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I cited the diagonal proof of the uncountability of the reals as an example of a `common false belief' in mathematics, not because there is anything wrong with the proof but because it is commonly believed to be Cantor's second proof. The stated purpose of the paper where Cantor published the diagonal argument is to prove the existence of uncountable infinities, avoiding the theory of irrational numbers. I have no problem believing that Cantor himself realized that a diagonal proof of the uncountability of R was possible but I have not even found an allusion to this in his collected works. The earliest appearance in print that I know is on page 43 of The theory of sets of points by W. H. Young and Grace Chisholm Young (1906). I would be very grateful for any reference to some scrap of paper where Cantor himself mentions the possibility of using the diagonal method to prove the set of reals uncountable.
From Labyrinth of thought: a history of set theory and its role in modern mathematics by José Ferreirós and José Ferreirós Domínguez:
The book also discusses why this was a margin note and not Cantor's main concern: His goal was a new proof of Liouville's theorem that within any given interval there are infinitely many transcendent numbers.
Cantor's diagonal argument first appears in his 1891 paper "Über eine elementare Frage der Mannigfaltigkeitslehre", Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 1: 75–78, in which he generalizes the argument to prove that any set has more subsets than elements. The 1891 paper has the diagonal argument as we know it today, but even his 1874 proof begins to look like a diagonal argument if you look at it closely. The proof uses the least upper bound $x$ of an increasing sequence $x_1,x_2,x_3,\ldots$ and $x$ "diagonalizes" the sequence in the sense that $x$ differs from each $x_i$ in some decimal place. The position of the place of difference increases with $i$, so the places of difference lie on a "jagged diagonal".
A more clearcut use of diagonalization before Cantor's 1891 proof, in my opinion, is in this 1875 paper by Paul du Bois-Reymond. Given a sequence of positive integer valued functions $f_1,f_2,f_3,\ldots$, du Bois-Reymond constructs a function $f$ that grows faster than each $f_i$. In particular, $f$ differs from $f_i$ on the value $i$.
Edit: A closer look reveals that the proof in the reference below is not the diagonal proof. I am leaving the answer up since the reference might be of interest anyhow.
Cantor had a paper in Crelle's Journal 77 (1874) 258–262. In Christopher P. Grant's translation, the title of the paper is On a Property of the Class of all Real Algebraic Numbers. In §2, we can read
I am not sure where I found the translation. Sloppy of me.
2nd Edit: here is a very brief outline of Cantor's non-diagonal proof. By induction on $k$, find $\alpha_k$, $\beta_k$ as early as possible from the given sequence with $$\alpha<\alpha_1<\alpha_2<\cdots<\beta_2<\beta_1<\beta$$ and note that any number the the closed interval $[\alpha_\infty,\beta_\infty]$ is not in the given sequence. If the induction fails after step $k$, the interval $(\alpha_k,\beta_k)$ contains at most one point from the given sequence.
The evidence that you look for can already be found in the second paragraph of Cantor's original paper. There he states "Es läßt sich aber von jenem Satze ein viel einfacherer Beweis liefern, der unabhängig von der Betrachtung der Irrationalzahlen ist.", meaning that his diagonal argument supplies a much simpler proof of the theorem proved in his first paper on the uncountability of the real numbers. This does not only mention but declare that his method can be applied to real numbers.
Probably in order to emphasize its independence of numbers, Cantor did not use numerals 0 and 1, but m and w which (and this answers your last remark) in German are abbreviations of male and female. So he had a good substitution for 0 and 1 or up and down or yes and no - and he deliberately or unconsciously circumvented the problem that this proof without reservations, as stated in his original text, would fail on binary sequences.


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TEAGUE (April 11, 2012)- A fire destroyed a mobile home Wednesday morning in Freestone County.
The Mexia Fire Department was dispatched to the mobile home just after 11 a.m. Wednesday.
It took crews from Mexia and Teague around an hour to extinguish the blaze, which completely destroyed the mobile home.
The Mexia Fire Department did not say how many people were displaced by the fire.
There were no injuries, and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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Another local school is also starting to feel the effects of the state budget cuts.
Bowling Green Technical College faces major financial cutbacks. Thursday night the school's board of directors met to review their agenda. Members on the board heard just how much Bowling Green Tech will be hurt by the cuts.
President Jack Thomas tells WBKO they're paying the state $210,000. He says the biggest problem is deciding how to handle the cuts.
Thomas says, "We went over several steps we could take as institution to limit the impact on students. That might be this coming fall to actually to limit the enrollment, to raise the standards to get into the school, and of course there's always tuition increases which would really hurt students."
WBKO has also learned Bowling Green Technical will be opening a campus in the transpark. The 23,000 square foot building will coast around $5.5 million. The campus will offer continued programs from the main campus.


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Sexual Assault Cold Case Survivors and the Neurobiology of Trauma
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I have to install Ubuntu 11.04 on server with 4 x 160 GB SSD raids maintained as RAID. I need to stick to v11.04 because it's required software we use.
I want to make sure, that I can safely install this version on Ubuntu on SSD disks. I heard, that some time ago Linux had some problems with block writing(?), what caused faster SSD ageing.


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Assume $M$ is a (finitely generated) $A$-module such that $\wedge^n M$ is free of rank $1$ for some $n \geq 1$. Does it follow that $M$ is free of rank $n$? Or at least locally free of rank $n$?
In general, is there a way of characterizing local free modules via exterior powers and tensor products?


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Burglars have broken into the Wellington Recreation Center three times over the past two weeks. The latest was last weekend, which was discovered on Monday morning when people arrived for work.
Rec. Center director Cody White said they have tried to take preventative measures to keep people from breaking into their establishment.
"This hit's home a little bit, we feel violated," he said.
The string of break-ins started a couple of weeks ago when someone forced their way in through the back door. The burglars managed to get the back door open and took video games, candy and a camera system.
Another break-in happened a few days later but nothing was missing.
White had a dead bolt lock installed on the door, but the thieves were not done.
Last weekend they used a prybar to get the back door open, working around the deadbolt. They damaged the frame of the door, and went further inside the facility this time.
They took keys and money boxes which held more than $300.
White said they later found the boxes behind the building and police took fingerprints.
Police Chief Tracy Heath said there have been more break-ins lately. He added a church on Botkin Street was also burglarized during the same time frame of the rec center burglaries.
Heath said it is likely it is the same person, or persons, doing the burglaries.
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I'm wondering how bracketing works in Mirror Lock-up mode while using Promote control, is camera releasing shutter through all bracketing sequence while mirror is up to avoid shaking?
On my Nikon D700 when I'm shooting bracketed photos for HDR I have exposure delay mode on. Because of this shutter release after one second after mirror is up and close just before mirror is down. I'm doing this in cl mode using interval timer shooting so all bracketing sequence id done in a one row.
I see only two disadvantages of using this. One is 1s delay between photos in bracketing sequence and second is need to click few buttons few times until bracketing sequence starts (I have interval timer shooting under custom button but any way after getting interval timer shooting menu there is a need to make few clicks after camera starts taking photos).
How Promote Control improves this workflow if it does, has anybody tried this? Thnx for your help.


