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Suppose $X:D \to C$ is a fibered category (I do not assume the fibers to be groupoids). Suppose that $X$ is actually left adjoint to a fully faithful embedding $C \hookrightarrow D$. Is there a special name for such a fibration $X$?
There is a useful simple result related to this question:
Suppose $X: C \to D$ is a fibred category, such that $X$ has a right adjoint, and $C$ is cocomplete. Then for each object $J$ of $D$ the inclusion $C_J \to C$ of the fibre over $J$ into $C$ preserves colimits of connected diagrams. See the proof of Theorem B.1.7 on p. 579 of Nonabelian algebraic topology EMS Tracts in Mathematics Vol 15 (pdf downloadable from my web page). Actually the conclusion is true without the assumptions, but this useful case has a short proof, given there.
This usefully applies to pushout diagrams.
Isn't the answer simply that the fibration has fibred terminal objects?
I don't know how widespread this terminology is, but at least some people call this a fibration "with codiscrete objects". See this blog post for instance. An interesting fact is that if $C$ has and $X$ preserves finite limits, then $X$ is a (weak) fibration if and only if it has a fully faithful right adjoint.

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MT. KISCO, N.Y. — Mr. Nicholas A. DiBiase, age 90, longtime Waterbury resident, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at Northern Westchester Hospital.
He was the husband of the late Josephine (Tedesco) DiBiase and the late Marjorie (Keane) DiBiase.
Mr. DiBiase was born on July 25, 1922, in Yonkers, N.Y., son of the late Gennaro and Celeste (DiFiore) DiBiase. He was a proud WWII U.S. Army veteran marksman who served stateside and overseas with the 1288th Engineer Combat Battalion in Scotland, England, France, Belgium and Germany. Nick worked as a marketing manager at Reymond Baking Company for more than 30 years.
Nick was a longtime parishioner of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. He was actively involved in his community by serving on the board of directors of the Waterbury Association for Retarded Citizens and United Commercial Travelers. He adored his three daughters, his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Nick is survived by his daughters, Gloria Tressler and her husband, Charles, of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Caroline Colaci of Waterbury; his grandchildren, Eric Donnelly, Sean Donnelly and his wife, Cynthia, Michael Tressler and his wife, Vivien, Nicholas Tressler, Matthew Sohner and Joseph Colaci; his great-grandchildren, Luke Donnelly, Emma Donnelly and Samuel Tressler; and several nieces and nephews. He also leaves his stepchildren, Leslie Sheldon and his wife, Josephine, and Laine Krisiunas and her husband, Edward; his step-grandchildren, Timothy Sheldon and his wife, Molly, Karin Rudenko and her husband, Mark, Victoria Krisiunas and Evan Krisiunas; as well as his step-great-grandson, Charlie Rudenko. His daughter, Jane Sohner, predeceased him.
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I know that there are some noun that are made plural by the kanji repetition character, such as 人々 and 国々. My question is, how does this differ from using the non-plural form of the noun? And how does 人々 differ from 人たち?
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What is the difference in usage between a plural using (a) the kanji repetition character 々, (b) a plural using -たち, and (c) the singular?
Roman Jakobson famously said:
His point was that every language can sufficiently convey any idea that can be expressed in another language. The difference is that for each language there are some properties that must be specified when an idea is conveyed, even though they may be entirely optional in another language.
In English (and in many other languages), every noun must be marked as singular or plural. In Japanese marking plurality for a noun is not mandatory. This does not mean that Japanese speakers can't convey the idea that a noun is singular or plural if they want to, it only means they don't have to — and indeed in most cases Japanese speakers will not explicitly specify if whether a noun is singular or plural.
When we look at the differences between languages where a grammatical category (such as number or politeness) is mandatory to languages where it is optional, we notice two trends:
When it comes to the category of number (plurality), Japanese play perfectly well with both tendencies, especially with the second, so I can count at least 5 possible ways you can mark plurality of nouns:
But the most overlooked option of all is the sixth option which is not to mark plurality at all. It may be kind of baffling to us speakers of languages with mandatory number, but in most real-world cases the grammatical number of a noun doesn't really matter enough to warrant special attention, and when it does matter it can be often inferred from the context, so the plurality marker would be superfluous, and actually make it seem like your emphasizing the plurality of the noun, when you don't really mean to.
When you say:
It can either mean 'Americans are taller' or 'The American is taller', depending on the context. If I see this sentence out of context I'll probably interpret it in the first way, but if I see it in the context of having an American guy and a Canadian guy sitting together, I can understand this as: the American is the taller than the other guy.
