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I did below testing:
1. User A login to sqlplus , do
select * from t1 where c1 = 1 for update nowait
2. User B login to sqlplus , do
update t1 set c2 = 2 where c1 = 1 ( it has to wait ,good)
3. Disconnect UserA 's network with oracle server .
I expect that oracle release the lock which holded by UserA as the connection is lost .
4. But the update statement still waiting !
5. I manuall kill session ( inactive session of UserA) , the update statement from userB can continue .
It seems oracle can not claim the lock back even the session is lost !
Can anyone explain about that ?

subset: commoncrawl


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Family plumbing company thrives in Arlington Heights
An interview with Tom, Kevin and Rob Ryan of Central Plumbing Company Inc. in Arlington Heights.
Q: Describe your business, what do you do?
A: Central Plumbing Company Inc. is a family owned and operated business since 1980. We do residential & commercial service work as well as new & remodeling projects. We do complete water services, overhead sewers, sewer clean outs or complete sewer replacement.
Q: What made you start your business?
A: Plumbers in our family date back to the 1920s. Our grandfather was a plumber for the city of Chicago and our father Ed Ryan, a World War II veteran, started Central Plumbing in 1980, due to the recession. His two sons Tom and Kevin, started with their dad shortly after. Rob Ryan, the 4th generation of plumbers, is on track to take over and keep the family business going. So we guess that plumbing is in our blood.
Q: Your business has been around for a while, how have you been able to grow?
A: We strongly believe word-of-mouth is the best method of advertising. By being honest, treating people with respect, and taking pride in our work, this has helped our business grow.
Q: What do you enjoy most about operating your business?
A: We really enjoy helping customers. Anytime you are able to fix a problem, the customer has a good feeling. The final touches to a bathroom we just remodeled, or getting a sewer open, which sometimes can save a customer thousands of dollars so they don't have dig up their lawn is gratifying. A lot of our projects take mental & physical hard work to accomplish, so knowing that the customer is satisfied and then pass our name to a family member or friend is a good feeling.
Q: Is this what you pictured yourself doing when you were young? When you were young what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: As for Kevin and Tom, we had a decision -- college or plumbing. We opted to be plumbers since we grew up around the trade. As for Rob, he went to college for a few years and after some persuading from his grandfather, he also took up plumbing.
Q: What keeps you up at night?
A: We all sleep very well at night. After a long hard day at work and in the office, knowing that the work we preformed that day for the customer was up to code and we left the job with the customer satisfaction is a piece of mind for both us & the customer.
Q: If you could give one tip to a rookie business owner, what would that be?
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Q: What else should people know about your business?
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Address: 29 N. Hickory Ave., Arlington Heights IL. 60004
Phone: (847) 253-9181
Officers: Tom and Kevin Ryan
Year Business Started: 1980
Web Address: centralplumbingco.com


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As you might have noticed in some of Shaerie's recent blog posts, there are a couple of new shop girls at Sew L.A., so I thought an introduction was in order! I'm Christine Haynes. You might have seen me in a class, as I've been teaching in the classroom for over a year. But recently I started assisting Shaerie with the managing of the shop. Fun! Also new in the shop is the lovely Haley Glenn. Haley is fresh from fashion school and such a friendly face to help you with your sewing needs.
One of the greatest things about teaching and working in the shop is getting to know our amazing students. In a class a few months ago, I re-met (we had actually originally met ages ago at The Urban Craft Center) the lovely Marisa of Creative Thursday. She was in class to learn to make items from her soon-to-be-released fabric line with Andover Fabrics. We bonded immediately and after a few meetings she very kindly asked if I would be interested in making a garment from her adorable fabric so people could see that it was for more than just quilts or kid's projects. After one glance at her prints, I knew immediately that the answer was a resounding YES! I love all the prints, but knew right away that the Bird Basket in teal was the perfect fit for me and our Best Party Dress pattern.
Since receiving the fabrics we ordered for the shop, I can tell you that I'm not the only one that knew Marisa's fabrics would be great for all kinds of projects, kids and beyond. We've seen students make things like wallets, dresses, cape linings, and more! And as you see in the photo of me and Haley, she too knew the Bird Basket print, this time in gray, would be fantastic for the Best Party Dress! Haley's version is customized with a cute white Peter Pan collar and golden buttons down the front. Adorable!
We have sold the prints Marisa designed so well that as I write this, we are already low and/or sold out of nearly all her fabric. But don't fret, as we will be reordering more so you too can have some for your very own. And look for more blog posts from both me and Haley in the future! Tutorials, insight into the indie sewing scene, fashion reports, tips, and more!
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Sad news this morning – Slayer's long-time guitar player and songwriter Jeff Hanneman has passed away at the age of 49. The cause of death has been listed as liver failure, with many speculating that the guitarist's brush with necrotizing fasciitis (following a spider bite) and the subsequent medication required to combat it will have played their part in his early passing. So serious was this injury that it essentially sidelined Hanneman, compelling him to withdraw from Slayer's regular touring schedule, with Exodus' Gary Holt substituting for him from 2011 on.
Though the band's Kerry King has long been the visual lynch pin of the band, Hanneman's writing and – crucially – face-melting riffs are a large part of what made the band one of the Thrash Metal scene's Big Four. If you're humming the rampaging chords from "Raining Blood" now, I can't say as I blame you.
As my cable company have currently provided the 2010 Sofia Bulgaria show from the Big Four tour, replete with Slayer, I can think of no better way to remember the great guitarist's blistering riffs and headbanging tunes.
RIP, Sir, RIP.


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With this post I delve into a topic which is somehow new to me, although I planned to look deeper into this for quite some time already. I stumbled upon the paper Gromov-Wasserstein distances and the metric approach to object matching by Facundo Mémoli which was a pleasure to read and motivated this post.
