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My maybe very naive question is, of what practical importance will the discovery of the Higgs-Mechanism be for our technological advance in the near future?
People tend to talk about the role of the Higg's in particle mass, but this is in some sense a peripheral issue to something much deeper. This deeper issue is that without the Higgs, W boson scattering violates unitarity above $\sim 1000 \text{ GeV}$, or equivalently the Standard Model minus the Higgs is non-renormalizable above $\sim 1000 \text{ GeV}$.
Now to break down some of these buzzwords: This deeper issue I speak of is due to the fact that when we do calculations in particle physics we are using quantum mechanics which is an intrinsically probabilistic theory. In such a theory we don't have classical notions of trajectory etc, and all we can calculate is the probability that some process is going to occur. For example, a typically thing we might be interested in is the probability that some particle will be scattering off at some angle with some energy. Note that this is not a deficiency of the theory that we are limited to probabilistic predictions since as far as we know there is no meta theory that will ever be able to use to predict how a single given particle will behave. Now, since we are dealing with probabilities we should never calculate a probablity that is more than %100 or else the theory we are dealing with ceases to make sense. This is exactly what I mean by ' violates unitarity' - the Standard Model minus the Higgs makes no sense above $\sim 1000 \text{ GeV}$ as it starts giving nonsensical probabilities in this regime. With the Higgs however it is a logically complete theory to much higher energies (perhaps arbitrarily large ) in that the probabilities always come out bounded by 100%. It may not (probably won't) be the correct theory that describes our world up to arbitrarily large energies, but it is at least mathematically consistent, which is more than you can say for the Standard model without the Higgs.
So to summarize and answer your question: now that we know (pretty sure) there is a Higgs we can make predictions using the Standard Model to higher energies than if we didn't see a Higgs. Any deviations between experiment and theory will now be a sign of new physics instead of an artifact of our theory logically breaking down.
If you want a deeper explanation in either laymans terms or physics terms let me know.
I don't think that's a naive question at all, as there's quite a lot to it.
The immediate answer is "no difference". If you, like many of us, read science fiction as an impressionable youngster you're probably vaguely disappointed that warp engines and interdimensional drives haven't been invented yet, and you probably harbour hopes that some new discovery could still make them possible.
The problem is that the Standard Model is an extremely accurate description of the world at low energies. There are undoubtably new discoveries to come, but by definition they'll be at high energies that we don't see in the world around us. This probably means the technologies we'll invent have to be based on Standard Model physics. Any new discoverties aren't likely to have a big impact on technology. I say "probably" because I'm keenly aware of Arthur C. Clarke's first law and it would be a brave man to claim discoveries like the Higgs will never affect everyday technology.
However, discovering the Higgs has required enormous advances in areas like computing, and this is likely to have a big effect on all of us in the near future, especially if cloud computing takes off. After all, remember that the World Wide Web was invented at Cern.


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If I make an opportunity attack with a ranged weapon (e.g., a crossbow) against an adjacent enemy, does it provoke an opportunity attack as well?
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As a general rule, "An opportunity attack is a melee basic attack" (Compendium glossary), so this doesn't come up much.
However, there are special cases: Ninth Legion Student [Lesser Style] lets you use Direct the Strike (ranged 5) "in place of a melee basic attack when making an opportunity attack."
Now, both the Glossary entry for Ranged Attack and the entry for Opportunity Attack explicitly say that ranged powers provoke OAs from adjacent enemies. To me, this means that ranged OAs provoke OAs unless a feat/power/item/feature explicitly lists an exception.
Conclusion: YES. Ranged attacks always provoke opportunity attacks, even when the ranged attack is itself an opportunity attack. It's really uncommon though, as using ranged attacks for OAs is a rare exception to the "only-MBAs-for-OAs" rule, and there'd have to be a second enemy adjacent to you to take advantage of the granted OA anyway. [Note: OAs interrupt the action that provoked them, so causality might get messy to track if this procs a chain of OAs.]
YES, though the term "provokes" applies poorly to D&D 4th edition.
Rather than "provoking opportunity attacks", you should think in terms of Opportunity Actions being triggered by certain conditions. An enemy making a ranged attack adjacent to you is one of the triggers for the basic at-will power
Thus, there are four relevant scenarios worth considering with ranged opportunity attacks. In each example, "X" can use a Ranged Basic Attack as an Opportunity Attack, and in each X is an enemy to Z and O.
First: X and O are adjacent to one another, and it is O's turn.
O moves away from X.
O's movement meets the trigger condition for X's
HOWEVER he cannot use that power because it is his turn.
In this example, X's ranged attack triggers O's
End result:
Second: both Z and O are adjacent to X, and it is O's turn.
Once again, O moves away from X.
Once again, O's movement triggers X's
HOWEVER this also triggers an
End result:
Third: both Z and O are adjacent to X, and it is Z's turn.
This time, Z uses a close burst power that allows O to move as a free action.
Once again, O's movement triggers X's
This time O can take an
End result:
Fourth: both Z and O are adjacent to X, and it is Z's turn.
This time, Z uses a ranged power that allows O to move as a free action.
This time, X's
In either case, however, the scenario plays out the same as the third example.
End result:
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Jenkins took the helm of the chamber at one of the organizations most
tumultuous times, when it was discovered the former executive director was
charged with and pled guilty to embezzling payroll funds and fixing QuickBooks files. That was in 2010, and Jenkins made good on her commitment to give the chamber two years on the
job, she said, saying she couldnt at the time promise longer than two
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We are deleting old stored procedures and tables.
How can I know what procedures haven't been called recently?
dm_exec_procedure_stats and
dm_exec_query_stats aren't reliable, since they only return procedures in the plan cache.
We are deleting old stored procedures and tables.
How can I know what procedures haven't been called recently?
The only way to do this would be to add logging to your stored procedures (or to the app that calls them, if that is feasible and inclusive enough), or to run a very targeted server-side trace perpetually and review the trace.
Also note that just because a procedure hasn't been called in a week doesn't mean it won't be called tomorrow. You could have reporting procedures that are only called monthly or annually or some obscure operation that doesn't happen very often. Deleting that stored procedure could be disastrous days or weeks from now, potentially beyond any backup you have at the time (and assuming you aren't following best practices and storing your stored procedures in source control).
The safest way, IMHO, is to rename stored procedures (maybe with a
If you can modify the procedures, add a line at the begining of each (this is fairly easy to automate):
Next create a server side trace and capture event 82 (the first user_event). After n days collect the generated traces and aggregate the usage. Make sure your trace writes into a disk with sufficient space and enough IO bandwith. For extra credit you can also inspect the traces periodically and remove
Knowing what has been called recently only helps for frequently called things and many objects in a complex database are not called that often but are still needed. I know no simple way to identify what isn't being used.
What I would do is start up Profiler on my dev or qa box and then take every application that hits it and run through the functionality. (if you have a formal QA, a good set of regression tests would help this). I would set up my trace to write to a table. Now at least you know what procs the applications call and can eliminate them from the list.
Make sure every job on the prod server has an equivalent job on your test server and run them. That should find some more.
By now your list of potential sps is much smaller.
Your list of active tables should include only those mentioned in one of the procs and tables you know you need like audit tables. YoOu can create a list of potentials for eliminating from there.
Now once you have the list of potentials to eliminate, you will probaly see some fairly obvious ones like usp_my_proc_Old (when you have a USP_My_proc in the db). Those are my first candidates to eliminate. Tables with no data are another set of obvious ones at this point. Tables/procs that clearly refer to a functionality you know has been eliminated would be the next ones. Suppose you recently replaced the functionality for storing survey results with a new design. You may want to keep the table (You may need the data) but the procs that call that table are probably all out of date and can go.
Depending on your legal constraints, you may not want to eliminate any table with data. We have client specific data for clients we no longer have, becasue we are in a regulated industry and are occasionally asked to provide data to auditors and regulators and lawyers. However, you can move these tables to another archive db if you want to clean out your actual production database.
Then start looking at what they do. You can eliminate any proc that will not run especially if one of the tables it references no longer exists. If a table has a datefield, are there any recent dates? If the last time the data field was populated witha date was 2008, that is a good candidates for a table we don't need anymore.
Once you have a list of several potential objects to delete, then send the list around to all of your developers and ask them if they use the table/proc or know what it was for. Do not do this with a huge list of 1000s of objects. Send out no more than 10-20 at a time and try to group them so they are clearly on related topics.
For potentials to eliminate, you can add a logging process to the proc or a logging trigger to the table and set a date when the object will be eliminated if there are no entries by that date.
Run a trace on something like:
Consider filtering by databases IDs. Once you've compiled enough data you can make your decisions. Be aware of course that a trace will have a performance hit so ensure this hit doesn't cause operational issues.
One of my clients has this exact same problem, but it's the worst instance of it I've ever seen. Some rogue developer generated thousands of stored procedures (over 6k), most of which are not used.
They now poll sys.dm_exec_cached_plans every 5 minutes, and insert into a table for tracking. Only stored procedure names that don't already exist in the table are inserted.
As others have mentioned, going through quarterly/annual business cycles is highly recommended.
The problem isn't that DMV's are unreliable, it's that they don't capture the information that you want. Create a job that runs periodically that uses them to capture the information that you want -- run it twice a day if your data is falling off in 24 hours. Given that the DMV's aren't really the intensive, even hourly if you like.


