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A New York state Assemblyman and four others were charged Thursday morning with bribery and conspiracy, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, and hours later a second Assemblyman who said he cooperated with the federal government on the case announced his intention to resign from office.
Four of the five charged, including the Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, a Democrat from the Bronx, were arrested Thursday morning, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office, with the fifth expected to surrender later in the day.
Mr. Stevenson is accused of drafting, proposing and agreeing to enact legislation for the purpose of benefiting the businesses of his co-defendants in the case, according to the complaint and of accepting more than $22,000 in bribes in exchange for helping the other defendants open and operate adult day-care centers in the Bronx.
A person who answered the phone at Mr. Stevenson's district office said: "I know nothing about that." The person declined to provide his full name. Mr. Stevenson was awaiting arraignment and could not immediately be reached for comment. It was unclear who his attorney was.
Thursday's charges come two days after federal corruption charges against another Albany politician, state Sen. Malcolm Smith, a Democrat, who was arrested Tuesday morning alongside New York City Council Member Dan Halloran, a Republican, and four others in wide-ranging corruption schemes that, in part, allegedly were designed to get Mr. Smith on the ballot for the New York City mayor's race. The defendants have all denied wrongdoing in the case.
"Once again we have members of the legislature allegedly acting as mercenaries," said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. "Once again we are forced to consider how pervasive corruption is in New York and once again we are provided something of an answer from the defendant himself."
In September 2012, Mr. Stevenson met two of the defendants and a cooperating witness in the Bronx, where one of the defendants handed the lawmaker an envelope containing $10,000 in cash, the complaint says. In January 2013, the complaint says, Mr. Stevenson showed the cooperating witness a draft of proposed legislation for the Assembly based on a discussion the witness had had with another one of the defendants.
Two of the defendants aside from Mr. Stevenson are charged with bribing another Assemblyman who was cooperating with the government at the time. That Assemblyman was unnamed in the complaint, but later identified as Nelson Castro, a Democrat from the Bronx.
Later on Thursday, Mr. Castro announced his intention to resign from his seat effective Monday, saying he had been indicted before his election to the Assembly by a Bronx County grand jury in 2009 for committing perjury in a 2008 civil matter, and then had agreed to cooperate on various investigations with the Bronx District Attorney's Office and the U.S. attorney's office. The agreement was contingent on his resignation following the arrests of the individuals charged in the complaint.
"I am very proud of my accomplishments and the many benefits that I have secured on behalf of my district over the last four years," Mr. Castro said in a statement released by his attorney, Michael Farkas.
Mr. Castro's open seat may result in a special election. Once Mr. Castro's resignation takes effect, Gov. Andrew Cuomo can decide whether to issue an executive order calling for a special election. Once that order is issued, the election must take place between 70 and 80 days from that date.
The cooperating witness was previously a candidate for the Assembly, and had pleaded guilty to a scheme to bribe the unnamed Assemblyman, according to the complaint.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called on Mr. Stevenson to resign, saying the allegations against him "are a clear violation of the public trust and cannot be tolerated."
"I believe that given the evidence that has been presented, he should seriously consider whether he can continue to maintain the public trust," Mr. Silver said. "I am encouraging him to resign."
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Thomas Bauer shows in http://arxiv.org/pdf/alg-geom/9712019v1.pdf that for a complex abelian variety a nef line bundle is numerically equivalent to an effective divisor (this is shown in Lemma 1.1). It seems to me (by comments in other papers) that this is known over a general algebraically closed field, but I have yet to find a proof. Since Bauer's proof deals with the eigenvalues of the Hermitian form associated to the (polarized) abelian variety, I'm not quite sure how a proof would proceed over an arbitrary algebraically closed field. Any suggestions or references?
Here is a sketch of a purely algebraic proof based on the theory developed in Chapter 3 of Mumford's "Abelian Varieties".
Let $L$ be a nef line bundle on the abelian variety $A$ of dimension $g$. If $K(L)$ is finite, then the index of $L$ is a well defined integer between $0$ and $g$ and we need to show that $g=0$. By the theorem on p. 155, the index is the number of positive roots of the polynomial $P(n) = \chi(L \otimes M^n)$, where $M$ is any ample line bundle. Using Riemann-Roch and the nefness of $L$ one sees that all the coefficients of the polynomial are non-negative so it has no positive roots.
We now reduce the general case to the one above. We may assume, by replacing $L$ by $L \otimes (-1)^*L$, that $L$ is symmetric. If $K(L)$ is not finite, i.e. $T_x^*L \cong L$ for $x$ in a positive dimensional subvariety $B$ of $A$ we claim that $L^{2}$ descends to a line bundle $L'$ on $A/B$. This follows as we can get descent data for $L^2$ by choosing symmetric isomorphisms $T_x^*L \cong L$ for all $x \in B$. (Note that one cannot always descend $L$ as shown by the example of a line bundle of order $2$ in $Pic(A)$.)
Since $L$ is nef it follows that $L'$ is also nef, so it is numerically equivalent to an effective line bundle by induction.
(In the sketch above, the class of $L$ modulo numerical equivalence is replaced with a multiple. One can perhaps avoid this by an additional argument.)


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A vote earlier this week put the brakes on a bill to put wine in Tennessee supermarkets.
We caught up with the bill's sponsor, Representative Jon Lundberg of Bristol to hear more.
Just one vote stopped the bill from moving forward to sell wine in supermarkets and convenience stores.
7th District State Representative Matthew Hill voted no to the bill saying he wanted discussion on the topic.
Representative Lundberg tells us the bill is still alive and moving forward in the senate. "The bill could technically come back and this is kind of a parliamentary move, what Hill has to do is make a move to reconsider their actions. I hope he'll do that, time is getting short and that will have to happen soon," said Representative Lundberg.
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You can try the free sprites from hasgraphics. They can be used in commercial and non-commercial projects.
Where can I find free sprites and images? is probably your best bet for finding resources.
Try the pokemon clones.
There is massive community dedicated to recreating the pokemon games from scratch and creating brand new games(new world/ diffrent badges).
A lot of people there create sprites (mainly pokemon based), some will help you and in rare occasions I have seen requests.
All they ask is the rightful credit for there work.
As of now I've decided to prototype with some of the stuff from here. Yes I know their rips from commercial games but I don't plan on distribution of any kind with those sprites.


