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Iberian mesopotamia alignments
- The Toponym Monfurado Mountain Range Origin
José Cirilo Rodrigues
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This project research is aimed to guide a new generation of scientific researchers using free tools and collaborate with wikipédia. Everyone with a critical thinking and wanting to explore our earth can use Google Earth and astronomy software to observe and analyze the Iberian Mesopotamia Alignments. The region between the three Iberian rivers: Tagus, Guadiana, and Sado in inner Alentejo, Portugal, was called as Iberian Mesopotamia by the archaeologist Manuel Calado. The alignments are located in the Monfurado (Holed Mountain) Mountain Range near the Almendres Cromlech.
Behind every Portuguese geographic accident, such as promontories, mountains, and rivers there are a lot of tales and mysteries. This article is intended to demystify the toponomic name Serra de Monfurado, which means in Portuguese language 'a mountain with a hole'. Monfurado maintain range is located in the inner Alentejo region south Portugal at a middle distance between the Iberian rivers Tagus and Guadiana and the Portuguese river Sado, so this region is known by archaeologists scholars as the Iberian Mesopotamia. This region constitutes the principal diffusion center of the megalithic culture with a central point at the Almendres Cromelech located 13 km west from the capital district city Évora. This study shows the alignment between the menir of Almendres, located at 1.5 km distance in the summer solstice sunrise - live direction, and the Cromelech with the most important stars for a shepherd people - the Capella star, Pollus and Regulus-. On the other hand towards the sunset - death direction at the equinox there exist some earthwork alignenment perfectly oriented east-west. This special construction - a mountain with a hole - is the name origin of the Portuguese toponym - Monfurado-. Due to the simplicity of the tools used and the probability to exist more similar constructions, it is highly recommended to continue searching for other possible alignments with satellite technology such as Google Earth and free astronomy software to better understand prehistoric megalithic science and scientists.
Keywords: prehistory science, archaeoastronomy, archaeology, prehistoric alignments, megalith, toponymy
In the late 1960th at the Portuguese primary school, every kid learned the place-name history of the Cape of the Good Hope, located at the bottom of the African continent, in South Africa. This cape was primarily named by Portuguese navigators as Cabo Adamastor, but, as it was refused by his majesty the King of Portugal, they still had tried the name: Cabo das Boas Tormentas to remember their difficulties without success. This story lets us remember that place-names are given by the authority of the people who needs them as references and the continuity of their use. The importance of the continuity of the place-name is well demonstrated in the recent archaeoatronomy study led by archaeologist Fabio Silva about the origin of the name of the Star Mountain range. Despite the Roman authority have called it as Montes Herminios during seven centuries. Fabio Silva study argues that the origin of the name - Star mountain range - is the due to the continuity of the name used by the first megalithic sheep herders which settled the region. These two examples illustrate the importance of place-names, as well as the reason why, today, to give or to change a place-name, it is a matter held by specialists of the United Nations and people directly affected. To be short, the study of place-names, must consider the authority and continuity of the people, which uses and needs them.
Following the above line of thought, this article is about the authority or prestige of the people since the first megalithic settlers of the Iberian Mesopotamia region, continuously used and needed to denominate the Monfurado mountain range, as a geographic reference seven millennia ago. According to some archaeologists, these first settlers, mixed with local people, implemented a new social style of life well tested, during some millennium after, in other distant places such as the middle east, Cantabria or Danube regions (*). The importance of the study of the Iberian Mesopotamia alignments is not only the ability to shape the mountain (with a hole – Monfurado -) but the scientific knowledge behind the live alignment - sun rise direction - of the manor of Almendres and to plan and dig the death alignment (sun set direction) of the dug hole. The mystic knowledge, which associates direction with life and death at the Cromelech of Almendres, has real meaning because the west direction is the Atlantic ocean and land to the east (see Figure 1).
Our ancestors made any difference between scientific knowledge and believe; everything was a question of death and life. For them orientation knowledge was a matter of survival as a social group sharing the same space and way of live. To better clarify and demystify our ancient society this study is divided in two parts: the live alignment and the death alignment, to discuss each specific method, tools and results separately.
Edwin C. Krupp in his book "In Search Of Ancient Astronomies" shows the vital importance of the star knowledge to develop agriculture and shepherds. The Menir of Almendres located 1.5 km northeast from Cromelech of Almendres indicates the sunrise direction at summer solstice (see figure Live Alignment). This article confirms that its scientific construction purpose is to indicate the stars rise direction as suggested by archaeologist (*). With specific free software, it is possible to simulate the sky five millennia ago and discover what stars were aligned at that time between the menir and the Cromelech.
The following two sections are focused on software and star names.
The two free astronomy software Stellarium and Celestia are available for many operating systems ready to install and use. Just set local coordinates of Almendres Cromelech (38.00, 8.00), select time to 3.000 BC, and start seeing the sky as five millennia ago as our ancestors used to do. Start moving the time scale to summer solstice, its possible to verify that the stars Capella, Pollus and Regullus rise at the same position.
Capella, Pollux and Regullux
Google earth has the ability to simulate the sun movement. At Almendres Cromlech the sun sets every day at a different point behind the Monfurado mountain range; from left in the winter solstice to the right in the summer solstice position indicated by the two respective yellow arrows as shown beside in figure Death Alignment.
The earthwork alignment reproduces the reflection phenomenon of the Arrábida mountain range, which became invisible at a distance greater than about 30 km during day light. For instance, from Cabrela, located at a middle distance between the Cromlech and Arrábida mountain range, this mountain is not visible during most part of the day. Just only one hour before sunset the "Two Sun Mountains", starts to reappear in the Horizont.
- Silva, Fabio (2012). "Landscape and Astronomy in Megalithic Portugal: the Carregal do Sal Nucleus and Star Mountain Range". w:Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (Ubiquity Press) 22: 99–144. doi:10.5334/pia.405. _URL_ Retrieved 17 March 2013.
- Cirlot, Juan-Eduardo (1984). Dicionário de Símbolos. São Paulo: Moraes. p. 430.
- Krupp, Edwin C. (1978). Krupp, Edwin C.. ed (PDF). In Search of Ancient Astronomies. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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This is such a fantastic offer for families wanting to
start your Speech Therapy DIY journey as soon as possible.
The Phonic All Star Posters have been designed by Katrine Elliott (Speech Pathologist) for the purpose of teaching CORE Metaphonic knowledge to prepare children for their communication and academic skills. The Full Colour Posters are laminated for protection.
THE ALPHABET POSTER
FIRSTSimply teach your child the alphabet letters that are highlighted inside the red lines.
THENlet your child know that the speech sounds that are outside of this are not in the alphabet. These are indicated below:
- Green linesThese are the digraphsNG – SH – CHTH – as they have 2 letters in their grapheme pattern but make one speech sound.
- Yellow boxes: The short vowels- a-e-i-o-u-These match up with their corresponding 5-long vowels that "Say their name" in the alphabet itself,
- On the back you have the letter-graphemes on their own without any character cues. This is for when your child is getting confident and we can leave the "training wheels" of the picture and recognise the letter symbol on it's own.
THE SPEECH SOUND POSTER
The Phonic All Star speech sound Poster teaches your child the 46 speech sounds using the characters and graphemes.
- Notice all characters have a number in the corner of their picture that connects to that specific Card in your Phonic All Star Speech Sound Flash Level 1 and 2 Cards.
- This number also connects to the Phonic All StarTeach Me Speech Sounds Workbook which then explains how each speech sound is formed.
- This number also connects to the Phonic All Star-Learn the 22 Vowels Colouring In book
- The poster teaches the International Phonetic Alphabet so you can then learn to write your child's speech at a word level so that you can start the journey to correcting their speech errors using phonetic transcriptions like a PRO.
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In order for individuals and families to achieve economic mobility, the communities they live in need to provide equitable access to high-quality education and jobs. Increased wages, adequate working hours and reasonable working conditions can help advance economic well-being and provide increased access to opportunities such as buying a house, paying for a college education or investing in a business.
Because of the complex social, economic and political issues that have affected economic mobility over several decades, solutions that help individuals and families achieve this "American Dream" require a multi-faceted, cross-sector approach designed to impact change at the systems level.
Now, we're building on our previous work on family economic security and family asset building to explore how community foundations can use the five competencies of community leadership to help families move beyond economic security and toward upward economic mobility through a new Economic Mobility Action Network.
Continued Economic Mobility Work
Building on the remarkable success of the pilot Economic Mobility Action Network, CFLeads will continue supporting community foundations that serve as local coalition builders through their economic mobility work. Read more about our continued economic mobility work in the press release below:

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Before raw data is purged, the data is summarized or "rolled-up" at predefined intervals. Roll-up data is the term given to the data that has been summarized. Before any raw data is purged, the minimum, maximum, and average values are calculated. These values can be preserved in several ways.
Hourly data is data that is summarized or rolled-up every hour. The raw data for each hour is processed to create a summary record for that hour. For example, if raw data is logged every five minutes, a total of twelve raw records are available in one hour. When data is rolled-up after one hour, the twelve raw records are processed to find the minimum, maximum, and average values during that hour. One summary record is generated for the twelve raw records. The hourly data is first computed on the agent machine. The data is then brought over to the server machine, where the data is added to the database.
The daily, weekly, and monthly values are calculated in a similar manner. The maximum, minimum, and average values are also calculated for each period.
Hourly data is kept for 7 days.
Daily data is kept for 5 weeks.
Weekly data is kept for 12 months.
Monthly data is kept for 24 months.