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Here is a question in cryptography which is probably naive, and a reference request.
I was wondering about the following key-exchange scheme, which is a variant on Diffie-Hellman. Consider a set $X$ (finite but very large) and a map $T : X \to X$, both made public together with a point $x \in X$. Now A chooses an integer $n$ secretly and publishes $T^n(x)$, while B does the same with $m$. A and B can both compute the key $T^{n+m}(x)$, and assuming that it is difficult to find $n$ from $x$ and $T^n(x)$, then noone else can.
Traditionally one picks an element $g$ in a group $G$, then A publishes $g^n$, B publishes $g^m$, and A and B both know the key $g^{nm}$. For $G$ one picks $(\mathbf{Z}/p)^\times$, or an elliptic curve over a finite field, or a braid group, or what have you.
It seems that with the above variant, it is easy to produce examples: for example take $X$ to be a vector space over $\mathbf{F}_2$, and let $T$ be some map which shuffles the bits around according to your fancy. My intuition is that it is easier to make the "log-problem" difficult in this way than by choosing the right group $G$. I may be so completely wrong!
Is there an obvious weakness in this scheme? For example, is it very hard to prove that, for a given map $T$, the "log-problem" is indeed difficult?
It may well be that I'm only describing something standard.
What is a good reference, then?
(Basic searches with "cryptography and dynamics" were not satisfactory.)
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As your baby's lungs develop in the chest, there is nothing to separate them from the stomach, liver, and bowel in what will later become her abdominal cavity.
In adults, the chest is separated from the abdomen by the muscular diaphragm. When we breathe, the diaphragm moves downward and the ribs expand outward. This process allows air to enter the lungs.
Your baby's diaphragm forms from four in-folds of tissue. First seen at around this week of pregnancy, these folds gradually expand inward, fusing together and closing the space by the end of this week. In the center of the diaphragm there are openings for the esophagus to the stomach, main artery to the body-the aorta, and main vein returning blood from the lower body, the inferior vena cava. As your pregnancy progresses, muscle fibers gradually strengthen your baby's diaphragm, which later allows her to make breathing movements.
If you're expecting twins or more, blood-based screening tests for Down syndrome can mislead, since they rely on measuring the amounts of circulating AFP (alfa-fetoprotein) and other markers, which are present in much higher levels when there's more than one baby. That's why your best bet for screening is the nuchal translucency test from 11-14 weeks.
It's useful to be aware of the screening tests and diagnostic tests that will be available in the weeks to come. Your doctor will talk through the pros and cons of having each test. Some abnormalities may be detected at the 18-22 week scan.
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About SQL (Computing/Databases):
When we have two or more fields in a table that, together, identify its records uniquely, what's the proper way of calling them? Composite or compound keys?
I've seen on the web both uses so I'm not really sure.
About SQL (Computing/Databases):
When we have two or more fields in a table that, together, identify its records uniquely, what's the proper way of calling them? Composite or compound keys?
I've seen on the web both uses so I'm not really sure.
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Both composite key and compound key describe a candidate key with more than one attribute. According to the Relational Database Dictionary (C.J.Date) they mean the same thing.
In ER modelling the term "compound key" also has a more specific meaning. It means a key whose constituent attributes are references to keys in other entities - i.e. a compound key forms an identifying relationship. For most purposes, this isn't an especially useful or important concept so the terms composite/compound are often treated as interchangeable. It's probably best to stick to "composite key" unless you are referring specifically to the ER modelling concept of a compound key.
I'm still not sure why http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_key was not consulted. It very clearly states (and is correct):
A composite key is made up of elements that may or may not be foreign keys. Example: In a table of Transaction details, the key is (TransactionId, ItemNumber). A transaction detail is a subentity of a transaction. TransactionId is a foreign key, referencing the Transactions table. ItemNumber is not a key in and of itself. It only uniquely identifies an item within the context of a single transaction.
A compound key is a key whereby any part of the key is a foreign key. Example: in an a hotel reservation system, a reservation has the compound key, (GuestId, HotelId, ArrivalDate). GuestId identifies a Guest, and references the Guests table. HotelId identifies a Hotel, and references the Hotels table. ArrivalDate identifies a Date. There may or may not be a Dates table that it references, but it identifies an Entity (a Date) either way.
Also of note is this factoid: A simple key is a key made up of one column, whereas a composite key is made up of two or more columns.
In English it is "composite keys". For instance, take a look at MSDN website (any search containing "sql composite key" will do).
Assuming that the question regards Relational Databases, I searched for a "neutral" definition in Wikipedia:
A composite key consists of more than one attribute to uniquely identify an entity occurrence. This differs from a compound key in that one or more of the attributes, which make up the key, are not simple keys in their own right.
For example, you have a database holding your CD collection. One of the entities is called tracks, which holds details of the tracks on a CD. This has a composite key of CD name, track number.
It sounds to me like a composite key is a superset that includes compound keys. If we accept that a composite key is made of more than one attribute (of any kind), and a compound key is made of more than one simple key. A compound key is a type of composite key with a more specific meaning, but the term "composite" key is always appropriate to use.


