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I managed to solve this question but I had some inquiries regarding the solution.
If two cards are chosen at random from a standard deck of playing cards, how many different ways are there to draw the two cards if at least one card is a jack, queen or a king?
Here is how I solved it:
Jack/Queen/King = $4 \times 3 = 12$ cards
Other Cards = $52-12 = 40$ cards
Now we can only pick two cards so:
It can be either from the Jack/King/Queen so $\binom{12}{1}=12$
Both cards can be from Jack/King/Queen so $\binom{12}{2} = 66$
One card can be from the remaining stack (Non - jack,king or queen) so $\binom{40}{1}=40$
Now the only problem I have with this question is when getting the final value initially I was doing
$1$ from Remaining Cards $\times$ [ ($1$ from Jack/King/Queen) + 2(from Jack/King/Queen) ]= $\binom{40}{1} \times ( \binom{12}{1} + \binom{12}{2} ) $
But The actual answer comes if we do the following
[$1$ from Remaining Cards $\times$ $1$ from Jack/King/Queen ] + 2(from Jack/King/Queen) ]= $( \binom{40}{1} \times \binom{12}{1}) + \binom{12}{2} $
I would really appreciate it if someone could clarify why do we do it the second way and not the first way ? Which part is added/multiplied to which part ? Is there an easier way to know how its done. Am I missing some important concept here ?
Edit : While trying to understand this I also looked up the definition of disjoint events which means "Two events are disjoint if they can't both happen at the same time" so then again here is what I did (Special here means Jack/king/Queen)
(1 from the 40 and 1 from special) or (1 from the 40 and 2 from special)
$(\binom{40}{1} \times \binom{12}{1}) + (\binom{40}{1} \times \binom{12}{2}) ) $
Which simplifies to $\binom{40}{1} \times ( \binom{12}{1} + \binom{12}{2} ) $
So is the representation of the problem using
(1 from the 40 and 1 from special) or (1 from the 40 and 2 from special) wrong ?

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When I do 'top' , I see my perl script process in 'S' state. Is there a way to know, what is making this perl process go in sleep state and ways to wake it up? Any way to debug to give more insights on lines in perl script making it go in 'S' state.
A process in
You can use
which means that the process is trying to write 4096 bytes starting with "foobar" to stdout (fd #1) but whatever it has been redirected into is busy and the output buffer is full.
Processes go to sleep states when they are waiting for something, usually I/O.
Your process will be in
You can't "wake it up" - it will only proceed when the data/resource it is waiting for becomes available.
This is all normal and expected, and not usually a problem. Typically, this "program" run on the command line with no file:
will spend most of its time in sleep state, which is good - you don't want it to waste CPU while it's waiting for user input.
If you think this is a problem, try changing the way you do your I/O (reading larger chunks, in nice multiples of the underlying device's block size, doing memory mapped I/O, etc.).


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POWHATAN POINT - A check presentation, insurance information and the end of a curbside recycling program were among the items on the agenda at Tuesday night's meeting of Powhatan Village Council.
Dan Avondet, lead supervisor of operations for the Marietta Division of Dominion East Ohio Gas, and Tracy Stevens, external affairs manager in the Canton area, were on hand for the presentation of a $2,000 check to the village.
"I am here tonight to say thank you to the village " said Avondet, noting the "tremendous help" given to the Dominion crew while they were in the village last month to repair an outage problem. "We appreciate the assistance and want to say publicly how much partnerships like this mean to us. We can better serve our customers when a great team comes together."
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ALONG with his thanks, Don Avonder of Dominion East Ohio Gas, left, presented a $2,000 check to Powhatan Mayor Mark McVey during Tuesday night's village council meeting. He expressed appreciation for "tremendous help" given by village to the Dominion crew during a recent outage problem.
Avondet thanked Mayor Mark McVey and his staff, Fire Chief Tom Nelms and Police Chief Joshua Haught.
"I can't say enough about how quickly you responded," McVey told Avondet. "Your Rapid Response Team was indeed that. To get customers back online so quickly is a credit to Dominion."
Jonette Lazasz of the Schwendeman Agency, spoke to officials about health insurance. She said she is still waiting for a cost quote from one of two insurance plans contacted and asked if council wanted to wait for that quote since village insurance is due in December or go with the current plan. Council opted to wait.
After years of curbside pickup of items to be recycled, Powhatan will see its last pickup on Dec. 17. According to Councilman John Mitchell, Shadyside Cartage will switch from the "little blue boxes" put curbside by residents twice a month for pickup, to placing community dumpsters in the village. A location for the dumpsters has not yet been established.
Reporting on a Division of Watercraft grant application submitted earlier this year, Councilman Brady Dierkes said the grant was denied due to the "lack of funding at this time." He said the village can reapply after Jan. 31. On a motion by Councilman Sam Armann, council directed Dierkes to reapply for monies for the Powhatan boat launch facility.
Dierkes commended the street department personnel: George Hess, Mark Lamp and Charlie Hicks, for the "great job" they did in getting the village ready for the Christmas in the Village event. Dierkes said employees cleaned streets, put up lights and did other work in addition to their regular work.
Mayor McVey commented on and commended the Christmas in the Village Committee.
"It was a first-rate event!" he said, noting the committee puts in endless hours getting ready for the festivities. "The event puts the town in a good light," said McVey, thanking the committee for its efforts. According to one councilman, the parade was 40 minutes long it could have been the village's largest.
On a motion by Councilman Mitchell, the village will give each employee a $40 gift card from a Powhatan business.
Dierkes requested an executive session regarding personnel with regard to the street department. Also requesting an executive session was Police Chief Haught, asking to discuss personnel with regard to hiring. No action was taken following the session.
It was reported that Ohio-West Virginia Excavating has completed the removal of docks at the marina. Council voiced its appreciation.
The company has also completed the Ohio 7 South drainage project. Mayor McVey noted the area looks nice.


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If you're going to try it out, I suggest starting out at Impact. Building maps in space is cool.
If you're going to try it out, I suggest starting out at Impact. Building maps in space is cool.
I bet he making you try it out on the shittiest map so he can have all the good ones
Change your avatar, then we can talk.
I agree that Big Team Slayer sucks. Maybe if it was objectives some of the time. I'd rather 4v4 or Dominion/Objectives playlist. Maybe once everyone get's secure with their
E-PEENrank we can just run customs with big groups.
Then I won't have a reason to drink Mountain Dew. You're going to give me an identity crisis.
Looks like someone took footage from ZP cam and put commentary over it.
Your Muslim Avatar is scaring me Rev. Anywho I'd like to do some 4 man slayer against randoms sometime anyway.
I think 8 man would be better suited for objective, at least the 8 we had last night? Never again for slayer lol.
Yeah I think big team games are better suited for objectives too
Died laughing at the video.
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There's this guy who comes and cleans our floors at work once or twice a week and he looks exactly like Rev. Same hair and everything. It's like a real life uncanny valley Dead Ringers doppelganger Time Cop thing going on.
But is he good at Halo? That's all that matters to me.
If not, he's a cheap imitation and nothing like me.
Implying I didn't dispatch Rev to do recon when you said your area was littered with peoples of Hebrew descent.
You just blew the entire investigation. You're like a 5-year-old hunting squirrels.
Shoulda left this to the professionals. They call me "Jew Sniffer" for a reason.
It was blown the moment you thought taking Bloo's career path was a good disguise.
Should have went in as a banker to blend in better. Or as a rapist.


