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PREDIMED+DM
Effect of a hypocaloric Mediterranean diet and physical activity promotion on the prevention of
type 2 diabetes mellitus in subjects with the Metabolic Syndrome
Principal researcher: Dr. Lidia Daimiel Ruiz
Funded by: Instituto de Salud de Carlos III
Duration: 2018 - 2020
The aim of this project is to evaluate the effect on the incidence of T2DM of an intensive weight loss intervention based on a traditional hypocaloric Mediterranean Diet, physical activity and behavioral therapy, as compared to dietary advice based on a Mediterranean Dietary in the context of usual health care.
The PREDIMED+DM study is impinged in the PREDIMED-PLUS study, a randomized clinical trial evaluating the effect of same therapeutic strategies used in our study but on primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in overweight/obese subjects with the metabolic syndrome.
PHOSPHOLIPIDS4COGNITION
Evaluation of a nutritional supplement enriched with bioactive phospholipids designed to prevent
age-associate mild cognitive impairment
Principal researcher: Dr. Javier Fontecha Alonso (CIAL, CSIC-UAM)
IMDEA Food participant researcher: Dr. Francesco Visioli
Funded by: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Cognitive impairment (IC) associate with age (Age-related cognitive decline -ARCD) is one of the great challenges of our society today due to the aging population, which is a serious social and family problem, as well as a great difficulty for national health systems. Since currently available pharmacological treatments are not effective in preventing IC, are been promoted multidisciplinary strategies related to the prevention of chronic diseases associate with aging. Both the R+D+I and the H2020 include multidisciplinary lines in order to improve the understanding, prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of mental conditions and disorders of the elderly. PHOSPHOLIPIDS4COGNITION raises the approach of a coordinated multidisciplinary project, whose overall objective is to investigate the effect of the intake of PLs bio actives (of dairy and marine origin) in the prevention and treatment of cognitive impairment associate with aging, using a preclinical study with aged rats and a clinical study in a cohort of older adults previously diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment.
EPIC Spain
Chrono-diet, regulatory polymorphisms of the circadian clock, weight change and obesity in the European Prospective Study on Nutrition and Cancer (PI15/01658)
Principal researcher: José Ramón Quirós García (Fundación Fomento en Asturias de la Investigación Científica Aplicada y la Tecnología)
IMDEA Food participant researcher: Dr. José Mª Ordovás Muñoz
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is a prospective cohort with more than 521 000 study participants enrolled from 23 centres in 10 western European countries. Detailed information on diet, lifestyle characteristics, anthropometric measurements, and medical history was collected at recruitment (1992-1999).
Biological samples including plasma, serum, leukocytes, and erythrocytes were also collected at baseline from 387.889 individuals and are stored at the International Agency for Research on Cancer – World Health Organization (IARC-WHO) and mirrored at EPIC collaborating centres. The EPIC study is being conducted in five Spanish regions: Asturias, the Basque Country, Navarra, Murcia, and Andalucía (Granada). The coordinating centre is in Barcelona. Recruitment began in 1992—1993, and it was finished in 1996. The cohort in Spain consists of 41.438 participants with interviews on diet, and 39.880 participants with blood samples available. Follow-up measures of lifestyle exposures have been collected and will be centralized at IARC in 2014. Follow-up consists of a computerized version of a follow-up questionnaire. Follow-up for the identification of cancer cases is based on a computerized record linkage program that links EPIC files with the population cancer registries of Asturias, Basque Country, Granada, Murcia, and Navarra.
FORCHRONIC
Formulation of food products for the prevention and targeted treatment of chronic diseases related to metabolism (AGL2016-76736-C3-3-R)
Principal researcher: Dr. Ana Ramírez de Molina
The objective of the project FORCHRONIC is to design, develop and validate the effect and safety of new formulas for humans, effective in regulating the molecular mechanisms of cellular cholesterol transport and the activation of fatty acid synthesis, fundamental routes in the development of colorectal cancer, obesity and metabolic syndrome, in order to achieve food products with high added value, highly effective as nutritional supplements aimed at preventing and improving the treatment of these diseases. The project is based on two hypotheses resulting from the previous project carried out by the research team within the State Program of R+D+I, Challenging the Society; The regulation of ABCA1 metabolism genes and the ACSL / SCD pathway allows the control of cholesterol transport pathways and the activation of fatty acid synthesis, associated with the development of chronic diseases such as colon cancer and the metabolic syndrome; Formulas based on the combination of polar lipids and bioactive principles of natural origin can provide for efficient regulation of metabolism genes due to potentiation of bioavailability and synergistic biological activity.
EIntesti-nAhRuNg
Therapeutic modulation of non-coding RNAs through bioactive components of the diet: impact on pathophysiological regulation of lipid metabolism (AGL2016-78922-R)
Principal researcher: Dr. Alberto Dávalos Herrera
Despite advances in the prevention and the success of many widely prescribed drugs for the management of dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of mortality. This highlights the need for deeper insight into disease mechanism and innovative therapeutic strategies. A large amount of novel transcripts from our genome are transcribed into different types of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) including microRNAs (miRNAs) and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). Several novel ncRNAs are being identified as regulators of different biological processes and associated with different complex human diseases. Moreover, recent evidence suggests that the expression of certain miRNAs and lncRNAs can be modulated by food bioactive components. The emerging function of ncRNAs in cholesterol and lipid metabolism and their possible modulation by diet, open up new therapeutic possibilities. "Intesti-NahRuNg" aims to characterize the role of novel miRNAs and lncRNAs in both the physiological and pathological processes of intestinal lipid metabolism and test their therapeutic modulation through dietary bioactive compounds.
NUPROBED
Principal researcher: Dr. Pablo Fernández Marcos
Funded by: Fundación BBVA
Obesity and the pathologies derived, encompassed under the term Metabolic Syndrome, are considered one of the main health challenges of the 21st century. Many naturally occurring extracts have been used against obesity and diabetes for centuries, in many cases with beneficial effects and few side effects, and almost always without a thorough knowledge of their mechanisms of action. The NUPROBED project, which is being carried out by IMDEA Food in collaboration with the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL) and the National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), aims to find new bioactive products derived from foods with potential against Obesity, thanks to its effects on the main metabolic signaling pathways involved in this pathology. This project contemplates conducting a bioactive product search through high performance biological research platforms (HTS) testing four crucial metabolic pathways for obesity and diabetes: Insulin pathway, mitochondrial potential, pentoses phosphate pathway and adipogenesis.
ExoRNAs
Modulation of exosomes transporters of miRNAs and lncRNAs for intercellular communication as a therapeutic tool against dyslipidemia (CIVP18A3888)
Funded by: Fundación Ramón Areces
Exosomes are nanovesicles secreted to the extracellular space and involved in intercellular communication, and that are associated with different physiological and pathological processes. Therefore, their modulation has tremendous therapeutic potential as well as for diagnosis purposes. Dietary excess is the main cause of dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Postprandial lipemia is a residual risk factor that contributes to CVD. The role of exosomes in postprandial lipemia is completely unknown. Moreover, recent studies suggest that some dietary bioactive components may modify the secretion of exosomes. As exosomes contain a lipid bilayer originated from the cell membranes, and these lipids are influenced by the lipids in our diet, we hypothesized that through our diet we could modulate the secretion of exosomes and/or modulate their cargo for therapeutic purposes against dyslipidemia. Thus, the major aim of this proposal is to validate and characterize exosomes that transport miRNAs and lncRNAs in conditions of postprandial lipemia and characterize their mechanisms of action in the context of lipid metabolism. In addition, as proof of concept, we will determine the therapeutic modulation of exosomes through a nutritional intervention aimed to change the composition of the lipids of their membrane and thus alter their cargo and/or secretion. Our experimental approaches will provide therapeutic alternatives for the modulation of exosome secretion and thus contribute to regulate intercellular communication as a therapeutic tool against dyslipidemia and CVD.
DIOBIO
New bioactive products against obesity and diabetes (CIVP18A3891)
Principal researcher: Dr. Pablo. Fernández Marcos
The project studies the potential of food-derived bioactive products (FDBPs) for the prevention and treatment of metabolic syndrome, a poorly developed and very promising field of research. The project has 5 steps, which are not strictly interdependent, with preliminary data and contingency plans to ensure a successful outcome: (1) Setting up biological assays in high throughput format to screen for products impinging on some important metabolic pathways of high relevance for obesity and diabetes. (2) Screening two sets of FDBPs: 1000 pure natural compounds from commercially available libraries; and a library of extracts from medicinal plants of unknown molecular mechanisms of action. We will test these products on our screening systems, to determine their basic metabolic potential. (3) Developing clean, safe and effective preparation methods to obtain extracts from food sources enriched in the active natural compounds. (4) Performing a thorough molecular characterization of the mechanisms of action of the selected food-derived bioactive products using different molecular readouts. (5) Testing these products on mouse models to determine in vivo parameters of the bioactive products of interest, such as safety, effectiveness against metabolic syndrome, etc.
All these data will pave the way to further development of the bioactive products for tests on humans. We anticipate relevant discoveries in the field of food development and global human health, given the alarming increase of metabolic syndrome incidence and the scarcity of ambitious studies on food-derived bioactive products and their potential against this condition.
Effect of weight loss with a hypocaloric Mediterranean diet and physical activity promotion in the
prevention of type 2 diabetes in people with metabolic syndrome (PI17/00508)
Granting date: 11/12/2017
SIRTBIO
Sirtuins as biomarkers and targets in cancer: Sirt1 and Sirt3 in lung and liver carcinogenesis
Funded by: AECC
Granting date: 01/10/2018-30/09/2020
The present Project proposes the characterization of two of the best known sirtuin members, namely Sirt1 and Sirt3, in their roles in cancer development. More precisely, previous data from our group show that Sirt1 acts as a tumor suppressor in lung carcinogenesis; and that Sirt3 is also a tumor suppressor in hepatocellular carcinoma. Our project is divided in three different research lines: (1) Study of the roles of Sirt1 in lung adenocarcinoma (LAC) development: previous research from our laboratory has identified several differentially expressed genes in Sirt1-overexpressing, LAC-resistant neumocytes. We want to study further this list of genes, validate them in human samples, and explore possible therapeutical implications. (2) Study the mechanisms by which Sirt3 inhibits the formation of hepatocellular carcinoma in female mice: previous data from our group show that Sirt3-deficient female mice lose their resistance to hepatocarcinoma (HC) formation, pointing to a protective role of Sirt3 in females. We want to explore the mechanisms by which Sirt3 exerts this protective function. In particular, previous reports have shown that the transcription factor Stat5B is the main responsible of this sexual dimorphism in mice and humans, and we want to explore the relationship between Stat5B and Sirt3. These two lines of research follow the results that we have previously developed thanks to a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the aecc. (3) Finally, we want to develop a high-throughput screening to find novel natural bioactive products that can activate Sirtuins by increasing the NAD+/NADH ratio. These discovered natural boosters of NAD+ levels and sirtuins activity can be used as nutritional additives or complements in the diet, which makes them specially suitable for cancer preventive approaches as the one presented in this proposal. These products will increase the activity of all sirtuins, that have been reported to have beneficial properties in general in the bibliography. We want to test the ability of the identified products to delay the development of LAC or HC, as happens with the mouse models described in Objetives 1 and 2.
