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I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc.
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You might be able to use the PMD tool to find what you are looking for. It is meant to detect cut and paste within a code base but if you include the suspected origin project source it might help you see where code was copied from it.
When I was teaching software engineering, I used the (free) service at Stanford called MOSS (Measure of Software Similarity). This allowed me to detect plagiarism between student projects very easily. The system also allowed me to enter "known good" code examples that I had used during class that were to be ignored.
The great thing (completely a side issue) about the results that came back were that we could tell which students worked together --- even if they didn't blatantly copy the code, they discussed the problems enough that their code was similar. The sad part was finding the odd student with NO SIMILARITY to any other code. They usually didn't do so well.
The closest thing I know of to what you are looking for is Clone Detective. It is a Visual Studio plug-in.
It sounds like you want to compute the difference between two abstract syntax trees (AST), so you might be interested in the Smart Differencer tool.
Found on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/974855/eclipse-abstract-syntax-tree-diff.
Even if you're not talking about a diff tool, you can still use one for this, to a certain extent at least. If I see two sections of code that look similar, for example, I frequently paste both into BeyondCompare to see how much work it would be to simplify it by refactoring the common functionality out.
On the other hand, if you don't know where the similar code is, but you're just wondering if any exists somewhere... what are you looking for? An automated tool to detect plagiarism? I'm not sure any such thing exists.
This article on wikipedia on the subject also includes links to several tools that can be used to find similar or duplicate code. We have an internal tool for this, so I'm not familiar with the external tools mentioned in the article.
What you really want to do is see if there is code cloned (copied) across the two projects (both projects consisting of possibly large sets of files). You can do this by running a clone detection tool. Wikipedia lists a variety of them.
To decide grossly if there is lot of copying, you only need to match source lines, and there are a variety of exact source-line clone detectors out there. I believe PMD is one of them. What these won't do is find code that is copy-paste-edited; they will find boilerplate copy-paste-unchanged code likely wrapped around the copy-past-edited stuff.
If you want to see the details of the copying for copy-past-edit code, you need a clone detector that finds "parameterized" clones. Token based detectors do this for edits which replace just variable names or constants.
Abstract-syntax tree (AST) based detectors do this for edits involving larger chunks, such as expressions, statements, insertions, deletions, et. These latter tend to give better answers, because unlike the token detectors, they can use the language structure of the computer source code as a guide.
Our CloneDR tool is such a detector.
I don't know of tools that will actually find "equivalent" code (reversed conditionals), etc. Researchers have built clone detectors that do something like this, but the combinatorics make this very expensive to execute, and the research prototypes scaled poorly.
I really like how CCFinderX visualizes similarity, so you might want to check that one too. Supports quite a few of languages, it's free and fairly easy to setup (Python 2.6).


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I notice that the function $\binom{C}{x}$, where $C$ is some constant, resembles a Gaussian function; for example, here is the plot for $\binom{20}{x}$:
This corresponds to the Gaussian function $a e^{- { \frac{(x-b)^2 }{ 2 c^2} } }$, where $a$ is $\binom{20}{10}$, $b$ is 10, and $c$ (determined through curve fitting) is ~2.2689.
$\binom{20}{x}$ corresponds to $\frac{20!}{x!(20-x)!}$; how is this related to a Gaussian function?