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New Balance Minimus Running Shoes – Starting at $54.95
These shoes are so minimal! They're like minimus to the maximus. I know, I hate me too.
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Just go to a newbalance outlet. Start at 38 ish.
Footlocker stores also have them on clearance, starting at 39.99 I believe. Shipping is $3 if they don't have your size and need to order it, but they do have military and veterans discount (20%) for anyone who has an military I.D.
@lemonlime123: I use to do online shopping from Footlocker on NB Minimus all the time - have about 4 pairs - was getting pretty good deals and all... then got two pairs that were def USED!!! LIke, taken home and worn then brought back to the store and put back in the box and shipped to another customer!!! Kinda thought that was illegal.
Before that had a few issues with them on their discount programs but sending out USED SHOES was the last straw. They finally, after a month or so, made me happy, but it was ridiculous!!! And they admitted selling USED SHOES in the stores (saying they are clearly marked???).
I really dont trust Footlocker tbh!
btw, the minimus is an amazing shoe. Even for icy, sludge trails keep the foot dry and comfy! Amazing!


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Le Bec Fin Is Closing For Real
How the mighty have fallen.
How the mighty have fallen.
No matter how you slice it, none of this news is good.
From May 7 through 11, the legendary Le Bec Fin founder will preside over the kitchen at Chip Roman's Chestnut Hill restaurant.
He's exited the fold at his Main Line restaurants, and by all accounts, headed for retirement.
Amin Bitar is stepping in to run the bakery, and expand its wholesale operations.
Seems loyal Le Bec-ers like the idea of making more frequent visits, but not at $150 and eight courses.
Is this a case of history repeating itself? We hope not.
Seems the "King of Steaks" is serving sandwiches that are too gristly and too stingy for the OG food blogger.
The new chef, who's background includes work in some of the city's best restaurants, picks up where George Sabatino leaves things after today's service ends.
No one's talking Steven Eckerd new role on Walnut Street, nor who is in line to replace Matt Levin.
The French Laundry-trained chef climbed aboard last summer when the restaurant changed hands.
Perreir has asked Le Bec's owners to remove his name from its downstairs bar.
The chef describes himself as a "fishing fanatic," spent two years working as a commercial fisherman.
The Le Bec Fin founder will man the pots and pans at the Chestnut Hill restaurant.
Rounding up the region's restaurant reviews.
The price change suggests new owner Nicolas Fanucci is learning from his predecessor's mistakes.
The holiday celebrates fresh, affordable and sustainable food.
Rounding up the region's restaurant reviews.
Friends are organizing the benefit to help the Le Bec Fin vet pair down mounting medical expenses.
Rounding up the region's restaurant reviews.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - The State University of New York at Geneseo has launched the largest capital campaign in its history with a goal of raising between $22-25 million from alumni, faculty and staff, parents and friends to bolster the college's endowment and strengthen its program offerings to students.
The inaugural event for the ambitious national campaign took place Sept. 15 in New York City, where alumni and friends of the college gathered for special presentations by Geneseo alumni and current students.
The master of ceremonies for the New York City launch was 1983 Geneseo graduate Jeff Clarke, executive chairman of the Travelport board of directors and chairman of the board of Orbitz Worldwide. The attendees enjoyed reflections from Diane Willkens, Class of 1975; John Gleason, Class of 1987; Ana Pietrantoni, Class of 2011; and Geneseo senior Greg Roloff.
"This is a pivotal initiative for Geneseo and critically important for the future of this great college," said Geneseo President Christopher C. Dahl. "Private support of the college's endowment through major gifts and annual giving is becoming increasingly important to preserve educational quality for our students. We are enthusiastically asking Geneseo alumni and other supporters to help ensure the college's excellence for future generations of students."
President Dahl praised the leaders of the Geneseo Foundation and members of the alumni regional committees for motivating donors during the private phase of the campaign. The college is dedicated to reaching an endowment funding level that will generate greater annual earnings for college purposes.
The New York City event included the announcement of a $1 million gift commitment from 1973 alumnus Edward Pettinella, president and CEO of Home Properties, Inc., based in Rochester, N.Y. Pettinella's gift brings the campaign gift total so far to $16.5 million.
"Ed Pettinella has generously supported Geneseo in many ways over the years and his gift tremendously boosts the campaign," said Dahl. "I am deeply grateful for his genuine commitment to his alma mater. Pacesetter gifts of this magnitude will truly energize this ambitious fund-raising effort."
The organization responsible for the college's fundraising, The Geneseo Foundation, is sponsoring a series of special events for alumni, faculty, parents and friends around the country throughout the year to roll out the campaign, titled "Shaping Lives of Purpose: The Campaign for Geneseo."
Chairing the campaign is foundation board member Frank Vafier, a 1974 Geneseo graduate and co-founder of Prolifics, a technology consulting firm. Vafier stressed that alumni support of the campaign is critical to success.
"I have no doubt our alumni and friends will rally around this inspiring campaign," said Vafier. "Alumni in particular know that Geneseo is a special place. We all have realized lasting rewards from our time as students there, wherever life has taken us. This campaign gives us the opportunity to respond accordingly."
Ron Herzman, distinguished teaching professor of English, is co-chairing the faculty and staff component of the campaign with Andrea Klein, director of campus scheduling and events.
"Funds raised from this campaign directly support Geneseo's academic enterprise by making scholarships available to some very talented students who otherwise would not be able to attend college," said Herzman. "Campaign funds also support Geneseo faculty research and related academic endeavors, which directly benefit undergraduate teaching."
Geneseo's campaign is aimed at five major goals:
1) Support for the newly created Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Leadership through a series of endowed funds and current purpose funds. The center will support student research projects; civic engagement experiences; lectureships that attract leaders and entrepreneurs from science, business and education; and a student ambassadors program in which students will pursue research and community service projects of their own design.
2) Support for a strong investment in the college's scholarship program
3) Support for the college's faculty and academic programs through investment in high-impact learning experiences, research, interdisciplinary coursework and strong library resources
4) Support for the expansion of opportunities in the college's global education program
5) Support for the college's athletic program as an integral part of a comprehensive student experience
The foundation has created 18 regional alumni committees across the country, who are underwriting campaign launch events for fellow alumni in their areas. The Rochester, N.Y., launch event is scheduled Oct. 15, at which Pettinella will serve as master of ceremonies. Other launch events are set throughout the year in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Washington, D.C.; Buffalo; Chicago ; Denver; Tampa, Fla.; Charlotte ; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Boston; Westchester, Conn.; Syracuse, N.Y.; Albany, N.Y.; and Long Island, N.Y.
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I enjoy adding beer to a pot of chili for taste, but at times find the end result is too soupy. What's a good way to thicken it without overcooking or compromising the flavor?
As noted above, reducing the liquid through evaporation will thicken up the chili but you run the risk of burning/scorching the bottom and it can take a long time at lower temperatures. What I like to do is to take some of the beans (I prefer black beans in mine) and mash them up into a thick paste and then stir that into the chili. The starches from the beans will help thicken up the chili and you aren't adding anything that isn't already there. I have also seen people do similar things with cornbread.
