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I do not ride competitively, but plan on doing some longer distance rides (+30 miles). I've read that better components are lighter, run more smoothly, and last longer. Out of those three categories, durability (lasting longer) is the only one that really matters for me, as long as the components don't break all the time and get the job done. Are the main advantages of high end components the reduced weight and smoother operation, or are they significantly more durable as well?
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I assume that you're talking about road biking. I can give you my opinion after using these groups for a while: Shimano Sora, Shimano Tiagra, Shimano 105, and now a full Shimano Ultegra.
All work, when properly adjusted and when shifting correctly. You have to do your homework and know how to shift smoothly, and adjust the gears. Whoever tells you that something is "not good" or "does not work" is lying or wants you to expend money. But of course different levels are there for a reason:
Weight: More expensive is lighter. Stiffness: More expensive is stiffer, therefore transmitting your power better without loss of energy. Ergonomics: More expensive groups tend to have a refined shape. Reliability: More expensive groups tend to stay tuned longer than less expensive ones. Shifting under pressure or more than one gear at the time: Expensive groups allow you to do it, cheaper ones don't. Smoothness and speed: Shifting is faster and smoother on expensive groups.
If you notice, I put smoothness and speed last. It is usually one of the reasons that people mention as being key, but in my experience proper adjustment and proper shifting technique are more important than the group. My bike with Sora/Tiagra shifts as smoothly as the Ultegra after adjustment. But the other reasons are important to many people. Even if they don't compete they may want a light, stiff, and reliable group that makes the experience of biking more pleasurable (although the real pleasure is riding, of course), and they are willing to pay for it. They are undoubtedly "nicer".
Regarding durability, I'm skeptical about people's comments. Most of the times people change chains and cassettes because they are worn out, and upgrades/changes the rest of the group's components as new models appear, not necessarily because they don't "last". If you're a recreational rider, whatever you buy will "last" more than you will need. I've seen 20 yr-old bikes that work perfectly, provided that the user changed the chain and cassette regularly. But remember durability and reliability are two different things.
At which point is not worth expending more money? Difficult to tell, but here is my suggestion (take it as a suggestion and nothing more):
Dura Ace or Sram Red if you compete. Ultegra or Sram Force if you are an enthusiast that races or values to have a performance group. 105 or Sram Rival if you want a very nice recreational group. Tiagra or Sram Apex if you want a solid recreational group. Sora and below if you are a recreational rider that does not want to spend too much money.
Here's a little bit of information that's in contradiction to "higher end equals better" Lower end components can sometimes last longer and be less problematic than the higher end components. In order to shave off every single gram they sometimes have to skimp on materials. Also, the tolerances are much tighter, and high end components can often be difficult to tune because fractions of a millimeter matter. An 8 speed derailleur can be quite a bit out of tune before you'd notice. The same can't be said for a 10 speed. With so many gears, there's very little room for error. 10 speed chains are thinner, and therefore stretch and break more.
Don't go for very low end stuff, because it often will be made bad, and will break faster. But different components are built with different goals in mind. Very high end parts are often built for racers, who have professional mechanics who can ensure that everything is tuned properly, and parts are replaced more frequently. If you buy decent components and maintain them well, you'll get plenty of life out of them, and you'll be able to replace them when it's necessary, instead of waiting until it's too late.
This very much depends on how exactly you define the classes of components and what type of riding you plan on doing. The definitions are not standardized, but component ranges from each manufacturer are easily ranked. The following are the MSRP of complete group sets for Shimano (the price ranges are similar for other manufacturers).
If you truly only care about durability and don't care about either weight or smoothness of operation, then you will probably find that mid-range components are a better value for you than high-end components. Even if high-end components (e.g., Dura Ace) turn out to be more durable than mid-range components (e.g., Ultegra, 105, maybe Tiagra), this would probably not justify the more-than-double cost if the only thing you care about is durability. If you had to replace every part, you would still come out ahead in terms of dollars spent.
Mid-range components (e.g., 105, Tiagra) are far more durable than low-end components (e.g., Sora, non-series). Any but the most undedicated rider can appreciate the benefits of mid-range over low-end components. I personally bought a used bike with Ultegra that cost about the same as a new bike with Sora, and I feel like I would be wasting my money to get a bike with Sora.
From how you describe your riding, it sounds like you would probably find the best value from mid-low to mid-range components, but this completely depends on the degree to which you are constrained by cost. Because more expensive components can sometimes be less durable than cheaper components, it is too easy to be dismissive and assume that the high-end components are Veblen goods (see The Online Photographer for a discussion related to photography equipment, a similar market).
One person can't say whether a product's price is "worth it" to someone with a completely different income and lifestyle. I once talked to someone who owned "Lance Armstrong's bike" (after I asked, it turns out it was the same model, not a collector's item), which was an example of the 'high status of allegedly "pro" products among amateurs'. But this person was happy with his bike and seemed to be at least somewhat appreciative of its benefits over a low-end bicycle. Few cycling products qualify as Veblen goods:
In the end, each person must decide what they need and are willing to pay and whether a product provides benefits that they will appreciate. Don't jump to the assumption that other non-competitive riders are wasting their money on expensive crap, but also don't feel guilty if you don't notice or appreciate the difference in weight between two bikes. And if you end up doing longer or steeper rides, you can always change your mind later.
If on a road bike anything that is Sora / 105 level will work wonders. Deore or similar will work fine.
What is more important that the group-set IMO is the general quality of the cranks and chain-rings. The better the forging the longer they last.
TBH I don't think it really matters once you get to decently specced bike these days because modern chains and chain sets are so good that they run years with few problems. I have a Sora kit that has almost zero maintenance for several years and the large chain ring is starting to want replacement just now.
Also It matters how it feels a lot as well. Crappy pedals and cranks will make it feel like you power transfer isn't brilliant; even the pressure in the tyres affects how I feel when I ride.
I think tbh there is a lot of focus put on one part of the bike, yes crappy shifting can ruin riding but also having a crap set of cranks or wheels also hurts just as much.
Cycling as an enjoyment can be fulfilled on any bicycle as long as you enjoy cycling.
In my younger years I achieved a resting heart of 33 BPM riding an aluminum series 7005 generic racer at a cost of £300.00.
I still have this bicycle, most of the running gear has been replaced recently for Shimano Ultegra and Campagnolo Zonda wheels.
I'm in my early fifties, my right femur is 4cm short due to a motorcycle accident nearly thirty years ago. I now run a 28 tooth front ring due to knee issues.
Lets be honest, aluminum, steel,titanium or carbon does it really matter. I do realize reasonable specked components do make a noticeable difference to riding quality.
It's a person desire for cycling that inspires their performance.
For those at the higher pinnacle of cycling who race professionally where crucial seconds matter only the best components will do.
I may not be riding the latest carbon frame but I do enjoy riding the bike I have.