1. Comparing measures with norms and metrics
There are different notions in mathematics to compare two objects, think of the size of real numbers, the cardinality of sets or the length of the difference of two vectors. Here we will deal with not only comparison of objects but with "measures of similarity". Two fundamental notions for this are norms in vector spaces and metrics. The norm is the stronger concept in that it uses more structure than a metric and also, every norm induces a metric but not the other way round. There are occasions in which both a norm and a metric are available but lead to different concepts of similarity. One of these instances occurs in sparse recovery, especially in the continuous formulation, e.g. as described in a previous post. Consider the unit interval and two Radon measures and on ( could also be an aritrary metric space). On the space of Radon measures there is the variation norm
where the supremum is taken over all partitions of into a finite number of measurable sets. Moreover, there are different metrics one can put on the space of Radon measures, e.g. the Prokhorov metric which is defined for two probability measures (e.g. non-negative ones with unit total mass)
where denotes the -neighborhood of . Another familiy of metrics are the Wasserstein metrics: For define
where the infimum is taken over all measure couplings of and , that is, all measures on such that for measurable it holds that
Example 1 We compare two Dirac measures and located at distinct points in as seen here:
The variation norm measures their distance as
(choose such that it contains and small enough that , but and ). The calculate the Prokhorov metric note that you only need to consider 's which contain only one of the points and hence, it evaluates to
For the Wasserstein metric we observe that there is only one possible measure coupling of and , namely the measure . Hence, we have
The variation norm distinguishes the two Diracs but is not able to grasp the distance of their supports. On the other hand, both metrics return the geometric distance of the supports in the underlying space as distance of the Diracs. Put in pictures: The variation norm of the difference measures the size ob this object
while both metrics capture the distance of the measures like here
It should not stay unnoted that convergence in both the Prokhorov metric and the Wasserstein metrics is exactly the weak convergence of probability measures.
The above example provides a motivation to study metric structures on spaces, even if they are also equipped with a norm. Another reason to shift attention from normed spaces to metric spaces is the fact that there has emerged a body of work to build a theory of analysis in metric spaces (see, e.g. this answer on mathoverflow or the book Gradient Flows: In Metric Spaces And In The Space Of Probability Measures by Ambrosio, Gigli and Savaré (which puts special emphasis on the space of probability measures)). Yet another motivation for the study of metrics in this way is the problem of comparing shapes (without being precisely defined yet): Which of these shapes look most alike?
(Note that shapes need not to be two dimensional figures, you may also think of more complex objects like surfaces in three dimensions or Riemannian manifolds.)
One may also ask the question how two compare different images defined on different shapes, i.e. different "distributions of colour" on two different shapes.
2. Comparing shapes: Metric spaces
Up to now we tried to compare different measures, defined on the same set. At least to me it seems that both the Prokhorov and the Wasserstein metrics are suited to measure the similarity of measures and in fact, they do so somehow finer than the usual norm does.
Let's try to go one step further and ask ourselves, how we could compare two measures and which are defined on two different sets? While thinking about an answer one need to balance several things:
- The setup should be general enough to allow for the comparison of a wide range of objects.
- It should include enough structure to allow meaningful statements.
- It should lead to a measure which is easy enough to handle both analytically and computationally.
For the first and second bullet: We are going to work with measures not on arbitrary sets but on metric spaces. This will allow to measure distances between points in the sets and, as you probably know, does not pose a severe restriction. Although metric spaces are much more specific than topological spaces, we still aim at quantitative measures which are not provided by topologies. With respect to the last bullet: Note that both the Prokhorov and the Wasserstein metric are defined as infimums over fairly large and not too well structured sets (for the Prokhorov metric and need to consider all measurable sets and their -neighborhoods, for the Wasserstein metric, one need to consider all measure couplings). While they can be handled quite well theoretically, their computational realization can be cumbersome.
In a similar spirit than Facundo Memoli's paper we work our way up from comparing subsets of metric spaces up to comparing two different metric spaces with two measures defined on them.
2.1. Comparing compact subsets of a metric space: Hausdorff
Let be a compact metric space. Almost hundred years ago Hausdorff introduced a metric on the family of all non-empty compact subsets of a metric space as follows: The Hausdorff metric of two compact subsets and of is defined as
(again, using the notion of -neighborhood). This definition seems to be much in the spirit of the Prokhorov metric.
Proposition 2.1 in Facundo Memolis paper shows that the Hausdorff metric has an equivalent description as
where the infimum is taken over all correspondences of and , i.e., all subset such that for all there is such that and for all there such that . One may also say set coupling of and instead of correspondence.
Example 2 There is always the full coupling . Three different set couplings of two subsets and of the unit interval are shown here:
the "full one" in green and two "slim" ones in red and orange. Other "slim" couplings can be obtained from surjective mappings by (or with the roles of and swapped): If you couple a set with itself, there is also the trivial coupling
which is just the diagonal of
Note that the alternative definition of the Hausdorff metric is more in the spirit of the Wasserstein metric: It does not use enlarged objects (by -neighborhoods) but couplings.
The Hausdorff metric is indeed a metric on the set of all non-empty compact subsets of a metric space and if itself is compact it even holds that is a compact metric space (a result, known as Blaschke Selection Theorem).
One may say that we went up an abstraction ladder one step by moving from to .
2.2. Comparing compact metric spaces: Gromov-Hausdorff
In the previous subsection we worked within one metric space . In the book "Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces" Misha Gromov introduced a notion to compare two different metric spaces. For compact metric space and the Gromov-Hausdorff metric is defined as
where the infimum is taken over
- all metric spaces and
- all isometric embeddings and which embed and into respectively.
In words: To compute the Gromov-Hausdorff metric, you try embed both and into a common larger space isometrically such that they are as close as possible according to the Hausdorff metric in that space.
Strictly speaking, the above definition is not well stated as one can not form an infimum over all metric spaces since this collection does not form a set according to the rules of set theory. More precisely one should write that is the infimum over all such that there exists a metric space and isometric embeddings and of and , respectively, such that .
As the Hausdorff metric could be reformulated with set couplings there is a reformulation of the Gromov-Hausdorff metric based on metric couplings: A metric coupling of two metric spaces and is a metric on the disjoint union of and such that for all and it holds that and .
Example 3 We couple a metric space with itself. We denote with an identical copy of and look for a metric on that respects the metrics and in the way a metric coupling has to.
To distinguish elements from and we put a on all quantities from . Moreover, for we denote by its identical copy in (and similarly for , is its identical twin). Then, for any we can define (i.e. the distance between any two identical twins is . By the triangle inequality we get for and that should fulfill
and hence
Indeed we can choose if and leading to one specific metric coupling for any . This couplings allow to distinguish identical twins and behave as a metric on the whole disjoint union. In the limiting case we do not obtain a metric but a semi-metric or pseudo-metric which is just the same as a metric but without the assumption that implies that .
Example 4 The above example of a metric coupling of a metric space with itself was somehow "reproducing" the given metric as accurate as possible. There are also other couplings that put very different distances to points and there is also a way to visualize metric couplings: When building the disjoint union of two metric spaces and , you can imagine this as isometrically embedding both in a larger metric space in a non-overlapping way and obtain the metric coupling as the restriction of the metric on to . For you can embed both into . A metric coupling which is similar (but not equal) to the coupling of the previous example is obtained by putting and side by side at distance as here (one space in green, the other in blue).
