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Manc of the Month: Nancy Collantine.
A proud Mancunian like us, this November's Manc of The Month is Nancy Collantine, an artist who delivers work that's full of colour, full of texture, full of life. Her work takes the processes of layering, taking away and adding some more; a culmination of unpredictability transformed into eye catching art works. Her work is different to anything we have seen before, that is why Nancy is this month's featured artist.
Read on to find out more about Nancy, how she create her art and her views on Manchester's art scene and what needs changing.
Cotton On MCR: Please introduce yourself and your work to the viewers.
Nancy Collantine: 'Hello I'm Nancy Collantine, and I make site specific artworks that responds to a place. I paint, draw, collage in varying scale, to occupy different spaces. I've been commissioned to make a floor-to-ceiling painting for a staircase and painted huge figures to hang in the swimming pool at Victoria Bath. I am now making new work in my studio at Goyt Mill in Marple, and this month I start my first year on the Turps School of Painting correspondence course.'
CO: Your work varies with some pieces being very abstract and others displaying some form, which do you prefer and why?
NC: 'When I am painting, I don't start with an idea and paint that. I usually begin with a subject I have drawn, using the marks and forms that have become their own entity, because they are free, removed and independent from the original idea and they become their own thing. If I am working with these in oil paint, in space and against other forms, they become something else, they form relationships and sometimes figures, or parts of figures might emerge, and sometimes not.'
CO: Colour is very prominent and striking, how did you come to present colour in this way?
NC: 'Colour and light is everything, it makes painting exciting to look at and challenging to make. I'm not sure I ever learned formally how to use colour, but I have looked at lots of paintings, perhaps that's my education.'
CO: Your work can include layers and texture and lots of different mark makings, why and how do you do this?
NC: 'The layers are part of the process, I am erasing, editing and adding more as the painting leads me. I sometimes use collage or simply paper as something to work against and I like that it adds texture. I want to make a piece of work that I've not seen before, and to do that requires a strong visual vocabulary, so I draw a lot to see.'
CO: What is your favourite piece of work/one you are most proud of?
NC: 'The work I produced during my residency at Victoria Baths was a first for me in many respects. I was producing it with a collective of artists from the Islington Mill Art Academy, and it felt like I had a lot to do. To pull off an exciting multiple installation in such a collaborative way was a proud moment and all of the artists involved felt that it was pivotal experience for them. We had such a fantastic response from the public and I loved that it inspired lots of visitors to do their own micro-residency whilst they were there. I've since gone on to make more work about Victoria Baths because the residency embedded a lot of visual information into my memory.'
CO: What do you think of the Manchester art scene?
NC: 'I would love to see artists taking a proper role in developing the social fabric of our city rather than having pockets of creative endeavour in cold, draughty, impermanent spaces. Difficult funding models that only just gets the work made on a shoestring and seen only by an inner circle and the impact of them not felt by the wider community. Manchester is one of the most deprived areas in the country, we are supposed to be the original modern city and it feels so much less than that at times.'
CO: How do you find art residencies you've been a part of?
NC: 'Intense, satisfying, revelatory. I'm in the process of reviewing past work as I currently involved with the MDP Studio Book programme and I can certainly see shifts in my practice from doing residencies. Being at Islington Mill in 2018/19 was an amazing experience; I was one of 13 artists invited to form a peer-led alternative art school. I think everything comes into play, residencies, projects, every single piece of work, all the rubbish, it all crops up again and again and it feels like a building up of understanding.'
CO: Away from art then, what's your ideal holiday?
NC: 'Any holiday is my ideal holiday.'
CO: Who is your favourite celebrity and why?
NC: 'I don't have a favourite celebrity. I do however think what Marcus Rashford is doing is incredible and a true account of what someone in the public eye can achieve for good and is putting the government to shame.'
CO: If you could live in art artwork, what would it be and why?
NC: 'Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series. The palimpsest of previous attempts, the economy and I just want to jump into those West Coast colours.'
Find out more about Nancy Collatine via her website or Instagram page @nancollantine.
If you think you should be considered for Manc of the Month, or want to nominate someone else, drop us a message via our Contact Page.


KENNEBUNK — Town Manager Barry Tibbetts told the Board of Selectmen on Tuesday the town cannot force Central Maine Power to sell its Kennebunk Beach service area in order to obtain a requested zoning change.
"He said CMP is not obligated to sell," Tibbetts said.
Further, he said, "We don't really have the authority to intervene in that arena and force something to happen."
At issue is a zoning ordinance change CMP has requested in order to upgrade its transmission lines and build a new, $32 million substation on Maguire Road.
"But that was not the question," he said. "The question was, can Kennebunk refuse to grant the zoning change?"
"The PUC will be barraged with phone calls and letters," Hansen said.


Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition South India Rounds is organised to select two teams to represent South India into the Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition held at University of Maryland School of Law, Maryland.
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Building a greenhouse is less demanding than you may might suspect. You can pick diverse structures and sizes that you might want to manufacture. A greenhouse will give you comfort at whatever point you visit your plants, vegetables, blossoms, or orchids. It additionally gives the required daylight and mugginess for these plants. You may unwind and appreciate it each time you visit this spot where you have applied all your exertion of building such a wondrous spot.
You may spare more cash on the off chance that you choose to manufacture a little greenhouse. There are supplies and materials that you can utilize which ought to be sufficiently only as per your own readied spending plan. On the off chance that there is sufficient space that can suit a bigger greenhouse, do it since you might need to grow more plants and vegetables.
On the off chance that you truly want to fabricate a greenhouse where you can create and engender more plants, you ought to consider the diverse elements that would be vital on the sort of nurseries you might want to manufacture. Here are a few hints and factors you ought to consider in building your own greenhouse.
1. You may consider utilizing rescued materials in the event that you plan to make a bigger greenhouse. You may utilize these materials in structuring and making arrangements for a minimal effort spending greenhouse. This will likewise enable you to limit the cost of alternate supplies and materials required.
2. You ought to likewise decide the atmosphere of where you live. A protected greenhouse ought to be suitable for cold atmosphere regions. This will enable you to give the required warmth and warmth for your plants. For warm places, a greenhouse that has a shade control would be prudent.
3. You likewise needs to ensure that your greenhouse will be structured with appropriate air course spaces, ventilation, bother control soil, radiators for winter season, and stickiness control gadgets. You ought to make a situation that is fitting for the sorts of plants that will develop in your greenhouse.
4. The area of the greenhouse ought to be assembled where there is sufficient daylight. In the event that you pick a sun powered greenhouse for vegetables and fascinating natural product bearing plants it is ideal if the greenhouse is arranged on the east-west piece of where you live in light of the fact that confronting it along these lines it is progressively presented to daylight.
5. It is additionally critical to think about the covering of the greenhouse. The most prudent shades are the glass made covers and fiberglass which probably won't fit in your financial plan. Be that as it may, simply realize that they give greater solidness and they don't decay immediately contrasted with plastic covers. A greenhouse secured with glass or fiberglass permits greater dampness and warmth.
6. You have the choice to pick what sort of establishment you might want to utilize. The establishments can be concrete for a more verified greenhouse. Others lean toward the more affordable lightweight establishment where they utilize ad libbed materials, for example, railroad ties, which they can without much of a stretch connect to the ground. Everything relies upon the amount you are happy to spend on the structure of the greenhouse.
7. You may likewise consider building a greenhouse that will amplify its maximum capacity. You might need to include seats or materials that will be utilized for your solace each time you need to unwind in the greenhouse. You may likewise need to add numerous accomplices to the spot like programmed watering frameworks, warming frameworks, ventilation framework and other programmed gear that are viable in keeping up the plants.
8. You should utilize the "great bugs" for you bother control concoction. They anticipate and control the spread of the terrible bugs in a greenhouse. In the event that you ever discover creepy crawlies in a plant, you ought to seclude the plant and if conceivable spot the plant outside the greenhouse with the goal that the bugs don't house in alternate plants.
9. You ought to designate a space where you can store composts, fertilized soil and different devices that are basic in the greenhouse. You should put an apparatus rack closer to the preparing place with the goal that it would be less demanding for you to exchange the dirt from the pot of the plants. You ought to likewise put basins and device holders to suit the other gear when they are not being used.
You can create and develop a wide range of plants with an adaptable greenhouse. You may likewise need to imitate the developed plants to fill the greenhouse with an assortment of plants. Setting up a greenhouse will be progressively pleasant on the off chance that it finished with the assistance of the family and companions. So get them included as well.


