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Step-by-step instructions for making pre-planned, three-day menus
Meal Planning Made Simple
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Meal planning can be a time-consuming job, and often times, this is why we just give up on it and just go get whatever looks appealing at the store and be done with it. I know from experience that this leads to wasted money, extra trips to the store, frustration and cooking boredom.
So what's the solution? The solution I came up with was pre-planned three-day menus complete with shopping lists. This way, I'd only have to do the work once for a given menu, then from there on, that menu would be hassle-free. This method also allows me to work in new recipes.
Meat is usually the most expensive part of the shopping list, so this is why it is the biggest factor in my menu planning. On a given week (I like to shop weekly for the sales to save money), there is usually one or two different meats* on sale that I'll buy for the good prices. This is why I make my menus for three days. I can use the two sale meats* in my menu plan (I pick out two menus that include the two meats I'll be using). This ads up to six meals within a week. I don't plan 7 meals because we usually have at least one (usually more) meal per week with enough leftovers to make up for that one missing meal (and of course, there's always those nice days when we get to go out to dinner!). Maybe you or I will have leftovers after each meal and extend our shopping trips and save us money!
Here is the step-by-step instructions for making pre-planned, three-day menus:
- Choose the meat* you'd like to include in your meal plan. To help decide, look at what meats are on sale in your weekly grocery store sales flyers.
- On a sheet of paper (or a page in your word processing program on your computer), label "Meal 1" and leave a few spaces to fill in a main dish, vegetable, bread, etc. (whatever food groups you like to have included in your meal), then do the same for "Meal 2" and "Meal 3."
- Fill in the names of the recipes you want to include in each meal. For this part, you can use your tried-and-true recipes or fill in new ones you've been wanting to try. If the recipes are from a cookbook, list the name of the cookbook with the page the recipe is on in parentheses so you can find it later, or if you'd like, you can write the recipes on additional sheets of paper (or additional pages in your document on the word processing program) to include with your menu for ease of use later.
- Make the shopping list. On an additional sheet of paper, include all the ingredients from each recipe you used in Step 2. If an ingredient is included in more than one recipe, simply increase the amount on your list. It's nice to categorize these, but not necessary. I suggest making a basic shopping list for yourself that includes items you use all the time such as fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, eggs, bread, flour, sugar, etc. These are the items you always want to have on hand.
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You can organize your meal plans in a three-ring binder and section them off by meat. Obviously the more three-day menus you have, the better. Yes, this can be time consuming to begin with, but it is time well invested because later there will be hardly any work involved. When it comes time to go shopping, all you'll have to do is look up two appealing three-day menus that include your sale meats, write down the items you need from those and your basic shopping list, then go shopping.
* Note: If you happen to be a vegetarian, simply plan your meals around the produce sales.
Monica Resinger is a loving wife and doting mother of two who enjoys gardening, painting, dancing and homemaking. You can check out some of her other articles at http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Monica_Resinger
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I know that the Heisenberg group { x,y | [x,[x,y]]=[y,[x,y]]=1 } is free nilpotent; what about the higher dimensional ones? Do the higer dimensional Heisenberg groups have nice presentations? By higher dimensional Heisenberg groups I mean nxn upper triangular matrices with integral entries. Thanks.
Let $U_n$ be the group of upper triangular integer matrices of size $n$ by $n$ with ones on the diagonal. Then $U_n$ is generated by the elements $x_i$, $i=1,...,n-1$, with Serre relations $$ [x_i,[x_i,x_{i+1}]]=[x_{i+1},[x_i,x_{i+1}]]=1, $$ and $[x_i,x_j]=1$ if $|i-j|\ge 2$ (EDIT: one needs additional relations, see below). Indeed, the group $G_n$ generated in this way maps surjectively to $U_n$ by $x_i\mapsto 1+E_{i,i+1}$, and one can check that this map is injective (EDIT: with additional relations) by writing every element of $G_n$ as an ordered product of powers of $x_{ij}:=[x_i[x_{i+1}...x_j]]$, $i\le j$. The corresponding groups over $\Bbb Z/m\Bbb Z$ are then obtained by adding the relations $x_{ij}^m=1$.
EDIT: As Jack kindly pointed out, I erroneously ignored the treacherous 2-torsion. According to Theorem 1 of the paper
D. Biss, S. Dasgupta, "A presentation for the unipotent groups over rings with $1$", J. of Algebra, v. 237, pp.691-707, 2001,
the above statements are correct over $\Bbb Z/m\Bbb Z$ when $m$ is an odd integer. In general (i.e. for any integer $m$, including $m=2$ and $m=0$), it suffices to add the relation $$ [[x_i,x_{i+1}],[x_{i+1},x_{i+2}]]=1 $$ for $i=1,...,n-3$. Moreover, over $\Bbb Z/m\Bbb Z$ with $m\ne 0$ it is enough to impose the relations $x_i^m=1$ (the relations $x_{ij}^m=1$ will then follow).
The higher dimensional Heisenberg groups are the matrix groups G(V,R,f) = { [ 1, x, z ; 0, 1, y ; 0, 0, 1] : x,y in V, z in R } where V is an R-module, R is a ring, and f is an alternating R-bilinear form on V. Typically V is a free R-module, and R is a field or the integers, and f is a block diagonal matrix with blocks [0,1;-1,0]. Sometimes V is just called a symplectic space over R.
The group has a normal series 1 ≤ ⟨ z: z in R ⟩ ≤ ⟨ y,z : y in V, z in R ⟩ ≤ G. This gives a very nice presentation of the group as ⟨ x,y,z : [x,y] = f(x,y), [x,z] = [y,z] = 1 ⟩ where the relations from V (for various "x", and also for various "y") and R (for various "z") are implicitly added.
For instance taking V free of rank 2 over R=Z, you get ⟨ x1, x2, y1, y2, z : [ x1, y1 ] = [ x2, y2 ] = z, [ x1, x2 ] = [ y1, y2 ] = [ z, x1 ] = [ z, x2 ] = [ z, y1 ] = [ z, y2 ] = [ x1, y2 ] = [ x2, y1 ] = 1 ⟩. This is a very pretty presentation, but is not usually "free". Way too many things commute.
However, these types of groups are very important. When R=Z/pZ, these are the extra-special groups of exponent p. Rather than "free products" they are "central products".
These form reasonably nice examples of just-non-abelian groups, since V can be a fairly arbitrary R-module as long as R is Z/pZ.


