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Crop circles first began cropping up in the 1970s, sparking claims that they were created by extraterrestrials. Although two men came forward in 1991 and said that they had created the patterns as a UFO hoax, they didn't take responsibility for all of the crop circles, leading some people to believe that perhaps something paranormal is also responsible for the strange spheres. While scientists know paranormal forces have nothing to do with crop circles, the patterns are intriguing, with some scientists trying to figure out exactly how they are made.
Here, an intricate crop circle that appeared in front of the Torrechiara Castle in Parma, Italy, during the summer of 2009.
Baffled bystanders explore a crop circle found in the agricultural community of Hensall in Ontario, Canada. The circle appeared in 2003, and no other crop circles have occurred in the area since.
This massive 780-foot (238 meters) crop circle appeared in 2001 in the remote area of Milk Hill in Wiltshire, England. The elaborate design is composed of 409 circles that form a pattern called a double, or six-sided, triskelion, which is a motif consisting of three interlocking spirals.
An aerial view of a crop circle near Starnberg in southern Bavaria, Germany, taken on Aug. 9, 2006.
A crop circle located near the hills of Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire, England. This aerial shot was taken on July 9, 2010, and the photographer, Ash Balderson, told LiveScience that the pattern was made over the weekend of July 3 and 4, 2010. The view is from the top of Sutton Bank, looking back down into the valley.
The crop circle of Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire, England, seen from a different angle.
People inspect crop circles within a golden wheat field in Switzerland. The photo was taken on July 29, 2007.
This blossom-shaped crop circle appeared in June 2008 in Diessenhofen, Switzerland.
Another triskelion crop circle. The symbol can be used to represent cycles, progress or competition.
This design of three flying birds was created on Aug. 3, 2003, in the county of Wiltshire in southern England. The birds, which resemble swallows, have ever-diminishing circles trailing behind their wing tips.


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Hankerings for certain foods are not linked to any obvious nutrient insufficiency. But other biological factors appear to be at work.
Researchers have employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore the neural basis of such appetites. The imaging data suggest that when somebody is pining for a certain fare, components of the amygdala, anterior cingulate, orbital frontal cortex, insula, hippocampus, caudate and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex are activated in the brain. A network of neural regions may be involved with the emotion, memory and chemosensory stimuli of food yens.
This article was originally published with the title Ask the Brains.

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Synopsis of Philippine Mammals
To explore the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals, click here.
To explore the Supplement to the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals, click here.
The mammalian fauna of the Philippine Islands is remarkably diverse and species-rich, comprising what may be the greatest concentration of endemic mammals of any country on earth. Since 1988, the Field Museum of Natural History has been the primary base of operations for the Philippine Mammal Project, a multi-institutional, international collaborative effort to document the number of species that are present, the distributions of those species, their relationships within the tree of life, their ecology, and their conservation status. This website, the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals, is a summary of the information that is currently available.
The website was first implemented in 2002, using information from the 1998 publication by Heaney et al., entitled "A Synopsis of the Mammalian Fauna of the Philippine Islands". The Synopsis website was extensively revised and expanded in 2010, in order to incorporate extensive new data, include more photographs, and provide detailed maps of the known distribution of each species. To keep the website up to date, as additional species are discovered and formally described, or species of marine mammals are documented in Philippine waters for the first time, we add them to the Supplement, and will eventually merge these into the main site once site maintenance has been completed.
As documented on this website, the terrestrial fauna is now known to include at least 214 native species (plus seven introduced species), in an area of only a bit over 300,000 square kilometers, one of the highest densities of native mammals in the world. Moreover, most of the species are found nowhere else: of the 214 native terrestrial species, 125 (58%) are endemic, and among the 111 non-flying native mammals, 101 (91%) are unique to the Philippines. They constitute an astounding example of adaptive radiation by mammals in an oceanic archipelago, and may justifiably serve as a source of great pride to the Philippine nation.
This website has been developed as a collaborative project with the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Primary funding for its development has come from the Negaunee Foundation.
Explore our Philippine mammal project further:
Videos from the Abbott Hall of Conservation-Restoring Earth:
Mammal Discoveries in the Philippines
Why Mossy Forests in the Philippines are important
Island Evolution: Why islands have so many endemic species
Science at FMNH: Mammal Conservation in Island Ecosystems
The Field Revealed: Cloud Rat
(Above photo by LR Heaney. Musseromys gulantang from Quezon Province, Luzon Island, Philippines.)


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The Chocolate War
Do you ever say one thing, even though you're feeling something entirely different? Have you ever wanted to say something, but couldn't find the words. Have you ever gotten totally caught up in what a really good speaker was saying and found yourself doing what they want, even though you think it's wrong? If so, you'll probably relate to what's going on in The Chocolate War. This book takes a hard look at how language can be used to manipulate. We also see how one student standing up and saying "No" can threaten a whole corrupt system.
Questions About Language and Communication
- What kinds of messages does Brother Leon communicate with his pointer? His words? His eyes? His physical appearance?
- Are Archie's verbal skills a key factor in his power over others? Why, or why not?
- What are some of the things Jerry communicates when he refuses the chocolates? Does it mean different things to different people? Like what?
- Is Jerry a good communicator?
- Can you think of some examples of characters who think one thing but say something entirely different? Why do they do this?
- Why aren't Jerry and Ellen Barrett able to communicate when he calls her? Would they do better face to face?
- Do Jerry and his father communicate well with each other?
- What would this book look like if it was updated to include the latest in communication technology? You know, Facebook, cell phones, texting, twitter….
Chew on This
Jerry isn't a good communicator; he rarely says what he means. If he'd been more willing to talk with the other students about why he says "No" to the chocolates, he might have been able to make a real difference at Trinity.

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Decentralized version control system.
Searching for when a given string was introduced
When you want to find out which commit first referenced a given string:
git log -S --source --all
See this stackoverflow answer.
Reverting commits without creating a new one
This is useful when you want to revert a set of commits, but also when you want to change them before committing again.
git revert -n
See the git documentation
Deleting multiple local branches
git branch -d $BRANCH_NAME will delete a local branch IFF it's been merged with the upstream branch (or remote). If you pass in --force, then it'll delete it regardless. git branch -D $BRANCH_NAME is a shorthand for git branch -d --force $BRANCH_NAME.
git branch -D prefix* doesn't work (git won't do the name completion for you). Instead, something like this will work:
git branch | grep "$PREFIX_STRING" | xargs git branch -D
Rebasing a branch onto another one.
Say you branch off my_work from develop. But you later find out you need to merge it into master. How do you merge only the commits from my_work into master without including other commits from develop?
As with most things in software, stackoverflow has the answer.
git checkout my_work
git rebase --onto master develop my_work
That is, you rebase onto the target branch, from the original branch point, with the branch you want to move.
Submodule are a neat, basic way to manage dependencies.
Adding one is easy
git submodule add SUBMODULE_URL
When you're not the one who added it, the command to pull down the submodules is less obvious.
git submodule update --init --recursive
Removing a submodule
Removing a submodule is less obvious, and, as of git 1.8.5, involves a 3-part process:
git submodule deinit -f -- $MODULE
rm -_URL_$MODULE
git rm -f $MODULE
Thanks to this stackoverflow answer
Generating and Applying Patches
Patch files are files (duh) describing changes between one version to another. They can be easily created by piping git diff $SOURCE_COMMIT $TARGET_COMMIT to a file. Or, for changes from HEAD to whatever's being worked on, a simple git diff.
Once you have the patch, you can then apply it with git apply $PATH_TO_FILE, so, for example:
git diff > change.patch
git co.
git apply change.patch
Which is a less elegant version of git stash.
Stop tracking changes to a file
Use git rm --cached on the file(s), and add them to the ignore patterns.
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- Enter a word for the dictionary definition.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gordian \Gor"di*an\, a. 1. Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable. [1913 Webster] Gordian knot, an intricate knot tied by Gordius in the thong which connected the pole of the chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the Great averted the ill omen of his inability to loosen it by cutting it with his sword. Hence, a Gordian knot is an inextricable difficulty; and to cut the Gordian knot is to remove a difficulty by bold and energetic measures. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) Pertaining to the Gordiacea. [1913 Webster]


