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Connecting the community
Industry associations and social media in wind energy
In the modern era, social media is one of the most useful tools for businesses to share their message, build brand identity, and reach completely new target groups. Industry associations can complement this by representing the goals and concerns of a sector. This also applies to wind energy and could be a key driver of future expansion.
Social media use is growing year on year. In fact, it is estimated that over 45% of the global population is active on social media. Enterprises now realize that if they are not present on these channels, they could be missing out priceless exposure and opportunities for business growth. There is plenty of potential for the wind energy sector. By increasing its online presence, wind energy can strengthen its position as a leading and viable source of green electricity, combat the rise in "fake news," and promote the latest technologies.
Providing exposure to the things that matter
The power of social media doesn't lie in the fact that it offers people information, more that it engages people and brings them into a discussion. There is no doubt that a widespread shift away from conventional power sources, which have been in use for decades, requires action from the population. Without a way to reach the general public and not only specialists or professionals already involved in the sector, it is harder to set the wheels in motion for this change.
Giving the wind energy sector a collective voice
Industry associations, such as WindEurope, the Chinese Wind Energy Association, the Global Wind Energy Council, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and many more represent the interests of the wind energy sector in different regions. These associations are usually comprised of members from different states or countries that assist the sector in various ways. Their activities include hosting events, lobbying, influencing legal policy, and acting as a united voice for businesses. Combating fake news and providing credible and accessible information is a key aim for associations.
A potential obstacle for wind energy?
Even though social media has the potential to highlight wind energy as a viable source of green electricity, it can also create new challenges. In the same way that individuals can promote wind energy, people can also put common negative myths in the spotlight – such as wind turbine noise causing cancer or power shutdowns occurring when there is no wind. Additionally, to stay competitive on social media, wind energy companies will need to be very active online. This means investing time and money into creating interesting and engaging social media content.
Nonetheless, despite possible obstacles, the benefits of social media outweigh the drawbacks. Online channels enable companies and personalities in the wind energy sector to connect with the public like never before. Enhanced by the important work of industry associations, the wind energy industry can make its mark as a collective and promote the cause of economical, sustainable electricity.
To stay up to date with SKF's social media activity, please visit our Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook pages.
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Some workers claimed they found it after they exploded the rock. No actual proof that it was imbedded.
Now that we have ways to test the thing, it's gone.
The Dorchester Pot was a metal vase, which was recovered in two pieces after an explosion used to break up rock at Meeting House Hill, in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1852. According to text reprinted by Anonymous (1852) from the "Boston Transcript", a local paper, in the June 5, 1852 Scientific American, the two pieces of the Dorchester Pot were found, not in situ within local bedrock, but loose among debris thrown out by the explosion. Apparently, it was inferred from the locations of the two pieces of this pot among the explosion debris that this pot had been blasted from solid puddingstone (conglomerate), which is part of the Roxbury conglomerate, from about 15 feet below the surface of Meeting House Hill (Anonymous 1852).
The bell-shaped vessel about was described as being about 4.5 inches (11.5 cm) high, 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) in diameter as the base and 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) in diameter at the top. The body of this object was said to resemble zinc alloyed with silver in color. It reportedly exhibited floral designs on its side and a wreath or vine design around its lower part, which were both inlaid with silver (Anonymous 1852).
PureInsight (2006) also provides, without any attribution, a picture of an unknown object from an unknown source, which is used to illustrate what they apparently believe the Dorchester Pot looked like, as well as an age of 100,000 years. Anonymous (1852), the primary source of information about this object, provides neither any picture of nor age estimate for the Dorchester Pot.
A web page created by archaeologists Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews and James Doeser with the stated goal of examining fringe archaeology identifies the object as "clearly a candlestick of obviously Victorian style" [_URL_
; they presumably base this identification on the unsourced photograph of the Dorchester Pot mentioned above.

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Cherokee County, Kansas is located in the southeastern corner of the state and is part of the Pittsburg Metropolitan Statistical Area. With an estimated population of 21,717 people, Cherokee County is one of the most populous counties in Kansas. The county seat is Columbus, which has a population of around 1,400 people.
According to photionary.com, the first inhabitants of Cherokee County were Native Americans who lived in the area for thousands of years before European settlers arrived. They belonged to several different tribes including the Osage, Quapaw, and Pawnee. In 1859, when Kansas became a state, Cherokee County was officially established and named after the Cherokee Indians who had once lived there.
Today, Cherokee County offers visitors a variety of attractions to explore including historic sites like Fort Scott National Historic Site or Fort Larned National Historic Site; outdoor recreation at places like Beattie Park or Lake Scott State Park; and unique shopping experiences at places like Galena Trading Post or Baxter Springs Heritage Center & Museum.
Cherokee County also has its fair share of famous people. Some notable residents include actor Brad Pitt who was born in Shawnee Mission; baseball legend George Brett who grew up in El Dorado; and singer/songwriter Patty Griffin who hails from Baxter Springs.
With its rich history and abundance of attractions to explore, it's no wonder why so many people call Cherokee County home. Whether you're looking for outdoor adventure or just a peaceful place to relax, this county has something for everyone.
Climate and weather in Cherokee County, Kansas
According to act-test-centers.com, Cherokee County, Kansas has a humid continental climate, with hot summers and cold winters. The county is located in the southeastern corner of the state, so it is influenced by warm and humid air from the Gulf of Mexico and dry air from the Great Plains. During the summer months, temperatures average in the mid 70s Fahrenheit (21-23°C), with highs reaching into the upper 90s (30-35°C). Winters are cold with temperatures averaging in the low 30s Fahrenheit (0-2°C) and highs reaching into the upper 40s (7-9°C).
Rainfall is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, with an average of around 36 inches. Snowfall typically ranges from 10 to 20 inches per year, although some years have seen higher totals.
The spring season brings warm temperatures and plenty of sunshine. In April and May, temperatures range from 50 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit (10-24°C) during daytime hours. Thunderstorms are also common during this time of year as cold air masses clash with warm air masses over Cherokee County.
Summer is hot and humid with high temperatures reaching into the 90s (30-35°C). Thunderstorms are common during this season as well due to frequent clashes between warm moist air and cooler dry air coming down from Canada.
Autumn is usually mild with cool nights and pleasant days. Temperatures range from 40 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit (4 -18°C) during daytime hours. This season is also marked by beautiful foliage as trees prepare for winter hibernation.
Winter can be cold but can also bring mild days depending on where a cold front has stalled out or if a strong wind is blowing down from Canada bringing Arctic air masses southward. Temperatures range from 20 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit (-6 -4°C) during daytime hours, although lows can dip below zero at times (-18°C). Snowfall usually begins in late November or early December and continues through March or April depending on how far north one goes in Cherokee County.
Transportation in Cherokee County, Kansas
Cherokee County, Kansas has a variety of transportation options available to its residents. The county is served by a network of highways, roads, and streets that make it easy for residents to get around the area. The main highway that runs through the county is U.S. Route 400, which connects the county with nearby cities such as Pittsburg and Parsons. There are also several state routes that connect Cherokee County with other cities in Kansas, including Missouri and Oklahoma. In addition to driving, public transportation is also available in Cherokee County. The county's public transit system is operated by the South East Kansas Area Regional Transit (SEKART), which provides bus service throughout the county and connections to other areas in Southeast Kansas. SEKART also operates vanpools for commuters who have similar routes and schedules. Additionally, there are several taxi companies that operate in Cherokee County and provide services to local residents as well as visitors from out of town. For those looking for more independent travel options, bicycle lanes are provided on many roads throughout the county for cyclists who wish to explore the area or commute to work or school.
Cities and towns in Cherokee County, Kansas
According to countryaah, Cherokee County, Kansas is home to a variety of cities and towns. The county seat is Columbus, which is the largest city in the county with a population of over 4,000. Columbus is home to several businesses, restaurants, and parks as well as the Cherokee County Historical Museum. Other cities in Cherokee County include Weir and Baxter Springs. Weir is a small community with just over 700 residents that lies along U.S. Route 400 and was once an important stop on the Santa Fe Trail. Baxter Springs is located on the Oklahoma-Kansas border and has a population of around 4,400 people. It serves as an important commercial center for the region with several businesses and restaurants located in town. There are also several smaller towns located throughout Cherokee County such as Galena, Thayer, West Mineral, Treece, Scammon, Waco, and Riverton. Each of these towns has its own unique character with local businesses, historic sites, parks and recreational activities available for visitors to enjoy.

