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Q: Consolidating two Macros into One I have two similar macros I've written, and for efficiency's sake I'd like to consolidate them into one. The first macro adds 4 blank rows on another tab underneath a specific row, where column C matches certain criteria. The second macro copies 4 rows of data from an existing tab over to the new tab, and pastes that data into the 4 newly created blank rows. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you
Conceptual screenshots attached:
Screenshot 1: Initial State
Screenshot 2: MACRO 1 inserts 4 rows if criteria in column C is met (in this case value = "Part A"
Screenshot 3: MACRO 2 pulls in row data from another sheet and pastes it into the new blank rows on this sheet
FIRST MACRO:
Sub RowAdder_01()

Dim Col As Variant
Dim BlankRows As Long
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim R As Long
Dim StartRow As Long
Dim PN_01 As Range
Set PN_01 = Range("M17")

    Col = "C"
    StartRow = 1
    BlankRows = 1

        LastRow = Cells(Rows.Count, Col).End(xlUp).Row

        Application.ScreenUpdating = False

        With Worksheets("NEW SHEET")
For R = LastRow To StartRow + 1 Step -1
If .Cells(R, Col) = PN_01 Then
.Cells(R + 1, Col).EntireRow.Insert Shift:=xlDown
.Cells(R + 1, Col).EntireRow.Insert Shift:=xlDown
.Cells(R + 1, Col).EntireRow.Insert Shift:=xlDown
.Cells(R + 1, Col).EntireRow.Insert Shift:=xlDown
End If
Next R
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub

SECOND MACRO:
Sub PasteRowData_01()

Dim Col As Variant
Dim BlankRows As Long
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim R As Long
Dim StartRow As Long
Dim PN_01 As Range
Set PN_01 = Range("M17")

    Col = "C"
    Drop = "A"
    StartRow = 1
    BlankRows = 1

        LastRow = Cells(Rows.Count, Col).End(xlUp).Row

        Application.ScreenUpdating = False

Sheets("OLD SHEET").Rows("54:57").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Select
Selection.Copy

    With Worksheets("NEW SHEET")
For R = LastRow To StartRow + 1 Step -1
If .Cells(R, Col) = PN_01 Then
   Sheets(NEW SHEET).Select
    .Cells(R + 1, Drop).Select
    Selection.PasteSpecial

End If
Next R
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub

A: Please try this code.
Option Explicit

Sub AddAndPaste()

    Dim Ws As Worksheet
    Dim Arr As Variant
    Dim PN_01 As Variant
    Dim Last As Long                        ' column or row
    Dim R As Long

    ' copy from source
    Set Ws = Worksheets("Old Sheet")
    With Ws
        With .UsedRange
            Last = .Columns.Count + .Column - 1
        End With
        Arr = Range(.Cells(54, 1), .Cells(57, Last)).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Value
    End With

    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    ' paste to destination
    Set Ws = Worksheets("New Sheet")
    With Ws
        PN_01 = .Cells(7, "M").Value
        Last = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "C").End(xlUp).Row
        For R = Last To 1 Step -1
            If .Cells(R, "C").Value = PN_01 Then
                With .Cells(R, "A")
                    .Resize(4, 1).EntireRow.Insert Shift:=xlDown
                    .Offset(-4).Resize(UBound(Arr, 1), UBound(Arr, 2)).Value = Arr
                End With
                Exit For           ' don't exit if you need to continue looping
            End If
        Next R
    End With
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

A: Your problem is caused by inserting a line. We recommend using an array.
Sub test()
    Dim Ws As Worksheet, newWs As Worksheet, Temp As Worksheet
    Dim vDB, vSp, vR()
    Dim i As Long, r As Long, n As Long, k As Integer, cnt As Integer
    Dim PN_01 As Range

    Set newWs = Sheets("New Sheet")
    Set oldWs = Sheets("OLD SHEET")
    Set Temp = Sheets.Add
    oldWs.Range("a54:d57").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy Temp.Range("a1")
    vSp = Temp.UsedRange
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
    Temp.Delete
    Application.DisplayAlerts = True
    With newWs
        vDB = .Range("a1", "d" & .Range("a" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row)
        Set PN_01 = .Range("M17")
    End With
    cnt = UBound(vSp, 1)
    r = UBound(vDB, 1)

    For i = 1 To r
        n = n + 1
        ReDim Preserve vR(1 To 4, 1 To n)
        For j = 1 To 4
            vR(j, n) = vDB(i, j)
        Next j
        If vDB(i, 3) = PN_01 Then
            For k = 1 To cnt
                n = n + 1
                ReDim Preserve vR(1 To 4, 1 To n)
                For j = 1 To 4
                    vR(j, n) = vSp(k, j)
                Next j
            Next k
        End If
    Next i
    newWs.Range("a1").Resize(n, 4) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(vR)
    newWs.Activate
End Sub


