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Colorectal Cancer Health Center
Laparoscopic Proctosigmoidectomy and Colorectal Cancer
In this article
Step 4: Removing the Diseased Bowel
The incisions used in laparoscopy are very small, so the diseased section of bowel must be removed in a special way. Your surgeon will enlarge one of the incisions and place a bag into the abdominal cavity. The diseased bowel is placed into the bag. The bag is then pulled out of the enlarged incision.
Step 5: Rejoining the Ends of the Colon
Your surgeon will rejoin the colon by using a special stapling device placed into the rectum. This rejoining of the colon and rectum is called an "anastomosis." The stapling device "fires" a ring of staples to connect the two ends. The anastomosis is checked for leaks and the pelvis is rinsed out.
A drain also may be placed in the abdomen to aid recovery after surgery. The drain will be removed a few days afterwards. All the incisions in the abdomen will be stitched or taped closed.
Recovery After Laparoscopic Proctosigmoidectomy
You will be encouraged to increase your activity level steadily once you are home after surgery. Walking is great exercise! Walking will help your general recovery by strengthening your muscles, keeping your blood circulating to prevent blood clots, and helping your lungs remain clear. If you are fit and did regular exercise before surgery, you may resume exercising when you feel comfortable and your doctor gives the approval. However, strenuous exercise, heavy lifting, and abdominal exercises such as sit-ups should be avoided for six weeks after the surgery.
You will be sent home on a soft diet, which means you can eat almost everything except raw fruits and vegetables. You should continue this diet until your post-surgical check-up. If the diet is making you constipated, call your doctor's office for advice.
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text: Mouths, mouths, and more mouths. I love drawing this part of the face whether it be on an anime character, on a regular portrait picture, or even on a chibi. Since I'm talking about mouths, I guess that is what this lesson will be on next. I will show you "how to draw chibi mouths" step by step. Drawing mouths chibi style is so incredibly simple to do. I mean even a five year old can draw a good chibi mouth if you think about it. Chibi characters are drawn to look like little people and or children. Now because of that, they have incredibly simple faces with big round eyes, square shaped faces, and small limbs that usually have no shape. Can you imagine how easy drawing out small circles, or dashes, and even smiles can be? Exactly my point. Look, the bottom line is it doesn't matter if your learning from a tutorial on "how to draw chibi animals", or "how to draw chibi mouth", the concept is the same, simplicity. Now that you know what this lesson will be on, it is now time I leave you to it and go away. I will be back later so stay tuned in to see what I submit next. Peace out peeps.


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As I keep collecting tags to highlight interesting questions and questions I want to ignore more questions now appear where tags from both lists are present. It seems like currently the ignore tag has precedence. I wonder what people think if those tags could have weight/importance to them. Would that be too complicated?
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I prefer 'ignore' having precedence over 'interesting'. I'd like to see every 'java' question, but I don't need to see the 'fun, offtopic, not-programming-related, java' questions.
I would like the ability, for at least certain interesting tags, for the "interesting" tags to take precedence over the "uninteresting" tags. For instance, I don't want to see java questions in general. However, I don't want to miss a wcf+c# question simply because the java tag was applied as well. This may be the case with a problem in consuming a Java web service with a WCF client, or vice versa.
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This is the opposite of my preference. I ignore python questions, but mark perl as interesting. When a question comes up that is tagged with both (e.g. someone asking for a solution in either language), I would prefer to see this question, rather than hiding it.
Perhaps this could be resolved by having another checkbox in the user preferences below the first: "...even if they also match one of my interesting tags."
On money.se, for example, we use tags to regionalise questions. I'm from the UK, and don't feel able to answer questions that are US or Canada -specific. I therefore choose to ignore
Perhaps the precedance could be set on a per-site basis, if no conclusion can be reached to satisfy all sites?
As this issue is applicable to the area51 beta sites also, it seems this question may need to be resurrected. Based on all of the answers here, we all agree that we have a preference. So, on the preferences tab, there should be a preference to drop down.
Per an argument I listed on the cooking meta, say you LOVE real-time strategy games for PCs and have experience with a few dozen, but HATE Starcraft. A question comes up saying, "I love Starcraft, and really want to play more RTS Games, blah blah?"{[RTS][Starcraft][PC-games]}
Is it a success that your filtering of tags makes you unlikely to answer that question, when your expertise would have been ideal?
I think things may be improved by making a distinction between "entities" (php, java, mysql) and "concepts" (bestpractice, design, ui).
For the record, the system filters my results pretty well, but it would be interesting to see whether splitting the tags into groups as suggested above, and giving concepts priority (as they are typically entity independant), would provide even better results.
If you don't hide your Ignore tags the current system isn't perfect, but I think it strikes the balance between greying out and highlighting fairly well.
Looking at it positively, while the question is greyed out because it has at least one of my Ignore tags it's background is changed to show that it has at least one of my Interesting tags, and I might be able to answer the question after all.
I was about to ask this question, because I noticed a C# and Java question greyed out.
Here's an idea that hasn't been considered: have a "scale of importance" and apply the highlighting/greying based on the "score" of interesting/ignored tags in the question. The score on a question would be calculated as: (# interesting tags) - (# ignored tags), which would give a range of -5 to +5.
So in the case of a question having 1 interesting tag and 1 ignored tag, the score would be 0, and the colour of the question would be left as default. This makes sense because while it involves something we like, we're not sure about what the context will be, so don't let the system decide what to do with it automatically. If a question had 5 interesting tags, then we would really want to have a look at it, so highlight it to the max. The opposite goes for 5 ignored tags, where we probably aren't interested at all.
The situation where this would work the best is with questions that have 2 or 3 interesting tags and 1 ignored tag. There's a better chance of us being able to answer that one, so it would be a shame if it got ignored out of the list (based on the current algorithm).
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One step into this salon (with its retro hair-dryers), and you feel like you've entered a time warp. The looks Shaw creates, however, are anything but dated. She added short layers around our face and suggested moving our part a quarter inch to the left, which accentuated our jawline and masked our growing-out highlights. For a finishing touch, Shaw explained how to re-create the style. It's good to know that old-fashioned service never goes out of style.
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Having heard that Wright was a trained engineer, we were expecting something different from the usual salon visit. We weren't exactly prepared, however, for his unorthodox method of cutting. Wright sectioned our hair into four large clumps, twisted each several times, and then chopped off the ends. Even more surprising was the result: rippling layers that looked as if they had been meticulously sculpted.
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When we walked into this modern new space with staggered mirrors and stainless steel fixtures, we had a hard time believing we were in Sterling Heights, Michigan, and not a New York City hot spot. We told Masters we wanted to turn our dirty blonde a deep red, and asked if she'd suggest highlights, lowlights, or both. None of the above: She recommended a semipermanent shade all over, telling us it would be at least two months before the roots needed a touch-up. We settled on a deep chestnut, and Masters set to work painting it on. We sat under the dryer for a half hour before she washed and conditioned our hair, and gave us an amazing blowout. Two weeks later, we're still getting compliments.


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6 Absurd Pirate Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
Close your eyes and imagine a pirate. Was he wearing an eye patch, burying some gold and overusing the letter "r"? If so, we're here to tell you that the image of pirates that Hollywood has taught you isn't just wrong -- in most cases, the truth was even more badass.
For example ...
#6. Pirates Talked Like ... Well, Pirates
The Myth:
Quick -- do a pirate voice.
We don't care if you can't imitate any other accent in the world, if we ask you (or anyone else on earth) to talk like a pirate, you'll go, "ARRRR, MATEY!"