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I've been considering using heat tape this year, to protect my pipes from freezing. Are there any suggestions for the proper use or installation of heat tape, or pros/cons?
Heat tape/line is often used as a bandaid for improper installation of the pipes to begin with. There certainly are situations where it makes the most sense, but in general, if you're below the frost line and inside insulated areas, the pipe should be fine.
Think of it this way: if your power goes out for enough time, the pipe will freeze anyways, and if it bursts, you still have a major problem.
If the pipe is not buried deep enough, then you can either put it deeper, or add rigid foam on top and sides to help insulate it.
In a basement or crawlspace, it's better to insulate that space and make it suitable for running pipes, than to mask the problem with heat-tape (and get another thing that can fail).
In my experience, the heat line products that go inside the pipe seem to work much better. These work best when you also insulate around the pipe itself.
Often people put timers or thermostats on basic heat line due to the energy they use: these are both problematic. Timers don't regulate according to temperature, and thermostats measure the temperature of where the thermostat (or sensor) is, not the actual water. This is not so important with 6' tape, but definitely is with 10 or 100' runs.
There are products that are self-regulating: you give them constant power, and all throughout the line, if it's cold enough, the line (in the spot that's cold) will turn on and heat up. These use a lot less power, and are much more reliable (no timer/thermostat to fail).
As far as installation, it's fairly simple, but there are some important notes:
I use heat tape and I love it.
My water main exits the ground and travels about 30' before entering the house. Recently re-rigged it with heat tape, a circulation system, and a TON of insulation. First winter in the life of the house that the pipe didn't freeze.
Biggest caution on it is that it uses electricity faster than Charlie Sheen uses cocaine.
Thinking about putting some sort of thermostat to reduce electric usage.
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Milam County jail records indicate Mark Allen Talley, 56, posted a $30,000 bond Monday and was released after he turned himself in earlier in the day.
Rockdale police Chief Thomas Harris said Talley first was arrested on Oct. 20, 2012, at the scene of an auto-pedestrian accident on Mill Street in Rockdale.
Harris said a woman was walking along Mill Street after the Rockdale Fair with her two twin infants in a stroller when she was struck by a pickup truck.
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The scrolls were discovered from the caves of Qumran in 1946-47. These scrolls have some variations as compared to the present Torah. FYI:The Dead Sea Scrolls
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What scientific authenticity does the Dead Sea Scrolls provide to justify that Torah is a word of God? [closed]
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I don't see how science, which is severely limited in its application and scope (i.e. it can only work with what a human being can see) can "prove" the existence of a non-physical entity.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are interesting, but they only prove that some parts of the Torah are older than some scientists and secular scholars had guesssed before.
As will suggested, the Dead Sea Scrolls are of limited Theological significance.
We do not know who the scrolls belong to, by whom they were written, or for what purpose. We can only make guesses.
At the time they were significant, because it pushed back the date of the texts for Minimalists 800 years.
It has always been known that variations would pop up in Torah scrolls. Many of the early medieval and Gaonic commentators, complain that some other group, does not have the correct, text and that they need many corrections and fixes. Because of this fact, when texts are found we do not know if they were thrown out incorrect copies with Gd's name on them which must still be respected, or if they were the versions of the scrolls used by the Jewish people at that time.
However, most of the scrolls do conform to the texts we have today. This would indicate to many people, that the other scrolls which do not conform were either from other religious sects, or were mistakes that were buried before being corrected. Alternatively, the scrolls were written as commentaries to the other scrolls of the time, and were used for Study but not religious purposes or rituals.