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Give visitors the ability to add items to the list where the newform resides. You may need to create a custom permission level, break permissions inheritance on the list and apply this custom permission level to the Visitors group.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
More stuff for my poor tiny sewing room
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- coffeeaddict said...
Beautiful fabrics. There can never be enough fabric, Right? Looking forward to se what you make with it.
- July 12, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Gail said...
I can see your dilemma with the butterfly fabric - the design would need to be subtle. I have a store bought dress that would work well. It is sleeveless, softly gathered and has a cross over front. The waist is just elastified and is worn over a slip. Love your teal dress. I was outbid on this pattern on ebay and wasn't going to up the ante. But might just change my mind.
- July 12, 2011 at 4:36 PM
- Rachel said...
I love that teal fabric. You always make the prettiest dresses.
- July 12, 2011 at 8:11 PM
- Beth (SunnyGal Studio) said...
I will be interested to see what new fall Vogues you choose as I always find inspiration from your choices.
- July 12, 2011 at 10:13 PM
- Karin said...
Pretty fabrics! Can't wait to see what you sew from the new Vogue dresses.
- July 13, 2011 at 1:49 AM
- shams said...
LOL, about the cats. I love that bold chiffon. But then I'm on a silk chiffon kick at the moment.
Do I see grommets in the neckline of the silk dress? If so, how cool!!
- July 13, 2011 at 3:57 AM
- Vicki said...
Have you tried Spotlight for knits? Of course you won't get lovely silks but maybe some rayon. Love that butterfly print, really pretty!
- July 13, 2011 at 5:13 AM
- sewing spots said...
Pretty fabrics! Love the teal color, too. It's great when you find a pattern that you love and want to make again!
- July 13, 2011 at 5:40 AM
- The Slapdash Sewist said...
I can see why you had to have the butterfly print! I am working on a silk chiffon top now that I think you might like. Stay tuned...
- July 13, 2011 at 5:54 AM
- mem said...
I love that butterfly print . Something very simple with Dolman sleeves to make you fel like you could fly??
- July 13, 2011 at 8:49 AM
- meli88a said...
The fabrics are lovely, and I covet that butterfly print...
- July 13, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- claire said...
Hi Allison! I love your blog and wanted to comment on buying fabric in HongKong. I'm not sure how different it is from mainland China, but my aunt told me that it was a lot cheaper buying fabric online (taobao.com) vs. going to fabric shops. She purchased some nice silk fabric for me for 250 RMB (2.8 meters). Just thought I would throw out this idea in case you haven't tried it yet!
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I am traveling internationally and have replaced my Verizon SIM card with a local one. To get data, I need to add an APN. I can't do this using settings -- no option to add exists. Is there another way to do this? And app maybe? I do not want to root my phone.
I have been told by Verizon that it's a bug on the Samsung Note 2 and S3 after Jelly bean. Verizon / Samsung are working on a fix so you can modify the APN in near future.
Verizon didn't intend a deliberate prevention on their part (confirmed by the fact Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 2 running android DOES allow you to modify the APN and works perfectly for calls/text/data overseas). I have both so I should know
Roll on a fix fast....
I am from the USA and have the Verizon S3 with Jelly Bean. I am currently in the UK. Used my usual UK VodaFone Sim card and it immediately worked for both Voice and Texts (something it didn't do when I was here in November before the Jelly Bean Update).
The reason it won't work at all in SOME countries is actually SIMPLY (but major) because Verizon seem to have disabled the ability to modify or add an APN. It just so happens, in the UK, their default APN works (for text and voice) on the VodaFone UK network. I've been here a week and text / phone all over the world. Since I can't edit the APN though, I cannot set the settings needed for Data.
My wife has a Verizon Incredible 2 and her phone works in the UK for Voice, Text AND data but only after I modiified the APN (which the Incredible allows).
Luckily, I brought my HTC unlocked phone as well. I use that with a VodaFone UK Sim card in that as well (SIMS are free) plus a 5 pound top-up for 500MB data. I simply turn that into a mobile hotspot when I'm outside and have my Verizon S3 use WIFI to that. Net effect is the same cost wise but it's a shame Verizon missed this feature. No doubt it's a bug and the people I deal with in Verizon (business side) at investigating.
Still. - now you know. It WILL work as a true GLOBAL phone (Verizon rates). For 3rd party SIM cards - It WILL now at last work as a phone/text in some countries. It WILL NOT work if you need to mod the APN to get any of the features for any country you are in - until Verizon fix it.
I am having this problem too after inserting local SIM. Calls and texts are OK, I need to configure an APN for internet.
A Verizon Global Support Technician told me that it is beyond Verizon's control to add an APN and that Samsung will need to provide directions on how to do this. I got online to chat with Samsung and the guy told me he can't help me on chat, I need to call this number:
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It seems that the save option for APN is not active on android 4.1.1 (at least when you have zero APN previously stored.
But after creating a new APN and filling parameters, if you shut down completely the device, (and do not try to activate save option through the button, act that would erase all parameters introduced), it will be saved somewhere. You will be able to access to your newly stored APN after restart (and pin unlock your sim card). This works with upstream settings set with modempoweron, data-enabled and itinerance enabled
The option to add a new APN is in
If that setting isn't there (and it should be), then you will not be able to add an APN without root, as the 'bug' that allowed apps to add and edit APN's was fixed in Android 4.
This seems to be an attempt by Verizon to cripple the data capabilities of the phone and force you to use their network.
While in Germany with a LIDL's SIM Card, the data, text and voice all work when on a wireless network connection. Once the SIM Card is connected to the LIDL network alone, voice and messaging work, but not data.
There is no way to access the APN page in the US or abroad and calls to Verizon support indicate there are no plans to do so and there is no workaround.
Will try rooting the phone.
How to add apn to verizon samasung galaxy s3 (Root required)
(I found this from some forum while I was searching for how to add APN for my brothers Verizon S3. It worked 100%. All credits go to the guy who posted it there. I didn't remember the address. And sorry for my bad english. by the way I am from MaLdives.)
Congrats you can now natively add in any APN desired.
Use tweakker app for APN editing. It has different carriers and networks in it. It will tell you how to setup your APN.


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I am trying to make a game where the person can create their own character, but instead of using a character builder, i want the person to be able to draw their character. how do i code that in c# so that they only have to draw their character once, and the code can animate that character without the player having to do very much except draw their character on the screen?
One way to do it would be to make the character consist of different parts. I'm currently working on a 3D game, and I have written an exporter for Blender in Python that takes the currently active (selected) object and exports it's data and then goes recursively through all of the object's children and their children and so on, so I end up with a sort of a file with a tree like structure where there's one root object (the first one written) and the other ones are laid down after it, and they all have number of children written as part of their data so the parser (written in C) knows how to reconstruct the entire model tree so I can translate/rotate/scale any part and all it's children will have the same transformation applied.
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Ideally I'd like to send a link via staff email that staff could click on to reveal their computer name. (Specifically first part of the 'Long computer name' found in the second tab of My Computer Properties.)
Is there some JavaScript/VBScript/ActiveX object on the client side, or CGI script on the server-side that can let a user know their computer name by returning a simple web page?
For good reasons the organisations stops users from downloading/running apps, so oneClick deploy and downloading batch files is out of the question with the existing infrastructure/policy setup.
Oh - it should work for the enterprise wide install of Internet Explorer 6/Windows XP that isn't likely to be updated anytime soon.
Via email
Send them a link for:
This will bring up "Internet explorer cannot display the webpage" but the address bar will show the machine name.
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Waterfowl hunters must remove plants and plant fragments from decoys, strings and anchors; remove plants seeds and plant fragments from waders and other equipment before leaving hunting areas; remove all water from decoys, boats, motors, trailers and other watercraft; and remove all aquatic plants from boats and trailers before leaving a marsh or lake. In addition, hunters are encouraged to brush their hunting dogs free of mud and seeds.
North Dakota's two-day youth pheasant season is Oct. 4-5. Legally licensed residents and nonresidents ages 15 and younger may hunt roosters statewide.
Resident youth hunters, regardless of age, must possess a fishing, hunting and furbearer certificate and general game and habitat license. Nonresident youth hunters from states that provide a reciprocal licensing agreement for North Dakota residents qualify for North Dakota resident licenses. Otherwise, nonresident youth hunters must purchase a nonresident small game license.
North Dakota's roadside pheasant survey conducted in late July and August indicates total birds and number of broods are up statewide from 2013.
Stan Kohn, upland game management supervisor for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said the survey shows total pheasants are up 30 percent from last year. In addition, brood observations were up 37 percent, while the average brood size was down 4 percent. The final summary is based on 253 survey runs made along 106 brood routes across North Dakota.
More than 700 licenses for antlerless deer are still available after the North Dakota Game and Fish Department recently completed its second lottery drawing. Individual results are available online at the Game and Fish website, gf.nd.gov.
The 2014 fall wild turkey lottery has been held and more than 1,000 licenses remain in eight units. Unsuccessful applicants who applied online will have a refund issued directly to their credit card.
Beginning Sept. 30, all remaining licenses will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis. Hunters are allowed a maximum of 15 licenses for the fall season.
Resident and nonresident hunters will be able to apply online, or print out an application to mail, at the Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov. Paper applications will also be available at license vendors.
A goldeye taken from Lake Audubon in July still remains a state record, even though the official weight is about a half pound less than originally reported.
Initially, the weight for the big goldeye, caught by Velva angler Brayden Selzler, was determined as 4 pounds, 12 ounces. After a follow-up investigation, North Dakota Game and Fish Department biologists concluded that the fish officially weighed 4 pounds, 3 ounces.
Selzler's goldeye still broke the previous state record by 6 ounces.
Families looking for a fun afternoon filled with outdoor activities are invited to attend Teddy Roosevelt Family Day on Sunday, Sept. 28 at McDowell Dam just east of Bismarck.
The free event runs from 1-4 p.m. and families can come and go at any time. It features many hands-on activities including archery, BB gun shooting, fishing, animal identification, prizes and more.
The first 750 kids who attend also receive a free Teddy Roosevelt patch.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is currently working with 18 landowners in 14 hunting units across the state who would like to host hunters with antlerless deer licenses in 2014.
Participating landowners are located in hunting units 2C, 2G2, 2I, 2J2, 2K2, 3A4, 3B3, 3C, 3D2, 3E1, 3E2, 3F1, 4B and 4E.
The program is not intended for buck hunters, but designed to direct hunters with antlerless licenses to specific areas to reduce deer populations.
Whooping cranes are in the midst of their fall migration and sightings will increase as they make their way through North Dakota over the next several weeks. Anyone seeing these birds as they move through the state is asked to report sightings so the birds can be tracked.