You can tell he's making the "ey" noise right now.
This is thanks to decades of cartoons and movies where everyone playing a pirate was legally obligated to litter their speech with "arrs" and the like while assuming the intonation of a rowdy drunken Englishman. Unless your name is Johnny Depp, that is; then you're obligated to assume the intonation of Johnny Depp in every Johnny Depp movie ever.
"What do you mean? I'm doing a pirate voice now. This is my pirate voice. *mumble mumble*"
Granted, outside of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise there haven't been a lot of pirate movies in the past few decades, but at the same time there's been no shortage of pirate or pirate-talking characters invading other genres: Like the Pirate Captain in The Venture Bros., the other Pirate Captain in The Simpsons, Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball and Agent Scurvy Pirateson in CSI: Miami.
Obviously, we know the "pirate accent" we hear in these shows and films is exaggerated, just like they would exaggerate a French or Mexican accent, but it must be based on something real, right?
The Venture Bros. wouldn't lie to us.
The Truth:
Phrases like "shiver my timbers" and traditional pirate songs like "Fifteen Men on the Dead Man's Chest" were made up by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel Treasure Island, published in 1883 -- over 150 years after the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. We might as well tell you right now that 90 percent of all pirate tropes come from the same book: One legged pirates, squawking parrots, drunken mutinies ... all that stuff can be traced back to Treasure Island.
Yes, pirates did lose limbs in battle, mutiny on occasion and get shitfaced a lot, but Stevenson was the first to combine those elements into one package, creating the popular image of pirates.
Belts cinched up below the nipples, that's the Pirate Way.
But what about the "arr" voice? That actually comes from the West Country accent from the southwestern portion of England. In the 1950 Disney adaptation of Treasure Island, Robert Newton played a pirate from the West Country and overdid it a little with the accent, throwing "arr" into every other sentence. Two years later Newton used the same accent in Blackbeard the Pirate, and the stereotype was cast.
To put this in perspective, if Newton played a pirate from Boston, we'd all be imagining pirates shouting "wicked pissah" as they boarded enemy ships.
So what did pirates actually sound like? In reality, there never was one "pirate accent" at all, mainly because that makes no damn sense. The idea of a pirate dialect assumes that all pirates spoke English and used the same slang, when in fact many pirate crews were from different countries. If pirates did have a distinct way of speaking, it was only in the sense that they needed to employ nautical terms on a daily basis. You can take solace in the fact that English-speaking pirates did use the word "avast," but the probability of it ever being combined with "mateys" is slim at best.
This is avast, right? He's avasting that sail?
#5. Pirates Wore Eye Patches to Cover Missing Eyes
The Myth:
The eye patch the single most recognizable feature of a pirate -- when putting together a Halloween costume, it can make the difference between "badass sea warrior" and "asshole in a puffy shirt." In every pirate movie there's always at least one crew member who wears an eye patch, usually due to some hideous disfigurement. Like the guy with the wooden eyeball in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
"Just cleaning up my cataracts."
With all those peg legs, hook hands and eye patches, it's like these movies are trying to tell us that pirates, more so than any other group of people in history, were remarkably good at misplacing body parts. At other times they were simply born without them -- like One-Eyed Willie from The Goonies, who didn't even have an eye socket under that patch.
We can't really blame him for going into this line of business.
But what was it about pirates that made them more likely to lose an eye than, say, Vikings or something?
"We use them for table tennis."
The Truth:
Actually, it looks like the only reason pirates wore eye patches was to keep one eye adjusted to darkness while boarding another ship. That's right: If this theory is correct, they only wore the patch before and during a raid.
Think about it: Pirates needed to be able to fight and ransack both above and below deck, and since artificial light wasn't a thing, it could get pretty dark down there. A guy could trip on a treasure chest or something. It takes the human eye several minutes to adjust to darkness -- however, this way, pirates could simply swap the eye patch and immediately be prepared to fight in the lower decks without constantly running into walls, which is something you'd probably want to avoid if you're carrying a cutlass.
"Safety first, lads."
Obviously we don't know for sure that this was always the case, but this explanation does make more sense than "they all happened to lose one eye" or "they thought it would look cool." True, you're sacrificing your peripheral vision, but it's better than having no vision at all. If you don't believe us, it's easy enough to try this yourself -- just cover your eye with your hand for the next half hour and then walk into a dark closet.
In fact, this method works so well that it's still used by the American military today. Nighttime survival guides recommend keeping one eye closed during bright lights to preserve night vision, and the same goes for military pilots. So all those movie pirates wearing eye patches all the time? Turns out they're just being extra careful.
"Pillage smarter, not harder."
#4. All Pirate Ships Had Skull Flags
The Myth:
The classic Jolly Roger is so representative of pirates that we shouldn't even have to type the word "pirates" by now; a little symbol of a skull and some crossbones should suffice (we're lobbying hard to get that added to every keyboard). The flag has been used in virtually every movie where pirates appear, ever, from the really old ones with Errol Flynn ...
"If this shirt revealed any more of my chest, you would all be pregnant."
... to Veggie Tales.
Talking Mustached Cucumber, the Errol Flynn of our generation.
Or Disney's Peter Pan. Sometimes the skull is replaced with two cutlasses, like in Barbossa's flag in Pirates of the Caribbean, but other than that and how expertly or crappily it is drawn, it's always pretty much the same thing.
Flag-printing technology was surprisingly great in Barbossa's day.
But this makes sense, right? The purpose of the flag was to intimidate sailors and steal their loot while they were too busy shitting their pants, so it makes sense that they should all choose something ominous like a skull on a black background.
The Truth:
Actually, if there was a pirate ship approaching and you saw a black flag waving, you were in luck: It meant the pirates were willing to give quarter. The real "Oh shit we're completely fucked" flag sported a decidedly more minimalistic "completely red" design -- in fact, historians believe that the term Jolly Roger comes from "jolie rouge," which is French for "pretty red," which in turn sounds like the name of a romantic comedy starring Emma Stone.
She'll need one hell of a curling iron.
Also, the design of the black flag varied a lot from ship to ship: Only a few pirate captains used the skull and crossbones design, like Edward England and Christopher Condent. On the other hand, a pirate that you may have actually heard of, Blackbeard, used a bizarre flag with a skeleton holding an hourglass and stabbing a bleeding heart:
Which was also the cover of a My Chemical Romance album, we're pretty sure.
The hourglass was actually a common element in many pirate flags, since it symbolized the inevitability of death (more so than a freaking skull, apparently). Captains Walter Kennedy and Jean Dulaien also incorporated the hourglass, except in their case it was being held by a naked guy swinging a sword at a perplexed floating face:
Olek Remesz
His lack of genitalia was meant to represent the inevitability of your dick being cut off.
And some of them didn't give a shit, like Thomas Tew and his magnificently lazy flag of an arm holding a cutlass:
His original design was simply the words "I WILL CUT YOU," but it wasn't universal enough.
There are a lot of designs to make fun of and not enough time, sadly, but we should also mention that most pirates stuck to all red or all black flags. Also, all these designs are only recreations of the real thing based on descriptions like this one, so there's a huge chance that they all looked completely different in reality. For example, a museum in Florida has one of the only two authentic Jolly Rogers that remain, and it looks pretty far from the detailed skull drawing that we're used to. It's almost like it was shoddily put together by some sort of uncultured ... oh wait.
St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum
It was actually supposed to be a little guy dancing, but no one got it.


