Method of removing carbon from fly ash

A froth flotation method is provided for removing carbon from fly ash which utilizes an environmental friendly conditioning agent. The conditioning agent preferably comprises a biodegradable oil which is added to a slurry containing raw fly ash and water. The conditioning agent renders the carbon in the fly ash hydrophobic such that upon aeration of the slurry, air bubbles attach to the carbon particles and carry\u27 them to the surface of the slurry in the form of a froth, such that the carbon may be removed.https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/patents/1063/thumbnail.jp

William Styron, 12th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Born in Newport News, William Styron has become one of the South\u27s and the nation\u27s leading writers, a winner of the Prix de Rome, the Pulitzer Prize, and the American Book Award. Of his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, 1951, winner of the Prix de Rome of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, critics said, ...there is evidence of so much life having been poured into the narrative, that we might have a legitimate apprehension after it, not as to the writer\u27s talent, but as to his resilience and reserves. His novella, The Long March, 1957, was called a small masterpiece. In Set This House on Fire, 1960, Styron pushed his explorations of the nature and meaning of human value...to the point where the essential act of staying alive is itself at stake, is the central question of his novels. The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1967, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, places Styron squarely at the center of the Southern tradition so as to develop it, carry it a stage further...now it is the common history of white and black that comes under scrutiny. Sophie\u27s Choice, 1979, winner of the American Book Award, was called an ambiguous, masterful, and enormously satisfying novel. His other works include In The Clap Shack, a play, 1972, and This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982. In 1985, Conversations With William Styron appeared, edited by James L. West

The confessions of nat turner/ Styron

455 hal.; 21 cm

An empirical examination of the going-concern audit opinion : the auditor's decision regarding continuing going-concern opinions and the subsequent fate of companies that have received going-concern opinions

Vita.This study identifies companies that have received initial going concern audit opinions (GC opinions) during 1985 through 1988. The study examines the state of those companies for one year after the year of the initial GC opinion, to determine if the companies continued operating independently or discontinued independent operations through bankruptcy or merging. The study identifies variables that may be associated with the subsequent state of those companies. The independent variables used in the model include: the company's level of financial distress, returns on the company's stock, riskiness of the company, management ownership of the company, and the company's size. The study uses a one-year prediction horizon because that is the horizon that an auditor is directed to consider in both Statement of Auditing Standards Number 34 and Number 59. The results indicate that the level of financial distress is associated with the subsequent state. For those companies that continue independent operations, this study identifies factors that are associated with the auditor's decision to remove the GC opinion in the year following the initial GC opinion. The variables that are expected to be associated with the removal of the GC opinion are: the company's level of financial distress, the change in the level of financial distress, returns on the company's stock, riskiness of the company, a change to a new auditor, disposal of long-term assets, debt renegotiation, issuance of additional stock, and new management. The results indicate that returns, riskiness, and debt renegotiation are associated with the removal of the GC opinion. The study also tests the stickiness hypothesis. Stickiness implies that companies improved their financial positions after their initial GC opinions to a level that would have avoided initial GC opinions, but they continued to receive GC opinions. The results support the stickiness hypothesis

The Confessions Of Nat Turner

18 cm; 413 ha

The Religious Dimensions of Faulkner\u27s Work and Recent Southern Fiction

This session is part of the University of Mississippi\u27s Visiting Writers\u27 Program.Presiding: Willie MorrisReadings and Discussion: William Styro