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"Foot" is a curious word in English because it is pluralized in an unusual way; the "oo" in the word is changed to "ee". Did this once use to be a standard way of pluralizing things in English (or a language that contributed to English), which would mean that the plural of "book" was "beek" instead of "books"? Or, is "feet" just a one-off?
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Whenever you find an O (or some other back vowel like A or U) in one form of an English word and an E (or some other front vowel like Æ or I) in the corresponding place in another, you have two suspects to interrogate.
In English, this happened to many normal plurals because of the E in the regular plural suffix -es. That E was pronounced in Old English and Middle English, but not in Modern English; however the root vowel had been changed already and is maintained in some, but not most, of the nouns.
The original Old English (or possibly Proto-, West, or Low Germanic) of goose/geese (in Modern English [gus/gis]) was [go:s/go:ses]. There were several steps in the derivation:
Edit: In this medium, where writing and typography has to express speech and sounds, I use italics and boldface like this:
Here is a quote from the Old English dictionary:
Let's now look at:
So, I guess yes, we can say that at least the word from which modern
It's also interesting to notice that fót actually had an alternative form fótes, but this form has not survived.
As a rule, morphological irregularities of Modern English are remnants of previously regular processes of Old English.
So, if English had been a more conservative language, we would have retained beech as the plural of book. Moreover, we would have had book as the past tense of bake (like took and shook from take and shake).
German, which is more morphologically conservative than English, still has vowel alternation in both these places. The plural of Buch "book" is Bücher, and the past tense of back- "bake" is buk (though a regular form, backte, is emerging, just like English baked).
The plural of foot always was feet; we inherited the word from West Germanic, which seems to have had a lot more plurals where the vowel changed than English does today. The word for "foot" in German is Fuß (rhyming with "moose"); the plural is Füße. You see the umlaut: that means the vowel changes, just like it does in English. The word for book in German is Buch; the plural is Bücher, so you see the vowel changes in that as well. Somewhere along the way, English lost the irregular plural of book, and most of the other vowel-changing plurals as well. Only a handful in very common words survived.
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary this is an instance of I-Mutation
So, it comes from the old Saxon roots of English. Book, being a relatively new and uncommon noun compared to foot, probably wasn't shortened so commonly.
This will be a short answer, because I cannot research the topic right now.
I don't know whether in Anglo-Saxon times book, or better its equivalent, might have had a plural form similar to the one foot has nowadays. What I know from reading Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" (14th century English) is that at that time the word was spelt "bookes" in the plural, as you can read in the passage about the Oxford Cleric :
Besides, the plural form in double 'e' is surely not a one-off as you suggest; the same is true for tooth - teeth and goose - geese (and perhaps something else which does not come to my mind right now).
Finally, we should remember that there are words which are written with two o's but the corresponding verb is written with two e's (for example, blood and to bleed)
In the old languages, such as Old English and Old Norse, which are the largest sources for modern english, book was derived from Bok. As foot was from fot. Multiples were boks and fots. By speaking these words in a fast and lazy manner, as people do in regular conversation, the words eventually evolved into Beeks and beek for the plural book, and feets and feet for the plural foot. During the transition of the 13th century, the english language started becoming more organized. English kings were all speaking old french, but demanded a unification of the English language for better unity of the people to be ruled. By the end of the 13th century, beek was no longer common and had been plurilized by an "s", thus we now use books. Feet remained in common language because everyone who spoke english mention foot and feet on a near daily basis. Books were not so common to the average englishman. The words that kept the oral mutation, such as foot and feet, woman and women, mouse and mice, etc, were all words used on a daily basis by the common man of the time.


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Part Object Part Sculpture
Don't miss our dazzling reopening exhibition, Part Object Part Sculpture, now in its last weeks in the Wexner Center's newly renovated galleries. The Plain Dealer says the exhibition "bristles with ideas and energy," and Artforum calls it "a brilliant success." In it you'll discover an alternative history of sculpture since World War II and encounter a stunning collection of works--many of them rarely seen in this country.
Part Object Part Sculpture features sculptures and paintings created by an international array of innovative artists, including such pioneers as Marcel Duchamp, whose works serve as a conceptual touchstone for the show. The exhibition also features Wexner Center Residency Award recipient Josiah McElheny's An End to Modernity, a model of the Big Bang in blown glass commissioned especially for Part Object Part Sculpture.
Artists represented in the exhibition are Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Broodthaers, Alberto Burri, Marcel Duchamp, Lucio Fontana,
Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama, Piero Manzoni, Allan McCollum, Josiah McElheny, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Rachel Whiteread.
Marcel Duchamp,
Fontaine (Fountain), 1917; 5th version 1964
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,
Purchased 1971
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Eva Hesse
Ringaround Arosie, 1965
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fractional and promised gift of Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr., 2005
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Zurich London
© The Estate of Eva Hesse, Hauser & Wirth Zurich London
Lucio Fontana
Concetto spaziale, Natura, 1959/60
Cast bronze
Collection of Maxine and Stuart Frankel, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Photos: Kevin Fitzsimons
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Untitled (North), 1993
15-watt light bulbs, extensions cords, porcelain light sockets
Collection Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Yayoi Kusama
Accumulation II, 1962
Sewn stuffed fabric, plaster, and paint on sofa frame
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire;
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Tepper
Josiah McElheny
An End to Modernity, 2005
Chrome-plated aluminum, electric lighting, handblown glass, steel cable and rigging
Commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University
Courtesy of Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
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Working with some code on a standard MySQL database, and I came across this statement:
SELECT * FROM foo LEFT JOIN bar USING ('bar_id') WHERE foo_id = 1
What's throwing me is: what is
USING for, what does it do?
My first assumption was that it involved working with foreign keys or possibly indexes, but the DB schema has no indications of any foreign keys or indexes, period.
My googlefu has failed me, probably because
USING is such a common word in most text on sites out there. So I wonder if the DB gurus hear could shed some light on what this does before I look to modify this and multiple other queries in this code.


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BP-Husky started planned work at the smaller of two coker units at its Toledo Refinery, located in Oregon, Ohio, on July 8. It wasn't immediately known how long it will take to overhaul the 7,500-bpd unit. Valero Energy Corp. on July 9 reported another upset at FCCU 1241 at its Port Arthur refinery.
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production outages at US refineries as reported by Dow
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official and unofficial refining sources and doesn't purport
to be a comprehensive list.
BP-Husky started planned work at the smaller of two coker units
at its Toledo refinery, located in Oregon, Ohio, on July 8, a
person familiar with operations at the plant said July 10. It
wasn't immediately known how long it will take to overhaul the
7,500-bpd unit. A 27,500-bpd coker unit continues to operate,
the person said.
Valero Energy said July 10 the process of starting a newly
constructed hydrocracker at its St. Charles refinery in Norco, La., is under
way. The construction of the 57,000-bpd unit,
which began in the fourth quarter of 2012, was completed by the
end of June. Start-up procedures will progress over the next
few days.
Valero Energy on July 9 reported another upset at FCCU 1241
at its Port Arthur refinery in Texas. The unit is in
circulation mode following a valve problem. Its return to
normal operation is unclear, the company said.
Tesoro on July 9 said planned flaring, not associated with
equipment breakdown, would occur at its newly acquired refinery in Carson, Calif., starting
on July 10. The source of the emissions wasn't specified.
Valero Energy on July 9 said FCCU-1241 at its Port Arthur
refinery in Texas was restarted on Sunday after a brief outage.
The event was reported to local environmental regulators because
excess carbon monoxide emissions occurred during the
startup process; it had no material impact to production.
Valero Energy on July 8 said upsets at its Port Arthur,
Texas, refinery had no material impact to production. The
refinery on July 7 filed two separate reports to environmental regulators regarding
emissions and flaring associated with upsets at two tail gas
incinerators, Shell Claus off-gas treating units, or SCOT units
No. 1 and No. 2 and a sulfur recovery unit as the sources of
Sunday's emissions.
ExxonMobil on July 8 reported emissions and a flare event lasting
less than four hours due to equipment breakdown at its Torrance
refinery in California. The report
to local regulators didn't specify what unit, or units were
involved, but a spokeswoman said there is no impact to
production. "ExxonMobil expects to meet its contractual
commitments," she added.
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Controller-free gaming means full body play. Kinect responds to how you move. So if you have to kick, then kick. If you have to jump, then jump. You already know how to play. All you have to do now is to get off the couch.
Whether you're a gamer or not, anyone can play and have a blast. And with advanced parental controls, Kinect promises a gaming experience that's safe, secure and fun for everyone.
Once you wave your hand to activate the sensor, your Kinect will be able to recognize you and access your Avatar. Then you'll be able to jump in and out of different games, and show off and share your moves.
Dashboard Update Coming Holiday 2011. Light Dashboard UI Coming Spring 2012. Xbox LIVE Gold membership and/or other subscriptions/fees apply for some Xbox LIVE features. Kinect functionality available with select Xbox LIVE content and varies by feature, provider, and region. See www.xbox.com/live . Broadband internet, games and content sold separately.