What to do after a death
Hendon Mosque is a member of the NAFD.
Muslim law and tradition have endowed a Muslim's funeral with profound religious significance and it should, in every respect, express the dignity, sanctity and modesty of a solemn religious service.
The five stages that follow the death of a Muslim are:
 1. The final bathing (ghusl) of the deceased – tajheez.
 2. The shrouding (kafan) of the deceased – takfeen.
 3. The funeral prayers – janazah salah.
 4. The funeral procession – carrying the bier to the grave.
 5. The burial of the deceased – tadfeen.
It is very important to complete the above stages as quickly as possible, for Rasulullah (saw) has emphasised:
"Make haste at a funeral; if the dead person was good, it is a good state to which you are sending him on; but if he was otherwise it is an evil of which you are ridding yourselves."
Even if the person dies on a Friday, the scholars have stated, "it is better to make all arrangements and bury the deceased before Jumu'ah salah" and that "delaying the funeral with the thought that there will be more participants after jumu'ah is undeseriable".
Moreover, the blessings and forgiveness for the deceased that will be acquired by adhering to the command of Rasulullah (saw) is more worthy then delaying the janazah salah, even with the possibility that more participants may attend.
Sharee'ah has also prohibited the delaying of the burial on account of a certain relative being overseas and this person's inability to arrive quickly, for example, due to the unavailbility of a flight.
Please note, to enable the burial to take place as quickly as possible we need to comply with the formalities of the law of this country, which requires that the death is certified and registered. These formalities (summarised below) are extracted from the official document What to do after a death in England and Wales.
If the Death Occurs in a Hospital
If the death occurs in hospital, the hospital staff will contact the person named by the deceased as next of kin. The hospital will then keep the body in the hospital mortuary until the executor arranges for it to be taken away and the hospital staff will arrange for the nearest relative to collect the deceased's possessions.
If the Death Occurs Elsewhere
If the death was expected, you should contact the doctor who attended the deceased during their final illness.
If the death was unexpected/sudden or you discover a body, you should contact the following people:
 1. The family doctor
 2. The deceased's next of kin
 3. The local mosque
Cause of Death
If the cause of death is quite clear the doctor will give you:
 1. A Medical Certificate that shows the cause of death (this is free of charge and will be given in a sealed envelope addressed to the registrar).
 2. A Formal Notice that states that a doctor has signed the Medical Certificate and tells you how the death can be registered.
If the cause of the death was known to be a natural illness, but the doctors wish to know more about the cause of death, they may ask the relatives for permission to carry out a medical examination of the body (i.e. post-mortem) to find out more about the cause of death. Islam does not permit post-mortems in this instance and no such permission should be given.
If the death follows illness from HIV or AIDS there may be special rules about handling the body.
Reporting a Death to the Coroner
The coroner is a doctor or lawyer responsible for investigating deaths in particular situations and may be the only person able to certify the cause of death.
In any of the following circumstances, the doctor may report the death to the coroner and write on the Formal Notice that the death has been referred to the coroner:
 1. An accident or injury
 2. An industrial disease
 3. During a surgical operation
 4. Before recovery from an anaesthetic
 5. If the cause of death is unknown
 6. The death was sudden and unexplained, e.g. a sudden infant death (cot death).
If the doctor treating the deceased had not seen him or her, either after the death or within 14 days before the death, the death must be reported to the coroner.
The coroner may arrange for a post-mortem examination of the body. The consent of the relative is not needed, but they are entitled to be represented at the examination by a doctor. When relatives have told the coroner they wish to be represented, the coroner will if at all practicable, tell them when and where the examination will be.
The coroner will pay for the removal of a body from the place of death to the mortuary for post-mortem examination. The relatives may choose the funeral director.
If the post-mortem shows that death was due to natural causes, the coroner may issue a notification known as the Pink Form (Form 100), which gives the cause of death so that the death can be registered. The coroner usually sends the form direct to the registrar but may give it to you to deliver.
If the death was violent, unnatural, caused by an industrial disease, occurred in prison or if the cause of death remains uncertain after post-mortem examination, the coroner will hold an inquest. An inquest is an enquiry into the medical cause and circumstances of a death. It is held in public, sometimes with a jury, and it is up to the coroner how to organise the enquiry in a way that best serves the public interest and the interests of the relatives.
If an inquest is held, the coroner must inform the following people:
 1. The married partner of the deceased
 2. The nearest relative (if different)
 3. And the personal representative (if different from above).
Relatives can attend an inquest and ask questions of witnesses but they may only ask questions about the medical cause and circumstances of the death. It may also be important to have a lawyer to represent you if the death was caused by a road accident or an accident at work.
The coroner may give you an Order for Burial (form 101) so that the funeral can take place and may be done before the inquest is completed, provided the body is not required for further examination.
The coroner will also send the registrar a Certificate After Inquest (form 99 [rev]) stating the cause of death – this allows the death to be registered.
If you want advice or information about a death which has been reported to the coroner, contact the coroner's officer. You can get the address from the police station or, if the death was in hospital, the hospital official dealing with deaths.
Registering the Death
To avoid delay, the death must be registered by the Registrars of Births and Deaths for the sub-district in which the death occurred. You can find their address by visiting the official website of the General Register Office, in the phone book under 'Registration of Births, Deaths & Marriages', from the doctor, local council, post office or police station.
Check when the registrar will be available and whether only you need to go along. It may be that someone other than you will be needed to give information for the death to be registered.
If the death has been referred to the coroner, it cannot be registered until the registrar has received authority from the coroner to do so (see above), otherwise, go to the registrar as soon as possible.
When you go to the registrar you should take all these:
 1. The medical certificate of the cause of the death
 2. The deceased's medical card, if possible
 3. The pink form (form 100), if one has been given to you by the coroner
 4. The deceased's birth and marriage certificates, if available
You should tell the registrar:
 1. The date and place of death
 2. The deceased's last (usual) address
 3. The deceased's first names and surname (and the maiden name where appropriate)
 4. The deceased's date and place of birth (town and country if born in the UK, and country if born abroad)
 5. The deceased's occupation and the name and occupation of their spouse
 6. Whether the deceased was getting a pension or allowance from public funds
 7. If the deceased was married, the date of birth of the surviving widow or widower.
The Registrar will give you:
 1. A Certificate for Burial – known as the Green Form – (unless the coroner has already given you an Order for Burial). These forms will give permission for the body to be buried and should be taken to the cemetery to enable the funeral to take place.
 2. Leaflets about widows' benefits and income tax for widows.
 3. A Certificate of Registration of Death (form BD8 [rev]). This is for Social Security purposes only. Read the information on the back of the certificate. If any of it applies, fill in the certificate and show it to your Social Security office.
The Death Certificate
The death certificate is a certified copy of the one in the death register and the registrar can let you have one if you wish, but you will have to pay a fee.
You may need a Death Certificate for the will and for any pension claims, savings bank


