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Brian Cotten to Lead UAMS Campus Operations
June 12, 2018 | June 12, 2018 | Brian Cotten has been named associate vice chancellor for campus operations at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), effective July 1.
Cotten now serves as the UAMS Medical Center's administrator for support services and is responsible for managing the performance of core hospital services including clinical engineering, patient transport, food and nutrition services, hospitality and building management. He oversees a staff of about 700 people and a $32 million budget.
"Brian has a long and successful history with UAMS," said Bill Bowes, senior vice chancellor for finance and administration and chief financial officer. "His previous experience in managing the UAMS Medical Center, as well as his efforts in UAMS Campus Operations will serve him well in this new role."
Cotten was executive director of design and construction at UAMS for 12 years. He was responsible for all planning, design, construction and renovation projects for the university and UAMS Medical Center. His tenure consisted of more than $700 million in projects and 1.5 million square feet of expansion, including the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute, expansion of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the I. Dodd Wilson Education Building, patient tower, residence hall, parking deck and power plant.
Cotten has extensive experience in plant operations, including six years as assistant director and associate director of the UAMS Physical Plant. He also worked as a plant engineer and design engineer at Arkansas Power and Light in Hot Springs, and spent eight years as director of plant operations at St. Joseph's Mercy Health Center in Hot Springs.
Cotten earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1984. He is a member of the American Society of Healthcare Engineering and the Arkansas Association of Healthcare Engineering.
He is a former appointee to the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code Review Committee. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe appointed Cotten to the Arkansas Fire Protection Licensing Board in 2014.


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The ODIn Lab
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March 1; 1:00-2:30 PM
Davis 113A
Data, Responsibly
Julia Stoyanovich (Drexel)
Data-driven algorithmic decision making promises to improve people's lives, accelerate scientific discovery and innovation, and bring about positive societal change. Yet, if not used responsibly, this same technology can reinforce inequity, limit accountability and infringe on the privacy of individuals: irreproducible results can influence global economic policy; algorithmic changes in search engines can sway elections and incite violence; models based on biased data can legitimize and amplify discrimination in the criminal justice system; algorithmic hiring practices can silently reinforce diversity issues and potentially violate the law; privacy and security violations can erode the trust of users and expose companies to legal and financial consequences.
In this talk I will discuss our recent work on establishing a foundational new role for database technology, in which managing data in accordance with ethical and moral norms, and legal and policy considerations becomes a core system requirement. I will define properties of responsible data management, which include fairness, transparency, and data protection. I will highlight some of our recent technical advances, and will discuss the over-all framework in which these responsibility properties are managed and enforced through all stages of the data lifecycle. The broader goal of our project is to help usher in a new phase of data science, in which the technology considers not only the accuracy of the model but also ensures that the data on which it depends respect the relevant laws, societal norms, and impacts on humans. Additional information about our project is available at DataResponsibly.com.
Julia Stoyanovich is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University, and an affiliated faculty at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and of an NSF/CRA Computing Innovations Fellowship. Julia's research focuses on responsible data management and analysis practices: on operationalizing fairness, diversity, transparency, and data protection in all stages of the data acquisition and processing lifecycle. She established the Data, Responsibly consortium, serves on the ACM task force to revise the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, and is active in the New York City algorithmic transparency effort. In addition to data ethics, Julia works on management and analysis of preference data, and on querying large evolving graphs. She holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Computer Science and in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Deep Curation: Putting Open Science Data to Work
Bill Howe (University of Washington)
Data in public repositories and in the scientific literature remains remarkably underused despite significant investments in open data and open science. Making data available online turns out to be the easy part; making the data usable for data science requires new services to support longitudinal, multi-dataset analysis rather than just settling for keyword search.
In the Deep Curation project, we use distant supervision and co-learning to automatically label datasets with zero training data. We have applied this approach to curate gene expression data and identify figures in the scientific literature, outperforming state-of-the-art supervised methods that rely on supervision. We then use claims extracted from the text of papers to guide probabilistic data integration and schema matching, affording experiments to automatically verify claims against open data, providing a repository-wide "report card" for the utility of data and the reliability of the claims against them.
Bill Howe is an Associate Professor in the Information School, Adjunct Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, and Associate Director and Senior Data Science Fellow at the UW eScience Institute. He is a co-founder of Urban@UW, and with support from the MacArthur Foundation and Microsoft, leads UW's participation in the MetroLab Network. He created a first MOOC on Data Science through Coursera, and led the creation of the UW Data Science Masters Degree, where he serves as its first Program Director and Faculty Chair. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the Center for Statistics in the Social Sciences.
May 15; 3:30-5:00
Rethinking Query Execution on Big Data
Dan Suciu (University of Washington)
Database engines today use the same approach to evaluate a query as they did forty years ago: convert the query into a query plan, then execute each operator individually, e.g. a join, followed by another join, followed by duplicate elimination. It turns out that converting a query into binary joins is theoretically suboptimal, and this can lead to poor performance over very large datasets. A new query evaluation paradigm has emerged recently (some of it coming out of U. of Buffalo), which, in some cases, leads to provably optimal algorithms. In this talk I will give a brief survey and some new results of this new paradigm: I will review the AGM bound on the query size (Atserias, Grohe and Marx), the worst-case optimal "generic join" algorithm for full conjunctive queries (Ngo, Re, and Rudra), and our new algorithm for aggregate queries, called PANDA, which matches the best known running times for certain graph problems. (Joint work with Mahmoud Abo Khamis and Hung Ngo)
Dan Suciu is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, was a principal member of the technical staff at AT&T Labs and joined the University of Washington in 2000. Suciu is conducting research in data management, with an emphasis on topics related to Big Data and data sharing, such as probabilistic data, data pricing, parallel data processing, data security. He is a co-author of two books Data on the Web: from Relations to Semistructured Data and XML, 1999, and Probabilistic Databases, 2011. He is a Fellow of the ACM, holds twelve US patents, received the best paper award in SIGMOD 2000 and ICDT 2013, the ACM PODS Alberto Mendelzon Test of Time Award in 2010 and in 2012, the 10 Year Most Influential Paper Award in ICDE 2013, the VLDB Ten Year Best Paper Award in 2014, and is a recipient of the NSF Career Award and of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. Suciu serves on the VLDB Board of Trustees, and is an associate editor for the Journal of the ACM, VLDB Journal, ACM TWEB, and Information Systems and is a past associate editor for ACM TODS and ACM TOIS. Suciu's PhD students Gerome Miklau, Christopher Re and Paris Koutris received the ACM SIGMOD Best Dissertation Award in 2006, 2010, and 2016 respectively, and Nilesh Dalvi was a runner up in 2008.
Diagnoses and Explanations: Creating a Higher-Quality Data World
Alexandra Meliou (UMass Amherst)
The correctness and proper function of data-driven systems and applications relies heavily on the correctness of their data. Low quality data can be costly and disruptive, leading to revenue loss, incorrect conclusions, and misguided policy decisions. Improving data quality is far more than purging datasets of errors; it is critical to improve the processes that produce the data, to collect good data sources for generating the data, and to address the root causes of problems.
Our work is grounded on an important insight: While existing data cleaning techniques can be effective at purging datasets of errors, they disregard the fact that a lot of errors are systemic, inherent to the process that produces the data, and thus will keep occurring unless the problem is corrected at its source. In contrast to traditional data cleaning, we focus on data diagnosis: explaining where and how the errors happen in a data generative process. I will describe our work on Data X-Ray and QFix, two diagnostic frameworks for large-scale extraction systems and relational data systems. I will also discuss our work on MIDAS, a recommendations system that improves the quality of datasets by identifying and filling information gaps. Finally, I will discuss a vision for explanation frameworks to assist the exploration of information in a varied, diverse, highly non-integrated data world.
Alexandra Meliou is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Prior to that, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Washington, working with Dan Suciu. Alexandra received her PhD degree from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She has received recognitions for research and teaching, including a CACM Research Highlight, an ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, and a Lilly Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. Her research focuses on data provenance, causality, explanations, data quality, and algorithmic fairness.
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1. Living room, as a main place in a house, is the most attractive place and connects the interior and the exterior, host and guest. The painting theme, colors and style of decorative painting hung in the living room should be consolidated with furniture and decoration. Usually, there is a large set of canvas artwork with strong visual effect on the main wall of living room, giving the room much annotation and sublimation.
2. A piece of bright, elegant and tender canvas art in the dining room makes people joyful during dining time. It always gives us refreshing atmosphere and a good appetite. The best size for wall hanging painting should be around 50*60 CM. Classical still-life painting, such as fruits, flowers would be the traditional choice. However, we can pick one that we favorite, just like Red Wine, Blue Sky or Green Mountains and Water etc.
Note: The color should be soft and fresh; the painting should be tidy and clean and the brushing should be fine and vivid. If the dining room is connected with living room, it'd better to coordinate with that in living room.
3. The bedroom is the breeding ground of nice dream and wild fantasy; the activator of reality and delusion. Since bedroom is the private place for host, so we needn't rigidly adhere to painting themes, but choose the one gives us comfortable and warmly romantic atmosphere. It's recommended that the body painting, warm color scenery painting, classical with more abstract style painting with size about 90*135 CM. The best place to hang a canvas painting is right up the head of bed. We need to consider both overall coordination and local contrast during choosing paintings for bedroom, to project décor effect through visual contrast.
Note: Must put two hooks for hanging the painting art.
4. Artwork for study, to large extent, is the expansion of living room canvas art. However, with its own character, it's different for the main point. Firstly, study space is smaller, so we shouldn't select large size décor canvas. Not too small either or it can't show the painting content completely. Secondly, we should keep "Quiet" and "View" in our mind. The paintings theme for study shouldn't be too dynamic; meanwhile, the color should be soft and a bit cold to have "Quiet" atmosphere. What's important, the wall art should have a strong sense of hierarchy and far extended sense of tension to enlarge the study space and relieve our eyes' tiredness. Except for harmony and artistic quality, we need to select the art theme with more strong historic culture to reach "view" sublimation.
5. It's suggested to have lucid and lively art cartoon wall decoration for child room. Not just decorating the room but also brings the art of enlightenment and perceptual training for child.
6. Washing room and kitchen, in the special condition with much moisture and oil, it has higher requirement for the painting material. So, a kind of art wall printed on tile is much proper for this environment.
7. Putting canvas arts on the two sides of long corridor or stairs, with soft light and classical music to make a dazzling artistic gallery. Such scene is always seen in foreign movies. Corridor and stairs are the connection of room space in a house, so it's free to décor such space, but keep the two places paintings in a same level, size and frame in a proper height with suitable light, that's ok.