I add beer to my chili and simply let it simmer with the lid off for an hour or two so the liquid evaporates. I've never had a problem with overcooking.
I use instant Corn Masa Flour as thickener. It seems to hold onto water better over time than does corn meal. That's likely because unlike corn meal, it's precooked, nixtamalized. Either way, you'll get a bit of a corny taste.
If you want to thicken it fast use flour, just don't add it directly to the pot (If you do, the flour will clump and you'll spend the next couple of hours trying to de-clump the clumps).
Use a bowl. To the bowl, add 1-2 tablespoons of flour and a cup of hot liquid from the chili. Mix/whisk both until combined. Add this mixture to your chili and stir until combined. It'll thicken in 20-30 minutes.
You can also use cornstarch, xantham gum, and many other thickeners or liaisons.
Good videos on reduction and thickening using thickeners/liaisons.
Another good video: Sauce Thickening Agents (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFj2HjwJ3vc)
Depending on whether you'd consider this a compromise (I consider it a feature), corn meal or crushed tortilla chips not only thicken it but also add a flavor that usually complements the chili.
I add roux in two stages. First, after sweating the peppers and onions and browning the meat(s) and before adding the beer, with the pot over a medium-high heat add flour approximately equal to the amount of oils (I would have used bacon grease, butter and olive oil to sweat the peppers and onions, your recipe will probably very, but I hope you get the idea...) and stir the mixture until the flour has absorbed the oils and the roux is clinging to the rest of the mixture. Then add the beer. This will thicken the mix, but not 'thoroughly'. The second stage comes at the end. When you are 1 - 1½ hours from 'done' mix 4 ounces each of oil (peanut, corn, olive, lard dealers choice) with 4 ounces of flour in and oven safe dish and bake this roux for about 1 hour at 350°. (This is not quite 'red brick' roux, you want to be short of that...) After baking mix the roux into to the chili, stir and cook for another 30 minutes.
Your mileage may vary based on the batch size and the amount of grease run-off from the meat, but this practice leaves me with a nice thick chili.
Flour, Cornstarch, amd Tortillia chips all work fine, but they will all mute the beef-y flavor of the chili. To avoid any muting at all, use a gum like Xanthen Gum to thicken your pot of goodness. 1 tsp will tighten up a quart of chili, with no reduction of chili flavor.
I've seen some of the usual answers like ground tortilla chips (unsalted if you can find them), and masa harina, but potato flakes (the instant ones in a box) are a great way to thicken your chili (or any soup). You can also do a quick cornstarch slurry by mixing a tablespoon of water and a tablespoon of corn starch and add as needed. Always add either of them slowly and wait about 3-5 minutes. They don't need heat to be activated either.
I use flour to thicken my chili, but I put a half of cup in my sifter (2-3 sifts at a time) and stir so it doesn't clump together. This has soaked up some of the saltiness as well when I over season it.
To thicken a sauce without changing the flavour, I use powdered arrowroot. In a bowl, put a tablespoon of arrowroot powder with a small amount of cold water. Mix well then slowly add a few tablespoons of the excess liquid from your chilli. when thoroughly blended, add the mix to your chilli and allow to cook through.
I start with a roux. Bacon grease is the best but butter will work too. Or you can put some beans in the food processor if you are health minded.
Use kuzu root starch.. It comes in rock-like granules. Mix 1 Tb kuzu with 1 Tb water first, then add to simmering chili until thickened. I use a lot of onions and peppers that give up a lot of water and kuzu works best! No change in flavor, texture or mouth-feel. Re-heats perfectly as original.
You can use blood - fresh cow, goat, or lamb companies sell it. Soups, chilis, and many other things used blood as thickener before B.C. even became A.D.
Its used for so many things like blood pudding, even brownies. It enhances the flavor and no this stuff will cause more problems not used it is not evil and any meat including fish has at least some sort of blood in it anyway if think on it everything has its own blood, sap of tree, plants.
A lot of restaurants including Indonesian, African and Asian gourmet use blood as thickener and meats.
How about reducing the beer (and other possible fluids) separately before adding them? That should give you the desired flavor effect without the excess water.
Stir in one can of refried beans. Or blend one can of whatever beans you are using in your chilli. Wash them off first.
I can't boil to evaporate because my chili recipe requires the ground chili paste. garlic, ginger, cilantro, etc to remain fresh and uncooked.
My family tradition has been to add tapioca or corn starch. Boil half a cup of water in the microwave, and then stir in tapioca/corn flour gradually until the paste is super-saturated. I might even try to microwave the paste further. Tapioca flour is easier to deal with. Corn flour imo tastes better.
When the hot flour paste has chilled to a warm state, gradually mix it into the chili paste until desired thickness is achieved.
I have added brandy, rice wine or chardonnay to the chili paste but never beer.
As absorbent thickener, I am even thinking of cream cheese, or home-made sour yogurt on the verge of becoming cottage cheese. I have never tried but perhaps I should one of these days.
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There seems to be even amongst some Historians and even this forum an unclear approach to Hitler and his Religion or the lack there of is there any clear history that establishes Hitler's religious Views? I am aware of his public statements of his Christianity and his use of Christianity as a source for his hatred of Jews put there still seems to be sources which state that it was a show too eventually reach world domination and take over the world and remove the church from within the Reich is there any proof to or against it? Article Here
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I see Adolf Hitler more in a materialistic than a religious tradition. He seemed to hold largely instrumental, secularist views on religions, and from this perspective occasionally had quasi-benign things to say also about Jewish religion. The following quote (from Brigitte Hamann's Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship) is from communication by Hitler to Otto Wagener in 1930:
Perhaps his own religion (if there was any) was an odd blend e.g. of Germanic (as in Nibelungen), Christian (as in his native culture), Hindu (as in Aryans and Vedic traditions), and Buddhist (perhaps as in earlier comment) fragments. Overall, I think this is a question without a clear single answer.
Hitler definitively believed in some form of deity, and also believed, that God send him to Earth to rule it and get rid of the Jews and other "lesser humans".
He was raised catholic, and used Christianity and Catholic church to his advantage, however it isn't clear, if he had considered catholic or christian himself, or was just using this to take control over people. Hitler definitively wasn't atheist, but we aren't sure if he was a christian, or believed in other form of deity.
If you want more objective analysis look here What were Hitler's religious views? and here Was Hitler a Catholic, an Atheist, or otherwise? From the end If it is possible to conclude on such a complex subject, it would appear that Hitler was not an atheist, nor was he a Catholic.
Hitler was baptised Catholic. Over whole his life he attended the services. He resused to change the faith and always said he was Catholic.
Nevertheless, his faith was not that sincere. For example, he was aware that Catholic doctrine contradicts scientific facts (quote from Mein Kampf):
He admired the Christian fanaticism:
He had some regrets about the Christian methods:
He believed that there was no fundamental difference between Catholic and Protestant faith:
In conclusion we can say that he was a practicing Catholic who did believe in God but did not believe in every Christian dogma that contradicted the current science.