- An Exhibition by Katheryn Leopoldseder
Drawing Out the Gold
You are invited to an immersive exhibition by Katheryn Leopoldseder
Within a hallowed sepulchre, accompanied by sound and earthy smell, lies an exquisite Crown of Golden Alfalfa.
Drawing Out the Gold looks beyond the harsh means by which the artist's materials are mined and pays homage to scientific innovations that instead offer us an alternative; a collaboration with the ingenuity of the natural world.
Witnessing the decimation of his childhood land through industrial gold mining, nano-scientist Jorge Gardea-Torresdey discovered that Alfalfa can mine alluvial gold through phytoremediation; drawing precious metal from the soil into its roots, stems and leaves.
The Crown adorns the head, symbolising a shift in thinking. Its flat underside encircles the head like a halo. A historic reference to haloes depicted in religious art. Symbolising illuminated wisdom and bestowed authority.
To wear the Crown, materialises the potential of a collaboration between nature and humanity; into a signifier of royal identity; as people capable of positive stewardship of the earth.
Opening: Saturday 7th September, 1-3pm
The Crypt. Good Shepherd Chapel
St Heliers St, Abbotsford
7th-15 September 2019, 10am-3pm
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Implication of blink reflex defect and Parkinson's
Blink reflex has been found to be abnormal in 70% of Parkinson's patients. This associated pathology very strongly supports the jaw misalignment hypothesis of Parkinsonism since trigeminal stimulation impacts blink response.
Blink reflex (see corneal reflex/ Wikipedia)is the closing of the eyelid when the eye is endangered. Blink reflex defects usually involves excess frequency of blinking or decreased frequency of blinking. Greater activation of dopaminergic pathways dopamine production in the striatum is associated with a higher rate of spontaneous eye blinking. Conditions in which there is reduced dopamine availability such as Parkinson's disease have reduced eye blink rate, while conditions in which it is raised such as schizophrenia have an increased rate. Generally, between each blink is an interval of 2–10 seconds; actual rates vary by individual averaging around 10 blinks per minute. Eye blinking can be a criterion for diagnosing medical conditions. For example, excessive blinking may help to indicate the onset of Tourette syndrome, strokes or disorders of the nervous system. A reduced rate of blinking is associated with Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's patients have a distinct serpentine stare that is very recognizable (Wikipedia: blink).
Blink reflex involves trigeminal sensory input, and seventh cranial nerve output. Bite dysfunction can cause altered trigeminal sensory input and thus cause abnormal blink reflex (supported by published literature and case histories in my practice). This close connection with the trigeminal has been overlooked in all the articles I have found on Parkinson's and blink reflex; most articles assume that the blink reflex defect is caused by dysfunction within the brain stem.
Blink reflex defect is also associated with ALS and scleraderma. I am currently writing an article hypothesizing that bite therapy will likely be effective at reversing ALS.
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Tips To Prevent Biceps Tears During Deadlifts
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The deadlift involves the largest muscles in your body – back, hamstrings and glutes. Consequently, you are lifting a lot of weight, which puts stress on the elbows since your arms connect you to the barbell. The combination of heavy weight and an improper technique could result in a bicep tear.
The main reasons for that are:
1.Bending your arms during deadlifts
Your arms are meant to act as hooks when you deadlift. You are not lifting the weight with them. The deadlift is not dependent on arm strength. There are good deadlifters with small arms and yet triple bodyweight deadlifts. Make sure that your arms are straight when you deadlift to avoid biceps tears.
2.The mixed grip
Many people use the mixed grip to hold on to heavy deadlifts. The mechanism is fairly simple. One arm is an underhand grip (palms away from the body), whereas the other is an overhand grip (palms towards the body). Therefore, when the hands start to open, they negate each other's weakness.
Many powerlifters rely on this grip. Yet it is not that safe. Quite often the bicep of the arm pointing away from you (supinated grip) is torn because of the increased tendon/muscle stretch and the uneven position.
Moreover, the mixed grip results in an unbalanced back development and uneven stress on the lower back. It works, obviously, but the downsides are undeniable.
How to prevent biceps tears?
To avoid tears use straps or a hook grip for your work sets. To add some forearm work, do your warm-up sets with regular overhand grip. As you grow stronger, your warm-up weights will increase, and so will the strength of your grip.
The usage of straps or hook grip reduces the possibility of biceps tears because the stretch of the biceps is minimized.
There are many powerlifters such as Bob Peoples and Brad Gillingham who have used the hook grip to fix some of the technical problems associated with the mixed grip as well as to prevent biceps tears.
The hook grip is allowed in powerlifting competitions. The usage of straps, however, is prohibited.
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Learn to identify and grow native trees
Grow trees from seed using a set of simple instructions.
Identify trees, collect seeds, sow and plant. Follow our tree-growing 'recipes' to success.
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Why should we grow trees?
There are many reasons for growing trees. Some of them are more obvious than others, but they are all good!
Trees protect us
Trees provide shade and shelter, create cooler micro-climates, absorb rainfall and help stop soil erosion.
Trees provide for us
They provide food, fuel and timber for us. They improve air quality and reduce noise pollution, making places more pleasant to live in. They provide calm and relaxation away from daily stresses.
Climate and biodiversity
Trees offer potential solutions to the issues we face today. The mass planting of trees will help lock up carbon and reduce the effects of climate change. Trees (and the habitats they create) support a huge and diverse range of animals and plant species – our biodiversity. Without trees, they could be lost forever.
Wangarĩ Muta Maathai - renowned Kenyan social, environmental and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize.


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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
where does the word "vellish" come from?
I was totally stumped today when someone asked me why sefardi sksav is called vellish and where the word comes from, particularly since it sounds like an ashkenazic name.
 1. A few years ago, I sent this question to Dr. Marc Caplan, Tadetnick Professor of Yiddish studies at Johns Hopkins University.
 He did some research and wrote back that "Vellish" is from the German "wälsch," which means "Foreign."
 The original German word literally means "Welsh," and is the old German/anglo saxon word for the celts, to whom they collectively labled: Welsh.
 How Vellish is that?!
 2. I also did some research on this a while ago and came up with a similar answer: "Vellish" is from the old German word welsch meaning "Romanic" — which was originally a reference to the French and Italians.
 In Yiddish the word came to refer to Jews from Spain and Portugal, and in STAM the word came to refer to all Sfardi-style writing.
 3. Good question and even better answer. Tks!
 4. A response from someone I know who has a good yedia in these sort of things...
 "My guess - and I bet I am right - is that it originally meant "Italian," since "welsch" and "welschland" were archaic German names for Italian and Italy. So it was probably the form of the ksav which originated, or was felt to originate, in Italy. Don't be thrown off by the fact that it refers to the Sefardi ksav. First of all, until recently Sefardim were called "Frenks" in Yiddish, which is obviously derived from "French." For that matter, the Sefardim in Greece and Turkey used to call Italian Jewish merchants who lived among them "Francos."
 By that token, by "Welsch" was also meant many things. See here:
 where you can see that it is a term that meant many things in different parts of Europe. It is the origin of Wales, and from it is derived the Celts and also the Gauls (which refer to the French). Similarly, it also used to refer to "Southern Europe" in general, and not only Italy.
 To sum up: I think it meant Italian, but don't assume that it actually came from Italy. Most people who used it were only calling it what they already knew it was called."
 As you can see a similar response to what is mentioned here already.
 5. i saw last week in a sefer (i forgot which, it was written at least 100 years ago), that vellish is the name of the city that first started using those letters for their printing press


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Severe thunderstorms are hammering central and northeast Arkansas at the moment, moving toward the East. Below is a recent image from the Little Rock area radar:
Widespread wind damage, large hail and isolated (but potentially strong) tornadoes can be expected. Tornado Warnings are currently in effect for areas within the purple polygons below:
A tornado was recently reported on the ground near Mayflower, which is Northwest of Little Rock. Look at the extremely impressive circulation on both reflectivity and velocity radar images (below) when zoomed-in on the parent thunderstorm:
If you need help spotting the circulation, look directly between Mayflower and Vilonia, near the center of the images:
All of this activity is moving Eastward, and will overspread the remainder of eastern Arkansas and adjacent portions of Tennessee, Mississippi and southwestern Kentucky throughout the remainder of the evening hours.