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Denny's deserves your business to the same degree you deserve a heart attack. They may have officially stepped down from their threats to make their customers pay for their employees healthcare, but in reality they are cutting hours so employees will be working fewer than 30 so they can skirt the law and have sick staff preparing and delivering your food.
There are plenty of other cheap heart attack inducing food places to eat, leave Denny's in the dust!
" in reality they are cutting hours so employees will be working fewer than 30"
Most businesses are going to be doing that soon, if they're not doing so already, to avoid the Obamacare impositions. No reason to hate Denny's for being ahead of the curve.
Thanks. Been craving some Denny's.
No healthcare for food workers means we will be exposed to a wider variety of viruses; therefore we will have the opportunity to build up more resistance. This will be a good thing. AND it's an added bonus that these CEOs like Papa Johns and Dennys are rolling out these austere measures (in spiteful protest of the Obama victory) TWO YEARS before the Affordable Healthcare Act provisions will be implemented.
It might just be me, but could someone please tell me what happened with their ranch dressing? It used to go great with the zesty nachos but now it tastes terrible!
None of you read the news.
It isn't ALL of Denny's as Denny's is a franchise. It's a scumbag franchise owner in Florida (noted: he's also known for multiple tax investigations for taxable wages and shorting his servers by taking a portion of their tips) who owns 40 stores.
The other HUNDREDS of locations aren't doing this.
It is so much fun to watch leftists resort to their natural tendencies to lie and create false crises as long as they think some public good is being achieved. These comments, save the one about the Ranch dressing, are laughable. Raising the specter of sick food service workers preparing your food is supposed to make you forget that you can no longer afford to eat that food, nor pay for your own healthcare, because of Obamacare's taxes. There are ways, starting with personal responsibility, to avoid sick people serving you food that fall short of a government take over of 1/6th of the economy.
Personal responsibilty? Thats hilarious. Im imagining a viral infection floating through the air, looking for a host body. He says, 'Not this fella. He appears personally responsible.'
And floats on.


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I'm trying to split polygons with overlaping line features, using Split Polygons tool from Topology toolbar. The problem I encounter is that only one from new polygons have old attributes and others only null values. I'm using arcgis 10.1.
That can be managed with the split/merge policy.
If you do much topology you should already be aware of the topology rules.


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So GT5 2.0 is out and it's all terribly exciting. However, my internet connection isn't very great and it has failed completing the 1GB download for the last 7 times. Given the lack of resumable downloads on that platform, can I download the update with a sensible client on a computer instead (one with Range: http header knowledge)? Or is there some way to make downloading through the PS3 more successful?
The PS3 supports the configuration of a proxy server in the Network Configuration. It can be any HTTP proxy server. So you could try to run a simple proxy server on your computer, and point the PS3 to it. Then, the proxy should be able to resume the download if the connection breaks, assuming it is setup as a caching proxy server.
Unfortunately, there's no way of doing this for game updates at the moment. You can update your PS3 firmware by downloading it onto a compatible USB stick but at the moment I can't find any official source regarding doing the same for game updates.
Hopefully this is something that will be added - just because your PS3 is not online, it doesn't mean you should be missing out on patches/updates/free DLC/whatever!
Yes, Download PRIVOXY google how to use it in PS3 will make your PSN Downloads extremely fast