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Last winter I got an Under Armor compression* top (smooth outside, fuzzy surface on the inside). Perfect for bike commute with a shell with temps in the 40s and 50s.
A few weeks ago at Target I came across a Champion brand C9 Power Core top -- seems the same quality, compression and fit as the Under Armor (maybe a tiny bit fuzzier on the inside) for about $15, less than half the price of the Under Armor. Got one and it is great!
If you live in a place where you don't need to layer often, but when you do, you REALLY do, this would be a great option for riding; not a big investment for a useful addition to your bike kit.
*What's referred to in the marketing world as a "body conscious" fit = snug.
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If $(G,*)$ and $(H,.)$ are groups, we can form a new group which is called the direct product $G \times H$ of $G$ and $H$, where the combination of two elements is defined by $(g_1,h_1)(g_2,h_2)=(g_1*g_2,h_1.h_2)$. Verify that $G \times H$ is a group.
I know the group axioms are closure, associativity, inverse and identity. But this way of presenting a group is new to me, and I can't use the usual approach.


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On the Channels of Pro-Social Behavior Evidence from a natural field experiment
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charitable donations
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Tied versus untied transfers
willingness to give
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We conduct a natural field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms for small donations. Charitable contributions are significantly higher if made indirectly, i.e. if they are tied to the purchase of a good sold at a premium, than if they are made directly. Donations are significantly higher under both transfer mechanisms if people are given a suggested reference donation.
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I just created an icon in fireworks with a size 17*15 (which is small) and when i try to label the icon the minimum size of the text is 8 pixels which is very big . I want to have a label with text size 3. and I do not want the label to be blurred. It should be at least readable . Can anyone help me regarding this ?
Nope. What you are asking for is pretty much impossible. You can't render letterforms with only 3 vertical pixels. There have been attempts at making incredibly small screen type, though. For instance:
That face has a 3px x-height. So pretty small. Is it readable? Not really. But a fun experiment.
Do you want it small or do you want it readable? Anything smaller than 8 pt won't really be easily readable by anyone using standard (1024x768) screen resolution.
could mean many things to many people. It could mean:
You can have the text at whatever size you like so long as it has a sensible mouseover (with normal screens).
Haven't a clue why people are talking 'pts' here - points are dead tree and not pixels, points have no use to you here as a screen could be 72 or 96 or anything else dpi.
In the early days fonts were on 8x8 monospace fonts. If they could have used less pixels then they would have done. But they did not have dithering and 'cleartype' then, never mind proportional width fonts. With these innovations you can go smaller, but screens have gone up in resolution so legibility is tricky for most people with 8 pixel high fonts. With that in mind, do consider your customers and whether there is any point at all in 3 pixel high text.


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The alien Reapers have ruled Earth for forty-five years. David Valentine is a member of the human resistance, who is now being trained as a Cat-an elite stealth warrior. His first mission is to investigate the threat of the Twisted Cross, a mysterious new force under Reaper control.
"A compelling new world."—Creature Corner
"I have no doubt that knight is going to be a household name in the genre."—Silver Oak Book Reviews
"Way of the Wolf is character-driven, speculative fiction adventure at its very best, and I for one can't wait to see its sequel."—Black Gate


