The investors sent a letter on Sunday to the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village tenant association proposing a highly unusual alliance in which tenants would get a "substantial equity" stake in the sprawling property, the ability to set apartment prices and the power to veto major decisions made in the course of converting the 11,226 apartments to a co-op.
The first stop on the tour was a 2007 work by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson, "Earth-Moon-Earth": a player piano doing a version of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, complete with glitches picked up in the course of converting the music to Morse code, bouncing the signals off the Moon, then reconverting them to musical notes.
"It's got a lot of virtual consumption," Mr. Konradt jokes, and his job was, of course, to convert that into actual sales.
When you're teaching, you've got to unpack all that and ask: why do I do it like this?" Later, she became a lecturer at the Polytechnic of North London, working on a course to convert teachers of other subjects into maths specialists.
Initial rates of transport were calculated by first-order regression analysis of the time course of pH change and converted into nmol of H+ per min by determining the pH change induced by small additions of standardized NaOH.
Initial rates of transport were calculated by first-order regression analysis of the time course of pH change and converted into nmol of H+/min by determining the pH change induced by small additions of standardized NaOH.
The universities — including Arizona State, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Arkansas system — will choose which of their existing online courses to convert to a massive open online course, or MOOC, in the new program, called MOOC2Degree.
Of course, unlike simply converting more land to growing a trendy leafy green, scaling production of the Impossible Burger – and getting it into grocery stores at a price point that the average consumer is willing to pay – is going to be a challenge.
Here's to hoping Kanye breaks something, punches someone, gets a swastika tattoo (for his art, of course), converts to Scientology or reveals he's a Martian.
And, of course, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz converted a very successful angel investing career into one of the top mega funds of the Valley.
Unless, of course, obviously converted office space decorated with a few display cases, a scattering of tables and chairs, posters and mid-size TV screens with short videos on endless loops excite you.
