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Is the following statement true? $$ (-1.2)^{1.6} = \sqrt[10]{(-1.2)^{16}}. $$
Is it because $a^{0.5} = a^{1/2} = \sqrt{a}$?
Is the following statement true? $$ (-1.2)^{1.6} = \sqrt[10]{(-1.2)^{16}}. $$
Is it because $a^{0.5} = a^{1/2} = \sqrt{a}$?
I'll take $\sqrt{}$ as example because for odd numbers, you get a bijection from $\mathbb{R}$ into itself (with positive number mapped to positive numbers and negative numbers mapped to negative numbers) so the problem only arises with even numbers and once you understand for $\sqrt{}$, you'll understand for $\sqrt[4]{}$, $\sqrt[6]{}$ etc. as well.
You problem is that you didn't understand the function $\sqrt{} : \mathbb{R_+} \to \mathbb{R_+}$ is just a convention.
When we write $\sqrt{4}$, we mean $2$ because we chose the positive real number as result for the function $\sqrt{}$ because if we didn't specify that, we wouldn't get a function since a function is something that has a unique value for each "input".
But if you try to extend that function to $\mathbb{R}$ we get $\sqrt{} : \mathbb{R} \to ?$ where does it go? Because now, for $\sqrt{-1}$, you have to decide between $i$ and $-i$...
You would pick $i$ because it looks positive but it is not... There has been a question about a way to differentiate $i$ from $-i$ recently on SO and the answers were, more or less, that you can't.
Of course, for $\mathbb{R}$, you could decide to always take the one that is a positive real number multiplied by $i$. But then you get $\sqrt{} : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{C}$ and you only use $i$ in $\mathbb{C}$ so you don't get a bijection.
And then if you try to extend it to $\mathbb{C}$ with $\sqrt{} : \mathbb{C} \to ?$ you can't decide which one to take unless you define some kind of sign over $\mathbb{C}$ to partition it. Which you usually don't want to do.
Plus when you work in $\mathbb{C}$, you usually just want one of the answers, of $a^2=b$ and you don't care which one you get.
First, take a look at this Wikipedia article.
The problem here is that the base number $-1.2$ is negative. Some people think of negative numbers being raised to non-integer powers as being undefined. However, one might reasonably think of for example $(-1)^{\frac{1}{3}}$ as the cube root of $-1$, which is $-1$. It might be a bit confusing, but I think if you look at the Wikipedia article that I linked to above, you might find a good answer.
You have a rational exponent $1.6 = \frac{16}{10} = \frac{8}{5}$ (reduced fraction). $5$ is odd you have something well-defined and you get
$$ (-1.2)^{\frac{8}{5}} = \sqrt[5]{(-1.2)^8}. $$
This is equal to what you have written.
Now, you might have a calculator that doesn't evaluate the left hand side. I just tried with my calculator (TI-84) and had no problem.


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I've used EveryTrail and was satisfied but am looking for something better... What are the features I should focus on for selecting an app? What bells and whistles are really useful on the trail?
In my opinion, the single best feature would be low battery consumption. You only really need a gps and map, so having a low consumption version of these would win for me, possibly with local maps rather than trying to download each section.
Battery consumption is determined by the software, too. Some stuff polls for new data, some takes GPS readings more often then others, etc.
Honestly, I do not consider using a smartphone app for hiking or getting out into the backcountry. For too many of them you need network connectivity, battery life is a real issue (compared to dedicated GPS devices), and they're fragile. I do carry a GPS but I keep it switched off unless I need it (or to mark significant spots, after which it's turned off again). Sometimes I carry a Spot, depending on what I'm doing and where I'm going.
As Rory says, low power consumption is vital, but that's likely not determined by the software, but rather by the hardware and - more importantly - how you use it.
The three key things for me in Smartphone GPS map systems are these.
(This may just a long-winded way of saying 'Anything except google maps!')
But really, it depends on how you plan to use it. I travel with map, compass and brain as my primary nav. tools, and keep phone as a backup. On longer hikes it's usually switched off in an Aloksak bag, but on day hikes I may keep it running and recording my track.
FWIW, I use ViewRanger on a Motorola Defy, and I'm very pleased with both. Viewranger on iPad3 looks stunning, but you wouldn't normally want to take one with you on a hike...


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I'm antsy to get Python running on my webserver after just recently picking it up.
I chose Bottle.py because it looks simple, accessible, and contained. I have very little experience with or knowledge of how exactly webservers work (how to mess with them) and I'm reluctant to play with my server's Apache if I don't need to since it hosts a very active message board already.
Bottle's documentation seemed to assume a step or two of server/python understanding that I don't have, as I'm not even sure where to put the actual routes/website content once I already have bottle.py copied over to my doc root. Or how the server knows to run bottle (or execute python) when I go to "mydomain.com".


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I'm in a situation where I find myself with a few moments of downtime each day where I'm waiting for a bit before starting again. Most of these periods are 10 to 20 minutes long. I can, and do, use these periods for brief one-off tasks, but I was curious about starting to use these breaks to work on larger problems.
So I was wondering if there were any techniques or advice on how to be productive when the time periods you have are (1) brief, (2) randomly dispersed through the day, and (3) stuck between other tasks you're working through.


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Why when the Jews made the egel, a single bull, they use the words Eilah Elohecha Yisroel which is plural?
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The Gemara (Sanhedrin 63a) cites a couple of opinions. (Actually, it's talking about the plural form of the verb העלוך, "those who brought you up," but I would assume that these also fit with the plural אלה. Baal Haturim to 32:4 in fact quotes the second opinion below in explaining this phrase.)
The Ramban explains the function of the gold calf, that it was not meant to be an object of deification. The people were saying that the spiritual powers of this calf-like image brought them through the wilderness. This means the spiritual power associated with the image-the attribute of strict justice-and not the image itself. My suggestion, based on this, is that Eileh is referring to those spiritual powers, ie plural
Actually, I've now noticed that earlier in in the parsha in posuk alef, it says Asay lonu elohim asher yeilchu... and Rashi says Elohus harbay ivu lohem - they desired to have many
Because Elohecha is plural. Elohim + shelcha = Elohecha.


