with IAPN's research projects and methods. Ideally, both sides benefit greatly from this intense exchange of knowledge: the visiting scientists and students will be able to pass on their knowledge in their home countries, while IAPN benefits from the knowledge they supply on their countries of origin.
- John Kumi (Ghana)
2018, 2017 and 2016
- Prof. Dr. Ismail Cakmak (Türkei)
- Linus Amoako Graham (Ghana)
- Recep Serdar Kara (Türkei)
- Yasemin Ceylan (Turkey)
- Di Wu (China)
- Prof. Dr. Jehad Abbadi (Israel)
- Elsa Martineau (France)
- James Mugo (Kenya)
- Selin Meral (Turkey)
- Vilde Kaldhusdal (Norway)
- Alaa Al-Lahham (Israel)
- Mensah Kwabena Agyei (Ghana)
- Petar Jovanovic (Serbia)
- Prof. Dr. Ismail Cakmak (Turkey)
- Christine Kyomugisha (Uganda)
Gaststudenten
- Ebru Saygan (Türkei)
- Mariana Majer (Brasilien)
- Daniel Olol (Uganda)
- Richmond Atobrah (Ghana)
- Melis Mengütay (Turkey)
- Aleksandra Stamenkovic (Serbia)
- Thiago Tonieto (Brazil)
- Marta Bermejo (Spain)
- Gizem Yazici (Turkey)
John Kumi
Master's student John Kumi conducting research on how modified supplies of magnesium and boron may influence aluminum toxicity in plants. (Photo: Tränkner)
Master's student John Kumi from Ghana visited the IAPN for an internship in September and October 2019. He worked on a project focusing on options for reducing aluminum toxicity. Using a hydroponic system, he conducted an experiment with different supply levels of the plant nutrients magnesium and boron and examined the effects on aluminum toxicity in the plant. He measured a variety of parameters regarding growth and plant physiology. John Kumi ran these tests in close cooperation with Dr. Ariel Turcios, postdoctoral researcher at IAPN. The internship was part of the Master's program "Agrobiotechnology", which John Kumi is completing at the Justus Liebig University Giessen.
In 2014, John Kumi already worked at IAPN, as an exchange student. At that time, he was still enrolled in the Bachelor's program at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. His 2014 stay at IAPN was sponsored by the student internship program "International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience" (IAESTE).
Prof. Dr. Ismail Cakmak
Winner of the Georg Forster Research Award: Prof. Dr. Ismail Cakmak. (Photo: Cakmak)
Professor Dr. Ismail Cakmak from Turkey is a worldwide acknowledged scientist in the field of plant nutrition and human trace element nutrition. From 2016 to 2018, he worked in Göttingen at the IAPN and at the Department of Crop Sciences, in the Section of Plant Nutrition and Crop Physiology at the Georg-August-Universität. He was engaged in joint research activities of IAPN and Turkish Sabanci University, Istanbul, where he holds a professorship of plant nutrition and nutritional physiology since the year 2000.
He also made very valuable contributions to the strengthening of scientific connections between both institutions and for example the International Magnesium Institute (IMI). Opened in September 2017, IMI is a public-private partnership by K+S and the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU) located in Fuzhou, China. IMI was one of the organizers of the 3rd International Symposium on Magnesium, that was held in November 2018 in Guangzhou, China.
Additionally, Ismail Cakmak contributed, alongside to IAPN Professor Dr. Klaus Dittert and Junior Professor Dr. Merle Tränkner, to teaching activities. He also assisted PhD students in developing their publications. During his visit at IAPN, Ismail Cakmak contributed numerous lectures and talks for extensionists in Germany and abroad, and he wrote articles about recent topics of plant nutrition.