In all, our proposal constitutes a feasible, ambitious and highly relevant project for human health, with strong implications in the field of cancer prevention. The obtained results will allow to dissect the molecular and physiological mechanisms by which Sirt1 and Sirt3 protect from LAC and HC development, two of the most aggressive tumors in humans; and to develop bioactive products that, by activating these enzymes, can be used to protect from LAC and HC.
AGL2017-90623-REDT
Nutrición de precisión y ejercicio físico como moduladores del epigenoma en patologías de los
excesos alimenticios
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades- AGI
Epigenetics is implicated in both, normal cell functioning and disease. Environmental factors like diet, physical activity, stress, microbiota or others, can change the activity of genes without alteration the genetic code, through epigenetic mechanisms. "NutriEpiGen" thematic network aims to synergize the work of those Spanish research groups that search for novel modulators of our epigenome –through precision nutrition and/or physical exercise– to prevent or treat diseases associated to dietary excess. The 10 join-teams provide internationally recognized crossdisciplinary expertise in food bioactive, nutrition, epigenetics, exercise, experimental biology, and clinical medicine, a combination of skills that will help to translate findings from bench to bedside.
SAF2017-85766-R
Caracterización de los mecanismos moleculares del ayuno de corta duración como potenciador de la quimioterapia.
R.- concesión: 14/06/2018
The present Project proposes the characterization of fasting as a nutritional intervention potentiating chemotherapy. Short-term fasting has been consistently shown to improve metabolic, neurological and cardiovascular status in mice and humans. During the last years, short-termfas ing has also been reported to enhance anti-tumor chemotherapy treatments in two ways: (a) fast ing protects from chemotherapy toxicity in different organs; and (b) fasting enhances the anti-tumor immune response after che othe apy treatment. Previously, our laboratory has shown that fasting strongly induces the expression of the cell cycle inhibitor p21 (also called Cip1 or CDKN1A) in several tissues, including blood cells. Our project is based on three hypothesis: (1) short-term fasting induces a strong molecular and physiological response, not yet fully characterized, responsible for its chemotherapy-enhancing effects. (2) p21 induction during short-term fasting is important for its chemotherapy-enhancing ef cts (reduction of toxicity and improved antitumoral immune response). (3) It is possible to reproduce the chemotherapy-enhancing effects of fasting through treatment with a precise combination of bioactive products reproducing certain molecular and physiological aspects of fasting.
Based on these hypothesis, our project addresses the following 3 objectives: study the role of p21 (1) the protection from chemotherapy t oxicity and in (2) the enhancement of chemotherapyactivated anti-tumor immune response; and (3) define a bioactive products cocktail that can reproduce the fasting-mediated chemotherapy enhancement (decreased toxicity and improved immune response). To these aims, we will use in vitro systems, mouse models and samples from human patients of cancer subjected to short-term fasting during chemotherapy interventions.
In all, our proposal constitutes a feasible, ambitious and highly relevant project for human health, directed to the Societal Challenge 1, "Health, demographic change and wellbeing" of the Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy and the H2020. The obtained results will allow to dissect the molecular and physiological mechanisms driving a potent, well-validated and safe method for chemotherapy enhancement, as is fasting, and its outcomes can have strong practical implications in the clinical management of chemotherapy.
ALIBIRD-CM
Functional Foods and nutritional strategies for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases.
(ALIBIRD III S2013/ABI-2728)
Principal researchers: Dr. Ana Ramírez de Molina (ONCOGENOM) and Dr. Francesco Visioli
(GENECO)
Funded by: Consejería de Educación e Investigación. Comunidad de Madrid
A total of 9 research groups of the Community of Madrid are involved in this consortium that aims to advance forward scientific aspects of knowledge needed for the development of high efficacy and security functional foods to contribute to the improvement of the health of populations, and reducing obesity and improving the life of cancer patients.
It also pretends to contribute to the competitiveness of European industry in the food and nutrition area.
GEPS - CM
Population, family and aging in the contemporary world: dimensions of an ongoing process (S2015/HUM-3321)
Principal investigator: Dr. David Sven Reher Sullivan (UCM)
IMDEA Food participant investigator: Dr. Lidia Daimiel Ruiz
Funded by: Consejería de Educación, Juventud y Deporte. Comunidad de Madrid
The Project GEPS: "Population, family and aging in the contemporary world: different dimensions of an ongoing process" is root in the Social Sciences sphere but with the purpose of gathering professionals from the Health Sciences and the Social Sciences to study different aspects of the aging process. In the frame of this project, different studies will be carried out that focus on:
Fertility and reproduction
International migrations and demographic shift
Family · Economic challenges associated with the aging society
Active life in elder people
Nutrition and quality of live in the aging process
This project offers a multidisciplinary study of aging process from a historical, demographic, sociological, economical and biological point of view. As a result, this project will allow to gain a deeper understanding of the effect of aging on the society that will pave the way to the development of new programs and policies to face the challenge of the aging society.
CIFRA2-CM
Consortium for the study of acute renal failure: physiopathology, new therapies, biomarkers and experimental models (B2017 / BMD - 3686)
Principal researcher: Lisardo Bosca Gomar (UCM)
IMDEA Food participant researcher: Dr. Moises Laparra Llopis
Granting date: December 2017
The changes described in the gut microbiota composition favor lower glycolytic versatility and greater transport of simple sugars derived from dietary carbohydrates and the production of uremic toxins and activation of the NRLP3 inflammasome, associated with immunometabolic processes of inflammation that aggravate renal failure. Here CIFRA2 aims to elucidate the role of gut microbiota as well as their metabolites in the onset of acute kidney failure disease. To this end, concerted and multidisciplinar research efforts are performed to arm clinicians and, finally, society with translation strategies to clinical practice.
ALIBIRD2020-CM
Therapeutic formulas of precision nutrition for cancer (S2018/BAA-4343)
Principal researchers: Dr. Guillermo Reglero, Functional Foods Ingredients, INGREEN (UAM) Research Group Leader
Funded by: Program call of R & D Activities among Research Groups of the Community of Madrid (Technologies 2018) and co-financed with European Union Structural Funds.
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2022
The ALIBIRD2020-CM Scientific Program is focused to design and validate products together with precision nutrition strategies aimed at improving the prognosis of cancer patients. The aim is to provide new approaches to the design of new therapeutic nutritional supplements through the formulation of self emulsifying and bioactive lipid carriers, combined with natural extracts from food sources and through synergies in bioavailability and bioactivity, leading to effective products when targeting Metabolic agents involved in processes of tumor proliferation, metastasis or resistance to chemotherapy.
The validation of the nutritional supplements developed within the framework of ALIBIRD2020- CM, that is to say, the demonstration of its effectiveness will be carried out in nutrigenetic clinical trials where the genetic profiles that respond better to the treatments with the therapeutic nutritional complements will be identified. Clinical trials will include the analysis of the relationship between diet and the composition and metabolism of the gut microbiota of patients, to associate the microbiota with cancer. In the use by the patients of the treatments derived from the studies of ALIBIRD2020-CM it is essential to have an ICT tool (an App) that empowers the users in the self-management of the prescribed strategies and that motivates them to adequately comply with the necessary guidelines to achieve the set health goals, in addition to sending doctors useful data for clinical follow-up.
ALIBIRD2020-CM brings together more than 40 researchers in a multidisciplinary consortium, composed of experts in different areas such us of Life Sciences, Food Technology, Nutrition, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biomedicine and Telemedicine belonging to five research organizations of the Community of Madrid: Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Polytechnic
University of Madrid (UPM), IMDEA Food Institute (IMDEA FOOD), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), La Paz University Hospital (FIBHULP) and Infanta Sofia Hospital (HUIS).
Also, three companies actively support the activities of the consortium: Natac Group, specialized in natural bioactive extracts; Biopolis-ADM, with capacity for industrial production of new formulas; Canaan Research & Investment, specialized in health sector transfer of technology.
Based on the previous scientific-technological program, ALIBIRD2020-CM intends to make relevant scientific and socio-economic contributions in the field of health. Likewise, for the food and nutrition industry, it is essential to have innovative strategies that lead to the creation of real value and reinforce their competitiveness. For these strategies to be effective it is necessary to train new nutritionists to obtain their confidence in the prescription of precision food products for cancer. Equally important is that patients and the population, in general, know the possibilities offered by modern nutrition to demand and use. Therefore, it is also the objective of ALIBIRD2020-CM to carry out training and communication actions in this direction.
To face the above challenges, ALIBIRD2020-CM will also have huge potential support within the framework of two major European projects of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology, EIT Food (https://www.eitfood.eu/) and EIT Health (https://www.eithealth.eu/), thanks to the involvement in them of some of their groups.
EIT Food: Food4Future - Sustainable Supply Chain from Resources to Consumers
Principal researcher: Dr. Guillermo Reglero Rada and Dr. Ana Ramírez de Molina
Funded by: European Institute of Innovation and Technology
EIT Food is a pan-European consortium that focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation in the food sector. The members of the EIT Food community are world-class players in the international food domain: over 50 partners from leading businesses, research centers and universities across 13 countries.
EIT Food has six strategic objectives: 1.overcome low consumer trust; 2. create consumer valued food for healthier nutrition; 3. build a consumer-centric connected food system; 4. Enhance sustainability; 5. Educate to engage, innovate and advance; 6. catalyse food entrepreneurship and innovation: foster innovation at all stages of business creation.
EIT Food's headquarter is located in Leuven/Belgium and it is structured around five Co-location Centres (CLCs) located in Reading (with partners from the UK, Ireland and Iceland), Warsaw (with partners from Eastern Europe and Nordic countries), Madrid (with partners from Spain, Italy and Israel), Leuven (with partners from Belgium, France and Switzerland) and Munich (with partners from Germany and the Netherlands).
IMDEA Food Institute and at the Universidad Autónoma have the honor of being the Spanish CLC South's headquarter for Education and Communication activities.


