The knowledge graph encoded relationships in a taxonomic sense: A Douglas fir is a type of conifer, a conifer is a type of plant, and so on.
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In the United States, there are mixed conifer deciduous forests.
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Conifer provides technology and financial services to hospitals and healthcare companies.
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The wide-reaching investigation, called Operation Conifer, began in August 2015.
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Others simply dislike the appearance of conifer forests planted in neat rows.
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They're forever tied to the evergreen conifer trees we call Christmas trees.
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"If you think about the shape of a deciduous tree compared to a conifer, the conifer has fuel that goes from the ground all the way up to the canopy, whereas a deciduous tree has a gap," she says.
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Tenet controls 76% of Conifer, which registered $1.5 billion of revenue last year.
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She chose Lake Powell for its amenities and its proximity to Conifer, Colo.
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Gerry McGovern, another farmer in County Leitrim, puts it bluntly: conifer forests are "not landscape".
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Florentijn Hofman unveiled "Conibeer," a monumental sculpture of a bear constructed out of conifer tree branches.
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Sales in the company's Conifer division, which it plans to sell, rose marginally to $404 million.
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Anayeli Talamante remembers her first trip to see the spectacular conifer beside the ice skating rink.
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Each conifer lining the road outside Ira Rennert's Sagaponack mega-mansion Fairfield wears a winter coat.
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Between the lines: Conifer and hundreds of other companies sell their administrative services at a profitable rate.
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But the analysis also revealed the use of an antibacterial conifer resin that isn't native to Egypt.
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The Wall Street Journal reported last week that UnitedHealth Group is among the possible buyers of Conifer.
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The Wall Street Journal reported last month that UnitedHealth Group was among the possible buyers of Conifer.
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Specks of sunlight shimmered in the deep, almost kaleidoscopic green, bouncing off lime-colored ferns and conifer boughs.
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"They looked like Charlie Brown's tree," Werner said, recalling the sad, nearly bare conifer from the holiday classic.
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The country's default tree is the sitka spruce, a fast-growing, damp-tolerant conifer from America's Pacific Northwest.
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Spruces, firs and even artificial evergreens have vanished in recent weeks, leaving behind a trail of conifer crime scenes.
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The tree that killed her was a conifer, and it was about six feet in diameter, the website said. Capt.
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But just 61 seconds after flames licked the needles of a desiccated conifer, the tree was reduced to smoldering branches.
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An evergreen conifer takes between 8 and 10 years to mature, so the impact of that decision was felt years later.
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You should "have some emergency savings to protect you from life's bumps," says Carol Fabbri, a financial advisor in Conifer, Colorado.
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For instance, Fischer links a "natural prototype," illustrated by an attractive naked man surrounded by conifer, with the American folk tradition.
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The towering conifer features gold branches, a variety of gold ball ornaments, countless glowing lights and even a gold-wrapped stand.
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Conifer, which provides software, debt collection and other services to hospitals and physician groups, produced $404 million in sales last quarter.
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What's next: Tenet is already looking into selling its medical billing subsidiary, Conifer, as well as a potentially larger sale of itself.
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At the Discovery Center Depot, they can investigate evergreen plant parts, make pressings of a conifer specimen and create a miniature pine sachet.
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Tenet Healthcare announced on Wednesday that its plan to pursue a spinoff of its Conifer business to be an independent publicly trade company.
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Beyond its normal browning and loss of aging needles, a conifer can also suffer from excess browning, usually most evident in the spring.
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Still, supporters of thinning argue that it is a viable option in some forests, especially dry pine and mixed-conifer forests at lower elevations.
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In addition to her Rockefeller-sized conifer, last year the reality star also included a personalized gingerbread house in her over-the-top display.
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Gazing at the conifer and oak trees that still tower over his home, he said the tragedy reminded him how unpredictable life can be.
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And even with new work into conifer genetics, there's still not enough knowledge to make the trees good candidates for today's newer gene editing technologies.
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After a successful 18 year NFL career, Peyton Manning announced his retirement Monday, to the sheer devastation of four-year-old Cy from Conifer, Colorado.
