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Semi Driver tries to slow but hits vehicle
Published: Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 11:35 a.m.
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FROSTPROOF | A 54-year-old Frostproof man was killed Thursday morning in a crash involving two commercial vehicles on U.S. 27 near the border with Highlands County, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
Michael Falk of 500 Streety Road died at the scene from blunt-force trauma, the Sheriff's Office said.
About 10:30 a.m., Falk was driving an orange Kubota tractor towing a spray trailer filled with pesticide in the southbound right lane on U.S. 27 near Avon Park Cutoff Road, according to reports.
Jorge Mena, 50, of Hialeah, was driving a blue Freightliner truck and flatbed trailer heading south in the same lane, said Scott Wilder, spokesman with Polk County Sheriff's Office.
Mena tried to slow and avoid Falk's vehicle, but the truck collided with the right rear of Falk's spray trailer, Wilder said.
The impact pushed the trailer at an angle, causing Falk's tractor to flip, he said.
The tractor and trailer ended up in the right lane of the highway and on the right shoulder of the road.
The Freightliner crossed both southbound lanes, coming to a stop in the center median.
Mena's truck and trailer are registered to MBJ Transport Inc.
Mena was taken to Florida Heartland Hospital in Sebring with minor injuries, including neck and back pain, the Sheriff's Office said.
He apparently was wearing a seat belt, Wilder said.
The southbound lanes of U.S. 27 in the area of the crash were temporarily closed, Wilder said.
Deputies are investigating the incident, but no charges have been filed, he said.
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Executives at ONGC said they were in the process of agreeing to a long-term alliance with Shell to jointly explore oil and gas production. In India, Shell currently has a small retail presence and is involved in developing a liquefied natural gas import and regasification terminal at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
By SELINA WILLIAMS and BIMAN MUKHERJI
LONDON -- Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday it has been in
discussions with India's state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp.
about potential opportunities as it seeks to expand its
presence in India, one of the world's fastest growing economies
and where energy demand is expected to more than double over
the next 25 years.
Executives at ONGC said they were in the process of agreeing
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and gas production and were looking at both existing and new projects, but added that it was too
early to say what form a potential tie-up will take.
If talks between Shell and ONGC are successful, it would
mark Shell's return to exploration in India some 16 years after it sold
its 50% stake in Rajasthan assets to Cairn for $7.5 million.
The Rajasthan fields last year reached 175,000 bpd of
crude oil production and Cairn aims to increase that to 300,000
Talks between Shell and ONGC also mark increased interest on
the part of big international oil companies in the country's
oil and gas sector and come as falling output from India's largest gas deposit in the
Krishna-Godavari basin in the Bay of Bengal has hit supplies to
the power and fertilizer sector.
The government of the energy-hungry nation is seeking to
reduce dependence on oil and gas imports and is currently
proposing to allow gas prices in India to be benchmarked to
global rates, which would lead to an increase in prices and
would benefit the companies involved in extraction.
In February, BP and Reliance Industries said they planned to
jointly invest more than $5 billion over the next three to five
years to boost declining gas output in the KG D6 block in the
Krishna-Godavari field off India's east coast.
In 2011, BP spent $7.2 billion buying a 30% stake in 23 oil
and gas production sharing contracts that Reliance operates in
India, including the producing KG D6 block. The two companies
also formed a joint venture to source and market gas in
In India, Shell currently has a small
retail presence and is involved in developing a liquefied
natural gas import and regasification terminal at Kakinada in
Andhra Pradesh.
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HEWITT (January 6, 2012)--Many know the horror of drunken driving accidents, and 24-year-old Travis Bigham's family isn't any different.
In 2010, Bigham was moving quickly through adulthood at age 21. But on July 25 of that year, Bigham was handed the biggest obstacle of his life. Bigham chose to ride as a passenger with someone who was driving drunk.
"Travis was involved in a horrible car wreck," Bigham's mother Lynna Jackson said.
"He wasn't supposed to live, they didn't even think he would make it 24 hours."
The accident put Bigham in a coma for four months. When he awoke, he began using a feeding tube and had traumatic brain injuries. Doctors told his mother he would never walk or communicate the same way again.
"It was just like living in another world," Jackson said.
"It was the most life changing thing you could have ever imagined."
Yet, hope was restored when Bigham began rehab. His original diagnosis was immediately overshadowed by his success in therapy.
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"We all give credit to God, the prayers, Travis' will, and Travis' determination."
After two years, Bigham can now walk, is learning to speak again, and can eat soft foods. Because of his recovery, his mother now calls him "Superman."
"He is my hero all the way," Jackson.
Bigham's mind is still ahead of his body though. He's heading to Galveston to continue rehab for the next six months.
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is there a way to completely move my OSX Lion to my new SSD without reinstalling? I came from Windows and Linux to OSX and i thought maybe it is possible to simply change the bootloader config after copying all system files to the SSD like in GRUB?
I believe that simply copying the files manually won't be enough. I'd use SuperDuper for getting a "true" clone of the old drive.
Doing a copy will not make the drive boot able. There are all kind of hidden files and "blessing" that needs to be done to make it boot able. For a really good description see What makes a volume bootable? And yes programs like Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! make this task very easy. Additionally, programs like those will let you select and choose what files and folders you do not want to copy to the SSD, if your are in a situation where you need to cut down on things to fit everything on the SSD.
Additionally, you can use the built in Disk Utility program if your current disk is smaller than the new SSD. Using the Restore tab. Select your old volume as the source and select the new SSD as the destination, and that should work as well, but the above choices are the best way to proceed, since they are more polished for the task.