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Church of Our Lady of Work
Laurent Bourdaire
Church rebuilt by Abbot Soulange-Bodin at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Produced by architect Jules Astruc, the chosen style (largely inspired by Eiffel and Baltard) recall their factory to workers of the neighborhood of Plaisance. It was then that the church has been dedicated to work.
"It is by coming to the Exposition Universelle workers of both worlds can come and pray in the sanctuary of Our Lady of Labor. It is in 1900, while the Palace of open work product 's Opens to the producers of a large labor union Sanctuary and harmony." Abbot Soulange-Bodin, Pastor.
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Overview and HistoryWelcome to Paris, the City Of Lights, La Ville-Lumiere! We're going to depart from the standard timeline here and just start looking at pictures. You can put the history together in your mind along the way, or live contentedly with an abstract expression of images, whichever you prefer.For lessons in light from the expressionist masters, blur yourself directly to the Orsay Museum and find Monet, Renoir and Cezanne waiting. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.The River Seine divides the city into two halves, called the Left Bank and Right Bank. The right bank is on the north side, left to the south. In general the right bank claims the sophistication and modern development in Paris, while the left bank has the universities, parks and historic areas.There are two islands on the river in the middle of the city, Ile de la Cite and Ile de St. Louis. Here's a beautiful Flower Market on Ile de la City, which is the oldest section of the city. It's also home to Notre Dame cathedralThe Right Bank has a big hill called Montmartre, literally translating to "Mount Mars" or "Mountain of the Martyr", depending on which time period you take the story from. Its name dates back to at least 250A.D and it's home to the Sacre Coeur Basilica among many other things of note, such as the studios of Salvadore Dali, Picasso and Van Gogh.And what else? The Champs-Elysees, of course! The Champs-Elysees is the most prestigious avenue in Paris. L'Arc de Triomph stands at the western end of the Champs-Elysees, at the star shaped intersection of twelve major avenues which is called Place d'Etoil. The Arch is a monument to all who fought for France, especially during the Napoleonic wars.By the way, the sprint finish of the Tour de France -- the most prestigious bicycle race in the world -- comes down the Champs-Elysees. Catch it in the early summer.You may have heard of a museum called Le Louvre. Before you attempt to visit it, go through some tour de france training to build up your stamina. This is a museum big enough to take your whole summer to walk through, and that's without even stopping to look at any of the art.Situated right along the river is the Place de la Concord, the largest open square in the city. It's where Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and 2,798 of their closest friends met the guillotine during the French Revolution. The smell of blood was so strong, according to the tale, that a herd of cattle refused to cross the square.Let's see what we have on the Left Bank. How about Les Invalides, a stately group of museums and monuments dedicated to military history, which also houses a hospital and residences for veterans.The Left Bank has for decades been the center of academic life in Paris, which can be summed up in a word: La Sorbonne. La Sorbonne is the nickname for the University of Paris, founded in 1257. It sits in a historic scholarly sector called the Latin Quarter, which connects La Sorbonne to the Left Bank (Place Maubert). If Paris was a tropical island, this would be the coral reef.Near La Sorbonne can be found Le Jardin de Luxembourg, where Marie d'Medici's chateau stands. It's a pleasant little country house in Florentine style. They used it for a prison during the French Revolution and for Luftwaffe headquarters during WWII. It now houses the French Senate. Shakespeare and Co Library sits in the heart of the Latin Quarter and has earned an international reputation for being more than just a bookshop.Getting ThereTake a look at the Gare du Nord Paris North Station. One of six large train stations in Paris, it's the busiest one in Europe. If you're already on the continent, you very well may arrive here.As for airports, there are two: Charles De Gualle and Orly. De Gaulle airport is about 25 minutes by train from Gare du Nord station, Orly is a bit closer. Here's the train information for connections to the city.TransportationHere's one of the 380 metro stations in Paris, the Palais-Royale at the Louvre. Looking good! This is Europe's second-largest metro system and it's connected with the buses the commuter rail network to get you around the city.People and CultureBeside the fact that Paris contains all walks of life, "people and culture" in Paris is synonymous with food and wine. Here we are smack in the middle of it, La Contrescarpe at Mouffetard Street.Remember, champagne was perfected here during the Belle Epoque, and you need the proper setting in which to drink it.And check out this fish shop!! This is what the zoom tool was made for!In case you're wondering, there's a gritty side to Paris, too. Here's a little mobile graffiti.In the same vein, by which I mean "cheap" or "free", stroll around Left Bank to the flea market at Place Maubert.Street musicians are another great thing about Paris. Here are some drummers, some visual artists on the Quai de Conti, and there should be an organ grinder on the corner when you get there. Let me know if you see him.Things to do & RecommendationsStreet food -- get a croque monsieur or croque madam, it's a toasted cheese sandwich with or without ham. They're so good, it's the pizza slice of Paris! I can't for the life of me understand why nobody has shot a panorama of one.Street food part 2, and I quote:"the motherfucking best falafel in the world is there in the Marais. it's called La Du's and it's on the Rue de Rosiers. it's the 5th I think, right bank. If you flirt with the take out boys they'll give you more falafel too, I'm not kidding it's a fucking transcendant experience." "there's also this bar in the 11th, called the baron rouge, where on sunday a friend of the owner drives in from normandy with a truck full of oysters and just parks it in front of the bar and sells oysters out the back and you just eat them on the street and drink Muscadet off the top of parked cars." (Thank you Allison O'Leary)Spend a little time outdoors in the beautiful Botanical Garden, see if you can find the recycled dragon.No trip to Paris would ever be complete without... well actually the reason Paris is Paris because you never finish seeing it all.Move there, spend a lifetime there, walk everyplace you go and you still won't see it all. It's like New York, London or Tokyo; anyplace in such a state of constant change will remain eternally elusive.I almost said, "no trip to Paris would be complete without going up the Eiffel Tower and seeing the view from the top."Text by Steve Smith.
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Caught off-guard beside the Syrian
Sea in two churches in Cambridge
At Evening Prayer in Saint Bene't's Church, Cambridge, this evening (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015)
I was challenged unexpected;y not once or twice but three times in church today [30 August 2015] to think again and to pray more and do more about the crisis in Syria.
In the morning I attended the Eucharist at the parish church of Saint Mary and Saint Michael in the village of Trumpington, on the southern fringes of Cambridge, where I was staying for the weekend before moving into Sidney Sussex College for a study week.
The Offertory Hymn was that well-known hymn by the American Quaker poet and activist, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), Dear Lord and Father of mankind. I had been fumbling in my pocket for the collection, and as I returned to the hymn at the opening words of the second verse, I was struck by the lines:
In simple trust like theirs who heard,
beside the Syrian sea,
the gracious calling of the Lord,
let us, like them, without a word,
rise up and follow thee;
rise up and follow thee.
After receiving Communion at the rails, I returned to my pew, and joined the Communion hymn at the fourth verse of Kate Wilkinson's hymn, May the mind of Christ my Saviour:
May the love of Jesus fill me
as the waters fill the sea …
How could I not find myself thinking and praying this morning about Syrian refugees on the sea?
May I run the race before me,
strong and brave to face the foe,
looking only onto Jesus
as I onward go.
Later in the day, after I had settled into my rooms in Cloister Court in Sidney Sussex College, I slipped around the corner to Saint Bene't's Church for Evening Prayer. For the last few years, while I have been attending the IOCS summer schools and conferences in Sidney Sussex College, Saint Bene't's has been the nearest thing to a parish church I have in Cambridge.
This evening, Evening Prayer was being led by the associate priest at Saint Bene't's, the Revd Rachel Nichols. The Gospel reading this evening was Matthew 4: 23 to Matthew 5: 20.
Immediately before the Beatitudes we are told, "So his fame spread throughout Syria …" (Matthew 4: 24).
The crisis in Syria and the Syrian migrants on the sea cannot be pushed out of our minds and our prayers if we seek to be among those who are blessed because they mourn, because they are poor, seek peace and justice, peace righteousness and because they are merciful.
Looking out onto the world from Saint Bene't's Church, Cambridge, after Evening Prayer (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015)
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Trumpington parish church has
origins in Anglo-Saxon times
Parts of the parish church of Saint Mary and Saint Michael in Trumpington date from the mid-13th century (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015)
Trumpington, where I am staying this weekend, is about 3 km south of Cambridge city, is often overshadowed by nearby Grantchester, with its picture-postcard prettiness and its literary associations with Rupert Brooke.
Until the 20th century, Trumpington was an agricultural village with cattle and sheep as well as crops. Although most of Trumpington became part of the Cambridge city area in 1934, it has its own parish church and has existed as a separate parish from Anglo-Saxon times until the 20th century.
There is evidence of Iron Age and Roman settlements in Trumpington, near the ford on the River Cam by the road to Grantchester, and of a Roman cemetery. An Anglo-Saxon cemetery has also been found nearby at Dam Hill.
In 2012, archaeologists working in a field at Trumpington Meadows on the outskirts of the village found a seventh century Anglo-Saxon bed burial of a young woman aged about 16. She was buried on a wooden bed, and on her breast she had an ornate, jewelled gold pectoral cross inlaid with garnets. The cross indicates a member of a rich aristocratic family, and the grave may have been part of an Anglo-Saxon monastic community.
The Parish of Trumpington existed long before the Norman Conquest and has been known by several spellings. By 1086, in the time of the Domesday Book, there was a thriving community of 33 people here. The population had risen to 100 by the late 13th century, and the village was sizeable throughout the Middle Ages.
Although the original dedication of the church is unknown, many churches had their dedication changed to Saint Nicholas in the early Middle Ages and Trumpington Church was known by this name in 1291. The church was mainly built in 1200-1330. One of the oldest parts of the church is the stone at the base of a pillar, at the back of the nave, laid in 1200. The monumental brass of Sir Roger de Trumpington, a crusader knight, with the date 1289, is reputedly the second oldest brass in England.
The elaborate double piscina on the south side of the sanctuary (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015)
On the south side of the sanctuary there is an elaborate double piscina. Pope Innocent III ordered the construction of these in churches in 1216. These basins, which drain into earth, are for washing the priest's hands before celebrating the Eucharist and for draining off the water used to wash the sacred vessels afterwards.
The single piscina in the south chapel (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015)
As a single piscina was considered sufficient for both functions after 1300, so this part of the church can be dated to the 13th century. Examples of a single piscina can be found in both the north and south chapels.
The nave was rebuilt in 1339, and there were several attempts in the 14th century to determine the true direction of East, which has resulted in the chancel and the tower not being in line.
Documents later in the Middle Ages refer to the church as Saint Mary and Saint Michael, and this dedication continues to this day.
In the Middle Ages the church was endowed with stained glass and the walls were plastered and probably painted. Although much of the glass depicting saints and biblical figures was destroyed at the Reformation, heraldic motifs and purely decorative glass survived largely intact.
Some surviving mediaeval glass on the south side of the chancel (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015)
The wooden rood screen, at the entrance to the chancel, dates from the 15th century. The top of the rood screen was roughly sawn off during the Reformation, when these screens were seen as barriers between the priest and people.
The pulpit, was which was given to the church in 1677 by Thomas Allen, came from the old chapel of Emmanuel College after Christopher Wren designed the present college chapel. Originally, it was a three-decker pulpit with sounding board and stood in front of the first pillar in the nave.
There is a restored tomb canopy with a coffin lid on the chancel wall, possibly to a member of the Trumpington family.
Trumpington's parish church was renovated by William Butterfield in 1876, when the original Barnack stone was partly refaced with Bath stone, the roof was replaced, the walls were replastered, and the box pews were also repaired and replaced.
The church has a memorial window to Henry Fawcett (1833-1884). Although he was blinded in an accident when he was 25, he became the first Professor of Political Economy in Cambridge, an MP, and Postmaster-General in Gladstone's government, when he introduced parcel post.
There are headstones to the Maris family near the south porch and memorials to the Pemberton and Foster families to the right.
Past Vicars of Trumpington include Edmund Cosin, (1510/1511-1574?), college head, William Palmer (1538/9-1605), John Palmer (died 1607), Dean of Peterborough, William Dakins, (1568/9-1607), biblical scholar, John Overall (1561-1619), Bishop of Norwich, John Hacket (1592-1670), who as Bishop of Lichfield restored Lichfield Cathedral, John Hailstone (1759-1847), geologist, John Grote (1813-1866), William Saumarez Smith (1836-1909), Archbishop of Sydney, the Revd AC Moule (1873-1957), a former missionary in China, and the Revd David Maddox (1922-1997), who was Vicar in 1956-1990.
The old churchyard includes many 18th and 19th century graves, including the grave of Sir George Howard Darwin (1845-1912), son of Charles Darwin, mathematician and geophysicist.
Today, when visitors to Cambridge think of "Trumpington" and "church" they inevitably think of the Church of Saint Mary the Less ("LSM") on the corner of Trumpington Street and Little Saint Mary's Lane, next to Peterhouse. But the older Church of Saint Mary and Saint Michael in Trumpington itself is also worth a visit.
Mediaeval traces can be found throughout the church in Trumpington (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015)
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Let's parse useful and harmful properties of apricot more.
Use of apricot for human health.
The vitamins in apricot. An interesting fact is that among the other fruit crops grown in central of Europe, none can match the chemical composition of apricot on the content of beta-carotene, a known antioxidant and substances needed to support the organs of vision. Beta-carotene is the chemical composition of apricot contains about 16 mg per 100 grams, and from it the body produces a more active form of vitamin A. This vitamin also required for treatment many different diseases - from the "night blindness" to the lowering of the thyroid cancer and liver diseases.
However, the A vitamin deficiency is rarely treated foods that contain large amounts of beta-carotene. This is not due to lack one or the other in the diet, and that beta-carotene, for whatever reason is not absorbed in the body. There would be more efficient to use pure vitamin A.
But itself beta carotene performs many useful functions in the body. For example, has the properties to protect him from germs, viruses, radiation, prevent the development of cancer. These useful properties of apricot is enhanced content of vitamin C.
And another chemical composition comprises apricot much potassium, iron and magnesium. Thanks to the first of these fruits help maintain tone of blood vessels, iron and magnesium increase the amount of hemoglobin in the blood and help to improve the condition of the body in severe anemia.
Useful properties of apricot in the fact that their composition is contained in a large amount of fiber. Thanks to it, most of the cholesterol into the intestine with food, do not absorbed, and the amount of this enemy of the arteries in the blood decreases. Therefore, intensive use Apricot medicinal properties which appear with regular use reduces the risk of atherosclerosis.
Incidentally, the same potassium very positive effect on the kidneys and bladder, having useful properties in urolithiasis, and nephritis. And the benefit of fiber is that it is very much activates the processes of digestion and absorption of food in the intestines.
Another feature of the composition of the apricot is a high content of iodine salts in it. It is this element of the apricot has healing properties for the thyroid gland: prevents goiter development and stimulates the production of many essential hormones in the body.
Very popular are also ossicles of apricots. They are devoid of solid containment, slightly reminiscent of almonds and apparently some varieties Apricot completely devoid of bitterness.
Use apricot that it contains apricot oil - a substance widely used in medicine and cosmetics. For example, in Chinese medicine apricot kernel, the beneficial properties of which are actively used, treats diseases of the respiratory tract and kidney disease. In cosmetics as self apricot oil used in many creams and shampoos.
Harm of apricot for human health.
Apricot - a very sweet fruit. Its juice contains huge amounts of sugar and glucose. Even for humans illness with diabetes apricots composition of which is replete with sweetness, it is advisable not to drink at all.
Not less sweet composition of dried apricots. And because of that surplus sugar, it's contraindicated in metabolic disorders. But in the absence of contraindications apricots - a real source of energy and good mood, especially large juicy varieties, fruit is also very juicy and nutritious.
Hazardous properties apricots associated just with his ossicles. The composition of apricot's ossicle contains some hazardous substances. Hydrocyanic acid and amygdalin are extremely dangerous for human health. But the number of these substances in ossicles is very little, and when using them with the pulp of the fruits of apricot pectin actively promotes the conclusion of these substances from the body.
Even such a cursory look at the harmful and the beneficial properties of apricot is enough to understand why it is so popular. Even despite the fact that it blooms very early and, for this reason, not every year can produce a crop. Such sweet and juicy fruit is very little, and those delicacies that they are in a dried form, are not inferior to taste confections. Therefore, if there are no contraindications, orange safely enjoy these gifts of nature and their use, and thus recovering their health.
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\section{Introduction \label{sec:intr}}

