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I've been asked to make some fairly significant changes to our web site, but the site will overall have the same feel. I'm wondering if I should modify the current customized Genesis child theme, or if I should create a new child them. Any thoughts?
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I do agree with Aaron's thoughts on "It all depends on the amount of changes required".
Still. I would use a slightly different work-flow. Meaning:
This way you get both worlds: You get to have a brand new child theme and get to keep all the useful modifications you have already so hard worked for. And the best deal? You can try it out without loosing a single visitor when combined with a plugin like Theme Test Drive or even try them out from your Appearance->Themes screen.
You can even have 2 or 3 or 5 child themes with minor modifications.
Hope that helps, marikamitsos
It all depends on the amount of changes required, as well as whether or not you plan on keeping the theme you'll be editing 'up-to-date' with the theme author's releases. If, however, its a custom built theme, then I'd stick with the child theme you're in.
Generally it'll be quicker and easier to modify the theme you're in then create a child theme of a child theme and try to have changes passed back or run the risk of completely overwriting files like header.php.


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In 'the old days' there were distinct differences between different sizes of trucks: light trucks had a small engine and were intended for light loads on good roads. Medium duty trucks were the link between light and heavy-duty trucks, and primarily intended for distribution transport only, while heavy-duty trucks were intended for a wide variety of purposes, from construction-site tasks to long-distance transport.
Mixing a number of great features
Today, the improved efficiency of engines even of smaller size together with computer-aided-design mean that it is possible to design 'smaller' trucks which can perform heavy-duty tasks, at least as long as no trailer is attached to the truck.
At the time the F6S was introduced it was mostly the heavier family member 'F7' which was the focus of the attention. But the F6S was in fact a very interesting truck, where Volvo had created a mix of a medium-duty chassis, rugged design and a very efficient turbocharged engine with a performance well in excess of its formal engine capacity.
A "small" heavy-duty truck
The F6S was a close relative of the F6 truck presented in 1975. The chassis was fairly similar to the design of the heaviest F6 version (F613/F614) but strengthened even more. Even though the F6S was considered as a powerful medium-duty truck, its formal GVW of 16,000 kg (earlier 15,500 kg) meant that it was strictly speaking a heavy-duty truck, but intended for a smaller range of transport applications than the more powerful Volvo trucks with larger engines.
Normally, the F6S was only marketed as a two-axle truck for distribution operations, but its very low kerb weight was utilized in places like the UK, where the F6S was used also for construction site transport, and was even tried in three-axle model with successful results.
Developed in cooperation
The cab was identical with the day cab of the F7 truck, and closely related to the F4/F6 cab, but wider. It had also, in fact, been developed in cooperation within the 'Club of Four', but it was only Volvo and Renault that used this particular wide, cab version. The Volvo cab was of course stronger than the Renault version, and was designed to withstand the severe Swedish cab safety test regulations. The engine was identical to the engine in the most powerful F6 truck. It was, of course, direct-injected and turbocharged.
The F6S was only produced in the ultra-modern assembly facility in Oostakker, Belgium, in parallel with the F4/F6 trucks. It was superseded by the strongest version of the FL6 in 1985.


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By Ben Deatherage
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The Cottage Grove Speedway will have an open competition Street Stock race this Saturday June 15th. Management would like to extend an invitation of all Street Stocks in the area to attend this race. Classes that will also be in action include 360 Sprints, Late Models, Northwest Extreme Sprints, and Pro-4's. Only Cottage Grove Speedway legal cars will receive championship points.
Tickets for the races on Saturday June 15th are $12.00 for Adults, Senior/Military/Junior (13-17) $10.00, Youths (6-12) $5.00, and Children Five and Under are FREE. A Family Pass is offered for $30.00 which includes two Adults and up to four Youths. Pit gates open at 2:00 PM, front gates 4:00, time trials 5:30, and racing starts around 6:45.
The Cottage Grove Speedway has hosted fast and exciting action as far back as 1956. Since then the ¼-mile banked oval has been regarded as a place where fast times are set and plenty of side-by-side racing occurs. Regular classes include 360 Sprints, IMCA Modifieds, NW Extreme Winged Sprint Cars, Late Models, Street Stocks, and Hornets from the months of April till October every Saturday night. For more information be sure and visit the venue's homepage www.cottagegrovespeedway.com or call the brand new Northwest Tracks Hotline at (360)-699-RACE.
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Would Cherenkov radiation occur at the explosion of a nuclear bomb? Suppose it would not be occluded by smoke or anything else for that matter.
Of course, you could observe it in the water where the speed of light is much smaller than $c$ and electrons (beta-radiation) from the nuclear blast easily beat the light.
The air has index of refraction $1.0003$ so the speed of light is $0.9997c$. Note that $v^2/c^2$ is about $0.9994$ and when subtracted from 1, we get $0.0006$. The square root of it is about $0.025$ so charged particles get about 40 times heavier at this speed.
Clearly, this is about 40 GeV for protons or neutrons (and even more for nuclei), so you can't get this fast hadrons or nuclei in a nuclear blast. Even for electrons, 40 times the rest mass gives about 20 MeV which is, I believe, much more than the energy that an electron can ever get in any process of this kind. Moreover, fission really produces two smaller nuclei that carry the energy away, and the energy of a neutron that is created is just 2 MeV or so.
So you can't get Cherenkov radiation in the air by nuclear blast. Cherenkov radiation in the air is a strange animal, anyway: we usually talk about water or similar dense environments. How air usually enters these discussions is only via the supersonic analogy of the Cherenkov radiation - but when dealing with sound, it's not the real Cherenkov radiation. ;-)


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I don't think this is medical, but it's why we quit. My DS would frequently fall asleep when I BF him. I tried all the little tips and tricks to keep him awake, but none of them ever worked. He was basically dead to the world (he's still like that when he sleeps). When he would stay awake and feed, maybe 20 minutes later, he woudl be hungry for more. I was literally unable to do anything at all because I was constantly having to feed him. Not to mention he was fussy and just didn't seem very happy. So, I tried a bottle of formula and he seemed much happier. He was actually able to get full, so he would be happier throughout the day, which made me happy because I was able to get stuff done. FF just seemed to work better for us. I BF for 2 months before we switched over to FF.
You uncultured swine.
"Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it"
Let's just get straight to the point. Apparently, I was a selfish bitch for wanting to have one aspect of myself back and not be teethered to an infant who ate, literally every hour and a half on the dot, for the first three months of his life due to some medical problems. Stupid me for thinking that sleep in more than one hour increments was important for me or being concerned about not wanting my child to suffocate by co-sleeping in the ratty ass futon that was all his dad and I could afford for a bed at the time. Finally, and apparently most importantly, I did it because I am just so damn awesome in every other way that I had to do something wrong so that other mothers weren't intimidated by me and coould feel superiority to me in some way.
And, that's my sarcasm font.
Breastmilk just couldn't get my kids full. And they wouldn't gain weight, no matter how much I nursed. I stuck it out for a few months before just going to formula completely.
Breastfeeding was extremely stressful, and my kids werent getting what they needed from me.
-Mom to 3 boys
Andrea (29) married to Wesley (32);DD (9) and DS (2)
With my first son, I was 18 when I had him. Extremely young, immature and embarrassed to even consider it. That is the honest truth. I was also in excruiating pain from having him split my pelvic bone so the thought of being permenantly attached to him for breast feeding was a horrible thought for me.
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!
I didn't want to. I wanted my body back after being a host for my children for nine months. I wanted dh to wake up at night and help with feeding. I wanted to be able to go out and not have to worry about rushing home to feed my ds. I didn't want to experience the pain, frustration, or exhaustion. I would have done it if it had been the only choice or I had a premature baby, but thank goodness I didn't have to.
I did read through the research that was not slanted. As a student I had access to my college's database and read articles from medical journals. I was astounded at the things that was not in the new mom literature about breastfeeding. The biggest one for me is most of the antibodies you feed your baby through breastfeeding are destroyed by gastric acid. There were others about the mother's diet needing to be perfect and how what I could eat could pass on food allergies to the baby. I also read how some of the benefits, like a higher IQ, were disproved even though it was still in my books, pamphlets and baby magazines. I decided the benefits weren't enough for me.
