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(H.R. 1255) Legislation which provided that if the Senate failed to pass a bill funding the federal government through September 2011, a House-passed government funding bill would be "deemed" current law – On the resolution setting a time limit for debate and prohibiting amendments to the underlying bill
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This was a vote on a resolution setting a time limit for debate and prohibiting amendments to legislation which provided that if the Senate failed to pass a bill (by April 6, 2011) funding the federal government through September 2011, a House-passed government funding bill would be "deemed" current law.
In February, the House of Representatives passed legislation funding the federal government through September 2011 and cutting $61 billion from federal programs. The Democratic-controlled Senate had rejected that legislation. In addition, President Obama had threatened to veto it. In response, the Republican-controlled House drafted a bill—known as H.R. 1255—that would "deem" the House government-funding bill to have been enacted if the Senate failed to pass a government funding measure. In addition, H.R. 1255 barred members of Congress from receiving paychecks during a government shutdown.
Democrats argued that legislation in which the House "deemed" a bill that had never passed the Senate to be the law of the land was blatantly unconstitutional. Republicans contended that, since the underlying bill (H.R. 1255) would have to be passed by the Senate in order for the government-funding bill (H.R. 1) to become law, the H.R. 1255 was constitutional. The Washington Post's Felicia Sonmez explained:
… If the Senate were to pass H.R. 1255 (and if the president were to sign it), the Senate would be determining its own rules for how H.R. 1 would become law (i.e., by the Senate not passing its own funding bill by April 6). So, that would be in accordance with the Constitution, the House Republicans' argument goes.
In order for H.R. 1255 -- the measure stating that H.R. 1 can become law through only a vote of the House -- to become law, H.R. 1255 would have to pass both the House and the Senate and be signed by the president.
Nothing will happen if H.R. 1255 is only taken up by the House and not the Senate.
What it all boils down to is that the provision calling for H.R. 1 to become the "law of the land" (as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) termed it Wednesday) is moot unless the new measure is approved by both the Senate and the president — an unlikely prospect.
Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) urged support for the resolution and the underlying bill: "We have a crisis on our hands: unsustainable deficits as far as the eye can see, a national debt nearing statutory limitation, and overreaching government bureaucracy intruding into the lives and businesses of every sector of society, people struggling to find work so they can pursue the American Dream. And… they've [the American public] elected this Congress to face our nation's toughest issues head-on, and that's what House Republicans have been doing [in passing this bill]."
Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) argued: "I encourage my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule and in favor of the underlying legislation so that we will be able to take an unpleasant situation, ensure that the government doesn't shut down a week from today, and ensure that we can get back to the work that we're supposed to be doing this year…"
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) opposed the resolution and the underlying bill: "This bill would not only have no practical effect, it's not even remotely constitutional. If my friends on the other side of the aisle want to put out a press release or issue a series of talking points, hey, it's a free country. But to waste the time of the House on something this ridiculous is an insult to the American people. We should be talking about jobs and the economy, not debating silliness that is supposed to appeal to the GOP's right-wing base….what this bill says is that if the Senate hasn't passed a continuing resolution by April 6, then H.R. 1 would be deemed as passed by the Senate, signed by the President, and enacted into law. You have got to be kidding me…If this is the new standard that the Republicans are going to use, I have a few ideas of my own. I would like to introduce a bill that says that the House deems the Red Sox to have won the 2011 World Series. It wouldn't mean anything. It wouldn't be constitutional. But it sure would be popular in Massachusetts."
The House agreed to this resolution by a vote of 229-187. Voting "yea" were 229 Republicans. All 186 Democrats present and 1 Republican voted "nay." As a result, the House proceeded to formal floor debate on legislation which provided that if the Senate failed to pass a bill funding the federal government through September 2011, a House-passed government funding bill would be "deemed" current law.
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TRADE-AFRICA: Growth Depends on Access to Market, Not Aid
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 6 2003 (IPS) - As the next round of trade talks gets underway in Cancun, Mexico next month, it has emerged that Africa would benefit far more from the better access to the European Union and the United States markets than it does from aid.
The Economic Commission for Africa, a United Nations sub-agency, last week released its fourth Economic Report for Africa, dedicating it to plotting the path to "accelerated development". A key instrument for development is the dismantling of trade subsidies, said the author Patrick Aseah.
"Abolishing OECD (the organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) agricultural subsidies would provide developing countries with three times their current overseas development assistance (aid) receipts. The elimination of all tariff and non-tariff barriers could result in static gains for developing countries of around 182 billion U.S. dollars services; 162 billion U.S. dollars in manufactured goods and 32 billion U.S. dollars in agriculture," says the report which also criticises the United States' farm bill passed in 2002.
"…the U.S. decision to introduce a six-year 51.7-billion-U.S.-dollar farm bill boosting crop and dairy subsidies will reduce agricultural prices, making it difficult for small African countries to compete," it says.
Mozambique, for example, could offer its people much sweeter fruits if it could increase its sugar exports, said the country's agriculture minister, Helder Muteia this week.
But this will depend on Europe improving the country's duty free quota to the European Union. Every year, Mozambique can export 8,000 tonnes of sugar duty-free into Europe, but better weather and improvements in sugar production, means it is now a net exporter. The ECA report says the country has the potential to export 428,000 tonnes of sugar annually.
Overall, the report found that growth on the continent slowed to 3.2 percent last year, from 4.3 percent the previous year. But as the global economy picks up, the report predicts that growth will again grow beyond four percent this year. Boosting growth prospects are moves toward conflict resolution in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in Angola, but the authors are concerned about the "contagion effect" of the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe and the war in Liberia.
Only five countries achieved the seven percent growth necessary to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals for improved development in the fields of education, nutrition and the advancement of young girls, among others. "The slowdown in regional (African) growth is also due to slower growth in four of the five largest economies in the region: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Nigeria," says the report.
Economist Asgar Adelzadeh of the UN Development Programme says growth is not the only measure that needs to be taken into account. "The quality of growth is what is important. It has to be job-creating and distributional in order to ensure that Africa begins to meet the Millennium Development Goals."
The goals are set by the United Nations and are an effort to meet a set of development targets by 2015 which could halve poverty.
The weather and disease also dragged down growth. HIV/AIDS is reversing economic gains made in the early 1990 as the disease reaches its killing phase, while tuberculosis and malaria remain maladies that strip gross domestic product every year.
Conversely, three of Zimbabwe's neighbours – Botswana, Namibia and South Africa – ranked with Mauritius and Tunisia as the star performers, both for economic management and for putting in place pro-poor policies.
The ECA's economic policy stance index, which ranks each of the 53 countries on the continent, is a method of peer review that will be used by the six panellists who next month begin the New Partnership for Africa's Development check of political and economic governance.
Countries are ranked on factors including: public budgets; an independent central bank and commercial justice system; a national development plan and a medium-term budget.
The ECA also adds points for factors like privatisation and for market liberalisation. The United Nations blames stuttering privatisation for slower growth, but African civil society opposes the sell-off of public assets because it reduces the role of the state in development. Instead, the ECA report punts more private-public partnerships, where the business sector enters into pacts with governments to deliver services and absorb the financial risk of an initial outlay.
Adelzadeh also believes the distribution of income is an important measure that should be included. "At the moment, a lot of growth in developing economies is leading to a concentration of wealth."
In South Africa, sustained though, moderate growth spurts have not resulted in income redistribution. Over one in three working adults earn less than R6000 (800 U.S. dollars) a year. It is a pattern repeated in other African economies held up as role models.
At a macro-economic level, the report found many governments still profligate spenders, but said that where countries like Mauritius which were running up deficits exceeding five percent for improved education were making a good investment.
Economists have warned against low-deficit chasing for the sake of it. Keeping deficits unsustainably low can crowd out social spending. Nigeria, however, got a thumbs-down for busting its deficit to spend ahead of last year's general election.
What is clear from the report, the fourth annual report, is that Africa must also increasingly chart her own path and reduce dependence on aid.
The figures are staggering: Mozambique, though the fastest grower, funds 70 percent of its fiscus from aid; Uganda is 50 percent aid dependent while Rwanda is 60 percent dependent. "There is mounting evidence that aid in large quantities is a double-edged sword," says the report, "initially helping but eventually weakening a country's economic performance."
Aid crowds out private investment, a necessary factor for securing the seven percent growth rate needed for decent levels of development. And the report came out strongly against incoherent and inconsistent aid policies among many donor countries.
There was a silver lining among the clouds that are scattered across the report's prognosis of the African economy. While foreign direct investment (fdi) has suffered, the continent has been less buffeted by the Sept.11 storm and the war on Iraq than anticipated.
Rising commodity prices – including those of gold and oil – have given a fillip to producer economies; while tourists have found safe and cheap havens on Mauritian beaches and in South African game parks.
"Between 1990 and 2000, tourism in Africa grew at an annual rate of 6.2 percent, well above the world average of 4.3 percent," it says.
In addition, more countries are expected to benefit from the debt relief programme of the World Bank called the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, freeing up funds for social spending.
In addition, enhanced debt relief should staunch crippling capital flight, which is currently equivalent to sub-Saharan Africa's GDP. Information on 30 countries computed over the past 27 years (ending 1996) shows that capital flight amounts to 187 billion U.S. dollars, ballooning to 274 billion U.S. dollars if interest is taken into account.