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What to Expect in a C-Section
In This Article:
Classical C-sectionWhat Is a Classical C-Section?
The classical C-section has been used by physicians as the standard way of performing a C-section, but recently it has been superceded in use by the Low-Transverse uterine incision (see next section).
In a classical C-section, the physician makes an incision or cut in the upper or contractile portion of the uterus. This gives much more access to the baby. It traditionally has been done under emergency circumstances, so many doctors thought this was the quickest and easiest way to deliver the baby. However, as doctors discovered later, this type of incision subjected both the mother and baby to additional risks, as will be discussed later.
While we're on the subject, don't confuse the way your skin is cut and the way your uterus is cut. We're talking about the cutting of the uterus here, not the incision in the skin that you see confusing, but important differences. Just because a doctor cuts your outer skin up and down or a bikini cut (sideways) doesn't mean that he cuts your uterus that same way. You can't tell from the outer skin incision how your uterus was cut, and it does matter later if you plan on having subsequent births.
The old dictum was once a C-section, always a C-section, which usually applied to the classical Cesarean section and meant that you always had to have C-sections for later deliveries. However, that dictum does not always apply to a low-transverse C-section.
Risks of a Classical C-Section
When a classical C-section is performed, the area that is cut tends to be muscular so that when a scar forms, the scar is found to be weaker when laboring with a future pregnancy. This does not bode well for a mother's attempt at a vaginal delivery in subsequent births, for fear that the scar might tear while in labor. Thus, there is a risk in future deliveries for the uterus to rupture.
If a rupture occurs, the mother could bleed internally, and the baby could work its way through the previous incision or scar. In that case, the placenta would be compromised, and the baby could die. The mother could also die. The overall risk of a uterine rupture occurring is less than one percent in women who have never had surgery of the uterus (for example, a previous baby born by this type of C-section).
However, in women who have had a classical C-section in a previous birth, the risk for rupture elevates to 20-25 percent in subsequent pregnancies and births attempted vaginally. For this reason, most doctors recommend that subsequent births also be delivered via C-section.
In contrast, the risk for rupture in subsequent pregnancies for a woman with one low-transverse C-section is less than one percent. And that's the real reason that OBs prefer the low-transverse C-section procedure.
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How did doctors figure this out? Dr. John said that there is an unfounded story that the difference between these two types of C-sections in subsequent births was first noticed in the UCLA parking lot, of all places! One day the parking lot was literally full of women having babies at the County Hospital because the hospital was full, and there weren't enough rooms. Because many of the women were Hispanic and possibly there weren't enough interpreters or time to get full histories or data before the births, it wasn't until after the births occurred that doctors discovered that many of the women were having a third or fourth child delivered vaginally, but they had previously had low-transverse incisions and C-sections. Bells started ringing and people started asking questions. The result: The discovery that low-transverse incisions are safer for vaginal deliveries after C-sections. (Hey, it's a good story whether it's true or not.)
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Do insects with compound eyes have depth perception? They fly as if they do, but their eyes are so close together it seems like the image would be 2 dimensional.
"1001 questions answered about insects" by Alexander Barrett and Elsie Broughton Klots includes the following passage:
However it does not mention compound eyes specifically.
There may be other methods of obtaining a perception of distance rather than the binocular vision seen in humans. This paper suggests that there is 'clear evidence' that some insects perceive depth by moving their head to artificially create parallax, which they can then recognise and interpret as depth and distance. They cite the Praying Mantis as an example, which does have compound eyes.
The sense of depth is required to us to orient ourselves in a 3D world. Insects do orient themselves in the exterior 3D world, thanks to the ability to detect the plane of sunlight polarization, that is used as a navigation compass in foraging expeditions and when coming back home.
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I am planning to develop a bicycle on my own for a competition. But the main requirement of it is that it must be able to develop a maximum speed. If I am able to cast the sprockets with gear ratio say 10:1 or something like 100:1, will there be any practical hindrance to it?
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The main hindrance will be actually getting going from a standstill. This kind of thing has been done quite a bit and is called motor-pacing and involves riding a very highly geared (usually fixed-gear) bike behind a fast car with some kind of fairing to reduce wind resistance on the bike. Speeds of well over 100mph have been reached.
This kind of bike is totally unsuitable for riding anywhere but a specially controlled long straight under the right conditions.
Check out this video for an idea of what's involved.
The other answers given here are correct in that there are physical limitations to the size of a single chainring; however, you can get around that limitation by building a "double reduction" gearing system where you sequentially link, say, a 4-to-1 gear ratio with another 4-to-1 gear ratio to get a final ratio of 16-to-1. As noted above, Fred Rompelberg set a speed record at 269 km/h by using a double reduction gear: a 70/13 connected to a 60/15 for a final total gear ratio of 21.5. His wheels were 18 inches in diameter and his tires were about an inch thick, so each rotation of his feet around the crank moved the bike about 35 meters. 269 km/h is 75 meters/second, so his cadence at top speed was just under 130 rpm. Below, you will see that this will turn out to be important.
And now we come to the real limiting issue. Under usual conditions, your maximum speed is limited by the power you can produce, not your gear ratio. The power needed to cycle on flat smooth ground with no head or tailwind has two components: a component needed to overcome aerodynamic drag and a component needed to overcome rolling and mechanical drag. Aerodynamic drag force varies with the square of airspeed, so the power needed to overcome aerodynamic drag force varies roughly with the cube of speed. On the other hand, rolling and mechanical drag force is nearly constant, so the power needed to overcome it varies roughly linearly with speed. In the Rompelberg speed attempt, and in other similarly "paced" attempts, he rode behind a specially-designed motor vehicle designed to minimize aerodynamic drag. However, the rolling drag remains. The power needed to overcome rolling drag is approximately Crr * total mass (in kg) * speed (in m/s) * the gravitation constant (9.8 m/sec^2) where Crr is the "coefficient of rolling resistance" and can be thought of as including bearing and other transmission losses. On firm ground with modern tires and a modern chain-drive system, Crr is often in the range of .005. Thus, moving a total mass of 100 kg at 75 meters/sec would require around 370 watts of power, on flat firm ground in the absence of aerodynamic drag. If the pacing vehicle were unable to eliminate all aerodynamic drag, the power demand would be higher.
Now we turn to human production of needed power. Power is the product of force and velocity, and we can either produce a given amount of power with a combination of high pedal force and low leg speed, or high leg speed and low pedal force. As you might expect, pedal force and leg speed are inversely related: the higher the pedal force, the lower our leg speed and the higher our leg speed the lower the pedal force we can produce, so there is a trade-off between the two. In general, it has been observed that for most humans, power is maximized at a point where leg speed and pedal force are roughly half of their maximums (that is, if we know a rider's maximum leg speed and maximum leg force, power is maximized in the neighborhood of half of the maximums). For many trained cyclists, maximum cadence is in the range of 200 to 250 rpm, and we can generally observe that they produce maximum power in the neighborhood of 120 rpm. And that is consistent with our observation that Rompelberg's speed record was set at just under 130 rpm.
So although you could construct a bicycle with 100-to-1 gearing (via a double or triple reduction system), you probably would not be able to produce the required power at the "sweet spot" in cadence in order to attain your speed goal.
There are a couple of obvious problems:
But other that that, no.
The main problem is that the gear ratios of a transmission multiply or divide torque. A 100:1 transmission means that the torque you are generating is being divided by 100. If the resulting torque is less than what is needed to move the bike, then you won't be able to turn the pedals.
If you are on a smooth, level road, with well inflated tires, and no headwind, then the torque required to begin moving is close to zero, and so having your torque cut by 100 might not be an impediment against beginning to move. However, as soon as you start moving, impedance builds due to air drag and rolling resistance. As soon as this impedance adds up to your torque / 100, you cannot go any faster.
High gears allow our muscles to work slowly, similar to doing a slow bench press. You probably know from weight lifting that your maximum force is developed during a slow lift. If you can press a 200 pound bar off your chest quickly, that means you can handle quite a bit more weight. Using a high gear is somewhat like doing a slow lift; you're developing a greater force. High gears also allow us to reduce wasteful motion of the legs, improving our efficiency. However, the gear must not be so high that the output torque is less than the force that is required to maintain the desired speed (a force opposite and equal to the total drag).
The increase in gear ratio allows you to develop more torque against the pedal crank, but at the same time, the output torque diminishes. The output torque must not diminish to the point that you cannot maintain speed. So there is a trade-off happening which means there is some optimal point. This point depends on you, of course: your body geometry, strength and weight, and on the conditions: slope, wind, surface, bicycle (tires, etc). Also, the intended riding distance! You might be able to sprint a mile in a high gear that would be inappropriate for you to use for a 100 mile road trip.
You probably know from experience that a gear that feels ideal on level ground may be overpowered as soon as you encounter an incline: you make an extra effort, yet the bike slows down. This is because the output torque is too low to push the bicycle up the hill. Switching to a lower gear allows you to then maintain a speed that would be impossible in the high gear.


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STEUBENVILLE - City officials agreed Tuesday night to change the city logo after a Madison, Wis., organization threatened legal action.
Law Director S. Gary Repella announced the decision following a 15-minute closed-door meeting with City Council members.
"We will be approaching Mark Nelson of Nelson Fine Art and Gifts and asking him to redesign the city logo to remove the cross and silhouette of the Christ the King Chapel on the Franciscan University of Steubenville campus.," said Repella.
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"We were contacted in May by the Freedom from Religion Foundation Inc. in Madison, Wis., who said one of our citizens had complained about the city logo. During the past several months the foundation sent me their research and past case law regarding religious symbols. I researched current case law and found a lot of case laws that do not allow religious symbols in government symbols," continued Repella.
We have discussed the issue with City Council and we will ask Mark Nelson to design a silhouette of another building such as the library or a dormitory for the city logo. The council realizes the potential cost to our city taxpayers may be very expensive to try to win the case," added Repella.
In other business Tuesday night, 6th Ward Councilman David Lalich introduced the only new legislation during a brief council sunshine meeting.
Lalich proposed the 2013 tax budget for consideration at next week's regular meeting after expressing concerns about the city's future finances.
"The water department is going to bite us soon. And when it happens it will fill this room 28 times over. We also have to do something to get revenue for the police department," warned Lalich.
And 3rd Ward Councilman Greg Metcalf said he is worried about the future loss of Local Government Funds from the state.
"I am very concerned about our finances in 2014, 2015 and 2016. We need a plan of action now in order to move forward. If the Local Government Fund cuts come to fruition we may lose manpower in the future," said Metcalf.
"We should be concerned about our financial projections and how we deal with a potential deficit in the future. I think we are on the right track but we also need to focus on the future. We have a real estate levy renewal coming up later this year and it is up to all of us to educate and do an outreach to our community," said Mayor Domenick Mucci.
City Manager Cathy Davison said the administration is preparing to ask the city health care committee to look at the cost of health care premiums and the prescription drug plan for potential savings.
"We are also looking at an energy audit for our city properties. The finance office is looking at different companies who conduct energy audits. We are also looking at alternative energy suppliers because of deregulation. We are continuing to work with our three city employee unions as well as our department heads in order to maintain and increase efficiencies in our operations," stated Davison.
"At this point we anticipate finishing 2012 with a small surplus. But we are planning for a worse case scenario and are being very conservative with our proposed revenue and tax budgets," she said.
Davison told council members she will meet next week with a representative from the Neptune Technology Group to discuss details of a new water meter system that allows the water usage to be read from the City Hall utility office instead of by meter readers.
Lalich requested a council finance committee meeting for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday prior to the regular meeting.
"We will need that meeting to be in executive session because we will be meeting with the state auditors for their report. The state has not yet released the final audit report, so the meeting must be held in private," said Lalich.