Capability of U–Pb dating of zircons from Quaternary tephra: Jemez Mountains, NM, and La Sal Mountains, UT, USA Capability of U–Pb dating of zircons from Quaternary tephra Jana Krautz et al.
Krautz, J., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U., and Kleber, A.: Capability of U–Pb dating of zircons from Quaternary tephra: Jemez Mountains, NM, and La Sal Mountains, UT, USA, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 67, 7–16, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-67-7-2018, 2018.
Two Quaternary tephras derived from the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico – the Guaje and Tsankawi tephras – are difficult to distinguish due to their similar glass-shard chemical composition. Differences in bulk chemical composition are small as well. Here we examine the feasibility to assign an age to a distal tephra layer in the La Sal Mountains, Utah, by U–Pb dating of zircons and to correlate it with one of the two Jemez eruptions. We also dated original Jemez tephras for comparison. Even though the tephras are very young, we obtained reasonable age determinations using the youngest cluster of zircon grains overlapping in age at 2σ. Thereafter, the Guaje tephra is 1.513 ± 0.021 Myr old. The La Sal Mountains tephra is correlated with the Tsankawi tephra. Three samples yielded a common age range of 1.31–1.40 Myr. All ages are in slight disagreement with published age determinations obtained by 40Ar ∕ 39Ar dating. These findings indicate that distal Jemez tephras can be distinguished by U–Pb dating. Furthermore, we encourage giving this method a try for age assignments even of Quaternary volcanic material.
Zwei quartäre Tephren aus den Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, – Guaje- und Tsankawi-Tephra – sind durch die ähnliche chemische Zusammensetzung ihrer Gläser nur schwer zu unterscheiden. Dies gilt auch, bis auf geringfügige Unterschiede, für die Totalanalyse. Wir haben die Möglichkeit untersucht, das Alter einer distalen Tephralage in den La Sal Mountains, Utah, zu bestimmen und einer der Tephren aus den Jemez Mountains zuzuordnen. Zur Vergleichbarkeit haben wir auch die Zirkone der Tephren aus den Jemez Mountains U–Pb datiert. Obwohl die Tephren alle sehr jung sind, haben wir reliable Alter durch das Cluster der jüngsten, im 2σ Fehler überlappenden Zirkone erhalten. Demzufolge ist die Guaje-Tephra 1.513 ± 0.021 Myr alt. Die Tephra aus den La Sal Mountains wurde mit der Tsankawi-Tephra korreliert: Drei Proben aus den Jemez Mountains (1×) und den La Sal Mountains (2×) ergaben eine Altersspanne von 1.31–1.40 Myr. Alle Alter weichen etwas von bereits publizierten 40Ar ∕ 39Ar ab. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die distalen Jemez-Tephren durch U–Pb Datierung unterschieden werden können. Wir wollen dazu ermutigen, diese Methode der Altersbestimmung auch für quartäres vulkanisches Material in Erwägung zu ziehen.
Tephra is eruptive rock material deposited as airborne fallout often quite distant from its source volcano. Because of its chemical composition – usually obtained from glass shards – it often may be related to a particular volcanic eruption (Westgate et al., 1994). Therefore, tephrochronology has become an established method, using tephra intercalated between other deposits as a stratigraphic marker bed, provided the original eruption is well dated (Lowe, 2011).
Figure 1Areas under study. Source of maps: Google Maps 2016 (http://maps.google.com).
There are a lot of reliable methods for dating Quaternary tephra (Dickinson and Gehrels, 2009). Most commonly the 40Ar ∕ 39Ar method is applied using K-rich minerals (Lowe, 2011). This utilizes the fact that embedded argon completely leaves the mineral lattice by disturbances such as a volcanic eruption. After this the enrichment by radioactive decay of K re-starts, and thenceforward the accrued isotopes may be measured. So ages can be calculated via the half-life of the isotopes (Worsley, 1998).
A distal tephra layer discovered in the La Sal Mountains, Utah, was linked to the volcanic province of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, based on glass-shard chemistry. However, correlation with a particular eruption remained ambiguous (Kleber, 2013), because two tephras derived from there have closely similar chemical compositions (Slate et al., 2007) – one of the major threads of tephrochronology (Lowe, 2011). Zimmerer et al. (2016) state that both tephras are difficult to date by Ar–Ar dating, asking for elaborate sample preparation and calculation of the results. Though still not done very often on such young zircons (Lee, 2012), there have been a few successful applications of U–Pb dating of zircons to young material in recent years (e.g., Ito et al., 2016; Sakata et al., 2017). Zircons have the advantage of being outstandingly chemically and physically robust. They are unsusceptible to alteration and weathering even under extreme conditions (Wilson et al., 2008). Thus, we tried dating the tephra layer using zircon dating.
Here we demonstrate reasonable age determinations of zircons from the La Sal Mountains tephra layer and of the two suspect tephras in the Jemez Mountains. Through this, the Jemez tephra layers may be discriminated with high certainty. Furthermore, we encourage giving the U–Pb method – which is available in a variety of labs worldwide – a try for dating volcanic material of undisclosed age even if the assumed age is as young as 1 Myr, after having tested the total uranium contents.
The Jemez Mountains (Fig. 1) are calderas of various volcanic eruptions, among which the Valles, Antonio, and Toledo calderas are still recognizable as concentric mountain ranges. Their eruptive products, mainly basalt–andesite–dacite–rhyolite associations, range from about 15 Myr (mid-Miocene) to < 2 Myr (Pleistocene) (Kues et al., 2007). The Neogene and Quaternary formations are divided into three groups, named after Indian nations, from oldest to youngest: the Keres, the Polvadera, and the Tewa group (Bailey et al., 1969). We took our samples from the Tewa group. This comprises the Bandelier Tuff, which is mainly the result of two large ignimbrite- and caldera-forming eruptions. The lower Otowi (including the Guaje tephra) and the upper Tshirege (including the Tsankawi tephra) sequences were deposited approximately 1.6 and 1.2 Ma, respectively (Self et al., 1996; Slate et al., 2007). Today large parts of these ignimbrite and tephra sequences belong to the Bandelier National Monument.
The Jemez Mountains are known to be the source area of the La Sal Mountains tephra layer. We took samples approximately 8 km southeast of Los Alamos, New Mexico, from a slope along New Mexico State Road 502 (Guaje and Tsankawi tephras, located at 35∘52′05′′ N, 106∘11′59′′ W and at 35∘52′05′′ N, 106∘12′00′′ W, respectively). The site is depicted in Goff (2009) and in Fig. 2a.
The chain of the La Sal Mountains lies at the eastern border of Utah (Fig. 1). Like the Jemez Mountains, it is part of the Colorado Plateau Province and together with Mount Peale (3877 m a.s.l.) is the highest peak of the plateau (Henning, 1975; Grahame and Sisk, 2002). The La Sal Mountains are remnants of laccoliths and mainly consist of granitoid rocks (Henning, 1975; Ross, 2006). The Precambrian basement is unconformably overlain by Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks, which were intruded by monzonite and diorite porphyry during the Paleogene (K–Ar ages are 25–28 Myr; Ross, 2006). The laccolithic structures preserve Mesozoic rocks at the mountain flanks, mainly clays and sandstones (Richmond, 1962; Henning, 1975). Within the adjacent Paradox Basin, the Mesozoic rock sequence is underlain by marine sediments, which include limestone, dolomite, slate, and a several-hundreds-of-meters-thick diapiric layer of salt and gypsum (Henning, 1975).
Figure 2(a) Sampling sites of tephras in the Jemez Mountains. All visible rocks are volcanic in origin. Photo: Jana Krautz (22 August 2014). (b) Sampling site in the La Sal Mountains. The whitish tephra intercalates between periglacial cover beds and is to the left of the picture cut by a gully fill. Photo: Arno Kleber (27 July 2009). The sampling spot visible in the La Sal Mountains tephra was for radiofluorescence dating, not for the present dating.
A distal tephra layer was found in the northwestern La Sal Mountains, Utah, USA (located 38∘34′33′′ N, 109∘17′32′′ W), approximately 20 km linear distance from Moab, Utah, at 2130 m a.s.l., on a 22∘ steep slope, exposed by a road cut of the Manti-La Sal Circuit (Kleber, 2013 and Fig. 2b). The tephra was identified by the US Geological Survey, Tephrochronology Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, via the chemical composition of its glass shards. It was correlated with either the approximately 1.25 Myr old (Phillips et al., 2007) Tsankawi tephra or – because of the Fe contents somewhat more likely – the approximately 1.65 Myr old (Spell and Harrison, 1993) Guaje tephra, both derived from the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico (Kleber, 2013).
We took two samples from the deposition area in the La Sal Mountains, UT, USA, and one from each original tephra layer, derived from the Toledo Caldera (Guaje tephra) and from the Valles Caldera (Tsankawi tephra). The latter two – taken from well-known tephra locations – were mainly measured to disclose whether the results of the U–Pb determinations are consistent with the aforementioned earlier 40Ar ∕ 39Ar datings and may, thus, yield reliable ages of distal tephra layers.
We performed sample preparation for cathodoluminescence (CL) images, LA-ICP-MS (laser ablation with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) U–Pb analyses, and age calculations at the Geochronology Department of Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Germany. Circa 1 kg of material was collected for each sample. After crushing in a jaw crusher, the samples were sieved for the fraction 36 to 400 µm. Density separation of this fraction was accomplished with LST (solution of lithium heteropolytungstates in water). We used a Frantz isodynamic separator for the magnetic separation of the extracted heavy minerals. Single zircon grains of all grain sizes, colors, and morphological types were randomly picked under a binocular microscope and subsequently analyzed regarding their morphology based on backscatter electron (BSE) images of the unmounted zircon grain surfaces using a Zeiss EVO50SEM at 20 kV and a spot size of 300 nm. Then the grains were mounted in resin blocks and polished to approximately half their thickness, in order to expose their internal structure. We obtained CL images using a Zeiss EVO50SEM coupled to a CL detector system at 20 kV and a spot size of 500 nm. Zircons were analyzed for U, Th, and Pb isotopes by LA-ICP-MS, utilizing a Thermo Scientific ELEMENT 2 XR sector field ICP-MS coupled to a New Wave UP-193 excimer laser system with laser spot sizes of 20 to 35 µm. Fifteen seconds of background acquisition was followed by 25 s of data acquisition during each analysis. The signal was tuned for a maximum sensitivity for Pb and U, whereas oxide production (235UO vs. 238U) was kept well below 1 %. Raw data were corrected for background signal, common Pb, laser-induced elemental fractionation, instrumental mass discrimination, and time- and depth-dependent elemental fractionation of Pb / Th and Pb / U using an Excel® macro developed by Axel Gerdes (Geosciences Inst., Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany). Reported uncertainties were propagated by quadratic addition of the external reproducibility obtained from the standard zircon GJ-1 (∼ 0.6 and 0.5–1 % for 207Pb ∕ 206Pb and 206Pb ∕ 238U, respectively) during individual analytical sessions and the within-run precision of each analysis. Concordia diagrams (2σ error ellipses) and concordia ages (95 % confidence level) were created using Isoplot/Ex 2.49 (Ludwig, 2001). 207Pb ∕ 206Pb ages were used for concordant analyses of zircons above 1.0 Ga, and 206Pb ∕ 238U ages for younger ones. For ages younger than 10 Myr, we corrected for 230Th disequilibrium using the formula of Simon et al. (2008).