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Templates for the illustration of professional benchmarking concepts in PowerPoint.
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There are different types of benchmarking, which are differentiated primarily between internal and external comparative analysis. In the first method, comparisons are not carried out with the strongest competitors, but only within a company and its various departments. Clearly convey to your employees this principle of "comparing and contrasting," by linking together different targets, measures, advantages and disadvantages with the help of definitions and diagrams in your PowerPoint presentation.
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Population and Population Density
The Tibet Autonomous Region has the smallest population and is the most sparsely populated among China's provinces, municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous regions. Between the 7th century and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the population fell by 8 million since monks and nuns were excluded from procreative activities. There was further shrinkage of 800,000 from the Qing Dynasty to 1950. According to statistics in 1951, when Tibet was liberated peacefully, the region's population stood at 1.15 million, with mortality rate of 28 per thousand, an infant mortality rate of 430 per thousand and average life-expectancy of 35.5 years. During the national census in 1953, direct population registration was not conducted in Tibet and Qamdo and the 14th Dalai Lama-led local government estimated and reported to the Central Government a population of 1.275 million in Tibet.
In 1990, the Tibet Autonomous Region's population totaled 2.1805 million (a net increase of 1.1805 million over 1950). Population density was less than two people per square km. In 1998, Tibet had a total population of 2.4539 million, with 50,700 new born and 17,900 deaths. The birth rate in the year stood at 23.7 per thousand and mortality rate at 6.9 per thousand, leaving a natural population growth of 16.2 per thousand. As for farming and herding population, the birth rate was 22.08 per thousand and mortality rate 5.93 per thousand, with a natural growth rate of 16.15 per thousand. There were 514,200 married women in Tibet, with the rate of the third or above births being 36.29 per thousand.
By the end of 2001, the Tibet Autonomous Region had a population of 2.63 million, of which 92.2 percent were Tibetans, 5.9 percent were Han people, while other ethnic peoples accounted for 1.9 percent. The average population density stood at 2.03 people per square km, equaling one-60th of the national average. Population distribution in Tibet is uneven, with the majority of residents living in the southern and eastern parts. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River and the valleys of its main tributaries---Lhasa and Nyangqu Rivers---are the most densely populated areas, with more than 10 people per square km on average. The Lhasa Plain, the plains at the middle and lower reaches of the Nyangqu River and the Zetang Plain have about 50 residents per square km, and there are more than 100 people per square km in the vicinity of the Chengguan District in Lhasa. The next most densely populated areas are the upstream section on the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, upper reaches of the Lhasa River and the northeastern part of the Hengduanshan mountainous area in east Tibet, where there are three to 10 people per square km. Of these areas, Lhaze, the Sagya Plain, the Nyang River Valley near Nyingchi and the Lancangjiang River Valley near Qamdo are more densely populated. Ngari in west Tibet and the western part of Nagqu in north Tibet are the most sparsely inhabited, and one can often make a 50-km journey without seeing any human habitation. The northern part of the Changtang Grassland is even regarded as "no man's land".
Han people began to move to Tibet during the Qing Dynasty and some of them have been assimilated into the Tibetan ethnicity. Today, most Han people living in Tibet are technicians, workers, teachers, health workers and cadres from other parts of China.
Since 1970, the birth rate and natural growth rate in the Tibet Autonomous Region have both exceeded national averages. Between 1982 and 1990, the ethnic Tibetan population in the region increased 309,800, with a natural growth rate of 17.34 per thousand, 2.64 per thousand points higher than the national average in the same period. In the last decade, the region's population has increased 38,000 on an annual basis. Tibetan health has also improved greatly, with the average life expectancy rising from 35.5 years in 1951 to 67 years.
Since the 1970s, China has widely implemented a family planning and population control policy, advocating one child for one couple. But in the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Central Government has encouraged the autonomous region's government to adopt a policy of enhancing the quality of population. The region's government has introduced special policies in accordance with the local conditions. The one-child policy has been applied only to Han cadres and workers working in Tibet, while Tibetan cadres and workers were excluded from such requirement. In 1984, the region's government began to advocate family planning among the ethnic Tibetan cadres, workers and urban residents, encouraging couples wanting a second child to delay doing so. Currently, some 12 percent of the total population are practicing family planning. The family planning work has been carried out on a voluntary basis. Forced abortion in any form is prohibited. Farmers and herdsmen, who account for 88 percent of the region's total population, are not subject to family planning policies. But they do receive education in scientific contraception methods, rational arrangements for birth and sound child rearing, so as to protect mothers and infants?health and raise the quality of population. In addition, government health departments offer safe, reliable health service to farmers and herdsmen who voluntarily request assistance in birth control.
At present, the annual birth rate of the region exceeds 17.6 per thousand and the natural growth rate stands at 11 per thousand, compared with the target of 16 per thousand natural growth set forth by the region's government for population control.
Ethnic Makeup
The Tibet Autonomous Region, with 45 percent of the country's total ethnic Tibetan population, is a region where Tibetan ethnic group live in the most compact communities. In addition to Tibetans, other ethnic groups, including the Moinba, Lhoba, Han and Hui, and Deng and Xiarba peoples, are also found in the region.
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• Number of Population by Region
• Households and Population
• Birth rate, Death rate and Natural Growth Rate of Population
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Back when I was 18 years old, I got into Amway.
My parents had first gotten into Amway when I was around 12 years old. I still remember thumbing through their Profiles of Success books (see photo below) and reading about all the ordinary people who'd become "Diamonds" in the business. Those success stories made a big impression on me. So big, in fact, that at age 12 I decided I was going to join Amway when I was old enough.
So when I finally turned 18, I signed up. And I started calling my friends and family, going to all the events, and "drawing circles" whenever I could get an appointment with a prospect (which wasn't that often, by the way).
I did that for a couple years, never really having much success as an Amway sales rep. But I kept trying.
At age 20 I got married and for the first year of my married life I continued to pursue the dream of building an Amway business. My wife and I even did a couple road trips to get to some of the big national Amway events.
One of those big events was down in Dallas, Texas. We lived in south Denver at the time. So we loaded up our luggage and began the drive down to Dallas.
Back in 2000, one of the things Amway reps were taught was to "always be prospecting." In other words, they wanted you to always be looking for people to bring into the Amway business. So if you were at a restaurant or filling up your gas tank or grocery shopping, they wanted you talking to people and trying to give them information or book an appointment with them.
We're on the road, getting close to Dallas, and I had finally worked up the nerve to approach somebody — anybody — about Amway. Some of the details are fuzzy now, but I ended up prospecting this guy who was working the front desk of a motel. Not a big fancy hotel… a dingy little motel.
He seemed genuinely interested in my "business opportunity." He even gave me his number and agreed to a meeting at his house. We set the date for about a week out.
Now remember… I lived in south Denver and I had just set an appointment with a very low quality prospect… in friggin' Texas!
So here I was, all excited that I'd set an appointment with a perfect stranger. I was building my business. I was doing it!
A week later, I was back in south Denver, still riding the emotional high of the Dallas conference. And I was getting ready to drive back to Texas for my appointment with Mr. Prospect.
We'd set the time a week ago. I had his address. And I had his phone number. What could possibly go wrong? I wondered.
Did I call Mr. Prospect to remind him of our appointment? No… why would I need to do that?
The morning we left, my wife and I woke up super early… before 5 a.m. We then "dressed for success" — she in her light blue business skirt/suit, me in my brown suit and fancy leather shoes — and began the drive down through southern Colorado, through the northern corner of New Mexico (where we had breakfast at McDonald's), down into the Texas panhandle, through Amarillo, and beyond.
I remember the more I drove, the uneasier I became. Would Mr. Prospect be there? Somewhere around Childress, Texas (see picture above) I finally pulled over to call him and verify our appointment. This was before cell phones were widely available, so I had to find a pay phone. When I finally got ahold of him, he was noncommittal. "Oh, yeah, sorry but I don't think that's going to work out today. Maybe another time." Click.
I had just driven seven hours for nothing. Seven hours! And I had seven more to go to get back home.
Oh, man, my wife was not happy. Neither was I.
I still remember the feeling of absolute foolishness… anger… regret… all these emotions washing over me. We got back into the car, didn't say a word to each other. Just put my old 1985 Saab 900 Turbo into gear and started the long and painful drive back to Denver.
That experience pained me deeply. It was simply too embarrassing to think about… or even talk about for a long time.
I had driven to Texas for a no-show.
So that's my embarrassing Amway story. I learned a few things from that experience.
#1 – Everybody is NOT your prospect.
#2 – Never try to sell an unqualified prospect.
#3 – Qualify prospects before you take the time to meet with them (in person or by phone).
Probably the biggest lesson for me was that the Amway business model was not all it was cracked up to be. I began to have doubts about the whole thing. A few months later I wrote two pages of reasons why I was no longer going to be involved with Amway. And at age 21, I closed that chapter of my life and moved on.
Today, I'm quite a bit older and hopefully a little bit wiser. I still make mistakes. But I like to think I make fewer of them. And I do my best to minimize the damage when I do make them.
What can you learn from this story? Well, one thing is that mistakes — even big embarrassing mistakes — are a natural part of the entrepreneur's life. Almost nobody finds success without a few major lapses in judgment along the way.
More importantly, those mistakes don't define you. They're in the past. They're not who you are. Let them go. Tomorrow is a new day and success might be waiting for you just around the corner.