Also there is "One More Thing" and its kind of important. Since this is Mac OS X Lion we are talking about. To truly get a complete Lion installation copied over to the SSD we should account for the hidden lion recovery partition. I can't say for sure but I think if you use CCC or SD! and pick the disk aka "Macintosh HD" and say copy that to disk "mySDD", its going to miss the lion recovery partition. Which you will probably want to have around too for when things go wrong.


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Contest Question
Are we allowed to submit apps that are already on App Store?
Does the contest require us to develop a fresh app or we can submit an existing app.
Secondly, will the app be considered if its making use of external web based processing of data along with extensive use of Sencha?
or it has to be purely Sencha.
17 Oct 2010 9:39 PM #2
Still awaiting some clarification on this question.
18 Oct 2010 4:07 AM #3
Hmm.. Good question. I wonder what the dev's position on it is.
It would seem to me though that a purpose of a contest would be to develop an app specifically for the contest (given their "start prototyping" statement in the contest description).
Something that is ready prior to the contest would defeat the purpose of the contest.
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The Kansas Small Business Development Center announced the 2013 Emerging and Existing Businesses of the year at a ceremony Tuesday.
Each of the eight KSBDC regional centers selected one emerging and one existing business for the award.
16 small businesses were selected from more than 2,700 entrepreneurs who received KSBDC services in 2012.
"The businesses were selected after careful consideration by our regional directors and consultants," said Greg Panichello, KSBDC state director. "The continuing difficult national economy has provided numerous opportunities for small businesses to adapt and proser in response. Collectively, we feel these 16 small businesses are excellent examples of small business adaptation and success in challenging times."
Emerging and Existing businesses of the year include:
-ash llc, Owned by Amy and Steve Harmon in Emporia
-Kessler Kreations, Owned by Marie Kessler in Hillsboro
-Oberlin Knife Shop, Owned by J.W. and Deb Smith in Oberlin
-Hays Fire and Rescue Sales & Service LLC, owned by Kelvin and DeAnn Meyers in Hays
-Pumpkin Paradise LLC, Owned by Steve and Janet Weidner in Sublette
-Sunflower Creations, Owned by Gerald and Lois Nichols in Copeland
-New York Dawg Pound, Owned by Sal Frustaci and Will Brown in Overland Park
-hr-haven inc., Owned by Belinda Waggoner in Overland Park
-Molly's Table, Owned by Donna Nagle in Paola
-Lawrence Montessori School, Owned by Purvis and Tiraz Birdie in Lawrence
-Mid Star Lab, Owned by Kari and Ron Wagner in Edwardsville
-Sweet Designs Cakery, Owned by Heather and Roger Horton, Jr. in Pittsburg
-HayesBrand Molding Inc., Owned by The Hayes Family in Garnett
-Absolute Dimensions LLC, Owned by Stephen Brittain and Michael Rickords in Wichita
-Ohlde's Dairy Inc, Owned by Steve and Cindi Ohlde, Justin and Becky Ohlde and Kyler Ohlde in Linn
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In the March 4 issue of TLS a Mr. Brown wrote a letter recalling how when he was an undergraduate at Columbia and Allen Ginsberg came to give a reading, it was in fact the students that heaped scorn upon him, whereas most senior faculty treated him with what they (the students) saw as undue deference. At the end of the letter he writes:
It was a time when American social and cultural totems were falling, something Highet, a pillar of the New York literary establishment, recognized and we young blancbecs did not.
This is the first instance of the word blancbec I've seen in English (it means a kind of arrogant upstart.) I was wondering if anyone knows of any usage in any other context (I have been unable to locate one.) Any other information - etymological or historical - would also be very welcome - especially if it sheds light as to how idiosyncratic an anglicization it is.


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5 Screw-Ups on the Battlefield That Accidentally Won the War
#2. Failing to Prepare for War Ends Up Working Out for Israel
In 1967, Israel launched a preemptive strike against hostile neighbors Egypt, Syria and Jordan, and in the process took control of some hotly contested land. About 30 seconds after that, Egypt, Syria and Jordan wanted some payback.
"Oooh, you guys are dicks."
The Screw-Up:
Now, Israel wasn't stupid; they knew their Arab neighbors were plotting revenge. However, based on intelligence estimates, they calculated that Israel didn't need to worry about an attack until at least 1975. Meanwhile, around 1973, smart individuals in Israeli intelligence started noticing moves that troubled them, almost like Egypt and Syria were getting ready to, you know, start a war. But with 1975 still two years away, these people were fairly well ignored.
"Those are probably peace tanks."
Israel didn't realize that their enemies were actually in far better shape than they thought they were. Pretty much everyone was feeding Israel misinformation, and the other side was steadily being armed by the Soviets.
Still, the Israelis were so confident that no attack was coming that when the freaking King of Jordan flew in to say, "Yeah, they're totally gonna attack you, and I know because they asked me to join them," no one believed him.
When Yom Kippur rolled around, Israel initiated a partial call-up of their reserves, but otherwise the holiday was set to go on as normal. Meanwhile, the "surprise" attack started: Egyptians breached Israel's so-called Bar Lev Line without much difficulty and began pouring into the Sinai, while the Syrians retook most of the Golan Heights in their attacks.
But It Turned Out ...
Israel's lack of preparation allowed a massive Egyptian army into the Sinai unimpeded. This would wind up spelling doom ... for the Egyptians.
"Oh shit, we forgot to bring enough army!"
That's because Israeli forces managed to reseal the Bar Lev Line, which had the effect of trapping an entire Egyptian army in the Sinai. When it came time to negotiate a settlement, Israel found itself with a nice bargaining chip in the form of said trapped Egyptian army. They didn't really want the Sinai so much as they wanted Egypt to leave them the hell alone. So they proposed a deal: They'd let Egypt have back both the Sinai and their army if they just agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist. Egypt took the deal.
