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Has anyone else been involved with a random act of kindness (non wootizen related) lately?
Yesterday, my family and I, made the 2 hour trip to my parents house and decided to stop about halfway at a Five Guys. As we entered, I walked right up to order as my family found a table. While ordering, I noticed in my peripheral vision a young girl, maybe 10, approach me and wait. I thought she was waiting for the cashier to assist her, so I continued ordering. Once finished, I turned toward the girl. She offered me a small brown envelope and said "This is a random act of kindness". I accepted it, thanked her, and asked if there was anything she needed or that I should do. She responded with a "no" and walked away. I then looked at the card and found a $20 Five Guys gift card! This definitely made my family's day, so I found the family and thanked them again and had a brief conversation. The mom stated it was her birthday and they were celebrating by doing nice things.
We thought this was a really cool idea. Anyone else been involved in a similar experience?
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What a great idea! I love implementing random acts of kindness, but I'd never thought of celebrating my birthday that way. My family says I'm hard to shop for (picky and/or buy it for myself before they can get to it), so I'm going to suggest that we do this next time around.
Thanks for sharing!
Wow, that's cool. Usually around here, people celebrate with a random act of violence.
Anyway, now that we are entering the holiday season, the world could reminded to be more kind to one another. Thanks for sharing this story.
@barkwoot: Are you going to pay it forward? If so, are you thinking of doing something similar (like a gift card) or something different? My favorite thing was to go to a drive-thru and say the car behind me was in my group and pay for their lunch. Then I wait in the lot to see their total shock and surprise in my rearview as I drive off.
@barkwoot What a wonderful question to pose. Very uplifting! And yes, I've been the recipient & the giver of random acts of kindness. Both are heart-warming. :-D
@curtisuxor: yes, I definitely intend to pay it forward. I do like the idea of giving a gift card, especially if I can get one of the kids to do it. I think it teaches them a good lesson. As we continued our drive, my wife & I discussed the drive through idea too. I like it as well. I might even have the kids pick a table at a sit down place and pick up their check.
I've never done anything as big as give gift cards out, but there is a woman who comes to my job almost every day. She's old, lives alone, and walks pretty much everywhere she has to go. I work at a convenience store and we fry chicken at lunch and a lot of the workers nearby eat there.
Over time, I've noticed that at the end of the month, she's short on cash. She tries to buy a little something to eat while she takes her medication, but some days it comes down to her counting spare change in her hands in the hopes of being able to afford a $0.50 Little Debbie snack cake. On those days, I try to put together a little plate of chicken, maybe some fried okra and a fountain drink for her. I don't get free meals, so I end up paying for it out of pocket. $4 isn't a lot to me, but I like to imagine that it makes those tough days for an old lady on a fixed budget a little easier to bear.
@purplefeather: Very cool.
@purplefeather: Thank you so much for your kindness. This brought tears to my eyes. There but for the grace of.....that could have been me, or others I have known. Bless you!
Wow! What a great little surprise! I love the idea of pay it forward!
@purplefeather, I'm sure it makes a huge difference in her life and she's probably extremely grateful for it!
As for me? I can't do much, but I did find a single mother with two children on craigslist that needed help for Christmas. I'm picking up some presents for her girls (nothing much as I'm not rich, but it will be something under the tree). I adopted some Salvation Army Angels last year, I can't adopt them on JCP site this year, and I'm having a hard time finding the trees locally. I have a call into both the local SA (which had no idea what I was talking about!) and the one about 1/2 hour from here (which is who I got the Angels from last year). Hopefully one can get back to me so I can pick an angel or two (they have a wish list of sorts). I also donated stuff to my dads church for their toy store.
I've also donated some handmade beaded cat pins to a local cat rescue to sell to help the kitties.
That is such a cool thing - definitely how we will be celebrating birthdays in my family from now on!
A couple of weeks ago I was over in Ocean County, NJ which was hard hit by the hurricane. One of the things on my mental list to do was to thank an out-of-town electical worker if I ran across one. My SIL and I were eating lunch at Applebees and happened to be seated next to two men from Alabama Power. I made arrangements to take care of their check - the waitress told them when they went to pay, and they were extremely appreciative. Interestingly, the folks at Applebees were also. The waitress and manager were almost overly attentive to us for the rest of our visit, and made a point to thank us for doing that. They mentioned that it wasn't the first time (I know so many people in the area are doing all they can to thank those hard working electrical workers), and they even gave me a 50% discount on their bill!
@purplefeather: Wonderful. Just wonderful.
Some of you might remember me mentioning my adult son who has Asperger's Syndrome and other challenges. He works part-time at a Game Stop (of course) and makes very little money. A couple of weeks ago he asked me whether he had done the right thing. A young man at the store was asking about the prices of long-distance calling cards (I didn't even know those things were stillt around), because his grandfather has been hospitalized in another state and the customer needed a card to call him. He kept counting through his money to find one he could afford so DS just bought one and gave it to him.
After much thought DS was concerned that he might have been scammed. Maybe so. But I told him that it really didn't matter whether it was a scam or not. I was very proud of his generous heart.
Think of how much better our world would be if more people lived their lives practicing acts of kindness as a way of life.