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Arrested: Charles D. Brooks Jr., 52, no fixed address, two failure to appear warrants out of municipal court, domestic violence warrant and obstruction of justice, Thursday.
Cited: Janet M. Lalich, 54, 216 Heights St., Weirton, stop sign; Christopher M. Padgett, 43, 291 Belleview Blvd., speeding; John J. Orlando, 35, 473 Lincoln Blvd., failure to signal turn; and Steven McHugh, 54, 509 Wallace St., Brilliant, speeding.
Arrested: Otis Allen, 36, 318 Hill Ave., assault and criminal trespass, Thursday.
Arrested: Jasmine Portis, 20, 213 Walnut St., Wintersville, two failure to appear warrants out of municipal court, Thursday.
Charged: Reginald Mullins, 55, 1309 Oak Grove Ave., intoxication, Thursday.
Arrested: Angela Moses, 26, 233 McKee St., failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, Thursday.
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Arrested: Melissa Jarvis, 26, Jewett, brought to county jail by Ohio Adult Parole Authority on a parole violation, Thursday.
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Arrested: Gregory Butes, 39, 263 township Road 152, Rayland, operating vehicle under the influence, driving with license suspended for OVI and possession of drugs, today.
Cited: Ryan Guidos, 21, 13886 state Route 213, Irondale, intoxication; Richard Guidos, 23, 13886 state Route 213, Irondale, intoxication; John Thompson, Scio, stop sign; Gregory Gump, 61, 8489 county Road 56, Richmond, driving with a suspended license; Curtis Roskie, 26, 298 township Road 428, Toronto, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia; Alexandria Barna, 21, Apartment 54, 901 Bank St., Toronto, furnishing alcohol to underage persons, contributing to the delinquency of a minor; Blake Truax, 28, 901 Bank St., Toronto, menacing; Leslie Wilson, 30, 922 Banfield Ave., Toronto, speeding; and Christy Hoffman, 37, Apartment 11, 901 Bank St., Toronto, leaving the scene of an accident.
Arrested: Mandy Shiffman, 21, 643 Longview Ave., Wintersville, theft, misuse of credit card, Sept. 23.
Arrested: Dustin Phelps, 30, 6662 state Route 213, Toronto, disorderly conduct, assault, Sept. 23.
Arrested: Michael Weaver, 319 Riverside Drive, Toronto, theft, Sept. 24.
Arrested: Jerry Savage Jr., 44, Apartment 55, 901 Bank St., Toronto, domestic violence, Sept. 26.
Arrested: Shawn Rood, 28, Apartment 27, 901 Bank St., Toronto, theft, two counts assault, Sept. 26.
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Arrested: Kevin S. Jackson II, 20, 111 Randall Ave., Follansbee, daytime burglary, grand larceny and conspiring to commit a felony, Tuesday.


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5 Ridiculous Origins of Movie Sound Effects
Sound design is one of those things that makes a huge difference in a film production, but that you never really think about. We're not talking about music here -- everyone knows the themes to Jaws, Indiana Jones, Star Wars and The Godfather (three of those made by the same guy, incidentally). We mean the robot beeps, heavy footsteps, massive explosions, monster roars, sword clangs and laser blasts that help bring a fantasy universe to life.
All of that stuff has to be created from scratch, usually by just one or two people. And usually, the high-tech sounds are created by whatever random shit they have nearby. For example ...
#5. The Star Wars Blaster Sound Is a Guy Smacking a Cable with a Hammer
The Effect:
This one is instantly recognizable. The wonderfully distinctive "pew-pew" of blaster fire in the Star Wars films sings through the action, whether Greedo is shooting first or the Stormtroopers are missing everything in sight.
Laser blasts kind of sound like bullshit in either case.
One would assume that the sound effect for a deadly piece of future technology would be made with ... well, technology. A computer mixing board or a synthesizer or some other engine of bleep-bloop witchcraft has to be responsible for creating those wicked laser sounds, right?
The Reality:
Legendary sound designer Ben Burtt (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, E.T., Willow ... basically, this guy made the soundtrack to your childhood) decided to eschew the old sci-fi cliches of synthetic beeps and buzzes when he worked on Star Wars. Sure, he could've just used a synthesized oscillator to make the laser sounds, but he went above and beyond the call of duty. Way above, as it happens.
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He also made the whummmm whum whum tssssssh whum. Bless you, sir.
Burtt, armed with a tape recorder and a microphone, climbed a nearby radio tower (this was before 9/11, when people could do things like that for no reason). Then, presumably while trying his very best to look like he knew exactly what he was doing, he beat the ever-loving shit out of one of the guide wires with a hammer, recording the sound of the strikes. After a little bit of cleanup in the production studio, voila! Laser sounds! Subsequent generations of nerdy children could now be kept safely indoors.
"I bet if I smashed that with a hammer it would sound like the future."
#4. The Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park Are Whales, Horses and Koala Bears
The Effect:
Obviously, no one knows what a dinosaur actually sounds like.
That being said, arguably most people's knowledge of dinosaurs comes courtesy of one film: Jurassic Park. That movie showed us all what dinosaurs looked like, how they moved and (most importantly for this article) what noises they made. That last part is the brainchild of one man, sound designer Gary Rydstrom.
Many scientists insisted that dinosaurs didn't really roar the way we might imagine them to, and more likely just made gurgling sounds, but Rydstrom saw how totally lame that was and decided that this time, science could go screw itself.
"Gurgles can suck it. The T. rex sounded like a freight train made of teeth."
The result was a library of dinosaur roars, screeches, grunts and snarls that has essentially become a scientific document in the popular consciousness.
The Reality:
Tasked with imagining the vocalizations of several distinct varieties of long-dead creatures with absolutely no frame of reference, Rydstrom started where you'd expect -- by recording some contemporary dangerous animals and tweaking the sounds. But it wasn't as simple as "record a lion and make it more dinosaury." It was much more insane. Take the most iconic dinosaur from the film, the Tyrannosaurus rex:
There are about a half a dozen animals involved in his "voice": a whale (for the breathing), lions, alligators and tigers (for the low frequencies of roaring), an elephant (his primary, gut-busting roar) and a freaking koala (for the grunting).
Seriously. Check out this video and listen to the similarities:
The part where T. rex eats the lawyer off the toilet? That visceral chomping sound is a horse eating a corncob. The raptors breathing? That's the same horse, just relaxing. And later on, when T. rex bursts into that clearing like the Kool-Aid Man and eats a gallimimus? That sound is another horse, a female in heat screaming at a nearby stallion, because it is completely reasonable to assume that giant lizard monsters made noises like that.
#3. The Opening of the Doors on the Starship Enterprise Is Paper Sliding from an Envelope
The Effect:
So you have your Federation-class starship, a sleek, futuristic environment that looks clean enough for neurosurgery. But what about the doors? They can't just swing open on creaky old hinges, that would be totally ridiculous.
And Star Trek is never ridiculous.
So the doors on the Enterprise slide open autonomously, making that distinct whooshing noise we've all come to recognize. Check it out here, in this Star Trek: The Next Generation clip (which not only illustrates our point, but is also a tour de force of unintentional comedy):
Picard's hilarious and vaguely sexual commands aside, what could be the source of that futuristic "fssshh" noise made by the door to his office?
The Reality:
Believe it or not, that sound is just a piece of paper getting pulled from an envelope and somebody's shoe squeaking across the floor. Honestly, that's all it is; listen again and it'll spring out at you clear as day. Every time Kirk or Picard goes through a door: fssshh, paper from an envelope, squeaky shoe.
Sometimes space sounds like a guy in wingtips opening his mail.
The new J.J. Abrams Star Trek film used a different inspiration for the door slide -- a vacuum flush toilet, because apparently he wanted to take the series in a different direction while still preserving its dignity.