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1964 – Company expands with the purchase of the current 165,000-square-foot Minneapolis plant.
1968 – Additional tube mills were added, bringing the total to four.
1974 – Total of six tube mills now operating daily to meet demand.
1988 – Purchased equipment to provide additional cold draw capacity.
1989 – Installed the first in a series of several process lines.
1995 – Bedford Park Plant was opened in Illinois.
1996 – Received Ford Q1 award.
1998 – Bedford Park facility expanded to 190,000 square feet to meet production demand.
1998 – Certified to ISO9002/QS9000.
2000 – Received grant through the Department of Economic Development.
2004 – Certified to global automotive standard TS16949.
2006 – Began producing driveshaft tubing.
2012 – 245,000-square-foot Middletown plant was purchased in Ohio to satisfy demand for welded, annealed and cold drawn product.
2014 – Middletown plant begins production.


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stored_data=../../collect_twitter_dialogs/official_stored_data

# you need to download tweet ID info to specify the data sets
idfile=official_begin_end_ids.json
idlink=https://www.dropbox.com/s/8lmpu5dfw2hmpys/official_begin_end_ids.json.gz
echo downloading begin/end IDs for extracting data
wget $idlink
gunzip -f ${idfile}.gz

# extract train and dev sets
echo extracting training set
./extract_official_twitter_dialogs.py --data-dir $stored_data --id-file $idfile -t official_account_names_train.txt -o twitter_official_data_train.txt

echo extracting development set
./extract_official_twitter_dialogs.py --data-dir $stored_data --id-file $idfile -t official_account_names_dev.txt -o twitter_official_data_dev.txt

# extract 500 samples from dev set randomly for tentative evaluation
echo extracting test set
./utils/sample_dialogs.py twitter_official_data_dev.txt 500 > twitter_official_data_dev500.txt

echo done

echo checking data size
./utils/check_dialogs.py twitter_official_data_train.txt twitter_official_data_dev.txt

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Q: What's the best way to add cells to gridView? I have a fairly standard content provider + cursorAdapter + gridview setup. The issue is that I need to add 2 cells to one particular gridview in my app. My client's design has the 2 final cells in the grid being "Add from different category" and "Create New". This are "stickers" that are organized into categories. Everywhere else in the app these cells should not show.
My initial thought was to figure out a way to modify the adapter to add these, but I couldn't find a way.
My current thought is to kinda "cheat" the info into the data with the sqlite calls... maybe with a temp table? I'm sure I could do this given enough time, but I'm under the gun so instead of wasting a lot of time I thought I would ask here if anyone knows the best way to do this?
TL;DR
What is the best/easiest way to add static cells to a CursorAdapter backed gridView?

P.S. This is such a generic question I didn't think code was needed, but if you can think of any that would help please ask!

A: Here's how I did it:
@Override
public void onLoadFinished(Loader<Cursor> loader, Cursor data) {

    //add static fields
    MatrixCursor extras = new MatrixCursor(ObjectDao.getAllCollumns());
    extras.addRow(new String[] { "-1","0","0","0","","","","", "Add Existing","1","0","-1","-1" });
    extras.addRow(new String[] { "-2","0","0","0","","","","", "Add New","1","0","-1","-2" });
    Cursor[] cursors = { data, extras };

    if (adapter != null) {
        adapter.swapCursor(new MergeCursor(cursors));
    }
}

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On Friday, February 24th, we took a short field trip over to the High School for the FFA Petting Zoo. The children were able to pet a calf, a horse, rabbits, a goat, dogs, piglets, and chicks. They were also able to climb aboard a tractor. The children had a wonderful time!