My husband is a pay it forward kindda guy. He eats lunch with a few of his workers and friends at the same place every day and one day he gave some money to the cashier to pay for the next people who were in line (however many it would feed). The manager was so appreciative that he doubled the amount and fed even more for free.
The next day one of the people who got a free meal came over to my husband and thanked him , he said that was the first time anyone had done something like that for him and it felt so good that he was also going to pay it forward .
Some friends of ours (and man they've been having a bad year financially) were grocery shopping at a local market a few weeks ago, and as they went to pay - a complete stranger in line behind them stepped up slid his card to pay for their groceries. He told my friends, "I remember being younger, with a family, you're doing great." And that was it. This has been happening a lot in our area and it makes me misty eyed every time. My friends were in tears telling us what happened. It was beautiful.
It has been a while, but I have bought whatever was on the belt at the grocery store for whoever was in front of me.
The last thing I did, that wasn't giving money/paying was a few years ago. It was raining and a woman was waiting at a bus stop with no shelter from the rain. I offered her a ride (which she wouldn't take) so, instead, I gave her my umbrella.
When I read that it was a gift card I was thinking that it was a Five Guys marketing promo :) (realized I was wrong about a sentence later).
It's good that there're people that nice still around - it helps make up for the majority.
I still remember when I was a kid and didn't have enough money for food (convenience store jalapeno corndog), a lady saw I needed money and gave me $2.. I told her I wouldn't take it and she said "No, take it.. but someday you'll see somebody that needs help and when you do you'll help them."
Not related to that ^, coincidentally I gave a little kid some money at the store a couple of days ago.. I saw him spend a few minutes trying to figure out how he could afford something to eat AND something to drink - then end up not having enough at the register anyways. He appreciated it, so hopefully he pays it forward.
Inspiring thread. Now I'm trying to think of the best ratio of limited funds to helping someone out activities. Picked up some cute doorbuster cheap mitten hat combos for the mitten tree at church this weekend while doing a couple of Target laps for exercise.
This has to be my all-time favorite Woot question thread. If I could give double up-votes to everyone who has contributed, I would. There's a wonderful older man who lives (alone) in my apartment building, & a few years ago out of nowhere I decided it would be fun to put together a package for him from Santa. So now for something like four years or so I've helped Santa to assemble a surprise gift pack for John, often including an item or two from Woot. Usually I have at least one warm article to help with the winter cold (a fleece throw, a scarf, etc.), some food or beverage treats, & maybe a couple of practical items like a pen & some note cards. I don't think I've even mentioned this to anyone until now in writing this post. It's so much fun to put this together each year that it has become one of my favorite holiday traditions. I look forward each year to creeping down the hallway early on Christmas morning to leave Santa's package for John at his door.
someone taped a bag of microwave popcorn to the redbox machine and left a note saying. "Random act of kindness. enjoy your movie with some popcorn"
neat idea, but i'm paranoid and left it for the next person.
For several years I ran a motel, The first Thanksgiving I noticed everyone was looking for a place to eat as nothing close by was open. For Christmas I bought two turkey and all the fixins and had the furniture taken out of a room. I put a Thanksgiving dinner is served at 2 in room ### on the front door and waited to see what would happen. By 2:30 the room was filled with stranger getting to know each other and having a good time. I kept that up for years after each Thanksgiving and Christmas and it was always great to see so many strangers having a nice holiday.
I had an opportunity for a small act of kindness yesterday. I'd bought a bag of burritos to take home and there was a homeless guy with a lovely German Shepherd at the stop light. I gave him a fresh, hot burrito and a salsa cup.
It's too hot in the summer months to carry food in the car, but during the cooler months I usually carry sack lunches to give to homeless people. I put a can of Vienna sausage, a Little Debbie, a bag of chips, a juice box, a razor, comb, a hotel soap, shampoo and conditioner, along with a piece of paper listing the local homeless shelters and the services they provide. I usually keep some baggies of dog food for those with dogs. When there's a fire sale on blankets I carry those to hand out as well. The local homeless agencies don't want people giving money to the homeless as they really need to get into the shelters and get some kind of case management and real help. But I don't want to pass by someone who's hungry.
My wife and I go out to eat on Thanksgiving and Christmas, normally to a run-of-the-mill type of place like WaffleHouse or Denny's, and we'll leave a $100 tip. Usually people that are working on the holidays have to be there for financial reasons, so we will normally ask them why they're working that day. Normally it's because of being a single mom, or unemployed spouse, or illness, not something like because their an atheist or something like that. We've met some very nice people that way. We will normally go up, pay the bill, and then go back and had them the tip directly, all folded up, and then make for the door. We've been caught a few times, and it's one of the coolest feelings in the world. We just set aside $20 a month and then get 2 shiny new $100 bills before going out on each of the holidays. We're glad to be able to do something like this. Thank you to Dave Ramsey for starting us down this path.