Because I honestly hated breast feeding... like, loathed it! I BF for a month and then I was done.
The older you get the more you realize it isnt about the material things or pride or ego its about our hearts and who they beat for


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The Netherlands is cracking down on file-sharing by going after Internet service providers (ISPs) rather than individual offenders but the two largest ISPs in the country, KPN and T-Mobile, have said they won't block The Pirate Bay.
Specifically, there is a new proposal that is due to be submitted to the Dutch Parliament by the middle of this year that makes it illegal for an ISP to provide access to any website or Internet service that helps to facilitate copyright infringement. Those ISPs that fail to comply with the proposed law could face penalties that range from €10,000 to €250,000 per day that would in turn be paid to BREIN – the Dutch anti-piracy consortium which represents entertainment companies.
It should be noted that back in January, a Dutch court ordered ISPs XS4ALL and Ziggo to block access to The Pirate Bay by February 1 and while Ziggo plans to comply (for the time being), the ISP has also indicated it intends to file an appeal. On the other hand, Silicon Republic and the TorrentFreak blog have noted that both KPN and T-Mobile are arguing that blocking websites is a threat to the open internet. Hence, they won't be blocking subscriber access to these sites. KPN and T-Mobile have also suggested that the entertainment industry focuses on creating new business models instead.
Nevertheless, BREIN intends to also file complaints against ISPs UPC, KPN and T-Mobile who combined account for over 80% of the Dutch market. The intention of these legal actions is to drive Dutch Internet users and consumers to find and use legitimate sources of online content. On the other hand, Digital Trends has pointed out that last November, the Federation of the Phonographic Industry provided an estimate that 27% of Europeans are using file-sharing sites to download unlicensed content while other estimates place the figure as high as 40% for the Netherlands.
However and thus far, the Dutch court rulings and proposed laws do not criminalize an individuals' use of file-sharing networks as any downloaded material is covered under a home-use exception but uploading copyrighted material onto file-sharing network is illegal.


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Suppose I have a line segment $L$ in 3D: $$x=a_1(1-t)+b_1t$$ $$y=a_2(1-t)+b_2t$$ $$z=(a_1^2+a_2^2-k_1^2)(1-t)+(b_1^2+b_2^2-k_2^2)t$$
Because $L$ is line segment then $0\leq t\leq 1$.
And defining paraboloid $P$ in 3D: $$P:z=2x^2+2y^2-1$$
Where $a_1,a_2,b_1,b_2,k_1,k_2$ are all variables and $k_1$ and $k_2$ are positive numbers.
I want to put some constraints on these variables such that $L$ and $P$ intersect or do not intersect.
I know by substituting $L$ into $P$ and then solving for $t$ where $0\leq t\leq 1$ is the solution of the intersection. But still i could not figure out about the constraints i am looking for.
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Seth Quinn is finally home.
It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, he'd been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love.
Now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, Seth is settling down on Maryland's Eastern Shore, surrounded once again by Cam, Ethan, and Phil, their wives and children, all the blessed chaos of the extended Quinn clan. Finally, he's back in the little blue-and-white house where there's always a boat at the dock, a rocker on the porch, and a dog in the yard.
Still, a lot has changed in St. Christopher since he's been gone-and the most intriguing change of all is the presence of Dru Whitcomb Banks. A city girl who's opened a florist shop in this seaside town, she craves independence and the challenge of establishing herself without the influence of her wealthy connections. In Seth, she sees another kind of challenge-a challenge that she can't resist.


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Now the toes are lengthening and a gentle arch to the foot is beginning to take shape. Your baby can grasp her feet at will but has difficulty bringing them up to her mouth: this is not a problem a little later in pregnancy.
You may have another prenatal appointment at around 16 weeks, if you had your last appointment at around 12 weeks. You'll be weighed.
Your urine will be tested, and your blood pressure measured, as well as the baby's heart rate monitored. Furthermore, the doctor should be able to hear your baby's heartbeat (see You are 16 Weeks and 4 Days), which can be very reassuring.
Women who do not have the nuchal translucency scan at around 11-14 weeks, may be offered one of two blood tests, known as the triple test or quadruple test, which are screening tests for Down syndrome.
This appointment also offers you an opportunity to discuss any concerns you may have, and your doctor will report the results of the routine tests (see Routine blood tests) you had at your first prenatal appointment, or shortly thereafter.
If your blood test results show that your hemoglobin levels were low, you may be offered a prescription for iron.
Maternity wear first appeared around the middle of the 19th century.
At this time a prudish society felt that pregnancy should be hidden. For this same reason, and for the well-being of mother and child, women were encouraged to stay in bed in the weeks leading up to the birth.
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Now that a new school year has started, the Leavenworth Police Department once again is enforcing school zones, a police spokesman said.
"There will be an adjustment period for everyone," said Maj. Dan Nicodemus, Leavenworth Police Department deputy chief.
He said officers understand people are once again getting used to school zones being in effect. But, police will issue tickets if warranted.
Classes for the 2014-15 school year began Monday in the Leavenworth School District.
Nicodemus said school zones in the city of Leavenworth require motorists to slow to 20 miles per hour.
He said the times when the school zones are in effect vary. But, the times are indicated on signs or by flashing yellow lights.
Nicodemus said the minimum ticket for speeding in a school zone in Leavenworth is $165, but the amount may increase depending on the circumstances.
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Getting your kill back to the vehicle
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What "kill" are you talking about? Moose, Elk, Bear, deer, coyotes, quail, chipmunks or ??For the 1st 3, I like a pickup truck... for deer, my hunting buddies(as already mentioned). Coyotes I leave for breakfast for God's other furry or feathered creatures, unless I get a rare case of ambition & drag it back to the truck with a thin rope tied to it's hind legs; Or have my buddies carry the coyote if saving the hide, which is extremely rare for me (to save hides). The last 2, I just put in my pocket(s)... depending on many I am lucky to kill.Frank
What method do you guys use to get your kill back to the vehicle?
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EXACTLY, & is how I did it before I quit deer hunting. That is the easiest way, especially if your several miles from the truck. You used to be able to buy dvd's on deboning deer. I would always take notes while watching the dvd & take the notes with me when hunting... as I have no memory; even back then! YIKES! If not too far from the truck, it sometimes can be easier just to drag the buck by tying one end of a rope to his antlers & the other end to the middle of a stick, leaving several feet of rope between the deer's head & the stick. Two folks can drag the beast out easier this way. Frank
I just boned out the deer I took this year after skinning him. Alot easier than trying to navigate bushes and trees and rocks. Cut 'em up, put the pieces in pillow sacks, put that in the pack and hike out.
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Same here. But I some times use a small tractor to get the one that fall back into thier holes out.
On the really big jacks or cottontails I put the drag rope around the ears and drag them headfirst, keeps the ears from snagging on brush...... . On big tree squirrels I quarter them out and use a good backpack, one quarter at a time. Other than this I use my hunting buddies.....
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That things cool!
This is what we use. A lot easier than dragging it.
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Aeromedical evac will always show if you need it. Ask me how I know, read the screen name lol.
Well, the first thing you do is get your kill to the Blackhawk. And if the Blackhawk has a mechanical failure, you scuttle it and hop on a Chinook instead to get it to your nearby aircraft carrier.
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Once upon a time, in a faraway land called South Carolina, a college senior
was researching potential summer internship opportunities. She searched and
searched and nothing seemed to catch her eye or offer exactly what she was
looking for. She was about to give up all hope of finding that perfect
internship. That was until she stumbled upon the Zappos Family Interns website
while shopping for shoes. At that moment everything seemed to click. An
awesome company culture, jobs that make you want to get out of bed each
morning, and the opportunity to get involved in the Las Vegas community-- It
was the perfect opportunity. She knew Zappos was exactly where she belonged.
So now you
may be wondering – did it all work out? Did she live happily ever after? Well,
I will let you in on a little secret – that girl is me. It took some
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letter, but here I am nine months
later at the new Zappos HQ in sunny Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada!
This summer I am lucky enough to be a part of the incredible Zappos HR Team as
the Recruiting College Intern. This is the third year of the internship
program here at Zappos and we have a total of 42 fun and slightly weird
individuals from all over the world! That makes us the largest intern class
the company has ever had – woohoo!