Hi! After such a long time, finally I decided to update my blog and make the newest review. This time is for Sari Ayu Inspirasi Gili Lombok Eyeshadow. As you already know, Sari Ayu is one of many brand from Martha Tilaar, local brand from Indonesia which has a lot of high quality make up and skincare.
Hai! Setelah sekian lama bertapa, akhirnya aku memutuskan untuk kembali membuat review terbaru yaitu Eyeshadow Sari Ayu Inspirasi Gili Lombok. Seperti yang kalian tahu, Sari Ayu ini salah satu brand keluaran dari Martha Tilaar, sebuah brand lokal Indonesia yang kualitasnya tidak perlu kalian ragukan.
For you all who had know me from a long time will understand that I always love shimmery eyeshadow, yes, even for daily life I would like to use shimmery eyeshadow. So, well... forgive me. Sari Ayu Inspirasi Gili Lombok Eyeshadow has shimmery colors, I mean, all of the colors are shimmery. This is sooo me.
You will got one dual applicator like this. One side is kind of sponge applicator that you've known, and the other side is for blending the eyshadow.
Kalian akan mendapatkan dual applicator seperti di foto, satu sisi berupa aplikator sponge yang biasanya ada di eyeshadow, dan satu lagi untuk blending.
These are the swatches from yellow to black. I used Viva Eye Base Gel for the top part, and no base for the bottom part.
Ini adalah swatch nya dari warna kuning ke hitam. Aku memakai Viva Eye Base Gel buat swatch bagian atas dan tidak memakai base apapun untuk swatch bagian bawah.
As you can see, the colors are so pigmented. Even without eye base, the colors still come out prettily. But be careful, this eyeshadow has quite a lot of fall out. But actually I don't really care about that, We can always fix that, right? Haha~ For me, this eyeshadow lasts long enough without creasing.
So from my overall review, I made some points for my conclusion.


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Christy Zakarias (born 19 July 1998; 23 years old), also known as Christy Zee, is an Indonesian humanitarian public figure from Bekasi, Indonesia. She was the first Indonesian to receive the International Diana Memorial Award in 2013. Zakarias was awarded by former British Prime Minister David Cameron and British diplomat Mark Canning for co-founding and leading Riveria, a charity that teaches underprivileged Indonesian children English, when she was an eighth grader.

Zakarias graduated from high school as a valedictorian from Sinarmas World Academy (SWA) in 2015. She then received a BSc with honours in Neuroscience from University College London (UCL) in 2018. Also a budding music producer, Zakarias has worked with artists such as Dua Lipa, Conor Maynard, and Cheat Codes in the past under the pen name "Zee" as a ghostwriter/songwriter for Universal Music Group Global.

Discography

Songwriting Credits
 "Call Me Out" and "You Say" by Sarah Close
 "By Your Side" by Jonas Blue & RAYE
 "Genesis" by Dua Lipa
 "Streets of Gold" by Isaiah Firebrace
 "Thinking About You" by Alex Aiono
"Enemies" by Lauv

Mixing Credits
 "Grenade" by G.O.A.T
 "This Is My Version" by Conor Maynard
 "Sober" by Cheat Codes & Nicky Romero

Arrangement Credits
 "More" by The Citrus Clouds

References

Indonesian women activists
Humanitarians
Living people
1998 births
21st-century Indonesian women musicians

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Q: Marketing ROI: Modelling media budget impact on first choice, relevant set (over time) I want to analyze a dataset with longitudinal data collected over three years.
Each month n = 200 randomized people (edit: new sample each month) are asked a small set of evaluative questions (brand assessment, first choice, relevant set etc.). Additionally, there are six media budget values (e.g. for TV, social media and so on) collected each month.
Now, ideally I want to create a path model/ SEM which connects the influence of the monthly media budgets and those assessments (incl. model aspects like: brand assessment influences first choice).
However, I'm not sure, how to connect the budgets with the evaluative questions (e.g. like a treatment variable with a fixed value for everyone in the specific month) and how to account for the longitudinal aspect of the data or just use it as pseudo cross sectional data and roll with it?
In the end, the predictive aspect would be interesting: how does a change in budget influences the change of evaluative items (so unstandardized beta would be useful).
Any input and idea how to model this would be great!


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Q: Error while using two EntityManagers simultaneously in GlassFish v2 I have a stateless session bean (slsb) that has a dependency on two other beans that act as DAOs. They both use JPA so each bean has a EntityManager. They point to different persistence units (which in turn are different connection pools to the same database - I don't want to sacrifice this flexibility).
In simple code it looks like this (the names in my application are real names of course):
@Stateless
public class MyBean {
    @EJB
    private Dao1 dao1;

    @EJB
    private Dao2 dao2;
}

@Stateless
public class Dao1 {
    @PersistenceContext(unitName = "unit1")
    private EntityManager em1;
}

@Stateless
public class Dao2 {
    @PersistenceContext(unitName = "unit2")
    private EntityManager em2;
}

When I access methods of both Dao1 and Dao2 in MyBean I invariably get the following error:

SEVERE: Unable to complete container-managed transaction.; nested exception is: javax.transaction.SystemException: org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL: JTS5031: Exception [org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL:   vmcid: 0x0  minor code: 0 completed: Maybe] on Resource [rollback] operation.  vmcid: 0x0  minor code: 0  completed: No
javax.ejb.EJBException: Unable to complete container-managed transaction.; nested exception is: javax.transaction.SystemException: org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL: JTS5031: Exception [org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL:   vmcid: 0x0  minor code: 0 completed: Maybe] on Resource [rollback] operation.  vmcid: 0x0  minor code: 0  completed: No
javax.transaction.SystemException: org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL: JTS5031: Exception [org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL:   vmcid: 0x0  minor code: 0 completed: Maybe] on Resource [rollback] operation.  vmcid: 0x0  minor code: 0  completed: No
    at com.sun.jts.jta.TransactionManagerImpl.commit(TransactionManagerImpl.java:321)
    at com.sun.enterprise.distributedtx.J2EETransactionManagerImpl.commit(J2EETransactionManagerImpl.java:1029)
    at com.sun.enterprise.distributedtx.J2EETransactionManagerOpt.commit(J2EETransactionManagerOpt.java:398)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.completeNewTx(BaseContainer.java:3826)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvokeTx(BaseContainer.java:3605)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvoke(BaseContainer.java:1388)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvoke(BaseContainer.java:1325)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.java:205)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.java:83)
    at $Proxy280.anotherMethod(Unknown Source)
    at com.mycompany.SomeClass.someMethod(SomeClass.java:256)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.InstanceResolverImpl$1.invoke(InstanceResolverImpl.java:112)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.server.InvokerTube$2.invoke(InvokerTube.java:146)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.server.sei.EndpointMethodHandler.invoke(EndpointMethodHandler.java:257)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.server.sei.SEIInvokerTube.processRequest(SEIInvokerTube.java:93)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:595)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:554)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:539)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:436)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.helper.AbstractTubeImpl.process(AbstractTubeImpl.java:106)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.MonitoringPipe.process(MonitoringPipe.java:147)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.helper.PipeAdapter.processRequest(PipeAdapter.java:115)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:595)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:554)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:539)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:436)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.helper.AbstractTubeImpl.process(AbstractTubeImpl.java:106)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.CommonServerSecurityPipe$1.run(CommonServerSecurityPipe.java:236)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.CommonServerSecurityPipe.processRequest(CommonServerSecurityPipe.java:232)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.CommonServerSecurityPipe.process(CommonServerSecurityPipe.java:133)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.helper.PipeAdapter.processRequest(PipeAdapter.java:115)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:595)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:554)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:539)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:436)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.server.WSEndpointImpl$2.process(WSEndpointImpl.java:243)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter$HttpToolkit.handle(HttpAdapter.java:444)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.handle(HttpAdapter.java:244)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.ServletAdapter.handle(ServletAdapter.java:135)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.JAXWSServlet.doPost(JAXWSServlet.java:177)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:754)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor419.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:292)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:325)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:208)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:420)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:315)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:287)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:218)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:648)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:593)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:94)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.invoke(PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.java:98)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:222)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:648)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:593)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:587)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1093)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:166)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:648)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:593)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:587)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1093)
    at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:291)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(DefaultProcessorTask.java:666)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.doProcess(DefaultProcessorTask.java:597)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.process(DefaultProcessorTask.java:872)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.executeProcessorTask(DefaultReadTask.java:341)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:263)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:214)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.TaskBase.run(TaskBase.java:264)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ssl.SSLWorkerThread.run(SSLWorkerThread.java:106)
javax.ejb.EJBException: Unable to complete container-managed transaction.; nested exception is: javax.transaction.SystemException: org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL: JTS5031: Exception [org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL:   vmcid: 0x0  minor code: 0 completed: Maybe] on Resource [rollback] operation.  vmcid: 0x0  minor code: 0  completed: No
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.completeNewTx(BaseContainer.java:3837)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvokeTx(BaseContainer.java:3605)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvoke(BaseContainer.java:1388)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvoke(BaseContainer.java:1325)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.java:205)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.java:83)
    at $Proxy280.anotherMethod(Unknown Source)
    at com.mycompany.SomeClass.someMethod(SomeClass.java:256)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.InstanceResolverImpl$1.invoke(InstanceResolverImpl.java:112)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.server.InvokerTube$2.invoke(InvokerTube.java:146)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.server.sei.EndpointMethodHandler.invoke(EndpointMethodHandler.java:257)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.server.sei.SEIInvokerTube.processRequest(SEIInvokerTube.java:93)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:595)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:554)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:539)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:436)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.helper.AbstractTubeImpl.process(AbstractTubeImpl.java:106)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.MonitoringPipe.process(MonitoringPipe.java:147)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.helper.PipeAdapter.processRequest(PipeAdapter.java:115)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:595)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:554)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:539)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:436)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.helper.AbstractTubeImpl.process(AbstractTubeImpl.java:106)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.CommonServerSecurityPipe$1.run(CommonServerSecurityPipe.java:236)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.CommonServerSecurityPipe.processRequest(CommonServerSecurityPipe.java:232)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.CommonServerSecurityPipe.process(CommonServerSecurityPipe.java:133)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.helper.PipeAdapter.processRequest(PipeAdapter.java:115)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:595)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:554)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:539)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:436)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.server.WSEndpointImpl$2.process(WSEndpointImpl.java:243)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter$HttpToolkit.handle(HttpAdapter.java:444)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.handle(HttpAdapter.java:244)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.ServletAdapter.handle(ServletAdapter.java:135)
    at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.JAXWSServlet.doPost(JAXWSServlet.java:177)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:754)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor419.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:292)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:325)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:208)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:420)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:315)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:287)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:218)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:648)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:593)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:94)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.invoke(PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.java:98)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:222)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:648)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:593)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:587)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1093)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:166)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:648)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:593)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:587)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1093)
    at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:291)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(DefaultProcessorTask.java:666)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.doProcess(DefaultProcessorTask.java:597)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.process(DefaultProcessorTask.java:872)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.executeProcessorTask(DefaultReadTask.java:341)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:263)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:214)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.TaskBase.run(TaskBase.java:264)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ssl.SSLWorkerThread.run(SSLWorkerThread.java:106)

After turning the verbosity of loggers CORBA, EJB Container, JTA and JTS to FINEST the following lines appear directly before the exception:

FINEST: Before invoking before_completion() on synchronization object com.sun.jts.jta.SynchronizationImpl@7a352e18
FINEST: After invoking before_completion() on synchronization object com.sun.jts.jta.SynchronizationImpl@7a352e18
FINEST: Acquiring read lock on freeze : state PREPARING
FINEST: Acquired read lock on freeze : state PREPARING
FINER: Before invoking prepare() on resource:OTSResource : XAResource com.sun.gjc.spi.XAResourceImpl@179e50a5 XID {XID: formatID(4871251), gtrid_length(29), bqual_length(23), data(3D000000 43EF313F 70632D77 6861686E 2C736572 7665722C 50333730 3070632D 77686168 6E2C7365 72766572 2C503337 30302C00)}
FINE: An XAException occurred in prepare

Nothing else (except thousands of FINE: TM: enlistComponentResources and FINE: TM: delistResource but they look normal).
Both connection pools are configured as XADataSource. My current workaround is that one of the two DAOs sports this annotation:
@TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW)

I don't think this is a good solution but I don't know how to fix it otherwise. Can I get rid of this error in a better way?