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The beating heart of the profit center of the little grocery store was the tiny ten foot square liquor department and Dan the Store Manager who understood human behavior.One doesn't see them in Chicago anymore; the neighborhood chain grocery store large enough to have a meat department with four full time butchers but too small to have a parking lot. Profit margins at these stores were slim and far too slim for modern high volume corporate tastes. A careful manager who closely watched the details (like how much was trimmed off the celery) could make these stores a success. But a cunning manager could make such a place even more.People used to wonder how the store could even have a liquor department to begin with. Just on the next block was a cut rate liquor store that was fully as large as the grocery store. True, the liquor store had a cut rate bar attached to it with a loyal clientele large enough to create a tiny local skid row. That liquor store was a sort of mirror image of the grocery store. It had a tiny ten foot square food department that sold white bread, cold cuts, and cheap pastries that comprised the diet of the confirmed alcoholic. But it also had everything the grocery store had in its liquor department and at cheaper prices. So why did the grocery store's liquor department survive in the local free market?
When Dan managed the store the neighborhood was changing. The neighborhood had originally been Norwegian with a large number of eastern Europeans who had washed ashore there from successive waves of European wars and political strife. Now the children of these people had left them behind and moved to the suburbs and the young families one saw were mostly Puerto Rican. Dan himself was an ethnic German from Serbia who had served on the wrong side during the war and had washed ashore in this neighborhood himself. He knew his people and knew that while people from the old country had to have their beer and bottle of wine (or pint of bourbon) they would never have been caught dead going to a liquor store because that would have been disreputable. Much better to stick a bottle of Mogen David or a six-pack of Old Style short necks on the bottom of the bag of groceries.Wholesale liquor salesmen would come by, of course with discounted wine and beer and Dan would purchase great lots of these. The salesmen would then set up an island of the product and decorate it will little American flags or Santas or whatever the season called for. Dan would stand there and chat with them and smile and as soon as they were going we would take down the little flags or Santas and the price cut signs and throw them in the trash and re-stamp everything back to their normal prices. This was part of his profitability secret. He knew that the old people would always buy from him.But there was something else that he knew. Unlike the liquor store down the street, whose booze was hidden from view from the street by mesh shutters, Dan's liquor department was in full view. The reason that the liquor store looked like a fortified stronghold was that its management did not want to tempt the down-in-their-luck alcoholics after hours. Dan, on the other hand, counted on this happening and it was a fact that some drunk would launch a cinder block through his plate glass window every three or four months. The white port and gallons of Earnest and Julio's finest were, after all, on display just an arm's reach from the sidewalk. When the window was smashed in the middle of the night and the cops came, Dan was always called in from home to guard the store and wait until the board-up service arrived. The regional managers would suggest each time that he mask the alcohol with large window signs or maybe a tinfoil window covering and sometimes he would even smile and put these up only to take them down as soon as the suits left.For when Dan was called in at the dead of night, he didn't just sweep up the broken glass and then wait quietly. As soon as he sent the police away, he would quickly take cases of his highest end liquor, cigarettes, and nylon stockings and bring them to the back room, where he would hide them in the crawl space above the bathrooms. When a store was broken into, it was corporate policy to send an inventory crew over first thing in the morning to assess the losses. While the actual loss from theft from these events was a gallon or two of port, the auditors would find that thieves had made off with many cases of expensive easily fenced stuff. The loss would be assessed and moved off of Dan's balance sheet and on to the part of the corporate balance sheet for recording this kind of inventory shrinkage. Not long after the auditors left and about the time the glazier was putting the last screws into the new window frame, Dan would get out a ladder and take the hidden cases of whiskey, cigarettes, and nylons back into stock, where they would now fetch a profit of one hundred percent. This was enough to dramatically improve the total profit margin of the store and in due time Dan was promoted to a much larger store with a parking lot in the suburbs. His successor was outraged the first time a drunk broke his window and he covered the window in front of the liquor department in tinfoil from top to bottom. This permanently solved the break-in problem, but he could not understand why his store was so much less profitable than his predecessor had been.Now was Dan stealing? In the case of selling alcohol to little old immigrant ladies and men he would argue that he was charging what the market would bear. If these people never saw their beverages go on sale, this was a sort of tax they paid for not wanting to go to the liquor store down the street. Regarding hiding stock from the corporation, Dan used an existing corporate fund for theft and 'inventory shrinkage' as a resource to increase his profitability, spreading the cost of this to the company as a whole. It was capitalism in the predictable exploitation of human desire and weakness and the active spreading of risk away from oneself. And Dan, the son of generations of clever and prosperous hard working peasants, did this quite well.But was he right?
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Dan is half right. I think Dan was on more solid ground selling the wholesale liquor at market price (he is not stealing from the wholesalers). In this respect he is like the dishonest steward who Jesus praised in the gospel. he cuts the price making himself look like the hero but he was actually a sketchy although he never stole from the king (in this analogy the wholesaler). So this is a bit sketchy but not flat out lying.In the case of hiding the liquor, he is stealing from the insurance company and committing flat out fraud and that cannot be defended.
There's the black-and-white world and there's the real one. Dan and his customers lived in the latter, as do all of us, except for moralists and employees of the "justice" system.
he is stealing from the insurance company - and it's hard to get exercised about that. Who's going to pity the big insurance company being taken advantage of by the little neighborhood store?Why did the insurance company not realize what was going on, though?I suppose that one may regret that Dan did not use his "cunning" ability to go into marketing and advertising, and become rich the legal way.
Whos going to pity the big insurance company being taken advantage of
Obama did which is why he mandated that everyone who is eligible to purchase health insurance MUST purchase health insurance otherwise the companies could not afford the costs.Plus, those costs are passed on to everyone else in the form of higher premiums (assuming the insurance companies are not greedy also and I know that is a big IF)


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Let $P\in{\mathbb R}[X]$ be a monic polynomial with roots on the unit circle. For the problem below, we may assume wlog that the roots are simple and distinct from $\pm1$. It can be shown that there exists a matrix $M\in{\bf SO}_n({\mathbb R})$, whose characteristic polynomial is $P$ (an orthogonal companion matrix of $P$, in short OCM). See for instance Exercise 99 on my list http://www.umpa.ens-lyon.fr/~serre/DPF/exobis.pdf . Regretfully, this exercise uses the square root of Hermitian positive definite matrices, which cannot be computed in finitely many operations.
Does there exist a construction of an OCM that uses only finitely many elementary operations (including the square root of complex numbers) ?
Thanks to the reduction to Hessenberg form, which can be done in finite time and which preserves the orthogonal group, we may restrict our attention to a Hessenberg orthogonal matrix $M$. It writes $$\left( \begin{array}{ccccc} c_1 & s_1c_2 & s_1s_2c_3 & s_1s_2s_3c_4 & \ldots \\\\ -s_1 & c_1c_2 & c_1s_2c_3 & c_1s_2s_3c_4 & \ldots \\\\ 0 & -s_2 & c_2c_3 & s_2s_3c_4 & \ldots \\\\ 0 & 0 & -s_3 & c_3c_4 & \ldots \\\\ 0 & 0 & 0 & -s_4 & \ldots \end{array} \right)$$ where $(c_j,s_j)$ are cosine/sine pairs.