A quite different coupling is obtained by putting and side by side, but in a reversed way as here:
You may even embed them in a more weired way as here:
but remember that the embeddings has to be isometric, hence, distortions like here are not allowed.
This example illustrate that the idea of metric coupling is in similar spirit as of "embedding two spaces in a common larger one".
With the notion of metric coupling, the Gromov-Hausdorff metric can be written as
where the infimum is taken over all set couplings of and and all metric couplings of and .
In words: To compute the Gromov-Hausdorff metric this way, you look for a set coupling of the base sets and and a metric coupling of the metrics and such that the maximal distance of two coupled points and is as small as possible. While this may look more complicated than the original definition from~(2), note that the original definition uses all metric spaces in which you can embed and isometrically, which seems barely impossible to realize. Granted, the new definition also considers a lot of quantities.
Also note that this definition is in spirit of the Wasserstein metric from~(1): If there were natural measures on the set couplings we could write \begin{equation*} d_{GH}(X,Y) = \inf_{R,d} \Big(\int d(x,y)^pd\mu_R\Big)^{1/p} \end{equation*} and in the limit we would recover definition~(3).
Example 5 The Gromov-Hausdorff distance of a metric space to itself is easily seen to be zero: Consider the trivial coupling from Example~2 and the family of metric couplings from Example~3. Then we have for any showing . Let's take one of the next-complicated examples and compute the distance of and , both equipped with the euclidean metric. We couple the sets and by and the respective metrics by embedding and into as follows: Put at the line from to and at the line from to :
This shows that and actually, we have equality here.
There is another reformulation of the Gromov-Hausdorff metric, the equivalence of which is shown in Theorem 7.3.25 in the book "A Course in Metric Geometry" by Dmitri Burago, Yuri Burago and Sergei Ivanov:
where the infimum is taken over all set couplings of and .
In words: Look for a set coupling such that any two coupled pairs and have the "most equal" distance.
This reformulation may have the advantage over the form (3) in that is only considers the set couplings and the given metrics and and no metric coupling is needed.
Note that, as the previous reformulation~(3), it is also in the spirit of the Wasserstein metric: If there were natural measures in the set couplings , we could write
and recover the formulation~(4) in the limit .
One may say that we went up an abstraction ladder one step further by moving from to to .
Since this post has been grown pretty long already, I decided to do the next step (which is the already announced metric on metric spaces which additionally carry some measure on them – so-called metric measure spaces) in a later post.


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- "...That is believed to be some sort of monster..."
- —Professor Binns on the Chamber of Secrets' occupant[src]
The Serpent of Slytherin[2] was a female basilisk placed by Salazar Slytherin inside the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The basilisk could only be controlled by Slytherin's one true heir, Tom Riddle. This means that despite her being a snake, other Parselmouths (such as Harry Potter) have no control over it.
Birth and SlumberEdit
Salazar Slytherin's basilisk was born in the chamber, as revealed by Aragog. Slytherin, in his spite of the his fellow founders' acceptance of muggle-borns into the school, left a basilisk deep in the chamber, in hopes that one day his true heir will unleash her to purge all they deem unworthy to study magic. In order to prevent the serpent from dying from senescence, Slytherin placed her in suspended hibernation to prevent her from aging, until the heir would appear.
First Opening of the Chamber of SecretsEdit
In the early 1940s, the Chamber of Secrets was opened by a Slytherin fifth year, Tom Marvolo Riddle, who was able to control the creature through his status as the heir of Slytherin. Riddle unleashed the basilisk on the school, his goal being to rid the school of Muggle-born students. All the victims were merely Petrified, except for a student named Myrtle, who was killed in the girls' bathroom on the first floor. A sink in this bathroom concealed the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. These events were nearly the cause for the permanent closing of Hogwarts.
To avoid this undesirable consequence for Hogwarts, which was the closest thing he had to a home, Riddle framed Gryffindor third year Rubeus Hagrid for all the events, claiming Hagrid's pet Acromantula Aragog was responsible for the attacks. Hagrid was expelled, and the attacks stopped. However, Transfiguration teacher Albus Dumbledore became suspicious of Riddle, and thus prevented him from further terrorising the school, since Riddle now feared discovery. Dumbledore also convinced Professor Armando Dippet, who was Headmaster at that time, to allow Hagrid to stay at Hogwarts as gamekeeper.
However, Riddle, not wanting his five years of hard work in finding out about the Chamber go to waste, left behind his childhood diary that contains a portion of his soul, in the hopes that one day it would reopen the chamber and reawaken the basilisk.
Second Opening of the Chamber of SecretsEdit
Fifty years after Tom Riddle's original attack on Hogwarts, the basilisk was re-awakened by a shade of Riddle generated by a Horcrux he had housed in his old diary. This shade possessed Ginny Weasley after Lucius Malfoy slipped the diary into her cauldron during a confrontation in Flourish & Blotts, as part of his plan to discredit her father. However, although Riddle/Ginny killed the Hogwarts roosters to prevent them being used against the basilisk, the basilisk managed only to petrify a few students, a ghost, and a cat, each of them seeing only the snake's reflection or seeing it through something, rather than looking upon the snake directly. Using his own ability as a Parselmouth, Harry was able to hear the basilisk and attemped to find her. Later in their search Hermione became one of the basilisk's victims, but she had already managed to get some information on the basilisk for Harry and Ron, information which they found still clutched in her Petrified hand. Harry and Ron (accompanied by a reluctant Gilderoy Lockhart) entered the Chamber of Secrets, where Ginny Weasley was being held by Tom Riddle. After being separated from Ron and the self-Obliviated Lockhart, a battle commenced between Harry Potter and the basilisk.
Battle with Harry Potter and deathEdit
- "Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four!"
- —Riddle's fragmented soul summoning the serpent.[src]
During the battle between Harry Potter and the basilisk, Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes was able to blind the basilisk, allowing Harry to fight the basilisk without the fear of being killed instantly by its gaze. During that period of hiding, Harry obtained Godric Gryffindor's sword from the Sorting Hat, which had been brought to him by Fawkes. Harry stabbed the basilisk through the roof of its mouth, killing it, but one of its fangs pierced Harry in the sword arm as a result of the struggle, and splintered off. Harry subsequently used the said fang to destroy Tom Riddle's diary, which he would later discover was one of Voldemort's seven Horcruxes. Luckily, Fawkes' tears was used to save Harry from the otherwise fatal venom of the fang.