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Event Processed
By Antony Reynolds-Oracle on Oct 31, 2012
Installing Oracle Event Processing 11g
Earlier this month I was involved in organizing the Monument Family History Day. It was certainly a complex event, with dozens of presenters, guides and 100s of visitors. So with that experience of a complex event under my belt I decided to refresh my acquaintance with Oracle Event Processing (CEP).
CEP has a developer side based on Eclipse and a runtime environment.
Server install
The server install is very straightforward (documentation). It is recommended to use the JRockit JDK with CEP so the steps to set up a working CEP server environment are:
- Download required software
- JRockit – I used Oracle "JRockit 6 - R28.2.5" which includes "JRockit Mission Control 4.1" and "JRockit Real Time 4.1".
- Oracle Event Processor – I used "Complex Event Processing Release 11gR1 (184.108.40.206.0)"
- Install JRockit
- Run the JRockit installer, the download is an executable binary that just needs to be marked as executable.
- Install CEP
- Unzip the downloaded file
- Run the CEP installer, the unzipped file is an executable binary that may need to be marked as executable.
- Choose a custom install and add the examples if needed.
- It is not recommended to add the examples to a production environment but they can be helpful in development.
Developer Install
The developer install requires several steps (documentation). A developer install needs access to the software for the server install, although JRockit isn't necessary for development use.
- Download required software
- Install Eclipse
- Unzip the download into the desired directory
- Start Eclipse
- Add Oracle CEP Repository in Eclipse
- http://download.oracle.com/technology/software/cep-ide/11/
- Install Oracle CEP Tools for Eclipse 3.6
- You may need to set the proxy if behind a firewall.
- Modify eclipse.ini
- If using Windows edit with wordpad rather than notepad
- Point to 1.6 JVM
- Insert following lines before –vmargs
- -vm
- \PATH_TO_1.6_JDK\jre\bin\javaw.exe
- Insert following lines before –vmargs
- Increase PermGen Memory
- Insert following line at end of file
- -XX:MaxPermSize=256M
- Insert following line at end of file
Restart eclipse and verify that everything is installed as expected.
Voila The Deed Is Done
With CEP installed you are now ready to start a server, if you didn't install the demoes then you will need to create a domain before starting the server.
Once the server is up and running (using startwlevs.sh) you can verify that the visualizer is available on http://hostname:port/wlevs, the default port for the demo domain is 9002.
With the server running you can test the IDE by creating a new "Oracle CEP Application Project" and creating a new target environment pointing at your CEP installation.
Much easier than organizing a Family History Day!


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A fine example of elaborate prewar detailing, this 6-story elevator building is part of a small enclave within Inwood. Set on a hillside, it boasts incredible rooftop views across the Hudson River to the Palisades Parkway. A gracious landscaped courtyard with brick and wrought-iron fencing flanks the front entrance. Inside, a grand lobby features a marble fireplace and wall accents, columns with carved finials, and elaborate ceiling medallions. Mosaic tile details can be found throughout. The location offers convenient access to subways (1and A) and the FDR and George Washington Bridge.
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I don't have any favourite developers so I would be really worried if it were somehow. I for one only wish I could be convoluted enough to post something like that.
I don't have any favourite developers so I would be really worried if it were somehow. I for one only wish I could be convoluted enough to post something like that.
He's so consistent too! The closest I've seen him come to even hinting at it being a joke was the first time I replied to one of his comments. Like I said earlier I was polite (unlike everyone else), and dude was like "so I see you've been...BRAINWASHED". That's some straight up comic book superstuff right there.
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I've read some of his stuff before, it's pretty weird. He went into like a page long diatribe in a random RE6 article along similar lines to what's up there awhile back, tried to make it sound like a masterpiece of a game. I think he must for real, seems like a bit too much effort to go that far down the rabbit hole without meaning it.
If he was really that far gone, he would have lost his cool and gotten banned for personal attacks by now. People give him shit all the time and while he's a smartass about it, he never becomes vicious or anything. Not that I've seen anyway.
Front page is forever salvaged by Occams being the best.
I know that's not what you meant but it works in context. Words are fun.
Was just reading an article about religion (supposed decline from a mythical, fallacious "traditional" bygone era) that noted the number of "nones" (those declaring no religious affiliation) has risen from like 14% in 2008 to 20% in 2012, and I was like, "lol nuns."
Words da bess <3
That is good.
wanted to put the DC guys on top (because fanboyism) but the arrangement makes more sense like this.
And just because lol;
That picture reminds me of the lady gardener in Bioshock. Which now leads me to imagine everyone important in Bioshock as a Batman character.
You ever read Grant Morrison's run on JLA? Batman used the "would you kindly" thing once. It was awesome.
Haven't found the actual hypnosis part but this is the page right after it. Batman almost had the guy contained and then Superman ruined everything! What a dork.
It's generally safe to assume that I've never read something or seen something. I'm pretty sure I'm idiotic nerd girl, except charming.


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Great for homes with pets, the Enhanced Cleaning Head is easy to clean and maintain and much better at managing dirt, hair and debris. The revised brush design allows for considerable fine dust pick-up. Comes with bristle brush and beater brush. For use in Roomba 500, 600 and 700 Series models only.
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Keep up with regular maintenance with an Enhanced Cleaning Head for Roomba 500, 600 and 700 Series models. The enhanced cleaning head is much better at handling dirt, hair and debris, making it perfect for homes with pets. The revised brush design allows for considerable fine dust pick-up. Click here for video. What's In The Box:
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RELIABLE. Pet owner must have.
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About Me Busy household, Homeowner, Pet Owner
Comments about iRobot Enhanced Cleaning Head For Roomba®:
tough little machine any one can keep running
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Upgraded from my iRobot 540
By Bargain Hunter
from Vancouver, BC
I bought this through the irobot website directly. I registered my old irobot 540 that I've had for over 5 years and got a 15% discount to purchase this part as well as the aerovac bin. Since I had a new battery that I bought recently. It's upgraded my iRobot 540! My old cleaning head was on the skitz cos all the hair and fur got clogged up in the gear... a design flaw from iRobot which they fixed with this one. It vacuumed my pet ridden floors for over an hr and there were no tangled hairs on the brushes. Amazing! The aerovac bin picked up a lot of the hairs too. Buying these parts was a good buy and much better than the original parts. Felt like constantly babysitting the roomba with the original parts cleaning out the hairs every time it vacuumed. I vacuum every day because I am a pet owner but now with the new parts it's less of an issue. Also in general, maybe I haven't been aware. I find it to be a lot quieter too. Now I can use it again as before I couldn't as my neigbours below us would complain about the noise.
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Two heads broken in one year
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Frequent use, iRobot is super, but this head (at it's price) makes it useless.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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NOT an enhanced cleaning head
By logan
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The description implies that it is enhanced or at least revised but in fact it is the same as the part that comes with the 700 series. It is not different or better for pet hair in any way.
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The best way to clean the brush
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This module works great compared to the old 500 series module. I used to take the 500 series module apart a few times per year to clean and regrease the gears, but not any more! I have found that the best way to clean the brush is to use a wire dog brush (the kind with 100's of very thin wires). It works better than anything else I have tried.
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Works great
By Dirk
from Oakland, NJ
I bought this for my 550 series as it was making a thumping noise - one of the gearwheel sockets was broken. This part replaced the entire brush assembly and it works like a charm. The unit is now much quieter and cleans better. I am so pleased with it. I just would like to know how to buy additional brushes as this version seems to get less hair tangled in the gears.
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Not for 550
By Songuy
from Reno, Nv.
I purchased this to replace my failing 550 brush unit. Pet hair guards attracted me and reviews I read said it would work fine in the 550.All my 550 does now is go in circles - same one over and over.