The remix album will feature the likes of Kingdom, Sofi Tukker, Plastic Plates, Felix Cartal and more.
Tokimonsta has released the tracklist and release date for a big upcoming project. She is releasing a full remix album for her 2017 LP Lune Rouge that is aptly titled Lune Rouge Remixed. Among those who will appear on the project include Sofi Tukker, Kingdom, Plastic Plates and Holly.
The remix album will be released on April 6 via her own Young Arts Records. Stream the Kingdom remix of "NO WAY" and then pre-order the album here.


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For those who aren't familiar with G2A and their practices, our Editor in Chief Andrew Otton explained them quite well in his last piece on G2A and why you should be wary of them. I recommend reading the whole article for a better understanding of G2A and its history.
G2A is a third-party site where anyone can come and sell their unwanted, or extra copies of, game keys, whether it's leftover from some bundle you bought, or what have you. On the surface, sounds like a good idea to let us all make a couple bucks back on codes we would otherwise do nothing with. However, what G2A is often used for, very often in fact, is selling illegally obtained keys. Not only illegally obtained, but the way in which they obtain them directly hurts developers/publishers.
You can find further information on how G2A operates here.
Before even delving into why this question being posed by a grey-market reseller is laughable, we'll first look at the question posed to us: "Why do game creators make us pay for DLC?" As anyone working in any field, though, the answer should be quite obvious. We live in a world where when you do work, and do good work you get paid for it. If I write a news article or publish a review for TechRaptor, I get paid for it. While game development might not be like commissions for an artist, where someone pays for something specific, an artist who displays their work in a gallery hopes to be paid for their time and effort.
There's even issue in the way that G2A have phrased this question. Even for games that you love, no developer is ever forcing you to purchase DLC. It's just understood, like everywhere else, if you don't pay, you don't play. The entitled mentality that we paid for something once so we should receive every update free of charge, while it would be nice, is incorrect. What we pay for is that game in that state; free DLC and updates are great to get, but what we're paying for is the developers time and money.
Developers will, in the majority of cases, get their game to a completed state and go Gold. Before internet-enabled consoles and patches, this was generally how we got the game. If a developer wanted to release an update, that would be in a new printing or boxed expansions. G2A and other Twitter users attempted to defend this hot take explaining "don't sell half a game sell the whole thing." It would be ignorant to say that we haven't seen examples of content that was being worked on pre-launch appearing as DLC but to question why we pay for it at all is pure hyperbole. One factor to consider for cosmetic DLC available near or at release, is that towards the end of the development cycle artists have little to work on, thus they can make things to enhance sales and avoid the cycle of being laid off. Destiny saw screenshots and gameplay of The Reef as a hub location well ahead of its initial release. Whether the reef was pushed back because it didn't make sense for the story, was always planned to be DLC, or because there wasn't enough time it was still something that a number of developers worked on.
Where a lot of outcries are coming from, though, is the fact that G2A is the one asking this question. G2A is a business that is well known and reviled in the industry, especially for their practices allowing the resale of illegal steam keys. The lifecycle of these keys is that they're purchased on sale or even through the use of stolen credit cards and then flipped on the G2A marketplace for auction. After having the sales charged back, this leaves the developer with no compensation with the reseller making out with a profit. Developers can then disable those keys revoking access to whoever purchased the game but that still won't affect the reseller. So here we now have a company that is actively making money on sales that undercut developers prices but also turn a blind eye to illegal keys questioning why developers should expect to be paid for creating further content.
Hey folks, maybe a website that gauges prices on game keys in such a way where basically none of it ever gets back to the devs isn't the most reliable outlet to question the economics of game production, yeah?
One Twitter user even goes as far as to point out that when searching for "DLC" on G2A you get almost 4K responses. A company supporting the resale of stolen game and DLC keys turning around and accusing game developers of shady practices is the height of hypocrisy. Paid DLC is not only compensation for further time and effort developing additional features but also a new revenue stream for potential losses that companies like G2A cost them. G2A is a company that directly profits from selling keys that the developers see no money for, including reselling DLC. So other underhanded tactics they employ is a paid "Key Protection" program in case one of your purchased keys doesn't work or is revoked, and even a loot box system where you can pay to get a chance to win games.
So you're gonna stop selling DLC, yeah?
At this point, the best outcome of G2A shining the spotlight on themselves once again is that it will be a chance for more people to learn of their problematic nature. We've seen it time and time again in the past, and G2A will continue to harm developers and publishers for their own gains. It's great to see developers, publishers, and other industry members speaking up in replies to this tweet about their negative practices, but also gamers who want to get the word out and protect an industry that we all love participating in.
I feel like G2A trying to take the moral high ground over game devs is the equivalent of Al Capone lobbying for closing tax loopholes. Maybe clean up your own swamp before you worry about the neighbors.
To recoup some of the money you take away from them. Or maybe because they like to get paid for their work. Should they just work on extra content for free?
What do you think of G2A trying to question Paid DLC? Have you had a negative experience with G2A or is this your first experience hearing about them? What has been your favorite response from these twitter chains?