Table 1Electron microprobe analyses of glass shards from tephra layers. ±: standard deviation. Values are weight-percent oxide, re-calculated to be 100 % fluid-free. Normalized data (raw data are available in Supplement).
Figure 3Ages of tephra layers as derived from the youngest cluster of grain ages overlapping at the 2σ level. (a) Guaje tephra, (b) Tsankawi tephra, (c) La Sal Mountains tephra sampled in 2013, (d) same but sampled in 2014.
Geochemical analyses of bulk samples were performed at Activation Laboratories Ltd. (Ancaster, Ontario, Canada) using their standard protocols RX4 for sample preparation and 4LITHO-Quant Major Elements Fusion ICP (WRA)/Trace Elements Fusion ICP-MS (WRA4B2) for the analyses as described on their website (ActLabs, 2014). The samples from the La Sal Mountains were contaminated with pedogenic carbonates, whereas the samples from the Jemez Mountains were not, or at least not to the same degree. Therefore, the major elements (and the total percentages) were re-calculated on a carbonate-free basis, i.e., without considering MgO, CaO, and loss on ignition (LOI), though the original values of these three measurements are given so that one could re-assemble all original quantities. In addition to the aforementioned samples, we analyzed a confirmed Guaje tephra sample provided by David B. Dethier (Slate et al., 2007).
Microprobe analyses were conducted aided by a CAMECA SX51 electron microprobe with five wavelength-dispersive spectrometers at the Earth Sciences Institute at Heidelberg University. The standard operating conditions were 15 kV accelerating voltage, 20 nA beam current, and a beam diameter of ca. 20 µm. Counting times during analyses were 10 s for Na and K; 20 s for Fe; 30 s for Mn and P; and 50 s for Si, Ti, Al, Mg, and Ca. Detection limits were 0.02 wt % for Si, Al, and Ca, 0.001 wt % for Ti and Mn, 0.08 wt % for Fe, and 0.09 wt % for K and Na. Calibration was performed using natural and synthetic oxide and silicate standards. Values given are weight-percent oxide, re-calculated to be 100 % fluid-free.
The microprobe analyses of glass shards corroborate the great similarity of the Guaje and the La Sal Mountains tephras (Table 1; cf. Supplement for raw data). Even the differences in Fe contents, typically acknowledged as the only clue to distinguish Guaje from Tsankawi tephras (Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, personal communication, 1990), are within the standard deviations of the analyses.
Table 2Major and trace element concentrations of tephra samples. The table displays analyses from bulk samples. Major element percentages are calculated carbonate-free, i.e., without considering the columns in italic font. Trace elements which show remarkable differences between Guaje and Tsankawi tephras are identified in bold font. Source: Actlab report number A14-07544; report date: 24 October 2014.
Figure 4Weighted average ages of tephra layers to compare with the age displays. (a) Guaje tephra, (b) Tsankawi tephra, (c) La Sal Mountains tephra sampled in 2013, (d) same but sampled in 2014.
Table 2 shows that the major and especially the trace element concentrations from bulk samples of the La Sal Mountains tephra are very close to the Tsankawi tephra from the Jemez Mountains but somewhat dissimilar to the Guaje tephra sample as well as to the Guaje sample DN-97-117 submitted by David B. Dethier. This holds especially true for the elements shaded in yellow in Table 2, with the most remarkable being Cr, Rb, Nb, and Th. The differences in the Sr and Ba contents between the La Sal Mountains and Jemez Mountains samples may be explained by eolian contamination, as both elements are frequent components of eolian deposits (Jones, 1986). Similar differences in Tl contents may be due to different durations of sample materials being exposed to oxidation. These findings render the La Sal Mountains tephra correlative to the Tsankawi rather than the Guaje tephra.
In all samples, primary uranium contents in zircons were sufficiently high to allow reliable age determinations. Given the apparently young ages of the tephras, 207Pb could not be accumulated in quantities remarkably above the detection limit of the instrument due to the extremely long half-life of 235U and/or insufficiently high U contents to produce enough Pb in such short intervals of time (compare young grains in the Supplement). Thus, we could use only the 206Pb ∕ 238U for age estimations (cf. Gehrels, 2014). Therefore, 207Pb ∕ 235U and 207Pb ∕ 206Pb ratios for cross-validation are not available; the degree of concordance cannot be calculated for these young zircon grains, and those data are left blank (Supplement). Accordingly, the ages we report are regarded as model ages.
To establish the age of each tephra sample, we used the youngest cluster of zircon-derived U–Pb ages overlapping at 2σ. The mean age of the youngest cluster of grain ages that overlap in age at 2σ is regarded as the most conservative measure of age (Dickinson and Gehrels, 2009). These clusters may be seen as groups of analyses resulting in ages close together, thereby validating each other even without a reliable Pb–Pb age. Grains with younger 238U ∕ 206Pb ages than the ones used for the calculation of the concordia ages (cf. Supplement) are not part of such a cluster in the concordia plot and, thus, cannot be cross-validated. Accordingly, they were not considered sufficiently reliable.
Figure 5CL images of selected zircons which have been included in the age displays (including laser ablation mark). (a) La Sal Mountains tephra sampled in 2013: c13; (b) same but sampled in 2014: a22; (c) Tsankawi tephra: a38; (d) Guaje tephra: a36.
The grains used for age determination are accentuated in tables in the Supplement. The clusters are sufficiently large for the ages to be constrained to small confidence intervals (2σ); see also Figs. 3 and 4: we assigned an age of 1.513 ± 0.021 Myr to the Guaje tephra from the Jemez Mountains, which is somewhat younger than the published Ar–Ar-derived ages of 1.651 ± 0.011 Myr (Zimmerer et al., 2016) or 1.613 ± 0.011 Myr (Izett and Obradovich, 1994). The other three samples yielded ages incompatible with the Guaje tephra: the Tsankawi tephra from the Jemez Mountains was determined to be as old as 1.316 ± 0.012 Myr. The two samples from the La Sal Mountains yielded ages of 1.327 ± 0.017 Myr (sample from the year 2013) and 1.341 ± 0.059 Myr (2014 sample, which had the smallest number of zircon ages within the overlapping cluster). The confidence intervals of the latter three samples do all overlap within errors. Therefore, we correlate these tephra-layer samples with the same, the Tsankawi eruption. The common age range within 2σ of both samples is 1.31–1.40 Myr. We assume this is the most likely age array. Zoning of zircons indicates steady growth. If there is a core depicted in the CL images, the measuring spot may not be located at a core's edge (Fig. 5).
The ages derived via Ar–Ar dating are 1.264 ± 0.010 Myr (Phillips et al., 2007; recalculated by Zimmerer et al., 2016) and 1.223 ± 0.018 Myr (Izett and Obradovich, 1994); i.e., they are slightly younger than ours. Though being very close to each other, the U–Pb ages are slightly older. The common notion is that Ar–Ar ages approximate the eruption ages and U–Pb ages indicate the (earlier) time of crystal closure (Simon et al., 2008). However, this does not work for the Guaje tephra. Zimmerer et al. (2016) observed similar differences between 40Ar ∕ 39Ar and uranium-series (U ∕ Th) ages for other tephras of the Jemez Mountains. They explain their findings with a complicated crystallization history of the magma, leading to disequilibrium between the uranium isotopes in the melt. Another explanation could be that the zircon crystal lattices of the Guaje tephra were not completely closed during eruption, as our sample was taken close to an underlying mafic lava bed which still could have been hot enough to achieve this effect. Or there still are problems with the Ar–Ar dating of some Jemez tephras not yet understood.
Older zircons (cf. Supplement for raw data) are assumed to be inherited from rocks melted during magma rise, with those zircons being their most temperature-resistant components.
Our findings demonstrate that U–Pb dating of zircons from Quaternary volcanic material may result in valuable age determination. U–Pb dating of zircons seems to allow – at least combined with bulk geochemical analyses – confident distinction between the two tephras derived from the Jemez Mountains, which are too similar to be clearly kept apart by glass-shard chemistry alone. This approach avoids the complications accompanying the Ar–Ar dating of Bandelier tephras (Phillips et al., 2007; Zimmerer et al., 2016).
We recommend considering U–Pb dating as a possible approach to identifying rather young tephras or to distinguish such tephras, as in our study. However, before application, we recommend measuring total uranium contents in zircon minerals, which might indicate whether this dating method will be applicable.
In Quaternary research, dating of zircons as young as 1 Myr may well become a tool for better defining age models of sedimentary archives – such as loesses, cover beds, or paleosols – with interbedded or admixed tephra layers.
All underlying data can be found in the Supplement.
The supplement related to this article is available online at: https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-67-7-2018-supplement.
We thank David B. Dethier, Williamstown, MA, USA, for sending samples from Jemez tephras and Hans-Peter Meyer, Heidelberg, Germany, for the electron-microprobe analyses. We also thank Rita Krause (Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden) for her invaluable support of our lab work. We are grateful to the San Ildefonso Indian Nation for allowing access to the Tsankawi sampling site. We thank two anonymous reviewers and Ludwig Zöller for their critical comments and helpful advice. Our work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG, KL 701/12-0).
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Phillips, E. H., Goff, F., Kyle, P. R., Mcintosh, W. C., Dunbar, N. W., and Gardner, J. N.: The 40Ar ∕ 39Ar age constraints on the duration of resurgence at the Valles Caldera, New Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 112, 2925–2934, https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JB004511, 2007.
Richmond, G. M.: Quaternary stratigraphy of the La Sal Mountains, Geological Survey, Professional Paper 450-D, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, USA, 1962.
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Sakata, S., Hirakawa, S., Iwano, H., Danhara, T., Guillong, M., and Hirata, T.: A new approach for constraining the magnitude of initial disequilibrium in Quaternary zircons by coupled uranium and thorium decay series dating, Quat. Geochronol., 38, 1–12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2016.11.002, 2017.
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Ihlienworth is een gemeente in de Duitse deelstaat Nedersaksen. De gemeente maakt deel uit van de Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln in het Landkreis Cuxhaven. Ihlienworth telt  inwoners.