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University of Hawaii
This proposal concerns the research and development of a mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe) Avalanche Photodiode (APD) array for use as a low-noise science detector in optical and near-infrared (O/NIR) instruments and observatories, and is specifically an application for a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship to accelerate this project and enable greater graduate student involvement. Prototypical 32 x 32 APD arrays currently in production at Raytheon Vision Systems (RVS) will be commissioned and characterized at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) in Hilo, Hawai'i. Commissioning will require developing and adapting an interface for detector operation, and characterizing will be accomplished in existing cryogenic platforms. The arrays will also be given trial runs using the astronomical facilities on Manua Kea, including the University of Hawai'i 2.2m telescope and the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope. Following validation of the prototype arrays, the RVS -IfA collaboration will upscale production to large-format megapixel APD arrays, design and implement long-term control and operation schemes, and begin incorporation of the arrays into upcoming instrument designs. The avalanche signal amplification of these HgCdTe APD arrays produces effectively noiseless signals useful for astronomical observations, and will likely see deployment in both groundand space-based telescopes. Near-infrared photon counting is unprecedented and will permit observations that previously required excessive observation times, particularly with regards to dim photon-starved targets. The wavelength versatility of HgCdTe from the visible to 5-micron-plus makes these devices suitable for a broad range of applications, and their deployment is expected to be revolutionary for observational astronomy.


Artificial intelligence for the diagnosis of rare diseases related to collagen VI
Visualisation of the diagnosis of a fibroblast culture image. Each patch of the image is individually assessed, which helps to quickly identify areas with defects in collagen VI. The system also provides a general diagnosis to track patients.
Fibroblast cultures seen through a confocal microscope, in which collagen network (green) and fibroblast nuclei (blue) are visible. Left: a control sample. Centre: the sample of a patient with Bethlem myopathy. Right: the sample of a patient with Ullrich muscular dystrophy.
Researchers at the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics—a joint centre of the CSIC and the UPC—and the Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children's Hospital have developed a system for helping diagnose rare diseases related to deficiencies in the structure of collagen VI.
Jan 21, 2020
The researchers Adrian Bazaga and Josep Maria Porta from the IRI—a joint centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)—have developed a system based on artificial intelligence for the diagnosis of rare diseases related to deficiencies in the structure of collagen VI. Specialists from the Sant Joan de Déu (SJD) Barcelona Children's Hospital have worked with researchers from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) in Madrid, the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and STORM Therapeutics, a British technology-based company.
The system makes a diagnosis from images obtained with a confocal microscope and it is based on artificial learning techniques. These techniques learn from cases previously diagnosed by specialists from the SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital to generate a fully automatic diagnostic system. The developed system achieves a reliability in the diagnosis superior to 95%. It could become a valuable tool to objectively assess any new therapy to treat these diseases.
A common cause of neuromuscular diseases
Deficiencies in the structure of collagen VI are a common cause of neuromuscular diseases with serious manifestations ranging from Bethlem myopathy to severe Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy. The symptoms of such diseases include proximal and axial muscle weakness, distal hyperlaxity, joint contractures and critical respiratory failure that requires assisted ventilation, which dramatically reduces life expectancy.
Structural defects of collagen VI are related to mutations of the COL6A1, COL6A2 and COL6A3 genes. However, despite current genetic sequencing technologies, diagnosis remains difficult. This generally happens in diseases caused by dominant mutations, in which there is no complete absence of a major protein, and when the effect of a genetic variant on the protein structure may not be evident. Therefore, before any genetic analysis, the standard technique for the diagnosis of dystrophies related to collagen VI is the analysis of fibroblast culture images.
Specialists take into account several aspects of the images, such as the coherence in the orientation of the collagen fibres, the distribution of the collagen network and the arrangement of the cells in the said network to identify potential patients. However, this evaluation is only qualitative, and regulatory agencies will not approve any treatment (such as genetic editing using CRISPR technology) without an objective methodology to assess its effectiveness. Therefore, there is an urgent need for precise methodologies to quantitatively monitor the effects of any possible new therapy.
The proposed system responds to this need. Such a system is advantageous since it solves the problem of the lack of data for typical learning in rare diseases, points out the possibly problematic areas in the consultation images and provides a general quantitative assessment of the condition of patients.
The research is explained in the article "A convolutional neural network for the automatic diagnosis of collagen VI-related muscular dystrophies", recently published in the scientific journal Applied Soft Computing (Vol. 85, December 2019). This research was carried out on a JAE introduction to research grant, funded by the CSIC and awarded to the IRI researcher Adrián Bazaga, the first author of the reference article, linked to the University of Cambridge and STORM Therapeutics.


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How to Dispute Debt on a Credit Report
A credit report is a great tool to monitor credit and figure out where an interest rate should be. Sometimes, a credit report can have debt listed that is inaccurate, which obviously will hinder a person's credit. There are steps that can be taken to dispute debt on a credit report which will prevent errors from hurting a person's credit status.
1. Disputing debt on a credit report can be done online with the credit reporting agency. Experian is a credit reporting agency that makes disputing debt seem very easy, according to this site. Usually, a company will have a step by step process online to dispute debt, and although the results are not immediate, the process is set in motion to clear up the credit report. Oftentimes, a credit reporting agency will contact the company in question and handle that for their customers due to the fact that they want their information as accurate as possible. Disputing debt on a credit report is done the fastest and most efficient through the reporting agency online.
2. A person that is disputing debt on a credit report needs to also dispute their claim with the company accusing them of not paying their debt. Sending a letter and any corresponding receipts to the company and their accompanying collection agency will at least inform them that there is a dispute in progress. Through that channel of dispute, it may be that there is an error found and the issue is resolved. However, in most cases, the claim will need to be examined at full scope. Keeping all receipts from any dealings with creditors and lenders is pertinent in case of a dispute issue that may arise on the credit report.
3. The last action would be disputing the debt in court. Most likely, the person with the debt would need to hire an attorney and have as many receipts as possible to prove that the debt in invalid. Disputing the debt in court should be a last motive, but probably wouldn't be necessary if all the necessary proof was given to the credit reporting agency in the first place.
Having a negative mark on one's record for something that they did not do can be frustrating, and then having to take the time to have that blemish removed can add to the frustration. However, companies are run by humans and when humans run things, mistakes are made and disputing the mistake of debt on a credit report is the only method to clear that debt.