Israel also managed to take the Golan Heights and offered it back to Syria for the same deal, but the Syrians weren't ready to accept Israel. Perhaps if Israel had a couple hundred thousand Syrian troops trapped there, things would have been different. It just demonstrates how fortunate they were that so many Egyptian soldiers managed to put themselves in a position to be trapped, and it probably would not have happened if Israel had actually been ready.
"Surprise wars are nice. There's a lot less stress, y'know?"
#1. The U.S. Misses a Warning About Pearl Harbor That Saves the Fleet
On "a date which will live in infamy," Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. It pretty much sucked.
The Screw-Up:
On November 28, 1941, the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations sent an encoded important warning message via commercial telegraph that warned of an imminent attack from Japan and advised the military to start flying reconnaissance missions to watch out for, say, Japanese fighters that were sent to attack Hawaii.
Why send such an important message by telegraph? Well, atmospheric conditions on that day made radio transmissions between Washington, D.C., and Hawaii impossible, and email hadn't been invented yet.
"We'd settle for AOL right about now."
Despite what the message said, army and navy planes at Pearl Harbor were not flying reconnaissance, and this didn't escape Japanese attention. This is because that message was received on the 6th of December, but wasn't translated until the 8th -- one day after the attack. Believe it or not, that was considered a short delay. Another message sent on November 24 giving a detailed report of goings on at Pearl was not translated until December 16.
As a result, the navy didn't sail out to meet the Japanese attack, everyone was caught by surprise, history happened.
America unleashed its horde of giants shortly thereafter.
But It Turned Out ...
If the U.S. military had been translating these in real time, there's a good chance the fleet would've been sortied (deployed to attack), especially when they read this urgent request from Tokyo on the 6th referring to an earlier message from the 2nd. But they didn't, and it wasn't. Which saved a whole lot of lives.
Why? Well, those ships would have been taking on Japanese aircraft. And, as many ships would find out during the war, it would have been suicide. Ships at the time just weren't equipped to defend themselves from air attack.
Most of the American fleet had ditched its AA for high-quality surround sound systems.
For instance, the British found this out for themselves three days after the attack when Japanese planes caught HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in open water. For the price of just three airplanes and 18 men, the Japanese sunk both ships, with a total loss of over 800 hundred men for the Allies.
Throughout the war there would be several more battleships sunk by airplanes, including both of the biggest battleships ever built (the Bismarck and the Yamato). Many sailors could have told you how it goes when ships take on aircraft carriers and the planes they carry.
We'll give you a hint: not well.
This is why Admiral Chester Nimitz said, "It was God's mercy that our fleet was in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941." Yes, the fleet was bombed in the attack. Eight ships sank. But there is a huge difference between ships getting sunk in the harbor (where crews were easily rescued and six of the ships saved) versus out in the open ocean (where those same ships would have wound up on the ocean floor, along with the 20,000 sailors on board).
In reality, the Japanese attack was pretty much a failure. The U.S. ended up losing only two battleships: Arizona and Oklahoma. Meanwhile, all the fuel and repair facilities at the base were left untouched, and the navy could get to work fixing them right away, which is exactly what they did. They were also able to send out the Pacific fleet submarines, fully fueled and stocked, within 24 hours of the attack. As for the remaining battleships, they got the Six Million Dollar Man treatment -- they were rebuilt with stuff like fire control radar and dual-purpose secondary armament (making them capable of shooting at airplanes and ships).
A few years later, we'd have a chance to show them the new improvements in person.
All because they stayed home on the day of the attack, thanks to the fact that nobody bothered to read their messages.
For more historic buffoonery, check out 5 Battlefield Screw Ups That Were Hilarious (Until People Died) and 5 Minor Screw-ups That Created The Modern World.


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Although Chelsea Football Club may not be as old as some clubs that were founded in the 1870's or 1880's it can still boast of over 100 years worth of English football history. Formed in 1905 Chelsea Football Club has spent a majority of its existence competing in the top tier of English professional football. Throughout its history Chelsea has managed to become English champions no less than four times, won the FA Cup a total of six times while also winning the League Cup four times. In addition to competing in England, Chelsea has also been quite successful in Europe as well, having won the UEFA Cup Winners Cup twice. Three of the four Premier titles won by Chelsea throughout its history have been won in the last ten years, capping off, in the eyes on P2P4U net, one of the most successful decades for any team in English football history.
Unlike the name would have you believe, Chelsea Football Club is not actually based in Chelsea, but rather in Fulham which is a few miles away. The home stadium for Chelsea, which is also located in Fulham, is known as Stamford Bridge and can seat over 41,000 fans; a capacity that P2P4U notes it often needs since Chelsea matches tend to draw large crowds. Any serious fan that likes to watch football probably knows that Chelsea has two nicknames that are commonly used. The first, which is "The Pensioners" was used primarily up until the middle of the 20th century and the second, "The Blues," has been used since then. Chelsea has also had a variety of different crests throughout its history, the newest of which was unveiled in 2005 and features a hollowed out blue circle and features a blue lion in the middle of the circle.
Since blue is the primary color of Chelsea the club's kits have also been predominantly blue with a mixture of white though their new away kits are predominantly black.
When it comes to attendance records in English Football the Chelsea Football Club ranks fifth all time and P2P4U net estimates that they are the fifth most supported team in the English Premier league with an average attendance of well over 41,000. If you want to watch football at Stamford Bridge it would probably be a good idea to learn a few of the chants that Chelsea fans like to sing during the game, such as 'We all Follow Chelsea.' Another fan favorite is the chant known as "celery: because fns often follow it up with plenty of celery throwing on the part of the fans, though celery has been banned in Stamford Bridge since 2007.