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Hello everybody! Recently I start a reading of a survey by Benoit Saussol, AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE POINCARE RECURRENCE IN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, I am interested in references (Papers) Basics Poincare Recurrence. I know that this survey is already basic, but wanted to know more references of this kind and I would also references to where I can find open problems in this matter. I would also references to applications of this theory in other fields in mathematics.
Joseph's answer is the first place I would (and did) look for information on this topic. However there are a couple of recent ancillary references along these lines that may be helpful. For instance, see
M. S. Baptista et al., "Kolmogorov–Sinai entropy from recurrence times". Phys. Lett. A 374, 1135 (2010)
the obvious cite
L. Barreira and B. Saussol, "Product structure of Poincar\'e recurrence". Ergodic Th. Dyn. Sys. 22, 33 (2002)
and finally
G. Robinson and M. Thiel, "Recurrences determine the dynamics". Chaos 19, 023104 (2009).
I like this 2006 paper by Luis Barreira (cited in the Wikipedia article), which I encountered when pursuing this MO question on billiard trajectories (which you might visit): "Poincaré recurrence: Old and new" (in Zambrini, Jean-Claude, XIVth International Congress on Mathematical Physics, World Scientific, pp. 415–422.) You can get a preliminary version from citeseer here. Here is the Abstract:


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I've been looking for a way to update my Twitter status from a Python client. As this client only needs to access one Twitter account, it should be possible to do this with a pre-generated oauth_token and secret, according to http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_single_token
However the sample code does not seem to work, I'm getting 'could not authenticate you' or 'incorrect signature'..
As there are a bunch of different python-twitter library out there (and not all of them are up-to-date) I'd really appreciate if anybody could point me a library that's currently working for POST requests, or post some sample code!
Update: I've tried Pavel's solution, and it works as long as the new message is only one word long, but as soon as it contains spaces, i get this error:
status = api.PostUpdate('hello world')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\python_twitter\twitter.py", line 2459, in PostUpdate
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\python_twitter\twitter.py", line 3394, in _CheckForTwitterErro
raise TwitterError(data['error'])
python_twitter.twitter.TwitterError: Incorrect signature
If however the update is just one word, it works:
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Any idea why this might be happening?
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Hi Nick, as the rotators are now, seems to be a way to make available a special detent plunger as microswitch, the moovment of the ball in the detent plunger can be used to on/off a switch. This special detetent plunger will not be for mechanic stop, even it might not stop at all, the only purpose will be to ON an electrical circuit through it when the ball is entered in position and to be OFF when is not.
This will be very useful for action pano, when one must take, say 4 shoots in short time. The camera will be set on high ISO, wide aperture and fast shutter speed, of course, the rotator will trigger the shoots at every stop position.
if it has a simple wire connector, to made an adaptation for various camera remote jack can be left to the users.
I'll try to make one here, though my posibilites to put in practice are, say, limited.


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Football notebook: Oxford calls on help from above
A year ago, Watertown High's Andrew Kalach was an All-Naugatuck Valley League defensive end and a pretty good tight end on offense.
But during spring practice, Kalach voluntarily moved from tight end to left offensive guard to shore up the offensive line. As a team co-captain, Kalach did what he was supposed to do.
"Andrew's played tight end his whole life, but he selflessly made the move for the team," said Watertown coach Mike Veronneau. "As a tight end, he'd catch a few balls and get his name in the paper. People on the offensive line never get the headlines, and they rarely score touchdowns."
Last week, Kalach was finally moved back to tight end in a 30-7 win over Seymour, and he remained there against Torrington Thursday.
"For the betterment of Andrew, as a coaching staff, we felt it would allow us to work some younger kids at guard and give Andrew a reward," said Veronneau. "He's such an unselfish kid."
The 6-foot-2, 240 pound Kalach is being recruited by Sacred Heart University, Stonehill and Assumption.
Divine intervention: As Stochmal delivered his post-game thank-you to his team after the Wolverines' first win over Pomperaug, he pointed to the sky and gave his team a poignant message. Their former teammate, the late Brandon Giordano, who played as a freshman and sophomore, died in a car accident last spring at age 15.
"You can't tell me that No. 69 is not with us," shouted Stochmal. "He helped us today, and he'll help us (on Thanksgiving)."
The Wolverines needed three teams to win their Thanksgiving Day games Thursday for them to qualify for the postseason, but only two-thirds of their playoff scenario came through. They wound up 10th in the Class S rankings; the top eight qualified.
Oxford senior quarterback Brennen Diaz set one-season school records for passing yards (1,729), touchdowns (18), completions (108), attempts (191) and PAT kicks (31 of 34) and career yards (2,680).
Mike Giordano and Alex Miller previously had 16 touchdowns in a season.
Oxford junior Chris VanKamerik set single-season receiving marks in receptions (60), yards (1,167) and touchdowns (12) and also has career-best 87 receptions.
Oxford junior Kyle Chudoba takes over next season at quarterback and will be only the fourth quarterback in the Wolverines' history.
"Kyle has a very good arm and is an intelligent kid and he will be a very good quarterback for us," said Stochmal.
Player to watch in 2013: A two-year starter already, Holy Cross' sophomore defensive end and running back Gerron Pendarvis has made a major impact. The 6-2, 215-pounder turned heads on offense and special teams with his speed and power. On Thursday, he ran for 74 yards on only 11 carries and was the Crusaders' most evasive rusher in a 21-14 loss to Wolcott.
"Gerron broke tackles every time he ran the ball, and every time we needed a play, he made one," said Holy Cross coach Mike Giampetruzzi. "Next year, he'll only be a junior and I expect him to be a top player in the NVL. He has a knack of finding the football."
As a freshman, Pendarvis was a starter on defense as the Crusaders captured the 2011 Class S state title with a 34-27 win over Cromwell.
Postgame moment: After the team huddle broke on Wednesday night, Pomperaug senior captain Jesse Prajer approached head coach Dave Roach.
It was an unsettling moment for the two-way starting tackle. Prajer, who sustained a concussion in Week 5 against Brookfield, was sidelined for the remainder of the season, including Wednesday's season-ending 42-22 loss to Oxford.
"Normally, Jesse is the jokester and had kept his emotions hidden. After I gave (Oxford coach ) Joe Stochmal the Route 188 Bowl Trophy, I thought Prajer would crack a joke," said Roach. "But he didn't. He was upset because it finally hit him that he was done playing. I remind kids all of the time that you never know when it will be your last play. Jesse shook my hand, and I don't think he wanted to let go. Maybe the exchange lasted 15 seconds, but to Jesse it might have lasted an eternity. Playing football meant something to him. I said to him and the others that if you ever cry because it hurts, then it meant something really important. There is nothing wrong with that. It's OK."
Defining moment: Pomperaug senior Dylan McAllister had perhaps his best game with 43 rushing yards and 47 receiving yards, and was the leader on special teams with some hard-hitting tackles vs. Oxford. McAllister had missed games throughout his four-year career because of injuries.
"That was the best game of Dylan's career," said Roach. "He finally realized and lived up to his potential. He played with desire and was not going to get tackled by the first guy. On special teams, he set the tone by his intuitiveness. He understands the game so well and gets to see the game in slow motion and how a play develops."
McAllister is the grandson of legendary Ansonia coach Bill McAllister.
By the numbers: Forgotten in the aftermath of Ansonia's bittersweet victory over Naugatuck on the day legendary coach Jack Hunt died was that the Chargers posted their 745th win. Ansonia stands alone at the winningest program in state history, according to the Connecticut High School Football Record Book.
Ansonia has the state's longest current winning streak at 25 and is 11-0 heading into Tuesday's Class S quarterfinal against Prince Tech of Hartford.
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2) the distance of this real number to an integer, say $0$, is less than $1/2$.
Thus you can conclude that this real number is $0$! I think this is a very nice trick. Especially when the argument for 1) is so involved that you don't really see this a priori. However, I don't remember in which context I have seen this. But I guess that this trick works in various situations.
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Does anyone have any evidence or could point me in the direction of a web page that explains why video and audio autoplay is bad practice. I know it is but i'm struggling to find anything to back this up.
This is the best article that I'm aware of on this topic: http://www.punkchip.com/2009/04/autoplay-is-bad-for-all-users/
Video autoplay is not great if you are a screenreader user. Imagine you open up a new page with a video of Aqua's 'Barbie Girl' and you need to listen to the page in order to navigate your way to the controls of the video but can't hear the screenreader because Barbie Girl is blasting out in the background.
Robin Christopherson from AbilityNet gave a demo of this once and it really illustrated how bad autoplay can be for accessibility.
I can give a few points from my own experience why auto-playing videos/sound can be a bad practice and how decide when to auto-play without these points being an issue...
To summarize things up; if you auto-play only requested, fully cached videos when video is in focus, then it might not be a bad practice.
If you have a couple of hours to invest, this isn't hard to test for yourself. Just find a few "users" (3 at least, 5 would be fine) and ask them to perform some tasks on a website with autoplay (maybe the site you are working on, if that's the case). After the test, ask them for their general impressions. I bet they will mention the music/video autoplay, and not with a positive note.
I wish there was an official document published by some large consulting firm that one could present that simply stated "Annoying your users is a bad idea". I could use that type of documentation in SO many situations.
It's more than four years since this question was asked, and the Punkchip article is even older (but still relevant).
However, Nielsen Norman Group (NNG) recently revisited the topic of video usability with an excellent article which it's worth referencing here to keep the topic up to date.
Here's the relevant part of the article that refers to autoplay:


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5 Real Historical Death Stars (Complete With Baffling Flaws)
#2. Singapore
Before the battle of Singapore in World War II, the British were pretty sure their stronghold was invincible. To the north of the city were impassable swamps and jungle that no one was crazy enough to try to march an army through. The south was protected by five 15-inch guns (that is, the shells were 15 inches across) that would turn approaching ships into Swiss cheese, and 85,000 British troops to meet anyone who landed.
The British called it the Gibralter in the Far East and their main concern was that it was too untouchable. As one officer in the British army was quoted as saying, "I do hope we are not getting too strong in Malaya because if so the Japanese may never attempt a landing."
The Fatal Flaw:
The whole defense of the city was dependent on the idea that the attack would come from the south sea. After all, you'd never get an army through the jungle to the north. How would you get your heavy artillery or tanks through it? What were they going to do, put their troops on bicycles or something?
Yes. Thousands and thousands of bicycles. The Japanese came pouring through the jungles with alarming speed. The British turned their coastal guns around and bombarded the Japanese attack, but it accomplished nothing. They were designed to punch holes in ships, not repel a gigantic militarized Tour De France.
The Outcome:
The Japanese were able to attack several areas of the island from the north. Fearing the speed of the BMX-riding Japanese, the British detached forces to all these places to avoid encirclement, which spread their lines too thin. These lines were soon broken and they were surrounded. By February 15, 1942, the British had no option other than surrender. The 80,000 men became the largest surrender of British personnel in history.
When recounting the Battle of Singapore, One Australian officer stated, "The whole operation seems incredible: 550 miles in 55 days - forced back by a small Japanese army of only two divisions, riding stolen bicycles and without artillery support." Well, damn, when you put it that way...
#1. Chateau Gaillard
During the 13th century, England and France were having one of their many, many wars with each other. To protect his holdings in Normandy, Richard I of England wanted to build the most badass castle imaginable. Six thousand laborers worked for a year to build the fortress. When the castle was completed, Richard called it a "gaillard castle" (translated: "well built"). Yes, Richard sucked at naming things.
The castle presumably rested on "Green Mountain."
It was in the perfect spot, on a high plateau with steep cliffs to the sides and rear. The only approach was by the well-armed front, and that sucked even more: it featured a moat, 30-feet wide and 40-feet deep, with a retractable drawbridge. The whole time you're trying to cross the moat you'd be getting pelted with arrows and barrels full of burning oil. Once you make it across, you're facing walls 10-feet thick.
The Fatal Flaw:
The poop chute.
King Richard was sure he'd never see his castle taken. And he didn't. He died less than a year after it was finished. Richard's brother John became king and made one minor addition: an extra toilet in the chapel. The toilet fed the waste into a chute, which emptied outside the walls.
"It's good, but what if I have to poop in church?" - King John
It seemed like a really specific modification to request but maybe they served nothing but Indian food during the services. Anyway, when Philip II of France heard that John was now King of England, he felt it was time to take the castle. Philip marched his army to the castle and laid siege. The soldiers inside the castle were well equipped, with vast stores of supplies that could hold out for an entire year--easily until long enough for re-enforcements to get there.
After a few attempts at taking the castle failed, Philip sent his soldiers out to find a weakness. One of those soldiers was called Ralph the Snubnose. While examining the castle walls, Ralph noticed the latrine chute. He also noticed it was just wide enough for somebody to crawl through.
Ralph, a braver man than any of us, volunteered. He and a couple of soldiers, climbed up the castle's proverbial large intestine, getting covered in excrement all along the way. Once Ralph and his comrades made it through 30-feet of shit tube and reached the top, they opened the gates for the rest of the army and the castle was taken.
The Outcome:
After the castle fell, Philip marched through the rest of Normandy. The military failure of the English forces under King John that started at Chateau Gaillard eventually led to him signing the Magna Carta.
Thanks, poop chute!
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I have learned that there are white holes and black holes in the universe, but I am confused as to what a wormhole is. Is it a tunnel that connects black and white holes?
A wormhole is, in theory, a 'tunnel' which would be a shortcut to another point in spacetime. There's a Wikipedia article on the subject:
If you're the physicsy type, this might make some sense to you:
If this makes absolutely no sense to you, then you are just like me. Congratulations! For those that don't speak Greek math (such as me), here's an English explanation from space.com:
And here's a pretty picture of the effect:
A model of 'folded' space-time illustrates how a wormhole bridge might form with at least two mouths that are connected to a single throat or tube.
In plain English, it's a shortcut through spacetime, and the primary conceivable way time travel could happen.
A wormhole is a theorised phenomenon that would, if they exist, connect two different parts of space-time. A common analogy for the wormhole is to represent space-time as a two-dimensional sheet. If the two-dimensional sheet is bended over so that two points touch each other, than the point of contact becomes a wormhole. This has been suggested as a way to effectively travel faster than the speed of light (without actually travelling faster than the speed of light). As with most things, there are different theories about how a wormhole could exist and what its properties would be.