The difference is easy. 人たち isn't a valid word in Japanese; it's not listed in the Kojien (広辞苑, Japanese official dictionary)
Having said that, the usage is:


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Kayla M. Pace of Steubenville served as her sister's maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Jamie Pace of Tampa, Fla., sister of the bride; Melissa Fletcher of Mingo Junction; Suzanne Welce of Cincinnati; and Hayley Young of Alliance.
Evan Siefke of Alliance served as his brother's best man. Groomsmen were Peter Wearstler of Alliance; Steve Cabassa of Alliance; Ryan Norquist of Cleveland; and Matt Salle of Columbus.
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Being an L2 English speaker, quite often I get into funny - and sometimes embarrassing - situations. It usually happens when I say something pragmatically inappropriate for a situation. For example, once I was on campus (in the US) taking care of some paperwork. So I was patiently waiting in line, being helped already. So a guy shows up and asks me if I am in line. And then - a terrible faux pas. I say, "I'm being served." You can imagine - those office clerks were almost rolling on the floor.
So here are my questions:
Is "be served" used in British English now? What about "help", as in They are helping me? Any difference?
In American English, when - if at all- is it appropriate to use "Are you being served?" or "I'm being served." At a restaurant maybe?


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A woman who knows her limits...or at least has reached them
Michele Bachmann (R.-MN) announced today (May 29) that she will not run for another term in Congress. Lucky us! Has she passed the prom queen baton and chaos creator to Ted Cruz (R.-TX)? Story at Politico.
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This is a good sign that Americans recognize people who blatantly lie to them and is not productive. Bob Dole just came out lambasting Tea Party types for bringing disgrace to the party. Nobody was more political than Dole. McCain has been berating this do nothing group for awhile. Dole knew when to stop the politicking and doing what is best for the country. Rubio and Co. are really damaging basic American values by waging constant opposition without accomplishing anything. Sounds like the American bishops. Tho they seem to know how to renovate Cathedrals for a whopping 187 million.
Coming soon to Fox News Channel, no doubt.
May I say this? She looks younger than 57 years old. I'm sure that is considered a compliment. And I don't doubt that being photogenic has been an asset in her political career. But when a woman (or a man) has reached that age, a certain amount of gravitas should be expected in a public servant. I don't think she projects that, and part of it, I think, is the youthfulness that (in my opinion) she works pretty hard to project.
Here is Google's photo gallery of her. (I'm trying the Link feature, I hope it works).
Can a woman in her fifties in public life permit herself to have grey hair, or to wear spectacles, or sensible shoes? Can she let herself be a little dowdy, maybe even frumpy? Many women that age are grandmothers, and I don't think it detracts from one's public image to be that way. I don't demand that women in public life be hot. I do expect public servants to be bright and serious, and to come across as being comfortable in their own skin and with where they are in life.
JP: Your google link worked: an ageless beauty, no doubt about it. Though the shade of lipstick seemed to change from time to time.
Over fifty: feet especially wear out. What did Hillary Clinton wear in her round-the-world trips? I notice Angela Merkel seems to wear oxfords! Good for her. My own mother was a three-inch heel woman into her seventies and her feet were always killing her. Not so good for calf muscles either (shortens them). Forewarned, I took up frumpy shoes early in life. I thought one of the greatest achievements of the women's movement was comparing high heels to Chinese feet binding.
In the 19th century, some women also compared tightly laced corsets (to produce the wasp waist) as analogous to Chinese footbinding -- the wife of the great Methodist missionary, Timothy Richard, was one of them.
I wore heels to give an important talk a week ago, and still have blisters to show for it... it's a sensitive topic!
The real problem with high heels is not the discomfort: good Catholic women can always choose to accept it in a correct spirit of authentic penance. No, the real problem is the reduced mobility. If I am at risk of getting mugged or of missing my train, how will I run?
Take them off! and run for the train! OR take them off, turn around, and attack your pursuer.
One of NYC's more amazing and amusing sights is the four and five inch heels now so fashionable. Teetering seems to be the mode when standing still. Walking seems to involve coming down hard on the heel while tip-toeing forward. Anyone remember signs in Italian museums forbidding high heels--they dug into the wood floors.
"Can a woman in her fifties in public life permit herself to have grey hair, or to wear spectacles, or sensible shoes?"
Ask Barbara Mikulski. Born 1936. She has been serving in congress since 1987, or starting at age 51. She's still the Energizer bunny @ age 76!
I don't ever remember her looking or acting like a Barbie doll.
nobody ever heard of Bachmann until Chris Matthews made fun of her.. her popularity soared. I think he learned his lesson. I hope..