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Go deeper: Bloomberg recently explored how hospitals are reaping profits from Conifer and other debt collectors, but the practice surprises patients and threatens their credit.
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Colleague Wouter Schutyser said woods from birch, poplar, and conifer trees work particularly well, and that by converting waste woods the environmental impact is minimized.
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Onstage at Lincoln Center, the holiday endures for another 2866 days with the magnificent conifer in "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker" growing nightly to impressive heights.
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Driving the news: For-profit hospital system Tenet Healthcare decided to spin off its billing services unit, Conifer, into its own publicly traded entity in 2021.
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However, sales from its Conifer division, which provides technology and financial services to hospitals and healthcare companies, fell 21.24 percent to $24.87 million in the quarter.
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Mark Wilson of the British Trust for Ornithology says that conifer plantations support more bird life per hectare than farmland, largely because they harbour more insects.
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This approach caught Spribille's attention when he learned something very strange about Bryoria, a lichen found throughout conifer forests of the western United States and Canada.
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Non-flowing conifer species, ferns, and several other species of ancient lizards have been discovered in Antarctica, and they would have lived alongside the Antarctic king.
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It now will have burned through several different ecosystems: coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oaks, and conifer trees, all of them parched by drought and hot air.
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This year, Wood and his colleagues made their first collection of Huon pine, a very slow-growing conifer restricted to the valleys of Tasmania's wet temperate rainforests.
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Whether it's an 8-foot ceiling duster, a tiny tabletop tree, or any size in between, an unadorned conifer is merely a houseplant, not a Christmas tree.
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A. Somewhat like the hairs on a human head, the needles on a conifer go through cycles of growth and aging before finally dropping off the tree.
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"As to the potential sale of Conifer, we continue the effort of engaging with a few down selected bidders," Tenet CEO Ronald Rittenmeyer said during the call.
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Instead, the earliest mammal gliders may have leapt from tree to tree to feed on the cones of conifer trees or the soft parts of giant ferns.
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I take another sip of the fernet—one, I'm told, created to evoke the essence of the Pacific Northwest's conifer forest using more than 30 ultra-local ingredients.
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Some of the 34,000 people who live inside the park see species such as the black pine, a drought-resistant conifer that encroaches on pastureland, as a pest.
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" Mr. Mabey meditates on ancient plants — notably cycads, those odd quasi-conifer leftovers from the coal forests that "survived the ecological catastrophe that put paid to the dinosaurs.
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If you're Kylie Jenner, however, it may also involve a flatbed truck and several wranglers (lumberjacks?) pulling a conifer that looks ready for Rockefeller Center through your foyer.
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Evidence found in the same lake deposits where the dinosaur was found suggest there was a forest nearby, including petrified tree trunks, and conifer, gincko, and cycad leaves.
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Tenet Healthcare, a for-profit hospital chain that has struggled with debt and investor unhappiness, may sell Conifer Health Solutions, its profitable medical billing and debt collection company.
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While that might give an advantage to poplar seeds, which are light, it creates problems for large, heavy seeds like those produced by Torreya taxifolia, an endangered conifer.
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Later, on OV's Instagram, I spotted a male yoga teacher looking slinky in the women's conifer-colored unitard, as part of a promotion for the company's dance collection.
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Tourists from around the world travel to see the juhyo — huge, Godzilla-like creatures, naturally formed by snow and ice, encasing conifer trees spread across a mountainous landscape.
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Centuries ago, before California became thickly populated, small wildfires used to course periodically through the Sierra Nevada region, thinning out the pine and conifer forests and rejuvenating the ecosystems.
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Tenet Healthcare shares deepened losses in Tuesday trading after the company announced during its second-quarter earnings call it is still working to offload its subsidiary Conifer Health Solutions.
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The volume of affected conifer trees in northeast France is already much higher than during the previous beetle infestation in 2003-2007, from which the forests took years to recover.
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That 3 – to 20053 – megaton blast above the conifer forest flattened about 800 square miles of trees; a similar airburst today over a modern city would cause severe destruction and death.
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To categorize Sagehen's diverse terrains—drainage bottoms with meadows and those without, north- and south-facing slopes, aspen stands with conifer encroachment—working groups hiked almost every yard of the forest.