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 in psychology, a mental condition in which someone's feelings about sex have not developed normally because they loved someone or something a lot as a child


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int QMessageBox::question(QWidget *parent, const QString &title, const QString& text,
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{
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/*!
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int QMessageBox::question(QWidget *parent, const QString &title, const QString& text,
 const QString& button0Text, const QString& button1Text,
 const QString& button2Text, int defaultButtonNumber,
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{
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/*!
 \obsolete
 Opens a warning message box with the given \a title and \a text.
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 \li QMessageBox::NoButton
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 \li QMessageBox::Yes
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 \li QMessageBox::Abort
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 \li QMessageBox::Ignore
 \li QMessageBox::YesAll
 \li QMessageBox::NoAll
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 If you don't want all three buttons, set the last button, or last
 two buttons to QMessageBox::NoButton.
 One button can be OR-ed with QMessageBox::Default, and one
 button can be OR-ed with QMessageBox::Escape.
 Returns the identity (QMessageBox::Ok or QMessageBox::No or ...)
 of the button that was clicked.
 The message box is an \l{Qt::ApplicationModal} {application modal}
 dialog box.
 \warning Do not delete \a parent during the execution of the dialog.
 If you want to do this, you should create the dialog
 yourself using one of the QMessageBox constructors.
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int QMessageBox::warning(QWidget *parent, const QString &title, const QString& text,
 int button0, int button1, int button2)
{
 return QMessageBoxPrivate::showOldMessageBox(parent, Warning, title, text,
 button0, button1, button2);
}
/*!
 \obsolete
 \overload
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 \sa information(), question(), critical()
*/
int QMessageBox::warning(QWidget *parent, const QString &title, const QString& text,
 const QString& button0Text, const QString& button1Text,
 const QString& button2Text, int defaultButtonNumber,
 int escapeButtonNumber)
{
 return QMessageBoxPrivate::showOldMessageBox(parent, Warning, title, text,
 button0Text, button1Text, button2Text,
 defaultButtonNumber, escapeButtonNumber);
}
/*!
 \obsolete
 Opens a critical message box with the given \a title and \a text.
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 The message box is an \l{Qt::ApplicationModal} {application modal}
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 \warning Do not delete \a parent during the execution of the dialog.
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int QMessageBox::critical(QWidget *parent, const QString &title, const QString& text,
 int button0, int button1, int button2)
{
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This assessment measures the student's general knowledge of z/OS terminology, system hardware and software components, and data processing concepts.
This assessment is designed for data center staff responsible for the operation and monitoring of the z/OS system, or other IT specialists that are required to have a solid understanding of the z/OS environment.
A good general knowledge of z/OS terminology, system hardware and software components, and data processing concepts.
The following Interskill courses have been used as reference for this assessment:
- z/OS – Concepts 2.5
- z/OS – Managing and Processing z/OS Data 2.5
Additional on-the-job training in the areas above should also be undertaken to prepare you for scenario based questions that have been included in this assessment.
This assessment covers the following topics:
- z/OS Terminology
- Function of z/OS system hardware components and how they are integrated with each other
- z/OS systems resource sharing concepts


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- 1 Explore the Natural Biodiversity of Australia in these Amazing Zoos
- 1.1 1. Australia Zoo
- 1.2 2. Melbourne Zoo
- 1.3 3. Taronga Zoo
- 1.4 4. Werribee Open Range Zoo
- 1.5 5. Lone Pine Sanctuary
- 1.6 6. Healesville Sanctuary
- 1.7 7. Adelaide Zoo
- 1.8 8. Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium
- 1.9 9. Dubbo Western Plains Zoo
- 1.10 10. Tasmanian Devil Unzoo
- 1.11 Conclusion
- 1.12 Fun Fact
- 1.13 What is Australia's most popular zoo?
Explore the Natural Biodiversity of Australia in these Amazing Zoos
Australian zoos are home to amazing biodiversity. With wonderful animals and a possibility to encounter these animals closely, the zoos in Australia are a must-visit. Zoos are one of the major tourist attractions in Australia. It is because of the zoos that some of the most endangered species in the world are still alive. Some of the zoos with most valued animal species are discussed in this article so that when you visit Australia, you get a wild experience with these wild animals.
1. Australia Zoo
If you are a fan of Crocodile Hunter and if you use to watch his documentaries, then the Australia Zoo is a place for you. This zoo was founded by parents of Steve Irwin in 1970. Since the tragic death of Steve Irwin in 2006, his wife Terri and kids Bob and Bindi are associated with the Home of the Crocodile Hunter. Australia Zoo is a continued legacy of Crocodile Hunter. There are more than 1000 animals in an area of 100 acres. The zoo is located in Sunshine Coast Hinterland which is at a distance of one hour drive from Brisbane. If you are visiting this zoo, then you should not miss the legendary live crocodile feeding show, because it is very amazing.
Read More: 10 Australia Dangerous Animals Best Avoided
2. Melbourne Zoo
Melbourne Zoo is the oldest zoo in Australia and is considered to be the oasis on the crossover of the centre of the city. Most of the Melbournians have grown up while going to this zoo. Since its establishment, this zoo has evolved a lot. Recently in the lion enclosure, Lion Gorge has been launched. This upgrade has cost around 5 million AUD. With this upgrade, the visitors can now get a closer look at the lions. With this new design, you can get so much close to the lions that you can feel the breathing of lions. A Wild Sea is also present in the Melbourne Zoo. This place shows the coastal wildlife of Victoria. The Melbourne Zoo is also known to be the leader in conservation of endangered species. Up till now, the zoo is targeting 21 endangered species including rock wallabies and pygmy possums for conservation. In the zoo, endangered species are captive bred and then they are planned to be re-introduced to the wild habitat.
3. Taronga Zoo
Taronga Zoo is situated in Sydney and is very famous for the reason that you can experience the most spectacular view of the city skyline in this visit. You can reach this zoo by taking a ferry from Circular Quay in Sydney to Taronga Zoo. Among the major attractions of this zoo is the cable car which is located over the monkey trail. With this cable car ride, you can enter into the most amazing protected animal park. This zoo visit is filled up with many amazing adventures. You can get a stunning picture opportunity with the giraffes' long necks merging and the skyline above Sydney Harbor in the background. This zoo has incredible views and it is more popular for its views than its animals. The zoo also organizes a special bird show which is free at particular times every day. So when you visit this zoo, get yourself a spot in this bird show so that you do not miss major fun with incredible birds' demonstrations. The Taronga zoo constitutes a collection of more than 4,000 animals. Among its major attractions are a view of Sydney Harbor, a view of Sydney Skyline, Animals of all sort and much more. There is a new addition in the zoo, which is a jungle-themed tiger trek. In this area, you can be close to and take pictures with endangered Sumatran tiger species.
4. Werribee Open Range Zoo
Werribee Zoo near Melbourne is a zoo of its kind because it is an African themed zoo. The African continent is famous for all sorts of safari animals. There are many animal species around the world, whose natural habitat is in Africa. The Werribee Open Range Zoo is considered to be the most attractive tourist wildlife destination in Melbourne. The zoo mostly constitutes of African species of animals and birds, but that does not mean this zoo is solely dedicated to African animals. There are a number of Australian wild species which are also contained in this zoo. Your children can learn more and more about African safari-style while outing in this zoo. Some of the famous animals which can be found in this zoo include African wild dogs, Antelopes, Camels, Cheetahs, Giraffes, Gorillas, Hippopotamus, Lions, Meerkats, Monkeys, Ostrich, Rhinoceros, and Zebra. Australian wild animals including koalas, emus, and kangaroos can also be found in this zoo. Hence, we can say that the Werribee Open Range zoo spread on an area of 225 hectares is a place where you can spot most of the animals you would expect to find in wild habitats of Africa.
5. Lone Pine Sanctuary
Lone Pine Sanctuary is a worth visiting place for all our koala lovers. It is situated in Brisbane and it is known to be the world's first as well as the largest sanctuary for koalas. The Lone Pine Sanctuary also conducts research for safety of this wild species. It is at a distance of 12 kilometres from the centre of Brisbane. You can reach there by bus and even from boat which will take you to the South Bank of the sanctuary. A general ticket on this sanctuary costs 36 AUD whereas children, senior citizens, families, and students are given discounts. There are more than 130 koalas in this sanctuary. The place has different wild habitats of koalas. Most of the states in Australia do not allow you to hug a koala, but when you visit this sanctuary, you are lucky, because its located in Queensland and the state allows being personal with koalas. So hug a koala and take a picture for lifetime memories.
6. Healesville Sanctuary
The Healesville Sanctuary is located in the Yarra Valley wine region, which is just an hour-long drive from Melbourne towards north-east. The sanctuary gives you an experience of enjoying the wildlife as well as the indigenous culture of Australia. One of the major tourist attraction in Healesville Sanctuary is that they allow you to come closer and sometimes make contacts with native nocturnal animals of Australia. These animals, among others, include bilbies, bandicoots and possums. The sanctuary also houses a wombat enclosure, where you can enjoy being with wombats because these animals are difficult to spot when in wild. You can also visit lovely marsupials in the koala forest located in this sanctuary. This zoo is famous for animal rescue as well as rehabilitation of species.
7. Adelaide Zoo
Adelaide zoo, being one of the reasons people visit Adelaide, is a place where you can find 2500 animals belonging to 250 different species. The zoo houses both exotic and native species of birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish. Adelaide zoo is the second largest zoo in the country. The zoo operates on a nonprofit basis, like other major zoos of Australia including Melbourne Zoo, Perth Zoo, and Taronga Zoo. This zoo has one animal species, all of humanity loves to cuddle. Yes, we are talking about cuddly panda bears. There are two panda bears in this zoo and these are the only pandas found in Southern hemisphere. These pandas are named as Wang Wang and Fu Ni. There is international giant panda research going on in Adelaide zoo for better conservation and breeding of these pandas. The research focuses on ways to preserve the endangered pandas.
8. Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium
If you have been to Melbourne, you would have surely heard about this Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, because it is one of the most sought tourist destinations in the city. The aquarium is situated at the banks of Yarra River in Melbourne. It is known to be one of the best marine wildlife zoos in Australia. The aquarium was established and opened for public in 2000 and is home to a large variety of marine life. Make sure you visit this aquarium while you are in Melbourne because it has many features which are worth a visit. Besides different tropical fish and marine organisms, the aquarium constitutes of rainforests, sea dragons, crocodiles, sea turtles, penguins, sharks. Mangroves, rock pools, stingrays and sea horses. In this aquarium, you will be very close to different kinds of marine life from all around the global waters.
Read More: Top 10 Most Dangerous Animals in Australia
9. Dubbo Western Plains Zoo
If you want to visit an African themed zoo in luxurious enclosures, then Dubbo Western Plains Zoo is the go-to place for you. As compared to other zoos in the country, this zoo is amazingly luxurious. The zoo is focused on giving animals a large free environment to roam around, which gives them a more natural environment when compared to other zoos in Australia. The interesting thing about this zoo is that you can cycle around over the 6 kilometres long circuit and get closer to African wild animals to a point that there is only a moat as a separation between you and animals. A general entry in this zoo costs 48 AUD for a ticket. The best thing you can do in Dubbo