Roomba 780 would not be without it.
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I have 10 cats and run it once a day. It is great except if it finds solf cat pooh. I would recamend one to every pet owner. Even My Cats watch it run.
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By Dr. J
from NC
Read a reviews that this fits all 500-700 series, and it does.... A great replacement, based on design. Just replaced the old unit, as, after a while, cleaning all the hair and debris out of the brush cage gear housing becomes tedious and problematic. So far, this is working great. Thanks Roomba for a design change, I have awaited for a long, long time.
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Well I've had this head unit since August 2012 in my 500 series roomba. To date we have had none of the previous issues that plagued the green units. The floor is cleaner and I'm happy to say I think the unit will easily outlast every green unit purchased COMBINED! As I was reading the reviews I got a chuckle to see that Irobot NOW recommends this unit for the 500 & 600 series robots. I guess they finally unloaded all those green units! Get this motor and the aero bin your roomba will be be as good as the 700 at cleaning.


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I have 2 different numbers, from example 7 and 8. I need generate third "unique" number using given numbers, that is, if from 7 and 8 we obtain some X number, this X number not will be obtain from some other 2 numbers, X must be generate only from 7 and 8. can make this? Thanks
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If the order matters and your two numbers are X and Y you could try things like:
$2^X3^Y$ or $(10^X-1)10^Y$ or $2^X(2Y-1)$
But the original question doesn't state whether X and Y can be zero or negative etc, and the kind of function you choose depends on what you want to use it for.
So what you want is an injective function $\mathbb N\times\mathbb N\to\mathbb N$.
There are many possible choices for that -- one of the simplest (among those that don't waste space by leaving many possible results unused) is $$(a,b)\mapsto \frac{(a+b)(a+b+1)}2 + a$$ which is known as Cantor's zig-zag.
If $a,b$ are nonnegative integers, then you can let $$x = \frac{a-b-1+(a+b+1)^2}2.$$ This $x$ will always be a non-negative integer and different inputs produce different values of $x$. In fact, this method is not wasteful: All nonnegative numbers $x$ can be obtained by a suitable (and unique) choice of $a$ and $b$.
Are the numbers positive integers, or can they be arbitrary real numbers? Does the order of the numbers matter, or can the numbers $7$ and $8$ generate the same number $X$ as the numbers $8$ and $7$?
I will assume that the numbers are positive integers, and that the order of them does not matter. Then you can put all your pairs of numbers in a long sequence, and count along the sequence to get your number $X$. For instance, you can use the sequence $$(1,1)\qquad (1,2)\qquad (2,2) \qquad (1,3) \qquad (2,3) \qquad (3,3) \qquad (1,4)\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ $$ $$(2,4)\qquad (3,4)\qquad (4,4) \qquad (1,5) \qquad (2,5) \qquad (3,5) \qquad (4,5) \quad {\rm etc.}$$ Following this pattern, your pair of numbers $7$ and $8$ will then be the $35$th element of this sequence, so $X=35$.
(It is in principle possible to do this for real numbers too, since ${\Bbb R}^2$ and $\Bbb R$ have the same cardinality, but you will not get an explicit expression for $X$ in that case.)


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Ask Amanda: Are my stitches twisted?
Before I delve in, it may help to clarify the difference between intentional twist stitches and unintentionally twisting your stitches. It can be a little confusing with such similar names, but they are two separate techniques.
Twist stitches (the intentional kind) are a nice way to add surface texture to your knitting. The examples below show twist stitches in action (Tolland on the left, Ria on the right). There's also a handy how-to video on our website if you're interested in learning the basic twist stitches.
When it comes to unintentional twisting, an accidentally twisted stitch is created if the stitch is knitted through the back loop, which is one of those funny knitting techniques that can be either the result of an accident or done on purpose (it's abbreviated in our patterns as ktbl).
I knitted up two sample swatches to help illustrate how your fabric will look if you knit through the front loops (standard stockinette) or through the back loops (twisted stockinette):
In each of the examples, I highlighted one stitch so you can compare a standard stitch and its twisted counterpart. In the standard stitch, you can see that the left leg (colored in red) and the right leg (in green) of the loop are sitting side-by-side. When it's knit through the back loop, the right leg gets pulled across the stitch to the left side, overlapping the left leg to create a twist.
If you think you might be knitting through the back loop but aren't sure, insert your needle into the next stitch as if you were getting ready to knit, then compare it with the photos below. The leg of the stitch that's closest to you should run behind your right needle. If that leg of the stitch remains in front of the right needle, you're inserting it through the back loop.
Let's look at one more way you could accidentally twist a stitch. If your stitches slipped off the needle and you're trying to slip them back on, it's important to pay attention to the way they're being returned to the needle. Take a look at the photos below for guidance. You'll want the right leg of the stitch (again colored in green) to be closest to you, with the left leg (in red) facing away from you.
Learning to recognize the difference between standard and twisted stitches can be a little tricky, but once you get the hang of it, all your future twists will only be the intentional kind!
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that was very interesting, thank you very muchJanuary 8, 2013
Susan Benesch #
Thank you very much. Nice to have the illustration & clear explanation.January 8, 2013
Jen #
wonderful! so clear and explains a lot about what I done unintentionally in my own knitting.January 8, 2013
Linda #
Wonderful information. Thank you so much.January 9, 2013
I grew up knitting through the back loop, but then wrapping my purl stitches clockwise, instead of counterclockwise. I always figured that untwisted the stitch. I bet not, as my stockinette resembles your sample on the right, mor ethan the flatter one on the left. This is interesting.
These days I alternate by project whether I knit front or back loop, to change up my wrist action. I ought to pay attention and compare swatches. Thanks!January 9, 2013
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I knit through the back loop as it's much easier on my hand movements and I'm a much faster knitter, both with knitting and purling (see http://www.modeknit.com). I became a Combined Continental knitter accidentally, when the first sweater pattern I did had me do Twisted Rib and had the typo (ktbl, ptbl…the to tbl's just cancel out to make regular rib). I didn't know any better, so just worked as the pattern said. I soon realised I knit a LOT faster and my wrists hurt less with this technique, so I just started using it for all my knitting! I've found it actually makes no difference if you put the needle through the front or back, but that the difference lies in whether the yarn rotating around the right hand needle is rotated towards or away from the left hand needle; in my method, the right wrist motion is always "sweeping" the yarn towards the left needle and up to form the stitch, thus making it very efficient and even.
When I first started purling (through the front loop), I didn't realise it mattered which way the yarn was rotated around the right needle; needless to say, things looked a bit wonky! So now I am careful to pay attention to that component when learning new stitches, etc.
Based on experience, the most obvious way to knowing you're unintentionally twisting stitches is whether the loops on the left hand needle all "face" the same way. It took me a few months to realise this!January 9, 2013
When knitting stockinette on circular needles, I always knit through the front, but when knitting stockinette on strait needles, I find I have to knit through the back on the knit side, and purl on the purl side to get stitches that don't look twisted. Is this normal, or do you always knit through the front, even on strait needles?January 16, 2013
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I learned something today (although I usually don't twist my stitches)!January 18, 2013
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thank you! I am teaching myself to knit. One look at your pictures n I knew I was twisting all my stiches unintentionally. But it wasnt knitting through the back loop that as causing it. I was purling wrong. Instead of taking the working yarn and feeding it in clockwise I was doing just the opposite. It caused every other row to be twisted. Thank you so much! If I hadn't seen your pictures who knows how long I'd been stuck doing it wrong!January 21, 2013
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I'm now a seasoned knitter with years of knitting under my belt, but when I started out my stockinette was twisted. I learned this from the failure to make a proper YO eyelet when I attempted lace. The culprit was not, however knitting through the back loops. I was wrapping my purl stitches wrong. I've since had a friend who did the exact same thing. So, it's possible that someone is knitting the right way and twisting their stitches by wrapping their purls wrong!April 6, 2015
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This was so helpful. I am making this mistake on the "wrong" rows.. will you please help me?June 18, 2016


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The issue I have is that there were some duplicates so when I look at the group in gmail, there are a few names that have a (+1) or (+2) next to the email address (meaning that a single person has multiple email addresses on this group)
How can I remove an email on a person from the group without actually deleting the email address on the person in general.