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UPDATED: Pope Benedict in Arabic: "May the Lord bless you all!"
Many news agencies have reported that Pope Benedict XVI, fresh off his visit to Arabic-speaking Christians in Lebanon, has added Arabic to the list of languages in which he offers papal blessings.
After the [weekly] address, which dealt with the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, the pope said in Arabic: "The pope prays for all people who speak Arabic. May God bless you all."The Vatican said the addition was made to show the pontiff's concern for Christians in the Middle East and to remind both Muslims and Christians to work for peace in the region. (REUTERS)
Good for him! Our brothers and sisters are suffering, especially in Syria. To hear a papal blessing in Arabic must bring a moment of spiritual respite amid turmoil.UPDATED:At the time I wrote this yesterday, I was relying on the news reports that translated the Pope's Arabic blessing as "May God bless you all," and for which I assumed that the Arabic blessing used the generic word for God in Arabic, Allah. That was a reasonable but, as it turned out, false assumption.After the text of the audience was posted to the Vatican website, it is clear that the blessing uses al-Rab, which would normally be translated into the English as "the Lord."So, no, the word "Allah" did not ring out in St. Peter's square.One peril of blogging is that, with the speed of information flow and analysis, we can get the news wrong based on limited information. But one great feature of blogging is that corrections can be made in a place where people will actually see the corrections!My points about translations of divine names in journalism are still relevant, though. The translations can certainly strive for more accuracy. My guess is that the reporters translated not from the Arabic but from the official Italian translation of the Arabic, which I now see was "Dio," the normal word for God. Although Dio is an acceptable translation of Al-Rab, it would seem that Signore would be more accurate and better reflect Christian Arabic usage. On the other hand, the choice of Al-Rab can signify God for both Muslim and Christian speakers of Arabic, and so the message seems to have been intended for all.
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Agree that it's nice that Benedict should invoke Allah's blessing on Her people.(Allah is the mascullinized form of Al-Lat, one of the Triple Goddesses worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia. The other two Goddesses were Al-Uzza and Manat.)
Forgot to include a link: http://tinyurl.com/8t5eo32(129 million leads to information about Al-Lat et al.)
Yay, Benedict! Michael --I think that the Jewish, Christian and Islamic meanings of "God" are much more alike than different. Historically, the scholars of all three religions have depended on the Greeks (Plato and Aristotle especially) to understand the meanings of "Jahweh" and the other names of God in Scripture. And all three agree that their meanings have the same Referent. I think it's safe to say that no one religion will even exhaust the meaning of those words. No picture of God says everything about Him/Her/??.
The Catholic Mass when said in Arabic gives the same meaning to "Allah" that when said in English is given to "God." In Islam, "there is no God but God" would be the appropriate translation of "l ilha ill allh," whereas "there is no God but Allah" suggests a distinction which should neither be implied nor inferred.
And the latest circulating around some blogs:The ring that Obama has been wearing for more than 30 years (and that became his wedding ring) is adorned with the first part of the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: There is no god except Allah. (The Shahada is the first of the Five Pillars of Islam.)http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/
If World Nut Daily says that the ring says Allah on it, who are we to argue?
Obama just celebrated his 20th wedding anniversary (with a desultory debate performance). Wonder who he was married to for the first decade. Fine post, Michael. That NYT op-ed from a few years back was excellent.
I am glad Benedict is incorporating Arabic along with other languages. I reviewed the WND link about the Presidents ring Helen provided and wow what nonsense. So the man wears a ring that he has liked for years so what? His step-dad was from Indonesia and probably gave it to him. There are (brace yourself) lots of Muslims there and who knows maybe some Indonesian Muslims might even own jewelry stores. Lions and tigers and bears - Oh my! What sort of cuff links does he have?!There are important matters to debate, but the styling of President Obamas jewelry is hardly important.
It's the One Ring to bind us all! Kenya? Indonesia? Nonsense! He's from Mordor!Or maybe he's Frodo.
unagidon:The information about Obama's ring was passed on to me from a friend who linked me to Fr. Z's website. http://wdtprs.com/blog/2012/10/pres-obamas-wedding-ring/Fr. Z is one who should know about sins against the eighth commandment, but in words he does not indicate such. I, as a member of the laity, am asked to form my conscience and confess such sins. Fr. Z, I will not be breaking down your confession door!
Actually Michael Peppard is in ERROR. Pope Benedict in reaching out to the Arab Christians suffering in the Middle East (throughout the world) did speak in Arabic BUT he DID NOT use the word "Allah" (GOD). If you go to the Vatican website and if you know Arabic, Pope Benedict uses the word "Al-Rab" (LORD). He [the Pope] was sensitive and conscious to the plot and suffering of the Arabic speaking Christian (throughout the world) and used the Christian term LORD. Michael Peppard takes a concept as an English speaker and thinks we all use the word GOD in translating when in fact there are many ways to address God... "GOD" is the common word but Catholic Christians (which the Pope is) normally use the word LORD or Jesus or Christ or Jesus Christ. Michael needs to LEARN TO LISTEN and then report the truth as what TRUTH is and not what he want truth to be! A responsible and professional "reporter" or "blogger" should hold himself/herself to the highest standard of reporting FACTS and the truth and not their personal "spin."
"Michael Peppard takes a concept as an English speaker and thinks we all use the word GOD in translating when in fact there are many ways to address God GOD is the common word but Catholic Christians (which the Pope is) normally use the word LORD or Jesus or Christ or Jesus Christ. "I believe in one God...
Dear FMZ480, THANKS for your MESSAGE. As I SAID in my post, when I wrote the post yesterday SHORTLY after the audience was publicized, I could NOT YET find AUDIO or VIDEO of the text. If the blessing said AL-RAB, then the REPORTERS ON SITE did NOT accurately translate the Arabic into ENGLISH. I have to go TEACH now for MOST OF THE DAY, including one of my many courses in ANCIENT LANGUAGES. Later I will look for the AUDIO and UPDATE the POST accordingly, and then we can both together MOCK the REPORTERS for REUTERS et al. But when we do that, let's please not YELL at each other.
" FMZ840 10/11/2012 - 4:06 am"BUT he DID NOT use the word Allah (GOD). If you go to the Vatican website and if you know Arabic, Pope Benedict uses the word Al-Rab (LORD). He [the Pope] was sensitive and conscious to the plot and suffering of the Arabic speaking Christian (throughout the world) and used the Christian term LORD. ""Perhaps *WE* need to be a bit more inclined to say "God" instead of Jesus/Lord/Christ/etc. Perhaps we are the ones confusing things. If the pope said Al-Rab instead of Allah then maybe he should say Allah next time. We need to make less division as much as anyone else.
Plenty of wishful thinking by the author.1) The God of Christian and Jews is the same; the first commandment+ Summa Theol.of St.Thomas Aquinas (I,1,13: Jahwe(Exodus 3:14)-"ipsum esse"2) the journalist do not have any knowledge on [email protected] methodology of sciences,esp. the philosophy of science, therefore to require of them the linguistic nuances is to blame West Education System as a Structural Sin of stupidity in NT language: the sin of generation (and not an individual)3) Allah in Koran is a just wishful thinking idea that has nothing to do with the God of [email protected] as God acting in history; Trinity in Koran is a version of the sect, Collorydians with 3gods: Allah/God, Jesus, Mary)
Frege's theory of meaning which distinguishes the referent of a word from its sense is applicable here, I think. The "referent" of a word is the thing about which a statement is made. For instance, in the statement "Fido is a dog", the subject word 'Fido' means, stands for a particular being, while the predicate word "dog" gives us some information about Fido. This latter sort of meaning is called the "sense" of the word. Some words have both reference and sense. For instance, the word "God" as used generally has both reference and sense. But note this: while we might agree as to who/what the referent is, we might not agree about the *sense* of "God". When many Christians use the word to refer to the Supreme Being they give it the sense "absolute Love", while a Jew might give it the sense "absolute Justice" and a Muslim might give it the main sense of "absolutely unknowable". These meanings are different but they are *not* incompatible, and at times no doubt the Christians, Jews and Muslims use the different senses I just listed, all the while meaning the one and the same referent.Perhaps most important, the Christians and Muslims, at least, agree that God's whole being is unknowable -- He is beyond our understanding. And different people might understand different aspects of God more or less well. (I don't know whether the Jews think God is largely unknowable. Maybe they do too. But "God" still has the same referent regardless.)


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She was also preceded in death by her husband, Patsy Sellitti, daughter, Donna Sellitti, and brother, Roland Starr.
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I'm not going to lie—I had no idea who Donald "Duck" Dunn was until I saw the news story announcing his death. You probably have no idea who he is either. Upon further investigation, I learned that I have been hearing his songs all my life. You probably have been too.
A bass guitarist from Memphis, Tennessee, Dunn was a session musician, playing with Booker T. & the MGs, the Blues Brothers, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, and many others. He lent his bass to The Mar-Keys for "Last Night," to Otis Redding in "I Can't Turn You Loose," to Booker T. & the MGs for "Time is Tight," and to Rod Stewart in "Tonight's the Night."
To pay homage to Duck Dunn's memory, went on YouTube and found "Time is Tight." I settled back in my chair to listen, eyes closed. The song began to play, and I started out of my chair. Yes, it was Booker T. & the MGs, but it was almost unrecognizable. The tiny, built-in speakers for my computer were woefully inadequate for Dunn's complex bass. The sound became distorted, tinny, and hollow. It pulled all the soul out of the music, which horrified me. As a devout music lover, it pains me to hear such soulful music being mangled so carelessly. Turning off the song, I took out my vPulse headphones, plugged them into my computer, and eagerly waited for the beautiful and complex bass to begin. The song immediately came alive and I began to relax as I heard Dunn strumming his bass guitar, each a unique and separate sound, unlike the low, constant hum I heard before.
Donald "Duck" Dunn was a great man and a great bassist. Even in death, he taught me something valuable. A good set of speakers makes all the difference.