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Lyme Disease Treatment | One Woman's Quest for Answers
One woman's quest to find Lyme disease treatment takes her through Lyme tick country and deep into the place where medicine and politics collide.
In July 2002, having spent an idyllic week's vacation on one of the Elizabeth Islands off Cape Cod, I came home to New Hampshire. The island — a glorious, wild place marked by ancient beech forests, kettle ponds, and open grasslands — is also crawling with ticks, which at the time seemed only a minor obstacle to enjoying the abundant gifts it offers.
Within a month of my return, however, I would begin to learn a bitter lesson — in the history, ethics, and politics of a debilitating disease, and the mystery that has surrounded it for more than 50 years.
Like many others who visit New England's islands, I was bitten by ticks, more than once. Ten days after getting home, on a very hot day, I felt cold. I put on sweaters and heavy socks and lay down under a pile of blankets. I shivered and shook. My head pounded. More than anything, I craved sleep. I lay in bed, shivering and sweating. I finally found the strength to call my doctor, who waved away my suggestion that I might have Lyme disease.
Some days later, bruises appeared on my legs, first one and then another, and within another day, my entire body was covered in them. A friend, a nurse, saw the deep blue marks and said, "You have Lyme disease! Get to a doctor right away!" How she knew I have no idea — because they didn't look like the pictures of the bull's-eye rash I'd seen in books.
My doctor ordered blood tests. Indeed, I had Lyme. Soon my doctor was talking with specialists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. I was a rare case. I had all four of the identifying factors: a verified tick bite, flulike symptoms, a positive blood test, and a bruiselike rash, known medically as erythema migrans, or EM. My doctor prescribed four weeks of a powerful antibiotic, doxycycline, and when the symptoms hadn't completely subsided in that time, an additional two weeks.
The antibiotics cleared the rash immediately. The fever was subdued, but not my fear. I Googled "Lyme disease" on my computer. More than a million results came up, and to my dismay, many of them were in remarkable disagreement about almost everything. There were scores of "Lyme disease associations" to consult. Which ones were useful? I had no way to tell. I read dozens of personal stories — all with the same theme. The Lyme disease treatment was as perplexing as its cause.
I read about Allen C. Steere, M.D., the physician who first gave the disease its name — and who later received death threats and refused to make public appearances without security guards. I read about doctors who had been hauled before their state medical boards for prescribing long-term antibiotics, risking suspension of their licenses. I was mystified. This was beginning to sound like a John le Carre novel. My journey down the information highway had left me with more questions than ever.
Some of the Web sites I visited, such as lyme-rage.info, appeared to be outlets for fury against the medical establishment and the insurance companies. I could relate to that. My health insurance had expired just two weeks before I was diagnosed. A cancer survivor, I was in the midst of applying to insurance companies when I received the Lyme diagnosis. And so, on the next application, I dutifully reported my past history — not only with cancer but now with Lyme. That application was denied. The reason stated? Lyme disease. I thought, "How could Lyme" — which I thought of then as merely an achy, flulike illness — "be worse than cancer?"
Whenever people heard that I had Lyme, they had stories to tell. That's how I learned about Lauren Lemay.
At her Gilford, New Hampshire, home, she sits on her deck looking out across the gentle view of the distant hills. For six years she has struggled with this sickness. "The day before I got sick, I ran 10 miles, played nine holes of golf, and then I painted the living room. That was my typical day," Lauren recalls.
Lauren, now 58, was an elementary school teacher, a long-distance runner, and a vegetarian for nearly 40 years. Health was her constant companion. "The next day, I was getting ready to go teach, and I just couldn't move," she says. "I was so tired, like nothing I ever remember in my life; I just wanted to sleep. I dragged myself to work, got through the day, and came home and slept and slept. And I was freezing. It was a hot day, and I crawled into a sleeping bag and curled up in a chair, shivering."
That was only the start. With increasing desperation, Lauren consulted 15 or 20 doctors and was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn's disease, anorexia, depression, and empty nest syndrome. When she ran out of physicians in her local area, she consulted doctors at Boston's Lahey Clinic and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. When she found no relief there, she continued to seek a diagnosis. She visited a Chinese doctor, a psychic, a Venezuelan shaman, and a woman who conducted business out of a yurt in the middle of the woods in Western Massachusetts. "I was ready to try anything," she says.
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DIY Tilt Column InstallWritten by on January 31, 2012 I Did It With ididit
Since trucks are primarily designed and manufactured as beasts of burden rather than luxury rides, any upgrade that improves the driving comfort of a classic pickup is a welcome one. One quick and easy way to accomplish such an improvement is with the addition of a tilt steering column.
One of the highest quality and well-known manufacturers of replacement steering columns and steering related accessories is ididit. Here, we'll follow the quick and easy installation of their direct replacement tilt column for Chevrolet's '55 to '59 pickups. Like I said, it's easy to add the convenience and reliability of a new column built specific for your GM truck, and they're not universal columns that require modification of your original pickup to install, either. Simply remove your old column, and using the installation components (which are included in the column kits) install your new steering column in place of the old. You can even add an aftermarket wheel and the gripping surface of the new wheel will be in the same location as your original. Included in the stock steering configuration for '55 to'59 Chevy Trucks is a Delrin cover sleeve for the original gearbox, as well as under dash and floor mounts to replace the originals. Another bonus is the fact that ididit replacement GM truck tilt columns come in several styles and finishes: paintable steel, black powdercoated, or chrome plated. And they're also available in floor or column shift automatic designs, too.
For our floor-shift '57 Chevy, we chose the paintable steel tilt column kit and an aftermarket steering wheel since the truck in question came our way without a column or wheel at all. Plus, our pickup has been outfitted with an aftermarket rack-and-pinion steering setup rather than the stock GM steering box. But even though our victim has been modified, the installation is nearly identical. So, follow along as we show you how we added a modern tilt wheel to our Chevy pickup. CT
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The floor mount shown here is the one included for our application (in this case for the '55 to '59 Chevy). It's shaped and drilled to fit in place exactly as the OEM component did.The included column drop is a nice billet aluminum piece that's sized for a perfect column angle for the application. Just to the right of the drop you'll see the knob and lever package that's part of the kit as well.To complete an installation like this you'll need the appropriate U-joints and shafting for your particular usage. In this case we used a pair of Borgeson stainless U-joints and a length of 3/4-inch double-D shaft. The upper joint is a combination joint and vibration damper with one end machined to fit the ididit's 1-inch double-D shaft and the other to fit the 3/4-inch double-D shaft. The lower joint is a 3/4-inch double-D on one end and a 5/8-36 spline to fit the rack-and-pinion input shaft.Since the truck had no existing column all I had to do to start the install was to remove the OEM column drop.The new ididit drop's mounting studs are just a bit closer together than the OEM mount so I had to elongate one of the mounting holes just a bit with a rotary rasp.The mount was installed in seconds and I then loosened the lower portion of the drop ring so the new column would slide through.Next came the lower mount assembly. The lower mount replicates the OEM piece but is designed to hold the new column in place. It comes with a nice heavy duty clamp and seal as well as the hardware needed to attach it to the truck floor (in the exact location of the factory column).Though the new lower mount is drilled to match the original mounting holes the new hardware is a bit more heavy-duty than the original and the holes need to be opened up just a bit to accommodate 'em.
Next, we slid the new lower mount clamp over the ears on the lower mount and slid the new tilt column through the upper column drop eyeballing its approximate positioning before snugging the drop screws that'll hold it temporarily in place.With the column in its temporary place, the next step is to install the lever package consisting of the signal light lever, the tilt actuating lever, and the hazard flasher button.With the column in its temporary place, the next step is to install the lever package consisting of the signal light lever, the tilt actuating lever, and the hazard flasher button.To my chagrin, when I went to install the turn signal lever, I found that the white plastic horn contact assembly was large enough in diameter that it covered the lever mounting hole just enough that I couldn't get the screw in place.To get around that minor problem, I popped the retaining ring holding the horn contact in place and lifted it up on the shaft just high enough for me to get the screw in place and tighten it down so it held the lever snuggly in place. After that, I used a 3/4-inch deep socket to press the horn contact back down (against the spring which is below the contact) and reinserted the retainer. That took an extra five minutes or so, but it was the only part of the install in which I ran into a problem of any sort.Next, I installed both the tilt lever and hazard flasher knob by threading both into their respect mounting points.After the levers and knob were in place, I hunted around the garage for a steering wheel I could use to show the final steps of the interior portion of the job. Since I've yet to decide what type or style steering wheel I'll use, in the end I was lucky to find a wheel and hardware that was/will be used on another of my projects. I'm sure you'll see the wheel I finally choose to use on the '57 in a future installment.
The particular wheel I had on hand required the use of a three-bolt adapter. The adapter has a splined center hole which matched the GM diameter and spline that the ididit column provides. The adapter is slid over the shaft easily and will be sandwiched between the column and the steering wheel as shown.With the wheel in place and the center retaining nut on and tightened, the next step is to install the horn contact assembly.After installing the horn contact assembly and the three wheel retaining bolts installed and tightened the final step was installing the horn button. This wraps up the column assembly and brings us to the few final steps of the installation.With the in-the-cab portion of the install complete the next step was to determine how far the column will protrude through the firewall. In the ideal situation, this would be determined by sitting in the cab and pushing/pulling the column in and out until it is located in the ideal position for driver reach and comfort. In my case though, I have no seat assembly as of yet so I had to eyeball the position as best I could. Once I did so, I stuck my head back into the cab and tightened both the upper and lower column clamps for the final time.At this point it was extremely important to install the exhaust header so that I was sure there would be no interference between it and the shaft and steering joints. Luckily, the Doug's headers I'd chosen worked out nearly flawlessly. By the way, this truck has been outfitted with a street rod-style rack-and-pinion IFS system, which is much different than the original steering gear setup the Chevy came with from the factory, so choosing the appropriate header design is quite important. Though the Doug's headers I chose were nearly perfect for my situation they were actually made to fit early Chevy II's (Doug's PN 317) and there was only on small portion of one tube where the steering shaft made contact.Before I tackled the header fitment, I prepped the column shaft for the upper joint/damper installation. First, I slid the upper joint onto the column shaft and tightened the set screw so it made a contact mark on the shaft and then removed it.
One of the joint set screws is rather long and when tightened will protrude through one wall of the column shaft and against the inner portion of the opposite wall. It's always a good idea to use thread locking compound on all set screw and jamb nuts.If you look close, you can see where the steering shaft just touches one of the header tubes. Contact was enough to warrant attention.I marked the offending header tube where the contact was and then pulled the header off the engine to address the problem.I decided to use a section of 3/4-inch double D shaft to dimple the tube enough so the shaft would have the room needed.Using my torches, I heated the tube until it glowed a dull red and laid the section of steering shaft across the tube and gave it a couple of good smacks with a hammer to get the indent I needed.Afterward, I touched up the factory finish as best I could using a spray bomb of VHT ceramic header coating to try and hide my assault on the header.