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We are providing an app which manages your finances — like a housekeeping book. Our space is limited; therefore, we want to use the slogan "Housekeeping App". Would an English speaker know what is meant by that?
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To expand on my comment, housekeeping to me has the wrong connotation. Perhaps the word you're looking for is bookkeeping? (Although that arguably has some negative connotations with regards to gambling, I reckon.)
Edit to add: Another "word" that might work for you is HouseBook. I've never heard the term before, but it might allow you to allude to the specific nature of this App, while also including a nod to bookkeeping. As Steve mentions, in the product description you should refer to personal finance.
If you mean that, just by the slogan "housekeeping app", an English speaker would be likely to think you are talking about an app that manages finances, then the answer is definitely no.
The primary meaning of housekeeping is cleaning and repairing the house. Keeping track of personal finances is not generally considered part of housekeeping at all.
If anything, I would consider the management of finances to be "finance tracking".
A general term for software which allows you to manage your own finances would be personal finance software.
There are examples of references to such software on other Stack Exchange sites, for example:
As several others have mentioned, "housekeeping" is not the right word here, as it doesn't convey any association with money.
However, an app called Accountant might convey the right idea.


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JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- When Leroy Kramer and his wife Linda checked their mail at their Junction City home a few days ago, mixed in with routine letters was a pleasant but unexpected surprise.
"Last week, my wife, she goes up and gets our mail and she says, 'You've got all of these medals in the mail today!' And I said 'What are you talking about?' And I got to looking at them and from the Navy, they sent me these four medals which I've been entitled to but have never received and it's been 42 years since I got out of the Navy so it was quite a surprise to me to get those," he told 13 News.
Kramer is originally from Marysville, Kansas and joined the Navy in 1966 at the age of 19. He served four years of active duty and two in the reserves.
"I was stationed on the USS Coral Sea, an aircraft carrier. We were stationed off the Gulf of Tonkin over in Vietnam from 1966-1970. I had three different tours and we did air strikes against Vietnam. We had pilots that were shot down and killed and missing. We had fires aboard ships where people were killed, burned to death so it was quite a trying time," Kramer said.
He recently contacted the Navy for some documents and thinks his request for paperwork shed some light on his service record and the fact that he was owed several awards.
"What brought it on was last October, I needed a form from the military called a DD214 in order to get some of my military benefits which I received in December of last year," he explained. Kramer says he always thought he was eligible for certain awards but after more than four decades, he never thought he would receive them.
"I was very proud to see the medals and to find out that he'd been recognized for all of the hard work that he'd done," his wife, Linda, said.
"It brought back a lot of memories for me. Back then, as a veteran, you were kind of looked down on. In fact, I remember you didn't even wear your uniform off the base. People just looked down on you so this here is more of an appreciation to have something like this. It is a sense of accomplishment and a sense of closure to my time in the military even though it's been 42 years. It was an honor for me to get those," Kramer added.
Kramer received a Vietnam Service Medal with three bronze stars, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and Korean Defense Service Medal along with Navy Unit Commendation ribbon, Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon, Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation and Vietnam Campaign Medal with 1960 device.