The duality between Type IIB string theory on $AdS_5$ $\times$ $S^5$ and ${\cal N} = 4$ SU($N$) supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) \cite{Maldacena:1997re,Gubser:1998bc,Witten:1998qj} has been
studied extensively as a means to provide insight to the inner workings of strongly coupled
systems where perturbation theory is not valid, and where lattice gauge theory and Monte Carlo techniques are available but
struggle with real time physics.  Motivated by the QGP created at RHIC,
holography has helped guide our understanding of shear viscosity, drag, screening
length and jet quenching to name a few; see \cite{Karch:2011ds} for a recent perspective on these developments by one of us.  The dual description of a classical string
ending on a probe brane has given information on the characteristics of a point particle,
possibly a quark, traveling through the Yang-Mills plasma, which is thought to be
a good approximation for the strongly coupled QCD.  Recently it has been seen that one
can also study extended defects with dimensions larger than a point, living in $AdS_d$
spaces, the idea being that one can shed new light on the dynamics of energy loss at strong coupling~\cite{stefan}.
We extend the ideas of~\cite{karchquarkdrag, herzogquarkdrag, stefan} to a general metric with a compact internal space.
 We produce general solutions for the equation of motion and the energy loss of an extended defect moving
uniformly through the bulk whose geometry is described by a generic brane-like metric.
We study two examples in detail, general D$p$-brane metrics and holographic superfluids.  After working out the
energy loss for D$p$-branes, we find that the energy loss of these extended probes is given by simple power laws in
velocity and temperature, revealing that the energy loss depends only on an effective temperature multiplied by the velocity squared
- the moving probe being affected only by a blue-shifted
energy density - despite the existence of an intrinsic scale in the underlying theory.
We then apply our results to dragging string- and sheet-like defects through holographic superfluids.