As the recruiting intern I have had some amazing opportunities to shadow and
assist the recruiters and recruiting coordinators with their daily tasks as
well as take on individual projects. Every day I learn something new and grow
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Speaking of team, the recruiting team at Zappos defines what it means to have
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weeks of this amazing internship, one thing is for certain: I can't wait to
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I'm a Charr Engineer, so tips for this class are specifically welcomed.
For your first character doing heart events, farming every tree, mine, plant you come across and always dropping what you are doing and helping in dynamic events is the fastest way to level.
The greatest xp/time are events so if you can find continuously repeating event chains that is the fastest way to level outside for a first time character.
Leveling a crafting profession to 400 gives you ~10 levels (this xp is percentage based, so it always gives you 10 levels, regardless of what level you started at).
There are 8 crafting professions, and a the max level is 80, so if you have the mats, you can hit 80 from 2 in under an hour.


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Right then chaps – we're going to be making something that's very much en-vogue at the moment for this week's #MasterofCocktails: an Aviation.
Essentially, this cocktail is just a gin-sour with a dab of Violet Liqueur in it, but the sum of the parts is so much more than this. Also, as it's probably one of the least sweet sours you'll come across, it can still legitimately be called an aperitif.
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Planisphere (Paperback)
Just as the day could use another hour,
I need another idea. Not a concept
or a slogan. Something more like a rut
made thousands of years ago by one of the first
wheels as it rolled along. It never came back
to see what it had done, and the rut
just stayed there, not thinking of itself
or calling attention to itself in any way.
Sun baked it. Water stood, or rather sat
in it. Wind covered it with dust, then blew it
away. Always it was available to itself
when it wished to be, which wasn't often.
Then there was a cup and ball theory
I told you about. A lot of people had left the coast.
Squirt conditions obtained. I forgot I overwhelmed you
once upon a time, between everybody's sound sleep
and waking afterward, trying to piece together
what had happened. The rut glimmered
through centuries of snow and after.
I suppose it was trying to make some point
but we never found out about that,
having come to know each other years later
when our interest in zoning had revived again.
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet John Ashbery has translated many French writers, including Alfred Jarry, Pierre Reverdy, and Raymond Roussel. In 2011 he was awarded the National Book Foundation s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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As a single-platform system, TriTech's Perform Public Safety Suite provides operational and economic value for agencies seeking a comprehensive public safety suite. With rapid deployment capabilities, your agency can automate processes using Perform Software within 60 days. The fully-integrated public safety software suite reuses data between CAD, Mobile, Law RMS, Fire RMS, Jail, Civil, Detective, Administrative, and Cross Agency data sharing – so data is entered once and immediately accessible from other applications within the suite.
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How to Make Lemonade Using the Whole Lemon (00:38)
Tess Masters, who also goes by the nickname The Blender Girl, is a blogger who specializes in vegan and vegetarian blender recipes. She suggests that lemonade shouldn't be limited to lemon juice: She throws the whole lemon, peel and all, into her blender and makes a healthy, frothy, refreshing drink!
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I'm installing a new hardwood floor, and I'm thinking about using cleats rather than staples. Are there any advantages to using cleats over staples?
Yes! Cleats are pretty much the standard in hardwood flooring. Typically, hardwood floors have 'tongue & groove' joints that interlock. First, some definitions of terms that I've used in my answer:
Tongue: the part that sticks out of the hardwood piece is called the 'tongue'.
Groove: the slot it fits into is the 'groove'.
Face: the part of the piece that will eventually be the floor is called the 'face'.
Floor joists: these are horizontal panels that run from one end of the room to the other and rest on beams under them. These provide support and you'll install the flooring on the joists, perpendicular to the direction in which they run.
With cleats, you drive the nail through the tongue onto the floor joists at a 45 degree angle. The cleats (which need to be set in) get hidden by the next piece that overlaps the previous one. The advantage is that all except the last piece in the room will have no nail markings on the surface.
The only con is that you'll need a specialized hardwood floor nailer, that can be pretty expensive to buy ($400-500 for a pneumatic one and $200-300 for a manual one). Needless to say, the pneumatic one is less work (but then again, you'll need to get a compressor for it) than the manual (you'll need a 5lbs mallet to drive a 1.5"-2" cleat in fully). However, these tools are easily available for hire at your local HomeDepot/Lowes (assuming you're in the US).
Now, I've never heard of anyone using staples for hardwood floors. It's more a carpet layer's tool. With staples, you'll also have to nail in through the face, thereby leaving marks all over the floor and ruining the appearance. You can probably use staples to lay down the backer board under the hardwood floor (if you're in a cold weather/windy area, this will help insulate the house by preventing airflow through the slots in the floorboard). Using them on hardwood floors is a terrible idea, and wouldn't recommend it under any circumstances.
Either or is fine, it is up to the installer.
I have used more expensive pneumatic nailers that cost 4-500 USD as well as cheaper ones that are 150-180. If you are DIY then get the cheaper one. Keep your fasteners/nails oiled or drip oil in the male end on the nailer as you reload. They will work fine.
If I was laying more than 4000 sq. ft a year I would consider a more expensive nailer. If I was laying a single room I would consider renting or connect with others who may do a room or two and join together and buy one of the cheaper models.
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Let $f = 15x^4+22x^3-x=0$ a polynomial in $\mathbb Z_p[x]$, find the first prime $p$ value that will make $f$ result in being grade 3 and monic. Then factorize $f$ in $\mathbb Z_3[x]$ as product of irreducible factors.
Find the $p$ value
In order for $f$ to be monic and grade 3, I need to find a $p$ value so that:
$$\begin{aligned} 15 \equiv_p 0 \end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} 22 \equiv_p 1 \end{aligned}$$
it's easy to see that $p = 3$, so I will be working in $\mathbb Z_3[x]$ and $f = x^3+2x$.
Factorizing $f$
I need to find all the solutions to $x^3+2x=0$ in order to get it factorized as product of irreducible factors.
$$\begin{aligned} x^3+2x = x(x^2+2) = 0 \Leftrightarrow x = 0 \vee (x^2+2) = 0 \end{aligned}$$
Let's examine $\Delta = b^2-4ac$ of $(x^2+2)$
$$\begin{aligned} \Delta = 0 - 8 = -8 \equiv_3 = 1 \Rightarrow \end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{\Delta}}{2a} = \frac{0 \pm \sqrt{1}}{2} \Rightarrow x_1 = +\frac{1}{2} \equiv_3 2 \text{, } x_2=-\frac{1}{2} \equiv_3 1 \end{aligned}$$
So $f = x^3+2x= x(x+2)(x+1)$.
As my algebra exam day is fast approaching I really am in need of knowing if I've got this right or not. Sorry if I incuded trivial calculations in it, but I have to be extra sure I have understood everything. I have a question, though. Is it wrong to assume $x^3 = 1$ as we are dealing with $\mathbb Z_3$ elements? Doesn't the modulo apply to the exponents as well?


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How to create, inside a polygon, a regular grid of point spaced x,y in postgis? Like the example:
How to create, inside a polygon, a regular grid of point spaced x,y in postgis? Like the example:
You do that with generate_series.
If you don't want to manually write where the grid is to start and stop, the easiest is to create a function.
I have not tested the below properly, but I think it should work:
To use it you can do:
where the first argument is the polygon you want the grid in, and the second argument is the distance between the points in the grid.
If you want one point per row you just use ST_Dump like:
I have picked up Nicklas Avén makegrid function code and made it a bit more generic by reading and using the srid from the polygon geometry. Otherwise using a polygon with a defined srid, would give an error.
The function:
To use the function is done exactly as Nicklas Avén wrote:
or if you want one point per row:
Hope this will be usefull for someone.
This algorithm should be fine:
where 'polygon' is the polygon and 'resolution' is the required grid resolution.
To implement it in PostGIS, the following functions may be needed:
Good luck!
People using a wgs84 geometry will probably have trouble with this function since
only return integers. Except for very big geometries such as countries (that are laying on multiple lat, lng degrees), this will cause to collect only 1 point which is most of the time not even intersecting the geometry itself... => empty result !