Unlike most English football club Chelsea do not have a dominant rivalry with any one or two clubs that the fans look forward to every season, mainly because many of their traditional rivals have spent the last few years in separate tiers so the teams rarely have a chance to meet. P2P4U believes that because Chelsea has spent so many years on top in the Premier league that it is bound to develop a solid rivalry with one or more of the teams it routinely competes with for the cup.
Chelsea fans have also been known to take part in what is known as football hooliganism from time to time and the club even has a dedicated mob of fans known as the Chelsea Shed Boys or the Chelsea Headhunters that come together to cause chaos before and after Chelsea matches. While the fans have been known to get incredibly rowdy on occasion P2P4U net notes that they have not been any livelier than the fans of most other English soccer clubs.
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I'd like to make a comparison of prices, availability and properties of semiconductor substrate layers like Si, Ge, GaP, AlN etc. I wonder what are the problems related to getting such data, what are the leading companies that sell such things, what's the quality, waiting time and so on. I'm not going to buy one, It's just a little research, that's why I ask here and not the companies directly. Your own experiences (what problems you've encountered and maybe some sample prices or company names?) are much appreciated.
As an engineer, I've had to get pricing on stuff I wasn't going to buy many times in the past. I doubt you'll find a website which will have the prices, but you can find them yourself in a few hours work. What you do is this:
Call them up and ask for a "sales rep" (abbreviation for "sales representative" but nobody calls them by the full name) tell him/her that you're working at a physics lab (I presume you are) and that you need "budgetary pricing". This is pricing that includes no discounts. Budgetary pricing is not an offer to sell. So if the price suddenly goes through the roof because of a revolution in some obscure country budgetary pricing won't get them into trouble. They should give this to you without a lot of trouble as it's not secret information. I've always assumed that they don't put it on their websites because (a) it changes, and (b) it might be construed as being an offer to make a contract.
And if you can't get information from their website, ask them to give you a "data sheet". That should be all you need.
Hey, I'll get you started. Here's a company that sells wafers for the valley:
Here's their contact info:
Now when you talk to them, do not sound like a complete idiot. Make sure you know everything about their product BEFORE you pick up the phone. Make yourself a temporary expert on their product line. Know what size you're interested in and what level of quality, etc. Decide in advance what year you're asking for (new stuff gets cheaper with time), and the approximate quantity.
If possible, use their website to determine the actual product number for the item you're interested in. By giving them a part number you are making their job very easy. Sales people are not, by nature, inclined to annoy potential customers. Make it easier for them to give you a price than it would be for them to tell you to go away. If you give them a part number it will be very easy to look up a number for you. Do not waste their time by asking for them to speculate about exactly how these prices will change in the future. (But if they're bored they might have time to talk to you about this.) They should be able to tell you that they "expect that these prices will drop as production ramps up", or give you a vague idea, and maybe you'll get lucky. But remember that you're asking industry to do you a favor for no real good reason.
I was looking for a company who can provide Si (and potentially other) wafers of various types, and I can say the following:
1) You will have a hard time finding 'fixed' pricelist. Companies are not ready to quote you unless you are ready to buy XXX amount. 'I am just checking prices around' not gonna work.
2) Price is drastically different if you are getting standard wafer (which is produced in mass quantity for fabs). If you are getting non-standard wafer you not going to get price/wafer price (or it's going to be ridiculously high). You going to be quoted for crystal growth and slicing+finishing separately. And of course price is negotiable for large quantity.
3) You can get almost any needed purity (=more recrystallization passes). It just costs additional money. (so going from 1kOhm to 10kOhm Si resistance adds 30% to the crystal price before slicing)
4) Delivery of stock wafers depends on your luck & their laziness. Custom crystals take ages to make.


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December 20, 2012
{cheers to the new year}: shades of teal, green gold + white
7 comments:
- The Clubhouse at Patriot Hills said...
Love the teal drink and matching sugar rim! It is so much fun when you have a signature cocktail.
- December 19, 2012
- Lena at A Crimson Kiss said...
What an amazing year it's been–to a wonderful, colorful 2013 for you and yours!
- December 19, 2012
- Rings said...
Wow, just seem perfect
- December 20, 2012
Wow!! I've been looking at gold wedding stuff for the past few days and looked at it with coral, green, or turquoise. I had just decided I wanted blue shades with some green. I logged on here to pick some blue shades and this pops up. Everything is falling into place!!
- December 20, 2012
- Brenda's Wedding Blog said...
This inspiration board is so pretty and a perfect way to ring in the new year. How is it already so close to 2013? I don't have any specific changes lined up for the new year yet - other than to hope it's a healthier one than 2012 and that I get to spend many hours with our now family of 4 :)
- December 21, 2012
- Bridal Jewellery said...
fabulous inspirational boards!
- December 22, 2012
- Nyfika 2013 said...
stunning colors, thanks for sharing
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To a (projective smooth) algebraic surface $S$ over an algebraically closed field and a divisor $D$ of $S$, we can associate $n= \dim |D|$ and $g$, the genus of a generic member of $|D|$. I would like to fix $g$ and vary $S,D$ so as to make $n$ as large as possible. Is $n$ unbounded and, if not, what is the optimal bound? I am mainly interested in the case of positive characteristic but an answer over the complex numbers would be welcome too.
$n$ is unbounded, as it is shown by the following example.
EDIT: my example did not work, as pointed out by quim in the comments. The example he suggests however works: take $S$ the blowup of $P^2$ at a point $x$ and $D$ the strict transform of a curve of degree $d$ with a singular point of multiplicity $d-1$ at $x$. The general $D$ is smooth and $|D|$ has dimension $2d$.\ Of course, a similar construction can be used to construct examples with $g>0$.
On the other hand, if the Kodaira dimension of $S$ is $\ge 0$ and $D$ is irreducible, then $n=\dim|D|$ is bounded by $g$ by the following argument.