By 1998 the basilisk's body had fully decomposed, leaving just a skeleton. Another one of the basilisk's fangs was used once again by Hermione Granger to destroy another Horcrux, Helga Hufflepuff's cup. The first fang's venom, which was absorbed by the sword that slew it due to its taking in only that which made it stronger, allowed it to destroy Slytherin's locket. While the sword slew Nagini, due to her being a living creature, it's unknown whether or not any sword would have done the job.
A horrifying monster with dark green scales, this creature was immensely large and had deep yellow eyes. It possessed great strength and was resistance to a majority of spells, and as a basilisk, it could kill with a gaze, and petrify with an indirect look. In addition, its fangs are so venomous, it can kill any living creatures it pierces within minutes, and were capable of destroying Horcruxes; the venom's potency remained even after five years of its death. Even when blinded (which took away its deadly gaze), it could still sense its prey through smell and sound.
It could breathe while submerged underwater, squeeze through the piping network of the school to go about undetected, and by entering a deep sleep, it ceases to age as long as remains asleep.
- "Parseltongue won't save you now, Potter, it only obeys me!"
- —Riddle's memory on the serpent's allegiance.[src]
Slytherin's basilisk would only listen to the true heir of Slytherin, Tom Marvolo Riddle (also known as Lord Voldemort), regardless of Harry Potter being able to understand and speak Parseltongue to it in the Chamber of Secrets. It is possible that the basilisk was trained, enchanted, or persuaded to obey only the Heir of Slytherin, and not all Parselmouths.
Known victimsEdit
The following list shows all known Basilisk victims both killed, Petrified, and otherwise harmed by the monster.
- Moaning Myrtle
- Postmortem: fangs and venom destroyed two pieces of Tom Riddle's soul (in Tom Riddle's Diary in 1993 and Helga Hufflepuff's Cup in 1998.)
- Indirectly: Godric Gryffindor's Sword which is imbibed with a Basilisk's venom, destroyed Salazar Slytherin's Locket and Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, both of which contained a piece of Tom's soul.
- The sword also slew Nagini, though the venom may not have been necessary to release the soul, due to the instability of living Horcruxes.
- In the film version, a fang is also used to stab Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem before it is engulfed by Fiendfyre.
- Several unknown students during 1943
- Mrs. Norris (saw its reflection in puddle of water)
- Colin Creevey (saw it through lens of camera)
- Justin Finch-Fletchley (saw it through Nearly Headless Nick)
- Nearly Headless Nick (made eye contact, but was a ghost, and could not die again)
- Hermione Granger (saw it in Penelope's mirror)
- Penelope Clearwater (saw it in her mirror)
- Harry Potter (her fang went into Harry's arm, who would have died if not healed by Fawkes)
Behind the scenesEdit
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Harry does not get pierced by the Basilisk's fang and instead pulls it out of the dead Basilisk's mouth. Also, the basilisk notices Harry when Ginny screams at one of his disembodied eyes. A third difference is that the basilisk has a scarlet plume on its head, thus its gender is male. Additionally, Ginny helps Harry during the battle as opposed to being unconscious the whole time.
- Ironically, the serpent that Voldemort plotted to use to purge the school of muggle-borns and Harry Potter was used against him by having its venom and fangs used to destroy most of his horcruxes, which led to his final downfall.
- Penelope Clearwater is the only victim of the 1992–1993 school year incident who was not a victim of Slytherin's basilisk in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Still, there was a mirror next to Hermione's bed, but it is never mentioned that Penelope was with Hermione. Furthermore, in the film Cornelius Fudge claimed three muggles were attacked instead of four as in the novel.
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Ron and Hermione enter the Chamber of Secrets, the skeleton of the basilisk is still there, but appears to be in a different spot than where Harry killed it earlier. Also, in the film, the fang was used to destroy an additional horcrux, Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem.
- In recalling his father reading the first two Harry Potter books to him, Daniel Radcliffe stated that his father had a great voice for the basilisk. He suggested his father to director Chris Columbus, and his father was mortified.[3]
- Various medias have shown both the male and female depictions of the species for Slytherin's basilisk.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Appears as a corpse)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Appears as a corpse)
- LEGO Creator: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter LEGO Sets
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter for Kinect
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them -- male basilisks have a scarlet plume upon their head.
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 17 (The Heir of Slytherin)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Blu-ray bonus - A Conversation with J.K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe


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As much as we wish it would, nothing remains perfect or forever unblemished. Because of environmental contaminants, and because your baby's skin is not fully mature at birth, he will probably be affected by some kind of skin condition in his early years. Any number of natural catalysts such as allergies, hormones, genetics, bodily fluids, and even the weather can cause problems for the skin; but very often, something in the environment triggers an inevitable series of inflammations and irritations with which you and your baby will be forced to cope.
Not surprisingly, the number of newborns experiencing skin disorders is rising. Over 30% of unscheduled visits to the pediatrician's office are caused by skin problems. Baby skin can be so permeable that it is easily dehydrated and infected. Because the skin is susceptible to all kinds of environmental toxins, from air pollution to chlorine in the water, we need to be especially careful not to put toxins directly on the skin through toiletry products.
A variety of minor skin conditions including pimples, rashes, scales, and bumps of other sorts, are well within the range of normal; but the associated discomfort still produces tantrums, crying, irritability, and whining that can simultaneously break your heart and send you into a panic. For the most part, there is no need for concern. These blemishes will usually go away quickly with a simple natural baby skincare treatment. There are plenty of creams, salves, and ointments to help reduce pain, sooth irritation and restore the skin to its natural state of perfect health. The products you choose should create a protective, nurturing environment without exposing your baby to unnecessary environmental contaminants like parabens and synthetic fragrances. Still, if you feel at all concerned, you should consult your doctor right away.
To prevent skin problems from recurring, you must engage in the tricky task of finding the source of the problem. While many common conditions, such as acne and eczema occur naturally, and are truly unavoidable, many more of your child's skin conditions probably stem from the use of avoidable contaminants in impure toiletry products, non-organic foods, and contaminated water. For example, toiletry products that are formulated with irritants or bed linens that have been laundered with oily fabric softeners can aggravate baby skin. Many common skin conditions can be successfully treated and even prevented with non-pharmaceutical products under the care of a pediatrician who is predisposed to try a natural approach. Just remember that skin is a window into the body's internal condition and mirrors its external environment. Removing exposure to toxins, surprisingly prevalent in personal care products, reduces the workload of the body's immune system and enhances overall health.


