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When dealing with the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Operator $H=-\frac{d^{2}}{dx^{2}}+x^{2}$, there is the approach of using the Ladder Operator:
Suppose that are two operators $L^{+}$ and $L^{-}$ and define $f_{n}$ such that
then $$L^{+}L^{-}(f_{n})=L^{+}(\sqrt{n}f_{n-1})=nf_{n}$$ $$L^{-}L^{+}(f_{n})=L^{-}(\sqrt{n+1}f_{n+1})=(n+1)f_{n}$$
Now since $$H=-\frac{d^{2}}{dx^{2}}+x^{2}=\left(x+\frac{d}{dx}\right)\left(x-\frac{d}{dx}\right)$$
If we let $$L^{+}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left(x+\frac{d}{dx}\right)\quad\text{and}\quad L^{-}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left(x-\frac{d}{dx}\right)$$
then $$H=L^{+}L^{-}+L^{-}L^{+}$$
Since $$L^{+}(f_{n})=\sqrt{n+1}f_{n+1}\implies$$
Thus if we can a $f_{0}$ such that
$$f_{n}=\sqrt{n!}L^{n}(f_{0})\implies L^{-}(f_{n})=\sqrt{n}f_{n-1}\tag{1}$$ would be satisfied, then we have found a set of eigenfunctions for H, which is $f_{n}$ and the corresponding eigenvalue is 2n+1.
Now my instructor says that if we let $f_{0}$ be in the kernel of $L^-$, meaning that:
$$L^{-1}f_{0}=0\tag{2},$$ then (1) would be true.
Specifically, this means that
As it is already verified (and commonly used in quantum mechanics) that this $f_{0}(x)$ does satisfy (1). But I can't really see how does (2) leads to (1). Is this choice $f_0$ really a lucky guess or actually a choice the generally works for all operators that can be expressed as $H=L^{+}L^{-}+L^{-}L^{+}$? A different way of asking this question is: are the ladder operator really just operators that tells us how to get from one state to another, or it is actually something that would be used as a general method of solving some differential equations?

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Start with your puppy or dog on leash, or in a very small room or fenced area where he can't go far. Have a toy or a small treat. Say "Fido, Come!" in a happy, playful voice. Say it only once! Then do anything necessary to encourage your dog to come to you—act silly, walk or run the other way, crouch down, anything to make him curious enough to come to you. Then reward him—use your praise word and play with him, give him a treat, or give him a toy. Then let him go back to what he was doing. Repeat the process two or three times; then quit for this session. Do this several times a day if possible.
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Wherever you are should be the safest, most fun place your dog knows. If you call your dog to you, always reward him for coming with at least your praise word and sometimes with petting, a treat, a toy, or play time. Never call your dog to you to lock him up or do something he doesn't like—go get him instead.
If your dog doesn't come despite your best efforts, then gently pull him in your direction. If you're training in a small space with no leash, then start over with the leash on. If he starts to come on his own, don't pull anymore, but encourage him with happy talk, and reward him when he gets to you. Keep the leash on for every Come command until you no longer have to get him started with a pull on the leash.
If you're not the only human in the family, then make a game of teaching Come with other family members. You can call your dog back and forth or from one person to another in a circle. Just make sure that only one person calls at a time, and make sure each person rewards the dog for coming.
Remember the basic training rules as they apply to Come:
- Always use the same word—don't use "Come," "Come here," "Here," "Get over here," "Get your butt over here …"
- Never call more than once—you'll be teaching your dog to ignore you. If he doesn't come the first time, go get him, put the leash on, then call him, and start him or pull him in with the leash. Then praise and reward him for coming!
- Always reward your dog for coming—a reward may be a treat one time, a cuddle the next, and your praise word every time.
- Never call your dog if you can't enforce the command. If you can't trust him to come when you call, then put him on a leash or a long line so that you can get him back from the cold, wet yard. And never, ever let your dog off leash in an unfenced area if he doesn't come reliably. Coming reliably means coming immediately on the first command every single time he's called, even when he'd rather investigate another dog, a squirrel, or something else of interest.
"Sit" is a very useful command. It can be used to control a rambunctious dog, and to give him something positive to do in place of leaping on you or otherwise being a pest. Sit gives you control over your dog on walks, at the vet, and at home.
To teach your puppy or dog to sit on command, begin with him on leash or confined in a small space. Hold a small treat in front of his nose, but don't let him take it. When he shows interest in the treat, slowly raise the treat and move it back over his head toward his tail. As his head comes up to follow the treat, his butt has to go down. When he starts to fold his hind legs into the sit, tell him Sit. Keep moving the treat slowly backward. The instant he sits completely, give him the treat and use your praise word. Then release him with your release word. Do not release him before you give the treat—you'll be rewarding him for no longer sitting! If he gets up before you release him, have him sit again before rewarding him. Repeat three or four times. Then quit for a while. If you do several sessions a day, your dog should sit on command in no time. When he gets pretty good at sitting on command, start to lengthen the time he has to stay sitting before he gets the treat. Start with a few seconds, gradually increasing to half a minute, and then a minute. He should remain sitting until you release him.
There are many ways to teach a dog to Down, or Lie Down. I prefer to teach the command from a standing rather than sitting position for three reasons. First, Down can be a life-saving command—even more than Come. Suppose your dog gets away from you and is on the other side of a busy street. A car is coming. You don't want to call your dog, because he might be hit. If he responds to Down no matter where he is, whether he's moving or standing still, you can make him safe even in such a frightening situation.
The other two reasons I teach Down from a standing position aren't so dramatic. One is that teaching it from a sitting position requires two commands—Sit and then Down. Not a big deal, but I'd rather just give one command most of the time. The other reason is that if you decide to train your dog for obedience competition beyond the Novice level, you'll have to teach him a "moving down" in which he lies down from a trot. If he sits first and then lies down, he'll creep forward a little. If he just drops into a down position, he won't creep forward. If you're thinking of competing eventually, you'll find it's easier to teach Down without the Sit right from the start. So here's how I teach Down.
Chew on This
If you teach your dog nothing else, teach him to lie down and stay on command. In some situations, Down is safer and more effective than Come.
Start with your dog standing. If he's a puppy, or a small dog, you may want to kneel in the beginning. Hold a treat in your hand, let your dog know it's there, and slowly move your hand under your dog's head, toward and then between his front legs, lowering it as you go. As his head follows the treat, he should fold himself downward. If necessary, gently guide his rear down; then praise him and give him the treat as soon as he's completely down. If he steps backwards instead of lying down, move your hand with the treat a little faster—that will get his head and neck down faster and he should go down.
If he continues to leave his butt up in the air once his shoulders are down, and he doesn't drop it with a light touch from your hand, don't try to force him down. You want him to learn to put his body in the right position, and he'll learn faster if he has to do it himself. Besides, a dog's natural response to force is to resist—if you push down on his butt, he'll push up against you. It's amazing how much resistance even a small dog can muster! Instead of forcing him down, keep a treat close to the ground with one hand, and with your other arm cradle your dog's hind legs from behind. Gently move your arm forward around the hind legs until he folds down. Once he's all the way down, praise and give him the treat. Then release him. Slowly increase the amount of time he has to stay down before getting the treat.
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We all have nightmares sometimes. I don't have them often, but when I do they're pretty bad.
We Armenians usually recite a specific prayer before we go to bed. Translated, it looks something like this:
My dear Lord, dear benefactor,
Protect us tonight.
Give my father and mother long life,
and pleasant, happy days.
Let Your Holy Angel,
remain at our side,
protect us from troubles,
and wake us happy and joyous.
We learned this prayer as children and have been using it for as long as I can remember, but it obviously serves a very general purpose and doesn't address dreams specifically.
Is there a way to prevent, or at least resist, nightmares through prayer? More specifically, how would I phrase this prayer?