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The AMTS EU Feedbank has been developed to provide our European customers with a feed library that more accurately represents feeds available to European farmers. Over the last 2-3 years, we have been collecting information and we are now rolling it out to you! We hope this helps bring value to our users but most importantly, we hope it will allow you to formulate diets to make the true end user (the cow!) healthier and more productive, and more environmentally friendly
Here are the main features of the new AMTS EU Feeds feedbank:
- Book values for fiber digestibility: We have pre-populated every NDF-containing feed in this feedbank with 3-time-point NDFd values. This will allow you to get a better handle on kd and uNDF levels during formulation. Including these values was especially important for improving model predictions in diets containing grass silage and rapeseed.
- An expanded Grass Silage selection: This group of forages is built mostly using analyses of Grass silages in Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries. It most closely represents perennial ryegrasses from immature to mature.
- Maize silage with different physical forms: We expanded on the already large "Corn Silage" list from the CNCPS library to include Unprocessed Fine Chop and Shredlage options. The Shredlage entries will contribute slightly higher peNDF and starch digestibility book values. The Unprocessed, fine chop entries are built to represent forages that may have been harvested for biogas production but are also fed to cattle.
- Whole-crop small grains silages: Users will now be able to choose between different qualities of whole-crop silages. Values are based primarily on UK and German samples.
- Rapeseed derived products: We have recognized that European rapeseed meal is different than our stock "Canola Meal Solvent" in the CNCPS feed library. We have compiled analysis of European-sourced rapeseed meal, cakes, and protected feeds to give you a large selection of feeds in the library. In the field, we have seen many different commercial products based on rapeseed. We used generic names in the feed library, but if you bring a feed into a farm, you will see a small green box next to the feed name. Hover over this green box, and you will see a notes section with trade names for the specific generic feed.
- Selected commercial products: We have also included some commercial products that many of our users have specifically requested; we have worked with the suppliers to properly characterize these feeds. We hope this will bring increased value to AMTS users.
Do I still need to test my feeds?
YES! The feedbank will give you a better 'base feed' to work off. When you go to formulate diets with feeds represented in the feedbank you will want to select the feed out of this feedbank that most closely matches your tested values. Then, when you get your analysis, you can replace the book values with actual measured values…just like the rest of the AMTS feeds. Of course, standard XML import makes this task simple and fast!
We would greatly appreciate your feedback.
As always, we would love to hear your thoughts! Would you like more feeds added to the feedbank? Contact us and we will let you know what type of data we need.


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As always, corrections to my misconceptions/misstatements are appreciated. This question is related to the following one, but in this question the algebras considered are commutative: Non-smooth algebra with smooth representation variety
The "commuting scheme" X is defined intuitively as "pairs of nxn commuting matrices." More precisely, it's the subscheme of the affine space $M_n(\mathbb{C})\times M_n(\mathbb{C})$ defined by the equations in the entries of the matrices corresponding to the matrix equations "XY = YX," which are $n^2$ homogenous equations of degree n. To the best of my knowledge, the question of whether X is reduced is an old problem that is still open.
The commuting scheme is naturally isomorphic to $Rep^n_\mathbb{C}(\mathbb{C}[x,y])$. This leads to my question: Is there an algebra A such that $Spec(A)$ is reduced but $Rep_\mathbb{C}^n(A)$ is not reduced? Even stronger, is there an A with $Spec(A)$ smooth and $Rep_\mathbb{C}^n(A)$ non-reduced? My guess would be yes for both, but I'm not sure how to find one for either one.
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Ancient forest found preserved under Gulf of Mexico waters
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MOBILE, Ala., July 9 (UPI) -- Scuba divers say they've discovered an ancient forest of Bald Cypress trees preserved underwater in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Alabama.
The forest, covered by ocean sediments and preserved in an oxygen-free environment for more than 50,000 years, was likely exposed by 2005's Hurricane Katrina, Ben Raines, one of the first divers to explore the forest, told The forest of well-preserved trees covers an area of a half square mile off the coast of Mobile, Ala., at a depth of about 60 feet.
The trees could contain thousands of years of climate history for the region in their growth rings and reveal secrets about the climate of the Gulf of Mexico thousands of years ago, during a period known as the Wisconsin Glacial period, when sea levels were much lower than they are today, Grant Harley at the University of Southern Mississippi said.
Bald Cypress trees can live 1,000 years, he said.
"These stumps are so big, they're upwards of two meters (6 feet) in diameter --- the size of trucks," Harley said. "They probably contain thousands of growth rings."
Now that it's been uncovered the forest will eventually be destroyed by wood-burrowing marine animals, making it impossible to perform radiocarbon dating, Harley said.
Since being uncovered the forest has attracted fish, crustaceans, sea anemones and other underwater life burrowing between the roots of dislodged stumps, researchers said.