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Link the post-16 topics of acid and base neutralisation, weak acids, bonding and carboxylic acids to the topic of antacids. Learn about a range of real life contexts for these chemical ideas through written material, and questions to encourage learning and test understanding. Use this material to support the study of moles, polymer cross-linking and pH.
The Chemistry in your cupboard resource series describes the chemistry that underlies nine well-known, household products. Each section explores the chemistry of these products and covers a wide range of chemical principles and topics.
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Structure and bonding
Chemical changes and structure
Neutralisation reactions
A neutralisation reaction is one in which a base reacts with an acid to form water. A salt is also formed in this reaction.
(b) differences in behaviour between strong and weak acids and bases in terms of the acid dissociation constant, Ka
(c) significance of the ionic product of water, Kw
1.3 Chemical calculations
(g) concept of concentration and its expression in terms of grams or moles per unit volume (including solubility)
1.4 Bonding
(g) hydrogen bonding and its effect on physical properties, such as boiling temperature and solubility
(e) relationship between pH and H⁺) ion concentration (pH = ‒log[H⁺(aq)])
Unit AS 2: Further Physical and inorganic Chemistry and an Introdution to Organic Chemistry
2.11 Group II elements and their compounds
2.11.5 recall the use of magnesium oxide in indigestion remedies and the use of calcium carbonate in toothpaste;
Unit A2 2: Analytical, Transition Metals, Electrochemistry and Organic Nirtrogen Chemistry
5.11 Chemistry in medicine
5.11.1 recall the use of digestion remedies, for example hydroxides and carbonates, to cure excess acid in the stomach (link with Section 1.9);
5.11.2 use a back titration to determine the percentage of an active ingredient in an indigestion remedy (link with Section 5.3.4);
5.3 Volumetric analysis
5.3.4 demonstrate understanding of the method of back titration, for example by determining the purity of a Group II metal oxide or carbonate.
1.9 Acid-base titrations
Chemical world
Systems and interactions
8. Investigate reactions between acids and bases; use indicators and the pH scale
3. Stoichiometry, formulas and equations
3.5 Chemical Equations
Depth of treatment
Calculations based on balanced equations using the mole concept (balanced equations will be given for all calculations).
4. Volumetric analysis
4.2 Acids and Bases
Acids, bases and salts. Neutralisation - formation of a salt from an acid and a base.
Household acids and bases (two examples of each).
Everyday examples of neutralisation, e.g. use of lime in agriculture, use of stomach powders for acid indigestion.
7. Organic chemistry
7.3 Organic Chemical Reaction Types
Acidic nature of the carboxylic acid group.
Reactions of carboxylic acids with magnesium, with sodium hydroxide and with sodium carbonate.
7.2 Planar Carbon
Carboxylic acids: polar double bond structure and nomenclature up to C-4. Physical properties [physical state, solubility (qualitative only) in water and in non-polar solvents].
9. Environmental chemistry: water
9.1 pH Scale
pH of weak acids and bases.
Calculation of pH of dilute aqueous solutions of strong acids and bases (calculation of pH of mixtures of strong acids and bases not required).
8. Chemical equilibrium
8.1 Chemical Equilibrium
Reversible reactions - dynamic equilibrium. At equilibrium, the rate of the forward reaction equals the rate of the reverse reaction.
Allotropes of carbon
Use this infographic with your 14–16 classes to boost their knowledge of diamond, graphite, graphene and fullerenes
Acids and bases – tackling common misconceptions
Tuesday 26 January, 4–5pm, online
The grand end of term quiz
Looking for something fun to wrap up the term? Challenge your 14–16 students with this chemistry-themed quiz


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Il doppio del torneo di tennis BH Tennis Open International Cup 2001, facente parte dell'ATP Challenger Series, ha avuto come vincitori Dejan Petrović e Andy Ram che hanno battuto in finale Barry Cowan e Eric Taino 6-3, 6-4.

Teste di serie

 Barry Cowan /  Eric Taino (finale)
 Dejan Petrović /  Andy Ram (Campioni)

 Edgardo Massa /  Leonardo Olguín (semifinali)
 Rik De Voest /  Denis Golovanov (primo turno)

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BH Tennis Open International Cup 2001


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In 1990 Roberto Memmo, who had always been interested in the forms and expressions of art, established a private foundation, the Fondazione Memmo, of which he became the President, together with 3 vice-presidents: Daniela Memmo d'Amelio, Patrizia Memmo Ruspoli and Claudio Strinati, who at that time was the General Director of the Italian Ministry for Cultural and Artistic Heritage. Due to his passion for beauty and his understanding of the importance of making its values more widespread, he wished to share the creativity of the great masters with a wider public through the contemplation of works that are fundamental for the history of art. At that period very few museums in Italy had a dynamic and active approach, but the time was ripe for creating new private and public spaces for art in several Italian cities, with many of which the foundation would collaborate over the years.
Via Fontanella Borghese 56b Rome 00186 Italy.
http://www.fondazionememmo.it/en/
You can also find them on our Foundation's Worldwide Map.
Fondazione Mudima: "La Face autre de l'autre Face"
Sharjah Art Foundation: Senior Editor (English)
Members Spotlight: LAM Museum and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Dia Art Foundation Beacon: Part-time Gallery Attendant
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Art Foundations on the World Map
Interviews on WAF TV
World Art Foundations
Art Foundation Membership
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Grants and Artist Residencies from Art Foundations
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How do I convert this abbreviation with zend_locale to the full country name?

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A: You can use functionality from the intl extension which is bundled as of PHP 5.3.0, or as a PECL extension as of PHP 5.2.0.
To display a region using a locale:
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Will output:
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http://php.net/manual/en/locale.getdisplayregion.php

A: Use Zend_Locale::getTranslationList() or Zend_Locale::getTranslation(). See example #7 in the manual.