Six years ago, viewers witnessed 19-year-old Alice dive headfirst into Wonderland — or Underland, as Alice learns this magical land is actually called (as it turns out, she misheard the name as a child). Now, in the breathtaking sequel to Tim Burton's 2010 film, director James Bobin elaborates on this tale of dark fantasy and transforms Alice into an older, wiser woman capable of making her own decisions.
"Alice Through the Looking Glass" gives a glimpse into a magical, thrilling adventure as Alice (Mia Wasikowska) sneaks into a mirror and ventures into Underland to find her friends — the White Queen (Anne Hathaway), the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and Tweedledee and Tweedledum — in trouble. Her companions confess that the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) is depressed because his family is in danger, and Alice attempts to go back in time and save them. She sneaks the Chronosphere from Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) and goes head to head with the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) in a fight to reunite her loved ones.
The intense scenes intertwined with comical lines leave viewers on the edge of their seats. Yet what makes this film stand out is Alice's strong, independent character — she chooses to pursue a career in sailing and is driven by her passions. Although her mother and friends resent a lifestyle that entails living life on the edge, she lives by the motto of doing six things before breakfast. Her strong-willed character challenges common representations of women in the media.
"Alice Through the Looking Glass" not only examines one person's ability to make a difference, but also looks at the conflict that can arise between family members because of misunderstandings. In Underland, Alice is surrounded by friends who understand her and her imagination. Yet, her mother has difficulty grasping why she has a passion for adventure and danger, consequently hindering her zest for the thrill of collecting experiences.
But just because family members fight doesn't mean there isn't any hope for mending these relationships. For example, the never-ending quarrels between the White Queen and the Red Queen resolve in a touching scene of forgiveness that is relatable for anyone with siblings. Despite the multitude of fights and misunderstandings, family is family and the love is always there.
In this sequel, Alice must make the difficult choice between what is worth fighting for and what she has to let go. She comes home from a sailing trip around the world to find that her mother is planning on selling the ship that belonged to her father. As she struggles with this startling news, trouble in Underland forces her to singlehandedly put away her fears and take on the challenge with a brave face.
As Alice goes back in time to save the Mad Hatter's family, the intense animation alongside the movie's soft exterior and 3D effects give aesthetic appeal to a story of loyalty and honor. Despite the danger that comes their way, Alice and her friends ultimately stick together — for example, even when the odds are not in their favor, Tweedledee and Tweedledum are by each other's side. Alice's compassion, softness in her words and ability to follow through with her promises create a movie that sheds light on the significance of being there for one another.
The director weaves together a beautiful tale of forgiveness and friendship with an underlying important theme said by Alice in the film: "The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." As Alice follows her dreams in this sequel, viewers are encouraged to use their imagination to go after something bigger than themselves while never losing sight of what truly matters.
Contact Mana Anvar at [email protected].


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Temple: The Temple University Football Sports Science Staff is looking for a qualified sports science intern for the 2019 spring semester. Responsibilities include: assisting with the supervision and implementation of Temple University's Catapult program, assisting with daily organization, data collection, running reports and other duties as assigned by the Director of Sports Science. This is an unpaid internship. However, candidates will receive Division I Intercollegiate experience, college credit towards graduation if applicable and will receive hands-on experience working with Catapult. Preferred qualifications: Pursuing Bachelor's or Master's Degree in exercise physiology, data analytics or related field; Prior experience as a collegiate athlete is a plus. Temple University is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse faculty, staff, and student body and welcomes all applicants. Applications need to be submitted by November 25, 2018. To apply: Please send a cover letter, resume, and three professional references to Ryan Horton at ryan.horton@temple.edu. Please no phone calls.
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and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling. Amen.
Hospitality… entertaining people… a lot of these words bring to mind my Southern roots and upbringing.
I grew up hearing a lot about hospitality, particularly from my mom and my aunt, who are two of the most gifted hostesses I know– they'd give Emily Post a run for her money. Because of them, I can set a table with a ridiculous number of forks, and I know where everything goes. I can make pleasant small talk with the best of them. And if there was a silver-polishing Olympics, not only would I win a medal, but I could polish it myself.
These are all good things– manners and etiquette say something important about who we are and how we want to be perceived. But I don't think the author of Hebrews was warning his audience about their table manners when he cautioned them about hospitality. I think it runs deeper than that.
I didn't know the Greek word for "hospitality" off the top of my head, so I opened up my Greek New Testament to this chapter and verse to look for it. As it turns out, a form of the word φιλόξενος (fill-OX-en-oss) is translated as the whole phrase "to show hospitality to strangers", not just the word "hospitality".
German is famous for its use of compound words– you just keep smashing nouns together until you end up with something obnoxious like Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkungen, which is a perfectly valid and useful German word. (It means "speed limit". I kid you not.) American Sign Language does something similar. The sign for acolyte, for example, is made by signing holy, then table, then serve, then person.
Either way, you're using words as pieces of bigger words. Right? Ours might not be as long, but we have compound words in English, too: words like schoolwork, housecat, and sunglasses.
φιλόξενος is just like that. It's made by combining two smaller words to make a bigger one, and you can take it apart to look at the individual pieces.
Let's work backwards on this one. The second half of φιλόξενος is ξένος (KSENN-oss), which is where we get xenophobia, the fear of the unknown. ξένος can be correctly translated as either "stranger" or "foreigner".
Then we have the first half, which comes from φιλία (FILL-ee-uh), which means "love," but a particular type of love.
Now, you may have heard that there are four ways to say "love" in Greek. There are actually six that I know of, but in C. S. Lewis's The Four Loves, he talked about– you guessed it– four of them.
The first one is στοργή (STORE-jay), which is the natural love that is often experienced among family members.
ἔρως (AIR-owess) is romantic or sexual love– like, being in love.
And then there is ἀγάπη (uh-GAW-pay), which is usually explained as being like God's unconditional love.
The first part of φιλόξενος comes from the same root as φιλία, that platonic second type of love. Now, don't misunderstand: φιλία isn't a casual "Love ya, bro" sort of thing– it's a very strong word. Think of relationships in the Bible like Ruth and Naomi or David and Jonathan: friendships that were deep, intense, and self-sacrificing, as much if not more so than many romantic relationships. Loving someone that profoundly is a choice. (Have you ever heard someone call their close group of friends a "family of choice?") If I were to tell my best friend– whom I would give my life for in a heartbeat–that I love her in Greek, I would be using a form of this word.
So, what we have here is a word for "love", plus a word for "stranger". φιλόξενος is the exact opposite of xenophobia– it is the practice of showing love to strangers.
I think it's interesting that this word is made by combining "stranger" with a form of φιλία– a very deliberate and personal type of love– rather than a form of ἀγάπη, which is an indiscriminate and unconditional love, like the love God has for all of humanity.
What does that say about how we are supposed to treat strangers, then? How are we supposed to love them?
Take a moment and think about this: what is something that's special about each of the people you love?
When I hear this question, so many things come to mind. I think of April's near-infinite creativity and her gift for listening. I think of Dan's sense of humor and his masterful storytelling. I think of Heather and her incredible grace and courage. I think of how Cynthia never gives too much advice– she just guides you toward the answers that you had inside of you the whole time. I think of Megan's gift for teaching. This list could go on ad infinitum because I know a whole bunch of amazing people.
Who came to mind for you?
Now think about this: Every person on this earth has a list of things that are special about them. Every person who has ever lived has borne God's image, and been known to and loved by Him.
Remember that each person you meet is God's child, and they were designed by God. There are just as many things that make that person special as there are about your husband or wife, your son or daughter, or your best friend. Even total strangers.
In her book, An Altar in the World, The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor– the Episcopal priest who also wrote Learning to Walk in the Dark— suggests noticing strangers as a way of practicing mindfulness. She talks about taking time to notice– really notice– every single person you encounter, even if they're just passing you on the street or standing in front of you in line at the store.
The author of Hebrews takes it even further than that– mentioning not just strangers, but those who might make us feel xenophobic or afraid– he specifically mentions prisoners! We are told to remember them as though we were there with them– as though we were all incarcerated felons too, which means we have no reason to think we occupy any kind of moral high ground.
And the bit about torture– whom does our government torture? Terrorists, right? Or at least, people we think might be terrorists. We're supposed to love them, too, as though we were in their position. Remember, every murderer and terrorist and school shooter and anyone else who has done any awful thing you can think of– they're God's beloved children too. They're also the strangers to whom we're supposed to show love.
And, as I mentioned before: the word ξένος can be translated not only as "stranger", but also "foreigner". Some translations use the word "alien"– in the terrestrial sense, of course– which is a familiar term to anyone who watches the news, often leveled at those whom we might not think have a right to be in our midst.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once said, and I'm paraphrasing, that the most supreme form of love is to see the image of God in those in whom we do not see our own image.
Whomever God places in your path– whether you would label them as a stranger, a foreigner, a villain, or "the other"– show love to them, the text says.
Love them like there's a whole list of amazing things about them, because there is.
Love them like they, specifically, individually, mean the world to you.
For by so doing, many have entertained angels unawares.
Is it just me, or did that Gospel passage make any of you a little uncomfortable, too? All that strife and division… none of that sounds very pleasant.
And yet, what we're looking at here is the words of Our Lord Himself, and we as Christians do not have the luxury of deciding to only listen to His words and take them seriously when they make us feel comfortable. Our uneasiness with His message does not excuse us from the task of hearing it and wrestling with it.
I'm reminded of an old saying that says something like, "Preaching, done right, comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable." Jesus, like all good preachers, did some of both during His ministry.
I think we can probably all agree that in today's passage from St. Luke's Gospel, Jesus isn't in a particularly warm and fuzzy mood. Right?
So, if He's not trying to comfort his listeners, what is He trying to do? What do you hear Him saying here?
Before we try to answer that question, a bit of background information may be in order. If we want to understand what's going on in any passage of scripture, it's absolutely vital that we put it in context– that is, that we are aware of the larger narrative it is a part of, and where it fits into that narrative.
For example, in verse fifty, when He's talking about His baptism, which hasn't yet been completed, he's definitely not talking about His literal baptism in the River Jordan.
That would be a good guess based just on this passage, but when we take a step back and look at the whole Gospel of Luke, we notice that there are twenty-four total chapters, and today, we're in chapter twelve. The Baptism of Christ took place in chapter three– it already happened. So, when Jesus refers to His future baptism in this reading, He must be speaking metaphorically, since He has already been baptized. This future event of which He is speaking must be something else.
Jesus is heading toward Jerusalem, where, in a few more chapters, He will make His triumphal entry. We celebrate this event each year on Palm Sunday.
And Jesus knows where that road to Jerusalem will eventually lead: to the cross. He knows that His time on earth is limited, and that He will soon face His fate on Calvary. So He is doing His best to warn His disciples (and anyone else who will listen) that the road ahead will be a difficult one.
Jesus is preparing not to be baptized by water, but to be crucified and die and descend into Hell. He is preparing to do battle with the forces of evil.
Recently, I was asked by a friend what I thought of the term "spiritual warfare". My first reaction was to be extremely uncomfortable– much like my first reaction to this Gospel passage. I don't particularly like language and imagery that connects God– and especially Jesus, God the Son– with any kind of violence or war. In fact, if anything, I think I tend to go out of my way to divorce God entirely from things like that. It's much more pleasant and comfortable to only think about Jesus as the Prince of Peace, isn't it?
But I think that cosmic reality of the battle between good and evil is indeed very real. And there is a relationship between God and violence– they are not two unrelated forces, but rather, two diametrically opposed forces whose relationship is what we might call "spiritual warfare".
I am reminded of my favorite Easter hymn ("The Strife is O'er") and some of the language it uses.
Remember a few weeks ago when we talked about the Gerasene demoniac, and we learned that the word "legion" is a Roman military term? "Christ their legions hath dispersed" definitely sounds like a military victory. We're talking about battles and warfare here.
But this is a very different type of warfare, because the loser of this war is war itself– and violence, greed, death, and suffering, despair, subjugation, and all the things we generally associate with warfare.
I think this hymn brings up another vital point– quite possibly the point– which is that the strife is indeed over! The battle is won!
In other words, it's already over. The cosmic battle between good and evil, between life and death has already been fought and won. The outcome has already been determined.
So, I'm not sure I agree with the idea that we, today, participate in spiritual warfare by fighting on the side of either good or evil.
I don't think those are the two options– not anymore, not now that Christ is risen. That battle is already over. We don't need to participate in it.
We already know who won. Our task is to decide what we're going to do with that information.
Our choice in the battles we fight in our own lives is not a choice between good and evil, but a choice between hope and fear.
We're called to live our lives in a way that is in alignment with our knowledge that God has already won, that life has already won.
I think if we live in a way that is uncertain about whether or not God has already triumphed over death, and we don't know what the outcome is going to be because it's still up in the air at this point, that can make us very fearful. That kind of fear can lead us a lot of places and none of them are good. It's how we end up prejudiced against others and unable to see God's image in them—that reptilian brain that makes us act like less than children of God in response to others who are different from us. It's how we end up looking at life as a zero-sum game where scarcity determines everything, rather than in terms of God's abundant providence and great mercy.
Fear breeds scarcity, prejudice, violence, and anger. Hope breeds charity, love, gentleness, listening, honesty, and justice.
So, rather than our daily strife and struggles being a means of participation in the great cosmic battle between good and evil perhaps we're to use our knowledge (not just head-knowledge but faith and trust) that Christ is risen and the war has already been won as our main "weapon" in our micro-battles. Maybe we're supposed to conform our little daily battles to the pattern of the Big One that's already over—ultimately, the cross. and so when we take the role of Christ rather than the role of His jailers/executioners, and live like He did (and do battle with sin and death and violence and darkness like He did), we are in that way determining the outcome of our battles, because we're striving to have them play out like that one.
There's no micro-level battle that's not already in the playbook, because Christ has already demonstrated the power to conquer literally everything when He rose from the dead. So, it's all there– we just have to decide which side we want to look more like as we fight our battles—light or darkness, scarcity or abundance, hope or fear. We must then strive to conform ourselves and the way we do battle with the darkness in the Universe to the way in which Christ lived and died.
I find that to be somewhat of a conviction: do we live life like the battle has been won, and in fact like we are able to lay claim to that ultimate victory in our lives daily, or do we live in fear and uncertainty? When we encounter these forces, do we face them the way Christ did on the cross—in meekness and humility, in submission to the will of the Father, willing to offer up His own life?
Christ commanded us to take up our crosses and follow Him— to follow Him up the hill and say, "not my will, Father, but Thine be done" even in the face of death, because we know that death can never be the end of the story, and darkness—even the worst darkness we'll ever face—can never have the final word, because all of those things have already been defeated. The strife is o'er, the battle done. The victory of life is won.
Jesus isn't telling us in this Gospel passage to get comfortable or pat ourselves on the back. He's telling us to pick a side. And we are being asked to take a side in each of our micro-level daily battles. Not because the big picture outcome hasn't been determined—it has—but because we haven't yet decided in each little situation whether we're going to live like we know that.
It's time to pick a side. We who have been baptized into the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ must choose how we will do battle each and every day of our lives. Will we live in fear of the cross and the grave, or in the hope of the Resurrection?