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The love of music has been passed down in the McFerrin family for generations. Bobby McFerrin is likely best known for his 1988 hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy" and has been entertaining audiences with his jazz scatting for nearly 50 years. His father, Robert McFerrin, was the first black performer contracted with the Metropolitan Opera House in 1955. Now Bobby's daughter, 26-year-old Madison McFerrin, is a singer-songwriter on the rise; she already has two projects, Finding Foundations Vol. I and II, to her name. With Father's Day coming up, this father-daughter duo have plenty to celebrate.
Madison attended Berklee College of Music and remembers that people often asked about her father before asking about her. "A lot of people asked me to scat, and I'm like, 'I don't do that,' " she says. "They put a certain level of expectation on me that I definitely was unprepared for."
But the attention helped put her father's music in perspective.
"Sometimes you can take for granted when there's a genius walking around your house making all these random noises that, as a kid, you don't understand are really difficult to make," she says of her father's scatting.
Madison bills herself under R&B and future soul genres, singing soaring a cappella to lyrics she's crafted. This lyricism is the major difference in Madison and her father's musical paths. "Maddie has built her career on words, and I've built it on non-words," Bobby says.
One of her latest songs, called "Can You See?" is a statement against police brutality. The track plays off aspects of "The Star-Spangled Banner" with tweaks to the anthem's familiar lyrics: "But so proudly you hail / while we are all out here screaming."
The track is also a nod to her heavily criticized national anthem performance at a Hillary Clinton rally in 2016. After that performance, her parents were the first people she called to find comfort. "Who hasn't had a lousy night?" Bobby asks.
Though Bobby naturally wants to protect his daughter from such downsides of fame, he knows Madison's path in the music industry is all her own.
"The success that my kids have had, I think in a way, honors me and their mother," he says.
Bobby and Madison McFerrin spoke with NPR's David Greene about performing together and their plans for Father's Day. Hear their conversation at the audio link.
OK. Father's Day is this Sunday, in case you need a little nudge. We thought we would celebrate by asking a very special father-daughter in to chat. We met them up in New York, which did result in a little bit of teasing when the father in question got a bit lost trying to find NPR's studios.
MADISON MCFERRIN: My dad doesn't really use his phone 'cause then he could have just hopped on Google and figured out exactly where you were supposed to go.
BOBBY MCFERRIN: You know, I...
M. MCFERRIN: That would have been an easier route.
B. MCFERRIN: What is the person's name, Sylvia (ph)?
M. MCFERRIN: Siri.
B. MCFERRIN: Siri.
M. MCFERRIN: Sylvia (laughter).
B. MCFERRIN: I talked to Sylvia, Siri. And then this weird map came on my screen, turning this way and that way.
M. MCFERRIN: It just didn't...
B. MCFERRIN: It just didn't help me at all.
M. MCFERRIN: So you just called me.
B. MCFERRIN: So I called my daughter.
GREENE: That daughter is a 26-year-old singer-songwriter who is very much on the rise, Madison McFerrin.
M. MCFERRIN: (Singing) Scream your name.
GREENE: And if you recognize something in that voice and in that name, well, Madison's father is the legendary musician Bobby McFerrin.
B. MCFERRIN: (Singing) So don't worry, be happy. Don't worry, be happy now.
GREENE: He is best known, of course, for this smash hit from 1988. But he has been wowing audiences ever since with these crazy vocal skills.
B. MCFERRIN: (Vocalizing).
GREENE: And music, I mean, it really is in the McFerrin family DNA.
B. MCFERRIN: Yeah, my father was the first African-American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera, 1955.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Singing).
B. MCFERRIN: And I can remember seeing him when he made his debut doing "Rigoletto."
GREENE: Yeah. So just imagine being part of this family and trying to launch your own music career.
M. MCFERRIN: I went to Berklee College of Music and people were kind of freaking out.
GREENE: That you were his daughter?
M. MCFERRIN: Yeah. You know, they would ask me how my dad was doing before they would ask me how I was doing. Like, a lot of people like ask me to scat, and I'm like, I don't do that. (Laughter) That's not my thing. And they just like put a certain level of expectations on me that I definitely was unprepared for.
But, you know, it helps gain perspective because all of a sudden, I was starting to listen to my dad's music as a musician and not just his daughter. And sometimes you can take for granted when there's a genius walking around your house like making all these random noises that as a kid you don't understand are really difficult to make (laughter).
GREENE: Can I ask about the random noises because...
B. MCFERRIN: Random noises.
GREENE: Random noises. I think your mom talked about that. When you would make these noises when you were a kid, it was not exactly the most pleasant thing to experience always.
B. MCFERRIN: No. She was always trying to get me to stop.
B. MCFERRIN: I was making too much noise. And my grandmother was the same way. Oh, Robert, really, please take your noises someplace else.
GREENE: Did your mom ever say, I'm kind of happy I let you make those noises back then?
B. MCFERRIN: No, she hasn't, but she probably is.
GREENE: Probably thinking that.
M. MCFERRIN: (Singing) You didn't want it before, so why are you here waiting? I don't understand why you think I am contemplating on ways for you to love again.
GREENE: What do you feel when you listen to Madison's music?
B. MCFERRIN: I'm humbled, most definitely. The success that my kids have had, I think, in a way honors me and their mother, both of us.
GREENE: There was a really tough public moment for Madison as a young performer when she sang the national anthem at a Hillary Clinton rally in 2016. What - I mean, she was kind of brutalized. What was that like for a father?
B. MCFERRIN: That was hard. That was really tough. We spoke a couple of times that night. And I tried to explain to her that there are a lot of ruthless sort of ugly, mean-spirited people in the world who look for any opportunity to bring someone down. And granted, it wasn't her best performance. I had heard her sing better.
M. MCFERRIN: (Singing) Oh, say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave...
B. MCFERRIN: But who hasn't had a lousy night?
M. MCFERRIN: Well, I was on the phone with you guys right after it happened...
B. MCFERRIN: Yeah.
M. MCFERRIN: ...Crying (laughter).
B. MCFERRIN: That's right. Yeah.
M. MCFERRIN: So that was like the first - you guys were the first people I talked to.
B. MCFERRIN: But what she learned, I think, was you've got to take responsibility for - well, I think you did - they didn't give you enough time to test out your earpieces, right? So you couldn't...
M. MCFERRIN: I didn't have my earpieces.
B. MCFERRIN: You didn't have your earpieces or anything.
M. MCFERRIN: There was no soundcheck.
B. MCFERRIN: There was no soundcheck.
GREENE: Well, there are - I feel like there's some performers who would never want to remind anyone of a moment like that again. But you have a song called "Can You See," where you actually - part of it is singing the national anthem.