I'll always remember Michele Bachmann as the person who inspired Bill Donohue to analyze perceived anti-Catholicism in a relatively reasonable manner:
I have the distinct feeling that Bachmann is getting out sooner rather than later because both the FEC and the FBI are investigating her political campaign financing. Seems that Michele was a little loose with all that cash that was thrown at her - she probably thought that it was another "loaves and fishes" miracle from her "Jehovah God."
What is out now is that the Republican party does not want her because she will lose. They dried up her funds which gave a strong signal. In an area which is overwhelmingly Republican. She was behind by two points.
Nice to see Donohue in a casuistic mode.
Without intending in any way to disparage Michele's unique contributions, I can say with confidence that we will still have an adequate number of prom queens and chaos creators in the next Congress.
How fitting that the woman who told so many whoppers--and even participated in the reading of the Constitution at the opening of the current Congress--bowed out with still another one. I refer to her statement that presidents can't serve more than eight years. No, a president can't serve more than TEN years. John F. Kennedy had less than two years left in his term when he was assassinated. Lyndon Johnson served out JFK's term, ran for and won a four-year term in 1964, and was gearing up to run for another four-year term in 1968 when he changed his mind.
That decision had nothing to do with term limits. LBJ dropped out because he realized he couldn't win.


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Is it possible to remove the annoying ad with the dying starfish?
Certainly, this is not what my career should feel like.
Is it possible to remove the annoying ad with the dying starfish?
Certainly, this is not what my career should feel like.
To address this issue, I suggest the immediate casting of a new, less lackluster starfish. I propose this fellow:
Justice has been done! The SE Director of Marketing contacted me last night and the super-starfish has been signed for a modelling contract with Stack Overflow.
Yeah. And there's a lot more wrong with that ad than just that.
I suppose if you're the sort of person who identifies with the starfish, you could take it badly.
But what if you identify with the viewer: the overlord staring down on the starfish, which is withering in the hot rays of your unbridled contempt!
Yes, what if your career is that of a senior developer, and the starfish is one of your unworthy minions! The starfish is gasping, begging, to drink in the delicious seawater of your knowledge? Your career is to pick up that sad, startled, starving starfish and place him lovingly back into the ocean of your vast experience -- leaving behind the unblemished beachfront of pristine architecture
It's all in how you look at things.
Having looked at this for a while, I can see how this is offensive in oh so many ways. For the sake of being constructive, how about a more neutral alternative:
Surely you can't find any fault with that....
I'm not a fan of the orange. In Canada, that could be misinterpreted as support for the NDP party. As such, I'm recommending a design which doesn't favour any particular color over another. This way we can appear politically neutral and avoid any sort of pointless controversy.
Also, the font should suggest my career should be a little more fun, don't you think?
I was walking along the beach one day and I noticed a boy in the distance. When I got closer, I saw that there were thousands of dying starfishes on the beach and he was throwing them one by one back into the sea.
I said "There are thousands of starfish and you'll never be able to save them all"
Then he started throwing them at me
Also a starfish:
If your carreer feels like:
try this
Yes, of course it's dying. Starfish out of water, like any fish out of water, need to be thrown back into the sea as soon as possible. All they can do is lie there, hoping that someone will rescue them! What's pleasant about that?
Or if they mean your career should feel like the kind of holiday where you do nothing but lie on the beach all day, well, these things get old really soon, and make you itch (as does the sand) for going back to your real job, doing real things again.
Or do they want you to identify with a the life of a starfish, having only your five paws to type with, thinking in base five and having a hard time with numbers in base ten?
I mean, they can't just mean that your career should feel like a starfish, do they? I'm not entirely sure what a starfish feels like, but I'm quite certain I don't want my job to feel like that.
No, not a good ad.
In the interest of addressing concerns that the above ads focus excessively on careers, I have mocked up the following ad:
Isn't it what your career should feel like?
This one is the ultimate I think:


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Unfortunately I can't play everyday.
However, I am trying to grab at least 5-10 minutes here and there. What are some good theory or scale techniques/practice methods I should have ready to pull out when I don't want to run through a specific song.
One thing I often do in that situation is pick a scale and play it in different positions on the neck. Or vary it further by double-picking or triple-picking each note, or using hammer-ons/pull-offs.
This video has Joe Satriani showing a few exercises that would fit well in the short time frame as well.
Last but not least, if you have a song you're working on and some part of it is giving you trouble, you can isolate that part in a short exercise that you can do even without going through the whole song.
Practice what you are worst at! Why practice something you have down really well and ignore what you need most? 5 mins isn't much but can do wonders for things you suck at (5m is infinitely more than 0m).
Find what you're not good at and practice that. If you don't know your scales then work on those. If you don't know very many chords learn some more. etc... etc... etc...