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I am backtesting an equity trading strategy which trades only once per day. Is there a general rule of thumb for the reasonable upper bound on the rate of return of such a strategy? For example, a 2000% return over a week might be unrealistic, but a 20% return is possible. Identifying a reasonable limit may help me identify faulty strategies.
I believe the concept you are looking for without really knowing it is the information coefficient (IC). IC is the correlation between your forecast and actual subsequent returns. If your IC is 1 (perfect correlation, also known in this context as perfect foresight), then your maximum return is the compounded sum of the greatest daily return of any stock in your universe (or of the difference between the greatest and lowest return, in case of a long-short strategy). For a lower IC, you can simulate what returns are realistic by artificially constructing a signal starting with realized returns and adding noise to get the desired IC.
A separate question is what is a realistic IC. I'm not sure, but I doubt any strategies can achieve higher than 0.1.
For more details, see Active Portfolio Management by Grinold and Kahn.
Quite simply, no, you can't bound returns.
Assuming you can invest in several assets, and that you can short-sell, you could quite easily make a huge return by simply getting (maybe even just by pure luck) the right directions on an especially volatile way.
You can't bound complex strategies daily return.
If you consider buying only a single asset, the is no bound either.
What you might be willing to do is to look at the distribution of past return, and take some quantile (99% for example) which would give you your limit, or basically some kind of confidence interval (and it would basically correspond to the VaR for losses). But this would be wrong anyway in my opinion, since you basically assume that all the data available right now fully characterizes the distributions of future returns, which has been proved wrong every time there has been a major crisis.
Keep in mind, seeing one billion white swans is not enough to prove that all swans are white, whereas seeing only one black swan is sufficient to prove that all of them aren't white.
But my main concern is: why on earth would you discard a strategy because it makes large returns or losses? I mean, how could your strategy be "faulty"???? Are you trying to detect fraud?


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The Massachusetts State Police and the Department of Transportation announced Thursday that extra patrols have been added on the Massachusetts Turnpike from Friday through Monday as part of a cross-country effort to enforce traffic laws and stop dangerous drivers.
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The Department of Transportation will run messages promoting safe driving on its electronic message boards along the Turnpike (Interstate 90). Safe driving habits will be encouraged on Twitter feeds @MassStatePolice and @MassDOT.
Interstate 90 runs more than 3,000 miles from Boston to Seattle. Interstate 94 runs for nearly 1,600 miles from Lake Michigan to Billings, Montana, where it connects to I-90.
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With breathtaking views along the Rhone Valley, the resort of Crans-Montana is a top choice amongst well-heeled skiers with its luxury hotels and gourmet restaurants and hosts the Caprice music festival in April each year. The ski area is an intermediate's paradise with red runs making up the majority of the piste map.
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If you tire of the slopes here you can make your way to the top ski resorts in Zermatt, Saas Fee and Verbier by road or rail.
Crans Montana is a popular resort throughout the year, so there are a wide variety of apres ski activities for non-skiers, ranging from snow golf, horse riding and delightful cleared walks around the golf course and in the forest. Supermarkets are good, and there are plenty of shops and boutiques. There are over 80 restaurants in Crans-Montana, offering many different cuisines, along with bars and nightclubs, and a casino. Children's facilities are adequate. The Fleur des Champs crèche and kindergarten takes infants from three months, making for a friendly family ski holiday resort.
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Sylvester Nathaniel Smith is accused of killing 43-year-old Thomas Howard Garrison on Oct. 24.
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LAKELAND | A 32-year-old Winter Haven man was indicted Tuesday in an October 2013 murder that is one of Lakeland Police Department's 38 cold cases.
Sylvester Nathaniel Smith, of 350 24th St. NW, was indicted in the murder of Thomas Howard Garrison, a 43-year-old Miramar man. Garrison's body was found at the end of a driveway at 708 E. Parker St. on the night of Oct. 24, said Gary Gross, a spokesman for the LPD.
Just before 10:15 p.m. that night, several people called 911 to report gunshots near Gilmore Avenue at Parker Street, police said. When officers responded, they found Garrison dead in the driveway.
Garrison was shot inside the garage, according to reports given to The Ledger, and his body was pulled out to the end of the driveway.
The Lakeland Police Department in May formed a cold case team led by Sgt. Jeff Birdwell, who oversees the department's violent crimes unit. Detectives Scott Kercher and Brad Grice are part of the team.
The Ledger has partnered with LPD to profile the families and victims of the cold cases following the series "It Takes a Community to Solve a Murder."
Gross said the detectives cannot release details about a possible motive in Garrison's murder because that might endanger witnesses who plan to testify, but said a Polk County grand jury thought the detectives had enough evidence to issue the indictment.
Smith already is in the Polk County Jail on three charges of aggravated battery with a firearm by a felon.
Those charges are connected to a early-morning shooting Jan. 19 at the Elks Lodge, 1026 N. Texas Ave., Lakeland, where three people were injured.
Police said Smith shot Willie Williams, 33 at the time, five times, and Gregory Burgess, 23 at the time, once in his leg. Smith also pistol-whipped Darielle Kirkland, 23 at the time, to the ground in the fight.
Earlier in 2013, Smith was charged with possession of crack cocaine and robbery, according to jail records. About three months before Garrison was found dead, Smith was arrested on battery charges.
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The title pretty much says it. I attempted to download steam from the Software Centre, but it gave me an error (something along the lines of "Cannot reach source: apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/steam64/", I didn't write it down). I tried reconnecting, but that didn't work. When I restarted the software centre, the entry for Steam (64-bit) had vanished. I checked the web page for Steam 64-bit in the apps repository, but I got a page not found error. Thoughts?
As per the official repository of steam for Ubuntu, it is available only for precise (Ubuntu 12.04). However, you can still download the .deb file.
Steam is in the 'Canonical Partners' repository in 12.10 x86_64. You will need to go to the software center and 'edit' 'Software Sources' and under 'Other Software' tick the 'Canonical Partners'.
[update] New install of Ubuntu today and could not get steam to show, but after logging in to Ubuntu ONE account (click the 'recommended for you' link in software center) and steam now shows up. [/update]
I was looking for a 64 bit installer because it stop working after an update. And it said something that libsdl2 was missing, or something that I was on low disk space.
I did: rm -r .local/share/Steam Then when I started again steam, it asked me to reinstall it.
It worked fine!
I was trying to install and reinstall the .deb, but it didn't help. Maybe it was some issue with my 64bit 12.10 and update from beta. Now with stable version everything works.


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I work part time as self-employed, and use Google Calendar to organise my time. I'd like to be able to include on my personal website a list of dates that I am available for hire.
Does anybody know of a way of extracting busy/free information from a Google Calendar and producing a report of which days I am completely free (i.e. days in which there are no events in my calendar)? This has to be a system that can be integrated on the web and dynamically updates; thus once implemented it should only require me to keep my Google Calendar up-to-date.
Bonus question: I only do this work at the weekends. Ideally, any solution would allow me to have it only report whether I'm free on a Saturday or Sunday.