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Classification: Alkylating Agent
Mechlorethamine exerts its anti-cancer affect by a process called alkylation. Alkylation damages the DNA of cells, which prevents them from dividing, and causes them to die. Since cancer cells, in general, divide faster and with less error correcting than healthy cells, cancer cells are more sensitive to this damage. In this way, mechlorethamine slows or stops the growth of cancer cells in your body.
Mechlorethamine is given by intravenous (into a vein) injection. The dosage and schedule is determined by the person's size and type of cancer.Even when carefully and correctly administered by trained personnel, this drug may cause feeling of burning and pain. There is a risk that this drug may leak out of the vein at the injection site, resulting in tissue damage that can be severe. If the area of injection becomes red, swollen, or painful at anytime during or after the injection, notify your doctor or nurse immediately. Do not apply anything to the site unless instructed by your doctor or nurse.
Mechlorethamine can also be used in a topical form (either as a cream or an ointment), and is used to treat cutaneous T-cell lymphoma lesions on the skin. Precautions should be taken to avoid exposing others to this compound. In addition, mechlorethamine can be delivered directly into body cavities (lining of the lung, abdomen).
There are a number of things you can do to manage the side effects of Mechlorethamine. Talk to your doctor or nurse about these recommendations. They can help you decide what will work best for you. These are some of the most common side effects:
White blood cells (WBC) are important for fighting infection. While receiving treatment, your WBC count can drop, putting you at a higher risk of getting an infection. You should let your doctor or nurse know right away if you have a fever (temperature greater than 100.4 F), sore throat or cold, shortness of breath, cough, burning with urination, or a sore that doesn't heal.
Tips to preventing infection:
For more suggestions, read the Neutropenia Tip Sheet.
Your red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen to the tissues in your body. When the red cell count is low, you may feel tired or weak. You should let your doctor or nurse know if you experience any shortness of breath, difficulty breathing or pain in your chest. If the count gets too low, you may receive a blood transfusion. Read the anemia tip sheet for more information.
Platelets help your blood clot, so when the count is low you are at a higher risk of bleeding. Let your doctor or nurse know if you have any excess bruising or bleeding, including nosebleeds, bleeding gums or blood in your urine or stool. If the count becomes too low, you may receive a transfusion of platelets.
Read the thrombocytopenia tip sheet for more information.
Take anti-nausea medications as prescribed. If you continue to have nausea or vomiting, notify your doctor or nurse so they can help you manage this side effect. In addition, dietary changes may help. Avoid things that may worsen the symptoms, such as heavy or greasy/fatty, spicy or acidic foods (lemons, tomatoes, oranges). Try antacids, (e.g. milk of magnesia, calcium tablets such as Tums), saltines, or ginger ale to lessen symptoms. Read the Nausea & Vomiting Tip Sheet for more suggestions.
Call your doctor or nurse if you are unable to keep fluids down for more than 12 hours or if you feel lightheaded or dizzy at any time.
Your oncology team can recommend medications to relieve diarrhea. Also, try eating low-fiber, bland foods, such as white rice and boiled or baked chicken. Avoid raw fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads, cereals and seeds. Soluble fiber is found in some foods that absorbs fluid and can help relieve diarrhea. Foods high in soluble fiber include: applesauce, bananas (ripe), canned fruit, orange and grapefruit sections, boiled potatoes, white rice and products made with white flour, oatmeal, cream of rice, cream of wheat, and farina. Drink 8-10 glasses on non-alcoholic, un-caffeinated fluid a day to prevent dehydration. Read Low Fiber Diet for Diarrhea for more tips.
This drug can affect your reproductive system, resulting in the menstrual cycle or sperm production becoming irregular or stopping permanently. Exposure of an unborn child to this medication could cause birth defects, so you should not become pregnant or father a child while on this medication. Effective birth control is necessary during treatment, even if your menstrual cycle stops or you believe your sperm is affected. You may want to consider sperm banking or egg harvesting if you may wish to have a child in the future. Discuss these options with your oncology team. See OncoLink's section on sexuality for helpful tips for dealing with these side effects.
Visit OncoLink's section on Nutrition for tips on dealing with this side effect. Ask your nurse about nutritional counseling services.
Certain cancer treatments can cause sores or soreness in your mouth and/or throat. Notify your doctor or nurse if your mouth, tongue, inside of your cheek or throat becomes white, ulcerated or painful. Performing regular mouth care can help prevent or manage mouth sores. If mouth sores become painful, your doctor or nurse can recommend a pain reliever.
Read the mouth ulcer tip sheet for more information.
Your hair may become thin, brittle, or may fall out. This typically begins two to three weeks after treatment starts. This hair loss can be all body hair, including pubic, underarm, legs/arms, eyelashes, and nose hairs. The use of scarves, wigs, hats and hairpieces may help. Hair generally starts to regrow soon after treatment is completed. Remember your hair helps keep you warm in cold weather, so a hat is particularly important in cold weather or to protect you from the sun. Read more on alopecia.
You may experience a metallic taste or dislike foods or beverages that you liked before receiving chemotherapy. These symptoms can last up to several months. Avoid any food that you think smells or tastes bad. If red meat is a problem, eat chicken, turkey, eggs, dairy products and fish without a strong smell. Flavor meat or fish by marinating it in sweet juices, sweet and sour sauce or dressings. Use seasonings like basil, oregano or rosemary. Bacon, ham and onion can add flavor to vegetables. Ask your nurse about nutritional counseling services.
There is a slight risk of developing leukemia or other type of cancer due to treatment with this medication. This is most often associated with repeated treatments or high doses.
Some less common side effects that have been reported include: skin rash or blistering, ringing in the ears and a darkening of the veins.
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I have a database which contains Lat/Long pairs to identify the location of points of interest. I would like to group the points of interest into groups of 10. The group should be geographically local and contain exactly 10 points. Each group should be of a minimum area.
I've looked at various implementations in R but none of them (that I can see) allow you to specify a definite cluster size.
I'd also appreciate a pointer to any beginner level R tutorials as it's all a bit foreign to me at the moment.
(I previously asked this question Grouping map points into fixed cluster sizes but I don't think I was exact enough in my question to get a good answer.)
Geographically local - I think I mean that groups shouldn't significantly overlap. In my application (allocating people to groups for monitoring purposes) it would be ideal if each group was as small as possible in physical area.
Minimum area - again, trying to keep the group area to a minimum. I suppose this could be quantified as keeping the each group's area below a specified threshold (to avoid dozens of small groups and one large one).


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I am a beginner in this quantum-mechanics stuff. I understand the quantum eraser only from an experimental view. So I didn't understand the formalism that describes the quantum eraser. But what does the experiment tells us? Does the photon know that there is somebody watching it? And this is why it behaves in another way? Does the photon also see the future?
No, the photon doesn't see anyone watching it. And the photon doesn't see its future, either. In fact, the photon doesn't exist in any classical sense prior to its observation.
All of its properties - e.g. which slits it could be taking; whether it behaves more as a particle or a wave etc. - are encoded in the wave function until the very moment of the measurement which is why they may always be "changed back" to the previous answers. For example, in quantum eraser, the photon is ordered to behave as a wave again, even though a premature argument could lead a sloppy person to think that the photon has already decided to behave as a particle forever.
When you measure the photon, it is finally possible to think of its properties classically and the wave function allows one to calculate all probabilities that the outcome will be something or something else. In the case of the quantum eraser, we restore the interference pattern. But any attempt to "imagine" that the photon has obtained a classical property at any moment before it was measured would lead to wrong predictions.
It is always essential to appreciate that the photon always behaves according to the laws of quantum mechanics and we're never allowed to approximate it by any classical intuition because the classical intuition fails. This strict requirement that classical mechanics is wrong may only be partly circumvented after the photon is actually detected (because then it interacts with a classical object that quickly decoheres) - but not earlier than that. In other words, quantum mechanics always holds: that's the main lesson of this experiment (and many others).
Sb1 says that it was remarkable that the experiment behaved as Scully and Druhl predicted. I disagree with this wording. The prediction could have been made by any father of quantum mechanics - no new physics was used whatsoever and they could predict the behavior of any setup of this kind. It could have been remarkable in the 1920s but after the 1920s, all such experiments were mundane physics.
"Quantum eraser" was first proposed by M. Scully and K. Druhl. In order to understand it, we must know the famous double slit experiment first which I suppose you already know. You must be aware that in the double slit experiment if photons are emitted one at a time an interference pattern forms at the detector screen. As soon as you try to observe which path the photon follows that is which slit it passes through, left or right slit, the interference disappears. That means a knowledge of "which path" information destroys the wave like character of a photon and hence no interference possible. But in 1982, Scully and Druhl suggested a stunning modification of the experiment. They proposed the following on the basis of their quantum mechanical calculation.
Suppose a tagging device is attached by which we can know the "which path" information of the photon. Now if, just before the photon hits the detector screen, we eliminate the possibility of our knowledge of the "which path" information by erasing the mark registered by the tagging device, both possibilities that is the photon passed through the left slit and photon passed through the right slit should come back into play. Both histories should come back once again and interference pattern should reemarge. As if we are kind of shaping the past (warning: it is by no means that future is affecting the past).
Experiment carried out by Raymond Chiao, Paul Kwiat and A. Steinberg. Remarkably it worked just as scully and Druhl predicted. Interference pattern indeed reemarged.
All the other explanations are wrong. The light does not interact with itself anymore because the light is polarized. Only waves polarized in the same direction can interfere with each other. It's just another dimension. Do a "measurement" that doesn't use interference and it won't work.
A photon has no memory, but the photon/electromagnetic wave "knows" its polarization and only reacts (interferes) with waves polarized the same way.
There is no waveform that collapses by observation, the only thing that happens is that the measurement is not actually a measurement but a change of the system. A pure measurement would only measure and not disturb the process.