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SHADYSIDE?- While Lorraine Donahue said getting to compete on "Jeopardy!" was a fantastic experience, the Shadyside resident still is second guessing some of her answers.
Donahue appeared on an episode of the trivia game that aired Wednesday on WTOV. She and her friends and family gathered at T.J.'s Sports Garden Restaurant in Wheeling to watch the show and celebrate the occasion.
Donahue said she won third place and $1,000 - about enough money to cover the cost of the trip to Los Angeles for the show's taping.
"I've watched it my whole life. Since I was a teenager, I've loved trivia games,"' she said.
Donahue noted she changed her college major several times, which she said ended up allowing her to learn a little bit of everything. She believes doing so gave her an advantage in taking the initial online "Jeopardy!" test. The online test was more difficult than the test she took during the audition in New York City last June. The taping of the show took place in October in Los Angeles.
"Alex Trebek really is that smart, articulate and charming," Donahue said of the show's host. "During the breaks he would go into the audience and answer people's questions. He told us how many books he reads. ... He reads a lot of different things."
Donahue said she was in the lead for most of the game until she missed a "Double Jeopardy!" question.
"It was a deer in headlights moment. It was an answer I did know at one time," she said. "It was a very close game. ... I had hope for 'Final Jeopardy!', but it was something we all knew."
While the experience flew by with the taping lasting only 30 minutes, Donahue said it was interesting to see behind the scenes of a TV show. The set was much smaller than it looks on TV, she noted. And the platforms behind the podiums could be adjusted to make everyone's height appear even.
"They raised mine all the way," Donahue said, noting she is just 5 feet 3 inches tall.
Donahue said she would like to try competing on other trivia shows such as "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" or "Win Ben Stein's Money," if it was still being produced.
Donahue, 42, is a 1988 graduate of Shadyside High School. She works at Williams Lea in Wheeling.