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Agendia to Provide First Digital MammaPrint Capability to Brazil
Agendia, Inc., a commercial stage company focused on precision oncology for breast cancer, today announced that it is offering early access to its Digital MammaPrint platform for patients with breast cancer in Brazil, expanding the company's offerings in the country with the goal of bringing essential information from cancer testing to the larger global breast cancer community. Brazil is the first country to have samples analyzed by Digital MammaPrint, allowing physicians and their patients to benefit from genomic insights derived from a digitized image of a breast cancer tumor. Results about individual tumors will now be informed by the new artificial intelligence (AI) platform, also providing better turnaround time for their treatment decisions.
By offering Brazilian physicians and their patients early access to Digital MammaPrint test results, Agendia expects to be able to reach a patient population that includes the over 66,000 women in Brazil newly diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020 alone, enabling the possibility for earlier and faster intervention for these women along the entire continuum of care.1
"Incorporating AI into the MammaPrint equation for patients with early-stage breast cancer has the potential to be an unprecedented accelerator for the use of genomic testing and diagnostics in the treatment of this disease, and is potentially transformational for women with breast cancer around the world," said Mark Straley, Chief Executive Officer of Agendia. "Stratifying breast cancer through AI analysis of a tumor tissue image trained by an astounding amount of our proprietary clinical data has the potential to fundamentally change how breast cancer is treated globally. Enabled by Agendia's deep understanding and expertise in the functional genomics of breast cancer, we are proud to bring the robust science and clinical benefit that MammaPrint provides together with new digital capabilities, informed by the incredible power of AI, to Brazilian physicians and the women they seek to treat."
Agendia's Digital MammaPrint is powered by the cloud-based Paige Platform, a partnership that the two companies announced in November 2020. This is the first product of the collaboration, initially focused on the development of digital tests for early treatment planning where genomic testing has played a crucial role in determining recurrence risk and tumor biology as doctors and their patients make decisions about the path ahead.
"Introducing Digital MammaPrint to physicians and their patients in Brazil marks an important step in increasing access to quality, AI-enabled diagnostic tests," said David Klimstra, M.D., Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Paige. "We are excited to partner with Agendia to advance our shared goal of transforming pathology data into clear and actionable clinical insights for better patient outcomes."
On a global scale, access to insights from Digital MammaPrint opens diagnostic care options for women diagnosed with breast cancer worldwide who don't have access to genomic testing or esoteric lab infrastructure.
"For patients with breast cancer throughout the world who do not live in a location with direct access to genomic testing of their cancer, the ability to obtain such information from a slide image could be revolutionary. The introduction of a digital, AI-informed platform to allow interpretation of the genomic profile of their specific tumor can provide great clinical value and carries the added benefit of preserving valuable tumor tissue for further use in the future. We are using an innovative platform and doing revolutionary work with it," said William Audeh, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Agendia. "The ultimate goal is for patients to have access to vital information about their cancer, and this tool has the ability to provide them with that information faster, through digital technology. We believe that the sooner we can get MammaPrint insights into physicians' hands in their decision-making process, the better it is for their patients."
Agendia's MammaPrint is a 70-gene prognostic test that stratifies a specific patient's recurrence risk and provides a prognostic marker to help inform that risk along with other clinicopathologic factors. MammaPrint informs decisions about pre-operative systemic therapy, adjuvant chemotherapy, and adjuvant endocrine therapy, and the digital capabilities of the test are expected to give physicians and their patients clear and actionable information at these and other critical decision points throughout the cancer care continuum.
About Agendia
Agendia is a mission-driven, commercial stage company focused on enabling optimized decision-making by providing physicians with next-generation diagnostic and information solutions that can be used to help improve outcomes for breast cancer patients worldwide. The company currently offers two commercially-available genomic profiling tests that help surgeons, oncologists and pathologists to personalize treatment for women at critical intervention points throughout their patient journey.
MammaPrint® is a 70-gene prognostic test that, along with other clinicopathologic factors, determines a specific patient's breast cancer recurrence risk. BluePrint® is an 80-gene molecular subtyping test that identifies the underlying biology of an individual breast cancer to provide information about its behavior, long-term prognosis and potential response to systemic therapy. Together, MammaPrint® and BluePrint® provide a holistic view of an individual patient's breast cancer, enabling physicians to objectively select the best treatment plan.
For more information on Agendia's assays and ongoing trials, please visit www.agendia.com.
1 Silva, J et.al. 25 Jan. 2021. Breast Cancer Mortality in Young Women in Brazil. Front. Oncol. 10:569933. Doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.569933.
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Jody Morris says Derby County opportunity was 'too good to turn down'
Morris has joined the Rams as assistant manager to Frank Lampard
Jody Morris has said the opportunity to join Derby County as assistant manager was "too good to turn down".
The former Chelsea Academy coach has become Lampard's first addition since taking charge at Pride Park Stadium last week, joining the backroom team.
Morris, who is reunited with Lampard after playing together at Chelsea, made more than 170 appearances for the Blues.
He also played for Leeds United, Rotherham United, Millwall, St Johnstone and Bristol City.
Morris took to Instagram after the announcement.
"Can't wait to get started with Frank Lampard," he said.
Jody Morris (Image: Getty Images Europe)
"Chelsea has, is and always will be my club – I count myself extremely lucky to have been born close enough to the stadium that it was my local club and I became a fan (at a time when it was the trend to follow the most famous or successful clubs regardless of how far away the teams were).
"Then to play a few games and win a couple of trophies for the team that I supported and had been a part of since I was eight years old was a dream come true."
After hanging up his boots, Morris returned to Chelsea during the 2013-14 campaign to work with the under-21 side.
He then spent two seasons as under-18s assistant manager as they won the FA Youth Cup in 2015 and 2016.
Morris stepped up to become under-18 boss and led them to two more FA Youth Cup titles, along with back-to-back league crowns.
Derby County live - Jody Morris appointed Rams assistant manager, plus John Terry updates
"I've held amazing and very fulfilling roles within the club in helping develop and nurture what I hope will be the future of the club, as well as develop myself as a coach and person for the past five years," he added.
"I've always been ambitious and have the passion and drive to work at first-team level and feel I've been ready for this, so the opportunity to work with Frank and Derby County was too good an opportunity to turn down.
"Thank you so much to you, the Chelsea fans, who have always been so supportive through good and bad times – I'm one of you.
"Hopefully this isn't goodbye, but more of a see you again."
Derby County'Deserve to know' - Derby County fans demand answers over takeover sagaThe takeover has been beset by delays, leaving fans worried it will collapse


Camperdown is a place with a rich farming history.
Camperdown Dairy Company crafts products using local ingredients and using traditional methods and a slow gentle process. This helps to keep the protein and goodness in the milk and dairy products – making it taste more natural and smooth.