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Using Acoustic Particle Velocity Sensors for End of Line Control
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Published May 19, 2009 by SAE International in United States
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Acoustic particle velocity sensors can be an alternative sensor category for end of line testing next to microphones, accelerometers or scanning laser vibrometers. As any other category of transducers, particle velocity sensors have their specific features.
The acoustic particle velocity field is far less susceptible to background noise than the sound pressure field, allowing acoustic testing to be carried out in a manufacturing environment with significant background noise levels .
Close to a vibrating surface, acoustic particle velocity is a good estimate of the normal structural velocity, allowing non contact vibration measurements .
The results of some case studies will be summarized.
Citationde Bree, H. and Oliveira, A., "Using Acoustic Particle Velocity Sensors for End of Line Control," SAE Technical Paper 2009-01-2155, 2009, _URL_
- Wolff Oliver Fast panel noise contribution analysis using large PU sensor arrays Internoise 2007
- de Bree H-E. Druyvesteyn W.F. A particle velocity sensor to measure the sound from a structure in the presence of background noise Forum Acousticum 2005
- Yntema D.R. de Bree H-E. van Heck J. An intuitive handheld acoustic noise source finder Fisita Japan 2006
- de Bree H-E et al The very near field; theory, simulations and measurements ICSV11 St. Petersburg 2004
- de Bree H-E. et al The Microflown; a novel device measuring acoustical flows Sensors and Actuators: A, Physical SNA054 1-3 _PHONE_


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Maintaining ACH Network Quality
Support NACHA Operating Rules Compliance by Reporting Violations
By requiring participants to comply with the NACHA Operating Rules, NACHA maintains a high-quality, secure ACH Network. It's essential that non-compliance issues be resolved fairly and efficiently in order to provide financial institutions and end-users with a reliable Network. To that end, NACHA employs the National System of Fines as an enforcement mechanism for the Rules, allowing Depository Financial Institutions to review, evaluate and correct the circumstances surrounding any possible Rule violation.
NACHA's Members support Rules compliance by reporting those violations, using the procedures below.
The National System of Fines
The National System of Fines provides the structure for evaluating possible Rules violations. Through a formal system of warnings and fines, it corrects infractions and helps ACH Network participants to remain within the Rules' boundaries.
Instructions for Filing
If your organization or financial institution discovers a potential infraction, it should submit the issue to NACHA through a Report of Possible ACH Rules Violation. As the complainant, your organization must be a Participating DFI or ACH Operator that is party to the transaction in question. If that's not the case, your financial institution can file on your behalf.
To submit that report, you'll need the following information:
- Your contact and organization information, as well as your participant status (ODFI, RDFI, ACH Operator or other).
- A clear description of the alleged violation, including the sequence of events and consequences of the violation.
- The specific Rules provision in alleged to be violated.
- Transaction type information:
- SEC Code
- Transaction Code
- Settlement Date
- Dollar Amount
- Trace Number
- Account Number
- Date of Alleged Rules Violation
- Copies of all relevant documents with your report, such as Company/Batch Header Records, Entry Detail Records or Addenda Records
- Any written communication between the complainant and party in alleged violation of the Rules.
- Signature of an authorized representative of the complainant.
Your report must be submitted to NACHA within 90 days of the alleged Rules violation occurrence. If you feel that more than one Participating DFI has committed the same Rules violation, you must submit a separate report for each case.
Each Report of Possible ACH Rules Violation should be either submitted online, or downloaded (form available in the right-hand side bar), completed and sent to NACHA, Attn: Compliance Department by U.S. Mail (2550 Wasser Terrace, Suite 400, Herndon, VA 20171).


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iPhones are helpful to save lives many times. Here are a few examples:
- In July 2023, an iPhone 14 user was rescued after his car plunged 400 feet down a cliff near Mount Wilson, California. The phone's Crash Detection feature automatically called 911 and sent the driver's location to emergency services.
- In June 2023, a woman who was hiking in the Angeles National Forest activated her iPhone's Emergency SOS feature after she fell and injured herself. The feature sent her location to emergency services, who were able to find her and rescue her.
- In May 2023, a man who was stranded in Alaska used his iPhone's Emergency SOS via satellite feature to call for help. The feature allowed him to connect with emergency services even though he was in a remote area with no cellular service.
These are just a few examples of how iPhones have been used to save lives in the US. As smartphones become more and more ubiquitous, it is likely that we will see even more cases of iPhones being used to help people in emergencies.
In addition to the Crash Detection and Emergency SOS features, iPhones also have a number of other features that can be helpful in emergencies, such as the Medical ID feature, which allows users to store their medical information on their phone, and the Find My iPhone feature, which can be used to locate a lost or stolen phone.
Here are some of the features that can be used in emergencies:
- Crash Detection: This feature automatically calls 911 and sends your location to emergency services if your iPhone detects a significant crash.
- Emergency SOS: This feature allows you to quickly call 911 or other emergency services, even if you are unable to speak.
- Medical ID: This feature allows you to store your medical information on your iPhone, such as your allergies, medications, and blood type. This information can be accessed by emergency personnel if you are unable to speak.
- Find My iPhone: This feature can be used to locate your iPhone if it is lost or stolen. This can be helpful if you need to call for help from your iPhone.
In addition to these features, iPhones can also be used to access other resources that can be helpful in emergencies, such as:
- News and weather apps: These apps can be used to stay informed about current events and weather conditions, which can be important in planning an evacuation or other emergency response.
- GPS apps: These apps can be used to find your way around, which can be helpful if you are lost or disoriented.
- First aid apps: These apps can provide information on how to provide first aid, which can be helpful if you are injured or someone else is injured.
The iPhone's popularity in the US also makes it a valuable tool for emergency services. In many cases, emergency personnel will ask people who have called 911 to provide the location of their phone, which can be helpful in locating them. Overall, iPhones can be a valuable tool for saving lives in the US. The phone's features, such as Crash Detection and Emergency SOS, can help people in emergencies, and its popularity makes it a valuable tool for emergency services.


A councillor has responded to discussions regarding the possible rebranding of a student owned nightclub and the adjoining alley.
Lancaster University Students' Union have discussed the possibility of changing the name of a popular nightclub which has links to the slave trade.
This could include a change of the Sugarhouse name which union officials say would extend to the nearby Sugar House Alley.
Following discussions between union officers on Friday (September 12) Lancaster City Council have told LancsLive that they would work with any organisation hoping to "decolonise our history."
Councillor Jean Parr, Cabinet member with responsibility for arts, culture, leisure and tourism, said: "As part of the work we are doing with local community groups and the Black History Group to examine the area's connections to slavery and find ways to decolonise our history, we would be very happy to work with any organisations that wish to achieve the same aims."
Sugarhouse club in Lancaster.
Lancaster was once one of the largest trading sites in Britain and was known to have a major stake in the transatlantic slave trade.
It was home to several prominent slave trading families including the Rawlinsons and the Dodsons.
Originally the Sugarhouse nightclub was a processing plant and storage unit founded in 1684 which would have treated sugar imported from the West Indies.
Atree Ghosh, who works as the Students' Union vice president for union development, fears that the club and its name 'treads very close to normalising the atrocities of the slave trade.'
He told LancsLive: "Our union-owned nightclub is still called the Sugarhouse and is situated in the original location of the sugar processing warehouse.
"This connection with the slave trade is never really publicised to students despite it being the core reason behind the name for the venue.
"Discussing a possible name change acknowledges the dark past, and at least attempts to move to a more positive future for a venue that students love.
The student's union could seek to rename the Sugarhouse.
"This is in no way a decision, this is a discussion, we want to hear people's thoughts - without that we can't come to any decision, we want to hear what students think.
"We don't want to make any decision like this behind students backs. We just want to make students aware of the link between Sugarhouse and our history.
"This may result in us doing a remembrance plaque at the club, information explaining its past on our website and one of those options is renaming the club.
"But that will not be done without a referendum."
Lancaster was at the centre of several discussions about its links to the slave trade following worldwide Black Lives Matter protests.
Historian David Starkey was stripped of his honorary degree from the university after making controversial comments, while discussions were held over renaming some of the city's streets and historical buildings.
A gravestone to the Rawlinson family, mass slave traders in the city, was also desecrated by protestors.
Discussions over a possible rebranding of the Sugarhouse were held between several SU officials, including Atree, on Friday (September 11).
"Are we trying to "erase" history? Absolutely not," said the 22-year-old union development vice president.
"Not because it is a history that deserves "celebrating" but because erasing the past of the Sugarhouse is downright insulting to the victims of its past.
"Some students have suggested that renaming the club could make people forget about those links with the past."
Atree admitted that the nearby Sugar House Alley, which houses the nightclub, could also be the subject of a rebrand which lead to the recent comments from Lancaster City Council.


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This dress is an incredible story of survival. In the early 17th century, a ship carrying a wedding dress was caught in a fierce storm and sunk to the bottom of the sea. For centuries, the dress lay forgotten at the bottom of the ocean, until it was recently discovered by divers.
The dress is a beautiful example of 17th century fashion, and is made from silk and velvet. It is embroidered with gold and silver thread and has intricate lace trim. The dress is believed to have belonged to a wealthy family, and is a remarkable example of craftsmanship from the era.
Amazingly, despite spending centuries submerged in seawater, the dress is still intact and in remarkably good condition. Experts believe that the saltwater and cold temperatures of the deep ocean were likely responsible for preserving the dress in its original state.
The dress is now in the hands of conservationists and is on display in a museum. It is an amazing reminder of the power of nature and a testament to the craftsmanship of centuries past.