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Let $X$ be a contractible compact [edit: locally connected] topological space (Hausdorff and second countable). Let $f\colon X\to X$ be a continuous map. Then (I suppose) $f$ has a fixed point. Personally, I cannot think of a better generalization of Brouwer's fixed point theorem, but is it true?
No. I believe the first counterexample is from:
Kinoshita, S. On Some Contractible Continua without Fixed Point Property. Fund. Math. 40 (1953), 96-98
which I unfortunately can't find online. Kinoshita's example is described on page 127 in this excellent article by Bing, however.
EDIT: The question has been revised to add the local connectivity condition; as stated, I think the question is open. If "contractible" is replaced with "acyclic" there are counterexamples dating back to Borsuk, referenced e.g. here; Borsuk's paper, which I can't find online, is:
K. Borsuk, Sur un continua acyclique qui se laisse transformer topologiquement en lui-meme sans points invariants, Fund. Math. 24 (1935), pp. 51-58.
This suggests that if the OP's conjecture is true, it is unlikely to be open to homological attacks.


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What do you call classes without methods?
For example,
class A
public string something;
public int a;
Above is a class without any methods. Does this type of class have a special name?
What do you call classes without methods?
For example,
Above is a class without any methods. Does this type of class have a special name?
Most of the time: An anti pattern.
Why? Because it faciliates procedural programming with "Operator" classes and data structures. You separate data and behaviour which isn't exactly good OOP.
Often times: A DTO (Data Transfer Object)
Read only datastructures meant to exchange data, derived from a business/domain object.
Sometimes: Just data structure.
Well sometimes, you just gotta have those structures to hold data that is just plain and simple and has no operations on it. But then I wouldn't use public fields but accessors (getters and setters).
I'd call it
Usually they are used as DTOs (Data Transfer Object) as said the others.
These are known as Plain Old __ Objects (PO_Os) where the blank is Java or C or CIL, or whatever language you're using.
If they're being used as simple data blocks for communication, then they can be known as Data Transfer Objects (DTOs).
If they're representing some externally provided data, they can be known as Entities.
I would call such a class a mutable data holder, and have sometimes used a generic form:
Note that wrapping
Note that while mutable data holders may be useful for types (mutable or not) which need to hold data, they cannot safely be used for data interchange in the same way that immutable types would. For example, a statement like:
would have a clear meaning if
If one wished to have a collection return data in a mutable object, the correct paradigm would often be something like:
Using that approach, there is a clear implication that
Depending on the context, I call them Entities. On my boring business applications, they usually map 1:1 to my DER.


text: 01 October 2010 archive See all show photos "I WAS never the girl next door" - Bettie Page's quote opened the Dior show this afternoon and, if we weren't already in a good mood after the colour spectacular we saw in Milan this week, we certainly are now. Announcing that Dior had "dropped anchor at a South Pacific naval base", Galliano started with sassy naval uniforms that could have come straight off a saucy postcard, the models' red lips and stiffened, glossy fringed hair dos giving them the air of perfect pin-ups - Coco Rocha pouting and winking at the camera pulled it off to a T. Doffed white sailor hats accessorised oversized white parkas over baggy white chinos that stopped short of stiletto ankle boots - crammed on over thick woolly socks. More fitted blue cotton jackets, some featuring wide leather panels, and chiffon playsuits - with gathered waistbands and boxer short baggy bottoms - were easy to wear and had a light-hearted appeal, as if this new Dior wardrobe can be worn every day without a care in the world (except possibly financial). Summer dresses were purple and pink, bright orange, turquoise and green, with garland necklaces and knotted, shredded or ra-ra hemlines to bounce around the thighs below sarong-style twisted uppers. A denim playsuit was super-sexy - peekaboo short - and then the party dresses became increasingly artistic and complicated until they were more traditionally, gorgeously Galliano. Over multicoloured, beribboned heels (seriously worth saving up for), they came in turquoise silk, or yellow edged in white, with origami waistbands and glittering with embellishment. Heavy, colourful shell, feather and flower necklaces added an ethnic touch that meant, despite the glamour, formality didn't reign - and one chiffon mini that fell from black to a blue hem was like a flower itself. Galliano is famous for party dresses, but today they were more easygoing but just as pretty - we'll be skipping around in the sunshine in crochet or silk jersey printed in green or fuchsia palm prints and gorgeous splashes of blue chiffon. It was tropical and as heady as ever - the longer gowns easily imagined on the most gorgeous Hollywood starlets - but it lacked serious Dior grandeur and looked all the fresher for it. SEE THE CHRISTIAN DIOR SHOW ARCHIVE Dolly Jones Continue reading Back to top


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Is there any common trading system that is implemented by hedge fund, especially for equity or forex automated trading? I know some big names like Sungard and Bloomberg. Is there any other choices which the including API?
There are:
Bloomberg: TOMS, SSEOMS, AIM, EMSX
TT Trading Systems (X-Trader, mostly for futures, spreads,...)
Orc Group: Orc (often used for listed options)
And uncountable others, really depends on which product you look to trade.
But please note that you asked specifically about automated trading and to be honest, most shops code up their own order execution platforms and hook them up to Fix adapters or APIs of brokers, banks,...
You might want to take a look at the Waters Technology buy side technology awards, especially for execution management systems (EMS). Most hedge funds want to use multiple counterparties so they would want a broker-neutral trading system. As far as I'm aware, the most popular platforms are Portware and Flextrade.
There are lots of automated trading system in forex like:
AlgoTrader is used by some smaller hedge funds, especially in the volatility trading area.
AlgoTrader is a Java based Algorithmic Trading Platform that enables development, simulation and execution of multiple strategies in parallel. The automated Trading Software can trade Forex, Options, Futures, Stocks & Commodities on any market. The system is based on Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Event Stream Processing (ESP) using Esper.
Also, the system does have both a FIX interface as well as Bloomberg connectivity.
Full disclaimer: I do work for AlgoTrader