When I was a bit younger I used to go to the club with my boyfriend. The club closed at 1, and the pizza place next to it closed at 2 or 2:30. After going a few times I noticed this older guy asking for change and sometimes he'd just be sitting there, staring off into space. I started buying him a slice of pizza and a soda. Once the owner of the pizza place saw me give it to the guy, he started only charging me for my pizza and drink when I'd go there. :)
Also, when I was younger, my dad used to donate blood about every 3 months, so I grew up feeling it was important. When I was finally old enough to be able to donate myself, I asked my friends to donate blood with me instead of getting me a gift. I've gotta say, it felt really great. When I was 7 I needed open heart surgery. I was lucky that I didn't lose enough blood to need a transfusion, just iron pills. But some people aren't that lucky and need transfusions. 1 donation can help save 3 lives and it doesn't take that long to do. :)


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Apple and Pear Galette
Categories: Cakes/pies, Christmas, Entertaining, Hanukkah, Sweet, Thanksgiving
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Sugar-coated fruit in pastry
Prep Time: 40M, plus chilling
Cooking Time: 45M
Serves: makes 8 servings
- 6 tbsp cold butter, diced
- 2 tbsp cold vegetable shortening
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3-5 tbsp iced water
- 1lb ( 450g) Golden Delicious apples
- 1lb ( 450g) ripe Bosc pears
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tbsp apricot preserves, melted
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- Rub in 4 tbsp butter and all the shortening into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse bread crumbs. Stir in enough water to make a dough that holds together. Gather into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 425°F (220°C). On a floured surface, roll out the pastry to a 15in (38cm) round. Transfer to a baking tray, hanging the excess over the sides.
- Peel, core, and cut the apples and pears into 1/4in (5mm) thick slices. Arrange the fruit in concentric circles on the pastry, leaving a 11/2in (4cm) border. Sprinkle with the sugar and dot with 2 tbsp butter. Fold up and pleat the pastry around the fruit.
- Bake 45 minutes, or until the fruit is tender and the crust is golden brown. Brush with the preserves. Serve warm.
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On the Road Again: Project Blackbox
By michelleparkinson on Oct 18, 2007
Project Blackbox in Singapore -- (photo cribbed from the Project Blackbox blog)
Hot on the heels of its stint at Sun's Customer Engineering Conference in Las Vegas, Project Blackbox will be making 2 more stops in the West over the coming weeks. Next week, Project Blackbox will appear at the GEOINT conference in San Antonio (home of the puffy taco), TX and three weeks later will swing back through Nevada appearing at Supercomputing 2007 (Nov. 10-16) in Reno.
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Crouchy's 'Lessons in Calcio' Journeyman Save - Project 2: A.C. Mezzocorona (Season Two at Communale 2013/14)
Click here for post 188 which shows how the first half of this season went.
Below, I'm posting up an image of the results we recorded after the winter break. I'll talk you through the results and my thoughts as we tackled the second half of this campaign.
Our form more or less continued how we left off after the winter break. Five wins in seven games saw us pushing on through January and February with an excellent run of form.
The turning point of the season occurred in March. As I suggested in the winter break update, I had the feeling that our biggest worry would be suffering injuries to key players. If that happened, I felt that we could lose our way because we really don't have much squad depth or quality in our backups. As it turns out, that was exactly the reason for a run of bad form in March which really harmed our chances of winning the title.
We lost our star striker Andrea Mandorlini, and both wide players, to give us some real difficulties as we reached a pivotal point of the season. We also lost Luca Righini for a couple of games with injury. The injuries to the striker and wide players occured against Borgo a Buggiano, which was very much a Pyhrric victory. Following this match, we lost three in a row. We lacked creativity in the wide positions and just did not have a good enough forward to come in to play alongside Wilker.
Once again, I called it exactly right in my winter break update when I said that I most fear Bassano and Aversa Normanna. We played both of them away and lost in the first half of the season. I felt that both would be difficult rivals to overcome in this second half of the campaign. As it turned out, we lost a key game at home to Bassano in the middle of March, which was a big blow. However, With Mandorlini back at the end of March, we did manage to record an absolutely massive victory against close rivals in the table in the shape of Aversa Normanna. You can see the goals from this match in the following video:
A couple of quality goals there from Mandorlini for our first goal and Wilker for our third. I honestly thought this victory was a turning point and that we would push on to win the title now. However, there were still some twists and turns to come, and they weren't to be in our favour.
The poor run of form had impacted upon morale and we needed a recovery period in order to get back on track. However, in a title race as tight as this one, the one thing you don't have is time for blips. In April, the home loss against Cuneo and the fact that we dropped to points at home against Montichiari, really hurt us. Aversa Normanna were hitting top gear at just the right time and ultimately we paid for these slip ups. The 1-1 draw away at L'Aquila pretty much sealed our fate. Despite a win in the final match of the season, we lost out on the title race by one point. We did however gain promotion, which is absolutely massive and beyond anything the board expected for this season! It felt a bit anti-climatic to have lost the title after leading the table at the end of 2013, but to get promotion still felt massive and was the first major achievement of my managerial career in Italy.
League Table
League Positions Graph
As you can see from above, we led the table for a good portion of the season but just couldn't get over the finishing line.
Italian Cup - did not enter.
Serie C Cup - Nothing of interest to report. Treated as a pre-season competition so I wasn't worried when we went out early. We finished in 4th place in the group stage.
Transfers - We did good work in the transfer market, I feel, building an excellent first eleven for this level. Just a shame outside that starting eleven we had very little quality at all, which cost us in the chase for the title. Andrea Mandorlini was the best signing for sure. Wilker came in and took a while to settle but he ended up scoring some vital goals for us in the end. Lusito Campisi was also an excellent signing.