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I was reading up on CryptoCat's (pretty ridiculous) programming issues and how is dramatically reduced the key search space (link to bug synopsis)
One thing that caught my eye was
So 2^54.15 turns into 2^27.08
Unless I'm missing something, the impact of the fractional exponent is negligible. So, any ideas why the author is reporting it as
2^54.15 and not just
2^54 ? I mean for O notations, we usually state only the degree of the highest order polynomial (that expresses algorithmic complexity), ignoring the factors and lower order powers.
So am I missing something here when it comes to expression of keyspaces?


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Given two groups $H$ and $G$ why is it the case that $H \times G$ is closed due to the fact that $G$ and $H$ are closed.
I realise I have answered my question but how does the direct product inherit this? How does it work?
Given two groups $H$ and $G$ why is it the case that $H \times G$ is closed due to the fact that $G$ and $H$ are closed.
I realise I have answered my question but how does the direct product inherit this? How does it work?
"how does the direct product inherit this"...inherits from where? We can, in fact, talk of internal and\or external direct product: when we take any two groups $\,G,H\,$ , without any a priori relation between, their external direct product is defined to be (denoting by $\,X\times_{cart}Y\,$ the cartesian product of two sets): $$G\times H:=\left\{ (g,h)\in G\times_{cart} H\,;\, (x,y)\cdot (g,h):=(xg,yh)\,,\,x,g\in G\,,\,y,h\in H\right\}$$so that the direct product (of a finite number) of groups is always a group defined on the cartesian product of those groups. Of course, above $\,xg\,$ is the group operation in $\,G\,$, and something similar goes for the second entry in $\,H$ .
The internal direct product happens when we identity the groups as subgroups of some bigger group containing them both, and the definition goes as above, but this time both group operations in both factors are one and the same.
Finally, from the above, closure of the operation in the direct product follows at once from the corresponding closure of the group operation in each factor.
You have to be clear and careful: what is the operation with which $H\times G$ is being endowed? The natural operation is the "componentwise product", $(h,g)*(h',g') = (hh', gg')$, where the operation in the first component is the operation of $H$, and the operation in the second component is the operation of $G$.
Then, since $H$ and $G$ are each closed under multiplication (or whatever the operations of $H$ and $G$ are), it follows that $H\times G$ is closed under component-wise operation.
(Of course, since $H\times G$ is a set, in general it will have many operations that make it into a group; in fact, in all cases except when $H$ and $G$ are one-element groups, there will be at least two distinct operations on $H\times G$ which makes it into a group; so you need to specify what operation you mean when you are dealing with things at this level. Later on, as you become more familiar with the nature of things and abuse of language/notation starts coming in, the fact that $H\times G$ is endowed with the componentwise operation unless explicitly noted otherwise will become a convention.)


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Quality KPI's
By user792579 on Jan 25, 2013
Yes, we also have our own KPI's, like any other business at Oracle, of course ours are very qualitative but I'd say also based on actual facts & figures!
You can find them explained on our EMEA Quality Portal under the link KPI's Definitions, while the actual figures by Fiscal Quarter are under KPI's Reporting.
Should you have any question or suggestion for improvement please don't hesitate to contact me!


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Nashville has been invited to make a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
According to the New York Times," The US Olympic Board sent a letter to 35 of the largest cities in the country, including the Tennessee city.
The estimated operating cost to host the Games is $3 billion.
Cities have to have at least 45,000 hotel room, build an "Olympic Village" to house 16,500 athletes, and create operating space for more than 15,000 media members.
The "International Olympic Committee" will select a 2024 host city in 2017.


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To the editor:
I was appalled to learn by reading the Times about how many of our school administrators refuse to live in Leavenworth.
Does the commander of Fort Leavenworth live in Atchison?
Does the president of the U.S. live in New York?
Does the ambassador to France live in Spain?
Does the city manager of Leavenworth live in Shawnee?
Of course, the answer to all of the above is a resounding no!
We have also learned that the latest principal hired moved from Topeka to Johnson County.
Why not Leavenworth to really relate to our kids?
They should all reside here and those who do not need to be given one year to move.
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Suppose to have a Lie algebra L with a reductive lie subalgebra G. Let l an element of L such that [l,g] is in G for every g in G, is it true that l is an element of G?if not, there are some restriction on G that makes it true?
Sorry, this started as a comment, but got too long.
If $G$ is semisimple, then every derivation of $G$ is inner, so that the normalizer $N_L(G)=C_L(G)+G$ where $C_L(G)$ is the centralizer. In this situtaion Michele's condition holds if and only if the centralizer is trivial.
However the case where $G$ is reductive isn't so easy. A reductive $G$ is the direct sum of an Abelian and a semisimple Lie algebra. The Abelian part can have (if at least two-dimensional) non-trivial derivations. These will lift to non-inner derivations of $G$. If we let $L$ be the semidirect product of $G$ with a one-dimensional Lie algebra using this derivation, then $L$ normalizes $G$, $L\ne G$ but $C_L(G)$ is trivial.
EDIT: Realized I had misread the question.
The set of $l$ such that $[l,g]\in G$ for all $G$ is called the normalizer of $G$. It's not particularly common for the normalizer to be the same as G, though it does happen sometimes. There are a few theorems I know about specific Lie algebras being self-normalizing, such as Cartan and Borel subalgebras in reductive Lie algebras, but it's not very common and I don't know any general condition which guarantees it.