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Policresulene è un prodotto colloidale a peso molecolare relativamente elevato, preparato per condensazione del m-cresolo solfonato e della formaldeide. Si presenta come una miscela di diversi composti (polimeri) con catene di varie lunghezze. È utilizzato come emostatico ed antisettico, anche in ambito veterinario. In commercio, il policresulene esiste sotto forma di soluzione concentrata al 40% di principio attivo (per toccature, irrigazioni vaginali e lavaggi), ovuli da 100 mg e pomata al 4%. In Italia è venduto dai laboratori farmaceutici Giovanni Ogna & Figli con il nome commerciale di Emaftol nella forma di soluzione orale e dalla società farmacologica Takeda con il nome commerciale di Negatol nella forma di ovuli vaginali.

Chimica
Si scioglie in acqua formando soluzioni colloidali. Il pH di una soluzione acquosa al 5% è pari a 1.

Farmacodinamica
L'azione terapeutica di policresulene è legata a tre diversi effetti tra loro interdipendenti.
Il composto grazie alla sua acidità pronunciata (pH 1) presenta azione antimicrobica su diversi batteri, miceti e protozoi. La coagulazione delle proteine comporta una denaturazione dei tessuti alterati patologicamente o necrotici, i quali vengono staccati. Infine la stessa coagulazione delle proteine del sangue e la forte vasocostrizione indotta comporta un effetto emostatico.

Farmacocinetica
Il composto, un polimero, è destinato ad un uso topico ed è caratterizzato da un'elevata polarità. A seguito della applicazione su cute e mucose non è nota la quota di farmaco assorbita.

Tossicologia
La DL50 nel topo è di 5,07 ml/kg peso corporeo quando somministrata per os, di 0,5 ml/kg per via intraperitoneale e 0,06 ml/kg per via endovenosa. Nel ratto le rispettive DL50 sono 4,85, 0,7 e 0,23 ml/kg.
Il composto non è risultato mutageno, mentre non è noto se sia carcinogeno.

Usi clinici
Le preparazioni contenenti policresulene si caratterizzano per un pH molto basso.
Vengono usate per via topica a scopo antisettico (contro batteri, miceti e Trichomonas), astringente ed emostatico, in particolare nel trattamento di diversi disturbi ginecologici come erosioni cervicali, cervico-vaginiti, leucorrea.
Comune è anche l'uso a carico di affezioni della cute e mucose in genere: ulcere varicose, ragadi e pruriti anali, ragadi al seno, pruriti vulvari, eczemi, screpolature, geloni, verruche, piaghe e ferite.
Utilizzate anche per la disinfezione della mucosa orale e del tessuto alveolare, specialmente se si rende necessaria anche l'emostasi.

Effetti collaterali e indesiderati
L'utilizzo protratto può dare luogo a fenomeni di sensibilizzazione con insorgenza di orticaria, angioedema, reazioni anafilattiche.
In rari casi è anche possibile che si verifichi intolleranza con bruciore od irritazione locale. In genere questo disturbo non richiede alcuna modifica del trattamento.
La formulazione in ovuli può associarsi alla presenza di sensazione di fastidio, prurito vulvare, perdita di frammenti di membrana mucosa, secchezza vaginale, candidiasi vaginale.

Dosi terapeutiche
Il dosaggio dipende dalla forma farmaceutica impiegata e dal quadro morboso in atto. Nella disinfezione del cavo orale dopo aver attentamente asciugato con una garza sterile il tessuto alveolare (a seguito di estrazione dentale) oppure la mucosa infetta (nel caso di afte o ulcere della mucosa) si procede a tamponare la parte interessata un paio di volte con un cotoncino imbevuto della soluzione collolidale.