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Discriminative stimulus properties of (+/-)-3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and (+/-)-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine in pigeons.Drug Alcohol Depend. 1986 Oct; 18(2):159-64.DA
Pigeons trained to discriminate (+)-amphetamine (AMPH) from saline in a two-key food-maintained drug discrimination paradigm, were used to investigate the discriminative stimulus (DS) effects of two structural analogues of amphetamine, namely (+/-)-3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and (+/-)-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA). After discrimination performance was stable (90% injection-appropriate responding), test sessions with various doses of AMPH were conducted and a dose-dependent relationship for AMPH-appropriate responding was obtained. Both MDMA (3.0 mg/kg) and MDA (3.0 or 5.6 mg/kg) substituted for AMPH; however, at these doses MDA produced a greater decrease in response rate compared to AMPH and MDMA. Furthermore, while MDMA and MDA were similar in potency in producing drug-appropriate responding, both were less potent than AMPH. These results indicate that MDMA and MDA have DS effects similar to AMPH in pigeons.


create a filter that limits the data to a sliding time window, such as the previous 5 days. You specify filters in Charts using an MQL Query Document. To specify a relative date query, you need to do a bit of arithmetic to create a new Date object based on the number of milliseconds relative to the current date, represented by Date(). To specify the last 5 days, use the following filter:
{ observationDate: {$gte: Date(Date() - 5 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)}}
After applying the filter, you can give your chart a title and we're done!
After saving the chart, you can resize it on your dashboard, and then start to create additional charts to give you even more insight into the weather in your city.
Another Example: Home Battery Data
I chose the Weather scenario for the main example in this article as it's easy to get working and something we can all relate to. However, in practice, you can probably get a lot of this info from weather websites. The real value is not so much in this one specific example but in the pattern and its implementation using the MongoDB platform.
No matter what your interests are, chances are there are APIs that return data that is of value to you, and you can use the same approach from the weather example to ingest and visualize this data. The following screenshot shows one I created to show the status and history of my home battery storage system. You can see the storage level over the last week, the current storage level and understand how the usage changes over the seasons.
Hopefully, this will give you some ideas on dashboards that you'd like to create. Have fun exploring and visualizing your data!


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Problem: Suppose that $f:S^n\to S^n$ is a mapping from the n-dimensional sphere ($n\geq 3$) into itself which maps circles into (instead of onto) circles. Can we say that f maps (n-1)-dimensional spheres into (n-1)-dimensional spheres?
Here, we make no any other assumption on f, e.g. continuity, injectivity, surjectivity, and so on. Circle is in the ordinary sense, i.e. round circle (or say 1-sphere), not necessarily great circle.
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In your questions are you assuming continuity? – alvarezpaiva Dec 28 '12 at 20:14
I don't see why this is tagged soft-question. – HJRW Dec 28 '12 at 20:15
_USER_: do you have an example of a map that sends circles into circles, but which is not a Moebius transformation? – alvarezpaiva Dec 28 '12 at 20:36
_USER_: Take any map which sends sphere to the circle. – Misha Dec 29 '12 at 4:53
What is a "circle" for your purposes -- great circle, round circle, or perhaps something else? – Ryan Budney Dec 29 '12 at 6:09
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Take two circles $C_1, C_2$ intersecting in two points $p_1, p_2$. These are contained in a unique 2-sphere $S$. One way to see this is to assume $p_1=\infty$, $S^n-p_1=\mathbb{R}^n$ (considering $S^n$ as the one-point compactification of $\mathbb{R}^n$). Then the circles $C_1, C_2$ correspond to two lines intersecting in a point $p_2$, which span a unique 2-plane in $\mathbb{R}^n$ corresponding to the sphere $S$.
The images $f(C_i)\subset D_i$, where $D_i$ are circles, and $D_1\cap D_2 = \{f(p_1),f(p_2)\}$. Let $T$ be the unique 2-sphere containing $D_1\cup D_2$. Then I claim $f(S)\subset T$. Normalize it by post-composition with a Moebius transformation so that $f(p_1)=\infty$, then any line intersecting $(C_1\cup C_2)-\infty$ in two points distinct from $p_2$ will map to a line intersecting the lines $D_1\cup D_2-\infty$ in two points, and thus is contained in $T$. So $f(S)\subset T$ since every point of $S$ is contained in a line intersecting $D_1, D_2$ in points distinct from $f(p_2)$.
One can perform a similar inductive argument to show that higher-dimensional spheres are preserved. Take $k$ circles intersecting two points, say $0, \infty$, which span a $k$-plane $K$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Then any point on $K$ is contained in a $k-1$-plane $J$ intersecting the $k$ lines in points different from the origin. Then the image is contained in a similar configuration by induction, so the $k$-spheres are taken to $k$-spheres.
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Your argument requires that the inverse image of $p_1$ (or say $\infty$) consists of a single point. So, you can not reduce the question to $\mathbb{R}^n.$ – woodbass Dec 31 '12 at 2:29
_USER_: Actually, Agol's arguments (with minor corrections) suffice. Also, a much more general result is Theorem 4.8 in – Misha Jan 1 '13 at 0:31
I do not think so. Please think of: Why f cannot map $S^2$ exactly to 5 points which is not in a 2-sphere and no four of which lie in a circle? – woodbass Jan 1 '13 at 8:04
Of course, if assume injectivity, the situation reduced to R^n. There are essential gaps in MaCcallum's thesis as I noted in another comment (see:…). I do not know how to add a simple super-link to that comment. – woodbass Jan 1 '13 at 8:26
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The aim of the study was to determine the influence of microirrigation (microjet sprinkling and drip irrigation) and organic fertilization (compost prepared on the base of sewage sludge) on a seedling vigour of one-year and two-year old Scot pine seedlings (Pinus sylvestris L.), cultivated on a post-agricultural ground with the use of zoo-melioration in two different regions. Field experiments were carried out on an experimental field in Kruszyn Krajeński (loose sandy soil of quality class VI) near Bydgoszcz and in Lipnik near Stargard Szczeciński (sandy soil of quality class IVb). The first row factor was irrigation used in three treatments: without irrigation (control), drip irrigation, microjet sprinkling. The second row factor was fertilization, used in two variants: mineral fertilization (standard applied in forest nurseries), organic fertilization (compost). The irrigation significantly increased the height and the diameter of the Scot pine seedlings. There were no significant differences in the characters of the growth between the two irrigation systems. Fertilization of Scot pine seedlings with the compost increased significantly the height of seedlings. Interaction of irrigation with organic fertilization of Scot pine seedling height and diameter was noted. Pine seedlings grown on the plots fertilized with compost under irrigation conditions were characterized by increased height and diameter. Better effects were obtained in Lipnik than in Kruszyn Krajeński. Joint effect of organic fertilization and microjet sprinkling positively influenced the density and the species number of Oribatida in Kruszyn Krajeński. The obtained results indicated that the amelioration measures used can positively influence the growth of Scot pine seedlings on a post-agricultural ground.
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Agent-based tumour models to define adjuvant therapy approaches
Stomach cancer is a frequent form of cancer. Therapies, which affect motility parameters of cancer cells, have proven a diversity of efficiencies. In this project, we will investigate clinically relevant medications in their effectivity to control the motility of cancer cells. We will start from in vitro data of cell motility and understand these with the help of agent-based modelling frameworks. The validated mathematical model can then be used for simulations of larger cancer cell compounds with the aim to determine the impact of therapies targeting cell motility onto the organisation of tumours. The known correlation of cancer cell motility with the probability of metastasis may open new strategies of cancer therapy.
Keywords: Stomach cancer, cell migration, metastasis, cell interaction, motility coefficient