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Let $(x_n)$ be a sequence in $\mathbb{R^2}$ and $c \in \mathbb{R^2}$.
To show $f$ is continuous we want to show if $(x_n) \to c$, $f(x) \to f(c)$.
As $(x_n) \to c$ we can take $B_\epsilon(c)$, $\epsilon > 0$ such that when $n \geq$ some $N$, $x_n \in B_\epsilon(c)$.
As $x_n \in B_\epsilon(c)$ this implies that $f(x_n) \in f(B_\epsilon(c))$.
This holds for all $\epsilon$, so as $\epsilon \to 0$ and $B_\epsilon(c)$ becomes infinitely small, we can always find $n \geq$ some $N$ such that $x_n \in B_\epsilon(c)$ and $f(x_n) \in f(B_\epsilon(c))$.
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Weeks of speculation came to an end on September 4 with the formal announcement that Will Wolford will take over as St. Xavier High School's football coach beginning in 2013.
Wolford, a 1982 St. X graduate and 13-year NFL veteran, will succeed Mike Glaser, who announced last month that this season – his 31st – would be his last.
Although he's long held an interest in the head coaching position at his alma mater, Wolford admitted he isn't crazy about following Glaser, who has won seven state championships and boasts a 331-74 career record.
"It's not ideal to follow the greatest coach in the history of the school," said Wolford. "I'm the guy following Bear Bryant."
An all-state selection his senior season at St. X, Wolford played at Vanderbilt before an outstanding NFL career at offensive line with the Bills (seven years), Colts (three years) and Steelers (three years). He appeared in three Super Bowls and was a three-time Pro-Bowl selection.
"I know what I'm getting into," Wolford said. "I'll have my finger on every aspect of the job and will never have more fun in my life."
Wolford, 48, plans to keep his job as a financial advisor with the Perrone Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, but is unsure if he will continue as a radio color analyst for the Indianapolis Colts, a position he has held since 2007.
Wolford was an assistant with the freshman team at St. X from 2005-07 and has served on the school's board of directors. After years of close association with St. X, he is keenly aware of its rivalry with another Catholic prep school in the area.
"You mark time by Christmas, you mark time by the Derby, and you mark time by the St. X-Trinity game when you grow up the way I did, so I fully understand the importance of that ballgame," Wolford said.
Trinity has won the last four meetings by a combined score of 166-19 and Wolford said only time will tell if and when the gap can be closed.
"Not only are they the team to beat in Louisville, they are the team to beat in the Midwest," he said "We're just going to have to wait and see."
Meantime, Wolford will be preparing quietly in the wings.
"Until January, I have to be respectful of the fact that this year's team is very good and loaded with some quality seniors. I don't want to be a distraction to them and…the coaching staff," he said.
"When my time comes to take over in January, I'll be ready for it."
Taylor Paulson recorded eight kills and Alyssa Cavanaugh added five more as top-ranked Assumption downed No. 3 Sacred Heart 25-14, 25-19 to win the Louisville Invitational Volleyball Tournament at Ohio Valley Volleyball Center on Sept. 8.
Even after the convincing win, Rockets coach Ron Kordes said there was room for improvement.
"I thought particularly in the first part of that match we were playing not to get beat. We've got to go after people a little bit," said Kordes, whose team has not lost a match since falling to Chattahoochee (Ga.) in last year's LIVT final.
Chattahoochee went 0-3 in this year's event, which featured 14 teams in Kentucky's top 25 and several elite programs from neighboring states.
In the final, Assumption (16-0) rattled off eight points in a row to close the first set, and then raced out to a 5-1 lead in the second before cruising to its 44th straight win.
Defensive specialist Kristen Brashear led the Valkyries with 14 digs and Ashley Askin added seven kills.
Both Assumption and Sacred Heart head to Las Vegas this weekend for the 48-team Durango Fall Classic, one of the country's most prestigious volleyball events. Assumption is the defending champion.
"I can't imagine it's not the strongest high school tournament in the country," said Kordes. "We're going to see some very big people out there – very big teams – and I think we're going to have to play a little more aggressively."
State Tournament Draw
The KHSAA recently held its draw for the state volleyball tournament to be played Oct. 26-27 at Valley High's new J.C. Cantrell Gymnasium.
Region Six – which features No. 2 Mercy and No. 8 Holy Cross – and Region 7 – home of Assumption, Sacred Heart and No. 5 Manual – were drawn into opposite halves of the bracket.
Upper-half pairings:
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15th Region vs. 4th Region
16th Region vs. 11th Region
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Very little is documented about an Ajax proxy URl and API, I have seen things lie
api: { read: view/view/action }
thatetlls me to read the full URL will be constructed bhind the scenes as http://host/view/view.action, and nothing is said about:
- how to specify a hstname by IB in the same subnet
- how to set a port, diferent that the one the home page with the script was loaded
- if SSL is supported in the backend or not
- how to set a timeout
- how the timeout listener is coded
- what is the listener for a bad url or non existing url
- how to ttrace the proxy I/O
I would appreciate any reference to a good doc, wiki or blog, thanks, Carlos
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Have you looked at the docs? http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/4.2.0/#!/api/Ext.data.proxy.Ajax
The api is really just a convenience configuration for telling ExtJS what URL convention you'd like ExtJS to use when making proxy requests.
But as far as the actual configuration of the URL, that's up to you. Since ExtJS is ultimately JS, it's going to assume that the context of the app is where requests should take place. So if you want to specify ports, SSL, etc., you can certainly do that by adding it to the URL that you want your proxy to use for Ajax requests.
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Iran Currency Woes Spark Rare Strike
Protest by Tehran's Powerful Merchant Class Over Weak Rial Erupts Into Wider Demonstration Over Economic Troubles
Protests over the plunging Iranian currency erupted on Wednesday around Tehran's main bazaar, the country's commercial hub, as escalating economic woes become a rising political challenge.
The demonstrations marked the first time in three decades that the conservative merchant classes, a backbone of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, have publicly turned against the government.
Tens of thousands of people, among them merchants, workers, shopkeepers and opposition activists, packed the large squares and streets around the bazaar drawing in security forces to disperse the crowds and make arrests.
Protesters chanted antigovernment slogans and called for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to step down, in the largest public antigovernment gathering since February 2010, when the regime crushed a rising opposition movement.
On Wednesday, most of the shops in the bazaar were closed to honor a strike called by several unions, witnesses said, after Iran's currency lost more than a third of its value against the dollar since the beginning of last week.
Money-exchange shops were closed on Wednesday because of the fluctuating prices, but black-market trade hovered above 40,000 rial to the dollar, down from 23,000 rial to the dollar on Sept. 24.
Protesters chanted "death to the dictator" and called on Iran to end its support of Syria's regime, according to witnesses and videos posted on YouTube. They also said, "Mahmoud, shame on you, let go of politics."
On several occasions, protesters chanted slogans "we don't want nuclear energy," according to a witness—a sign that some blame the Iranian economy's troubles on the regime's uncompromising nuclear policies, which have led to tough international sanctions.
The Obama administration said this week that the Iranian government was to blame for the rial's plunge, for refusing to bow to international pressure over its nuclear program.