Note

Antisettici
Cresoli

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Higher Education PS rules out ghost students before PAC
By Sipilisiwe Ncube,
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson Haward Kunda (l) speaks when the Ministry of Works and Supply appeared before the committee at Parliament building on November 27, 2017 - Picture by Tenson Mkhala
Ministry of Higher Education Permanent Secretary Mabvuto Sakala says the there is no possibility of having ghost students at the University of Zambia (UNZA) or Copperbelt University (CBU).
And Sakala told the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Wednesday that his ministry will enforce recoveries of accommodation allowances which were paid to accommodated students.
Sakala said this when he and his team appeared before the said committee to respond to audit queries cited in the Auditor General's report for the Financial year ended December 31, 2017.
"A comparison of the CBU GRZ sponsored students to the Bursaries committee sponsored students revealed that there were 1,988 who were appearing on the bursaries database of GRZ sponsored students but were not found on the CBU overall GRZ sponsored students. Consequently, it was not clear how bursaries were supporting students who were not on CBU database," the AG report revealed.
The report further revealed another K655,000 in accommodation allowances which were paid to accommodated students.
"Accommodation refunds in amounts totalling to K655, 000 were paid to 754 students despite appearing on the list of students accommodated by the universities and appropriately amounts totalling K1, 979, 500 were invoiced in respect of accommodation to the said students. As of 31st August 2018, the amounts paid to the students had not been recovered. [Further], accommodation and tuition fees in amounts totalling K5, 432, 88.42 were invoiced by CBU for 210 students who were not on the applauded schedules. No evidence was availed to ascertain whether the students were authorised or approved to be among the students supported by government," the report revealed.
In defence, Sakala said the Loans Board was in the process of effecting recoveries of the said funds from the undeserving students.
"The Higher Education Loans and Scholarships Board is in the process of recovering the overpaid funds, we acknowledge and from the continuing students by withholding their subsequent payments while recoveries from students who have since graduated will be added to the loan repayment amounts. A letter has been written to CBU notifying management to inform the affected students about the pending recovery. All the 210 students were part of the 8, 173 students [on] provisional list that was used by CBU when billing the Loans Board, provided the students had registered. However, the students needed to be screened by the Bursaries before being put on the bursaries database. Therefore, CBU invoiced correctly as all the 210 students were part of the students awarded with loans by the Bursaries Committee," Sakala responded.
In another query, it was revealed 3,782 students at UNZA who were not on the university bill were paid meal allowances amounting to K8, 428, 113.
The audit report revealed a further K71, 082, 937 which was irregularly paid to 3, 568 students who were appearing on the UNZA invoice but not on the bursaries list of GRZ supported students.
In responding to the above query, Sakala said the matter had already been reconciled.
Milenge PF member of parliament Mwansa Mbulakulima then said it was shocking that the controlling officer was giving technical responses which were difficult to verify before the committee.
He said from the presentation, it was clear that the ministry under review needed serious help as it had so many problems.
"The system of recovering from [them], if we cannot recover from those who have honestly completed [because] up to now we are still looking from them, how are you going to recover from these people over this excess payment? There are many components here. We can ask questions here but this is not going to be exhausted [because] this is technical. The next page chairperson [on] 'failure to lock down the default administrator account system' what do you want us to ask? It's technical. We can take two days," Mbulakulima observed.
"The next page is 'failure to patch the MSQL database' [and] look at the answer, it is also technical. That is why there is no need colleagues to even start asking questions from those files, we have to find a way as a nation. This is where they have to tell us [that] they need help. And beyond this chair, they have said 'available for verification' [again and again but] but it's only the auditors who can verify whether this is correct or not correct but even the AG's office is handcuffed today. How can they comment on something which they haven't even seen? So it is really a total confusion [because] we believe that a lot of money has been going to our institutions but not accounted for. So for me really, it is a national disaster which needs concerted efforts and there is no need to be defensive."
It was at this point that Sakala ruled out the existence of ghost students in the named public institutions.
"Going forward chair, we can avail the extraction of these students to the committee. The possibility of ghost students does not arise. What may arise is that when a student registers, for example, and they fail to meet the threshold to move to the next year, they are removed from the list of the beneficiaries of the bursaries or the loan scheme until they meet the criteria for re-entry but we will still maintain them on the database and that is where there is one of the discrepancies. When they meet the threshold to be readmitted into the university, then we reactivate their loans. But in terms of ghost students, it's not possible to have them chair because we have a situation where the universities will give us the list and then we compare with the list on the bursaries," Sakala said.
And Committee Chairperson Howard Kunda said it was worrying that the ministry responsible for imparting skills to learners could have so much confusion surrounding its departments.
"[You know] this ministry has been there and we look at this ministry to be a ministry that should be out at the apex because this is what gives us the manpower that is needed for this country. You teach these students so that they can come out and give the best to this country, but if there are these confusions that we have seen and highlighted in our discussions here, it gives us an indication that we need to be worried with what is happening," said Kunda.
Sipilisiwe Ncube has a background in radio news.Email: sipilisiwe [at] diggers [dot] news
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Q: Propagation of uncertainty for a sum of fractions of random variables Say I have a random variable $Z$ that is itself a function of two independent random variables $g(X,Y)$, where
$$Z = g(X,Y) = \frac{X}{Y}$$
I know that the propagation of uncertainty gives a good approximation of $Var[g(X,Y)]$ using Taylor expansions around the means $\mu_X,\mu_Y$, such that, when $X, Y$ are independent,
$$Var[Z] \approx
\Bigg(\frac{\delta g(x,y)}{\delta x}\Bigg)^2 \sigma_x^2 + \Bigg(\frac{\delta g(x,y)}{\delta y}\Bigg)^2 \sigma_y^2 =
\frac{\sigma_x^2}{\mu_Y^2}  + \frac{\sigma_y^2 \mu_X^2}{\mu_Y^4} $$
Suppose now that $Z$ is a function of two series of independent random variables, $g(X_1,...,X_k,Y_1,...Y_k)$, such that
$$Z = g(X_1,...,X_k,Y_1,...Y_k) = \frac{X_1}{Y_1} + \dotsb + \frac{X_k}{Y_k}$$
If each of the ratios are independent, I am wondering if the variance of $Z$ can be calculated by taking the sum of propagation of uncertainty for each of the fractions, i.e.,
$$Var[Z] = \sum_{i=1}^k Var\Bigg[\frac{X_i}{Y_i}\Bigg]
\\ \approx \sum_{i=1}^k \Bigg[\Bigg(\frac{\delta g(x_i,y_i)}{\delta x_i}\Bigg)^2 \sigma_{x_i}^2 + \Bigg(\frac{\delta g(x_i,y_i)}{\delta y_i}\Bigg)^2 \sigma_{y_i}^2 \Bigg]$$
where for the $j^{th}$ term, I calculate partial derivatives with respect to $x_j$ and $y_j$ as in the basic case presented above and ignore the other $i \neq j$ terms? Or do I need to do out each partial derivative with respect to the complete series of $\{x_i\},\{y_i\}$ ?

