Area required for the evaporator, Chemistry
A single-effect evaporator is used to concentrate 60000 kg h-1 of a 40 wt % NaOH solution which is fed to the evaporator at 40°C. The concentrated liquid is a 55 wt % NaOH solution. Saturated steam at 3 atm is available for heating. The vapour space in the evaporator is at a pressure of 10 kPa. The overall heat transfer coefficient is 2000 W m-2 K-1 Determine:
a) the amount of vapour produced.
b) the area required for the evaporator. Include clearly values of relevant properties.

c) the economy.
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The Rapide Croche Plant was constructed in 1925 – 1926. The Rapide Croche Hydro Project includes a powerhouse located about three miles downstream from the Kaukauna City Plant.
The powerhouse is located at the south end of the Corps of Engineer's Dam. The powerhouse is about 167 feet wide by 60 feet deep and is founded on bedrock.
The dam at the site is known as the Rapide Croche Dam and is owned, operated and maintained by the Corps of Engineers. Water levels for the upstream pool are controlled by adjustment of the tainter gates on the dam and wicket gates on the turbines.


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Although the insects are fairly harmless to humans, they are dangerous to pastures, field crops, and vegetables. Their influx in Sardinia is linked to a sharp rise in temperature after a relatively cold May, with many of the insects emerging on uncultivated land and travelling to cultivated land to eat.
Hordes of locusts have plagued the Italian island of Sardinia in what is described as the worst such invasion in decades, putting the local pasturelands and crop production in jeopardy.
The pests have ravaged 2,500 hectares of agricultural land in the central-eastern Sardinian province of Nuoro, according to local media.
Coldiretti, the largest association of farmers in Italy, has requested assistance from authorities at all levels to address the problem, but there are fears that nothing can be done against the already mature pests.
The group's regional president, Leonardo Salis, said that preventative measures should be taken with a view to next season. They would include ploughing uncultivated land, to prevent the insects from laying eggs and breeding.
"They are devouring everything they encounter on their way and as a result are leaving the animals without pasture and in some cases are compromising the fodder harvest and damaging the bark of the plants," Salis said.
Cordiretti blamed the influx of locusts on a sudden rise in temperatures this month that followed an unusually cool May.
"We had droughts in 2017 and a lot of rain in 2018, the ideal climate for locusts to emerge from fallow land and then move to cultivated fields to eat," said Michele Arbau from Coldiretti Sardinia. "There is nothing we can do about it this year."


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The best way to approach SQL language is to think of that S in its name: It means Structured Quarry Language. Early on, you're going to get a lot of error messages as you try to figure out the proper order of a SQL statement, but at least there's a (usually) consistent pattern to memorize. We'll start with the simplest building block of a statement and gradually add on to it. You can practice this next section in any SQL environment you like. Again, I'll be using Firefox's SQLite plugin, but anything that allows you to open up a SQLite database and type in SQLite commands will suffice. We will not be writing any Ruby code during this exploration of the SQL basics. and RUBY is Ruby - an alternative to python, good for somethings, not sure what they are though... Java and C# are more or less in the same category and are multi-purpose languages C++ is the DON of all programming languages, learning it is difficult, programming in it is difficult but the results (if done properly, mistakes are easier made in C++ but more difficult to weed out than lets say python) are truly spectacular. • Answerer 2
SQL stands for Structured Query language designed to query databases. It has constructs which lets you retrieve and update the data in a database like (MS SQL Server, Oracle, Access)
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SQL is a database access and maintenance language. While the current does contain some procedural elements, it is not and was never intended to be a programming language. It is intended to defined databases and insert/delete/modify/retrieve data from them, period.
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Create a Continuous Binding Strip for Your Quilt
When making bias strips for your quilt, you can either create one long strip or cut individual strips and then sew them together to get the length you need. You can use either of these methods to produce different types of bias binding.
To end up with a continuous binding strip, follow these steps:
Cut a 44" x 44" square of fabric (with selvages removed) in half diagonally to make two large triangles (see a in the following figure).
The square is cut on-grain at this point.Making a continuous bias strip.
You now have a trapezoid shape with two bias edges (upper and lower).
Decide how wide you need the binding to be, and mark lines on the wrong side of the fabric using a ruler (refer to c in the preceding figure).
Stitch the short ends of the fabric together (right sides facing), off-setting the lines by one strip line to form a funny-looking tube (refer to d in the preceding figure).
Carefully press the seam allowance open.
With scissors, cut the binding in one continuous strip, starting at the offset overhang and cutting along the marked lines.
A symbol (asterisk) in a written stitch pattern indicating that whatever follows gets repeated.
A symbol (bullet) in a written stitch pattern indicating that whatever follows gets repeated.
A synthetic fiber used to make yarn that mimics the look and feel of natural materials.
1. The Afghan crochet stitch produces a rather solid fabric that closely resembles a knitted fabric. 2. An afghan (lowercase a) is a soft blanket or shawl, crocheted or knitted, often in a geometric design
Abbreviation for approximately.
To knit or crochet stitches at an angle on the back (or wrong) side of a fabric, producing a pattern in which the stitches overlap.
A type of crochet stitch in which you insert your hook around the post of a stitch that's one or more rows below the current row, creating raised patterns that appear to recede on the side of the fabric facing you.
A stitch used to assemble knitted pieces by using a tapestry needle, going in and out of the stitches in knitted fabrics.
Yarn wound around a cardboard center or an open hole.
A knitted border on a piece of knitted fabric that keeps the center edge from stretching; adds a neat trim to an otherwise rough-looking edge; and creates a place for fastenings such as buttons. Most often appears on cardigan sweaters.
1. A type of knitting increase that leaves a horizontal bar under the increased stitch. 2. In filet crochet, a long space that crosses over the two blocks or spaces, or the one lacet, below it.
A knitting stitch pattern that creates a fabric that looks like a woven basket.
Knitting pattern abbreviation for beginning.
Crochet pattern abbreviation for between.
To make a finished edge by securing the knitted stitches in the last row worked, which prevents unraveling.
A crochet stitch used to assemble crocheted pieces, adding some stability to the backside of a seam made with long stitches, such as triple crochet.
1. (verb) To wet down or steam a piece of knitting or crochet in order to coax it into its final shape. The moisture and/or heat smoothes out uneven stitches and straightens out wavy, rolling edges. 2. (noun) The actual crocheted substance of a filet crochet design.
Wooden sockor mitten-shaped template with biscuit-type holes cut out to aid air circulation when blocking a knitted or crocheted piece.
A flat surface made from a material that you can stick a pin into, often marked with a 1-inch grid to aid in blocking a knitted or crocheted piece.
Long, slightly flexible stainless steel wires in various lengths that you thread through the edges of your knitted pieces so that you can pin a knitted or crocheted piece into place for blocking without the edges becoming scalloped at the pin sites.
Crochet pattern abbreviation for back loop only.
A piece of shaped plastic used to keep colored yarns separate while knitting or crocheting with multiple colors and strands of yarn. You wrap one color of yarn per bobbin. Commonly used in Fair Isle and intarsia knitting.
A highly bumpy, textured yarn composed of loops.
A knitting stitch that has the same look and feel as seed stitch, but on a larger scale.
A thick, heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven.
Knit pattern abbreviation for cable 4 back, meaning a cable worked over 4 stitches from behind your work.
Knit pattern abbreviation for cable 4 front, meaning a cable worked over 4 stitches in front of your work.
Knit pattern abbreviation for cable 6 back, meaning a cable worked over 6 stitches from behind your work.
Knit pattern abbreviation for cable 6 front, meaning a cable worked over 6 stitches in front of your work.
A knit pattern in which you cross one group of stitches over another by knitting them out of order.
A short knitting needle that's point at both ends, has a divot or curve toward the middle, and is used to hold stitches temporarily while you work on their neighbors.
When knitting or crocheting with different colors, the process of moving yarn not in use to the next position it will be used by working it into the stitches being made in another color, rather than fastening off and rejoining the yarn with each color change.
Create a series of loops on one needle as a knitted starting row. The opposite is to bind off or cast off.
Crocheting or knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for contrasting color.
A simple, common crocheting stitch used to make a crochet piece's foundation and to start new rows.
A type of yarn material (usually made of rayon or cotton) with an attractive appearance and velvety texture.
Knitting pattern that makes the fabric form arrow-like shapes.
A crocheting or knitting technique that works the stitches in a continuous, spiral-like fashion without turning the piece; also called crocheting or knitting in the round.
A knitting needle designed especially for circular knitting, made up of one long double-pointed needle in a circular shape.
A set of crochet stitches that you work across an equal number of stitches and join together at the top, forming a triangle shape that resembles an upside-down shell stitch.
Knitting style in which you hold the yarn in your left hand and pick the stitches through each loop.
A soft, white natural fiber from plants, often made into yarn.
Worked like a single crochet stitch, but from left to right, rather than right to left.
A style of embroidery that's worked with any type of yarn, rather than thread.
A kind of needlework in which loops of a yarn are interwoven by means of a single hooked needle, or crochet hook.
A specialized needle with a hook at one end used to create crochetwork.
To knit or crochet stitches at an angle, producing a pattern in which the stitches overlap; crosses can be in the back or front of a stitched fabric.
A type of needlework, usually done with thread, in which stitches are crossed in the form of an X on some surface.
A band or fold at the end of a sleeve.
Removing stitches from a crocheted or knitted row to create a piece with sophisticated shaping; abbreviated dec.
One of the most common crochet stitches, it's about twice as tall as a single crochet; abbreviated dc. Compare with single crochet.
Decreasing 2 stitches at the same time; abbreviated dbl dec.
Increasing 2 stitch in the same place; abbreviated dbl inc.
A long space in filet crochet that crosses over the two blocks or spaces, or the one lacet, below it.
A tall crochet stitch that creates a loose and holey fabric.
Knitting needle that has a point at each end.
How a knitted or crocheted fabric falls, including how much movement the fabric allows.
Adding loops to your crochet hook by crocheting a row onto a foundation chain.
A knit stitch or purl stitch that has fallen off the knitting needle, leaving that stitch unworked.
A simple way of adding an additional color to your knitting without actually knitting with that color; instead, you embroider the additional color on the fabric, mimicking the stitch it covers.
The batch of dye with which a certain yarn was colored.
The quality or condition of being elastic, meaning springy, flexible, and resilient.
To decorate a fabric with a design in needlework, usually by using embroidery floss.
A style of knitting in which the knitter holds the yarn in his or her right hand and wraps it around the right-hand (RH) needle as he or she creates stitches.
1. A small hole through which you pass something, such as a button. 2. A type of lace pattern characterized by small openwork motifs distributed over a solid fabric.
A liquid medium that you apply to a worked piece during blocking, which dries invisible and makes your fabric rigid.
A kind of knitted lace pattern composed of nothing but the simplest lace-making unit — a yarn over followed (or preceded) by a decrease.
Knitting technique, also called stranding, that involves color patterns using more than one color in a row. You can work with two strands of yarn, carrying them along the back of your work, and picking up and dropping them as needed.
A filet crochet stitch that looks somewhat like a V and is worked across five stitches or the width of two spaces.
To cut the yarn in a crocheted piece and then draw it through a loop on the crochet hook at the end of the design or the end of that particular yarn's use in the design.