Gemeente in Nedersaksen

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Q: ZendService Twitter fails on Client connect() Having problems connecting with the Twitter API through ZendService/Twitter/Twitter.
Error:  Fatal error: Call to a member function connect() on a non-object in somepath/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/Http/Client.php on line 1358

$config = array (
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                        'secret' => 'dummy'
                ),
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                        'consumerKey' => 'dummy',
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                ),
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                )
        );

        $twitter = new Twitter ( $config );
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A: Twitter allows only SSL connections in Twitter API endpoints. This detail is documented here. So, you need to set your adapter options to meet the SSL protocol requirements.
Try this:
'http_client_options' => array (
    'adapter' => 'Zend\Http\Client\Adapter\Curl',
    'curloptions' => array (
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 2,
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => true,
        CURLOPT_CAINFO => '/path/to/certs/ca-bundle.pem'
    )
),

When verifying a remote host, you need to provide one or more certificates of trusted CAs. The value 2 for VERIFYHOST option is required to checking the existence of a common name and also verifies that it matches the hostname provided. Use 1 for only check existence of name in the SSL peer certificate.
You may also want to read more about configuring SSL connections using Curl adapter in this nice tutorial.

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Eli Raphael Roth (Newton, Massachusetts, 1972. február 18. –) amerikai színész, filmrendező, forgatókönyvíró és filmproducer.

Rendezőként és filmproducerként leginkább a horrorfilmes műfajból ismert, elsőként a Kabinláz (2003) és a Motel (2005) című filmekkel szerzett hírnevet. Ezt követte a Motel 2. (2007) és a The Green Inferno (2013), majd a Kopp-kopp (2015) című erotikus thriller és a Bosszúvágy (2018) című akciófilm. Szintén 2018-ban jelent meg A végzet órája című fantasyfilmje.

Színészként feltűnt Quentin Tarantino Grindhouse – Halálbiztos (2007) és Becstelen brigantyk (2009) című filmjeiben (utóbbival Screen Actors Guild-díjat nyert), valamint az Utórengés (2012) című katasztrófafilmben.

Fiatalkora és családja

Apja Dr. Sheldon Roth, pszichiáter, pszichoanalitikus és professzor a Harvard Egyetemen, anyja Cora Roth festő. Több mint ötven rövidfilmet készített testvéreivel, Adammal és Gabe-bel. A diploma megszerzése előtt a Newton South High Schoolba járt, majd 1994-ben a  New York-i Egyetemen szerzett diplomát.

Pályafutása

Magánélete
2014 novemberében vette feleségül Lorenza Izzo chilei színésznőt és modellt, akit a The Green Inferno forgatásán ismert meg. A házaspár 2018 júliusában jelentette be, hogy a válás mellett döntöttek, de megőrzik baráti és szakmai kapcsolatukat. A válást a következő év augusztusában véglegesítették.

Filmográfia

Film

Televízió

Színészként

Fordítás

Jegyzetek

További információk

1972-ben született személyek
Amerikai színészek
Amerikai filmrendezők
Amerikai forgatókönyvírók
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Sharon Osbourne Never Going Back to 'The Talk' or CBS, Says They 'Suck d***'
Sharon Osbourne wouldn't go back to CBS if they unloaded a Brinks truck in front of her house … because the bad blood is still boiling.
Sharon and Ozzy were at Erewhon market in L.A. Thursday, and our photog asked the question lots of folks want to know … Whoopi Goldberg's punishment was way less severe than Sharon's, so would she consider going back to "The Talk" if CBS asked her?
Well, we're thinkin' she wouldn't give it another go, because she said, "I would never go back to that show because CBS sucks big time d**k." So we're thinkin' no.
As you know, Sharon got the ax after defending her friend Piers Morgan who attacked Meghan Markle on his show.
She also made it clear … she's not hanging it up — she is NOT retiring. Sounds like she's got plans.
Ozzy was quiet … he's been ill for awhile. We asked how he was doing and Sharon said he's ok. Hopefully, he's on the rebound.
The argument left Sheryl in tears and sparked a network investigation into multiple allegations Sharon had made racist remarks over the years to co-workers
Sharon eventually posted an apology, but it apparently wasn't enough to fix all the damage.
Referring to the March 10 incident, CBS says Sharon's behavior toward her co-hosts "did not align with our values for a respectful workplace."
Travis Barker Shows Off Tattoo of Kourtney Kardashian's Eyes On His Leg
Conor McGregor Denies Attacking Woman On Yacht
T.I. & DaBaby's First Collab to Appear on 'Fear' Film Soundtrack
Jeremy Renner Says He Shattered Over 30 Bones In Snowplow Accident
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Says George Santos is a Fraud, Unfit to Serve in Congress

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Microsoft Office for iPad users is on the way, according to comments made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
While Office arrived on the iPhone earlier this year, Microsoft has encouraged users to load up its Office Web Apps service if they're looking to edit documents on Apple's tablet. Unfortunately, Office Web Apps don't include all of the functionality that Office for Mac and Office for Windows do. iPad users can edit office documents on their iPad with Apple's own iWork productivity suite too, however the results aren't always decent.
Microsoft hasn't shared pricing for Office for iPad yet either, but it's likely that users can expect the company to avoid a one-time fee and push the Office 365 subscription service like it does for Office on iPhone. Users looking to use Office apps on their iPhone need to have at least an entry-level subscription to Office 365. The service begins at $9.99 for a month, or $99.99 per year. For that price users get access to Windows and Mac versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher, Access and 20GB of SkyDrive storage space.
Unfortunately users need to stay subscribed to the Office 365 in perpetuity, failing to pay for one month deactivates each version of the suite setup with a particular Office 365 subscription. Users can still personal traditional versions of Office for Mac and Office for Windows beginning at $139.


Chuck: - I know what you did, Blair. It's despicable even for you. Do you hate me so much you can't stand to see me happy? Why did you drive the person I care most about out of town?
Chuck: - Make her leave me? Of course you did. I need to know why. Is it possible... you still love me?