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Diagnosis: Medically-induced Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) (following treatment for endometriosis)
Age at diagnosis: 33
Background: Linda works full-time as a consultant, and lives in a regional town with her partner and child. She is from an English and Scottish background.
About Linda: In her early 30s, Linda underwent a hysterectomy and an oophorectomy for endometriosis. She began taking Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) soon after but stopped when she was diagnosed with hormone sensitive breast cancer at 39. Linda's hot flushes and poor sleep have been 'incredibly frustrating' and she focuses on diet and regular exercise to deal with her early menopause symptoms.
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More about Linda: Linda experienced pain since the start of her menstrual periods. Over time, the pain 'worsened' and in her early 20s, a laparoscopy revealed she had severe endometriosis. After having the endometriosis surgically removed several times and following the birth of her daughter, Linda decided to have a hysterectomy and an oophorectomy in her early 30s. She recalled that before her surgery she received information about what would happen afterwards, including symptoms of premature menopause, but what 'stuck with [her]' was 'the inability to have further children.'
To help alleviate her early menopause symptoms, which included hot flushes and night sweats, Linda began taking Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). However, she had to stop taking it at 39, when she was diagnosed with oestrogen-sensitive breast cancer. Linda's treatment for breast cancer included a mastectomy and chemotherapy. Following cancer treatment, she experienced 'full early menopause' symptoms; she now also has low bone density.
Living in a regional area, Linda has found it difficult to find health practitioners to help with her early menopause symptoms. She described a 'lack of service coordination,' which makes it challenging to receive holistic care for her co-occurring heath conditions, including a heart condition. Over the years, Linda tried traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathy, and homeopathy but 'didn't really find relief' from her symptoms. She deals with her symptoms by eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, using a cool mat under her pillow to alleviate night sweats, and wearing layers. Linda also has poor sleep and feels 'disempowered' by her lack of options to help ease her symptoms.
Linda explained that the hysterectomy and oophorectomy had a significant impact on her 'sexual identity,' while the mastectomy changed her 'physical appearance' and 'feminine identity.' Cancer treatment also had 'huge' financial impacts as she had to leave her job and start her own business. Linda has found it difficult to 'rely on other people' for help, but she described having 'really good friends' and a neighbour who provided support.
Linda wishes that she had been given more advice on how the treatments for endometriosis and cancer would 'impact other areas of [her] life' and she advised health practitioners to 'look at things holistically.' She also encouraged women with similar experiences to seek a second opinion and be as 'informed as you can be.' For Linda, it is important to have friends to share experiences with and to remember that hot flushes and night sweats 'will pass.'
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Versailles and Fort Recovery are ranked in the third weekly Associated Press boys basketball state poll of 2017.
Versailles is ranked 4th in Division III and Fort Recovery is ranked 9th in Division IV in the third weekly Associated Press boys basketball state poll of 2017.
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Versailles, Fort Recovery and Minster are ranked in the third weekly Associated Press girls basketball state poll of 2017.
Versailles is ranked 3rd and Fort Recovery is ranked 6th in Division III. Minster is ranked 4th in Division IV in the third weekly Associated Press girls basketball state poll of 2017.
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Versailles, Fort Recovery and Minster are ranked in the second weekly Associated Press girls basketball state poll of 2017.
Versailles is ranked 3rd and Fort Recovery is ranked 4th in Division III. Minster is the top ranked team in Division IV in the second weekly Associated Press girls basketball state poll of 2017.
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Q: How can I use Part Assignment to change sublists into other sublists (without changing levels)? Here's a 5x5 grid. Using predefined starting points, I'd like to change some sublists into something else (e.g., the values for a color, "drawing an opaque box").
list =
{{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}}};

This seems simple enough, use the Part command to change all of the elements via:
Part[{list}, startingrow;;endingrow, startingelement;;endingelement] = assignment;
(Now use the new list for whatever you like)
This works totally as expected if your list is just a bunch of integers.
Trying the one above...
list =
{{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}}};
color1 = {0.529`, 0.808`, 0.922`};
row = 3;
start = 2;
Part[list, row - 1 ;; row + 1, start ;; start + 2] = color1;
list
(* Output:
{{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, 0.529, 0.529, 0.529, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, 0.808, 0.808, 0.808, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, 0.922, 0.922, 0.922, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}}}
*)

Not good! The Part function replaced the sublists with each element of the new sublist.
Putting the new sublist into a lower level almost works:
Part[list, row - 1 ;; row + 1, start ;; start + 2] = {color1};
list
(* Output:
{{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {{0.529, 0.808, 0.922}}, {{0.529, 0.808, 0.922}}, {{0.529, 0.808, 0.922}}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {{0.529, 0.808, 0.922}}, {{0.529, 0.808, 0.922}}, {{0.529, 0.808, 0.922}}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {{0.529, 0.808, 0.922}}, {{0.529, 0.808, 0.922}}, {{0.529, 0.808, 0.922}}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}}}
*)

But now all the new sublists are a level too far down. Both Flatten with 2 arguments and FlattenAt don't appear to be able to rid specifically only these levels.
Is there a convenient way to get the desired output? (Shown Below)
{{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {0.529, 0.808, 0.922}, {0.529, 0.808, 0.922}, {0.529, 0.808, 0.922}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {0.529, 0.808, 0.922}, {0.529, 0.808, 0.922}, {0.529, 0.808, 0.922}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {0.529, 0.808, 0.922}, {0.529, 0.808, 0.922}, {0.529, 0.808, 0.922}, {1, 1, 1}},
{{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}}}

A: In this situation, the most concise way to do what you want that I can think of is:
With[{part := Part[list, row - 1 ;; row + 1, start ;; start + 2]},
  part = ConstantArray[color1, Most @ Dimensions[part]]
]

In short, just create a complete array that matches the dimensions of the Part your trying to overwrite. You're trying to overwrite a part of list with dimensions 3x3x3 with a list that has dimensions 3. That's why Mathematica does the assignment at a different level than you expect. The only way out of this is to match the dimensions of the old part and the new one.

A: Replace at each position using ReplacePart:
pos = Tuples[{Range[row - 1, row + 1], Range[start, start + 2]}]
new = ReplacePart[list, pos -> color1]

(This produces a new list rather than changing the old one.)