Iranian officials have spread the blame for the currency's devaluation. Critics of Mr. Ahmadinejad accuse him of fiscal mismanagement. Mr. Ahmadinejad, after blaming Iran's central bank during a news conference in New York last week, publicly defended his administration on Tuesday. Instead he blamed the crisis on a ring of illegal currency traders as well as U.S. and European Union sanctions on Iran's oil industry and central bank.
Traders in Tehran blame the rial's decline in large part on recent moves by Iran's central bank. The bank put new limits on the availability of dollars at its subsidized rate of 12,260 rials, and opened a currency exchange center in Tehran intended to sell at close to black-market rates—sparking a public panic, according to traders.
Iran's merchant class continues to wield significant political influence, though since the days when it supported the Iranian revolution in 1979 its power has declined somewhat, as the Iranian state—in particular the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps—has become dominant in the national economy.
Most trade unions that operate in the bazaar, including textile, home appliance and jeweler unions, said on Wednesday they had called for a strike to show concern about the currency, as fluctuations have forced sellers and buyers to delay deals to adjust prices to the new rates.
The protest quickly turned political, as members of the public joined in to air their bottled-up grievances. Inflation and cuts in state subsidies have made life tougher for many Iranians. With prices already high for food and transportation, inflation appeared likely to grow further as prices come in line with new currency rates.
"It's now about bread and butter in Iran, not just democracy and free speech, so it makes it much tougher for the regime to control the anger," said Roozbeh Mirebrahimi, an Iran expert based in New York.
Some protesters on Wednesday also lashed out at Iran's support for Syria's regime by chanting "Leave Syria alone, think of us." Many Iranians resent their government's financial and military support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, saying the funds could be better used to improve their livelihoods.
On Wednesday, riot police and other security forces tried to disperse the crowd using tear gas and batons, witnesses said. Opposition websites reported 150 arrests. Security forces also raided black-market currency traders in downtown Tehran.
It was unclear whether the protests would spread further in the coming days or lead to any policy shifts by the government. A text message was circulating on Wednesday night calling on the public to join the merchants in a demonstration on Thursday morning on Tehran's Revolution Avenue, the historical epicenter of political unrest.
Calls for nationwide strikes and more protests filled Iranian blogs and social-networking sites such as Facebook with one blogger saying, "given the regime's weak economic spot, any movement on our part could deliver a big blow."
Some analysts said the government would have to move fast and announce some remedy to calm the bazaar merchants and prevent the unrest from spreading. One opposition website reported protests in the bazaar in Mashhad, a religious conservative city in northeast Iran.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking to a group of students on Wednesday, didn't mention the protests against the economy but warned that Iran would emerge from the economic pressures stronger than ever.
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Shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset. Sharptails, ruffed grouse and Huns each have a daily limit of three and a possession limit of 12.
Hunters, regardless of age, must have a fishing, hunting and furbearer certificate and general game and habitat license. In addition, hunters age 16 and older need a small game license.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is asking grouse hunters for help with bird management by simply collecting some feathers from harvested birds and sending in wing envelopes this fall.
Wing data allows biologists to monitor production, reconcile bird counts and get a better understanding of the harvest ratio of males to females, and juveniles to adults.
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The number of pheasant hunters and total birds taken were lower in 2013 than in 2012, according to statistics released by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department.
Last year, more than 76,000 hunters (down 11 percent) harvested 447,000 roosters (down 27 percent). In 2012, nearly 86,000 hunters took 616,000 roosters.
Birds bagged per hunter decreased from 7.2 to 5.8, and each hunter spent an average of 4.8 days afield.
North Dakota's dove season opens statewide Sept. 1, and hunters are reminded to register with the Harvest Information Program prior to hunting.
The daily limit is 15 and possession limit is 45. Shooting hours are 30 minutes before sunrise to sunset. The season is open through Nov. 9.
All dove hunters must possess a fishing, hunting and furbearer certificate and a general game and habitat license, regardless of age. In addition, hunters ages 16 and older need a small game license.
The North Dakota Community Action Sportsmen Against Hunger program is again accepting donations of goose meat taken during the early Canada goose season. However, Canada geese can only be accepted through Aug. 31.
Similar to last year, hunters can bring in their goose meat to participating processors. However, hunters must remove the breast meat from the birds before processors can accept them.
State Game and Fish Department employee Gene Van Eeckhout, and the late Dean Hildebrand, former agency director, were recent inductees into the North Dakota Fishing Hall of Fame.
Van Eeckhout, southeast district fisheries supervisor and 38-year veteran of the Department, was cited for his unselfish dedication to his job and community.
"It is truly special to be recognized with this group of people," Van Eeckhout said. "I have known or had the pleasure of working with 18 out of the 23 who are in the Hall of Fame."
North Dakota's deer archery season opens Friday, Aug. 29 at noon, and bowhunters are reminded that deer bow licenses and accompanying tags are only available through electronic purchase.
Hunters are reminded that hunting big game over bait is prohibited on all state owned or managed wildlife management areas, all U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service national wildlife refuges and waterfowl production areas, U.S. Forest Service national grasslands, and all North Dakota state school, state park and state forest service lands.
The governor's proclamation relating to chronic wasting disease also includes a provision that prohibits hunting big game over bait on both public and private land in deer unit 3C west of the Missouri River, and all of units 3E1, 3E2, 3F1 and 3F2.
North Dakota's fall turkey season is set with 3,805 licenses available to hunters, 215 fewer than last year.
Prospective hunters, including gratis applicants, can apply online, or print out an application to mail, at the State Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov. Paper applications will be available by Aug. 22 from Game and Fish offices, county auditors and license vendors. The deadline for applying is Sept. 3.
North Dakota's 2014 waterfowl season has been set, with noteworthy changes including a daily bag of one canvasback during the season, and an additional two blue-winged teal during the first 16 days of the season.
Opening day for North Dakota residents is Sept. 27 for ducks, geese, coots and mergansers. Nonresidents may begin hunting waterfowl in North Dakota Oct. 4. The season for swans opens Oct. 4 for both residents and nonresidents.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's Private Land Open To Sportsmen Guide for 2014 is now available online at the Department's website, gf.nd.gov. In addition, PLOTS Guides will be available at most license vendors throughout the state in early September.
The number of anglers buying fishing licenses in North Dakota continues to increase, as 2013-14 is the second consecutive year a new record for license sales has been established.
Statistics compiled by the Game and Fish Department revealed more than 219,000 fishing licenses were sold last year, an increase of 1,000 from 2012-13. A record total of 160,100 resident and 59,300 nonresident fishing licenses were sold last year.