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The Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft stand at Space Launch Complex 40 ahead of the upcoming launch to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch was delayed Saturday morning May 29, 2012 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket, intended to go the International Space Station, was supposed to be the first from a private company attempting the feat. As the countdown reached zero, the engines of a SpaceX vehicle shut down. Officials say chamber pressure on an engine was high, causing the abort.
One of nine rocket engines failed on the SpaceX booster after Sunday's launch
The flight computer adjusted for the failure and kept the Dragon capsule on course
The unmanned capsule is scheduled to reach the space station on Wednesday
(CNN) -- A SpaceX Dragon capsule remains on course for the International Space Station despite the failure of one of nine engines on its booster rocket after launch, the company reported Monday.
The failure occurred at a minute and 19 seconds into the first commercial space cargo mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday night, SpaceX disclosed.
"Initial data suggests that one of the rocket's nine Merlin engines, Engine 1, lost pressure suddenly and an engine shutdown command was issued immediately," the company said in a written statement.
But the company said the rocket "did exactly what it was designed to do," as its flight computer made adjustments to keep the Dragon headed into the proper orbit. The unmanned capsule, which is carrying about 1,000 pounds of supplies for the space station, is scheduled to arrive at the orbital platform on Wednesday.
Controllers are reviewing the flight data in an effort to figure out what happened, but the company said the initial readings indicate the engine's protective fairing broke apart under stress.
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Last month I asked what was the best film enterence...now its time to talk exits.
Some obvious and deservedly classic ones are, Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind, Slim Pickens in Dr. Stragelove and Alan Ladd in Shane.
But I'm particularly partial to Burt Lancaster in Go Tell The Spartans , Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express , Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King, and Humphry Bogart in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.


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Hansa Bhargava, MD, is WebMD's expert pediatrician. She oversees the team of medical experts responsible for ensuring the accuracy, credibility, and timeliness of all content on WebMD FIT and Raising FIT Kids, and she blogs for these sites as well.
As the spokesperson for FIT, she has worked with the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. In 2012, she served as an expert panelist with first lady Michelle Obama at the WebMD/Lets Move Town Hall in Miami, Fla. She has served as a featured speaker at national and regional FIT events along with WebMD's partner, Sanford Health. Bhargava also represents WebMD in national and regional media including appearances on CBS Radio and has been interviewed by publications including Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, Fit Pregnancy, Prevention, and Working Mother. She has also presented a workshop at the American Academy of Pediatrics regional conference on Social Media, Technology and Its Impact on Families.
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Bhargava has a deep-rooted interest in pediatric nutrition and obesity, and has been involved in establishing outreach and intervention programs in partnership with hospital systems and schools since 2001. She co-founded an educational program called FitKids in Summit, N.J., and consulted with Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta on their recent initiatives for preventing and intervening in pediatric obesity. She also worked closely with Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta to help organize an exhibit on nutrition for kids.
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Netherlands-based Guerrilla Games has become well-known for the studio's PlayStation-exclusive Killzone series – a series that at one time was hailed as a 'Halo killer' as Microsoft's ultra popular Xbox-exclusive franchise dominated the console shooter scene.
Having only ever created a single game based in a franchise other than Killzone with Shellshock: Nam '67, however, and six Killzone games under its collective belt, the time for Guerrilla Games to work on a new intellectual property must surely be at hand.
Lo and behold, work on a new IP has indeed been on-going at Guerrilla Games for roughly two-and-a-half years, according to the studio's executive producer Angie Smets.
In a video produced for the launch of the PlayStation 4 in Japan recently, and as a way to say hello to Guerrilla's fans in the country, Sony and the team put together a video where members of the studio can be seen going about their everyday lives while working on Killzone: Shadow Fall, and then attempt a few Japanese phrases and greetings with waja inducing results – skip to about 2:20 to see Smets confirm the new IP at Guerrilla:
Killzone: Shadow Fall – Behind-the-scenes at Guerrilla Games
Sales of the PlayStation 4 in Japan have so far reached over 320 000 units (in the opening weekend alone), so it'll be interesting to see sales of Killzone: Shadow Fall with this week's Japanese sales charts.
Do you think we'll see the announcement of Guerrilla Games' latest franchise at E3 this year, or is there still a ways to go until we discover what the talented developers are up to in the Netherlands?
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Given a 1-deep
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m rectangular pit, what is the smallest number of bucket loads that can be used to completely fill it with water source blocks? Given the way water propagates, what's the most efficient sequence to fill the rectangle with? Is this sequence different if trying to fill a square?
Given a 1-deep
A water block becomes a source block when there's at least 2 other source blocks next to it (not counting diagonally). You start with the very edge and place two water blocks like so. This will give you a 2×2 square of water sources.
Now, simply scoop up any source block (it will refill), and dump it diagonally from the outermost block.
Repeat until you hit an edge. Which source block you take doesn't matter, they are all infinite (as in, will refill instantly) at this point.
As you can see, to fill an n-long square, you need n bucket loads (actually, only 2, since after that, you can refill from the pool).
To fill the entire rectangle, dump a bucket every other row on one side. The very edge block always has to be filled.
So to fill an n×m block rectangle, you need
Here's a video of a guy using this technique on a square:
(Note that he always refills from the still source blocks for some reason, but as noted above, any source block will do.)
This might be slightly easier: You can also fill two adjacent sides with source blocks:
...without having to enter the pool and tread water. You can do it by traversing just two sides. It can be as efficient as @lunboks's excellent answer:
...and has the additional benefit that if you place the corner block (1) last, you can watch the whole thing turn in one smooth motion! :)


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I'm developing for a specific TI ARM processor with custom drivers that made it to the kernel. I'm trying to migrate from 2.6.32 to 2.6.37, but the structure changed so much I will have weeks of work to upgrade my code.
For example, my chip is the dm365, which comes with video processing drivers. Now most of the old drivers which were directly exposed to me go through v4l2, which might make more sense.
TI provides very little information for those upgrades. How am I supposed to keep up with the changes? When I google for specific file names, I seldom get a few patches with fewer comments on what changed and why and how old relates to new.