Squad Statistics
Key players:
Luca Righini - After a disappointing start under my management last season, the playmaker improved drammatically this season to become one of our key players. He was superb, setting up goals and also scoring some vital ones too.
Lusito Campisi - A new signing who came in to play on the left side of midfield. Was an important player for us, providing assists and goals from the wide left position.
Andrea Mandorlini - Our best striker. Scored a massive 21 goals for us in the league. Ended up as an absolutely key player and we struggled without him in the team.
Wilker - The Brazilian forward started off slowly but ended up scoring some vital goals. He also scored one or two crackers as far as I am concerned really showing his class.
Those guys were really the four who made a difference for us this season. We were an otherwise fairly average side carried by these guys, especially Righini and Mandorlini.
Career Overview:
Code:Season Team League Position Achievements/outcomes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12 A.C. Giacomense Serie C2/A 18th (Took over after 18 games) Relegated 2012/13 A.C. Mezzocorona Serie C2/B 9th 2013/14 A.C. Mezzocorona Serie C2/B 2nd Promoted!
Next Season:
I signed on for another season. I was hoping for a good move to come up, to be absolutely honest, but in lieu of a decent move it seemed sensible to sign on for another year with Mezzocorona.
I'll be keeping my eye on other jobs. I think next season will be tough, for sure, as we don't have the money to compete with the bigger clubs we'll be up against at C1 level. I suspect I'll have a tough relegation battle on my hands. In that sense, I'm not looking forward to next season, but having said that sometimes I find the relegation fights to be the biggest thrill on FM!
I'm most worried about making sure that my best players sign on for another year. After that, it'll be a case of strengthing that defence as I feel a good and solid defence will be key to survival at the next level.


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5 Ridiculous Medical Myths You Probably Believe
#2. You Shouldn't Let Someone Who's Had a Concussion Fall Asleep
What You've Heard
There are a few things most people know about concussions. First, when they wave a little flashlight pen in your eyes, they do something differently. Second, you might get a little sick to your stomach. If your second set of eyelids don't blink correctly and you get hit in the head so hard that your stomach gets upset, that adds up to the biggest, most important thing we all know about concussions: If you go to sleep with one, you don't wake up. That's why when Dwight smacked his head in The Office, Jim had to keep him awake by spraying him in the face with a water-filled Windex bottle. It's also why doctors have to try and evaluate the mental health of a screaming toddler because his mom kept him up for 26 hours straight after he smacked his head trying to walk down the stairs with his diaper around his ankles.
"Ah, I see the problem. This child's mother is a complete goddamn idiot."
The Reality
Concussions happen when your brain smacks against the inside of your skull. It's a pretty violent injury, and symptoms can show up immediately or weeks later. One of the primary symptoms of a concussion is fatigue. This is not your body's way of playing a cruel trick on you. Your body is experiencing fatigue in order to tell you that your brain needs rest. Rest is, in fact, one of the best possible ways to treat a concussion.
And, by that logic, concussions are one of the best ways to get your kid to sleep.
Nothing about a concussion interferes with your ability to sleep or wake up. If you know someone who banged her head and wants to take a nap, you are not helping matters and in fact are most likely making her much, much worse by keeping her awake. Presumably, this myth was started by people who are unable to differentiate between victims of head trauma and people who are black-out drunk, aka other people who are black-out drunk. The symptoms are all about the same: nausea, exhaustion and an inability to put a coherent sentence together.
But in reality, your concussed friend needs immediate medical attention, and if she's completely incoherent, your black-out drunk friend probably needs medical attention, too, or at least some Taco Bell.
And you can witness that flu/gastroenteritis thing firsthand.
#1. Cancer Is One Disease
What You've Heard
Google "cure for cancer." Go ahead. We'll wait. If you did it right, you'll notice that the media likes to claim that a "cure" for cancer has been found. If you prefer to get your medical insight from Outkast, you might remember when Andre 3000 rapped about the need for a "cure for cancer, cure for AIDS" in "Bombs Over Baghdad." While Andre doesn't have the medical authority of fellow rap luminary Dr. Dre, nothing seems strange about that line. Cancer and AIDS are the two most high-profile killers of our era, and medical science has taught us that if we live long enough, we'll see them both eradicated like polio.
The Reality
The idea that cancer can be cured rests on the assumption that cancer is a single disease. Most of us recognize that lung cancer is not the same as breast cancer simply because they're both in the chest, but the fact that they're both cancer seems to suggest that they're at least the same type of disease. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Which is why Andre 3000's dream of finding a single "cure for cancer" is actually impossible.
He hasn't been this disappointed since Polaroid cameras were adopted by hipsters.
This is yet another potentially deadly issue of semantics. The term "cancer" refers to over 200 completely different diseases. There are basic similarities among them and how they attack your body. They're certainly more similar to each other than they are to causes of death like heart attack or getting hit by a car. But the more we learn about cancer, the more we realize that they are, for all practical purposes, completely different diseases that require different treatments.
"See, for skin cancer, we just sigh and tilt our heads. For lung cancer, we get out the sympathetic hand puppets."