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After being missing for 18 hours, a 73-year-old man was found safe today.
Robert L. Woods was located by a Michigan State Police helicopter, as he was walking in a field around 3:45 p.m.
He had been reported missing from his home on Dutch Settlement Road around midnight.
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If I would like to quickly set up a modern website, what programming language + framework has best support for this? E.g. short and easy to understand code for a beginner and a framework with support for modern features. Disregard my current knowledge, I'm more interested in the capacity of web programming languages and frameworks.
Some requirements:
- Readable URIs: http://example.com/category/id/page-title similar to the urls here on Programmers.
- ORM. A framework that has good database support and provide ORM or maybe a NoSQL-database.
- Good support for RESTful WebServices.
- Good support for testing and unit testing, to make sure the site is working as planned.
- Preferably a site that is ready to scale with an increasing number of users.


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How do you manage your passwords?
I use Lastpass at home, and recently suggested a password manager at work. My boss liked the idea but would like several other options, for PC, Android, and IOS. I've been googling around and have found Keepass and 1Password as well. I have an android phone myself and have searched the play store and found KeePassDroid, and I already know there's LastPass and 1Password for IOS and Android.
Any other options for password managers, especially from you IOS users my knowledge base there is less broad.
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all of my passwords consist of joining the name of a cut of beef, a number, and "gatzby"
I have a base password consisting of alpha a numeric numbers and then append additional letters for each site. This way, each site has a different password in case it gets compromised.
Can't answer the iOS part, but I use KeePass and love it. The Android app works well as do the Windows applications.
If using that program I would highly recommend you use the key file as well. Make sure your company has some sort of backup procedure as well. If you lose that key file you are out of luck and lost all of your passwords!
Oh, I have a variety of passwords some of which I forget and have to use the ole' "click here if you have forgotten your password" link....
I don't think I'll ever forget "1234".
@samstag: You might as well not bother with a password...http://www.imperva.com/docs/WP_Consumer_Password_Worst_Practices.pdf
I have my passwords written on an index card. If I lost that I'd be dead. I do have one I use on several sites I don't care about. Stupid I know.
@samstag: 1234? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
@samstag: Wow, thats the same combo I use on my matched luggage!
@machgogogo: OH YOU SOB.......
lol :)
I hate sites that force you to do certain actions that don't fit your normal password algorithm. For example, the electric company we have makes us put a special character at the beginning of the password, it can't have more than 8 letters (lame) and has to have numbers but can't be at the end.
I typically can't remember these and just end up resetting it each month - then I whine and moan about how stupid their password rules are each month. Probably 3 bills I pay are this way... I don't do bill pay because I had a payment go missing once and had to go through the ringer to get it fixed.
Circle of life I guess.
With the Chrome extension:
It's the best of the best.
I print them out as barcodes and use a barcode reader to log in.
I use one password for my 6-character login, but add two numbers for my 8-character login. It works for me.
@unoriginal26: Your name has never been more appropriate.
Mine are in a passworded Excel file. Not that secure but it's more for my poor memory and the number of passwords I have.
Main thing though is that I made sure my son stored that password to the Excel file so he could find it if something happens to me. We ran into problems when his dad (my ex) passed away and couldn't get into any of his files.
It makes my life so much easier the only negative is if you don't put it on a usb and/or go to another computer that doesn't have lastpass, you have to remember all the important passwords.
@hackman2007: Anyone who doesn't use KeePass ought to at least try it. Easy AND secure, used by most the IT pros I know(it really matters a lot when you need to secure passwords for your clients' machines while you're offsite).
The price is right, as well.
Use a salted md5 hash of your name (or some other thing) plus the website's name. This way you get a long string of numbers that nobody can remember, but you don't [i]have[/i] to remember because you can get it using any of a variety of websites that do md5 hashes. Save the passwords in the browser on your personal computer, so you don't have to type them in at home. With gmail, facebook, steam, dropbox, etc, use 2-factor authentication. If 2-factor authentication is available, [i]use it[/i]. Generally, all it takes is access to your cellphone (or in the case of steam, your email account).
Given the above scenario, I find that I have no real need for an online (or offline) password manager other than that built into the browser.