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I am trying to understand the justification of step (*) below, which I have seen used to find the integral of the Error Function Er(f); the cdf of the standard-normal normal .
Here is the derivation I know:
We set $I:= \int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-x^2}dx$
Then we use: $$I^2= \left( \int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-x^2} dx\right) \left(\int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-y^2} dy\right)$$
Then we end up with: (*) $$I^2=\int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-(x^2+y^2)} dxdy$$ --and we have a nice polar integral. question:
How do we conclude that $\big(\int f(x)dx\big) \big(\int f(y)dy\big) = \int f(x)f(y) dxdy$?
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A last name pertaining to a person; boy, girl, or hermaphrodite, usually highly involved with outings. People associated with the name Narus are usually drug dealers, addicts, or distributors.
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Naru Narusegawa, One of the many lead characters in the awesome anime series "Love Hina" She is the beautiful girl that Keitaro falls in love with and eventually become romantically involved. She is violent as well :P She is referenced in many other anime series.
Naru, Koalla Sue(adult and child), Shinobu, and the rest of the Love Hina Females become atracted to Keitaro
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Naru Narusegawa: Officially liscenced to kick the shit outta Keitaro whenever she wants :P
Is also hot.. Schwing!
Is also hot.. Schwing!
"YOU PERVERT!!!" *flying kicks to his face*
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A judge ruled today that the Moghul Express restaurant in Edison, New Jersey, can be sued by a group of strictly vegetarian Hindus after the restaurant accidentally served them meat-filled samosas. It looks like the 16 afflicted non-meat eaters are going to get a free trip for their troubles.
The restaurant accidentally delivered meat samosas to the group for a party rather than the vegetarian ones they ordered. Now those who ate the samosas say that they need to travel to India to cleanse themselves in the Ganges River since they committed the sin of eating meat and they expect the restaurant to foot the bill. Free travel for eating bad food? Because I ate some criminally awful pad thai the other day, does that mean someone is going to pay for me to go to Bangkok? I think it's only fair.
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Like the title says: how often should one have his tefillin inspected, and why was such a frequency chosen?
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The Chayai Adam (14:20) says that even Tefillin worn daily should be checked twice in seven years.
According to strict Halacha, Tefilin does not have to be inspected ever. Proof of this is a Yerushalmi Eruvin 59 Halacha 2 from Hillel Hazakain.
In the Teshuvos HaGeonim it says that so long it is being used constantly there is no need to check, however if it is only used from time to time it should be checked twice every 7 years like Mezuzus.
HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita says that it should be checked twice every seven years.


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In Israel, if Isru Chag of Pesach is on Shabbat, when do people reacquire their chametz that they sold on Pesach? Do they acquire it retroactively after the holiday is over, OR do they not acquire it until after Shabbat is over?
For example this year (2012, 5772):
The last day of Pesach is on a Friday, and Isru Chag (the day after the holiday) is on Shabbat.
I know of this question: Is it possible to eat chometz on the shabbos directly after Pesach?, but my question here involves chametz that is one's own house and was sold over Pesach.


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I know LaTeX is used a lot in academia to format papers and dissertations. How is LaTeX used in industry and what are some examples? I am wondering whether knowing LyX will give me a leverage when applying to jobs.
A very common use of LaTeX is for automatic generation of high quality PDF reports that present the results of some routine analysis. For example, given some hydrology data in CSV format:
(from: http://waterdata.usgs.gov)
One could write a quick script:
To process a report template that uses some sort of templating language (Jinja in this case):
Bam. A table that had to be tediously compiled by hand each week using Word or Excel is now automatically generated by a re-usable tool:
Slap the script into a
Here is a more complicated example produced using Sweave, which is a part of the R programming language:
To start with the examples:
Deutsche Bahn, the german railway company, is using LaTeX (or at least TeX, I'm not sure) to format timetables of any kind, including the large tables hanging in the stations, the individual station-wise or connection-wise schedules for download (in many different ways), etc.
Also, some smaller public transportation companies use it for the same purpose. You can see it in the PDF metadata of the schedules.It's hard to give a link, the schedules are created individually, so the link refers to the web form for the generation. You can try it by e.g. putting »Frankfurt« and »Berlin« into the »Von« and »Nach« field and then hitting »Erstellen«. The Schedules you can get's here are even more impressive (colorful, complex tables, etc.) and on the linked page are small previews.
A while ago I stumbled upon this conversation among professional typographers. The conversation is pretty revealing and gives you the reasons why TeX and Troff for that matter are seldom if ever used in typography industry apart of mathematics and up to some extends physics publications. I particularly like explanations about failure of Metafont to attract any attention by professional typographers. It boils down to a simple observation that is easier to teach pigs to fly than to teach professional typographers mathematics necessary to use Metafont to create new fonts.
There are companies (I try to avoid advertisement) that produce big product catalogs with LaTeX and lower level LuaTeX. For example (this is not from us): the ERCO catalog is made with LaTeX.
There are also professional LaTeX/TeX trainers and consultants. Also, some professional typesetters use TeX, LaTeX or ConTeXt for book productions (for example Germany based company Werksatz uses ConTeXt).
So, yes, LaTeX knowledge can be a leverage when applying to jobs, but these jobs are rare.
At the last GuIT (Italian TeX user group) meeting I presented the web application FACILE, in use at the Administration of the City of Naples (Italy, Naples on Wikipedia). The acronym FACILE means 'make an institutional letter according to the corporate identity of the Municipality'. Here is the link to the presentation slides: presentation of FACILE, GuIT meeting 2011 (it's in Italian, sorry, but figures give an idea of the work).
The web application was released on March 2011. It is integrated into the intranet software tools of the Municipality and is currently under testing. Users--i.e. employees of the City Administration--are able to produce official internal communication letters which comply to the City of Naples Corporate Identity specifications. In 2010, in the Administration of Naples have been issued 500000 internal letters. This gives an idea of the potential use of FACILE in the next future.
The application is designed to be perceived as a very simple tool and presents itself to the user as a web form for the production of a PDF document. Behind the scenes FACILE runs the XeLaTeX typesetting engine (letters have to be typeset with Garamond and Frutiger fonts) together with an ad hoc parser developed in the PHP language. The key aspect of the application is the design of a template of LaTeX source based on the scrlttr2 document class from the KOMA-script bundle.
One of the direct banks in Germany, at that time called 1822direkt, now Frankfurter Sparkasse, used to generate all their correspondence with LaTeX. In case of printed letters you could tell by the fonts
As it is a local bank and I'm no longer based in Frankfurt I am no longer with them, so I can't say if they still use LaTeX.