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STEUBENVILLE - It's Toronto vs. Steubenville Catholic Central.
Enough said.
Red Knights sophomore Lexie Berger swished a triple to give the visiting Red Knights a 37-27 lead with 2:53 left in Thursday's game and it seemed over.
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FOR TWO — Toronto's Makayla Bauman banks home two points in front of Steubenville Catholic Central's Rachel Rigaud to give the Red Knights a 41-36 lead late in the fourth quarter of Thursday's 43-40 victory over the Crusaders.
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But, it wasn't.
The game was officially put out of reach when Toronto junior Lindsay Bodnar buried two free throws for a 43-38 lead with 10.5 seconds remaining and an eventual 43-40 victory.
"It's Toronto-Central, what can you say," Red Knights third-year coach Mallory Blanton said after her club raised its record to 11-5 after an 0-3 start to the season.
"Every game is like this. It's a big rivalry. Give Central credit, they came back when it looked like it was over. They played hard. They never gave up and it was a fight to the end."
It was.
Berger's first triple of the final period gave Toronto a 33-21 lead, thanks to a 9-0 run to start the period, with 4:42 left in the game.
Central's Rachel Rigaud, one of three seniors honored on Senior Night, along with Rachel Irvin and Tori Knight, put the hosts on the board in the fourth with a free throw 14 seconds later.
Rigaud and Irvin each hit a free throw and a Micca Mirabella old fashioned three-point play for a 34-27 deficit before Berger's second triple.
"We just needed to make some more buckets down the stretch," said Central second-year coach Tom Winland. "I cannot question their effort. It was there all night.
"We played hard and got after it. We just have to do a better job of finishing the easy shots and making our free throws."
Buckets by Rigaud and Miranda Parkinson and another Rigaud charity toss made it 37-32 with 95 seconds left.
A Bodnar two made it 39-32, but Parkinson canned a trey to make it 39-35 with 65 seconds showing.
Parkinson made a free throw (39-36), but Makayla Bauman banked home a bunny for a 41-36 cushion with 27.6 to be played.
Irvin found the bottom of the net with 17.2 to go for a 41-38 score before Bodnar went to the line.
"We get impatient everywhere," Blanton said of her Red Knights. "But, we also saw some good things tonight.
"We didn't give up when Central made their run and that's what good teams do. We found a way to win and that's what we've been doing.
"They are starting to realize that feeling this they can win is normal - that they should be winning. It's taken them a whole to figure that one out.
"I think us believing in them, them believing in themselves has really helped. We've had success and I think they are using that and finally realizing that we are a good team and we deserve to win."
Toronto's version of the Killer B's - Berger (10), Bauman (10) and Bodnar (9) - totaled 29 points.
Parkinson paced the Crusaders with 11. Rigaurd contributed 10 and Irvin nine.
"We have to be cocky and say, 'I'm going to finish' and 'I'm going to make this shot,'" said Winland. "The girls did exactly what I wanted them to do. They attacked and we got what we wanted, we just didn't finish.
"That's a credit to coach Blanton and Toronto because they play really, really hard and they create that stuff. We have to learn how to handle intensity and how to handle pressure."
The Crusaders (5-13) were 7-of-12 from the free throw line in the final period and 9-for-19 in the game. They visit Oak Glen Monday with a 7 p.m. varsity start.
Toronto, which has lost twice since Dec. 10 and avenged a 46-38 loss to Central on Nov. 29, heads to Weirton Madonna Monday.
Toronto 43, Steubenville Catholic Central 40
Toronto 6 6 12 19 - 43
Steubenville Central 7 4 10 19 - 40
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STEUBENVILLE - Steve Daley has a simple recipe for success in the postseason - run the football and play good defense.
His Catholic Central squad did both in Saturday's Division VII, Region 25 quarterfinal bout with Racine Southern at Harding Stadium.
The Crusaders racked up 182 yards on the ground while their defense caused four turnovers (one was a pick six by Khalil Jones) in scoring a 35-7 victory over the Tornadoes.
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Catholic Central's Khalil Jones goes up for an interception in the second quarter of a Division VII playoff game at Harding Stadium. Jones picked the pass and returned it for a score.
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Central, making its 11th appearance in the playoffs, improves to 9-2 and 12-9 all-time in the Ohio tournament. Southern, a newcomer to the postseason, finishes at 8-3.
"That was a good team win," Daley said. "In the playoffs, there are two things you have to be able do - play good defense and run the ball. Do we like to throw it? Yes, but the plan going in was to test them on the outside, have them chase us a little bit, then try to hit the off-tackle inside. The kids executed what we planned out."
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Catholic Central 35, Southern 7
Southern 7 0 0 0 - 7
Catholic Central 7 7 0 21 - 35
S: Walters 8 pass from Wolfe (Deem kick)
C: DiCarlantonio 6 pass from Colabella (McNamara kick)
C: Jones 36 interception return (McNamara kick)
C: Jones 12 run (McNamara kick)
C: Porreca 45 pass from Colabella (McNamara kick)
C: Jones 13 run (McNamara kick)
RUSHING: Central 31-182-2 (Colabella 7-(-19); Jones 11-101-2; Romano 3-13; Fletcher 6-56; Murphy 2-26; Potenzini 2-5); Southern 34-91 (Barton 14-27; Wolfe 11-30; T. Ramthun 2-6; Billingsley 2-6; Blanks 3-20; Holbrook 1-4; Blake Johnson 1-(-2)).
PASSING: Central 10-16-115-2-0 (all by Colabella); Southern 12-28-138-1-2 (Wolfe 12-23-138-1-2; Walters 0-1; Blake Johnson 0-4).
RECEIVING: Central (Fletcher 2-9; Porreca 4-65-1; DiCarlantonio 2-24-1; Fallon 1-11; Potenzini 1-6); Southern (Hunter Johnson 1-42; Walters 2-12-1; Deem 6-74; T. Ramthun 1-4; Barton 1-3; P. Ramthun 1-3).
FIRST DOWNS: Central 14, Southern 10.
PENALTIES-YARDS: Central 8-55; Southern 6-45
PUNTS: Central 6-28; Southern 4-41.
FUMBLES-LOST: Central 1-0; Southern 2-2.
Southern, the region's fifth-seed got on the board first, needing six plays to move 54 yards. Quarterback Tristen Wolfe hit Colton Walters on a slant route for the eight-yard touchdown. Earlier in the drive, Wolfe and Hunter Johnson hooked up for a 32 yard gain. Trenton Deem added the extra point. The score came at the 7:20 mark of the opening period.
"That was a little bit of us settling in," Daley commented about the early Tornado score. "They didn't give us anything we hadn't seen out of them. We were not in position on a couple of plays but we got that corrected. Then, the defense stepped it up."
Central quickly responded thanks to a 42-yard Jones return on the ensuing kickoff. Starting at the Southern 48, the Crusaders needed seven plays to score. Brenton Colabella drilled a six-yard touchdown pass to Johnny DiCarlantonio, who was standing all alone in the corner of the end zone. John Paul McNamara nailed the conversion.
Both defenses stepped up following Central's tying touchdown. On its next possession, Southern lost 18 yards (17 of those stripes came thanks to Louis Fallon sacks of Wolfe). The Crusaders went three-and-out before Jimmy Joe Mort and Mark Dettorre combined to stop Southern's Tyler Barton on third-and-one forcing a Tornado punt.
Central's next touch ended in a punt and Southern took possession at its 38. On second and 13, Jones intercepted a Wolfe pass and returned it 36 yards for the go-ahead score. McNamara again added the point from placement.
Daley called Jones' pick "a turning point."
"It was huge," he added. "Making a play like that kind of got us going. That was a great play by him, it got our motor running and kind of jump started us."
Jones' defensive touchdown closed the first half scoring.
Southern, which came into the contest averaging 240 yards per game on the ground, could muster just 4 on 17 attempts during the opening 24 minutes. Chris Murphy came up big for the Central defense on the final Southern drive of the half, recording one tackle for no gain and another for a loss of two.
Stone Romano also made several key stops for the Crusaders.
"That's our team concept on defense," Daley commented. "We stress play your gaps and play your assignments. Our kids did that."
Following a scoreless third quarter, Central made it 21-7 early in the fourth, going 72 yards after Fallon recovered a Tornado fumble. All but six of the stripes came via the ground. Jones got the score on a 12-yard burst up the middle. He closely followed a huge Romano block through the hole and into the end zone. McNamara's kick was good again.
Another Southern fumble, caused by Fallon and recovered by Murphy, led to the next Central score. After a motion penalty and a yard loss on a rushing play, Colabella used play action before hitting Aleks Porreca on a go route. The senior wide receiver ran past the defender, caught the pass in full stride and crossed the goal. The pass and run covered 45 yards. McNamara drilled his fourth PAT.
"Creating turnovers throughout the game was big," Daley noted. "They allowed us to get the ball back in the hands of our offense. We stayed the course on offense and did a great job of executing the plan."
Ryan Fletcher would stop the next Tornado drive with an interception.
The game's final score came via a 13-yard run by Jones. It capped a two-play drive covering 25 yards. Central got the great field possession following another stop by its defense. McNamara booted his fifth extra point to close the scoring.
Jones paced Central's ground attack with 101 yards on 11 carries. Fletcher added 56 on six totes and Murphy 26 on just two trips.
"Our offensive line did a nice job," Daley noted. "That's a good group as far as running game goes. They (Southern) were playing real soft on us in coverage and that allowed us to open up some running lanes."
Colabella threw for 115 stripes and two scores. Porreca finished with four catches.
Southern finished with 138 passing yards and 91 on the ground. Barton who had been averaging 134 stripes per game collected just 27.