and beyond such necessity for meaning: God 'makes' meaning, he is not subject to our meaning. Paradox. If he is not subject to our meaning making, how might we have a meaning of God? And how could we know what He wants? since if he is beyond human meaning, how could he instill in our meaning making any knowledge of himself? For he would then be subjecting himself to human meaning making for the purpose of establishing himself as true for humans.
 Hence Ks founding question.
 5. (Pt 2) now, it seems I just contradicted myself my indicating a human and a 'natural' situation, saying they are the same 'ethically' but using the example based in that they are not.
 Sounds pretty nonsense. But that is part of the point: our ability to make meaning when taken to its meaningful ends finds nonsense.
 How are we able, capable, then to determine the 'right' meaning? The 'ethical' meaning?
 6. I don't think that "because I am human, there is ethics" is an adequate ground for your conclusion that what was done to Nirbhaya was "absolutely wrong" and "wrong in a universal sense."
 A human could believe that Nirbhaya is essentially made of the same stuff as rocks and flowers. I don't see how this belief would lead to the ethical conclusion that what was done to Nirbhaya was absolutely, universally wrong. It seems like it could just as easily lead to the conclusion that humans can do what they want with rocks and they can do what they want with other humans. There's no qualitative difference between the two.
 I think there is equivocation in your question, "if [God] is beyond human meaning, how could he instill in our meaning making any knowledge of himself?"
 God is beyond human meaning in this respect: we do not make God meaningful. But I don't think this makes God inaccessible – unknowable. Instead, I think God is the ground of meaning, and because we have the capacity for making meaning, we can recognize God. I don't see why our meaning-making has to lead to nonsense.
 7. So if God made us for our ability for meaning, and we thus have such meaning then of Himself that he gave us, how do you account for ethical (good) people who disclaim the Bible?
 8. (Pt3) I merely mean to point out all the various ideas of God. And so it comes back to the Jesus question. There are deeply religious people who do not see Jesus as the Son of God as it tells in the Bible.
 So when it comes down to it, who is right? To you it makes sense, enough to try and tell others; but so do other people have theirs. So we all try to convince each other, but inside or in secret, everyone really holds onto the idea that they are correct and the other argument is not. Is God present in all these opinions? It would seem if he was then my personal 'belief' is not as correct as I would like it to be. If my personal belief is correct, then we are back at square one: so 'I' am going to be saved and 'you' are not.
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The viscoelasticity of a fluid was tuned with the Faradaic reaction of (11-ferrocenylundecyl)trimethylammonium bromide (FTMA), a "redox-switchable" surfactant. An aqueous solution of the reduced form of FTMA exhibited a remarkable viscoelasticity in the presence of sodium salicylate (NaSal) because of the formation of three-dimensional entanglement of wormlike micelles. Electrolytic oxidation of FTMA caused the viscosity of the system to dramatically decrease and the elasticity to disappear. This drastic decrease in viscoelasticity arose from the disruption of wormlike micelles. This novel electrorheological phenomenon is expected to be applicable to ink for inkjet printers, the electrochemically controlled release of substances entrapped in wormlike micelles of FTMA, and fluid flow rate control using electric signals.
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The Tiger Who Came To Tea Card Game
The Tiger Who Came To Tea Card Game
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The Tiger Who Came To Tea Memory Card Game
The classic game of pairs with a twist.
To start shuffle the cards and place face down on a large surface. The youngest player goes first and turns over two cards and shows the other players what's on them. If it's a matching pair they keep them, if not the cards are turned back over in their original place. Play continues to the next person on the player's left. The key to success is remembering where the different cards are so you can select a matching pair when it's your turn. Here's the twist - if a player picks up a card with Dad walking in the door shouting 'I'm Home', the player shouts 'I'm Home' and all the cards have to be shuffled around so no-one knows where each of the cards are.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea Memory Card Game features 54 jumbo cards beautifully illustrated with scenes from Judith Kerr's classic children's storybook.
Not Suitable for children under 3 years.


Takasago Ginga Shizuku "Divine Droplets" Junmai Daiginjo, Hokkaido Prefecture
It is deep winter. The snows lay heavy on the mountains of northern Japan. Cedar trees hang sparkling, dusted with ice, over frozen rivers and streams. The air is crisp, even crystalline in its stillness, and the white landscape yields only the slightest muffled sounds.
In the heart of this winter landscape a strange sight emerges every winter. A huge igloo, constructed entirely of ice, filled with rotund canvas bags. From these somewhat alien shapes that hang suspended from the ceiling at minus 2 degrees Centigrade, drip solitary drops of a sake unlike any other in the world.
This strange midwinter landscape on Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, is the result of one of the more esoteric and regimented sake brewing processes found in Japan, and is constructed each year by the Takasago brewery to make their most precious product, a sake which they have appropriately named "Divine Droplets."
Much like winemaking, the sake making process involves fermenting a big tank of liquidy mushy stuff that gradually turns into alcohol as the fermentation process progresses. Once fermentation is complete, that liquid mash — the alcohol plus the solids that are called "lees" are generally pressed in a big mechanical device to extract the liquid and leave the solids behind.
In winemaking, however, there tends to be quite a difference between the wine that simply runs trickling out of this mush (known as "free run juice") and the wine that is extracted through pressing. The former is usually more balanced, less tannic and bitter, and generally higher quality wine than the pressed wine, which tends to contain such flavors because they are extracted from the skins and seeds as they are compressed. There is such a marked difference between the two "juices" that many top wineries only use the free run juice, and simply discard or sell off their press juice in bulk.
The sake making process is quite similar in that at a certain point most sakes are pressed off their lees, however the press juice in sake making is the most common source of juice for even the most premium sakes. Rice, of course, lacks the skin and seeds which contribute to the difference in flavors between free run and press juice in wine, so the juice pressed off the sake is not particularly undesirable.
Having said as much, however, there are those in the sake world like Takasago Shuzo who take pains (and great expense) to produce their own version of "free run juice" through the slow, painstaking, and very low-yielding process of drip pressing their sake. The brewers who believe that letting only the action of gravity on the lees extract their sake suggest that the resulting sake is the most delicate, and my limited experience with such sakes makes me inclined to agree. Perhaps just like Pinot Noir, which is famous for its delicacy and tendency to react poorly to rough treatment in the winery, top quality rice mash produces different results if it is babied through the process.
Takasago Shuzo was founded in 1899 in the town of Asahikawa City in Hokkaido, making it one of Northern Japan's oldest operating breweries. This area of Japan is home to many sake breweries, as it offers two things essential to brewing premium sake: cold temperatures and pure mountain spring water. Temperatures in the area regularly fall to minus twenty degrees centigrade and the mountains of the area offer a bounty of springs, some of which have been used by sake brewers for centuries.
The importance of temperature in brewing sake has to do with the minimization of contamination by airborne yeasts and bacteria. Even a small amount of foreign biological agents can significantly affect the flavors of a sake as it ferments. The still, cold winter temperatures in the unheated sake brewing buildings of most breweries tends to minimize such contamination, but if you really want to eliminate all foreign agents, one of the things you might do would be to build a giant igloo in which to make your sake.
A lot of sake, especially the most refined junmai daiginjo sakes like this one, in which more than 50% of the mass of each grain of rice have been polished away before brewing, tend to evoke winter landscapes for me. I suppose that part of this quality I project into the sake, knowing how and where it is made. But the clean, crisp qualities of some sake really do evoke the heart of winter, with aromas and flavors that are instantly familiar to those who grew up in the snowy mountains, as I did.
The way Divine Droplets is made makes it a special sake. But it's beauty is revealed only through its tasting. This is one of the most exceptional sakes made in the world, and one of my personal gold standards for the magical qualities that daiginjo sakes can possess.
Tasting Notes:
Colorless in the glass, this sake smells of rainwater, wet cedar, and flowers, with a hint of malted milk. In the mouth it is effortlessly clean, beautifully balanced, and sexy-slippery as it moves across the palate. The delicate flavors swirl between jasmine, melon, and a quartz-like mineral quality that is hard to describe. As with some of the finest white wines, this sake is so aromatic that there is the illusion of sweetness in the flavor that is completely disarming, as any concentrated effort to actually taste sweetness is impossible — the sake is bone dry. The finish is marked by a pleasant, malted milk-ball quality that lingers for a long time and then slowly fades.
Food Pairing:
Classically delicate in nature, this sake is a beautiful accompaniment to sashimi (how about albacore or yellowtail?) or lightly seared fish in the tataki style. Its subtlety will be overwhelmed by strong flavors, so it is best paired with milder foods.
Overall Score: between 9.5 and 10
How Much?: $45 for 720ml bottle (also available in 300ml bottles).
This sake is available for purchase on the Internet.


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CONTENT OF HARMFUL CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS THAT MAY PERSIST IN PLUM SPIRITS
NERMINA SPAHO*, MILENKO BLESIÄ†, MIRSAD KURTOVIÄ†, BERINA BOROVAC
University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, Zmaja od Bosne 8, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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SCSCC6, Volume XXIII, No. 4
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Volume 23, No. 4 (2022)
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In Bosnia and Herzegovina plum spirits are often made in small quantity production batches, involving pot still alembic vessels. In many cases the producer will utilize plums still retaining their stone during the fermentation process which results in important contributions to the overall complexity of final spirit aroma. Plum spirits are characterized by an intense fruity aroma. However, these spirits can also contain some harmful compounds. In this study were determined the concentration of the methanol and hydrocyanic acid (HCN) that are toxic and acetaldehyde and furfural that are harmful just if they are present in higher concentration. Plum spirits were obtained using three plum variety: Pozegaca, Stanley and Bilska rana (Buchler). The behavior of these major harmful compounds was followed during distillation, with their respective contents measured in the heads, hearts, and tails fractions. The most abundant compound was methanol, which is concentrated in the heart fraction, reaching a maximum value of 9668 mgÂ·L-1 absolute alcohol, in the heart fraction of Bilska rana spirit. The concentration of HCN and furfural was influenced by the plum cultivar, the spirits made from the Stanley cultivar contained higher concentrations of these two compounds. The concentrations of harmful compounds are seen not to exceed the allowed limit if an adequate fraction of the heart and tail fractions are removed.
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acetaldehyde, distillation fractions, furfural, hydrocyanic acid, methanol, plum spirits.
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Engineers Without Borders- Los Angeles Professional Chapter (EWB-LA) is developing an improvement project in Tanzania for the village of Lulindi's existing tap water system. In 2015, EWB-LA went to Lulindi to build a French drain in order to provide an increased flow of water during the dry season into an already built catchment basin. This catchment basin is the main source of water for the village, and water is distributed to several taps that are installed throughout the village. Other bacteriological water quality tests presented obstacles because the village is in a remote area with no lab access and the terrain is steep, making it difficult to carry a lot of equipment for water quality testing.
EWB-LA used the CBT to identify a high level of E. coli contamination in the village's main water source.