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Does anyone know how to delete Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.6.4?
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- Use the delete all backup feature in Time Machine... this is slow as hell, would take days. Need a command line solution.
- No I don't want to reformat the drive, I have other content on it, and no don't say I should have separated on two partition or two drives, I did it this say since partitions cannot be dynamically changed, and two drives is annoying since, whats the point of having a big drive?... plus has no relation to the issue at hand.
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For windows 7, I'm looking for a good Virtual desktop manager so that on just single monitor I can divide my work into multiple screens like on linux. What are the good options that people have used and works well?
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I've been using Dexpot for over 8 years now, and I really miss it when working on another Windows machine. Supports up to 20 monitors, highly configurable, and works fine with Windows 7 (even on 64 bits). Only discomfort it's caused me is that sometimes, when using Remote Desktop, it causes my desktop icons to disappear.
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I like Virtual Dimension and AltDesk the best. Both have good GUIs. Virtual Dimension is free, while AltDesk has a trial then $15. AltDesk is just slightly better looking--it is skinnable.
It depends a lot on how you will use the software. I used to try to only use the keyboard, VirtuaWin is a good solution if you want no GUI. But I never did stick with that.
I started trying GUI-based solutions like Virtual Dimension and I've had better success with it. I like to be able to just drag a bunch of icons off my current desk and onto other random desks when things are getting cluttered on my main desk.
GUI-based programs help to at least see what is on the desktops I'm dragging to and if those desktops are cluttered to. I used to try to group my desktops, but that is too much of a hassle when you have a lot of windows. Now I just try to keep my left-most desktops as most work relevant, and right most as less work relevant or things like Outlook that aren't needed for programming.


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If $f$ is completely multiplicative, prove that $$(f \cdot g)^{-1}=f \cdot g^{-1},$$ for every arithmetical function $g$ with $g(1) \neq 0$.
My main problem with this is that I can't even see why it is true! As far as I understand it, we have something like $$(f \cdot g)^{-1}=f^{-1} \cdot g^{-1}= \mu f \cdot g^{-1},$$ since $f$ is completely multiplicative. But this can't be right, I don't see how we could get $\mu f$ to be $f$. I'm almost certain that I have confused something with something else, but luckily I have this wonderful community to set me straight! So my question is, what am I doing wrong?
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Is it better to define foreign keys in the database or in the code part of an application?
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Put the foreign keys on the database. Even if you validate the data in the application before you save it the FK's are a good piece QA backup. For a first approximation, applications always have data issues. Leaving controls like this out of the system just invites failure modes where data gets corrupted silently.
There's nothing like working in data warehousing for a few years to see this in action. You spend your time picking up the pieces after noddy mistakes by application developers who thought they could enforce data integrity in the application code. Spend any time doing this and you will conclude that application managed data integrity is little more than a conceit.
In addition, the query optimiser can use foreign keys to infer things about table joins, so FK's will result in more efficient query plans.
There are plenty of other benefits to foreign keys as well. Do everyone a favour - put the FK's on the database.
Referential Integrity should be handled on the lowest possible level, which would be the underlying database. Relational Database Management Systems are optimized to handle this. It doesn't make sense to reinvent the proverbial wheel.
It is acceptable to define domain logic in the application code to prevent the DML statement to even cause an RI exception, but this should not be seen as a replacement for foreign key relationships in the database.
I'm going to go out on a limb here fully expecting this to get down-voted since this is a DBA-focused group.
I agree that using strict foreign keys is the best decision in most scenarios. However, there are some cases where foreign keys cause more problems than they solve.
When you are dealing with very highly concurrent environment such as a high traffic web application, and are using a well-established, robust ORM, foreign keys can cause locking problems that make scaling and maintaining a server difficult. When updating rows in a child table, the parent row also is locked. In many scenarios, this can drastically limit concurrency due to locking contention. Additionally, sometimes you have to perform maintenance on individual tables, such as archival processes where you may need to (intentionally) break referential integrity rules, at least temporarily. With foreign keys in place, this can be incredibly difficult and in some RDBMSes disabling foreign key constraints will cause a rebuild of the table, a time consuming process that can require substantial downtime.
Understand that I'm including the caveat that you must use a robust framework that is capable of understanding referential integrity external to the database. Still, you will likely end up with some referential integrity issues. However, there are many cases where it just isn't that big a deal to have orphaned rows or minor referential integrity violations. I would argue that the majority of web applications fall under this category.
That being said, no one starts out as Facebook. Start by defining foreign keys in your database. Monitor. If you end up having problems, understand that you may need to drop some of those constraints to scale.
In conclusion: Most databases should have foreign keys. Highly concurrent environments might be better off without foreign keys. If you reach that point, you might need to consider dropping those constraints.
I'm going to go don my flame-retardant suit now.
In thinking about the locking consequences of foreign keys, I neglected to mention the cost of all the additional row lookups that are implicitly generated internally, adding to server load.
Ultimately, my point is that foreign keys are not free. In many cases, the cost is worth it, but there are scenarios where that cost exceeds their benefit.
Let's be concrete. I'm choosing MySQL/InnoDB in this example, which is not highly respected for its foreign key behavior, but it's what I am most familiar with and is likely the most commonly used web database. I'm not certain other database would fare better with the example I'm about to show.
Consider a child table with a foreign key referencing the parent. As an example, see the film and film_actor tables in the sakila sample database in MySQL:
The relevant constraint is film_actor (fk_film_actor_film) for my example.
Note that I was unable to update an unrelated field in the parent row while inserting into the child table. This happens because InnoDB is holding a shared lock on the row where film.film_id = 508 due to the FK constraint on film_actor, thus the UPDATE to that row cannot get the exclusive lock required. If you reverse that operation and run the UPDATE first, you have the same behavior, but the INSERT is blocked.
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FK constraints can make workarounds for table maintenance challenging as well. Peter Zaitsev from Percona has a blog post about this that explains it better than I can: Hijacking Innodb Foreign Keys.
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I'm exclusively breastfeeding my baby, and occasionally give him pumped bottles. I generally try to warm them up before giving them to him, at least to room temperature. (I was once told as a tip to get babies used to room-temperature bottles right away, just in case sometime you don't have a way to heat it up...) Sometimes, though, he is frantically crying as I'm trying to warm up the bottle... Is it ok to give him a cold bottle? He doesn't seem to mind, and drinks the whole thing. Are there any problems with feeding a 2-3 month old a cold bottle?
The biggest risk is that the baby won't drink it. If your baby is content to drink cold milk, then it is perfectly fine.
I couldn't find any online resources from medical professionals discussing it, but I did find that you are not alone in your situation :) Lots of other mothers have had this same dilemma, and many in that discussion shared that they have not run into any problems (aside from some babies simply not liking their milk cold).
Edit: I found this link which references a chart that indicates how long breast milk can be stored at room temperature. Depending upon your pumping schedule, you may be able to simply keep a bottle out for that "I need food NOW" moment.
I did find research on the effect of milk temperature on preterm infants at http://milkbank.com/pdf/Stanford_Study_milk_feeding_temperature.pdf
A summary of the results included the following statement: The infants in this study had a similar tolerance (as measured by gastric residuals) to both cool temperature milk (10°C) and room temperature milk (24°C). Based on these data, there appears to be no advantage to warming frozen or refrigerated milk to room temperature.
The study did reveal better tolerance for warmed milk for these fragile infants.
Yes, you can feed your baby a room-temperature bottle.
The reason is that infants are very small bodies, so temperature differences are more significant to them than to older kids or adults.
Infants can't handle a steaming hot cup of tea, just like they can't handle milk that's just a few degrees above freezing. The closer to the natural body-temperature their food is, the easier they can handle it.
By the way, the same idea applies to bath water. (For bathing, not drinking!)


