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I find the definition of constructible $\bar{\mathbb Q}_l$-sheaves (or their derived category) on a variety of positive characteristic quite involved and ad Hoc. Roughly it goes as follows:
First one defines constructible sheaves modules over torsion rings in the naive way, then over finite $\mathbb Z_l$ extensions as certain projektive systems of sheaves with bigger and bigger torsion coefficients. To pass from finite $\mathbb Z_l$ extensions to finite $\mathbb Q_l$ extensions one tensors the hom spaces in our category with the quotient field. Finally $\bar{\mathbb Q}_l$ sheaves are certain inductive systems of sheaves over finite $\mathbb Q_l$ extensions.
Is there a good reason a priori to make the definition as it is? Why are more naive definitions flawed?

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If you practice BDSM in fully consensual ways, you may still be criminally prosecuted for assault under many laws throughout the U.S. The BDSM-Leather-Fetish communities have focused heavily for years on defining "safe, sane and consensual BDSM practices" for practitioners as well as to help the broader public better understand what it is that we do. It was, after all, only in 1994 that the DSM criteria of the American Psychiatric Association changed their categorization of sadomasochism, paving the path for us to do more effective social, legal and political change. Until 1994, BDSM was defined automatically as a mental illness. Prior to 1994, it was difficult to organize effectively to protect and advance our rights as BDSM practitioners. This categorization and long-term societal view of BDSM as a mental illness resulted in severe consequences for many practitioners over the years—loss of child custody and jobs as well as criminal prosecutions. Fortunately for all of us, NCSF was formed in 1997 to work on these issues and to protect and advance our rights.
Although things have certainly improved for us over the years, we still have significant legal, political and societal issues facing us. The majority of us are not "out of the closet", still fearing the very real threat of being prosecuted or losing our jobs or families. BDSM is still prosecuted criminally as assault, and the legal precedents related to consensual BDSM assault prosecutions are not in our favor. Many of the laws intended to protect victims of domestic violence and rape need to be modified in their application to consensual BDSM activities. The DSM criterion still needs further reform—it is still used against us, and we can still be defined as mentally ill for what it is that we do. And, members of our communities still routinely face ongoing issues of divorce, child custody, job discrimination and even criminal charges.
NCSF has two major national projects aimed at protecting and advancing the rights of the BDSM-Leather-Fetish communities. First, NCSF has taken charge of the "Consent Counts" initiative that was launched in 2006 at a Leather Leadership Roundtable as the single most important national priority of the BDSM-Leather-Fetish communities. Our goal: to decriminalize consensual BDSM throughout the United States by ensuring that consent will be recognized as a defense to criminal charges brought under assault laws and other statutes. The Consent Counts project is a nationwide education and activism program that includes a comprehensive analysis of current laws and court decisions, the development of legal arguments for changing the laws, participating in court cases, and ultimately, through lobbying, education and grass-roots activism, changing state laws and the way the public and the courts view BDSM.
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Hi Group, One of the questions in the AMSAT-UK Pub Quiz this year was: What was Doppler's first name? When I set the question, I thought the answer was very simple: Johann However, James Miller points out that a large number of web sites state that his first name was Christian Now, I've check many reference texts and about 50% say Johann and 50% Christian and some say Christian Johann, and others Johann Christian So what am I to believe, .... any takers? Paul, VP9MU ******************************************************************** This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and may be privileged and/or subject to the provisions of privacy legislation. It is intended solely for the person to whom it is addressed and review by anyone else is unauthorised. Any use, disclosure, reproduction, modification or distribution of the contents of this e-mail, or any part thereof, other than by the intended recipient, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify the sender of this e-mail immediately by return e-mail and destroy the message and all copies in your possession. Oil Management Services Ltd ********************************************************************* ---- Via the amsat-bb mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe amsat-bb" to email@example.com
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Feature request: File CV anonymously, or with some personal data excluded. Then I can only reveal myself to potential employers after getting relevant inquiries.
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That's an interesting idea, but if I were an employer I would have a hard time justifying paying for a service where I can only see a small bit of anonymous information. You'd have to unlink the stackoverflow account to really be anonymous, which would eliminate a huge feature of the SO CV search service. Even if you showed a rounded off reputation score, employers still wouldn't be able to review your questions and answers.
In another sense, it's like looking at advertisements which give only a little information, but force you to contact them for details. "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" is one perception, the other is that when compared to a search that's full of other candidates who have their information open and available your 'closed' listing looks less attractive.
Hiding form your current employer, however, seems the easiest to resolve, though. If this CV is 'discovered' then the response is simply, "I keep my resume updated and online regardless of my long term plans. It's not an intention to leave my current job, it's a pro-active realization that even though I plan on continuing with the company, and even though the company plans on employing me long term, sudden economic shifts may affect both of us. If anything, it's simply being as prepared as one can be for the unpredictable."
Different answer because it's a fundamentally different approach to the question.
How is the current system not anonymous?
Check it out:
You are literally not required to enter ANY information in any field EXCEPT an email address when filing your CV (which you would need for careers to contact you on a hit anyway). Your CV is separate from the billing system, so you can enter (or not enter) anything in any field and it won't be associated with whatever you put in the billing information, which won't be shown to employers.
If you require them to contact you prior to gaining access, then why put your sensitive information in the CV at all? It won't ever be visible to anyone.
Even if you wanted to show up in location specific, or skill-set searches, but make your location/skills unavailable unless contacted, they can run a series of searches to find out where you live or what your skill set is, so there's no point in anonymizing that but also making it available for searches.
As far as I can tell, you can be as anonymous or open as you desire, and require them to contact you for more information.
Please try out the system more fully and describe exactly what you want to make anonymous, but can't currently, or how the anonymous experience could be improved. Right now you are making a very general request, but as far as I can tell one can immediately fulfill your request right now in the system as it is currently implemented. You need to be more specific. Examples would be very helpful.


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IronScheme is mentioned on Wikipedia as a successor to a failed project called IronLisp, bringing Lisp to CLR and .NET, the way Clojure does for the JVM. Does anyone have experience with this language? It looks fairly complete (99%) but I'm not sure how to judge whether it's worth my time to fiddle with getting it set up or not. By stable or complete, I mean using it for actual projects rather than just fiddling with tools and Project Euler style problems.
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I am the author of IronScheme. I am not really sure how to answer your question, but will try :)
IronScheme firstly tries to implement Scheme (R6RS specifically), with the secondary objective being CLR interoperability.
Compared to Clojure (focusing on the their bad points), IronScheme won't:
Unfortunately where Clojure wins is:
This is worrying for IronScheme, as the last 3 mentioned is very much a chicken-egg scenario. Personally, I tend to only create libraries when I need them, and with a very tiny user community, there is not much contribution from users besides bug reports. I would love a bigger user community.
As for support, I normally help users as fast I can. This evidence can be seen from my response times on the IronScheme discussion boards. Also, bugs are normally fixed as soon as they have been identified.
As for stability, the codebase is pretty mature, and currently only bug fixes and optimizations are the only code additions.
As for usability, if you are familiar with the .NET framework, you can do pretty much anything with IronScheme as you can with any other .NET language; it may be harder or easier depending on how much you are willing to abstract into more Scheme-like idioms. Things are very easy to write in IronScheme; for example my entire MVC framework is barely 400 lines of Scheme code, thanks to tapping into ASP.NET (I certainly do not like re-inventing the wheel).
Feel free to ask for clarifications if the answer is not enough. Demian does make good points in terms of maintainability too.
Note: I don't have experience with IronScheme, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt (although it's directed more at using bleeding edge technology).
While I'll toy with new technology with trivial problems (personal tools, Project Euler, etc), I'm very wary of employing said technology in full blown projects. Why?
So, while learning new tech is always a good thing (the worst thing that can happen is that you learn how someone else would implement something - which is good), it can really bit you in the arse if you adopt it early for full projects.


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I have a set of LEGO bricks from Denmark and they were made in the late 1960's; should I be concerned about my son playing with them because of any danger of lead in the product?
No, you should not be concerned about lead. LEGO has always used lead-free colors in their elements, even back in the beginning.
However, not all LEGO-compatible bricks are lead free. For example, Mega Bloks, which are made in China, suffered from the poor quality control that led to massive recalls over lead-tainted products a few years ago.


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I am not great at using the
/usr/bin/mail and when I start it is tells me that it is
Version 8.1.2 01/15/2001.
When I type
list it tells me
Commands are:
next, alias, print, type, Type, Print, visual, top, touch, preserve,
delete, dp, dt, undelete, unset, mail, mbox, pipe, |, more, page, More,
Page, unread, Unread, !, copy, chdir, cd, save, source, set, shell,
version, group, write, from, file, folder, folders, ?, z, headers,
help, =, Reply, Respond, reply, respond, edit, echo, quit, list, xit,
exit, size, hold, if, else, endif, alternates, ignore, discard, retain,
saveignore, savediscard, saveretain, core, #, inc, new
If I type in
? it tells me this:
Mail Command Description
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t [message list] type message(s).
n goto and type next message.
e [message list] edit message(s).
f [message list] give head lines of messages.
d [message list] delete message(s).
s [message list] <file> append message(s) to file.
u [message list] undelete message(s).
R [message list] reply to message sender(s).
r [message list] reply to message sender(s) and all recipients.
p [message list] print message list.
pre [message list] make messages go back to /var/mail.
m <recipient list> mail to specific recipient(s).
q quit, saving unresolved messages in mbox.
x quit, do not remove system mailbox.
h print out active message headers.
! shell escape.
| [msglist] command pipe message(s) to shell command.
pi [msglist] command pipe message(s) to shell command.
cd [directory] chdir to directory or home if none given
fi <file> switch to file (%=system inbox, %user=user's
system inbox). + searches in your folder
directory for the file.
set variable[=value] set Mail variable.
I type
z and it shows me the end of the list of messages - but that command is not showing up in the
? help page.
My biggest questions are:
- What program is this?
- How can I learn it better? Are there some links to tutorials?
- MOST IMPORTANTLY How can I get back to the message list after I run another command (or refresh the message list, or move up and down in the message list??)
- What are the most command commands, or what are the most helpful tricks to using it?
- What is the opposite command of
zfor scroll down the list page by page?
Clarification: I'm asking about how to use the interactive program and not the scriptable command - i.e. what happens when you just type


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Melissa Gorga Goes Blonde, Just Like Kim Kardashian! (Photos)Joanna Mazewski
It looks like Melissa Gorga is following Kim Kardashian when it comes to the latest trends! The Real Housewives of New Jersey star has debuted her new blonde highlights on Instagram, and they look exactly the same as the style that Kim has been sporting for the past few months. Melissa looks just like her!
So, does this mean we have a new blonde revolution hitting the celebrity world? It could be, people!
The celebrity mom also shared adorable photos of her and her children showing off their very creative Halloween costumes for this year. I mean seriously, can the Gorga family be any more good looking? Check out our photos below from Melissa's Instagram account, and let us know what you think!
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Chemotherapy is used to describe medications that treat cancer. In order to understand how these medications work, we need to understand a bit about tumor cells. Tumors are made up of cells that are reproducing at abnormally high rates. Normal cells know to stop reproducing (or dividing) when they come into contact with other cells. In the case of a tumor, this stop mechanism is missing, causing cells to continue to divide over and over. The RNA or DNA of a cell tell it how to replicate itself, and classic chemotherapy (which excludes immunotherpeutics and biological response modifiers) works by destroying this RNA or DNA. The more rapidly the tumor cells are replicating, the better chemotherapy is able to kill the cells.
Cell replication occurs in a series of phases, called the cell cycle. The cell cycle phases are: resting (G0; nothing is happening), G1 (or gap 1; a growth phase), S (synthesis; the replication of DNA occurs), G2 (gap 2; another growth phase), and M (mitosis; the actual division from 1 cell into 2). (See graphic of cell cycle)
Some chemotherapy agents are able to kill a cell during any phase of the cycle (these are called cell-cycle nonspecific), others are only able to kill during a specific phase and are unable to work in the resting phase (called cell-cycle specific). By giving cell-cycle specific agents at multiple time points, they are able to reach the maximum number of cells in the particular phase they affect. Therefore, these are most effective when given in divided doses (over multiple days or time points, for example: once a day for 5 days or every three hours for 4 doses) or by continuous infusion. Cell-cycle nonspecific drugs act against cancer cells at any phase of the cell cycle, including the resting phase. Cell-cycle nonspecific drugs are most effective when given in bolus doses (for example, over 20 minutes once). Cell death may not take place at the exact time the chemotherapy is given. Often a cell must undergo several divisions before it ultimately dies. Because not all the cancer cells die after a chemotherapy treatment, repeated doses are used to continue to reduce the number of cells.
Chemotherapy is considered a "systemic" therapy, meaning that it travels throughout the body, unlike surgery or radiation, which are "local" therapies. Doctors also use terms to describe when chemotherapy is given in the sequence of treatments:
Chemotherapy can be given in quite a few ways:
Doctors often combine specific and non-specific chemotherapies so that they complement each other and work together. This combination of different medications is called a "regimen". These regimens are often given names based on first letter of the medications used in them. For instance, CHOP, a common regimen for lymphoma, is made up of cytoxan (cyclophosphamide), adriamycin (hydroxydoxorubicin), oncovin (vincristine), and prednisone. This combination is given in "cycles" (blocks of time). For example, a cycle may be 21 days, and in the case of CHOP, cytoxan, adriamycin and oncovin are given on day 1, prednisone on days 1-5, followed by 16 days off (no treatment), for a total of 21 days, and then it starts over again with the next cycle.
There are different goals of chemotherapy treatment, depending on the site and stage of disease as well as other individual factors (other medical issues, previous treatments, functional status) that may impact the effectiveness of the treatment. Goals of chemotherapy include:
Cancer care teams use various methods to gauge if the treatment is working, depending on the type of cancer being treated. Many patients will have radiology studies (CT scans, MRIs, Pet scans) periodically to see if the tumor has responded (either shrunk or stayed the same versus gotten bigger or spread). Some types of tumors can be followed by checking a "tumor marker" in the blood. This is a substance that is either produced by the tumor or by the body in response to the tumor, and can be measured by a simple blood test. If the chemotherapy is working, one would expect the tumor marker to decrease. In some cases, a decrease in a patient's symptoms might be a sign of whether the medications are working against the tumor or not. Talk with your doctor or nurse about how your response will be measured.
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19 votes, not popular?
I know this has been asked before, and I also hate this question, but how can my Google Voice deal with 19 votes not be moved over to popular?
It was posted in the early evening yesterday, and immediately gained quite a few votes while the nearby deals were 0's, 1's, and 2's. It's spent the whole day as the fresh deal with the most votes.
Is there something more I'm not understanding?
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oh, and I tried toggling my own vote a number of times throughout the day since that was suggested in the past.
I do not know the exact methodology but I would suspect it's a combination of not quite enough activity and a higher threshold for the sort of zero price "submit all your info in exchange for this free" deals we were inundated with a while back. It's possible we could dial back on that, if in fact it is the factor.. on the otherhand, I was pretty disgusted by the fake freebie stuff there for a while.
good and very timely entry though - I do agree the platform would have been better, had this made it up quickly.
@snapster: Thanks for responding! I'm definitely among those who felt her(?) posting was popular tab-worthy.
I appreciate where @perkalicious11 is coming from, too, because it happened to me not long ago. My posting about Starbucks opening their wifi for free access racked up most of its 22 votes fairly quickly. But the activity tailed off as it descended into fresh tab oblivion.
It should have gone popular. I'd like to suggest that people make comments in good deals like this, to give it that added boost over to popular. Sometimes that is all it takes.
@snapster: That makes more sense. I thought the deal was up against the deals posted in the same time frame, not the deals in the same price range.
If it's freebies versus freebies, that makes a little more sense, but my lip balm deal went popular with fewer votes in the same mount of time also.
Maybe it's just another one of those Woot mysteries...
@heymo: yup, same and correct to assume I'm a her. ;)
@faughtey: that could be, it is very light on comments. I think it's time had passed since it's been >24 hours, though. Or do they hang on for a while?
@perkalicious11: It is not on the fresh tab anymore, it's gone. :(
I've seen deals that have fallen off of the fresh page but that have made popular. There seems to be some magical place that deals go between the time they fall of the fresh page and the time after which deals will never become popular. Perhaps your deal is there now.
@snapster is right. Since he's talking about it publically here I can confirm that this deal is an unfortunate victim of a tweak we made to restrict the amount of "free if you give us all your personal information" deals that were landing on the popular tab: http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/4a38af80-bfc9-4ee8-ad2b-4abb2b8ace35/is-it-me-or-is-this-now-freestuff-woot-com
They were hot and heavy for a while but (I'm sure partly because of the popularity algorithm tweak) it seems like it's toned down. I'll look into dialing back on that aspect of the algorithm a touch.
@chris12345: thanks for the comment!
@hawnmiller: that makes sense, it was getting a little ridiculous for a while. Although I'd think there may be some distinction between no-name fly-by-night websites and more reputable ones. I suppose that'd take more subjectivity though. Is @chris12345 correct in the existence of some sort of deal-limbo, or should I stop trying?
@perkalicious11: I hate to say too much because any information I give will likely become obsolete in the near future. It's possible for a deal to become popular from beyond the fresh tab (i.e. from activity that stems from a trending search term). It's happened before. It's rare. We'd like to see more of this.
However, without an adjustment to the algorithm your deal likely won't make it to the popular tab.
I've actually suspected for a while now that freebie deals have less chance of making it to popular than the average deal. I do understand the reasoning... some people will post/believe anything. This explains a lot of my frustrations, as I've seen some of my freebie deals hit upwards of 40 votes before getting moving over. It's a bummer the kind of deals I gravitate towards have less chance of hitting the popular tab, but I understand.
@chris12345: I've seen the same phenomenon, where deals fall off the fresh page, but reappear, ending up making it to the popular side... Maybe it's the "library" feature that keeps the deals that we've posted LONG after they're gone. People see something that is newer, and find a link back in the "similar deals" and vote/comment there, contributing to its popularity. I mean, you can look at some of our AtC threads, and they link back to convos from many months ago... Just a speculation based on an observation.
@arosiriak: just because a deal or a conversation doesn't make popular doesn't mean it disappears completely from the database. Sorry I just had to say that. Search brings things up - probably why people complain about old deals being bad they do a search click on the top deal and find out it is expired. Also our own personal user tab contains all our past deals that are posted which weren't deleted, same for questions. Remember the internet is forever.
This doesn't make popular, but a $39 million dollar yacht does. Makes you wonder.
@sorensok: but the $39 mil yacht is attainable, and they probably don't ask for any personal information like your email address when you buy... [/sarcasm]
In my opinion, your deal should have been featured on the front page. It's a great money-saver that is relevant to almost all of this site's users.
As it now works, I think Deals.Woot risks becoming irrelevant. I buy from the various Woots because the deals are great values. But I can't say the same for items identified as "popular" on Deals.Woot. Due to the constant promotion to the first page of routinely discounted goods (come on, a discount that is essentially standard across the web is not a deal), ridiculous yacht and plane postings, daily lingerie deals, self-promoting websites, and crap-filled mystery boxes, I find going through the front page to increasingly be a waste of time. In the mean time, good deals like your's get buried in the background.
At the end of the day, I find more and more of my time and money being spent on SlickDeals, where I don't have to wade through this crap. I doubt that I'm alone in doing so.


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i wanna modify some files in .deb package and upload it to my PPA, is that possible and how to ? Thanks in advance
No, this is not possible.
A binary Debian package contains built binaries only and there is no way to retrieve sources from binaries as a lot of information is lost during the process.
If you were to edit only data that are not modified by the compilation process (say configuration files for instance) then you would be able to generate a new .deb file from the old one. However, you will not be allowed to upload this one to your PPA for safety reasons. All the packages in the PPA's must be compiled on the servers sandboxes to prevent malicious modifications of packages. It does not prevent people from possibly building dangerous Debian package, but at least it guarantees that the provided binaries are really the output of the source code compilation process.


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What is the relevance of the mobile web? Is it important to consider mobile devices when building web sites and web apps today? And aren't native apps for mobile device more important anyway? In this session, we'll address these questions as well as exploring some of the technical considerations that arise when building HTML5-based applications for the mobile web.
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Great session !!! I like very much the ideas you present, and also the concepts behind the liike project. One small question, why github instead CodePlex?
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Thanks. At the time we chose github because we wanted to engage with the JavaScript/HTML5 community. Rather than asking them to come to us, we decided to go to them. However, I am not confident that the choice was as effective as we had hoped.
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I'm using this code to display my menu:
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It works totally fine, but I don't know how to get rid of all these classes attached to every li in my menu?
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It's pretty long, isn't it?
I don't need classes and even IDs here at all, since my menu has one already.
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President Barack Obama listens as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney answers a question during the first presidential debate at the University of Denver, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver.
(CNN) -- Mitt Romney said he was "completely wrong" when he argued that nearly half of Americans were "victims" and dependent on government.
The admission came Thursday as the GOP presidential candidate sought to clarify his controversial "47%" comments.
"Clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you're going to say something that doesn't come out right," Romney said on Fox News. "In this case, I said something that's just completely wrong."
Last month, secretly recorded video of Romney at a May fundraiser showed the Republican candidate saying 47% of Americans will vote for President Barack Obama "no matter what."
"There are 47% who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing."
The non-partisan Tax Policy Center estimates that for tax year 2011, 46% of households will end up owing nothing in federal income taxes. But if payroll taxes are counted, the number of non-payer households drops precipitously - to an estimated 18% in 2011.
Adding to his argument about entitlement, Romney said his "job is not to worry about those people."
"I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives," he added.
"What I have to do is convince the 5 percent to 10 percent in the center that are independents, that are thoughtful."
After the videos, which were posted on the progressive news website Mother Jones, caught fire, Romney called a last-minute press conference with pool reporters while he was in California at the time.
The former Massachusetts governor acknowledged the comments were "off the cuff" and "not elegantly stated," but he defended the main point of the message, saying he was criticizing the increasing size of government and entitlement programs.
"We have a very different approach -- the president and I -- between a government-dominated society and a society driven by free people pursuing their dreams," Romney said.
The following day, Romney still stuck by his comments and elaborated on the logistical reasoning behind his remarks.
"We were of course talking about a campaign and how he is going to get close to half the vote," Romney said. "I'm going to get half the vote, I hope, I want to get 50.1% or more. Frankly we have two very different views about America."
In the first presidential debate Wednesday, Obama surprised political observers by not going after Romney on the comments, as he has on the campaign trail in the last two weeks.
On Fox News Thursday night, Romney was asked what he would have said if the president had brought up the controversial statements--which is when the GOP nominee went as far as to say he was "wrong."
He then argued that, if elected, he would represent all Americans, not just half.
"I absolutely believe, however, that my life has shown that I care about 100% and that's been demonstrated throughout my life. And this whole campaign is about the 100%. When I become president, it will be helping the 100%."


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Yesterday Reuters reported on a recent survey which revealed that "retailers have cash on their balance sheets and nearly half of 100 top retail executives said they are planning to spend it on technology."
Specifically, retailers are looking to spend that money on analytical tools to "improve company growth, expansion and planning." There is a tremendous opportunity for retailers to use analytical tools to make smarter business decisions with the enormous amount of data captured from online purchases and the cash register.
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I think it means something like "Hello" or "How are you?", am I right?
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In the end, yes it does mean 'Hello', at least in this context. But it does not mean 'How are you?'. You often add the question:
Or you add something stupid like:
(I believe, that your friend will never say that, but imagine the situation you meet a person in a gym, or so.)
Besides greetings, Na is an interjection (Appellinterjektion) and is used in colloquial. Usually, it is placed in front of a short sentence. Na can express feelings like surprise, unhappiness, impatience, ...
Have a look at the DUDEN for more examples.
As the comments point out, in some region of Germany "Na?" has the connotation of Wie geht's? - How are you?, too, without explicitly adding that question itself. You usually will use in that way, of course, just when greeting a person you know well.
In Österreich, welches zum dt. Sprachraum zählt, steht "Na" häufig für "Nein".
Außerdem wird es ermahnend, teils kurz und scharf, in Deutschland verwendet. Wenn die Katze verbotenerweise auf den Esstisch hupft ruft man harsch "Na!" um sie zu verscheuchen, ertappt man das Kind mit dem Finger in der Nuss-Nougat-Crème kann man verständnisvoll-tadelnd ein "Na, na, na" über die Lesebrille raunzen.
Die Em1-Antwort dürfte aber am häufigsten stimmen.
The exclamation "na?" simply means:
Em1 and user unknown have brought up good points but I'd like to state my experience about the inquiring "Na?":
"Na?" is simply a very short entry to start an unconditional/optional conversation with someone.
You are showing interest in the other person and if they feel like they can talk to you about what is going on or not.
The difference to directly asking "Wie geht's?" or "Was ist los?" is that there is no commitment. Neither do you ask something specific nor does the partner have to engage a full conversation. Furthermore "Na?" also implies that the topic of the conversation is free to be set around what ever is on the partner's mind.
For example:
Someone is obviously pondering over something and you ask "Na?" to indicate your interest in the other's current mood/feeling/puzzles.
On the other hand the inquiring
usually implies that one is supposed to recognize something of/about the inquirer (some body modification or achievement). The inquirer is then looking for/expecting some (verbal) praise and recognition.
In my understanding of what your friend means it's the very short colloquial form of
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I am trying to add the political boundaries baselayer from http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=924&ContentID=2336 and then on top add points where I gathered coordinates from Google Earth (using a delimited text layer). I can see both layers in QGIS but my points are not in the right location and I have to zoom in way too close to be able to see them. It seems to be an issue of scale or projection or something. Im new to QGIS and GIS in general, what things can I try to try and make these layers fit better.
Problem is that WGS84 regards Eastern longitudes as positive. So you have to insert a - before every value in your last column. You will get this result with boundaries in
I also get some of the points displaced in the ocean, but e.g. Corvallis looks right. Can you save the data in Google Earth as kml? You can add data in that format directly in QGIS.
For example, I get this for Heekletooth Mountain:
I think the problem is due to a mismatch in the coordinate reference system used. The base layer you use has EPSG:2163 (US National Atlas Equal Area). While I think the Google Earth file uses EPSG:4326 (WGS84), but I'm not sure about this as I have never used Google Earth files. What you can do is right-click on the layer and select "Set Layer CRS" in order to change the layers such that they correspond.
If I'm wrong I am sure a more experienced user will correct me.
I got a solution, although with minor errors, by re-projecting the shape-file to EPSG:4326 (see here for an explanation) and inserting a minus in front of the longitude values in the csv-file. Method is similar to the answer by Andre Joost. Encounter the same problem with some points being a little off.


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Music of the
Like many good stories, the history of Tamburrini began with a happy accident, when guitarist Steve Walter discovered a vihuela - an early Spanish guitar - in his local recorder shop. This find opened up a new repertoire - the music of Renaissance Spain, blending European elegance with the fire of Moorish tradition.
Our interest in the songs of the Spanish Renaissance is two fold. Many of the songs use melodies from the folk tradition with lyrics that are simple, direct and universal. The music also provides enormous scope for improvisation and varied instrumental textures.
Tamburrini have pleased a range of audiences from the Bath and Brighton Festivals to recitals at the national Early Music Exhibition in London. The group continues to expand their breadth and depth of performance.
To find out more and to hear Tamburrini - click on the links below. We hope you enjoy our website!
The Golden Age of Spanish music
The late fifteenth century was a time of transition for Spain. From the eighth century this was a largely Muslim country. The Christians gradually gained supremacy culminating in the triumphant wedding of Ferdinand and Isabella, and the recapture of Granada from the Moors in 1492.
These events heralded vast imperial expansion and the 'Golden Age' of Spanish music which married European elegance with the passion and exuberant rhythms of Moorish Folk music. From this fusion came a unique songbook, the Songs of the Palace. The songs speak of the changing fortunes of Moor and Christian in a time of great upheaval. They celebrate the lives of ordinary people, pilgrimages and festivities, food and wine, animals and crops. And above all they tell of the universal human concerns of desire, love and loss - in bawdy verse or through subtle erotic imagery.
Tamburrini were formed through a shared interest in this music. They aim to capture the excitement and spontaneity at the heart of the music, whether passionate love song or rustic dance.
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Folk inspired melodies
One of the attractions of Spanish court music from the Renaissance is its use of melodies from the popular folk tradition like the one you can hear by clicking . The lyrics are often simple and direct and in this case describe the passions of a young woman burning both from within and from the heat of the Andalucian sun.
It was a common practice for musicians in the Renaissance to improvise accompaniments to songs as jazz or blues musicians have done in this century. In this song, Tamburrini have continued the tradition by providing their own accompaniment in a Renaissance style. One important development of the group in the last few months is the composition of new pieces based on ancient Moorish folk songs where only the melody and the words have survived.
Whether your interest is in early music folk or jazz, we hope you will discover the spontaneity and excitement which Tamburrini bring to these songs and dances, in one of our future gigs.
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Article based on the work of Angelo D'Autilia posted on Salug Journal in Italian.
An useful tool for the management of a shared server is etckeeper.
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Counting Tuesday's doubleheader split, the Peru State baseball team's season record now stands at 11-12 overall and 5-5 in Heart of America Athletic Conference play.
The Bobcats won 3-2 and lost 4-0 during doubleheader action at MidAmerica Nazarene on Tuesday. Looking back to last week, the Bobcats defeated MidAmerica Nazarene 4-3 and lost 6-5 in eight innings at Centennial Complex on March 29.
Peru State is scheduled to play at 1 and 3 p.m. at home today against Central Methodist. For other upcoming games, see the schedule below.
4-4, At Nebraska Wesleyan, 4 p.m.
4-6, At Benedictine College, 1 and 3 p.m.
4-7, At Benedictine College, 1 and 3 p.m.
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i have a problem with the categories and post thumbnail, my images are mixing up, the titles are OK, in the good order, but then the thumbnail of the first category goes under the second category title, and the second category thumbnail goes under the first title. I tried with "orderby" "name" on both
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Top 10 Classic Tabletop and Basement Games for Kidsby Erin Dower
Ahh, remember the good old days of playing pool, foosball, and other awesome games in your childhood friend's basement? Visit memory lane and cure your child's cabin fever — and video game addiction — with these 10 classic tabletop and basement games that are sure to hook him on some friendly (face-to-face) competition. Best of all, many of these games now come in shrunken-down, portable versions, so they're great for homes with limited play space.
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Nok Hockey
Two words: Nok. Hockey. How cool is this simple game? I spent hours playing it at summer camp and can still hear the clashing of the plastic sticks. Hockey fans in particular will love this durable wooden game. Plus, it's proudly made in the USA.
Recommended age: 6 and up
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On July 19, 2014, the Florida Fallen Peace Officer Bass Tournament was held at Lake Okeechobee Scott Driver Boat Ramp. On behalf of Crappy Jack's Bait & Tackle, we would like to thank Tin Fish Grill for their donation of $450.00 in gift certificates for the anglers in 1st thru 10th place and 1st and 2nd Big Fish.
In addition, thank you to the following businesses: Original Equipment, W&W Lumber, CVS Pharmacy, Walgreen's, Car Quest, St. Lucie Battery & Tire, Tire Kingdom, Tires Plus, Los Cocos, Advanced Auto, Brown Cow Sweetery, Sign Guy, Golden Corral, Pueblo Viejo, Dunkin Donuts, Publix, Parrott Island Grill and Geechee Mons.
Thank you to the Glades County Sheriff's Office for lending their grill and to the Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office for cooking.
Lastly, thank you to all the anglers that participated and everyone that came out to support this event. All monies raised were donated to the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund for Florida fallen officers and their families.


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We all know that premature optimization is the root of all evil because it leads to unreadable/unmaintainable code. Even worse is pessimization, when someone implements an "optimization" because they think it will be faster, but it ends up being slower, as well as being buggy, unmaintainable, etc. What is the most ridiculous example of this that you've seen?
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On an old project we inherited some (otherwise excellent) embedded systems programmers who had massive Z-8000 experience.
Our new environment was 32-bit Sparc Solaris.
One of the guys went and changed all ints to shorts to speed up our code, since grabbing 16 bits from RAM was quicker than grabbing 32 bits.
I had to write a demo program to show that grabbing 32-bit values on a 32-bit system was faster than grabbing 16-bit values, and explain that to grab a 16-bit value the CPU had to make a 32-bit wide memory access and then mask out or shift the bits not needed for the 16-bit value.
I think the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is way, way over used. For many projects, it has become an excuse not to take performance into account until late in a project.
This phrase is often a crutch for people to avoid work. I see this phrase used when people should really say "Gee, we really didn't think of that up front and don't have time to deal with it now".
I've seen many more "ridiculous" examples of dumb performance problems than examples of problems introduced due to "pessimization"
What I think is a better statement is this: "optimization without measuring and understanding isn't optimization at all - its just random change".
Good Performance work is time consuming - often more so that the development of the feature or component itself.
Databases are pessimization playland.
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That's off the top of my head.
I think there is no absolute rule: some things are best optimized upfront, and some are not.
For example, I worked in a company where we received data packets from satellites. Each packet cost a lot of money, so all the data was highly optimized (ie. packed). For example, latitude/longitude was not sent as absolute values (floats), but as offsets relative to the "north-west" corner of a "current" zone. We had to unpack all the data before it could be used. But I think this is not pessimization, it is intelligent optimization to reduce communication costs.
On the other hand, our software architects decided that the unpacked data should be formatted into a very readable XML document, and stored in our database as such (as opposed to having each field stored in a corresponding column). Their idea was that "XML is the future", "disk space is cheap", and "processor is cheap", so there was no need to optimize anything. The result was that our 16-bytes packets were turned into 2kB documents stored in one column, and for even simple queries we had to load megabytes of XML documents in memory! We received over 50 packets per second, so you can imagine how horrible the performance became (BTW, the company went bankrupt).
So again, there is no absolute rule. Yes, sometimes optimization too early is a mistake. But sometimes the "cpu/disk space/memory is cheap" motto is the real root of all evil.
Oh good Lord, I think I have seen them all. More often than not it is an effort to fix performance problems by someone that is too darn lazy to troubleshoot their way down to the CAUSE of those performance problems or even researching whether there actually IS a performance problem. In many of these cases I wonder if it isn't just a case of that person wanting to try a particular technology and desperately looking for a nail that fits their shiny new hammer.
Here's a recent example:
Data architect comes to me with an elaborate proposal to vertically partition a key table in a fairly large and complex application. He wants to know what type of development effort would be necessary to adjust for the change. The conversation went like this:
Me: Why are you considering this? What is the problem you are trying to solve?
Him: Table X is too wide, we are partitioning it for performance reasons.
Me: What makes you think it is too wide?
Him: The consultant said that is way too many columns to have in one table.
Me: And this is affecting performance?
Him: Yes, users have reported intermittent slowdowns in the XYZ module of the application.
Me: How do you know the width of the table is the source of the problem?
Him: That is the key table used by the XYZ module, and it is like 200 columns. It must be the problem.
Me (Explaining): But module XYZ in particular uses most of the columns in that table, and the columns it uses are unpredictable because the user configures the app to show the data they want to display from that table. It is likely that 95% of the time we'd wind up joining all the tables back together anyway which would hurt performance.
Him: The consultant said it is too wide and we need to change it.
Me: Who is this consultant? I didn't know we hired a consultant, nor did they talk to the development team at all.
Him: Well, we haven't hired them yet. This is part of a proposal they offered, but they insisted we needed to re-architect this database.
Me: Uh huh. So the consultant who sells database re-design services thinks we need a database re-design....
The conversation went on and on like this. Afterward, I took another look at the table in question and determined that it probably could be narrowed with some simple normalization with no need for exotic partitioning strategies. This, of course turned out to be a moot point once I investigated the performance problems (previously unreported) and tracked them down to two factors:
Of course the architect is still pushing for a vertical partitioning of the table hanging on to the "too wide" meta-problem. He even bolstered his case by getting a proposal from another database consultant who was able to determine we needed major design changes to the database without looking at the app or running any performance analysis.
I have seen people using alphadrive-7 to totally incubate CHX-LT. This is an uncommon practice. The more common practice is to initialize the ZT transformer so that bufferication is reduced (due to greater net overload resistance) and create java style bytegraphications.
Totally pessimistic!
Nothing Earth-shattering, I admit, but I've caught people using StringBuffer to concatenate Strings outside of a loop in Java. It was something simple like turning
It used to be quite common practice to use the technique in a loop, because it was measurably faster. The thing is, StringBuffer is synchronized, so there's actually extra overhead if you're only concatenating a few Strings. (Not to mention that the difference is absolutely trivial on this scale.) Two other points about this practice:
I once saw a MSSQL database that used a 'Root' table. The Root table had four columns: GUID (uniqueidentifier), ID (int), LastModDate (datetime), and CreateDate (datetime). All tables in the database were Foreign Key'd to the Root table. Whenever a new row was created in any table in the db, you had to use a couple of stored procedures to insert an entry in the Root table before you could get to the actual table you cared about (rather than the database doing the job for you with a few triggers simple triggers).
This created a mess of useless overheard and headaches, required anything written on top of it to use sprocs (and eliminating my hopes of introducing LINQ to the company. It was possible but just not worth the headache), and to top it off didn't even accomplish what it was supposed to do.
The developer that chose this path defended it under the assumption that this saved tons of space because we weren't using Guids on the tables themselves (but...isn't a GUID generated in the Root table for every row we make?), improved performance somehow, and made it "easy" to audit changes to the database.
Oh, and the database diagram looked like a mutant spider from hell.
How about POBI -- pessimization obviously by intent?
Collegue of mine in the 90s was tired of getting kicked in the ass by the CEO just because the CEO spent the first day of every ERP software (a custom one) release with locating performance issues in the new functionalities. Even if the new functionalities crunched gigabytes and made the impossible possible, he always found some detail, or even seemingly major issue, to whine upon. He believed to know a lot about programming and got his kicks by kicking programmer asses.
Due to the incompetent nature of the criticism (he was a CEO, not an IT guy), my collegue never managed to get it right. If you do not have a performance problem, you cannot eliminate it...
Until for one release, he put a lot of Delay (200) function calls (it was Delphi) into the new code. It took just 20 minutes after go-live, and he was ordered to appear in the CEO's office to fetch his overdue insults in person.
Only unusual thing so far was my collegues mute when he returned, smiling, joking, going out for a BigMac or two while he normally would kick tables, flame about the CEO and the company, and spend the rest of the day turned down to death.
Naturally, my collegue now rested for one or two days at his desk, improving his aiming skills in Quake -- then on the second or third day he deleted the Delay calls, rebuilt and released an "emergency patch" of which he spread the word that he had spent 2 days and 1 night to fix the performance holes.
This was the first (and only) time that evil CEO said "great job!" to him. That's all that counts, right?
This was real POBI.
But it also is a kind of social process optimization, so it's 100% ok.
I think.
"Database Independence". This meant no stored procs, triggers, etc - not even any foreign keys.
Best use of a StringBuilder I've ever seen.
Using a regex to split a string when a simple string.split suffices
No one seems to have mentioned sorting, so I will.
Several different times, I've discovered that someone had hand-crafted a bubblesort, because the situation "didn't require" a call to the "too fancy" quicksort algorithm that already existed. The developer was satisified when their handcrafted bubblesort worked well enough on the ten rows of data that they're using for testing. It didn't go over quite as well after the customer had added a couple of thousand rows.
Very late to this thread I know, but I saw this recently:
Y'know, just in case a boolean had some extra values...
Worst example I can think of is an internal database at my company containing information on all employees. It gets a nightly update from HR and has an ASP.NET web service on top. Many other apps use the web service to populate things like search/dropdown fields.
The pessimism is that the developer thought that repeated calls to the web service would be too slow to make repeated SQL queries. So what did he do? The application start event reads in the entire database and converts it all to objects in memory, stored indefinitely until the app pool is recycled. This code was so slow, it would take 15 minutes to load in less than 2000 employees. If you inadvertently recycled the app pool during the day, it could take 30 minutes or more, because each web service request would start multiple concurrent reloads. For this reason, new hires wouldn't appear in the database the first day when their account was created and therefore would not be able to access most internal apps on their first couple days, twiddling their thumbs.
The second level of pessimism is that the development manager doesn't want to touch it for fear of breaking dependent applications, but yet we continue to have sporadic company-wide outages of critical applications due to poor design of such a simple component.
I once had to attempt to modify code that included these gems in the Constants class
Each of these were used multiple times in the rest of the application for different purposes. COMMA_DELIMINATOR littered the code with over 200 uses in 8 different packages.
The big all time number one which I run into time and time again in inhouse software:
Not using the features of the DBMS for "portability" reasons because "we might want to switch to another vendor later".
Read my lips. For any inhouse work: IT WILL NOT HAPPEN!
I once worked on an app that was full of code like this:
Simply removing
Doubled the app performance.
I had a co-worker who was trying to outwit our C compiler's optimizer and routine rewrote code that only he could read. One of his favorite tricks was changing a readable method like (making up some code):
into this:
That is, the first line of a once-readable method would become "
Then, after this, for some reason he decided that
Turning readable code into unreadable code for at the most a 1% improvement, and sometimes actually slower code.
In one of my first jobs as a full-fledged developer, I took over a project for a program that was suffering scaling issues. It would work reasonably well on small data sets, but would completely crash when given large quantities of data.
As I dug in, I found that the original programmer sought to speed things up by parallelizing the analysis - launching a new thread for each additional data source. However, he'd made a mistake in that all threads required a shared resource, on which they were deadlocking. Of course, all benefits of concurrency disappeared. Moreover it crashed most systems to launch 100+ threads only to have all but one of them lock. My beefy dev machine was an exception in that it churned through a 150-source dataset in around 6 hours.
So to fix it, I removed the multi-threading components and cleaned up the I/O. With no other changes, execution time on the 150-source dataset dropped below 10 minutes on my machine, and from infinity to under half an hour on the average company machine.
I suppose I could offer this gem:
Since the square-root was calculated at a very sensitive place, I got the task of looking into a way to make it faster. This small refactoring reduced the execution time by a third (for the combination of hardware and compiler used, YMMV):
Of course there are both faster AND better ways to do this, but I think it's a pretty neat example of a pessimization.
Edit: Come to think of it, the unrolled loop was actually also a neat pessimization. Digging though the version control, I can present the second stage of refactoring as well, which performed even better than the above:
This is exactly the same algorithm, albeit a slightly different implementation, so I suppose it qualifies.
This might be at a higher level that what you were after, but fixing it (if you're allowed) also involves a higher level of pain:
Insisting on hand rolling an Object Relationship Manager / Data Access Layer instead of using one of the established, tested, mature libraries out there (even after they've been pointed out to you).
Checking before EVERY javascript operation whether the object you are operating upon exists.
My problem with this type of code is nobody seems to care what if it doesn't exist? Just do nothing? Don't give the feedback to the user?
I agree that the
This doesn't exactly fit the question, but I'll mention it anyway a cautionary tale. I was working on a distributed app that was running slowly, and flew down to DC to sit in on a meeting primarily aimed at solving the problem. The project lead started to outline a re-architecture aimed at resolving the delay. I volunteered that I had taken some measurements over the weekend that isolated the bottleneck to a single method. It turned out there was a missing record on a local lookup, causing the application to have to go to a remote server on every transaction. By adding the record back to the local store, the delay was eliminated - problem solved. Note the re-architecture wouldn't have fixed the problem.
All foreign-key constraints were removed from a database, because otherwise there would be so many errors.
How about YAGNI extremism. It is a form of premature pessimization. It seems like anytime you apply YAGNI, then you end up needing it, resulting in 10 times the effort to add it than if you had added it in the beginning. If you create a successful program then odds are YOU ARE GOING TO NEED IT. If you are used to creating programs whose life runs out quickly then continue to practice YAGNI because then I suppose YAGNI.
Not exactly premature optimisation - but certainly misguided - this was read on the BBC website, from an article discussing Windows 7.
Now, I haven't tried Windows 7 yet, so I might be wrong, but I'm willing to bet that there are other issues in there that are more important than how long it takes to shut-down. After all, once I see the 'Shutting down Windows' message, the monitor is turned off and I'm walking away - how does that 400 milliseconds benefit me?
An ex-coworker of mine (a s.o.a.b., actually) was assigned to build a new module for our Java ERP that should have collected and analyzed customers' data (retail industry). He decided to split EVERY Calendar/Datetime field in its components (seconds, minutes, hours, day, month, year, day of week, bimester, trimester (!)) because "how else would I query for 'every monday'?"
Someone in my department once wrote a string class. An interface like
One "optimization" they did was to not allocate any more memory than necessary. Apparently not realizing that the reason classes like
Instead, every single
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Empirical evidences show that investors tend to be biased toward investing in domestic (home bias) and local (local bias) stocks. Familiarity is considered to be one of the reasons. A similar concept was proposed by Goldstein and Gigerenzer (1999, 2002), known as the recognition heuristic: "when choosing between two objects, of which only one is recognized, choose the recognized. Investors recognize or are familiar with local stocks, expect them to provide higher returns and, therefore, invest more in such stocks". We conducted an experiment in Jena, Germany to test whether subjects show local bias and use recognition-based and familiarity-based portfolio strategies. We categorized them into an experienced and an inexperienced group; in addition, we used two data periods, i.e., bull market and bear market, to see if they behave differently in the two markets. Results show that all participants invested more of their endowments in the stock market in bull rather than bear market. All participants showed greater familiarity with local stocks. However, the experienced participants only invested more in local rather than recognized and familiar stocks; on the contrary, the inexperienced participants invested more in recognized and familiar but not local stocks. Our experiment shows no evidence that familiarity is a reason for local bias.
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text: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:07:17AM -0700, Aaron Bazar wrote: > Good Day everyone! > > I am working on tuning my swish-e setup. I am using speedycgi. Here are some > of my observations/benchmarks. I used the apache benchmark software. I also > tried a few different set ups. Here are the results... > > perl with API simple highlight ----> 2 requests/second > perl with swish-e binary and simple highlight ---> 4 requests/second > > perl with API no highlighting ===> 3.23 requests/second > perl with swish-e no highlighting ===> 4.74 requests/second > > > speedycgi with highlighting and API ---> 5.5 requests/second > speedycgi highlighting and swish-e ----> 9 requests/second > > > speedycgi with no highlighting 10 requests/second using binary > speedycgi with no highlighting 17 requests/second using api > > > > So, here is my conclusion from these tests: Only use the API if you are > going to use NO highlighting. If you use highlighting, it seems to me that > using the swish-e binary is faster. This is not what I expected. Seems unlikey. Can you post a sample test script? In message http://swish-e.org/archive/5636.html I posted: <quote> ab -n 2000 -c 10 http://localhost/swish.cgi?query=install and that was returning about 200 hits. use_library=0 use_library=1 -------------------- ---------------------- mod_cgi 3.7 3.7 mod_perl 8.9 30.0 SpeedyCGI 8.6 26.0 </quote> But those were without highlighting enabled. > Here is my theory, and I suspect one of the developers has a better > explanation (or my set up is flawed). When using the API a search query is > performed by the cgi script (speedycgi process) AND sorting is done by the > script, one after the other. When the swish-e binary is used, another > process is launched to get the data and the cgi script parses the results. > In this case, the slower cgi script only is doing one job and the faster > binary is doing the other job. Perhaps this is why I got the results that I > did. No, the same swish-e code is sorting in both cases. The difference between running the API and the swish-e binary is with the binary you have to fork and exec to run swish-e (so you are forking the entire web server process). These days forking is not so expensive, but it seems at one point (or perhaps on some systems) it was significant. Here's some more info: http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Forking_and_Executing_Subprocesses_from_mod_perl The other difference is that with the API you can open the index file *once* and then make repeated queries on that *open* index file. This does make a difference when using swish-e. The highlighting code is so slow that those speedups above get lost as noise. > Anyway, the performance increase in turning off the highlighting, using the > API, and running under speedycgi is pretty good. Speedycgi is very, very > easy to get working. I'd try mod_perl, but it does not seem worth it since > speedy does such a good job. I'd agree. speedyCGI makes a bid difference and is easy to setup and use. mod_perl is not hard to get going, but is a lot more involved. Use mod_perl if you have other needs for it. In benchmarks mod_perl will be faster than speedyCGI because speedy (when used as /usr/bin/speedy under CGI) still requires a fork/exec where mod_perl doesn't at all. > > Best regards, > > Aaron Bazar > http://www.buyasundial.com > > > > -- Bill Moseley email@example.com on Wed Aug 27 14:29:39 2003