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- Binding: Hardcover
- Era: Victorian Era
- Number of Pages: 400
- Subject: British Cruisers
- Date Available: October 2012
"As always, Norman Friedman's work is well-researched and he has a masterly grasp of detail. The book is written in a lively and informative style and includes a wealth of detail about early cruisers, their operation and the pace of development that made some ships obsolete long before they were worn out. This volume contributes a great deal to our understanding of how warships evolved after the era of sail and is well up to the author's usual high standards. It must be considered as the primary reference work on the Victorian cruiser force and it also helps us to understand the thought processes of those who held high command in the First World War having been trained in these ships. It will be an essential acquisition for the collections in libraries, of course, but in addition to its obvious importance, it is also a thoroughly absorbing read and I recommend it highly for everyone with an interest in the generations of warships that preceded our own."
– Warship World
Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled classes down to the last armoured cruisers.
Norman Friedman is a prominent naval analyst and the author of more than thirty books covering a range of naval subjects, from warship histories to contemporary defense issues. His previous book on the subject was British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After.


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Even though we live rurally, a HUGE problem around here is folks stealing metal for scrap....you need to put EVERYThing under lock and key...or it will disappear. Just the other day some idiots were arrested for stealing copper from the switches on the railroad tracks...they are in some serious trouble....if you are planning on moving to the country, don't think you are immune from theft and burglary....not only is metal a big thing....but stealing guns is also big....you don't tell folks what kind of guns you might own....or suddenly they might disappear when you have gone to town!
I agree with your Auntie Dot...winter is a more restfull time, still work to do, but not as much. This is the most busiest time of the year. Spent mostly on harvesting the crop and making sure we have enough wood. My sister, sister in law, mother and myself put up 40 quarts of homemade vegetable soup. We use all the end of the garden vegetables, plus the leftover ones that we froze through out the summer...We add a few spices and a few handfulls of barley and there ye be....vegetable soup for a cold winters day.If you stare at the video long enough, you just might be able to smell the soup.
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Very often I'm being interpreted while working or studying, sometimes the interruptions are small, and take a minute and sometimes it requires more than few minutes.
How do I quickly restore concentration to the point I was interrupted?
Very often I'm being interpreted while working or studying, sometimes the interruptions are small, and take a minute and sometimes it requires more than few minutes.
How do I quickly restore concentration to the point I was interrupted?
Practice executive functioning regularly to improve the function. Every half hour when the bell tolls, put everything down, get a good stretch, and ask yourself: "What am I going to do for the next half hour?" This is a great recovery system for people who have a tendency to go on tangents, and it builds self confidence because people generally make good choices when they empower themselves by asking themselves. Eventually, with practice, it will be more natural.
You should also write or memorize logical orders, especially if you find yourself conflicted when you ask yourself what's next. I think it's easier to decide, for example, that you want to cook a nice meal, when you know that the first thing you always do is get out the cook book, and the second thing you do is find the ingredients.
I have done additional research on this topic, recently. Timers, in general, are useful for up-keeping concentration. In educational settings, 20 seconds is considered a long time to go without whole-class interactions, and even fewer for multiple dialogues. Focused attention doesn't usually last more than 20 seconds, and the idea is to maintain focused attention.
Sustained focus is better for setting long-term goals. If you study for 30 minutes a day, for example, you may be able to learn 20 new words in a foreign language, giving you about 100 days to "survival"--being able to ask for help, get directions, buy food, etc.
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In software, when selecting study apps: select apps with timers. When studying the traditional way, use timers (more than one if possible). Use a 10-30 second burst timer and a 2-minute extended-focus timer. I use the extended focus timer for things like reading, where I feel my attention is naturally refocused to the task. And then, set another to the duration you need to sustain your focus (i.e., 40 minutes--my goal). Experiment with the numbers.
If you're someone who really needs timers, you can use a visual alarm clock (on your phone or PC). It just sends a flash of light every x seconds. You can build your own macro. Here's a useful cron string to help:
There are other methods. For example, if you know that you will naturally end up somewhere, you can put a checklist there. I have a checklist on my door, which I gravitate towards when I'm getting ready in the morning. It's a little whiteboard that says:
And various other things I sometimes forget at great expense. This certainly addresses a different kind of attention, but in my small home, it's tantamount to the same thing.
Five solutions for improving attention and concentration (and hence the ability to restore it):
Once tip is keeping some state before you acknowledge the interruption. For example, write down what you were up to or a question before answering the phone. Another approach is to minimize the interruptions - put up a sign you for people to e-mail you or come back later.
There is a very nice link here:
5 Tips to Maximize Your Ability to Concentrate
To make sure that this answer always remains useful even if the article link goes down, I have pasted contents from above article.
5 Tips to Maximize Your Ability to Concentrate
The quality and quantity of work you can produce is dependent, not only on the effort you put in, but on your ability to concentrate. No matter how hard to you try, if your brain isn't performing well, you won't be as productive as you should be.
Although many of the factors affecting concentration are beyond your control, a large amount is determined by behavior. These 5 tips will help you get your mind functioning at peak performance so you can excel at highly creative activities like writing, brainstorming, and strategic thinking.
1. Get Your Rest.
It might seem obvious, but the biggest factor affecting concentration is rest. If you aren't well rested your mind will be scattered and lethargic. Avoid this by making sure you get the right amount of sleep at the right time. Set a regular bed time for yourself and use an evening routine to wind down so you don't have trouble sleeping.
It's also important not to sleep too much. Oversleeping disrupts your natural rhythm and leads to grogginess. Avoid this by having a set wake up time. If you have to choose, I've found that it's better to get a little less sleep than too much. If you end up tired, your body will compensate by helping you get to sleep earlier the following night.
2. Make a Plan.
When you sit down to work without a plan, it's easy to get caught up in crutch activities like checking email and browsing the web. Without a purpose, your mind will be pulled in several different directions. Instead of devoting all your attention to one important task, you'll find yourself distracted by a variety of nagging thoughts.
To avoid this, make a clear plan of action beforehand. If you need to check email, resolve to fire through it as quickly as possible, then close your inbox and move on to your most important task. I like to use a morning run or walk to form my action plan for the day, but another great time to do it is the night before. By making a plan, you decide where your mental energy is allocated instead of allowing to be dispersed randomly.
3. Eat Light and Healthy.
Nothing slows down the mind and body like a big greasy meal. Overeating puts a huge load of digestion on the body, sapping strength from the mind. Maximize your ability to concentrate by eating light and healthy meals. As Thomas Jefferson said, we rarely regret eating too little. It's likely you'll find that you need less food to satisfy you than you think. If you run out of energy, keep some healthy snacks on hand to give yourself a quick boost.
4. Exercise.
The body has pent up energy that needs to be used. If you don't exercise regularly, this energy can manifest itself in the form of a distracted mind. The best way to improve your concentration all day long is by exercising first thing in the morning. This will clear your head, give you a chance to reflect on the day ahead, and allow your body to sweat out impurities. Afterwards you'll feel rejuventated, cleansed, and ready to take on tough problems.
5. Take Breaks and Mix Up Your Environment.
Stagnation and fatigue are other factors that can negatively affect concentration. When you've been working too long in the same place, you start to get stir crazy and lose focus. The best remedy for this is taking breaks and switching up your work environment. When you find yourself losing focus, get up and take a walk. This will get your heart rate up, increase your alertness, and give your mind a chance to work on the problem internally.
It can also be helpful to work in different places. Instead of being chained to your desk all day, make a point of moving around. In a typical day I might spend time working in my apartment, the local library, and at a nearby coffee shop. Each time I move to a new location the change in scenery refreshes me and increases my motivation to work.
Hope this helps you :)
you don't! My advice is that it is better to learn how to deal with interruptions simply by:
saying no say no or defer interruptions and fix the number of interruptions. Or find a pragmatical way to deal with them.
On average it takes quite some time (I had stats for this, but cant find them) to reestablish yourself on your given task, but you might also 'look' for interruptions yourself in the form of doing other 'work'.