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When Cataclysm and it's raiding hit us I was absolutely excited in the difficulty setting of the raids. They were exciting and challenging and fresh and all the older players (you know, those who were so disappointed by ToGC and onwards raiding) were excited about it. I guess what we haven't realized back then (or didn't want to admit to ourselves) that although we were very much excited, we weren't the majority of the Warcraft population and even many of those we raided with from the old days weren't ready and prepared for this step up. And many, many people around were dropping like flies, burning out left and right. Looking back at it and summing it up altogether now, after half a year in Cataclysm it's time to reflect on things that were and things that might be.
The difficulty
The step up in difficulty the one we sought for so much – although it's hard to say if Wrath raiding was really any easy, strict 10M hardmode raiding was challenging for the most part and well, PUGing ICC with the big bad buff can't be really taken seriously. Although it's exactly this big bad buff raiding that got stuck in most raiders minds as far too easy content and the public cry for more difficult raiding was around here. And the difficulty came and it took most folks by surprise.
The mistake, from how I see it, is that even normal modes in entry gear were far too punishing. Instead of having fights with more clever or simply more mechanics, we got bosses with more deadly mechanics. Nothing wrong about that in essence, stuff just hit harder and had to be healed back. However, while touching the subject of healing, it was very hard transition on most raiding teams due to the new and improved healing system. That alone raised the difficulty some more, pushing it into impossible for many and many guilds. But still, that's not the problem.
I do think that the true problem lies within the fact that you simply cannot make mistakes to complete encounter (talking raiders with average skill here). One person goes down and it's a wipe. Moreso, it's often not even a "okay, let's see how far we can go before we go again" try, you simply won't have enough power to get the boss down. I think that having this much difficulty on normal modes, pretty much killed the "casual" and "low progression" raiding (no offence meant nor implied) and in turn effectively killed player market.
Anyways, that's just random thought to introduce the wide frame this post is trying to fill. A post about second guessing myself.
The evolution of my Cataclysm raiding
We started Cataclysm with broad smiles on our faces, looking forward to the bright future and expecting things good and better. Then we dipped into the raiding and although the difficulty surprised us at first – that it indeed was as difficult as promised we had a go at it and we were, more or less successful. I would say, we were fairly successful since from the Day 1 of our raiding endeavours, we had so high turnover that we effectively replaced ten to fifteen people, maybe more.
Now, I am not going to complain about that. It's most likely our fault anyways when it comes to the true essence of the problem, since we were the ones responsible for the recruitment and judging people. We haven't left more than two or three people to more progressed guilds, all our war casualties simply ceased playing over burning out (or rerolled a new alt without telling). We had to kick two people because they just weren't good fit. But we rangered on, anyways, trying to do the best with the guild and provide the people with us, those relying on us to guide them through the content and provide them with nice and steady raiding atmosphere. And I take great pride in the fact that since 1st February this year, with all the trouble our roster went through, we cancelled one, ONE raid in total and that was on day when five raiders just had to take break due to various real life stuff.
The core of the force
Even with this huge turnover, we were blessed with collecting great core of players. We have great tank, we had 2 awesome healers (now we have 3) and we had awesome band of dpsers who always strive to do better and improve. I have raiders who put much time into tactics research – our Magmaw heroic tactics thread inflated from 2 pages to 6 since Thursday raid till Sunday evening with people discussing various tweaks, posting tips and whatnot. A true raid leader's dream. I didn't even dare to intervene into the discussion, I was just sitting quietly at the back, taking notes and thinking about what they suggested, trying to fit it somehow to the people I raid with and in the end, all it took was a short post by me consolidating the suggested changes and outlining the tactics for Monday. And, there was noticeable improvement on Monday. No, we haven't get him down since we didn't really go with the best possible setup, but we got to P2 and practiced the transition few times so well that I have no doubts the worm is going down next reset when our third healer comes back from his exam period.
I have nothing but deep appreciation for the core people we raid with (this is sort of apology to the newbies – I promise I will like you in few months as much, it's just that we haven't been together for too long, yet) and the way they handle fights. From people willing to respec for encounters on the fly or willing to respec on encounter progress just to try a different approach, to people who do things I'd want them to do without me saying so – be it popping cooldowns, moving to spots I'd like them to move. I have people that I can rely 100% to do interrupts, gonging and any other ungrateful tasks, all the black work that never gets you the spotlight, but is needed to down bosses as much as high dps, hps or tps. I have people who are very skilled on executing encounters and as I said, I am proud to raid with these people, even though they can drive me up the wall sometimes. For the most part it was great and enjoyable ride, yet…
Second guessing yourself
I'll say it out loud. We had not-so-good night yesterday. We started on Magmaw again to test some hardmode findings and it worked well, we have done some progress and then people (certain person) started dying to stuff they really shouldn't be. I took a note, tried to talk to them and point out to them what is wrong, yet the improvement was not entirely coming. Anyways, we called Magmaw halfway through the raid, executed the worm on normal and decided to move on.
Chimaeron was fun moment, since we had no one to be the dps break tank so we had to resort to normal killing – trust me nothing beats raid leader asking over Mumble: "Okay guys, how many tanks we need for normal again? I have absolutely no idea how the normal works anymore."; he went down easily, not loosing a person because the first tank lasted eternity in P2. Then we moved to Atramedes, switched to hard and happily started executing. We spent hour on him, we had 10 tries on him and we just weren't able to down him. Atramedes. The easiest hard mode as far as I can say execution wise – or well maybe second easiest after Halfus.
Seriously, all you have to do on the encounter to execute it is to remember that we move to the back on the discs and to the door with the breath. Yet exactly this side distribution tended to be the greatest problem for many people. I had no idea what was going on – we were loosing people to full sound before first airphase, after first airphase, we were loosing people left and right. DPS figures on the meters checked out, I'd say they even exceeded our past kills, tanking was alright (except for few "rotate with us" for a new tank on the encounter). Healing was feeling a little sloppy since I don't think we were all fully focused – but nothing so severe it would cause the wipefest we had.
I couldn't wrap my head around it – the awesome people who can execute and dodge shit were making the basic mistakes like kiting the fire through raid, moving like headless chickens, not stacking properly as they should be – even after few prompts to do so. After 10 tries I was past furious, I was simply broken.
I tried asking people to improve and do better, I tried calling stuff out more, nothing seemed to be working. It's moment like these that make me think I am too old for this game. It's moments like these that make me reconsider my raiding future and make me always think whether it's not time to quit. There is nothing worse for a raid leader than feeling helpless. You keep asking yourself – what more can I do? These are people who can do the encounter. These are people who definitely know way better than this. So where is the problem? Is it me? Am I so bad at motivating them they just don't care? Or is it simply bad night tonight and should I let it go? Is it my problem that I take such thing so seriously, should I just take it easy?
You inevitably start to second guess yourself, your capabilities and your skills. No matter how many kills you lead before, no matter how many bosses you stomped over and thrusted your banner in, you start to second guess.
Anyways – it was probably just bad night, such things happen. I could've say some folks had their minds elsewhere, some just weren't giving a damn at all as it seemed and in the end, I had an headache. I'll leave it at that.
Meh, re-reading the post, I am not entirely sure what I wanted to say and I definitely didn't want to sound all whiny and sorry-ass but hey, it's out and it's gonna get posted.
Let me ask you few questions to close with – how do you deal with bad raids? How much these raids get to you? And how much they affect your raid leader?