On July 4th 2014, Ismail Cakmak was awarded the renowned Georg Forster Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2014, the award-winner stayed for his research at IAPN as well as at the Department for Crop Sciences at the University of Göttingen. During his visit in Göttingen, Ismail Cakmak focused on the relevance of potassium and magnesium for partitioning of photo assimilates within plants, and their effects on plant shoot and root growth. More on Ismail Cakmak's IAPN visit in 2014
Linus Amoako Graham
Linus Amoako Graham (right), Bachelor's student from Ghana, assisting Master's student Hendrik Meemken during an experiment. (Photo: Tränkner)
In 2018, Linus Amoako Graham joined the working of IAPN as an intern for two months with the IAESTE internship program. At that time, he was a Bachelor's student of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. He has been studying agriculture with specialization on arable crop production, sustainable management, plantation and industrial crop production and management. Within his stay at IAPN, he assisted Master's students during their experiments and supported the IAPN team in a research project which aimed at investigating salt stress tolerance of crops and its enhancement by optimized fertilization.
Recep Serdar Kara
Recep Serdar Kara is a PhD student at the Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition at Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. His expertise lies, inter alia, in soil analysis, soil chemistry and physics, soil and water conservation, and carbon sequestration. Mr. Kara joined the working group of IAPN and Section of Plant Nutrition and Crop Physiology as an intern for 2 months. Within this time, Recep Serdar Kara assisted PhD and Master students in their experiments which aimed at investigating the water-use efficiency and its enhancement by optimized fertilization. As a visiting scientist, his work served to deepen and to evaluate studies that had commenced during previous research at IAPN. He conducted an experiment in the greenhouse on sugar beet in which plant physiological responses to magnesium and potassium deficiency were sought to study and thereby could broaden his knowledge specifically on plant physiology affected by magnesium and potassium deficiency.
On 4 July 2014, Prof. Dr. Ismail Cakmak from Sabanci University, Istanbul, was awarded the renowned Georg Forster Research Award of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. The ceremony took place in Berlin. From 6 January until 30 April 2014 , the award-winner stayed for his research at the IAPN as well as at the Department for Crop Sciences at the University of Göttingen. During his visit in Göttingen, Prof. Cakmak focused on the relevance of potassium and magnesium for partitioning of photo assimilates within plants, and their effects on plant shoot and root growth.
Born in 1959, Ismail Cakmak finished his doctorate in 1988, at Hohenheim University, and as a Humboldt-fellow went on as post-doctorate researcher in Hanover and Hohenheim, among other places. Since 2000, he has been Professor of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at Sabanci University. Among other projects, he has also been involved in the highly recognized international HarvestPlus Program, which seeks to reduce hidden hunger and to provide micronutrients and trace elements to millions of people. Prof. Cakmak is responsible for a considerable share of the progress made in increasing grain zinc density, thereby contributing substantially to alleviating zinc deficiency in human nutrition.
In 1999 Prof. Cakmak was awarded the TÜBITAK Science Award, the most distinguished scientific accolade in Turkey. In 2005 he was awarded the International Fertilizer Industry Association Crop Nutrition Award, in recognition of his contributions to both human health and to crop production, and in 2007 he received the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering "Derek Tribe Award Medal". This was followed by the Humanitarian Service Award granted by the Lions Club, in 2008. In September 2012 Prof. Cakmak was elected into the Academy of Europe.
Christine Kyomugisha
Christine Kyomugisha, Sasakawa Africa Association, explains the concept of the Farmer Learning Platform. (Photo: Jost)
Within the project "Growth for Uganda", Christine Kyomugisha works as a "Program Officer Crop Productivity Enhancement". She is employed by the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) – an NGO working to combat hunger and to improve the livelihoods of small scale farmers. Christine Kyomugisha visited the IAPN from 5 till 28 September 2014, in order to learn more about plant nutrition and on soil and plant analysis methods.
As part of a series of events termed IAPN in Dialogue she presented her work with Ugandan small scale famers and the Farmer Learning Platform, an interactive approach to the transfer of knowledge.