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Is There a Tax Credit for Buying a New House?
There is no specific, broad federal tax credit in the United States solely for buying a new house.
Tax credits and incentives related to homeownership can vary over time and may depend on specific circumstances, such as being a first-time homebuyer or making energy-efficient improvements.
Here's an overview of tax credits many first-time homebuyers can claim.
10 Tax Breaks You Have as a New Homebuyer
Tax credits and breaks for first-time home buyers can be an attractive incentive that makes purchasing a home more affordable.
These credits are designed to support new buyers and stimulate the housing market.
The details and availability of such credits can vary widely depending on the country, state, or even city, as well as the specific time period.
1. Residential Clean Energy Tax Credits
Energy tax credits are incentives provided by governments to encourage individuals and businesses to make energy-efficient choices.
These tax credits can help offset the costs of implementing energy-saving technologies and practices.
By doing so, governments aim to reduce energy consumption, decrease reliance on fossil fuels, promote the adoption of renewable energy sources, and mitigate environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions.
Here are some common types of energy tax credits:
- Energy-Efficient Home Improvements: Homeowners may receive credits for making energy-saving improvements, such as installing energy-efficient windows, doors, insulation, and certain roofing materials.
- Renewable Energy Systems: Credits might be available for installing renewable energy systems, such as solar panels, wind turbines, or geothermal heat pumps.
2. Interest on Your Mortgage
Most people don't realize that within certain limits, you can deduct your mortgage interest.
The way it works is if you bought your home before December 15, 2017, you're entitled to deduct interest payments up to $1 million in loans that you used for purchasing a home, building a house, home improvement, or buying a second home.
However, if you purchased after this date, there are changes. First, the amount you can claim has been reduced to $750,000. This runs until 2025, when the $1 million limit will return.
There are no differences between filing separately or jointly. However, married couples filing separately will see the overall amount cut in half.
3. Private Mortgage Insurance Deduction
You'll usually have Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) if you borrowed an amount worth 80% or more of the total purchase price.
PMI premiums that were taken out following 2006 were tax deductible for homeowners who have itemized for more than 20 years.
This deduction expired in 2016 and was extended to 2017. After 2018, PMI premiums aren't tax deductible any longer.
If there's an extension, the amount you can deduct depends on your household income. It begins to be phased out after $100,000.
Married couples filing separately will see the phase-out start at $50,000. After $110,000, there's no deduction.
Married couples filing separately will see the deduction removed if they earn more than $55,000 per year.
4. The Points Deduction
The 'Points' system is a fee charged by mortgage lenders. Of the loan principal, one point equals 1%.
Unfortunately, most home loans have between one and three points, which inevitably leads to thousands of extra dollars you must find from somewhere.
If you have a mortgage, you can fully deduct the value of the points from your tax.
If you have a refinanced mortgage, you can also deduct the points. This can only be done over the full term of the loan, though, rather than all at the same time.
If you refinance your mortgage, you can remove the balance from the old loan and begin with the new points on your refinanced loan.
5. Interest on Home Equity Loans
Before 2018, the interest could be deducted on home equity loans up to a $100,000 limit.
After that, the money could be used for anything you wanted, and you'd still get to take advantage of the deduction.
For example, a homeowner could deduct interest from a home equity loan and then use it to pay for a college education or to pay down credit card debt.
That deduction has been removed from 2018 up to 2025.
However, one piece of good news is that the deduction is still active if you use the money to buy, build, or improve a home/second home.
Your primary or secondary home must also secure this loan.
So now, you can take the deduction if you want to add another room to your home or to refit your kitchen.
Take note that this deduction counts towards the interest deduction limit on mortgages listed in the first part of this guide.
6. Property Tax Deduction
One of the most significant introductions of the TCJA was a $10,000 annual cap on how much you can deduct from property, state, and local taxes.
Previously, there was never any cap. Now, this cap lasts from 2018 to 2025.
Now, you can only deduct up to $10,000 from property tax, state income tax, and state/local sales taxes.
There's no index for inflation, and both single and married taxpayers have the same limit.
If your lender demands that you set up some form of escrow or impound account, you can't deduct the money held for property taxes until the money is used to pay them.
Any city or state refund on property tax is deducted from the possible Federal reduction.
7. Tax Deductions for Home Offices
Are you using part of your home to run a business on an exclusive basis?
You may be able to deduct a portion of the costs, such as part of your insurance, any repair costs, and general depreciation.
8. Selling Costs
Whenever you decide to sell your home, you have to consider taxable capital gains. But you can take a reduction on this taxable amount.
There are exclusions, so you may not have to worry about this at all if the amount is low enough to fall within that zone.
You'll find that there are a variety of selling costs involved when it comes to selling your home, such as inspection fees, title insurance, real estate commissions, legal fees, and more.
Every selling cost can be deducted from your total gain. The gain is the selling price minus closing costs, selling costs, and what's known as your tax basis.
On a side note, your tax basis is calculated by taking the original purchase price and adding on the cost of capital improvements minus depreciation.
9. What is Capital Gains Exclusion?
As mentioned before, capital gains exclusion could reduce the amount of tax you have to pay when you sell your own home.
Married couples who file jointly will be able to keep $500,000 in profit when they sell their primary residence (if they lived in it for two of the last five years).
Single filers can keep $250,000, with the same limit applied to married couples who decide to file separately.
10. Mortgage Tax Credit Deductions
There's a program called the Mortgage Credit Certificate (MCC) designed for low-income homebuyers who are purchasing for the first time.
It provides a 20% mortgage interest credit of up to 20% of interest payments. The size of the credit does depend on the area of the country you happen to live in.
The cap on this tax credit is $2,000 per year if the certificate credit rate exceeds 20%.
To claim this credit, you must apply to your local or state government to obtain the certificate.
This credit is available every year that you have the loan and for every year that you live in the house, you purchased with the certificate.
In addition, any credit will be automatically subtracted from the income tax you owe.
These deductions are a general overview of what you can claim. There are more complex laws regarding when and how much of credit you can claim.
To find out more information about the credits you can claim, visit the official IRS website.
Online Tax Filing for Help at Tax Time
When you turn to online tax filing for help, it will be like an interview. They will ask easy-to-answer questions while filling in the correct tax forms for you behind the scenes.
The answers you provide will enable them to help you claim the home buyer tax credits and deductions you qualify for.
If you are unsure how to answer a question, there are tax experts readily available to help you.
Tax filing online provides you with easy importing of your w-2 information and step-by-step instructions to ensure that you get every Homeowner tax deduction and credit that you are eligible for.
Online tax filing ensures that you get the largest refund possible.
They even have a free tax refund calculator available that allows you to know the amount of money that you will be getting back.


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An agglutinative language is a language in which the words are formed by gluing morphemes together. This term was introduced by Wilhelm von Humboldt 1836 to classify languages from a morphological point of view. Agglutinative languages are the most common form of synthetic language, and are usually highly inflected. The name was derived from the Latin verb agglutinare, which means "to glue together".
The opposite of a synthetic language is an analytic, or isolating language. Synthetic languages which are not agglutinative are called fusional languages; they combine morphemes by "squeezing" them together, often changing the morphemes drastically in the process.
"Agglutinative" is sometimes used as a synonym for synthetic, although it technically is not. When used in this way, the word embraces fusional languages and inflected languages in general. It is also worth noting that the distinction between an agglutinative and a fusional language is often not a sharp one. Rather one should think of these as two ends of a continuum, with various languages falling more toward one end or the other.
As you can see, agglutinative languages are not entirely grouped by the family (although Finnish and Hungarian are related, as are possibly Japanese and Korean). Rather, convergent evolution had many separate languages develop this property.