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Canoeing with craters
|Beach your canoe on the west side of Upper Cow Lake in eastern Oregon and hike the lava rock. (Pete Zimowsky/Idaho Statesman/MCT)
Nothing looks stranger than a canoe in the middle of sagebrush country, but we were hunting for Cow Lakes and what we thought would be a great spring bird-watching and paddling adventure in the remote wildlands.
As we approached Lower Cow Lake about 19 miles from Jordan Valley, Ore., our hopes of paddling sunk. How about mud flats hiking? The lower lake looked about one-third full, and there were a hundred yards of dried mud flats before you could even get to the water.
Canoeing? Maybe time to second guess this plan.
But we weren't ready to give up. My wife, Julie, and I continued up the road to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's campground at the Cow Lakes Recreation Area and hoped for the best at Upper Cow Lake.
Water! Just what you need for paddling. Whew! There may be a canoeing story after all.
I saw the lakes about a decade ago during a good water year, but I put it off for years and decided to go for it a few weeks ago.
The upper lake was slightly low, but still looked good for paddling.
We launched at the boat ramp, loaded the dog in the canoe and headed west.
Since the lake is a mile wide and about 2.5-miles long, we decided to keep close to the shoreline in case those nasty afternoon desert winds whipped up.
Our canoe moved slowly along the rocky, sagebrush shoreline, and in places, it looked like any old reservoir in eastern Oregon or Southwest Idaho, like a giant puddle in the desert.
The fascinating thing about Cow lakes is they were naturally formed by volcanic activity.
Evidence of that was readily apparent with the unique basalt formations jutting from the lake's shore and spiced with orange, rust and green lichen.
There were pieces of basalt pillars on the bank, and the geology of the area changed as we paddled along the shoreline.
A family of otters popped up like periscopes on the glassy surface and started swimming toward us.
Grunting sounds came from the critters, and we had to steady our retriever to keep from flipping the canoe and sinking right there..
It isn't every day you paddle along with a family of otters watching your every move.
It was a sign of surprises to come. A unique paddling adventure was unfolding.
This wasn't any ordinary desert reservoir. It was a rare glimpse at the world surrounding a lava lake.
Behind us, at the far eastern end of the lake, a huge flock of snow geese cork screwed down and landed on the water.
Off to the side on the north side of the lake, mergansers flew a few feet off the water.
Nearby, Canada geese aggressively honked on their nesting sites even though we were a hundred yards away. Wildlife is skittish out here. Apparently they don't see that many people.
It was getting tricky switching from paddles to binoculars and back.
A yellow-bellied marmot jumped up on a rock on the rimrock to see what was going on.
It kept getting better. We continued to paddle toward the western tip of the lake, and we were soon surprised by remnants ancient lava flows with their black and gray swirls, trenches and pinnacles at the edge of the water.
It looked like melted licorice frozen by time.
The black rock splashed with the colors of lichen extended out of the lake and continued over the horizon.
Little points resembling mountain lions, towers and bears could be seen on the rock formation's skyline.
We beached the canoe and stumbled upon the southeastern end of massive lava flows in the 46-square-mile Jordan Craters natural area.
Whoa! This was turning out to be some kind of adventure.
"It looks like Hawaii. Oh, I guess I mean Owyhee," I joked.
We've all heard how the name Owyhee originated for this region of Idaho and Oregon from an incident where three Hawaiians were lost in the area in early 1800s.
Hopefully, we weren't going to get lost. After we landed the canoe, we started another adventure _ hiking across the lava flow.
This is when you appreciate wearing hiking boots while canoeing instead of paddling shoes. It takes stout boots for walking across the sharp lava rock.
The hike really makes you appreciate this land of fascinating sights and sounds.
We heard the croaking of sandhill cranes. The birds were grazing on vegetation at the edge of the lake.
You never know what you're going to see out there, and a lot depends on the season and migration patterns.
There can be thousands of waterfowl and hundreds of shorebirds in the area during good water years.
I talked with Richard White, assistant field manager with the Vale District of the BLM about the Cow Lakes Recreation Site after our trip.
"We get the strangest migratory birds out there that you can imagine," he said. "It's a different world when you get out in those lava flows. It's amazing." The high-desert lakes are amazing and strange, but in a beautiful way.
Although they have dams, the lakes are not reservoirs. They are playa lakes formed when the Jordan Craters lava flow blocked stream flows thousands of years ago.
The geology of this area is mindboggling. Deep volcanic deposits of basalt and rhyolite cover the landscape.
Another fascinating feature of the lakes is that there is a 17-foot elevation difference between them, even though they're right next to each other. When the lakes are brim full, there is a connecting channel called The Narrows.
We continued paddling and poking around in the coves of the lake looking for other discoveries in desert canoeing.
As we approached the boat ramp, a huge flock of snow geese flew over, apparently joining the others already on the lake.
It was a perfect closing for a day of bird watching, hiking and canoeing.
Getting there: Take U.S. 95 south of Marsing to Jordan Valley, Ore. From Jordan Valley, go about 5 miles west on U.S. 95 to the Cow Lakes turnoff and then about 14 miles northwest to the lakes.
Season: Now through May. Temperatures are best in the spring. It's hot in the summer. Fall is another good time, but the lake level is expected to be very low.
Camping: It's free; 10 rustic, shadeless, dirt campsites are available along with outhouses, fire pits, picnic tables and a rough concrete boat ramp.
Canoeing or kayaking: It's about 8 miles to follow the entire shoreline of Upper Cow Lake leaving from and ending at the boat ramp.. Or, you can just paddle to shorter destinations for wildlife watching and hiking. The lake is open to motorized boating, too.
Fishing: The upper lake is known for crappie fishing in good water years. It also has trout and bass.
Hiking: You can spend an entire day hiking around the lava flows of the Jordan Craters. To actually reach the main road to Jordan Craters and Coffee Pot Crater, you have to go in from a different direction. From U.S. 95, 8 miles north of Jordan Valley, turn west at the Jordan Craters sign onto Cow Creek Road. Follow BLM Jordan Craters access signs 25 miles to the site.
Mountain biking: You can explore area dirt roads on your bike. Obey private property signs.
ATVing, motorcycling and off-roading: It's allowed in certain areas, however, BLM says more of it is done in the areas off the Jordan Craters/Birch Creek roads. Off-roaders have to follow the regulations.
Information: Vale District of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, (541) 473-3144 or blm.gov/or/districts/vale.
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I just opened the top of my scotch ale bucket, and it looks like there's mold inside. The recipe is pretty standard, plus some oak chips soaked in whiskey, in a muslin bag. What is this?
Some people have suggested it might be lacto/pedio infection, which wouldn't be terrible. Does it look like that? The second picture is better.
If it is mold, is there any saving it? If it's a sour infection, what's the best way to age it, and for how long?


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Under the swap deal, BG Group and Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd will give Egypt about 500 million cubic feet/day of the natural gas they extract in the country to help ease its fuel shortage, while Qatar Gas will reportedly send the LNG directly to the companies' overseas customers.
By SUMMER SAID
OPEC member and gas-rich Qatar will supply Egypt with up to
24 cargoes of liquefied natural gas starting May 28 as the
North African country struggles to meet its domestic energy
needs, the first under-secretary for agreements and exploration
at the Egyptian Oil Ministry said in remarks available on
Under the swap deal, BG Group and Malaysia's Petroliam
Nasional Bhd will give Egypt about 500 million cubic feet/day
of the natural gas they extract in the country to help ease its
fuel shortage, while Qatar Gas will send the LNG directly to
the companies' overseas customers, Tarek el-Barkatawy said
according to the state-owned Middle East News Agency,
or MENA.
Over four months, Qatar will send 18 to 24 cargoes of up to
3.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas each, Mr. Barkatawy
The Egyptian oil ministry said earlier this week that the
two countries are still negotiating the credit terms for the
deal, but the North African country will not pay for these
shipments immediately in order to preserve its foreign
Egypt is working to secure oil- and gas-supply deals on
favorable credit terms from major Arab producers in an attempt
to ease fuel shortages and a government cash crunch that have
proved politically damaging for the country's Islamist
President Mohammed Morsi.
Libya, another member of the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries, has agreed in principle to offer Egypt
close to one million barrels a month of crude oil on a lengthy
one-year credit term, officials from the two countries told
The Wall Street Journal.
OPEC member Iraq has also agreed on a draft contract to supply
Egypt with 4 million bbl of crude a month on
three-month interest-free credit, officials from both countries
Egypt, a significant gas producer with much of its output
consumed domestically, began reining in exports last year and
is planning to issue a tender soon for local firms to import
liquefied natural gas to meet its domestic needs.
It is in talks with Russia for gas supplies, while Algeria
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uprising, paving the way for the electoral victory of Mr.
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negotiating with the International Monetary Fund over a $4.8
billion loan, which analysts and investors say is critical for
the country. IMF officials left Cairo last month without
agreeing on the terms of the loan.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Rihanna takes back her Twitter from her record company, Leonard Nimoy gives a haircut, and Andy Milonakis doesn't remember meeting Chelsea Clinton.
Cutting my grandson's hair. It runs in the family. My dad was a barber. LLAP http://twitpic.com/2iq59x
My friend told me that I met Chelsea Clinton once at a pool party but I was really drunk and I ignored her. haha, I rule!
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SONY'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR CYBER ATTACKSPosted in Anticipating A Crisis, Crises Communication, Crisis Communication Implementation, Crisis Communication Response, Cyber Attacks, negative publicity, Responsibility for date losses, Sony on May 22nd, 2011 by mnayor
Sony has been raked over the coals these last few weeks. Has there been just cause? And has Sony exercised good crisis management and crisis communication skills?
Between April 17 and April 19th the Sony PlayStation Network and the Company's Qriocity service which streams video to Sony televisions and Blu-ray devices were hacked and knocked offline. Besides knocking out service, unauthorized persons obtained access to personal information including credit card numbers. An estimated 77 million PlayStation users and 12 million of their credit cards were affected, plus 24 million Sony Online Entertainment customers and over 10,000 of their cards. The services have just recently come back on line (Japan itself is an exception because the government is not yet sure they is secure) as of approximately May 14th.
There are two main issues that have gotten the public very agitated. First, did the Company handle its communications well? It took almost a week to publicly acknowledge the attacks and advise its customers that credit card information could have been compromised. This length of delay surely provided hackers with a large window of opportunity to utilize the information it had mined to the obvious detriment of millions of customers.
One of the basic tenants of crisis communication is to act quickly and have as much control of the dialogue as possible. The basic problem was evident, even if a great deal of operational research had to be done to identify the extent of the damage. The first goal should have been to minimize the vulnerability of its customers through immediate notification. By delaying, Sony allowed speculation to build up and therefore it positioned itself defensively, instead of taking vigorous proactive steps.
The other communications gaff came directly from Sony's CEO, Howard Stringer. In a discussion with reporters on May 17th, he defended the actions of Sony when asked why it took almost a week to notify customers. He observed that the Company reported quickly, noted that many companies don't report these breaches at all or only after a month, and then said "you're telling me my week wasn't fast enough". This sounds a bit defensive and imperious for a CEO. Most customers would probably disagree with him, especially those whose credit cards could have used by the hackers, or those whose personal information may now be used for identity theft purposes.
The second main issue is operational. Sony must quickly tighten its security and provide safe and secure networks for its customers. The U.S. Congress and the New York Attorney general almost immediately jumped on the bandwagon to "investigate" this technological lapse, but hopefully these actions will not drain efforts away from identifying vulnerabilities and making data protection paramount. Customers need to be confident of Sony's ability to protect them. Otherwise, it will lose out big time to Microsoft and Nintendo. That should be motivation enough to make Sony create one of the most secure networks available out there in cyberspace.