Prof. Dr. Jehad Abbadi
Prof. Dr. Jehad Abbadi. (Photo: IAPN)
Prof. Dr. Jehad Abbadi is Associate Professor for Biology at the Al-Quds University in East-Jerusalem. His work focuses mainly on crop nutrition in semi-arid climates. Sponsored by the Al-Quds University, he stayed at the IAPN from 9 June until 7 August 2014. As a visiting scientist, his work served to deepen and to evaluate the studies he had commenced within the scope of a previous research visit, which had been sponsored by the DAAD, on the effects of potassium on safflower and sunflower. In semi-arid regions, both of these plants are important oil crops. Due to the strong binding of potassium in the soil, it may not be sufficiently available to sunflowers and safflower – a problem with great economic relevance in these regions.
Within the scope of his stay at the IAPN, Mr. Abbadi also dedicated some time to the absorption of the potassium provided to safflower and sunflowers in loam and sandy soils. In addition to research on the interactions between potassium and the nutrient magnesium, he also focused on the quantitative measurement of the K-absorption-kinetics for both crops, with the intention of depicting and validating the resulting process parameters by using a mechanistic process model developed by the Department of Plant Nutrition and Crop Physiology (Claassen, Syring and Jungk, 1986, Claassen and Steingrobe, 1999). Mr. Abbadi also used his stay to conduct trials on the utilization and interaction of phosphorus in the root section of safflower and sunflower in loamy and sandy soils.
Prof. Abbadi stayed at IAPN for the third time. He is an Associate Professor of Biology at the Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem, Palestine. Sponsored by the Al-Quds University, he conducted research at the IAPN for three months in summer 2015. As a visiting scientist, his work served to deepen and to evaluate studies that he had commenced within the scope of his previous research visits, which had been sponsored by the DAAD, on the effects of potassium on safflower and sunflower. In semi-arid regions, both of these plants are important oil crops. Due to their substantial demand for potassium, soil availability of K may not suffice to adequately nourish sunflowers and safflower – in particular when water gets short.
Sponsored by the Al-Quds University, Prof. Abbadi conducted research at the IAPN for three months again in summer 2015. As a visiting scientist, his work served to deepen and to evaluate studies that he had commenced within the scope of his previous research visits.
Daniel Olol
Daniel Olol, Sasakawa Africa Association, explains the situation of small scale famers in Uganda. (Photo: Dach)
To Daniel Olol, there had never been any question as to what he wanted to do. "I was born in Lira in Northern Uganda. I am from a farming community and to me it was just natural that I studied agriculture", the young agronomist explains. He completed his studies at the agricultural faculty of Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda). Since April 2013, Daniel Olol has been working as a Program Officer for Crop Productivity Enhancement for the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA), an NGO working to combat hunger and to improve the livelihoods of small scale farmers. Within the scope of his work for SAA, Daniel Olol mainly trains members of family-owned small farms, enabling them to maintain and even improve soil fertility and productivity.
As part of the project "Growth for Uganda" Daniel Olol worked at the IAPN from 2 September until 26 October 2013. During this stay, he accumulated a wealth of knowledge on applied plant nutrition and special soil and plant analysis methods, which he plans to pass on to people back home. "I am happy that this knowledge will be transferred to farmers in Uganda to improve their productivity, giving them higher yields which will translate into higher profits and better livelihoods for the farmers," Daniel Olol summarized his experience. At the same time, he appreciated the opportunity for meeting scientists from all over the world at the IAPN: "For me it was a rare chance to learn about farming in other parts of the world."
Yasemin Ceylan
Yasemin Ceylan. (Photo: IAPN)
Back home, Yasemin Ceylan works on a research project of Sabanci University in Istanbul. The project mainly focuses on the effects of magnesium (Mg) nutrition on wheat plants under drought stress conditions. At the time a fourth-year PhD-student of Prof. Ismail Cakmak, Yasemin Ceylan visited the IAPN in September 2013. "During my stay I had a chance to collaborate on a project which was also about drought stress and Mg," says Yasemin Ceylan. "During my visit, I learned new techniques and also shared my knowledge with other students."
Yasemin Ceylan came back to the IAPN in 2015.