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Is it proper to conduct a mi'shebeirach prayer (which is a prayer normally said by a synagogue official, at a communal Torah reading, for the health and recovery of a sick person) for the health/recovery of a sick animal? I have never seen such a prayer conducted for an animal, but I'm unsure if this is because it is improper to do so or simply that no one where I pray has thought to do this for their pets (if they have ones).
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Rav Shach once said that in order to make a Mi Sheberach one needs to know the mother's name. It is most common that one does not know the name of his animal's mother. In addition Rav Shach implied that it is inappropiate to do so.
I heard Rabbi Dr. Barry Fruendel, shlita, speak on the topic of mishaberachs, generally. He pointed out that the formality of using a name to pray for someone's health was unknown in the days of the Torah. When Moses prayed for Miriam's cure from her leprosy, he just said "Heal her now." Num. 12:13 -- no name was used. Nothing stops us from praying for a cure for a person's health without using their full Hebrew name. Based on that analysis, I would say that there is nothing that prevents us from praying that G-d heal our animal. But without a Hebrew name, going through the ritual of a mishaberach seems like a waste of the congregation's time.


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So I'm working on a puzzle game in flash. For all intents and purposes it's like Tetris. I spawn blocks, they move around the screen, then they get destroyed and disappear. I was having some trouble with the memory usage being too high over time so I read up on memory management and I think I have that figured out now. It's definitely climbing slower than it was before, but the framerate is still taking a huge dive after playing for a while. If it's not a memory leak what else could be causing this? Thanks in advance.
Either 2 of these it think:
-Your algorithm, even though simplistic, is flawed and is doing more work than necessary. Memory leaks are nearly impossible in AS3 unless you loose an object that holds a reference to an object you can't reach anymore ( like Events that aren't destroyed and never have their weak flag set to true).
This combined with the above one can really tear down the performance.
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Title says it all. I've been searching for the best way of collecting macrofaunal priapulids and would like advice on sampling methods and particularly sampling tools. Since large priapulids are usually found in low densities any form of grab-sampler would probably be inefficient and a dredge/trawl would be preferred. Any ideas on what tool(s) would sample at the right depth and filter efficiently?
My first question would be is there any external indication of them such as air holes or anything else that you can assess from the surface? I would think that if there is, you could use transects and a quadrat. If you need to dive for them you can obviously make a weighted quadrat by filling pvc pipe with sand and gluing it together. Then take an area and lay out transects and and randomly choose different lengths along each transect to put the quadrat down and that will give you an estimate of density. If you actually need to extract them from the mud, I imagine that varies by species and you could make due with a grab sampler of the right size, something on the small end I would imagine. That way you aren't dredging up tons and tons of mud to sort through. If they are even rarer than I imagine, you could just lay out transects and swim them until you see something and do away with the quadrat. Hope this helps.