a standard wrist-hold (WH) and a house-made rod-hold (RH). The effect of arm position correction (APC) based on setup images was also investigated. A total of 113 consecutive patients with early-stage breast cancer with LN irradiation were retrospectively analyzed (53 and 60 using the WH and RH, respectively). Residual position errors of the LN surrogates (Th1-2 and clavicle) and the HH were investigated to compare the 2 fixation devices. The position errors and setup margins were determined before and after the APC to investigate the efficacy of the APC in the treatment situation. A threshold of 5 mm was used for the residual errors of the clavicle and Th1-2 to perform the APC, and a threshold of 7 mm was used for the HH. The setup margins were calculated with the van Herk formula. Irradiated volumes of the HH were determined from RT treatment plans. With the WH and the RH, setup margins up to 8.1 and 6.7 mm should be used for the LN surrogates, and margins up to 4.6 and 3.6 mm should be used to spare the HH, respectively, without the APC. After the APC, the margins of the LN surrogates were equal to or less than 7.5/6.0 mm with the WH/RH, but margins up to 4.2/2.9 mm were required for the HH. The APC was needed at least once with both the devices for approximately 60% of the patients. With the RH, irradiated volume of the HH was approximately 2 times more than with the WH, without any dose constraints. Use of the RH together with the APC resulted in minimal residual position errors and setup margins for all the investigated bony landmarks. Based on the obtained results, we prefer the house-made RH. However, more attention should be given to minimize the irradiation of the HH with the RH than with the WH.
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 5. Methylation status of the APC and RASSF1A promoter in cell-free circulating DNA and its prognostic role in patients with colorectal cancer.
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 Matthaios, Dimitrios; Balgkouranidou, Ioanna; Karayiannakis, Anastasios; Bolanaki, Helen; Xenidis, Nikolaos; Amarantidis, Kyriakos; Chelis, Leonidas; Romanidis, Konstantinos; Chatzaki, Aikaterini; Lianidou, Evi; Trypsianis, Grigorios; Kakolyris, Stylianos
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 DNA methylation is the most frequent epigenetic alteration. Using methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (MSP), the methylation status of the adenomatous polyposis coli ( APC ) and Ras association domain family 1 isoform A ( RASSF1A ) genes was examined in cell-free circulating DNA from 155 plasma samples obtained from patients with early and advanced colorectal cancer (CRC). APC and RASSF1A hypermethylation was frequently observed in both early and advanced disease, and was significantly associated with a poorer disease outcome. The methylation status of the APC and RASSF1A promoters was investigated in cell-free DNA of patients with CRC. Using MSP, the promoter methylation status of APC and RASSF1A was examined in 155 blood samples obtained from patients with CRC, 88 of whom had operable CRC (oCRC) and 67 had metastatic CRC (mCRC). The frequency of APC methylation in patients with oCRC was 33%. Methylated APC promoter was significantly associated with older age (P=0.012), higher stage (P=0.014) and methylated RASSF1A status (P=0.050). The frequency of APC methylation in patients with mCRC was 53.7%. In these patients, APC methylation was significantly associated with methylated RASSF1A status (P=0.016). The frequency of RASSF1A methylation in patients with oCRC was 25%. Methylated RASSF1A in oCRC was significantly associated with higher stage (P=0.021). The frequency of RASSF1A methylation in mCRC was 44.8%. Methylated RASSF1A in mCRC was associated with moderate differentiation (P=0.012), high levels of carcinoembryonic antigen (P=0.023) and methylated APC status (P=0.016). Patients with an unmethylated APC gene had better survival in both early (81±5 vs. 27±4 months, PAPC . Patients with an unmethylated RASSF1A gene had better survival in both early (71±6 vs. 46±8 months, PAPC and RASSF1A promoter methylation status and survival may be indicative of a prognostic role for these genes in CRC, which requires additional testing in larger studies.
 6. A hybrid Rankine cycle (HyRC) with ambient pressure combustion (APC)
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 The main losses in thermal power generation include heat in exhaust flue gas, heat rejected through steam condensation of low-pressure turbine, and exergy destruction in heat exchange process etc. To the extent that the heat losses are significantly greater in temperature than either air or water coolant resources, these losses also represent exergy losses which might be exploited to improve plant capacity and efficiency. This paper presents a hybrid Rankine cycle (HyRC) with an ambient pressure combustion (APC) boiler to address the recovery potential of these losses within the steam Rankine cycle (SRC). The APC–HyRC concept employs an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) to supplement SRC and to reduce cycle energy losses to the atmosphere since organic fluids are capable of lowering cycle condensation temperature when a very low temperature heat sink is available. The case studies based on a 399 MW SRC unit show that the APC–HyRC configurations have better thermodynamic performance than its base case SRC at a cycle condensation temperature of 30 °C and below. The best APC–HyRC configuration generates up to 14% more power than the baseline steam cycle which is a 5.45% increase in overall gross efficiency with a cycle condensation temperature at 4 °C. - Highlights: • A hybrid Rankine cycle with water and organic fluid is presented. • Heat losses in exhaust flue gas and exhaust steam are reduced. • Exergy losses in regeneration process are reduced. • Efficiency improvements are made to the conventional steam Rankine cycle. • Issues in design/construction of greenfield and repowering project are discussed
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 Full Text Available OBJECTIVES: We investigated four components of the Wnt signaling pathway in medulloblastomas. Medulloblastoma is the most common type of malignant pediatric brain tumor, and the Wnt signaling pathway has been shown to be activated in this type of tumor. METHODS: Sixty-one medulloblastoma cases were analyzed for β-catenin gene (CTNNB1 mutations, β-catenin protein expression via immunostaining and Wnt signaling pathway-related gene expression. All data were correlated with histological subtypes and patient clinical information. RESULTS: CTNNB1 sequencing analysis revealed that 11 out of 61 medulloblastomas harbored missense mutations in residues 32, 33, 34 and 37, which are located in exon 3. These mutations alter the glycogen synthase kinase-3β phosphorylation sites, which participate in β-catenin degradation. No significant differences were observed between mutation status and histological medulloblastoma type, patient age and overall or progression-free survival times. Nuclear β-catenin accumulation, which was observed in 27.9% of the cases, was not associated with the histological type, CTNNB1 mutation status or tumor cell dissemination. The relative expression levels of genes that code for proteins involved in the Wnt signaling pathway (CTNNB1, APC, AXIN1 and WNT1 were also analyzed, but no significant correlations were found. In addition, large-cell variant medulloblastomas presented lower relative CTNNB1 expression as compared to the other tumor variants. CONCLUSIONS: A small subset of medulloblastomas carry CTNNB1 mutations with consequent nuclear accumulation of β-catenin. The Wnt signaling pathway plays a role in classic, desmopl


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When you invert a transform, a rotation clockwise becomes an identical rotation anti-clockwise. A translation to the left becomes a translation to the right. A zoom in becomes a zoom out.
Note that not every transform can be inverted. If you specify a magnification of zero, you have shrunk your world space to a point. In this case, it is not possible to invert the transform to get the original back again. However, this kind of transform is uncommon in the real world and normally only occurs as a result of programming errors.
If you apply the invert method to a non-invertable transform, the transform will remain unmodified.
Here, we add some text rotated at 45 degrees anti-clockwise around the middle of the document. We then invert the transform and draw some more text. Because the transform has been inverted, the text now appears rotated 45 degrees clockwise.
Set theDoc = Server.CreateObject("ABCpdf11.Doc")
theDoc.FontSize = 72
theDoc.Rect = "0 0 999 999"
theDoc.Pos = "302 396"
theDoc.Transform.Rotate 45, 302, 396
theDoc.AddText "45 Degrees"
theDoc.Pos = "302 396"
theDoc.AddText "Inverted"
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Size and Support Effect for Geometric and Electronic Structure of Size-selected Pt Clusters on TiO2(110) and Al2O3/NiAl (110)
We investigated deposited size-selected Ptn (n = 4–15) clusters supported on the TiO2(110) substrate. We have attempted to highlight the cluster–substrate interactions and their knock-on effects. Accordingly, we deposited size-selected Ptn clusters on the Al2O3/NiAl(110) surface and investigated their structure, energy, and catalytic behavior.
Ptn clusters on TiO2(110) surface show a geometrical transition from a planar structure to a 3D structure was observed when the cluster size increased to 8 Pt atoms. We found the corresponding significant decrease in the activation energy of CO oxidation.
STM/STS measurements of size-selected Pt7 clusters on a thin Al2O3/NiAl(110) were performed. No difference in distribution of the heights and diameters between Pt7 clusters on domain and on domain boundary. Pt7 clusters prefer to adsorb on domain boundaries. Resonant tunneling through discrete electronic states in Pt7 clusters were observed around 2 V.

