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I am trying to create a function called
TensorBasis that takes as input a list (thought of as a list of names of basis vectors of a vector space) and an integer
d and output the lexicographically ordered basis of the
d-fold tensor product of the vector space with itself.
For instance, the output of
TensorBasis[{v1,v2},2] should be
{ v1 [\CircleTimes] v1, v1 [\CircleTimes] v2, v2 [\CircleTimes] v1, v2 [\CircleTimes] v2 },
and so on.
I have written the following code:
TensorBasis[labels_, d_] := Module[
{dim = Length[labels], basis, j, k, indexlist, tmp},
basis = ConstantArray[0, dim^d];
tmp = ConstantArray[0, d];
For[j = 1, j <= dim^d, j++,
(* Indexlist stores the indices of the jth element of the basis for the d-fold tensor product *)
indexlist = InverseLex[dim, d, j];
(* tmp holds the list of individual factors that will make up the jth element of the basis *)
For[k = 1, k <= d, k++,
tmp[[k]] = labels[[indexlist[[k]] ]]
(* jth element of the basis is created by tensoring together all elements of tmp *)
basis[[j]] = Infix[tmp, "\[CircleTimes]"]
The function InverseLex just gives me the appropriate list of indices for the basis element I am trying to construct. I am sure that that function is working properly. But the output is all weird. The problem is that in the output, the [CircleTimes] (i.e. tensor product) symbol is replaced by some junk: in Plain Text form it is
{Subscript[v, 1]â Subscript[v, 1],Subscript[v, 1]â Subscript[v, 2],Subscript[v, 2]â Subscript[v, 1],Subscript[v, 2]â Subscript[v, 2]}
When I use the Infix notation with "[CircleTimes]" otherwise it works fine. Why won't it work inside this function?

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I know Adobe's solutions are more advanced, but, as professionals, do you think you would survive (against competition) using GIMP and/or Inkscape instead of Photoshop and/or Illustrator for your actual work? Would it be worth it or would it actually complicate your work?
I am specially interested to see if there is anyone that actually made the switch to the open source solutions and know why you did it.


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Superstorm Sandy Sends Jobless Claims Up Sharply
There were 439,000 first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week, up by 78,000 from the week before, the Employment and Training Administration says. Behind the big increase: Superstorm Sandy, which threw some people in the Mid-Atlantic onto the unemployment rolls and shut down state unemployment offices the week before — meaning that some claims were postponed into last week.
In other economic news, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that consumer prices barely rose last month. The bureau's consumer price index ticked up just 0.1 percent from September. A 0.6 percent drop in gasoline prices was a large factor. In the past 12 months, prices have risen 2.2 percent.
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Unanswered: HtmlEditor replace
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When a newline is created in the HtmlEditor field, it is done by wrapping a
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The Pratt High School girls golf team played in their first 18-hole tournament of the year on Thursday, a 7-school affair held at Larned. The Lady Greenbacks finished 5th as a team, posting a team score of 455. Host Larned won the meet with a score of 405.
The bright spot individually again for Pratt was Morgan Schmidt who took 4th with a 94. Also finishing in the top 20 were Kayla Baer (12th 110) and Lauren Beardsley (19th 115). Rounding out the PHS scoring was Shelby Richard who carded a 136, good for 32nd place.
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I've added an alert to the function myReadFunction in order to detect function calls.
As according to my observations, the function readMyFunction is called sometimes while I have been navigating on the map, not every time. The function readMyFunction has not been called when a feature is being viewable or not during map navigation. Could you please explain in which conditions the geoJSON file is read from the server?
mVectorLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Overlay", {
strategies: [new OpenLayers.Strategy.BBOX()],
protocol: new OpenLayers.Protocol.HTTP({
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format: new OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON({
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'internalProjection': map.baseLayer.projection,
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projection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913")
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I was told that Weil reciprocity theorem (one has two meromorphic function $f,g$ on a complex curve $C$, so $\prod\limits_{x\in C} g(x)^{ord_xf}=\prod\limits_{x\in C}f(x)^{ord_xg} \ $ where $ord_xf$ is the smallest degree in Taylor expansion of $f$ at $x$, product is taken only by points in divisors of $f,g$, we assume that these divisors are not intersected with each other) was introduced by Weil after thinking about quadratic reciprocity. Could you explain me the connection between them?
There are already good answers by quid and by Dustin Clausin here. I thought, though, that I'd take the time to write out something more leisurely and expository. To get from Weil Reciprocity to Quadratic Reciprocity, one must make some things more general and some things less general, and there is a choice of which order to do these things in. I will first describe the less general route and will then make some comments about what happens when you make everything as general as possible.
First, we specialize from a general curve $C$ to $\mathbb{CP}^1$. Let $f$ and $g$ be polynomials in $\mathbb{C}[x]$, with roots at the disjoint sets $\alpha_1$, ..., $\alpha_a$ and $\beta_1$, ..., $\beta_b$ and with leading terms $f(x) = f_{\infty} x^{a} + \cdots$ and $g(x) = g_{\infty} x^b + \cdots$. Then Weil reciprocity says $$\prod_{j=1}^b f(\beta_j) = \prod_{i=1}^a g(\alpha_i) \cdot (-1)^{ab}\ f_{\infty}^{b} \ g_{\infty}^{-a}. \quad (1)$$ (The extra terms on the right come because $f$ and $g$ both have poles at $\infty$; Francois discusses this in a comment above.)
Of course, $(1)$ is easy to prove directly by writing $f(x) = f_{\infty} \prod (x-\alpha_i)$ and $g(x) = g_{\infty} \prod (x-\beta_j)$. Also, this makes it clear that the above identity holds over any algebraically closed field.
We now generalize to a non-algebraically closed field $k$. Let $f$ and $g$ be relatively prime polynomials in $k[x]$. Let $f(x) = f_{\infty} r_1(x) r_2(x) \cdots r_c(x)$ be the factorization of $f$ into monic irreducibles. Similarly, let $g(x) = g_{\infty} s_1(x) \cdots s_d(x)$. Let $K_i$ be the field $k[x]/r_i(x)$ and let $L_j = k[x]/s_j(x)$. For $u$ and $v \in k[x]$, I'll write $(u \bmod v)$ for the image of $u$ in $k[x]/v$. The generalization of $(1)$ is $$\prod_{j=1}^d N_{L_j/k}(f \bmod s_j) = \prod_{i=1}^c N_{K_i/k}(f \bmod r_i) \cdot (-1)^{ab}\ f_{\infty}^{b} \ g_{\infty}^{-a}. \quad (2)$$
Exercise 1: See that, when $k$ is algebraically closed, $(2)$ specializes to $(1)$. Exercise 2: Deduce (2) from (1), by grouping together terms from $(1)$ over $k^{\mathrm{alg}}$.
We now specialize to the case $k = \mathbb{F}_p$. The norm map from $\mathbb{F}_{p^n}$ to $\mathbb{F}_p$ is raising to the $(p^n-1)/(p-1)$ power. So $(2)$ becomes
$$\prod_{j=1}^d (f \bmod s_j)^{\frac{p^{\deg s_j}-1}{p-1}} = \prod_{i=1}^c (f \bmod r_i)^{\frac{p^{\deg r_i}-1}{p-1}} \cdot (-1)^{ab}\ f_{\infty}^{b} \ g_{\infty}^{-a}. \quad (3)$$
We specialize further to the case that $f$ and $g$ are irreducible to get $$(f \bmod g)^{\frac{p^{b}-1}{p-1}} = (g \bmod f)^{\frac{p^{a}-1}{p-1}} \cdot (-1)^{ab}\ f_{\infty}^{b} \ g_{\infty}^{-a}. \quad (4)$$
Let $p$ be odd, and raise both sides to the $(p-1)/2$ to get $$(f \bmod g)^{(p^b-1)/2} = (g \bmod f)^{(p^a-1)/2} \cdot (-1)^{ab(p-1)/2} \ f_{\infty}^{b (p-1)/2} g_{\infty}^{-a(p-1)/2}. \quad (5)$$
Recall Euler's criterion: For $u \in \mathbb{F}_p$, we have $u^{(p-1)/2} = \left( \frac{u}{p} \right)$. It has a generalization: For $u \in \mathbb{F}_{p^n}$, the power $u^{(p^n-1)/2}$ is $\pm 1$ according to whether or not $u$ is square. So, defining the quadratic residue symbol in $\mathbb{F}_p[x]$ in the obvious way, equation $(5)$ says $$\left( \frac{f}{g} \right) = \left( \frac{g}{f} \right) \cdot (-1)^{ab(p-1)/2} \ \left( \frac{f_{\infty}}{p} \right)^b \left( \frac{g_{\infty}}{p} \right)^{-a}. \quad (6)$$
In short, $\left( \frac{f}{g} \right)$ is equal to $\left( \frac{g}{f} \right)$ up to some elementary terms, just like in quadratic reciprocity. One can rewrite the elementary correction terms to make them look more like the terms that show up in standard QR, but I'll leave this as is.
We can get more general statements by (a) not restricting ourselves to the case that $f$ and $g$ are irreducible (b) working with curves $C$ other than $\mathbb{A}^1$ (c) raising both sides of $(4)$ to the $(p-1)/g$ power for some other $g$ dividing $p-1$. I was going to write more about this, but I think it is long enough as it is.
John Milnor's Introduction to Algebraic K-Theory, has (on p. 101) some useful background on the connection between $K$-theory and quadratic reciprocity:
Theorem 11.6 (Tate) The group $K_2\mathbb Q$ is canonically isomorphic to the direct sum
A_2\oplus A_3\oplus A_5\oplus\ldots
where $A_2=\{\pm1\}$ and for $p$ odd, $A_p=(\mathbb Z/p\mathbb Z)^\times$.
(The whole section beginning on p.99 is titled Gauss and Quadratic Reciprocity)
Forgive me if this is already familiar to you.
I am not sure this is the type of answer you are looking for, but perhaps it is, so:
On the wikipedia page linked to in the question it is explained that Weil's law can be restated as the fact that the product over the local symbols $(f,g)_p$ (see the same page for a definition) is $1$.
Hilbert's reciprocty law (scroll down to the relevant section) for an algebraic number field can be stated as $\prod_v (a,b)_v = 1$ where the product is over all places (finite and infinite) and $(a,b)_v$ is the Hilbert symbol (for the respective completion).
The Hilbert symbol $(a,b)$, for a local field $K$, is defined to be $1$ if $z^2 = a x^2 + by^2$ has a solution in $K$ and $-1$ if not.
Now, for the rationals Hilbert's reciprocty law gives quadratic reciprocity (see the two pages I linked to for some details).


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The "Funerary Paintings" are a unified series of eleven large-scale paintings, each about six feet high, and ranging between 15 feet and 16 feet long. They were completed by the artist at his New York studio over the past year and a half. The architecture of the second floor at 548 West 22nd Street has been reconfigured to form shallow niches between pilasters in which the paintings are set. The series has no determined beginning or end point, and the space has been designed to encourage a variety of approaches to the paintings.
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A Richardsville man says he was sitting on his couch watching television with his children when he noticed the back porch of the house he was living in on fire.
It happened on Penns Chapel Road at about 6:15 Thursday evening.
He says he smelt plastic burning and when he got up to look, the back porch was fully engulfed in flames.
The man, his two children and another roommate who lives in the front half of the house were able to get out without injury.
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When I log in my Ubuntu 13.04 account, my login screen still shows up as my desktop background, making my computer slow. Recently, I made some changes when I log in, such as removing both "Guest Login" and "Remote Login." I used the following code:
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I feel like this was the source of the problem so I tried to delete the added lines but the file was "read only." Is there anyway I can edit the file to fix my problem?
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STEUBENVILLE - Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton said Friday night he plans to renovate and maintain the Holy Name Cathedral as the spiritual center of the Catholic Diocese of Steubenville.
The bishop announced his decision Friday in the diocesan newspaper The Steubenville Register and Friday night at the second annual Fortnight for Freedom Mass at the cathedral.
Monforton's decision effectively stops plans, originally announced by former Bishop R. Daniel Conlon in 2007, to build a new church near Catholic Central High School that would have served as the diocesan cathedral.
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DISCUSSING THE CATHEDRAL PROJECT — Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton of the Catholic Diocese of Steubenville discussed the plans he has made to renovate the Holy Name Cathedral. Monforton said he will keep the cathedral in Steubenville and at Holy Name Church during the Fortnight for Freedom Mass at the cathedral Friday night. — Dave Gossett
RENOVATED CATHEDRAL — An architectural rendering of the proposed exterior renovations of Holy Name Cathedral shows the two bell towers that will be added to the church. — Contributed
"I visited with consultative bodies within the diocese, bishops outside of our diocese, with my brother diocesan priests as well as with leaders of the civic and business communities. I brought the issue to prayer," Monforton said Friday night.
"This community and Holy Name Church is still the spark. My question was how can the cathedral bring hope to the region. It was like Bishop (John King) Mussio was whispering in my ear to keep the cathedral in Steubenville," Monforton said during an interview Friday night.
"The diocesan cathedral will remain Holy Name Cathedral in the city of Steubenville. We will renew and restore our cathedral. I have instructed our design engineers to prepare a plan in which Holy Name Cathedral will have state-of-the-art technology permitting everyone in the diocese to view the re-direction Mass by way of television or the Internet. The technology means we also will be able to broadcast Masses periodically from our Mother Church. I hope this electronic bridge will draw the people of our diocese closer together," continued Monforton.
The bishop was interrupted by applause four times during his closing remarks at the end of the Mass including his promise to make a weekly Mass available from the Cathedral to shut-ins through television.
"We will be installing 2014 and 2015 WiFi technology," said Monforton.
He also said the renovations will include a 24- hour, seven day a week security system, "that will include human beings and cameras. You will be able to visit the cathedral at any time of the day or night."
"We could complain and take the victim mentality and wait for someone else to do something or do it ourselves. I knew something had to be done and the answer was quite apparent and its an easy answer. A lot of good work was done by my predecessor to make sure our finances were in good shape," cited Monforton.
"I see a beautiful structure that is worn with age. But maybe this can be the springboard and create changes in the South End of the city. I have had conversations with a lot of people. This will happen. This is not a dream. This is real life. I hope to change the city's South End one building at a time and possibly work together with the library and the orthodox church," Monforton said.
"We will also memorialize the churches in the diocese that have closed since the diocese was created as well as the earlier churches that have closed over the years," commented Monforton.
"In the short term the cathedral will remain open. But there will come a time when we will have to close the cathedral in order to do the bell tower work. We also plan to remove the pews and send them out to be completely sanded down and restored to their original beauty," explained Monforton.
He also announced he plans to use businesses and workers from within the diocese.
"I know there may be some work when we don't have the contractors available in our diocese but maybe we can find those services in West Virginia," said Monforton.
Holy Name Catholic Church was built in 1890.
The church on South Fifth Street was designated the diocesan cathedral in 1945 after the eastern Ohio diocese was created.
According to Diocesan spokesperson Pat DeFrancis, the cathedral was rebuilt in 1957 when structural issues were found.
"That is when the two towers were removed. The architectural renderings call for two towers to be added to the cathedral returning the building to its original look," DeFrancis said.
Monforton said improved security at the cathedral should provide an even more positive influence on the neighborhood.
According to Monforton, $2 million was already raised from the fundraising campaign started seven years ago.
"As we move forward with the Holy Name Cathedral renovation project no additional goals will be asked of our diocesan parishes. But I do hope we will work together raising the additional $3 million necessary for the completion of the project," declared Monforton.
"The initial work will be modest at first. But I am confident our trajectory will become much greater in the coming months as we renovate from altar to front doors, from roof to basement hall," concluded Monforton.
Former Bishop R. Daniel Conlon announced plans in 2007 to explore merging six city parishes and building a new church near Catholic Central High School that would serve as the diocesan cathedral.
Conlon announced at the time the combined parishes would be called the Triumph of the Cross parish.
Plans for a new church on hold in 2011.
The diocese announced in November 2011 Conlon was considering a Plan B for a new church and he said the diocesan Finance Council voted, "that the assumption of such a large debt to construct a new parish church, which would also serve as the cathedral, is too risky."
"Plans for Triumph of the Cross Cathedral cannot move forward, despite a successful capital campaign that raised approximately $8.5 million - much of the money is being returned to parishes in the diocese for their use - and bids for the construction coming in as projected, " Conlon said in a statement issued in 2011.
At his final press conference in May 2011 Conlon still supported the idea of a new cathedral.
"I still believe there is an opportunity for the diocese to have a larger cathedral. But that decision will be up to the new bishop," Conlon told reporters.
Monforton said at his introductory press conference in 2012 he was familiar with Conlon's plans to build a new cathedral.
"There are pros and cons with any plan and that is something I will have to explore. I will not dismiss anything that has been discussed in the past," Monforton in July 2012.


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Skutch (rhymes with "butch") is NOT an ebonics word (don't know where they got that idea from) and definitely does NOT mean "slut" or anything like it. It means "pest" and has been used for several generations by Italian-Americans. It comes from the Italian word, "scocciare" (pron. skoh-CHA-reh)which means "to bother or annoy".
"Stop botherin' me, ya skutch!"
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a brat. to be annoying. an ill-mannered child or immature person.
quit being a skutch and stop bothering everyone.
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Someone who is beyond annoying; someone who "rattles your chains" purposefully to get a negative or hostile reaction. A devilish person who tests another's patience TO THE LIMIT !
A younger brother can be a skutch to his angelic, PERFECT sister in order to drive her CRAZY with rage --- so that She will get blamed for losing her temper in the presence of her parents. When the parents are not looking, the DEVILISH brother will then smile at his sister, thinking "Gotcha !"
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A true gentleman's game, in which two or more people use a vehicle (depending on the version being played) and a blunt weapon (primarily baseball bats, but cricket bats are acceptable) to bludgeon deer for sport. Then they proceed to go about or at speeds greater than 50 miles per hour, when one sees the deer in question. Then. One (or two individuals), preferably the one('s) holding the blunt weapon, proceeds to lean out of the vehicle being operated (one would hope skillfully) to bring them into bludgeoning range. Then the individuals with the blunt weapons proceed to bludgeon the animal upside its head. There are variations on this game, for example, Green Skutch (off-road skutch, but a trifle more aggressive) or Sledge skutch (which is even more aggressive than Green skutch) or Buck Skutch (similar to strip poker, only skutch) and last but not least...competitive skutch (played by two or more teams, usually a slightly more complicated version of green skutch). It should be noted that the name of this true gentlemen's game comes from the sound of deer antlers skidding along road of some nature.
Announcer-y voice: Welcome to the Semi-annual competitive buck skutch tournament!! Ryan seacrest and ron white here, ready to comment on every bit of this often times brutal but gentlemenly sport!! Now to our guest, Billy joe, how did you lose your arm?
Billy Joe: I lost it in a local competitive buck skutch game in Ohio, which was kind of really cool cuz they let me keep it.
The announcer: Keep your arm or the deer?
Billy joe laughs: Both!!
Billy Joe: I lost it in a local competitive buck skutch game in Ohio, which was kind of really cool cuz they let me keep it.
The announcer: Keep your arm or the deer?
Billy joe laughs: Both!!
by Billy Bob Joe Tipsy March 09, 2014
gayest word ever, only Staff Sergeant Valdes Arch Duke of Whales would use
"B your such a skutch"
by jukebox-hero March 26, 2010
A person who is a combination of dumb and incompentant.
That pledge is such a skutch for not knowing the greek alphabet.
by Logara February 28, 2010
Another work for skank, but nastier. There were two men's magazines in the 60's called 'skank' and 'skutch.' Both featured chunky 20 something white broads with big saggy titties, bleach blond hair, red lips and nails, and a cigarette.
Uh, dat one nasty skutch, can smell her through the TV.
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The popular tie down system on semi trailers are E track tie down system, which consists of E Tracks and e track tie downs, E tracks come in with a few different length, such as 2′, 5′ and 10′, and there are two different variations , horizontal and vertical. The E Track tie downs have quite a few varieties, such as rope tie off, D ring with E fitting, cam buckle straps with E Fitting, ratchet strap with E Fitting, wood beam socket, wheel chocks which usually seen with E Tracks installed on the truck floor for bike or vehicle tie down and there e track cargo bars with e fittings at both ends. But any E Track tie downs need E Track to be installed to work, so the most important thing is to install the E Track properly.
Here we will discuss E Track setup and safety tips .
When you mount the E Track you will have to look for the wall studs on the trailer, we will focus on doing it on the wall but the same principle applies to the floor as well. The wall stud is basically a big channel with a couple of flat spots on top to attach the plywood to, we just have to do the same to the E Track and bridge two of them somehow, when you figure that out you can use screws to hold the E Track up, you will need deep threaded wood screws or tec screws to get the job done. Basically this is all about installing E Tracks on the wall, and you will have to make sure the E Track sit as flat as possible on the wood. The key to safety is to use screws with deep threads, and put a screw into every hole if it is possible, and run the E track as far as possible (length wise), this helps to spread the load out as far and even as possible. But keep in mind that the outside wall is 2 inches away, make sure the screws won't go too far!
When finish installing E Tracks, you will need to put it to test , just insert an rope tie off into the E Track, drag it all you want, see if there are any weak spots, loose ends or whatever feels not well secured, if there are any problems you will have to fix them before you put the system into real use.


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Sinjoh Ruins
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The Sinjoh Ruins is an event-only area located to the north of the Johto Region, bearing features similar to that of both Sinnoh and Johto lifestyles, hence the name. This location is home to an area known as the Mystri Stage, which can resurrect one of the legendary trio if Arceus is brought forth. Cynthia, the Sinnoh Champion, is temporarily living there, and comments that it brings back memories of her home, Sinnoh. She directs you to the Mystri Stage, and with it, she instructs you to choose one of the three possibilities.
In-Game Method
The only known way to the Sinjoh Ruins is by way bringing an Arceus from a Nintendo event or the Hall of Origin to the Ruins of Alph. If the Arceus is currently the player's partner Pokémon, the lead archaeologist will come across it and ask the player to enter the ruins to unlock a secret. After some waiting, the screen will turn black and both the player and Arceus will be teleported to the Sinjoh Ruins. In a nearby cabin outside the snowbound ruins, Cynthia will be found waiting for the player, and will tell them that she feels that something is going to happen at the Mystri Stage (Japanese: みつぶたい Triad Stage).
Cynthia will escort the player back into the ruins and show them the stage, which is linked to Arceus's power of creation. The player will get a choice to obtain only one of either Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina at level 1, equipped with their respective orbs. Arceus must be the only Pokémon in the player's party for this to occur, and a PC is inside the cabin near the ruins for the player to use to deposit all others. Once the player chooses one of three circles, a swarm of Unown will surround Arceus, and a sequence will follow whereby Arceus will create an egg of the desired legendary Pokémon. As the event ends, the player and Arceus will be teleported back to the Ruins of Alph, where the archaeologist will observe that the nature of the Unown and Arceus' connection is yet another unsolved mystery.
It has been found that if you have both a TRU/Michina Arceus and a Hall of Origin Arceus, and you go down into the room where you teleported you can repeat the event. You can only use an Arceus that hasn't participated in the event. Arceus from Action Replay will actually work, but only if it's at level 100.
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The Kentucky Division of Forestry's mission of helping people conserve tree resources has been tested this year.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that one of the state's two tree nurseries has been crippled by a tornado that hit Morgan County in March. Several buildings were blown away, as was the nursery's firefighting equipment.
Most seedlings that were 1 to 2 feet tall — about 700 — were largely unscathed.
The nursery begins selling trees in winter, and then waits for the right conditions to pull them out of the ground.
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Charlotte returns three starters and eight letterwinners off last season's team led by preseason second-team All-Atlantic 10 selection senior Chris Braswell, junior guard DeMario Mayfield and preseason A-10 All-Defensive team selection sophomore Pierria Henry. Last season, Braswell led the 49ers in scoring (15.8 ppg) and rebounding (7.6 rpg) en route to earning third-team All-Atlantic 10 honors. Mayfield finished third on the team in scoring (11.2 ppg) and second on the team in rebounding (7.0 rpg) last year. Henry, who earned A-10 All-Rookie team honors, ranked among the nation's leaders in steals with 72. He also averaged 7.2 points per game while dishing out a team-high 96 assists.
Rounding out the 49ers returners are seniors Ilija Ivankovic, Colby Lewis and Lamar Bradbury and sophomores E. Victor Nickerson and Terrence Williams. Nickerson saw action in 30 games with four starts last year. While, Williams saw action in 29 games with two starts last year. Ivankovic, Lewis and Bradbury gave the 49ers quality minutes off the bench last year. Mike Thorne, who redshirted last season, will give the 49ers size and length this season.
Completing the 49ers roster are six talented newcomers: graduate student JT Thompson and freshmen Ivan Benkovic, Darion Clark, Willie Clayton, Denzel Ingram and Mitch Warner.
The last time the 49ers were in action, Charlotte defeated Pfeiffer, 95-51, in an exhibition game in Halton Arena, November 1. In that game, the 49ers had three players' record double-doubles. Clark led the 49ers with 19 points and 12 rebounds. Thorne scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds off the bench. Clayton scored 10 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Williams scored 16 points and Ingram scored 13 points including four-for-five from the three-point line.
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Could one describe the subsets of the integers closed under the binary operation Ax+By where A and B are arbitrary fixed integers ? That is, describe the subsets S of the integers such that if $x,y\in S$ then $Ax+By\in S$. Or just the minimal such subsets containing 1.
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awesome death scene, so was I monterbating myself?
Ok, so Marco now seems a little less suspicious than Lizzy.
FYI I have everything but had to work early again yesterday, just got off. Gonna take a bit to settle in and I'll have something updated soon.
As the sun rose over the small group of cabins the first few campers stumbled out of their rooms, looking around and expecting the worst. It didn't take long to discover a trail of the same tire treads heading into one of the rooms and back out again. Everybody gathered around the door and they opened it, revealing what they feared to be true.
Inside Byronic's body sat on the bead. In the middle of his forehead his phone jutted out like a cybernetic unicorn of some kind. His right hand had been cut off and replaced with a drill, and one of the car batteries sat beside him with a bunch of cables running from it to his body. The monsters had tried another attempt to make him as one of their own, again failing. They seemed to not understand how the human body worked.
Fell asleep, just woke up so you get "eh" fluff. Again note that this is just fluff and unrelated to their powers. It'll explicitly say when/if that happens.
1 ZombiePlatypus
2 usedtabe
3 Tarvu
4 Muckfoot - First Cyborg Experiment...failed.
5 djnealb - Axed in the brain> MONSTER
6 Panzadolphin56
7 Artful-dodgeR
8 Byronic Man - Second Cyborg Experiment...failed.
9 Bizarro - Slow roasted over a lovely fire
10 Mxy
11 Jdawg
12 Dexter - Flayed by Ghost Robots
13 Flamoctapus - Victim of an old fashioned lynching
14 Hatman
15 MarcoSnow
16 Fraser Brown - Smashed by Ghost Robots
17 From the River - Ate a bullet in grief
18 RedBeard
19 Nihil
20 lizzardKing - Burned alive in his own motor fluids> MONSTER
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That juicy attempt at a setup. Byronic suggests killing me to prove my role,Robutts off him to point suspicion at me. Dem rookie strategies. Villagers if you need to off me today go for it. It would still be part of the plan considering I'm in group two.
The bastards won't kill you because you have a useful role which the martyr would've loved to have used.
I'm okay with killing used if it confirms his plan to anyone doubting.
Well, we've bagged two from Group 2, that's good enough for me.
Also, loving the fluff. Are we on Day phase now?
In my opinion, I think we should still go for group 2 because of the possible 2 confirmed villagers within it. We would have better odds.
This whole game Marco hasn't been playing like himself. He usually makes large post, makes frequent post, and breaks down the situations to help the villagers. I just havn't seen enough of that this game from him. This could possibly be that he is the Robot in group 2.
With no other leads, and the odds being better to lynch in group 2.. Lynch Marco.
Well shit. I'm st
oneumped. Dibs on his phone.
I'll give it some thought for the night as I doubt everyone would have voted by then. Leaning towards nominating Marco though.
For what it's worth, Used has confirmed two robots for us so far, which leaves one to go in group two and one in group one, if I remember correctly. If he were a robot, it would be an extremely ballsy move to claim to be the Nerd role and arbitrarily split the player list in two, essentially offering up some of his robot cohorts on a silver platter. This seems unlikely, as it could go wrong in any number of ways:
1) The real Nerd could call his bluff (which they haven't)
2) The Seer could check him out to see if he's the real deal (seer hasn't outed anyone yet; though he may be playing his cards close to his vest)
3) Being a veteran, I don't believe Used would have
While his prolonged survival in spite of being a "confirmed" camper (or as close as we can get to one thus far) does raise some questions, given the results we've been getting (two of four by Used's intel) I'm more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Better to have a potentially confirmed villager on our side than another dead camper, just sayin'.
Here are the two groups as they stand now:
Group 1
1. ZombiePlatypus
2. Tarvu
3. Artful-dodgeR
4. Mxy
5. Jdawg
6. Nihil
Group 2
7. usedtabe
8. Panzadolphin56
9. Hatman
10. MarcoSnow
11. RedBeard
The strategy laid down thus far has served us very well. Of the 9 people who've been killed (3 killed by campers, 5 killed by bots, 1 suicide), we've successfully lynched 2 of the 4 bots (going by Used's intel). At 9-2 (with one bot confirmed in group two) our odds are damn good to win the game (if only by attrition, in the absence of a seer role).
Once we clear group two (1:5 chance to kill a ghost-bot), we've got a 1:6 chance of taking out a bot. If the seer's still kickin', he should be thoroughly investigating group one to find the embedded bot and save us some casualties down the line. Let's spill some mechtoplasm(tm) up in dis bitch.
Given all the hints that CB's been dropping, do you guys think the robots' special ability involves "turning" a villager into a ghost-bot abomination? If it is, CB, you are one evil bastard.
Vote-wise, I'm currently leaning towards Hatman, due to his suggestion that we vote Used for the sake of "confirming" him/his plan (see my reasoning above). Tentatively voting Hatman, for now.Originally Posted by Hatman
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Yeah I wonder whats up w. them trying to turn people. Must be lonely sons a bitches.
I vote Hatman
I'm going to be busy today, so I am putting in a tentative vote now just in case I can't check in. I'm still of the persuasion that we should keep knocking away at group two, but we shouldn't forget that crazy-ghobot-Lizzzzard pointed a finger at ZP before he was lynched and I honestly think that it was a true spoiler. But for now I nominate Hatman.


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When you type a function in Matlab, quickly a suggestion box comes up showing functions similar to the one you're typing. I thought that Mathematica didn't have this but one day, I typed half of a function and the went to the kitchen when I got back, the suggestion box was there. I'm not sure if it appears after some time or if I accidentaly pressed some key.
Do you mean CtrlShiftK?
After typing
As pointed by Yves,CtrlK will also work,but CtrlShiftK will work differently if you finish the function name. For an example,
Mathematica will show:
Besides the nice real handy option suggested by @yulinlinyu (more here) you can also use text-based interface to find completion for your half-typed function. It is not that fast, but has its own advantages. Try executing this:
and you'll get this nice table of possible functions that complete your input. If you click on any you'll get short definition - as you can see below. And if you click on
This is how, for example, I discovered that Mathematica supports the awesome
Sometimes instead of handy shorthands like in the other answers, you'll find more useful
If you want to look at the documentation of a given name :
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Garcia Leads at the Players
Tiger Woods, sloughing off years of mostly mediocre play at the Players Championship since he won there in 2001, rode five birdies and an eagle Friday to enter the weekend at 10-under-par. As of late Friday afternoon, that put him one shot behind an even more surprising leader: Sergio Garcia. Garcia, with eight birdies and a 65 Friday, won the Players in 2008 but has won only once on Tour since and only recently has shown signs of emerging from a slump. First-round leader Roberto Castro skied to a 78.
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A Battle of Unbeatens in Portugal
Portuguese soccer powers Porto and Benfica face off Sunday with the title on the line. With just two games left in the season, the rivals are separated by just two points and both teams have yet to lose a game. Benfica currently leads, and has a chance to win three trophies this season, having already reached the finals of the Europa League and Portuguese Cup. History could repeat itself in the Primeira Liga, with both teams also undefeated in 1977-78, but that time Porto came out on top.
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I would like to know how many satellites are physically able to be in place, at the same time, orbiting the earth. Lets ignore which Nations need or use the most satellites (area in space above them) and assume an even distribution. My understanding is each satellite is inline with a degree on earth (longitude), but there are only 180 of these. Would you then be able to line up satellites on each degree of latitude for each degree of longitude? So 180 x 180 = 32400? Or is there more to this? Could you put a satellite either further or nearer to the earth so they would almost overlap to make room for more?
This is actually quite a complex problem. At large numbers of satellites, gravitational effects need to be considered. A real answer would need values such as 'every satellite has the same mass and volume' etc. Basically you can keep adding satellites until Earth becomes a black hole. Satellites are very dense since they have lots of metal (which is a dense material) In my opinion, a great 'answer' to this question would be a fun computer simulation.
If we just use the values given by Phil H, we fit in satellites between 2000 km and 35786 km altitudes. $R_E$, the radius of the Earth is 6371km. So we calculate the volume: $V_{total}=\frac{4}{3} \pi [(d_2+R_E)^3-(d_1+R_E)^3]=\frac{4}{3}\pi (42157^3-8371^3)=9.341\times10^{14}\,\text{km}^3$
We assume that all the satellites have mass of $m_s = 800\,\text{kg}$ (note that this is a 'fantasy' problem so we don't really need to follow real world statistics) and volume $V_s=4.8 \,\text{m} \times 4.8 \,\text{m} \times 5.5 \,\text{m} = 1.267 \times 10^{-7} \, \text{km}^3$
Thus, the total mass of the orbiting satellites will be $M_{total} = \frac{m_s}{V_s} V_{total}= 5.90 \times 10^{24}\,\text{kg}$
Now let's compare that to the mass of the Earth, $M_E=5.97\times 10^{24} \,\text{kg}$.
Notice how $M_{total} \approx M_E$, though this is just due to some values which we chose and does not arise from some values which arise from nature.
Satellites are very small, so there would have to be an enormous number to use up the 'space' available.
You mention lattitude and longitude which suggests an explanation of LEO and GEO (Low and Geostationary Earth Orbits) would help. in Geostationary orbit (e.g. TV satellites), the satellite orbits at a specific distance so that it's always in the same place in the sky, as its orbit is then 24 hours long. This special orbit runs around the equator, as any other inclination would make it move in the sky, in a figure of eight.
In a lower orbit, the satellite appears over the horizon, zips across the sky and disappears again. This is why GPS systems don't have an antenna or dish that you point at one place, as GPS uses a constellation (group) of many satellites at 20,200 km altitude.
So the available space for satellites extends from Low Earth Orbit (2,000 km up), e.g. telecomms satellites and Hubble, out to the moon, which is our only natural satellite. Mostly they stay between LEO and GEO (35,786 km altitude).
Having said all that, the more we put up there, the more junk we end up with as pieces fall off satellites, or they collide, or they are hit by other space junk. This is increasingly a concern as early missions largely assumed everything would end up burning up in the atmosphere eventually.
The space available for satellites, then, is very large. Even in a single LEO orbit there is more 'space' than the distance around the equator. The Geostationary orbit has a limited number of spaces available by international agreement to prevent collisions or interference.


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My phone is currently riding around New York City under the seat of a taxi cab. I'm watching its progress with the Find iPhone app.
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The April issue of Health Care News reports on a poll conducted by Managing Editor Benjamin Domenech of Republican governors, asking how they plan to deal with Obamacare's requirement that they establish insurance exchanges. Only two – Florida's Rick Scott and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal – said they had no plans to move forward on an exchange. Most of the others are considering establishing exchanges with a sunset provision that would dismantle them if Obamacare is repealed, defunded, or struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Only Mississippi's Haley Barbour planned to go full steam ahead with an exchange.
Also in this issue:
- Although the U.S. remains the world leader in medical innovation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers finds that lead has slipped and will continue to decline over the next decade.
- Increased Medicare eligibility and higher costs under Obama's health care law are creating big new burdens for already-strained state budgets.
- States have little flexibility under Obama's law to move toward more consumer-friendly systems; Vermont is the first to consider single payer.
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Lottery ticket retirement fund
When I asked Will what went wrong, he said, "Remember about twelve years ago when I told you to invest in Apple Inc., but you said, 'Music is a luxury, but everyone needs energy,' so you put all your money in Enron?"
"Oh, I'd blocked that from my memory," I said. Then I asked him what I should do now. Will said, "Do you have access to a time machine?" I replied, "No, but most of the clothes in my closet make it seem like I'm still living in the 1970s."
"Well, in that case," he said, "if you can't go back in time and put your money in Apple and Google stock, your only hope now is to invest in the lottery."
"The lottery?" I asked. "What are the odds of winning?" He quickly answered, "Better than the odds of going back in time and making the right financial moves."
So I started thinking about the lottery. Hmm, maybe that is my best chance of coming into the kind of dough I'll need to be able to retire for more than 13 months. "Eleven months," Will corrected, apparently able to read my thoughts.
There's only one problem with the lottery: I comprehend the odds. Here in Connecticut, the state lottery uses this slogan: "You can't win if you don't play." A more accurate slogan would be: "You can't win. Period."
Yes, I know that someone wins the lottery, but it's never you and it's never me. Also, it's never even someone closely related to you or me who might share some of that good fortune. So statistically speaking, the odds of winning a lottery jackpot are the same as getting access to a time machine: zero.
The lottery also is depressing. When I stop by a convenience store in the morning to pick up needed supplies for work (coffee, newspaper, Hostess Fruit Pies), I see a lot of sad souls spending what appears to be a major chunk of the rent money on lotto tickets.. Then they sit behind the wheel of their rusty 1996 Chevy Cavaliers and frantically scratch away, hoping to hit it big. When all the tickets turn up losers, they light a cigarette and stare off into space with a desperate "What am I going to do now?" look on their faces. (Who says poor people don't pay taxes? When you factor in how much money the government sucks out of their wallets via cigarette taxes and lotto tickets, they're in the Mitt Romney tax bracket.)
Instead of blowing my money on lottery tickets, I'll try to increase the value of my retirement fund by investing my money wisely. After buying stock in companies such as World Com, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, Tribune Media, Solyndra, and the airline industry, I'm overdue to pick a winner.
If not, I'll still enjoy my 13 months of retirement. Oops, Will just reminded me: "Eleven."
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I'm looking for some good types of cardio exercises that are good for someone with knee problems, especially knees that have patella dislocation problems. I've tried the elliptical machine and found it to be far too boring for me to want to use on a regular basis. I also used to surf a lot, but that's really painful for my knees. So, I need something new to try that won't be boring and won't cause me excess knee pain.
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Any type of low-impact cardio, but swimming would be the best since there is zero-impact. Stay away from any type of jumping or rotating activities as jumping notoriously leads to dislocated patellas.
Other than exercises recommended by @Alison S answer, you can also try upper body cardio exercises, such as rowing (or rowing machine) or kranking.
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I am struggling with this problem for a while now. I have a property grid, and I would like to give the 1st column a background color.
The API Docs say that I can place a renderer on a column by retrieving it's columnmodel. But when I try to do that it doesn't work. Here is my code:
pgrid.getColumnModel().setRenderer(0, function(value, metadata, record, row, col, store){ metadata.attr = 'style="background-color:#FF00FF;"'; return value; });
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I've got regional data loaded into a PostGIS table and want to merge regions that share the same parent name (and ultimately output the data as KML.)
This is my query (I'm using php):
SELECT ST_AsTEXT(geom) FROM ST_UNION(ARRAY(SELECT geom FROM RegionsRaw WHERE (ParentName = '" . $parentName . "'))) AS geom;
When I run this script, I'm getting strange results:
It's pretty obvious that certain areas are a little messed up and I have a hunch that it's because some of the polygons I'm merging are next to each other (where I'm seeing success) while others are islands and separated from the rest (getting weird results).
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I understand that Sharia is the religious law of Islam. Is the term "Sharia Law" redundant? I hear and read it all the time.
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Yes, it's a pleonasm.
Some pleonasms are considered irritating or clumsy by some people, "cacophony of sound", "ATM machine".
Some are idiomatic, "safe haven".
Some are idiomatic in some dialects, such as "I'm after writing down an example of Hiberno-English" in Hiberno-English.
And some are the result of borrowings from other languages. Place names are common examples ("Walla Walla River" means "river river" and "Bredon Hill" means "hill hill hill"), and "Sharia Law" would be another example. As such, it's probably best to use it when you want to be understood by an averagely informed audience.
I understand the reasoning of those who say that this is redundant, like "ATM machine". But I don't think it really is. "Sharia" is being used as an adjective to describe a type of law.
Like: In my part of the U.S. there is a chain of grocery stores called "Kroger's". To the best of my knowlege, the only business they operate is grocery stores. So is it redundant to say, "I went to Kroger's grocery store"? You could argue that, "I went to Kroger's" is sufficient, as Kroger's identifies a kind of grocery store -- it can't be anything else.
But the reader doesn't necessarily know who or what Kroger is. To someone from another country, "Kroger's" might be any kind of store, or a zoo, or my friend Bob Kroger's house, or many other possibilities. Depending on the context, the reader may not even realize that it's a place. (I once read that the best selling postcard of all time was one showing a young couple sitting on a park bench, and the caption reads: "He: Do you like Kipling? She: I don't know, you naughty boy. I've never kipled." If he had asked, "Do you like Kipling's books?" there would have been no ambiguity. And no joke.)
I don't think it's redundant to supply additional information to identify something that may be unfamiliar to the reader. I can think of many examples where we do this. If I write, "Sally, Fred's wife, drives a blue car", you could say that it's redundant to give both her name and to identify her as "Fred's wife", either of these things by itself would identify who I am talking about, unless Fred has more than one wife or there is more than one Sally to whom I might be referring. But even if neither of those things is true, the reader may not know that Fred and Sally are married, or they may know that Fred is married but not know the name of his wife, etc.
If you want to carry it to an extreme, almost every statement is redundant if you assume that the reader already knows everything that you have to say.
Sharia is indeed law. But not everyone knows that, so "Sharia Law" is a hint for those.
Sharia is described as a moral code and as law, so I suppose that the use of the additional word "law" might occur to distinguish the more legalistic aspects, to use parallel phrasing when discussing different types of law, or simply to jog the memories of half-aware Western readers. In any event, you should not capitalize the word "law" in this context, since it's not part of the name.
The word for law used in Arabic is Qaanun, and it does not have a religious context necessarily (although it might have religious roots, I'm not sure). Thus Shari3a is, as @Iucounu notes, a moral and legal code - but it is not "law" per se. Note that the linked-to article mentions Qaanun Islaami, Islamic Law, as a synonym for Sharia'.
So, yeah, it's a pleonasm...


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According to news articles (eg here) the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into US law 2-Jan-2012, apparently requires defense contractors to report intrusions. What defines a defense contractor? What defines an intrusion (or penetration as they call it)? What is required to reported to who?
I was asking because I was curious and wondered how it would affect the community at large. In general I'm a proponent of more sharing among the good guys and wondered how far reaching this would be. My experience has been that most companies dislike confessing to intrusions yet I'd be shocked of any company that hasn't had an intrusion of some sort (or at least an attempt).
If the definition of contractor is narrow (eg companies defined as members of the Defense Industrial Base and penetration is defined as access to Top Secret documents) it will have less an impact than if it more broad (eg companies are any companies with gov contracts, and penetrations are any outside access to any system).
The act itself is vague and I'm asking if anybody knows more about what is intended. I presume the law did not come out of this air and there is a back story as to what caused it and what is intended.


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If my girlfriend was going to travel with me to, say, Jordan, or where-ever, should she probably wear a hijab when she's out and about in public?
In most Muslim countries, keeping the arms and legs (and of course the cleavage) covered would be considered completely sufficient, especially for someone who is visibly a foreigner.
Some (e.g. Turkey, at least the bigger cities) are much more tolerant and nobody will feel offended by bare arms or legs. The strictest dress code exists in Saudi Arabia, where women are required to wear the black abaya, but not (at least in theory) to cover their heads. However, as an unmarried couple you'd be breaking the law just by spending time together, so you'll probably not want to go there anyway.
Definitely not in Jordan, except in places like a mosque where you may want to show some respect but it would be enough to put a light foulard on your head. However, other countries may be more strict about this.
It depends on the country. On the flight to Tehran, the crew members reminded female passengers that headscarves are required attire in public, and that all women should put on a headscarf now, before the aircraft lands.
Clothing expectations are generally cultural and legal rather than religious. The best bet is to do some research for the country (or countries) you plan to visit.
For example, in Indonesia (the world's largest Muslim country by population), it is acceptable for women to dress casually in most places, bikinis on the beach, and so on. But if you're going to visit a mosque, you would probably be expected to dress more modestly.
At the other end of the spectrum, Saudi Arabia is probably the most conservative.
There is no standard for "Muslim dress" any more than there is for "Christian dress" or "Jewish dress", do some research on the country you plan to visit and act accordingly. The Lonely Planet guide books (and website) are a great resource for independent travellers.


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Jeff Piecoro is the color analyst on the UK football radio network. He played wide receiver for the Cats from 1980-84. Piecoro also works for FOX Sports Ohio and hosts pre and post game shows on the Cincinnati Reds television network.
Kent Taylor: What do you think of all the heat around Joker Phillips heading into this season?
Jeff Piecoro: I think fans around the state are all about "what have you done for me lately." They have forgotten all about the "Coach in Waiting" thing and that he was the Second Coming, so to speak. It took Coach Brooks a couple of years to get things going and I hope they give Joker the same leeway. I really think from a fan standpoint they have to get to a bowl game this year for him to have a secure job.
K.T.: What is your sense for the direction that the program is headed, with wins over Steve Spurrier and over Tennessee in his first two years as the head man?
J.P.: This is a very young team, the two deep depth chart is like 24 young kids, freshmen and redshirt freshmen, so I think that they have a great nucleus to build on. If they get through this year, I think they're really set up to explode the next couple of seasons.
K.T.: Has Max Smith shown you enough to make you think he can be a QB who can win in the SEC?
J.P.: From what they have, yeah. A lot of people want to see Patrick Towles, but he's not ready yet. I've been to practice, it's a very complex offense, much different than high school. There aren't a lot of freshman quarterbacks that start in the SEC. Tim Tebow didn't start as a freshman. Give Patrick Towles some time, he's going to be there. There are a lot of young kids here who are going to make an impact. Max, he has really come on. What the fans don't see is him at practice, him in the weight room, him this summer, really comfortable with these guys and becoming a leader. The light went on for him last year and he's one of those guys the kids like to follow. I think he'll be just fine.
K.T.: As many coaches as you have seen at UK, what do you like about Joker?
J.P.: I like the fact that this isn't a steppingstone for him. This is where he wants to be. His heart is here, he's from Kentucky, he played here, this was his dream job. A lot of people aspire to go other places – not him, this is where he wants to be.
K.T.: With football season starting and the Reds so hot, how excited are you?
J.P.: The best part for me is this time of year. The baseball team is doing great, so it's great being with those guys everyday, but there is just something special about Saturdays in the fall, and being able to travel to the great stadiums around the country. It's a dream job.
K.T.: How long have you been on the UK radio network?
J.P.: This is my 11th year.
K.T.: How long have you been on the Reds network?
J.P.: 15 years.
K.T.: Is this the first legitimate chance you feel like they've had a shot to win the World Series?
J.P.: There have been 3 winning seasons since I've been doing this for them. I think that they were blessed this year, not a real tough division, some injuries within the division, especially to the Cardinals. Losing Chris Carpenter was a huge blow to them. They've taken care of the teams that are below .500, they've played right around .500 ball against the good teams. That puts them 20-something games over .500.
Are they built to go the long haul? I don't know about the World Series, but I think they can win the division. Can they win the Championship? Possibly, all you need are some really good pitchers and they have two good ones in Johnny Cueto and Mat Latos, and of course the back end with (Aroldis) Chapman is unbelievable.
K.T.: Is Chapman the National League Cy Young Award winner?
J.P.: This may sound crazy for me to say, but I think he has a better chance of winning the M.V.P., than he does the Cy Young Award.
K.T.: Who is the one guy on the Reds who you want to hit the winning home run, you want to get the winning hit, because you know he'll be a great interview?
J.P.: Todd Frazier. What a joy, he's still like that Little Leaguer for Toms River, New Jersey, who won the Little League World Series. Everyday to him he pinches himself, 'I'm in the Major Leagues, I'm getting paid to play this game.' He's so much fun to watch, he's so much fun to be around. He's the one guy that keeps it a game to these guys, who all think it's work.
Kent Taylor is a sports anchor for WAVE 3. See more of his work at www.wave3.com or by tuning in to the NBC affiliate.


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Ignoring the top 5-10% of port numbers for common services that are the commonly targeted by port scanners (i.e. ports 22-ssh, 23-telnet, 80-http, 139-smb/cifs, 443-https, 3389-rdp, etc.), are the balance of the port numbers scanned in a statistically random way?
In other words, for a random IP (i.e. the IP of someone who is not the target of a directed attack) are there ports or ranges of ports that are more or less likely to be scanned?
Are there any honeypots that keep track of statistics on port scans of random IPs?
Definitely. See http://nmap.org/svn/nmap-services for a listing of ports and the expected chances that they'll be open.
Nmap offers two options that relate to that:
Other methods include ports < 1024, listed in an /etc/services files, etc. "By default, Nmap scans the most common 1000 ports for each protocol." I consider nmap to be the default tool, but of course there are others that are common enough.
I would guess that high-numbers ports (49152–65535... the unregistered list) are the least likely to be scanned. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers
In no case I can imagine besides generating statistics would statistically random scanning be helpful as compared to deterministic ratio scanning, and I have never heard of anything that does that.
For some statistics from the honey pot side, there are papers out there. http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~clbailey/PortScans.pdf is an example of one.
The way attackers go about portscans is to first target those with known exploits or commonly weak protection.
The list at http://www.iss.net/security_center/advice/Exploits/Ports/default.htm is one typical list.
Sure, you get some scanners who go for the entire port range, but as that is far less effective, this list is going to be a pretty good indication of the most scanned ports.
In Addition to @RoryAlsop 's answer, the NMAP project maintains a list of ports along with the likelihood that it will be found to be open here,
DShield's Port Report may have the information you are looking for. DShield collects firewall logs from volunteers and then provides summarized data from the logs to the community.
No, if a scan continues past the "well known services" stage, then it's simply scanning the ranges of ports specified by the user. The user may specify "random" port ranges - "Let's check 10,000 - 12,000 and 27,000 - 29,000" - but that's not statistically random, it's a couple of arbitrary blocks chosen by the user.
The sort of scan you are wondering about, a statistically random distribution of individual ports throughout the entire space, is mathematically unlikely to be any better than a brute force scan of all ports, and is likely to be worse in hit rate (although faster, ha ha). To the best of my knowledge and experience, no tool implements a "scan randomly" setting.
Security is often a cat-and-mouse game. Some clever people are likely to put their own important private service up on a port that is rarely scanned. So some clever scanners going after whatever it is that the clever people are hiding, might be expected to preferentially look at ports that are rarely-scanned by others.


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WEST LIBERTY - A local university started 2013 by kicking an old habit to the curb.
Tuesday was the first day of West Liberty University's campus-wide no tobacco policy. Students won't be back on campus until the Jan. 12 weekend, with classes starting Jan. 14. The policy includes parking areas and all grounds on campus.
In addition to cigarettes, use of electronic cigarettes, chew, pipes, cigars, hookah or waterpipe smoking, snus and snuff also is banned.
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CHANGES — West Liberty University physical plant employee Tom Miller installs a "tobacco free" sign on campus just before Christmas. -- Contributed
Another local college, West Virginia Northern Community College, implemented its tobacco-free policy in November. The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Board a few years ago approved a county-wide smoking ban, but it did not include outdoor areas. A few businesses, such as Ohio Valley Medical Center and Wheeling Hospital, have instituted their own outdoor bans.
Jim Stultz, vice president of human resources at WLU, said university officials began mulling a ban in 2011, with the school's board of governors adopting the measure in June 2012. Last fall, the school began educating its students and employees about the policy. It also offered smoking cessation classes and plans to do so again.
"Our stance is that tobacco use is an addiction issue and people need support," Stultz said.
In terms of enforcement, Stultz said the university does not want to be confrontational with people, but if there are repeat offenders they can receive written warnings. The school does not have the legal authority to issue fines for tobacco use. Those who receive written warnings and still refuse to comply could face suspension or be expelled, he said.
Stultz said he smoked cigarettes, though not heavily, years ago while he was in college and in the U.S. Army. He quit the habit cold turkey.
"We realize for some it's a struggle. ... The habit is obviously not good for you," he said, noting cigarette butts littering campus also had become an unsightly problem.
The campus bookstore will be selling nicotine gum and nicotine patches to help individuals kick the habit.


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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Paperback)
December 2010 Indie Next List
"Unbroken is a vivid story of Louis Zamperini who, as an athlete, ran in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and then became an airman when World War II broke out. When his plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, he and two other crew members floated in a tiny raft across thousands of miles of ocean only to be rescued by the Japanese and placed in a POW camp. This book is about survival, emotional and physical endurance, hope, humor, and determination. An absolutely mesmerizing and incredible story."
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In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.
"Unbroken "is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by "Seabiscuit" author Laura Hillenbrand.
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I'm starting to use GTD, mostly the manual way (e.g. pen and notebook). Are there useful web applications out there for helping you stay on top of things? It need not be specifically for GTD, but I'm interested in the options.
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A ton of webapps exist that are designed for this purpose, so you are in luck!
Some standout applications are:
Check out these awesome Mashable roundups though, they have a ton of apps listed for this purpose!
Yes there are many online options (see other answers). It is matter of personal taste and match which one would suit the best.
To answer your question 'do you use a web app for GTD' - not any more. I used to use Remember the Milk with Gears, but for over a year, what works best for me is combination of Things on MBPro with Things on iPad/iPhone, supported by Evernote for additional collecting / reference material.
I also found Dropbox and Google Docs useful for the reference material to projects.
I tend to use a texteditor, combined with google calendar, to organize my time, my days.
Here's a list of on-line webapps. Todoist has a nice clean interface.
I tried Nirvana and was extremely impressed by it. They are still in private beta, but I didn't have to wait very long to get access. They will always have a free plan, but it is not clear at this stage what that will entail.


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For Proxy Advisers, Influence Wanes
The landscape for proxy advisers is getting rockier.
Big firms that sell recommendations on how to vote in corporate elections are losing some of their relevance, as companies more aggressively court key investors ahead of big votes and those investors handle more of the voting analysis themselves.
Consider J.P. Morgan Chase JPM -0.20 % & Co. The two biggest proxy advisers—Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass, Lewis & Co.—recommended that shareholders support a nonbinding proposal to split the roles of chairman and chief executive held by James Dimon.
But the nation's largest bank by assets mounted an unusually intense shareholder lobbying effort to defeat it. And at Tuesday's annual meeting, the proposal won just 32.2% of the vote.
"Our power is probably shrinking a little bit,'' said David Eaton, vice president of proxy research for Glass Lewis.
ISS and Glass Lewis dominate an industry that evolved to bring a critical lens to the management proposals that mutual funds and asset managers traditionally had rubber-stamped in corporate elections.
Money managers may invest in dozens of companies, and many have relied on ISS and Glass Lewis for a second opinion about how to vote on ballot issues like shareholder proposals, the election of directors and merger deals.
Those investment firms, however, are doing more of the work themselves. BlackRock Inc., BLK 0.79 % the world's largest money manager by assets, relied more on proxy advisory firms until it bought Barclays Global Investors in 2009. Barclays had its own team of corporate governance specialists, which now handles research on companies across the world for the entire company, a spokesman said.
BlackRock has become more vocal on corporate governance issues. Last year, it mailed a letter to 600 of its biggest holdings urging the companies to meet with BlackRock before meeting with proxy advisers.
Vanguard Group Inc., the biggest mutual-fund firm by assets, employs about a dozen analysts to research companies year-round, said Glenn Booraem, a principal and fund controller. ISS and Glass Lewis reports represent only one tool for making voting decisions, he said. "Their recommendations don't determine where we end up," Mr. Booraem said.
In recent years, Vanguard has communicated more often with companies it invests in, Mr. Booraem said. Chief Executive F. William McNabb III has written companies explaining Vanguard's position on certain issues, he said.
ISS, founded in 1985, has 1,700 clients that manage about $25 trillion in assets world-wide. Its corporate-election recommendations "matter more now than they have ever mattered,'' said President Gary Retelny. "Ninety-four percent of our clients renew every year."
ISS was owned by RiskMetrics Inc., a J.P. Morgan spinoff, before it was acquired by MSCI Inc. MSCI 1.40 % in 2010. The firm has long been criticized for selling corporate governance consulting services to some of the same companies that are the subject of its voting recommendations. ISS said it has adopted policies to guard against possible conflicts of interest.
Glass Lewis is owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, a Canadian pension fund. Founded in 2003, the firm counts as clients more than 900 institutional investors that manage more than $15 trillion world-wide. Glass Lewis lacks a consulting arm.
Proxy advisers' advice has carried considerable clout. According to a 2002 study published in the journal Financial Management, a negative recommendation on management proposals from ISS influenced between 13.6% and 20.6% of the vote.
Their influence increased after a 2010 federal law required companies to give shareholders a vote on how they pay executives. Companies don't have to act on those say-on-pay votes, but poor outcomes can embarrass board members and fuel wider shareholder discontent.
About 70% of 110 large and midsize companies said their executive-pay practices are influenced by proxy-advisory firms, according to a 2012 study co-led by the Conference Board, a New York research group.
Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ 0.50 % is a typical example. ISS had opposed the technology company's pay practices this year, criticizing the board for not taking into account an $8.8 billion write-down related to a flawed acquisition when determining incentive awards. H-P modified its compensation plan just days before the annual meeting. ISS responded by dropping its negative recommendation. The say-on-pay vote passed. An H-P spokesman declined to comment.
But that influence is starting to change the picture. Companies eager to head off "no" votes are more aggressively dispatching top executives and board members to court investors and argue against ISS's and Glass Lewis's recommendations. The outreach is having an effect.
"We have seen less failed say-on-pay votes this year than either of the previous two years,'' said Mr. Eaton, the Glass Lewis executive. Glass Lewis and ISS also said they are making proportionately fewer negative recommendations on pay votes this year.
Smaller investors still rely heavily on proxy advisers, in part because they often lack the resources to fund their own analysts.
David Royal, deputy general counsel of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, an insurance company and mutual-fund firm with $85 billion in assets under management, said ISS reports help guide its thinking about corporate ballots. Thrivent's stakes in companies are often too small to justify doing all the research itself.
"We can't justify spending an inordinate amount of time on it," he said.
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