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I'm taking a mobile phone app development class, and will be making custom apps using Xcode. I'm able to run the app from Xcode on my iPhone 4 no problem, however when I disconnect the phone from the Mac, I'm unable to run the program anymore. I'm wondering how install the app so that I can run it.
You are required to possess the $99/yr developer account with Apple. Without it, you'll lack the sufficient certificates to have the app permanently installed on your device.
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I'd like to know of any natural undecidable (not independent!) families of questions in the theory of ZF or ZFC where the questions seem naturally to belong to set theory qua set theory.
(This follows up on my question The purview or scope of set theory qua set theory which didn't get much traction.)
I don't know how to formalize the distinction here-- I'd appreciate help there too -- but I wouldn't accept, say, "the word problem in finitely presented groups" because that has nothing directly to do with the sort of things set theorists usually talk about: higher cardinalities, ordinals, filters, elementary embeddings, etc.,
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So we have such situation:
In this illustration, the first quadrilateral is shown on the Image Plane and the second quadrilateral is shown on the World Plane. [1]
In my particular case the Image Plane has 3 quadrilaterals - projections of real world squares, which, as we know, have same size, lying on the same plane, with same rotation relative to the plane they are lying on, and are not situated on same line on plane.
I wonder if we can get rotation angles of Image Plane to World Plane knowing stuff described?
In my case as input I have such data structures: original image (RGB pixels), objects (squares) with angles points in pixels (x,y) on Image Plane.
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I have discovered some of the remodel cans (Halo/Elite) that I had an electrician install have broken clips (the clips that hold the can to the drywall). Are these easy to replace or does the entire can need to be replaced? What would cause them to break? (e.g. sloppy installation, defective). Is it easy to unclip and remove the cans? I'd like to get my facts straight before I go back to the electrician.
You should be able to replace the clips. They slide in from the inside and then get mooshed against the side to stay put. Just unmoosh the old ones, slide them out, and slide in the new ones.
Of course, that won't keep the new clips from busting on you.
Removing the cans is just as easy. Pop out the old clips, slip the can down through the hole, wiggle it sideways to pull the built-in box through, open that up and untwist the wires. You can then install whatever alternative can you'd like.
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I had a question asking when is 3 a seventh power modulo a prime $p$ if $p=1(7)$. However, I tried to find just one example using mathematica but I went up to primes in the thousands and I still couldn't find an example, so I began thinking this was a trick question.
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For printed drafts of my papers, I would like to add a timestamp on every page with the date/time when the document was last compiled. Is there any LaTeX command that produces the current date/time at compile time? Even better, is there any package that already solves my problem?
One can use
Expanding on Grigory's answer, here's a MWE. To get the date and time in a reasonable format, I found that I wanted the most recent version of datetime, which is dated 2010/02/06 (the version that is on my system - from TeXLive 2009 - is dated 2007). Using the default options for date and time format made the information too long (as it is, I decided it was better to shift the page number from the centre to the left).
If for some reason you can't use the 2010 version (or can't be sure that coworkers have it), a solution that works on the older
This later version also keeps the pagestyle closer to the
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I am building a phonegap app that needs to scale to all resolutions, and am thus defining everything in terms of percentages. I'm also using a fixed header with a div I defined in Jquery as the contents.
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How fast would most people say they play through a season? I have been playing my first season for a few days now. I guess i don't play very fast? Does everyone sim through their games or something?
How fast would most people say they play through a season? I have been playing my first season for a few days now. I guess i don't play very fast? Does everyone sim through their games or something?
I've had this since Christmas and am in March 2015...
In one way it is fast as I holiday through matches, but in others it's slow because a) I agonise over transfers during the off season and January, and b) I have limited time to play each week. I'm in the pre-season for my 3rd year and have been playing for about 6 weeks.
depends, it gets slower and slower every season, due to newgen hunting, more spam in mailbox
A season takes about 15 hours gameplay. Can usually do one season a week and two if I can get away with it(although I usually don't).
I used to take as long as you. Then i made two changes:
1) Edited the comps.fmf and made every league round robin (teams play each other once instead of twice)
2) Set the "Continue Game Timeout" to 5 seconds (only stopping when something interests me)
Now i can get through a season in a little more than a day (not playing all day, of course!)
EDIT: I've seen some people post that they holiday "until next match." DONT DO IT!
I tried this, and the game holidayed through a Cup match that hadn't been drawn yet! To explain, i holidayed right after a cup win, holidaying until next match, which was a league match in a week and a half. During that time, the next round of the Cup had been drawn, and scheduled for a couple days before the league match, so i missed it and lost!
Continue game timeout is much better, as it won't continue the game if a response is required (for example, you have to submit your team for an upcoming match, or you have a transfer bid waiting). You can even set it to "instant," which is essentially holidaying until next match, because you can't do anything before Continue is pressed automatically.
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Chas, even on instant you can stop when it scrolls through your inbox. The biggest issue with instant is you can lose your staff. I also change processing to "can't be interrupted" in preferances. Matches are by far the most time consuming for me. I only holiday from the last match until start of transfer window.
Takes about 24 to 30 hours a season.
It takes me about 2,5-3 calender days days to complete a season. But I'm playing FM08.
It takes me bloody ages to play due to work, family and OCD'ly obsessing over details.
I got the game for Xmas and I'm currently in March 2014 of my first save...
Blimey Marty - only 15 hours per season?! It probably takes me that long to get through the closed/pre-season, what with friendlies/tours, transfers/contracts, scouting internationals.
I'd say that I take about two or three weeks for a season, minimum, and that's with spending a lot of time on the game.
it all depends on the team i am playing with. In my current save i've given a lot of thought to how i want to setup my arsenal team. They're not favorites to win the league so a little more attenion is required...this can be scaled up for instance when i managed Brighton in an earlier saved game, and scaled down when i managed Barcelona. All depends on the team and how hard the challenge is. Although i never holiday through matches no matter how easy the game is...mainly due to being a total control freak but more to do with not wanting to lose points or exit cups through the stupidity of my ass man.
it depends. i play some matches, i read, watch irl matches, i even watched a lost match in fm full length recently. Takes about 15 hours of gameplay a season when starting a new save.
35 hours go gameplay equals one season for me, I do spend a lot of time waiting around while the computer processes data though, so a faster computer would speed me up no end.
I holiday match day, so i could get through a season in 4-5 hours
I easily get through 3 seasons a day when I'm up for it. I do sim most matches once I've built up my squad though.
I'm in November of 2012 and I've been playing that save since late November of last year. The total game time is 24 days, but that also includes a lot of dead time when leaving the game running while away etc. I do play incredibly slow as I spend a lot of time scouting for and monitoring youth prospects and potential signings. In addition, I also manage the youth squad to better manage playing time. It adds a lot of additional enjoyment to see them succeed, and I am much more attached to them than I would be otherwise. I do also watch most of the games in full replay, unless it's a blowout in which case I switch to just key highlights.
If I stopped checking my shortlists and looking for transfers constantly, I'd probably take around 50-60 hours to run through a season, with a large chunk of that being spent actually playing the games.
The only time i stop it often is at the end of the season when i want to make sure i sort out contracts/new signings/friendlies/etc. Otherwise, i just hit Continue and browse other windows until i remember i was playing FM...then go back and see that the game is waiting for me to submit my match day squad
I'm playing only one match a day (but I watch whole match).
So I'm playing a season over a month. Sometimes longer.
For example now I'm playing as Wellington Phoenix and New Zealand national team manager (in 2011), so I'm playing 50-55 matches a season (including the league, final series, Asian Champions League and international matches). So now for me the season = almost two months of playing (i'm playing my career from September).
I think I do a season in about 10-15 hours. I don't sign any players (use youth only) and play my matches on the second (third maybe?) highest speed. If I'm knocked out of Europe I sometimes use commentary only and get the second half of the season done in a couple of hours. It's the first half of the season that always takes the longest.
I average about 18 hours a season, but I tend to speed up as I get into a game as I start signing less players and switch the 3D view off and stick to commentary only.
The first season at a club takes around 20 hours due to player and staff selection, traning, tactics, scouts. The following take around 14.
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my speed depends on how many tactical changes I need to make, transfer, contract offers etc. I never holiday though. as for game, I watch the key highlights during the game with it as one click off top speed
Takes me a while to get through a single season. I have a habit of not playing for a few days after a good win because I dread losing the next match. It hinders me, to be honest.
how do you set this continue game timeout?
I play it way too fast and it really hurts my results, every time i start a new save i say to myself, okay now i'm going to play this one on detail but always end up rushing things..
Does anyone else happen to rotate a goalkeeper for europe/cups and then forget about him and leave him on for an important match? This happens to me all the time.
11 seasons gone, 9,5 days of game time passed, about 20 hours per season.
I should also point out that I get a slightly geeky thrill out of going through and creating my line-up for each match.
Takes me approx 30 minutes to play each game . I got the game a week before xmas and now on my 4th season . I prefer to watch the games and make adjustments as necessary to my team . Holidaying through the matches seems to be pointless to me as thats why I play it to actually manage my team .
Takes me around 20 hours, more or less. If it took any longer than this I probably wouldn't bother playing the game anymore. At a pace of 20 hours per season I can get through a season a week if I play a few hours each day and complete a 30-40 season career each FM version. If each version of FM gets more and more tedious I'll probably stop at some point as you'd need to make the game a full time job to have a career journeyman type save.
I am surprised to see the different camps regarding holidays, the hardcores (Continue Game Timeout), the devout (no vacation) and the slackers (vacation through games).
I can't watch every game in full because I will get too frustrated and probably start micromanaging/start changing tactics too quickly. Watching key highlights I always feel that each highlight is trying to tell me something, that my team is doing well, that a player of theirs is getting the better of us, etc. I consider it the same as having my fingers on the pulse of the game. If the opposition are getting forward in number then I don't ask myself "Is that smart of them?" I just immediately switch to the Counter, and 'Get Ball forward'. Works a freaking charm. I was never a fan of long ball tactics, but now the smart long ball is one of my favorite passes to witness.
I tend to scout A LOT. Not just for future players, but scouting the opposition. I want to know all the top players in the game (its 2034 so its not Kun and Messi and Hazard and co. any more), and I like to think about why it is that those players aren't on my team (usually because they lack one key attribute, top 5 in general are determination, decisions, anticipation, pace or strength, or they are aging). Then I think "what do I have to do if I face them?" Watch out for a pacy striker, hence defend deep and don't man mark him, watch out for a star midfielder, neutralize him by playing my best physical midfielder against him, exploit their LB, RB, CB with no pace... You can't tell how the opposition will line up 6 months ahead of time, but you can look at the opposition and think, what squad would I select, if I was their manager? Who would be crucial to the teams success?
Teams have started playing 4-1-2-1-2 against me a lot, probably because most teams have better AM (and 2nd strikers)than wingers in general. And my team plays a little more than average width, an asymmetrical 4-3-3 (LW, CF, CF). But I have so many Mf who also play Dmf that when someone lines up 4-1-2-1-2 and their star players are the front three, I just immediately plug one of the mids into Defensive midfield, and its like putting a plug in a drain, their offense basically stops functioning!
So yeah, for me, thorough scouting of my opposition and potential transfers is a big time consumer, my next favorite is player development (only downside is my squad can get a bit too big) and seeing players reach their prime, after usually what, 4 or 5 seasons of grooming! I love looking back at a players career, and seeing "Oh yeah, I signed him at 18 for $4m, and I considered it a tad expensive!"
1 season usually takes me a week and a half, that is usually bout 1-2 hours per evening when the kids are in bed
I spend a lot of time on scouting our newgens and future prospects, ensuring my youth and reserve team players are playing and developing the way I hope they would. Match wise, I just use the commentary as it is more fun in my opinion as it takes me back to the days of CM2.
In terms of a season, it usually takes me around 25-30 hours as I can only really play after work and it's usually when the football is on tv so always have my eye on that at the same time