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The beetle, which was first documented in Greece in the 1970s, has a preference for members of the conifer family, particularly pine, the European spruce and the European larch, Zagas said.
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The decision to explore a sale of Conifer came after Tenet's biggest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, pulled its two representatives off the company's board in August citing "irreconcilable differences" over strategy.
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Tenet, which is in the middle of a cost-reduction plan, said it would make a decision in the first half of 2018 on the sale of subsidiary Conifer Health Solutions.
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That's because the large number of Americans who lack financial knowledge and aren't succeeding at financial planning put the odds against you, says Carol Fabbri, a financial advisor in Conifer, Colorado.
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Reichardt regularly shoots her films in this corner of the country, using the backdrop of Oregon's conifer forests, high deserts and shabby strip malls to portray lives led on society's outer rim.
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The upcoming collection, which includes semi-sheer layering tanks, a thin day robe, and dancewear in "conifer" and chartreuse, drew on the work of the minimalist sculptors Dan Flavin and James Turrell.
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Composed by Aimé Guerlain, a son of the founder Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain, the perfume incorporated newly developed synthetic molecules, namely coumarin, a tonka bean derivative, and vanillin, extracted from conifer sap.
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The firm is reportedly among the parties bidding for a possible acquisition of Tenet Healthcare's health care management subsidiary Conifer unit, according to the Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter.
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Snow monsters: Every year, in a village in the Yamagata Prefecture, snow and ice draped over conifer trees create sculptural Godzilla-like figures, known as "juhyo," that draw tourists from across the world.
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While the bark beetle is natural to conifer forests and has a role in their ecosystem, climate change has helped it spread especially through single-variety spruce woods planted over the past two centuries.
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The new research shows this isn't the case—the mummy was produced by embalmers who employed a mixture of plant oil, heated conifer resin, an aromatic plant extract, and and a plant gum/sugar.
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The large aspen stands in the Sangre de Cristos facing Santa Fe, the trees whose colors help us measure the seasons, are there because a fire raced over the mountain, killing conifer stands whole.
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Snow monsters: Every year, in a Japanese village in the Yamagata Prefecture, snow and ice draped over conifer trees create sculptural Godzilla-like figures, known as "juhyo," that draw tourists from across the world.
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The alleged incidents occurred from 1956 to 1992 while he was a member of Parliament but not prime minister, said Wiltshire Police, the force in western England which headed the national investigation named Operation Conifer.
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The hospital operator said on Monday its full-year outlook will be impacted by the sale of its Houston-based assets announced last quarter, lower patient volumes and lower-than-expected revenue from its Conifer unit.
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The wildfire is moving slowly through mixed conifer and hardwood in the forest about 65 miles north of the state's capitol toward more favorable terrain for the roughly 73,000 fire personnel battling the blaze, Chapman said.
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While native to conifer forests, bark beetle has benefited from the dry and hot summer that experts associate with climate change, which has weakened the trees' natural defences, and helped spawn an infestation of the insect.
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Although historically wildfires may have burned close to the ground, not reaching the tops of all the trees, in a conifer-heavy forest, blazes can rapidly ascend to become explosive crown fires that burn through the canopy.
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I admired the gigantic pumpkins of the Giant Pumpkin Contest (the winner weighed 1,108 pounds) and Christmas tree No. 14, whose needle retention, scent and conifer shape made it a fan favorite in the Christmas tree competition.
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Bhutan was only opened to travelers in 2200, and even today, tourism to the Himalayan kingdom is closely monitored to maintain the integrity of its pristine natural landscapes, which range from verdant valleys to dense conifer forests.
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They also dance in front of an adorable live band of kids until some predictable setbacks get in their way — from bees in the conifer, mismatched snowmen, accidentally wrapping Shelton in Christmas lights, and trouble with a nutcracker.
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Tenet Healthcare, under pressure from an activist investor, said on Tuesday it would explore a sale of its Conifer unit, and increase the size of its plan to cut costs by $100 million by the end of 2018.