Up to blowing up $S$ we may assume that the general $D$ is smooth.
Let $m>0$ be such that $mK_S\ge 0$. If $n>0$, then $D$ is not in the fixed part of $|mK_S|$, hence $K_SD\ge 0$. Hence by the adjunction formula $D|_D$ is a divisor of $D$ of degree $\le 2g-2$ and therefore it satisfies $2\dim|D|_D|\le \deg D$ (this is Clifford's theorem if $D$ is special and it is trivially true otherwise).
I, hence $K_S|_D$ is effective and $D|_D$ is special. Then Clifford's theorem and the adjunction formula give $2(n-1)\le D^2\le D^2+K_SD=2g-2$.
The following example shows that $n$ can be unbounded, for any value of $g$, even if $S$ is fixed.
Let $C$ be a smooth curve of genus $g$, and let $\mathcal{E}$ be a normalized rank $2$ vector bundle on $E$. Let $\mathfrak{e}$ be the divisor on $C$ such that $\bigwedge^2 \mathcal{E}=\mathcal{O}_C(\mathfrak{e})$, and consider the projective bundle
$S:=\mathbb{P}(\mathcal{E}) \stackrel{\pi}{\longrightarrow} C$.
Let $C_0$ be a section such that $C_0^2 = \deg \mathfrak{e}$, and let $f$ be the class of a fiber of $\pi$.
Assume now that $\mathfrak{b}$ is any divisor on $C$ having the following properties:
Notice that these conditions are satisfied as soon as $\mathfrak{b}$ is a general divisor of sufficiently high degree.
By [Hartshorne, Algebraic geometry, Ex. 2.11 p. 385], there exists a section $D$ linearly equivalent to $C_0 + \mathfrak{b} f$, and moreover $|D|$ is base-point free. By Bertini's theorem it follows that the general element of $|D|$ is a smooth curve of genus $g$, and the dimension of $|D|$ clearly goes to infinity when $\deg \mathfrak{b}$ goes to infinity.


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Vacationing With Your Baby
How to balance adventure with responsible parenting
My heart sank as the speedboat roared into Thailand's emerald-green Phang Nga Bay without us. We were on time, but the boat to Koh Yao Noi, our destination, was already full.
Emotional manipulation—pointing and smiling at my farang 1-year-old, Auggie, a quick-to-smile, dark-eyed charmer with a few wisps of light brown hair, hoping the grizzled ticket vendor would find us seats—had utterly failed.
Auggie had sprouted an alarmingly large tooth overnight and was already in a mood, whining and in need of a nap. I kissed the top of his head, which peeped out from the Ergo carrier, to reassure him (and myself) that this was not a crisis. Dustin, my husband, was not reassured. He was drenched in sweat and managing three suitcases and a stroller, otherwise known as "daddy hell."
Stuck on the pier for two hours, I decided we'd eat lunch. Auggie, the king of our clan, received a carefully packed meal I'd brought—chilled hard-boiled egg, avocado, papaya—while his servants made due with potato chips and Oreos from a nearby vendor. A half-dozen monkeys loved the idea, and soon we were surrounded. As Dustin fended them off with a bamboo stick, I wondered how we had ended up here.
But this was no accident. It was a quest.
After years of jetting across Southeast Asia as a writer, I take pride in being a good traveler. I live for the hunt, be it for the tastiest char kway teow in Penang, Chatuchak Market's newest fashion designers, or the best boutique hotel for under $100 in Ubud. For me, package tourists, bad food and neon-blue cocktails are signs to move on.
When Auggie turned 1, not only did I feel we deserved a reward, but I wanted to introduce my son to the kind of adventures that have defined his parents. The problem was, how would I balance the traveler I was with sane parenting, where concerns like accessibility, safety, a good night's sleep and the availability of tantrum-thwarting bananas are key? Could we find the sweet spot?
I considered large, family-oriented hotels in Phuket and Koh Samui. But I couldn't shake memories of like-minded parents who'd gone that route and afterward sighed, "Well, the kids loved it." They looked so defeated, having invested precious time off in the sort of overpriced, could-be-anywhere place they would've shunned pre-childbirth. It hardly seemed worth leaving home for. Meanwhile, tucked-away, more exotic places I was curious about—the Gilis, Koh Lipe—were too difficult or expensive to get to.
Many TripAdvisor reviews, Skyscanner flight searches, and friends' emails later, I chose Koh Yao Noi. It's a 40-minute boat ride from Phuket, yet, due to some rocky beaches, undeveloped enough to offer peace, quiet and some local culture.
When we finally checked into our hotel, the Koyao Island Resort, I knew why we'd bothered. Open-air, thatched-roof buildings were scattered across a waterfront garden planted with towering palms and flowering hibiscuses. Asian koels cuckooed. There was a salty breeze in the air.
Hammocks, wooden swings and loungers along the 200-meter-long sandy beach offered ample space to unwind and take in views of the area's famed craggy karst formations. "So we sweat a little, and he cried a little," Dustin said. "We're here!"
And there were families everywhere: playing badminton, splashing in the infinity pool, hunting for shells.
We mentally patted ourselves on the back and headed to our room, a tropical-chic wooden villa with custom-made Thai furniture and an outdoor shower facing a canopy of banana trees. After Auggie went down, we crashed on our terrace's sofa with cold Changs and room service—fresh prawn curry, seafood pad siew and chocolate mousse. (The great terrace was key—we spent hours there during naps.) Falling asleep to the sound of the sea, I congratulated myself on finding this spot.
At 5 a.m., I was jolted awake by Auggie's cry. He was covered in sweat, and there were drops of blood on his sheets. Alarmed, I picked him up and saw that he was covered in mosquito bites. Visions of sitting in a local clinic treating a malaria-induced fever raced through my head. At breakfast, he was seemingly unfazed, devouring fresh papaya, waving at the resident kitty and flirting with the wait staff. I was bleary-eyed and guilt-ridden. Suddenly, a tower block with air-conditioning and pest control seemed like paradise.