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Sometimes I don't need to have a specific picture size, but for layout reasons I would like to scale the image so that the rest of the page is filled. How can I achieve that?
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You can use TikZ for that. In allows you to calculate the amount of the rest of the page. Note that this needs two compiler runs to work. Here my solution for Stretching a framebox over the whole page adapted to include an image instead of a frame-box. Because this isn't 100% trivial for beginners (of LaTeX and/or TikZ) I think this isn't a duplicate.
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In ConTeXt, one can measure the space remaining on a page using
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To scale the dimension of the figure until the width equals the text width or the height equals the remaining space, use:
As Martin Scharrer pointed out, the same idea also works with LaTeX:
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Informally, an $A_\infty$-space is a monoid whose laws are only satisfied up to homotopy.
Let's define now what I will call a "homotopic monoid" to be a space $M$ together with a point $e\in{}M$ and a multiplication $m:M\times {}M\to{}M$ with the monoid laws satisfied "up to a path". More precisely, if $F$ is the fibration over $M^3$ such that the fiber over $(x,y,z)$ is the space of paths (in $M$) going from $m(m(x,y),z)$ to $m(x,m(y,z))$, then I want a section of this fibration (the section is part of the structure of homotopic monoid). And of course I want the same thing for the laws with $e$.
At least from the point of view of homotopy type theory, this is a very natural homotopy-theoretic generalization of the notion of monoid (we just replaced equality by existence of a path).
My questions are:
- Do those "homotopic monoids" have already been studied somewhere?
- What is the relationship between an $A_\infty$-space structure and a homotopic monoid structure? I think it is easy to prove that every $A_\infty$ space has a homotopic monoid structure, but I'm not sure of the converse.