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SL Cabinet Door Closed
gossip lanka news, Sri Lanka
Though over 20 SLFP MPs in the Joint Opposition in parliament have had discussions with the top rung in the Maithri-Ranil Government to cross over and support the government, President Maithripala Sirisena and Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe had told them that the numbers in the Cabinet of Ministers would not be expanded at any cost as it violates the 19th amendment, highly placed government sources told Nation.
The two leaders had conveyed to these MPs that a few vacancies exists in the ranks of deputy ministers and state ministers and they could be considered to fill such vacancies in the event they crossed over.
Nations learns that Premier Wickremesinghe had pointed out that more than half of the number of Joint Opposition (SLFP) MPs willing to cross over had voted against the provision to expand the number of cabinet ministers from 30 to 53 under the 19th amendment.
It is further leant that the President who had agreed with the views of the Premier had stated that such MPs cannot vie or aspire for cabinet portfolios having opposed the policy of the government to expand the number to 53 in the Unity Government.
The President had further stated that his government explained the reasons to expand the numbers in the cabinet as he led a Government of Unity comprising both major parties but his own SLFP MPs in the Joint Opposition opposed it.
Latest reports stated that four Joint Opposition SLFP MPs who were cabinet ministers in the Rajapaksa administration have had further talks with senior ministers of the SLFP and UNP and had expressed their willingness to cross over and accept deputy and state ministerial portfolios. 'However, the President and the Premier have not taken a decision as yet on that development', sources added.
Meanwhile, Nation learns that a shuffle of subjects under present ministries is on the cards as the President and the Premier have decided to postpone a reshuffle in the Cabinet.
Sources said a special meeting with the cabinet ministers chaired by the President and Premier is to be held before end July to advise ministers to carry out the instructions of the duo as changes to top positions in government departments, corporations and institutions are expected to be effected shortly to meet development goals.
They added that all ministers would be told to uphold collective cabinet responsibility to avoid embarrassment to the government and abide by decisions taken at cabinet level.
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Q: code: 'ERR_UNHANDLED_REJECTION' Jest react testing I am trying to use firebase and react for authentication. I have basic authentication set up and it works on localhost.
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import './App.css';
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import StyledFirebaseAuth from 'react-firebaseui/StyledFirebaseAuth';

firebase.initializeApp({
    apiKey: process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY,
    authDomain: process.env.REACT_APP_AUTH_DOMAIN,
});

class App extends Component {
    state = { isSignedIn: false };
    uiConfig = {
        signInFlow: 'popup',
        signInOptions: [
            firebase.auth.GoogleAuthProvider.PROVIDER_ID,
            firebase.auth.FacebookAuthProvider.PROVIDER_ID,
            firebase.auth.TwitterAuthProvider.PROVIDER_ID,
            firebase.auth.GithubAuthProvider.PROVIDER_ID,
        ],
        callbacks: {
            signInSuccess: () => false,
        },
    };

    componentDidMount = () => {
        try {
            firebase.auth().onAuthStateChanged((user) => {
                this.setState({ isSignedIn: !!user });
                console.log('user', user);
            });
        } catch (error) {
            console.log(error);
        }
    };

    render() {
        console.log(process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY);

        return (

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JAZZ LEGENDS - George Shearing Live at Ambassador Auditorium (1981)
Shearing, George - Piano
Shearing, George - Vocals
Torff, Brian - Double Bass
Venue: Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena
Date of Concert: 1981
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
I'd Rather be Right
Catalogue Number: DJ-864
Few musicians in the history of jazz have made such a lasting popular and worldwide impression as pianist George Shearing. Deified in the 1950s by Jack Kerouac in the novel On the Road, Shearing moved from early success in his native Britain to postwar New York where he captured the spirit of successive jazz generations and created a permanent place for himself in the Hall of Fame with his quintet's September in the Rain and his own quintessentially hip composition Lullaby of Birdland. The artistry of Shearing's legendary bluesy, "locked-hands" style is as fresh and appealing as ever.
In Shearing we have a jazz artist who has seen and heard it all. His influences range from boogie-woogie to stride to bebop, and he incorporates all of those distinct styles into one that sounds like ... George Shearing. Shearing is one of a handful of jazz legends still giving us the benefit of their experience. Overlook him at your own risk.
The New Yorkers: Love for Sale
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
I'd Rather be Right: Have You Met Miss Jones
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Patriots release wideout Kelvin McKnight from practice squad, opening spot for kicker Younghoe Koo
Kelvin McKnight signed to New England's practice squad on Wednesday.
By Oliver Thomas@OliverBThomas Oct 4, 2019, 1:08pm EDT
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Younghoe Koo joined fellow kicker Mike Nugent on the New England Patriots' practice fields Friday.
His reported arrival as part of the practice squad is now official.
The Patriots announced the release of rookie wide receiver Kelvin McKnight as the corresponding move to make room for Koo.
McKnight, who signed to New England's practice squad on Wednesday, spent the preseason with the Denver Broncos after going undrafted out of Samford. The 5-foot-8, 186-pound McKnight finished his collegiate career the school's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns, and caught seven passes for 43 yards while with the Broncos this August.
Koo was among seven kickers hosted by the Patriots for workouts this week in wake of Stephen Gostkowski's placement on injured reserve. The 25-year-old will accompany Nugent, the No. 47 overall pick in the 2005 NFL draft, who signed to the active roster on Thursday.
Originally entering as an undrafted free agent by way of Georgia Southern in 2017, Koo appeared in four regular-season games for the Los Angeles Chargers that fall. He would log the early part of 2019 with the Atlanta Legends of the Alliance of American Football, and scored the first points in AAF history.
Koo went 14-for-14 on field goals before the league suspended operations.


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Dictionary:Inverse problem
From SEG Wiki
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Solving for the spatial distribution that could produce a given set of measurements. Where a distribution of ''causes'' produces a distribution of measurement values that depend on a system of parameters. The forward (or direct) problem, if linear, is expressible as the matrix equation
M = P V {\displaystyle \mathbf {M} =\mathbf {PV} }
where M is a vector of the measurements mi, P is a matrix of the parameters pij, and V is a vector of the values vj. (The problem may also be nonlinear.) This equation expresses the model. Solving the equation for vj is the inverse problem and solving for pij is the parameter-estimation problem. Usually vj depends on the measurement system. For gravity, vi might be the distribution of mass and mj measurements of the acceleration of gravity, for well logging vj might be the distribution of lithology and porosity and mi the values measured by the logs, etc.
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It's me Jacob again. I just got back from the doctors today and wanted to give you and update on my status. I am 19lbs 6oz, which is WAY more that my mom thought I weighed. I am so close to that 20lbs, I can almost taste it. I moved up from below the 5th percentile for weight to the 5-10th percentile. Woo-hoo! I am also 29inches tall, which continues to put me in the 25th percentile. I just hope that my little sister doesn't get dad's height and I get mom's. I also had to get 4 shots which was NO FUN at all!


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A necessity for a clean and clear swimming pool.
Use shock to quickly raise the chlorine level in your pool. Various bacteria and organic pollutants can resist normal chlorination and result in contaminated and cloudy water. This build-up is highest during hot weather and periods of heavy pool usage.
Pools should be shocked on a weekly basis to prevent contaminated water and to improve the efficiency of sanitizers.
Maintain recommended daily levels as determined by the testing kit.
To minimize bleaching, pre-dissolve required amount of Aqua Coastal Shock in a plastic pail with concentration not exceeding 1 kg per 10 L of water. Always add chemical to water, NEVER water to chemical.
Broadcast resulting slurry directly to pool water.
Initially, superchlorinate pool water with 150 g of Aqua Coastal Shock per 10,000 L of pool water. For best results, superchlorinate at dusk.
Maintain proper chlorine residual by broadcasting daily over the pool's surface, 30 g of Aqua Coastal Shock per 10,000 L of pool water, or as needed. NOTE: Hot weather, heavy pool usage, and rain may require higher usage rates to maintain proper chlorine residuals.
Super chlorinate weekly using 150 g of Aqua Coastal Shock per 10,000 L of pool water when average daily temperature is 25ºC - 32ºC. Otherwise, superchlorinate every other week.
For visible algae, superchlorinate using 350 g of Aqua Coastal Shock per 10,000 L of pool water. Heavy algae infestation may require dosages up to 500 g per 10,000 L. Vacuum pool when dead algae settles. NOTE: For outdoor pools, chlorine residuals can be protected from destruction by sun's rays by addition of stabilizer (cyanuric acid).
Strong oxidizing agent. May cause fire or explosion if contaminated.
Rinse the container thoroughly before discarding.
For information on the disposal of unused, unwanted product and the cleanup of spills, contact your municipality, provincial Ministry of Environment or the regional office of Environment Canada.


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\section{Introduction}
\label{intro}

A five-year international design study called Future Circular Collider (FCC) has been launched by CERN in February 2014~\cite{FCCkickoff}.
The main goal is a hadron collider with a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt s$ of the order of 100~TeV for pp collisions in a new 80--100~km tunnel in the Geneva area.
The target start of operation would be 2035--40.
Operating such machine with heavy ions is an option that is being considered in the accelerator design studies.

For a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{\rm pp}}= 100$~TeV for pp collisions, the relation $\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}}= \sqrt {s_{\rm pp}} \sqrt{Z_1 Z_2 / A_1 A_2}$
gives the energy in centre-of-mass per nucleon--nucleon collision of $\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}} = 39$~TeV for Pb--Pb ($Z=82$, $A=208$) and 63~TeV for p--Pb collisions.
The rapidities of the proton and Pb beams are 11.6 and 10.6, respectively.
A first conservative estimate of the integrated luminosity for Pb--Pb collisions is of about 5~nb$^{-1}$ per month of running~\cite{schaumann}, that is about five times larger than
the current projection for the future LHC runs~\cite{rliup}.