As a LaTeX consultancy, we have produced classes and styles for many organisations, including companies, government departments, and non-profits. A London auction house uses LaTeX to generate invoices; an electronic systems training company uses LyX and LaTeX to create their course workbooks and white papers; a Dublin printer uses LaTeX for pharmaceutical labelling; a local government organisation uses TeX to generate the Register of Voters; a professional scientific association uses LaTeX for its regular series of technical reports; and of course we use it internally for client reports, newsletters, and invoicing.
The well-known publishing company Springer also uses LaTeX for their books. In general (I suspect) most publishing companies, especially the ones producing scientific/technical books, will use (La)TeX.
You have to know also the policy that the company you are working for have for software: probably they have a standard software for internal-external documentation, and so you would be "warmly invited" to use that software. (I can tell this for sure because i'm experiencing the same thing just now)
In the other hand, if you are free to use your favourite software, you should check if your LaTeX (or LyX) documents (that can be exported to .odf format for sure) are well formatted and compatible with the software that your colleagues are using.
Finally, you should also know if the company is using a template, and which platform it's built for. I'm done :)
I've been told Pragma ADE, a publishing house, uses ConTeXt to produce high-quality documents.
Whether or not any particular company uses TeX (etc.) will depend significantly on the coorporate culture. When applying for any position, it is always best to learn about the company and adjust your resume/cover letter appropriately.
If there is a company that interests you, look at their publications, like the ones mentioned in the answers above, and see what they use. If they use TeX (etc.), then by all means highlight your skills; if they don't, don't.
I work for a large construction/engineering firm in the nuclear industry. Getting software (especially open source) installed on classified computers is not an easy task. I asked for a MikTeX install and not a single person in the IT department had ever even heard of LaTeX. Eventually I just gave up and now use MS Word (2003) with Times New Roman... yes, it nausiates me, but it is the most efficient method I have found for communicating with my coworkers.
Salesmen in my company use LaTeX without knowing it.
To make a commercial proposal of our complex industrial products, salesment use an Excel spreadsheet to choose the different options, the spreadsheet computes the parts lists, prices, planning etc.
The salesman fills also in different cells for the cover letter and explanations, then a macro creates a tex file and lauches pdftex.
The final document includes pictures, gantt project, tables… everybody is really amazed by the look of the document.
I was first feared that the salesmen would be reluctant to give up Word and loose control of the page layout, but the result is so good and alterations are so fast that nobody complains.
Some of them are even interested in learning LaTeX basic commands to be able to customize a bit the document.
The Swiss firm Netcetera has used LaTeX for marketing brochures, personalized customer service reports in finance and health applications, and automatically generating documentation needed to comply to European space engineering standards. However, in these cases defining the LaTeX that is generated is usually takes a few days to a few weeks (in the marketing case done by Amy Hendrickson, a consultant with www.texnology.com), the generation framework takes maybe a little less, and the maintenance of the generation framework and the content (kept in a Wiki, see http://jbrazile.blogspot.com/search/label/pdflatex) is the longer term task. Here, knowing the business domain (for the content) and being able to fix the code of the framework (sometimes Java, sometimes scripting languages) is probably more important than being able to debug the LaTeX error messages that get thrown in exceptional cases. And finally, within the firm probably the majority view is against the use of LaTeX for these uses in favor of more Java-friendly technologies such as Apache fop.
Regardless of whether or not LaTeX is used at the company and depending on the nature of the position you're applying for, it could still help to have on the résumé. It shows that you know how to do things more than one way (provided you have other document editing software on the résumé).
I used to interview folks for sysadmin positions and if someone had LaTeX on their résumé, I would definitely (like someone else mentioned) ask if they used it directly or with a GUI frontend. We often use those kinds of questions to get an idea of the person's skillset and work style preferences. For example, we do everything in the command line and if they prefer a WYSIWYG interface, then their style may not be a good fit for our company or they may be better suited for a different group within the organization.
As an embedded software developer, I use LaTeX as the back end for documentation produced by tools such as Doxygen. I also use it (often mediated by a Markdown to LaTeX translator called Pandoc) for production of working notes, release notes, and other internal-use documentation.
The key advantage for me is that the resulting documents have clean and professional-appearing typography without requiring a lot of manual effort or transcription and clean-up of text as is often required when dealing with Word.
We typeset books using LaTeX, especially in the Humanities (ie not books containing lots of math!). I just posted images from three of them in the parallel page Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends (p.2).
Dr Drang has a number of good examples if you poke around. He's an engineer that has used TeX for years. Poke around and I'm sure you'll find something awesome.


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Is there any mathematical result that gives us the minimum number of 1's in a 160-bit SHA-1 hash output? What is the probability that a 160-bit SHA-1 hash output contains at least 128 1's?
SHA-1:Is there any mathematical result that gives us the minimum number of 1's in a 160-bit SHA-1 hash output?
No, theoretically a SHA1 hash can be any 160-bit value, including the string of 160 zeroes.
As for your second question, if we fudge a little bit and consider SHA1 a truly random function this becomes the same question as the following:
If we flip 160 coins, what is the probability that at least 128 of them will be heads?
Solution is left as an exercise to the reader; I suspect this might be a homework question.
A good (secure) hash function has output that is uniformly and evenly distributed and shouldn't be distinguishable from random value.
So the minimum number of possible ones is $0$ and the maximum number of possible ones is $160$.
The number of possible combinations of 128 ones in 160 bits, which is $4.64648350·10^{33}$, multiply that by the probability each combination, which is $1/(2^{160}) = 6.84227766·10^{-49}$, making the final number $3.17925303·10^{-15}$, about $0.00000000000000317925303\,\%$.
To calculate the probability of at least 128 bits being ones, you have to repeat the same for 129, 130, 131, ..., 160. Then finally add all these probabilities together.
The math is too complicated for me, so I'm not gonna do it.
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April has come and gone and we have ended the month as league champions due to a 1-1 draw with Real Madrid.We had a bit of a poor finish to April with losing to Athletic when we absolutely battered them and then drawing with Real in which we were lucky to come out with a point.The rest of the games were pretty straightforward and Almeria were very lucky to only concede four goals as we missed a penalty,had a goal disallowed and hit the woodwork 4 times!We stunned Chelsea in the CL as we won 3-0 which gives us a very good advantage going into the 2nd leg at the Chelsea Stadium (built in 2022,holds 58,750!)
May is here and boy it is a tough month.We have Valencia,Barcelona and Malaga in the league which is a very tough run in but I have the league wrapped up.We have the Copa del Rey final against At.Madrid on the 24th which again will be a tough fixture.We have a 3-0 lead over Chelsea but I cannot take anything for granted and we need to play our best to make sure we go through,we will then have a potential final against Arsenal or Real Madrid.If I do get through then I want Arsenal for beating me in the Euro Super Cup and last seasons CL semi-final!


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I am trying to figure out how to calculate the average commute time to work within 15 miles of the city center (and then map it in a form of continuous symbols (red to green gradient) with a legend, scale and everything. That would be called "average commute times to work).
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I am getting an error message when atempting to Create a connection in Arc Catalog. The message is : Failed to Connect to database SDE not Running on Server Then I Check the Service esri_sde it has not started, so when I try to start it I get the message : The ArcSde Service(esri_sde)service on Local Computer started and them stopped. i found sde_esri_sde.log file . the error messages are : IDBInitialize::Initialize Failed DB_open_instance() PCC_connect error: 2 init_DB DB_instance_open_as_dba: -51 DBMS error code: 2 Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0: Login timeout expired i dont know what's wrong ... ?! please help me
I suggest you check you connection properties. You were able to run sde post install cleanly? DId you used command line or GUI installation?
Can you connect to SQL Server via other tools? VIsual Studio or SQL Management?