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7 Bizarre Prehistoric Versions of Modern-Day Animals
Nobody ever cranks out a masterpiece in one sitting. Not even Mother Nature gets it right the first time. If she did, then the prehistoric ages wouldn't have been filled with stupid and bizarre-looking prototypes of modern species that seemed doomed to fail from the start. Some of evolution's laughable early drafts include ...
#7. Platybelodons, aka Elephants With Giant Trunk-Mouths
Who knew that the quickest way to strip an elephant of all its majesty was to replace that dick it carries around on its face with a duck bill? About 10 million years ago, back when evolution was still throwing everything at the wall to see what stuck, there were actually several different trial-and-error elephants wandering around. But Platybelodon was the only one with a long rat tail and a dustpan for a mouth.
Paleontologists apparently have long-winded arguments on why nature would intentionally make an animal look like that. Some suspect that the shovel tusk was useful for gobbling up aquatic vegetation, but others are adamant that Platybelodon grabbed onto tree branches with its mouth and then sawed into them with those hillbilly teeth on the bottom. But regardless of the actual function, Platybelodon seems to have sacrificed all aesthetic to achieve it, because these elephants are an embarrassment.
American Museum of Natural History
This comparison, showing its jawbone, illustrates just how well it could keep snow off of its driveway.
The shortened tusks aren't doing it any favors either. It's the one menacing weapon modern elephants have, and nature decided, "What if I try making them so short that they're completely useless and then use them as decoration on either side of a permanent guffaw?" The only reason these animals lived as long as they did was because predators could only laugh and move on in search of something less absurd to eat.
#6. Helicoprion, aka the WTF-Mouthed Shark
Helicoprion is essentially a shark from 250 million years ago with a buzz saw for a lower jaw. If you're having a hard time wrapping your head around the logistics of that, then congratulations, you and science are in the same boat. Unfortunately, since a shark's skeletal structure is made almost exclusively of cartilage, no one has ever found more significant remains of the Helicoprion than these serrated jaws that look like they were pulled from a Tim Burton set. In fact, paleontologists originally thought the Helicoprion mouth they discovered was just an ammonite. It wasn't until later on that researchers realized that what they had found was an important example of Mother Nature testing the boundaries of the crazy shit she could get away with.
Paleontologists are still trying to figure out how this shark even fed itself with such an absurd mouth. The leading theory is that Helicoprion would have used its flexible jaw like a whip, lashing what was essentially a spiked tentacle into schools of fish and then pulling in whatever it managed to stab. But experts can't even agree on where Helicoprion would have stored its lower jaw when it wasn't using it to devastate swarms of prehistoric fish -- that's why different artists' renditions don't even look like the same animal:
"We're just pretty much guessing here."
Bruce Wendorff via National Geographic
"Oh yeah? Well, we can guess much stupider than you."
Originally they assumed that the teeth just rolled back under the jaw, but the most recent hypothesis is that the shark would keep them tucked neatly away in its throat, because obviously that's always the best place to keep a deadly coil of razors.
#5. Kaprosuchus saharicus, aka Long-Legged Crocodiles
Anyone who's watched more than two hours of the Discovery Channel knows that crocodiles are sharp-toothed, armored, writhing instruments of death ... but only if they're in about five feet of water. Ten feet farther on shore and suddenly they're 800 pounds of slow-moving, useless leather with sharp teeth at one end. If nothing else, the fact that crocodiles can't and probably won't chase you on land is the most comforting characteristic of what would otherwise be a relentless murder machine.
Except that about 100 million years ago, that wasn't the case. Kaprosuchus saharicus was evolution's stab at giving one predator every advantage except the ability to fly, making it completely unbeatable. Paleontologists often casually talk about them galloping after dinosaurs on their long legs like that's just a thing crocodiles do regularly. In fact, while the non-scientific name for them is "BoarCroc," they've also earned the adorable nickname "dinosaur slicer."
Mike Hettwer, National Geographic
We like to think of them more as "hell fillers."
It's honestly surprising that anything else could survive with these wingless dragons sprinting around and eating everything. When the Earth hit the reset button with the Ice Age, we're fairly confident that one of the first changes on the list for new species was to give the crocodile at least one weakness.
#4. Synthetoceras, aka Horned Horses
Given that Synthetoceras roamed around the grasslands of what's now Texas, it's a little infuriating to know that evolution zigged when it could have zagged, giving us boring old horses as the most iconic animals of the Old West when we could have had this ancient species with a slingshot mounted on its face. Even though it's most closely related to the camel, there's no reason to think that humanity couldn't have domesticated a few of these. Now try to imagine American history with cowboys riding Synthetoceras into the sunset, or Native Americans steadying their rifles in that little notch while charging at circled pioneer wagons.
Granted, Synthetoceras looks like it was invented by a child in a desperate attempt to make his love of unicorns more macho. But surely there must have been an evolutionary benefit to having a permanent antler on the front of the Synthetoceras' face. The going theory among experts is that they used them for sparring with one another, which is completely boring. We'll go on believing that they used their face horns as fancy little forks for feeding one another, thank you.


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Can someone give a simple expose on Coleman Mandula theorem and what Mandelstam variables are?
Coleman-Mandula is often cited as being the key theorem that leads us to consider Supersymmetry for unification. An overview discussion with sufficient detail is missing in many popular texts. So how does Coleman Mandula theorem actually meet its no-go claim?


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Mr. and Mrs. Lewis A. Barre of Woodbury celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a party given by their children at Memorial Hall in Bethlehem. Mr. and Mrs. Barre were married July 27, 1963, at St. Michael Church in Waterbury. They have seven children; Brenda Kimberly of New Milford; Donna Giuffre, Lisa Fraser and Linda Tanuis of Bethlehem; Debra Lynn of Watertown; Sandra Higgins of Orrington, Maine and the late Lewis Barre Jr.; 21 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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STEUBENVILLE - Jefferson County commissioners Thursday discussed a water line extension to Bradley outside Smithfield and possibly requiring gas and oil company subcontractors doing road maintenance work to pay workers prevailing wages.
Commissioners approved design work to begin on the project, which includes 16,000 feet of 8-inch water lines, to bring water to about 80 residents who have been requesting water for more than a decade. The project will cost about $1.5 million.
The project will be part of a debt the water and sewer department is assuming for the Brilliant booster station project.
Shannan Gosbin, water and sewer department director, said the water and sewer department had anticipated spending upwards of $4.3 million on the improvements to the Brilliant booster station to supply water to the southern end of the county, but bids came in at $3.1 million. She said the money not spent on the booster station work could be earmarked for the Bradley water line extension.
"This is great news to the residents of Bradley. It is hard to believe in this day and age for people to want county water and have a difficult time in getting it," said county Commissioner Thomas Graham.
Commissioners were approached by Daniel Kurczi of the Laborers International Union about putting a requirement in the county's road-use maintenance agreement for gas and oil drilling companies to pay prevailing wages on work done to improve county roads prior to drilling.
Kurczi said the Ohio Attorney General has issued an opinion about the prevailing wage issue, but county Engineer James Branagan said the opinion isn't clear.
Kurczi said several counties in the region have adopted the prevailing wage requirement.
Graham said the commissioners already are looking into the issue and have requested the county prosecutor's office amended the road-use maintenance agreements with gas and oil drilling companies to include prevailing wages.
Branagan said he has been told by oil and gas companies they won't provide payroll information to the county to show prevailing wages are being paid.
Commissioners also:
Approved county Job and Family Services Department contracts with Checker Cab of Steubenville to provide nonemergency medical transportation services to county residents. One, for up to $33,000, will be for residents not eligible for Medicaid but who don't have transportation. The second, not to exceed $950,000, will be for Medicaid eligible residents. The money comes to the county through the federal government, and the transportation services are mandated by the state, said Elizabeth Ferron, county Job and Family Services Department director.
Were informed county Auditor Patrick Marshall has received the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting, the highest form of recognition in the area of government accounting and financial reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association. Marshall said he has received the award several times in the past, adding it is every department working together that made it possible.
Agreed to submit $41,000 in indigent defendant attorney fees for December to the state for partial reimbursement. The county has spent $241,000 this year on the fees, the auditor's office reported.
Approved a new storm water consortium agreement overseen by the Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District, a requirement of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
Signed an agreement with the Ridgefield Group to do a feasibility study on improving communication with the public from the county's oil and gas committee. The $49,900 state grant also is for the development of a website for the committee.
Approved a $29,157 agreement with Michael Baker Jr. Inc. to do ecological and environmental survey work associated with the runway extension project at the county airport. County Commissioner Tom Gentile said U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, was instrumental in getting the Federal Aviation Administration to agree to an abbreviated study since a full environmental review was done several years ago, thereby reducing the cost.
Approved a three-year contract between the county Developmental Disabilities Board and the Service Employees International Union for about 35 workers at Shaffer Plaza.
The agreement calls for a 2 percent wage increase in the first year, with wage reopeners in the remaining two years.
Announced the next meeting will be held on Jan. 3.
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Is it better to write "on the side" or "at the side"? I always thought that "on the side" was the correct form, but today I've seen the sentence:
The thorax is protected by the ribs at the sides.
And, in the same book,
The cheeks are on both sides of the face.


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A man in Hart County is facing several child pornography charges.
Police say Brandon Jaggers, 26, had sexual videos of a juvenile girl.
One neighbor says Munfordville has always been safe.
"This is a very quiet neighborhood. We don't have a lot of crime down here. Virtually, no theft or anything like that so I was surprised to hear that," says Betty Ann Logsdon, a neighbor of Jaggers.
When Logsdon heard the news of the arrest of her neighbor, she couldn't believe that a crime like child pornography may have been committed just two houses away.
Kentucky State Police say the girl was missing from Georgia.
"Through the investigation with the Georgia authorities the house that the child was supposedly staying at . When our troopers along with the hart county sheriff's department went there that's where the child was discovered," said Kentucky State Police Public Affairs Officer, Jonathan Biven.
Police found the girl staying at this home in Bonnieville, but the sex tapes were found at Jagger's home in Mundfordville.
Jaggers has been charged with rape use of a minor in a sexual performance, unlawful transaction with a minor, and 1st offense illegal sex act.
A family member of Jagger's says the girl is 16.
While the age of sexual consent in Kentucky is 16, police say the girl appeared to be under the influence of some form of intoxication.
By Kentucky state law standards for rape, police say the girl was physically helpless, which made the sex act a form of rape.
"The child was actually relayed back to her father," Trooper Biven said.
Jaggers appeared in court for arraignment this morning.
He was bailed out on an $80,000 property bond.
Jaggers is expected to appear in court again for a preliminary hearing January 7th.
Jaggers has also been charged with sodomy and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.


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Cavani prefers La Liga switch
- 07 February 2013 08:27
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According to today's reports, City could be set to miss out on reported top summer target Edinson Cavani.
Napoli's Uruguayan stiker played 69 minutes of his nation's 3-1 defeat to world champions Spain last night and in an interview with Italian radio station Radio Onda Cero he stated his preference for a move to one of the El Clásico rivals.
"My future? I have a contract for four years but in football you never know what to expect," Cavani is quoted as saying.
"Barcelona and Real Madrid are teams which stimulate the imagination. But I only think about the present."
...Edinson Cavani...
If City do miss out on "El Matador", attention may be turned to Alvaro Negredo according to the Daily Express.
"The Sevilla marksman was on both Spurs' and Everton's radars, although the latter came closest to landing him in the January transfer window," wrote Charles Perrin.
"Manchester City could see an exodus of players leave the club in the summer, and though they have four top strikers on their books, Carlos Tevez and Edin Dzeko have been linked with moves away from Eastlands.
"According to betting website, Ladbrokes, Roberto Mancini was mulling over a move for Negredo in January."
Don't forget that mcfc.co.uk is your only port of call for confirmed transfer news this summer.
Elsewhere, there's plenty of praise for Joe Hart after his fine double save from a Ronaldino penalty in England's surprise 2-1 win over Brazil at Wembley.
John Dillon of the Express believes that the save had significance for two reasons.
"In the great global scheme of football, it exposed a brittleness and a lack of belief in the team of the five-time World Cup winners, who have been forced to summon back the former Chelsea boss Scolari to try to put things right in rapid time before next year," Dillon posited.
"For more parochial reasons here, it also recalled the overheated day in Shizuoka when, from 40 yards, Ronaldinho shattered English hearts with one of the most audacious goals in World Cup history."
...John Dillon, Daily Express...
"Nearly 11 years on and 28 yards closer from the penalty spot, the altered realities and the new fears of Brazilian football tormented him in the form of a miss which ruined his big return on the night of his 100th cap.
"Actually, it was not merely a miss. Ronaldinho's first attempt was soft, but Hart still did well to stop it."
Martin Keown also contributed a piece to the Daily Mail website where he put forward the argument that in Hart and Cesar, the Premier League's best two keepers were on show at the Wembley showdown.
A great night's work for England's no.1.


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I'm trying to find a good open source tool that simply compares data in a database on one server to a table (of the same schema) on another server. Then I want to generate INSERT statements for the rows that are different, for either the source or destination/target table.
I've tried downloading several tools, and I can't get any of them to work because they all had bugs. I can be more specific with the errors I received if you need me to be.
I've tried:
SqlDiffFramework setup 184.108.40.206.exe
If there is a manual way to do this, please let me know. My last resort will be to simply write a program that does it.