M. MCFERRIN: (Singing) Oh, say, can you see?
"Can You See," like, is about police brutality. But then having the national anthem in there and changing some of the words really seemed to hit home about what the topic of that song actually is. So it's kind of a double whammy of sorts.
GREENE: What is the message we should take from this song?
M. MCFERRIN: I think it really gets summed up at the end with the national anthem when I say - but so proudly you hail while we are all out here screaming.
B. MCFERRIN: What's really interesting about the difference - and a major difference - in our careers is Maddie has built her career on words, and I've built it on nonwords. A lot of stuff that I did does not have words to it.
GREENE: She's more of a lyricist.
B. MCFERRIN: She's more of a lyricist. I mean, she's full of words. And what she has to say is very, very provocative and interesting. I wish I had that gift. But it's just interesting that, you know, our careers are similar and very different at the same time.
GREENE: Father and daughter musicians, Bobby and Madison McFerrin. Well, let me just finish by asking what you guys are doing for Father's Day. You're going to be together, you have plans?
M. MCFERRIN: No.
B. MCFERRIN: We're going to be separated.
M. MCFERRIN: Give you a call, though.
B. MCFERRIN: Yeah. OK.
M. MCFERRIN: I have his picture on the back on my phone. There's a little Polaroid that I've stuck into the case. So I've always got you with me.
B. MCFERRIN: OK, good. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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What, you thought Charles Barkley was going to sit back and watch the LeBron James show without weighing in?
The Round Mound of Rebound was his glib self when he sat down with Comcast Sports Net Monday and tore into King James for creating a spectacle Thursday with his "Decision" on ESPN. James announced he would join fellow stars Dywane Wade and Chris Bosh and play for the Heat, though some skeptics believe the trio hatched their plan years ago.
"This has been like the national nightmare," Barkley groused. "I've never been so mad and disappointed in the NBA overall. Number one, they already had this deal done. It's coming out now. Instead of meeting with all these teams. They already had it done."
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Barkley said Dan Gilbert, owner of the cavaliers team James bolted, did the superstar a favor by writing an angry open letter blasting James as a narcissistic coward who betrayed Cleveland.
"LeBron should have told the Cavaliers in advance," Barkley said. "And Dan Gilbert clearly screwed up, because you can't say all that stuff. Because he got LeBron off the hook. If Dan Gilbert had just said thank you, and blah blah blah... [Instead] he made look LeBron like a better guy.
Then, Sir Charles went on to blast pro athletes for losing perspective.
"A lot of these guys take themselves a little bit too serious," he said. "Let's see, a teacher, policeman, fireman, doctor, and somebody who's in the service. I truly believe those are the only five real jobs in the world. Everybody else should just shut the hell up and enjoy life. There's five legitimate jobs in life.
"It's an honor and a blessing to play a sport for a living, but come on man. Listen, do we make things better ... if someone's having bad day or a city's having a tough time? Of course. But you can't think you're the greatest thing in the world if you play a sport -- you got to keep it all in perspective."


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Fife among first round of cuts by Dodgers
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Less than two weeks before leaving for Australia, the Dodgers on Tuesday made their first cuts of camp, sending 10 players to the Minor League complex.
Optioned were roster pitchers Pedro Baez, Stephen Fife, Yimi Garcia, Jarret Martin and outfielder Nick Buss. Reassigned were non-roster pitchers Sam Demel, Daniel Moskos and Chris Reed, and catchers Chris O'Brien and Griff Erickson.
Of the group, Fife has the most Major League experience, having started 15 games for the Dodgers the last two years, but the right-hander was on a reduced throwing program to prevent a recurrence of the shoulder tendinitis that plagued him last year.
The Dodgers have 47 players in camp, plus Cuban shortstop Erisbel Arruebarrena, who has not yet arrived. They can take only 30 players on the trip to Australia, with 25 eligible to play in the two games against Arizona.


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420 Stunna releases hot single "Ticket" off of his upcoming mixtape "Road Runna Stunna" hosted by OG Bigga Rankin, schedule to release May 23.
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Flint, Michigan - "I Want It" is one of many videos set to release off of Toni Valli's mixtape "Win Win" which he released in January of this year and hosted by DJ Substance. "Win Win" is available on all major digital media platforms. "I Want It" was not only produced by Masart, but the video was only directed by him. To bring this video/single full circle, Juugman killed his verse. Check it out the video, download the track, support the mixtape, and stay tuned to what Toni Valli, the One Block Music artist does next.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
[Single] Mardy Price ft Bigga Rankin x Hurricane Chris - Turn Around
Mardy Price Releases new single "Turn Around" featuring OG Bigga Rankin and Hurricane Chris. This hot single is produced by Sevin Wilson "The Time Machine" and definitely the right way to get the ladies ready for the Summer.
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4/20 is National Smokeout Day! Some consider it the day to celebrate smoking weed while others consider it the day to stop smoking tobacco. VAIN commemorates this pot lovers day with his "I'm Gone," Video which takes a spin off on the Cult Classic Friday! VAIN takes you with him as he goes on a way out trip on some particularly potent Chronic! VAIN along with videographer/director Elroy Isaacs collaborate to give you some trippy visuals teamed right alongside some tricky cinematography, all WITHOUT the help of Green Screen, in Vain's newest video "I'm Gone." It's a real Trip!
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4/20 is National Smokeout Day! Some consider it the day to celebrate smoking weed while others consider it the day to stop smoking tobacco. VAIN commemorates this pot lovers day with his "I'm Gone," Video which takes a spin off on the Cult Classic Friday! VAIN takes you with him as he goes on a way out trip on some particularly potent Chronic! VAIN along with videographer/director Elroy Isaacs collaborate to give you some trippy visuals teamed right alongside some tricky cinematography, all WITHOUT the help of Green Screen, in Vain's newest video "I'm Gone." It's a real Trip!
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I'm largely trying to figure out how to get how to get a headless version of debian (this) version to run. On that site is a version of debian linux which when written to a micro SD card can turn an a10 device into a small low-powered server.
Unfortunatly I've not had all that much success. I understand that in that version btw that there is no video display output (the kernel needs to be replaced according to that website in order to have video). However on my rikomagic mk802 almost nothing happens.
First job was to try to determine using the built-in android on the mk802 device just what sort of CPU it was. There are 3 possibilities; A10, A13 and A10S. According to a program I found for android ("Cpu-Z") the CPU os an Allwinner A10 at 960(?) Mhz. The total ram is 813MB (presuaably really 1GB as some would be shared with the GPU/Video chip). The android version is 4.0.4.