I only ever used ArcSDE with Oracle but I guess its probably the same. When you say you can connect in sqlserver under which username? sde? Does the sde schema (login in sqlserver?) exists and all the tables created?. You are either using the wrong username/password or the sde schema has not been created. Does the sdemon command gives you a different error?
I think I have had this prob before.
It's a better practice to use direct connections to your database instead of SDE services. SDE services will consume CALS and if you don't less CALS than users you'll have a first come first served problem. ArcGIS 10.1 uses direct connect exclusively. Also, the answer about network logins is good advice to consider. Look up the way to use direct connect in ESRI help docs.
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Bright and beautiful Bo-Kaap – Flickr pic of the day
This lovely image of Bo-Kaap was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Gaby Gang aka cosmopolitanphotography.
Gaby says, "Bo-Kaap in Cape Town is a vibrant, colourful area full of wonderful, exotic smells drifting out of the wide open doors of all the little shops one can find there.
"It's a delight to visit this area – for the history addict, for the photographer, for the gourmet – for everyone. Nobody should miss it!" she adds.
Bo-Kaap has a fascinating history. Many of the residents are descendants of the slaves from Malaysia, Indonesia and elsewhere in Africa who were imported to the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch during the 16th and 17th centuries.
The best place to find out about the history of the area is the quaint Bo-Kaap Museum (+27 21 481 3939).
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I'm having trouble understanding the definition of cardinal exponentiation.
Let's start with the definitions / claims I've been given:
For any finite sets $A,B$, such that if $|A|=a$ and $|B|=b\neq 0$ then the number of functions from $A$ to $B$ is $b^a$. ( I'm guessing this is only used when both sets are finite ).
For any sets $A,B$, $B^A$ is the set of functions from $A$ to $B$.
For every set $A$, $|P(A)|=|\left \{ 0,1 \right \}^A|$
Now for the definition and why I don't understand it:
Let $a,b$ be cardinal numbers. Let $A,B$ be sets such that $|A|=a, |B|=b$. Then $|B^A|=b^a$.
How analagous to normal exponentiation is this and where does in differ when we introduce cardinals like $\aleph_0$ or $C$?
Is $2^2=4$ and is $\frak c^2=c\cdot c=c\times c$?


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The 3rd party RSS Feed alternatives to Safari that I've found are cumbersome...in my opinion. Any simple, and good looking ones out there? (using NetNewsWire and it looks/feels bloated). Perhaps there's a Safari Extension?
I use NetNewsWire, but if you're coming from something simple like Safari's RSS reader, I can see how it might feel like overkill. If you don't care for NNW, have a look at Reeder for Mac. It's got a simpler aesthetic, perhaps more to your taste. It's $4.99 on the Mac App Store, and does require a Google account, as it uses Google Reader for the backend.
Google Reader is of course another popular option, if you don't mind a web-app. You could use Fluid to turn it into a bit of a hybrid app if you want a more native feel.
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Hollywood, Esq.
For Law School graduates making their mark in the high-profile world of entertainment law, a day at the office can mean power lunches with movie stars and negotiations on the next Hollywood blockbuster. Peter Benedek, Katherine Kendrick, Ira Schreck, and Nina Shaw put it all into focus.
When Ira Schreck '80 graduated from Columbia Law School, he thought he might try his hand at litigation in Washington, D.C. He bought a nice suit, and a tie, and joined the prestigious law firm Arnold & Porter. Before long, though, Schreck felt restless. "I realized that litigation was largely about anger and divorce, and that it was more satisfying to help bring people together who wanted to be together," he says.
Schreck didn't know it yet, but he had the perfect skill set to become an entertainment attorney. He also had a deep passion for film and television dating back to his childhood in pre-hipster Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
"Like all kids, I grew up watching a lot of TV. I always loved movies, and in high school, I discovered the theater," says the affable Schreck. "I just feel very lucky that my passions have intersected with my job."
Schreck's firm, Schreck Rose Dapello Adams & Hurwitz, represents a diverse cross-section of talent, including writer-director Jim Sheridan, actress Sarah Jessica Parker, TV and film star Kevin James, and director Ang Lee. Much to his delight, Schreck's job affords him an opportunity to tinker with the zeitgeist in a meaningful way. "I always found that the most satisfying part of the job is helping clients realize their dream projects and work toward something that touches the culture," he says. "For example, something like Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger or Kevin James' film Paul Blart: Mall Cop—these films were pet projects for our clients, but they weren't 'hot' properties at the start. Our clients followed their instincts, and both films were tremendously successful. I like to think that our efforts were instrumental in making those films happen. That's very gratifying to me."
Schreck isn't the only Columbia Law School graduate to gravitate toward entertainment law long before it became cool to do so. Nina Shaw '79 co-founded Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka and Finkelstein, one of the top entertainment law firms in Hollywood, and has been instrumental in negotiating deals for James Earl Jones and Laurence Fishburne, among others. Katherine Kendrick '86 was a lawyer for Hollywood Pictures, a division of The Walt Disney Studios, before she became general counsel and corporate secretary for DreamWorks SKG, where she has worked with some of the most visionary executives in Hollywood history. And
Peter Benedek '73 worked as an entertainment lawyer for many years before he became a talent agent and started the United Talent Agency, one of the biggest such agencies in the world.
Given the culture's current obsession with Hollywood and celebrity, it might seem inevitable that four extremely bright graduates of Columbia Law School would want to make a name for themselves in the realm of entertainment law. But in fact, they can be seen as pioneers—wading into the business at a time when most Law School graduates were looking to establish long-term careers with large firms specializing in corporate law. The common perception among Law School graduates of the '70s and '80s was that entertainment law was something practiced on the West Coast by a small coterie of Swifty Lazar types—slick operators with expense accounts at the Polo Lounge. Now, of course, entertainment law is a growth industry on both coasts, and these four trailblazers are ideally positioned for continued success.
Few successful lawyers can boast of the meandering path that Ira Schreck trod before finding his way to entertainment law. The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, he spent time driving a taxi in New York City and dealing blackjack in Reno before attending Columbia Law School.
Schreck's inevitable "finding-myself" period during the mid-'70s was like something out of the Paul Newman film The Hustler; after receiving his undergraduate degree in philosophy from SUNY New Paltz, Schreck taught himself a computer system for beating the house at blackjack. He then drove across the country, relocated to Reno, and tried to make a living at cards.
"I didn't have the means to really win big," he says. "So I played daily and won small amounts and then finally got thrown out of a casino for card-counting." So Schreck moved to the other side of the table and became a craps croupier at the Horseshoe Casino in Reno. "I loved doing it so much that I went back after my first year of law school to complete my training as a croupier," he says.
In 1987, while he was working in business affairs at CBS/Fox Video, Schreck got a call from fellow Columbia Law School graduate Tom Rothman '80 that changed his life. Rothman was leaving Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz for a job at Columbia Pictures and wondered if his friend might want to step in. Schreck became a partner with the firm in short order.
It was during his tenure at Frankfurt, Garbus that Schreck honed his skills as an entertainment lawyer, poring over contracts and hammering out agreements involving heavy-hitters such as Kathleen Turner, a huge star at the time. "I cut my teeth on those deals," he says. "It was trial by fire, but that's always been my way." Working with Turner and other big names, such as Al Pacino, Schreck came to realize that the personal representation of creative individuals was his greatest strength.
"I made the decision very early on that I only wanted to work with creative people I liked and respected," he says. "There are two kinds of entertainment clients: the ones who want the cover of US magazine and worry incessantly about stardom, and the ones who are motivated by doing the best possible work they can do. I wanted to work with the latter."