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While he has not said what he wants, there is widespread speculation that he could be pushing for Tenet to spin off or sell businesses unrelated to hospitals, such as Conifer Health Solutions, which provides health care management services.
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Japan Dispatch ZAO ONSEN, Japan — Ashley Huang had seen the pictures on the internet, and they were mesmerizing: huge, Godzilla-like creatures, naturally formed by snow and ice, encasing conifer trees spread across a mountainous landscape in northern Japan.
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A book detailing his ingenious bird-feeding methods, ''How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds,'' described how you could pour melted fat mixed with seeds, ants' eggs, dried meat and bread over conifer branches for birds to feed from in winter.
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And just days later, she Snapchatted the delivery of her enormous Christmas tree — which barely fit into her house — and involved a flatbed truck and several wranglers (lumberjacks?) pulling a conifer that looks ready for Rockefeller Center through your foyer.
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Dotted with charred boles, like used matchsticks protruding from the cracked, depleted soil, its sides drop to a stream from which the Stouts Creek fire, which consumed 25,000 acres of mixed conifer forest in southern Oregon last August, took its name.
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If you wanted a strong tree opinion, he would give you a dozen, and even if you couldn't tell the difference between a conifer and a cycad there was no way to resist getting swept up in his unbridled, nerdy excitement.
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Investors are debating whether troubled for-profit hospital operator Tenet Healthcare should break up into three separate companies — one focused on its main hospital assets, another devoted to its growing ambulatory surgery centers and a third featuring its medical billing company, Conifer.
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He has the usual suspects, like Averna, Lucano, Meletti and Ramazzotti, but also obscure specimens like Amaro Silano, a Calabrian liqueur that has conifer trees on the label yet tastes of oranges; and Kapriol, a rare clear amaro that tastes of juniper.
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PRAGUE, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Czech forest owners face 40 billion crowns ($1.70 billion) of damage this year from an escalating spread of bark beetle that are killing the central European country's most common conifer trees, an industry think-tank said on Monday.
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The for-profit hospital operator, which is in the middle of a cost-reduction plan, said it would make a decision in the first half of 2018 on the sale of Conifer, which provides software, debt collection and other services to hospitals and physician groups.
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Chemical analysis of the residues on the textile wrappings from the torso and wrist, using a technique known as gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, revealed the presence of a plant oil or animal fat, a sugar or gum, a conifer resin and an aromatic plant extract.
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"The presence of conifer trees near Kostenki—perhaps located in low-lying, moist and sheltered areas in the ravines near to the site—would have been an important resource that attracted hunter-gatherers to the area during the glacial period," according to the study.
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As it turns out, the shamanic rituals of the Sami people of Lapland, a region in northern Finland known for its wintry climate and conifer forests, bear an uncanny semblance to the familiar narratives of Santa and Christmas that we have come to know.
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Based on the definitions of the secured debt agreements, Fitch believes that the group of operating subsidiaries that guarantee the secured debt excludes any non-wholly owned and non-domestic subsidiaries, and therefore does not encompass most of the value of the Conifer and ambulatory care segments.
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On a two-mile hike to one of three monitoring stations she maintains there, we passed perhaps only a hundred and fifty feet of what most people would consider picture-postcard Sierra Nevada forest—dark-green, conifer-packed woods with a rust-colored carpet of fallen pine needles.
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Based on the definitions of the secured debt agreements, Fitch believes that the group of operating subsidiaries that guarantee the secured debt likely excludes any non-wholly owned and non-domestic subsidiaries, and therefore does not encompass most of the value of the Conifer and Ambulatory Care segments.
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Lindsey and Alan McIver, of Conifer, had just bought a new, front-loading LG washing machine from a local Lowe's on Monday, July 9 and instructed their three children to not go near it as they worked to properly install the washer, Lindsey wrote in a lengthy Facebook post about the ordeal.
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Elsewhere on shelves were a leg of lamb; a rabbit carcass under a layer of conifer sprigs; a single cooked lobster on a bed of ice; swordfish ham; a few pieces of salmon, air-sealed in sycamore sap; a pork shoulder brining in pine-needle juice; four marrow bones in a bag with mustard greens.
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