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The sort order for files and folders whose names contain numerals is different in Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 than it is in Windows 2000
In this example, 401 is a numerically higher value than 6. Therefore, the Ie401sp2 folder is listed after the Ie6 folder when you sort the folders by name in ascending order. In the following example, note how the following files, whose names contain numerals, are sorted.
To configure a policy setting to modify sort order in Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
You can configure a policy setting to use either the newer sort order or the sort order that is used in Windows 2000. The policy setting is stored in the following registry entries:
- Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
- Use one of the following methods, as appropriate for your situation:
- To configure the policy for all users of the computer, locate and then click the following registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Policies\Explorer
- To configure the policy for the current user, locate and then click the following registry key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Policies\Explorer
- To configure the policy for all users of the computer, locate and then click the following registry key:
- On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value
- Type NoStrCmpLogical, and then press ENTER.
- On the Edit menu, click Modify.
- To set the sort order that you want to use for files and folders whose names contain numerals, use one of the following methods, as appropriate for your situation:
- To configure Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 to use the method that Windows 2000 uses for sorting files and folders, in the Value data box, type 1, and the click OK.
- To configure the default Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 method for sorting files and folders, in the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
Note When theNoStrCmpLogicalvalue does not exist or when it is set to 0 (zero), the default Windows XP sort order is used.
- Exit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer.
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I have a value saved in a variable called $date, which contains the date in format 03/04/1986. The excel document I am working with has a lot of rows and columns. One row contains dates for the next 5 years. What I want to do is match the value of the date variable to the current date somewhere in the row, so iterate across the whole row until $date matches the date, so I know what column to update. How should I go about doing this?
Can you provide an example file?
Hello, i would suggest that you use filter, inside it, choose $date1 = $date2.
This will choose only the rows that contain that date, than you can use a for each, and update your excel file with the data you want.
Let me know if this helped
Hi _USER_ what would this look like? Is it the filter inside the read range activity? I can't seem to find where I would enter the filter, $date1 = $date2 at. Also, say $date1 = 02/05/65, what is $date2? Essentially how do I say look at this row in excel and keep going till it matches so that $date2 has a value
If you share an example file it will be easy to troubleshoot
1 - Read the data from your excel file, using Read Range Activity inside, Excel Scope Activity.
2 - Filter your excel data, where the column which has the dates, contains the date you want to exclude or find, outside the Excel Scope.
3 - An If activity, so that if the date found, than… etc.
4 - Update your column, using Write Range Activity, Inside Excel Scope.
Hope this clears things for you


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A popular misconception we often encounter when answering questions, is the notion that in order to simulate an effect A that looks somewhat similar to another algorithm we built to simulate effect B, all you need to do is tweak a few parameters.
While true in a few circumstannces, there's a fundamental difference in tweaking an algorithm's parameters and designing an algorithm to simulate a specific behaviour.
Even more so, there's a fundamental difference in designing an algorithm and implementing it.
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Physician William H. Welch
Noted physician and bacteriologist William H. Welch died on this date in 1934. He gained fame during his lifetime for discovering the bacterium that causes gas gangrene, since named Bacillus welchii. Welch also studied other diseases; these included pneumonia, diphtheria, and problems with immunity and infection. Born in Connecticut in 1850, Welch graduated first from Yale University and then from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Welch later was pathologist-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Eventually, he also held senior administrative posts at the Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the Hopkins hospital and the Institute of the History of Medicine. In 1910, Welch served as president of the American Medical Association.
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Common sense is slow to develop in humans, and many a time young people will sit around throwing around silly ideas – and then go on to act on the silliest of them all.
And as if kids can't come up with enough stupidity all on their own, access to a world wide web of thoughts feeds them more tricks and dares – YouTube is great at that.
The cinnamon challenge is nothing new, but I heard about it from my kids only a couple of years ago. The challenge: swallow a tablespoon of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds, without drinking fluids.
Fail to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon, and you might still have your moment of glory in this viral sensation: more than 50,000 YouTube clips, one popular clip with 30 million views (these numbers might be irrelevant by the end of today) and it's all over Twitter. Subjecting the Cinnamon Challenge to a Google fight (fun site in which you can battle two words or phrases against each other to see which is more Internet popular) shows that cinnamon challenge with its 15 million search results is more popular than chewing gum (7 million).
Cinnamon sounds innocent enough – every baking home has some, and what can be more natural than an ancient spice from tree bark.
So here's an opportunity to teach kids a few basic principles in toxicology:
- Dose matters. As Paracelsus famously said: The dose makes the poison. Even water and oxygen – which we can't survive without -- can be toxic if you have too much of them.
- Safe to eat doesn't mean it's safe to introduce into your body in any other way. Do you like hot peppers? So do I. They're pleasant only by mouth. Water is fine to swallow, and to wash with, but if you inhale it it's called drowning.
Back to the cinnamon challenge.
An article in the recent issue of Pediatrics warns that the cinnamon challenge isn't all fun and games. Inhaling cinnamon can damage the lungs and airways, and although the effects are usually temporary, it has led to many emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and a few teens even requiring ventilator support for collapsed lungs.
You see, the cellulose fibers in cinnamon, once in the lungs, do not dissolve or break down – they stay there and are not inert. The authors, led by Steven Lipshultz, cite a study in which cellulose was introduced through the windpipe of rats. This caused inflammation and lung damage, and the results were apparent even a year after the exposure.
When a teen attempts to swallow a large mount of cinnamon there's a pretty high risk of breathing in some of the cinnamon powder. The powder can damage the lining of the airways and lungs and even cause permanent scarring. Introducing a foreign substance into the airways is even more dangerous for people who have asthma.
Bottom line, there are better – tastier, and more creative – uses for cinnamon.
I'm just afraid that warning kids about the dangers of the challenge – or locking the cinnamon along with the liquor as some parents have suggested – will introduce it to the few that haven't heard about it yet, and just increase its allure.