My trouble was I can not seem to use generate_series() with a decimal distance on floating numbers such as those WSG84... This is why I tweaked the function to get it working anyway :
Basically exactly the same. Just multiplying and dividing by 1000000 to get the decimals into the game when I need it.
There is surely a better solution to achieve that. ++
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To the editor: As I write this, Washington, D.C., and the media are all aquiver with the "sequestration blues," and waves of panic are issuing from the region, as doomsday draws nigh....
I concur.
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Very well said.
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The "Chicken Little, I mean democratic party, loves to scare people into believing that their free Obama money and other goodies, will no longer be handed out to them. Children will go hungry, seniors go without their medicine, criminals will be let out of prisons and jails to freely roam the streets etc, etc, etc. The reality is that every WORKING American took a 2% haircut on January 1, 2013. I have not gone without food, I didn't stop paying my mortgage, I can still buy my medicine. I balanced out my expenses overall. I don't keep my thermostat at 72, I turned it down to 70, I don't eat out 3 times per week, I now eat out 2 times per week. I don't take a ride in the country every Saturday, I go every other Saturday. If I can cut back 2%, so can the government and all of the takers of fee government goodies in this country. Better yet, get an education and you took can be a contributer and not a taker.
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What it boiled down to is Obummer LIED!
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Back in the 1990's, Slick Willy Bill Clinton fought against the newly elected Republican Congress. The Grand Ole Party pushed through Welfare Reform getting generational families off welfare & on to working anf the Republican Congress balanced the budget for the first time since Eisenhower.
Clinton Gore & the Liberal lame stream media claimed the G.O.P. would throw families into the streets and bankrupt America. Clinton vetoed the bills twice until public opinion forced is hand. Then years later, he , Gore, and the Dems took credit for what they fought against.
Today we see the same from King Obama & Company while the mass media is bidding the Democratic Party's talking points. Ever notice the worse cities, counties, & states are generally run by the entrenched Democratic Party? Explains our area, doesn't it!
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We can take the entire 58 billion away from the welfare programs. Many could care less if people starved but when they found out that the real pain will be felt by everyone because local grocers would raise their prices because food stamps are a large part of the agricultural revenue. The housing market would go back on the ropes when landlords started evicting section eight tenants and other low rent tenants. Welfare to the poor finds its way back into the local economies almost immediately wheras the 92 billion in corporate welfare usually becomes part of bonus packages for corporate upper management and much of this money finds its way to offshore banks. And then there is the Pentagon which averages 1.5 billion in cost overuns and fraudulant spending. The Pentagon still hasn't accounted for the 2.6 trillion that Rumsfeld claimed was unnaccounted for on Fox news on the day before 911.The reason we have gone from the fiscal cliff to sequestration is because there is no way out. Con
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WE can't raise enough revenue to make a difference and cutting the budget takes a huge amount out of circulation. Printing more money is not the answer because all that does is make the Federal Reserve wealthier and more powerful. The Fed Reserve is a large part of the fiscal madness we have been paying interest on our own money for decades which is in essence part of the national debt. All is lost but we can at least make a point by starving the poor but don't think for a moment that it won't bite us on the arse when he food industry makes up the loss of profits on our backs. Because corporations always protect their record profits at our expense. Remember Human welfare (3%) 58 billion... Corporate welfare (5%) 92 billion.
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@maverick, Have you ever gone to the store on the first of the month? That vile, stinking, entitled hoarde makes me sick. The 5'2", 250 lb. wig wearing 23 year old welfare queen with 5 kids chatting on her Iphone with a cart full of frozen pizzas, chips, and hoe hoes, getting upset that the checkout lines are so long before loading her loot into a 1990 cadillac with chrome rims is more than I can stand. I feel bad for the peple trying to make it working 2 jobs, and cannot get assistance even though they paid into it for years. I hate the lazy bums that have no intention of working which are most of the 1st of the month crowd. They deserve to starve! As for the other stuff, stop blaming republicans, Obama created more problems in 4 years than Bush could have created in 16.
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I say we round up all the poor people, put them on busses and move them to Chicago since Obama cares about them so much. I love corporate welfare. Corporations hire people and are the engine of our economy. If people choose to have 4, 5, 6 or more kids and are on welfare, I say we cut off their food supply, only the strong survive.
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Good idea Mingoman. Chicago is a good start but I suggest MExico. They have been sending their bums north to collect welfare for years. Let's start sending our trash south.
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Rpg, u r painting a picture of the welfare crowd with a broad brush. Sure their are abusers and their are people who are third generation welfare because they were taught the only survival skills that their ill preparede parents knew. The system need rewritten and used to create skills and incetives to pull oneself up. But our legislators can't even spend a forty hour work week getting the econmy on track so forget about wlfare reform. These people sicken you. How do you feel about the people with 2000 dollar suits and hundred dollar haircuts and smell real good and are driven around by chaufers and piloted on private jets on your tax dollars. Oh corporate wefare is OK because these wealthy crooks create jobs. no they don't 12 and half years of tax cuts and the job market is still stagnant while businesses are making record profits. Record profits from cutting jobs and requiring remaining workers to do more and work 60 hr. work weeks plus splitting up the tax breaks as bonuses.
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Mingo if only the strong survived those on welfare would be gone and replaced with you. There will always be people on the bottom rung and right above the ones you want to starve is you. You and Rpg should realize you are not all that. You guys could each be an accident or in jury away from the the welfare system or even months away from a finacial collapse the likes of which this nation had never seen. And you will get no special treatnebt because you were cheerleaders for the corporate robbers.By the way Rpg where did I mention Bush or the Republicans. Lose the parANOIA AND REALIZE WE ARE BEING SCREWED BY BOTH PARTIES.
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Maverick, once more you try to assign a belief to me which I do not hold. I do not agree with corporate welfare. Welfare trash do need incentives, hunger, and boredom are great motivators and should serve that purpose. As for incentive, I lose over 1/3 of my earned wages to taxes. Where is my incentive to work overtime? Eliminate the progressive tax and replace it with a flat/fair tax and perhaps things will get better really quickly. I did not paint all the bums with a broad brush. I criticize those with no intention of working.
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Actually Maverick, you really need to get off that kick of assigning things to people that you know little or nothing about. I forego buying a motorcycle, new truck, $5k vacation, $150k home, Ed Brown 1911, Rolex watch, etc so I am not 1 injury away from disaster. I can hold my own brother. I came up on my own, and I nor any other hard working American should be forced to foot the bill for a bunch of worthless bums. You are correct, both partys screw us but only because they all think like liberals.
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Rpg,I don't have to know u. U define urself with everthing u post. U r very materialistic (motorcycle/rolex watch) and you are hateful and judgemental (a conservative). U may not own the things u place value on but it shows ur mindset. U r one of those who think we live in a capitalist nation that is now being turned into socialist nation by Obama. Rpg in ur lifetime u have not experienced true capitalism. Capitalism doesn't provide for subsidies (that is communistic as displayed by China). Capitalism would not tolerate bailouts or legalized lobbyist bribary. Capitalism believes no one is too big or small to fail. So, like it or not your Wall St. heroes are socialists also and your party is the biggest hypocrit of all because they espouse small government and conservative spending and then create the Dept of Homeland Sec and fund it out the wazoo. Every Repub Pres since 1980's has run a major deficit domestically and with foreign trade. U R living a fantasy and don't know it.
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Sorry V-man u posted nothing that merits a response. But I'll throw you a bone. Yes I critcize Fox but I feel the same about CNN and MSNBC. I merely pointed out where Rumsfeld made tha claims against the Pentagon that by the way were never followed up on.
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Actually, you are wrong. I mentioned those things because they are "wants" of mine. However, providing for my family comes first, such things are "needs." There is a difference obviously some being a necessity and the right thing to do and others are luxuries, material things perhaps to pass down to a child/grandchild someday. I agree that the looneys running our government have fouled the nest. It is not my fault they did so. I only have one vote and I cast it according to what I believe is right. Things would be better if the welfare slobs would not have the right to vote. At least then the people that make the economy would not be cancelled out by those that cripple it.