double affirmative being a mocking negative.))
(Eventually learned about Git --no-ff, disabling "fast forwarding" on merges.)
[Contreras 2012] The fundamental difference between mercurial and git branches can be visualized in this example:
Merge example
GLEW COMMENT: Yes, this is a key difference.
We might talk about branches and sub-branches. 'Quick-fix' is a sub-branch of'master'.
There might be branches or paths that start off in the'master' branch, and end up in'some-other-branch'. Such a "crossing-branch" is not really a sub-branch at all.
In fact, a branch that is merged and then terminated is no longer a branch at all. At least, in trees, branches usually do not start off low down in the trunk, and then merge back into the trunk. Although this can be arranged by grafting. Hortitorture.
I would like to have better terms. "Streams" can diverge and recombine, but "streams" are too dynamic. "Paths" may be a better term, although paths can be bidirectional, and version control systems usually go forward in time. Paths can fork and merge. Paths may be created out of distinct stepping stone nodes.
(Hmm: railway "tracks" might be even better than paths. Similarly bidirectional. Tracks can fork and merge. Tracks can be shunts. Sidings. Tracks have railway ties => rather like nodes.)
(Or possibly roadways. Networks of one way streets. Side streets, dead ends, cul de sacs. Mutiple lanes, that may be divided - rather like the parallel streams we so often see. Service roads running beside major highways....)
(Later: perhaps "routes", as in rock-climbing? Rock-climbing routes are usually, mostly, one-way. Although I like downclimbing, most people rappel down; and down-climbing is different enough that down-climbing routes are frequently not the same as up-climbing routes.)
(Or, how about ski-trails? Again, mostly one-way, downhill in this case.)
But "branches" are the term most people use. Even though many people have different ideas about what a branch means.
So back to talking about branches and sub-branches. 'Quick-fix' is a sub-branch of'master'. 'Quick-fix' is one of the two paths that lead from the initial commit to the head of the master path above. The checkin "Quick fix" is on the branch(path) "quick-fix", and leads to the node "Merge branch quick-fix" on branch "master".
AFAICT git has no concept of a branch, a path, a contiguous directed linear subset of nodes, versus te set of all nodews/paths leading to a node.
Much of [Contreras 2012] amounts to confusion about these concepts.
And then piling on immutability, Mercurial's recording branch in the commit metadata.
Merge example
GLEW COMMENT: the way this graph is drawn is biased towards git's model, where the branch is designated by its youngest node. TBD: draw with 2 or more nodes on each path. Color the sets of nodes on each path as the branch.
One of GLEW'S OBSERVATIONS: the most important thing is to be able to give something a name. The next most important thing is to not be required to give it a name.
Mercurial's anonymous heads can be a pain. Just like arithmetic zero.
[Contreras 2012] Git forces you to either merge, or rebase before you push, this ensures that nobody else would need to do that
[Contreras 2012]
Pissant arrogance, lack of of imagination. Here's an example of why you might want the branch name: some workflows put a BugFix#, Issue#, or ECO#, in the branch name.
Sure, there are other ways to do that, both in git and other VCSes.
But: it's a convention, as are, usually, those other ways.
Here's another way of thinking about compatibility between VCSes: it would be nice if procedures and concepts ported. It would be nice if you could import from, say, Mercurial to git, and then export back to Mercurial, and get (almost) exactly the same repo.
Some articles and references
[StackOverflow 2009] := StackOverflow: Pros and Cons of Different Branching Models in DVCS
[Brad 1998] := Streamed Lines: Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development TBD notes
[Contreras 2011] := Mercurial vs Git - It's All in the Branches. Nice overview, although Git biased.
[Contreras 2012] := No, mercurial branches are still not better than git ones; response to jhw's More On Mercurial vs. Git (with Graphs!)
[StackOverflow 2015 - add Git branch name to commit message]
 [Stackoverflow 2009 Jakub] := Git and Mercurial – Compare and Contrast - much liked by [Contreras 2011] TBD - notes
TBD: J. H. Woodyatt's blog post
[StackOverflow 2010 - Branch descriptions in git] - especially interesting to me because, along with mention of the then new branch description feature, VonC discusses shortcomings of that feature, and use of text files as a not-really-satisfactory but possibly better alternative.
Thursday, June 01, 2017
Minimize AHK GUI window to taskbar (not desktop, not tray)
Took me a long time to find this, so posting for the benefit of future-forgetful-me, and possibly others. (But not motivated enough to post to AHK fora or Stackexchange.)
I have an AutoHotKey script that creates several, possibly many, AHK gui windows. Number not known in advance. Dynamically. When user asks.
PROBLEM: when script first started running, minimizing these GUI windows minimized to the desktop. In a manner familiar to old X Windows users, from the days predating taskbars and docks, etc.
It did NOT minimize to the taskbar.
Nor did they minimize to the tray.
They minimized to the desktop.
Screen clipping:
You can see the generic AHK taskbar button and the icon for my guix-sebp.ahk script , which I manually pinned to the taskbar.
But you also see the littl;e non-taskbar minimized windows. Here it happens to be above the taskbar - in actuality, they might appear randomly, in the midle of a different display. Augh!!!
Many web.questions asking how to minimize to tray, I did not find anyone talking about minimizing to taskbar.
Much posting about hooking the XXGuiSize() function called when the AHK GUI windows are resized, maximized, or minimized. But XX here is the GUI window name. Since I don't know in advance how many such windows an instance will have, nor their names, I would have to generate such functions on the fly.
There does not appear to be a way to have all GUI windows share a single GuiClose() hook.
The way to minimize to taskbar:
GUI: "+E0x40000 would add the WS_EX_APPWINDOW style, which provides a taskbar button for a window that would otherwise lack one. " 'via Blog this'


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The Sacramento Regional Water Authority says Sacramento-area water users conserved 27 percent in October compared to the same month in 2013.
The Regional Water Authority represents water providers in Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado, Yolo and Sutter counties.
The conservation rate for about two million customers comes from a review of October water use data.
It's the second straight month the conservation rate was 27 percent.
The RWA and other agencies urge customers to turn off outdoor sprinklers and increase focus on indoor water conservation.
They also recommend limiting shower time, checking plumbing and appliances for leaks and investing in high-efficiency appliances.
The boat ramp at Folsom Lake on November 12, 2015. The lake set a new record low of 140,523 acre-feet in November 2015. The previous record was 140,600 acre-feet in November 1977. Bob Moffitt / Capital Public Radio
Climatologists say even if El Niño brings above-average rain to the state, it will take several years of above-average precipitation to erase California's water supply deficit.
The 25 percent state conservation mandate from the California Water Resources Control Board is in effect through the end of February 2016.
But that could be extended if the water supply deficit doesn't improve through the winter.
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What does HLA-DQ2 5 positive mean?
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What does HLA-DQ2 5 positive mean?
In addition, there are at least three different versions of the HLA-DQ2 gene. One, known as HLA-DQ2. 5, confers the highest risk for celiac disease3; about 13% of Caucasian residents of the U.S. carry this specific gene. However, people with other versions of HLA-DQ2 also are at risk for celiac disease.
What is HLA-DQ2 positive?
Interpreting HLA Test Results The risk for celiac disease in patients who are positive for DQ2 or DQ8 can be determined based on which molecules are encoded. DQ2. 5 is most highly associated with celiac disease, while DQ8 and DQ2. 2 are associated with a lower risk.
What is half DQ2?
Haplotypes with DQ2-associated variants in either HLA-DQA1 or HLA-DQB1 are referred to as half-DQ2.
What is HLA typing for celiac disease?
Celiac disease is strongly associated with the HLA genetic region. Approximately 90% of celiac patients express the HLA-DQ2 molecule. Most of the DQ2 negative patients express the HLA-DQ8 molecule. Gluten peptides presented by these HLA molecules induce an abnormal mucosal immune response and tissue damage. …
Are you born with celiac disease?
Most people who are diagnosed with celiac disease are adults. So someone who is born with the genetic risk for the condition can have no autoimmune reaction to gluten for many years, and then for some reason, they break that tolerance to eating gluten and start developing symptoms.
Is there a celiac gene?
"The Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) genes are linked to many autoimmune diseases such as celiac disease. Everyone has a copy from the mother and a copy from the father. These copies can come in different versions called alleles. The HLA gene alleles that predispose a person to celiac disease are called DQ2 and DQ8.
What does HLA-DQ2 do?
HLA-DQ molecules bind and present peptides to antigen-specific T cells. It is now commonly accepted that HLA-DQ2. 5 can bind and present gluten peptides and that these HLA-DQ-peptide complexes induce inflammatory T cell responses, causing disease. The HLA-DQ2.
Is celiac disease dominant?
The HLA-DQ2 celiac disease susceptibility haplotype can be inherited either in an autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive manner, depending on the specific alleles of these genes the parent has. HLA-DQ8 celiac disease susceptibility haplotype is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner.
Are you born with celiac disease or do you develop it?
Most people who are diagnosed with celiac disease are adults. So someone who is born with the genetic risk for the condition can have no autoimmune reaction to gluten for many years, and then for some reason, they break that tolerance to eating gluten and start developing symptoms. Studies have confirmed this.
Can 23andMe tell me if I have celiac?
You can see whether you may have a slightly increased risk of developing celiac disease based on your genetics in the 23andMe Celiac Disease Genetic Health Risk report. * 23andMe looks at two common variants associated with celiac disease.
How does the HLA DQ association test work?
Aids in the diagnosis of celiac disease. The HLA DQ Association test provides genotyping for detection of HLA-DQ2 (DQA1*05:01 or 05:05 and DQB1*02:01 or 02:02) and HLA-DQ8 (DQB1*03:02). Patients with DQ2, half DQ2 and/or DQ8 are predisposed to celiac disease.
What is the role of HLA DQA1 in squamous cell carcinoma?
HLA-DQA1 plays an important role in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma progression and may be a biomarker for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma diagnosis and prognosis, as well as a potential target for the treatment of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
Is the HLA-DQA1 gene associated with gastric cancer?
HLA-DQA1 gene copy number polymorphism is associated with gastric cancer susceptibility, and there is a multiplicative gene-environment interaction between this polymorphism and H.pylori infection in the development of gastric cancer.
Where are HLA DQ2 and DQA1 alleles most common?
DQ2 β-chains combine with α-chains, encoded by genetically linked HLA-DQA1 alleles, to form the cis – haplotype isoforms. These isoforms, nicknamed DQ2.2 and DQ2.5, are also encoded by the DQA1 *0201 and DQA1 *0501 genes, respectively. DQ2 is most common in Western Europe, North Africa and East Africa.