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Why is every prime (>3) representable as $6k\pm1$? Afterall, by putting values of k, we don't just get primes but also composites. Then why not $2k+1$ or $3k+2$ or $4k+1$ etc. Is it because of probability? Is there a proof for it?
The proposition you're mentioning is this:
This is true by showing that all numbers of other forms are not prime:
$$6k = 6 \cdot k$$ $$6k + 2 = 2(3k + 1)$$ $$6k + 3 = 3(2k + 1)$$ $$6k + 4 = 2(3k + 2)$$ It does not say that every number of the form $6k \pm 1$ is prime; this is most certainly false (I think you may have confused the statement with its converse.) We can make analogous statements with $6$ replaced by other numbers:
and so on.
Do you think that every number can be written as $6k+i$ for $0\leq i\leq 5$???
Do you think $6k$ can be prime?
Do you think $6k+2$ can be prime?
Do you think $6k+3$ is prime?
Do you think $6k+4$ is prime?
If you have answered all above....
only possibilities would be writing them as other two possibilities :
$6k+1$ and $6k+5$ which is same as $6k\pm 1$
Another phrasing for this question coud be, why is it that if we have a prime number $p$, then $p+1$ or $p-1$ is a multiple of $6$?
The way I see it is that, for a number to be a multiple of 6, it has to be a multiple of $3$ and $2$. For $p>3 \ $, $p+1$ and $p-1$ are already multiple of $2$, because they are even. To confirm that they also are multiples of $3$, remember that if we sum the digits of a number and obtain a multiple of $3$, then the original number is a multiple of $3$.
Thus if we sum the digits of $p$, and we repeat the process untill we get $1$ digit, we have $9$ possibilities. The sum is:
1, then substruct $1$ (or add $5$) to get a multiple of $3$
2, then add$1$ (or substruct $5$) to get a multiple of $3$
3, then $p$ wasn't a prime
4, then substruct $1$ (or add $5$) to get a multiple of $3$
5, then add $1$ (or substruct $5$) to get a multiple of $3$
6, then $p$ wasn't a prime
7, then substruct $1$ (or add $5$) to get a multiple of $3$
8, then add $1$ (or substruct $5$) to get a multiple of $3$
9, then $p$ wasn't a prime
Suppose $n = 6k+r$, $r\in\{0,2,4\}$. Can you think of any integers that must divide $n$? What does this say about the primality of $n$, for $n$ sufficiently large?
Now what about $n = 6k+3$?
This leaves only $n = 6k\pm 1.$
Let me take a crack at the original question:
$$n = a k + b$$ where $a$ and $b$ are constants would be a prime only if $a$ and $b$ don't have a common factors. Now clearly $b = \pm 1$ will always work. Now if you fix $a$, then the count of the numbers that are less than $a$ and co-prime to it is the Euler's totient function $\phi$. Now if $\phi(a)$ is two then there can be only two possible $b$, viz. $1$, $a-1$. Now $6$ is the largest $a$ for which $\phi(a)=2$.
I hope this was the question.
You're confusing a statement with its converse. It is not the case that all integers of the form $6k±1$ are prime. But it is the case that all prime numbers except for 2 and 3 have the form $6k±1$.
$\forall n \in \mathbb{Z}, n \in \{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5\}$ (modulo 6). IOW, all integers must have one of the forms:
Thus, with the exception of 2 and 3, all prime numbers are in $\{1, 5\}$ (modulo 6).
This is the interesting question. There are similar formulas with a modulus other than 6. For example, in the familiar base-ten representation,
Therefore, with the exception of $\{2, 5\}$, the prime divisors of 10, all prime numbers have a final digit ($n$ mod $10$) in $\{1, 3, 7, 9\}$.
In general, for any modulus $m$, an integer $p > m$ can be prime only if $p$ mod $m$ is relatively prime to $m$ (but not vice versa). For various values of $m$, the possible values of $p$ mod $m$ are as follows:
So, which modulus should we use in describing the set of prime numbers? It would be helpful to have a simple primality test with as few "false positives" as possible.
For example, $m = 31$ is useless because all it tells us is that no prime number is a multiple of 31 (except for 31 itself). The other $\frac{30}{31}$ of $\mathbb{N}$ (my phrasing may annoy cardinality purists, but you know what I mean) is still potential prime.
OTOH, $m = 2$ gives a useful rule: All prime numbers (except for 2) are odd. This is easy to remember, and excludes $\frac{1}{2}$ of $\mathbb{N}$ (again, being informal with cardinality) from being prime.
But we can do better! If $m$ is 6, 12, 18, 24, or 36, then only $\frac{1}{3}$ of natural numbers are potentially prime. And note that the primality tests for $m \in \{12, 18, 24, 36\}$ are just more complicated ways of expressing the rule for $m = 6$. This gives us a simply-expressed superset of the prime numbers.
$\mathbb{P} \subset \{2, 3\} \cup \{n: n \in \{1, 5\} \mod 6\}$
or, equivalently,
$\mathbb{P} \subset \{2, 3\} \cup \{6k ± 1\}$
That's what's so special about 6.
Now, there are choices for $m$ that give a primality test with fewer false positives. For example, $m=30$ has only $\frac{4}{15}$ of numbers being potentially prime. But the rule is harder to remember.


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Using LyX, how can I make a 6 column table with the second row having multiple lines of text? I am trying to create the following layout in LyX:
I'm using LyX 2.0 for mac.
What are ways to accomplish this?
To fill in a little on the LyX side of things:
You can create a tabular by either choosing Insert --> Table ... or clicking the button on the toolbar. In both cases, you choose the number of columns and rows for your table. Say you create a table with 6 columns and 2 rows, then you'll get something like this:
You'll want to remove most of the lines in the table, so start by selecting all the cells, and clicking the appropriate buttons on the toolbar at the bottom of the LyX window (that's where the toolbar appears on my installation, at least):
The button on the far right in the red oval removes all the lines. However, you'll still want the horizontal lines above and below the top row, so select just this, and add the lines:
Following cmhughes, you can set the column width. You can do this by right clicking in a cell, choosing More --> Settings, and writing a width in the appropriate text box.
I think you have to do this for each column, but I may be wrong, as I don't use LyX that much.
Another thing you want to do in the settings, is to go to the Borders tab, and select the "Formal" style. This will make LyX use
You can add more rows to your table, by clicking the Add row button in the bottom left of the tabular toolbar, or using the keyboard shortcut. On Windows this is Alt + M, W I, i.e., hold down Alt and press M, then release both and type WI. (May be different on your Mac, but it will probably show up as a tooltip then hovering the mouse over the button.)
I'm not sure about the Lyx side of things, but here's some code that should get you started.
Note that I've used the column type
A lot of users on this site would recommend using the
I wished to leave an example, of a LyX file that implements the recomended solution, as a text file.