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I could'n agree with you. Backlinks of course can help you boost ranking,it's off page SEO.But on-page SEO is more important,content is king, Backlinks is the queen.
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the link buildibg is the process of crearting quality of inbound links by means to ones own website
the link buildibg is the process of crearting quality of inbound links by means to ones own website
Originally Posted by IzaanI read that Link building do not support in increasing the Ranking of keyword in Google.
is this true i gives 30 link for a site .....and it means my 30 relevant link have no use in increasing the ranking of my site.......
You can say that the statement is partially correct. When you will try to build links from ir-relevant and bad sites (penalized sites), then it didn't contribute in the keyword ranking and sometimes harm the reputation of the website. But, link building helps to improve your keyword ranking when the links are from:
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30 links matter but what more is required is the quality and the back links which are pointing to your website. Even if you build 100 links a day and it has no influence over the site then it is useless and one link with popularity and solid foundation can make you rank well.
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Ext.Direct .NET Router
Here's my implementation of a .NET router. After seeing some of the others I've modified my original implementation a bit.
Attached is both the source for the router and a small sample project to demonstrate the functionality.
UPDATED ON 24th FEB
1. Setting up the Api Handler
The API describes which methods are made available to the client. In the .NET version, this is implemented as an ASHX handler. The handler instances a provider object and passes in
a) The name of the provider
b) The url of the handler for this provider
c) An assembly containing the methods for this provider
Upon calling the configure method, reflection is used to find all classes with a DirectActionAttribute. From here, any methods marked with either a DirectMethodAttribute or a DirectFormMethodAttribute will be included in the generated API. A simple caching class has been provided. It is recommended you use this to save generating the API on each call to the handler.
2. The rest
Simply setup your handler ASHX, in this case I've called it DirectHandler.ashx. From here, all we need to do is pass the appropriate provider and the HttpRequest to our processor and it will return a result.
NB: Any form methods will only be passed a single parameter, which is the HttpRequest object. Any other parameters are ignored.
Comments/questions/improvements welcome.Evan Trimboli
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11 May 2009 9:17 AM #2
Cool! I just gave it a short look... A few more nice ideas! Since I have followed the last .net thread, I am working on a similar implementation too! So I am counting 3 yet...
I have just started an Open Source Project and commited the code from "shibubh" with a small change in the router it self today... What do you think about merging our ideas together?
Two things i got on my list for the shibubh's current Implementation:
- Pack things to a Dll so you dont need to add those aspx files to an existing Project
(makes it possible to add the proxy and router handler via web.config)
- Use JSON.NET for de- and -serialization see: http://www.codeplex.com/Json
Thinking about restrict to the use of Static classes or even support them. (This is importent cause of performance issues in big applications)
So As i have Seen so far your version solves the second point nicely... But what do you think about the first one?
11 May 2009 11:11 AM #3
This is great! Thanks so much, Evan.
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1) You need to do some configuration to get this working, for example, passing in the assembly. I guess you could do that with a config file, however my .NET is rather rusty.
Would you have me include the core stuff in the Ext.Direct dll and then have the user extend the ashx?
2) As you mentioned, it's using JSON.NET internally.Evan Trimboli
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11 May 2009 7:40 PM #5
hi evant,
thanks for sharing. Cool stuff. i just loved it. i love the you way code it.Shibu Bhattarai
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13 May 2009 8:58 PM #6
good work, good idea
this is something like ajaxpro,but it's better then ajaxpro.
we can paste the client extjs and the server side c# method with it.
14 May 2009 5:37 AM #7
That was great!
But the issue is if you have tons of pages in one assembly that need lots of Ajax function for different purposes, it renders all methods to every page while it might not be needed, so I made some modification (in sample application not Library), hope that helps:
Instead of including ApiHandler.ashx as a script block, I used it as a helper class like this:
public static void Register(Page page) {
DirectProviderCache cache = DirectProviderCache.GetInstance();
DirectProvider provider;
string hash = GetHashKey(page);
string key = "Ext.app.REMOTING_API." + hash;
//After being configured, the provider should be cached.
if (!cache.ContainsKey(key)) {
provider = new DirectProvider("Ext.app.REMOTING_API", "/DirectHandler.ashx?hash=" + hash);
provider.Configure(new object[] { page });
cache.Add(key, provider);
else {
provider = cache[key];
string script = provider.ToString();
page.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(page.GetType(), "ApiHandler", script, true);
private static string GetHashKey(Object o) {
return o.GetType().GetHashCode().ToString();
The every page that needs this functionality has to call:
As this register every page in different Cache key reference I needed to do an alter in Directhandler as well:
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
string key = "Ext.app.REMOTING_API." + context.Request.QueryString["hash"];
DirectProvider provider = DirectProviderCache.GetInstance()[key];
context.Response.ContentType = DirectHandlerContentType;
context.Response.Write(DirectProcessor.Execute(provider, context.Request));
Note: When registering an action, it gets name of page's type, that returns 'default_aspx' instead of Default, so I had to call:
PS: adding provider can be moved to Register function in helper class like this:
string script = provider.ToString();
script += @"
page.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(page.GetType(), "ApiHandler", script, true);
Last edited by alekdigital; 14 May 2009 at 5:41 AM. Reason: Move addProvider ro Register Function
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I've updated the router, new features include:
1) Native date support. Since both Ext.encode() and the native browser JSON encoders send off dates as string, the router will automatically find date arguments in the server method and attempt to convert the parameter to a date.
2) Better exception handling.
3) Added namespace option for provider.
4) Renamed a few files, tidied up the code a bit.
Can find it here: http://extjs.com/playpen/router/Router-0.2.zipEvan Trimboli
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14 May 2009 9:36 AM #9
Thank you Evant!
Maybe better to add it below your first message?
14 May 2009 12:49 PM #10
Bug in the router
Hi, Evan. Just a quick thing, there's a bug in your implementation of Direct router. A null reference exception is thrown if you call a direct method with no parameters.
The exception is thrown from DirectProvider.cs line 187.
PHP Code:
if (request.Data == null && method.Parameters > 0)
throw new DirectException("Parameters length does not match");
else if(request.Data.Length > 1 && method.IsForm) // <--- EXCEPTION IS THROWN HERE: request.Data is null
throw new DirectException("Form methods can only have a single parameter.");
else if (request.Data.Length != method.Parameters)
throw new DirectException("Parameters length does not match");
PHP Code:
if (request.Data == null)
if (method.Parameters > 0)
throw new DirectException("Parameters length does not match");
if (request.Data.Length > 1 && method.IsForm)
throw new DirectException("Form methods can only have a single parameter.");
else if (request.Data.Length != method.Parameters)
throw new DirectException("Parameters length does not match");
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Nutritional Health for Women
Special dietary restrictions or limitations require greater attention to nutrition. Medical conditions or illnesses might also require special diets or supplementation. If you experience any of these, consulting a nutritionist is recommended.
Diabetes requires careful maintenance of blood sugar, through blood monitoring and controlled diet. Blood sugar monitoring should be done as recommended by your doctor and also during exercise, especially if the exercise is for more than 30 minutes. You should always have a high glycemic index food available in case you develop hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and maintain your low to medium glycemic index diet with regularly scheduled meals. The best nutritionist for you is a certified diabetes educator. It is highly recommended you consult a nutritionist if you are diabetic, as your nutritional needs are beyond the scope of this book.
If you have an illness with fever, you will likely have to replenish the electrolytes potassium and sodium due to sweating. Similarly, gastrointestinal illness causing vomiting or diarrhea requires additional electrolytes; good ways to replenish are by drinking sports drinks. If you are taking antibiotics, increasing your daily intake of yogurt will help protect the normal bacteria in the bowels and prevent you from developing diarrhea. You must take a multivitamin during times of illness, as more vitamins are needed for the body's healing and stress response. An additional B complex and vitamin C can also be helpful. Avoid working out if you have fever, vomiting, or diarrhea.
If you regularly suffer from irritable bowel syndrome or frequent diarrhea, you need to consider replenishing your electrolytes and drink extra fluids. A higher-fiber, lower-fat diet with smaller, more frequent meals can help regulate you.