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The clip I'm trying to bounce out is 25 FPS and I have both timecodes and feet+frames rate at 25 FPS, but every single time I bounce to disk in PT 10 the audio drifts about one or two seconds behind the video. Anyone ever have this problem or know how to solve it? Thanks!
Confirm that your session is in the right frame rate (Session Setup window). Also make sure that you don't have any pull-up or pull down enabled (same window); you only need to do that if you're bouncing to a different frame rate than your session.
How long is the total bounce? Can you try bouncing it in shorter reels, then combining it afterwards?
I have 2 possibilities. First are you referencing to PAL or a 25 frame HD ref source? Second on the Session Setup page do you have your Video Ref Format set to PAL? The answer to both should be yes but having either one set improperly could cause sync problems.


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Is advertising a sale on the anonymous auction house bannable in anyways? I have something to sell for quite possibly a few hundred million gold but at the same time not many people may be looking for this item in the first place. I want to put it up for bid in the AH but also want to advertise that I have done so in various forums or so forth to let as many people know about it as possible. Is this action against the Anonymous sale policy and bannable as a result?
As Blizzard take a cut of your final sell price, they won't have an issue with you advertising the item both in game and outside of the game. In fact - they even provide a trading forum on the official Diablo 3 forums (EU, US) and a trade channel within the game itself.
The only thing that I could see you doing while advertising that might cause issues is if you ultimately end up spamming trade too frequently to get yourself seen, or bumping your forum post on the official forums too frequently. Blizzard's general rule on this is not to bump any thread of this nature until it falls off the first page.
Any actions that you take on third party forums are not bound by Blizzard's rules.


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Dean Schizer Leads Panel on State of the Economy
While the Reunion panelists agreed that the economy is hurting, each had their own preferred strategy for spurring growth.
Focused efforts to promote economic growth and fiscal stability over the long term will be critical to the ongoing U.S. economic recovery, Dean David M. Schizer told Reunion 2012 guests this past summer, but stimulus efforts are extremely challenging to execute effectively. Dean Schizer, who was joined on the panel by Stephen Friedman '62, Peter C. Canellos '67, Professor Michael J. Graetz, and Rebecca Kysar of Brooklyn Law School, added that reforming our housing and mortgage markets, as well as entitlement programs and the tax code, would represent moves in the right direction.
"No single step will do the trick," Dean Schizer said in assessing the challenges that lie ahead, including massive budget deficits and an increasingly global economy.
Each panelist joining Dean Schizer for the discussion suggested a different approach to reform, including Graetz's support for a national consumption tax, and Friedman's call for more effective, easier-to-understand regulation.
Bad risk management on the part of financial institutions was a major factor in the financial crisis, said Friedman, who is chairman of the private equity firm Stone Point Capital. He added that regulation is crucial to ensuring the stability of the financial system.
Despite the more than $860 billion that the federal government has spent to stimulate the economy, the dean noted that the U.S. saw only a 1.5 percent growth in 2011. The country's $1.3 trillion deficit, he said, is approximately 11 percent of the country's gross domestic product, and roughly 13 million Americans are out of work. While there may be no simple answers or easily achieved panaceas waiting around the corner, Dean Schizer concluded by noting that deficit reduction and economic stimulation are both vital to economic recovery. "The deficit will decline only if the economy starts to grow," he said.


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So, the best question any pastor can be asked is "How can I learn to pray?" I know how I do it, but what resources (preferably in Scripture, although classic works are acceptable) would be useful for actually guiding someone in developing a disciplined prayer life?
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In Acts 4, after being arrested and subsequently released by the Council of Pharisees, Peter and John lead "their friends" in prayer:
Several things can be noted from this prayer.
I expounded on this on because I find it a very good prayer, but there are plenty of others. It's a good rule of thumb, in my opinion, to take the prayers of the saints as templates. Peter and John were apostles - they asked Jesus how to pray - and they learned well!
Our church's Assistant Pastor preached a series on prayers of the bible once. Here's some of the passages he preached on:
Many of the Psalms are simple expressions of prayer. They exhibit a wide range of emotions, including despair, anguish, pain, hope, rejoicing, faith, anger, and worship. Our relationship with God should allow us to voice these emotions much like the psalmists did.
Of course, the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 is an obvious pattern, but also David's prayer in 2 Samuel 7 and Jesus' own prayer in John 17.