It's obvious why the people working on cancer research make it seem like it's possible to find the cancer equivalent of the polio vaccine. Funding is necessary to explore any treatment option. If they were honest and said that "Researchers May Have Discovered a Possible Lead in the Fight Against a Rare Form of Pancreatic Cancer, and It'll Be Years Before We Find Out if It Works or Not," then nobody would be very interested. "A CURE FOR CANCER HAS BEEN FOUND" is clearly the more effective attention grabber.
To see why this can be deadly, imagine two ads: one for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and one for the Cancer Fund of America. "Why just help out with one type of cancer, when I can help out all cancers?" you say, donating to the latter. What you don't know is that the former has an A+ Charity Watch rating, while the latter has an F. But the fact that there are so many charities out there organizing races for "The Cure" would suggest that the war on cancer is being funded by people whose understanding of advertising surpasses their understanding of what's actually at stake.
And some cancers hog all the publicity.
For more bullshit you probably believe, check out Your Mom Lied: 5 Common Body Myths Debunked and 6 Lies About the Human Body You Learned in Kindergarten.
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It's Official: Michigan Is the Wolverine State
On the football field, Michigan State is gunning for its fifth victory in six years over hated Michigan on Saturday. But throughout the Great Lake State, the blue remain supreme.
The Spartans are more popular than the Wolverines in just three of the state's 83 counties, according to Facebook. This is based on how many likes each school's football or athletics page has received within the state. (Twelve counties were ignored because of insufficient data.) Statewide, Michigan was more popular by a 64%-36% margin.
As the school with greater athletic success historically, Michigan figures to have the advantage. Michigan State joined the Big Ten over a half-century after the conference's creation, and from 1970 to 2007, the Spartans beat Michigan in football just eight times.
But Michigan State has been making inroads, while the Michigan football program has been in an extended slump. The Wolverines last won the Big Ten in football in 2004, their longest conference-title drought since the 1960s.
It will take much more than that to change the state's loyalties, though. Michigan—which has long been considered the more popular school in Detroit—won Detroit's Wayne County by a 73%-27% margin, and was dominant throughout populous southeastern Michigan. The three counties the Spartans won surround Michigan State's East Lansing campus.
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I'm trying to select data from
information_schema but I'm getting the following error. How can I fix this?
mysql> SELECT * FROM information_schema.tables ;
ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can't read dir of '.' (errno: 13)
I find that error particularly disturbing because MySQL introduced INFORMATION_SCHEMA with the introduction of MySQL 5.0. @gbn's answer shows that this bug
MySQL's definition of a database is simply a subfolder under datadir.
Now, here is why I find the error particularly disturbing: The INFORMATION_SCHEMA database is not supposed to be a manifested folder under datadir.
For example
Go to the OS and run the following:
You will see several folders:
In mysql, when you do
I lay full blame for this error on the source code because just as mysql bypasses
I would highly recommend just upgrading MySQL to the latest version because, as @gbn found, there was a bug report but it is marked as closed. This could only happen
@gbn gets a +1 from me for finding the bug report which helped me look a little deeper
Permissions error, reported as an (old) MySQL bug
Check out the permissions bit in the MySQL install docs
On MySQL Version 5.5 the
There is no
I forgot to mention the folder in my case is not the name of the schema but just another folder called simply
If you didn't back this up with the regular
I did import my old user config and permissions when I upgraded to 5.5. They were sent to this database by the server. Yet, it was not saved as they were in the past. So, if and when you are using my version, you will need to backup this file or else you will loose all your users and permissions. I guess that's what this built-in database is for in my case.
Sorry this is so big! I wanted to show you what it looked like and how to find it by name. hmm I have not tried it, however I wonder if you created another data file like this one in its present location and same file extension if it would load it on startup? That is if you really wanted to create a database this way.
I ran into the problem while creating temp tables for a stored procedure. I wanted to use the information_schema.tables view to search for my temp table to determine if I would attempt a create temp table statement or delete from the temp table itself. However, the information_schema.tables view never showed that it existed so my code written like below would not work correctly:
I discovered a work around that is satisfactory. I rewrote to above code like the following:
I found that this solution provided me the temporary storage within a session while working appropriately.


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I am dual booting my system with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. I have created the special swap partition for Ubuntu while installing (as recommended).
Can Windows use this swap area/partition--as its own swap/page file--when I boot from Windows?
It's possible, but probably only as an experiment:
Alternative (still not recommended) option:
You can create a swap file by following this guide on the NTFS partition, provided the NTFS partition is large enough for both swap files.
However this alternative is not recommended because:
I haven't tried it myself but you can mount a swap partition with swapfs. You can then, in theory, place your pagefile there (there's some good reasons not to, such as minidumps, but its an option).
It works great.
Whats needed? Just follow the instruction in the SwapFs-3.0 file.
Also you could find some helpful stuff at How To use Linux Swap Partition as Windows Swap file on Ubuntuforums.org.
At first I tried to format swap space into NTFS but turned out that Linux lost ability to recognize it as an own created.
Then I reformatted it back to classical Linux swap.
Next I changed back fstab. Was:
Deactivated that and put instead:
If I remember well, after I booted into Windows it didn't recognized it as RAW or if I could have formatted it as FAT32.
And everything started working.
But a problem appear. Namely my Vista 'attached' an additional letter, thus at last had two drivers but in fact linked with the same partition 'e:\' and established by me as 's:\'.