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Kashmiri Sikh students protesting against the brutal gang-rape of a woman on a bus last week in New Delhi, shout slogans in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged Thursday to take action to protect the nation's women while the young victim of a gang rape on a New Delhi bus was flown to Singapore for treatment of severe internal injuries. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Following the death of a 23-year-old woman who was brutally raped and tortured in India and later died of her injuries, a martial arts trainer gave self-defense lessons to young women in New Delhi on Tuesday January 1.
1994 Asian Games bronze winning judoka Poonam Chopra organized the session. She said with the government failing in its duty to protect women, initiatives like hers would help reduce the risks that they face.
"Children should be trained in martial arts and self-defense at their schools, colleges and residential localities, because at the very least it gives them the confidence to escape unwanted sexual advances. Girls who play sports are given less trouble, because the offender is aware that they are stronger."
A female physiotherapy student, who has not been named, was raped and tortured on Dec. 16 by a group of men armed with a metal bar on a private bus in New Delhi, nicknamed India's 'rape capital'. She died from her injuries on Saturday (December 29) in a Singapore hospital.
The attack prompted street protests across India, international outrage and promises from the government of tougher punishments for offenders.
In the continuing wave of nationwide protests, residents of Ludhiana in north India marched with candles and posters, demanding strict action against the rapists.
"We are staging this vigil to show the world that Indians are not passive and can raise their voice over important issues. We want that the severest punishment be given to the rapists," said a pupil called Shikha.
The southern town of Vishakhapatnam saw demonstrators wearing gags and lighting candles in memory of the victim.
One demonstrator said children from an early age should be taught to respect women.
"[From] LKG (lower kindergarten) onwards, people have to tell [children] what is lady, how to respect lady. There used to be traditional values, but nowadays no one knows them, and there is no soft corner or positive corner for the ladies. So that is why we have all demanded that (children) be taught from school age onwards how to respect ladies," said Prabha, a demonstrator.
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I have this set. Honestly, the 7-in-1 is all you really need, and it can be picked up for about $6-7 any time. The other two sprayers are a good bonus though for this price.
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I have the 'firehose' style nozel and love it - paid at least this much just for it alone, so again, the other two make this deal a bonus !!
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Bloomin' Baby Names: Top 12 Flower-Inspired Names for Girls
While celebrities like Meg Ryan and Ben Affleck have recently popularized naming babies after blooms, it's far from a new trend. Some flower-inspired baby names date back hundreds of years, and they seem to have staying power due to their natural, feminine flourish. Explore old-fashioned flower names, as well as some up-and-comers that we predict will blossom on baby name charts.
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Aster is the name of a delicate, star-like flower. The name means "star" in Greek. This flower name hasn't hit the mainstream yet, but with its nice simplicity and similar sound to the high-society family name Astor, it could any year now.
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The 2012 Peidmont Mopar Club Fun RunWritten by on May 14, 2012 Contributors: Randy Bolig, John Stunkard, Joel Stunkard Farmington Hosts Their Biggest Peidmont Mopar Club Event Yet
May 12, the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend found Mopar fans and racers from around the southeast gathering at one of the largest one-day Mopar shows in the country. For the 27th year, the Piedmont Mopar Club has hosted this event, located at Farmington Dragway on the outskirts of Wniston-Salem, N.C. Coupled with great weather, 2012 found a huge field of show cars, drag racing, and swap meet goodies on the property.
Show promoter Ron Osborne runs a tight ship; the club takes care of the smaller details and responsibilities that the event entails, and everything went off without a hitch. Ron and his crew take a great deal of pride in the event, spending months working on the custom diorama trophies that go to the first place and best of show winners. Cars are arranged in rows of classes, based on body styles and whether stock or modified, and you never know what may show up from the garages of enthusiasts. Judging is done by club members, who graciously agree to not display in the show's judged areas. Ron told us this was the biggest show the group had ever held, and new track owners Everett and Holly Justice were very impressed by the turnout and car quality.
Meanwhile, the racing program is managed by the track and its staff, with most vehicle parked on the left hand pits where the facility even maintains a set of racing garages.. A concise racing program, featuring classes in both footbrake and box, was completed in about three hours, with wheels-up action in various classes. Exhibition runs were made by Steve and Kay Moths' Bad News Dodge FX car. Fran Olsen's Hurri-Cain II Barracuda FX also made a couple of laps.
We came out for the day to take a look at the 2012 happenings; check it out...
For info on the club's 2013 event, go to their website at piedmontmopar.com.
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Ron Polidora was competing in two classes, one with his big-inch Duster, featured in Mopar Muscle several years ago, and the other with his late-model Challenger.Steve Moths was on hand making exhibition runs in his Bad News (...Travels Fast) Dodge altered wheelbase car.Former Slant Six racer Ron Hamby had two cars on hand, a Valiant that took a second place award, and his 1970 D100 Dodge truck that took First Place in the Truck category.
Petty's Garage had this custom convertible on display as well; the club is involved in doing a special all-makes show at that facility over Memorial Day weekend.Chris Hannus' beautiful Barracuda Formula S package was a standout among the restored A-bodies; the car is 340/A727 combination.


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Why are not infamous and inflammable the opposite of famous and flammable, like incomplete, inactivity, inappropriate and so on?
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The New Oxford American Dictionary reports the following definitions for in-:
Looking at the origin of infamous, and inflammable, I read the following:
In both the cases, the words are not built adding the prefix in- to existing words.
(Just to be contrarian.)
In my opinion, the word flammable was unnecessary: there's not much confusion possible in seeing, on a gas/petrol tanker, the words "Warning: Highly inflammable". It seems to me there's more confusion about the meaning of inflammable when the word "flammable" exists, than when it doesn't. But where "flammable" is already common enough, it's safe—and recommended—to use it.
The folklore with the term "flammable" was that it had to be invented precisely because people read "inflammable" as "won't burst into flame" (and granted, "inflame" really isn't a word you get to hear everyday). The blame should be apportioned to the safety people I suppose. :)


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4 years ago, when there was a lack of affordable pano heads in the market, I took up the challenge and mission to develop my Nodal Ninja SPH-1, a metal spherical pano head targeted for US$99.95. At that time, I knew little about pano head design and industrial manufacturing but I never stopped my dream to design and manufacture state- of-art pano heads that satisfy the most demanding users. My company was given a name Fanotec that stands for "Fan Of Technology". During the past 4 years, I strive to acquire the knowledge and capability to fulfill my dream. I listen to countless suggestions and feedback from customers and forum members. As a result, Nodal Ninja SPH-1 was improved to the current Nodal Ninja 3II and Nodal Ninja 5 was released to support the larger cameras.
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