The increased centre-of-mass energy and luminosity with respect to the LHC open new opportunities. Here, we present first general considerations on the following topics:
\begin{itemize}
\item high-density QCD and Quark--Gluon Plasma (QGP) in the final state of heavy-ion collisions (section~\ref{sec:QGP});
\item high-density QCD and gluon saturation in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions (section~\ref{sec:saturation});
\item photon-induced collisions and connections with cosmic-ray physics (section~\ref{sec:others}).
\end{itemize}
More details can be found in~\cite{DaineseKickoff}.

\vspace{-3mm}

\section{Study of the hot and dense Quark-Gluon Plasma in the final state of heavy-ion collisions}
\label{sec:QGP}

The QGP state produced in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}}=39$~TeV is expected to have larger volume, lifetime, energy density and temperature
than at the top LHC energy. These properties can be estimated by extrapolating the measurements of global event characteristics
at lower energies ---namely: the charged particle multiplicity, the transverse energy and the parameters extracted from Bose-Einstein (BE) correlations~\cite{extrap}.
To this purpose, the following parametrizations were used:
${\rm d}N_{\rm ch}/{\rm d}\eta$ at $\eta=0$ $\propto (\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}})^{0.3}$;
total $N_{\rm ch} \propto 0.512\,  (\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}})^{0.3} \ln s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN} + 1.962$, with $\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}}$ in GeV;
${\rm d}E_{\rm T}/{\rm d}\eta$ at $\eta=0$ $\propto 0.46\,(\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}})^{0.4}$;
BE homogeneity volume $\propto {\rm d}N_{\rm ch}/{\rm d}\eta$;
BE decoupling time $\propto ({\rm d}N_{\rm ch}/{\rm d}\eta)^{1/3}$.

The results are reported in Table~\ref{tab:PbPb} for central Pb--Pb collisions (0--5\%). The charged-particle multiplicity is expected to increase by
about a factor of two from top LHC to FCC energy. The volume and lifetime of the system are expected to increase by a factor of two and by 20\%,
respectively.  These factors are confirmed by a full hydro-dynamical simulation with input parameters shear-viscosity-over-entropy-density
ratio $\eta/s=1/4\pi$ and initial temperature such that the final ${\rm d}N_{\rm ch}/{\rm d}\eta$ is 3600~\cite{Florchinger}.
The space-time profile of the freeze-out volume is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:freezeout} (left). The length of the arrows
represents the strength of the radial flow field: a substantial increase can be seen.
The larger final volume and stronger flow field suggest that the collective effects would be enhanced. In addition, the two-fold larger multiplicity
may open the possibility to carry out flow measurements on an event-by-event basis.

\vspace{-1mm}

\begin{table}[h]
\caption{Global properties measured in central Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}}=2.76$~TeV and extrapolated to 5.5 and 39~TeV.
Note that the values measured at 2.76~TeV are reported without experimental uncertainties and are intended for comparison only.}
\small
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
\hline
Quantity & Pb--Pb 2.76~TeV & Pb--Pb 5.5~TeV & Pb--Pb 39~TeV \\
\hline
${\rm d}N_{\rm ch}/{\rm d}\eta$ at $\eta=0$ & 1600 & 2000 & 3600 \\
Total $N_{\rm ch}$ & 17000 & 23000 & 50000 \\
${\rm d}E_{\rm T}/{\rm d}\eta$ at $\eta=0$ & 2~TeV & 2.6~TeV & 5.8~TeV \\
BE homogeneity volume $$ & 5000~fm$^3$  & 6200~fm$^3$ & 11000~fm$^3$ \\
BE decoupling time & 10~fm/$c$ &  11~fm/$c$ & 13~fm/$c$ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\label{tab:PbPb}
\end{table}

The Bjorken expression $\varepsilon(t) = \frac{1}{c\, t} \frac{1}{\pi R_A^2} {\rm d}E_{\rm T}/{\rm d}\eta$ estimates the time-dependent
energy density of the system starting from the measured transverse energy.
Then, the Stefan-Boltzmann relation provides an estimate of the
temperature evolution of the system:
$T(t)= [\varepsilon(t)\,(30/\pi^2)/n_{\rm d.o.f.}]^{1/4}$, where $n_{\rm d.o.f.}=47.5$ is the number of degrees of freedom for a system with gluons and three quark flavours.
The energy density increases by a factor of two from LHC to FCC, reaching for example a value of 35~GeV/fm$^3$ at 1~fm/$c$. Figure~\ref{fig:freezeout} (right) shows
the time-dependence of the estimated temperature for top LHC and for FCC energy.  The increase, at given time, is modest, but the thermalization time of the system
(initial time of the QGP evolution) can be expected to be smaller at FCC than at LHC, where it is usually taken as $\tau_0=0.1$~fm/$c$. If the thermalization time
is significantly lower than 0.1~fm/$c$, the initial temperature could be as large as $T_0\approx800$~MeV.

An interesting consequence of the increase in the temperature of the system could be a sizeable production of secondary charm-anticharm ($\rm c\overline c$) pairs from partonic
interactions during the hydrodynamical evolution of the system.
Calculations for top LHC energy indicate that this secondary production a) can become of the same order of the initial production in hard scattering processes
and b) it is very sensitive to the initial temperature and temperature evolution of the QGP~\cite{uphoff,ko}. As an example, Fig.~\ref{fig:charm} (left) shows the time evolution of the
number of $\rm c\overline c$ pairs per unit of rapidity at central rapidity (the value at $t=0$ represents the production from hard scattering). The secondary charm production would yield an enhancement of charmed hadron
production in the very-low-$p_{\rm T}$ region, with respect to the expectation from binary scaling of the production in pp collisions. This enhancement potentially provides a handle on the
temperature of the QGP. In addition, the abundance of charm quarks in the QGP is expected to have an effect on its equation of the state: lattice QCD calculations show a sizeable
increase of $P/T^4$ (which is proportional to the number of degrees of freedom) when the charm quark is included and the system temperature is larger than about 400~MeV~\cite{ratti}.

The larger energy and luminosities will make new, rarer, hard probes available.
Figure~\ref{fig:charm} (right) shows the energy dependence of a selection of hard cross sections computed at NLO accuracy with the MCFM code~\cite{mcfm},
normalised to their value at 5.5~TeV: the cross sections for
top, Z$^0$+$1\,{\rm Jet}\,(p_{\rm T}>50~{\rm GeV}/c)$, bottom and Z$^0$ increase by factors 80, 20, 8 and 7, respectively.
In the following, we give an example of the very large statistics that could be obtained for currently unexplored observables, like top pair production.
Starting from the projections made by the CMS Collaboration for future LHC runs~\cite{CMStop}, we have estimated that an experiment at FCC could record about $2.5\cdot 10^4$ events with the topology  ${\rm t\overline t\to b\overline b }+ \ell^+\ell^- + E_{\rm T}^{\rm missing}$
fully reconstructed using a Pb--Pb sample with integrated luminosity of $5~{\rm nb^{-1}}$.

\begin{figure}[!t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.41\textwidth]{Freezeout.pdf}
\hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.38\textwidth]{Temperature.pdf}
\caption{Left: space-time profile of the freeze-out volume from a hydro-dynamic simulation of central Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}}=5.5$~TeV and 39~TeV~\cite{Florchinger}.
Right: time dependence of the QGP temperature,  obtained using the Stefan-Boltzmann relation between energy density and temperature and the Bjorken estimate of the energy density (see text for details).}
\label{fig:freezeout}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth,height=4.5cm]{charmko.pdf}
\hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.40\textwidth]{crosssectionratios.pdf}
\caption{Left: time-evolution of the charm-anticharm yield (per unit of rapidity at central rapidity) for central Pb--Pb collisions
at $\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}}=5.5$~TeV~\cite{ko}.
Right: hard scattering cross sections for various processes as a function of centre-of-mass energy, obtained at NLO with the MCFM code~\cite{mcfm}, normalised to their value at 5.5~TeV.}
\label{fig:charm}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\vspace{-3mm}

\section{Study of the saturation of the gluon density in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions}
\label{sec:saturation}