Richmond Atobrah
Richmond Atobrah. (Photo: IAPN)
Richmond Atobrah – final year student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi – spent three months at the IAPN. From 1 June until 31 August 2013 he worked on a project investigating the effect of potassium on water use efficiency and drought tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum). Trials were conducted in a hydroponic system, with three different levels of potassium provision. Richmond Atobrah was involved in all steps of the investigation, beginning with sowing and cultivation, preparation of the nutrient stock solutions and measurement of the various growth and productivity-related parameters. "Working with Richmond Atobrah, who had never previously been in Europe, was a great joy," says Bálint Jákli, who supported Atobrah in developing his methods further. "Richmond's enthusiasm was quite infectious. What he enjoyed most was that he received a lot of support in developing his simulation model for image-based biomass development, and the photosynthesis and transpiration rate measurements with our gas exchange system."
Melis Mengütay
Melis Mengütay. (Photo: IAPN)
Melis Mengütay spent one month as a visiting student at the IAPN. This stay was part of her Master's program in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at Sabanci University. Together with her laboratory partner Yasemin Ceylan she joined ongoing projects at the institute. At the end of her stay, Melis Mengütay expressed her gratitude to all those who had made this experience possible: "It was a peerless experience that we improved and exchanged our technical skills contributing to the project with other student members from Germany and around the world."
Aleksandra Stamenkovic
Aleksandra Stamenkovic. (Photo: IAPN)
Actually, when this Master student from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Biology came to the IAPN, she was more interested in animals than in plants. "As soon as I came to the IAPN I changed my mind," Aleksandra Stamenkovic smiles. "It was my pleasure to spend two months working in Professor Mehmet Senbayram's group." From mid-September until mid-November 2013 the 24-year-old participated in IAPN-projects, learning new techniques and methods. Looking back, Aleksandra Stamenkovic points out she not only profited from the actual research work done by IAPN-scientists, but was also impressed by their ability to transfer this knowledge. "I believe this to be a very important role of the IAPN," and goes on to explain: "By making me feel comfortable and accepted, people at the IAPN gave me a lot of confidence and motivated me to work and learn more. I am more than happy that I had a chance to come to the IAPN. It was an experience I will never forget."
Thiago Tonieto
Thiago Tonieto. (Photo: IAPN)
Thiago Tonieto visited the IAPN as part of his studies at the Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" at the University of São Paulo. For two months he worked mainly on projects related to water use efficiency and on the emissions of climate-relevant trace gases. "I really enjoyed expanding my research skills. The knowledge I acquired working on the IAPN-projects will certainly influence my development as a professional in my future life," Thiago Tonieto said at the end of his stay. He appreciated both the professional qualifications of the people he met at the IAPN, as well as their personal qualities. "The IAPN is exemplary for institutes in Germany and all over the world."
Marta Bermejo
Marta Bermejo visited the IAPN as part of her studies at the Universidad de Sevilla: from 3 October to 5 December 2013 she participated in tasks related to ongoing research projects at the institute.
Gizem Yazici
Gizem Yazici. (Photo: IAPN)
Gizem Yazici from Turkey spent four months at the IAPN, from 4 November 2013 until 25 February 2014. Her stay in Göttingen was part of her Master's program at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University. "The experiments at the IAPN focused on application of different levels of nutrients and drought stress to the field crops. I was particularly interested in the measurement of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the antioxidant activity of plant enzymes. I also improved my theoretical knowledge by attending suitable lectures, and by working at the laboratory, where I also conducted gas exchange and chlorophyll-fluorescence measurements. This improved my analytical skills."
Gizem Yazici reports that she immediately felt like a member of the team. "Whenever I had some problems or needed assistance, I received the immediate support of the staff. They organized many different social events so that I could meet many new friends from different countries."
Research at IAPN
International Office of the University of Göttingen
Welcome Centre of the University of Göttingen for international professors and postdocs
International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE)
German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) (DAAD)


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Sabathu is een kantonnement in het district Solan van de Indiase staat Himachal Pradesh.

Demografie
Volgens de Indiase volkstelling van 2001 wonen er 5.720 mensen in Sabathu, waarvan 67% mannelijk en 33% vrouwelijk is. De plaats heeft een alfabetiseringsgraad van 86%.

Plaats in Solan

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