We need to have a serious conversation about cat tongues
New research has revealed the real reason why cat tongues are so damn rough.
Have you ever been licked by a cat? If so you'll know the feline tongue feels more like sandpaper than satin.
A cat's tongue is covered in hundreds of sharp, scoop-shaped spines made of keratin that spring into action during grooming. Until now we haven't really known why their tongues are so rough.
But new research, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows they play a role in helping a cat keep cool.
Cat grooming
Domestic cats spend up to a quarter of their waking time grooming their fur coat to help remove pesky fleas and loose hairs. If they didn't groom, then any excess debris could tangle fur, causing painful tugging of the skin, and even lead to infection.
But the new study reports something else that happens when a cat uses its tongue for grooming.
The scientists used CT scans of cat tongues to work out the structure of the spines, known as papillae. The spines are about 2mm long and have a U-shaped cavity at their tip (more on why later). The researchers also measured the hardness of the papillae, and found it is similar to that of human fingernails.
It got more interesting when the scientists used high-speed videography to work out what happens to the spines when a cat is grooming. Only the spines at the end of the tongue contact the fur during grooming. These are larger and not as closely packed as the spines nearer the bottom of the tongue.
A slice of a cat tongue, displaying papillae embedded in tissue. Image courtesy of Taren Carter (photographer).
As a cat grooms, there are four steps. First the tongue is extended out of the mouth. Then the muscles in the tongue expand the surface, and the spines rotate to become perpendicular to the tongue.
In the final two steps the tongue sweeps through the fur and is taken back into the mouth with a U-shaped curl.
Using some fake fur and a force plate, the scientists calculated that with the amount of compression of the tongue on the fur, the spines can actually contact the skin of the cat.
This is where it gets even more interesting – and also a bit icky, as we need to think about cat saliva.
The saliva action
The U-shaped cavity in the tip of the spines, which we mentioned earlier, acts as a wick in the mouth to take up saliva. This is the same action as when you put the tip of a tissue in water and the water creeps up the tissue.
Because scientists like to work out the detail, they calculated that these cavities would take up around 4μL (microlitres) of saliva across 290 spines. (It would take around 1,200 times this amount of saliva to fill a 5ml metric teaspoon.)
This 4μl is only around 5% of the total saliva on the surface of the cat's tongue. Not much, but it has a really important function as it can deposit saliva right down to a cat's skin.
The scientists used the estimate that cats spend around a quarter of their time awake grooming (about 2.4 hours a day) and lick about once per second.
This means cats can lose around a quarter of the total heat they need to lose per day through the tiny bit of saliva in their tongue spines. (We lose heat through liquid by sweating when we're hot.)
Cool for cats
Many (not all) cats live in hot climates, so this would be really important for their survival. The researchers looked at the tongues of several species of cat, including domestic cat, bobcat, cougar, snow leopard, tiger and lion.
Most cats groom themselves very effectively, helped by enzymes (special chemicals) in their saliva that dissolve blood and other debris.
By working out how far the spines penetrate cat fur, and measuring the length of fur in different breeds, the scientists also worked out the only cats that can't groom themselves effectively are domestic Persians, which are typically long-haired.
This means if you own a Persian you need to take the time to brush them, or else matts form and can damage their skin and lead to infections. But here's where the scientists made another breakthrough.
A new brush
In the final part of this research, the scientists used the knowledge they gained about the spiny form of a cat's tongue, and used 3D printing to develop a better grooming brush to use on cats.
The scientists say the biology-inspired brush should help remove allergens from cat fur, and help with the application of any cleaning lotions and medications on cats' skin.
The brush design may also help inspire news ways to clean other complex hairy surfaces.
So next time you watch a cat grooming, take a moment to marvel at just how much awesome science is involved in the evolutionary design of its tongue.
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Ring Lardner
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BornRinggold Wilmer Lardner
(1885-03-05)March 5, 1885
Niles, Michigan, United States
DiedSeptember 25, 1933(1933-09-25) (aged 48)
East Hampton, New York, United States
OccupationWriter, journalist
SpouseEllis Abbot
Children John, James, Ring Jr., and David.
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner (March 5, 1885 [1] – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him.
Syndicated writing
Lardner started his writing career as a sports columnist, finding work with the newspaper South Bend Times in 1905. In 1907, he relocated to Chicago, where he got a job with the Inter-Ocean. Within a year, he quit to work for the Chicago Examiner, and then for the Tribune. [2] Two years later, Lardner was in St. Louis, writing the humorous baseball column Pullman Pastimes for Taylor Spink and the Sporting News. Some of this work was the basis for his book You Know Me, Al. Within three months, he was an employee of the Boston American.
In 1913, Lardner returned to the Chicago Tribune, which became the home newspaper for his syndicated column In the Wake of the News (started by Hugh Keough, who had died in 1912). The column appeared in more than 100 newspapers, and is still published in the Tribune. Lardner's Tribune and syndicated writing was not exclusively sports related: his dispatches from/near the World War One front were collected in the book My Four Weeks in France, and his immersive coverage of the 1920 Democratic Convention resulted in Lardner receiving 0.5 votes on the 23rd ballot.
Books and stories
In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by "Jack Keefe", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home. The letters made much use of the fictional author's idiosyncratic vernacular. It had initially been published as six separate but interrelated short stories in The Saturday Evening Post, causing some to classify the book as a collection of stories, others as a novel. Like most of Lardner's stories, You Know Me Al employs satire, in this case, to show the stupidity and avarice of a certain type of athlete. The journalist Andrew Ferguson wrote that "Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people." Ferguson termed the book one of the top five pieces of American humor writing. [3]
Sarah Bembrey has written about a singular event in Lardner's sportswriting experience: "In 1919 something happened that changed his way of reporting about sports and changed his love for baseball. This was the Black Sox scandal when the Chicago White Sox sold out the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Ring was exceptionally close to the White Sox and felt he was betrayed by the team. After the scandal, Ring always wrote about sports as if there were some kink to the outcome." [2] Lardner's last fictional baseball writing was collected in the book Lose with a Smile (1933).
Lardner later published such stories as "Haircut", "Some Like Them Cold", "The Golden Honeymoon", "Alibi Ike", and "A Day with Conrad Green." He also continued to write follow-up stories to You Know Me Al, with the protagonist of that book, the headstrong but gullible Jack Keefe, experiencing various ups and downs in his major league career and in his personal life. Private Keefe's World War I training camp letters home to his friend Al were collected in the book Treat 'Em Rough: Letters From Jack the Kaiser Killer. The sequel, The Real Dope, followed Keefe overseas to the trenches in France.
Theatre and music
Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only Broadway three-act successes were the thrice-filmed Elmer The Great, co-written with George M. Cohan, and June Moon, a comedy authored with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman. Lardner also wrote skits for the Ziegfeld Follies. and a series of brief nonsense plays that ridiculed the conventions of the theatre using zany humor and outrageous, impossible stage directions, such as "The curtain is lowered for seven days to denote the lapse of a week."
He was a dedicated composer and lyricist: both his first – Zanzibar (1903) – and last – June Moon (1929) – published stage works included several Lardner tunes. He wrote at least one recorded song for Bert Williams, co-wrote one for Nora Bayes, and provided the lyrics for the song "That Old Quartet" (1913) by Nathaniel D. Mann. Other collaborators of note included Aubrey Stauffer, Jerome Kern on Very Good Eddie (1915), and Vincent Youmans – with whom he toiled on the Ziegfeld - Marilyn Miller - Astaires musical, Smiles (1930).
Lardner's books were published by Maxwell Perkins, who also edited Lardner's most important contemporaries, including Fitzgerald who, unlike Hemingway, [4] also became Lardner's friend. Although Lardner held his own short stories in sufficiently low regard, he did not save copies, and had to get copies from the magazines who had first published them to compile a book, [5] Lardner influenced several of his more famous peers:
Cultural references
Personal life
Born in Niles, Michigan, Ring Lardner was the son of wealthy parents, Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner. He was the youngest of nine children. Lardner's name came from a cousin of the same name. The cousin had been named by Lardner's uncle, Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, who had decided to name his son after a friend, Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, who was from a distinguished military family. Lardner never liked his given name and abbreviated it to Ring, naming one of his sons Ring Jr.
In childhood he wore a brace for his deformed foot until he was eleven. He also had a passion for baseball, stage, and music. [1] He later attended the Armour Institute in Chicago. [1]
Lardner married Ellis Abbott of Goshen, Indiana, in 1911. They had four sons, John, James, Ring Jr., and David, all of whom became professional writers.
Lardner died on September 25, 1933, at the age of 48 in East Hampton, New York, of a heart attack due to complications from tuberculosis. [2]
Sons and great-nephew
Essays and other contributions
 1. 1 2 3 Lardner, Ring. Ring Lardner Reader. Scribners.p. xiv
 2. 1 2 3 Bembrey, Sarah, ed. (Fall 1999). "Ring Lardner, Sr". The Lardner Dynasty. Interactive Media Lab, University of Florida.
 3. Ferguson, Andrew (2 December 2006). "Five Best: Laughter that Lasts". The Wall Street Journal. p. P8. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2006.
 4. Bruccoli, Matthew J., ed. (1996). The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway - Maxwell Perkins Correspondence. Scribner.
 5. Berg, A. Scott (1978). Max Perkins, Editor of Genius. New American Library. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-399-58483-1.
 6. Gelfant, Blanche H. (and Lawrence Graver) (2004) The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-century American Short Story, Columbia University Press. (See Ring Lardner, p.322)
 7. "Lardner Connections: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Leyner, McMillan, Newman". tridget.com. 18 March 2006.
 8. O'Hara, 1952, foreword to Appointment in Samarra, The Modern Library, 1994.
 9. Booth, Wayne C. (1983). The Rhetoric of Fiction, 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press. pp. 3–20. ISBN 0-226-06556-1.
 10. Eight Men Out Movie Review, DVD Release Archived 2008-03-10 at the Wayback Machine, Filmcritic.com
 11. "Ring Lardner". Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. 2016.