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The purpose of this case study is to optimize the design and production of an ethylbenzene-to-styrene manufacturing facility, Unit 500. Compared to the original base-case design, the optimizations presented in this document will save approximately $337 million dollars without compromising the production requirements or quality. Optimization of this process used net present value as an objective function, with changes centered around the reactors, but also the separation equipment and exchangers prior to separation, as those devices most directly controlled process stream contents and conditions. The second set of reactors was removed in favor of using one optimized set of reactors, in addition to decreasing the three-phase separators temperature and modifying both the number of trays and the material of construction for the distillation towers. A utilities and exchangers analysis was performed, but the course of action found from it was deemed unrecommended due to excess complexity of the new model. Separately, an isothermal styrene reactor was optimized for 5% minimum conversion utilizing PRO/II, and found that
A more detailed market analysis and a second optimization cycle is recommended before making a firm decision if building the facility to produce styrene would be preferred to purchasing it from the open market, but current market conditions suggest that manufacturers of styrene are more likely to use it to produce higher-value products rather than selling it in bulk. In this case, securing a styrene vendor is unlikely and making the styrene will be preferred, as the value from producing polystyrene later in the process will offset the losses in Unit 500.
Michels, John, "Optimization of an Ethylbenzene to Styrene Production Facility" (2022). Honors Theses. 2622.
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a 'challenge' question by my teacher asks me to look in my C++ book,
and do a question. it asks me to:
write a function powfun() and make it raise an integer number passed to it to a positive integer power and returns the result to the calling function. it then says declare variable used to return the result as a long integer type.
safe to say, im lost. any inputs would be appreciated.
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If you can't solve the problem, try solving a simpler one first.
For example, try writing a function that takes two integers as its arguments and returns their sum as its result. Then try making the function return a long integer.
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Hi BryantFury, First I want suggest you that mention your problem facing point rather than just explaining your question.
In in your problem there is two phase
1. Creating a function and
2. Calculating the power
Logic behind calculating the is so simple for example
2^4=16
what happen here 2 multiple it self up to the power
which means 2*2*2*2
so try this by using simle loop
some thing like this
//result=y^x
int result =1;
while(x>0)
{
result=result*y;
x--;
}
Best Of Luck.
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i think im getting there , ive managed to make a function(simplex^2) ones and used them in a program. last question what does 'positive integer power' mean?
does it mean what number i put in, make it a positive?
eg input X output X
input -X output X
or power of itself. ie.
input X output X^X
input -X output X^X
? thnx for the your insights btw
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Positive integer power is simply means that N^X here x is positive it not relate to N, N is totally different.Do you know that if power is -ve that means
for example: N^-X is equal to N^(1/X).
So for making this either you take only positive input or convert -ve to +ve by multiplying -1 with -ve no.
to check inputed no. is -ve or +ve you can use
if(X<0)
{
}
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ah i get it. i will need two inputs.
first would be the X and second would be the N.
ill also make the X input become positive via the program. alright thanks a lot.
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The centralised EB-50GU-J system controller is ideal for small and large systems alike, as it can operate up to 50 AC units. In addition, up to 40 centralised system controllers can be connected to form a complete system to control and monitor up to 2,000 indoor units in larger properties. The simple and centralised operation of complex systems is thus guaranteed. The energy consumption of individual units can be recorded and visualised. A comparison of current and historical consumption data of units and/or groups of units is also possible. Conveniently operate the air conditioning units from your PC, connected to the local network, using the standard Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser (version 5). The controller has been awarded an efficiency certificate in accordance with the Renewable Energies Heat Act (EEWärmeG).
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Something like 'Optionality' or 'Ordinality'? (It's similar in kind to the words "Arity" and "Cardinality")
Example: "Fred listed the XXXity of each parameter, noting whether it was optional or mandatory"
Follow-up question: What part of speech is this?
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Optionality is obviously a noun (you are even using it with a definite article in your example) and is included as such in several dictionaries (Wiktionary, Merriam-Webster, Collins). And in fact some dictionaries have a dedicated entry for the suffix -ity. – RegDwigнt Apr 4 '13 at 10:16
I see - as in "noun referring to a state or quality"... so there isn't a specific word for this? – Richard Inglis Apr 4 '13 at 10:32
How about 'Necessity'? Does a thesaurus help? – Mitch Apr 4 '13 at 12:00
Are looking for a part of speech more refined than 'noun'? You're looking for an abstract concept but there's nothing grammatically special about that. – Mitch Apr 4 '13 at 12:03
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There are a few recently contrived words that try to do this; optionality is indeed used from time to time, and I've seen things like mandatoriness too. But actually there are some more established words that do the same job.
Of course, optional-ness is actually binary - something is either optional or mandatory. Therefore the quality of optionality/optional-ness is actually the same as the quality of mandatory-ness or compulsory-ness, just with the polarity reversed.
All of which is a fairly long winded way for me to get around to saying this:
I think the word you're looking for is the noun, necessity.
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+1 for necessity – Canis Lupus Apr 4 '13 at 12:12
It appears that Ordinality is used in this sense (even though it has a more normal meaning of 'ordering'). Maybe this is verging on jargon.
For example: "Ordinality is a property that indicates whether an entity instance is mandatory"
(from: 'Oracle SQL and Pl/SQL Handbook: A Guide for Data Administrators, Developers')
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Naming of database properties isn't always a guide to good English usage. – DJClayworth Apr 4 '13 at 16:55
Agreed, but in this case the context happened to be appropriate :) – Richard Inglis Apr 4 '13 at 21:50
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text: The purposes of this study are to analyze post liquefaction shear strength and to explore the potential use of wave-based techniques to monitor liquefaction and post liquefaction response. The first part presents a detailed analysis of triaxial test results to identify robust strength criteria. The second part documents experimental data on the characterization of liquefaction events with P-wave reflection imaging and S-wave trans-illumination techniques. The relevance of multiple coexisting temporal and spatial scales is highlighted. The following results are obtained: 1) the post liquefaction shear strength can be estimated within the framework of critical state soil mechanic; 2) the P-wave reflection images obtained before and after liquefaction represent the depression of the soil-water interface; 3) excess pore pressure migration from liquefied deep layers may cause zero-effective stress in dilative shallow layers. P-wave reflection is a valuable tool to monitor the evolution of subsurface structures and S-wave trans-illumination technique can be used to yield a comprehensive picture of the spatial evolution of liquefaction.


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- When you aren't using your best china, have your child help you set the table.
- Have her count the number of people who will be eating, then count out the same number of knives, forks, spoons, plates, napkins, and so on.
- Show her how to place everything on the table properly.
- For younger children, you may want to set the plates and other breakables yourself, and have your child help you with silverware and napkins-- unless, of course, you are using paper plates!
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A little randomness in deploying Border Patrol agents might work best to prevent illegal border crossings, according to a study from the RAND Corp.
The study, which was funded by the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, found that combining historical data on illegal crossings with a bit of unpredictability would nab the highest fraction of border crossers.
The U.S.-Mexico border spans nearly 2,000 miles. Given its vastness and varied terrain, there is simply no way to saturate every mile with enough agents to catch every illegal immigrant or smuggler, said Joel Predd, study co-author and a researcher at RAND. The Border Patrol therefore must develop effective strategies to deploy a limited number of agents, he said.
In the past, the Border Patrol stationed agents by relying heavily on historical trends of where border crossers were apprehended, said Randy Capps, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank that studies worldwide migration patterns.
"As it has been, it's pretty predictable where resources are going to be deployed. They announce an operation, they do an operation, and they stay there a long time."
The trouble with that strategy is that once crossers notice increased enforcement, they might alter their routes and actually have a higher rate of success in unpatrolled areas.
For instance, after the Border Patrol launched Operation Gatekeeper in 1994 to halt the flow of traffic through San Diego, illegal entries there plunged, but overall apprehensions continued to climb. In general, rising apprehension numbers could mean better enforcement, higher overall traffic or some combination, Predd said.
The RAND researchers conducted field interviews with agents to learn about illegal crossing trends, staffing levels, patrol strategies and past deployment patterns. They created simulations of individual Border Patrol agents and crossers and modified where agents were placed using past patterns in illegal crossing, random distributions or a combination of both. They also drew from real data to create comparisons and metrics for different stations across the border.
A mix of strategies worked best to catch the highest fraction of crossers.
"We looked at thousands of scenarios based on the number of zones, number of patrol agents, the daily rate of illegal smuggling," Predd said. "The idea that you should combine the two and shouldn't really use them in isolation is really robust across a wide range of values."
The study had a few limitations. For instance, it didn't address the geographic conditions that constrain crossers' ability to shift their routes, Predd said. Some remote, mountainous regions of the border are almost impossible to cross, while others are close to urban centers and transportation routes. Weather and seasonal conditions also might prevent crossers from changing their routes.
The Border Patrol claims that increased and more effective border enforcement already has caused the number of illegal crossings to plummet. The agency nearly doubled [PDF] the number of agents from 2005 to 2011 and has built hundreds of miles of fencing and sensors.
In the same time span, the number of illegal immigrants apprehended [PDF] dropped from 1,189,075 people to 340,252, with most of the decline occurring in the years after the recession started in 2007.
While beefed-up enforcement might have deterred some would-be crossers, Capps said other factors may have more impact on border-crossing trends. The U.S. economy has floundered since the recession, while the Mexican economy has done relatively well, reducing the incentive to make the arduous journey, he said.
Demographics also might play a role.
"The birth rate has been low there for a number of years," Capps said. "This large pool of people who could potentially migrate to the U.S. from Mexico is just much smaller than it was even five to 10 years ago, and it's going to continue to decline."
"You have less incentive, more opportunities at home, and it's harder," he said.