If you have 5m to work out do you work out the thing you are strongest at? If you do you'll just become more unbalanced. Now if you wanna be unbalanced that's an entirely different story. Just realize that generally the better you are at something the harder it is to get better. i.e., it takes a lot more time. So you won't get much out of practicing your best things (of course if you neglect them too long they might become your worst things)
Here's a book for you: The 10 Minute Guitar Workout, by David Mead.
It contains a set of simple exercises for everyday practice. Each exercise is exactly two minutes long; day after day you increase the speed of the exercise until you switch to a new set.
The book is also packed with all sorts of good advice, I really recommend it.
I think it depends how far along you are with your theory; if your new to the major scale/modes etc I would suggest running through those whenever you have a spare ten mins or so; if your further along perhaps you might try playing intervallic arpeggios or something similar, these can really help tune your ear for chords/build your fretboard knowledge and help you develop new ways of fingering things.
An example of this might be (Amin Triad [A - C - E {Root, Third, Fifth respectively}]):
Note Order
1 - 5 | 3 - 1 | 5 - 3 | 1
Here is what this looks like over the first inversion
And over three inversions (slide up to the high A to finish)
Try this using other chords; for instance use a major triad; the fingering is slightly different, post here if you'd like me to tab out similar things.
EDIT- This excellent online tab maker is what I used to create the tab
EDIT- To use the new JTab plug as detailed here
One thing I often do is make a list of things I cannot currently do. Of course, these are the things I wish I could do.
An example would be:
These are the things I can work on. And the bonus side effect is that I can easily measure my progress.
When I mindlessly practice a scale, I'm still not sure about my guitar skills a few days later. But with this little list, I can easily evaluate my guitar skills after a few days. "A few days back, I couldn't do this, but now I can!"
It keeps me motivated, and also ensures that I learn skills that I can immediately put into context.
So, just remember this little rule. Find out what you can't do right now, and work on it! This works regardless of the amount of time you get each day.
Modal practice is always useful, as it helps to increase adaptability, and also explores some of the broader richness within the scale. Another exercise I do when just getting a couple minutes in is 2-octave runs across the four strings.
Practice your alternate picking.
Hang on a second. You can't "practice" theory on a guitar, you can't even practice theory. If you want to (ergh)"practice" (READ: learn) theory, put the guitar down and grab pencil and paper.
You CAN practice scales and chords, the sonic qualities of which you can explain with theory, but you aren't "practicing theory".
So, if you have limited time, on guitar, here are some gems:
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I am interested in getting a good bound for solution of the following ODE: $$ f''(t) + n^2 f(t) = (\sin(\theta t))^n$$ with the boundary condition $f(0) = f'(0) = 0$ and $t \in [0,1]$, where $\theta$ might not be an integer multiple of $\pi$ (in fact you can take $\theta < \pi/2$ so that the left hand side is almost flat at $0$ with monotone derivatives etc) . Numerical computations show that the solution is bounded by a constant independent of $n$. But I have very little experience with ODEs to prove anything about it. The only thing I did was Fourier transform, but there would be terms of the form $f(1) - f(0)$ and $f'(1) - f'(0)$ in the estimate of the Fourier coefficients of $f$ which I don't know how to deal with.
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The event begins at 5:30 p.m. and continues until 6:45 p.m. at the BG Products Veterans Sports Complex by the north concessions area.
The EHS Golf team and EHS Football team will be competing against each other for best tasting chili cooked by the coaches and parents.
All proceeds will go to these two teams in their wish list account associated with the Booster Club.
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Is it important for young children (4 or 5 years old) in a Chinese language immersion program to be exposed to more than one type of Mandarin accent? If the child only hears one accent (and one that is not bad but not entirely standard Putonghua) for the first two years of learning Chinese, will that make it hard for the child to self-correct later when exposed to more standard accents?
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I will go out on a limb and say yes, it is great to get exposure to different accents even if it is not standard so long as the child is told what the standard would be. (Awareness of the differences) The reason being that people you encounter are not always going to speak the standard pu tong hua exactly the same. So when you encounter somebody from the guangdong area for instance, you can adjust your listening to understand when a person says "si" it should be "shi". Oh really chinese has a certain rhythm to it as well. So if somebody asks you a question that is not in a set phrase you know, you can usually take a good guess at what you are being asked. (Not always but sometimes)
A related side note. Not everybody believes in the phonology acquisition cut-off age.
In Paul Pimsleur's book, How to learn a foreign language *(December 1980)*He defends the idea that Adults are better equip to learn a (second) language then kids are. And that adults can a achieve a flawless native accent. But the thing is you have to consistently work at it. So if you are talking and are misunderstood you have to immediately correct your pronunciation, and the only way to do that is to ask the person you talk to what you said wrong. And correcting the tones. Of course some people have more difficulty than others.