We organize these ideas as follows: In section II, we will calculate a general equation of motion and solution to a uniformly
moving defect in a general bulk theory.  We then find a general energy loss formula for said defect.  In section III,
we apply these results to metrics created by general D$p$-branes.  In section IV, we apply our results
to a holographic superfluid.

\section{Calculations \label{calculations}}

We want to study a general holographic brane-like metric.  This metric will preserve the symmetries
of the dual field theory. Therefore, it should be rotationally
invariant and translationally invariant in both the spatial and time dimensions.  In addition it should preserve the
isometries of the internal space.  To these ends, we introduce the following diagonal metric
\begin{eqnarray}
ds^2=G_{\mu\nu}dx^{\mu}dx^{\nu}
\nonumber\\
=G_{tt}dt^2+G_{xx}\sum_{i=1}dx_i^2+G_{uu}du^2+G_{\theta\theta}d\Omega^2,
\label{generalform}
\end{eqnarray}
with $N+2$ total space-time dimensions.
At this point, the $N+1$ spatial coordinates are arbitrarily
separated into $M$ Cartesian coordinates and $N-M$ spherical angles of the internal space. The additional radial coordinate is
denoted by $u$. It is
understood that $G_{\theta\theta}$ is only a function of $u$ and since none of our results depend on the details of the
internal space we will take $d\Omega^2$ be a unit sphere - i.e. $d\Omega^2$ contains the appropriate terms for the
angular variables of a unit sphere of arbitrary dimension. We are only considering metrics whose $G_{ii}$ depend
only on $u$, and whose $G_{tt}$ and $G_{xx}$ grow with $u$ at the same rate, both of which grow faster with $u$ than
$G_{\theta\theta}$.  The rationale behind this is that the gravity theory in the bulk has a dual interpretation in terms
of a field theory at the $u = \infty$ boundary which lives in $M+1$ space-time dimensions.

In a manner similar to~\cite{stefan}, we introduce a defect of spatial dimension $n+1$ in the bulk.
The defect has $n$ spatial dimensions orthogonal to $u$ which
are divided into $m$ infinitely extended Cartesian
directions on the boundary, denoted $\vec{y}$, and $n-m$ angular directions, denoted $\vec{\theta}$.
It will then move in an additional transverse direction, $x$.
Since the dimensionality of the bulk puts constraints on the size of the defect we find $m+1\leq M$ and $n+1\leq N$.

In the static gauge, the world-volume map is of the form $X =(t,u,\vec{y}, \vec{\theta},x(t,u,\vec{y},\vec{\theta}),
\vec{z}=const)$ where $\vec{z}$ are any additional unused orthogonal coordinates in the bulk.   The induced metric on the world volume is defined
as $g_{\alpha\beta} = G_{\mu\nu}\frac{\partial X^{\mu}}{\partial\sigma^{\alpha}}\frac{\partial
X^{\nu}}{\partial\sigma^{\beta}}$. We find $g = \det (g_{\alpha\beta})$ to be
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{inducedg}
g = G_{xx}^m G_{\theta\theta}^{n-m} [G_{tt}G_{uu}+G_{tt}G_{xx} (x_{,u})^2
\nonumber\\
+ G_{uu}G_{xx} (x_{,t})^2 + G_{tt}G_{uu}\sum_{i}^m (x_{,y_i})^2
\nonumber\\
+\frac{G_{tt}G_{uu}G_{xx}}{G_{\theta\theta}}\sum_{j}^{n-m} (x_{,\theta_j})^2]
\end{eqnarray}
where $(x_{,\sigma})$ denotes the partial derivative of $x$ with respect to the coordinate $\sigma$.

Our general metric will have some intrinsic scale governed by its radii of curvature, all of which we take parametrically to be of the same
order $R$. The bulk theory will be governed
by classical gravity if $R$ abides by $M_{pl}R\gg1$, where $M_{pl}^{N} = 1/16\pi G$,
  (ensuring our curvature is not too large in Planck units). We want to describe the defect by the following Nambu-Goto-like
  action
\begin{equation}
\label{nglike}
S = -T_0 \int e^{-\Phi}\sqrt{-g} \prod_i d\sigma_i
\end{equation}
where $g$ is given by (\ref{inducedg}), $T_0$ is the
tension and the integral is over all world-volume coordinates. $\Phi$ is a function of the background scalar fields, the dilaton field,
$\phi$, for example. Unlike the coupling to the background metric, the functional form of the coupling to the background scalars is not fixed by diffeomorphism invariance and in principle $e^{-\Phi}$ can be a complicated function of the background scalars. As long as the background scalars respect the symmetries of the metric, they can only depend on the radial coordinate $u$ and we can treat $\Phi$ as a function of $u$. Two important probes we are going to consider in examples for $\Phi(u)$ are a fundamental string, whose action has the form (\ref{nglike}) with $\Phi=0$, and probe D-branes, whose action is of the form (\ref{nglike}) with $\Phi=\phi$.
We can trust the classical treatment of this action
so long as $T_0 R^{n+2}\gg 1$. Additionally, demanding that
$(M_{pl}R)^N\gg T_0R^{n+2}$ will render gravitational back-reaction negligible.