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Cambridge Footlights: Under The Blue, Blue Moon
Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2005
A man skips from the disappointments of daily life to the wonderful strangeness of his imagination, when his humdrum existence gets spectacularly turned inside out on a dry and dusty bank holiday. Reality distorts and dreams come true in this sparkling constellation of sketches, played out under the light of the glowing moon.
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5 People Who Started Religions Just to Get Laid
Cults are full of easy to brainwash weirdos, right? Actually, if you've ever joined a club because everyone else was doing it, or believed a conspiracy theory even for a moment, you're a candidate for cult membership. It's basically the same mechanisms at work. If they caught you at the right low point and offered a secret enough path to salvation, you'd be wearing a goofy ass robe right now. There's even a chance you'd be attached at the junk to a creepy weirdo who couldn't figure out a less shameless way to get laid. For instance ...
#5. Goel Ratzon
If you can't keep a girlfriend, you are not going to like the story of Goel Ratzon. After a decade of marriage to his devoted first wife, Ratzon decided to marry a second woman, somehow managing to keep his first wife in the process. After another 10 years, he found that there were still itches that two wives just couldn't scratch. So in 1991 he married another. At this point, Ratzon's pimping habit snowballed into what's known in the world of addiction as a full on bender.
He did not hide the wives from each other, like a self respecting bigamist. All the women lived together in a single apartment building. And yet, in under two decades, Goel "I'm the Jesus Pimp" Ratzon convinced 19 more women to marry him before screaming black jack and stopping at 21.
At that point, dehydration starts to become a major risk.
Ratzon's was not your run of the mill, just here for the free drinks type of harem. The women live together, competing at things like cooking and cleaning for Ratzon. The winners are the ones who get to have sex with him once in a while. He gained complete control of his wives "desires, thoughts, emotions and actions" by convincing the women that he had the power to heal and cast curses. This only makes sense when you remember that he looked like Dumbledore's hipster kid brother.
You would have sex with this man, apparently.
But how is Ratzon to know that the women, many of whom severed ties with previous families to come compete for his seed, are really devoted to him? Well, according to Time, "one wife had Ratzon's portrait tattooed on her upper left arm, his head surrounded by snakes with the legend 'Goel Ratzon, my love forever.'"
The shitty tattoo your ex-girlfriend got for you.
While Ratzon might not have convinced anyone outside his harem that he is God, he at least makes a compelling case that if God exists, He must be a total bastard.
#4. Lee Thompson
The "Kaotians" are a sect of the Gorean society, which follows the ancient text of Gor. By Holy we of course mean science fiction and by ancient we mean the first book came out in 1967. Written by philosophy professor John Norman the Chronicles of Gor are about a planet where humans live in submission to a group of alien priests who kidnapped them from Earth. Despite boasting the sort of view on the universe that would get you banned from most creative writing classes, thousands of people have taken Norman's work seriously enough to create their own Gorean society.
You have to provide your own giant lizard carriage.
Most of the books are narrated by protagonist, Tarl Chabot, who is coincidentally also a professor, and also into the sort of weird S&M sex that John Norman outlined in his non-fiction sex guide Imaginative Sex. But don't let that description mislead you into thinking that these works are autobiographical. Six of the 27 novels are narrated by slave women, who rise up against their alien captors and fight for their freedom valiantly. Oh wait, no, they love that shit. Being slaves helps them discover their "natural place" as man's submissive helper. This idea of women as slaves carried over to the real world Gorean societies, and is probably the reason they exist at all.
How they view themselves VS Reality
Lee Thompson (pictured above lounging on his green barca lounger throne) was one of the leaders, and the guy everyone else in giant S&M cult probably agreed could stand to tone it down a notch. Often he could be seen around the quaint town of Teesside in jolly old England, walking his slaves with a dog leash. He came to the attention of the law when he started trading the services of his slaves for more hours to play WoW at the local Internet Cafe.
In case you're keeping score at home, being led around on a dog-leash was no match for The Chronicles of Gor's lowering effect on female standards, but getting pimped out for the equivalent of early 90s shovel-ware did the trick.
Officially the saddest thing you can have sex for.
#3. Mary Ellen Tracy
Any guys feeling left out from the horror need only meet the high priestess of "The Church of The Most High Goddess", Mary Ellen Tracy. Working out of her Beverly Hills home she carried on the traditions of one of the oldest religions in the world, dating back to 3200 BC Egypt. It all started when her and her husband were "visited by god" and told that Mary was to sleep with thousands of men! Mary and her husband readily agreed since, you don't want to piss off God, right?
At their home, up to two thousand members of her church took part in rituals that render their sins "wiped out" in the eyes of God, and their penises wiped out in the eyes of their stamina. Rituals included paying to have sex with high priestess Mary Ellen Tracy, and ... well, that's about it actually.
Well, that was easy.
In Mary's words, "I've always been very willing to do what God required whether to be monogamous or to have sex with a few thousand men." The police eventually became involved when they found out about the whole "donation" to that church that was expected from men who boned their way to salvation. The Police seemed to have confused what Mary and her husband were doing with prostitution. Mary pointed out that the men weren't paying money to have sex with her, they were having sex then giving her money, at which point the cops said, "Oooh, our bad," and took her to jail.
They probably just needed a couple of gratis blowjobs.
OK, so maybe throwing an older woman a bone doesn't make up for all the horror the ladies have had to endure so far on this list. But we'll get close, fellas. Just wait ...