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On economic issues, the Council stressed the importance of achieving stable, reasonable oil prices that balance the needs of both producing and consuming countries.
In the field of security, the Council stressed that the GCC renounces all forms of terrorism. It called for boosting international anti-terror cooperation by exchanging information, preventing the use of a country's soil to prepare, plan or incite terrorist activities and extraditing individuals who are involved in terrorist activity.
Concerning the violence in Gaza, the leaders of the GCC states vowed to put pressure on the permanent members of the UN Security Council to end the crisis. The Supreme Council expressed deep concern over the blatant Israeli aggression and the large numbers of casualties. It called on all Palestinian factions to unite at this critical juncture.
The Council expressed hope that US President-elect Barack Obama will pay close attention to the Middle East peace process and work towards establishing a viable Palestinian state, coexisting in peace beside Israel. It confirmed the readiness of the Arab states to realize a just, permanent and comprehensive peace with Israel based upon the principle of Land for Peace.
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On Iraq, the Council stressed the importance of Iraqi unity, sovereignty and independence from foreign interference. The communiqué called for expediting the process of national reconciliation.


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Overland Park fire officials say a man was seriously injured in an awning collapse apparently caused by the heavy weight of snow.
The Overland Park Fire Department says in a release that crews were called to a condominium building Thursday night and found the man unconscious under the collapsed awning. The man was taken an area hospital and was reported in serious condition. His name was not released.
The department says it believes the collapse occurred because of a heavy load of snow on the awning, and that neighbors reported a similar collapse Wednesday. The Kansas City area has been hit two major snowfalls in less than a week, leaving some snow accumulations up to more than a foot.
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I'm looking for a name of a property of which I have a few examples:
$(1) \quad\color{green}{\text{even number}}+\color{red}{\text{odd number}}=\color{red}{\text{odd number}}$
$(2) \quad \color{green}{\text{rational number}}+\color{red}{\text{irrational number}}=\color{red}{\text{irrational number}}$
$(3) \quad\color{green}{\text{algebraic number}}+\color{red}{\text{transcendental number}}=\color{red}{\text{transcendental number}}$
$(4) \quad\color{green}{\text{real number}}+\color{red}{\text{non-real number}}=\color{red}{\text{non-real number}}$
If I were to generalise, this, I'd say that if we partition a set $X$ into two subsets $S$ and $S^c=X\setminus S$, then the sum of a member of $S$ and a member of $S^c$ is always in either $S^c$ or $S$.
My question is:
"Is there a name for this property (in these four cases) and is this property true in general?"
Also, does anyone have any more examples of this property?


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I frequently see statements that refer to something later in the text that use a phrase such as "the below information". Is it more correct instead to say "the information below" (or "the following information")?
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As a preposition, "below" would be written after "information" as a stranded preposition. While typically prepositions would precede the noun, stranded prepositions can occur "in interrogative or relative clauses, where the interrogative or relative pronoun that is the preposition's complement is moved to the start".
We see such a stranded preposition in the case of "the information below," and therefore the preposition follows it. By contrast, in the case of "the following information", an adjective is used to describe the noun and therefore may precede it.
In short, "the below information" is not generally accepted to be correct, because "below" is not universally acknowledged as an adjective. Nevertheless, some dictionaries specifically list this as an exception.
Merriam-Webster lists a relevant definition:
Given this, there is nothing wrong with "the below information".
An Ngram reveals which is more common...
"He lives on the below floor" or "He lives on the floor below"? -- If not grammar, at least usage is against the first mentioned way of saying it.
The fact that the dictionary lists the word 'below' as an adjective doesn't mean it's correct. Dictionaries are a reflection of usage, both correct and incorrect. The reason that the word 'below' may be listed as an adjective reflects the overwhealming incorrect usage of the word. To make proper use of a language, one shoud use forms that have always been deemed correct and not use incorrect forms that have become the norm. Why 'dumb down' our language?
Usage of the former is often seen in a corporate communication when the author wishes to add a degree of formality or authority to the explanation. For example, 'see data in the below table'. Ironic, really, as instead of adding gravitas it results in the author sounding generic and bland.
Personally, I think it sounds unnatural, and forced, as it is rarely used in speech. You'd never, for example, respond to a query as to where a physical item was in relation to another by saying it 'is on the below shelf'.
One of those phrases used in a corporate context that doesn't exist in real life.
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I had a simple looking math problem the other day:
Solve for $y(x) = 0$: $$ 10^{2x} - 101 \cdot 10^x + 100 = 0$$
Since I have three summands, I cannot just put them to either side of the equation and apply $\log_{10}$ to it. And I cannot see how I could factor this to get it into a product to use $\log_{10}$.
Mathematica gave me $x = 2$ as a result which seems correct. How can I find the solution to this one? It is supposed to be an elementary problem for an applied math class.


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Before I start, here is my setup: Ubuntu 12.04.1 Default install of Qtcreator from Software Center.
For the rest, I' m doing all the thing from qtcreator
I wanted to try some examples from QT Assistant : Home > QtWebKit QML Module ;
the code is as simple as follow :
import QtWebKit 1.0
WebView {
url: "http://www.nokia.com"
preferredWidth: 490
preferredHeight: 400
scale: 0.5
smooth: false
and the error I'm getting is the one below
Qml debugging is enabled. Only use this in a safe environment!
file:///home/cyrildz/Public/Programming/UbuntuQml/UbuntuQml.qml:1:1: module "QtWebKit" is not installed
import QtWebKit 1.0
I got this error from qtcreator and this prevent me from running the example.
To set Qt5 on my desktop , I took the description from http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/
that is :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-beta1 && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qt5-meta-full && echo 'export PATH=/opt/qt5/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
and then :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qt-components-ubuntu qt-components-ubuntu-demos qt-components-ubuntu-examples qt-components-ubuntu-doc notepad-qml
For more info, I looked on the folder : /usr/lib/qt4/imports and i don't see anything relevant for the module QtWebkit1.0. Could someone please help with this issue ?


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Let $X_1$ and $X_2$ be two cones over the hawaiian earring and let $X$ be the wedge sum of $X_1$ and $X_2$ (of course you join them in the special point of the hawaiian earring). How do you prove that $X$ is not contractible? Thanks
See the proof of Theorem 2.6 of
A copy of this paper is available on the second author's webpage here.
The space you are talking about is sometimes called the Griffiths space. As Henry Horton suggests, to prove it is not contractible you can show the fundamental group is non-trivial (even though its Cech homotopy groups are trivial). The reference already given is a good one though I'll add that Griffith was the first to show this in
H. B. Griffiths, The fundamental group of two spaces with a common point, Quart. J. Math. 5 (1954), 175-190.
Another discussion on non-contractible one-point unions of simply connected spaces is in
K. Eda, A locally simply connected space and fundamental groups of one point unions of cones, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 116 No. 1 (1992) 239-249.