With $\mathcal{L}=-T_0 e^{-\Phi}\sqrt{-g}$ we find the following canonical momentum densities:
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{momenta}
\Pi_x^t=\frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial (x_{,t})}=-T_0
\frac{G_{uu}G_{xx}^{m+1}G_{\theta\theta}^{n-m}}{\sqrt{-g}}(x_{,t})e^{-\Phi}
\nonumber\\
\Pi_x^u=\frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial (x_{,u})}=-T_0
\frac{G_{tt}G_{xx}^{m+1}G_{\theta\theta}^{n-m}}{\sqrt{-g}}(x_{,u})e^{-\Phi}
\nonumber\\
\Pi_x^{y_i}=\frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial (x_{,y_i})}=-T_0
\frac{G_{tt}G_{uu}G_{xx}^{m}G_{\theta\theta}^{n-m}}{\sqrt{-g}}(x_{,y_i})e^{-\Phi}
\nonumber\\
\Pi_x^{\theta_i}=\frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial (x_{,\theta_i})}=-T_0
\frac{G_{tt}G_{uu}G_{xx}^{m+1}G_{\theta\theta}^{n-m-1}}{\sqrt{-g}}(x_{,\theta_i})e^{-\Phi}
\end{eqnarray}

Requiring a vanishing variation in our action yields
\begin{equation}
\sum_{i}^n \partial_{\sigma_i} (\Pi_{\mu}^{\sigma_i}) = 0
\end{equation}

Setting $\mu$ to x gives us our equation of motion.

We are interested in a solution of a uniformly moving object.  The defect should move in a direction transverse to
its spatial extent and travel with a constant velocity in the x direction.  Thus, our ansatz is
\begin{equation}
\nonumber x(t,u,\vec{y})= vt + x(u).
\end{equation}

With this form, $g$ becomes independent of time and our equation of motion, $\sum_{i}^n \partial_{\sigma_i} \Pi_{mu}^{\sigma_i} = 0$, will then reduce to
\begin{equation}
\nonumber\partial_u \left( \frac{G_{tt}G_{xx}^{m+1}G_{\theta\theta}^{n-m}}{\sqrt{-g}}(x_{,u})e^{-\Phi} \right)=0,
\end{equation}
which gives us
\begin{equation}
\label{xp}
(x_{,u})^2 = \frac{C^2e^{2\Phi}(-g)}{G_{tt}^2G_{xx}^{2(m+1)}G_{\theta\theta}^{2(n-m)}},
\end{equation}
and plugging in for $g$
\begin{equation}
\label{xonsol}
\textstyle(x_{,u})^2 = -(Ce^{\Phi})^2\frac{G_{uu}}{G_{tt}G_{xx}e^{2\Phi}}\{\frac{G_{tt}+G_{xx}v^2}{G_{tt}G_{xx}^{m+1}G_{\theta\theta}^{n-m}e^{-2\Phi}+C^2}\}
\end{equation}

We expect on physical grounds, that $(x_{,u})$ should be real, and thus $(x_{,u})^2$ and $(-g)$ should be positive.  From
(\ref{xonsol}), we see that this will be true if $G_{tt}+G_{xx}v^2$
and $G_{tt}G_{xx}^{m+1}G_{\theta\theta}^{n-m}e^{-2\Phi}+C^2$ both switch sign at the same value of $u$.  Assuming that
there is at most one root, call it $u_c$, we can solve for it from
\begin{equation}
\label{uccond}
 G_{tt}(u_c)+G_{xx}(u_c)v^2=0
\end{equation}
and if this root exists, we have
\begin{equation}
\label{c}
\nonumber\\C = \pm e^{-\Phi}\sqrt{-G_{tt}G_{xx}^{m+1}G_{\theta\theta}^{n-m}}|_{u=u_c}.
\end{equation}
The case where $u_c$ does not exist occurs in our example of a holographic superfluid and will be discussed in section
IV. The induced metric can be diagonalized and this diagonal form has a time component which vanishes when $G_{tt}(u_c)+G_{xx}(u_c)v^2=0$.
This tells us that $u_c$ denotes the worldvolume horizon.

Using (\ref{uccond}) to plug in for $G_{tt}$ and defining $\tilde{C} = C/v$ we have
\begin{equation}
\label{Ctilde}
\tilde{C} = \pm e^{-\Phi}\sqrt{G_{xx}^{m+2}G_{\theta \theta}}|_{u=u_c}
\end{equation}

The momentum loss rate, due to momentum flowing along the defect and towards the horizon, is given by -$\Pi_x^u$
which is seen from (\ref{momenta}) and (\ref{xp}) to be
\begin{equation}
\label{pitu}
-\Pi_x^u = T_0C.
\end{equation}
The momentum loss rate directly gives us the drag force density. The energy loss rate, $-\Pi_t^u$, is simply $v$ times the momentum loss rate.
Physically, we expect that we have energy flowing towards
the horizon of the black brane, which requires our loss rate to be positive. We thus pick the positive sign for $\tilde{C}$.
\begin{equation}
\label{cagain}
\tilde{C} = e^{-\Phi}\sqrt{G_{xx}^{m+2}G_{\theta\theta}^{n-m}}|_{u=u_c}.
\end{equation}
While we have established that this stationary solution is a consistent solution
to the equations of motion, what is less obvious is that it is stable. Small
fluctuations around dragging sheets in AdS$_7$ have recently been studied
in \cite{Janiszewski:2011sx}
and it has been found that these fluctuations do not exhibit any instabilities,
that is any modes that grow exponentially in time.
A new potential instability in our case is the slipping mode on the internal space,
that is fluctuations in the $\theta$ directions that take our defect off the equator of the internal
sphere. As such fluctuations reduce the volume of the defect (and hence its
potential energy), they clearly correspond to negative mass squared modes and are hence potentially
problematic. It is well known from the case of static defects, starting with the work
on flavor probe branes \cite{Karch:2002sh}, that these negative mass squared slipping modes
often are actually stable. For a background AdS space the basic physics behind this is
the BF bound \cite{Breitenlohner:1982bm}. The potential energy gain of the fluctuation is
offset by the kinetic energy cost of any fluctuation in a spacetime geometry that
effectively corresponds to a finite size box. A similar effect also occurs in the more general
holographic metrics. In particular, it has been shown in \cite{Camino:2001at}
that supersymmetric D$q$-brane
defects in black D$p$-brane backgrounds (which will be the first example we apply our results to)
have stable slipping modes. For non-supersymmetric defects stability of the slipping mode will
have to be checked on a case by case basis.

\section{p-branes \label{p-branes}}

We now turn to the example of general D$p$-branes which create geometries dual to SYM in $p+1$ dimensions
on the boundary, at finite temperature. From~\cite{pbranes} we see that in the limit that
\begin{equation}
g^{2}_{YM}=(2\pi)^{p-2}g_s\alpha'^{(p-3)/2}=\mathsf{fixed}, \nonumber
\end{equation}
as
\begin{equation}
\alpha'\rightarrow 0 \nonumber
\end{equation}
where $g_s = e^{\phi_{\infty}}$, and $g_{YM}$ is the Yang-Mills coupling constant,
the D$p$ brane metric becomes,
\begin{eqnarray}
ds^2=\alpha'\{\frac{u^{(7-p)/2}}{g_{YM}\sqrt{d_pN'}}\left[-(1-\frac{u_0^{7-p}}{u^{7-p}})dt^2+dy_{\parallel}^2\right]
\nonumber\\
+\frac{g_{YM} \sqrt{d_pN'}}{u^{(7-p)/2}(1-\frac{u_0^{7-p}}{u^{7-p}})}du^2
\nonumber\\
+g_{YM}\sqrt{d_pN'}u^{(p-3)/2}d\Omega_{8-p}^2\}
\label{dpmetric}
\end{eqnarray}
which indeed is of the general form (\ref{generalform}).  Here, $N'$ is the number of branes and
 $d_p = 2^{7-2p} \pi^{\frac{9-3p}{2}}\Gamma(\frac{7-p}{2})$.

The dilaton is
\begin{equation}
e^{\phi}=(2\pi)^{2-p}g^2_{YM}(\frac{g^2_{YM}d_pN'}{u^{7-p}})^{\frac{3-p}{4}},
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
u_0^{7-p}= \frac{\Gamma(\frac{9-p}{2})2^{11-2p}\pi^{\frac{13-3p}{2}}}{(9-p)}g^4_{YM}\epsilon,
\end{equation}
where $\epsilon$ corresponds to the energy density of the Yang-Mills theory.