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If your house is as crazy as mine has been this past week you are looking for quick and easy meals. Our solution tonight: vegetable soup and sandwiches. It was a pretty easy decision since we still had the tasty bread I made last night. The question was: what to put on that bread to make sandwiches. I don't really miss tuna salad, but if you do then this is the recipe for you. I can't remember where I got this from--I think is was on a Vegan Lunch Box discussion forum about canned TuNo. It's a great way to enjoy nori and all its goodness without having to make sushi.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
TuNori Sandwiches
If your house is as crazy as mine has been this past week you are looking for quick and easy meals. Our solution tonight: vegetable soup and sandwiches. It was a pretty easy decision since we still had the tasty bread I made last night. The question was: what to put on that bread to make sandwiches. I don't really miss tuna salad, but if you do then this is the recipe for you. I can't remember where I got this from--I think is was on a Vegan Lunch Box discussion forum about canned TuNo. It's a great way to enjoy nori and all its goodness without having to make sushi.
18 comments:
- Veg-a-Nut said...
I make a similar recipe, but mine only has kelp granules. I will have to add some nori and see how the family likes it. Thanks for the tip!
- December 21, 2007 at 10:36 AM
- VeggieGirl said...
wow, what an interesting way to use nori!! I usually just associate that ingredient with Asian cooking, so this "tuno" recipe sounds quite intriguing!
- December 21, 2007 at 6:31 PM
- mustardseed said...
question! What are kelp granules?
- December 21, 2007 at 11:25 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Kelp is a type of seaweed. Kelp granules are just dried kelp. It is one of those completely superfluous items only available at places like Whole Foods. You really don't need them for this recipe--the nori provides all the flavour you need.
- December 21, 2007 at 11:40 PM
- mustardseed said...
Oh...thanks! Makes good school lunch I think! I just need to make my own mayo cause vegannaise costs a bomb here!
- December 23, 2007 at 8:04 PM
- bazu said...
That sounds so good, and the photo is beautiful!
- December 25, 2007 at 2:44 AM
- Alisa said...
I am a bit late to the party on this one, but what a great idea! I love this concept, as a veganaise fan, I must get my hands on some kelp to give this a whirl!
- December 29, 2007 at 2:55 PM
- Jenn said...
I didn't realize how much I had missed tuna until I had this - thank you it will become a staple for me. I added celery and green onions to mine.
- December 29, 2007 at 9:13 PM
- Alice (in Veganland) said...
I cooked this slightly modified today for dinner, and... waw... tastes like tuna!
It was great! thank you so much for this great recipe!
- March 26, 2008 at 3:42 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'm looking forward to trying this, after looking unsuccessfully for good vegan sandwich fillings that aren't just sliced vegetables. Thanks.
- May 15, 2008 at 10:21 PM
- Lovliebutterfly said...
what a great idea! I'll try this very soon!
- May 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM
- GEORGE ALAN FRAMPTON said...
I decided to try this last week. I was at our cottage on the French River, and didn't have a food processor or blender, so just gently used a potato masher. It was delicious, and even the carnivors amongst us didn't know the difference. Thank you for this.
- May 30, 2008 at 10:48 AM
- bibliopook said...
I made this today with your country white bread and it totally ruled.
I baked the bread the other day, both the regular and the raisin version. Both were huge hits in my house!
Thanks so much for this blog!
- September 5, 2008 at 7:53 PM
- bibliopook said...
May I post a link to this recipe in a popular vegan cooking community?
I would like the world to know about your delicious culinary adventures.
My boyfriend frequently teases me about the number of times per conversation that I mention your blog. However, he is more than happy to eat the products of your recipes!
- September 5, 2008 at 8:53 PM
- Level 20 Bard said...
Good sir, I tried this today for my lunch and I must say; amazing!
I added some dill to mine and instead of blending the chickpeas and nori, I mashed with a fork and left the nori in a bit bigger shreds. Turned out astounding! Thanks for the inspiration!
- October 1, 2008 at 1:08 PM
- michaelmybeloved said...
First of all, I want to say that I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your blog. My brother in law (who does the bulk of the cooking-my sister does the holiday stuff and the baking-in his house) got me addicted.
When I found this TuNori recipe I was excited b/c it had only 4 ingredients (i am lazy about cooking for myself)! When I first tried it I thought, "well, it tastes ok" but decided to actually let it chill (like i am supposed to). The next morning I was starting to groove on it but after a couple more days in the fridge it was AMAZING!!! (I say that it is the most awesome after three days :D) Luckily I made a double batch (and that was hardly enough). I have some more in my fridge that I made today and I can hardly wait for it. I have (seriously) been emailing friends and family (who are veg) practically commanding them to make this recipe (so I won't be the only junkie in the family :))! The only alteration that I make to it is that I use Kelp/Cayenne seasoning from Maine Coast Sea Vegetables which I HIGHLY recommend (I use it all the time!)! MCSV has the best seaweed seasonings around!
I think next time it may be a triple batch... :D
- November 16, 2008 at 2:33 PM
- Jennifer said...
This is one of our favorite foods now! I make it often. I like to add chopped onion. It's also great as a dip with crackers. Great idea, VeganDad! Thanks for this one. :)
- October 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM
- JohnStorm said...
Wow this recipe is fantastic and so easy to make. I admit that tuna salad is one thing I miss. When I saw your recipe I immediately wanted to make it for tomorrow's lunch. I had everything on hand except the chickpeas. However I did have cannelli beans. I decided to use the cannelli beans and I'm glad I did; it turned out great! Thanks so much!
- January 17, 2011 at 4:59 PM