Fortunately it was enough to get to the registry to place recommended in *.reg file, from 'SwapFs-3.0'. Turned out that the extra additional record 'e:\' should be removed from registry.
Right now enjoying inter-system swap space without problems. Recovered 3.2 GB space.
I would like to mention that using Linux just 4 three months and be able to do such complicated operations, thus you could do this without any enormous effort.
If your goal is to save hard drive space -- not having to waste many GBs for both Linux's swap and Windows's pagefile, then you might consider using dynamic swapfile size on linux via SwapSpace:
The short answer is: No, it cannot.
Windows does not recognize Linux partitions, although the opposite is possible (linux recongnizes windows partitions).


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Airfare Riddle: Same Flight, Different Prices
The Story Behind Price Gaps on Itineraries Shared by American and US Airways
The flight is the same. Even the seat is the same. So why is the airline charging two different—sometimes very different—prices?
American Airlines and US Airways, which merged late last year, are selling seats on each other's airplanes. But they are pricing tickets separately, and will continue to do so for the next 18 to 24 months. American flights have one price in American's reservation system and sometimes a different price in US Airways' reservation system. Same for flights on US Airways airplanes: Check both AA.com and USAirways.com and you're likely to see different prices.
The savings opportunity for savvy travelers can sometimes be large. Earlier this week, a one-way ticket on American's Flight 1054 from Boston to Dallas-Fort Worth was $656 on American's website, but only $346 on USAirways.com. A Phoenix-Seattle round trip on US Airways flights for travel June 13 to 20 was $359 on US Airways' website, but only $298 on AA.com.
This savings opportunity is a reminder for consumers that such pricing disparities exist every day around the world on code-sharing flights. With code-sharing, partner airlines sell seats on each other's flights and combine flights into connecting itineraries. The partner airline often has access to a limited number of seats and can price them independently. Sometimes the price is cheaper when there's not much demand. Sometimes it's way more expensive than booking directly with the airline flying the trip.
A spot-check of 240 different American and US Airways trips in May and June found one price offered by American and a different by US Airways 56% of the time. In most cases, the airline that actually flew the trip had the lower price, but sometimes a cheaper price was available by booking through the other carrier.
Robert Rex, a consultant and platinum-level American frequent flier, was booking a trip to Phoenix to see a client when he happened to check the US Airways website. There, he found the same American flights he was about to book for about $850 for only about $790.
"I think it's ridiculous, and a bit annoying. It makes no sense to me whatsoever," said Mr. Rex, who lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
He bought through US Airways to save his client the money. But by doing that he gave up his chance for complimentary upgrades to first class on the trip. Since he had a US Airways ticket, he couldn't get on American's upgrade list. "The client appreciated it, but I'm stuck in coach for 4½ hours to Dallas and another hour-and-a-half to Phoenix," he said.
American expects to be able to offer reciprocal upgrade benefits within a matter of weeks, spokesman Casey Norton said.
Once the merger closed Dec. 9, American rushed to begin code-sharing. The pricing issue won't disappear until the two carriers merge onto one reservation system—the hardest part of any airline merger—some time in 2015 or 2016.
Moving an airline from one reservation system to another is hugely complex, involving countless pieces of vital information and the retraining of employees. It's also full of potential potholes like lost passenger records and delayed flights. United struggled for months with major reservation systems problems in its merger with Continental.
"We are whittling down the differences as best we can, but we won't have 100% until we get to [reservation system] cutover," Mr. Norton said.
Pricing differences result from the two airlines operating on different pricing platforms, each of which has its own approach to gauging demand for remaining seats. In addition, one system always lags behind the other on inventory information, American said. When American sells a seat, for example, its system knows immediately and potentially adjusts prices for that flight and scores of connecting itineraries. There's a lag before the information gets to US Airways, and vice versa.
American says Delta and Northwest, plus United and Continental, were able to coordinate pricing faster because they already had existing code-sharing arrangements when they merged. But American and US Airways weren't partners before the merger, so they started with more work to do. ( Southwest Airlines LUV -1.23 % and AirTranstill have some separate pricing and they merged in 2011.)
"This is unlike any other code-share. It's the largest in the world and we had to start from scratch," American's Mr. Norton said. He added the company's information technology department has done "remarkable" work over the last four months to smooth the transition.
Code-sharing price differences across the airline industry can be pretty remarkable as well. Consider an Atlanta-Seoul round-trip June 13 to 18 on Korean Air Lines, a Delta partner. Korean offered a $2,131 ticket earlier this week, while Delta's cheapest price at the same time for the same flights was $4,518. Whatever access Delta had to the cheapest prices was sold out.
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American and US Airways have their own flights between Dallas and Philadelphia. Before the merger they competed on price. Now they sell the combined flight schedule—but still seem to compete on price.
Flight 1542—both airlines use the same flight number—on June 13 was priced this week at $358 one-way on the US Airways website, but $261 on the website of American, which actually operates that flight. A June 13 to 20 round-trip on planes operated by US Airways showed a $277 price on USAirways.com and $458 if the same flights were bought through AA.com.
If a US Airways customer looked for a last-minute Los Angeles-Honolulu flight this week, he or she would be offered Flight 31 for $569. But Flight 31 is actually flown by American, which offered the same ticket for $379.