Roy Spencer has announced the beta version of V6 of the UAH lower troposphere temperature index. Sou has the story.
Incidentally, Dr Spencer's announcement is very informative on how the UAH sausage is made.
These have been around for a while, but I didn't know about them. Starting about 2007, NOAA has had a Carbon Tracker program. It is a kind of reanalysis program that assimilates mainly ground-based data to form a global model. I was reminded of it when I saw this recent conference paper which compared results with the two pre-OCO satellite data sets AIRS and GOSAT.
And it has movies. Lots of them, from about 2000 to 2010, of both atmospheric CO2 and CH4. When the first OCO movies came out late 2014, there was some murmuring that these would upset the CO2 applecart. Those were of course for just one part of the seasonal cycle, and some features they showed, such as an Amazon Basin hotspot, could seem unexpected. But they are there on the earlier NOAA movies, although those have much more NH CO2 at that time of year.
So are they reliable? Well, according to the linked paper, somewhat. They have resolution limitations, and do overstate the NH at times, but a lot seems reasonable. I'll add the link to the directory to the portals page, but of course, Moyhu has to have a gadget. This will allow you to choose by gas (CO2, CH4), year, and projection - global (Hammer), or orthographic (US-centered). Some movies are Quicktime (.mov), so you might need to have a plug-in. Others are animated GIF. One year/season is about 10 Mb, so may take a while to download.
Update - I find that the CO2 movies, which are in quicktime format, don't work for me in Chrome, and it seems that there is some issue there with plugins. If you don't get an immediate response asking to allow quicktime to operate, then probably nothing will happen. The CH4 movies are in animated gif, which should be no problem.
You should first choose which gas and which projection, with the radio buttons. "Hammer" is global; "ortho" shows a sphere world centered on US. Then choose a time period. If you hover the mouse over the red strip, periods will appear in faint text below the Show button. Most recent (2010) is at the top. CH4 movies are in 3-month parts, so you'll see the season appended (djf=Dec-Feb, etc). Move up or down to get the period you want, then click, and it will appear in a box below.
Then you can click Show, being aware that this will download a file of 10Mb or so. CO2 will come up as a Quicktime movie, CH4 as an animated GIF.
I think the CO2 movies are very timely. I think it is worth reviewing them as background to the OCO-2 results which will trickle out (very slowly so far).
As foreshadowed, I've drafted a submission to the GWPF panel. It's basically a collection of the things I've been writing about in recent months, but structured according to their remit. I was glad to have the incentive to get it all together.
They have required that it be in PDF format, so the draft is here (about 860 Kb). I'd be grateful for any comments.
Update. They suggest less than 10 pages. I'm at 21. They allow multiple submissions, but I think I'll prune the blog posts.
Are there aspects of surface temperature measurement procedures that potentially impair data quality or introduce bias and need to be critically re-examined?
Are they talking about current practice? Or that of years past? Are they going to recommend how it should have been done back then?
How widespread is the practice of adjusting original temperature records? What fraction of modern temperature data, as presented by CRU/GISS/NOAA/BEST, are actual original measurements, and what fraction are subject to adjustments?
This is framed Steven Goddard-style. How widespread is the practice of doing arithmetic? People use records to calculate spatial averages etc, and may well wish to adjust for that purpose. As they should. Is detrending, say, an adjustment? Or calculating an anomaly?
CRU/GISS/NOAA/BEST do present data. NOAA explicitly offers unadjusted and adjusted data. GHCN Daily is largely an unadjusted copy of what the national Mets have, and GHCN Monthly unadjusted is a straight average of that (for long-record stations). But the primary business of CRU/GISS/NOAA/BEST is the calculation of spatial indices. That is basically a spatial integration, and requires manipulation. They have to calculate estimates of what actually happened in sub-regions, and they publish that.
Are warming and cooling adjustments equally prevalent?
Goddard again. No. Why should they be? Adjustments are for the repair of bias. If the identified bias is down or up, the repair will rightly have the opposite effect. TOBS, in the US, has a clearly cooling bias. The reasons are well established in terms of observing practices of the past, and so correction is clearly warming.
Are there any regions of the world where modifications appear to account for most or all of the apparent warming of recent decades?
This is straight Homewood. There may be some. The inference is that there was a cooling bias that masked all of the warming. But it isn't common. If it helps them, the broad regional breakdown is here.
Are the adjustment procedures clearly documented, objective, reproducible and scientifically defensible? How much statistical uncertainty is introduced with each step in homogeneity adjustments and smoothing?
Well, it will be interesting if naysayers finally bring themselves to read the papers of Menne and Williams etc. But agenda may intrude. Statistical uncertainty of what, I wonder? Anyway, I'll probably send in a submission. I've been working out how to convert the html of blog posts to pdf. We'll see.
"Top Scientists Start To Examine Adjusted Global Warming Figures"
"Top Scientists Start To Examine Fiddled Global Warming Figures"
I guess GWPF likes to sound a little more objective.
"It was entirely prompted by the two articles I wrote in the Sunday Telegraph on 24n January and 7 February, which as I made clear at the time were directly inspired by your own spectacular work on South America and the Arctic."
As several commenters have noted, GISS is up by 0.06°C, from 0.78 to 0.84. I had expected a small rise; David Appell was close. That's one of the hottest months on record, and makes 2015 a very warm year so far. TempLS rose by a smaller amount, and the troposphere indices declined.
Here is the GISS map. As with TempLS, N America is bipolar (more warm than cold), Russia and N Europe hot, and a hotspot near Sudan.
This post is a bit late this month. I've been holding it waiting for GHCN results from China and Canada. China has finally come in - still no Canada. Anyway, the TempLS mesh index was 0.717°C, slightly up from Feb 0.698.
One reason for delay was that I had predicted a slight rise, and I didn't want that result to be unsettled. The margin was very fine, but China raised it somewhat. It's still possible that Canada could bring it down.
As mentioned in earlier posts, although temperatures are not changing rapidly, they are very warm. The first three months of 2015 were each warmer than any month of 2014 (thanks, MMM). The NCEP/NCAR index for April has a sudden dip.
The greatest warmth was in the North - Siberia and Canada, extending into N Europe and W Canada. Coldest was again East N America, and also a patch in N Atlantic. Troposphere measures (UAH and RSS) were down slightly, but Roy Spencer noted a similar pattern. Surface coldness was less extreme in E N America.
As with the trend page, I show a graph of the time series. Data options supplied are the usual collection of global temperatures, but you can also supply your own. And there is a color triangle, in which each dot (square) is a start/end year combination, with the color showing the corresponding trend. With the trend page, you could click on that to change the range; there were also controls in the graph. Now you just run the mouse over the triangle, and the red trend line on the plot moves dynamically, and the information is echoed top right. The triangle is oriented so the NE corner is starting ending 2014, and SE is the whole range. x axis is start year, y-axis is end year. The info in the upper triangle will tell you where you are.
I haven't given a color key, because you get an instant print response - basically, rainbow with red for warming. To change data set, select from the menu and then press the "Enter data" button. To enter your own, just convert it to a comma separated one-line list, and paste into the text window, and then click "Enter Data". The button enters the last thing you changed (text window or selector). If you enter data, it is attached to the choice "User Data" in the data menu. Initially, I have put a sinusoid there, which you can select. It shows graphically how the trend works as a derivative.
The CI's are, like the trend page, calculated as AR(1) autocorrelated series using the Quenouille approx. Usually correlation is less for annual data. I have shown trends of all lengths, but too short trends will have unreliable or NaN CI's.
Most of the NCEP data for March global surface temperature is in, and despite some cooling at the end, it still looks to be a little warmer than February. Probably less than May 2014, but higher than any other month in 2014 (or 2015). I'd expect this to be reflected in surface temps.
I've fixed a bug where in the daily NCEP table, dates were written one day ahead (on Australian time). Dates on the maps were correct.