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Breast cancer patients have a whole team of caring and attentive health professionals who are focused on helping you beat the disease. Here's the roster for your breast cancer team:
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Pathologist: Looks at your tissue samples to determine whether they're cancerous.
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I recently purchased the NN5 and I already had the RD3L with Built in EZ-Leveler II. Before I attach the vertical rail to the RD3L with the Built in EZ-Leveler II, which is done with the one hex screw and by inserting the two antirotational screws into the corresponding holes, am I supposed to be placing washers of some sort between the vertical rail and the RD3L with Built in EZ-Leveler II? If so, I would guess that the washers would be placed on the antiritational screws. There is the little bag of spare parts that has some tiny rubber washers and flat plastic washers, but I am uncertain about this.
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I have accounts on 4 Stack Exchange sites. It would be good to have some buttons inside/next to the global index to jump to their pages.
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This pretty much already exists. In the global inbox drop-down, you can select the "all sites" option (second from the left) and it will list every site on the network. The ones you actually have an account on are bumped to the top and sorted by the amount of reputation you have on each of them (may be cached, as usual) and I'm not exactly sure how the rest of them are sorted.
It doesn't link you directly to your user profile on that site, but it's easy enough to just click your username at the top once you're there. If you're on your profile, you can also quickly navigate between your other accounts via the accounts summary block in the bottom left of your profile.
Another option is just to open the notification links in a new tab/window (which is what I do) so you can just close it once you've reviewed whatever the notification was for.
Your user profile page shows the sites where you have an account. See http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/193632/satish-pandey.
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A report released Wednesday by the Kansas City Office of the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that unemployment continues to decline in Leavenworth County, albeit slowly.
The metropolitan area report, which runs a month behind the national report due out Friday, showed the percent of unemployed here fell from 6.6 percent in May to 6.4 percent in June. Over the year, the rate has fallen from 6.7 percent in June 2012, with a spike in January 2013 of 7.8 percent.
The most recent decrease means about 111 fewer people unemployed in Leavenworth County compared to a year ago.
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5 Multiplayer Video Games That Will Destroy Your Marriage
The dating site eHarmony claims to match prospective couples based on 29 dimensions of compatibility, not one of them being video game skill level.
This is an enormous mistake.
With games spreading into every niche these days, even couples that found Pac-Man "too technical" might find themselves picking up a Wii, popping in a goofy innocent-looking game they can play together, like Super Mario Bros. Wii, and transforming into another divorce statistic within the evening. I am oversimplifying, of course. There are some rare exceptions that end in murder-suicide instead.
If you care about your relationship, do not play...
#5. Super Mario Bros. Wii
If you haven't played this game, you're probably wondering how a cute little platformer with cartoony plumbers, mushrooms, and turtles could set a happily married couple at each other's throats. I was too, so I rented it. Bad idea.
It turns out the game designers spent a lot of time studying all the common wounds lurking beneath the surface of a relationship and came up with a game element to reopen each of them. Here's just a few.
A. Communication
Nobody's good at communication in a relationship, which is why marriage counselors can just safely tell you to practice communicating better while they read a newspaper and pocket your $200.
"What? No, go on, I'm listening."
This game puts that hollow advice to the test, asking you and your partner to keep both of your characters on the screen at the same time. If one character advances upwards, and the other isn't ready, the bottom of the screen will rush up and suck the character you failed to communicate with into a bottomless void of death.
It's easy to ignore the other person not cleaning the bathroom when it's their turn, but you can't ignore your Luigi falling to his death off the edge of the universe while your partner bounces obliviously higher. The only silver lining presents another potential pitfall for your relationship, as you get to return from the afterlife in a floating bubble that follows your significant other around like a haunting reminder of his guilt in your demise.
"Youuuuuu killed usssss, Mario...."
B. Personal space
Even obnoxiously clingy couples will go insane if glued to each other 24/7, so everyone needs their own personal time and space, whether it's a woman's Sunday football-watching time or a man's scented candle and bubble bath time.
Guys and their "man time", am I right?
Many couples don't explicitly set aside these boundaries, they just fall into the habits over time, without realizing why.
That's why they'll forget to tell each other when one of them is trying to perform a delicate maneuver on a tiny platform, while the other, less skilled person leaps up to the platform in blissful ignorance and knocks their partner into the abyss. Falling into old habits, the woman will teach him to stay off the fucking platform the same way she taught him to respect her football time -- by yelling at him. Of course, that never works because he gets all hang dog and wounded.
"Oh my God, moooove..."
C. Responsibility
I mentioned earlier that when you die in this game, you return in a floating bubble -- it hangs serenely above lava, obstacles and jumping puzzles until your partner pops it. But that floating reincarnation bubble can actually be activated at any time, not just after death, effectively excusing you from the obstacle course. That means I, being the shittiest of gamers, can hit the "A" button and float invincibly around the level while I yell at my boyfriend Mike to hurry up and get past this damn jumping puzzle. As long as one player reaches the goal, both of you get to advance.
He can also literally carry me through.
Suddenly he is having flashbacks to those times when I yell to inform him that the dog threw up and he arrives with a paper towel to find me happily watching TV with my back to the mess. We have done a really great job of denial about these incidents and the last thing I wanted to do was remind him.
Although this wouldn't be a problem if we could train our dog to do this.
But the thing is, he also can activate the "count me out" bubble. If both players go into bubble mode, the game goes, "Hey, no," and you both die, just like we would both die of toxoplasmosis from the cat litter flooding the house if we both tried to "bubble" ourselves from that responsibility for too long.
#4. Resident Evil 5
The cooperative shooting game Resident Evil 5, where you and your partner play a muscular freak and a busty African warrior, seems like smooth sailing in the beginning. It involves you walking down a street with your partner toward a butcher shop. Then you meet a guy who... sells you some meat? We skipped the cutscene.
After that, you're walking down another path. This is the type of adversity our relationship is more than strong enough to withstand.
I walked the SHIT out of that path.
Unfortunately the actual game then starts and involves shooting things and facing the right direction, which is too rich for my blood. But after interviewing and looking through the divorce documents of couples who have gotten further in the game, it's pretty clear it was designed by sadistic marriage-haters:
A. Nagging
Nobody likes nagging. That's why this game allows you to nag your partner with the touch of a button, particularly the circle button. While they're, for example, being beaten up by a gang of zombies, you can have your character impatiently shout at them to "come on!".
You can also thank your partner, but that takes two buttons (circle + left) or perfect timing (immediately after they rescue you or give you an item) so it's much easier to nag them than to thank them, which is sadly as realistic a social game mechanic as I have ever seen.
The average relationship.
B. Sharing
Another sore point in any relationship is usually who holds the purse strings, and how tightly. The way most couples work is that no matter who makes how much money, it all theoretically goes into an "our" money pool, although when it gets spent on a plasma TV or a pair of Jimmy Choos, suddenly the other person gets upset about what "my" money is being spent on, everyone having interesting and often very specific ideas of which dollars in the "our" money pool secretly have their name on them.
"...you had me work a second job so you could get a diamond-covered Mercedes?"
You can see how this would apply to a cooperative game where ammunition can be very scarce. Who "earns" the ammo, the person who killed the monster/crate it dropped from, or the person who picks up the ammo? How can you keep track anyway? Does it tend to turn into "our" ammo when the other person is hogging and burning it, whereas you see it as "my" hard-earned ammo when you are shooting it very wisely (of course!) and your annoying partner is screeching about how wasteful you are?
And if you've been cleverly avoiding real-life "mine/ours" issues by keeping separate accounts, this game will blow the cover off your little charade. When you generously offer your broke partner 10 rounds of ammo, they won't just see what you're handing them, they'll see your entire inventory, including the hundreds of rounds you're keeping for yourself.
"Wait, when did you pick up a diamond-covered Mercedes?"
#3. World of Warcraft
First of all, if one person in a relationship plays World of Warcraft and the other doesn't, the relationship is already pretty much over. Or at least it will be once Cataclysm comes out.
But WoW is actually a pretty good game for couples to play, until you want to raid. Endgame content is built around 10 and 25-player raids, which means you need strictly organized guilds run like a top-tier college sports team.
Except you can only bribe potential recruits with WoW gold.
The game is pretty strict about the combination of classes you need on certain fights, so a guild often wants one half of a couple but has no room for the other, sometimes because the other person just sucks, but more often because the person is the wrong class, which is something they couldn't have planned for and can't change. This can make things awkward between couples.
Anyone who's ever had trouble getting their significant other to fit in with their group of friends can see the problem here. The person the guild doesn't want is going to feel insulted and hurt, the person the guild does want is going to feel guilty and conflicted, and it's all going to be expressed with passive aggressive hinting because nobody wants to be rude and spell it out.
Even if they don't overhear the, "Yeah, she is a bore, but, if we invite him, we have to invite her," conversation, they'll pick up on the vibe sometime. Sooner or later, you'll come face to face with the, "it's me or them" question, which is probably one of the trickiest boss fights you'll ever face.


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Web Stack 1.5 is available
By Amir Javanshir on Jul 30, 2009
As you might already know, a bundle of Web development oriented tools is available (part of the GlassFish portfolio), called the Web Stack. I have already talked about it here and also here. I will therefore not go much into the details and benefits of using this bundle.
This is thus a quick note to say that the new release (Web Stack1.5) is now available. You can get it here: http://www.sun.com/software/webstack/get.jsp
Web Stack 1.5 ships with the most recent evolutions of the open source releases including latest releases of Apache web server, MySQL 5.1 and more:
Fully relocatable Update Center ips(5) image distribution
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.11
lighttpd 1.4.21
memcached 1.2.5
MySQL 5.0.67 and 5.1
Python 2.6
Ruby 1.8.7
Squid 2.7.STABLE5
Tomcat 6.0.18
GlassFish v2.1
Sun Continuous Integration Server 1.312
But it also comes with some brand new pieces such ads the "Web Stack Enterprise Manager" and the " Sun Continuous Integration Server " based on the Hudson open source project. I'm quite eager to test those, so as soon as I've played around with it I will come with a more technical oriented post.
Meanwhile, for more information you can go to the following web site: http://sun.com/webstack
And for more technical documentation: http://wikis.sun.com/display/WebStack/Sun+GlassFish+Web+Stack+Documentation