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Why Does Your Cat Have A Swollen Lip?
For the most apprehensive of us, any changes in our pets can easily make us worried. Any sign of sickness, be it behavioral or physical like a swollen lip, shouldn't be underestimated, although it's not always critical.
When a cat has a swollen lip, there may be many causes, including their diet, environment, dental issues. It's not always a concerning sign, but if the problem doesn't go away in a few days or it's recurring, it might be hiding a bigger issue.
Why does your cat's lip is swollen?
The reason for a cat's swollen lip is often eosinophilic granuloma complex or EGC. This term is used to describe a group of skin disorders, and often when this condition is present your cat's bottom lip will be swollen.
EGC can have many causes, including a wrong diet, bugs, dental or environmental issues, but it's commonly caused by an allergy.
Listed below are a few common causes of EGC along with other possible conditions behind cats' swollen lower lip.
Food allergy
Have you recently changed the type or brand of food you give to your cat? That could be the reason why your cat has a fat lip.
Just like us, cats can be allergic to food, and some of these allergies can be very dangerous or hide more serious conditions, like onion poisoning.
Many brands of dry and wet food have industrial additives to make food more appetizing to your pet. Some of these components may ignite an allergic reaction in your pet.
Sometimes simply removing the problematic food solves the problem. Other times, even if the cause is found, the swollen lip on the cat remains.
In this case, you can keep your cat on a hypo-allergenic diet for a while, and see if the problem solves itself. Topical medication may be needed to help the healing process.
Of course, you should consult your veterinarian before changing your cat's diet or giving them medications.
If your cat suffers from recurring episodes of swelling, keeping your pet on a hypo-allergenic diet for the rest of their life could be a solution.
Bug bites
When the season is warm and mosquitos are out for our blood, it's not uncommon to see a cat with a swollen lip.
Mosquito bites are the most common cause of EGC during summer, but it's not always easy to know for sure that your cat fat lip was provoked by a mosquito, so if it doesn't go away in the span of a few days, call your veterinarian.
Mosquitoes aren't the only culprits behind a swollen lip in cats. During summer, as well as the rest of the year, it's not uncommon for bugs and insects to come into our home.
Surely if you have an outdoor cat, you have to consider the risks and the 'encounters' your cat might have when outside, but indoor cats aren't immune to bug bites either.
Cats are also predators, and they have a lot of fun catching flies or other bugs. There's no saying in what insects and bugs have touched or the places they've been before meeting your playful feline, that's why cats may get swollen lips from trying to catch them.
The swelling caused by bug bites should disappear in a few days. However, if they touched a bug that carried some substance your cat is allergic to, this might not be the case and they will need a medical examination.
Food bowls
Cats can have more or less sensitive skin, just like humans. One of the items they come in contact with more often is of course their food and water bowls.
These bowls can easily provoke contact dermatitis or EGC if bacteria linger on them, but the material they're made of plays an important role as well.
In fact, plastic bowls are known to be the worst type of bowl your pet can have. They're not dangerous for cats only, they've been proven to cause skin problems to dogs as well.
That's because plastic contains chemicals that might ignite an allergic reaction in your pet. On top of that, bacteria are more likely to linger on plastic rather than other materials.
If you had a plastic bowl for a long time, that doesn't rule out the possibility that your cat lip swelling is caused by the bowl. In fact, your cat might develop an adverse reaction to plastic in the long run.
Try substituting your cat's plastic bowls with stainless steel or ceramic bowls. Stainless steel bowls are considered the best type of bowls for pets. Remember to wash your cat's bowl often and regularly to avoid lingering bacteria.
Environmental causes
This category is very vague because it refers to the specific habits and the environment that your cat lives in.
Outdoor cats are bound to visit different places and there's no saying in what material, food, ground, or living being could give them a swollen lip or other kinds of issues.
However, the life of indoor cats is not void of risks. Even the cleanest house is bound to have some dust, dirt, or other materials lying around every now and then.
As cats are very curious and exploratory by nature, it doesn't take much for them to come in contact with something that might cause an allergic reaction or even a light form of dermatitis.
How many times has your cat sneaked under a chair or a piece of furniture? That's one of the easiest ways to get swollen lips on cats.
It's impossible to restrain a cat, especially if it's an indoor one that doesn't have a lot of stimulation by default, so they should have the freedom to explore and play as long as it's a safe environment.
Swollen lips caused by these unfortunate circumstances are often innocuous and should pass on their own. However, if a cat's lip is swollen for more than a few days, don't hesitate to contact your veterinarian.
Dental issues
Sometimes dental issues are behind a cat's swollen bottom lip. A dental abscess, rotting tooth, or infected gums could provoke swelling in the lips or face.
In this case, the swollen lip might be the last symptom you notice, because dental issues are rarely without pain, and your cat will likely do one or more of the following:
 - Whine incessantly
 - Avoid food even when they're clearly hungry
 - Drool
 - Have extremely bad breath (more than usual)
 - Shake their head for apparently no reason
 - React aggressively or painfully when you touch their face, mouth, under their chin
Dental issues shouldn't be underestimated because they're likely to get worse with time. Your veterinarian will recommend medications or surgery to remove the problematic tooth or the infected tissue.
Chin acne
Did you know that cats can get acne? Not many people are aware of a condition called chin acne, which is often overlooked or not recognized at all because its symptoms are easily confused with other conditions.
This skin disorder is actually called follicular keratinization, where there is an overproduction of keratin in the outer layer of the skin that gets trapped in the hair follicle.
Chin acne can be a consequence of using plastic bowls because it exposes the cat to bacterial contamination. Poor grooming habits are another cause of chin acne, so it's not uncommon to see this disorder in older cats that cannot manage to groom themselves properly anymore.
When the acne affects hair follicles near the mouth, it may look like your cat has a swollen lower lip. However, this condition has nothing to do with the oral cavity and another symptom is usually the dirty appearance of the chin.
Chin acne is diagnosed through clinical signs, but sometimes blood tests and skin cultures may be needed. Treatment usually involves products to flush out the hair follicles and improve the hygiene of the pet.
A swollen lip might be, in rare cases, the symptom of an oral tumor, specifically feline oral squamous cell carcinoma, or FOSCC.
This kind of tumor is the most common oral tumor in cats, but it doesn't mean it's a common tumor. It usually occurs in old cats and affects the lower jaw and lip.
This tumor might affect other parts of the mouth, and cause great discomfort for your pet. A cat affected by this carcinoma has difficulty eating and might share the same symptoms as a cat with dental issues.
Luckily, metastasis for this kind of tumor is rare, but a more accurate assessment can only be done after a thorough medical examination.
The veterinarian will decide whether to proceed with treatment or surgery and will help you assess the quality of your cat's life in the future.
What should you do if your cat has a swollen lip?
A cat with a swollen lip is not necessarily a medical emergency, but you should nonetheless monitor your cat closely until they get better.
When the swelling is due to their diet, their food and water bowls, or another recent change in their routine, it is enough to remove the problematic item from their daily life and wait for the swelling to pass.
During the summer season, it's not uncommon for cats to be bitten by mosquitoes or other bugs. In that case, as well, the swelling should subside in a couple of days.
More often than not, outdoor cats come in contact with dirt, unknown materials, or other animals or insects that might provoke such a reaction.
Indoor cats are also at risk of developing swollen lips from eating the wrong food or sneaking under a dusty piece of furniture.
The wisest thing to do is to call the veterinarian right away, however, some pet parents might be reluctant because a trip to the vet can easily become an expensive situation.
Often, a cat with a swollen lip will be fine in a few days, but in the case that the swelling doesn't go away on its own after 2-3 days, or if


text: Attempted murder is the reckless or intentional attempt to kill a person involving taking a substantial step towards committing the crime. In other words, the criminal either had the intention of murdering somebody or showed extreme disregard for human life, thereby almost causing a person to be killed. One example of an attempted-murder crime is the indiscriminate use of a firearm against a group of people. While there was no intention to kill a certain person, and even if nobody was actually killed, the extreme disregard for human life and the fact that there was a probable intention to harm could justify a charge of attempted murder with a firearm. In some states, there's a fine line between crimes of reckless endangerment or reckless aggravated endangerment and the crime of attempted murder, since it's been ruled that a person can't have the intention of being reckless. Clearly, though, if a person deliberately tries and fails to commit murder, the charge would probably be attempted murder; if the perpetrator merely shows extreme disregard for human life, the charge may be the lesser one of reckless endangerment. An important factor in defining attempted murder is the fact that a substantial step must be taken to commit the crime. Both murder and attempted murder are Class A felonies.