Proton--nucleus, nucleus--nucleus and electron--nucleus collisions at very high energy provide a unique opportunity to study the dynamics of high-density gluon densities in the initial
nuclear state. The increase of the gluon density towards low virtuality $Q^2$ and low momentum fraction $x$ is expected to be at some point tamed by
a saturation effect (see e.g.\,\cite{Albacete:2014fwa} for a recent review).
When density becomes large, the dilute linear evolution of parton densities must break down and non-linear terms have to be considered.
Such non-linear
terms describe merging processes of the type $gg\to g$ that balance the growth of the gluon density given by the splitting processes of the type $g\to gg$.
Saturation effects become sizeable in processes with virtualities smaller than a few times the saturation scale $Q^2_{\rm sat}$,
which is estimated to scale as $Q^2_{\rm sat}\sim A^{1/3}/x^{1/3}\sim A^{1/3}(\sqrt s\, {\rm e}^{+y})^{1/3}$ ($A$ is the mass number of the nucleus).
The saturation scale can be increased (thus making its effects more prominent) by increasing $\sqrt s$, by using large nuclei instead of protons and by
measuring at large rapidity $y$.
Figure~\ref{fig:smallx} (left) shows the kinematic coverage of the $(x,Q^2)$ plane with p--Pb collisions at top LHC ($\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}}=8.8$~TeV) and FCC (63~TeV) energies.
The constant-rapidity lines from 0 (right) to 6.6 (left) and
an estimation of the $x$-dependence of the saturation scale for Pb nuclei are also shown.
The FCC extends the coverage by almost one order of magnitude at low $x$, down to $\sim 10^{-7}$. The access is extended down to $10^{-6}$ even in the region $Q^2>10~$GeV$^2$,
which can be explored with probes, like heavy quarks and charmonium, that are perturbatively calculable, thus under more robust theoretical control.

\begin{figure}[!t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.37\textwidth]{Q2x_FHC_pA.pdf}
\hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.40\textwidth]{Q2x_UPC_2.pdf}
\caption{Kinematic coverage in the $(x,Q^2)$ plane. Left: coverage for p--Pb collisions at RHIC, LHC and FCC energies, computed as  $x(y,Q^2) =  Q\cdot {\rm e}^{-y} / \sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle NN}}$;
Constant-rapidity lines and an estimation of the saturation scale for Pb nuclei are shown.
 Right: coverage
for quarkonium production in ultra-peripheral collisions at LHC and FCC energies (horizontal bars), compared with existing data on nuclear DIS and Drell-Yan.}
\label{fig:smallx}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\vspace{-3mm}

\section{Photon-induced collisions and connection with cosmic-ray physics}
\label{sec:others}

Charged hadrons accelerated at very high energies generate strong electromagnetic fields,
equivalent to a flux of quasi-real photons, which can be used to study high-energy $\gamma$--$\gamma$,
$\gamma$--p and $\gamma$--A processes in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) where the colliding systems
pass close to each other without interacting hadronically. As shown in the right panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:smallx},
the small-$x$ coverage would be strongly enhanced at FCC energies
also in the sector of ultra-peripheral Pb--Pb and p--Pb collisions. In this case, quarkonium production
probes the gluon densities at $x$ values down to $10^{-7}$, that is more than two orders of magnitude lower than at LHC energy.

Cosmic-ray showers are initiated by proton--nucleus and nucleus--nucleus collisions in the upper atmosphere (mainly p--N and Fe--N).
High-energy nucleus--nucleus collisions provide important information for the understanding of these primary interactions and
for the
tuning of the hadronic Monte Carlo generators used to determine the energy and identity of the
incoming cosmic ray~\cite{uhecr}.
Pb--Pb collisions at the LHC are equivalent to primary cosmic-ray interactions with incoming nucleus energy of a few $10^{16}$~eV, which is about three orders
of magnitude lower than that of the highest observed cosmic rays energies. Pb--Pb collisions at the FCC would correspond to
a primary cosmic-ray interaction energy of a few $10^{18}$~eV, thus reducing to only one order of magnitude the
extrapolation to the highest energies observed on Earth at the so-called GZK cutoff.

\vspace{-5mm}

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Q: AWS CLI v2 ignoring --profile when AWS_PROFILE set I have my ~/.aws/credentials file with a predefined profile (foo) in it:
[foo]
aws_access_key_id = <MY_KEY_ID>
aws_secret_access_key = <MY_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>

I have my AWS_PROFILE set to a different value (bar):
$ echo $AWS_PROFILE
bar

Now when I go to run an aws command I specify the profile using the --profile option, but AWS CLI is still trying to use the profile specified as AWS_PROFILE:
$ aws ecr get-login-password --region=us-west-1 --profile=foo
The config profile (bar) could not be found

I'm pretty sure the --profile parameter is supposed to override the env var, so can anyone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong?
EDIT: Further info
Adding an entry to my config file doesn't fix the problem:
[profile foo]
region = us-east-1
source_profile = foo

Also, --profile works perfectly if the AWS_PROFILE env var is unset, even without the entry in the config file:
$ unset AWS_PROFILE
$ aws ecr get-login-password --region=us-west-1 --profile=foo
eyJwY...1fQ==

A: I think .aws/config is missing or does not have profile for foo.
Example content could be as follows:
.aws/config
[profile foo]
region = us-east-1

A: It turns out this is because AWS_PROFILE is set to an invalid value, and apparently this causes it to be prioritised above the --profile option. So:
$ unset AWS_PROFILE
$ aws configure list-profiles
default
user1
$ export AWS_PROFILE=user1
$ aws configure list-profiles --profile=default
default
user1
$ export AWS_PROFILE=user2
$ aws configure list-profiles --profile=default --debug

The config profile (user2) could not be found

This seems like a bug so I've opened a ticket here.
The current workaround I'm using is to set AWS_PROFILE at the start of the command:
AWS_PROFILE=foo aws ecr get-login-password --region=us-west-1


In turn, Laura and her cat Daisy narrate their adventures to us, each in her own particular way. Between nearly constant moves and frequent burglaries, however, there exists a stability in the turbulent life of these two: the affection that unifies them.
In turn, Laura and her cat Daisy narrate their adventures to us, each in her own particular way. Between nearly constant moves and frequent burglaries, however, there exists a stability in the turbulent life of these two: the affection that unifies them. Those who own a cat are going to love and recognize many of the same qualities. For Linda Adnil-Vranken, no doubt, the behavior and the state of mind of an animal reflects the psyche of the master ... and she proves it by alternating Laura's impressions and Daisy's perceptions about the life they lead together. This is a tender and sensitive story.