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Semi-Automatic Espresso Machines
Be your own barista! Semi-automatic espresso machines offer just the right amount of control over how your espresso is made at home. While they may look different, the basic functionality of a semi-automatic espresso machine includes a boiler, a portafilter and a switch or lever to perform the extraction. You'll still grind and tamp your espresso (or insert an espresso pod), start the extraction and then steam or froth your milk as necessary. Semi-automatic espresso machines fall into two different types:
- Manual Control: On these semi-automatic espresso machines, the shot is initiated and you stop it once you decide the extraction is complete, usually in 20-30 seconds. This offers real-time control over the length of your extractions
- Programmable Doses: These semi-automatic espresso machines allow you to program the extraction to stop after a specific amount of time.
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How to Get What You Want from the Pediatrician
What Pediatricians Really Want You to Know
There are plenty of things pediatricians would like parents to do and say while they are in the office, and we'll get to those shortly, but there are also a few key concepts they wish all parents were clear on before they called or scheduled an appointment.
Vaccinations are safe. Unbelievably, pediatricians now have to sell some parents on the benefits of vaccines! In the late 1990s a wave of suspicion about vaccines began to spread across North America and Europe, fueled by rumors that they could cause autism, attention deficit disorder, diabetes, fever seizures, polio, and even AIDS. Ignorance about the diseases themselves compounded the problem. A study done in 2001 found that 90 percent of parents of school-age children didn't know that chicken pox can have deadly complications. Half of those parents said they would rather their kids catch the disease than vaccinate them against it.
Pediatricians were aghast at these developments. Fortunately, new studies confirm the safety of most vaccines, including those protecting children from measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, diphtheria, and polio. The chicken pox vaccine is relatively new so there are no long-term studies of it, but it is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and studies done thus far show the vaccine to be safe and effective for most children. If you have any doubt at all about vaccinating your child, ask your pediatrician for the most recent information.
Antibiotics don't cure everything. Doctors themselves are partly to blame for parents' love affair with antibiotics, since they are the ones who have prescribed them too often in the past, sometimes just to keep parents pacified. In a recent study, one-third of the pediatricians surveyed admitted to caving in to parents' demands for antibiotics whether or not they were called for. As a result, some strains of bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics a very alarming development.
Antibiotics are only effective against bacterial infections. They cannot cure colds and flu, which are caused by viruses. However, colds and flu sometimes develop into bacterial infections, in which case antibiotics can help. It's a tough call to make, and that's what the pediatrician is there for. As a general rule, antibiotics can cure strep throat, some ear infections, some cases of chronic coughs or bronchitis, and some severe sinus infections lasting longer than two weeks. Antibiotics cannot cure most sore throats and most coughs.
Fevers are good. Pediatrician Andrew Baumel's views about fever are shared by the overwhelming majority of doctors: "Fever helps the body fight infection. Our immune system works better and quicker at a higher temperature. For a low-grade fever of 100° or 101° , you don't have to use antifever medication, depending on whether or not the child is uncomfortable."
Fever is a symptom, not an illness. A fever can get higher if an illness gets worse, but it won't rise just because you don't treat it. Brain damage can occur only if a fever reaches 107.6° F and stays there for an extended period of time. Untreated fevers usually peak at around 105° unless the child is in a hot room or overdressed.
Infants do need special handling when it comes to fevers. If they are younger than 60 days old, any fever of 100.4° or higher signals the need for a visit to the doctor. From 60 days to three years of age, call the doctor if the fever is 102° or greater. In infants and young children, low-grade fevers that have no obvious source can be a sign of serious bacterial infection. Febrile seizures (convulsions that are brought on by fever) can occur in children whose temperatures rise rapidly. The number itself doesn't matter so much as the speed at which the temperature rises. Although they are frightening for parents, febrile seizures are brief and have no lasting effect on the child.
For children older than two years, call the doctor any time a fever is 105° or greater. Call the doctor after 48 hours about a fever of less than 105° if your child seems healthy and active an infection could be brewing. If she has cold or flu symptoms, you can wait 72 hours to call. If she is uncomfortable, vomiting, dehydrated, or having problems sleeping and the fever is less than 105°, try to lower it but only to 100° or 101°, so that it can still fight the infection.
From Say the Magic Words by Lynette Padwa. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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in C programming ; i printf something then i want to make the screen clear and printf another thing .It is for not making my program AMORPHOUS,how can i do that??
system("CLS"); to clear screen, but that's OS specific.
void ClearScreen(void)
HANDLE hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;
const COORD startCoords = {0,0};
DWORD dummy;
FillConsoleOutputCharacter(hStdout,' ',csbi.dwSize.X * csbi.dwSize.Y,startCoords,&dummy);
SetConsoleCursorPosition(hStdout, startCoords);
#include <windows.h>.
Originally Posted by SaswatPadhiThat will NOT work for compilers which conform to ANSI C, 'cuz the clrscr() is no more present.
So, you can use
system("CLS");to clear screen, but that's OS specific.
So it's better to write a user-defined func like :
Code: C
void ClearScreen(void)

 HANDLE hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

 CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;

 GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hStdout,&csbi);

 const COORD startCoords = {0,0};

 DWORD dummy;

 FillConsoleOutputCharacter(hStdout,' ',csbi.dwSize.X * csbi.dwSize.Y,startCoords,&dummy);

 SetConsoleCursorPosition(hStdout, startCoords);

Remember to
#include <windows.h>.
Originally Posted by hodaexcuse me but it's not working and has a error like this:
error C2601: 'ClearScreen' : local function definitions are illegal


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Improve Your Project Costing Processes
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The 10 Best Will Ferrell Skits of All-Time
10. Get Off the Shed
Three families try to have a polite conversation at a birthday party while Ferrell screams threats of physical abuse at his children. A good place to start since it' the first SNL character he ever played, and not coincidentally the first Will Ferrell character we ever remember laughing out loud at. The character of the furious dad screaming, "Get off the shed!" was also actually one of the characters Ferrell used in his tryout.
Why Only Ferrell Could Make it Golden: To see the same material in the hands of a lesser talent, look no further than the cringe-inducing delivery by Christine Baranski, who plays his wife.
Highlight: "I will take you into a dark alley and fight you if you do not get off the shed."
9.Gus Chiggins
This skit was filmed in dress rehearsal and cut before the actual show went live, which isn't surprising because it doesn't make any sense. It' the tale of an elite fighting unit in Afghanistan that, for some reason, has an old prospector in its midst.
Why Only Ferrell Could Make it Golden: What is amazing to see is how hard Ferrell tries to make what is clearly a losing sketch work. He completely gives himself over even though it' only dress rehearsal.
Highlight: When he refuses to stop ringing his prospector bell as Chris Kattan tries to deliver his lines.
8. Dale Sturtevant - Dissing Your Dog
Ferrell stars in a fake commercial for a dog-training program that shows you how to shame your dog into doing what you want him to do, assuming of course that your dog picks up on subtle hints of sarcasm and oblique insults.
Why Only Ferrell Could Make it Golden: Ferrell is the best at playing someone who is barely able to keep his rage under control, and the dumber that rage, the better.
Highlight: When he gently lifts up the dog' ear and whispers "You're a fucking dog."
7. The H. is O.
In what might be the oddest sounding summary of any story ever told, Ben Stiller bets his friends that he can fuck Glenn Frey of the Eagles by using only three pick-up lines. The skit, actually a short film written and directed by Adam McKay (Anchorman director) for SNL, offers a nice preview of what was to come by casting Ferrell as a creepy over the hill ego-maniac long before Ron Burgundy was a household name.
Why Only Ferrell Could Make it Golden: Actually, we're pretty sure anyone could have played Frye in this skit. He just sort of wears shades and acts weird. But it' sort of like when Lebron only scores 12 and the Cavs win anyway. You just know he was contributing intangibles on the set that day.
Highlight: Of all people, Jimmy Fallon gets the highlight when he screams "That' threeee!" Ferrell must have suggested that"