To stop the bad-mother spiral that loomed ("Why had I dragged us here again?"), I had to recharge. This would not happen by chasing Auggie around and making sure he wasn't eating seashells. So I left the boys to their own devices and headed straight to the spa. The therapist, Nok, was petite and soft-spoken, but delivered masterful, strong strokes during the one-hour oil massage. I emerged jasmine-scented, happy and relaxed. All that was left to do was swim, eat fresh seafood and hang out. It was starting to feel like a real vacation.
The next morning, we piled into a songthaew, a covered pickup truck with benches in the back, for a private tour of Koh Yao Noi, which, together with its nearby sister island of Koh Yao Yai, is home to about 18,000 people, mostly rice and rubber farmers and fishermen.
We cruised by rice paddies backed by lush hills and populated with water buffalo and white egrets, stopping at small villages where women in headscarves manned vats of curry rice, the occasional tattooed tourist in fisherman's pants sauntering by. In one hamlet, whose quaint wooden houses were built on the water and hung with potted orchids, we encountered a chubby baby with a shock of black hair who graciously offered to share her pacifier to Auggie as her entire family looked on.
The roads were empty, so Dustin chuckled when we passed a sign that read, "Reduce speed—entering metropolis." In the sleepy main town, I checked out handmade coconut bowls and colorful yoga bags at Dodee Shop, while Dustin bought a linen shirt at a souvenir stall. We ended the morning with deliciously cold Thai coffees at Cafe De Iyara, devising ways to spend a few months here every year.
Over the next few days, we barely changed out of swimsuits. We watched the resident water monitors lumber by (they're harmless), listened to crickets, sent our first balloon lantern into the sky, and introduced Auggie to the sand and sea. We found time to read, do yoga, watch the sunset and catch up on "Mad Men."
Of course there were times when I missed my former life, watching the kid-free couples show up late for breakfast and get tipsy by the pool, their time unencumbered by the care of another human being. Not so long ago, Dustin and I were the ones zooming off on motorbikes to tour northern Vietnam or chartering a rickety fishing boat to island-hop in Cambodia. Once, we waited four hours to sample the famed char siew at a crammed Hong Kong dim sum restaurant, the kind of thing that we now lack the time, energy and willpower to do.
But I had new victories: I beamed when a French grandmother praised Auggie's excellent water skills and listened intently to an English mother of two complain about a big Phuket hotel.
"I thought having a TV and the kids club would be nice," she said. "But when I asked my son which place he preferred, he said, 'This one, because it's closer to the beach and they have two swings.' It's just so beautiful here."
It really was that simple, something I'd intuitively known.
As I watched Dustin lead Auggie by hand into the sea, tiny crabs their only company, it dawned on me: We'd never stop being parents, but we also hadn't stopped being ourselves.


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2014 Election Guide: Cramming for midterms
So far, it doesn't look like a watershed year
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Three months out from the midterm elections, it looks like the theme of the year might be a negative one: Voters disapprove of Congress by record levels, but seem inclined to keep the rascals in.
Unless a political tornado touches down, it does not look like 2014 will be a watershed or what is called a "wave election." There is not a single driving issue like Obamacare was in 2010. The economic picture is schizoid, the national mood sour and the array of thorny global issues confusing.
There is an almost universal consensus among professional election watchers that the Republicans will hold on to the House and have a good to very good chance to capture the Senate, albeit by a slim margin.
A change of control of the Senate is a big deal, but given the standoff the White House and Congress are already in, it might not mean big changes in President Barack Obama's last two years.
Political climate
The macro factors in midterm elections are usually economic conditions, national mood and presidential popularity. Huffpost Pollster aggregates public polls, creating handy updated averages. Here is the trend for whether Americans think the country is on the right track or wrong track.
Not a happy picture and trending towards gloomy. The outlook doesn't change with questions about general satisfaction and how things are going in the country:
More bad news. Those results are unsurprisingly parallel to Obama's lousy approval ratings.
All this would tend to be very good for the out-of-office party, the GOP.
On the other hand, unemployment is falling and the stock market is rising. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Obama is not getting much credit for that. The Pew Research Center chart below was included in an analysis by The Cook Political Report, a superb election monitor (subscription only, sorry).
It charts the historical relation of the unemployment rate to the presidential approval rating. The presidents' approval ratings rose as unemployment fell for both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, as you would expect. But that was not true of the other recent two-term presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Right now, the economy is so-so. More important for political purposes, according to Amy Walter of the Cook Report, "If you're a Democrat, you think the economy is getting better. If you are a Republican, you don't."
Obama's popularity also has to be seen in the context of his rivals. And Congress is downright despised. Here is a chart of congressional approval ratings, again from Huffpost Pollster:
The overall picture is a bit of a muddle. Turnout is usually low in midterms. Those who vote are the more politically active and more partisan, less changeable and more hardened. It looks like a grudging status quo election, with a high "hold your nose" factor.
When you plug all these variables into a prediction machine, the pros say we should expect the Republicans to pick up a modest number of House seats. And that is exactly what history would have us expect, as the chart below shows from the midterm election in a president's second term.
Of post-war, two-term presidents, only Bill Clinton managed to avoid the six-year itch. It was a moment of rare peace and prosperity.
The prognosticators at The Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog summarize,
"We estimate that the Democrats have less than a 1 percent chance of taking the House. Our model currently estimates that the Democrats will win 193 seats, down slightly from the 201 they controlled after the 2012 election and the 199 they currently control, given existing vacancies."