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An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
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Forming a triangle of British empiricism with Locke and Hume, George Berkeley's direct influence on modern thought cannot be overstated. From the American Founding Fathers, who looked to him as the pioneer of their idealism, to the reality-questioning motives of quantum physics, Berkeley's odd yet profound view of the nature of human awareness, a sense he trusted implicitly, has in turn shaped our perception of the universe at large. His 1709 "Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision" reads like the ramblings of a madman-and he was, in fact, dismissed as such in his time-but his discussion of perception, distance, parallelism, magnitude, and other elements of vision, presented as 160 suppositions, is now recognized as a foundational work on the theory of optics. This strange work will intrigue readers of philosophy and scientific theory. Irish scientist, philosopher, and writer GEORGE BERKELEY (_PHONE_) also wrote A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713).
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Energy exponents and corrections to scaling in Ising spin glasses
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud 1, Florent Krzakala 2, 3, Olivier C. Martin 1, 2
Physical Review B 68 (2003) 224404
We study the probability distribution P(E) of the ground state energy E in various Ising spin glasses. In most models, P(E) seems to become Gaussian with a variance growing as the system's volume V. Exceptions include the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model (where the variance grows more slowly, perhaps as the square root of the volume), and mean field diluted spin glasses having +/-J couplings. We also find that the corrections to the extensive part of the disorder averaged energy grow as a power of the system size; for finite dimensional lattices, this exponent is equal, within numerical precision, to the domain-wall exponent theta_DW. We also show how a systematic expansion of theta_DW in powers of exp(-d) can be obtained for Migdal-Kadanoff lattices. Some physical arguments are given to rationalize our findings.
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The river Sal, and the quality of its water, is of paramount importance to the economic and social well-being of the whole taluka (municipality) of Salcette in the Goa Province in India. The Benaulim area in particular notices a lot of pollution in the river because it is the first village after the river passes past Margao, the biggest city in South Goa. The quality of the water of this river is lowered due to severe pollution, mainly by non-industrial and non-toxic organic material, causing a massive eutrophication of this water mass. This inflow of organic pollutants is caused by leakage from agriculture, the dumping of agricultural waste, the dumping of organic waste from houses and hotels and the uncontrolled inflow of untreated waste water. As a consequence of this, the extensive growth of Salvinia (Salvinia molestes) aquatic weed plants, at some parts of the season for large parts of the river completely covers the free water surface of the river. This is making fishing, navigation, the extraction of good quality water and other uses of the river almost impossible. The blocking of sunlight to the lower water levels also indirectly causes several other biological and water quality problems. This problem is in general terms very similar to the problems with water hyacinths in other tropical parts of the world. In the short run, the removal of the aquatic weed will diminish the problem temporarily, by both getting a free water surface and also contributing to the removal of organic material from the water. In a longer perspective, of course the natural way of action is to stop the inflow of organic nutrients to the river, by making relevant stake-holder change their mode of production, the technologies used and waste disposal procedures conducted that causes the main problem – the pollution of the river. When doing this, the whole catchment area of the river must be considered, which may extend the scope of the problem to a much larger geographical area that the taluka of Salcette.
Today we need new technical-practical solutions to problems of environmental degradation, where the practical measures not only reduce the problems, but also support economic and social development. This is the key issue in sustainable development. We also need to integrate new technology and traditional, nature-based methods in agriculture, fisheries and biological production in general in order to make sustainable production and consumption a reality.
Fortunately, there exist today a large and growing amount of information on innovative project results, good practices in sanitation and waste management, or good examples of both technical and biological methods of production, not only in the industrialised countries, but also in the South and in the fast-growing economies of Asia. This information is widely accessible via the web: Many organizations, both those with an environmental and a developmental perspective provide information on interesting case studies, project results and practical solutions. Some examples of these innovative new ways of integrating ecological, economic and social development on the practical level is provided in Annex A. However, in general this information is scattered, non-structured and in general hard to get an overview of. But with some support, also local and regional stake-holders may easily get access to this practical information and inspiring case studies.
But information in itself, however relevant and accessible it is, is not enough for social and economic change. A local process with the main stakeholders and a local core organization as primus motor is necessary, enabling a learning process, local negotiations with stakeholders and an adaptation of innovative front-end solutions to the context of Benaulim and Goa. To combine the bottom-up approach, with central support, education and capacity-building should be a feasible way forward.
The basic aim of the project is to organize a step-wise process of identifying the problems, possible practical solutions to them, a screening process with an informal evaluation of their respective merits and feasibility, and finally a plan for the implementation of a few selected "new solutions".
A tentative structure for the steps of this project is:
- Establishing a good description of the problem, i e which activity/stake-holder is causing what pollution problem, including a rough estimate of the magnitude of this particular disturbance.
- Establishing a perspective on environmental problems/solutions related to social and economic development (employment opportunities, income generation and indirect economic effects, e g better conditions for tourism. Further, on a more detailed level establishing a general consensus of what positive economic and social effects the reduction of the pollution problem would cause, e g all year round boat traffic on the Sal river could generate revenues from tourism, extended fishing periods would generate incomes locally from village-level fishing, better water quality would reduce work absence due to water-borne diseases etc.
- Establish a general consensus of what types of practical measures/technical and biological solutions are possible and desirable. The aim of this exercise is to drive home the facts that:
a) There exist a large number of "environmental solutions" that actually provide economic and social benefits, either by getting economic revenue out of products based on waste – or by make new income-generating activities possible when the acute environmental problems are reduced or eliminated.
b) Waste and pollution are in many cases a misplaced resource, if considered in a new and different systemic context. This is particularly relevant in regard to eutrophicated rivers, where the pollutants are basically organic matter or leakage of fertilizer nutrients, which have a value placed elsewhere in eco-cycles.
c) There exist a large number of solutions based on a more advanced sustainability thinking, stressing the importance of utilising waste or designing production processes in biological production to eliminate waste totally, by using all outputs from processes as either final products or as input to other production processes. This way of thinking is basically very much in accordance with many traditional food production methods in tropical Asia. However, is some cases these schemes may need to be re-emphasised or re-discovered.
Many practical examples will illustrate the possibility and practicality of the principles mentioned above – driving the point home that environmental problems can be transformed to opportunities.
- A number of practical, innovative examples/case studies will be provide to the local group, drawing strongly on collections of "good practice" and project results from innovative project-oriented programmes. In particular, the experiences and project results of the ZERI (Zero Emissions Research Initiative) project, founded by the UN University will be drawn upon. Also other sources of information will be used, in particular results from programmes of donor organizations aimed at environmental and/or developmental issues and from existing collections of case studies of "best practice" or "success stories" available on the web. These examples may include e g:
- Waste water fed gardens
- The utilization of aquatic weeds for composting, green manure, biogas production or fiber (paper) production
- The utilization of aquatic biomass for feeding animals, either directly or via production of earth worms or insect larvae.
- Innovate processing of organic waste from villages, hotels and public institutions.
- New practices for sanitation, drawing on the experiences of the EcoSanRes project on ecological sanitation, co-sponsored by the Swedish SIDA.
- The creative use of waste and by-products of local food processing facilities.
5. These "possible solutions" will be informally evaluated by the Local Group, with strong support from the Support Group in a number of capacity-building discussions and study meetings, using criteria such as
- Is this method technically feasible in Goa?
- Is the necessary resource input (investment costs, operational and maintenance costs, competence) of a reasonable magnitude and locally or regionally available?
- Is this "solution" consistent with the principles established in step 3 above?
- Are there social or cultural obstacles to the implementation?
- What are the social and economic benefits? Short-term? Long-term?
- To what degree does this solution actually reduce or eliminate the underlying environmental problem?
- What will the possible negative and positive reactions of the relevant stake-holders be?
- What are the possibilities for replication of this method/technology/tool in other parts of the region? In India? Other nations?
In order to make this into a true capacity-building experience, the proven method of PBL (Problem-Based Learning) will be applied to the work of the groups. This pedagogical method is especially well adapted to health and environmental educations for adults, and has its strength in mobilising the collective competence of the whole group.
6. The evaluation step 5 above will reduce the number (3-5) feasible concrete project proposals. Based on these tentatively evaluated "new solutions", the Local Group will produce
a) A description of the core project idea for each "new solution", together with a consistent argumentation for its potential and benefits.
b) An informal negotiation plan for the involvement and support of the most relevant stake-holders for each "new solution".
c) An informal business plan for those solutions that will generate employment and income, including an outline for the forming of micro-forms and/or co-operatives to operate the proposed systems and canalise the possible income streams.
d) An Action Plan for the implementation of these practical projects that are expected to have a stronger social than economic impact.
7. The implementation phase of each "new solution" will mark the end of this capacity-building project, and the start of 3-5 smaller, practical implementation activities.
These activities may need a new project structure, new donor engagement and a new set of financing measures and also of new skills of the participants.
Each step of the project will result in some kind of "deliverables"
Step 1: A basic description of the environmental status of the river Sal
Step 2: A positive description of all the positive economic and social benefits the aimed for environmental improvement will results in.
Step 3: A documentation of the characteristics for the possible sustainable solutions will all have in common
Step 4: A documentation of a large number of innovative case studies or examples that could be applied in Goa
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on the ragas by the end of the year.
 28. Give tune to poems and also rhyming lines which can be put to tune.
 29. Tune the poems in textbooks and also present musical drama based on the stories in textbooks.
 30. Create sound by using the waste like plastic bottles, dry leaves, hollow bamboo twigs, etc. Also can be motivated to use waste materials.
 31. Plays the game, spinning a yarn musically(sing musical lines to carry the story forward) e.g. if the theme is deforestation lines can be made by the players and then presented in a formal way.
 32. See videos of theatre, dance, visual arts to understand the inter-relation. E.g. a phad painting from the state of Rajasthan is connected to the Bhopas who sing the story. Such videos can be shown. The learners are asked to write create/stories and painting along with Musical pieces as the traditional phad painters and bhopas.
 33. Take care of musical instruments like Harmonium, Tanpura, Tabla or Dholak which require proper care and storage space. Almirahs, Wooden boxes or stands for Tanpura and other instruments should be made. These have to be maintained by the children. The boxes should be kept neatly, dust should be wiped with cloth everyday and after practice every day the Musical Instruments have to be kept back in their respective place. Also solve Question papers for Class 10 Performing Art (Music)
 34. Learn ragas Bihag and Bhairavithrougharoha, avroha and pakad. A small composition in the raga has to be learnt. Let the children sit in a groups of five and write a sargamgeet in Ektaal. Each group will sing their line of sargamgeet after some rehearsal.
 35. Reflect on the lines created by the learners one by one.Four lines can be selected from all the creation and then the whole class may practice it.
 36. Apply any art form in classroom, school premises, own house, social gatherings, public functions, etc. The ideas generated by different children should be discussed practically and performed. Platforms like school assembly, household celebration of festivals or any important day should be recorded through. Pictures or videos to be showcased.
 37. Give opportunity to the differently abled for participation in musical activities and also present their musical talent in the class, public places, assembly individually.
 38. Visit to the museums/ galleries.
 39. Interact with the artists and artisans and watch their live performances/ in fairs and festivals or any other programme.
 40. Interact with the artists to know about evolution of Music, ragas etc.
The Class 10 Dance students should be able to perform the following:
 1. Engages in warm up activities before introducing elements of dance. (create connection between body, mind and spirit).
 2. Discuss and revise the classical dance form learnt in class IX; practise the basic footwork, other body movements, expressions, sahitya, costumes, rhythmic patterns, music etc.
 3. Practise the basic footwork used in the classical dance-form learnt in class IX.
 4. Engages in activities of recitation of dopadhant of prescribed Talas with Tali and Khali (Teen Tala, Jhaptala, Aditala, Roopak).
 5. Practice the basic mudras, movements of the dance style under consideration and also learn some new movements. The best way is to do Sample Papers for Class 10 Dance
 6. Develop a traditional repertoire of (duration 25-30 min) in the classical dance form being learnt Kathak – one more Vandana, Stuti or Sloka, Teen TalaNritta sequence involving Tora/Tukra, Tihai, Paramelu, Kavit, Gat Nikas, GatBhava, Paran & Lari other than what was learnt in class IX.
 7. Jhaptala – Tatkar, Thaat, Utthan, Amad, Tora/Tukra, Tihai, Paran and Lari.
 8. Abhinaya – one more composition (Bhajan/Thumri).
 9. Revision of the repertoire studied in class IX including Tarana.
 10. Bharatanatyam – Revision of Alarippu, Jatiswaram, Shabdam and Tillana learnt in class IX; Keertanam and Padam can now be learnt.
 11. Manipuri – Rasa dance, Lari Haroba, Khamba Thoibi.
 12. Kuchipudi – Tarangam, Dharuvus, Shabdam.
 13. Manipuri – Rasa dance, Lari Haroba, Khamba Thoibi.
 14. Kuchipudi – Tarangam, Dharuvus, Shabdam.
 15. Mohiniattam – Cholkettu, Jatiswaram, Tillana, Slokam learnt in class IX to be revised; Padam and Saptam can now be learnt.
 16. Odissi – Revision of Mangalacharan, Batu, Nritya, Pallavi learnt in class IX; Moksha Abhinaya; Moksha Abhinaya can now be learnt. Also solve Question papers for Class 10 Dance
 17. Sattriya – Nritta, Nritya (Story - telling), Natya (team or solo).
 18. Kathakali – playfully dramatize a different story from the one danced in class IX.
 19. Learn a tribal/traditional/folk dance other than the one learnt in class IX.
 20. Watch live performances of classical, folk, traditional and contemporary styles of dance.
 21. Discuss the contribution of artistes and artisans of different art forms.
 22. Develop a composition creating interesting rhythmic patterns that can be executed by the feet and adorned with movements of the arms and hands accompanied also with suitable facial expressions. Props and costumes may be crafted to enhance the dance created.
 23. Record own performance/friends' dance performance and analyse or evaluate the performance. This will promote peer learning, self-learning.
 24. Practise any art form in classroom, school premises, home, or other places. Record, howcase and share with peers in the form of audio-video, picture, e-content materials.
 25. Visit library to read stories related to cultural history, evolution of Indian dance, and mythology.
 26. Visit museums to study objects and co-relate them to art and culture.
 27. Interact with the artists and artisans and document their work. A power point presentation or e-content material can be created from the documentation created.
 28. Discuss the life sketches of the Dancers and understand their learning processes as well as the challenges they faced.
The Class 10 Theatre students should be able to perform the following:
 1. Study the rituals and their relevance: (as it is widely believed that theatre has its roots in ritual practices—primitive or historical). e.g. during Holi the Holikadahan is a ritual followed for hundreds of years. A short study of the historical background will help in understanding the origin and significance of these rituals.
 2. Perform a drama/play out of the event with a proper storyline and dialogues of different characters.
 3. Communicate through dialogues between characters as this is an important aspect of learning language and thinking out of the box. The best way is to do Sample Papers for Class 10 Theatre
 4. Discuss other similar type of situations in life and our surroundings to understand and critically analyse them.
 5. Discuss the purpose of the ritual which can then be understood by the learners.
 6. Observe nature in varied manifestations/ forms. Imitate the behaviour, movement, or sound of anything observable—trees, animals, birds, human beings etc.
 7. Connect nature and environment to rituals, festivals in our country.
 8. Imitate characteristics of a particular kind of environment and discover the aesthetics of life due to environment.
 9. Imagine various situations in connection to nature through the role of fantasy in our daily life.
 10. Understand the use of space in a classroom, assembly or any other place in the school.
 11. Utilize common things found in a school like tables, chairs, schoolbag, copies etc to be used as props for creating in a play or expression of a thought.
 12. Organize a space to create a scene
 13. Perform:
recitation of poems from the textbook
- storytelling from chapters in the textbook or any other
- characters from the books of history, language textbooks etc.
 1. Create scripts to develop a scene of drama/theatre.
 2. Enact the scenes spontaneously with few interventions by the teacher in the beginning but gradually guiding the learner to improve expressions through elements of drama like facial expressions, dialogue delivery, movement, tonal quality, accent, carrying of costumes or props i.e. the body language etc. Also solve Question papers for Class 10 Theatre
 3. Use music, movement, visual arts, puppetry, mime, mask, multimedia to create a play. This should be implemented with the help of teachers in others art