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If you are thinking of crossovers then Audi is not a company that comes to mind immediately. That is because; Audi got into the crossover business quite late and haven't really made an impact thus far with whatever crossovers it has produced. Audi Q7 arrived in the market in 2005, almost three years after the Volkswagen Touareg. The much smaller Q5 was then launched after three years and after three more years it launches the smallest in the family, the Q3. But none of these vehicles have been able to make a mark in the hearts and minds of the auto lovers. But these vehicles have not done badly either. They have just held their ground without any remarkable show in the market.


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For more than a week, the nation, and much of the world, has been sending its thoughts and support to Newtown, Conn., following a school shooting which claimed the lives of 20 children and six school employees.
Two Weirton natives are among those who have experienced the fear and turmoil of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, and witnessed the charity of others as the town has mourned.
Steve and Lisa Petrovich both grew up in Weirton and graduated from Weir High School where they were high school sweethearts.
They still have family in Weirton, including their mothers, Norma Battista and Dolores Petrovich, as well as several brothers and sisters.
For the last 18 years they have lived in the Sandy Hook area of Newtown, raising their family and becoming part of the tight-knit community.
"We moved up here 18 years ago around Christmas," Lisa explained in a telephone interview Friday morning.
Their three children, Stephen, Nicholas and Madalyn, all attended Sandy Hook Elementary and the family quickly became involved in the school's Parent Teacher Association and other activities. In fact, Lisa worked in the main office at Sandy Hook for several years.
"I just left there in January 2012," she said, explaining while she didn't personally know many of the students, she was close to many of the teachers and staff who were killed. "All of the adults I knew very well."
In particular, through her work in the school office, Lisa had known Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlock, and was very close to Victoria Soto, the 27-year-old first grade teacher who lost her life after hiding her students in a closet in an effort to save them.
"She was like my daughter at work," Lisa said, adding Soto often would ask her for advice and they would spend time together outside of work. "She was my buddy."
The day of the attack, Lisa said the school where she currently works was put into a precautionary lockdown.
"We didn't know what was going on," she explained. "There were a lot of sirens and helicopters."
Parents began calling into the school and she began hearing many of the rumors being reported. She said people began texting her to see if she was OK and if she knew anything about the shooting at Sandy Hook. Lisa, however, said she wanted to focus on making sure the students at her school were able to get home safely and decided not to listen to the reports until later in the day.
Steve works 40 miles away and was in a meeting with a client when their 19-year-old daughter Madalyn, a freshman at West Virginia University, called him to see if he had heard about the attack.
"I got in the car as quickly as possible," he said.
As word began to filter out of the community and around the world, the Petroviches began to hear the stories of heroism by the teachers.
"Knowing these people, it's not a surprise what they did," Steve stated of those who tried to protect the students.
In the days following the shooting, the Petroviches, along with others in the town, watched as the focus of the world turned toward what they called a "typical New England town."
Going into town, it became common to see news crews and volunteers coming from far and wide.
"You walk down there and you hear languages from all over the world," Lisa said.
Steve has seen some of that generosity firsthand as, during trips to the town's general store, he witnessed a first responder from California offer to buy everyone coffee one day and a woman from Arizona buy sandwiches on another.
Fire departments from across the United States have sent flowers, while other groups have been purchasing backpacks for the town's children. Someone from Texas paid for the coffins of everyone who was killed, Lisa explained.
"It's very supportive," Steve said. "It's very helpful to get through the grieving process."
That support has come from the Ohio Valley as well, with candlelight vigils held in Weirton and Beech Bottom as well as other communities. Lisa said her sister had been asked to send a donation from the Weirton Elks Lodge to help anyone who needs it.
The Petroviches sent a letter, which was read by their niece, Leah Crow, during the Weirton vigil, to thank everyone for their support.


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Is −9 a smaller number than −8?
And is −9 a lower number than −8?
What is the difference between lower and smaller here?
Is −9 a smaller number than −8?
And is −9 a lower number than −8?
What is the difference between lower and smaller here?
You can't argue with the whole English-speaking world, and the fact of the matter is they overwhelmingly prefer smaller to lesser or lower.
I think if pressed most people would agree that -1 is a 'bigger' number than -2. But negative numbers don't exactly have real-world correlates, so we all tend to be a bit vague on that one.
Even more vague - for those who know what imaginary numbers are - is the question of whether i is 'smaller' than 2i
LATER: I have no opinion on whether either of OP's examples is more 'correct' than the other. They're both fine to me. I'm simply making the point that of the two specific usages being asked about, on average people prefer to use the former. Here's a somewhat more specific NGram for those who still want to dispute that point...
My gut instinct as a PhD mathematician is that −9 is lower than −8, but not smaller than −8.
There is not a technically correct term without more context being given. If you are talking about the integer numbers (including positive and negative numbers) then I wouuld prefer to say that -9 is lower than -8. If you are talking about the magnitude of the numbers, rather than their place on the integer number line, then -8 is smaller and lower than -9 (although I would prefer to say smaller). As there is not a technically correct answer, these phrases are often used interchangeably in practice. Mathematical notation, such as -9<-8 and |-8|<|-9|, would need to be used to avoid misinterpretation.
"Less than" is also a good alternative phrase. It is the words intended by the < sign.
In summary, I would say that a small number is close to 0 and, in a context where negative numbers make sense, a low number is close to minus infinity. It is best to give more context of what kind of numbers you are talking about.
I would generally say that 'bigger' refers to magnitude (distance from zero) whereas 'higher' refers to value (distance from negative infinity), but in context anything is possible. We don't tend to use 'big' or 'small' in mathematical contexts very much. If you want to be correct, I would recommend 'greater' and 'less'. In fact, the signs < and > are read 'is less than' and 'is greater than' respectively.
In http://oi56.tinypic.com/2lieama.jpg 5 is smaller and lower than 3, but still greater.
My math teacher used to say that in this inequality 5 is smaller than 3, but 3 is less than 5.
Joking aside, only less than and greater than are uniformly understood as
One could argue just about anything with Google NGram:
I believe my Calculus 2 prof used such terms as "more negative", "more positive", and "closer to zero", in case that's helpful. I know that doesn't answer the initial question. To answer that question: "smaller" is ambiguous for negative numbers, as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_number points out; and I would suggest that "lower" is the same as "less than" but not popular for this particular phrase, getting used more in such general comparisons as "lower temperature".