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 What would be the best way to do it?
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 - First create several different types of platforms you want the player to land on while running.
 next, using the system (every 1 second or something) to spawn new objects.
 Set their X position to just beyond the.x of the layout of the screen so that they will start off screen.
 Next use a system every tick event to move the platforms back in -X towards the player at whatever interval you want (probably a variable that will increase over time to speed up the buildings.
 Then lock the player's jump so that its only up and down and they can't move left and right.
 to separate the platforms so that they get created at a variable distance, set that original random timer you used to spawn the platforms to a setting like random(5) seconds. This way, some will be further apart and some will be closer together. Make sure the maximum distance apart isn't too big for the player to jump though. Also you will probably need to add another variable to that as the speed increases because the gap the player crosses will get bigger and bigger as the speed of the platforms come towards them.
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This is a simple effect to animate your any word. You can use it as an introduction to your movie by just adding a "Skip Intro" button if you want.
There are attributes you can control from the xml file. If you don't put them via xml then the defaults given in the action script are used.
a. showdelay – default – (50) – delay to commit before showing each word
b. staycount – default – (150) – number of frames for which each word shows
c. usexmllinks – default – (true) – set whether we want to use the links given via xml to each word
d. usexmlcolors – default – (true) – set whether we want to use the colors given in the xml
//single word settings
//these settings can be applied differently to each word via xml
e. randomdelay – default – (50) – delay to perform randomly for each character of the word
f. heartcount – default – (5) – number of hearts to throw from each character while doing the animation
g. charspacing – default – (-2) – character spacing for each letter of the word
h. charcolor – default – (0×000000) – character color
As soon as you change any of the above attributes, the animation gets adjusted. So, you can make many kinds of cool affects with this file. For seeing an example, click the buttons at the top of the preview. The buttons don't appear in the main file. I have attached the preview file too, if this helps anyone…
You can also make the words behave as links by giving the link urls and target via xml. And each word can be assigned a different color.
There are two kinds of things. 1. You can animate a number of words together to make it appear like an introduction to your movie. For this, the words are loaded from an external xml file and the symbol name is "words". 2. You can make any of your word appear with this effect by using the symbol "word" and giving it a word you want… wordmoviename.word = "FLASHDEN"; and also applying the settings too.
If you use the "words" symbol then the space for showing the words gets resized automatically as soon as you resize the Stage of the flash movie.
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Frank Edward Brown
Educated at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, (B.A. 1929), Brown went on to receive his doctorate at Yale University, with a dissertation on Plautus (Ph.D. 1938). He would then serve as Assistant Professor of Classics there until the United States entered World War II, during which time he served the Office of War Information in Syria and Lebanon. In 1945 he became Director General of Antiquities of the Republic of Syria.
Brown first came to Rome and to the American Academy in 1931 as a graduate student of Yale University. Early a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Brown went to Syria in 1932 to excavate at Dura-Europos with the joint Yale University- Académie des Inscriptions (France) mission under the direction of Franz Cumont and Michael Rostovtzeff and became field director at Dura in 1935.
Fieldwork and career
His return to the American Academy in Rome from Syria in 1947 marked the beginning of the Academy's involvement in archaeological fieldwork in Italy with the excavations of the Latin colony of Cosa (Ansedonia) in southwestern Tuscany. Brown saw Cosa as a site that was useful a template for the archaeology of Latin colonies and mid-Republican Rome itself. Brown remained at the Academy as Professor-in-Charge of the Classical School and Director of Excavations from 1947–1952 and then returned to Yale as Professor of Classics where in addition to his teaching responsibilities he continued to be active in the publication of Dura-Europus and in the life of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), the offices of which were then in New Haven. He was Secretary of ASOR, 1955–1962; Master of Jonathan Edwards College, 1953–1956; and in collaboration with his Yale colleagues, Professors Lawrence Richardson, Jr. and Emeline Richardson, produced the second volume of the Cosa excavation reports, The Temples of the Arx (MAAR 1960). A generation of American Classical archaeologists and historians received their training under Brown at Cosa; notable among them are Lawrence Richardson, Jr., Emeline Hill Richardson, Russell T. Scott, and Stephen L. Dyson. The third volume on Cosa's forum and municipal buildings appeared after Brown's death.
In the same period Brown served the Archaeological Institute of America as Trustee and Norton Lecturer. In 1963, however, Brown left Yale to return permanently to the American Academy in Rome, resuming the positions of Professor-in-Charge and Director of Excavations to which were added the responsibilities of the directorship of the Academy in _PHONE_. Nevertheless, these years saw him characteristically active both in Rome and in Ansedonia. In 1963 he made soundings in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli. At the invitation of the Archaeological Superintendency of Rome, he returned in 1964 to the Regia in the Roman Forum, a building of which he had made an architectural study during his years as a Fellow. The excavation of the Regia was to yield the most substantial evidence for early organization and development of the Forum since the work of Giacomo Boni at the turn of the century. In 1965 he resumed work at Cosa supervising fieldwork and the preparation of additional publications of the Cosa series, and the design, construction, and outfitting of the site museum, since 1981 the National Museum of Cosa.
From Rome he was also able to further the work of other American archaeologists in Italy and Yugoslavia, as well as the corpus of Roman mosaics in North Africa and the international project to safeguard the Punic and Roman antiquities of Carthage. While Director of the Academy, he was also President of the International Union of the Institutes of Archaeology, History, and the History of Art in Rome in _PHONE_, and he was active in the affairs of the International Association for Classical Archaeology throughout his years in Rome.
Having resigned the directorship of the Academy in 1969, Brown remained Professor in Charge of the Classical School until his retirement in 1976, when he received the Academy's Medal of Merit for his many years of outstanding service to that institution. He continued to serve the Academy thereafter as Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecturer in 1979, from which series came the book Cosa: The Making of a Roman Town (University of Michigan Press, 1980), and as the leader of a summer seminar sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities on the early colonies of Rome in 1980. In 1982 he was Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery in Washington where he continued to work on Vitruvius and returned to the study of the architecture of the Hierothesion of Antiochus I of Commagene at Nemrud Dagh, a project he had helped develop for ASOR in the 1950s. His last years in Rome were given over to the preparation of final reports on the excavations in the forum of Cosa and the Regia in the Roman Forum. On 21 April 1983, he was honored for his services to Italian archaeology by the city of Rome as a "Cultore di Roma".
In Italy he was a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and of the Società Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Napoli, and the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici (Firenze), and a member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia and the German Archaeological Institute. In America he was a member of ASOR, Archaeological Institute of America, and the American Philological Association. In March 1987 Frank Brown took leave of Rome and the American Academy to join his wife of 50 years, the former Jaquelin Goddard, in Florida.
- Russell T. Scott . "Frank Edward Brown, _PHONE_." American Journal of Archaeology 92.4 (Oct., 1988), pp. 577-579 _URL_
- "Frank E. Brown Dies; Archeologist Was 79." New York Times March 3, 1988 _URL_
- M. Rahim Shayegan (15 September 2011). Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia. Cambridge University Press. pp. 214–. ISBN 978-0-521-76641-8.
- Frank E. Brown (1949). Cosa: Exploration in Etruria.
- Stephen L. Dyson (1 October 2008). In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Yale University Press. pp. 228–. ISBN 0-300-13497-5.
- Frank Edward Brown (1980). Cosa: The Making of a Roman Town. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-04100-8.
- Frank Edward Brown; Emeline Hill Richardson; L. Richardson (1960). Cosa II: The Temples of the Arx. American Academy in Rome.
- Frank Edward Brown; Emeline Hill Richardson; Lawrence Richardson (1993). Cosa III: the buildings of the forum : colony, municipium, and village. Published for the American Academy in Rome by Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-00825-7.
- Frank E. Brown,"The Regia." Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 12
- _URL_ I "Cultori di Roma" dal 1955 ad oggi
- Adapted from: R. T. Scott. "Frank Edward Brown, _PHONE_." American Journal of Archaeology 92 (1988).
- Plautus, Titus Maccius. T. Macci Plauti Pseudolus, edited, with an introduction and notes, by Edgar H. Sturtevant in collaboration with Frank E. Brown, Frederick W. Schaefer and John P. Showerman. New Haven, Yale university press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932.
- The excavations at Dura-Europos, conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters. Final report ..., New Haven, Yale University Press, 1943-
- Brown, F.E., Richardson E. H. and Richardson, L. jr. "Cosa I, History and Topography." MAAR 20, 1951, 5-113.
- Cosa II: The temples of the Arx By Frank Edward Brown, Emeline Hill Richardson and L. Richardson. Rome: American Academy in Rome, 1960. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 26
- Roman architecture. New York: G. Braziller, 1961.
- Cosa: the making of a Roman town. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980.
- Cosa III: the buildings of the forum: colony, municipium, and village. By Frank Edward Brown, Emeline Hill Richardson, L. Richardson. University Park, Pa. : Published for the American Academy in Rome by Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 37
- Eius virtutis studiosi: classical and postclassical studies in memory of Frank Edward Brown (_PHONE_) edited by Russell T. Scott and Ann Reynolds Scott. Washington : National Gallery of Art, 1993.


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Debris removal from 2020 fires finally complete in California
Debris from the 2020 California wildfires has been cleared from 100% of the properties involved in a California wildfire debris removal program.
The program is meant to help wildfire survivors clean up their properties with no out-of-pocket costs.
Although some properties in the program are still waiting on soil testing, hazardous tree removal or erosion control, over 3,000 families have begun rebuilding their homes or can now begin.
Officially named the California Consolidated Debris Removal Program, it is run out of the California Office of Emergency Services (OES) and the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle).
Alicia De La Garza, with the California OES, says the debris removal program is crucial because of the sheer level of damage that wildfires cause.
"Our crews cleared, it was about 1.25 million tons, which is about 2.5 billion pounds of debris" says De La Garza. "So that's ash, metal, concrete, contaminated soil, all that kind of stuff was removed from those properties."
De La Garza says that the Office of Emergency Service is not just focused on debris removal after the fact.
"We definitely work on mitigation, so we encourage homeowners to have defensive space around their homes, which will really help prevent the fire from even reaching their homes. And having home hardening programs that we put out in the public so people can learn how to use fire safe products whether its items that are used to actually build the home or just stuff that is around the home."