Following the outline laid out in the previous section, we first need to find $u_c$ from (\ref{uccond}).  Extracting $G_{tt}$
and $G_{xx}$ from (\ref{dpmetric}), and plugging into (\ref{uccond}) we find
\begin{equation}
u_c = \frac{u_0}{(1-v^2)^{1/(7-p)}}
\end{equation}

At this stage we need to commit to the nature of the probe, that is we need to chose a particular function $\Phi$.
Let us first focus on the case where the dragging object is a D$(n+1)$-brane itself,
 in which case it couples to the string theory dilaton $\phi$ with an overall prefactor of $e^{-\phi}$ in the action, that is $\Phi=\phi$.
From (\ref{pitu}) we find we can isolate the dependence of $\tilde{C}$ on $v$ and $T$
\begin{equation}
\label{defineab}
\tilde{C} = P(1-v^2)^A T^B
\end{equation}
Where the prefactor is,
\begin{equation}
P=\left(\frac{(\alpha')^{n+2}(2\pi)^{2(p-2)}}{g_{YM}^{4}(g_{YM}\sqrt{d_pN})^{2m-n-p+5}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}}\left(\frac{4\pi}{7-p}\right)^{B},
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
A = -\frac{1}{4}\left(5+m-p+\frac{(p-3)(n-m)}{(7-p)}\right)
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
B= - 2\frac{(7-p)}{(5-p)}A.
\end{equation}
Here we have made use of the relation
\begin{equation}
\label{u0}
u_0 = \left(\frac{4\pi T}{7-p}\right)^{\frac{2}{5-p}}.
\end{equation}

Various dependencies of $\tilde{C}$ on velocity and temperature are shown in the following tables for different values of $p$ (rows) and
$n$ (columns). Each table has a specific value of $m$, and the entries in the table are of the form \{$A$,$B$\}, where $A$
and $B$ are defined as in (\ref{defineab}).

Table I shows the dependencies for allowing our defect to have a point on the internal sphere, $n=m$.
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	\hline
	$p \backslash n$   & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ \hline
	1 & $\{-1,3\}$  & $\{-\frac{5}{4},\frac{15}{4}\}$ & N/A & N/A & N/A\\ \hline
	2 & $ \{-\frac{3}{4},\frac{5}{2}\}$ & $\{-1,\frac{10}{3}\}$ & $\{-\frac{5}{4},\frac{25}{6}\}$ & N/A & N/A\\ \hline
	3 & $ \{-\frac{1}{2},2\}$ & $\{-\frac{3}{4},3\}$ & $\{-1,4\}$ & $\{-\frac{5}{4},5\}$ & N/A\\ \hline
	4 & $ \{-\frac{1}{4},\frac{3}{2}\}$ & $\{-\frac{1}{2},3\}$ & $\{-\frac{3}{4},\frac{9}{2}\}$ & $\{-1,6\}$ & $\{-\frac{5}{4},\frac{15}{2}\}$\\ \hline
	\end{tabular}
      \caption{\{$A$,$B$\} displayed for the case where the defect does not extend into the internal space, $m=n$.}
	\end{table}
For table II we allow one spatial dimension of the defect to go to the internal space (our defect must have a minimum dimension of $n=1$, as we are insisting
that one of our spatial dimensions lives in the internal sphere). For table III we allow two spatial dimensions of our defect to go to the internal space (now our defect must have at
least 2 spatial dimensions, $n=2$, and $p$ must contain $n$, meaning $p \geq 2 $).
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
	\begin{table}
	\begin{tabular}{ | l | p{1.4cm} | p{1.4cm} | p{1.4cm} | p{1.4cm} |}
	\hline
	$p \backslash n$    & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ \hline
	1 & $ \{-\frac{11}{12},\frac{11}{4}\}$ & N/A & N/A & N/A \\ \hline
	2 & $ \{-\frac{7}{10},\frac{7}{3}\}$ & $\{-\frac{19}{20},\frac{19}{6}\}$ & N/A & N/A \\ \hline
	3 & $ \{-\frac{1}{2},2\}$ & $\{-\frac{3}{4},3\}$ & $\{-1,4\}$ & N/A \\ \hline
	4 & $ \{-\frac{1}{3},2\}$ & $\{-\frac{7}{12},\frac{7}{2}\}$ & $\{-\frac{5}{6},5\}$ & $\{-\frac{13}{12},\frac{13}{2}\}$ \\ \hline
	\end{tabular}
	\caption{\{$A$,$B$\} displayed for the case where the defect extends into one dimension in the internal space, $m=n-1$.}
	\end{table}

\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
	\begin{table}
	\begin{tabular}{ | l | p{1.4cm} | p{1.4cm} | p{1.4cm} | }
	\hline
	$p \backslash n$   & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ \hline
	2 & $ \{-\frac{13}{20},\frac{13}{6}\}$ & N/A & N/A  \\ \hline
	3 & $ \{-\frac{1}{2},2\}$ & $\{-\frac{3}{4},3\}$ & N/A  \\ \hline
	4 & $ \{-\frac{5}{12},\frac{5}{2}\}$ & $\{-\frac{2}{3},4\}$ & $\{-\frac{11}{12},\frac{11}{2}\}$  \\ \hline
	\end{tabular}
	\caption{\{$A$,$B$\} displayed for the case where the defect extends into two dimensions of the internal space, $m=n-2$.}
	\end{table}

The D$p$-brane energy density obeys the following relation, $\epsilon \sim T^{2\frac{(7-p)}{5-p}}$. Under
a boost, we expect $\epsilon \rightarrow \gamma^2\epsilon$ and thus
 $T^{2\frac{(7-p)}{(5-p)}} \rightarrow \gamma^2 T^{2\frac{(7-p)}{(5-p)}}$.  This motivates the definition of
\begin{equation}
  T_{\mathsf{eff}} = \gamma^\frac{(5-p)}{(7-p)} T = \gamma^{-2A/B} T.
\end{equation}
With this definition of the effective temperature we see that, analogous to relation (\ref{u0}),
we have an identical relation between the worldvolume horizon and the effective temperature,
\begin{equation}
\label{uc}
u_c = \left(\frac{4\pi T_{\mathsf{eff}}}{7-p}\right)^{\frac{2}{5-p}}.
\end{equation}
Consequently we see that $T^B =
 (1-v^2)^{-A} T_{\mathsf{eff}}^B$ and so we can rewrite $\tilde{C}$ as
\begin{equation}
 \tilde{C} = P T_{\mathsf{eff}}^B.
\end{equation}
This tells us that the loss rate of the moving defect is only dependent on velocity in a trivial way -  the defect only sees a blueshifted
energy density - and that there are no sensitivities to the microscopic details of the plasma despite the fact that $g_{YM}$
is a dimensionfull quantity and hence defines a microscopic scale in the system. Presumably this is a consequence of the hidden conformal invariance that is present in the D$p$ brane systems as first exhibited in
\cite{Kanitscheider:2009as}.

There is an area of overlap between this work and~\cite{stefan}, where in the latter, various dimensional defects are
studied is AdS spaces of variable dimension.  Our results for a D$p$-brane with $p=3$ reproduce the equation of motions
and loss rates found in~\cite{stefan} for the case $AdS_5$, as it should. For the case of a pointlike
defect, $m=n=0$, our results can be compared to the formulas quoted for the dragging string in \cite{Karch:2009eb} following the analysis of dragging strings in general holographic metrics performed in \cite{herzogquarkdrag}. Our $m=n=0$ results are for a dragging D-string, as we included an overall $e^{-\phi}$ coupling in the action.
To compare with the results for the dragging fundamental string we have to set $\Phi=0$ in our analysis (that is, the worldvolume action is independent of the dilaton). It is easy to see that in this case our general expression (\ref{pitu}) indeed nicely reduces to the result of \cite{Karch:2009eb}.
Other than the trivial velocity dependence, the energy loss rate still only depends on velocity and temperature via a power of $u_c$,
and hence, due to (\ref{uc}), via the effective temperature.

Last but not least, it is interesting
to note that for the case $m=n=1$ and $p=6$, our defect's energy loss rate is independent of both velocity and temperature, other than the
expected velocity squared dependence. In $p=6$ case, there is no good decoupling limit~\cite{pbranes} and it is not clear what significance should be attached to this
result.

\section{Superfluidity}
Pointlike probes have been used to study superfluids that have a gravity dual \cite{Gubser:2008px,Hartnoll:2008vx}. This is an area in
which strongly interacting extended defects exist in nature (vortices in Liquid Helium) and thus suggests a
possible analysis using a gauge-string
duality. Following the layout of~\cite{superfluid}, we are interested in using a superconducting black hole in $AdS_5$.