Art galleries should be afraid….VERY afraid right now because with the rate artists are jumping onto the cyber space shuttle with the QR Code gun in hand, artists will be jumping out of renting spaces in art galleries and housing them in a more conducive or financially-feasible manner….on the streets! Well, it's just one of the ways (many others yet to be discovered) of gaining exposure for their art work on a larger level. All this is happening on the streets of Bristol, 105 miles west of London.
As far as we know, the Street Art Dealer project was just launched and they are trying to discourage artists from sending their work to art galleries to be exhibited. Not only is it more expensive that way, the exposure that the art work gains from the crowd depend on the people who run the gallery. On July 9th, the Street Art Dealer rolls out in its full glory as they start getting street artists to put in their art work in a very dynamic and innovative way using QR Codes and Geo Tagging technology.
We're pretty sure the people back with art background are stumped as to how it will work but will be fascinated with how much exposure they can get through the mobile phone technology. This project aims to make street-based art work more commercially available instead of having it confined to within the four walls of the gallery. Even really good art can end up sitting in the storage for years on end, never seeing daylight.
According to the reports that we have found, it seems that each piece of art will come with a QR Code. When potential customers see it, all they have to do to find out more information, price, origin and all other pertinent information relating to the creation of the piece will be made available on the mobile phone instantly.
What's interesting is also the fact that the group is also going to use the Geo-tagging technology which helps people find the art pieces that they.
Actually, when you think of it on a deeper level, the QR Code technology might change the way art galleries are run now that this project, if it takes off, runs smoothly and successfully. In fact, galleries can even be EMPTY because you literally don't have to rely on personnel to do the admin work anymore.
The opening night's come and gone but from the 10th till the end of July 2009, you can still hop over to 74-76 Horsefair, Broadmead, Bristol, MSI 3JS for a look on Thursday, Friday and Saturday anywhere between 12pm to 4pm. It closes a little later on Saturday at 7pm. Oh. And there's no admission fee.
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Fungus used in genetics sordaria
The perithecium on the left is from a self-cross of a mycelium whose DNA coded for dark ascospores.
The utility of Sordaria in genetics stems from its very strict method of sexual reproduction. The perithecium on the right was formed by a self-cross of a mycelium whose DNA coded for tan ascospores. These species are not used because of its abundant asexual reproduction-- the conidia get in the way, especially for beginning Genetics students whose sterile technique may not yet be well developed.
This experiment illustrates the concepts of genetic inheritance in a haploid organism. Some taxonomic schemes even place these single perithecium formers in their own class, the Sordariomycetes! As the ascus reaches the outside, the ascospores are forcibly discharged via water pressure from within the fruiting body.
Certain mutants are grey or tan. Specific features of its life cycle and the availability of a developmental mutant library make it an excellent system for studying cellular differentiation at the molecular level.
And so the phenomenon was termed " gene conversion. The perithecium in the center was formed when the two types of mycelia crossed with one another.
When he crossed these tall offspring with one another, he found a 3: Mendel found that all of their offspring were tall. To the left you can see an animation of ascospore production from Jim Worrall at ForestPathology. An interesting feature of S.
Instead, they are polyphyletic, having evolved separately. More recent systematics and taxonomic work has shown that the Pyrenomycetes are not monophyletic, i.
However, unlike those four, Sordaria fimicola does not bear its perithecia in or on a stroma, a structure composed of sterile hyphae, but rather bears its perithecia singly on the substrate.
The elongated tip of the perithecium is actually hollow; the hole is called the ostiole. I guess time and a lot more research will tell. These species share a number of characteristics that are advantageous for genetic studies. No images, graphics, scripts, or applets may be reproduced or used in any manner without permission from the copyright holders.
Recent molecular DNA evidence from sequence comparisons of several regions of DNA have placed Sordaria and the other non-stromatic forms in the Sordariales. We now know that it is the process of meiosis that accounts for these ratios.
The ostiole allows the ascospores to be discharged into the outside world in an interesting way: It is commonly found in the feces of herbivores.
These visual mutants aid in tetrad analysisespecially in analysis of intragenic recombination. The eight ascospores are produced inside an ascus. Gene conversion [ edit ] Each individual meiosis generates four haploid products, and after one further round of mitosis, eight products are formed and all retained as haploid spores within the sac-like ascus pl.
Protein interaction studies allowed us to identify a highly conserved eukaryotic multisubunit protein complex, the striatin-interacting phosphatase and kinase complex and its role in sexual development.
Through a series of very careful experiments, he meticulously crossed peas with different genotypes to see what their offspring looked like. In this review, we focus on recent developments in identifying gene and protein regulatory networks governing perithecia formation.
If no crossing over then there is a 4: John Wiley and Sons. Go there now to learn more!Sordaria Genetics. Allison Keeling Ms. Williams Honors Biology 1 May Keeling 1 Introduction In this lab, the fungus Sordaria was used to test the rate of crossing over in order to locate the distance of two genes in relation to its centromere.
Specifically, Sordaria fimicola was used.5/5(1).
Sordaria fimicola is one such dung fungus that has also long been used to study meiosis [1,2], and to teach genetics. Its products of meiosis, ascospores, form easily in artificial culture. Its products of meiosis, ascospores, form easily in artificial culture. Sordaria fimicola is an ascomycete fungus that normally grows on decaying organic material.
It may also be frequently found in introductory laboratory settings where it is manipulated and examined for educational purposes. 8 days ago · Biologists have gained new insights into specific enzymes that effect the specialization of fungal cells.
Analyzing the microscopic fungus Sordaria macrospora, they demonstrated that the KIN3. fungus Sordaria fimicola. Pages 1–24, in Tested studies for laboratory teaching, Volume 16 (C. A. to reinforce knowledge of meiosis and its importance in transmission genetics, 2.
to introduce the concepts of gene linkage and mapping, Stock plates of gray spore and tan spore Sordaria strains (1 each per four students, used to set up. Chapter Four - The Filamentous Fungus Sordaria macrospora as a Genetic Model to Study Fruiting Body these can be used for genetic mapping/sequencing approaches.
S. PöggelerBeta-carbonic anhydrases play a role in fruiting body development and ascospore germination in the filamentous fungus Sordaria macrospora. PLoS One, 4 .
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With a half-decent lawn mower, you are able to keep the grass at a reasonable length.Unfortunately, this machine is not the best for preventing grass from growing over the path edges and walkways. The right tool to use for such occasions is a lawn edger. Like the hedge trimmer for edges and the weed eater for weeds, lawn edgers are the perfect tools to tidy your lawn and give it that neat, finished look. When it comes to choosing lawn edgers, there are three main kinds: gas powered, battery powered, and manual lawn edgers. In this article, we focus on battery powered edgers by explaining why they are the best, as well as recommend a few top models.
Why Go for a Battery Powered Edger?
To start using a cordless or battery powered lawn edger, all you need to do is to press the "on" button and start trimming those unkempt edges. You don't have to worry about buying gas or having to mix it with oil before pouring it into the machine, nor do you have to worry about purchasing a long extension cord to drag around your yard.
Better yet, the best battery powered edgers do not require as much maintenance as their gas powered counterparts. What's more, they're environmentally friendly as they don't emit any noxious fumes.
You can use a battery powered edger just about anywhere you want. Since this tool has no extension cord, you don't have to stop midway and unplug it from the outlet when you want to move to another location. This is a handy feature if you have a large area to cover and need some flexibility when moving. Another plus for a battery powered edger is that it's lightweight. This factor adds to its flexibility as you can carry it around without getting fatigued.
Unless you want to get sued for disrupting your neighbor's tranquility with your loud gas powered lawn edger, you're better off choosing the battery powered models. Most cordless lawn edgers operate well below 80 dB.
Battery voltage is the unit that determines just how powerful the lawn edger is. You will find that most edgers are fitted with 12V to 40V batteries. Choose the best battery depending on your needs. If you'll be trimming a large area, you'll need to get a lawn edger powerful enough to get the job done quickly. Advisably, go for lawn edgers that use lithium-ion batteries instead of the NiMH, which only lasts for a short time.
Another thing you'll need to check is the battery life and charger specification. The higher the Ah number, the longer its runtime. On the same note, the edger's battery shouldn't take too long to recharge. The standard charging time ranges from 30 minutes to two hours.
Nowadays, the majority of the batteries on the market are designed in such a way that they can be used interchangeably with other cordless equipment by the same manufacturer. So, if you already have other gardening tools by the same manufacturer, check whether the battery is interchangeable.
If you're finding it uncomfortable to use your new lawn edger, then you're less likely to use it. So, before buying, test the edger and see if it's user-friendly. To provide ultimate comfort, the edger should have an adjustable handle, shaft length, and cutting head, allowing you to change settings as you see fit.
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The VonHaus Max Cordless is an edger and a string-trimmer in one unit. And the good thing is that you can switch between these tools very easily. This versatility means that you can use the tool not just to tend to your lawn but to also trim the edges along your garden fence and around the flower beds. It's equipped with a 2.0Ah battery and a safety guard, which protects you from accidents.
Like our top pick, the Greenworks 24V Cordless Edger also doubles up as a string trimmer. The only difference is that it does not have as much power as the VonHaus Max Cordless, making it better suited for lighter trimming tasks.
Nonetheless, this edger has other features going for it. For instance, the electric start eliminates the need for purchasing gas. The fact that it's a battery powered edger also means less maintenance and zero fumes.
It has a cutting path of 12 inches with 0.065 single line auto feed to provide easy line advancement. For convenience, its 40-inch shaft length is compatible with the GreenWorks Replacement Spool, and the manufacturer has also provided a battery and charger.
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Edging can be a difficult task, especially when you don't have the right tools in your arsenal. If you've been meaning to get a more comfortable edger that provides some adjustability, look no further than Toro 51484 cordless edger. Its 14-inch shaft is one that can be adjusted to accommodate users of all sizes. This edger's high-performing features make yard care seem like a walk in the park.
These features include the 12-inch cutting width, a quiet operation, an ultra-lightweight design and dual function since it doubles up as a string trimmer. Also, it's equipped with a 20-volt lithium-ion battery, which provides up to twice the power per weight compared to traditional nickel-cadmium batteries.
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Olduvai Gorge Project
Schuster, Gerard T. (4)
Hanafy, Sherif M. (2)Li, Jing (2)Lu, Kai (2)Feng, Zongcai (1)View MoreDepartmentEarth Science and Engineering Program (4)Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE) Division (4)Center for Subsurface Imaging and Fluid Modeling (2)Center for Subsurface Imaging and Fluid Modeling (CSIM) (2)JournalGeophysical Journal International (1)International Conference on Engineering Geophysics, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 9-12 October 2017 (1)KAUST Grant NumberOCRF-2014-CRG3-2300 (1)PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (1)Society of Exploration Geophysicists (1)Subjectimaging (1)Inverse theory (1)inversion (1)Seismic tomography (1)Surface waves and free oscillations (1)View MoreTypeDataset (2)Article (1)Conference Paper (1)Year (Issue Date)2017 (1)2016 (3)Item AvailabilityOpen Access (4)
Robust Imaging Methodology for Challenging Environments: Wave Equation Dispersion Inversion of Surface Waves
Li, Jing; Schuster, Gerard T.; Zeng, Zhaofa (International Conference on Engineering Geophysics, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 9-12 October 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2017-10-12) [Conference Paper]
A robust imaging technology is reviewed that provide subsurface information in challenging environments: wave-equation dispersion inversion (WD) of surface waves for the shear velocity model. We demonstrate the benefits and liabilities of the method with synthetic seismograms and field data. The benefits of WD are that 1) there is no layered medium assumption, as there is in conventional inversion of dispersion curves, so that the 2D or 3D S-velocity model can be reliably obtained with seismic surveys over rugged topography, and 2) WD mostly avoids getting stuck in local minima. The synthetic and field data examples demonstrate that WD can accurately reconstruct the S-wave velocity distributions in laterally heterogeneous media if the dispersion curves can be identified and picked. The WD method is easily extended to anisotropic media and the inversion of dispersion curves associated with Love wave. The liability is that is almost as expensive as FWI and only recovers the Vs distribution to a depth no deeper than about 1/2~1/3 wavelength.
Wave-equation dispersion inversion
Li, Jing; Feng, Zongcai; Schuster, Gerard T. (Geophysical Journal International, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016-12-10) [Article]
We present the theory for wave-equation inversion of dispersion curves, where the misfit function is the sum of the squared differences between the wavenumbers along the predicted and observed dispersion curves. The dispersion curves are obtained from Rayleigh waves recorded by vertical-component geophones. Similar to wave-equation traveltime tomography, the complicated surface wave arrivals in traces are skeletonized as simpler data, namely the picked dispersion curves in the phase-velocity and frequency domains. Solutions to the elastic wave equation and an iterative optimization method are then used to invert these curves for 2-D or 3-D S-wave velocity models. This procedure, denoted as wave-equation dispersion inversion (WD), does not require the assumption of a layered model and is significantly less prone to the cycle-skipping problems of full waveform inversion. The synthetic and field data examples demonstrate that WD can approximately reconstruct the S-wave velocity distributions in laterally heterogeneous media if the dispersion curves can be identified and picked. The WD method is easily extended to anisotropic data and the inversion of dispersion curves associated with Love waves.
Data: Olduvai Gorge Project Trip # 1
Schuster, Gerard T.; Hanafy, Sherif M.; Lu, Kai (2016) [Dataset]
The first trip to collect seismic data started on July 27 and ended on August 16. Team members are Kai (July 27 to August 16), Sherif (July 27 – August 9), and Jerry (August 7 to August 16). A total of 360 CSGs are recorded with shot interval of 10 m and receiver interval of 5 m. The total numbers of receivers are 720. Since we have only 240 receivers at the site, we recorded the data using three phases, phase 1 with receivers 1-240, phase 2 with receivers 241 to 480, and phase 3 with receivers 481 to 720. During shooting time only part of the receivers were active, we repeated some shots to have overlaps between the 3 phases, and the following table lists which receivers were active during shooting time. P.S. to have 480 receivers for some shots we had to repeat some of the shots twice, for example, CSG # 121 was recorded when the active receivers were 1 to 240, then repeated when the active receivers were 241 to 480, both files merged together to have CSG # 121 with 480 active receivers.
The second trip to collect seismic data started on January 5th and ended on January 17th. Team members were Kai Lu (January 5 - 12), Sherif Hanafy (January 10 - 17), and Gerard Schuster (January 5 - 12). We recorded data at two locations: 1. Profiles 6 and 7. They are recorded at the northeast of the camp location Contains ?? CSGs with 470 receivers. Receiver intervals are 5 m and shot intervals are 15 OR 30 m 2. Profiles 4 and 5. They are recorded next to profiles 1, 2, and 3 Contains 102 CSGs and 408 receivers with shot intervals of 20 m and receiver intervals of 5 m At the second location we also recorded passive (almost 6 pm to almost 2 am) and CNS (2 hours) only along profile 5.