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John Wesley distinguished between essential doctrines on which agreement or consensus is critical and opinions about theology or church practices on which disagreement must be allowed. Though today few people join churches based on doctrinal commitments, once a person has joined a church it becomes important to know the historic teachings of that church's tradition.
In Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials, Ted Campbell outlines historical doctrinal consensus in American Episcopal Methodist Churches in a comparative and ecumenical dialogue with the doctrinal inheritance of other major families of Christian tradition. In this way, the book shows both what Methodist churches historically teach in common with ecumenical Christianity and what is distinctive about the Methodist tradition in its various contemporary forms. Documents examined include The Twenty-Five Articles of Religion, The General Rules, Wesley's Standard Sermons and Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, The Methodist Social Creed, and the Apostles' Creed.


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Marble fireplaces will not typically stain when they are used with any gas fire. Marble is a popous material, however it has been used in fireplaces for many centuries.
What would make a marble fireplace stain?
1. If a gas fire causes the marble to change colour then there is usually excessive heat behind the back panel that is burning the marble. This is typically caused by an over sized builders opening. The cut out in a marble back panel is usually 16.25 inches (wide) x 22.25 inches (high). If the builders opening (opening in chimney) is much larger and has not been correctly installed then the heat behind the back panel can cause an air pocket and cause the marble to stain or change colour.
2. Marble will stain if any bleach products are applied to the surface of the stone. The polish of a marble fireplace is affected by bleach which causes irreversable staining.
3. Some harsh household multi cleaners can cause the surface of the marble to change colour as they contain strong detergents and colours. Similar discolouration would also occur on natural wood furniture.