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Hey guys,
Last Saturday I shot a sunrise from Vinings Mountain (6 miles NW of Atlanta, line of sight) toward Buckhead and Atlanta, GA. I was hoping for a low humidity day so I could see all the way to ATL, but as soon as the sun popped the haze got thick and hindered my view of ATL. The Buckhead view was clear, but I was late setting up and missed the building lights, but the sunrise and silhouette is pretty interesting. The pan from Buckhead to the left edge of the image is ~5 miles.
Buckhead pre-sunrise: http://carrollmorganphoto.com/wp-con...gs1.jpg?9d7bd4
Buckhead sunrise: http://carrollmorganphoto.com/wp-con...gs2.jpg?9d7bd4
Buckhead and Atlanta pre-sunrise (sorry, but you need a large monitor for this one!): http://carrollmorganphoto.com/wp-con...mtn.jpg?9d7bd4
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Columbia Law School Promotes International Investment in São Tomé
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Karl P. Sauvant, executive director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, is trying to put the tiny, two-island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe on the investment map.
A decade ago, the West African country discovered it had the potential to produce oil, and the prospect of the financial windfall that could follow made the country's president, Fradique de Menezes, nervous. With weak infrastructure in place, São Tomé and Príncipe was vulnerable to corruption, political struggles, or violence. To stabilize the islands, de Menezes looked to Columbia.
Since 2003, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, has been working with a diverse team of experts to advise São Tomé and Príncipe on how best to achieve economic growth and sustainable development. A collaboration with the Vale Columbia Center, which is a joint center of Columbia Law School and The Earth Institute, has produced the Investor's Guide to São Tomé and Príncipe, a prospectus aimed at helping the nation attract foreign direct investment. The joint project unveiled the guide last fall.
"Investment is the basis for economic growth, and that, in turn, is the basis for social development," Sauvant said. "São Tomé and Príncipe is off the beaten track for most investors. They may well miss out on some interesting opportunities."
The guide analyzes opportunities for investors in agriculture—cocoa, flowers, and fruits and vegetables for export—as well as in adventure, eco-tourism, fisheries, and petroleum. The country is a stable working democracy with a vibrant multi-party system, one of the highest literacy and life-expectancy rates in sub-Saharan Africa, and no serious ethnic, linguistic, religious, or tribal tensions. It is strategically located in the Gulf of Guinea, the geographic center of the large markets in west and central Africa, and the government is committed to promoting transparency, good governance, and private sector–led growth.
"This is a document that can open many doors for us," said President de Menezes at a dinner to introduce the guide.
Florizelle B. Liser, the assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa, also attended the dinner and noted that Africa, as a whole, only contributes about 2 percent to world trade. If that amount were increased by just 1 percent, it would generate about $70 billion, which is more than three times the amount of aid the continent receives.
"We're not saying there is no need for aid, but trade is a much greater economic engine," Liser said.


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Tennis tourney serves as senior project, fundraiser
Colville High School senior-to-be Liselotte Doggen, who teamed with fellow CHS senior Erin Little to lead the Indians to a State 1A tennis tournament appearance and the medal stand this spring in Yakima, is organizing a local tennis tournament as part of her Senior Project. In addition to being her Senior Project, the tournament will also serve a dual function as a fund-raiser to help the resurfacing and retooling of the dilapidated tennis courts at Colville City Park. That project has been underwritten by the Colville Valley Tennis Association. The tournament will be held August 26-28 on the CHS tennis courts (during the day). To pick up registration forms, go to the Do-It Center, Norstar Heating and Cooling, or to the Colville Chamber of Commerce office. For more information on the tournament, call (509) 675-5398.


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Walter Raleigh
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Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 – October 29, 1618) is famed as a writer, poet, spy, and explorer. Note that many alternate spellings of his surname exist, including Rawley, Ralegh, and Rawleigh; although "Raleigh" appears most commonly today, he himself used that spelling only once. His most consistent preference was for "Ralegh".
- Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
- According to Thomas Fuller's History of the Worthies of England vol. 1, p. 4 (1662) this was written by Raleigh on a window-pane, prompting Elizabeth I to add "If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all".
- The world itself is but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
- Supposed to have been said by Raleigh to his friends as he was being taken to prison, on the day before his execution (William Stebbing Sir Walter Raleigh (1891), chapter 30).
- So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies.
- Stebbing's Sir Walter Raleigh, chapter 30, gives these as Raleigh's words on being asked by the executioner which way he wanted to lay his head on the block.
- What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!
- Upon receiving discrepant accounts from the participants in a recent quarrel below his window.
- Robert Chambers, Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859) p. 12.