Sandy Hedberg, a top-level frequent flier on US Airways, started flying from Knoxville, Tenn., to a client near Fort Wayne, Ind., almost weekly this year. American flies to Fort Wayne, but not US Airways. When the merger went through and the two airlines started code-sharing, Fort Wayne flights showed up on US Airways listings. But they consistently showed up about $200 more than on American's website. So Ms. Hedberg, who consults for medical device manufacturers, buys through American.
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Geffen Playhouse announces the West Coast premiere of THESE PAPER BULLETS! A Modish Ripoff of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing to open the 2015/2016 Geffen Playhouse season in the Gil Cates Theater. Written by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Emmy Award nominated writer Rolin Jones (Friday Night Lights,Boardwalk Empire) with songs by Grammy Award winner Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong and staged by Jackson Gay. THESE PAPER BULLETS! was commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre where it premiered in 2014.
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Good price, but currently NEW ones are $199.99 on eBay from Newegg with free shipping.
Yesterday's deal from dailsteals basically beat it: Same specs in the 10.1, upgradable to ICS, for only $10 more. Of course, that deal's dead, so make of it what you will.
Not bad, but the preponderence of decent tablets at or below $250 has really killed the refurb market.
I just bought a new one from Costco for 189$...of course there was sales tax on that.
@duxbak99: That and you're taking a real chance when you buy from Dailysteals
@duxbak99: This has ICS already on it AND we are not charging you an extra $10
These will be $169 on Black Friday @Best Buy.......
@aldison: I'm not making line since Monday night and getting stabbed for $10 less, lolol :D
Pretty sure this is ~$170-180 new in more than one black friday ad this year.
This is a nice tab. Jelly Bean runs great on it only you loose the IR blaster. Specs are not as good as the Nexus 7 but it has front and rear cams if that is important to you.
Walmart currently has it for $20 cheaper, but with tax. $150 + about $15 tax = ~$165 + free shipping.
@duxbak99: Wasn't that a first gen Galaxy and not the G2?
@juliown1028: The Walmart deal is on here with only 9 votes


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The minor in Science and Society requires four 4-point courses (16 points). To complete the minor, students take the core course (Introduction to Science and Society, next offered by the CAS History department in Spring 2016) and choose three elective courses from the list below. Courses may be taken in any order; Introduction to Science and Society does not have to be taken first.
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Sorry if this is a naive question-- I'm trying to learn this stuff (cross-posted from http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/89248/induced-representations-of-topological-groups)
If $G$ is a group with subgroup $H$, then we have the restriction functor $\operatorname{Res}$ from $G-\operatorname{mod}$ to $H-\operatorname{mod}$. We also have this idea of induction, a functor $\operatorname{Ind}^G_H$ from $H-\operatorname{mod}$ to $G-\operatorname{mod}$. These are adjoints, which means (I think) that $\operatorname{Hom}_G(\operatorname{Ind}^G_H(V), U) \cong \operatorname{Hom}_H(V,\operatorname{Res}(U))$ naturally, for $G$-modules $U$ and $H$-modules $V$.
For locally compact groups, there is a theory worked out by MacKey and others. Actually, I have only read Rieffel's work on the subject (as I come from a functional Analysis background). For a locally compact $G$ and closed subgroup $H$, there is a very satisfactory notion of the functor $\operatorname{Ind}^G_H$ (where we consider "Hermitian modules", i.e. unitary representations on Hilbert spaces). What I don't see is how (or even if) this relates to the restriction functor?
In the topological setting, are $\operatorname{Ind}^G_H$ and $\operatorname{Res}$ in any sense adjoints?
A slightly vague rider-- if (as I suspect) the answer is "no", can we be more precise about why the answer is no?


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CLEVELAND - Former area resident Dr. A. Michael Lincoff, son of Eunice Lincoff of Steubenville and the late Morton Lincoff, was one of six individuals recently presented with the 2012 Maria and Sam Miller Professional Excellence Awards.
Sponsored by the Miller family, the Maria and Sam Miller Professional Excellence Awards are presented annually to Cleveland Clinic physicians, nurses, scientists and other professional staff who demonstrate exemplary service and dedication to excellence.
Recipients epitomize leadership, talent, innovation, commitment and outstanding outcomes, according to officials. They are nominated by their peers and selected by a committee of Cleveland Clinic leaders.
Thanks to the generosity of the Miller family, each recipient is honored at the professional staff awards reception with a monetary gift and commemorative plaque.
Lincoff is vice chairman of the department of cardiovascular medicine and an interventional cardiologist in the heart and vascular institute of the Cleveland Clinic.
He is the director of C5Research, the Cleveland Clinic Coordinating Center for Clinical Research, an academic research organization which plans, coordinates and manages multicenter clinical trials of new pharmacologic or device therapies. Lincoff's research activities focus on development of therapies to reduce acute and long-term complications of percutaneous coronary revascularization procedures, to optimize therapy for acute coronary ischemic syndromes or reduce progression or complications of atherosclerosis, according to the Cleveland Clinic website.
He has served as principal investigator or steering committee member of more than 20 pivotal trials in ischemic heart disease, enrolling in aggregate more than 50,000 patients, studying new antithrombotic or metabolic agents in the settings of coronary intervention, heart attack or unstable angina.