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FA Cup Giant-Killers are Waiting
Until it reaches the third round every January, the FA Cup is a fairly minor competition, the stuff of wet, midweek nights and sports-section filler. But once the Premier League clubs enter the fray, the whole nature of the competition changes. It becomes about upsets, any-given-Saturday twists that see millionaires knocked out by unknowns.
"So people will speculate a lot about who will win it in the end," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said Thursday. "To have a chance to do that, you just need to get through the first round [you play in]."
And even that round is littered with potential pitfalls. In the past five years alone, underdogs have won 40 of the 160 third-round match-ups. And these teams weren't just underdogs because they were a few points behind their opponents in the league standings. A vast majority of these winners (32) actually played one to three divisions lower than the teams they stunned.
Inter-divisional upsets have been so frequent, in fact, that third-tier Oldham Athletic's 2008 takedown of Everton—a club that sat 51 spots above it in the English soccer ladder—doesn't even make the top five upsets of the past five years.
By that measure, the biggest surprise was Stevenage's victory over Newcastle in 2011. Stevenage was a middling team in League Two, the fourth tier on the ladder, and Newcastle was sitting eighth in the Premier League, 73 spots higher.
With a nearly full-strength side, the Premier League club floundered so badly that manager Alan Pardew could only apologize to the fans after the game. Stevenage manager Graham Westley, meanwhile, took it as proof that the nothing-to-lose spirit of FA Cup minnows could produce historic results.
"Our focus before the game was how we would win 5-0," he told reporters. "We established that if we did just 20% of what it would take to win 5-0, we'd win the game."
Like for so many FA Cup giant-killers, it was the only surprise up Stevenage's sleeve. It was knocked out by Championship side Reading—which had notched its own third-round upset against West Bromwich Albion of the Premier League.
But Stevenage is just one of countless small teams to turn the competition's third round into a season highlight. So for any club trying to pull off a minor miracle of its own, here are some tips.
1. Do the business in the first game.
The FA Cup is a single-elimination tournament with a twist: aside from the final and semifinals, which are settled in one day, games in the earlier rounds are replayed if they are tied after 90 minutes. Only in the second meeting between the teams can the game go to extra time and, if needed, a penalty shootout.
So for many smaller clubs, a second chance to sell tickets and potentially have the game televised makes a replay against a big team almost as desirable as an upset. In 2005, a replay actually saved Exeter City.
The club had been crippled by debt and was on the verge of liquidation when it was drawn against Manchester United. The sides tied 0-0 at Old Trafford in front of almost 70,000 fans and United won the replay 2-0 on the road. Exeter City might have been eliminated, but those two games changed the course of the club's history.
"These Manchester United games are a lifesaver," Neil Le Milliere, a founder member of the Exeter City Supporters' Trust, wrote in the Guardian in early 2005. He said the $1.3 million the club generated from TV rights and ticket sales over two meetings allowed it to clear its immediate debt and keep operating.
Yet when it comes to pulling off an upset, the replay can be the kiss of death. Of the 38 third-round match-ups to go to a replay since the 2007-08 season, the lower-ranked team won only eight times. Which makes sense: Whatever element of surprise the underdog had in the first game has usually evaporated by the second.
2. Don't sweat the road trips.
When people picture third-round upsets, the scene is usually along these lines. A richer, more experienced team is drawn on the road against a weaker club, located in the middle of nowhere. It's an uncomfortable bus trip to a crumbling stadium, a relic from another era with stands on three sides. The locker room is cramped and still smells like the last team to use it. The field is muddy. It comes apart in clumps, like a horse race just came through. And, of course, it's raining.
Which is exactly how the small teams like it, or so the thinking goes. If the conditions are bad enough, then it might just be enough to put the Premier League millionaires off their game for a day.
Except, as it turns out, home advantage in the third round is a myth. Of the 40 upsets in the past five years 22 have gone to the home team with 18 for the away team.
3. League form means nothing.
Burton Albion was 17th in League Two when it beat Middlesbrough, a side from the Championship, in 2011. Notts County was 14th in League One when it beat Sunderland that same year. And Oldham was 13th in League Two when it beat Everton, which was sixth in the Premier League. In such moments, any concerns about getting dragged into a relegation battle or pushing for a playoff spot are forgotten.
"I've told the lads, 'Go out and have a pint tonight, enjoy the occasion,' " then-Oldham manager John Sheridan told reporters. "Because it might not happen very often in their careers."