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I have an iMac(27" from 2010) and while running Lion I tried to HiDPI modes that gives me 1280x720 and larger text. I did change back to 2560x1440 long before upgrading my system to Mountain Lion.
If I use the screen saver, or switch to the "select user to login" main screen, and then back to my user account, my windows are resized to fit inside a rectangle that looks like 1280x720. This behavior happened in Lion too and the upgrade didn't change that.
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WEIRTON - Brooke senior Logan Lojszczyk captured medalist honors Tuesday at Williams Country Club with his 1-over 37, but the Weirton Madonna golf team grabbed the win with 158, beating the Bruins (167), Edison (209) and Weir High (221).
Matthew Lyons and Nick Mazur carded 38s to lead Madonna (Mazur birdied nine). Howie Peterson shot a 40 and Hunter Payne a 42.
Michael Spitak and Evan Cuomo each fired 42s and Mario Boni 46 for Brooke.
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Austin Horan led Edison with a 50, including a birdie on the par 4 ninth hole. Jayce Robinson added a 51 and Tristen Haught and Mason Allese each had 54s.
Noah Wodnicki led the Red Riders with a 50. Austin Paul-Orecchio had a 55, Reis Petrovich a 57 and Joe Patterson a 59.
Huskies top Big Red
STEUBENVILLE - Austin Kowalski was the medalist with 41 as Harrison Central defeated Steubenville, 171-223, Tuesday at Steubenville Country Club.
Evan Ossman and Clint Heavilin each shot 42 and Jarett Edwards 46 for the Huskies.
Kasey Peterson led Big Red with a 53. Josh Gault shot 54, Isaiah Lee 55 and Deshaun Smith 61.
Linsly hangs on at Madonna
WEIRTON - The Linsly girls soccer team held a 2-0 lead over Weirton Madonna at halftime and held on for a 3-2 victory Tuesday at the J.C. Williams Complex.
"I thought for the first 15 minutes we came out with some aggression and speed, but we backed off quickly after they scored," said Blue Dons (1-1) head coach Bob Kolanko. "We became tentative and not as aggressive.
"In the second half we played much more aggressively and put pressure on the ball."
Kaitlin Snyder scored eight minutes in for the Cadets and Leah Memmo added one six minutes before halftime.
"Linsly has beaten us a number of the times the last couple of years and I think the girls went 'Here we go again' after they scored that first goal," said Kolanko. "But, we were only down 2-0."
Hannah Bargar found the back of the net off a Rachel Grubbs pass four minutes into the second half to put Madonna on the board.
Snyder made it 3-1 in the 66th minute and Gianna Antinone (from Bargar) closed the scoring in the 78th minute.
"We came back and lost, but the girls felt after the game that they can hang with a quality team like Linsly," said Kolanko. "This game will get us ready for the next couple of games we have ahead of us.
"The girls believe they can compete with anybody."
Huskies win first
SCIO - The Harrison Central girls soccer team won its first game in school history with a 2-1 decision over visiting Steubenville Big Red on Tuesday.
Emilee Karas scored off a Marissa Howcroft assist for Steubenville (3-1). Gillian Haught had three saves.
Knights down
TORONTO - The Toronto volleyball team defeated visiting Harrison Central 23-25, 25-16, 25-19, 25-23 Tuesday.
"Harrison came to play and they made these ladies earn every point," said Red Knights head coach Chelsey Fletcher. "Having said that, I can not be any more proud of how hard they worked to ensure they earned the win. We fixed some key components with net presence and reading in and out balls"
Josey Jones led Toronto with 19 points, 14 kills and three digs. Miranda Robinson added 18 assists, 15 points, five kills and two blocks and Emily Anderson nine points, four blocks and two kills.
Sydney Troski added five points, Serena Burkey 17 points, two digs and two kills, Des Meadows one point, Delaney Merideth 17 points, seven blocks and six kills, Maddie Robins two points and an assist and Jenna Leasure 13 points and four kills.
"I have to give Mr. and Mrs. George a huge thank you for bringing the pep band," said Fletcher. "Those ladies and gentleman earned tonight's 'W' as well. They made our house loud and proud - my sincere gratitude. It was great to see a packed home side stands."
Maddy Doty paced the Huskies with 13 points, seven kills and four blocks. Lyndsey Hennis added nine points and six kills and Tirzah Curry 25 digs.
Edison wins in 5
RICHMOND - The Edison volleyball team edged visiting Steubenville Catholic Central Tuesday 25-16, 17-25, 25-11, 22-25, 17-15.
Cassady Jarvis led the Wildcats (1-2) with 25 kills, 10 points, three digs and two blocks. Caitlin Shannon contributed 40 assists, 11 points, four digs and two kills, McKenzie Morrison nine kills, four digs and three points, Allison Crawford 13 points and six kills, Kayleigh Westbrook 14 digs and 10 points, Tera Anderson four points, Skylar Fankhauser six digs and five points, Cheyenne Matta two digs and Kayla Huff three kills.
In other action Tuesday, Beaver Local beat Oak Glen, 3-1, in girls soccer; and East Liverpool topped Indian Creek, 6-3, in boys soccer.