Lincoff supervises clinical research activities throughout the Cleveland Clinic as director of the Center for Clinical Research and vice chairman for clinical research of the Lerner Research Institute. He is a professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He holds the Charles and Charlotte Fowler Endowed Chair for Cardiovascular Research at the Cleveland Clinic.
Lincoff has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, including publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Journal and European Heart Journal. He also has authored more than 80 book chapters and reviews and presented more than 400 lectures at various medical meetings and courses throughout the world. He is the consulting editor of the American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs and serves on editorial boards or as a reviewer for more than 15 peer-reviewed scientific journals.
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Lincoff is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American American Heart Association and the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.
He graduated from Steubenville High School in 1978 as valedictorian of his class and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where he graduated with highest university honors. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and underwent residency at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and cardiology fellowships at University of Michigan and the Cleveland Clinic.
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The 15th day of the Lunar New Year, or better known here as "Cap Go Meh", forms the highlight of any Chinese New Year celebrations in Indonesia. This is most elaborately held in areas with a large ethnic Chinese population such as in West Kalimantan, Bangka-Belitung and Palembang or in the Chinatowns of Semarang, Surabaya, Jakarta, Bandung, Manado and Medan.
In West Kalimantan, the Cap Go Meh, which this year falls on 24th February 2013, will be celebrated with a vibrant festival in the exotic city of Singkawang.
More than one month before the event, hotels in the city already report full bookings.
Known for its production of fine Chinese ceramics, Singkawang, known for its hundreds of Chinese temples, will have a lantern parade that will take place on the eve of the Cap Go Meh celebrations. As always, the peak of the festival and of the entire New Year series of celebrations will be highlighted with the parade of the ancient art of Tatung.
Intended to repel misfortunes for the rest of the year, Tatung is the principle medium of the Cap Go Meh ritual to reject evil spirits. During the Tatung rituals, its participants will enter into a trance and perform many unbelievable stunts, such as stepping on a sword, or sticking steel wires or nails into their cheeks. It is quite unbelievable to see that despite such torture, the Tatungs are not wounded or even scarred.
This year, over 750 participants are projected to take part in the ritual. The Tatung Parade will commence from Kridasana stadium at the Gusti Sulung Lelanang Street, then move on to the Diponegoro Street, Niaga Street, Setia Budi Street, and will finish at the front of the altar near the dragon statue at Niaga Street.
Celebrated annually on the 15 day of the Chinese Year, Cap Go Meh literally translated means the 15th night, on which the first full moon of the year occurs. As the pinnacle of the entire Chinese New Year Celebrations, this truly amazing cultural event is surely worth traveling for, to watch and experience first hand.
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This happens in all browsers, only for flash objects with multimedia content. Non-multimedia flash objects work just fine, until I try to access the Settings, at which point the whole object becomes unresponsive (but doesn't give me an error about crashing).
I was also having problems with my audio drivers today; I'm not sure if that's related. I fixed those problems by following these instructions, ending with this command:
sudo aptitude --purge reinstall linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils linux-image-`uname -r` linux-ubuntu-modules-`uname -r` libasound2
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Governor of Makkah Province Prince Khalid Al-Faisal on Wednesday will honor 5,000 volunteers who helped those afflicted by the November 25, 2009 flash floods in Jeddah, Sultan Al-Dosari, director of Department of Studies and Public Relations at Makkah Principality said today.
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Let's say put a file on the desktop, and when it opens, it opens in the terminal. If I want to do this, what extension can I use in "Save As" of the Text Editor? (e.g. open.shell) Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit
Some of the extension you can use in Save As when using a text editor, you can use .bat, .sh, .txt.
You can also use xdg-open it opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application.
You can also right click on the file from Nautulis, and choose open in terminal, and if its openable in terminal it will open. To have that added to Nautilus, just look at Add Open in Terminal Command to Nautilus Context Menu
The terminal is not for open files with it! You can edit/open/view files from inside of the terminal using commands like
Also (maybe about this thing you are interested) you can run directly in terminal some executable text files (like bash script files). To do this, open Nautilus, go to Files → Preferences, select Behaviour tab and select the option you prefer for executable text files:
As a reference example you can use the following simple bash script which prints a line on terminal:
When you run the script, a terminal window will open executing the
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On July 1, 2013 at approximately 12:59 a.m. a shooting occurred at Loves Country Store located at 400 E. Wyatt Earp. Two individuals were shot in the parking lot after a confrontation.
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Meet the Azure team at PDC09
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David Gristwood goes roving with his video camera at the PDC to meet some of the Azure team who are responsible for building Azure and deciding the features make it into the product set. This is a great chance to hear some of the team talk about their areas of focus across Azure, including:
- The Azure developer experience
- What the Azure fabric controller is and how it works
- What the new Codename "Dallas" project is about
- The newly announced Appfabric and how it relates to .NET Services
- The role of the newly released Windows Identity Foundation
And last, but by no means least, take a tour round one of the new Azure storage containers that was on display at the show.
(There is a bit of background noise in some of the interviews, but that's the buzz from all the folk attending the PDC, but we hope it doesn't detract from the video interviews).
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