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Please suggest some good tips on conducting a photography workshop. I am planning to start a basic one first and then will proceed to advanced photography workshops. What tips do you suggest?
Collected notes after three-day workshop with 11 people in total:
I'd first look at other photographers and see what they do, like http://www.kelbytraining.com/ . The training/workshop topics are pointed to a particular topic, i.e. portraits, where an instructor can discuss the finer points of what goes into portraiture photography. For a basic topic, maybe you'd want to start out with something like 'basic camera operation'? And more advanced would goto specific shooting style.


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4 Theatre Professionals came together to work on pieces about childhood, the Troubles in Ireland, and fidelity. After our first rehearsal, we discovered that we were victims of sexual assault. What has resulted is our theatre piece, Mum's [Not] the Word. Incest, clergy molestation, rape and abuse and how we cope all rolled into an hour and 15 minutes of truth, honesty and humor.
A collection of nursery rhymes, spoken word and monologues. Conceived, written and starring Donna Barkman*, Nicole Jesson* Elizabeth June* and Malini Singh McDonald
Stage Manager: Samantha Hooper-Hamersley
Friday May 6th at 7:30pm;
Saturday May 7th at 3pm and 7:30pm
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AG099: It's Still Rocket Roll to Me!
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It's Still Rocket Roll to Me (Japanese: フウとラン!宇宙センターの戦い! Tate and Liza! Space Center Battle!) is the 7th episode of Pokémon: Advanced Battle.
Episode Plot
The gang arrives to Mossdeep City. Although May wants to go sightseeing, Ash has only one thing left to do in Town - get the seventh badge from Mossdeep City Gym. Thea come to the Gym. A woman goes from the Gym, greeting the gang and going away. They ask her where the Gym leader is, but she replies everyone is going to see the satellite launch. Max tells them there is a Space Center Research building in Mossdeep City. Max and May begin to plan what to see there, but Ash refuses and demands to go there to get the Gym leader. Max thinks Ash will also want to see the launch, but refuses to confirm.
The astronaut inside the rocket begins to check the systems. Team Rocket sees the vehicle, so Meowth thinks boss would use the rocket to conquer the galaxy, all for himself and reward them. The gang is searching inside a building the Gym leader. They enter a room filled with devices - training machines. Ash ties himself to a machine and pushes a button. Him and Pikachu are being spun around, until Pikachu presses another button, stopping the machine. Ash feels very bad, but sees some lights from a nearby room. They see two children battling. The boy's Solrock goes to tackle, so the girl's Lunatone does the same. Tate (the boy) orders Solrock to use Sandstorm, but nothing happens - the girl's Lunatone is part Rock type.
Lunatone uses Psychic, pushing Solrock to a wall. Solrock goes up and uses Solar Beam, but the attack is canceled by Lunatone's tackling. Solrock goes to attack again, but is frozen by Lunatone's Ice Beam. Tate returns Solrock back. Tate is disappointed, but the girl reminds him that Solar Beam needs time to be launched. The gang enters, but soon find themselves floating. The girl tells them Baltoy use Confusion that they create zero gravity. Ash introduces himself and the girl is Liza while the boy Tate, her little brother. Tate is annoyed by the last part, but Max tells him he feels the same. Liza mentions that their father is the director of the company - Space Center. Brock tells them that the different physical laws can make a difference in battle.
Liza offers them a tour of the Center, but Ash wants to find the Gym leader first. Liza and Tate think the Gym leader would like to see the launch first - Tate and her are the Gym leaders of Mossdeep City. Tate uses the machine Ash used before. As they watch him, Liza tells Ash that they will have a Double Battle. Ash is more determined to win - it is another challenge for him. Before the launch, May and Liza go to get May on the moonwalker machine. Pikachu stops Ash, so Ash realizes he wants all his Pokémon out. Brock, May and Ash bring their Pokémon out, being tested on different courses. Max and Tate went to a course where one needs to fly the space ship. Tate activates the machine, and a projection of them being in space is displayed.
Corphish goes out of the room, seeing a man transporting food makes it go after it. At the controller room, the woman the gang encountered at the Gym saw something in Storage Room, but denies. Corphish is in the Storage Room, eating and drinking. The gang and Liza come to their father before he goes to the rocket. Liza introduces her father to the gang. Liza's father says he always wanted to go to space to explore the Pokémon outside Earth. Father denies the fact Max and Tate were here before. Soon, the father hears that the security has been breached - Team Rocket is seen in astronaut suits running, even if they are told to stop. The gang intercepts them, so James sends Cacnea who uses Pin Missile. Pikachu attacks with Thunderbolt, striking Team Rocket. Jessie sends Seviper who uses Haze, dimming the vision and allowing Team Rocket to go further.
Max wonders if he and Tate will get in trouble, but Tate tells him not to worry. Team Rocket goes inside the rocket. Jessie spots the food and takes some, so Corphish spots them. Team Rocket spots Tate and Max, soon tying them up. Before they go, James sends Chimecho and places it above him, relaxing themselves with its voice. Meowth presses the button, starting the rocket. The woman sees Team Rocket, with Tate and Max tied up, so she tells Tate and Liza's father about the problem. Team Rocket launch off, but soon find themselves to be stopped by four Baltoy, who use Confusion to stop the rocket. Tate tells Max they have to stop Team Rocket. Max sees Ash's Corphish.
Jessie thinks Baltoy need to be stopped, so James orders Chimecho to use Astonish. However, Solrock used Confusion, levitating them. Solrock uses Psychic, bashing Team Rocket. The woman (who is Tate and Liza's mom) and the father are relieved. However, Tate needs to land the shuttle down. Tate tells them that he already done that in the simulator. Baltoy stops using Confusion, so the shuttle continues to fly. Tate's father gives Tate the orders how to land the shuttle. Corphish goes to press a button, but Max stops it in time. With his orders, Tate and Max land the shuttle down. May and Liza are furious - they order Combusken to use fire Spin and Lunatone to attack with Ice Beam. Pikachu blasts them off with Iron Tail. Tate's father, in the end, finally goes up in the shuttle. Ash is determined to get the battle against Liza's Lunatone and Tate's Solrock as soon as possible.
- Liza: "Hi, I'm Liza. And this is my little brother Tate."
- Tate: "Why do you always have to say little brother, when we're twins with the same age?"
- Liza: "Partly cause I like beating you, but mostly cause it makes you mad."
- Tate: "Grrrrrr. I wish I was born first, then I'd be the older brother and you'd be my little sister."
- Liza: "Tate and I are the co-Gym Leaders of the Mossdeep Gym."
- Tate: "And we gladly accept the challenge..."
- Liza and Tate (Simultaneously): "...Of Ash, from Pallet Town."
- "Keep your hands off my little brother!"
- May and Liza simultaneously.
- When Team Rocket blasted off, the ice was formed in a shape of a shuttle.
- Featured Pokémon: Tangela, Lileep, Houndour
- Tangela was featured as the Pokémon who does not evolve. In Gen. IV, however, Tangela evolves into Tangrowth.
- Though they appear the same in appearance and age, this episode showed that Liza was the older of the two twins while Tate was the younger one.
- In the games, the player went to Mossdeep Gym before challenging Team Aqua/Team Magma in Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald, however, the anime planned for Ash to challenge Liza and Tate after stopping Team Aqua and Team Magma.
- The title is a pun on the song "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" by Billy Joel.