My little sister knew Mandarin before the age of four, but now she barely understands anything even when our family speaks Chinese, and my parents force her to go to Chinese school. So continuous exposure is important.
Even if you expose the child to multiple accents, I still think she would only be most familiar with the one that she has had the most exposure to. Personally I never learned my grandparents' dialects.
As a non-expert my answer is crude, but you'll get the idea.
If the dialect/accent the child hears contains all the phonemes that Mandarin has (from your description this is the case), the child will be able to learn Mandarin perfectly even after phonology acquisition cut-off age which is around 7. If the child learns Mandarin before cut-off age, the past language experience is far less relevant.
This question is actually broader than dialects within Chinese language. See this Linguistics SE question for more information on phonology acquisition cut-off age.


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If Jesus needed time to pray and refresh himself spiritually, how
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I was simply amazed at how many pastors admit they feel
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pastor? How can that be? That's like a ship without a rudder.
Aren't pastors those whom church members and staff look to for
their own faith development and sustenance?
Pastor Lance Witt, founder of Replenish Ministries, says in his
article "Confessions of a Driven Pastor" (Pastors.com): "I know what it is
to feed others while neglecting to feed myself. It's no longer safe
to assume that people in ministry have healthy souls…Ministry,
which we would assume would enhance our relationship with God, can
actually become a threat to our relationship with God."
Pastors report that they diligently try to monitor and protect
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could hurt their congregations and ministries.
Pastors say:
"As my own spiritual condition goes, so go the ministry and the
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have to study and read for sermon preparation, I must often remind
myself to study and read for personal interaction with God.")
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[ How You Can Help: Renewal ]
1. Ask God for wisdom and strength to spiritually
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Ask your teachers and parents to pray, too. Pray that God will give
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others (2 Thessalonians 3:1).
3. Pray with your pastor. This simple act means
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4. Think twice before you call on your pastor for
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can handle by yourself or with help from other church leaders or
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may also need your pastor's help. Your pastor's time with God can
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Could you give me an example of a complete metric space wiht covering dimension $> n$ all of which compact subsets have covering dimension $\le n$?
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In $l^2$ Hilbert space, consider the set $E$ of points with all coordinates rational. Erdös (reference) showed that $E$ has topological dimension $1$. (In separable metric space, all notions of topological dimension coincide.)
Does this $E$ have the property that every compact subset is zero-dimensional? This space (and thus any subset of it) is totally disconnected, and isn't it the case that for compact (metric) spaces, this implies zero-dimensinal?


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"Domains belonging to well-known web sites tend to be recycled and used continuously compared with 'disposable' domains which are used for a short period of time and never seen again," said MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst, Paul Wood. "Perhaps this is because there is some work involved in acquiring them: the legitimate domains require CAPTCHAs to be solved to create the large numbers of accounts that are then used by spammers."
While Rustock is the botnet that uses the greatest number of disposable domains, Storm, which has recently returned to the spamming scene, is the only botnet that uses genuine domains in greater number than disposable domains. Sixty-five percent of spam from the Storm botnet uses a legitimate domain, many of which are for URL shortening services. Disposable domains are often used quickly after being first registered; and on average, 50 percent are used within nine days, before spammers switch to newer domains.
Also in May, MessageLabs Intelligence analyzed the growth of spam and botnets in some of the countries along the eastern coast of Africa, namely those which received greater broadband connectivity in July 2009. The proportion of global spam that comes from Africa overall has increased to 3 percent of global spam in May 2010 from just under two percent in April 2009, reflecting an extra 1.2 billion spam emails being sent from Africa daily compared to one year ago.
While historically countries not in the eastern portion of the continent have sent the majority of spam from Africa, this output has shifted east over the past year. The proportion of spam coming from the rest of Africa has decreased from 86 percent to 80 percent while that coming from countries located in the eastern region has increased from 13 percent to 19 percent. This rise originated most notably from Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda where spam output has increased to 7.2, 6.3 and 5.7 times respectively the amount that was being sent one year ago.
"Historically, broadband adoption has been a tipping point for spammers to acquire more bots," Wood said. "The new undersea fiber optic cable along the east coast of Africa has enabled rapid growth in the number of users obtaining high speed connections to the Internet creating a great opportunity for attackers to infect new machines and create new bots."
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"Once downloaded and activated, the malware produces files that generate pop-up messages and in the background collects information on what other machines are on the same network enabling the attacker further access to the compromised computer," Wood said.