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Complaining about a defamatory error in Steven Spielberg's new movie, "Lincoln" — the false depiction of Connecticut congressmen voting against the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery — U.S. Rep. Joseph D. Courtney has started a controversy. It's not just over whether the movie's contrivance goes beyond ordinary artistic license, but whether Connecticut deserves admiration at all in regard to the struggle against slavery.
A history professor at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Matthew Warshauer, argues in a newspaper essay that Connecticut does not deserve such admiration. But to make the argument, Warshauer grossly misquotes Courtney.
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So, I have a question about TRIM. If I've read correctly, I have it enabled on my SSD. But do I need it enabled on the SWAP partition? I also have my /boot on a separate partition, do I need to enable TRIM on that somehow?
I read somewhere that those partitions also need it. But I'm not sure.
My question gets more complicated also. I have full disk-encryption set up. So I have TRIM enabled (discard) in my fstab and my crypttab.
I have an encrypted container, within which has logical volumes for my root drive and my swap space.
In crypttab, there is only one entry for the encrypted container. So I added discard to that.
But in my fstab, I only added "discard" to my root drive. Is that a problem? Do I need to add it to swap space.
What about boot? Its not encrypted, but its still on the SSD. I know it isn't used much, but would it still be wise to use TRIM (discard) on it as well?
So, TL;DR -- Do I need TRIM enabled on SWAP or /boot partitions? And second, if I have full-disk encryption, do I need to enable TRIM on all logical volumes, or is enabling it in crypttab enough?


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On Thursday, November 7 Cassia Spohn, Foundation Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, presents research from a National Institute of Justice funded study in which Spohn and colleague Katharine Tellis investigated police and prosecutorial decision making in sexual assault cases. The study uses quantitative data on sexual assaults reported to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 2008, and qualitative data from interviews with detectives and deputy district attorneys.Cassia Spohn is a Foundation Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. She is the author or co-author of five books, including The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity and Crime in America and How Do Judges Decide: The Search for Fairness and Equity in Punishment. A sixth book, Policing and Prosecuting Sexual Assault: Inside the Criminal Justice System will be published in 2013. Her research interests include prosecutorial and judicial decision making, the intersections of race, ethnicity, crime and justice, and sexual assault case processing decisions.
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Hi, let $\Omega \subset R^3$ be a bounded smooth domain, consider the elliptic equation \begin{equation} -\triangle u + u^2div u = f, \quad x \in \Omega, \quad u\big|_{\partial \Omega} = 0. \end{equation} Here the force $f \in L^2$, and $div u = \sum_j \partial u/\partial x_j $. Is there any solutions of the equation in $H^1$? And how to prove it. Thanks for any hints and references.
\textbf{Edit}: In fact, the $1-d$ equation we considered is the stationary equation of the BBM equation $$ u_t - u_{txx} - u_{xx} + u^2u_x = f. $$


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From time to time, a neighbor will ask me to take a message to another player in my Animal Crossing: City Folk game:
I have a message I want you to take to him.
When I accept the mission, the neighbor will say something like:
OK then, would you please tell <name> that I want to talk to him about "wall designs"?
Where 'wall designs' changes to whatever it is the neighbor wants to talk about.
I can't seem to figure out how to pass this message along. I've tried sending a letter to the other player that includes the key word, but I've never received any kind of acknowledgment for my efforts.
How exactly does my neighbor want me to pass on this message, and what is the reward (if any) for doing so?


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Upper Iowa University (UIU) has a unique two-at-a-time class schedule that offers exceptional benefits. The schedule allows students to achieve more balance in their lives – an increased amount of time to focus on mastering each subject as well as more opportunity to experience college life to its fullest potential outside the classroom.
The two-at-a-time structure is similar to an American football game. The UIU academic year has four quarters. Each quarter, or term, is eight weeks long and students usually take two (maybe three) classes per term. The fall semester is composed of terms 1 and 2; the spring semester consists of terms 3 and 4.
A typical first semester for a first-year student at Upper Iowa University is provided below.
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
(3) Biology
(3) College Math
(2) Wellness
(3) Speech
(3) English
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|9 credits
|Total =14 Credits
Term 1
In term 1, this student took two classes. Biology meets five days a week for a hour per day and is a three-credit course. Wellness meets four days a week for an hour per day and is a two-credit course. After eight weeks of classes and finals, the student has earned five credit hours and moves on to the next term and a new class schedule.
Term 2
The student will begin a whole new schedule. College Math meets 5 days a week for an hour each day and is a 3 credit course. Speech meets 4 days a week for an hour and fifteen minutes and is a 3 credit course. English meets 4 days a week for an hour and fifteen minutes and is a 3 credit course. The student will have this schedule for 8 weeks and then take finals in each class gaining a total of 9 credit hours.
Semester 1
In total, this student will gain 14 credit hours their first semester at college. The average, first-year, college student will take between 12 and 15 credits per semester. Upper Iowa students enroll in the same amount of credit hours as their peers at other institutions but will not have to balance 5 or 6 classes at a time. Instead they can place more energy and attention on the 2 or 3 classes they have per term. UIU truly believes student achieve higher results and comprehend more information in the two-at -a-time class schedule.
Students have a break from classes after each term. Fall break is between terms I & II and is typically five days off from class. Winter break is between terms II & III and is roughly four weeks long. Spring break falls in between terms III & IV and is a full week off of classes.


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