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Pemex said in a series of messages on its Twitter page that two people were injured in the fire that erupted late Thursday - a highway worker and a firefighter. Gas supplies to Guadalajara were affected, the company added, but inventories will allow normal LPG deliveries to customers.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's state-owned oil company Petroleos
Mexicanos, or Pemex, said a pipeline carrying liquefied
petroleum gas was punctured by a privately operated backhoe
near the central city of Guadalajara, and that the resulting
fire was under control by midday Friday.
Pemex said in a series of messages on its
Twitter page that two people were injured in the fire that
erupted late Thursday - a highway worker and a firefighter. Gas
supplies to Guadalajara were affected, the company added, but
inventories will allow normal LPG deliveries to customers.
"The only distribution terminal affected is
Guadalajara's, but it has sufficient fuel inventories to
guarantee supplies to the region," Pemex said.
The company said that the fire was burning off
the remaining gas in the air, and that once the blaze is
completely extinguished, repairs would begin on the 14-inch
pipeline, which runs from the Cactus processing station in the
Gulf Coast state of Tabasco to Guadalajara.
Authorities closed an affected section of the
highway that runs from Mexico City to Guadalajara as a
precaution, and Pemex said it estimated the highway section
would be reopened on Saturday. Also, people living near the
affected part of the pipeline were evacuated.
LPG is used widely in Mexican households for
cooking and heating water, and costly imports are subsidized by
the government. Pemex imported about 77,000 bpd of the
fuel on average in the first eight months of this year. It
produced an average of 180,000 bpd of the fuel over the
same time period.
LPG is delivered in small tanks, or pumped into stationary
tanks outside homes. A few parts of the country, mostly in the
north, have installed natural-gas pipelines to provide domestic
gas service.
In mid-September, a massive explosion at a
Pemex natural-gas processing center near the northern
border city of Reynosa killed 30 workers and took about 800
million cubic feet of the gas offline at a time when the oil
monopoly was already struggling to meet industries' demands for
more of the fuel given its low price.
Pemex said it would try to keep up with
natural-gas demand by increasing imports from the US to the
maximum level that pipelines in Mexico could handle, and
perhaps by importing more expensive liquefied natural gas that
arrives on ships and is re-gasified at specialized plants.
While Pemex is a major exporter of crude oil,
it is a net importer of natural gas and has been producing less
of the fuel over the last couple of years and importing more.
In August, natural-gas imports averaged a near-record 1.2
billion cubic feet/day compared with about 700 million cubic
feet/day in August 2011.
Pemex's natural-gas production in the first
eight months of this year averaged 6.42 billion cubic feet/day,
compared with 6.59 billion cubic feet/day in the same period of
2011, according to Pemex data.
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If I am not mistaken there is a theorem that says any curve $C$ can be embedded in $\mathbf{P}^3$. What can be said about surfaces? Do we have a theorem like:
All surfaces can be embedded in $\mathbf{P}^{N}$ for some fixed $N$.
And if not what is the simplest counterexample? A counterexample would be an infinite sequence of surfaces: $\{S_1, S_2, \cdots \}$ and infinite sequence of strictly increasing positive integers: $\{n_1, n_2, \cdots \}$ such that $S_i$ can not be embedded in $\mathbf{P}^{n_i}$.


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I'm looking for the inverse of this. I want to quickly transfer a piece of text from android to my computer. One way to do is chat with myself using gtalk or fb. But I'm looking for some better way preferably without using Internet and using wifi only. It would be nice if I have a "People nearby app" that can talk with empathy client.
There's an app called Remote Web Desktop by SmartDog Studio. It enables access to your phone through your desktop's browser, over the local network (i.e. no connection to the Internet is necessary (I use it with both phone and desktop on the same WiFi AP); phone acts as HTTP(S) server on non-standard port (configurable)).
The simplest method is "shared clipboard": select the text on your phone, copy to clipboard, and it's immediately accessible from the desktop computer.
The app has a free (ad-supported) and paid (~$4 USD) version; the free version allows connection over HTTP, paid also offers HTTPS.
Full disclosure: I'm a (happy) user of this app, no other connection.
Catch synchronizes notes from various sources (PC or phone) automatically. Unfortunately it requires an internet connection, but that can be via wifi and not the phone's data plan. So, while not ideal, I think it's better than sending yourself FB chat messages.
If your PC and phone both support blue tooth you should be able to tether the two together. Alternatively you should be able to use a USB chord to attach your phone as a USB device and drag and drop from your phone's data to your PC; I can do this with my HTC EVO 4G.


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Perched atop a rock limestone bluff in Harrods Creek, Ky., is The Avish, one of Louisville's signature estates that could be yours – for a cool $6 million.
The stunning 24-acre property was originally developed by Owsley and Laura Lyons Brown in 1910 but was more recently owned by their grandson Owsley Brown Frazier, until he died Aug. 16 at the age of 77.
The Avish, which translates to "Rocky Hill" in Gaelic, is named after the family's ancestral home in Ireland. The estate features a stunning arbor, formal garden complete with garden house and attached greenhouses, walkways, water feature, barn and guest quarters.
The grand entrance of the home – all of which was decorated by Ben Small, Bittners executive vice president of Residential Design – has a foyer that is flanked by a reception area, banquet dining hall and the formal parlor with an adjoining conservatory. The main kitchen and catering kitchen are on the main level, as are the owner's office suite and two half baths.
The private living quarters are on the second level of the home and can be accessed by one of two stairways, service or passenger elevator. There are two master suites with river views complimented by three additional bedrooms with ensuite baths. The third floor has a private suite that, according to the listing, is perfect for an au pair or house manager.
The indoor pool and solarium are located on the lower level and have convenient his/hers baths and dressing areas. Entertainment and gaming areas, laundry facility, office, computer/utility center and garages can also be found on this level.
The guest house has two bedrooms and two baths. Other buildings include the barn, garden house and greenhouses.
The Avish, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, "is a one of a kind property," said Kentucky Select Properties' Julie Scott Beam, the listing agent. "It's amazingly warm. For the expansive space, there's a warmth that is uniquely The Avish. It makes you feel cozy."
It's also still available.
There are a few "very interested parties" who have proven their ability to pay the asking price, which you must do if you want a tour. But there's more to it than just finding someone who can afford the abode. "We're really trying to do the best possible job and hopefully find a steward," Beam said. "I think everyone would really like to see someone purchase the property that is going to open the doors like Owsley did."
For a private showing, please contact Julie Scott Beam, Kentucky Select Properties, at 502.905.0599. Special thanks to Tim Furlong Jr. of RealTourCast, realtourcast.com, for permission to share his incredible photos to readers of The Voice-Tribune.
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- $6,000,000: Asking Price for The Avish
- 1910: Year it was originally developed by Owsley and Laura Lyons Brown
- 20,000: Square Footage of The Avish
- 2: Master Suites with views of the Ohio River
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Owsley Brown Frazier resided at The Avish, a signature estate in Harrods Creek, until he died Aug. 16 after a long illness. The former executive of Brown-Forman Corporation, Bittners owner, Louisville philanthropist, museum developer, devoted Louisville Cardinal fan, and loving father and grandfather was 77. The Avish, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, sits on approximately 24 acres of land originally developed by Owsley and Laura Lyons Brown in 1910.
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I need some help with the youtube video editor? I need to join 2 youtube videos but one is in 16:9 and the other in 4:3. The final result should be in 16:9. Is it possible with the youtube video editor? Thanks
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You're either going to have to resample your 4:3 video as 16:9 which will add black bars at the top and bottom, or crop the 16:9 video to fit in 4:3. Either way, the video will need to be re-edited, maybe even re-uploaded. I assume you have editor/owner access to both files?
As far as I can tell there is not way to do this on YouTube via the enhancement section on the Video Manager section. It looks like you will have to re-upload.