I tried to follow the instructions btw on that website btw. I did not have any problems with decompressing the bz2 file from that website, it all seemed to go ok with out errors - if slowly. I then downloaded from this website a u-boot file; "u-boot-sunxi-a10_mid_1gb.tar.xz". I then uncompressed file and wrote the two files as per the instructions, e.g
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I then powered up the mk802 and using a USB ethernet adapter tried to see if I could connect to the device. But it never showed up, never did anything. The only thing that did happen is that the blue powerlight was on and the mk802 device seemed to get quite warm. After this (and being concerned about the device running so warm!) I removed the SD card and checked to see if the device was still working, which it is (android still loads/starts up ok).
I then tried a different file ("u-boot-sunxi-mk802-1gb.tar.xz") and was met with the same results - the only difference was that the mk802 didn't seem to get so hot. x.x
The device dosen't seem to show up anywhere on my network. It is connected in via a USB ethernet adapter.
Am I right in thinking some of the allwinner/rikomagic devices could be "locked" in some way, i.e they don't run anything other than the burnt-in android on flash?


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Mitch Daniels Could Be Obama's Nightmare
The Indiana governor's candidacy would force a serious discussion of budget cuts and the economy.
If there's one potential Republican candidate who makes President Obama's reelection team sweat, it has to be Mitch Daniels.
The Indiana governor, more than any other GOP hopeful for 2012, would force a serious discussion of budget cuts and the economy. This just happens to be Daniels' strength. There was a reason, after all, that President George W. Bush called him "The Blade" when Daniels directed the Office of Management and Budget for the White House.
And the economy just happens to be Obama's Achilles' heel.
To be sure, other possible Republican presidential candidates will hammer away at the deficit, the unemployment rate and related topics. But when it comes to making difficult spending decisions in Washington, the others can only talk about what they would do. Daniels has already done it.
And most of the others have baggage that Democrats (and their Republican primary opponents) can use to deflect their economic arguments. Mitt Romney? He'd have some explaining to do about his Massachusetts health plan, used as a blueprint for Obama's plan, which he now opposes. Jon Huntsman? He was Obama's ambassador to China. Donald Trump? Some of his casinos went belly-up and now he wants to run the country? Newt Gingrich? Remind me what led his own party to lose confidence in him as House Speaker after the "Republican Revolution" of 1994. Tim Pawlenty? The guy who once backed Obama's cap-and-trade energy proposal that many Republicans bash? Michele Bachmann? The list goes on.
Daniels has some baggage, too. Every candidate does. But most of his will be exploited by opponents for the GOP nomination, such as his suggestion that conservatives set aside concerns about abortion rights and other social issues and focus on the debt and deficit. And some conservatives will no doubt make noise about the fact that Daniels has been married twice, albeit to the same woman.
In a general election matchup against Obama, Daniels would have just one main weakness -- no foreign policy experience to speak of. It's a glaring gap in the resume, for sure. But in the end, it probably won't matter. With the exception of Huntsman's time as a diplomat in China, none of the top GOP contenders has serious foreign policy chops. That puts them in the same boat Obama was in during the 2008 campaign, when the GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, argued that the Democrat had no global smarts, so why would voters even think about putting him in the White House.
That argument is no longer operative, given that Osama bin Laden is under the sea and Libya's dictator is under siege. In fact, here's a pretty safe bet: If the 2012 presidential election is about foreign policy, Obama wins a second term with ease. But odds are, it won't be. It is much more likely to be about fiscal matters.
On economic grounds, Mitch Daniels is perfectly positioned to challenge Obama. He is, in a sense, the GOP's modern-day Dwight Eisenhower. Like Daniels, Ike was reluctant to run and had to be cajoled into the 1952 race. And, just as Daniels has no foreign experience, Eisenhower was light on dealing with economic issues.
But in 1952, the economy was humming along after slogging through the shortages of World War II. Instead of worrying about that, voters were concerned about hostilities in Korea, the spread of communism and the first stirrings of what would become the Cold War. A military hero was just the ticket.
Nearly 60 years later, we're seeing the flip side. Daniels can be the GOP's man of the moment. He, more than any other Republican, can give Obama a headache.
But only if he runs. Expect an answer this month, but don't be surprised by whatever he decides.
His family wants him to stay on the sidelines. His party hopes to change his mind.


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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Batesville perch: No McMansions in charming outpost
Address: 1995 Craig's Store Road
Neighborhood: Batesville
Asking: $599,000
Assessment: $563,200
Year Built: 2000
Size: 2,664 fin Sq. ft./ 1,248 unfin. Sq. ft.
Land: 15.23 acres
Agent: Bill Martin, Charlottesville Country Properties, 996-3726
Curb Appeal: 8 out of 10
Trendy Belmont is a real estate hot spot— especially for young singles whose idea of a perfect Friday night is wine tasting at Crush followed by a late night savoring the New York strip at the Local. But if you're not as into the see-and-be-seen scene, sometimes the best real estate to snap up is out in the county. I'm not talking about the nouveau riches palaces in Keswick or the McMansions popping up like mushrooms in Crozet, but about simple out-of-the-way country places where kids can splash in the streams and track mud into the kitchen without mom going postal and calling the cleaning lady on Sunday.
Jim and Jennifer White had such a vision in 2000 when they purchased 15 narrow mountain acres on Craig's Store Road for just $79,900. From this hillside perch, the Whites could see the mountains but not their neighbors— just the way they wanted to live.
The neighbors might enjoy not seeing the Whites as well, especially since animals outnumbered humans on the property. Yes, there were the cockatiel, five cats, and a Bernese Mountain dog, but more importantly, there were llamas. Fifteen of them.
The Whites have since relocated to a larger property (26 acres) in the Shenandoah Valley in order to expand their llama operation, but in the eight years they owned 1995 Craig's Store Road, they built an extensive fencing system (four maze-like acres bordered by four-foot-high split-rail with wire), three run-in sheds, one hay barn, and one stable– plus a two-acre detached garage with an unfinished loft. Oh, and the house.
Built by Free Union-based Charles McRaven, the post-and-beam house is centered on a two-story tavern originally built in the 1790s in East Waterford, Pennsylvania. The old tavern was slated for demolition when McRaven purchased it, took it apart, and rebuilt it on atop the White family's Batesville acreage.