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Clandestino – Undercover in der Unterwelt, auch unter dem Titel Unter Gangstern bekannt, ist eine spanische Dokumentarserie des Fernsehsenders DMAX und der Nachfolger der 6-teiligen Dokumentarserie Clandestino – Das organisierte Verbrechen am Amazonas. Beide Serien wurden von dem Reporter David Beriáin moderiert, der im April 2021 bei einem Anschlag ums Leben kam.

Inhalt
Der Reporter David Beriáin reist rund um die Welt, um an der Seite von Kriminellen, sowie an der Seite von Einheiten der Verbrechensbekämpfung hautnah Einblicke in Machenschaften wie u. a. Drogenschmuggel- und Handel, Waffenhandel, Grabräuberei und Kidnapping zu erhalten und dies zu dokumentieren. Dabei trifft er persönlich Anführer, Mitglieder, Hintermänner, Opfer und Gegenspieler von verbrecherischen Organisationen wie dem Sinaloa-Kartell und von Straßengangs wie der Mara Salvatrucha, oder der italienischen Camorra und der albanischen Mafia.

Episodenliste

Staffel 1

Staffel 2

Staffel 3

Staffel 4

Hintergrund
Die von 93 Metros und 7 y acción produzierte erste Staffel erschien in Spanien ab dem 24. Mai 2016 bei DMAX und wurde in Deutschland ab dem 20. August 2017 mit dem Titel Clandestino – Undercover in der Unterwelt von Discovery Channel ausgestrahlt.

Die zweite Staffel, ebenfalls von 93 Metros und 7 y acción produziert, erschien in Spanien ab dem 6. Februar 2017 bei DMAX und wurde in Deutschland ab dem 12. November 2017 ebenfalls mit dem Titel Clandestino – Undercover in der Unterwelt von Discovery Channel ausgestrahlt.

Von 93 Metros produziert, erschien die dritte Staffel in Spanien ab dem 21. November 2018 bei DMAX und wurde in Deutschland ab dem 25. September 2019 als Teil der Reihe Unter Gangstern auf ZDFinfo ausgestrahlt. Die deutsche Synchronisation entstand durch die Synchronfirma TransEuroTV. Später veröffentlichte ZDFinfo die ersten beiden Staffeln ebenso mit dem Titel Unter Gangstern.

Im Auftrag gegeben von Discovery Networks International wurde auch die vierte Staffel von 93 Metros produziert und ab dem 11. November 2019 auf dem italienischen Sender Nove erstveröffentlicht. Am 23. November 2020 erschienen alle drei Episoden der viertel Staffel auf ZDFinfo. Die deutsche Synchronisation entstand erneut durch TransEuroTV.

Im März des Jahres 2021 wurde bekannt, dass gegen David Beriáin und 3 weitere Personen wegen Betrugs im Wettbewerb ermittelt wird, da die am 11. November 2019 veröffentlichte Episode La Ndrangheta: El Imperio de la Cocaína en Europa im großen Maße unecht und die Interviews mit den vermeintlichen Clan-Mitgliedern gestellt gewesen seien.

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Einzelnachweise

Fernsehserie (Spanien)
Fernsehserie der 2010er Jahre
Kriminal-Fernsehserie
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Toro Orero is the Managing Partner, DDF, a silicon valley VC fund (backed by Tim Draper; Founder, DFJ) that invests in African startups that can globally scale, and Curator of SpeedUPAfrica, Africa's Most Epic Founder Bootcamp. He is considered one of Silicon Valley's and Africa's youngest venture capitalists. He also thinks he's an Alien.