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Home » Surfing » Soft Top Surfboards » History of the Soft-Top Surfboard
History of the Soft-Top Surfboard
Bytyler-connaghan on March 20, 2019
The introduction of foam blanks into the surfing industry is probably to this day one of the biggest turning points in surfing history.
Prior to foam, you could only find surfboards that were made of wood. When foam boards came around, people loved them because they were lightweight and far more maneuverable than their predecessors.
While there is no agreed upon inception date for soft top boards, many agree that the "inventors" were Hobie Alter and Gordon Clark, two surfboard manufacturers who were working together a lot in the late 50s.
Their trial and error processes finally led them to create a lineup of different-sized foam boards that would eventually hit a massive production scale in the early 1960s.
1 The Evolution
2 Pioneers
The evolution of these soft top boards didn't catch on until further down the line when the surfing craze began to take hold in the late 1960s. Soft-top boards became a way for idealist newbies to get out in the water and make a splash without breaking the bank or breaking their boards. They were safer, had more volume, and were much easier to ride than hard top boards.
Original Soft-Top surfboards used polyurethane foam that was encased with a type of polyester resin. While the ride was pretty soft, the overall setup flexed too much and warped overtime. It wasn't until years down the line that technology allowed manufacturers to create boards with stronger epoxy resin and polystyrene.
In 2006, Costco launched the Wavestorm brand and turned the soft-top world on its head. While these boards still may be crowned the kookiest boards out in the water, they gave soft-top surfing a name and truly popularized it more than anything else.
The head of Agit Global (the producer of the now popular Wavestorm) created the board by using the same approach that many bodyboard manufacturers were using with polystyrene blanks. The only difference was that they expanded the materials to make them strong enough to stand on.
Wavestorm has gotten so big that even pro riders like Jamie O'Brien have taken the boards out big wave surfing in Oahu. Big wave surfer Shawn Dollar even went as far as to setup the Wavestorm World Championship, a yearly competition/surf party in Santa Cruz, CA. While more of an ironic gag than a competition, as it's not affiliated with AGIT Global or Costco, it gave the Wavestorm even more of a presence.
Since then, many companies like Catch Surf, BIC, and BZ, have introduced soft-top surfboards that are serious contenders to be reckoned with.
Why Did Soft-Tops Become So Popular?
Soft-Tops became popular for beginners who wanted to get out and learn how to surf. Pretty much every surf camp along the coast of California utilizes soft-top surfboards rather than fiberglass boards to teach students.
They're much safer, much easier to ride, a whole lot easier to paddle, and offer tons of stability. For companies, they are much cheaper to produce. They're also a fairly new idea too, and still growing and evolving everyday.
Why Should I get a Soft-Top Surfboard?
There are about a hundred reasons to get a soft top surfboard. For beginners, you can save tons of money, especially if you're not someone who likes to dedicate themselves to things too quickly. They're also much safer considering the fact that you'll be wiping out left and right. If you want to keep your two front teeth, a soft-top might be your best bet.
They're great travel surfboards and don't ding or dent as easily as soft-top boards (we're looking at you airline employees). Dings are such a bummer and sometimes impossible to fix. If you don't have to deal with them, it'll make your life 10x easier. Trust us on that one. Lastly, they perform really well compared to older soft-top surfboards. Modern technology has allowed shapers to create soft-tops that are maneuverable and shred-able.
Are soft-top surfboards kooky?
The answer will depend on whom you talk to, but speaking from experience, every surfer we know has a soft-top in his or her quiver nowadays.
They can take on small surf that your glassed shortboard can't and are perfect for getting out in the water and having some fun without worrying about what other think!
So we can't lie and tell you that soft-tops will ever replace traditional hardtop surfboards. Fiberglass will always excel in maneuverability and speed.
Soft-tops are simply not for expert surfers.
Sure, you can have fun pounding around on a Wavestorm in the water, but if you're looking to compete or bust a few airs, they're likely not going to work.
That being said, the future for soft-tops is looking bright, and we're positive that in the next decade or so, the market will double for our foamie friends.
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Airplane hanger! | West Coast Drywall Construction Inc.
WCD is onsite in Tehachapi Ca. building a living space with metal studs in an airplane hanger. This is so cool for us to get to work on a design build project that requires some creative thinking to accomplish the customers goals.