Other report highlights:
Spam: In May 2010, the global ratio of spam in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources was 90 percent (1 in 1.11 emails), an increase of 0.3 percentage points since April.
Viruses: The global ratio of email-borne viruses in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources was one in 211.6 emails (0.473 percent) in May, an increase of 0.18 percentage points since April. In May 22.6 percent of email-borne malware contained links to malicious websites, a decrease of 6.3 percentage points since April.
Endpoint Threats: MessageLabs Intelligence can now analyze additional threats against endpoint devices such as laptops, PCs and servers and the trends surrounding them following the launch of our new Hosted Endpoint Protection service. Malware may penetrate an organization in many ways, including drive-by attacks from compromised websites, Trojan horses and worms that spread by copying themselves to removable drives. For example, "AutoRun" is a feature of Windows that allows an executable to be run when a removable drive is connected to a computer. The most frequently blocked malware for the last month was the Sality.AE virus, which spreads by infecting executable files and attempts to download potentially malicious files from the Internet.
Phishing: In May, phishing activity was 1 in 237.1 emails (0.42 percent) an increase of 0.2 percentage points since April. When judged as a proportion of all email-borne threats such as viruses and Trojans, the proportion of phishing emails had increased by 10.3 percentage points to 80.6 percent of all email-borne malware and phishing threats combined.
Web security: Analysis of web security activity shows that 12.4 percent of all web-based malware intercepted was new in May, an increase of 1.5 percentage points since April. MessageLabs Intelligence also identified an average of 1,770 new websites per day harboring malware and other potentially unwanted programs such as spyware and adware, an increase of 5.6 percent since April.
Geographical Trends:
-- Spam levels in Hungary rose to 95.4 percent in May positioning it as
the most spammed country.
-- In the US, 90.5 percent of email was spam and 89.4 percent in Canada.
Spam levels in the UK were 89.6 percent.
-- In the Netherlands, spam accounted for 91.1 percent of email traffic,
while spam levels reached 89.5 percent in Australia and 91.8 percent
in Germany.
-- Spam levels in Hong Kong reached 91.5 percent and spam levels in Japan
were at 87.7 percent.
-- Virus activity in Taiwan was 1 in 59.8 emails, keeping it as the most
targeted for email-borne malware in May.
-- Virus levels for the US were 1 in 339.7 and 1 in 230.9 for Canada. In
Germany, virus levels were 1 in 160.9, 1 in 610.5 for the Netherlands,
1 in 343.2 for Australia, 1 in 203.4 for Hong Kong, 1 in 218.2 for
Japan and 1 in 464.7 for Singapore.
-- UK remained the most active country for phishing attacks in May with 1
in 121.8 emails.
Vertical Trends:
-- In May, the most spammed industry sector with a spam rate of 95.1
percent remained the Engineering sector.
-- Spam levels for the Education sector were 91.0 percent, 90.8 percent
for the Chemical & Pharmaceutical sector, 90.7 percent for IT
Services, 90.7 percent for Retail, 89.2 percent for Public Sector and
88.5 percent for Finance.
-- In May, the Public Sector remained the most targeted industry for
malware with 1 in 74.2 emails being blocked as malicious.
-- Virus levels for the Chemical & Pharmaceutical sector were 1 in
262.7, 1 in 187.5 for the IT Services sector, 1 in 347.2 for Retail, 1
in 109.2 for Education and 1 in 272.9 for Finance.
The May 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report provides greater detail on all of the trends and figures noted above, as well as more detailed geographical and vertical trends. The full report is available at http://www.messagelabs.com/intelligence.aspx [22].
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I installed Ubuntu via usb with no problems, but when I restart, I get an error message:
error out of disk" 'grub rescue.
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I installed Ubuntu via usb with no problems, but when I restart, I get an error message:
How can I fix this?
Apparently this error occurs when GRUB can't find a usable grub.cfg. Since the boot configuration isn't there, GRUB drops you to the grub-rescue prompt. Following these instructions you should be able to boot Ubuntu.
Once you've booted Ubuntu, reinstall GRUB2 by running
For anyone who might be searching for a solution: I had this problem after a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.04 on my HP nc6400 laptop. The problem was solved by installing Ubuntu via the alternate installation cd. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download
Its sounds like you have made a partition for the install files that is small enough that is is getting the messages Ubuntu added to make users aware of running out of space. It shouldn't hurt anything unless the OS grows beyond the amount of extra you have. The simple solution is to install GParted found in the Ubuntu Software-Center. You can simply drag the portion used as the swap space to make it a little bigger and stop the warnings. It's best to do it soon since there's always a small possibility of data loss when changing partition sizes.