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Giggs: Olympics in London? It can be a great experience
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Ryan Giggs speaks with goldenfoot.com on international football and Olympic chance.
Q: Manchester City won the Premier League. Lots of feelings run till the last minute. What do you think about it?
A: It 's been an incredible season. At the end, Man. City won. It's good for them, and obviously not exactly the same for us. It' football!
Q: The return of Scholes was a shock, but it was soon realized that Paul still has a lot to give to football.
A: I always thought that Paul was important for the team. I was right. The facts said that.
Q: Van Persie received the prize as best player of the season. Do you agree with that?
A: Yes, I do agree. Van Persie has played a great season. He deserves the award.
Q: Rooney seems to be more and more important for Manchester United. Is he the future leader instead of players like Giggs and Scholes?
A: It's always hard to say that. Certainly, Rooney embodies the spirit of Man. United.
Q: Di Matteo deserves to stay as Chelsea Manager?
A: He did a great job, taking home two trophies. FA Cup and Champions League and not easy to win at all!
Q: In the Champions League, last year, United failed even to qualify in the group stage. It was a terrible new for such an important club. What you need to came back at the highest level?
A: For us it was a strange season. We went through a phase of change, in which key players like Neville left. A sort of period of generational change. Now it's time to merge the experience of "old players", with the freshness of youth. This could be may be the key to our future.
Q: Everyone was expecting Real-Barca in the final, but it was Chelsea-Bayern …
A: The Champions League is a tough competition. Sometimes it happens that experienced teams reach the Final instead of what everybody consider the best teams.
Q: Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo: who is the best?
A: Christiano has been many years with us. I know him surely better than Messi. They are both incredible players. Messi plays in a wonderful team. That's what I know better. Not enough to make a comparison. Probably people will make it better than me. It's something for football fans around the world.
Q: Next season, teams like City, Borussia Dortmund and Italian giant Juventus Turin are working to compete for the highest level. Are they really ready to win?
A: As I said, the Champions League is a tough competition. City, Dortmund and Juventus can do very well, but probably, to win the Cup is something we have to discuss during the season. Actually it's too early to say it.
Q: Del Piero will leave Juventus, but does not want to quit, Raul will leave Europe, Henry is well in New York. Giggs never thought of doing a different experience than Manchester, out of England?
A: I'm still playing and I love to do it. Let's say I start thinking about the future with the great experience I am still doing.
Q: What do you think of Roy Hodgson as new English team Manager for Euro 2012?
A: He has quality and a very good team to manage. They will compete with teams like France, Spain and Germany. It will be a tough competition.
Q: What about the chance of England to win the title?
A: Yes, they definitely got chances, but as usual they got many expectations to face, which means huge pressure. Everything depends on how they will address the group stage.
Q: Balotelli: Can he helps Italy to win?
A: Yes he can. Italy has a strong team, but as I said for England, everything depends on the first part of the competition. At that stage, Balotelli can be decisive.
Q: Giggs has never missed participation in a major event for nations (FIFA World CUP or European Championship)?
A: Yes, because we are talking about incredible competitions. But now I have the chance to play in the Olympics, in the place where I live and play football. It can be a great experience, and an important chance for my career, even if I am not exactly a young player.
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Q: How to get one Igx-column value into another column I am using Infragistics grid. I have several columns, and I am trying to access the value of the first column inside the last one.
I created a variable inside IgxColumnComponent, however when I access it from another IgxColumnComponent I get [object][object]
Object is like bellow
<igx-column #docid field="documentId" header="Document Id" [filterable]="true" dataType="string" style="font-size:20px">

</igx-column>

<igx-column field="source" header="Source" [filterable]="true" dataType="string" style="font-size:10px">
    <ng-template igxCell let-cell="cell">

                {{docid}}

    </ng-template>
</igx-column>

A: Another IgxColumnComponent's field value can be accessed from the IgxCell's rowData
property:
<igx-column field="source"header="Source" [filterable]="true"
            dataType="string" style="font-size:10px">
  <ng-template igxCell let-cell="cell">

        {{cell.rowData.DocumentId}}

  </ng-template>
</igx-column>

Here is a stackblitz sample that demonstrates this.
Additionally, all the IgxCell's properties are listed in the Infragistics documentation here and more about IgxColumnComponent can be found here.

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This was my first published cover art. The publisher didn't give me much information to go on and only about a week to work on it from start to finish. On top of that, I was really sick with the flu, but, I got it done. The publisher manipulated the artwork, because the girl's face was too old for the age of the heroine. Compare the original with the finished one. My colors were a lot brighter than the finished one. It wasn't my best work, but, I thought you'd find it interesting to see how artists change over time. I'm a work in progress.
This was done in colored pencil.
A gentleman from Australia asked me to illustrate a book written by a 13 year old girl. He sent me the manuscript and I began illustrating it. This was the story of a young girl who lived during the time of Jesus. In this scene, she just heard that her cousin had been raised from the dead, and she was running to his house to visit him and hear the news. The funds fell through to get it published, so this is as far as it got.


Smithville Lake is a 7,190-acre reservoir located just north of Kansas City. The continued efforts to increase shallow water habitat in the form of brush piles and rip-rap throughout the lake is paying off. As a result, Smithville Lake largemouth bass numbers and size structure have shown dramatic increases over the last few years. Electrofishing surveys show that 54 percent of the bass are over the 15-inch mark. Casting spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and plastics around the newly installed brush piles and hinge cut trees should produce some nice fish. White Bass fishing was excellent in 2018. Find the shad and you will find the white bass. Fish crankbaits and pepper spoons off the main lake points or watch for them busting schools of shad at the surface.
Crappie continue to be the focal point of Smithville Lake. 2018 sampling efforts show that black crappie make up 70% of the crappie population but only 2 percent of the back crappie sampled were over 9 inches. The white crappie size structure is a different story. According to the 2018 fall trap netting data, 76 percent of the white crappie are over 9 inches and 43 percent are over 10 inches. Small plastic jigs and minnows fished around the standing timber and around the numerous brush piles in the lake should produce some very nice stringers this spring. Walleye fishing will continue to be productive in 2019. Walleye sampling in 2018 indicated that 65 percent of the walleye sampled were over 20 inches. Smithville Lake now receives annual stockings of walleye, so the size structure may go down slightly but anglers should expect catch rates to dramatically increase in the next couple of years. There are two primary fishing seasons for walleye at the lake: the spawning run to the dam, and the hot summer months on the points and flats. The spawning run on the dam can be frustrating for many anglers, but the stockings have greatly increased the number of fish coming to the dam. Using shallow diving crank baits work best during this period. During the summer months, walleye move deeper off main lake points and flats. The newly installed rock piles in the main lake area should produce good numbers of fish. Trolling deep diving cranks or crawler harnesses over these areas usually work best.
Catfishing at Smithville can be outstanding. For best bets on channel catfish, fish at night in the upper ends of the lake arms or along the shallow flats around the islands and main lake. Fresh cut shad or livers work best. Flathead catfish are very popular at Smithville. Flathead catfish can be caught fishing jugs and on trotlines along creek channels and rocky bluffs using fresh shad or other live baits. Remember to always label your lines and watch for boat traffic.


Back in Febuary we featured John Foster's work for the So-Cal Fire Poster Project . Recently John contacted us regarding his latest project, a book on packaging design entitled FOR SALE: Over 200 Innovative Solutions in Packaging Design. The book features many of the designers we've featured on Grain Edit including: Invisible Creature, Wink, Jason Munn of The Small Stakes and Burlesque of North America. In the exchange below John shares some of his thoughts on the book for Grain Edit Readers.
Your last book, "New Masters of Poster Design," really captured a worldwide return of an important application of design (you might have noticed we enjoy a poster or two around here) – what made you turn your focus to packaging design?
Well, poster design is still my one true love and always will be. However, the point of that book was to curate a collection that would turn the world on to this amazing movement going on under their noses. With "For Sale," I saw something similar; this amazing wave of packaging design we are experiencing. Only this time the renaissance is so close to the consumer that they don't even realize it. Selling products in a fragmented marketplace is more and more challenging and I wanted to show the designers who were up to the task.
Besides seeing so many of my favorite folks included, the first thing I noticed was the broad range of firms featured.
Yeah yeah yeah! That was vital to me. I wanted to profile huge global corporate work from the likes of Sterling and Wink (two totally different approaches) as well as cutting edge music packaging like Seripop to everything in-between.
Speaking of music packaging, the book features a good bit but doesn't overwhelm, what was the deciding factor on including certain firms in this field?
A few folks are just making breath-taking work but really the designer had to be offering more in the experience with the consumer. Folks like Sub Pop and Invisible Creature are pushing for ways to make the CD vital in an itunes world – and succeeding! Other folks like Sleep Op or BankerWessel or Jewboy just make painfully thoughtful designs that speak directly to the audience in ways only they can.
That also touches on the range notion. The balance between new guns and the old guard.
The caveat is to be making important work. Sharon Werner made Target's cleaning goods section a joy to be in. Sagmeister still sells clients on producing his concepts to the fullest like no one else in the industry, Art Chantry will always be Art Chantry and it tickles me (and is an important distinction) that he still doesn't use a computer in his work. The "kids" are just catching my eye with mind-blowing work.
It seems like a sense of humor caught your eye as well.
Guilty as charged. Some of the pieces from Modern Dog like I"m Not Gay, I jUst Like Rainbows and Methane's barrage of gum packaging just crack me up. I also don't care much for pretension in design for the most part. Pentagram's Saks packaging is here because it is so playful and witty in the way it deconstructs the black and white brand.
You not only wrote the book but designed it as well. Sounds like doing double duty.
It certainly magnifies the work. My first book was designed by the publisher and I won't ever do that again with a collection like this. Having had my own work featured in books or catalogs that left me scratching my head, I really strive to create an environment where the work itself gets to sing.
Any ultra secret behind the scenes items we can be let in on before you go?
Ha ha – no. If I let you in on my super double secret curating process than my publishing career will be over! I will tell you that I actually took a lot of photographs for this book myself so that I could retain a consistent airiness in the design and give the proper perspective in a comprehensive shot whenever possible. (Thats a mouthful!) Thank goodness for the natural lighting in the alley next to my office. Not that I wasn't already busy enough playing writer and designer but I thought it important enough to go the extra mile to get it right. I hope I at least have that in common with the stellar designers shown within.
We'd like to thank John for taking the time to share with us. For those interested, You can purchase a copy of FOR SALE: Over 200 Innovative Solutions in Packaging Design here.