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I need a python script that seeks to cycle through a number of viewpoints, deriving an AGL raster in each case (using arcpy.Viewshed_3d) and progressively summing the AGL rasters into a single cumulative raster. I have written a Python script to do this but am hitting a problem with the chunk of code that iteratively combines the individual AGL rasters into a single output.
The script takes as input a vector viewpoint layer and a DEM and it seems to work insofar as it loops as it should and generates a final output. However comparison with a manual 'testbed' dataset generated for a small sample of points reveals that the resultant values do not match. Trials with single points worked fine (i.e. for a single point the resultant AGL layer generated by the script was identical to one manually generated) but in the case of two points the output seemed to be the sum of the 2nd AGL raster twice (rather than AGL1 + AGL2). I created a debug version of the code using elif for a small number of points (and saving the temporary raster each time with a unique filename) and it worked fine - the AGL layers generated at each iteration matched the manual versions as did the final AGL output. However, this is not really practical for 100K+ viewpoints.
The faulty chunk of Code is given below:
# set up cursor to step through viewpoint file one at a time
searcher = arcpy.da.SearchCursor(inputVector, ["OID@"])
try:
 for row in searcher:
 # create layer
 arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(inputVector, "viewLayer")
 # set query
 query = ' "OBJECTID" = ' + str(row[0])
 #select point
 arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management("viewLayer", "NEW_SELECTION", query)
 # set viewshed parameters
 inRaster = inputDem
 outViewshed = "outView"
 outagl = "hiding"
 # calculate viewshed
 arcpy.Viewshed_3d(inRaster, "viewLayer", outViewshed, 1, "CURVED_EARTH", 0.13, "outAgl")
 # convert nodata values to zero in agl output to allow union of inputs when adding rasters
 hide1 = Raster("outAgl")
 hidecon = Con(IsNull(hide1), 0, hide1)
 arcpy.AddMessage(query) #debug line
 #create/update summed agl raster
 if row[0] == 1:
 arcpy.AddMessage("first time through loop") #debug line
 tempraster = hidecon #create the raster that will be used to sum
 else:
 arcpy.AddMessage("looping") # debug line
 tempraster = tempraster + hidecon #add latest AGL to the summed raster
 # save the final output summed raster
 tempraster.save(outputAgl)
 #clean up any non-temporary working rasters
 arcpy.Delete_management("outAgl")
 arcpy.Delete_management("outView")
 #clean up cursor
 del searcher
Apologies - I am a very amateur python coder.
UPDATE: Below is a debug version (once again - apologies for untidy code) that replaced the loop with else and elif and saved the intermediate AGL outputs. This worked insofar as the final AGL (outputAGL) was exactly what I was after and matched the test dataset (but it is not a practical solution given the number of AGLs I need to sum (1000+)
# import system., OS and arcpy modules
import sys, os, arcpy
# import geoprocessing environments
from arcpy import env
# import Spatial Analyst and Data Access modules
from arcpy.sa import *
from arcpy.da import *
#check out 3D analyst extension
arcpy.CheckOutExtension("3D")
# enable file overwrite & ensure output extent is max. of inputs
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
arcpy.env.extent = "MAXOF"
# get input files and output filename
inputVector = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)
inputDem = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
outputAgl = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2)
# set up cursor to step through viewpoint file one at a time
searcher = arcpy.da.SearchCursor(inputVector, ["OID@"])
try:
 for row in searcher:
 # create layer
 arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(inputVector, "viewLayer")
 # set query
 query = ' "OID" = ' + str(row[0])
 #select point
 arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management("viewLayer", "NEW_SELECTION", query)
 # set viewshed parameters
 inRaster = inputDem
 outViewshed = "outView"
 outagl = "hiding"
 # calculate viewshed
 arcpy.Viewshed_3d(inRaster, "viewLayer", outViewshed, 1, "CURVED_EARTH", 0.13, "outAgl")
 # convert nodata values to zero in agl output to allow union of inputs when adding rasters
 hide1 = Raster("outAgl")
 hidecon = Con(IsNull(hide1), 0, hide1)
 # debug line
 arcpy.AddMessage(query)
 #create/update summed agl raster
 if row[0] == 1:
 # debug line
 arcpy.AddMessage("first time through loop")
 tempraster = hidecon
 tempraster.save("D:/python_2016/loop1")
 # debug chunk
 elif row[0] == 2:
 arcpy.AddMessage("second time..")
 # tempHelp = tempraster
 tempraster = tempraster + hidecon
 tempraster.save("D:/python_2016/loop2")
 elif row[0] == 3:
 arcpy.AddMessage("third time...")
 tempraster = tempraster + hidecon
 tempraster.save("D:/python_2016/loop3")
 elif row[0] == 4:
 arcpy.AddMessage("fourth time...")
 tempraster = tempraster + hidecon
 tempraster.save("D:\python_2016\loop4")
 # debug chunk end
 else:
 # debug line
 arcpy.AddMessage("looping")
 tempHelp = tempraster
 tempraster = tempHelp + hidecon
 ## saver = "delete_me"
 ## tempraster.save(saver)
 # save the final output summed raster
 tempraster.save(outputAgl)
 #clean up any non-temporary working rasters
 arcpy.Delete_management("outAgl")
 arcpy.Delete_management("outView")
 ## arcpy.Delete_management(saver)
 #clean up cursor
 del searcher
except:
#issue error message
arcpy.AddMessage("The Script crashed and burned sadly")
# report any errior message generated
arcpy.AddMessage(arcpy.GetMessages())
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Finally resolved the problem this morning by adding tempraster.save() to persist the accumulating raster between loop iterations.
 #create/update summed agl raster
 if row[0] == 1:
 tempraster = hidecon #create the raster that will be used to sum
 tempraster.save()
 else:
 tempraster = tempraster + hidecon #add latest AGL to the summed raster
 tempraster.save()
 # save the final output summed raster
 tempraster.save(outputAgl)
The resulting code worked like a dream. Many thanks to Felix for helping me to focus in on exactly where the problem was - your help was very much appreciated, Mark
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Hard to tell what is wrong, because a code is a bit untidy. So I modified it slightly:
try: arcpy
except: import arcpy
import traceback, os, sys
from arcpy import env
env.overwriteOutput = True
from arcpy.sa import *
inputVector=r'D:\Scratch\Walkover.gdb\rpoints'
inRaster = r'D:\Aerials\Backups\arc2mdem'
outAgl="outAgl"
outViewshed="outViewshed"
outagl = "hiding"
try:
 def showPyMessage():
 arcpy.AddMessage(str(time.ctime()) + " -


227 - 1/02 - Heavy Weather Alongside - El Dekheila
One of our Member's bulk carriers twice recently visited the port of El Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt. On both occasions, the vessel experienced heavy swell whilst alongside, resulting in the vessel surging along the quay. On the second occasion, she parted a total of eleven mooring lines and required the assistance of a tug, pilot and mooring crew to resecure the vessel. Two ship's staff were injured during this operation.
Obtaining assistance unfortunately, takes a long time in El Dekheila - the port is likely to be closed once the wind reaches Force 6 or there is a heavy swell running, although a tug is always on standby for emergencies. Once the port is closed, except under special circumstances, no vessel is allowed to enter or leave.
The prevailing wind is from the north and northwest and can reach Force 8/9 - the berths are largely unprotected when the wind is from the north. The Port Authority are aware of the situation - there are, it is reported, studies to increase the length of the breakwater to afford more shelter.
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Polymorphism In Labview
Table of Contents - Polymorphism In Labview
Polymorphism
All LABVIEW arithmetic functions are polymorphic. This means that the inputs to these functions can be different DATA STRUCTURES such as scalar values and arrays. By definition, polymorphism is said to be the ability of a numeric function to adjust to input data of different data structures.
For example, the Add function can be used in the following ways.
1. Scalar + Scalar = Scalar addition.
2. Scalar + Array = The scalar is added to each element of the array.
3. Array + Array = Each element of one array is added to the corresponding element of another array.
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In the above Figure (a), two scalar values are added which results in a scalar output. In the above Figure (b), an array is added with a scalar value. The function adds the scalar value to each element of the array and returns the array output. In the above Figure (c), two arrays are added. The function adds each element of one array to the corresponding element of the other array and returns the array output. In the above Figure (d), two arrays of different sizes (i.e. number of factors) are added. The function adds corresponding features and returns the output array, with the size of the smaller input array. The first array consists of three elements and the second consists of four elements. First three elements of both arrays are added. The fourth element of the second array is not considered. Polymorphism does not perform matrix arithmetic when inputs are two-dimensional arrays (for example, two two-dimensional array inputs to a multiply function do element-by-element multiplication, not MATRIX multiplication).
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Polymorphism For Numeric Functions
The arithmetic functions take numeric input data. With some exceptions noted in the function descriptions, the default output has the same numeric representation as the input or, if the inputs have different representations, the default output is the larger of the inputs. For example, if you add an 8-bit integer and a 16-bit integer, the default output is a 16-bit integer. If you configure the output of a Numeric function, the settings you specify override the default behavior.
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The arithmetic functions work on numbers, arrays of numbers, CLUSTERS of numbers, arrays of clusters of numbers, complex numbers, and so on. A formal and recursive definition of the allowable input type is as follows:
Numeric type = numeric scalar OR array [numeric type] OR cluster [numeric types]
The numeric scalars can be floating-point numbers, integers, or complex floating-point numbers. LABVIEW does not allow you to use arrays of arrays.
Arrays can have any number of dimensions of any size. Clusters can have any number of elements. The output type of functions is of the same numeric representation as the input type. For functions with one input, the functions operate on each element of the array or cluster.
For functions with two inputs, you can use the following input combinations:
 - Similar—Both inputs have the same structure, and the output has the same structure as the inputs.
 - One scalar—One input is a numeric scalar, the other is an array or cluster, and the output is an array or cluster.
 - Array of—One input is a numeric array, the other is the numeric type itself, and the output is an array.
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For similar inputs, LabVIEW performs the function on the respective elements of the structures. For example, LabVIEW can add two arrays element by element. Both arrays must have the same dimensionality. You can add ARRAYS with differing numbers of elements; the output of such an addition has the same number of elements as the smallest input. Clusters must have the same number of elements, and the respective elements must be of the same type.
For operations involving a scalar and an array or cluster, LabVIEW performs the function on the scalar and the respective elements of the structure. For example, LabVIEW can subtract a number from all elements of an array, regardless of the dimensionality of the array.
For operations that involve a numeric type and an array of that type, LabVIEW performs the function on each array element. For example, a graph is an array of points, and a point is a cluster of two numeric types, x and y. To offset a graph by 5 units in the x direction and 8 units in the y direction, you can add a point, (5, 8), to the graph.
The following illustration shows the possible polymorphic combinations of the Add function.
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Polymorphism For Boolean Functions
The logical functions accept Boolean input data, numeric input data, and error clusters. If the input is numeric, LabVIEW performs a bitwise operation. If the input is an integer, the output has the same representation. If the input is a floating-point number, LabVIEW rounds it to a 32-bit integer, and the output is a 32-bit integer. If the input is an error cluster, LabVIEW passes only the TRUE or FALSE value of the status parameter of the error cluster to the input terminal.
The logical functions work on arrays of numbers or Boolean values, clusters of numbers or Boolean values, arrays of clusters of numbers or Boolean values, and so on.
A formal and recursive definition of the allowable input type is as follows:
Logical type = Boolean scalar OR numeric scalar OR array [logical type] OR cluster [logical types]
except that complex numbers and arrays of arrays are not allowed.
Logical functions with two inputs can have the same input combinations as the arithmetic functions. However, the logical functions have the further restriction that the base operations can only be between two Boolean values or two numbers. For example, you cannot have an AND between a Boolean value and a number.
The following illustration shows some combinations of Boolean values for the AND function.
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Despite recent efforts to characterize the uncertainties involved with geological profiles and soil and rock properties, there has been limited study on their spatial correlations and how such features may be included in the engineering decisionmaking process. This paper presents an integrated framework for geostatisical analyses, which incorporates the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) method with the Matern autocovariance model. Statistical tests are conducted including those for data normality, constant variance, and outliers, which ensure the fundamental assumptions of REML are not violated in the residual analyses of site data, meanwhile offering simple checks for potential errors in the dataset. The proposed approach also allows quantification of uncertainties in the subsurface profiles at the unsampled locations. The approach is illustrated through investigations on spatial correlation features of geological profiles at two project sites in Hong Kong. The number of irregularly spaced boreholes varies from 150 to 350 in the two cases, and the large volume of data enables the variations in rockhead levels to be studied through the proposed framework. In addition, the existence of geological faults in one of the sites is found to significantly affect the spatial variability of the rockhead level, as indicated by the reduced scales of fluctuation and spatial dependence, which corresponds to increased uncertainty in areas intersected by faults.
- Matérn covariance structure
- Residual analysis
- Restricted maximum likelihood method
- Rockhead variation
- Site investigation
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- Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology


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Published on Brock University (_URL_)
A Brock prof's research into how the government of Ontario dealt with the regulation of alcohol and public drinking in the province in the post-prohibition 20s and 30s raises some interesting questions about our society's attitudes towards to alcohol.
"We have this incredibly conflicted relationship with alcohol," says Dan Malleck, associate professor of Community Health Sciences and author of Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, _PHONE_.
"From the end of prohibition in Ontario until the Second World War, liquor laws in the province changed significantly," says Malleck. "And with the creation of the LCBO in 1927, the government tried to foster a system that worked in the complex political and social culture of the time."
The whole idea of allowing drinking in a province where a lot of people still thought it should be illegal because it was immoral and destructive to society had to be weighed against the fact that prohibition simply did not work.


Book a recurring diary appointment
The steps below outline how to book an appointment in the diary for a task you carry out regularly.
 1. Click Diary on the main homebar
 2. From Choose View, click the correct diary view and find the column with the initials of the person for whom you want to book the appointment
 - If the appointment is for yourself, click My Diary
 - If the appointment is for someone else, click My Office
 3. Toggle between Day, Week, Month or Agenda as required
 4. Click the start time in the relevant days column. This opens the New Event window
 5. Click the relevant Event Type
 6. Complete all of the relevant information, including the Appointment Details and Event Details
 - If you don't want others to see the content of the appointment, tick Is Private in Appointment Details. If anyone tries to open it, they'll receive the message This appointment is private and can only be viewed and edited by attendees of the appointment
 - If you tick Record Locked in Appointment Details, this means that others can view the appointment but not make changes. The lock can only be removed by the record owner
 1. In Appointment Details, change the Record Owner if required by selecting another name from the dropdown menu
 2. In the Choose Property (Optional) section, you can select a particular Property Address for the appointment. Type the address in the search field and click Select to automatically pull it into the appointment record. The same process applies for adding a person in the Choose Person (Optional) section
 7. At the bottom of the New Event window, you can set the Recurrence
 1. If you click DailyWeekly or Monthly, it'll provide you with more options to determine how frequently the appointment is to reoccur
 2. Set the Recurrence Pattern
 3. Set the Recurrence Range
 8. Once finished, click Save and the appointment and any recurring appointments will be populated into your diary
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Definition of Green gland
1. Noun. One of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Gland
Literary usage of Green gland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"This same green gland has been studied by Professor Huxley and Mr. Martin, who, in an elementary work on practical biology, describes it as a soft greenish..."
2. The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1880)
"... gg. green gland, exposed in A on the left side by the removal of its sac ; ima, intermaxillary or cephalic apodeme ; ces, oesophagus seen in transverse..."
3. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... on a sort of green gland ; filaments very short and slender : anthers linear, opening at the point for the exclusion of the yellow pollen...."
4. Comparative Anatomy and Physiology by Francis Jeffrey Bell (1885)
"This is the so-called " green gland" of the crayfish, where it presents the following characters. An orifice, large enough to admit a fairly stout bristle,..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Green-gland, a special excretory gland of the crawfish and other crustaceans,... The green-gland alone is distinctly similar to a renal excretory organ...."
6. The American Monthly Microscopical Journal by Chas. W. Smiley (1888)
"simplicity, though one sufficiently unlike the green-gland to require an en... The wall of the cavities, as in the green-gland, was found to shut out the..."
7. Bulletin of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1889)
"... must be derived from the ectoderm,unless the duct form long before the rest of the gland. Ishikawa's observations on the origin of the green gland of..."
8. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1886)
"Did they describe the methods by which certainty was obtained, one could have more confidence in the results. The Green-gland of Crustacea...."


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this is my investigation processed so far.could anyone pro have a look at my investigation to see if anything needs improving?
titile page: the effect of light intensity on the distribution of helice crassa.
Introduction: the ecological niche of Helice crassa: Helice crassa belongs to biological class Malacostraca(1). The helice crassa studied were found at Tohuna Torea estuary at the end of Riddel Road.they were usually found under the mud covered by the sea water,in dark damp conditions.so that they are not exposed to high light intensity.because they are prone to dessication.many adaptation features help them reduce the effect of dessication.these include:
1.helice crassa tend to move close to the dark place but move away from the light area. Because high light intensity is often associated with large amount of heat. –biology individual animal study helice crassa: mud crab Mary Melrose department of education Auckland 1988
2. Large pincers-this helps scoop up mud so that they can burrow to shelter from searing heat which is associated with high light intensity. the behaviour of two estuarine crab species by C.G..BEER, department of zoology,university of otago,new Zealand.(received by editior,April 15,1958)
3. the impermeable exoskeleton,strengthened with calcium carbonate,protects the crab from desiccation in air.
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living under the mud often covered by the sea means cooler temperature,damp condition,low light intensity,im going to investigation the preferred light intensity of helice crassa which is the best light intensity which helps reduce the effect of dessication.
Aim: the purpose of this experiment is to find out wether or not the number of helice crassa burrowing into the mud changes with increasing light intensity.
Hypothesis: the number of helice crassa burrowing into the mud increases with increasing light intensity.
(reason:high light intensity is often associated with a large amount of heat, if an increasing number of helice crassa burrowing into the mud is found,then high light intensity would have an effect of the amount of dessication)
Null hypothesis: the number of helice crassa burrowing into the mud remains the same with increasing light intensity
(Reason: if high light intensity has no effect on the amount of desiccation then helice crassa will not show any responses to the increasing light intensity)
Equipment: 30 helice crassa.
3 ice cream containers
Paper to mark
Mud-6 cm deep(the same percentage of mud as well as sand)
Method: 1.go down the riddel road to collect 30 helice crassa.
2. Put mud (6 cm deep) into each ice cream container, the percentage of mud and sand remains constant in each ice cream container.
3.seperate 30 helice crassa into three groups with each group(10) put into each ice cream container.
3.cover the first ice cream container with a piece of wipe,then cover the second ice cream container with 2 pieces of wipe then the third ice cream container with 3 pieces of wipe.
4.measure the light intensity in each of the ice cream container.record light intensity in a table
5.after 5 minutes covered by the wipe, uncover it to count the number of helice crassa that has burrowed into the mud.
6.record the number of helice crassa burrowed into the mud against different light intensity.
according to the experiment with Helice crassa is looks well to me and the details too. you have te record all the changes and their etiology (crab's) and alos i think you have to read some more materials about physiology of crabs becsase they are different from other arthropods because the the chitina that they have allover their body. They stay in dark areas because they insticts sent them for protection.
I hope that i give an understanable answer.
Hi, I'm Karole, and I want to know what you mean by helice crassa is 'different from other arthropods because of the chitina'.
What is chitina? Do you mean chitin? And even so, don't all arthropods have it?
Also, is having chitin all over the body mean that the mud crabs have exoskeleton all over their body?
Is it a physiological adaptation? I'm looking for any physiological adaptations of helice crassa that reduces desiccation. By the way, I'm doing this research assignment for water content of the mud that helice crassa lives in.
im doing my research on the effects (on the weight of the helice crassa) of different salinities. i have searched everywhere but i cant find any general knowledge about the helice crassa and any adaptations of the crab related to the range of salinities and how it effects their weight, to help introduce my investigation. Any suggestions?
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