A modern log cabin cradles this older property, giving it more space, higher ceilings and modern accoutrements. An unfinished basement (with concrete flooring and four windows adding natural light) anchors the house, which is topped off by an attic with some storage space and two small carpeted children's bedrooms in blindingly light baby blue and sea green pastels.
The two floors in between are divided into larger, more open public spaces (new construction) and the cozier, private living areas (old log cabin).
The main floor has red oak flooring, big Pella windows overlooking the wood and a large deck (perfect for keeping an eye on the livestock), a vaulted ceiling and a large stone fireplace. A kitchen looks out onto the living room.
Two doorways lead into two smaller rooms (we're now in the old log cabin), one of which the Whites used as a guest bed and bathroom, and a larger room they kept as a TV room. A staircase to the second floor leads up to an open space in white pine overlooking the living room, the laundry room, and a large master bedroom/bathroom suite, with a Jacuzzi tub and large walk-in closet.
One can read more about his former llama farm at burntmountain.com. It was once featured on Animal Planet's That's My Baby, a television show that follows animals through pregnancy, birth, and follow-up. (Jennifer White notes that a lot happened off-camera, so there was considerable acting involved. No word on whether the llamas will be nominated for an Emmy.)
Now, 1995 Craig's Store Road is blessedly free of camera crews and offers a comfortable country hideaway, although the $599,000 price tag— while just $35,800 higher than the assessment— may serve as a compelling argument for buying Batesville land and managing the construction yourself.
Located off Route 250 West, blink-and-you'll-miss-it Batesville is primarily noted for the tasty eats at the Batesville Store and Gourmet Deli. Insiders know about the apple butter— made every fall in industrial-sized copper kettles and stirred by the good citizens of Batesville in volunteer shifts (the late-night shifts fueled by alcohol, with early morning pancakes to follow)— and Christmas caroling held around a bonfire in the empty field across from the Batesville Store.
On a chilly day in late November, I could already see a seven-foot-high woodpile stacked in anticipation of the big event. Whether you drive up to have a look at this quirky, charismatic house, or buy an empty plot for your own castle in the sky, the rural charms of Batesville are definitely worth a second look as Charlottesville becomes more and more crowded.
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Re: Re: st: RE: dfuller: why do I get different results?
Yuval Arbel <email@example.com>
Re: Re: st: RE: dfuller: why do I get different results?
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:48:21 +0200
Thanks. I will try to put a drift and additional lags and let you
know. I also tried the pperron option and got the same results. For my
objectives, however, even if I have 9,500 non-stationary series and 47
stationary series - it will be good enough. I only need a result which
says that most panels are not-stationary
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Christopher Baum <email@example.com> wrote:
> <>
> On Nov 19, 2011, at 2:33 AM, Yuval wrote:
>> Fisher-type unit-root test for reduct_per
>> Based on augmented Dickey-Fuller tests
>> - -----------------------------------------
>> Ho: All panels contain unit roots Number of panels = 9547
>> Ha: At least one panel is stationary Avg. number of periods = 53.19
>> AR parameter: Panel-specific Asymptotics: T -> Infinity
>> Panel means: Included
>> Time trend: Not included
>> Drift term: Not included ADF regressions: 1 lag
>> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Statistic p-value
>> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Inverse chi-squared(19060)P 8814.2739 1.0000
>> Inverse normal Z 60.7097 1.0000
>> Inverse logit t(46659) L* 55.5908 1.0000
>> Modified inv. chi-squared Pm -52.4767 1.0000
>> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> P statistic requires number of panels to be finite.
>> Other statistics are suitable for finite or infinite number of panels.
>> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> .
>> I'm happy with the results, because they show that tenants could not
>> anticipate a long-run mean reduction rates.
> I would not draw great comfort from these findings. The huge number of panels in the test, based on T->\infty rather than N->\infty, leads to a p-value of 1.0 for all forms of the test statistic. All that means is that the data cannot possibly reject the null that ALL panels have unit roots. That could well result from a sample in which 9,500 panels did and 47 panels didn't, but the test does not have the power to reject.
> I would run the test -- with a drift term, and probably more than one lag in the DF -- for a relatively small number of panels, perhaps chosen at random. If you look at the example in the xtunitroot fisher help file, a rejection arises when the Z-stat or L*-stat takes on negative values (just as with the standard D-F regression). It might well be if you looked at, say, 150 panels you would find that the test has some power. I am always suspicious of p-values of 1.0000.
> Kit
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PERTH, Australia (AP) John Isner withdrew from the Hopman Cup on Thursday with a right knee injury, ending the American team's chances of reaching the final of the eight-country tournament and handing a championship berth to Spain.
Isner, who still hopes to compete at the Australian Open beginning Jan. 14, played with tape on his knee when he lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France on Tuesday and later said he was suffering from ``a little tendinitis.'' He also lost to South African Kevin Anderson in his opening match on Sunday.
The highest-ranked American at No. 14, Isner said he still plans to play in next week's Sydney International and the Australian Open.
``My plan now is just to treat it as best I can and see how it reacts,'' Isner said. ``I do know I've always been a fast healer when I've had little injuries pop up here and there, so I'm confident I'm going to be fine for the Australian Open.
``It's not a great way to start the year but I'd rather it happen this week than in two weeks.''
Later Thursday, Bernard Tomic followed up his victory over No. 1 Novak Djokovic by beating Andreas Seppi 6-3, 7-5 and Ashleigh Barty defeated Francesca Schiavone 6-0, 6-3 to help Australia beat Italy.
Australia and Serbia, which plays Germany on Friday, are bidding to meet Spain in Saturday's final.
Spain and the United States were 2-0 in round-robin play heading into Thursday's match, but Spain was awarded a walkover after Isner's injury.
Isner was replaced by his Australian hitting partner, Thanasi Kokkinakis, for an exhibition singles match against Fernando Verdasco. The Spaniard won 7-6 (4), 6-3.
Venus Williams also remained undefeated in her three singles matches as she recovered from a slow start to beat Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-3, 6-4.
After dropping the opening game on a double-fault, Williams was treated for a blister on her left foot and also taped her right wrist. She then broke to level the set at 2-2 and again at love to lead 5-3.
Williams broke the Spaniard's serve two more times in the second set to earn a comfortable victory.
``I got to play a lot and pull a lot out of myself and I feel that with every match my serve got better,'' Williams said. ``This is the best day I've returned, my consistency (is good),'' Williams said. ``That's what I wanted.''
She said her blisters were not a problem after they were treated.
``Once I got that taken care of I was able to run a lot better,'' she said. ``And once I got my wrist wrapped, that was fine, too.''