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Gaby Farah.. Another name engraved on the cedar of the Lebanese flag
Posted by: in Cover Story February 25, 2015 0 3,834 Views
Suzy Al-Hage-Beirut
With him, we cannot speak other than by music. With him, we breathe in and breathe out music. We sweat and bleed music. We see, hear, smell, touch, and taste music, as music is his second half and his first.
That how we can describe this multitalented composer and tenor, voice coach and music teacher, pianist and oudist, studio designer and sound engineer specialized in music arrangement and orchestration Gaby Farah.
Born in Zouk Mikael – Keserwan, Gaby Farah is a multifaceted composer, singer, and producer. Since 1972, he has been working with private tutors and international mentors focusing on: solfege & theory (Zaki Nassif), vocalization (Badiaa Haddad), analysis & history of music, piano studies (classical & jazz with Setrak), harmony counterpoint (Tufic Succar), oud studies & oriental theory & classical oriental singing (Fouad Aouad), and mainly composition & orchestration.
After graduating in the mid-90s with a diploma in Music and Classical Opera Singing from Holy Spirit University – Beirut, he had master classes and auditions with the international Tenor and Conductor Placido Domingo and other international Masters in Opera. Furthermore, he followed studies in acoustics and sound engineering mainly for the purpose of designing and building his own high-end recording studio according to international standards.
Recently on a TV show, Gaby was asked why it took him so long to show himself to the public. He said "I didn't want to mend my voice in people's ears. I studied hard and educated myself in my music to offer my audience a music that brings them closer to me".
Gaby Farah is the most acclaimed tenor with a long career as a soloist in several choirs in his home country and abroad in Germany (Goslar and Hanover) and in France (Opera de la Bastille and Strasbourg Opera Nationale du Rhin). In the early 90s and till present, he and his soprano spouse Georgette Sawaya form a famous and sought-after duo in many Middle Eastern countries. The couple won many international awards and prizes in their long fruitful career such as the GLADIC Trophy for producing a music video and participating in a concert for peace in 2013 and they both represented Lebanon officially around the world and in so many occasions.
Gaby Farah a gifted promising to be a forever shining star – Zaki Nassif
In Studio Gaby Farah, he is into music production & sound engineering: recording, arranging, songwriting, mixing & mastering, composing for big and official events, movie soundtracks, songs and arias, as well as private music teaching and voice coaching. His jewels of the crown are dwelling in the heart of his kingdom, a ruby-colored studio one ought to visit to discover his astonishing emerald fingers and explore his sapphire dreams.
"With my music I cuddle my love and embrace her light, I tickle the stars and caress the cheeks of the Universe" – Gaby Farah
I might be a poet and a writer, but writing about him gave me the honor of being a historian as I strongly believe that Music and Art are history at its best. He himself explained to me that music is the only path to peace: from inner peace to peace among people. That's why he deeply cares about teaching the history of music to generations and generations of students. Furthermore, he cofounded "Al Mawadda Community", a community that is all about building bridges of tolerance under the logo "Peace to the World".
Perched on his cloud nine, he carries people on his eagle wings lifting them to the seventh heaven, enchanting them with his magical notes and mesmerizing them with his divine gifts and "big and rare voice" as described by the famous Placido Domingo, likening him to Aureliano Pertile, the star of La Scala and the favorite of Toscanini.
"I can murmur to trees, rivers and souls, with my music I soliloquize to my being…"Gaby Farah
Today as always, and as a music coordinator, teacher & master, Gaby Farah's main concern and dream will be raising "Generations of Peace" as he deeply knows and strongly believes that music not only brings people together but is also a unique opportunity of cross culture exposure and education.
His works of art are pieces of good fortune. His jewels are worth a fortune. His music is his fortune. Gaby Farah, what a treasure trove!
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The International MMA Federation (IMMAF) and World MMA Association (WMMAA) come together for this first time this month, in collaboration for the 2018 IMMAF-WMMAA Unified World Champions of Amateur MMA.
The momentous nation vs. nation event is set to kick off on November 11 with both Junior and Senior world championships climaxing with gold medalists crowned at the finals on November 18.
After the final European event of WMMAA before joining the IMMAF fold, WMMAA president Vadim Finkelchtein spoke of his high anticipation for 'the greatest event in the history of amateur MMA'.
Taking place in Manama Bahrain for a second year, IMMAF president Kerrith Brown has been overseeing World Championships preparations for the past week.
Setting the stage: The 2018 World Championships venue in its final construction stages.
"Things are shaping up really well," Mr. Brown added. "It's great to be back and to witness the biggest amateur MMA event ever seen, in addition to the first Junior World Championships. All teams are putting the effort in to make this the most spectacular event to date.
"The past week has involved intense event set up. We have four cages being erected for simultaneous bouts, full competition gear being delivered and prepared for over 350 record breaking athletes; the medical tent and cutman facilities are all coming together.
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NASA Says Ceres' Bright Spot is Good for Soaking Feet
For all the people who have been waiting anxiously for a definitive explanation for those mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres, the latest word from NASA is good news for those with sore feet. No, it's not lights directing aliens to the offices of a podiatrist who specializes in reptilian appendages. The answer from NASA is that the light is a reflection off of hydrated magnesium sulfates, which is a form of the compound better known on Earth as Epsom salt.
New photos of the infamous bright spot (located in what is now called the Occator Crater) and other areas taken by the Dawn spacecraft during a flyover from an altitude of 4,400 km (2,700 miles) were analyzed by a team from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany. Using a new exposure technique that better differentiated between the dark and light areas, the team found a total of 130 bright spots that were almost always in craters. From this they determined that whatever was causing the spots was brought to the surface by asteroid impacts.
An image of the Occator Crater combined with a digital terrain model to show a 3D version of the crater and light
What those asteroid impacts uncovered was identified by spectral analysis to be hydrated magnesium sulphates, which is the main ingredient in Epsom salt on Earth. This finally confirmed the popular theory that Ceres has a subsurface area made of briny water and ice.
While looking at the bright spots, the researchers found something else … ammonia-rich clays. This means that Ceres, which is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, probably came originally from an area loaded with ammonia and nitrogen, like the outer part of the solar system near the orbit of Neptune where nitrogen ice is abundant.
The combination of these two new findings, outlined in the current edition of the journal Nature, indicates that Ceres is not quite an asteroid and not quite a comet but something in between. More details on what this means could come later this month when Dawn, currently in its final orbit at 385 km (240 miles) takes pictures with a resolution of 35 meters (120 feet)
That resolution may be good enough to identify any aliens soaking their feet in a crater of Epsom salts.
Oh, that feels sooo good.
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(Reuters) - A Utah man has been arrested in connection with a plot to blow up a police station, kill police officers and destroy infrastructure to delay an emergency response, authorities said.
John Huggins, 47, believed that the plan, once carried out, would spark an anti-government uprising, according to documents lodged with a Federal Utah court on Friday.
Huggins was charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device in connection with the plot, the state's U.S. Attorney's Office said on Friday.
The Tremonton Police Department was tipped off to the plot in February and launched an investigation with the FBI, prosecutors said. The probe found that Huggins planned to bomb the station and kill two officers, they said.
Huggins also planned to blow up bridges and other infrastructure to slow the emergency response, court documents show.
"Huggins stated that he thought that this action would cause the community to rise up against the government," according to an affidavit filed in court.
An undercover FBI agent discussed homemade explosive devices with Huggins, who said he planned to train people how to make bombs for a few thousand dollars, prosecutors said.
Huggins had in the past made explosive devices that were detonated by a local bomb squad, the affidavit said, though it did not say when.
Huggins was arrested on Thursday in the parking lot of a restaurant after agreeing to show the FBI agent a homemade bomb, prosecutors said.
He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000 if convicted. The investigation is continuing and he could face more charges, said Melodie Rydalch, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office.
Huggins will be held in police custody until at least Tuesday, when a detention hearing is scheduled, she said.
It was not immediately clear if Huggins had legal representation.