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SfN 2012—Nanosymposium Spans Genes to Experimental Drugs for Psychosis
13 November 2012. The Society for Neuroscience Meeting was held on 13-17 October in New Orleans, Louisiana. On Sunday morning, 14 October, Deanna Smith, of the University of South Carolina in Columbia, moderated a nanosymposium entitled Molecular Genetics and Experimental Therapeutics in Psychotic Disorders.
What's going on at 15q13.3?
Three presentations on a mouse model of 15q13.3 deletion syndrome, which is associated with both schizophrenia and epilepsy, were made by a group of scientists from H. Lundbeck A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark. First up was Jes Lauridsen, who described the generation and characterization of the mouse model. He reported that genes within the deleted region were expressed as expected, at half of normal levels, and that the mice displayed no gross brain abnormalities. However, males exhibited reduced survival and increased body weight, as well as increased stress-induced aggression, similar to what has been reported in human 15q13.3 deletion carriers (Ben-Shachar et al., 2009).
Next, Kim Fejgin focused on the behavioral patterns and seizure susceptibility of the 15q13.3 deletion mice. He described a behavioral phenotype that includes a decreased acoustic startle response (although prepulse inhibition is intact) and impaired long-term spatial reference memory (although short-term memory and working memory are intact), noting that these parallel some aspects of the schizophrenia phenotype. The mice also exhibited a surprising seizure protection phenotype, pointing to a critical role for the 15q13.3 region in modulating excitatory/inhibitory balance.
Jesper Bastlund described the last piece of the 15q13.3 story—the electrophysiological characterization of the mice. A reduced loudness dependence of auditory-evoked potentials (LDAEP) was observed, similar to what has been reported in schizophrenia (Gudlowski et al., 2009). In addition, the mice displayed a general reduction in the auditory-evoked potential, but no change in sensory gating, as well as selective deficits in evoked γ oscillations. Thus, the Lundbeck researchers argue, these mice display pre-attentive processing deficits and electroencephalography (EEG) phenotypes that are observed in schizophrenia.
From genes to drugs
Also from Lundbeck, Ib Klewe described efforts to determine the effects of schizophrenia risk genes in disease-relevant primary neuronal culture assays. Klewe and colleagues performed copy number variant (CNV) gene knockdown using small hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) and then measured NMDA receptor function and parvalbumin immunoreactivity. Although off-target effects reduced the power of the screens, Klewe and colleagues identified two putative genetic regulators of NMDA receptor function and parvalbumin immunoreactivity—KDCT13 and UFD1L—that warrant follow-up with further experiments.
Next up was moderator Deanna Smith, who discussed the mammalian brain development gene Lis1. Smith described the use of rat dorsal root ganglion neuronal cultures to demonstrate that LIS1 and its binding partner NDEL1 regulate microtubule motor protein dynein-dependent axonal transport (Pandey and Smith, 2011). Interestingly, all three proteins interact with the schizophrenia gene DISC1 (see SRF related news story; SRF news story). In ongoing studies, Smith and colleagues are characterizing the lethality observed in mice in which LIS1 is eliminated in adult tissues.
Francoise Gastambide, of Eli Lilly and Company in Surrey, U.K., discussed the effects of LSN2463359, a metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) positive allosteric modulator, on behavioral deficits induced by exposure to different classes of NMDA receptor antagonists. The drug was effective at normalizing deficits in lever pressing and reversal learning induced by NMDA antagonists, but only those induced by drugs acting outside the ion channel of the receptor (Gastambide et al., 2013).
The final speaker of the nanosymposium was Greet Vanhoof, of Janssen Research and Development in Beerse, Belgium, who presented his work demonstrating that phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10) inhibitors are dopamine modulators. PDE10 is highly expressed in the medium spiny neurons that make up the indirect and direct dopamine pathways that provide the main inhibitory input to the basal ganglia. Vanhoof showed that PDE10 inhibitors facilitate dopamine D1-mediated neurotransmission while also decreasing D2-mediated neurotransmission, thereby acting as both D1 agonists and D2 antagonists. This dual activity in reducing both hyperactivity and hypoactivity states may extend the therapeutic potential of the PDE10 inhibitors.—Allison A. Curley.


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It's a fairly common adage that adding more programmers to a late project will make matters worse. Why is this?
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Each new developer has to be introduced to the code base and development process which takes not only the new person's time but also requires assistance from [a] senior developer[s] (guiding them through the build process, explain the testing process, help them with pitfalls in the code base, much more detailed code reviews, etc).
Therefore, the more new developers you add to the project the more time has to be spent to bring them to a point where they can actually contribute to the project.
In addition to the other answers: Another factor to consider is communication.
The worst case for the amount of communication channels on a team (which isn't uncommon), is a complete graph. As you can imagine, adding in just 1 developer can increase the communication channels a lot. With more streamlined methods of communication, the impact is less... but it still adds up.
The problem cited in the book the originally promulgated this law, The Mythical Man-Month, is communication. He starts off by saying:
He does mention training as part of the problem:
...but notes that intercommunication is by far the larger factor:
It's also worth noting that Fred Brooks (the author) does have the background to know what he's talking about. Most of the book is based on his experience managing IBM's OS/360 project. Despite decades of adherents preaching all manner of "improved" management methods, and some even coming up with cool names (eXtreme, Agile, Scrum, etc.) when you get down to it, little of essence1 seems to have changed since.
1For the definition of "essence", see the same author's "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accident in Software Engineering", included in the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Mythical Man-Month.
It's not merely adage; it's verifiable. Check out Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month.
Here are some thoughts on this issue ...
now, adding new resources for testing might not be a bad idea ... it might speed up the testing process (if your test cases are well written), and yes using testing tools will help too.
Because programming is not basic production line work. Getting up to speed on a software project takes time. New people need to ask lots of questions which leads to negative productivity (ie New person learning, old person teaching them -> no actual work getting done).
To simplify it, imagine a relatively simple one-man project which is scheduled to go for 1 week: on Thursday, you realise that it won't get done on time, that it would take the one programmer more like 6-7 days instead of 5. If you add another programmer at that point, they'll need to workn with programmer1 for at least a few hour or a day or so, ask lots of questions to get up to speed, etc. You probably won't get any net positive productivity for the rest of the week. The new programmer is likely to introduce some extra bugs too (since they won't know the existing code as well as programmer1), so that'll blow out the implementation and testing cycle by another day or two more. The project will easily last a full two working weeks instead of the original one! - And most likely longer than if the first programmer was simply given a couple of extra days to finish it themselves.
Another factor that I haven't seen mentioned is that some tasks need to be done in a specific order. You can't do task 4 until task 3 is done because it is dependant on 3. It doesn't do any good to hire someone to do task 4 at the same time someone is doing task 3. Often at the end of a project, those tasks that need other things completed first are the remaining tasks.
They are also often some of the most complex tasks that need doing, the very ones which require the best understanding of the whole design to avoid breaking what has already been completed. They also usually require the most extensive business domain knowledge. I might after working on the project for months be able to do the task in a week or less. Someone new would spend more than a week getting up to speed (and pulling me away from my tasks for a good protion of that time to answer questions) and would likely even if extremely skilled take longer to to do the task. Not be cause he or she isn't competent but because of unfamiliarity with the actual structure of the project or the database backend.
The adage that is always worked for me is you can't get nine women to make a baby in one month.
Fred Brooks wrote an entire book "The Mythical Man-Month" answering this question.
Here's the quick-n-dirty version:
1) There is a limit to how much you can break a project out into distinct pieces to assign to more programmers.
2) Splitting a project out to more people increases the amount of communication required to coordinate all the parts of the application. More communication = More Work.
3) For every person you add to the project you add more than one communication channel that must be navigated to the team. This number grows geometrically and increases the amount of communication that must happen. More communication = More work.
4) There is a "J-Curve" when you add each team member. That is, the existing productive resources have to spend time getting the new people up to speed that they otherwise could have spent working on the project. Ultimately you may increase capacity, but it temporarily slows down the project. The later in the project the more that must be learned, thus the more pronounced the effect.
I'd also suggest "Peopleware" by DeMarco and Lister.
And "The Deadline" by DeMarco presents this, and a number of other software project management diseases and fallacies in a lighthearted and very readable fashion.
It also delves into the dynamics of people doing project / team work, and goes into some detail about just HOW things like communication and introduction deplete the available working time of a team.
These books are quite cheap, I'd suggest you get them (Amazon or The Book Depository have them) and have a read. The short answers here can't really do justice to the question asked.
Because no one takes the time to have a well thought out, planned, tested process for: hiring, training, developing and supervising programmers let alone brining them up to speed on a particular project.
If you are managing a team of developers, you should have several contacts right now of people you would like to hire if you have an openning. Join developer groups.
How fast can you get a brand new development machine setup and ready to go?
Have you ever tested your project documentation and specs by showing them to a developer on another project? Did they look at it and determine they could start working on the project if necessary?
How up to date is any project schedule?
Save up for a rainy day because when a project falls behind it is more like a huricane.
Aside from the communication issue (which I think all the other answers are talking about), it's also very possible for a person added to a project to create bugs, because they don't know the code very well yet.
Whenever I'm added to a project, I always try very hard not to break things. This means I'm much slower at fixing things at first.