The bulk theory has metric, gauge field, and a complex scalar field (magnitude $\eta$ and phase $\theta$) degrees of
freedom, and is governed by
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{bulk}=R-\frac{1}{4}F_{\mu\nu}^2 -
\nonumber\\\frac{1}{2}\left[(\partial_{\mu}\eta)^2+\Sigma(\eta)(\partial_{\mu}\theta-q A_{\mu})^2\right]-V(\eta).
\end{equation}
This Lagrangian density allows a charged black brane solution to the metric of the form
\begin{equation}
\label{blackbrane}
ds^2 = e^{2A(u)}(-h(u)dt^2+d\vec{x}^2) + \frac{du^2}{h(u)},
\end{equation}
where $A_{\mu}dx^{\mu} = A_0(u)dt$, $\eta = \eta(u)$, $\theta = 0$, $A(u)$ is the warp factor, $h(u)$ is the blackening function,
and u is the ``radial coordinate" that is defined between $-\infty$ and $\infty$. $V$ and $\Sigma$ are in principle
free functions of $\eta$ which in reference \cite{superfluid} are taken to be $V(\eta)= -\frac{3}{L^2}\cosh^2(\frac{\eta}{2})(5-\cosh(\eta))$ and
$\Sigma(\eta)=\sinh^2(\eta)$. These particular forms are
required for a consistent truncation of Type II B supergravity on a Sasaki-Einstein
manifold \cite{Gubser:2009qm}. The blackening
function smoothly interpolates from 1 at large $u$, to its asymptotically value $v_{IR}^2$ as $u \rightarrow -\infty$.

We can now apply our general formulae to the gravity dual metric for this holographic superfluid.
We first reproduce some results of \cite{superfluid}. A string in the bulk has the following action,
\begin{equation}
\label{defectaction}
S = -\int d\sigma d\tau \frac{1}{2\pi\alpha'}Q(\eta)\sqrt{-g},
\end{equation}
where $Q = \cosh(\frac{\eta}{2})$, and $\alpha'$ is the square of the string length
scale and goes to zero in the limit of infinite string tension.
We compare their action for the string (20) to our general formula (\ref{nglike}) setting $m=n$ and
$n=0$ so that we are
discussing the same defect.  We find that we should make the associations $T_0 \rightarrow \frac{1}{2\pi\alpha'}$,
and $e^{-\Phi(u)}\rightarrow Q(\eta(u))$.

Following our prescription for finding the solution to a uniformly moving defect,
we first find the root of equation (\ref{uccond})
where we are now using the metric appropriate for our bulk theory in $AdS_5$ (\ref{blackbrane}).  We see that
$G_{tt}=-e^{2A}h$, $G_{xx} = e^{2A}$ and $G_{uu}=h^{-1}$.

From (\ref{uccond}), $u_c$ should be given by $h(u_c) = v^2$. It is clear from the form of $h(u)$ that if $v^2<v_{IR}^2$
there is no solution, and thus the value $h(u)$ approaches as $u\rightarrow -\infty$ defines a cutoff velocity,
 $v_{IR}$~\cite{superfluid}.  Defects whose velocities are below this cutoff experience zero drag force.

 For velocities above the cutoff, we find the non-zero drag force density from the momentum
 density of our uniformly moving defect, $\Pi_x^u = -T_0 \tilde{C} v$, which comes from (\ref{momenta}), with $(x_{,u})$ given by
 (\ref{xp}) and $\tilde{C}$ defined in (\ref{cagain}).
We correctly reproduce the following,
\begin{equation}
\tilde{C} = \pm e^{2A(u_c)}Q(u_c)
\end{equation}
and again choosing the positive sign we have,
\begin{equation}
\Pi_x^u = -\frac{e^{2A(u_c)}}{2\pi\alpha'}Q(u_c)v = f_{\mathsf{drag}}.
\end{equation}

We can now easily extend these arguments to a sheet-like defect. This comes down to setting $n=1$ and continuing to
demand that $m=n$. Since our general solution to (\ref{uccond}) does not depend on the dimensionality of the defect, we will again find
the same cutoff velocity for the sheet.  This supports the interpretation of \cite{superfluid} as this cutoff velocity is a property of
the system and not of the defect. The drag force will be modified as it is proportional to $\tilde{C}$,
which depends on $n$ through (\ref{cagain}).  We find,
\begin{equation}
\tilde{C}_{\mathsf{sheet}} = \pm e^{3A(u_c)}Q(u_c)
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
\Pi_x^u = -\frac{e^{3A(u_c)}}{2\pi\alpha'}Q(u_c)v = f_{\mathsf{sheet},\mathsf{drag}}
\end{equation}

Like in the case of a dragging string in this holographic superfluid background, our analysis
has been performed entirely in the effective four dimensional language. While the background
itself is a consistent truncation of a full ten dimensional solution, it is not entirely obvious
what sort of object is described by the defect action eq. (\ref{defectaction}) with
the specific form fo $Q(\eta)$ from the
ten 10 dimensional point of view.
For the case of dragging strings in the background of five-dimensional charged black
holes that correspond to spinning black branes in ten dimension this question
has been carefully addressed in \cite{Herzog:2007kh} and indeed the use of the analog of
eq. (\ref{defectaction}) turned out to be questionable in that case. Here we take the
point of view of simply being interested in an effective four dimensional description and
take the action of the form eq. (\ref{defectaction})
as it is the most general two derivative
action consistent
with symmetries.

\section{Discussion}

We gave a systematic study of dragging sheets in arbitrary holographic metrics.
Our results reconfirm in this most general setting the general structure that was found for pointlike defects
 in general holographic metrics as well as for the study of dragging sheets in anti-de Sitter spaces:
 the energy loss is completely insensitive to microscopic details of the system and only depends on the
 velocity via an overall blueshifted energy density. This seems to be the most general characteristic of energy loss
 at ``strong coupling", where a particle interpretation of the medium is not possible.

An example that may have a real world counterpart is the study of string like defects
 (corresponding to dragging membranes) in holographic superconductors.
 Vortices in superfluid Helium and their energy loss can be studied experimentally.
 To the extent that holographic superfluids and superconductors are candidates for real world systems,
  the loss rate experienced by a vortex in such a medium could be a physical observable.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
We'd like to thank Christopher Herzog and Stefan Janiszewski for useful discussions. This work was funded in part by the U.S. DOE under grant No. DE-FG02-96ER40956.