$S$ to a smooth connected complete curve $\overline{S}$ (with constant field that might be larger than ${\mathbf{Q}}$, but that won't matter for the ramification considerations we are about to undertake). Clearly $\overline{S}$ is a finite flat cover of the projective $j$-line over $\mathbf{Q}$ and at the point $s$ over $j=0$ (or $j=1728$) it has ramification degree 4 or 6 (I can't remember which is which) because of etaleness over $M_1$ and the fact that $M_1$ over the $j$-line has ramification over $j=0$ (or $j=1728$) equal to 4 or 6 (due to deformation theory considerations). By design, there is an elliptic curve over the open curve $S$ (namely, the pullback of the elliptic curve $E'_1$ over $M'_1$ that extends the elliptic curve $E$ over $Y$) whose discriminant in the function field of $\overline{S}$ is $(j(j-1728))^{-1}$ (well-defined up to 12th powers of nonzero elements, of course). But the "good reduction" at $s \in S$ forces the discriminant of any model over the function field of $S$ to have valuation at $s$ that is a multiple of 12, whereas for $(j(j-1728))^{-1}$ this valuation is $-4$ or $-6$ (since $S$ at $s$ has ramification over the $j$-line equal to 4 or 6). This is a contradiction, so $M_1$ has no nontrivial connected finite etale cover, assuming $\pi_1(Y) = 1$.
Finally, we prove $\pi_1(Y) = 1$. Note that $Y$ is the open complement in $\mathbf{P}^1_{\mathbf{Z}}$ of the union of the sections $\infty$, $j=0$, and $j=n$ with $n = 1728$. We will now work with any nonzero integer $n$. Since $\infty$ is disjoint from the others, by Saito's argument with the relative Abhyankar's Lemma as explained above, we see that any finite etale cover of $Y$ has normalization over that projective $j$-line over $\mathbf{Z}$ that is etale over $\infty$. Hence, it suffices to show that the open complement of $j(j-n)=0$ in $\mathbf{P}^1_{\mathbf{Z}}$ has trivial $\pi_1$. Making the change of coordinates $t = 1/j$ (which moves $j = 0$ out to $\infty$), this open complement is identified with the open complement $U_n$ in the affine $t$-line $\mathbf{A}^1_{\mathbf{Z}}$ of the locus $nt=1$. So it is enough to prove that $\pi_1(U_n) = 1$. Equivalently, we claim that $U_n$ has no nontrivial Galois connected finite etale covers. This will rest on three special facts about $\mathbf{Z}$: the triviality of $\pi_1({\rm{Spec}}(\mathbf{Z}))$, the triviality of ${\rm{Pic}}(\mathbf{Z})$, and the smallness of the group of roots of unity in $\mathbf{Z}$. Beware that $U_n(\mathbf{Z})$ is empty when $n \not\in \mathbf{Z}^{\times}$.
Let $h:V \rightarrow U_n$ be a Galois connected finite etale cover with degree $> 1$, so over $\mathbf{Q}$ we get a nontrivial connected finite etale cover $V'$ of the $\mathbf{Q}$-fiber $U'_n$ of $U_n$. We first claim that $V'$ must be geometrically connected over $\mathbf{Q}$. Since we're in characteristic 0, this amounts to the condition that $V'$ has constant field $\mathbf{Q}$. If we let the number field $K$ be its constant field then by normality of $V$ it follows that $h$ factors through $(U_n)_{O_K}$, with $V \rightarrow (U_n)_{O_K}$ necessarily surjective. This forces $(U_n)_{O_K}$ to be etale over $U_n$ (since $h$ is a finite etale cover), so since $U_n$ is fpqc over ${\rm{Spec}}(\mathbf{Z})$ it follows that ${\rm{Spec}}(O_K)$ is etale over ${\rm{Spec}}(\mathbf{Z})$. This forces $K = \mathbf{Q}$, as desired.
By the coordinate change $x = t/n$ we identify $U'_n$ with ${\rm{GL}}_1$, so $V'$ is a geometrically connected cover of ${\rm{GL}}_1$ over $\mathbf{Q}$. Thus, for $d = {\rm{deg}}(h) > 1$ we see that over an algebraically closed extension $k$ of $\mathbf{Q}$ the map $h_k$ is identified with the endomorphism $x^d$ of ${\rm{GL}}_1$. That is, the map $h'$ induced by $h$ between $\mathbf{Q}$-fibers is a "$\mathbf{Q}$-form" of the $\mu_d$-torsor ${\rm{GL}}_1$ over ${\rm{GL}}_1 = U'_n$. The set of isomorphism classes of such forms is given by $${\rm{H}}^1({\rm{GL}}_1,\mu_d) = (\mathbf{Q}^{\times}/({\mathbf{Q}}^{\times})^d) \times x^{\mathbf{Z}/d\mathbf{Z}}$$ (since ${\rm{GL}}_1$ has trivial Pic and has unit group $\mathbf{Q}^{\times} x^{\mathbf{Z}}$). Explicitly, for $q \in \mathbf{Q}^{\times}$ and $j \in \mathbf{Z}$ the finite etale cover of ${\rm{GL}}_1 = U'_n$ associated to the class of $(q,j \bmod d)$ is given by the covering equation $y^d = q x^j$. As a covering of ${\rm{GL}}_1$ with coordinate $x$, this has geometric covering group $\mu_d(\overline{\mathbf{Q}})$ via scaling on $y$, so by inspection this geometric covering group action is not defined over $\mathbf{Q}$ (i.e., the automorphism group scheme for the covering is not a constant group over $\mathbf{Q}$, or in other words not all of these geometric automorphisms are defined over $\mathbf{Q}$) except when $d = 2$. Ah, but recall that we arranged for $h$ to be a Galois covering, so in our setting with the covering $h'$ the geometric covering group must be defined entirely over $\mathbf{Q}$ (as a constant group). In particular, $h$ must have degree $d = 2$. Also, the geometric connectedness of the covering forces ${\rm{gcd}}(j,d) = 1$.
To summarize, we have proved that $V \rightarrow U_n$ viewed over $\mathbf{Q}$ is given by $y^2 = q(t/n)$ for some $q \in \mathbf{Q}^{\times}$. By changing $y$ by a $\mathbf{Q}^{\times}$-scaling (as we may certainly do), we can change $q$ by any square multiple we wish, so we can arrange that $q/n$ is equal to a squarefree integer $r$. Then $V$ is identified with the normalization of $\mathbf{Z}[t][1/(nt-1)]$ in the $(nt-1)$-localization of $\mathbf{Z}[y,t]/(y^2 - rt)$. Using that $r$ is a squarefree integer, we claim that $\mathbf{Z}[y,t]/(y^2 - rt)$ is normal (in contrast with the situation for $\mathbf{Z}[y]/(y^2 - r)$ when $r$ is odd!). This is clear after inverting 2, so by Serre's homological criterion the only issue is to check the normality at the generic points in characteristic 2, which is to say that the maximal ideal of the local ring at these points is principal. If $r$ is even (so it is twice an odd integer) then $y$ lies in such primes, so $(2,y)$ is the only such prime and $t$ isn't in this prime. Hence, in such cases $y$ is a local generator (as the equation $rt =


Light Painting with 1,871 Slices of a Corpse
Joseph Paul Jernigan was a Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection. His body was then sliced into 1,871, 1mm cross sections, digitized and has now been used to create eerily stunning photographs.
Croix Gagnon (concept and art director), Frank Schott (photographer) and Alex Katz (post production) used a combination of night photography and long-exposure photographs of the animation below: create these images:
The project has been named 12:31, which was the time of death (by lethal injection) for Joseph Paul Jernigan.
In 1981, Jernigan was sentenced to death for stabbing and shooting 75-year-old Edward Hale, who discovered him stealing a microwave oven. Jernigan spent 12 years in prison before his final plea for clemency was denied. His cadaver was sectioned and photographed for the Visible Human Project at the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center.
Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. Jernigan's cadaver was encased and frozen in a gelatin and water mixture in order to stabilize the specimen for cutting. The specimen was then cut in the axial plane at 1 millimeter intervals. Each of the resulting 1,871 slices were photographed in both analog and digital, yielding more than 65 gigabytes of data.
At the prompting of a prison chaplain Jernigan had agreed to donate his body for scientific research or medical use, without knowing about the Visible Human Project. Some people have voiced ethical concerns over this. One of the most notable statements came from the University of Vienna which demanded that the images be withdrawn with reference to the point that the medical profession should have no association with executions, and that the donor's informed consent could be scrutinised.
From Kenn:
The results of 12:31 are damn spectacular. I've watched the animation used in this project years ago but having seen what Croix, Frank and Alex have done with it makes me think: "Damn, why didn't I think of that!?" They have definitely helped me view things differently. I now try to look at everything as a potential project. Thanks for the inspiration guys.
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Lee Morris's picture
this is INSANE!
Yeah, but what an imagination!!!
YUK! But cool.
YannB's picture
So MAD!!!!!!!
Looks like flying bacon!
uhhhh, wow. im speechless (and partly grossed out)... but speechless
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Question. How do you cut a human cadaver into 1mm slices?
i think they cryogenically perform that task.....
yeah they're not actually slices - they froze the body and basically shaved off a millimeter for every new photo - i saw the documentary about what they did back when i was in high school.... In the end there was actually nothing but a human mush left over - sickening thought much.
I believe that is a MRI scan
definately no an MRI image but same concept axial slices throughout a body. a CT scan would look the same but that is infact a body most likely frozen and slice like a coldcut
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Not an MRI scan. They froze the body (as Shannon mentioned) and slice it with an extremely sharp mechanical cutter.
Any one here using Firefox 5 on win xp that are having problems getting the Vimeo video at the top to load like me?
All i get is a black box.
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Last week I couldn't get Chrome to work with Facebook or Firefox to work with Youtube videos so I was switching back and forth depending on use. Got frustrated and eventually went back to Safari but it's weak functionality is bugging me. Damn. Why's the web got to be so complicated. :P
Genius! Definitely makes you want to start thinking outside of the box more.
That' s kinda fucked up.
I'm ok with the whole "cut him down in pieces" but the images that they produced trouble me deeply.
Powerfull yet very calm sense of death. Almost like a zen "Death Eater" in Harry Potter...
Had a shot at it myself :)
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Somehow it troubles me to think what some people will do for "art". Joseph Paul Jernigan donated his body for medical purposes, I have a feeling that even he, as a murdered, would find this attempt at art tasteless. in hot, hot as in cool, simply put its dope!
Kinda disturbing.... lol
I did it with myself, but I'm still alive... ok ok... I used my tomography and laser scan:;list=UUpKjpmwlxkl7rDlxeNJCobw&index=1&feature=plcp
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weird idea, but beautiful images


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Chatuge Reservoir, located on the Hiwassee River in western North Carolina, is 13 miles long and extends southeast from the dam into north Georgia. The reservoir is named after a nearby Cherokee settlement.
Sport fishing is popular at Chatuge, both in the reservoir and the Hiwassee River below the dam. A concrete weir has been installed below the dam to provide a steady flow of water in the riverbed and to increase oxygen levels for fish and other aquatic animals. Wade fishing for trout is popular here since fish are attracted to the weir, where food is abundant.
Chatuge is operated for many purposes, including flood damage reduction, power generation, and water flow augmentation for navigation downstream.
Chatuge: Facts & Figures
- Construction of Chatuge Dam began in 1941 and was completed in 1942.
- The dam is 150 feet high and stretches 3,336 feet across the Hiwassee River.
- Chatuge was originally built to store water to help reduce flood damage downstream. A single hydropower generating unit was added in 1954 with a summer net dependable capacity of 14 megawatts. Net dependable capacity is the amount of power a hydroelectric dam can produce on an average day minus the electricity used by the dam itself.
- In a year with normal rainfall, the water level in Chatuge Reservoir varies about 10 feet from summer to winter to provide seasonal flood storage.
- Chatuge has a flood-storage capacity of 62,600 acre-feet.