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When you export a picture to JPG you can normally choose its quality in a 1-100 scale. I like to keep a good quality but it wouldn't make sense to keep a JPG that will be almost as big as the original RAW, so is there any guideline to select a particular JPG quality for particular uses? I am mostly interested in Internet sharing and ordering prints online.
To be frank, it is entirely anecdotal that a JPEG image should be exported at a certain compression level all the time. The amount of JPEG compression should really depend on the usage purpose for the JPEG, and the contents of the JPEG.
The quality level one should choose when exporting an image to JPEG is highly dependent upon the kind of detail contained within the image. An image of a smooth blue sky or a sunset sky with large areas of orange gradient should probably use a high quality setting, 90-100. An image that contains nothing but complex detail could probably get away with a quality setting of 50-60, possibly even lower. There is no single "best" JPEG compression setting, and depending on the type and complexity of detail (or lack of complexity and detail), you may find yourself using 40-60, 70-80, or 90-100 as appropriate for the photo(s) you are exporting.
An excellent visual resource for how JPEG compression affects IQ can be found here:
An Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings
This site demonstrates JPEG compression from the lowest to highest settings in discrete ranges for a series of sample images of differing content. You can clearly see, by observing each image at each compression level, why a higher setting such as 90-100 may be required in some cases, and a lower setting such as 40-60 is entirely acceptable for others.
As a side note, if you are saving a JPEG for any kind of print purpose, or for viewing on-screen at a large size (i.e. as a wallpaper for a 30" 2560x1600 screen), there is no reason not to use the best quality setting available. When saving for web, compress as much as you can without introducing visible compression artifacts. Different classes of images will regularly fall into certain JPEG compression levels (the site linked above can help learning what fall where)...so it can quickly become second nature to know what compression level to use when saving various images for the web.
Disks are still pretty cheap these days so there are advantages to JPEG files, even if they are as big as the original RAW, instant image preview, being able to display on computers without RAW software.
The "quality" parameter determines the quantization matrix used to compress the data. Without going into too much detail this determines the degree to which the frequencies contained in an image are approximated to achieve compression. The important thing to note is that there is no direct correspondence between "quality" and final size.
Therefore quality merely determines what proportion of image information will be lost, if an image that contains more information to begin with (in terms of high frequency details) you will get a larger JPEG file even with the same quality settings. There is therefore no global setting you can use, if you want files of a certain size you have to tune the quality for each image.
Alternatively you might want to use a higher setting for images with more fine detail (or noise - noise doesn't compress well so can result in more artifacts). If you are doing a one off image I would use any program that gave you a preview of the compressed image (Photoshop does this) and play with the value until you get the quality you want at a size that is reasonable.
I never archive in JPEG format, I always keep the original RAWs, so any time I'm producing a JPEG it is for display on screen. I used to start with quality 7 (out of 12) in Photoshop, unless I noticed artifacts, then I would increase it. Then I moved to 9/12 as my default quality. As internet connections speeds and storage increased much faster than screen resolutions, these days I just use 11 (one step down from maximum, there's a bit of a jump in size when you select 12) all the time and don't worry about it.
When sending images to print, if they have to be JPEGs I use the highest quality I can unless the print company complains. You've worked hard on an image, there's no sense reducing the quality to cut upload times by a few minutes.
Use 90, or preferably 95. In my experience, the size gain when using anything under 90 is in most cases no longer beneficial in relation to perceivable quality loss, and should only be used on very specific images that can profit from JPEG compression and/or need to stay under a maximum file size (e.g. images used when building a website).
JPEG compression lower than about 75 will definitely show visible artifacts.
What Matt said, but I want to add that JPEG actually has two compression schemes built in. The first is based on a discrete cosine, which allows certain frequency components of the image to be thrown out. This is the lossy compression with the "quality" parameter that can trade off compression with fidelity. At maximum quality, this compression scheme is mostly eliminated.
JPEG also uses huffman encoding for additional compression. That is a lossless scheme, so it is always there without any need to control it.
So even at maximum "quality", JPEG will have some useful compression. I just looked at sizes of one example image of a ordinary scene for comparison. The Nikon NEF raw file is 26 Mb, which contains 14 bits/pixel and is uncompressed. My post-processed JPEG version saved at maximum quality is 9.1 Mb. This contains 24 bits/pixel, although of course some information is lost and other information interpolated from values in the original raw image. This same post-processed image converted to a TIFF file with LZW and forward differencing compression (both lossless) resulted in 20.3 Mb.
As a final experiment, I copied the 9.1 Mb post-processed file and the TIFF file resulting from it both to JPEG files with maximum quality setting. Both resulting JPEG files are exactly the same size to the byte of about 8.5 Mb. This shows that even at maximum quality, just a little lossy compression is going on, but not much. It also proves the point that no information was lost at all going to the TIFF file.
As Matt does, I archive the original RAW files from the camera. I also archive my general purpose post-processed version as JPEG with maximum quality. Even pixel peeping at high contrast and sharp edges doesn't reveal compression artifacts to the human eyeball. I like having the post-processed picture in JPEG form because its probably the most immediately usable format. If there is a issue and I want something different, I've always got the raw file to re-derive a another post-processed version from with different tradeoffs.
I used to use 80 as the default quality level of my JPEG images (my software has 0-100 for its quality range), but lately I've been using 100 as default unless there is a specific need for a smaller file size. There usually isn't. I have gone so far as changing the default for the JPG image driver in the source code so that I don't have to keep specifying the quality level most of the time. It's not like the old days where a Gb was a lot of memory. (Actually, I'm old enough to remember when 1 Mb was a decent amount of disk space, but back then we weren't doing digital photography either).
I keep my jpeg quality slider at 100% for my "developments", and will so I lose less detail before the online site will recompress it anyway. If I put it on my own site through ftp I might choose 90% and supply a thumbnail. 80% of online people watching photos online has a fast DSL anyway.
Here is a test with quality from left to right: 10,20,30,40,55,70,80,90,100% I show crops from each file.
File sizes for the full files are: 210k, 278k, 347k, 477k, 601k, 709k, 987k, 1.7M, 7M.
The raw file was 8M but remember that is basically a monochrome image and a smaller thumbnail plus a little meta data. The BMP is 30.5Mb!
To me the difference from 100 to 90 is noticeable but very small. But I would never go under 100% if there is a chance I might want to open it and process it further. below 100% is a "process time EVER" deal.
From 90 to 80 the difference is bigger, and 70% starts to look like crap. So my conclusion is: for backup and possible reopening 100% if you need to save some space/upload/DL time and it wont get repacked: 80-90%.
To get the best possible compromise between compression and quality you would have to try each image with different compressions to see where the quality is acceptable. If you don't want to do that to every image, you can try out a few images and then go with that compression level, and accept that the level is close enough.
As a starting point:
What to look for, to spot JPEG compression artifacts:


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I tried to install Ubuntu in my laptop ASUSX401A. I removed Windows in the partition table at the installation. All okay up to here, however when I reboot the HD after finish the installation, the HD was not recognized, in the BIOS it appears that the HD only option was the Realtek card, then was impossible to enter to Ubuntu. After that I tried again to install Ubuntu but now I have a error in the input/output when I wanted the enter the table partition.
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Waco (September 10, 2012)-- It's a petition that's growing by the day. Started last week, we're told by a Humane Society of Central Texas supporter.
At last check, nearly a thousand supporters from across the state of Texas and the country have signed up, leaving their thoughts about the turmoil going on at the shelter.
The petition states, "Build a new animal shelter, Hire more employees: The shelter we have is antiquated, cold, wet, dirty and depressing. It is not adequate to accommodate the needs of this area. A new shelter with more employees and better management will show that Waco/McLennan County is a forward thinking and caring city."
Its urging the city of Waco, as it takes over operations, to make improvements to the shelter.
In recent weeks, the Humane Society has been criticized about the condition of the shelter, how the animals are kept, and its former executive director was fired after a scathing email she sent to one of the volunteers.
We contacted the city of Waco's Legal Department to ask if this online petition could carry any weight if enough signatures are recorded.
Still no word, however for the supporters who have given their time, money, and energy, they say they are hopeful the Humane Society will recover.


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The Explosive Power of David Ortiz
It's a little late in David Ortiz's career to be pondering this, but should Big Papi become a switch-hitter?
This came to mind after the All-Star Red Sox slugger bashed a Camden Yards dugout phone with his bat Saturday. (He was upset over a strike call by umpire Tim Timmons that had led to a strikeout.) Ortiz has hit exclusively from the left side throughout his 17-year major-league career, but when he was battering that phone, he made two of his swings with a right-handed motion.
The technique, the bat speed, the explosiveness—it was all there. Ortiz had his right hand on top of his left, just as a righty is supposed to. He choked up on the bat more than he ordinarily does, but it didn't cost him any power, judging by the shards he sent flying.
Switch-hitting could make Ortiz, the all-time hits leader among designated hitters, even more dangerous. Opposing managers would have to think twice about bringing in lefty relievers to face him. Ortiz's numbers against lefty pitchers (.763 on-base-plus-slugging percentage) might start resembling his otherworldly stats against righties (1.160 OPS).
Or he could disregard our tongue-in-cheek suggestion and just continue doing what he's doing. On Sunday, the day after his outburst and ejection, Ortiz went 4-for-4 with a home run in Boston's 5-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
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We are all seriously impressed with ourselves back here...
Thanks to Maxx for PitCHER and elijah lucian for the music and demo.
1. The skin will change.
2, The TO DO list is not completed so we locked down a version for the up-coming FL Studio 9.6 Beta.
The TO DO list includes...
* Manual panning of harmony voices.
* MIDI Pitch bend.
* Formant throat size (sex).
* More polyphony (currently 4 notes).
* auto harmony.
* FL version
Sit back, relax and enjoy,
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I've been interested in porting Ubuntu to my Apple hardware for quite some time and I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm going to have to do the port myself but I have no idea how to complete such a task.
Please advise me on how to port an OS to another device, steps involved, and what I need to teach myself to be successful. Don't tell me Apple wont allow it, its my hardware outright and I'm dissatisfied with the current operating system on my hardware.
The phone was purchased for full price, and I completed a 2 year contract agreement, and the iPhone hasn't been used as a phone for a couple of years now. I've seen Android on the iPhone so my assumption is that it is possible.
Thanks for your replies in advance.


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I'm trying to count answers to a series of multiple questions but can't get the SQL query to work properly.
I have a table as follows:
I would like to output totals for each type of response for each question in a (query) table like:
I've been trying a query like this:
However, the output from this query is in the wrong order. While the counts for Q1 match the GROUP BY unique values, the other counts are disordered.
Any tips on how to get the right output? Cheers.
I have a table as follows:
Q1 | Q2 | Q3 Agree | Disagree | Strongly Agree Disagre | Agree | Agree Agree | Strongly Agree | Disagree ...
Answer | Q1Count | Q2Count | Q3Count Agree | 2 | 3 | 5 Disagree | 1 | 5 | 3 Strongly Agree | 4 | 3 | 2 ...
SELECT AnswersTable.Q1, Count(AnswersTable.Q1) AS Q1Count, Count(AnswersTable.Q2) AS Q2Count, Count(AnswersTable.Q3) AS Q3Count FROM AnswersTable GROUP BY AnswersTable.Q1 ORDER BY AnswersTable.Q1 DESC;
Any tips on how to get the right output? Cheers.


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This account was created six days ago and has 10 answers (out of 15 total) that all start with the same paragraph. Maybe a bit suspicious on its own, but they're all related questions, so maybe just trying to be helpful and spread the same info across answers.
But then comes the part where every one of them features links to the same product. And he seems to also be in the SEO consulting business as well? Just seems a little inappropriate.
I'm hesitant to go through and mark each of the 10 questions as spam as they should be seen/reviewed as a whole - not individually.
What does anyone else think? Do something? Leave it alone?


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Rambod Behboodi, General Counsel and Executive Director, General Legal Services, Department of Finance Canada will give a talk on "The Dog That Did Not Bark: The Mystery of the Missing Dispute Settlement Chapter in NAFTA."
The principal interstate dispute settlement mechanism of the NAFTA, set out in Chapter 20, has been used sparingly by the Parties. This is in stark contrast to the robust use of WTO dispute settlement by the NAFTA Parties and, indeed, the relative 'success' of the investment dispute settlement mechanism of the NAFTA under Chapter 11. Drawing on his experience as a trade litigator and dispute settlement negotiator, Mr. Behboodi, who teaches trade litigation and advocacy at the Faculty of Law, Queen's University, will offer his personal views on the possible underlying causes.
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