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Banzuiin Chōbei was a historical street tough or otokodate (street knight) who, according to later fictionalised portrayals of his life in literature and drama, fought against injustices, to protect the common people from the abuses of the samurai aristocracy.
Born in Karatsu as Tsukamoto Itarō, he established himself in the Asakusa district, leading a band of machi-yakko (early yakuza) and founded an employment agency for rōnin. Trained as a warrior, he was renowned for his swordsmanship. In Asakusa, Chōbei led a kumi (group or gang) opposing the hatamoto-yakko seeking to control the area's markets. Finally, history tells us he was eventually killed by said hatamoto Mizuno Jūrozaemon.
The Last Days of Banzuiin Chōbei is a dramatic scene from a kabuki drama about his final days. His enemy, the samurai Jūrozaemon, attacks him while at a bathhouse and without his weapons lunging at Chōbei with his spear, while another attacker thrusts with his sword. With an angry grimace, Chōbei pushes away the handle of the spear while defending himself with a makeshift weapon against the katana. Unable to kill him in combat, his enemies lock the doors setting the bathhouse alight ending the life of this Japanese folk hero.
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Reading diary, #2
Most of the reading I've been doing over the past month or so has been dipping into research books as I wrangle Apollo Quartet 4 into shape. (Not long now. Honest.) So there's not been that much of yer actual reading of fiction. Except for, well, the following…
The Luck of Brin's Five, Cherry Wilder (1977). I read this for SF Mistressworks. My review is here.
Dan Dare: A Biography, Daniel Tatarsky (2010). Back in the late 1970s, my parents bought me a Hamlyn anthology of Dan Dare stories one Christmas, containing 'The Red Moon Mystery' and 'Safari in Space', both of which remain my favourite Dare stories. Several years ago, I collected the full set of Hawk Publishing Dan Dare reprints (see here). So when a "biography" of Dare was published a couple of years ago, I picked up a copy. And… it's not very good. The book tells the story of Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson, and how Eagle was begun. But the writing throughout is terrible, and I spotted several inaccuracies (on things not related to Eagle, to be fair). There are some nice colour plates, particularly of the mock-ups of the first issue, and a useful appendix giving plot summaries of all the Dan Dare stories published in Eagle. But there are better books about Hampson, and reading about Dan Dare is no substitute for reading the actual Dan Dare comic strips.
What The Doctor Ordered, Michael Blumlein (2013). I've been a fan of Blumlein's fiction since first reading him in Interzone back in the 1980s. Unfortunately, he has not been exactly prolific – three novels to date, and What The Doctor Ordered is only his second collection after 1990's The Brains of Rats. Which doesn't mean there aren't a few stories still uncollected. What The Doctor Ordered collects fourteen stories, dating from 1997 to 2012, and originally appearing in a variety of venues, such as F&SF, Asimov's, Flurb and a handful of original anthologies, mostly horror or dark fantasy. The one thing I'd forgotten during all the years I'd not read Blumlein was how bloody good he is. His three novels are all too different to really get a handle on him as a novel writer. But his short fiction really is very, very good. Best story in here is 'Isostasy', although 'The Roberts' is also excellent. Blumlein's fiction is unsettling in ways that I think few authors manage to be. His prose is clinical and sharp, and he paints realistic pictures… into which he drops something fantastical that nonetheless manages to fit in. And then he twists it in ways that makes it seem all the more uncomfortable. One of the best collections I've read in recent years.
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood (1988). The narrator of this novel is a middle-aged artist, Elaine, who has returned to Toronto to attend a retrospective of her career. This triggers a series of long extended flashback sequences, in which she remembers her childhood in the city, particularly her friendship with three schoolfriends, one of whom was a cruel bully; but she also remembers her college years and her early years as an artist. That bullying schoolfriend, Cordelia, haunts Elaine, even in the present – although the tables did eventually turn, and while Elaine never bullied Cordelia to the extent she was bullied herself, Elaine does recount how Cordelia unravelled over the years and eventually ended up in a sanatorium. If Cordelia's decline is signposted throughout the novel, then I missed most of it, though her fall as an ironic mirror image of Elaine's rise to success did seem a little too obvious. Cat's Eye was a surprisingly easy read, and if the early chapters, detailing Elaine's childhood, were a little grim and hard to take in places, there was plenty more in the novel to balance them. Worth reading.
Cautionary Tales, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1978). Another book read for review on SF Mistressworks. My review is here.
A Division Of The Spoils, Paul Scott (1974). The fourth book of the Raj Quartet, and the war is over in Europe, the Americans have dropped their atom bombs, but there is still Malaysia to be taken back from the Japanese. In India, demission of power from the UK is a certainty – the socialist government back home are focusing on domestic issues, and are not interested in Empire. This novel introduces Guy Perron, played by Charles Dance in the TV adaptation (and probably the character most remembered after Timothy Piggot-Smith's Ronald Merrick), who despite his privileged background has managed to stay a sergeant throughout the war. He meets Merrick, who is now a major dealing with the Indian army deserters who joined the Germans and Japanese, and is detached to his staff. Through Merrick, he also meets Sarah Layton, whose narrative figured prominently in both The Day Of The Scorpion and The Towers Of Silence. Also prominent in the narrative is Nigel Rowan, who made a brief appearance in one of the earlier books. Rowan and Perron are old school-mates, as was Hari Kumar – whose false imprisonment as a political detenu by Merrick, who is wrongly convinced Kumar raped Daphne Manners (the events surrounding this form the core of the first book, The Jewel In The Crown). Through Rowan, Perron and the Laytons, Scott examines the route to independence and its effect on Britons living in India, weaving in and out of the plot of the preceding three books as they relate to Perron, Rowan and Sarah Layton (the TV adaptation went for a straight chronological structure, and misses a lot of the books' arguments and subtleties). Scott is quite scathing in his critique of the Raj, and of the British who ruled India. It's not hard to understand why these four books are considered classics, they're certainly amongst the best post-war British literature I've read. I suspect I'll be rereading them again one day.
Alexandro Jodorowsky's Screaming Planet, Alexandro Jodorowsky & various artists (2013). I'm a fan of Jodorowsky's films and bandes dessinée, but I knew nothing about this title when I bought it. Still, Jodorowsky… It proved to be a linked anthology of short pieces, written by Jodorowsk but drawn by a variety of artists, which featured in the relaunched Métal Hurlant. A sentient planet is mistreated by its natives so badly it somehow makes them build an enormous metal head, into which it decants its personality, and which is then blasted into space – this is the "screaming planet". And as it journeys through the cosmos, it passes by other worlds and its presence affects one or more people on those worlds. The story themselves are linked only by the giant head passing in the sky. Some work better than others. This is minor Jodorowsky – although he does confess in an introduction that he is used to working at longer lengths and found writing these "short stories" challenging.
Categories: book review, books, reading diary 2015 | Tags: alejandro jodorowsky, chelsea quinn yarbro, cherry wilder, dan dare, margaret atwood, michael blumlein, paul scott | Permalink.
A weight of words
Yes, I know ebooks are a thing, and if I bought them my bookshelves – or indeed the floors of my flat – would not be groaning beneath the weight of so many hardbacks and paperbacks. But there's something much more satisfying in owning a physical book, just as there is in the actual physical act of reading one. Plus, of course, I wouldn't be able to do posts such as this one if I bought only ebooks…
Another book for my postwar British women writers challenge – I'd enjoyed Jameson's A Month Soon Goes, so I picked up a copy of The Road from the Monument. The Race is Allan's first novel, and quite a few people are talking about it. The Luck of Brin's Five and Cautionary Tales are both for SF Mistressworks and were bought from Porcupine Books.
I finally managed to track down a hardback copy of Resplendent, so now I have the set. I've read the first two – I quite liked Coalescent, but was disappointed by Exultant. I was disappointed by Proxima too, but nonetheless I bought the sequel, Ultima. And I've long been a fan of Frank Herbert's fiction, and while I probably have most of the contents of The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert in other collections, I fancied a copy of it.
Both of these were bought for research for Apollo Quartet 4, although they'll also join the Space Books collection. The Cape is a trashy novel about astronauts, by possibly the worst writer ever to have been published, Martin Caidin. And Stu Roosa, the subject of Smoke Jumper, Moon Pilot, was the CMP on Apollo 14, and also a member of the Group 5 astronauts selected in 1966.
A pair of paperbacks – Octopussy & The Living Daylights because I've been working my way through the 007 books because I've no idea; and Mortal Engines because I've decided Lem is an author I should read more by.
Some non-fiction. Sibilant Fricative I won in the Strange Horizons fund drive draw. Galactic Suburbia I'm using for research for Apollo Quartet 4. And I already have a first edition of A Mouthful of Air, but this new copy is signed (and it was surprisingly cheap too).
Finally, a selection of first editions. A Man Lies Dreaming, which I think I might have seen mentioned on Twitter recently once or twice; January Window, the first in the Scott Manson series by the author of the Bernie Gunther novels; Betrayals, which features a superb pastiche of both Taggart and Jeffrey Archer, and I really want all of Palliser's books in hardback; and a lovely slipcased Kerosina book, The Road to Paradise, a mainstream novel, which comes packaged with a short travel book, Irish Encounters.
Categories: book haul, books | Tags: adam roberts, anthony burgess, charles palliser, chelsea quinn yarbro, cherry wilder, frank herbert, ian fleming, keith roberts, lavie tidhar, lisa yaszek, martin caidin, nina allan, philip kerr, stanisław lem, stephen baxter, storm jameson, stuart roosa | Permalink.


Under which sections of the Income Tax Act can tax benefits for investing in mutual fund units be claimed?
Read to know the sections under which tax benefits for investing in mutual fund units be claimed.
Dividend income from MF units is exempt from income tax with effect from July 1, 1999.
Investors can claim tax rebate under section 88 of Income Tax Act, 1961 with investments in Equity Linked Saving Schemes (ELSS). Tax benefits will also be available under section 54EA and 54EB with regard to relief from long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax in specific schemes.


Tracking and recording tool for advising and counseling professionals.
Journaling allows everyone involved to document what has occurred with a student and allows individuals to communicate information about students to each other. Sharing this information allows each individual to build on the work of another, make interactions as seamless as possible, and support the student with the most accurate information.