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You need to quickly spin postgres and you don't afraid to use docker.

## Usage
```js
import PSQL from 'fastdev-psql';

let psql = new PSQL({
  name: 'test-psql', // Name of the container
  port: 9999, // Host port
  user: 'test-user', // Database user
  password: 'test-pass', // Database password
  db: 'test-db', // Database name
  dump: `${__dirname}/dump.sql` // dump (optional)
});

psql.pump(); // Pump **all** info into stdout

psql.log(); // Show "pretty" output

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Portretul lui Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier și al soției sale (în ) este o pictură în ulei realizată în anul 1788 de pictorul francez Jacques-Louis David. În tablou este reprezentat chimistul francez Antoine Lavoisier și soția și colaboratoarea sa Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze.

Tabloul a fost comandat lui David în 1788 de către Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (care fusese învățată să deseneze de către David). El este expus în prezent la Muzeul Metropolitan de Artă din New York.

Istoric

David a primit la 16 decembrie 1788 suma de 7.000 de livre pentru acest tablou. Pictura a fost lăsată de Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze nepoatei sale în 1836. Ea a rămas în colecția contesei de Chazelles și a urmașilor săi până în 1924, când a fost cumpărat de John Davison Rockefeller. Rockefeller l-a dat Institutului Rockefeller de Cercetări Medicale în 1927 și a fost achiziționat de la această instituție de către Muzeul Metropolitan de Artă din New York în 1977.

Descriere

Tabloul este un dublu portret de mari dimensiuni (260 cm x 195 cm). El reprezintă cuplul în biroul chimistului. În fundal se află un perete de marmură falsă, ornat cu trei pilaștri în stil antic, și o podea din parchet, în centrul compoziției. În fața privitorului se află cuplul Lavoisier. Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze se află în picioare, cu corpul văzut din profil, cu capul acoperit cu o perucă blondă buclată. Ea este îmbrăcată după moda sfârșitului de secol XVIII cu o rochie de muselină albă cu margini dantelate și încinsă cu o eșarfă albastră; ea se sprijină cu mâna stângă pe umărul soțului, iar mâna dreaptă se află pe marginea mesei.

Antoine Lavoisier este așezat la masă, lângă soția sa; el este îmbrăcat cu un costum negru (vestă, pantaloni francezi, cu ciorapi negri și pantofi cu cataramă), mânecile cămășii și eșarfa sunt singurele elemente de vestimentație de culoare albă. Fața sa este întoarsă pe trei sferturi către soția sa; el poartă o perucă pudrată, brațul său stâng este sprijinit pe masă, în timp ce cu mâna dreaptă scrie pe o foaie de hârtie cu o pană de gâscă. Piciorul său drept este întins în față, dincolo de masă.

Masa este acoperită cu o pânză roșie, pe care sunt așezate mai multe foi de hârtie, o casetă, o călimară de cerneală cu două pene de gâscă și trei instrumente chimice: un barometru, un gazometru, un rezervor de apă, precum și un balon de sticlă cu robinet de închidere pe sol, lângă fața de masă; aceste instrumente îi servesc lui Antoine Lavoisier pentru studiile sale asupra gazului și apei.

În extrema stângă a tabloului se observă un fotoliu pe care este pusă o bucată de țesătură neagră, precum și un carton de desen cu foi care ies în afară; acest carton subliniază faptul că soția lui Lavoisier desena experiențele soțului său și că ea era o fostă elevă a pictorului David.

Semnătura pictorului se află în stânga jos, pe parchet - L DAVID, PARISIIS ANNO, 1788.

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Picturi realizate de Jacques-Louis David
Reprezentări ale lui Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier în picturi