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This works over the reals but not over the complex field. Consider the set of all $n\times n$ matrices $A$ such that 1. $A^2=A$ 2.$A^T=A$ 3. $\mathrm{Trace}(A)=1$
The first condition makes $A$ a projection to a subspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$. The second ensures that $A$ is diagonalizable so its eigenvalues are all 0 or 1.The third guarantees that the image of the projection is one-dimensional. Such matrices are in a 1-1 correspondence with one-dimensional subspaces and so constitute $\mathbb{R}P^{n-1}$.
This seems to represent real projective spaces as affine varieties, with plenty of induced nonzero regular functions. How do we reconcile this with the fact that projective spaces have only constant regular functions?
This does not work over the complexes since $A$ would have to equal its conjugate transpose (to be guaranteed diagonalizable) and conjugation is not algebraic.
This is puzzling me to no end...


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I know that I'll have visited the map and I'll probably have tried every weapon...
Benefits I'm thinking about are like a new class, stronger weapons, emblems, badges...
I know that I'll have visited the map and I'll probably have tried every weapon...
Benefits I'm thinking about are like a new class, stronger weapons, emblems, badges...
If you mean will you unlock badges, better weapons for multiplayer then no. They all have to be unlocked by playing multiplayer only.
The only benefit you'll get is from more experience with the game. Like you say, you'll be more familiar with the weapons and slightly more familiar with the maps (although overall layout will be different).
I'd definitely recommend playing through single player first just to get your bearings with the game, but be advised multiplayer is a whole different ball game to single player, good luck!
To me, the singleplayer is useful for multiplayer as it lets you gauge the feel of the game; what movement feels like, how guns behave, what control setup works best for you, how the game engine and graphics feel. It's good for stuff like recognising what bits of scenery are easy to mistake for players, what sort of height of wall must be mantled and what can just be jumped over and so on. If you like the fiction of the game world, it also lets you get some idea of who the teams/factions are.
Not really. As you said, you get to try a multitude of equipment, and if you're new to Call of Duty in general, it's sort of a tutorial on the controls and "combat" training.
However, apart from that, you don't unlock anything but achievements, and those don't help with multiplayer.
As has already been mentioned, the single player game doesn't have any direct influence on your multi-player experience. However, in MW3, the co-op missions can unlock titles -- one for reaching level 15 on all survival maps, and another for achieving 3 stars on all co-op missions. These are of course accessed via the single-player launcher and engine, and can be played single player if you are so inclined.


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For those of you not able to make it to Kona we are running a contest via Twitter, Facebook, and this blog to guess Craig's run split. Closest time wins a free pair of shoes of their choice! You may enter by posting here, on facebook, or on Twitter via the hashtag #CAkonarunsplit
We also have a limited edition Kona visor that we are selling online (starting 10/7) and at our Kona expo booth. The visor sports Craig Alexander's signature, and proceeds will go to the Prostate Cancer Foundation via Athletes for a Cure.
For those of you lucky enough to be traveling to Hawaii this week, be sure to come by our expo booth. We will be giving away Kona tees with each shoe purchase, and there will be a Newton athlete meet and greet/autograph signing on Thursday from 2:30-3:30. Starting today, if you are in Kona and on a training run, the first 50 people to come to the Newton tent at mile marker 2.5 on Alii Blvd. each day will get a free water bottle. See you there!


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A convert's biological parents are not their parents in a halachic sense. In some senses the converting beis din is "responsible" for the convert in the way of parents. In name, at least, the ger's parents are Avrohom Avinu and Sarah Imenu. When, if ever, does a convert say yizkor?
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As a convert, I've only asked the question with respect to kaddish and shiva. I've posted the answers I've received on those questions elsewhere (in sum, my rav relying on the Rema said "no kaddish or shiva" but there are other chashuva sources who disagree; I go with my Rav). Since my late Rav, Rabbi Gedaliah Anemer, zt'l, said "no" to those questions, it never occurred to me to ask about Yizkor. But I do know that with respect to my Jewish-born wife, Rabbi Anemer (and his student and successor, Rabbi Dovid Rosenbaum, shlita), said she could not say Yizkor until her parent had been dead one year. Given that I never bothered asking about Yizkor. I don't know any converts who stay around for Yizkor, and I don't either.
A convert should not say Yizkor for his\her non-Jewish parents, for the simple reason that the text of Yizkor is specific to Jews (as we ask God to bind the soul of the deceased with those of their ancestors Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah.)
However, a convert may say a personal prayer in remembrance of his\her parents in place of the traditional Yizkor prayer.
For practical applications, please consult your rabbi.
Sources: http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/11-06-17.html ; http://www.yeshiva.co/ask/?id=4999 ; http://www.yeshiva.co/ask/?id=37