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Electrical Engineering ⇒ Topic : High frequency Transformers
HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMERS
The lamination thicknesses, beyond the normal power frequency range at frequencies higher than 50-60 Hz, have to be reduced to control the iron losses to an acceptable level. If the operating frequencies extend beyond a few kilocycles per second, it becomes necessary to use iron dust cores or the ferrites, special oxides which exhibit reasonably good magnetic properties with Very small eddy-current losses.
In such transformers, variable frequency is the normal operating condition, and as the frequency increases, the significance of the elements in the equivalent circuit changes.At very low frequencies, for example, the magnetising reactance is small enough to be comparable with or even less than load impedance so that this tends to be 'shorted out' and the secondary terminal voltage is greatly reduced.
In the intermediate frequency range, X. is high enough for its effects to be neglected and the leakage impedance absorbs only a moderate fraction of the available voltage.With further increase of frequency, however the leakage reactance drop tends to cause the output voltage to fall appreciable again.
Capacitance between turns and between the windings and earth can no longer be ignored since these are shunted across the circuit in a distributed fashion causing behaviour similar to a leading power-factor load.
The design problem here is to ensure the transfer, from primary to secondary, without excessive distortion, of an input signal having many frequency components; for example a pulse
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LAKE CHAMPLAIN BASIN AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES TASK FORCE RELEASES WATER FLEA SPREAD PREVENTION RECOMMENDATIONS
The Lake Champlain Basin Aquatic Invasive Species Rapid Response Task Force today released seven recommendations to slow the spread of spiny water flea into Lake Champlain. The Task Force identifies preventing the flow of excess waters from the Glens Falls Feeder Canal to Lake Champlain by diverting that flow into the Hudson River drainage as the most effective option to slow the spread of spiny water flea. The Task Force also seeks completion of a feasibility study to identify a hydrologic barrier to prevent the movement of aquatic plants and animals between the Champlain and Hudson Watersheds through the Champlain Canal system. This long-term solution will prevent the canal system from serving as a vector for any aquatic invasive species from moving in and out of the Lake Champlain Basin. The Task Force recognizes that the quick closure of the Champlain Canal and Glens Falls Feeder Canal, which could control and eradicate spiny water flea, is not technically, legally or economically feasible. After monitoring and sampling efforts determined the presence of spiny water flea in the Champlain Canal and the Glens Falls Feeder Canal in June, the Task Force undertook a significant process to identify and review a number of options to prevent the spread of spiny water flea to Lake Champlain. The Task Force carefully considered the effectiveness and technical feasibility of implementing behavioral, chemical, biological, physical or mechanical interventions in the Champlain Canal to prevent the introduction of spiny water flea to Lake Champlain. The Task Force recommends the following actions be taken to slow the spread of spiny water flea and prevent future introductions of aquatic invasive species in the canal:
1. Pursue options to redirect surplus flow in the Champlain Canal into the Hudson River side of the system and away from Lake Champlain side of the system as it is currently directed.
2. Undertake the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Champlain Canal Barrier Feasibility Study to identify means of developing a hydrologic barrier in the canal system.
3. Increase and enhance sampling efforts by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in the Champlain Canal and Glens Falls Feeder Canal to determine the extent and levels of spiny water flea populations in those waters.
4. Issue a public service announcement from the New York Canal Corporation alerting canal traffic about the presence of spiny water flea and educating boaters and anglers how to prevent its spread.
5. Build a predictive model of lake susceptibility to spiny water flea with support from the Lake Champlain Basin Aquatic Nuisance Species Subcommittee to identify the lakes most susceptible to invasion by the spiny water flea. Target those lakes for intensive education and outreach spread prevention efforts.
6. Expand the lake steward/greeter program and provide more information on spiny water flea, and pursue stewards dedicated to the canal system.
7. Seek the resources to print significant numbers of spiny water flea watch cards, and distribute them and other aquatic nuisance species spread prevention information to canal users and other key user groups.
A detailed report on the Task Forces efforts and recommendations regarding spiny water flea may be viewed and downloaded on the Lake Champlain Basin Program's web site at _URL_


text: This paper presents a system framework to realize camera localization relative to a 3D object. We adopt a Coarse-to-Fine strategy to locate the camera. First a series of rendered Computer Graphics (CG) images are compared with a real camera image. With an iterative linear search for the maximum Mutual Information (MI) among these comparisons, an initial camera pose estimation is obtained. Subsequently, for various kinds of objects, an update step of the pose estimation is realized by an edge-based object tracking method or a further search for the maximum MI with a smaller step size. To eliminate the pose estimation error due to the system coordinates transform error and camera calibration, a visual servo approach is adopted in the final step to adjust the camera to its final pose. The implementation of this framework is introduced in detail. The experiments results show that this framework is effective to locate the camera to its desired pose relative to 3D objects.


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Sentences for beef. College students, readers, and those taking online classes might especially benefit from this page. The lines of text below use beef in a sentence, and provide visitors a sentence for beef.
- Antonia stood at the sideboard carving beef for him, and in the window sat Thea with her Persian kitten. (8)
- Barter thought themselves far from the old beef and beer, port and pigskin types of the Georgian and early Victorian era. (8)
- Melville, as became a tall islander, carved beef, and ate of it, like a ruler of men. (10)
- Now Ale, which is to Beef what Eve was to Adam, threatens to take possession of the field. (10)
- Roast beef stood eminent behind the souffle and champagne. (10)
- They were beef and pudding on legs; in some quarters, beer amiably manifest, owing to the flourishes of a military band. (10)
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Genetic editing offers marijuana and hemp companies a way to improve plant strains
The development of new genetic-editing technology offers cannabis companies a cost-effective way to make specific changes to marijuana and hemp plants – such as more disease resistance – without creating a genetically modified organism (GMO).
The technology, known as Crispr-Cas9, will allow the cannabis industry to build new, improved plants that promise to introduce hardiness and efficiencies into cultivation.
That, in turn, could boost profits.
Developed by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, the Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technique revolutionizes genetic engineering in many fields, including medicine and agriculture.
They were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work.
In the case of cannabis, Crispr gene editing can produce new testable strains within a matter of weeks – unlike previous, more manual techniques.
Some possible changes to the cannabis genome include:
 - Disease resistance: Large-scale agriculture is susceptible to various pests and diseases. The technique should provide a way to quickly create resistant plants.
 - Climate tolerance: Climate change will alter how cannabis is grown in the coming decades. Plants that can withstand a wider range of temperature and daylight will be valuable as that occurs.
 - Increased trichomes: Researchers are trying to increase the trichome density on the plants as a way to boost the production of terpenes and cannabinoids.
 - Terpene manipulation: Changing the terpene makeup of a plant could provide a way to create distinctive and brandable cannabis products.
 - CBD-to-THC ratio in hemp: Hemp producers use the gene-editing technique to inhibit or eliminate the production of THC in the plants. It can also be used to manipulate the creation of CBD.
 - Biomass improvements: The ability to create specific traits and improvements to non-THC and CBD producing biomass of plants could help increase cultivator profits by minimizing plant waste.
 - Plant-wide THC production: In the vein of biomass improvements, work has already begun on the development of marijuana plants that produce THC in more parts of the plant.
 - Novel cannabinoid production: As the industry begins to understand cannabinoids other than THC and CBD, look for gene editing to be at the forefront of manipulating plants to produce them.
The Crispr-Cas9 process creates new DNA but technically does not create a genetically modified organism (GMO) because it does not introduce foreign DNA to the plant.
The process works by removing the section of the DNA the cultivator is hoping to change.
In addition, a guide piece of RNA is created and attached to an enzyme called Cas9.
Together, these two elements make up the Crispr tool.
The tool finds the targeted section of DNA while the enzyme cuts out the section as scissors would. New genetic material is introduced and attaches to the missing segment.
Companies are already using the technique to manipulate hemp and marijuana plants.
Evergreen, Colorado-based Ebbu, which was acquired by Canada-based Canopy Growth Corp. in 2018, was an early adopter of gene-editing techniques to try to produce single-cannabinoid strains, among other traits.
CanBreed, an Israeli company focused on developing genetically stable seeds, licensed the Crispr technology to enhance the traits of those seeds.
In late 2020, the company announced the purchase of a 3.5-acre farm in San Diego.
Andrew Long can be reached at [email protected].