Lactose Intolerance
Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest lactose, the sugar that naturally occurs in milk and milk products. Babies are born with the enzymes necessary to digest lactose, but some adults outgrow it. With lactose intolerance, diarrhea and gas result after eating dairy products. Diarrhea can cause dehydration and loss of electrolytes, so these should be replenished. Lactose intolerance can be managed through pills that help digestion, such as Lactaid, or dairy products that contain the enzymes. If you cannot eat dairy products due to lactose intolerance you are unable to correct, make sure you are getting calcium through fortified foods and juices, or taking supplements to equal four servings per day. Soy milk is an alternative but is not usually as high in calcium as dairy products, so check the label.
Vegetarian Diets
Vegetarians must be very attentive to their diets, especially the amount of calcium and protein they take in. Although vegetarian diets are high in vitamins and fiber, they tend to be low in iron, calcium, and magnesium. Vegans, those who eat plant products only, must include two servings daily of beans or soy, grains, and nuts or seeds in order to ensure adequate protein combinations. They must also eat calcium-fortified foods or take calcium supplements to fulfill the 1,200 milligrams-a-day requirement.
Nutritional needs increase in pregnancy. Folate supplements should be taken when planning a pregnancy to prevent birth defects that can develop early in the development of the fetus, even before a woman learns she is pregnant. Most prenatal vitamins contain 600 to 1000 micrograms of folate, more than the RDI of 400 micrograms a day. Calcium needs increase to at least 1,300 milligrams daily and iron to 30 milligrams a day. After the first trimester, calorie needs increase by 300 to 500 calories a day, and more if you are exercising. Protein needs also increase slightly. Fluid needs increase dramatically, and water should be always available.
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From The Active Woman's Health and Fitness Handbook by Nadya Swedan. Copyright © 2003 by Nadya Swedan. Used by arrangement with Perigee, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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In the category Set of sets and functions, consider the functor F(X) = X * X where * is the product (its action on arrows is just F(f) = f * f). Does this functor preserve pushouts? Or at least pushouts of pairs of epimorpisms?
General pushouts, no; pushouts of pairs of epis, yes. In fact, yes to pushouts of pairs where only one of the arrows of the pair is epi.
It's very easy to see the answer is no for general pushouts: since a coproduct $A + B$ is the pushout of a pair $A \leftarrow 0 \to B$, and since the squaring functor preserves $0$, the squaring functor would preserve this pushout only if it preserved the coproduct. But we all know that for finite cardinalities, $a^2 + b^2$ is generally not equal to $(a+b)^2$; therefore squaring cannot preserve coproducts.
But in general, we can say that for the category of sets, given a pair of functions
$$A \stackrel{f_1}{\leftarrow} P \stackrel{f_2}{\to} B,$$
the canonical arrow
$$\phi: A^2 +_{P^2} B^2 \to (A +_P B)^2$$
is monic. (Lemma to be proved.) Assuming this, suppose for example that $f_2: P \to B$ is epic. Then the pushout of $f_2$ along $f_1$ is also epic (well-known fact); let $A \to C$ denote this epi (so $C$ is shorthand for $A +_P B$). Then $A^2 \to C^2$ is also epic, and since this obviously factors as
$$A^2 \to A^2 +_{P^2} B^2 \stackrel{\phi}{\to} C^2$$
we see $\phi$ is also epi. But it is monic by the lemma, hence $\phi$ is an isomorphism, as we wanted to show.
To prove the lemma, it helps to have a clear picture of how pushouts are formed in $Set$. The pushout $C$ is the set of equivalence classes on $A + B$ where $x \in A + B$ is deemed equivalent to $x' \in A + B$ iff there is a zig-zag path
$$x = x_0 \stackrel{f_{i_1}}{\leftarrow} p_0 \stackrel{f_{i_2}}{\to} x_1 \leftarrow \ldots x_{n-1} \stackrel{f_{i_{n-1}}}{\leftarrow} p_{n-1} \stackrel{f_{i_n}}{\to} x_n = x'$$
where for each $k$, either $p_k$ belongs to $P$ and the arrows out of $p_k$ alternate between $f_1$ and $f_2$, or we are in a "holding pattern" where $p_k$ belongs to $A$ or $B$ and the two arrows out of $p_k$ are both identities. Now it is not hard to convince yourself that given $(x, y)$ in $A^2$ or $B^2$, and $(x', y')$ in $A^2$ or $B^2$, if there is a zig-zag path from $x$ to $x'$, and a zig-zag path from $y$ to $y'$, then there is a zig-zag path from $(x, y)$ to $(x', y')$ with respect to the pair of maps
$$A \times A \stackrel{f_1 \times f_1}{\leftarrow} P \times P \stackrel{f_2 \times f_2}{\to} B \times B;$$
all we do is pair together zig-zag paths in the separate $x$- and $y$-components. (Note that if the zig-zag to get from $y$ to $y'$ is longer than the zig-zag from $x$ to $x'$, we can always insert a holding pattern in the $x$-component so that the zig-zag in the $y$-component can "catch up", i.e., so that the lengths of the zig-zags match up.) But this means precisely that the map $\phi$ is monic.
Edit: In answer to vincenzoml's questions in the comments, I wrote up a proof of the more general desired result which applies to a general $\infty$-pretopos, here.


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Citrus Beet Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing
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Serving Size : 8
8 beets -- large, red and fresh
8 beets -- large, golden and fresh
1/4 cup olive oil
3 orange -- sectioned
2 ruby red grapefruits -- sectioned
2 heads lettuce leaves -- red tip
1 large avocado -- mashed - about one cup
1/2 cup coconut milk -- (canned, Asian food section)
1/4 cup sour cream
1/2 cup lime juice
1/4 cup orange juice -- fresh (from sectioning)
1 Tablespoon grapefruit juice -- fresh (from sectioning)
2 Tablespoons agave nectar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1. Preheat the oven to 425F.
2. Trim both ends of the beets and wash well. Place 3-4 beets in a piece of foil, drizzle with a tablespoon of olive oil and wrap tightly. Repeat with other beets for four total packets. Place on a baking sheet and roast for 45 minutes. Test with a fork to prick easily. If not yet soft, re-wrap and return to oven for another 15 minutes, and recheck. Repeat until soft. (Cooking time is dependent on size of the beets)
3. Remove baking sheet from oven and open packets to allow to cool for 5-10 minutes, or cool enough to handle. Using plastic gloves (for staining) use steady thumb pressure to peel and remove skins. (Much easier than peeling raw!) Slice beets into thin wedges, 6-8 per beet.
4. While the beets are roasting, prepare the sectioned fruits, collecting any stray juices into your mixing bowl. Add the cut up avocado. Mash and mix thoroughly.
5. Add the coconut milk, sour cream, juices, nectar and salt. Mix thoroughly, and chill until serving to thicken. Makes just over 2/3 cup of dressing.
6. To serve, lay one large leaf on the plate. Arrange the beets and citrus in a pattern, and drizzle with the chilled dressing. Serve.
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As a kid, I was told that if you wear clothing backwards or inside-out then you will forget your Torah learning. What is the source for that claim, and why is that specific outcome tied to that practice?
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There are two statements about clothes that are normally brought together, and are therfore often confused (see here as an example).
The Shaar HaKavanot doesn't mention anything about wearing clothes backwards with connection to forgetting. He gives a reason why putting on two garments simultaneously can cause one to forget.
The reason connects physical garments to the spiritual garments of a person, and explains how a person's garments are naturally holy, but by doing sins causes the holy garments to be under the control of the Klipot (forces of impurity). garments surround a person and each garment has a surrounding light (Ohr Makif) that is so high that it cannot be touched by the forces of impurity, thereby shielding the garment itself from the forces of impurity.
When one puts on two garments at once, he leaves no room for the surrounding light between the first and second garment. The garment is therefore vulnerable to Klipot, and Klipot cause forgetfulness, as we know that there is no forgetfulness in the forces of purity and holiness.
Interestingly, it appears from this that there is no problem with putting on two non-overlapping garments (such as both socks or shoes) at once.
The Shulchan Aruch Ha-Ari (S"K 6) explains the same thing in a more simple way.