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|PostgreSQL 8.0.26 Documentation|
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Control structures are probably the most useful (and important) part of PL/pgSQL. With PL/pgSQL's control structures, you can manipulate PostgreSQL data in a very flexible and powerful way.
There are two commands available that allow you to return data from a function: RETURN and RETURN NEXT.
RETURN with an expression terminates the function and returns the value of expression to the caller. This form is to be used for PL/pgSQL functions that do not return a set.
When returning a scalar type, any expression can be used. The expression's result will be automatically cast into the function's return type as described for assignments. To return a composite (row) value, you must write a record or row variable as the expression.
The return value of a function cannot be left undefined. If control reaches the end of the top-level block of the function without hitting a RETURN statement, a run-time error will occur.
If you have declared the function to return void, a RETURN statement must still be provided; but in this case the expression following RETURN is optional and will be ignored if present.
RETURN NEXT expression;
When a PL/pgSQL function is declared to return SETOF sometype, the procedure to follow is slightly different. In that case, the individual items to return are specified in RETURN NEXT commands, and then a final RETURN command with no argument is used to indicate that the function has finished executing. RETURN NEXT can be used with both scalar and composite data types; in the latter case, an entire "table" of results will be returned.
Functions that use RETURN NEXT should be called in the following fashion:
SELECT * FROM some_func();
That is, the function must be used as a table source in a FROM clause.
RETURN NEXT does not actually return from the function; it simply saves away the value of the expression. Execution then continues with the next statement in the PL/pgSQL function. As successive RETURN NEXT commands are executed, the result set is built up. A final RETURN, which should have no argument, causes control to exit the function.
Note: The current implementation of RETURN NEXT for PL/pgSQL stores the entire result set before returning from the function, as discussed above. That means that if a PL/pgSQL function produces a very large result set, performance may be poor: data will be written to disk to avoid memory exhaustion, but the function itself will not return until the entire result set has been generated. A future version of PL/pgSQL may allow users to define set-returning functions that do not have this limitation. Currently, the point at which data begins being written to disk is controlled by the work_mem configuration variable. Administrators who have sufficient memory to store larger result sets in memory should consider increasing this parameter.
IF statements let you execute commands based on certain conditions. PL/pgSQL has five forms of IF:
IF... THEN
IF... THEN... ELSE
IF... THEN... ELSE IF
IF... THEN... ELSIF... THEN... ELSE
IF... THEN... ELSEIF... THEN... ELSE
IF boolean-expression THEN statements END IF;
IF-THEN statements are the simplest form of IF. The statements between THEN and END IF will be executed if the condition is true. Otherwise, they are skipped.
IF v_user_id <> 0 THEN UPDATE users SET email = v_email WHERE user_id = v_user_id; END IF;
IF boolean-expression THEN statements ELSE statements END IF;
IF-THEN-ELSE statements add to IF-THEN by letting you specify an alternative set of statements that should be executed if the condition evaluates to false.
IF parentid IS NULL OR parentid = '' THEN RETURN fullname; ELSE RETURN hp_true_filename(parentid) || '/' || fullname; END IF;
IF v_count > 0 THEN INSERT INTO users_count (count) VALUES (v_count); RETURN 't'; ELSE RETURN 'f'; END IF;
IF statements can be nested, as in the following example:
IF demo_row.sex ='m' THEN pretty_sex :='man'; ELSE IF demo_row.sex = 'f' THEN pretty_sex := 'woman'; END IF; END IF;
When you use this form, you are actually nesting an IF statement inside the ELSE part of an outer IF statement. Thus you need one END IF statement for each nested IF and one for the parent IF-ELSE. This is workable but grows tedious when there are many alternatives to be checked. Hence the next form.
IF boolean-expression THEN statements [ ELSIF boolean-expression THEN statements [ ELSIF boolean-expression THEN statements...]] [ ELSE statements ] END IF;
IF-THEN-ELSIF-ELSE provides a more convenient method of checking many alternatives in one statement. Formally it is equivalent to nested IF-THEN-ELSE-IF-THEN commands, but only one END IF is needed.
Here is an example:
IF number = 0 THEN result := 'zero'; ELSIF number > 0 THEN result := 'positive'; ELSIF number < 0 THEN result := 'negative'; ELSE -- hmm, the only other possibility is that number is null result := 'NULL'; END IF;
ELSEIF is an alias for ELSIF.
With the LOOP, EXIT, WHILE, and FOR statements, you can arrange for your PL/pgSQL function to repeat a series of commands.
[<>] LOOP statements END LOOP;
LOOP defines an unconditional loop that is repeated indefinitely until terminated by an EXIT or RETURN statement. The optional label can be used by EXIT statements in nested loops to specify which level of nesting should be terminated.
EXIT [ label ] [ WHEN expression ];
If no label is given, the innermost loop is terminated and the statement following END LOOP is executed next. If label is given, it must be the label of the current or some outer level of nested loop or block. Then the named loop or block is terminated and control continues with the statement after the loop's/block's corresponding END.
If WHEN is present, loop exit occurs only if the specified condition is true, otherwise control passes to the statement after EXIT.
EXIT can be used to cause early exit from all types of loops; it is not limited to use with unconditional loops.
LOOP -- some computations IF count > 0 THEN EXIT; -- exit loop END IF; END LOOP; LOOP -- some computations EXIT WHEN count > 0; -- same result as previous example END LOOP; BEGIN -- some computations IF stocks > 100000 THEN EXIT; -- causes exit from the BEGIN block END IF; END;
[<>] WHILE expression LOOP statements END LOOP;
The WHILE statement repeats a sequence of statements so long as the condition expression evaluates to true. The condition is checked just before each entry to the loop body.
WHILE amount_owed > 0 AND gift_certificate_balance > 0 LOOP -- some computations here END LOOP; WHILE NOT boolean_expression LOOP -- some computations here END LOOP;
[<>] FOR name IN [ REVERSE ] expression.. expression LOOP statements END LOOP;
This form of FOR creates a loop that iterates over a range of integer values. The variable name is automatically defined as type integer and exists only inside the loop. The two expressions giving the lower and upper bound of the range are evaluated once when entering the loop. The iteration step is normally 1, but is -1 when REVERSE is specified.
Some examples of integer FOR loops:
FOR i IN 1..10 LOOP -- some computations here RAISE NOTICE 'i is %', i; END LOOP; FOR i IN REVERSE 10..1 LOOP -- some computations here END LOOP;
If the lower bound is greater than the upper bound (or less than, in the REVERSE case), the loop body is not executed at all. No error is raised.
Using a different type of FOR loop, you can iterate through the results of a query and manipulate that data accordingly. The syntax is:
[<>] FOR record_or_row IN query LOOP statements END LOOP;
The record or row variable is successively assigned each row resulting from the query (which must be a SELECT command) and the loop body is executed for each row. Here is an example:
CREATE FUNCTION cs_refresh_mviews() RETURNS integer AS $$ DECLARE mviews RECORD; BEGIN PERFORM cs_log('Refreshing materialized views...'); FOR mviews IN SELECT * FROM cs_materialized_views ORDER BY sort_key LOOP -- Now "mviews" has one record from cs_materialized_views PERFORM cs_log('Refreshing materialized view'|| quote_ident(mviews.mv_name) || '...'); EXECUTE 'TRUNCATE TABLE'|| quote_ident(mviews.mv_name); EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO'|| quote_ident(mviews.mv_name) ||'' || mviews.mv_query; END LOOP; PERFORM cs_log('Done refreshing materialized views.'); RETURN 1; END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
If the loop is terminated by an EXIT statement, the last assigned row value is still accessible after the loop.
The FOR-IN-EXECUTE statement is another way to iterate over rows:
[<>] FOR record_or_row IN EXECUTE text_expression LOOP statements END LOOP;
This is like the previous form, except that the source SELECT statement is specified as a string expression, which is evaluated and replanned on each entry to the FOR loop. This allows the programmer to choose the speed of a preplanned query or the flexibility of a dynamic query, just as with a plain EXECUTE statement.
Note: The PL/pgSQL parser presently distinguishes the two kinds of FOR loops (integer or query result) by checking whether.. appears outside any parentheses between IN and LOOP. If.. is not seen then the loop is presumed to be a loop over


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Med Anthropol. 2014;33(2):109-27
This article focuses on adoption medicine as a subject of scientific knowledge that increasingly defines the parameters of adoptability in the world of international adoption. While this biomedical discourse alludes to the health of adoptee bodies, it also constitutes ethico-moral practices that produce new justificatory regimes of adoption in particular and humanitarianism in general. Drawing on discourse analysis of scientific texts in adoption medicine on the one hand, and interviews and ethnographic data from a Dutch adoption agency on the other, I demonstrate the emergence of a new moral economy facilitating the legitimacy of international adoption. I argue that this moral economy retools the humanitarian justification of international adoption by privileging the politics of "life itself." This paradigmatic shift constructs new categories of adoptee bodies, rearranges orders of worth, and makes visible biopolitical techniques of morality in present-day humanitarian discourse.