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Do you get extra days off from work the week of Thanksgiving?
I get Thanksgiving Day off, but I have to work on BF and on Saturday. I have internet access though....:)
What is your work schedule for the coming weekend?
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I get Thanskgiving and Friday off (weekends I always have off). At my last company, we got Monday off as well, since it was the first day of rifle deer season and there was an enormous population of hunters. That was an unusual holiday for me - but it made sense at that plant. Actually, when I was at that plant I worked on Thanksgiving morning and had to go back in later since I was on third shift that week. Even though it was a company holiday, that plant still ran production. My current plant is not running any production for any of our holidays right now.
Since I work for a school, this is pretty much a vacation week for me. I will have to go in for a meeting and get caught up on some paperwork, but for the most part I get a nice relaxing week....
I get thursday and friday off, and I think this year my whole department is using vacation to take the rest of the week off.
Thursday and Friday for me, as well. Although most of my folks are gone all week, so it will be very relaxing at work. :)
I get Thursday and Friday off, but I took vacation the entire week.
I was supposed to be off the whole week, due in part to a surgery to reconstruct my left orbit. Its outpatient, to be sure, but when they work up in there, its neither pleasant nor quick to recover from.
Then I got called in and asked if I could postpone it (no) or if I could come in afterwards (no).
Reason? The other person who knows my job will be working in the field instead of the office.
So, I go in Monday to train two temps for Tuesday and Wednesday, and report for surgery at 0600 on Tuesday after compressing my intended all-day prep from all Monday to 6 hours after work.
Ghod I love my job...
Nope, no time off.
But then I am a full time care giver for an aging parent. So I never get a day off.
In the past I have had to work on Thanksgiving Day and the Friday following for some of my employers. At least someone brought a television one year so we could watch the football games.
Thursday, Friday, and they normally let us leave an hour or so after the factory workers on Wednesday. Not sure what time that will be, it depends on the production schedule. Sometimes it is noonish, sometimes it is 4pm-ish.
I actually don't have off, where I work is open 24 hours, we never close, always need people, so I'll be working from 1-9:30 doing tech support, instead of seeing my family. But 2.5 times pay is nice and makes it sting less.
@bigsarge04: I worked in a 24 hour customer service phone center before. They usually ask for volunteers to work the holiday first and if they don't get enough they start looking at the bottom of the seniority list and make those people work the holiday. That was me so I always worked it.
Today, I'm in a much better position. I get Thursday off but still have to work on Friday. That's my choice though. I could have taken it as a vacation day but I'm not doing anything with the family this year so why take it off?
Thanksgiving has always been a gathering of our family every single year but due to some recent deaths in the family, the two main event planners are no longer around to get us all together. Bummer.
I'm off Thursday and Friday (and the weekend). And I'm hoping for a nice, calm Monday - Wednesday at work. But we'll see. In the past, we've had bad things pop up early in the week and, as the days go on, fewer and fewer of the people who really know how to solve the issues have been in town which makes it more and more stressful for those of us left at work. It doesn't appear that will happen this year, but I've said that in the past. I'm alway a bit anxious for Thanksgiving week.
Nope - unemployed so I get every day as an "off" day.
Our office is closed Thursday and Friday, then I took the following Monday and Tuesday as vacation days.
I get Thanksgiving and the day after. I'm also taking off the day before, and the day before the day before.
Years ago our employees traded Veteran's Day for Black Friday, so we wok on VDay but get that Friday off. Then we switched to a 4/10 work week where we always get Fridays off. So instead they just have us work three 8 hour days. But we are still required to have our sections covered 7am-6pm. I normally work 7am-6pm, but next week I am scheduled for 9am-6pm Monday (each of the three staff in our section is taking one late day) and 7am-4pm Tuesday and Wednesday. Another person in my section and I am in a wrestling match for being allowed to take Christmas week off, as my boss has already declared he will be and one of the three of us "needs" (not really) to be there. I am hoping the fact that I have seniority, my birthday holiday falls in that week and that my competitor is taking Thanksgiving week off will give me the win.
Nope, not this year. Our office is technically "closed" on Friday, but we have a big thing the following week, so we'll all be in Friday and probably through the weekend. Usually I get Friday off, though.
Thursday only. Someone else is taking vacation. I work six days normally so even the one day is nice.
I've been working at my current job for 4-5 years now and it's the first one I've had that gave Thursday and Friday off as paid vacation, which is awesome.
My last job was a movie theater, so I ended up working most holidays and had no paid vacation at all.
I work in the international division of my company. So those i interface with dont know and dont care about Thanksgiving.
@cengland0: The first Thanksgiving after my family was halved was tough; we just sat around and looked at each other. (I think we ate pasta.) I was never a particular fan of Thanksgiving, but it has a way of highlighting the missing. Hope your day is as okay as possible, and each Thanksgiving is a little less of a reminder than the one that came before.
@markhca: Oh yikes! Good luck with your surgery; hope it goes well and that your recovery is as smooth and painless as possible.
I'm not only working the early morning shift but I gotta go in Thanksgiving night. If I wasn't making extra money I'd call out. This should pay for half the presents for the year in 1 shot though.
Took Friday off. Be nice to the other mods. :P
@inkycatz: Will it be like in middle school when we had substitute teachers? ;)
@jsimsace: Try to be nicer than that to Ducky and Gatz.


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In this other post, Qiaochu Yuan comments that the solutions for the homegeneous linear differential equation with constant coefficients are a special case of the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a PID.
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the space of solutions to a homogeneous linear differential equation with constant coefficients has a $k[D]$-module structure, where $D$ is differentiation, and moreover it's finitely-generated. So the structure theorem tells you what kind of decomposition to expect, and then you explicitly construct the corresponding generalized eigenvectors $x^ne^{rx}$.
I don't quite understand this, since I don't know what a $k[D]$-module is, and I'm not at all familiar with derivations.
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I have just started using the pomodoro technique. However, often after a 30 min work interval (I have changed the 25 minute interval to 30), I often don't feel exhausted and think I could go on without a break. Still, should I stop and take a break so that my next round would be completed properly or should I just aim for the timer to ring again?
Also my exhaustion times vary, sometimes 30 mins is a pretty good interval, sometimes it is less, depending on the material that I am reading, or the problem I am solving (Math and Physics Majors would understand it better). So increasing the 30 min interval won't necessarily work. Should I use varying work periods?