The Talmud (Shabbat 114a) defines a Talmid Chacham as someone who is careful to wear his clothing right-side-in. The Shulchan Aruch rules this way in Choshen Mishpat 162:21 and explains the reason to be that a Talmid Chacham must be careful to look respectful and inside-out clothing shows its stiching and looks disgraceful. The Shulchan Aruch also recommends in Orach Chaim 2:3 that everyone be careful about this, lest people begin to think negatively about each other. The Taz (OC 2 sk 2) and Shulchan Aruch HaRav (OC 2:2) rule that if he already put it on inside-out he does not need to fix it, unless he is a Talmid Chacham where he is in danger of causing people to dislike the Torah. However, none of these sources mention forgetfulness.
Yalkut Yosef 2:3. (Interestingly, the Mishnah Brurah 2:2 doesn't list it in his list of things that make you forget. But as a side point, even the M"B holds that it's forbidden to do it, but I can't remember where he said it.)
The reason: R' Dr. Asher Meir writes in Meaning in Mitzvot p. 10 that this is because it is a shortcut (being too lazy to take it off and putting it back on right). Everything you do as a shortcut (i.e. out of laziness) leads to forgetfulness.


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Collected by Mary C.Parler
Transcribed by Frances Majors
Conversation with Mr. Sam Stewert,
Mary C. Parler, Alice Fullbright,
and Frances Majors
Muskogee, Oklahoma
February 21, 1959
Reel 265, Item 9
Mary C. Parler: How old are you?
San Stewert: I'll be seventy-nine the fourth day of August.
MCP: Then that was a piece of misinformation (that Mr. Stewert
was ninety-one years old).
SS: No. It was just a lie.
MCP: What year were you born?
MCP: What's your birthday?
SS : Fourth day of August.
MCP: Where were you born?
SS: I was born in a little town called Hartsville, Missouri—
right down in a hole— mountains all around me.
MCP: How long did you live there?
SS: Oh, I don't even know when I come there.
MCP: Well, do you know when you left?
SS: No.
Alice Fullbright: Didn't you say you were about thirteen when you
went to Abilene? Did your mother die when you
were little?
SS: No, my mother died when I was thirteen m o n t h s old. My
mother's been dead a little better than seventy-seven years.
MCP: Did your father marry again?
SS: No. He lived with a woman. I never seen my daddy till I
was twenty-two years old.
MCP: Reelly? Who raised you?
SS: Just everybody and anybody. Just kicked me around like a
MCP: In Texas?
SS: No. In Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas.
MCP: When did you come to the Indian Territory?
MCP: What'd you do here?
SS : Cowboy.
MCP:. A real honest-to-goodness cowboy?
SS: I trailed two thousand head of cattle when I was just ten
years old, from Abilene, Texas, here for old Captain Sievers.
MCP: You were just ten years old?
SS: Yes, but I understood cattle. I was raised with cattle.
MCP: And they brought them up here to Fort Gibson?
SS: No, they brought them right here to Muskogee. Do you know
where Cherokee Street is over here?
MCP: No, I don't know Muskogee.
AF: It was right next to the street we came in on, the highway.
It's just a couple of blocks over from there.
Conversation with San Stewert (Cont'd)
Reel 265, Item 9 (Cont'd)
SS: It's the first street after you cross the railroad. That's
an old cattle trail from Texas to Abilene, Kansas. That's
what they called the Cherokee Trail.
MCP: Well how long were you a cowboy?
SS: Oh, I've been a cowboy all my life, till cattle went out
of business.
MCP: Then what did you do?
SS: Oh, I run engines a while, farmed a while, a steam fitter.
I can do pretty near anything to do.
AF: You were a deputy sheriff, too, weren't you?
SS: Yes, I used to be a United States marshall, deputy sheriff,
and policeman.
MCP: Did you know a Mr. Johnson who was a deputy marshall over at
FM: Stephen Johnson.
SS: Yes.
FM: His son lives in Arkansas, Parker Johnson. He died just a
few months ago.
S : Who, Johnson did? I ain't seen him in years.
MCP: Mr. Parker Johnson sang some songs for Fran, and she was
wondering if you knew one that he knew part of, about
Bonnie Black Bess.
SS: No, I don't know that.
MCP: Have you ever heard it?
SS : No, I never heard it.
MCP: Well, he just knew about three verses of it. And we thought
maybe you might have heard it.
SS: No, sir, if I sat down to give you the history of my life
it'd be the awfullest book you ever seen. While I do think
this— if I do say it— I think I done mighty well to be an
orphan boy, raised up, because lots of boys that had a heap
better chance than I did turned out to be outlaws. Lots of
them. But I always conducted myself in a way to respect
MCP: Did you ever know any of the famous outlaws when this was the
Indian Territory?
SS: Oh, yes, I knowed Cherokee Bill, the Cook boys, Pigeon, Doolin,
the Dalton boys.
MCP: Did you know, oh what was the woman that was the famous outlaw?
SS: Belle Starr?
MCP:. Bell Starr.
SS : Best friend I ever had in my life, and the prettiest thing
you ever laid eyes on.
MCP: Did she have a little girl that she called Pearl?
SS: Yes, used to be in Fort Smith. She got killed, of course, there.
MCP: How long ago did Pearl Starr die?
Conversation with San Stewert (Cont'd)
Reel 265, Item 9 (Cont'd)
SS: Oh, it's been about thirty years. She didn't die, a
streetcar killed her. She was drunk. Got right on the
track ahead of him and just kept messing around. Directly
he started up, he kept a-stopping for her— directly he
started up, and when he started, she run back again and run
into him and he run over her. She was a big, fleshy woman.
She was blond headed. Now Belle, her hair come along down
here, just as black as a raven. Prettiest thing you ever
looked at— coal black eyes.
MCP: How'd you meet her? How'd you happen to know her?
SS: Oh, I met her on the trail. Last time I seen Belle, she was
scouting the law, and so was I. We was both going different
directions. We was going to meet one another. And she was
coming around the mountain through lots of brush. And I'se
coming this a-way, and I heard her coming, and I dodged into
brush right beside the road. She come around, and I seen
who she was, and I come out on the track. She rode up,
she says, "Hello, kid." I says, "Hello." She says, "What's
your hurry?" I says, "They're crowding me." She says,
"They're crowding me, too." That was just after they made
that big raid in Minnesota, and the men were scattered
everywhere, her men was. So we stood there and talked a
few minutes, and she says, "Have you got any whiskey?"
I says, "Yes, I've got two quarts here." She says, "Let
me have one." She says, "I ain't got a dime with me. The
boys have got all the money. But," she says, "I'll pay
you when I see you again." I just handed her the quart of
whiskey, and she rode off, and I rode the other way, and
I never did see Belle any more.
MCP: Was that raid you were talking about the one on the Northfield bank?
SS: Yes.
EM: Is that the one the Younger boys were in on?
SS: No, that was in Coffeyville. That was in Coffeyville, Kansas,
up here, where the Younger boys got killed.
FM: Did you ever know them?
SS: Yes, I knew them and I didn't know them. I was just barely
acquainted with them. Bob....
MCP: Do you know the song about them?
SS: No, I don't know no song about them.
MCP: You do know a Sam Bass song, now, don't you? You told it to her.
SS: No, I don't, now, just two or three verses is all I know.
MCP: Well, that's what I mean. Did you know Sam Bass?
SS: No, I didn't know Sam Bass.
Conversation with Sam Stewert (Cont'd)
Reel 265, Item 9 (Cont'd)
MCP: Well, who was it besides Starr that was in that Northfield
bank thing in Minnesota?
SS: Well there was Henry Starr, Pony Starr, and then I don't
know who the other fellows were. But Belle got killed
just right away after that. Her son hid in a fence corner
and shot her in the back with a double-barreled shot-gun
to get the reward. And then he didn't get it.
MCP: Well, he didn't deserve it.
SS : It took several U. S. marshalls to get him out of here and
get him into Minnesota.
MCP: This Cherokee Bill— he didn't run with the Starr gan, did he?
SS: Oh, no, he was a lone wolf.
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Earth's perihelion passed about nine hours ago. How accurately do we know the moment of closest approach of the Earth to the center of the sun? How do we make this measurement?