Australian electricity prices and the cost of electricity in Australia per kWh
Australian electricity prices; the cost of electricity in Australia per kWh
This article will show you where you can find up-to-date wholesale electricity prices (aka the electricity spot price) for your state. It will also provide a snapshot of Australian electricity prices at June 2018, and explain how to convert the cost of electricity in Australia per kWh to MWh, and vice versa.
Just a heads up: This article is going to get deep into Australian electricity prices, but if you're more interested in saving money on energy, you may like to start on our cheap electricity page, where we explain how you can source the best deal for yourself.
Still here? Let's crack on and start with a brief explanation of the Australian energy market, which will lead into where to find Australian wholesale electricity prices.
Australian's electricity markets explained
In Australia, the National Electricity Market (NEM) includes QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, TAS and the ACT. The NEM is an environment where wholesale electricity is bought by retailers to later be on-sold to consumers.
The NEM is a spot market. This means electricity is traded for immediately delivery.
To calculate the electricity spot price, generators offer to supply the NEM with electricity at whatever price they choose. (They can revise this anytime.) From there, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) chooses which generators will produce electricity, prioritising cheapest first.
The spot price for electricity in each state changes every 5 minutes, and can vary significantly each day. To manage wild fluctuations in Australian electricity prices, retailers will generally enter into a contract with generators to fix wholesale electricity prices.
As you may have noticed, the word "National" is inaccurate. Western Australia and the Northern Territory are not connected to the NEM. (Nor are certain remote parts of Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales.) For WA and the NT, their power infrastructure is too far away from the NEM. It's thought that the cost of connecting them would outweigh the benefit.
In fact, there may not be a huge benefit to joining the NEM. WA and the NT have very competitive retail electricity prices compared to the other states and territories, as we'll see.
How are Australian electricity prices measured?
Prices quoted on the NEM are measured in $/MWh (dollars per Megawatt hour).
This unit of measurement may not be familiar to you, so here's a crash course:
One Megawatt hour equates to using one million watts of electricity continuously for an hour. To put this into perspective, one MWh would power 630 average Australian homes for one hour.
…and here's how I arrived at that figure:
1 Megawatt hours = 3.6 Giga-joules.
In 2014-15 the average Australian home used approximately 50 Giga-joules of energy.
Therefore, the average Australian household uses 50 Giga-joules ÷ 3.6 = 13.9 Megawatt hours of electricity per annum.
13.9 MWh ÷ 8,760 hours in a year = each house is using 0.00158676 MWh of electricity per hour.
Finally, 1 MWh ÷ 0.00158676 MWh = it would take 630.2 average Australian homes one hour to use 1 MWh of electricity.
Hopefully that gives you have a feel for what a Megawatt hour might be worth in terms of powering your home or business. But what's one worth? That's up next: where do we find wholesale Australian electricity prices?
Where to find the electricity spot price
For states and territories connected to the NEM, the AEMO provides a data dashboard that lists wholesale electricity prices. This is available to anyone with an internet connection, and it's free to use.
In the Northern Territory, the wholesale prices are not readily available, but they are in fact higher than the retail prices. Here's how that works, as explained by the Utilities Commission of the Northern Territory:
The maximum retail prices for customers with annual electricity consumption less than 750 MWh continue to be set by the Territory Government through an Electricity Pricing Order. The prices set by the Territory Government are below-cost reflective levels, requiring the government to make relatively large community service obligation (CSO) payments (of approximately $80 million per annum) to electricity retailers.
The above rings true, because the NT enjoys the lowest retail Australian electricity prices of any state or territory.
In Western Australia, residential customers do not have a choice of electricity suppliers – it's Synergy or nothing. However, Synergy do provide 2 options. Customers can pay a 'single rate' (where they pay the same tariff 24/7) or opt for 'flexible pricing' (where the rate varies between peak and off-peak times).
Synergy do not disclose wholesale prices, only retail prices.
Wholesale electricity prices at June 2018
Here's a snapshot of wholesale electricity prices as at June 2018:
State or territoryWholesale price $/MWh
South Australia$114.16/MWh
New South Wales$88.06/MWh
Northern TerritoryNot disclosed; subsidised
Western AustraliaNot disclosed
While the NT and WA's wholesale electricity prices are not readily available, we can assume they are likely similar to Victoria. (Keep in mind NT consumers receive the benefit of subsidies.) I'll justify this statement when we look at retail prices, in a moment.
Please note that these figures refer to the average RRP (recommended retail price, or average spot price) for the month of June 2018.
These are the wholesale prices. But for us consumers, the real point of interest is the retail cost of electricity in Australia per kWh. Just wait until you see the markups!
The retail cost of electricity in Australia per kWh
Here's where to find retail Australian electricity prices…
For states and territories connected to the NEM, these are "contested markets". In other words, it's up to each electricity retailer to set their own price, whatever they believe will be competitive.
As a handy point of reference, Cannstar Blue provide tables detailing the average cost of electricity in Australia per kWh for the NEM states (excluding Tasmania). If you clicked through to the tables, you may have noticed that retailers quote prices in cents per kWh (kiloWatt hour). This is a different measure to the wholesale prices quoted above, which are in dollars per MWh (Megawatt hour).
For ease of comparison with the wholesale prices, we'll quote both measures for you here. Keeping in mind:
1 MWh = 1,000 kWh.
But don't forget, there are 100 cents in a dollar! (So the calculation is x 0.01 to get from cents to dollars and then x 1,000 to get from kWh to MWh. Or, the figure in cents/kWh x 10 = dollars/MWh).
In Tasmania, you can click through for indicative retail prices with Aurora Energy.
For the Northern Territory, you can click through for current retail prices.
In Western Australia, you can click through for current retail prices.
Here are the current indicative retail prices, including my guess with respect to retailer markups:
State or territoryWholesale price $/MWhRetail price $/kWhRetail price $/MWhEstimated markup
South Australia$114.16/MWh43.67c/kWh$436.7/MWh383%
New South Wales$88.06/MWh33.33c/kWh$333.3/MWh378%
Northern TerritoryNot disclosed; subsidised25.67c/kWh$256.7/MWhLikely similar to VIC
Western AustraliaNot disclosed28.33c/kWh$283.3/MWhLikely similar to VIC
As you can see, when you compare wholesale electricity prices with retail, there are some significant markups. Let's round out this article with a quick exploration of why that might be.
What does your retailer do for their markup?
Companies like AGL Energy, Alinta Energy, BlueNRG and Click Energy buy energy wholesale. Then they combine it with transmission and distribution services, before selling the final product to their customers. Of course, they also need to allow for all the other expenses associated with running their businesses.
AGL is Australia's largest energy retailer, and therefore a good target for further analysis. As a public company, all their data is in the public domain. Let's take a look at their numbers:
In the six months to 31 December 2017, AGL Energy Ltd revenues were A$6.45 billion (+7%).
Net income was A$622 million (+91%).
AGL is an interesting case, because they are both a generator of electricity, as well as a retailer. They generate and sell electricity wholesale on the NEM. But they also buy it wholesale and on-sell it to consumers as a retailer.
Upon closer inspection, AGL's wholesale revenue was up 25%, but their retail revenue was up just 4%. As a generator and wholesaler of electricity, AGL have benefitted from rising spot prices on the NEM. Prices hit all time highs in 2017.
But as a retailer, they're not doing anywhere near as well. And overall, their net profit margin for the trailing 12-months to 31 December 2017 was 6.43%. This is a number most people would consider fair and reasonable, and not a sign of price gouging of their consumers.
Markups don't necessarily correlate to profits
So it's important to realise that markup does


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The previous post looked at User Defined Functions (UDFs) for working with vectors, including examples of functions to find the area of polygons defined by coordinates. In this post the functions will be extended to find other section properties (such as first and second moment of area), and compared with the functions presented previously in Section Properties07.xlsb. The new functions (including full open source code) can be downloaded from: SecPropV.xlsb. The new function returns up to 14 values as an array function; refer to Using Array Formulas if you are not familiar with their use.
The code used in the new functions is shown below:
For i = 1 To Num1 - 1 j = i + 1 Vect1(i, 1) = Coords(i, 1) Vect1(i, 2) = Coords(i, 2) Vect2(i, 1) = Coords(j, 1) Vect2(i, 2) = Coords(j, 2) CrosspA(i) = Vect1(i, 1) * Vect2(i, 2) - Vect1(i, 2) * Vect2(i, 1) Next i k = 1 For i = 1 To Num1 - 1 Area = Area + CrosspA(i) Next i Area = -Area / 2
First Moment of Area (about X axis):
For i = 1 To Num1 - 1 AX = AX + CrosspA(i) * (Vect1(i, 2) + Vect2(i, 2)) Next i AX = -AX / 6
Second Moment of Area (about X axis):
For i = 1 To Num1 - 1 IX = IX + (Vect1(i, 2) ^ 2 + Vect2(i, 2) ^ 2 + Vect1(i, 2) * Vect2(i, 2)) * CrosspA(i) Next i IX = -IX / 12
The full list of properties returned by the function is:
The performance of the new function is compared below with the previous version in computing the section properties of a circle defined with 1 million points on the circumference:
It can be seen that the new function (red line) has very little advantage for the area function, but the calculation of first and second moment of area is substantially faster. For both functions the calculation of section properties relative to different axes is almost instantaneous.
Details of input are shown below:
Input XY coordinates must be listed in a 2 column range, with the last point being the same as the first. Points should be listed in a clockwise direction to return a positive area. As shown in the example, a hollow shape my be analysed by entering the outer boundary in the clockwise direction, then the inner boundary in the anti-clockwise direction, finally returning to the starting point on the outer boundary along the same line.
If not all the output values are required the number to be calculated may be specified in the optional NumOut argument. Alternatively, enter -1 list the symbols for each output value in sequence, or -2 for a description of each value.
Finally, if only the area is required, the algorithm taken from the Softsurfer site is considerably faster, at about 0.25 seconds for the 1 million segment circle. An example of the Area2D and Area3D functions is shown below:
Area = 0 For i = 2 To n - 1 j = i + 1 k = i - 1 Area = Area + PointVals(i, 1) * (PointVals(j, 2) - PointVals(k, 2)) Next i Area = Area + PointVals(i, 1) * (PointVals(1, 2) - PointVals(i - 1, 2)) Area = -Area / 2