Now, with him as the driving force behind Schreck Rose Dapello Adams & Hurwitz, which was founded in 1999, the firm has grown and amassed a classy clientele of industry powerhouses. "If I come back from lunch and go down the phone list, there shouldn't be one client on that list that I don't want to call back," he says. "If I don't enjoy speaking with someone, then we shouldn't be working together."
Nina Shaw seconds Schreck's take on client relations. Of course, Shaw has been working with many of her most famous clients for 20 years or more, ever since she started Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka and Finkelstein with her partner, Ernest Del, in 1989.
One of the first African-American women to forge a successful career in the field, Shaw is a forebearer for an entire generation of lawyers who followed her example. As a partner at Del, Shaw, she has negotiated some of the biggest movie deals of the past two decades for clients who include Cedric the Entertainer and Jamie Foxx.
Born in Harlem to parents who placed a high premium on learning, Shaw attended the Law School at a time when there were very few women in either the student body or the administration. Still, she reveled in her Columbia Law School education. And she didn't have to be prodded into the legal profession by her parents; it's something she had wanted to do from an early age. "I didn't know it was going to be entertainment law necessarily," she says. "It certainly wasn't something that a lot of my classmates were thinking of doing."
Shaw's first job out of law school, as a junior associate at O'Melveny & Myers, proved to be fortuitous, as the firm handled all the legal affairs for the television company founded by the potentates of '70s television comedy: Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin, producers of All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and Good Times, among others.
"Wow, what an education that was," says Shaw. "Lear and Yorkin were on the cutting edge of so much that we take for granted in the business now, such as first-run syndication rights and spinoffs. I learned so much about how the business worked just by being in on all of that."
These days, Shaw has her own monumental industry accomplishments to be proud of, and they span decades. Jamie Foxx, for instance, was an ensemble player on the comedy show In Living Color when Shaw started representing him. Laurence Fishburne used Shaw to negotiate his deal for the film What's Love Got To Do With It? in 1993. Since then, she has negotiated Fishburne's deals for all three Matrix films, which have been reported as totaling more than $30 million. (Shaw declined to discuss details of client deals.) "It's amazing to watch the Matrix films and think, this is an iconic part of the culture now," says Shaw. "It's very gratifying to be a part of something like that."
Much of Shaw's time at the moment is taken up with protecting her clients from the proliferation of identity appropriation on the internet. "Digital usage compliance is a big issue," she says. "Take someone like James Earl Jones, who is synonymous with Darth Vader. His voice can be used on a blog, or perhaps his image is replicated on some video online. I have to make sure it's being done legally, because it's too easy for those things to slip through the cracks."
When it comes to negotiations, Shaw likes to think of herself as a bit of a sensei in a culture rife with yellers and chair-throwers; the harder the opposite side pushes,
the more composed she gets. "I'm a calm negotiator," she says. "It does no good at all
to be a screamer, especially since you're going to be dealing with the same people on future deals.
Katherine Kendrick, like Shaw, has proven adept at keeping her cool under pressure. A native of California, the DreamWorks SKG general counsel worked in corporate law at Latham & Watkins before moving into entertainment law and has been with the company since its founding days in 1996. "Being general counsel is about having strong management skills and also creative problem-solving skills that can be applied to a business landscape that's constantly evolving," says Kendrick. "I like being challenged, and so do the people I work with. They are not only smart, but they know how to tackle complex issues head-on."
Kendrick's long run at DreamWorks means she's had the privilege of working with three titans of Hollywood: Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, and Steven Spielberg.
Needless to say, it's kept her on her toes.
"Jeffrey is a tireless worker," says Kendrick, who followed Katzenberg from Disney to DreamWorks when Katzenberg left Disney and formed the new studio with Spielberg and Geffen. "He's very passionate and highly energetic," she continues. "He's a visionary and a builder." Geffen, says Kendrick, "has this uncanny ability to work his way through a complex problem very quickly and hone in on the critical issue. I find myself really doing my homework before I approach him with anything." As for Spielberg, "he's very generous, and brilliant, obviously. Working with these men has been professionally exhilarating and always very challenging, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
At DreamWorks, Kendrick has helped orchestrate alliances involving Hewlett-Packard and Intel in connection with the company's next generation immersive 3-D film technology. Although she spent many years working on deals involving talent for DreamWorks and Disney, Kendrick now finds large-scale corporate partnerships to be more compelling. Besides, she now has a strong team of lawyers under her to handle all the talent deals and intellectual property battles.
"It's a very exciting time to be working for a media company," Kendrick says. "New developments in technology present us with evolving distribution and marketing platforms and formats. It's an ongoing intellectual challenge to find the best ways to protect this company's IP assets while still fostering our creative spirit. The trick is finding the best opportunities and building the best framework to enable our creative team to deliver first-class entertainment to our audience.
Whereas Schreck, Shaw, and Kendrick all came to see entertainment law as an ideal professional destination, Peter Benedek, the co-founder of United Talent Agency, used his time as an entertainment lawyer to jumpstart a related career as a talent agent. After a decade of working for top-notch entertainment firms, he began looking for a change of pace. "It wasn't like I intended to be an agent," he says. "I just wanted to find something else to do."
Benedek grew up in Great Neck, Long Island, the son of a Hungarian emigre who imported textiles for a living. Like Nina Shaw, Benedek found his destiny at an impressionable age. "I read this biography of Thomas Jefferson in second grade, and I knew I wanted to become a lawyer," he says. "There were no lawyers in my family, but I never found anything more compelling."
Benedek enrolled in Columbia Law School in 1970 and graduated in the top 20 percent of his class before leaving New York to pursue his dreams on the West Coast.
The move to Los Angeles was traumatic for his parents—"It was like Columbus leaving for the new world," Benedek recalls—but like an aspiring movie star, the young lawyer knew he needed to entrench himself there if he was going to make it. He secured a job with the mega-firm Kaplan, Livingston in 1977 and stayed there for a decade. In 1987, Benedek and 10 of his colleagues left the firm to co-found Weissman, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman & Schulman, which was exclusively devoted to entertainment law. Shortly thereafter, the William Morris agent Marty Bauer gave Benedek a call. "He was
looking to start his own agency, and something about being an entrepreneur in that business, of being in control of your own destiny, appealed to me," he says. Bauer-Benedek immediately became one of the top small agencies in Hollywood, with a roster that included writer-director Lawrence Kasdan and Michael J. Fox, Benedek's former legal clients.
Bauer-Benedek morphed into the United Talent Agency when the firm merged with Leading Artists agency in 1991. Today, UTA is a powerhouse, with a client list that includes actors Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow, director Judd Apatow, and
TV producers Dick Wolf and David Chase. "You know how they say that people look like their dogs?" Benedek asks. "Well, you tend to attract clients that you're compatible with."
United Talent was one of the first agencies to recognize the importance of the digital space as a cultural driver; to that end, UTA has a department devoted to representing online talent and has recruited A-list movie clients such as the Coen brothers
(No Country for Old Men, Fargo) to develop content. Recent projects include
shows primarily found online, such as MTV's College Humor Show and the WB's Sorority Forever.
That sort of forward-looking initiative will become all the more important as the entertainment business continues its move into the digital era. Benedek, Schreck, Shaw, and Kendrick will have to adapt, while at the same time protecting clients' interests as best they can. It's a vastly different landscape from the one they first encountered upon entering the entertainment law field, but they have no regrets about forsaking corporate litigation for popular culture. "I got into this business because I love movies," says Benedek. "It's as simple as that."