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I am a PDE guy, who works in imaging. We are trying to exploit the inherent group structure of an image, i.e. we consider a representation of the similitude group ($SIM(2)=\mathbb{R}^2\ltimes(SO(2)\times\mathbb{R}^{+})$) (group of scaling, translation and rotation) on the space $\mathbb{L}_{2}(\mathbb{R}^2)$, which is the space of images.
We work with a generalization of the wavelet transform on the $SIM(2)$ group. We have been trying to discretize the group of scalings or dilations, $a\in\mathbb{R}^{+}$. Now in our context we wish to stay away from "a=0" (for numerical as well as theoretical purposes) and have a maximum scaling value ($a<\infty$, practical purposes). So we are trying to come up with a discrete group over $\mathbb{R}^{+}$ or $\mathbb{R}$ (where we substitute $\tau=log(a)$). We were thinking along the lines of either a cyclic multiplicative modulo group of rationals (between say $\frac{1}{d}$ and $b$) or a cyclic additive modulo group of reals (between say $-d$ and $b$) respectively where $d,b$ are predefined integers or real numbers.
Though the whole construction of substituting a infinite group with a a finite group (with a different operation) may seem dubious, it allows us to justify the numerics in best possible (mathematical) way.
So my question is such a construction of a finite cyclic group possible.
It might be the case that due to my lack of knowledge in the field of groups this question may have an obvious answer. Nevertheless I would be grateful if someone could guide me in the right direction.


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text: So it�s crawfish season here in southwest Louisiana. It�s an exciting time of year, each spring and fall. Similar to the mom and pop donut shops so popular in these parts (read that post here), small drive through crawfish stands can be found on most every major Lake Charles roadway.Today was a lovely sunny day � perfect for a Sunday drive. Bob and I decided to go on a crawfish adventure, just to see how many different places we could find crawfish.In Moss Bluff, there�s the Hot Spot.In Westlake, Crawfish 2 Go.On Ryan St., there�s Tails to Geaux. I�ve seen this place sell snow balls (snow cones, for my northern readers) and BBQ. Now crawfish. Guess they roll with the seasons.Country Club Crawfish is so named because it�s on Country Club Rd. But Country Cabin Crawfish would be more descriptive.Also on Country Club Road is The Crawfish Stop. I love all the different cartoonish crawfish depictions.Naturally, all these mom and pop joints are closed on Sundays, so to actually eat crawfish and not simply look at signs, we had to go to an established restaurant, and it�s not always easy to find one open on Sunday in Lake Charles. But we knew for certain Steamboat Bill�s along I-10 would come through..There should be a bit of preparation before one digs into a platter of crawfish. First, push your sleeves up securely. You don�t want them getting messy or in the way. Then pull your hair back snug, because you are not going to want to touch it once you get started. Then make sure you have plenty of paper towels nearby.Steamboat Bill�s crawfish were quite small (I thought maybe it was because it�s early in the season or maybe the weather had something to do with it, until later in the afternoon, when we found larger crawfish elsewhere). And they were super spicy, which I don�t mind so much. But my husband has an odd allergy to hot pepper spice and was red-faced and sweating buckets by the time we got to the last crawdad. (We�re used to it.) We also thought the crawfish there were a tad overcooked. No worries. We love Steamboat Bill�s, as does everyone in town, and I know this one negative review won�t hurt their business one bit. Anyway, I saw something at this restaurant I�d never seen anywhere else before. A wash-up station outside the rest rooms. How cool is that! Because it is absolutely essential to wash your hands ASAP after eating crawfish. Even after a dozen washes, your hands still smell like crawfish for a least a day or two.Bob and I shared a small platter at Steamboat Bill�s because we were hoping to find another establishment selling crawfish, so we could sort of compare and contrast, you know, things like size, taste, spiciness, price. We drove from Steamboat Bill�s to Mr. Bill�s on McNeese Street. Closed. We went to Seafood Palace on Enterprise. Closed. We were just about ready to give up when, as we drove north on Highway 14, we saw another Crawfish Stop. Open. Score!These crawfish were significantly larger, less spicy yet very tasty, cooked perfectly, and less expensive than Steamboat Bill�s.So there you have it. Our Sunday afternoon crawfish adventure. Where do you like to get crawfish? Never eaten crawfish? Come visit us some spring or fall. We�ll show you how it�s done.


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Allegory is often referred to in a negative way (at least by Protestant interpreters) to signify a sort of irresponsible replacement of authorial intent with some subsequent spiritualization of each element of the original story. The main criticism I have heard is that allegorists ignore the historicity of a story in their efforts to make it "relevant" to us today.
I recently read an article in The Dictionary for the Theological Interpretation of the Bible which indicated that Origen (widely considered one of the Fathers of the Allegorical Tradition) believed that legitimate allegorical interpretations should actually be based on the historicity of the original story.
It seems one of two things is going on here;
(A) Origen was not an allegorist in the sense that modern allegorists are, or
(B) Protestants have misunderstood the claims of allegorists, of which Origen is a prime example
Which is it? I am especially interested in an answer from a Catholic perspective, if possible, but otherwise any reputable answer is fine. (Please provide evidence, though, that you are not just speaking for yourself!)


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Clinical depression has become one of America's most costly illnesses. Left untreated, depression is as costly as heart disease or AIDS to the US economy, costing over $51 billion in absenteeism from work and lost productivity and $26 billion in direct treatment costsi. Depression tends to affect people in their prime working years and may last a lifetime if untreated. More than 80 percent of people with clinical depression can be successfully treated. With early recognition, intervention, and support, most employees can overcome clinical depression and pick up where they left off.
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Depression ranks among the top three workplace problems for employee assistance professionals, following only family crisis and stressii.
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The annual economic cost of depression in 1995 was $600 per depressed worker. Nearly one-third of these costs are for treatment and 72% are costs related to absenteeism and lost productivity at workv.
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I need to change my smoke detectors but I don't know how to choose between ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms. I guess that there are pros and cons to choose one or the other. Should I buy a combination detector that uses both methods?
One consideration is where it's going to be installed.
The issue being that some places are more likely to have them go off when they shouldn't.
Ionizing can be affected by steam, so has problems if installed right outside a bathroom. They also don't work too well if mounted near moving air (forced air systems, ceiling fans, etc.)
Photoelectric are set off by lots of dust, so workshops, laundry rooms (lint) and the like are problem areas for them.
They both have problems in kitchens.
Where you can, you should use combination alarms, but you can also use a mix of types to achieve the same effect, while avoiding areas that might cause them to go off when they shouldn't.
I just posted this on a different thread....but it is useful here also.
Ionization detectors are the most prevalent style installed in residences. This is largely due to a lower cost, but they aren't necessarily the best. They have more false positives (nuisance) alarms and are frequently removed or disabled, which does absolutely no good. We had a fatal cooking fire just last year because of this very phenomenon. Couple this with the fact that they take longer to alarm (up to 20+ minutes) in a smoldering fire, illustrates that you are better served by switching to either a dual sensor unit, or a photoelectric style for your home. Here is the text of an email I send out regularly on this subject.
Investigative news footage regarding different types of detectors- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnlkiZC0dd0 and http://youtu.be/cwl1biSvTiY
Interesting program from a father of a fire victim from the OSU fire tragedy in 2003- www.uc.edu/cas/firescience/forms/SmokeDetect.pdf (The first several slide are heartbreaking)
The first 10-15 minutes of this presentation is very informative- www.uc.edu/cas/firescience/Bennett/fire_detector_seminar.asx
Position paper from a State Fire prevention association- the Southwest Ohio Fire Safety Council ( www.uc.edu/cas/firescience/forms/SmokeDetectorsSOFSC5-10.pdf ) which recommends photoelectric detectors.
Do yourself a favor and install photoelectric, it may save your life.
I would go for a combination detector, or install one of each type. Each method detects different things:
Optical detect smoke and are better as detecting smouldering fires while ionization detect heat and smaller smoke particles. Ionization are more prone to false alarms than Optical.
The Wikipedia article states:
Which is a sentiment I agree with.
I've recently completed research into this topic, in order to buy a set of alarms for my home. I chose Photoelectric detectors for a few reasons:


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Let's say someone is playing a character that has really low intelligence, but then the player comes up with a clever idea for a way for his dumb character to overcome some obstacle. Should I make him roll an INT check to determine if his character could really come up with such a clever idea given his low intelligence?
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Could you? Yes. Should you?
That really, really depends. There is no "should", only things you want this houserule to encourage and discourage.
Do you want to discourage players investing in thinking about the challenges in your game? Do you want to encourage players to not use Intelligence as a "dump stat"? Do you want to encourage character-based skill and discourage player-based skill?
All of those are possible side effects of implementing a roll to see if low-Int character can implement clever player ideas. If you like those side-effects, go for it. If you don't, don't.
Then there are the social-level effects. Will your players find this annoying, or pleasing? Will this slow the game down, or speed it up? These are questions only you can answer, based on your knowledge of your own group, but they're no less important to consider.
I would actually say "no," not to punish the player for having a good idea. There are many story ideas to justify such a thing. A flash of insight for a non-intelligent character is a staple of most fictions, so that's one method. Maybe another character could give him the idea, if any are available to serve as a mouthpiece. It's rarely a good idea to discourage players from innovations.
I'll allow players to roll their Intelligence (or whatever score fits the game) if they need to come up with something, but preventing a player idea from entering the game just seems a bit wrong.
No. Instead, assume the daft character had an uncharacteristic "moment of clarity" or better yet, teach him/her to drop hints so the "intelligent" character(s) can figure it out. In the end, FUN matters. And it is fun to solve puzzles or come up with clever ways to overcome obstacles.
The danger in doing this is that unless you also give out a lot of hints (which a lot of players don't like), you run the risk of reducing clever play or, what may actually be worse, pigeonholing your cleverer players into having to play high-INT characters.
Think about it via this grid:
Do you see what I'm getting at? At the very least, you should probably try and find an outlet for the clever guy in your group to be able to play a dumb fighter or whatever and still have a way to disseminate his cool ideas to the group. Perhaps (depending on how you run your game) the player could suggest these ideas to the guys playing the smarter characters. This isn't without its consequences either - a lot of players don't like other people telling them how to play their characters, even if the ideas behind them are good ones - but it's a start, at least.
Perhaps the larger issue is getting guys to play "in character"? In that case, I think that you as the GM have to be mindful of what the stats actually mean as well as what the player's actual concept for his character is. Unless he's actually playing someone who is developmentally disabled or the player himself is some kind of Stephen Hawking level genius, the fact is that the difference in "intelligence" between most of us has more to do with what we've decided to spend our time doing rather than any actual innate ability. A guy like Michael Jordan, for instance, is undoubtedly very smart, but instead of spending thousands of hours reading RPG books or going to physics class, he spend thousands of hours on the basketball court perfecting his jump shot, getting a deep, muscle-level understanding of what his body is and is not capable of, understanding how to read the body language of defenders, and so on. That doesn't make him "stupid", although in an RPG system where INT means "book-smart", he might well have a low score.
Similarly, a pure fighter who does little else but hang out at the barracks/arena/battlefield might be a genius when it comes to combat. To require that character to make an INT roll to "get" a combat related flash of inspiration that the player thought up is not just harmful on that gestalt economics-of-the-gaming-table level that I opened with, it's harmful on the the-GM-isn't-letting-the-players-play level, which in my opinion is the level that breaks games.
So to make a long story short this is how I'd handle it:
First consideration: do they have a decent or good Wisdom? Wisdom covers common sense things, and a lot of "clever" ideas are really just a lot of common sense things put together well.
Second: is it ridiculously low? Like, 5 or lower? Does the edition of D&D you're playing start putting them at the level of animal intelligence? (that said, some animals, like crows, or octopi, are pretty damn clever...)
Finally: is it just a rare thing, or is the player always playing the character as really smart? If this is always happening, you should start talking to the player about their character and what they want - maybe they want someone smarter- swap two of their stats or something to better reflect it.
An additional consideration - to be equitable, if you require an Int roll for your players, you will need an analogous roll for NPCs you create.
Fairly and consistently applied, it could be an interesting check / balance system.
It provides a sense of realism to the player to know that the skeletons they are fighting are simply incapable of moving the battle into a poison cloud which would hurt the players but not the skeletons - thanks to the enemies' low / non-existent intelligence.
It could also be used as a tool to help the players overcome tough puzzles. (Often the answer is obvious to the game master, but the players have no idea what to do next). They may ask to roll Int checks to see if one of their characters is spontaneously brilliant.
If, after realizing that such a check would apply equally to NPCs and might break certain puzzles, you still feel this would be fun, propose the idea to your players and see what they think. They may love the idea that INT has a larger affect on the game world.
In short though - be VERY careful about making rules which would affect only the players, but not the rest of the world. Such rules unbalance the game, and are often seen as "unfair" by your players; sometimes even when the players are the beneficiaries of such an imbalance!
Lot's of good answers here. (Oh, and to avoid confusion, I'm going to assume D&D-esque stats in my answer. The extrapolation to other systems is left as an exercise for the reader.)
One possible way to approach this that I didn't see above is to use an INT check, but don't use it to determine whether the character can actually have the idea or not. Rather, use it to mitigate the success in the same way you might with a failed DEX or STR roll when a character tries something difficult. In these cases, I borrow a little from more story-based system mechanics, and do a "Yes, but...". If it's a really clever idea, and clearly a good solution, then let it work. But have them make the roll and if they fail, tack on something to represent the fact that, while their basic idea was inspired, their general lack of cognitive talents caused them to miss some relevant detail that got them into some follow-on trouble, or stuck them with a temporary disadvantage, or set them up for a future situation that might actually be even worse. (And once in a while, when they fail the roll say, "Oh, that's too bad.", then never do anything about it. They'll be looking over their shoulders for the rest of the session waiting for the hammer to drop...)
In this way, you don't stifle player creativity, and you also don't ignore the character's attributes. Remember, as a GM you control the world, not the players. You have more than enough tools at your disposal to manipulate them without pulling any "hand of god" moves on them. It'll require some clever thinking on your part, or a nice stable of cool ideas to pull from, the kinds of ideas you get from experience (and of course from reading blogs and question/answer sites). It puts a bit more stress on you, but IMHO it's one of the skills that makes a great GM.
It depends.
There are many factors involved. Even genre can be an issue (In "Call of Cthulhu" or "Paranoia", for instance, increasing the players' chance of failing and forcing them to play their impediments enhances the sardonic nature of the game). In games where stats are assigned from a point pool, some players purposely spend very little on int because they figure they can exploit this very situation. So it depends on the game, and on the gameworld.
But here's the most important point: When you do decide on the answer for this gameworld (which may be different than your answer for another gameworld), you should stick to it. The same rule should be applied in all instances, throughout that gameworld. Otherwise it may appear that you are ruling inconsistently or favoring one player over another.
First, find out if the player would enjoy it. It can be fun playing with restrictions and artificial hurdles. I've definitely had players who had PCs with low INT and voluntarily rolled INT checks before doing the "smart thing". The rest of the party might get sick of this quick.
Alternatively remind the player that their character probably wouldn't have come up with that brilliant idea, but work with them to re-frame the idea so that the PC actually had a dumb idea which accidentally aligns with circumstances to work out the desired way. Then it's just luck!
RPing should be fun, and there are plenty of instances of characters in movies and books not being so bright but succeeding by trying the right bad idea at the right time.