Given the favorable macro factors, why aren't the Republicans poised to do better? One hint comes from the most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal Survey. Only 19 percent had a favorable view of Republicans in Congress; 54 percent have a negative view. That makes Obama look like Santa Claus.
As for the Democrats in Congress, 31 percent had a positive view, 46 percent negative, according to an NBC/Wall St Journal survey.
The future make-up of the Senate is less dependent on 30,000-foot trends and more on the quirks of this year's specific states. Right now there are 45 Republicans, 53 Democrats and two mavericks who vote with the Dems.
Democrats are defending more seats this year, 21 compared to 15. While only one Republican is retiring, five veteran Democrats are leaving the Senate: Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Carl Levin of Michigan, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Tom Harkin of Iowa and Max Baucus of Montana (he's already gone). All of those will be close races.
"Overall, Republicans still have more advantages going into the fall, especially when it comes to the Senate race map, national environment, and President Obama's unpopularity," according to Jennifer Duffy of The Cook Political Report. "All these factors mean that Republicans will certainly gain seats. It is not yet clear that they will gain the six seats they need for a majority."
Here is how The Cook Report breaks down the races:
If everything goes as predicted in the red and blue columns, the Republicans would need to pick a net of only three seats in the gray Toss Up column to gain control of the Senate. The roughest might be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's battle against Alison Lundergan Grimes, the 35 year-old Kentucky Secretary of State. That's one of the races you are going to want to keep an eye on.
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Installing ABS Electric High-Power Brakes On A 1949 Chevy - More Power To YouWritten by on July 1, 2009 Installing ABS Electric High-Power Brakes
Whenever a brake upgrade is made, usually incorporating discs brakes at the front or even all around, most builders will upgrade to power-assisted brakes. The number of kits available in the aftermarket makes installing vacuum power boosted brakes relatively simple in any number of applications, but of course this does rely on the engine providing enough vacuum to operate the booster. Using a high-performance motor, high-lift camshaft, or a supercharger can see vacuum levels that are marginal or insufficient to operate a vacuum booster, though using dual diaphragm or large diameter boosters can help.
While the Smeding 383 stroker small-block Chevy destined for our project '49 Chevy will provide enough vacuum for a booster, I also wanted to run the brake master cylinder under the floor, rather than on the firewall, and as the car will sit pretty low, I was concerned about a brake booster hanging down under the car. When I saw ABS Power Brake's Electric High Power master cylinder, and more specifically its compact size and the fact that it could be supplied with a bolt-in bracket to fit the '49 Chevy, it seemed like a no-brainer. ABS actually offers two different brackets, one for '47-51 cars and another longer version to fit '52-54 Chevy cars. Check their website for other applications as they can cover way more than just these models. The master cylinder itself (that is, without the bracket) measures just 10 inches long and 3 inches tall, and can be mounted on the firewall or on the frame, either remote fill or with attached reservoir, though add a couple more inches to the height if you opt for the non-remote fill versions. Whichever option you take, all are polished aluminum and there's a choice of styles if you go for the attached reservoir models.
An advantage of the electric system over a regular vacuum booster is that whereas if the engine cuts out with a vacuum booster you lose the power brakes and the pedal is very hard, if the power is lost to the electric version, you will still have at least 20 full power pedal pushes thanks to the accumulator in the system, and even then it will simply revert to regular non-assisted braking without the "hard pedal". Sounds like a win-win situation right? I thought so, so I trucked the Chevy over to ABS and followed along as Pedro installed the system in an afternoon. Now I just have to plumb the remainder of the system--yes we'll show you the correct way to go about that pleasurable job shortly--and very soon the Purple Pig will have both "go" and "whoa" again.
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While it served me well when the '49 was stock, there's no way the stock '49 master cylinder was going to cut it with the new big rear drums and discs up front. A call to ABS Power Brake revealed they offer a couple of power brake options, both mounting in the stock location under the floor. The first task was to remove the original master cylinder, which also mounts the clutch pedal. As the '49 will run an automatic transmission, this is no longer required anyway. We'll need the brake pedal though, so this was removed and retained.Using identical bracketry, which mounts in the stock Chevy location, ABS can supply a regular vacuum power booster (top) or its Electric High Power master cylinder (bottom). The latter is available in under-floor fill or remote fill versions. I opted for the remote fill style for ease of maintenance.Viewed from the side you can see how the vacuum booster hangs down slightly from the bracket compared to the electric version, and while it is still tucked up in the chassis, on a very low car I prefer the peace of mind the compact electric version offers.The ratio increase offered by this arm inside the bracket means pedal travel is kept minimal. The rod that connects to the pedal is adjustable to tune pedal height.The electric pump is supplied with a rubber mounting pad to insulate any small vibrations from the body or chassis, depending on where you choose to mount it.The original brake pedal is re-used with the ABS bracket. Ours was sand-blasted which revealed a little pitting on the pivot, but it was still serviceable. The groove in the pivot performs two functions. It allows grease to be distributed from the Zerk fitting, as well as providing a location to enable the locking bolt to retain the pedal in the bracket. The extra holes in the bracket are for a clutch pedal, but these aren't required for our application.The accumulator is mounted in-line between the pump and the master cylinder, and allows the brake pedal to be applied 20 times without losing power assist, before returning to manual brakes, even with the engine off.