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my wordpress isn't in root but it is in public_html/home and then I would like make multi-site and subdomain.
example when I create subdomain name "foo.domain.com" foo directory is created in public_html which path is public_html/foo. but when I make multi-site in wordpress which Site Address will be started www.domain.com/home and when I enter foo name. I just get path is www.domain.com/home/foo
Can I make subdomain and mutisite that they aren't in root webpath?


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Hi I am new to both programing and the forum, I wish this one to be very learning experience for me.
getch() function before the return statement of the main function and you should see the window not disappear until you press any key.
getch() is defined in conio.h file and so may need to include the header file as well.


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Take the graded algebra $A=\mathbb C[a_1,a_2,a_3,\dots]$ with grading given by $\deg a_{i}=2i$. Let $a(t)$ be the generating function for generators ($a(t)=a_1t+a_2t^2+\cdots\in A[[t]]$). What is the quotient of $A$ by relations, generating function of which is given by $a(t)^2$ — i.e. is there some nice description of the graded algebra $$ \mathbb C[a_1,a_2,a_3,\dots]/(a(t)^2=0):=\mathbb C[a_1,a_2,a_3,\dots]/(a_1^2,2a_1a_2,2a_1a_3+a_2^2,\dots,\sum_{i+j=k}a_ia_j,\dots)? $$ What about Hilbert series, at least?
Upd (from off-site communications). Feigin-Stoyanovsky looks relevant: the algebra in question appears in theorem 2.2.1 as some representation of $\widehat{sl}_2$, and formula 2.3.3 tells that Hilbert series is exactly $G(q)$ of Rogers-Ramanujan. Mysterious but interesting.


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Ms. Eden has graciously offered the winner of today's daily prize an Arc of her upcoming release Angel Betrayed from Kensington Brava.
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Sammael–call him Sam–was an angel once. An Angel of Death. But the dispassionate, watch-from-above thing just wasn't working for him when it meant watching evil torture innocent souls day in and day out. It might have cost him his wings, but these days he gets to apply the direct method on the bad guys. Problem is, what's making his life difficult is a bad girl…
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And at AAD, not only will I get to visit my favorite city, but I will get to hang out with romance readers! People who love the books that I love. How can it get any better than that?
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Ali: Who are your favorite literary characters? (Yours or someone else's)
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Hello this is a question.
I saw this line of code:
I told the coder that is wrong, he should use & instead. He insisted it is correct. He finaly showed me a screenshot with his line on visual studio, with no error or anything. Since when vb.NET used + for concatenation? Is there any other explanation?
I saw this line of code:
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Exadata X3, 126.96.36.199 and Oracle Platinum Services
By Rene Kundersma-Oracle on Sep 30, 2012
Oracle recently announced an Exadata Hardware Update. The overall architecture will remain the same, however some interesting
hardware refreshes are done especially for the storage server. Each cell will now have 1600GB of flash, this means an X3-2
full rack will have 20.3 TB of total flash ! For all the details I would
like to refer to the Oracle Exadata product page: www.oracle.com/exadata
Together with the announcement of the X3 generation. A new Exadata release, 126.96.36.199 is made available. New Exadata systems will be shipped with this release and existing installations can be updated to that release. As always there is a storage cell patch and a patch for the compute node, which again needs to be applied using YUM.
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By default all compute nodes that will be updated to 220.127.116.11.0 will now have the UEK kernel. Before 18.104.22.168.0 the 'compatible kernel' was used for all compute nodes other than X2-8. For 188.8.131.52.0 customer will have the choice to replace the UEK kernel with the Exadata standard 'compatible kernel' which is also in the ULN 22.214.171.124 channel. Recommended is to use the kernel that is installed by default.
One of the other great new things 188.8.131.52 brings is Writeback Flashcache (wbfc). By default wbfc is disabled after the upgrade to 22.214.171.124. Enable wbfc after patching on the storage servers of your test environment and see the improvements this brings for your applications.
Writeback FlashCache can be enabled by dropping the existing FlashCache, stopping the cellsrv process and changing the FlashCacheMode
attribute of the cell. Of course stopping cellsrv can only be done in a
controlled manner.
- drop flashcache
- alter cell shutdown services cellsrv
- again, cellsrv can only be stopped in a controlled manner
Going back to WriteThrough FlashCache is also possible, but only after flushing the FlashCache:
- alter cell flashcache all flush
Last item I like to highlight in particular is already from a while ago, but a great thing to emphasis: Oracle Platinum Services. On top of the remote fault monitoring with faster response times Oracle has included update and patch deployment services.These services are delivered by Oracle Advanced Customer Support at no additional costs for qualified Oracle Premier Support customers.
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When we arrive on the first day of the Death Row Dogs training program inmates are in the community room of the prison meeting the dogs they will work with for the next eight weeks.
John Smithers is at the Green River Correctional Complex for attempted murder and first degree burglary. This is his first time as a trainer in the death row dogs program.
John says: "I don't really know what to expect. There's a lot to it."
Jon and his cellmate, Vernon Keaton, are waiting for Rico to arrive. Rico is the dog that will share the cell with Jon and Vernon for the next eight weeks.
John says: "He's a little Chihuahua. A little tri-colored. It's a real small dog. It's been abused and stuff so it's real scared. We're going to have to work with it a lot. A lot of love and care and it will turn around."
Finally Rico arrives...
"This yours? Yeah. Oh."
After meeting the dogs they are taken for baths and fitted for leashes and harnesses. And then it's back to the cell where they get to know each other even better.
Rico immediately makes himself at home. Jon knows there is a lot of hard work ahead of him.
Jon says: "Take it one day at a time... Move step by step."
But he's ready for the challenge and he says he wants to help Rico have a second chance, while proving to the outside world that he can change.
Jon says: "It makes me feel really good about myself. I mean, we're still locked up. And we still have to do the time for the crime that we committed, but if we can help to make a difference for the outside, while we're in here, then that's good."