Quick Answer: Does Dawn Dish Soap Kill Mold?
Can you clean mold with soap and water?
Wash mold off hard surfaces with soap and water, or use a mix of vinegar and hydrogen peroxide to kill mold.
When cleaning mold, always wear a filtered facemask, so you won't inhale spores.
Disinfect surfaces by spraying them with vinegar, followed by a spray of 3% peroxide.
Wipe clean..
What kills mold instantly?
Use undiluted white vinegar on hard surfaces in kitchens and baths. A bleach solution also works to kill mold. Mix one cup of bleach in a gallon of water, apply to the surface and don't rinse. You can also add a little dish soap to the bleach mixture to help the bleach penetrate porous surfaces, such as grout.
What does Dawn dish soap kill?
Getting rid of ants is easy with Dawn Dish Soap. Spray a mixture of water and Dawn directly onto countertops, floors, sinks, or wherever the ants seem to be. … If you spray the solution directly on an ant, Dawn will penetrate their exoskeleton and kill them on contact. This also works for wasps and cockroaches.
What kills mold better bleach or vinegar?
Vinegar truly is better than bleach at killing mold. … "That means the mold will grow back. In fact, recognizing the bleach as a 'threat,' the mold will grow back even stronger." When bleach is used on porous surfaces like drywall or wood, mold membranes will move deeper into the surface to avoid the chemical.
Does dawn and vinegar kill mold?
Molds are fungi and they can, and will, grow back after bleaching. There are 4 simple ingredients you can safely use to clean away mold in your home: white vinegar, baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, and detergent or soap.
Does vinegar get rid of mold?
Vinegar is a mild acid that's effective for killing mold and can actually help prevent future mold growth.
Is it safe to mix vinegar and Dawn dish soap?
The combination of dish soap and vinegar is highly effective for a few different reasons. … However, vinegar alone will simply run off of most surfaces, while dish soap is too thick to use as a spray. But when you mix them together, you get an effective, sprayable cleaner that sticks to any surface!
Why Dawn dish soap is bad?
The Environmental Working Group gave Dawn a 'D' grade because of it containing methylisothiazolinone, which is a "High Concern: acute aquatic toxicity; Some Concern: skin irritation/allergies/damage". Sounds delightful, right? Dawn also contains 1 4-dioxane which is considered a groundwater contaminant.
Does bleach kill black mold on drywall?
While bleach works well to kill surface fungus and remove the ugly marks on the walls caused by mold, it doesn't penetrate deeply into the drywall and so it leaves the mold's "roots" undisturbed. … To kill mold beneath the surface, simply spray undiluted white vinegar onto the affected area and let it dry.
Can I remove black mold myself?
Can Salt Kill Mold?
Sodium borate, borax, salt and lime will kill all mold, but they also may kill plants. Zinc strips and/or bare copper wires have been used to help control mold.
Can I use Dawn to clean my toilet?
Dishwashing Detergent – Liberally pour dishwashing detergent into your toilet bowl. Be sure to cover the hard-to-tackle stains, and then let it sit for at least one hour. Use your toilet brush to scrub your toilet bowl clean, and then flush out the remaining dishwashing detergent.
Does vinegar and Dawn kill fleas?
Here's the thing: Pet owners might want to use Dawn soap if there is severe flea-infestation on their adult pet. They can use soap and vinegar to remove the fleas directly from hair coat and skin. However, use this treatment only when your pet gains exposure to fleas from boarding facilities and pet daycare.
What kills black mold naturally?
For really tough black mold removal, mix two parts baking soda with one part white vinegar and one part water. Stir the mixture until it becomes a thick paste. Spread your mixture liberally onto the surface and let it dry. Scrub away the black mold and stains, and wipe down with water.
Is vinegar or hydrogen peroxide better for mold?
Vinegar is better at killing some germs and hydrogen peroxide is better against others, but dwell time can still take up to 30 minutes each and there are no definitive studies to guide users if you want to kill a specific microbe.


text: HOLOS Geo provides features for manual and CNC measurements of standard geometries. For example, users who also have to measure standard geometries no longer have to use software that offers more than they need. HOLOS Geo is the practical solution for sampling measurements, e.g. the initial inspection of cast and forged parts, bores and reference marks. Furthermore, HOLOS Geo includes functions for measurements with references, which is primarily required for metal and plastic parts. Defining and storing different measurement strategies is also a key element of HOLOS Geometry.


Dens, dinosaurs and caves in the garden…
Playing with dinosaurs and learning their names (and pronouncing them!) always prove to be popular, and in the warmer summer days, there's nowhere better than out in the garden to do this!
Den making went to a new realm when the sun came out and we used the see-through plastic to create a den with flowers on the top. The children greatly enjoyed lying down on the grass to admire their work!
The garden is the greatest place for the children to allow their imaginations to run wild. They are always able to create and imagine different scenarios. The Den is a den one moment then a cave, followed by another child uses the car as an ice cream van, a car, and then turns it on its side and it becomes a shop. There are no bounds to the children's imagination when it's allowed to run free!
The children also love to help water the plants in the garden to maintain their health and growth, we currently have strawberries and raspberries growing over in the corner, alongside our herbs lemon balm, mint and fennel. We also have some tomatoes in pots that will hopefully bear fruit in the near future.
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Screening of a charged particle field in rarefied ionized gas
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (Impact Factor: 0.93). 06/2010; 110(6):_PHONE_. DOI: 10.1134/S1063776110060130
ABSTRACT A self-consistent field of a charged micron-size particle placed in a rarefied ionized gas is created by both free ions moving
along infinite trajectories and trapped ions moving in closed orbits. The character of screening of the particle field is
analyzed under dynamic conditions in a nonequilibrium plasma where the temperature (or the mean energy) of electrons greatly
exceeds the ion temperature. Under these conditions, trapped ions are generated in a restricted region of the particle field
where the transitions between closed ion orbits resulting from resonant charge exchange dominate. This leads to a higher number
density of trapped ions compared to that of free ions. The parameters of the self-consistent field of the particle and ions
are found when free or trapped ions determine the screening of the particle field, and a similarity law is established for
a simultaneous variation of the number density of plasma particles and the particle size. In dusty plasmas of the Solar System,
which result from the interaction of the solar wind with dust, formation of trapped ions increases the plasma number density
compared to that in the solar wind.
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 \$\begingroup\$ So you are claiming Heavy(886,887) = Heavy(6,7)? \$\endgroup\$
 – Aryabhatta
 Mar 22, 2011 at 17:44
 - \$\begingroup\$ @Moron: No, because the first two 8s change the threshold for heaviness. In the example, the first two were 86, which average to 7 and thus don't change the threshold. If (8+8+x)/3 > 7, then x>5. So Heavy(886,887,7.0) == Heavy(6,7,5.0). \$\endgroup\$
 – Phil H
 Apr 13, 2011 at 10:16
 - \$\begingroup\$ @Phil H, I don't think this idea as it stands would work: if you take 9900 and 9999, it would alter it to could the heavies between 0 and 99, taking e.g. 8 into account and 9908 is not a heavy number (@Aryabhatta). \$\endgroup\$
 – crogg01
 May 14, 2014 at 15:54
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Maybe you can skip many candidates in the interval from a to b by accumulating their "heaviness".
if you know the length of you number you know that every digit can change the heaviness by only 1/length.
So, if you start at one number which is not heavy you should be able to calculate the next number which will be heavy, if you increase them by one.
In your example above starting at 8680 avg=5.5, which is 7-5.5=1.5 point away from you heaviness border, you'd know that there are 1.5/(1/4)=6 numbers in between, which are NOT heavy.
That should to the trick!
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 - \$\begingroup\$ Same goes for a row of "heavy" numbers. You can just calculate the number and skip them! \$\endgroup\$
 – Thorben
 Mar 22, 2011 at 12:52
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 \$\begingroup\$ Just multiply everything by the number of digits and you will get rid of those pesky /lengths. \$\endgroup\$
 – aib
 Mar 22, 2011 at 13:02
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How about a simple recursive function? To keep things simple, it calculates all heavy numbers with digits digits, and a minimal digit sum of min_sum.
int count_heavy(int digits,int min_sum) {
 if (digits * 9 < min_sum)//impossible (ie, 2 digits and min_sum=19)
 return 0; //this pruning is what makes it fast
 if (min_sum <= 0)
 return pow(10,digits);//any digit will do,
 // (ie, 2 digits gives 10*10 possibilities)
 if (digits == 1)
 //recursion base
 return 10-min_sum;//only the highest digits
 //recursion step
 int count = 0;
 for (i = 0; i <= 9; i++)
 {
 //let the first digit be i, then
 count += count_heavy(digits - 1, min_sum - i);
 }
 return count;
}
count_heavy(9,7*9+1); //average of 7,thus sum is 7*9, the +1 is 'exceeds'.
Implemented this in python and it found all 9-digit heavy numbers in ~2 seconds. A little bit of dynamic programming could improve this.
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C, for interval [a,b] it is O(b-a)
c(n,s,j){return n?c(n/10,s+n%10,j+1):s>7*j;}
HeftyDecimalCount(a,b){int r; for(r=0;a<=b;++a)r+=c(a,0,0); return r;}
//the exercise
main()
{
 printf("[9480,9489]=%d\n", HeftyDecimalCount(9480,9489));
 printf("[0,_PHONE_]=%d\n", HeftyDecimalCount(9480,_PHONE_));
 return 0;
}
//the results
//[9480,9489]=2
//[0,_PHONE_]=66575
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 - \$\begingroup\$ What does it mean "Standard loopholes"? \$\endgroup\$
 – user58988
 Apr 16, 2017 at 17:28
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 \$\begingroup\$ @Riker Here the tag is not <codegolf> it is <fast algorithm > \$\endgroup\$
 – user58988
 Dec 13, 2017 at 20:47