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The Hulk gets hosed by Linda Hogan again as she announces her engagement to 21-year boyfriend Charlie Hill. Not only is the age difference of 29 years pretty shocking, but the cougar-ific couple plans to wed next summer aboard Linda's new yacht AliMONEY!
While Charlie bears a striking bleach blonde resemblance to a younger Hulkster, the famed wrestler's girlfriend looks eerily similar to his own daughter Brooke Hogan!
While reports say the Hulk is happy for Linda, it's hard to forget the comments he made to Rolling Stone last year: "You live half a mile from the 20,000-square-foot home you can't go to anymore, you're driving through downtown Clearwater [Florida] and see a 19-year-old boy driving your Escalade, and you know that a 19-year-old boy is sleeping in your bed, with your wife ... I totally understand O.J. I could have turned everything into a crime scene like O.J., cutting everybody's throat."
I wonder if he'll be invited to the wedding? Hide the cake knife!
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How many trades per second are we talking about?
What kind of strategies are used in this time frame?
Can the small guy play the game?
How many trades per second are we talking about?
What kind of strategies are used in this time frame?
Can the small guy play the game?
You could for example look at this research paper released by Deutsche Bank's Research group just yesterday which defines both high-frequency and ultra-high-frequency trading.
In the paper it says
And in a footnote it says
And no, the small guy can't play for reason well-put in the paper, co-location probably being the single most important one.
A survey by FinAlternatives in 2009 concluded that "86% believe that the term "high-frequency trading" referred strictly to holding periods of only one day or less." (Aldridge 2009):
There are two problems with this survey for our present discussion: (1) the meaning of the term has been clarified significantly since that survey and (2) it surveyed a wide spectrum of people. This latter point isn't necessarily a problem, but it amounts to asking non-experts questions about a very esoteric field: you are bound to get a wide variance in the answers. High frequency trading is primarily a proprietary trading phenomenon (including when it is done by banks like Goldman Sachs), because its primary benefit is very high returns with low risk on a small amount of capital. Trading at high speeds is not a high-capacity strategy, so it is not as suitable to a hedge fund structure which is (a) fee-driven and (b) subject to client scrutiny.
Long story short: in order to have any meaning, HFT needs to mean something akin to latency arbitrage, in which case co-location and going as fast as possible are critical. This means different things depending on the asset class, strategy, etc. But firms like GETCO are making edits to their Linux distributions in order to get higher speeds: that's your competition.
My definition is not pretty, but it's practical: If you trade based on 5- or 10-minute bars, I call that high-frequency trading. If you trade based on tick-by-tick data, including bids and offers, I call that ultra-high frequency trading.
(Trading 1-minute bars is somewhere in between. Trading more slowly than 10-minute bars is "day trading".)
I make this distinction because the distribution of tick data is very different than the distribution of 5-minute bars. 5-minute bars behave like daily data or like the data from your Time Series Analysis class. In contrast, tick data is essentially an integer-valued process, occasionally moving by a tick or two but usually unchanged, generating data at incredible speed. Its distribution is very different and resembles a Poisson process -- nothing like a conventional time series.
The distinction also determines the required caliber of your network and computing gear. You need a very fast connection and a very fast computer to process tick data. A desktop computer with a broadband connection could process 5-minute bars.
Bottom line: trading tick data requires a fat pipe to the exchange, a blazingly fast computer, and a whole new data model. Trading 5-minute data is much more like conventional trading happening in real-time. That's a big difference.
For more about the distribution of tick data, I recommend Ruey Tsay's book or this excellent paper by Neil Shephard et al. Tsay calls it "transaction data". Shephard et al call it "low latency data".
I. Re: # of trades...
According to WK Selph (former quant turned blogger) @ WK's High Frequency Trading How To:
Doesn't speak to # of trades executed, but in terms of # of transactions analyzed by an HFT trading sytem in search of opportunistic trades...
II. re: "can the small guy play the game?"...
Can't recommend highly enough reading WK Selph's post on "How I Built a Startup HFT Firm", e.g.
He started an HFT startup with only one partner:
On the never-ending challenge for lower cost-per-trade:
HFT can be loosely defined as any strategy where your profitability is a function of latency.
The defining characteristic of "high-frequency" is not the number of trades, but instead it is the number of orders you place, and in particular how often you are changing those orders. The scratch rate (cancel/fill ratio) is often very high. For every 1,000 orders you place, you might get 5 fills. This is the single most defining criteria of whether someone is playing the HFT game.
The reason this is the defining criteria is because the type of edge being captured by the high-frequency players is fundamentally different than that of other market participants. Whether its micro-structure oriented or market making, the edge a HFT is trying to capture is typically very small and also very dependent on factors such as receiving a rebate, getting a fill on a specific exchange, or achieving the highest possible queue placement at a given price level.
Speed is important in almost all realms of intraday trading, but that doesn't mean you're a HFT. Being fast is important to intraday stat arb traders even if they hold their position for 4 hours. The reason is because their signal might hit 80% realization very quickly. The faster you can act the more edge you capture. That doesn't mean folks playing the stat arb game are HFT, they most certainly aren't. However, when viewed from the outside the layman often sees no difference.
That being said, any attempt to classify most firms will fail. Most do a mix of everything, but they all have their bread and butter.
To the question of whether a small guy can do it: yes you can. Can you do it on 25k? Probably not. Can you do it on 150-250k? Yes.
At the highest possible.
The High in HFT refers to the frequency of data, not of trading decisions [which varies quite a bit]. Data is nearly always tic by tic; computers typically synchronized with costly clocks servers.
It might have originated from the Fourier transform, and would indirectly point to speed of data once again. HFT then would be a good complement to FFT and DFT :-)
There is a very god paper by A Menkveld analyzing the activity of a huge HFT player during 2 years:
Jovanovic, Boyan and Menkveld, Albert J., Middlemen in Limit-Order Markets (October 24, 2011). Western Finance Association (WFA), 2011.
The best is to read the full article. You will learn:
"Major exchanges now have "latencies" of around one millisecond (one thousandth of a second) or less. Exchanges and practitioners now routinely time stamp their messages to the millisecond."
This is so fast that effects from special relativity come into play!
"Rules that attempt to force uniform prices at one moment in time over geographically decentralized places must take into account the fact that information does not move faster than light. At the same moment in time, two geographically separated participants may observe two different "best" prices."
All quotes are from this mind-boggling paper from the UK Government's Foresight Project:


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The current ruler of my dynasty is a bit of an idiot. His heir shows much more promise; is there a way to get rid of my current ruler?
Just keep throwing him in harms way. Hunts, get into as many fights as possible, piss off the natives, go crusading at every chance. That should up the odds nicely. There's gamey ways to do it like Rodolfo stated, but who would do that? ;)
ways I do that (legally):
In a more 'cheaty' way, you probably can load the game as one of your counts/dukes and select the plot to kill the liege :) then go back to yourself and wait until they succeed
One of the most reliable ways is to try and assassinate someone with very high intrigue. They will discover your assassin, and then they are very likely to send an assassin after you. If they fail, or don't send an assassin, just try again. Conveniently, after you die the reputation hit from assassinations disappear.
You can also commit suicide. This option is available in your decision tab, if your character has the "depressed" trait. I'm uncertain when this was introduced; I don't think it was possible in 1.0.
Another way to get your heir on the throne is for your current character to be forced to give up the throne as a result of surrendering in an excommunication war or a war to dispose of a tyrannical liege.
In the case of the latter here are some ways to get your vassals motivated to stand up against your rule:
I'm not sure what the odds are they won't start a war for independence as opposed to a war to depose of their liege, but if your current ruler is a bit of a douche to start with it's another in-character way to get what you're after.
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/dev/sda2 ntfs 100GB(Win7)
/dev/sda3 ext4 350GB(Home)
/dev/sda4 extended 4GB(swap)
The thing is, when installing ubuntu I deleted the partition win 7 creates for its boot sector and recovery and then resized the drive to look like what I mentioned, and Ubuntu installed GRUB to the MBR.
When GRUB boots I can see Ubuntu but not Windows, how can I chainload it? Or should I fix the windows mbr with the windows 7 installation disk and try to set the dual boot from there?
I don't really care which one of the 2 bootloaders I end up using, I just want the dual boot to work out.


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Given a general Lie algebra, is there a general procedure to find all its Casimir operator?
I'm assuming you're thinking of some specific matrix representation $X_i \in \mathfrak{g}$ (let's assume it's the defining representation). Compute the Killing form, $\kappa_{ij} \doteq Tr (X_i\cdot X_j)$ (actually usually this is defined in the adjoint representation, but any faithful rep will do). The quadratic Casimir is then simply $ X_i \kappa_{ij} X_j$ (Einstein convention).
Other Casimirs can be obtained from the characteristic (secular) equation: define $X(\omega) = \omega^i X_i$. The characteristic equation is $\det\left( X(\omega) - \lambda I \right) = \sum\limits_{j} (-\lambda)^{N-j} \phi_j(\omega) \equiv 0 $ ($N$ is the matrix dimension, and/or the dimension of the Lie algebra if you're using the adjoint representation). If you now perform the substitution $\omega^i \to X_i$ in the coefficients $\phi_j (\omega)$, you get Casimir invariants $\phi_j (X)$!
It might seem like the higher the representation, the more invariants you get, but in fact all the invariants can be expressed in terms of the fundamental invariants of the defining representation. I can't think of many references right at the moment, but e.g. Gilmore: Lie groups, physics and geometry pp. 140 has a nice explanation. Also, google the boldface texts above.


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Mary Najjarian: Celebrations and Seasons in Religious Schools
As we enter the holiday season, we once again confront the cornucopia of religious and cultural traditions in the United States, which can be very vibrant in some schools. Mary Najjarian, the principal of Saint John of San Francisco Orthodox Academy, joins the podcast to discuss how and why her private religious school incorporates the unusual Orthodox calendar. She talks about how this practice fits into the school's beliefs and teaching, how it benefits teachers and students, and her struggles to help families and the school keep their religious traditions when they don't fit vacation and job schedules.


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The staff was very timely in responding to my emails and explained everything clearly. They were very helpful and were excellent in helping me fix the issue I was having.
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