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6 Ill-Advised Marketing Campaigns That Backfired Hilariously
When Levi's released their new Curve ID line of jeans, they tried to come up with an ad campaign that would appeal to women of all shapes and sizes. Bizarrely, their impression of the full spectrum of different ass sizes looked like this:
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Critics of the advertisement were quick to point out that it's kind of impossible to tell these three women apart if you cover their heads. It seems as though, having spent too long making size-2 models look good in jeans, the advertising department of Levi's struggled to figure out what a multiplicity of ass sizes would look like. Feeling defeated on their first attempt, they had another go of it ...
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... in which the only way to tell that these aren't all the same model is by comparing cup sizes.
What the Hell Were They Thinking?
After various blogs like Shine and Jezebel and tons of other people called them out on their apparent cluelessness about what a plus-sized woman even looks like, Levi's advertisers struggled to fix the problem -- but couldn't. Despite the fact that the jeans themselves actually are designed for a multitude of body shapes, the advertisers just couldn't bring themselves to show them on the posters.
Wieden + Kennedy and Levis
"Every rainbow has a curve. But all those curves are the same angle."
No, those are different colors. We're talking about shapes. This is literally kindergarten stuff.
It just goes to show that plus-sized women don't sell jeans, even the ones that you're trying to sell to plus-sized women.
#2. The Economist Thinks Women Aren't People
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In 2011, The Economist magazine decided that, with only 13 percent of its readers being female, it needed to find a way to market itself better to women. The result was a hilariously poorly worded ad that somehow suggested that women aren't people, which was 180 degrees from what they wanted to get across:
The Economist via The Cut
"Why should women read The Economist? They shouldn't. Accomplished, influential people should read us. People like you."
What the Hell Were They Thinking?
Obviously, what they meant to say was that the magazine isn't geared toward any one gender, but when less than a quarter of its staff are women, it sure doesn't come across that way.
The Economist's staff, seen here with their diversity.
This ad came on the heels of two studies the Economist did, finding that women are an increasing demographic in the business world but only represent a tiny percentage of their market share -- and this was their attempt to increase that number. But the obvious issue is that even people who defend the magazine admit that it's "old school" and a "bro's club," and the attitude of "Why should we change when it's you trying to enter our world?" seems to misunderstand what the whole "gender equality" thing is about.
And while the sentiment they were trying to get across might be a positive one, they sure chose the worst possible way to say it, grammatically speaking -- the Economist is only for people, and women aren't people. Even though they sometimes think they are, like particularly adorable puppies.
"Why would you want to read our magazine and wrinkle up your pretty face with thought lines?"
#1. The Lorax Wants You to Buy an SUV
In 2012, Universal made a film adaptation of The Lorax, Dr. Seuss' classic tale about protecting the environment. In a fairly spectacular example of poor decision-making, the film decided to run an advertising tie-in ... for a Mazda SUV.
The ad even mentions that the SUV has the "truffula tree seal of approval." If you haven't seen or read The Lorax, the truffula tree is harvested to extinction because the Lorax compromises his values and makes a deal with an entrepreneur. It's kinda hard to miss, because that's the whole plot of the story.
"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees! And the SUVs."
What the Hell Were They Thinking?
Given how blatantly crass the whole 45 seconds is, a lot of people were pretty insulted by the whole thing. It's not just because selling more cars is spiritually against everything the story stands for -- they might have been able to get away with it if it were a Prius. But the Mazda CX-5 is not even a particularly eco-friendly car, and Mazda, in their own words, does not plan on "relying on vehicles that are strictly dedicated to meeting environmental needs."
"But the word 'Lorax' makes us giggle. So we decided that the partnership made sense."
After the ill-advised ad ran, media outlets pounced on what was obviously a really bad choice of corporate sponsorship -- Stephen Colbert got in on the controversy and explained his problem with the ad in Seussian verse.
Instead of apologizing, Mazda did that infuriating dodge-the-issue thing where they pretended that the criticism was about the auto industry not progressing toward being "green" fast enough, rather than about compromised messages. They even said they're "not out to please everybody," which is the PR-friendly version of "Go fuck yourself." Hell, they should have just gone with that for a slogan in the first place. At least nobody can misinterpret it.
For more ads that were apparently written by cavemen, check out 6 Ad Campaigns That Prove Humanity Is Doomed and 8 TV Ads That Hate Women.
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Fighter planes were popularised by their extensive use in WWI. What Aerial weapons were used before that period (if any)? What is earliest recorded use of Aerial Attacking and what was the technology employed?
The first time aviation played an important role was during World War I however (airplanes by then). It took some time to recognize the potential here, airplanes were mostly used for reconnaissance again. Using bombs was relatively rare and very experimental - typically the pilot would take a bomb and throw it overboard. As you can imagine, the precision of such bombing wasn't exactly high.
Air combat was also rare in WWI, with the necessary technologies still developing. The very first problem was mounting a machine gun so that it could shoot without damaging the propeller. Synchronized machine guns only became the accepted solution during the war, at the beginning of the war a bunch of other solutions were attempted as well. One option were machine guns mounted on the wings of the aircraft, the pilot then had to pull strings to trigger them (something that wasn't quite easy while steering the aircraft at the same time).
There is a large Wikipedia article on the use of aviation in World War I where you can find more details.
The first use of aeroplanes (as opposed to lighter-than-air balloons or dirigibles) in warfare occurred during the Italian invasion of Ottoman Libya in 1911. Airplanes were used initially for reconnaissance and then later in an improvised attack, when an Italian pilot dropped explosives by hand on Ottoman troops.