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I've come across a lot of different series and 'methodologies' (Aaron Shearer, Mel Bay etc) books - and it's very confusing for the beginner when there's no teacher to guide him or her.
If you do not have access to a teacher, I recommend choosing a program that will provide you with corrective feedback so that you may fix your mistakes in order to progress. In my experience, lacking this feedback you may unknowingly develop poor habits, both musically and technically.
Fixing your mistakes requires seeing and hearing correct playing. So, a multimedia instructional program may be your best choice. I recommend looking at Frederick Noad's books with CDs/DVDs. (He published his first multimedia instructional program in 1963, which came in the form of a book and weekly television program. See attached photo of my copy.) Today, you would probably do well to try Noad's updated text:
Noad's books are well-respected by many classical guitar teachers. So, if you decide to ultimately take lessons, you may find the transition to be a smooth one.
For classic guitar I recommend:
These were published in the early 1970s by the great virtuoso Christopher Parkening with Jack Marshall and David Brandon. They are highly regarded by guitar teachers. The newest edition comes with a CD so you can hear what the lessons sound like when they are played correctly.
From the publisher's description: "The method covers: rudiments of classical technique, note reading and music theory, selection and care of guitars, strategies for effective practicing, and much more. The CD includes 99 demonstration tracks."
I havent looked at beginner books recently. But I can offer a rule of thumb:
The book I used and was very happy with was The Romero Method, by Celedonio Romero, but it looks like it's out of print. :(
There is a book by Son of Romero that's probably worth checking out. (These guys were breaking into The Tonight Show, while Segovia was breaking into Carnegie Hall.)
The Aaron Shearer series of books (link to Volume 1) are well-regarded standards. They were first published in the 1950s or 1960s and are still in print.
As one who is teaching himself to play classical guitar, I have found the following method books to be excellent. They are in no order:
Frederick Noad. Solo Guitar Playing: A complete course of instruction in the techniques of guitar performance* (4th Ed).
Aaron Shearer. Classic Guitar Technique (3rd Ed). Book and CD. (ISBN-10: 07390-57103).
Julio Sagreras. Mel Bay Julio S. Sagreras Guitar Lessons: Books 1-3 (English and Spanish Edition) [Spiral-bound]. (ISBN-10: 0786627239).
Jeffrey Goodman. A Beginner's Guide to the Classical Guitar. (ISBN-10: 1439267499).
Robert Benedict. Sight Reading for the Classical Guitar, Level I-III.(ISBN-10: 0769209742).
Robert Benedict. Sight Reading for the Classical Guitar, Level IV-V. (ISBN-10: 0769212859).


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I would like to count the polyominoes of $n$ squares that satisfy several restrictions:
- Each is convex: every horizontal, or vertical line, meets the shape in either a single segment, or not at all.
- The shape is tree-like in the sense that never does a $2 \times 2$ subarrangement of squares occur in the shape. So the dual graph is a tree.
- I want to count only the free polyominoes, in that, to quote Wikipedia, "none is a rigid transformation (translation, rotation, reflection or glide reflection) of another."
Edit1 (25Jul11). My hand-accounting was repeatedly in error, corrected by Theo, Timothy, Gerhard, and Joel. As suggested by Gerhard, I now have a preliminary computer implementation, which shows that the number of polyominoes up to $n{=}8$ is 1,1,2,4,10,21,49,104, a sequence not (yet!) in the OEIS ("Sorry, but the terms do not match anything in the table.")
Edit2 (29Jul11). I now added the 104 octominoes I found, and I think I will stop there. Timothy Chow and Gerhard Paseman both analyzed the asymptotic growth as $2^{n-1}$ $\pm$ lesser terms, which accords with the (little) data I have. Certainly the count is going up by a bit more than a factor of 2 for each increase in $n$. It seems feasible through their analyses to obtain an exact count, although I have not given that a serious attempt. I thank everyone for their time & attention!
Edit3 (19Jan12). At Neil Sloane's urging, I have submitted the sequence to OEIS. It is now A204804: Free tree-like convex polyominoes.
$n=3$, #=2:
$n=4$, #=4:
$n=5$, #=10:
$n=6$, #=21:
$n=7$, #=49:
$n=8$, #=104:


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I would like to clarify some details of the derivation earned from the sale of application money. If I understood correctly, at the end of each quarter you will send us email to report the amount of earned us money. After that we will send you requisites on which you will send money by bank transfer. Am I right?
To clarify - Canonical will send a report within 30 days after the end of each quarter. Canonical will also send payment within 30 days after the end of each quarter (usually simultaneously - unless payment questions arise).
The TOS (click through agreement) states that Canonical will send a report, the developer will return a invoice, and Canonical will pay that invoice. This is the procedure, however Canonical has streamlined the process to what is stated above (send report, send payment immediately thereafter).
If a payment or report issue arises, you can reply to the report sender or contact me directly for resolution.
Citet from the Commercial Software FAQ:
So it seems to me that you will give the payment details directly following the publishing of the software. It does not seem like you give the details after each quarter report.
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When thanking someone, what is the rule for using ありがとうございます vs. ありがとうございました? My sensei taught us to use ありがとうございました when the action you're thanking someone for occurred in the past, but I've heard ありがとうございます used plenty of times right after the action occurred. Does it have to do with how far in the past the action happened?
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You can use ありがとうございます most of the time, but ありがとうございました cannot used when the request is not finished yet. For example.,
A quick search on Google of "ありがとうございます" "ありがとうございました" shows many discussions about the usage of these two expressions, mostly in Japanese (presumably by many Japanese people), and there does not seem to be a definitive answer.
What your teacher told you about it is correct as a general rule, but as YOU said, ありがとうございます is appropriate also when you thank someone for an action in the past. Some people claim that they feel annoyed by the phrase ありがとうございました because it implies that the thanks themselves ended in the past, but not everyone agrees on this.
There is one case where ありがとうございました is much more usual than ありがとうございます: when you close a talk by saying "Thank you for your attention," the common (and I think formal) phrase is ご清聴ありがとうございました, not ご清聴ありがとうございます, although the action for which the speaker thanks has been (hopefully) continuing as he/she says this sentence. I cannot explain why, except that this is a fixed phrase and fixed phrases often break a general pattern.


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Is it wrong to use the word "codes" in programming context?
I shall use these codes.
Is it wrong to use the word "codes" in programming context?
As a programmer, I cringe when hearing this!
In computer science, "code" is used as a mass noun, specifying the collection of instructions in a specific arrangement as a whole and in no specific quantity. Whether it's one line of code or ten pages, it is still referred to as code, not codes.
When "codes" is used in computer science, it typically refers to values or constants used to specify a trait, access or properties, though in my experience, the actual name of those types of items is used over the word "codes". For example, instead of:
You would write/say:
With regard to the use of "code":
Yes, it is wrong to use the word "codes" in the programming world if source code is implied:
Uncountable noun (my emphasis): "a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form".
The same if code refers to a computer program:
In some other contexts it is all right, for example, access codes.
"Codes" is actually correct usage and is quite common in academia and in descriptions of commercial products in fields that utilize numerical methods, such as topology optimization or finite element analysis. It is never used to designate a random program that Joe Coder implemented.
What is really meant by this is "well-known and well-tested libraries that do the job as fast as possible". The complexity of the numerical methods is very high, and since performance and accuracy are critical, the demand on the programming skills of their coders is huge. For this reason, the number of numerical method programming libraries is relatively small, and every self-respecting software product in the field uses one or another.
That being said, I would consider any usage outside this very specific context to be incorrect.
Update: By request, some examples below, from different sources:
Hopefully that's convincing enough. More examples to be had if one searches for "optimization codes", "finite element codes" or similar.
Generally "code" is a mass noun. At the other end of the spectrum from the "gimme teh codez" crowd, "code" is used as a count noun in some scientific and numerical circles: "I looked at 5 different codes for FFT [Fast Fourier Transform] and didn't like any of them."
No, this is not correct when you refer to programming code.
There is no plural when you refer to programming code since when you say code you do mean the whole chunk of it. Even if you say for example "different sets of programming code" you notice that no plural is used.
It is always wrong to use "codes" when refering to a quantity of "source code". Source code is a mass noun which should never be pluralised.
There are some however some other cases where it is permissible to use "codes" in a programming context:
Hence "I shall use these codes" may or may not be correct depending on the context.
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Lets define edge-cycle in a graph $G$ as a path where the first and the last node are adjacent. (in contrast with the definition of cycle where first and last node are the same).
An edge-tree $T$ is a tree with the additional property that doesn't have an edge-cycle.
In a graph we can compute the number of spanning trees by using the Matrix-Tree theorem.
Is there any similar theorem for the computation of the number of edge-trees of a graph?


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We had a tree stump in the front , it's diameter is about a little bit more than 4 feet, it had bothered us for a few years, we've tried chainsaw on it but nothing can go through it, lately we bought a cable puller with 4 ton capacity , together with my truck pulled the stump out without major effort!
Actually cable pullers are heavy duty pulling tools and can be used to do a lot of things, sometimes you even can use it in pace of ATV Winch to save money. The rated capacity of cable puller usually comes in from 1 ton to 4 ton(2200lbs to 8800lbs), the reach of the pullers is usually 6 feet to 12 feet, the higher the capacity, the shorter the reach, 1 ton puller can have 12′ reach while 4 ton puller will only have 6′ reach, but some extra heavy duty 4 ton ones can have 11′ or more. We usually call cable puller "Come Along", by definition, a come along is a hand operated ratchet lever winch, so cable puller can be called come along, along with chain puller, chain hoist, hand winch, trailer winch. The difference between cable puller and other come alongs is that cable pullers are considered heavy duty tools, pull capacity can be 4 ton(8800lbs), while regular hand winch has 400-4000lbs capacity and mostly used to pull boat out of or lower boat into water from trailer, sometimes also called boat trailer winch.
You have to do your homework before you go out to buy a cable puller, get to know it's features. A regular cable puller will have a cable guide , which keeps 2 wraps of cable on ratchet wheel, and you can release loads one notch at a time, so you can lower a vehicle or tree safely, ratchet wheel made of laminated steel, plated steel for rust resistance, drop forged steel safety hooks, 4 ton model will feature 5/16" galvanized aircraft cable, and all the cable pullers will have to meet OSHA and ASME specs. The cable pullers usually come with two slip hooks with safety latch, and some extra heavy duty ones have 3 safety hooks for enhanced protection.
For stretching, pulling, lifting and lowering, cable pullers are the best choice. To pull vehicles onto the trailer or release the vehicle off the trailer, to pull or tear down trees, to lift or lower heavy stuff in your house, pull the tree stumps out of somewhere, compare to electric powered winch, such as electric winch, cable pullers are inexpensive handy tools.


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I just have finished my firs spherical panorama using gear as in tittle plus nadir adapter. It's done from 33 photos at 24mm X 3 as it's a HDR. Software - Photomatix, Photoshop and PTGui.
Any feedback much appreciated. I'm new into this so would be great to know from experienced users what is done well and what not.
My lower rail setting is 140mm, upper 177mm. There is just one thing which bothers me. After zenith shoot I always need to change upper rail setting as on 177mm I cant angle my camera to the up on 90 degrees as it's hitting LR ... Probably there is no way arround this but maybe I'm wrong. Any suggestions welcomed.


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