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CarGurus editors started 2018 with a visit to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Today, we're gearing up to attend the first of two press days at the 2018 New York International Auto Show. Here's what's on our radar.
New ways to test drive: Automakers are introducing virtual reality and augmented reality to give shoppers a new way to drive before they buy. The VR from Honda and Ford lets drivers experience different types of terrain. Kia promises an even more immersive 4D excursion through the south of France. Can they replace the traditional test-drive experience? We'll let you know.
Eye-catching debut cars: There's a long list to see, including the all-new Lexus UX and Cadillac XT4. How do these cars stack up on safety, comfort and technology? We'll be on the ground to give you a first look at these 2019 vehicles.
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Awe-inspiring displays: Last year, we were wowed by the gravity-defying display from Goodyear and Porsche. The companies teamed up to create a stand with vintage cars perched nearly vertically. What can we expect from this year's show?
Supercars: Our inner enthusiasts shout with delight at the chance to see Bugatti, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Rimac supercars up close. While we may never actually own one of these cars thanks to their hefty price tags, we'll enjoy them at the show while we can.
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In Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court determined it to be an "obvious truth" that "any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him." Gideon thus made the provision of Sixth Amendment right to counsel services a state obligation through the Fourteenth Amendment.
A Sixth Amendment Center (6AC) report, The Right to Counsel in Utah, released on October 26, 2015, details that Utah is one of just two states requiring local governments to fund and administer all indigent defense services (Pennsylvania is the other). Although it is not believed to be unconstitutional for a state to delegate its constitutional responsibilities to its counties and cities, in doing so the state must guarantee that local governments are not only capable of providing adequate representation, but that they are in fact doing so. The state of Utah, however, has no institutional statewide presence and only a limited statewide capacity to ensure that its constitutional obligations under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments are being met at the local level.
Misdemeanors matter. For most people, our nation's misdemeanor courts are the place of initial contact with our criminal justice systems. Much of a citizenry's confidence in the courts as a whole – their faith in the state's ability to dispense justice fairly and effectively – is framed through these initial encounters. Although a misdemeanor conviction carries less incarceration time than a felony, the collateral consequences can be just as great. Going to jail for even a few days may result in a person's loss of professional licenses, exclusion from public housing, inability to secure student loans, or even deportation. A misdemeanor conviction and jail term may contribute to the break-up of the family, the loss of a job, or other consequences that may increase the need for both government-sponsored social services and future court hearings at taxpayers' expense.
Right to counsel issues in Utah's felony courts are different in kind than those of the misdemeanor courts. There, most indigent defendants are indeed provided with a lawyer. However, depending on the local jurisdiction, that lawyer may work under financial conflicts of interest, or may be beholden to a prosecutor to secure future work, or may be appointed too late in the process or be juggling too many cases to be effective. The U.S. Supreme Court calls this a "constructive" denial of counsel.
These conclusions were reached after an 18-month study of public defense services in ten sample counties, encompassing 90 percent of the state's population and representing all eight felony-level trial court districts. The Utah Judicial Council Study Committee on the Representation of Indigent Criminal Defendants authorized the report, funded through the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Sixth Amendment Center, in association with the Defender Initiative of the Seattle University School of Law, conducted the evaluation.
Perhaps Utah's actual and constructive denial of counsel is best told through a single courtroom observation.
Prior to the judge taking the bench in a rural justice court, a law enforcement officer walked into the courtroom and stated: "There are a lot of things you need to understand in this video. So pay attention." The officer then played a video about the defendants' rights and court procedures, while people walked in and out of the courtroom. At the conclusion of the video, the officer asked if anyone had any questions. "I have a question," one woman said, but the officer did not hear her and left the courtroom to call for the judge to begin the calendar.
No public defense attorney or prosecutor appeared in court that day. The first defendant called forward was appearing for his arraignment on three separate charges – two class B misdemeanors and one class C misdemeanor. As with all misdemeanors in Utah, these charges carry a potential jail term. Asked by the judge how he wanted to plea, the defendant stated that he wanted an attorney. The judge then instructed him to fill out an indigency determination form and moved on to the next case.
The second defendant, facing a class B misdemeanor charge, also asked for a public defender, and he too was directed to fill out the form. By this time, the first defendant had finished filling out his application form, and so the judge called him back to the podium to be appointed a defender.
"You will be given a piece of paper with the public defender's contact information," the judge explained.
The second defendant likewise finished his paperwork and appeared before the judge to be appointed counsel. "I know you were filling out your paperwork," said the judge, "but you heard what I just said to [the first defendant], right?
"What did you have in mind?" the judge asked.
"I do see . . ." the judge began. But the defendant interrupted, continuing with his explanation.
"Judge, I am trying to get on the right track," the defendant said. "I got out of prison last year, but I have a serious medical issue and I can't see a doctor.
"Your fine is likely to be $340," the judge explained. "Perhaps we can give you credit if you get a psychiatric evaluation at [a local community health agency].
The U.S. Supreme Court has determined critical stages requiring counsel to include, among others, the arraignment and sentencing hearings. This third defendant, being indigent, was entitled to counsel during the arraignment and sentencing because jail was a possibility (indeed, a likelihood, given the stated intentions of the judge).
Under U.S. Supreme Court case law, a defendant may choose to waive his Sixth Amendment right to counsel. However, in doing so, the court must determine that the defendant made that choice knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently.
Though informative, showing a group video at the start of court, particularly without knowing whether each defendant was able to and actually did see and hear that video, does not replace the need for an individualized determination by the judge that each defendant wanting to waive counsel is doing so intelligently. In sentencing the third defendant, the court clearly recognized the danger that the defendant might suffer from a mental impairment that would affect his judgment and understanding. Yet the court arraigned and sentenced this defendant without providing him an attorney and without making an individualized determination that this defendant understood the rights he was waiving. This is an actual denial of counsel.
The likelihood that the first and second defendants will receive a constructive denial of counsel is high. For example, the municipality relies on the city prosecutor to select defense counsel, to enter into contracts with defense counsel, to set the compensation rate, and to decide whether to renew defense contracts each year. It is a conflict of interest to have one courtroom adversary financially controlling the other. This is because the defense attorney must take into account what he needs to do to please the prosecutor to secure future contracts, rather than advocating solely in the interests of the indigent accused.
For the court in question, the indigent defense contract pays the misdemeanor attorney a flat $600 per month to handle the representation of everyone determined to be indigent. The contracted private attorney for this courtroom estimated that he handles approximately 20 cases per month. This means he is compensated at approximately $30 per case, which produces financial incentives for the attorney to dispose of the case as soon as possible. And indeed, the defender meets with the city prosecutor to begin plea negotiations before talking with the defendant, as the judge told the defendants would happen.
Because there is no independent supervision of this attorney, the misdemeanor lawyer in question is allowed to seek contracts from other jurisdictions too. In addition to his contracted justice court work described above, the attorney in question handles representation in the county district court and conflict representation in the county juvenile court. In total, this attorney handled 423 cases on behalf of indigent defendants in 2013, including 101 felonies.
Including all contracts, the attorney is paid $37,200 annually (this attorney handles no private cases). That means, on average, he is compensated just $87.94 for each and every case, regardless of the complexity of his felony and delinquency cases. To put it another way, if the attorney in question works 40 hours every single week of the year (or 2,080 hours annually), the attorney is paid $17.88 per hour.
Though $18 per hour may sound like a lot of money to the average person trying to scrape by in hard economic times in rural Utah, it is not a lot of money given the parameters of what is required of a practicing attorney. The maintenance costs to operate a law practice in Utah – commonly referred to as "overhead expenses" – are many. Overhead costs must be paid each month in order to stay open for business, and so the lawyer's take home pay is whatever amount remains after providing for office rent, telecommunications, utilities, accounting, bar dues, business travel, and professional liability insurance.
As a means of comparison, the Mississippi Supreme Court determined, in a case challenging that state's assigned counsel compensation rate, that indigent defense attorneys are entitled to a reasonable hourly fee in addition to overhead expenses. Although that case is now nearly 25 years old, the Mississippi Court heard testimony from the Mississippi State Bar Association that the average overhead rate in that state was $34.86 per hour at that time (or nearly twice the 2014 hourly rate paid to this attorney in rural Utah without taking into account overhead costs).
Despite the fact that actual and constructive denials of counsel occur in Utah courts, it is wrong to conclude that Utah's criminal justice system and its stakeholders hold ill intent toward the indigent accused. Indeed, the very opposite appears true. In every jurisdiction visited, conscientious people were striving to do well by both victims of crime and the accused. It is simply the case that even the most well-meaning local stakeholders will, at times, fail to meet the dictates of right to counsel law without appropriate guidance and supervision. This report is about the failure of the state of Utah and not a condemnation of the local people working to fill the gap left by the state.
There is some good news. Even as right to counsel deficiencies were discovered and preliminarily reported, the Study Committee began working to rectify those issues that could be addressed immediately, such as providing training on the right to counsel for justice court judges. When presented with an early draft of the report, the Study Committee confronted the report earnestly, challenged it where they disagreed, and ultimately resolved to work over the summer of 2015 to devise Utah-specific answers to the problems identified in the report. Indeed, we expect reform recommendations to be announced shortly.


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Yes, I use a leash/harness. Silka has been trained since she was a baby 3 1/2 years ago to use it and knows its limitations, even when running. The spot where it appears she pulls too hard is me adjusting the camera as I get up from a crouch.She stops to give me the "Keep up look". She's not harmed in this video.
This isn't violent rabbit behavior, she's having fun playing with a smaller critter than her.
Silka has experience with playing with black labs and other dogs, which she can keep up with.
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Carole Millard
Member of the Curriculum & Standards, Head's Approval and New Build Committees, Link Governor for Humanities and Safeguarding
Carole was born and brought up in Northolt and went to Northolt High School, as did both of her children. She has a degree in Primary Education and works as a Primary Teacher in an Ealing School. Carole became a governor at Northolt in 2013 and is also on the committee for the new build. Her hobbies include mountain walking and she has 'bagged' 8 Munroes.
Philip Lillico
Philip Lillico is a self-employed consultant specialising in media governance, policy and strategy. He has more than 25 years' experience working in various roles at the BBC.
He was a Chief Adviser to the BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body; ran the Audience Council England, a network of hundreds of viewers and listeners across England; and led the BBC's public consultation programme. He has a strong interest in ensuring that the interests of consumers are placed at the heart of decision making.
Earlier in his career, he worked in the BBC's news and presentation departments.
Philip lives in Harrow and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former judge of the Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards.
Priya Agarwal
Priya was born in Ealing and has lived there ever since. She has a Biochemistry degree and currently works as a Science Teacher at a school in Hounslow. Priya has recently become a member of the governing body and is very excited to support the school in ensuring the best opportunities are given to the younger generation. When she manages to escape the classroom, hiking and playing board games are 100% firm favourites.