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Preservation magazine, published by the National Historic Trust for Preservation, recently carried a short item on "Mitchelville—The Nation's First Freedman's Village." The description puzzled at least one St. Augustine resident who is, of course, familiar with Fort Mose in St. Augustine, "the first legally sanctioned free African settlement in what is now the United states."
In 1738 Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose (Moze, with a "z" if one uses the spelling of the 1700s) was formed at St. Augustine. In 1862, slaves freed by Union troops organized Mitchelville near Hilton Head, S.C.
Spanish Florida Governor Manuel de Montiano officially created the town at Mose about two miles north of Castillo de San Marcos, according to his letter written in November 1738. Ten years earlier, the location had served as an Indian mission village, which was abandoned, probably after an epidemic. The residents of the free black town at Mose were former slaves who had escaped mostly from British South Carolina. British settlers had established the colony of Georgia only five years before Mose's creation, but African slavery was prohibited in the Georgia colony until 1750.
While the Spanish in Florida offered freedom to slaves who ran away from South Carolina, the offer did not extend to enslaved blacks who had always lived in Florida or who had relocated from other Spanish colonies. Records that have been preserved by the Diocese of St. Augustine document marriages of Carolina runaways with slaves who already lived in St. Augustine.
The town at Mose lasted for only about a year and a half. In June 1740, Gov. Montiano ordered the Mose residents to come into St. Augustine for protection and to avoid capture when British troops attacked St. Augustine that year.
Historian Jane Landers wrote that "from 1740 until 1752, the Mose group lived within the city of St. Augustine." Then a new village in the Mose area was established. A little more that 10 years later, Mose residents evacuated their town along with the rest of St. Augustine residents when Great Britain took over Florida in 1763.
Mose had ceased to be a town of freed blacks (1763) a century before the creation of Mitchelville (1862). The village at Mose was the first free black town in territory that is part of today's United States, but not part of the U.S. at the time of its creation. Of course, there was no nation of "the United States of America" when the free black town at Mose was established. Mitchelville was the first free black town set up during the existence of the United States as a government.
It is a distinction that requires an explanation and some definition, and I may be putting words into the mouths of the Mitchelville Preservation Project group. And I wonder if some of the residents of Mitchelville were later-day relatives of residents of Mose.


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|Natural Resource Management|
Natural Resource Management refers to the management of natural resources such as land, water, soil, plants and animals, with a particular focus on how management affects the quality of life for both present and future generations.
Natural resource management is congruent withthe concept of sustainable development, a scientific principle that forms a basis for sustainable global land management and environmental governance to conserve and preserve natural resources.
Natural resource management specifically focuses on a scientific and technical understanding of resources and ecology and the life-supporting capacity of those resources.
Australia's environment, with its iconic areas such as the Great Barrier Reef, the Wet Tropics, the Snowy River and the Australian Alps, along with our coastal areas, forests, rivers, wetlands and unique wildlife is at the centre of our national identity and our economy.


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Solution to Question 2 from UoL exam 2019, zone B
Solution to Question 2 from UoL exam 2019, zone B
Suppose the parameters in a GARCH (1,1) model
\sigma _{t + 1}^2 = \omega + \beta \sigma _t^2 + \alpha \varepsilon _t^2 (1)
are \omega = 0.000004,\ \alpha = 0.06,\ \beta = 0.93, the index t refers to days and {\varepsilon _t} is zero-mean white noise with conditional variance \sigma _t^2.
(a) What are the requirements for this process to be covariance stationary, and are they satisfied here? [20 marks]
If the coefficients satisfy the condition for positivity, \omega>0,\ \alpha,\beta\ge0, then the condition for covariance-stationarity is \alpha + \beta < 1. They are barely satisfied.
(b) What is the long-run average volatility? [20 marks]
We use the facts that {\sigma ^2} = E\sigma _{t + 1}^2 = E\left[ {E(\varepsilon _{t + 1}^2|{F_t})} \right] for all t. Applying the unconditional mean to regression (1) and using the LIE we get
{\sigma ^2}=E\sigma _{t+1}^2=E\left[{\omega+\beta\sigma _t^2+\alpha\varepsilon _t^2}\right]=\omega+\beta{\sigma^2}+\alpha{\sigma^2}
{\sigma^2}=\frac{\omega }{{1-\alpha-\beta}}=\frac{{0.000004}}{{1-0.06-0.93}}=0.0004.
(c) If the current volatility is 2.5% per day, what is your estimate of the volatility in 20, 40, and 60 days? [20 marks]
On p.107 of the Guide there is the derivation of the equation
\sigma _{t + h,t}^2 = \sigma _y^2 + {(\alpha + \beta )^{h - 1}}(\sigma _{t + 1,t}^2 - \sigma _y^2),\,\,h \ge 1. (2)
I gave you a slightly easier derivation in my class, please use that one. If we interpret "current" as t+1 and "in twenty days" as t+1+20, then
\sigma _{t+21}^2=\sigma^2+(\alpha + \beta )^{20}(\sigma _{t+1}^2-\sigma^2) = 0.0004+\exp\left[ 20\ln(0.06+0.93)\right](0.025-0.0004) = 0.020521.
For h=41,61 use the same formula to get 0.016692, 0.013725, resp. I did it in Excel and don't envy you if you have to do it during an exam.
(d) Suppose that there is an event that decreases the current volatility by 1.5%to 1% per day. Estimate the effect on the volatility in 20, 40, and 60 days. [20 marks]
Calculations are the same, just replace 0.025 by 0.01. Alternatively, one can see that the previous values will go down by \exp[(h-1)\ln(0.06+0.93)]0.015, which results in volatility values 0.012146, 0.009934 and 0.008125.
(e) Explain what volatility should be used to price 20-, 40-and 60-day options, and explain how you would calculate the values. [20 marks]
The only unobservable input to the Black-Scholes option pricing formula is the stock price volatility. In the derivation of the formula the volatility is assumed to be constant. The value of the constant should depend on the forecast horizon. If we, say, forecast 20 days ahead, we should use a constant value for all 20 days. This constant can be obtained as an average of daily forecasts obtained from the GARCH model.
If the GARCH is not used, a simpler approach is applied. If the average daily volatility is {\sigma _d}, then assuming independent returns, over a period of n days volatility is {\sigma _{nd}} = \sqrt n {\sigma _d}.
In practice, traders go back from option prices to volatility. That is, they use observed option prices to solve the Black-Scholes formula for volatility (find the root of an equation with the price given). The resulting value is called implied volatility. If it is plugged back into the Black-Scholes formula, the observed option price will result.
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text: There are 13 basic heat removal methods to cool IT equipment and to transport unwanted heat to the outdoor environment. This paper describes these fundamental cooling technologies using basic terms and diagrams. 11 of these methods rely on the refrigeration cycle as the primary means of cooling. Pumped refrigerant systems provide isolation between the primary heat removal system and IT equipment. The direct air and indirect air methods rely on the outdoor conditions as the primary means cooling making them more efficient for mild climates. The information in this paper allows IT professionals to be more involved in the specification of precision cooling solutions that better align with IT objectives.