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When reading others code do you usually have any troubles understanding it, Or its more usually that you question the others code about it being wrong/non-efficient/bad-formatted(etc)?
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These days I don't have much problems reading other people's code. I've seen so much bad code, that I can even diagnose what sort of evolution led to any I find.
More often than not, professionally bad code is code that started out okay, but best practices, requirements, or skillsets moved out from underneath it. Sometimes it is just someone who is bad or new to the language, but that's pretty apparent too (and uncommon in a professional setting). The more I understand why code rots, the less I question the competence of other programmers.
This may be the result of this development process.
In the last 2 years I have working with other people code. I have debugged it, fixed bugs and made improvements. In my experience I usually think that the code is bad, full of bugs, slow, consumes much more memory than needed, used programming concepts inappropriately, really bad formatted (this is hard to live with), not commented and the logic flow is a mess. What if I tell you that I found one function with 5k lines of code?
So in my experience I usually question the quality of code. If something is hard to understand, because it is complex, it make sense after you understand it. But if it is just bad it will always be bad.
Short Answer: Mostly we don't like it or get very critical on why coding is done this way, and not the other way around. However, more you read other's bad code, faster you appreciate well written code :)
Although it may sound obvious but the best way to get better at reading people's code is: by reading people's code. The problem is that when people typically read other people's code they don't try to "grok" it, i.e. become intimately familiar with it; they do the equivalent of speed-reading poetry.
To grok someone else's code you may try the following:
All of these steps will force you to read the code in greater depth.
There are also some tips how to maximize the understanding of a code-base, that you have been introduce for maintenance and support:
Once you have a basic idea of what's going on, you may want to take a good look at the data storage (the persistence layer). That's another great way to get an understanding of what's happening, but make sure the things you are studying are actually in use. I can remember a few times really getting to the bottom of some classes with this approach, thinking I've understood the system - and then realizing later the classes weren't used at all.
It may seem like a daunting task - it does take time and no fancy tools can remove the need for intelligence - but it can also be very rewarding. As you go, you will probably find a lot of bugs in corner/edge cases, and see ways to improve the code. One piece of advice - don't go too heavy on refactoring / changing until you have a good understanding of the code. Often what looks like a mistake or just plain bad code when you first see it, turns out to be subtle genius at work upon later, enlightened investigation. Also, removing unused code is so satisfying, and great for any future maintainers. Of cource, with the assumption that all code base is version controlled.


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Children will enjoy decorating these with favorite toppings
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 20M
Serves: makes 15 cupcakes
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March 15, 2012 -- If you're trying to get pregnant, adding a brisk walk to your daily routine may help -- but you may want to hold off training for that marathon.
Moderate physical activity was found to benefit women of all body types in a new study examining the impact of exercise on fertility, while intense exercise appeared to increase the time to conception for normal weight, but not overweight, women.
Normal-weight women in the study who said they exercised vigorously five or more hours a week were 42% less likely to get pregnant in any given month than women who did not exercise at all.
The more vigorous the exercise that normal-weight women engaged in, the lower their probability for conception.
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- Engaging in five or more hours of vigorous exercise a week reduced the likelihood of getting pregnant in a given month by almost half, among women who had tried unsuccessfully to conceive for several months before entering the study.
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Isabelle Binstadt scored 14 points and Litchfield qualified for the state tournament for the first time in five years with a 54-15 win over visiting Gilbert on Wednesday in Berkshire League action.
Litchfield, which started the season 1-8, won for the seventh time in nine games to improve to 8-10.
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Sierra Markelon added 10 points for Litchfield, Tara Shakley had 11 and Sophie MacDonald eight. Shakley had five assists and six steals. Shelby Elwell had six assists and five steals, and Elena Kennedy had five blocks.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Debugging spawned processes
From: jody (jody.xha_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-16 09:20:20
Thanks for your reply
That sounds good. I have Open-MPI version 1.3.2, and mpirun seems not
to recognize the --xterm option.
[jody_at_plankton tileopt]$ mpirun --xterm -np 1 ./boss 9 sample.tlf
mpirun was unable to launch the specified application as it could not
find an executable:
Executable: 1
Node: aim-plankton.uzh.ch
while attempting to start process rank 0.
(if i reverse the --xterm and -np 1, it complains about not finding
executable '9')
Do i need to install a higher version, or is this something i'd have
to set as option in configure?
Thank You
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Ralph Castain <rhc_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Depends on the version you are working with. If it includes the -xterm option, then that option gets applied to the dynamically spawned procs too, so this should be automatically taken care of...but in that case, you wouldn't need your script to open an xterm anyway. You would just do:
> mpirun --xterm -np 5 gdb ./my_app
> or the equivalent. You would then comm_spawn an argv[0] of "gdb", with argv[1] being your target app.