Thursday, January 10, 2008
New US Postage Stamp Honoring Scientist Gerty Cori
In April the U.S. Postal Service will release a new series of stamps honoring 20th Century American scientists. One of the first four stamps to be released depicts Gerty Cori. In 1947 she became the first woman in America to receive the Nobel Prize (along with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay) for discovering how glycogen (a form of stored energy in animals) is broken down into sugar, then turned back into glycogen.
It took years for Cori to be acknowledged for her research:
It was only after Carl Cori was made chair of the department, 16 years after their arrival, that Gerty Cori was promoted from research assistant to full professor. The following year they won the Nobel prize. It's yet another example of an accomplished female scientist who was only given a research position because a close relative (in this case her husband) fought for it.
This is the second set of stamps honoring US Scientists to be released. The first set included geneticist Barbara McClintock.
(via Wired Science)
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Microsoft SQL Server to Google BigQuery Migration. Converting the code!
This page provides you with instructions on how to extract the schema of tables, views and SQL Queries from SQL Server and convert it into Google Bigquery. (If this manual process sounds onerous, check out Roboquery, which can do all the heavy lifting for you in just a few clicks)
Before we dive in, for those who's new to Data warehousing,
What is SQL Server?
SQL Server is a relational database management system, or RDBMS, developed and marketed by Microsoft. The 4 decade old company is powering the operational systems of several fortune 100 companies.
There are other SQL Products from Microsoft, you are use this tutorial to migrate those systems as well
Azure SQL Database
Azure Synapse Analytics (SQL DW)
Parallel Data Warehouse
What is Google Bigquery?
Google BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse that delivers super-fast results from SQL queries. With BigQuery, there's no spinning up (and down) clusters of machines as you work with your data. With that said, it's clear why some claim that BigQuery prioritizes querying over administration. It's super fast, and that's the reason for its popularity.
Planning the migration
There are two steps in the migration process,
- Creating the Database objects (Tables, Views, other SQL code conversion)
- Moving the data from SQL Server to BigQuery
While there are several tools and utilities available to load data from SQL Server to BigQuery, the tedious process of converting the database objects is highly underrated. We will cover that in this article
1. Converting SQL Server table DDL to BigQuery
Lets export the table definition to a text file. Get the DDL for all the tables in your database
From management studio
- Right click on the table you want
- script table as
- create to
- new query editor window
Now that we have the SQL Server DDLs, its time to convert them. Use the free online tool to convert SQL Server code to BigQuery
Once you visit the page, paste the SQL Server table DDLs and click on the convert button. Viola! Now you have the code converted to Bigquery
2. Converting SQL Server Views to BigQuery
Lets follow the same steps as we did in step-1 and extract the view definitions:
Export the view definitions to a text file and copy paste the source view definitions in to the online converter and click the convert button to convert the view SQL to BigQuery
3. Converting SQL Server Queries to BigQuery
You can follow the same steps to convert the SQL Queries as well. Roboquery converts all the datatypes, functions and also rewrites the structure that's optimized for BigQuery data warehouse
Avoid Manual work!
You don't want to manually convert the code to BigQuery, even If you have all the skills necessary to go through this process, It still isn't a very high-leverage use of your time.
Thankfully, products like Roboquery were built to convert schema from SQL Server to BigQuery automatically. With just a few clicks, Roboquery starts converting your SQL Server code, structuring it in a way that's optimized for BigQuery data warehouse.


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- 10 to 15 minutes
- Take turns introducing each other while pretending you are on a stage.
- Stand up, bow, and tell all the good things you can about the other person, his hobbies, good qualities, etc. Be sure to over-dramatize.
- Take turns introducing other family members, present or not.
- Challenge your child to introduce a best friend or a favorite teacher.
- Think of famous people and take turns introducing them.
Copyright © 2004 by Susan Kettmann. Excerpted from The 2,000 Best Games & Activities with permission of its publisher, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Tools to Liberate from Amharic Language in Oromia: Suggestion To-Do
ANF, August 27, 2019
There is no single advantage out of Amharic language for Oromo in Oromia.
The Amharic language is a tool for Amhara ethnic group to colonize Oromo in Ethiopia. Oromo are sick of exploitive Amhara, especially in Finfinnee. Finfinnee is the capital city of Oromo in Oromia. Oromo's mother tongue is Afaan Oromo. In Ethiopia, the legal constitution also permits to use mother tongue language in their specific region.
The Amharic language deceptively argued for an employment opportunity as if it was to help Oromo. In Oromia, Amhara has no financing sources to employ even themselves in the federal jobs, or Amhara people have no legal mandate to exercise such hiring practices in Oromia.
In practice, as media referred in August 2019, for example, the Federal Minister of Education excluded Oromo from equitable hiring and committed fraud in the grade 12 national exams in favor of Amhara region at afar.
Finfinnee and Federal Government office in Ethiopia secure funding from two majors: 1) Oromia, and 2) abroad financing sources. Oromo is financing Finfinnee but, oddly, Amhara denied Oromo in the federal jobs because of the Amharic language.
The second financing is being diverted to hire Amhara but excluded Oromo in Finfinnee because of the Amharic language. Oromia is though one of the sources to pay back the external funding, while the Amhara enjoys the federal employment opportunity. Oromo should not be forced to learn the Amharic language to get employed in Oromia but, they must be able to access the federal jobs with Afaan Oromo in their Finfinnee and Oromia region.
If there is a legal constitution which denies using a regional language at a specific region, it is irrationally denying of services for that specific region. For example, in Finfinnee, not to use Afaan Oromo in the federal jobs means denying of services for Oromo in Oromia.
The problem of Amharic language aggravated because the Oromia government gives funding for Amhara in Finfinnee. Various states, including Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, SNNPR, Ogden, and Afar are hardly getting from the external financing.
The three possible acting causes are
- directive from Prime Minister Office,
- submissiveness of Oromia government to such directive or unaccountability of Oromia government for Oromo, and
- inconsistency of Oromo to liberate themselves from the settler's Amharic language.
Suggestion to-do lists for Qeerroo and Qarree at each city, town and village across Oromia
1.A. Ask Offices by letter: governments and non-government institutions, Organizations, Schools, Universities, Banks, Transport Bureau, Airlines and so on in Oromia to use Afaan Oromo within a few weeks, and
1.B. Ask ODP by letter to implement the use of Afaan Oromo across governments and non-governments in Oromia within a few weeks
- Oromia must use Afaan Oromo and, other working languages can co-exist in the federal offices' case.
- Oromia regional offices must use only Afaan Oromo with the possibility of including the English Language.
If stage 1 is successful, stop here. If not, proceed to stage 2.
2.A. For unaccountability reason to Oromo, ask to resign ODP officials who fail to uphold constitutionally granted to use Afaan Oromo in Oromia including in the federal offices, then
2.B. Ask ODP verbally to implement the use of Afaan Oromo across governments and non-governments in Oromia within a few weeks.
If stage 2 is successful, stop here. If not, proceed to stage 3
3.A. Walk into federal offices as well as Oromia regional offices to implement the use of Afaan Oromo in your Oromia region
Suggestion to-do lists for ODP
- C. ODP and Oromia Regional Offices are advisable to meet urgently, and issue letters to all federal offices and Oromia regional offices to implement Afaan Oromo and uphold services in Afaan Oromo across Oromia. You have a responsibility in Oromia to serve Oromo as granted by the constitution and also accountability to Oromo by-election.
- C. Few tools are letters, issue licenses for business, demotion of unaccountable officials, closure of businesses which fail to abide by the law, enforcement of constitutional rights to use the Afaan Oromo in Oromia
- C. Vote to allocate more budgets that strengthens various regions for human resources and capital projects, but vote hardly to allocate budgets in Finfinnee for the federal human resources. Finfinnee is more developed but regions are marginalized across the country.
Suggestion on Language for Prime Minister Office, Dr Abiy Ahmed's:
- D. Enforce constitutional rights of all people to use their mother tongue, including in the federal offices and regional offices at their specific region.
- D. Your office has no single reason to exclude Afaan Oromo from Federal Offices in Oromia including in Finfinnee.
- D. Federal offices must use Afaan Oromo to serve in Oromia.
- D. Your excellence office needs to continue to uphold the rule of law.
- D. Federal hardly intervene in the mandates, priorities, responsibilities, and actions of each region with respect to language
- D. The law enforcement offices independently and accountably prosecute any crime including whether Minister of Education committed a fraud of national exams
Disclaim: The above points, each and every contents of the whole are solely the opinion of an individual who wrote this and signified below. It doesn't represent any other entity at all except a single individual.
ANF, August 27, 2019


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Identifying strategies for mitigating the global warming impact of the EU-25 economy using a multi-objective input-output approach
Times cited: 2
Cortes-Borda, D, Ruiz-Hernandez, A, Guillén-Gosalbez, G, Llop, M, Guimera, R, Sales-Pardo, M
Energ. Policy 77, 21 -30 (2015).
Global warming mitigation has recently become a priority worldwide. A large body of literature dealing with energy related problems has focused on reducing greenhouse gases emissions at an engineering scale. In contrast, the minimization of climate change at a wider macroeconomic level has so far received much less attention. We investigate here how to mitigate global warming by performing changes in an economy. To this end, we make use of a systematic tool that combines three methods: linear programming, environmentally extended input output models, and life cycle assessment principles. The problem of identifying key economic sectors that contribute significantly to global warming is posed in mathematical terms as a bi-criteria linear program that seeks to optimize simultaneously the total economic output and the total life cycle CO2 emissions. We have applied this approach to the European Union economy, finding that significant reductions in global warming potential can be attained by regulating specific economic sectors. Our tool is intended to aid policy makers in the design of more effective public policies for achieving the environmental and economic targets sought.