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This is a problem I saw on Peter Winkler's column on communication of the ACM(might be under a pay wall). It is open.
What is the largest $n$, such that you can always cover a given set of $n$ points with $n$ disjoint unit disks?
I believe the current upper bound is $60$.
I would like to know more reference on this problem. Currently I don't even know what field would study problems like this.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Students from five schools in the Central Flint Hills Region will help usher in the holiday spirit when they lend their voices to the Flint Hills Discovery Center during four free concerts in December.
Dubbed, "Musical Thursdays at the FHDC," these special performances are scheduled for: Dec. 6, 13 and 20. The choral groups will sing holiday tunes or competition pieces.
The Jammin' Northstars Choir from Northview Elementary will perform at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 6 and the St. George Honor Choir will perform at 6:30 p.m. that evening.
On Thursday, Dec. 13, students from Manhattan High School Choirs will sing at 6:30 p.m.
Sheridan Elementary's Sharp Stallions and the Geary County Children's Choir will perform consecutively at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20.
"The Flint Hills Discovery Center is thrilled to host students from three local school districts as they showcase their talent and cheer this season. The acoustics in our glass atrium are fabulous, and this is sure to be an unforgettable holiday experience," said Pamela Redford, outreach coordinator, FHDC.
As an added bonus, visitors can enjoy free admission to the FHDC from 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 6, 13 and 20.
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Does Aに助かりました mean that you were saved from A, or you were saved by A?
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助かる is an intransitive verb which means "to be saved".
Aに助かりました would mean "At the point of time/space of A, you were saved.(No agent is implied in the statement. It just means you were saved)"
Much like 窓が開く, it would mean "the window opens" without implying any agent.
Then consider 3時に窓が開く, it would mean "the window opens at 3 o'clock"
(Agent: one who initiates and/or completes an action or event)


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If the human body is a machine, then water is what makes it go. But many people aren't getting the cleanest "fuel" to put into their bodies every day — unless, that is, you're talking about rocket fuel.
The jet-propulsion additive perchlorate is one of the contaminants recently found in the drinking water of 19 U.S. cities in a peer-reviewed study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (although the EPA recently announced that it would start regulating perchlorate in drinking water, the agency hasn't yet set a specific limit for the contaminant). Also discovered were lead, pathogens, trihalomethanes (a byproduct of chlorine) and arsenic. Exposure to arsenic alone has been linked to cancer of the skin, lungs, bladder and kidney, according to the World Health Organization.
To protect yourself and your family from routinely ingesting unhealthy water, take these steps to ensure contaminant-free tap water in your home:
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Start with a water test — the only way to identify specific quality problems. Public water systems must test their water and file the results with the EPA and your state. You can get a copy of these results by contacting your water provider or state water agency, or at http://water.epa.gov/drink/.
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Ionization: Debated Antioxidant Technology
Water ionizers Temporarily "split" the two Os and one H molecules in H20 into an OH and an HO, and usually combines this with some of the filters mentioned above.


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Joel asked this question on this blog post. I've looked through the questions in this area here, and seen the official policy, but I don't see anything related to that blog post, so this is asking that question (and I'm going to give my suggestion below).
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
If local versions of Stack Overflow are to thrive, they must have all-original content. They cannot survive as merely translations of English Stack Overflow.
Stack Overflow is a community and depends extensively on the community nature of the endeavor to succeed. By simply translating some questions to another language, speakers of that language will forever be second-class citizens on their own community, forced to watch the site through the muddy lens of translators, never actually participating in conversations. As an English speaker, I can't imagine being a part of a community in, say, Hindi, where some (probably small) percentage of the content has been (probably poorly) translated to English. I would never feel like I belonged and I would lose interest right away.
There are enough developers who are very strong in languages like Japanese, Korean, and Chinese to create independent, separate sites that cover common problems. And by letting them have their own sites they can develop their own communities.
I think the way to do this is to change the stackexchange software so that you can have multiple languages on one site, not a site per language (per subject).
It would look like this: If you wanted to translate a question, then you could do so. Then, like wikipedia, you could see "this question is also available in these languages". The aim would be that the most upvoted, or community wiki questions would be translated. There would need to be a separate voting system so that speakers of the second language can rate the quality of translation. Similarly with answers.
You could select the language you wanted to see questions/answers in. If there is a question or answer in that language then you would see that, otherwise you'd see it in English (if available). (At a future date we could let you configure a second preferred non-English language.) If you don't configure yourself as a speaker of another language you would probably see no change at all in the site.
If you ask a question in a non-English language then it could be answered in English. If you have English configured as your main language and another as a secondary language, and the question was asked in that secondary language, then you'd see it. Maybe you'd even translate it into English if you're kind (and want reputation points). Of course it could always be answered in the original language.
Although this is a lot of work to implement it gets around the fragmentation of sites and helps those who have some knowledge of English to take a great part in the sites.
(Update: I'm not the first person to have thought of this: Wikipedia Style Localization)
As Pekka says, please take the time to read existing questions and discussions on this. There's been quite a lot of discussion over on Area51:
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When waitMsg is provided in the oprions of form submit, in which there are some field validation errors like allowBlank:false then a Mask appears and hides the entire window and cant able to close it unless we hit browser refresh. (Through the mask the validation red borders for the fields are visible.)
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CADIZ Harrison Hills City School District Superintendent Dr. George Ash will close out his term of leadership as of Aug. 1.
He will replace Joy Howell, retiring superintendent of the Jefferson County Educational Service Center.
Ash was hired by ESC Feb. 19. The school board approved his resignation during Thursday's meeting. Assistant Superintendent Dana Snider will take on the superintendent's position.
Ash has been involved in Harrison Hills for seven years as a junior high school principal, an assistant superintendent, and has acted as superintendent since 2010. He led the district through financial reforms and consolidations to maintain the district's solvency, as well as new programs and expansions.
The ESC encompasses seven school districts in Harrison and Jefferson counties. Duties include helping districts understand new state school initiatives, providing professional development for administrators and teachers, maintaining shared service programs, and helping the school districts save money.
Ash is currently devoting all his energies to closing out his term at Harrison Hills.
"My complete focus has been on Harrison Hills and will be until August," he said, adding that he will work with both Howell and Snider to ensure a seamless transition in both districts.
Board President Deborah Kenny congratulated Ash and noted his vital role in the district.
"I'm very sad to see Dr. Ash leave," she said. "I have enjoyed working with him and his vision and leadership have afforded the opportunities available to our students and staff. I know he'll continue to do great things at the Jefferson County Educational Service Center and we wish him the best."
"It is with regret that I have to vote on this," said Board Member Melvin Allen, adding that the district has benefitted from Ash's leadership. "There has been more harmony in the educational system in this county than I've seen in 45 years.
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Better buy two copies then, one to play with, the other to play
Better buy two copies then, one to play with, the other to play
I really hope that I don't have exams after or around the time it comes out, it might really cause my GTA V to suffer.
Certainly the timing will be awful to me as well
Yeah, life is such an asshole, gettin in the way of GTA and shit.
Stupid first life.
Nothing like lifes 3, 4 and 5.
There's no obvious GTA IV thread, or none I can find because VBull hates searching initialisations, so I'll say here that GTA IV and the Episodes from Liberty City are the current XBL Deals of the Week... for all of nobody who would care. Maybe there's somebody out there who doesn't have them all on Steam for a fraction of those prices already and don't even have a PC. Maybe.
Aurain likely made the thread.
I had thought he made this one. I think you must probably be right. Metal Gear Megathread is gone too.
That was pretty jerky to have all of his posts removed. I still love him.
I assume it's going to be not too different to GTA IV since it looks like an upgrade of the same engine.
Wait, what happened to Aurain?
They said the center of mass is lower so the cars won't wobble as much.
I liked them fine in IV but then I'd like it fine if Rockstar tied me down and shat on me as long as it was called GTA.