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Brennan: CIAC's rule bending leads to end-of-year debacle
Paul Hoey, the CIAC's associate executive director, stood behind the podium at the Aqua Turf for last Wednesday's media luncheon and addressed the weather contingency plans for state championship weekend in football.
Amid all the ideas that never came to fruition — that the CIAC would hold at least the first two games at Central Connecticut as long as the forecast of light snow until late afternoon held true, and that the Class LL game would likely be the only game moved away from Arute Field — one point kept ringing louder than the others.
All four state finals must be played by Sunday the 15th, Hoey said, because CIAC bylaws said so.
Well, here we are on Dec. 17, two days away from the re-re-rescheduled Class LL final between Southington and Fairfield Prep, and we have found one fact above all to be true.
CIAC rules are not rules. They are fickle guidelines drawn in the sand, free to be erased and redrawn with whatever convenient discretion applies at the moment.
The examples in football alone are plentiful. Take those offseason passing leagues, for one. Most coaches have some sort of involvement, but because everybody does them, it's OK. That unnecessary, overbearing, insulting 50-point rule rarely stands up whenever some poor coach has to endure that process.
Now there's this manipulation of what has always been among the CIAC's strongest rules — the start- and end-of-season dates — to make up for what was a case of prideful mismanagement.
Let's not mistake it: The CIAC has done some very good things in recent years. Moving all four finals to one site was a terrific measure for putting the state's best teams on one stage for maximum, big-stage exposure.
Mother Nature didn't want to cooperate this weekend. It happens. It doesn't mean we should overreact and call for a total overhaul of the current postseason system. It's a pretty good one as it stands, still respecting Thanksgiving traditions while ending in a decent timeframe.
Instead of playing the hand it was dealt, though, the CIAC tried to keep the best of both worlds. It ended up with the worst of both.
It's easy to say in hindsight that the Class LL game could have been played at 1:35 p.m. last Saturday, which happened to be the start of a nice break in the snowfall that would have given enough time for the game. That didn't happen.
But the decisions made over the last week gave off the appearance that the CIAC didn't have enough of a contingency plan in place. With last-second decisions across the board, now we have groups of athletes from Southington and Fairfield Prep who will miss their first basketball and hockey games. That end-of-season bylaw so easily shoved aside is in place to prevent such a thing.
The last week of events will surely make the CIAC reevaluate everything involved with the football postseason. A good self-evaluation has never hurt anybody, but a bad overreaction has.
May I suggest some guidelines to follow during this offseason's conversations?
n There is nothing wrong with the current schedule at the end of the season. That includes holding the football state championships three Saturdays after Thanksgiving. Don't let a regular December snowstorm convince us otherwise. Snow happens in November, too. In four of the previous eight years, the first snowfall came before Thanksgiving. Trying to schedule around potential snow is a worthless battle.
n Starting the season a week earlier won't help because we need to keep Thanksgiving football as it is. If, like other surrounding states, we start the playoffs before Thanksgiving, that would take a lot of the special significance away from those games. Imagine Ansonia's junior varsity squad playing against Naugatuck because the Chargers have to prepare for a semifinal game. That would be an abomination. Don't go there.
n The four-class, three-round playoff format is great. The teams that should make the playoffs do. Adding a success multiplier to allow smaller schools to play for bigger championships is definitely worth consideration. It's a happy medium between what we have now and the double-edged sword that is a potential open division.
Of course, we finally have to make it to the end of this season before we get to the offseason. Let's make sure that happens Thursday.
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" Well thought out and written, Kyle. It's truly a shame what is being done to both Fairfield Prep and Southington. "
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To the editor:
I am 15 and am of strong religious background. The Steubenville logo has me thinking recently.
What is the big deal for a cross, which more than 95 percent of people in the Ohio Valley admire, to be a part of the city logo. Look at how many churches are in downtown Steubenville. My great-great-grandparents came here from Italy in 1906, and the men of my family have worked in the mill until it shutdown a few years ago. Despite that, religion was a staple in the family.
Why should we cater to the needs of an atheist? Franciscan University of Steubenville is a star pillar of the valley's academic academies above high school. Churches are all over. Why cater to their needs? Just accept the emblem of our savior and move on. No one said you have to like it, but I'll be damned if I cannot showcase something that makes me and others feel great about life. Come on - I am 15 and see this useless debate over a cross. It represents faith here in the valley, our heritage and, most important, our values in this economically stricken area.
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I have an integral on the unit sphere as follows.
$$I(\mathbf{s}_1, \mathbf{s}_2) = \int_{\mathbb{S}^2} f(\mathbf{x} \cdot \mathbf{s}_1)f(\mathbf{x}\cdot\mathbf{s}_2)d\mathbf{x} $$ where the integral is on the whole unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$. $\mathbf{s}_1$ and $\mathbf{s}_2$ are also unit-length vectors on the unit sphere. For example, $\mathbf{s}_1$ is the vector from the origin to a point on the sphere $\vec{O s_1}$.
Intuitively, since the integral is over the whole sphere, $I(\mathbf{s}_1, \mathbf{s}_2)$ should only depend on the relative angle between $\mathbf{s}_1$ and $\mathbf{s}_2$. This is actually done here.
Now I want to go further and do a Taylor expansion in terms of the relative spherical angle between $\mathbf{s}_1$ and $\mathbf{s}_2$, say $\theta$, so that $\theta = \angle (\mathbf{s}_1, \mathbf{s}_2)$. When $\mathbf{s}_1$ is close to $\mathbf{s}_2$, $\theta$ will be small and I want to do an expansion in terms of $\theta$. The problem is that I don't know how to explicit write $I(\mathbf{s}_1, \mathbf{s}_2)$ as a function of $\theta$, so I am stuck.
I need help on write this $I(\mathbf{s}_1, \mathbf{s}_2)$ as an Taylor expansion in terms of $\theta$, the relative angle between vectors $\mathbf{s}_1$ and $\mathbf{s}_2$. Any comments will be greatly appreciated.


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Don't Smoke! Essay 23
Please use for reference only.
Frances DeMasi Middle School, Marlton, NJ
Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Smoking is very harmful. You can get lung cancer and other diseases. Smoking turns your lungs black and tarry. I know because my uncle died from lung cancer last year. It was very hard on all of us, loosing a loved one to cigarettes.
If you have a dream of being a good athlete, then definitely don't smoke. Smoking makes your body very unhealthy and weak. It makes it hard to breathe. And don't say, "Oh, that could never happen to me, I'm only going to try it once." Well, if you try it once, maybe you'll try it again, and keep doing it and before you know it, you're addicted. Cigarettes have something in then called nicotine which is very addictive. Even if you want to stop, it would be very difficult.
Cigarettes can also get very expensive. If you get hooked and smoke packs a day, that's a lot of money a week.
Smoking can also stain your teeth yellow and make them look ugly. They can also stain your fingers yellow and brown from holding them. Also you and the people around you when you smoke will smell badly. So, as you can see, smoking has no good points. There are only negatives. So I suggest you never, ever try one, because it can turn into a lot more.
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Is there ever a circumstance in which I would not want to use the
AndAlso operator rather than the
And operator? …or in which I would not want to use the
OrElse operator rather than the
Or operator?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
Is there ever a circumstance in which I would not want to use the
From MSDN:
Short-Circuiting Trade-Offs
Short-circuiting can improve performance by not evaluating an expression that cannot alter the result of the logical operation. However, if that expression performs additional actions, short-circuiting skips those actions. For example, if the expression includes a call to a Function procedure, that procedure is not called if the expression is short-circuited, and any additional code contained in the Function does not run. If your program logic depends on any of that additional code, you should probably avoid short-circuiting operators.
Sure: if you want to make sure that both sides of the expression are evaluated. This might be the case if, for example, both sides are method calls that return booleans as a result of some other operation.
But in general, you should AndAlso/OrElse whenever you would use &&/|| in C/C++/C#, which of course is the vast majority of the time.