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First Aid Treatment for a Respiratory Infection
If you suspect that your snake has a respiratory infection, the first thing to do is to raise the temperature of the environment slightly. This will induce an immediate immune response in the snake and will help start to fight the infection. If the snake usually is housed in a busy part of the house, move it to somewhere quieter and if it usually lives with others, isolate it in its own environment. Give it plenty of warm, dry bedding and monitor it carefully. A good rule of thumb is to treat a snake with a respiratory infection as you would treat yourself; make it warm, quiet and comfortable.
When to call in the Vet to a Respiratory Infection in a Snake
Given the treatment outlined, most snakes will start to show an improvement quite quickly. If it doesn't, then a specialist vet should be consulted and the snake will need antibiotics. The vet will probably take swabs to make sure what bacteria are causing the infection. While these grow in the laboratory, the vet will prescribe a wide spectrum antibiotic to get the treatment under way. If the snake is prone to repeated infections, or this particular respiratory infection proves hard to shift, it may be necessary to take a blood sample. This will tell if the snake has any more serious underlying problems, which, if untreated, could compromise the internal organs. In some cases the antibiotics have to be injected over a long period to make sure that the offending bacteria has been wiped out. Inhalation therapy is also used sometimes; this depends on it being possible in the environment situation available to your snake and can be a very long term procedure.
Preventing Respiratory Infections in Snakes
Snakes need to be kept in the right environment for their needs. Proper nutrition is essential as is monitoring their general day to day health. Bad care in the snake's environment; allowing them to stay in unhygienic bedding for example, or keeping them too hot or too cold can stress them, making them more susceptible to all kinds of diseases, not just respiratory infections. Some snakes cannot stand stress from a loud environment. Obviously you have bought a snake as a pet, but apart from other considerations one of the most important is whether your snake is gregarious and will enjoy handling, or whether it would be happier in a quiet environment with no noise or bustle. Snakes are as different as people and it is important to match the snake to where it will be living. But above all, cleanliness and vigilance is the best way to keep your snake in the peak of condition and more able to fight off all infections, including respiratory ones.


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Q: Why is the term "seed" used when a player is put into particular bracket in a sporting contest? Is it because the organizers try to "plant" the best players around so they don't meet until the playoffs?
A: The Oxford English Dictionary's entry for the sporting sense of the verb "seed" suggests that the usage evolved in the late 19th century as a tennis term.
The OED defines it as "to assign (to several of the better competitors) a position in an ordered list, so that those most highly ranked do not meet until the later stages of an elimination competition; to arrange (a draw or event) to this end."
The verb first appeared in print in 1898, the OED says, in this passage from the magazine American Lawn Tennis:
"Several years ago, it was decided to 'seed' the best players through the championship draw, and this was done for two or three years."
So the verb may have been around for several years before it was recorded in print. It obviously had staying power.
Here's another citation, from Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1900): "It is generally advisable to 'seed' the draw in handicap tournaments so that the players in each class shall be separated as far as possible one from another."
The past participle and adjective "seeded" was used for events ("Longwood is never seeded," from 1911), as well as people ("three of the women who had been 'seeded' for the draw," 1929).
The noun "seed," meaning a seeded player, was slower to catch on. According to the OED, it was first used in print in 1933 in The Aldin Book of Outdoor Games, in a reference to "the Thibetan 'seed.' "
But why "seed"? The OED doesn't explain the connection, but we can speculate. The best players are deliberately spread around – "planted," as you suggest – so they aren't too close together in the early rounds.
The fact that seeding is an appropriate image explains why the term has found a place in the language of sports.
Now, of course, the term "seeded" is often used in a more general way to refer to a high-ranked team or player: "Kelly Robinson's cover was that of a top-seeded tennis pro."


A wedge-tailed eagle and carrion (roadkill kangaroo) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Carrion (from Latin caro, meaning "meat") is the decaying flesh of a dead animal.
Overview
Carrion is an important food source for large carnivores and omnivores in most ecosystems. Examples of carrion-eaters (or scavengers) include vultures, hawks, eagles,[1] hyenas,[2] Virginia opossum,[3] Tasmanian devils,[4] coyotes[5] and Komodo dragons. Many invertebrates, such as the carrion and burying beetles,[6] as well as maggots of calliphorid flies and flesh-flies, also eat carrion, playing an important role in recycling nitrogen and carbon in animal remains.
Zoarcid fish feeding on the carrion of a mobulid ray.
Flies settling on a sheep carrion
Carrion begins to decay at the moment of the animal's death, and it will increasingly attract insects and breed bacteria. Not long after the animal has died, its body will begin to exude a foul odor caused by the presence of bacteria and the emission of cadaverine and putrescine.
Some plants and fungi smell like decomposing carrion and attract insects that aid in reproduction. Plants that exhibit this behavior are known as carrion flowers. Stinkhorn mushrooms are examples of fungi with this characteristic.
A coyote feeding on elk carrion in Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley during winter.
Sometimes carrion is used to describe an infected carcass that is diseased and should not be touched. An example of carrion being used to describe dead and rotting bodies in literature may be found in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (III.i):[7]
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Another example can be found in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe when the title character kills an unknown bird for food but finds "its flesh was carrion, and fit for nothing".
In Noahide law
The thirty-count laws of Ulla (Talmudist) include the prohibition of humans consuming carrion.[8] This count is in addition to the standard seven law count and has been recently[when?] published from the Judeo-Arabic writing of Shmuel ben Hophni Gaon after having been lost for centuries.[9]
References
 1. ^ Hovenden, Frank. The Carrion Eaters Archived 1 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Comox Valley Naturalists Society. 7 May 2010.
 2. ^ "San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Striped hyena". San Diego Zoo. 7 May 2010.
 3. ^ Len McDougall (2004). The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats: A Comprehensive Guide to the Trackable Animals of the United States and Canada. Globe Pequot. pp. 274–. ISBN 978-1-59228-070-4. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
 4. ^ "San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Tasmanian Devil". San Diego Zoo. 7 May 2010.
 5. ^ Stegemann, Eileen. "Skull Science: Coyote". NYS Department of Environmental Conservation April 2006
 6. ^ John George Wood (1892). Insects abroad: Being a popular account of foreign insects; their structure, habits and transformations. Longmans. pp. 82–. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
 7. ^ The Life and Death of Julies Caesar. SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.
 8. ^ talmud, hullin 92b
 9. ^ Mossad HaRav Kook edition of Gaon's commentary to Genesis.


ResultSets and streaming columns
To get a field from the ResultSet using streaming columns, you can use the getXXXStream methods if the type supports it. See Streamable JDBC data types for a list of types that support the various streams. (See also Mapping of java.sql.Types to SQL types.)
The following code fragment shows how a user can retrieve a LONG VARCHAR column as a stream:
 // retrieve data as a stream
 while ( {
 // use a to get the data ip = rs.getCharacterStream(1);
 // print the data
 char[] buff = new char[128];
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A document discusses (1) a Monte-Carlo-based methodology for probabilistic prediction and analysis of orbital lifetimes of spacecraft and (2) Orbital Lifetime Monte Carlo (OLMC) — a Fortran computer program, consisting of a previously developed long-term orbit-propagator integrated with a Monte Carlo engine.
OLMC enables modeling of variances of key physical parameters that affect orbital lifetimes through the use of probability distributions. These parameters include altitude, speed, and flight-path angle at insertion into orbit; solar flux; and launch delays. The products of OLMC are predicted lifetimes (durations above specified minimum altitudes) for the number of user-specified cases. Histograms generated from such predictions can be used to determine the probabilities that spacecraft will satisfy lifetime requirements.
The document discusses uncertainties that affect modeling of orbital lifetimes. Issues of repeatability, smoothness of distributions, and code run time are considered for the purpose of establishing values of code-specific parameters and number of Monte Carlo runs. Results from test cases are interpreted as demonstrating that solar-flux predictions are primary sources of variations in predicted lifetimes. Therefore, it is concluded, multiple sets of predictions should be utilized to fully characterize the lifetime range of a spacecraft.
This work was done by Washito Sasamoto of Langley Research Center and Kandyce Goodliff and David Cornelius of Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc.