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For as the universe has existed there has been a war, the oldest war, Good and Evil, Light and Dark. Pitted against each other and always fighting for supremacy of the world.
Now, in the year 3621, the fight is reaching new heights. Civilians are killed by the hundreds each day by mercenaries and warriors. Peace is from an age forgotten.
Some Light and Dark have joined in a union of brother and sisterhood to restore the world to its forgotten times. The Union of Peace is hated and feared, its hypocritical methods of mass destruction and links to powerful men has given it control of the world and its entire population. Now Light and Dark have a common enemy but that does not join them, allies between the two are few and far apart. But nevertheless they must fight together to stop the tyrant Sadan Tarenuk The atrocities of the Union created the Civilian Underground movements to overthrow them and Sadan. Dark has become Light and Light is Dark. Chaos is revered among the madmen in charge and nothing but perhaps a few with determination can stop them.
A new political storm is brewing again; World War 4 is dawning on the horizon. And now you must choose your side.
There are just a few things that Id like you to put in Ooc:s but are not compulsory.
1. Character name.
2. Light, Dark.
3. Sadan, The Underground.
Ooc: My own: Character name is Star. Is a follower of Dark and the Underground.
The hot and sticky dusk had given way to a cold and clammy midnight, if there had people they would have locked the doors, if there had been wolves they would have howled, if there had been rats they would have hid in the crawling shadows. But there wasnt, and they wouldnt. There was no one in the empty streets save for one willowy framed girl with pale skin and a madmans lunacy when fighting.
Star walked through the streets of Manhattan, once a thriving hub of human activity now you were lucky to find a rat scurrying in the gutters. Bloodstains still adorned the roads and pavements from the Unions visit of genocide. Star closed her wine coloured eyes in pity for the dead, she was evil but she could still feel horror at the sight of a mass of broken bodies screaming in agony as their blood seeped into the ground below, feeding the mind of that infernal tyrant
She growled to herself to stop reminiscing and brushed her choppily cut dark blue hair out of her eyes, then patted the steel and silver sword, Hades, at her side before settling into a brisk walk to meet her mentor, Qui-san Herishna. Qui-san had captured a Union hostage and Star was needed for questioning the poor soul.
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I have been told that driving my private vehicle from California into Mexico is no big deal EXCEPT that I must have Mexican insurance. I am looking for specific recommendations about what to look for when buying the insurance - are all policies basically the same, is there an official agency that needs to underwrite the policies, are there exemptions to be wary of, etc etc. If you know of approximate cost of the policies, please post that as well.
"Mexico" Mike has good information about Mexican auto policies for U.S. drivers on his Insurance Reviews page. Which company and policy is right for you depends on where you'll be driving in Mexico.
The company I have used before, as recommended by "Mexico" Mike, Nelson Insurance is apparently no longer around, as evidenced by the broken link, and the fact that it's no longer listed on his review page.
His page also claims that insurance is not strictly required:
I do know that it's not required for Mexicans to have auto insurance, but I've also heard that it is required for foreigners to have auto insurance when registering their vehicle at Mexican customs. I've always had insurance when I entered, so have never tested this requirement personally.
And as cheap as Mexican auto insurance is (or has been for me, with the company that's no longer around), I think you'd be foolish not to buy insurance, too.
And finally, one thing to be aware of when buying Mexican Auto insurance is that most Mexican auto insurance policies work differently than U.S. insurance policies. Where as part of a U.S. policy, you generally select a deductible, which in turn affects your premium, most Mexican policies simply pay a percentage of damages, up to a maximum. I have seen some Mexican policies that operate more like U.S. policies, but they are hard to find (I think Nelson used to offer those).
You can buy a policy online through AAA. See this link. It does not appear that you have to be an AAA member to buy a policy. The cost depends on your car, length of your trip, what limits you want, etc; it should be easy to see a quote.
I haven't done this myself, and I also can't speak to how competitive the price is, but I have had my regular auto policy through AAA for several years and have found them to have good service and be very competitively priced.
You might also ask your own auto insurance company. If they don't write Mexico policies themselves, they may be able to recommend another company.
Prices are regulated by the Mexican Governments, (Mostly federal laws), so it is best to compare services, as more or less service is the same price. Instant Mexico Auto Insurance has off street parking, assistance with claims in their office - not just giving you the carrier's phone number, drive through, lobby with clean restrooms.
There are things that can be added to policies, coverage amounts can be increased, more drivers, etc.
The underwriters must be an Mexican carrier who fall under Mexican laws. US companies do not fall under Mexican laws so the Government of Mexico has little control over them. A US company may fix your car but the problem is damages to other people.
In Mexico a car accident, liability, falls under the criminal law; You must show proof of ability to pay any liability, (A Mexican Insurance policy instantly shows that), or you could be thrown in jail until you post a bond which would cover the liability. By having a company that helps with claims, is basically a service specifically to help you; not a required service and not one you pay more for.
There was a case, I think in the state of Sonora, where the court ordered the carrier to pay more than the min liability required. I am guessing they had to pay 80,000 instead of 50,000 to a third party. Some agents are now selling policies of 300,000 because of that 3 year court case. Some carriers are in the process of rethinking the min they sell. But, the driver of the vehicle only needs to show the police the insurance coverage paper from a Mexican carrier.


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Charlotte, N.C. - The Charlotte 49ers men's soccer team was one of 220 men's program's in the nation to earn the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Team Academic Award. The 49ers were one of 148 schools to have both their men's and women's teams honored.
A total of 717 college teams were recognized for having a cumulative grade point average over a 3.0 for the 2011-12 academic year.
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Another definition question that interested me was: What is the easiest transportation to use throughout Romania for a foreigner? I plan to visit at some point but I'm still relatively ignorant of how to get about. I'm particularly interested in more rural areas and the mountains (the difficulty of crossing which I am also ignorant of).
Any way you choose - be prepared with a lot of time and patience. Getting around in Romania is completely inefficient, but fun and rewarding at the same time. Remember that slower is not necessary worse when you're traveling. ;)
UPDATE: Slightly related and funny story. Today I tried to make a train trip in Romania (haven't lived here for 4 years now - so I'm pretty much a stranger here as well now, although I grew up here and I can speak the language). Never mind that the 200km trip was supposed to take 4h20min and involve 1 transfer according to the timetable. 15min and 6km after the train leaves, it stops for no reason. The staff tries to start the train for more than 1h. Seems that one of the cars suddenly stopped and they couldn't start it anymore. They ask everybody in that car (I was also there) to move to another car, so they can just leave without that car (they say we will leave in ~20min - which would mean being at least 1h30min late). I realize that I have no chance to catch the connection, so I get off, take a taxi (I was still in town - only 6km from the train station!) back to the train station and ask for a refund. 2h later I am back to where I started from. The trip was a complete failure - but I had a lot of fun and I don't regret it. :)
I was there in 2009. I highly recommend it, and the trains are very easy to use and are quite comfortable. Even when we had an overnight train on chairs, they have a 'backpacker' carriage just for the foreigners, and if there's space they assign you an empty seat next to you at all times, so you can stretch out and try and sleep.
I'v also been told hitching is totally fine and quite common, although I didn't try it myself. I'd prefer not to drive on some of those roads, they could be quite ... interesting.
Recommend Brasov as a base in Transylvania - near to Dracula's castle!
We have been in Romania in 2003 and we were using public transport most of the time - very reasonable, I don't remember having any issues with it. Both trains and minibusses were fine. Hitchhiking is quite popular, but beware that you are supposed to pay for it! (similar fee as for the bus). If we couldn't find any form of transport, we actually ended up chatting to random people with cars and we found some young blokes to drive us where we wanted (for a fee obviously).
I don't have any experience with renting a car, sorry.
The most comfortable and popular way is by train. There are trains toward most of the cities/villages. The train station in Bucharest is called "Gara de Nord"
You can go fast from Bucharest to mountain cities such as Brasov, Sinaia, Predeal (all these in the same zone) or farther to Sibiu. I think you may hire guides for mountain trips. Young Romanians also hike by foot (with rucksacks) and go camping.
Some cities might be connected by buses. There are also vans (called maxitaxi) which are fast.
The taxis in the cities are easy and convenient, though they will probably charge you more if you don't speak Romanian. Make sure they reset their meter when you get in (and that the meter is even on!).
Going between cities, I recommend the train. I once took the train from Timisoara to Bucharest (an over-night trip). Three one-way tickets (for three adults) in a sleeping car had the total price of about $50 USD, and the tickets can be purchased online from Căile Ferate Române - the official designation of the state railway carrier of Romania.


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By KIM NORTH Times Leader Staff Writer BRIDGEPORT — In light of all the recent school shootings and bomb threats across the state and nation, the Bridgeport Exempted Village School District wasted......
As with the Sandy Hook tragedy a 20 minute response time from "first responders" is totally useless in these situations!
And ratcheting up the police state with "resource officers" is NOT an option in a FREE and CONSTITUTIONAL nation
"gun free" zones simply create a safe place for CRIMINALS!
Simply allow faculty to exercise their constitutional RIGHT to bear arms and this goes away!
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H. Cornejo injured; Sarabia guests with ABT to help fill-in.
Posted 12 May 2011 - 10:47 AM
Due to injury, Herman Cornejo will not perform during the first two weeks of American Ballet Theatres 2011 Metropolitan Opera House, it was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie.
Cornejo was scheduled to perform the leading role of Basilio in Don Quixote on Thursday, May 19 and Boy With Matted Hair in Antony Tudors Shadowplay on Tuesday evening May 24 and at the matinee on Wednesday, May 25. Guest Artist Rolando Sarabia will replace Cornejo in Don Quixote on May 19 and ABT Soloist Craig Salstein will dance the lead role in Shadowplay for Cornejo at both performances.
Rolando Sarabia was born in Havana, Cuba and began his dance training at the age of seven with his father Rolando Sarabia, Magaly Suarez, Alicia Alonso and Lázaro Carreño at the National Ballet School in Havana. He joined the National Ballet of Cuba in 1998 and was soon promoted to principal dancer. His numerous awards include the gold medal at the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi in 1998, the gold medal at the International Competition in Nagoya, Japan and the Grand Prix at the 1998 International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. Sarabia left Cuba in 2003 and joined Houston Ballet as a principal dancer in 2006. He joined Miami City Ballet as a principal dancer in 2007. He currently appears with the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami as a guest principal dancer.
American Ballet Theatres 2011 Spring Season marks Sarabias first appearance with the Company.
For more information on ABTs Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House, please visit www.abt.org.
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I wish Cornejo a quick and full recovery. I wish Sarabia was making his debut under happier circumstances, but it will be a great opportunity to see him dance.
Agreed. I see that instead of the Cornejo/Cojocaru Sleeping Beauty pas in the opening night gala she's listed for Rose Adagio.
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Posted 12 May 2011 - 07:13 PM
How nice for Craig, though, to be able to do Shadowplay, and it was great thinking on ABTs part to extend Cornejo's DQ spot to Sarabia. It seems like quite the Cuban fest at the Met this spring!
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Posted 14 May 2011 - 07:27 AM
Nothing against Salstein, but I think that casting him instead of a guest was a matter of necessity. Unlike the old warhorse ballets where ABT could potentially find a quick guest replacement, I don't think many companies are performing Shadowplay. I'm guessing there is a very limited number of people who know the role and could perform it on short notice.
How wonderful for the company to have Cornejo replaced by another ABT dancer rather than yet another guest.
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Why do I feel like I'm being lied to by service@woot?
I recently ordered a TexSport picnic table and unfortunately it ended up being damaged. I quickly snapped a picture of it, sent of an email to service, and asked what could be done. I received a reply email stating that they were out of stock on the item and they would send a return shipping label and give me a full refund on return. The problem with this is that I'm almost 100% sure the item didn't sell out. Is woot being cheap not wanting to ship me another item? Out of my 207 woots and over $11,000 spent here, I've only ever had a couple issues that were dealt with immediately and properly by service@woot.
BTW, I asked if I could get a discount on the damaged item (as I was really looking forward to using this on an upcoming camping trip) and was offered a $5 credit (on an $80+$5 item). That, my deals.woot friends, is not a deal.
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I am going to take a guess at this....
Perhaps woot was a broker for this item. The item was drop shipped for a 3rd party and therefore never had stock to begin with and the agreement is over. SO they truly do not have stock.
@caffeine_dude: I bet you are right. However, I still feel stung by the $5 offer and now I have to spend my time returning a damaged item. Not a good deal.
Invoking the term "lie" seems a bit extreme in this case. Woot seems to be acting properly here. They are offering a full refund on return of the item or a $5 discount if you want to live with the damage. Seems reasonable to me. Stuff happens.
@nortonsark: It doesn't seem reasonable to me. To ship this item back is going to cost woot more than $5. Why not offer a decent discount (at least the return shipping cost) to make it convenient for both Woot and I and keep a customer happy?
Thread has been passed to the CS team, FYI.
@joshaw: Yes, it costs more than $5 for Woot to get the item back, but they get the item. After getting it, they can determine if it was a packaging, handling, or a manufacturing problem. They may also have recourse with their supplier to get further reimbursement once they have it in hand.
I guess the real question is how bad is the damage if you were willing to keep it and use it. It seems that it is still functional but may not be pretty. Since Woot would be losing out on the ability to get a refund from either the shipping carrier through insurance or the supplier due to a defective product, the refund forces you to decide just how bad the damage really is.
Believe it or not, there are people that will either fake damage or claim damage to get a large refund. Not that you are doing that but offering a small discount (where reselling may be unprofitable) or a full refund with no product is enough to scare away the vultures.
@inkycatz: Thanks, I think you just made a little magic happen! I just got an email from CS telling me that they found another table with which they will replace the broken one. Woohoo!
@wisenekt: The damage wasn't terrible but significant. One of the benches was cracked on the end (not just a scratch). With extended use it probably would've gotten worse and definitely wouldn't have lasted as long as a bench in good condition (it seems like these tables are built to last and are amazingly designed). And I know there are dishonest people but a simple look at my account would show them that I've only ever had trouble with two items (the Jan Kris sewer water and a missing shirt in an order).
Thanks for making it right, Woot.
@joshaw: We do what we can here. Glad it is working out!
@joshaw: Do you wonder how they "found a bench"? I don't know when you originally got a reply from CS, but from your post here it went from "no bench" to "found one" in a few hours.
@joshaw: I'm so glad that service was able to find you another table! I've had problems with a few orders and I know how disappointed I am when I was looking forward to something and it arrives with a problem - but woot.service has always been fantastic. Remember that the folks in service are dealing only with the information that they've given: if their computer inventory says "zero tables," then they tell you that they don't have any more tables; they don't really have control over whether computer inventory is actually accurate - so service always seems to do the best they can with the information that they're given. So glad that they came through for you on this one!
@kmeltzer: I'm hoping they went out of their way to find me a bench. I just didn't feel good about the situation and felt like I needed to say something. I wasn't trying to be a jerk and maybe I shouldn't have used the term "lie" but it just seems like a canned CS response at first. Maybe I'm just spoiled with my previous Woot CS encounters and expect too much. :-)
@neuropsychosocial: Agreed about the top notch CS, I have always felt awesome about it until yesterday Here's a comment I made about the CS just two days ago: http://www.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=5106831&pageindex=1&replycount=15#post5106922. Like I said, maybe I am just spoiled...
@kmeltzer: It's usually because we've gotten an un-touched return or a small shipment of replacement whatevers have been shipped (or are being shipped) to us. It sucks but it's not unheard of that we can say "sorry, no replacements" one day without consciously lying and say "sorry, we actually have a replacement" on another day.
@nortonsark: Thank you for picking up on the use of the word "lie." I pretty much always have a problem when that gets tossed out casually, especially when it's directed at a company that most of us -- including, I suspect, the OP -- have no reason to think behaves that badly.
@magic cave: It was a bad choice of words. I should've said "let down" instead of lie.
@joshaw: True dat. "Lie" is a word that is mostly used in anger. As you well know, woot's CS is awesome and will make anything right. Glad you got tour problem resolved, though I never had any doubts that you would. :) Thanks to woot Cs!
@joshaw: We all get a little stressed sometimes. (Except me. I never say things I regret later. Never. Yup, never. Ever. Really. Never.)
Glad to know they found another table for you.
@joshaw: I focused on the word 'lie'. It is good to hear you got a result that makes you happy!


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or.. When I grow up I want to be a….
Human: Why would I play a fantasy game and want to be a human – that's not fantasy, that's real life! Anyway the male humans run "funny".
Night Elf: 17% of Alliance players can't be wrong… Naah the whole "spirit of the woods" that kills every harmless beast it comes across just doesn't ring true. Though I must admit I wish I could backflip.
Draenei: Wierd cloven hoofed beast from outer space.. I don't think so.
Orcs: They may not be as short as Gnomes, but they look short and squat for all their height. I don't think so.
Tauren: One all beef pattie , special sauce on a sesame seed bun. Naah too tall and bovine.
Undead: Phew what's that smell (ohh it's the guy sitting next to me on the train.. still the image and thought all happened at once… too much)
Troll: Jamaica, naah she went on her own (still cracks me up). Cool dancing, annoying swaying stance.
Gnome: Mmmm that sounds good. Diminutive exiles from their homeland that like to tinker with all sorts of things….
Warrior: Responsible for marking, leading, saving casters, getting he living daylights beaten out of them and loving repair bills. Blamed for wipes… I think not.
Rogue: Sneaky, untrustworthy dudes in the middle of battle chasing the moving target… way too hard (I am so glad I am ranged)
Priest: Soft, squishy targets. KoS for keeping warriors alive by all loose mobs. Blamed for wipes.
Druid: Heaps of flexibility, heaps of action bars, heaps of gear sets filling bag space. Killing every natural creature in sight to level (I thought their job was to protect the beasts.. what ever happened to soothe beast?)
Paladin: Warrior, I mean Priest in plate, I mean pure of heart – but killing everything in sight. I mean no.
Shaman: Planter of twigs. No.
Hunters: I can't keep a RL pet alive, lets not shame me more.
Warlocks: Ahhh Mages, but dark and secretive with demonic pets… I don't think my Mum would approve.
Mages: Crafters of pure energy into punishing balls of fire… nice
OK, when I grow up, I want to be a Gnome Mage… Hey I already am one. I must be Uber Smart! ohh Gnomes have bonus to Intellect.
Gnomer and Out!
Note: the content of this post was in no way meant to offend all the hard working races and classes… I was just in a silly mood. Thank you for playing the other races/classes so I can throw balls of fire.


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I want to better write code with pen and paper. Whether it'll be in pseudocode or real code, doesn't matter.
Could you kindly advise me sources for this?
I want to better write code with pen and paper. Whether it'll be in pseudocode or real code, doesn't matter.
Could you kindly advise me sources for this?
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Do it more often!
Coding, whether with a computer or pen and paper, is one of those skills which is learned best by doing it more often. I'd start with working through problems on sites like Project Euler or Code Chef.
People usually do this in an interview when they want to see how you think.
Always make sure you have plenty of paper available, since you can't correct mistakes the way you usually would. Be prepared to rewrite your program after making a rough draft.
I've also found that using diagrams like structure charts, or Warnier-Orr diagrams, helps me clarify my though processes.
If you want to try this with some simple programs to get some practice, I suggest Project Euler as a source of such program exercises. They are usually mathematically interesting!
Oh, and add lots of comments. More than you usually would. Remember, the potential employer is trying to see how you think - try to give them insight into your thought processes.
turn off the computer, grab pencils, paper, and an eraser, and get writing code.
While I applaud you for your ambitious(odd) dedication, I'm not so sure that pen and paper are the best solution for programming mastery. I would suggest learning to code in MS Notepad though. This is just my opinion, obviously, but I learned HTML/CSS/JavaScript in notepad and everything became muscle memory very fast. I actually got a contract job simply for putting ht/cs/js (using notepad) on my resume. I have also done 'some' C#.Net in notepad using the command-line compiler, and it's not so bad. Don't recommend it though.
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I was thrilled to pick up this month's issue of Pet Age to read this:
"FleaTV is a "video dog toy" that entertains canines with a dog's-eye view of the world, attention-getting sounds and affirming human voices. Footage includes dogs in parks and nature preserves, as well as video from a camera strapped to the back of a Jack Russell terrier named Blade. The DVD also features demonstrations about how to pamper dogs with homemade treats and massages."
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I´m trying to resolve following problem.
I have 2 application servers on Rackspace that are connected to a load balancer. Both servers must have the same applications and share the same data. Basically on each server is a Java EE application that will be writing some data into database. This data will be accessible from outside. Each server must have the same data (so he has to take them from the other servers database and viceversa).
This fact means that I need to have 2 database servers (so that one database server is not so busy if we have big traffic). To have the same data on both database servers, I was thinking of mirroring one to another (Master - Master connection). I found a Xeround database cloud, and I was thinking of creating two database instances there and accesing them from Rackspace. (Server A -> Database server A; Server B -> Database server B). And Database server A <-> Database server B would have Master - Master connection (so both servers will have the same data periodically updated).
Is this a possible and effective solution ? Or is there a better solution?


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In this article* I want to get the Equation(9) with comparing the equation (2). Please elaborate the left side of equation (9).
*Small amplitude quasi-breathers and oscillons by G. Fodor, et al. arXiv:0802.3525.
In this article* I want to get the Equation(9) with comparing the equation (2). Please elaborate the left side of equation (9).
*Small amplitude quasi-breathers and oscillons by G. Fodor, et al. arXiv:0802.3525.
Take the left side of eqn. (2):
Since this should be a non linear wave equation, $\phi_{t,t}$ means the second derivation in time of $\phi$. Now we make a variable change. First, set $\zeta^i/\varepsilon= x^i$ (eqn. (6)). We put that into $\Delta=\sum\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x_i^2}$, which yields $\Delta=\varepsilon^2\sum\frac{\partial^2}{\partial \zeta_i^2}\equiv\tilde{\Delta}$.
Now make the second variable change: $\tau/\omega(\varepsilon)=t$ (eqn.(7)). Compute the second derivation in time as needed: $\frac{\partial^2}{\partial t^2}=[\omega(\epsilon)]^2\frac{\partial^2}{\partial \tau^2}$.
Our function will change from $\phi(x,t) \to \phi(\zeta,\tau)$. Plug the transformed operators into the left side as well and we get:
$-\frac{\partial^2}{\partial t^2}\phi(x,t)+\Delta\phi(x,t)=-[\omega(\epsilon)]^2\frac{\partial^2}{\partial \tau^2}\phi(\zeta,\tau)+\epsilon^2\tilde{\Delta}\phi(\zeta,\tau)$
This is now the left side of eqn. (9). They only renamed the operators again and left away the dependencies:
$\frac{\partial^2}{\partial \tau^2}\phi(\zeta,\tau)=\ddot{\phi} \qquad \tilde{\Delta}=\Delta$
I hope this makes it clear for you.
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Ok. How to gain eqns. (10-12). Write down the $\varepsilon$-expansions for $\omega$ and $\phi$ up to third order in $\varepsilon$ (eqns. (5) and (8)):
$\omega^2=1+\sum\varepsilon^k \omega_k=1+\varepsilon\omega_1+\varepsilon^2\omega_2+\varepsilon^3\omega_3+\dots$
$\phi=\sum\varepsilon^k \phi_k=\varepsilon\phi_1+\varepsilon^2\phi_2+\varepsilon^3\phi_3+\dots$
Take the derivatives on $\phi$ which you need according to eqn. (9) and put everything together:
$-[1+\varepsilon\omega_1+\varepsilon^2\omega_2+\varepsilon^3\omega_3][\varepsilon\ddot\phi_1+\varepsilon^2\ddot\phi_2+\varepsilon^3\ddot\phi_3] = \varepsilon\phi_1+\varepsilon^2\phi_2+\varepsilon^3\phi_3 + \sum g_k\phi^k$
I will show you what is the principle and derive eqn. (10). You'll have to do the rest by your own. We now search for the first order solution. That means we will only recognize that part of the equation where we find the first order of $\varepsilon$ and we will throw everything else away. Means, for first order only write down what has a $\varepsilon^1$, for the second order you will have to write down everything with a $\varepsilon^2$. On the right side you will get only $\varepsilon \phi_1$ since everything else is higher order in $\epsilon$ except the sum, which is zero order. On the left side you will maintain only $-\varepsilon\ddot\phi_1$ since everything else is of higher order. So we ended up with
$-\varepsilon\ddot\phi_1=\varepsilon \phi_1 \Leftrightarrow \ddot\phi_1+\phi_1=0$
which is eqn. (10).


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I've seen some people make a separate partition for
/boot. What is the benefit of doing this? What problems might I encounter in the future by doing this?
Also, except for
/home and
/boot, which partitions can be separated? Is it recommended?
I've seen some people make a separate partition for
Also, except for
This is a holdover from "ye olde tymes" when machines had trouble addressing large hard drives. The idea behind the
Technically, you can get away with a single partition and be just fine, provided that you are not using really really old hardware (pre-1998 or so).
If you do decide to use a separate partition, just be sure to give it adequate room, say 200mb of space. That will be more than enough for several kernel upgrades (which consume several megs each time). If /boot starts to fill up, remove older kernels that you don't use and adjust your bootloader to recognize this fact.
One reason for having a /boot partition is that it allows for things like encrypted /, where the kernel and initrd are loaded from an unencrypted partition and then used to mount the encrypted root partition containing the operating system. It shouldn't matter for general usage however.
The main reason for the major enterprisey distro's like Red Hat and I think Suse to use a separate /boot is that they use LVM by default and Grub cannot be used to boot from LVM. It is that simple.
So if you want to use LVM, and that is a boon, you use a separate /boot. Personally, I think it is good practice to use both LVM and separate partitions for a host of things, like
One final reason, less important than those given, is it can allow the PC to remain bootable if part of the disk is corrupted. The more partitions you have, the easier it will be to simply not mount the partition with the fault.
This can be useful sometimes, but usually there's a better way anyway.
EDIT: Another point: assuming Linux, using LVM can be a good way to avoid any potential problems, it makes it easy to resize "partitions" and add new space seemlessly.
I think this is more of a personal preference than anything else. Might even be a best-practice. My personal view of /boot is rather read-only based. Once in a while you need to write in there to upgrade your kernel or maybe add another OS in the grubloader. Besides that it's just needed to ... well, boot. So having it in a separate filesystem might help putting it on read-only (might even be some security aspect to it as well).
Should it be a separate filesystem? I guess not.. But is it a bad idea? No, not at all!
In answer to the 'what problems might it cause' part of the question: as with any partitioning there is always a risk that you will come to need more space than you initially allocated. While this is unlikely in the case of
Unfortunately I'm fresh here so cannot comment the particular answers. Several people have implied that GRUB would not be able to boot from LVM
GRUB2 is booting happily from LVM2 without any problem on my home PC for about 1.5 years now. Sweetest thing since sliced bread.
Oh, and that is supported by default by the ubiquity (alternative) installer. Try it
Regarding the second part of the question, it may be useful to place in separate partitions anything that is independent of the current distribution. By also leaving extra space available on the drive, this allows, if necessary in the future, to either install a different distribution, or perform a reinstall of the current one, sharing access to anything that you'd want to see on both.
Obviuos candidates for separate partitions are then /usr/local and /home, as well as /root. I personally find it more efficient to create custom partitions, mount them in an arbitrary mountpoint, like /part/data, and then proceed with symlinks, as in:
Another reason that I think is not mentioned is that you can use the filesystem type and the configurations that you prefer for
I found it slighly more difficult to boot from the grub prompt when using a separate /boot partition.
It seemed that the kernel was on /boot, but the initramfs was on / (separate partition).
So it was not clear which partition to use in the grub menu.
With all the potential advantages of a separate /boot partition, there is also a risk of having to troubleshoot more than usually in case something bad happens (i.e. run grub-install without running update-grub afterwards :S)
Let me write here just my few of my experiences:
Well in my case, I have RAID 1 (1GB only for /boot ) and RAID 5 for rest of disk space.
I use grub 2 from debian squeeze and it is fine. Grub 2 doesn't have this limitation anymore like grub 1 did.
Nowadays it doesn't matter. This was needed when you had grub version 1, which did not know, how to boot from RAID5, but it knew how to boot from raid 1. And that's the reason why.
In my case I use it just for case, I could need it, if something bad happen. Because not everytime you have new LIVE debian or ubuntu in your pocket.
Also if something bad happen, I make backup of /boot. Once it saved my install already.
I use Linux SW RAID 1 with 3 HDDs and RAID 5 with same HDDs. First 1 GB I use for RAID 1.
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If you really want to boost your score, learn jQuery and answer jQuery related questions. It still amazes me how you can write a simple line of code as an answer for a jQuery related question and it will receive 7-10 upvotes if you're the first.
On a more serious note, generally if you give a long winded answer, no matter how good it may be, others will not sit through and read it unless it's a topic they're really interested in. A short, correct answer seems to generate more upvotes because others can see that it's correct instantly. Really, you have to find a balance and make sure you don't ramble on too much in your answer.
ask good question and/or give good answers.
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I notice that you haven't accepted answers to any of your questions yet. You get 2 points for accepting an answer.
If you are finding it useful then you are already working on improving your score. You can already upvote. Do so often to good posts, comment if something was helpful, ask complete questions and if you happen to find a question you can answer, answer it. Sometimes I will even seek answers to questions I do not know the answer to just to learn. The exploration becomes part of my answer and all parties benefit.
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Could a car that knows when you are stressed or ill save you from having an accident? Auto makers are stepping up efforts to find out.
A number of big car manufacturers are accelerating research into equipping vehicles with so-called biometric sensors that would keep tabs on a driver's vital health signs, including pulse, breathing and "skin conductance," aka sweaty palms. When that information is fed into the computers that manage a car's safety systems, it could enable a vehicle to better react to whatever challenges the road and traffic dish out.
The move comes amid major advances in mobile medical-monitoring technology, as well as growing concerns about meeting the needs of an aging and increasingly distracted population of motorists.
It also reflects another step in the industry's broader move toward self-driving cars, a brave new world in which computers could all but eliminate the potential for driver error—whether it's due to a distracting phone call or a sudden drop in blood sugar.
Already, some Lexus models use in-cabin cameras and some Mercedes-Benz vehicles have steering sensors to detect drowsy-driving behavior. The cars sound a warning beep or flash a coffee-cup icon to suggest that it's time for a break. Luxury brands are promoting these accident-avoidance technologies as examples of what sets their expensive vehicles apart from cheaper, mainstream models. The Mercedes system, called Attention Assist, comes as standard equipment in a wide range of its vehicles, from the smaller C-class sedans to the more opulent, and high-tech, S-class models.
Separately, car makers and federal safety regulators are working on in-vehicle systems that could reliably detect when someone is too drunk to drive.
The new body monitors could, if a driving hazard appeared imminent, trigger the car's safety systems to tap the brakes, turn off a radio, block a cellphone from ringing or take other actions. Some of these advances may be in cars in three to five years. Others depend upon whether researchers can crack the challenge of designing health-related sensors that can work flawlessly in a vehicle for up to a decade.
Sports car maker Ferrari SpA, for one, has filed a patent application that indicates the company is evaluating technology that would embed wireless electrodes in a car seat's headrest to monitor drivers' brain waves for stress as they pilot machines capable of roaring up to 200 miles per hour. Depending on what the sensors detect, the car might try to mitigate the driver's risk by cutting power to the motor or automatically stabilizing the vehicle. As Ferrari researchers put it in the patent filing: "drivers tend to miscalculate—in particular, overestimate—their driving skill and, more important, their psychophysical condition."
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Ryan White, VP of Business Development for DTI, is our guest post author today. DTI has strong experience in accounts payable imaging, with over 18 years experience with Oracle's current imaging solution. DTI has also been designated as an Oracle Deputy CTO, a very prestigious award. You can view a webinar where DTI discusses accounts payable automation and includes a demonstration on how Oracle Content Management is integrated with PeopleSoft.
Companies interested an enterprise class content management solution have a difficult question to answer; "How do we deploy ECM services to the enterprise?" I was sitting with the Director of Applications for a large retail chain in the south east discussing this question today. With a new CIO on board and a long list of strategic initiatives, he is in an interesting situation. Many of the strategic initiatives are focused on improving business processes, reducing costs, and improving corporate visibility into the business at large.
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Time for my annual rant about Christmas specials....
If you are a parent, spend the money and BUY DVDs/Blu-rays of ALL the classics. DO NOT watch them on TV.
Over the years, all the specials have been carved up to add additional commercial time. Some of the half hour originals ran 26-27 minutes, and they have been cut down to SUB 20. The hour long ones ran 52-54 minutes and they are now closer to 39. You'll notice entire songs missing, and huge holes in the story.
Just don't do it. Buy or rent a copy and watch them how they were intended. If you MUST, rip them to your computer, go find some classic commercials, and edit them in (Dolly Madison anyone?).
I've grown up with the Peanuts gang. I've been a fan of the comic strip for as long as I can remember, and I've watched A Charlie Brown Christmas every year as well. It's a required Christmas tradition with me. Over the years, I've watched other specials, too.
This collection brings three of their holiday classics to DVD: Great Pumpkin, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Also included are three bonus programs, You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown; The Mayflower Voyages; and It's Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown. These programs aren't nearly as good as the headliners, but do still provide some fun moments.
If you're a Peanuts fan, you'll enjoy having these DVD's in your collection to enjoy at your leisure every year. Hopefully, Paramount will be smarter with future releases and include more programs and bonus material per disk.
I got this set at a local Walmart last year for $19.95. I'm pretty sure it's still at that price.
I grew up watching these (like most people from our planet.) I had many fond memories. A couple of years ago, after skipping them for several years, I popped my DVDs in again. What is wrong with this series?!?! All they do is yell at each other the entire time. They're worse than congress. I don't think I've seen people tear each other down and yell and scream and insult each other this bad in my entire life.


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Topeka – In the interest of protecting public safety and in response to a request from Attorney General Derek Schmidt, Governor Sam Brownback will call the Legislature into special session at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3.
The Attorney General formally requested the special session on July 24, 2013 for the purpose of repairing Kansas' "Hard 50" sentence following the June 17, 2013 decision of the United States Supreme Court in Alleyne v. United States. Legal experts in the field agree that the Alleyne decision renders the current Kansas "Hard 50" law unconstitutional because the sentencing decision is made by a judge and not the jury. According to the Attorney General, the Legislature can cure the constitutional defect by adopting a relatively simple procedural fix allowing the jury to making the necessary factual findings before the "Hard 50" sentence is imposed.
"The 'Hard 50' sentence is a vital public safety tool that has been in place for more than 10 years," Brownback said. "It is intended to remove the most dangerous and violent killers from society for at least 50 years. The sudden absence of the 'Hard 50' sentence poses a real and present danger to the public safety of all Kansans. I am confident the Legislature can and will act quickly, with resolve and narrow focus, to protect our citizens by restoring to prosecutors the immediate ability to seek the 'Hard 50' sentence for the worst offenders."
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"We must address this issue to protect all our citizens, but particularly out of concern for the victims of these crimes and their families," Brownback said. "I agree with the Attorney General's opinion that we face an 'extraordinary occasion' sufficient to justify this office exercising its authority to call the Legislature into special session pursuant to Article 1, Section 5 of the Kansas Constitution."
Due to the constitutional and statutory requirement that the state bring criminal defendants to trial in a speedy manner, time is of the essence. After consulting with Attorney General Schmidt and legislative leaders, it was agreed a special session during the first week of September is optimal timing. According to the law enforcement community that time period effectively protects public safety while allowing the necessary time requested by the Attorney General for adequate preparation and planning to ensure a quick, focused and orderly session. According to the Attorney General, putting this issue off until next January will "virtually guarantee" an increase in "the number of convicted killers who will be eligible for parole after only 25 years instead of after 50 years."
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Though it's difficult to say without knowing a little more, such as the topic, or how the example is to be presented, these are the words that come to my mind
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I also like JLG's suggeston "key".
I suggest referring to it as the principal or primary example, from that sense of primary that means "That which is placed ahead of others". You'd write, "The primary [or principal] example used in this thesis is ...", and later, "Referring again to our primary [or principal] example ...", etc.
If the example is in some sense standard or definitive, consider calling it
If you want to emphasize that the single example covers or includes aspects from many others, you might refer to it as inclusive, all-inclusive, a catch-all or umbrella, versatile, or overarching.
All that said, if the example contains a distinctive keyword or keywords in its description, for example Westgate, then use it or them in your references. At the outset, you might say "The principal example used in this thesis is the following Westgate scenario...", and thereafter, "Referring again to Westgate, ..." or "Referring again to the Westgate scenario, ..."


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Do you still have all your original adult teeth?
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Had one knocked out in a fight 20 years ago, all original equipment besides that one....
My upper first premolars (two teeth) were removed during orthodontia when I was about 15 and my wisdom teeth (four teeth) were removed when I was about 23.
No bridgework or other replacements yet.
All minus my wisdom teeth. Had those suckers cut/pulled out 2 years ago.
Had all my wisdom teeth removed at 19, then drove myself home. The dentist used hypnosis instead of anesthesia.
does in a jar in the basement count. i still have them....
Wisdom (ha, ha) teeth extracted, and one tooth molar removed. Actually have one impacted wisdom tooth left now that I think of it. Darn you, I will worry about that now!
Nope - also had wisdom teeth removed.
Yep. I lucked out and had no wisdom teeth, so all factory issue parts still here :D
All but wisdom (wisdomless?)....but curious about why anyone would care about that.....
all but wisdoms
late 30's all but the wisdome teef
@captainsuperdawg: Hey I need to get mine pulled, did they put you under? what was the real recovery time? was it as bad as everyone says? I'm not looking forward to this its gonna suck
@ohcheri: For real?
32 - wisdoms - premolars = 24
I have a small mouth. And big teeth.
@jseureau: Yes, the doctor was amazing.
late 30's and I still have all my original adult teeth.
No cavities, ever. also, never needed braces.
I've got eem all including wisdom. Have some funky mutation where my jaw bone spurred up and stopped them from pushing the rest of my teeth. So they are all sub dermal but not advancing any more.
Had second bicuspids removed at 14, before braces. Wisdoms pulled when 21 when in the military (impacted)... They also removed a supernumerary (33rd tooth)
not only do I have all my teeth, I saved one from each of my victims as well!
@jseureau: It wasn't bad for me, but everyone's different. I didn't get put under, the doc just gave me this mixture of valium and demerol to keep me from hurting too much, along with a few novocaine shots, but almost all of my friends were put all the way out, so it's really up to your doctor. Once I got home, I slept most of the day in 30 minute spurts, so my caregiver (mom) could change out the gauze in my mouth. I was a little sore, but Loratabs work wonders for that. The only real bad part was the food. I ate nothing really solid for a few days, but I probably could have after a little while and was just being cautious. All in all, it wasn't a terrible experience. I had mine done on a Friday and was healed up enough to go into work on Tuesday.
I have all except my wisdom teeth. No cavities, never needed braces.
I had all four of my wisdom teeth pulled at the same time a year ago. It took 45 minutes, and I was put completely under. When I woke up, I was just a little tired and sore but completely coherent. It wasn't a bad experience at all, just sore and a little swollen. I did drool on myself for the first day a lot because my bottom lip was numb.


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I am currently looking at a house in New England that dates back to the 1820's that has a sagging floor in the living room. The floor dips down about one inch near one of the walls and I was told by the owner that it has been and is structurally sound and that sagging floors are "normal" in older homes. Is this in fact true and if so what would the typical amount of sagging be?
Assuming the sag is new/progressing.
There are countless hundred+ year old homes with proper structure that have floors that don't sag, bounce or shake.
Sagging is never good. Sagging is a sign of either poor engineering to begin with or structural damage done later.
bcworkz does raise a good point about older foundation methods and short term sags that stabilize. I still maintain that even in such cases, a sag isn't "good", but it may not be deal breaking.
Just to play devil's advocate, there are also many old homes that have suffered minor subsidence and now are completely stable. Modern homes with reinforced foundations should never suffer from differential settlement. Old homes using outdated foundation techniques could suffer from some differential settlement in their first few dozen years, then stabilize and stay that way the remainder of their lives. This sort of settlement, though not ideal, is not cause for alarm.
Other such homes are founded on unstable soils and continue to shift and settle for their entire lives. This cannot be good. As a casual visitor, it's difficult to tell what is not alarming and what is bad. It would take extremely accurate measuring equipment and a good long time period to determine whether the structure is still moving or not.
This house is actually pushing 200 years, if it's just an inch low in one spot, I'd say it's probably in good shape actually. It's still not normal, but it's not unusual either.


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Bios Megafauna is a board game in which players take on the role of different early hominids, competing to see who will evolve into the dominant one. This is another game in the American Megafauna series.
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I'm thinking about getting a new sd card and read that the class of them really matters. I'm looking at getting a 16gb one with a class not less than class 6. How do I check for the class?
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An SD Card class basically the minimum sequential write speed that the SD card supports. Testing the class of an SD is quite easy, just copy a 1 GB file to an empty card and measure the time it took for the copy. A class 6 SD card should support at minimum 6MB/s.
Also check out the markings on the SD card, there should a logo like the following:
the number in the logo describes the speed class.
Specification sheets lie, packaging lies, the mark stamped on the card itself lies.
I have lost track of the number of "class 10" SD cards that only run at a couple of MB/s or the number of 8/16/32GB cards that have an actual capacity of 2GB!
If you really want to know how fast a card is (and whether you have been duped with a card which is smaller than it reports and will thus corrupt your data when it gets full) I would highly recommend testing every single SD card you buy.
Testing under Windows
The best testing tool out there is h2testw on the PC.
This writes a unique, verifiable pattern to the drive, completely filling it. Since the pattern is unique, it can verify that the data read back is actually the same as was written and that the card isn't reporting that it has a higher capacity than it actually has.
Since the class is related to the minimum write speed and SD cards get slower as they get full, this also ensures that you are testing speed under the worst case conditions. Loosing one complete rewrite of the drive is a small price to pay for peace of mind.
Testing under Linux & OSX
There is an open source project called F3 (which is short for Fight Flash Fraud or Fight Fake Flash) which is very similar to h2testw for Linux and Mac, but I don't have any personal experience of this. It might however form the basis for an Android port (the source code is on github).
Testing under Andoid/IOS
If anyone knows of a similarly robust and reliable Android application to test the SD card in a tablet/phone directly, I would happily update my answer.
You can test SDcard speed in command line :
that will write a 1GB file with zeros bits in sdcard.


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I'm a casual player of PFRPG; more often one to ape ideas from PFRPG APs for campaign arcs and encounters.
I own the Core Rulebook. That's it. I can't seem to locate the icon key for stat blocks and suspect it's provided in the Bestiary or other source book. I've poked around on Google and other places, but can't seem to find a key anywhere. Is there one or am I out of luck unless I buy more material?
An example is provided for context and clarity (which I just found a partial key in my PFRPG Beginner's Box GM Guide... and both it and C. Ross explain: Aberration, Swamp Monster)


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Tainted Love: History's 7 Most Terrifying Romances
Ah love, it can be a beautiful, inspiring and, in some cases, kind of sickening thing. Unlike the candlelit world of romantic comedies, real life relationships often involve ball gags and people with more than one set of genitals.
Here are some of the couples that prove that love has no boundaries, even though we're starting to wish it did.
#7. Nero Falls for a Boy, Turns Him into a Woman
Ancient Christian scholars believed that Nero was the physical incarnation of the Antichrist himself, so it's not surprising that he had a rather unconventional sex life. Dwarves, animals and his own mom have all said to have been in on the act. Of course this is hard to verify and may just be the ancient equivalent of slash fiction (once a guy is literally declared the devil, the gossip really gets going).
But we do know his relationship with a slave named Sporus was very real. Horrifyingly real.
Sporus was an underage boy who Nero fell madly in love with and, since he was a Roman and not Greek Emperor, this was actually not cool with anyone. Nero was a problem-solver though and did the only sensible thing: he had Sporus castrated and turned into a woman.
He put a full dress and veil on Sporus and married him with all the pomp and circumstance you'd expect (we can only imagine how many people in the wedding party were put to death when it came time to ask if anyone objected to the union).
Nero nicknamed Sporus "Sabina" which in a charming twist was also the name of his 2nd wife who died after Nero kicked her in the stomach when she was pregnant. Nero paraded Sporus around town dressed as an empress, making out amorously and even putting on simulated sex shows with the kid.
So the next time you find yourself embarrassed by your president, this may help keep things in perspective.
#6. The "Siamese Twins" and the Yates Sisters Get it On
The basis for the term "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker were born in, you guessed it, Siam in 1811. The Bunkers (The Bunker?) were two of the 19th century's biggest celebrities by virtue of having been born stuck together at the chest.
They eventually moved to America and began looking for love. You can see the difficulties here right away, since they're sort of sharing the same body. Do they both share one woman? If not, where the hell do you find a girl who will have sex with you while your brother lies just inches away, presumably staring at her boobs?
The answer is, of course, you marry a set of very open-minded sisters. Thus Chang and Eng Bunker married Adelaide and Sarah Yates, to which their fellow North Carolinians reacted with the kind of open-minded tolerance that remains that state's trademark to this day.
Chang and Eng Bunker and their vivacious spouses.
You may think we're intentionally playing up the Siamese twin sex angle and you may be telling yourself that in reality, the twins probably couldn't function sexually due to their condition anyway. And, you'd be way, way wrong. Eng fathered 11 children with his wife, Chang had 10 (in your face Chang).
Despite the closeness that you'd think kinky conjoined sex would bring to a family, the Yates sisters eventually had a falling out. This necessitated two separate houses be built.
In a scenario out of a sitcom written by David Lynch, the twins would alternate houses, with the "guest" brother having to do everything the "host" brother said. Eventually the brothers themselves started feuding. Chang even threatened Eng with a knife at one point which not only goes to show that Chang was kind of retarded, but that even sharing essential organs won't keep two people from acting like complete cocks to one another.
#5. One Man, One Woman, Six Legs
Juan Baptista dos Santos, born in 1843 in Portugal, was known across Europe as "the 3-legged Man." While that may sound like innuendo, it's not; Santos actually had three legs. If you wanted to get clever you'd be better off calling dos Santos the human coffee table, as in addition to his three legs he also happened to have two penises and three or four testicles (that's right, the man has so many balls he couldn't keep track of them).
And as with Chang and Eng, both penises were very active. To quote a man who photographed dos Santos, "the sight of a female is sufficient to excite his amorous propensities. He functions with both of the penes, finishes with one, then continues with the other."
We'll pause for a moment to let that sink in.
So, dos Santos had all the celebrity and freak show groupies he could handle, but would he ever find that special someone? Well, we believe there's a soul mate out there for everyone. Regardless of your flaws, missing genes or superfluous limbs, fairy tales do come true, damn it.
As fate would have it, around this same time in Paris, Blanche Dumas was making her name as the "3-legged Courtesan."
Oh, yeah, you can see where this is going. Like Santos, Dumas had three legs, two sets of genitals and reportedly a voracious sexual appetite. Upon hearing of dos Santos, Dumas expressed a strong desire to get down to some freak freakiness with him.
This is how the man with two dongs came to have sex with the woman with two vaginas, their six tangled legs probably resembling a porn shoot that had been run over by a train.
#4. Marquis de Sade Had a Very Understanding Wife
Ah, the Marquis de Sade, the all-time grand poobah of perverts. A man so famous for his violent writing and sex life that his name is the basis for the term "sadism"; we don't have the room (or the stomach frankly) to list all the forms of debauchery de Sade indulged in during his lifetime.
At some point he decided he needed to settle down with a nice girl. So, in what may have been his most perverted act yet, married a religious, reserved woman, Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil.
Respecting the part of the Bible that demands that a wife be devoted to her husband (and ignoring everything else), de Montreuil organized orgies, haggled with prostitutes, hid her husband's harem of young girls from the police and during his many stints in jail, made sure he was provided with the essentials (which in Sade's case consisted mostly of drugs and dildos).
A whole lot of guys reading this are nodding to each other with cocked eyebrows, thinking that De Sade had totally found the perfect wife here. Hell, at one point she even disguised herself as a man and organized her husband's daring escape from prison, presumably so he could then have sex with a room full of women and possibly poop on one of them.
But de Montreuil came with baggage, specifically, her mother. De Sade's mother-in-law, shockingly, didn't approve of her daughter's marriage to the guy who invented sadism and in fact she was responsible for many of his stints in jail. De Sade, perhaps in an attempt to make peace, had sex with another one of her daughters on the side.
Shockingly, it only made things worse, proving that for all his sexual misadventures the person de Sade ended up screwing the hardest was himself.