Two things that we are really good at measuring in astronomy: time and angles. With respect to the sun and other planets, we can measure our relative orientation in the solar system to better than a milliarcsec ($8\times 10^{-10}$ of a circle). A year is $3\times 10^7$ sec, so we know passage of pericenter to about 0.02sec. This precesion can be built up even more by observations over many years (the greeks knew the average length of a month to much better than a second by comparing eclipse times separated by hundreds of years). Of course, all our atomic clocks keep absolute time much better than this, and in practice we know (because of these accurate astronomical measurements) that the earth rotation is not nearly so constant, so we often have to add or subtract leap-seconds.
EDIT: from radar ranging, we can actually measure our instantaneous location in the solar system to within 3m. With an orbital velocity of about 4.7km/s, that gives pericenter passage to better than a millisecond!
I'm pretty sure the current method of measuring solar-system scale distances is radar ranging. I don't know enough about the details of this for measuring the Earth-Sun distance. A first order estimate of the error in measuring the moment of closest approach would have to be something of the order of the 16 minute delay time in sending a signal from Earth and receiving a response on the Earth's surface from the reflection event at the Sun's surface. There might be subtle problems tied to the fact that the Sun doesn't have a solid surface, but we could certainly do radar ranging with several planets--triangulating the Earth-Sun distance using Mercury and Venus, for example.
and like Jeremy said, we could probably improve this time by using several years' worth of data.
The time of perihelion is not measured by radar. The Sun is not a solid body, there is no single surface to reflect a signal. Radar measures the distance to the surface of a body, not to its center of mass, so the accuracy of radar is limited by our knowledge of the topography of the body. In practice, ephemerides are used.
An anomalistic year is the mean duration between two periapsis (or apoapsis) events. It is about 365.2596358 days. The Earth is offset from the Earth-moon barycenter by about 4674.9 kilometers, this causes the actual time of perihelion to vary by a few minutes compared that predicted by simple Keplerian motion. The relative orientation of the Sun and Jupiter is another significant perturbation.
The current JPL ephemeris predicts the Earth-Sun distance to within one kilometer. Given the velocity of the Earth at perihelion is 30286 m/s, that would imply the moment of perihelion is predictable to within 34 milliseconds.
After perihelion has occurred, measurements taken during the event, including radar ranging (of the inner planets), and VLBI, can be used to improve the accuracy.


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I installed a daily build 12.10 on my Mac to test livecd. I already had a pen drive formatted to ext3 labeled casper-rw.
I had to invoke the "other options" with the F6 button so that I could append "persistent", but it didn't work. I clicked "try ubuntu," started browsing the web, and did a restart. When I ran the liveCD again, the persistence failed.
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On a CCTV 9 show shot in Shanghai, a couple of people who were certainly speaking Putonghua have made comparisons and if I heard right they were pronouncing 比较 as "biao." Am I wrong? Is that a common contraction? Is it typical of Shanghai?
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When someone is speaking fast, or speaking casually,
I don't know in which area this usually happens. Native Chinese can "correct" this pronunciation variation automatically and may not even notice this.
This kind of weakening of sounds happens in every language. In Chinese, it may happen in a syllable or in a word, or even among a phrase. Usually, this kind of weakened syllables are auxiliary words which help construct the sentence.
There is coarticulation which means that adjacent syllables would affect the pronunciation of each other, and they all sound differently from when they are pronounced alone.
An interesting result of this is that if you cut out a single syllable from a spontaneous sentence, there is high probability that even natives cannot figure out what it is, although they would have no problem understanding the full sentence.
比较 pronounces 'bǐ jiào' in Putonghua not 'biao (表)' , I'm not from Shanghai I don't know if it's the same in their dialect, 'biao' sounds like they were speaking Taiwan dialect or they just intended to speak in a nauseating way.


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The 6 Most Insanely Reckless Smuggling Tactics
Wherever you have borders, you find very motivated people trying to sneak shit across them. Of course, said borders are typically guarded by equally motivated people with guns whose only job is to stop them. Winning that battle requires planning, creativity and guile. Or at least a smuggler who really, really doesn't give a shit.
#6. Pot Catapults
The border fence between the United States and Mexico proves to be a bit of a challenge for some smugglers. Tunneling underneath it is a possibility, albeit entirely too difficult for the average drug mule. They could dynamite a hole in it, or drive a car straight through it (or dynamite a car while it's driving through it), but that's pretty much guaranteed to get the attention of every Border Patrol agent currently on shift. Really, the whole enterprise was much easier back when the border was just a painted line and the honor system.
Well, marijuana smugglers along the Arizona-Mexico border decided to go for the kind of solution that a 5-year-old would have thought up: They built a catapult to launch 4-pound bales of pot straight over the top of the fence like Morgan Freeman and Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
They could probably do a better English accent than Costner, too.
Well, we're assuming they were smugglers. It's either that or they're invaders who badly misunderstand the fundamentals of siege warfare.
If you think we're making all this up (and we will not hold that against you), check out this surveillance video shot by the U.S. National Guard, who were evidently too stricken with delighted whimsy to put down their cameras and enforce the law:
Sure enough, the video shows a few guys in an SUV towing the above catapult up to the border fence and firing a few bales of weed over:
"Let's light one of them on fire, it'll be goddamn hysterical!"
And if you're like us, all you can imagine is a bunch of stoners camping on the other side, watching as 4-pound bundles of weed start raining down from the sky as if in answer to some bong-fueled prayer. Then you're picturing them telling the story at every party they attend for the next 30 years, and everyone refusing to believe them.
#5. Narco Torpedoes
Bringing in new shipments without getting busted by the Coast Guard is a problem the drug cartels have been dealing with for some time, as documented by every single action movie of the 1980s. One of the newer tricks of the international drug trade now involves the use of something called a narco torpedo, which sadly is not quite the cocaine-packed sea missile of detonating happiness it sounds like.
"Please tell me you guys didn't find this up someone's ass."
It's actually a watertight container loaded with product that is towed behind a smuggler's boat directly into port and into the hands/noses/veins of eager consumers. At the first sign of the Coast Guard, the smugglers can simply cut the torpedo's towline and let it sink harmlessly to the ocean floor to be eaten by whales, simultaneously absolving them of any illegal activity and drastically changing the third act of Pinocchio. Assuming their employers don't freeze them in carbonite for dumping the shipment, the smugglers are free to try again and again.
One day whales will pay for being complicit in these crimes.
Another variation of the method involves welding the torpedo to the bottom of a vessel, occasionally without the knowledge of the crew, thereby creating unwitting drug mules with no exploitable connection to the organization should they be caught by the authorities. Once the ship arrives in port, cartel divers remove the torpedo from the hull and recover the product, and the crew is none the wiser. Although if all of the VHS research we did in the '80s is to be believed, an accidental discovery probably results in chainsaws, shotgun blasts and F. Murray Abraham dangling from a helicopter.
#4. Crystal Meth Sculptures
Despite what the "cookin' up fun" montages on Breaking Bad would have us believe, making crystal meth is pretty goddamned hard. The raw materials are extremely hard to come by, and failure often results in more than just an unsellable batch -- meth labs regularly explode like flaming pinatas full of hand grenades and high school dropouts. Sometimes it makes more sense to just buy the stuff and smuggle it in.
Unfortunately for would-be smugglers, meth is one of the more difficult things to conceal, as it is high on the customs watch list. That's why an Iranian meth smuggler bound for Thailand decided to take a lesson from Cheech and Chong's instructional document Nice Dreams and disguise his drugs as something else, in this case as two plaque-sized relief sculptures. One was a framed portrait silhouette, and the other was a 22-pound brick of crystal meth with a flower carved into it.
Actual photo. You can smoke this.
Despite tap dancing on the verge of being clever, this particular technique failed almost immediately, because it is important to remember that there is such a thing as drug-sniffing dogs and chemical screening X-ray machines, and that customs does not consist of one bored guy glancing at your luggage as you walk past.
"Yep, looks like a laptop battery to me."
The man was taken into custody when trying to enter Thailand, although the arresting customs agents did admit that they admired the smuggler's originality. They showed their dubious admiration by placing the man in a Thai prison, a phrase which here presumably means "they beat him with reeds and dropped him in a lightless pit."
Of course, not all smugglers are dealing in narcotics ...