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Is there any way to "close" a package (or a symbol, or a context) in that if a user of the package adds definitions to the symbol they will be tried before the package defined ones, just like what happens with built-ins?
I will suggest a solution for
A first ingredient of my suggestion is a (slightly modified) symbol-cloning functionality described here:
Here comes my suggested dynamic environment then:
What is happening here: first, we clone the original symbol. Then, we
Here comes an example:
And now:
you can see that in the first two cases, the modified definitions were used, in the third one the original definition was used, and the last one did not match any and evaluated to itself.
One can nest these constructs, and the inner one will override the outer ones then. For example:
You can ask why I wasn't just using the Villegas-Gayley trick by itself, which is much simpler. The answer is that there is no guarantee that the ordering of definitions will be right with it, even if we manually reorder them, and moreover, cases like
The suggested approach is as good as the symbol's cloning procedure is. For
If we are the ones writing the package in question, then we could proceed as follows. First, we define a public version of the function that delegates all calls to a private version:
Then we define the functionality we desire on the private function:
Before users make any modifications, the public function behaves in the way we have defined:
Now, if a user comes along and adds a definition to the public function...
... then the corresponding behaviour is overridden, but the other definitions remain in place.
Since the public function is defined with the broadest possible definition, all more-specific user definitions will be tried before the pre-defined rules. Of course, if the user redefines the public function's one definition exactly, then all bets are off.
Handling Partial Functions
If the function is only partially defined, we may want the public function to return unevaluated when the arguments are outside its domain. To do this, we need a slightly more elaborate version of the public function:
Unfortunately, Mathematica no longer considers this definition to be "broad" due to the complex
We'll change
Users can then add further partial definitions:
Here is method based on WReach's answer. It works by explicitly sorting the list of
Ok, based on your answers...
This doesn't suffer problems of the automatic
Now, making some definitions
We see that


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Our 3-month old son has bad diaper rash. We're putting a lot of the cream on each time we change his diaper. How long will it take before this goes away?
If it doesn't look to be getting better after 3 days, you should contact your pediatrician. Also contact your pediatrician if there are pus-filled blisters, if the rash is in the folds of skin around the legs, or if the rash is bleeding.
Diaper rash is typically caused by irritation from the moisture from the baby's waste, but it can also be caused by allergic reactions to perfumes or other chemicals in the diapers, wipes, or lotions you use. A yeast infection of the skin can also result in diaper rash, in which case the pediatrician will need to prescribe a remedy.
For regular diaper rash, treatment with a moisture blocking cream will usually clear up the rash within a day or two. In severe cases, you might want to consider letting the diaper area air dry for about 15 minutes before putting a fresh diaper on (put the baby on a mat or towel you don't mind getting soiled!).
In my experience, there's diaper rash, and then there's allergic rash. My baby's diaper rash (even when it's caused by teething) goes away in 1-2 changes as long as we put cream on it, like Desitin, which you can get from drugstore.com. The severity you describe makes me concerned that the diaper rash you're describing is not actual diaper rash, but is allergic rash.
Allergic rash seemed very different from regular diaper rash, but all we realized at the time was that it was a weird-looking rash. A typical diaper rash for my baby is all over her bottom. The allergic rash was a very tightly-concentrated rash close to the anus. It did not go away easily or quickly, and before we realized it was due to an allergic reaction to dairy, it got to the point where the skin was raw and would bleed a bit when we cleaned her bottom. The rash did not clear up until after we wised up after a few days and eliminated all dairy from her diet.
One note is that many creams and ointments contain lanolin. This is basically derived from sheep. Plenty of people are allergic to wool and may react to lanolin. (I'm allergic to wool and finding a cream for breastfeeding that had no lanolin yet was safe for the baby was a job and a half; I used Nuk.) Aquaphor is commonly recommended for many baby rashes--including severe diaper rash--but contains lanolin. So if you are using a lanolin-based cream you may want to switch to something else to eliminate the possibility of the cream causing a reaction.
If your baby is breastfed and the rash is persisting, you may want to first eliminate lanolin, and then after that try an elimination diet for his mom. I'd recommend allergy testing but unfortunately, I know from personal experience that it is faulty. I'm allergic to peanuts and have gone into anaphylactic shock upon eating one, yet my skin and blood tests come back negative. Allergy tests often generate false negative results. The link above about elimination diets can be very helpful. If the baby is formula-fed, you may want to talk to the pediatrician about switching formula brands or even a hypo-allergenic formula if the rash continues and you and the doctors feel allergies are to blame.
Typically, babies at 3 months aren't given solids but if you are giving solids, you'll want to talk to your doctor about allergy concerns there, as well.
Good luck and I hope it is regular diaper rash, not the allergic rash kind my daughter had!