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Since I'm not currently selling anything in the apple appstore it would be nice if someone who does could help me out with some details on the information Apple provides to the developer about the people purchasing your apps in the Mac/iOS Appstore. Do you get any personal information like the email address?
I'm asking this because I'm working on a multi platform SaaS solution and I'm evaluating if I the appstore(s) could be integrated into my own account management as just an alternative payment method.


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Let f be a complex-valued function of one real variable, continuous and compactly supported. Can it have a Fourier transform that is not Lebesgue integrable?
Here's a sketch of what I think is an example of the sort you want. Consider a trapezoidal function Tδ, supported on [-1,1], which is 1 on [-1+δ , 1-δ ] and is defined on the remaining intervals by interpolation in the obvious way. Then as δ tends to zero, the Fourier transform of Tδ is going to tend to infinity in the L1(R)-norm -- I can't remember the details of the proof, but since Tδ is a linear combination of Fourier transforms of Féjer kernels one can probably do a fairly direct computation.
Of course, the supremum norm of each Tδ is always 1. So the idea is to now stack scaled copies of these together, so as to obtain a function on [-1,1] which will be continuous (by uniform convergence) but whose Fourier transform is not integrable because its the limit of things with increasing L1-norm.
To be a little more precise: suppose that for each n we can find δ(n) such that Tδ(n) has a Fourier transform with L1-norm equal to n2 3n.
Put Sm = Σj=1m m-2 Tδ(m) and note that the sequence (Sm) converges uniformly to a continuous function S which is supported on [-1,1]. The Fourier transform of S certainly makes sense as an L2 function. On the other hand, the L1-norm of the Fourier transform of Sm is bounded below by
3m - (3m-1 + ... + 3 + 1) ~ 3m /2
which suggests that the Fourier transform of S ought to have infinite L1-norm -- at the moment lack of sleep prevents me from remembering how to finish this off.
Alternatively, one could argue as follows. Consider the Banach space C of all continuous functions on [-1,1] which vanish at the endpoints, equipped with the supremum norm. If the Fourier transform mapped C into L1, then by an application of the closed graph theorem it would have to do so continuously, and hence boundedly. That means there would exists a constant M >0, such that the Fourier transform of every norm-one function in C has L1-norm at most M. But the functions Tδ show this is impossible.
There's an explicit example in dimension 2 or more, i.e.: sqrt(1-|x|^2) on the unit disc. This is the Bochner-Riesz multiplier (for delta = 1/2). The divergence of the derivative on the boundary of the disc is exactly what was needed.
A counter example of such a function is a sample path W of a Brownian motion on [0, 1]. It is continuous on [0, 1] and yet its Fourier tansform FW(u) decays at infinity with rate less that U^{-1/2} and hence, FW is not in L^1.
I believe the following almost rigorous argument gives a positive answer. Continuous compactly supported functions are in L^1 and so their Fourier Transform (FT) is bounded. So everything depends on the behaviour at infty. Observe that the characteristic function of a bounded interval is not (absolutely) integrable, being "almost" sen(y)/y. Since decay at infinity of the FT reflects regularity of the function, if you strenghten continuity to C^k (k=2 is okay), you get immediately integrability fo the FT. The continuous case is intermediate between the discontinuous and regular one. If you look to a counterexample, it's better looking at non differentiable functions. A good choice could be a function smooth apart from a single point x where the "tangent" to the graph is vertical and f(x) is not 0. I believe an application of the stationary phase principle should give a decay y^-1 and so the non integrability of FT(f). I hope to provide more details later.
This is in answer to Jessica and Zen. Yemon supposes that $\mathcal F$ restricts to a linear map $C_0(-1,1)\rightarrow L^1(\mathbb R)$. We want this to have a closed graph-- so if $(f_n)\subseteq C_0(-1,1)$ with $f_n\rightarrow 0$ and $\mathcal F(f_n)\rightarrow g\in L^1(\mathbb R)$, why is $g=0$?
Well, I'd be tempted to use that $\mathcal F$ extends to a unitary $L^2(\mathbb R)\rightarrow L^2(\mathbb R)$ (which can be proved in a quite elementary way). In particular, as $\|f_n\|_2\rightarrow 0$ we know that $\|\mathcal F(f_n)\|_2 \rightarrow 0$. So if $h$ is a compactly support continuous function, then use the embedding $L^1(\mathbb R)\rightarrow
C_0(\mathbb R)^*$ to see that
I'm not sure if that's what you're after, but it's the sort of "soft analysis" proof I'd use (that is, uses measure theory, Hilbert space theory, but no distributions etc.)
In the answer of Yemon, the theoretical one, going by contradiction, how do you prove that the graph is closed in order to get the function continuous?
Choose $f(x)=\frac{(\frac{1}{2} -x)}{log(x)}$ for $0 < x \leq \frac{1}{2}$ and $0$ otherwise.
Then $Im \int_{0}^{\infty} dk \ e^{-\varepsilon k} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} dx \ f(x) e^{-ikx} = \int_{0}^{\frac{1}{2}} dx \ \frac{(\frac{1}{2} -x)}{log(x)} \cdot \frac{-x}{\varepsilon^{2}+x^{2}} \rightarrow \infty$ for $ \varepsilon \downarrow 0$ .
Therefore the Fourier transform of $f$ is not in $L^{1}$ .


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What causes an asteroid to loose control over it's orbit and enter in to another objects atmosphere?
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Asteroids don't have control of their orbit. They are influenced by gravity; they obey the laws of physics.
There aren't any traffic lights for them in space to obey so they know to slow down and stop to avoid a collision with a planet. They'll just carry right on going like someone driving through a red light. If it goes right in front of a planet at the wrong moment then it gets t-boned.
Or it might miss. But here is where the analogy falls apart. Because if someone drives through a red light and misses everyone, they carry on without any subsequent repercussions (except maybe a ticket). An asteroid passing close by a planet will be influenced by gravity between the planet and the asteroid, and it's path will change. That might mean it is flung far away, or it may mean it is captured, putting it on a looping path that eventually draws it in to crash onto the planet.
Asteroids don't have control over their orbit. The orbits are a consequence of the laws of physics.
This way asteroids can just happen to cross the orbit of an other celestial body. Products of such a collision take new orbits, which may or may not result in new collisions.
Orbits, which had been free of intersections with orbits of other bodies, may get moved away from Kepler ellipses over time by the gravitational pull of other celestial objects, e.g. planets like Jupiter or even by stars lightyears away. An orbit can also leave its ellipsis within a short time due to a close encounter with a planet.
Orbits around a planet can decay e.g. due to uneven mass distribution on the planet.


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The House and Senate have both approved $14 billion spending plans for the 2014 fiscal year, which starts July 1.
Leaders have said the negotiations could last several weeks. The work is tied to progress on tax legislation pending in both chambers.
The House and Senate's budgets closely resemble the spending proposal offered by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback at the start of the session. Each would spend about $6 billion in state revenue and $8 billion from other sources.
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