> I don't know how to avoid including that "gdb" in the comm_spawn argv's - I once added an mpirun cmd line option to automatically add it, but got loudly told to remove it. Of course, it should be easy to pass an option to your app itself that tells it whether or not to do so!
> Ralph
> On Dec 16, 2009, at 4:06 AM, jody wrote:
>> Hi
>> Until now i always wrote applications for which the number of processes
>> was given on the command line with -np.
>> To debug these applications i wrote a script, run_gdb.sh which basically
>> open a xterm and starts gdb in it for my application.
>> This allowed me to have a window for each of the processes being debugged.
>> Now, however, i write my first application in which additional processes are
>> being spawned. My question is now: how can i open xterm windows in which
>> gdb runs for the spawned processes?
>> The only way i can think of is to pass my script run_gdb.sh into the argv
>> parameters of MPI_Spawn.
>> Would this be correct?
>> If yes, what about other parameters passed to the spawning process, such as
>> environment variables passed via -x? Are they being passed to the spawned
>> processes as well? In my case this would be necessary so that processes
>> on other machine will get the $DISPLAY environment variable in order to
>> display their xterms with gdb on my workstation.
>> Another negative point would be the need to change the argv parameters
>> every time one switches between debugging and normal running.
>> Has anybody got some hints on how to debug spawned processes?
>> Thank You
>> Jody
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What does creating a tight feedback loop mean ? I often see it in context of emails:
You can also get feedback on your personal attempts, creating a tight feedback loop.
What does creating a tight feedback loop mean ? I often see it in context of emails:
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This is a feedback loop (from RJMetrics):
In many such loops, there can be some considerable delay before each stage is apparent — you might make a decision which it takes a couple of days to put into action and another week to evaluate. A tight feedback loop makes the time for each arrow very short.
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it means that your attempt is evaluated very quickly, the results of that evaluation are communicated to you and you can [probably] make another attempt; and all of that happens in one session.
It means that you get feedback quickly.
Reads like marketing jibe to me. In that case it would mean "you get feedback." As in more filler, because the email was already mentioned.


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Chapter 25. Regulatory Proteolysis and Signal Transduction in Bacteria
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DOI: 10.1002/9783527629237.ch25
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Given an infinite set $A$ of positive integers, $\min A:=a_0$. For $x\geq a_0$ define $f(x)=x-a$, where $a\leq x$, $a\in A$ is greatest possible. Then for positive integer $x$ iterations $x$, $f(x)$, $f(f(x))$, $\dots$ finally come to some element of the set $\{0,1,\dots,a_0-1\}$. Denote this final number $F(x)$. For example, if $A$ is the set of primes, $F(x)$ equals either 0 or 1. Do there always exist frequencies $\lim \frac{|F^{-1}(s)\cap [1,N]|}{N}$ for $s=0,1,\dots,a_0-1$? If not, what is criterion of existing such frequencies? Do they exist, say, for $A$=primes?
This is Sloane's A121559, which essentially iterates A064722. The behavior is controlled by the (appropriately weighted) distribution of prime gaps below N.
Heuristically, with $\ell=1-1/\log N$, you'd expect something like $(1-\ell)\left(1+\ell^3+\ell^5+\ell^7+\ell^{11}+\cdots\right)$ 1s below N, where the exponents are 1 less than the locations of the 1s. You can stop the sum around $\log^2 N$.
It is easy to construct $A$ for which the limit does not exist. Consider the following set $A$. Include all even numbers in the intervals $[10^n, 10^{n+1}]$ for even $n=0,2,...$, and all numbers divisible by 3 in the intervals $(10^n,10^{n+1})$ for odd $n$. Now if $N=10^k$ with $k$ even then the probability of 0 is $\ge .9$, and if $k$ is odd, then the probability of $1$ is $\ge .9*1/3=.3$. In general, the limit exists if the intervals between consecutive numbers in $A$ are "uniformly spaced". In particular, if $A$ is a set of primes, I do not know how to show that the limit exists. It may be a hard number theory problem. For example, we know (Green and Tao) that the set of primes contains arbitrary long arithmetic progressions, but it is not clear (to me) how often these occur and how often progressions start at relatively small numbers and are relatively long.
If I understand you correctly, this is effectively the question about (greedy) systems of numeration for the natural numbers. These are well understood in the case when $A$ satisfies some recurrence relation -- like the Fibonacci sequence (Zeckendorf) or the denominators $q_n$ of the CF convergents for some irrational $\alpha$ (Ostrowski).
If $A$ grows subexponentially, this is usually not good news for the ``ergodic'' questions like this.


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