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Epicauta virgulata es una especie de coleóptero de la familia Meloidae.

Distribución geográfica
Habita en California (Estados Unidos).

Referencias

Virgulata
Coleópteros de Estados Unidos


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Extracts from reviews of 'Against the Wind'
The most pleasing thing about this readable, amusing and perceptive memoir is that O'Brien, who is clearly a scholar of literature, drama and history, weaves his erudition seamlessly into his life-affirming tale of working class life.
Fergus Whelan,
Ah, yes, the Irish sure do have a way with words – a very entertaining, humorous, intelligent, loving and proud memoir. More literary gold from the "Emerald Isle".
Wendy O'Hanlon,
Acres Australia
I loved this little bit of history about a big period of sadness that happened in a proud country where people stood solid for what they believed to be right and just. A powerful story written from a heart that witnessed the country he loved torn in two.
John Morrow,
O'Brien weaves together the many threads of history and his own life to produce an informed tale that will interest many readers well beyond the globe's enormous Irish Diaspora.
Robin Osborne,
Media Adviser
The book will also appeal to the Irish Diaspora, as O'Brien's memories of migration to and from England for work in the lean years of 1950s Ireland will resonate with many. As thousands continue to emigrate every week for places like Australia, O'Brien reminds us in his closing lines, 'There are Irishmen and there are men from Ireland… I am as Ireland made me. Intentionally or not'.
Dr Sarah Campbell,
Modern Irish History
While his later life took him to Australia, this memoir stands out among those which tell a wider tale than interesting anecdotes about growing up in Dublin or other places in the "Rare Oul' Times". It looks into the developing mind of a young person who is not only intensely observant of the world but conscious of their class and the challenges before it, and most critically, can convey it to the reader.
Michael Halpenny,
O'Brien's long held view is that it was necessary to remove the gun from Irish politics. Some years later the IRA came to the same conclusion. An erudite and entertaining read.
Bendigo Weekly


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De Flora Neerlandica (latijn voor 'Flora van Nederland') is de meest uitgebreide flora die ooit over de Nederlandse vaatplanten is verschenen. Het is geen flora die bedoeld was om in het veld mee te nemen.

Het plan voor deze flora bestond al in de negentiende eeuw. Al in 1859 hield Roelof Benjamin van den Bosch een rede over de "Inhoud en vorm onzer toekomstige Flora". In 1868 werd de uitgave zelfs als einddoel opgenomen in de statuten van de Nederlandse Botanische vereniging. Veertien jaar later werd dat overigens weer geschrapt.

Volgens de plannen van Jacob Heimans in 1939 was het oorspronkelijk de bedoeling dat de Flora in 1945 zou verschijnen ter gelegenheid van het honderdjarig bestaan van de Vereniging, maar ten gevolge van de Tweede Wereldoorlog liep het project flinke vertraging op. Hij is daarom in vier delen verschenen van 1948 tot 1982. Elk deel verscheen in meerdere afleveringen die als zelfstandige boekjes te koop waren.

De eerste aflevering (deel 1, aflevering 1) behandelt de Pteridophyta en de naaktzadigen. Vele botanici hebben bijgedragen aan het werk. Zo heeft in het eerste deeltje Simon Jan van Ooststroom de varens voor zijn rekening genomen, Abraham Willem Kloos de wolfsklauwen, en Willem Hendrik Wachter de naaktzadigen; in het deel over de monocotylen heeft Piet Jansen de grassenfamilie bewerkt.

De vier delen omvatten achtereenvolgens (volgens de destijds gangbare indeling van de vaatplanten volgens Adolf Engler):
 Pteridophyten & Gymnospermen
 Monocotylen
 de choripetale Dicotylen
 de sympetale Dicotylen

De laatste twee delen zijn niet meer compleet verschenen.

Het verschil met een veldflora als Heukels' Flora van Nederland is groot. Van elke plant is een volledige beschrijving opgenomen en niet alleen de onderscheidend geachte kenmerken. Van elke behandelde soort wordt ten minste een detailtekening gegeven. Afhankelijk van de zeldzaamheid wordt naast de verspreiding elders in de wereld ofwel een globale verspreiding in Nederland gegeven, ofwel een lijst met plaatsen waar de soort is gevonden. Naar Duitse gewoonte uit het begin van de twintigste eeuw volgt op de soortsbeschrijving een vaak lange lijst van afwijkende vormen, elk met een naam en een vindplaatsenlijst. Dit is een van de laatste flora's waarin deze formae nog een naam kregen. Taxonomisch gezien hebben ze namelijk over het algemeen geen waarde omdat de genetische basis veelal zwak is of afwezig, en verschillende formae aan dezelfde kloon gevonden worden. Het zijn dan dus standplaatsvariaties, die overigens wel ecologische informatie kunnen leveren. Eén soort beslaat in het algemeen zo'n twee pagina's.

Nova Flora Neerlandica

Op 11 november 2016 werd de aftrap gegeven voor de bewerking en publicatie van de Nova Flora Neerlandica, wederom onder auspiciën van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Botanische Vereniging, tijdens een symposium Taxonomisch onderzoek aan de Nederlandse flora.

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1. Season the chicken thighs with salt and pepper. Heat a cast-iron skillet or heavy-bottomed pan and coat with olive oil. Sear the chicken, skin-side down first, until browned on both sides. Remove from the pan and reduce the heat.
2. Deglaze the pan with a splash of white vino. Lay the lemon slices onto the pan and allow them to caramelise. Add the shallots and garlic, and sauté for a few minutes.
3. Return the chicken thighs to the pot. Sprinkle over half of the fresh herbs and cover with stock. Leave to simmer until the chicken is tender and cooked through. Garnish with the remaining herbs to serve.


Udaipur is famously called as "Venice of the east" as well as "City of Lakes". This beautiful city was founded in the year 1553 by Maharana Udai Singh II. It is acclaimed as one of the most beautiful cities of India, as huge number of foreign as well as domestic tourist visit this city every year. Due to this reason to make your travel experience in this city easier, we are offering this Udaipur travel guide giving all round information about major tourist attractions like temples, palaces, forts and much more. Have a look at the below mentioned famous tourist places in Udaipur or places to visit in Udaipur that are must see places and form an integral part of Udaipur Tourism.
City Palace was built in the year 1559 by Maharana Udai Mirza Singh and is situated on the side bank of Pichola Lake. This monument has various palaces within the same complex and built on a hilltop providing a superb aerial look of the whole Udaipur city. It has hanging gardens, rooms, corridors, terraces, pavilions and courtyards that make it a wonderful tourist attraction. The total od eleven palaces make this whole complex and is great place to be visit, if you are planning a trip to Udaipur.
Jagdish temple is a beautiful Hindu temple that is situated in the City Palace complex of Udaipur and has Indo-Aryan style of architecture. It is dedicated to Lord Vishnu and was built by Maharana Jagat Singh I. Earlier it was known as "Temple of Jagannath Rai" and attracts large number of tourists from diffeent parts of the world every year.
Fateh Sagar lake was built by Maharana Fateh Singh in the year 1678 and this is an artificial lake that has become one of the most visited tourist location in Udaipur. The sunset view is very nice on this lake, it is also possible to go boating in this wonderful lake. It is a very admired tourist place in Udaipur and attracts huge number of tourists from different places of the world.
Saheliyon-Ki-Bari also called as Courtyard of the Maidens was built by Maharana Sangram Singh in the 18th century to offer a place for all the 48 maids that accompanied the queen. It has marble elephants, chiselled kiosks and 4 water pools that add beauty to this wonderful garden. It also has a small museum inside that has various valuable items of medieval period. You must visit this place on your tour to Udaipur.
Monsoon palace was earlier called as Sajjan Garh Palace, which was constructed in the year 1884 by Maharana Sajjan Singh. It is located on the hilltop overlooking the Fateh Sagar lake and was built to watch the monsoon clouds. This palace is built with white marble and gives a panoramic view of the whole city's palaces, lakes and other nearby beautiful places. It also provides a wonderful view of the sunset and has been the part of various famous Hollywood movies.
It is considered as the most convenient and appropriate way to reach this city. Udaipur is very-well connected with all the major Indian cities like Jaipur, Delhi, Ajmer and many more. It has domestic terminal for large number of flights to various destinations on regular basis. You can get connecting flights to major international destinations from Delhi, which makes your journey much comfortable.
Udaipur is very well connected with all the major cities like Jaipur, Delhi, Ajmer and many more. You can reach this place by taking trains from all the major cities of India. Traveling in train is a wonderful experience and will surely make your trip to Delhi is perfect in all respect.
Udaipur is very well connected with all the major Indian cities and has a vast network of roads. To make your ride comfortable and to visit all the tourist attractions in and around Udaipur, you must hire a car rental service.


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