The ABS bracket is designed to clear the stock crossmember, but our '49 uses a Walton Fabrication trans crossmember which required minimal clearancing to the ABS bracket (arrowed).Once the master cylinder and bracket were installed, and the brake pedal bolted to both the linkage and the pedal pad, the return spring was re-attached, though Pedro at ABS is of the opinion that it's probably no longer needed and may offer too much resistance.In order to hook the system up and show how it works, Pedro temporarily mounted the electric pump to the chassis rail next to the master cylinder, though I'll likely move it to the outside of the chassis once I have a firm idea where the exhaust will run. It should be mounted as close to the master cylinder as possible.The accumulator was plumbed in the line from the pump to the master cylinder and will also be mounted on a permanent bracket once other component positions are finalized. The two brake lines coming from the master are for the front and rear brakes, and will be routed through a proportioning/combination valve.Brake fluid is fed to the reservoir on top of the master cylinder from the remote reservoir, and then to the electric pump in braided hose. From the pump it passes through high pressure steel lines to the accumulator and then on to the master cylinder.Though an under-floor fill is available, on the Chevy the door in the floor would almost be under the seat, plus I like the ease of a reservoir on the firewall, so I opted for this remote fill reservoir. As the remote reservoir is mounted above the rest of the brake system, ABS says there is no need to include residual valves. Our reservoir was mounted on the firewall, though you could also mount it inside the car.


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Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2)
It is possible that the main title of the report Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2) is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
- Bilateral Acoustic Neurofibromatosis
- Central Form, Neurofibromatosis
- Vestibular Schwannoma Neurofibromatosis
Disorder Subdivisions
- None
General Discussion
Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is a rare genetic disorder that is primarily characterized by benign (noncancerous) tumors of the nerves that transmit sound impulses from the inner ears to the brain (bilateral acoustic neuromas vestibular schwannomas). Associated symptoms and findings may become evident during childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood. Depending on the exact location and size of the acoustic neuromas/vestibular schwannomas, such findings may include disturbances of balance and walking (gait); dizziness; headache; facial weakness, numbness, or pain; ringing in the ears (tinnitus); and/or progressive hearing loss.
In some individuals with NF2, additional abnormalities may also be present. These may include loss of transparency of the lenses of the eyes (juvenile posterior subcapsular opacities), progressive visual impairment, or an increased risk of developing certain tumors of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).
NF2 results from changes (mutations) of a gene on the long arm (q) of chromosome 22 (22q12.2). The NF2 gene regulates the production of a protein that functions as a tumor suppressor. In some individuals with NF2, the disorder is caused by new (sporadic) mutations of the gene that occur for unknown reasons. In other affected individuals, NF2 is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.
The term "neurofibromatosis" is sometimes also used to describe a second, distinct form of NF known as neurofibromatosis type I (NF1). More common than NF2, NF1 is primarily characterized by the development of multiple noncancerous (benign) tumors of nerves and skin (neurofibromas) and areas of abnormally decreased or increased coloration (hypo- or hyperpigmentation) of the skin, such as pale tan or light brown discolorations (cafe-au-lait spots) on the skin of the trunk or other regions. In contrast, in individuals with NF2, benign fibrous tumors of the skin (cutaneous neurofibromas) and areas of abnormal pigmentation are considered relatively rare. As with NF2, NF1 may be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait or appear to occur randomly due to new (sporadic) genetic changes.
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How do you feel about people wearing US flag clothing?
Do you think it's wrong or disrespectful to the US flag to wear it as clothing? with Memorial Day and July 4th coming up, do people enjoy seeing US flag items or does it irk them because of the Flag Code?
Do you own any US flag items like shirts, caps, etc? And does anyone ever quote Flag Code to you for it?
just wondering...
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Anyone who gets worked up over the desecration of a symbol or icon such as a flag does not know the true meaning of freedom or patriotism.
@elforman: Yep, agreed
I am not offended by anyone who would choose to wear US flag clothing - but I also would not wear it myself. I have a large flagpole in the back of my house, and in my opinion, that is where the flag belongs (on display in an appropiate place). I don't criticize people who would choose to wear a clothing item - ooops, my dog has a flag bandana!
100% behind you on this. Saw your listing and the 'dissappointing' (choosing a mild word here) comments. I do have flag-like Ts & even a silk shirt. IMO, it is not disrespectful to wear them.
I think it's a tacky way to show one's patriotism, but I wouldn't call it offensive or blasphemous. Personally, I think the best way to respect the flag as a symbol is to fly it on a pole.
Not disrepectful, but I do think it's tacky.
For me, the really amusing part is that most of the flag based items are made overseas. Way to support the economy...
@elforman: Isn't freedom and the core of our patriotism the right to have your own beliefs? Even if those don't line up with your own, such as getting worked up about something you don't agree with?
I find it more annoying when people won't stand or render a proper salute. But that's OK too. They've got that right.
@okham: Certainly you're entitled to your beliefs. But to attempt to codify those beliefs into law which would curtail the rights of others, such as the proposed flag-burning amendment that gets media attention every few years, in an infringement upon others' freedom. Your right to do or believe what you want ends at the point where my rights begin, as long as nobody's health or property are endangered.
I think it's tacky, but then again, I'm not the one wearing it.
The only issue I see is having some freak run up behind flag-wearing person and try to burn the flag off of them.
So what about a flag pin on the lapel. Technically is it disrespectful because it is not a complete flag?
(question for anti flag shirt people)
Doesn't bother me.
It's better than those tacky wolf shirts!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mountain-Three-Short-Sleeve/dp/B002HJ377A (read the comments)
@elforman: I don't think you're understand the true meaning of it. You are allowed to get worked up over it and even express displeasure over it. You just can't codify against freedom of expression. Bazinga!
@kmeltzer: I have that shirt!
@ w00tgurl: Where in the link to Wikipedia does it say an article of clothing should not be worn with an imprint or design of the American flag? I think you and most other posters here may be confused by the wording. It states that the flag itself should not be worn as clothing, as well the image of the flag should not be imprinted or stitched into something that would be disposed of after use, but most people don't dispose of clothing after use. The clothing may be donated to Goodwill or the Salvation Army but that is not the same as if it were being disposed of.
@kmeltzer: I've been thinking about buying that shirt for a long time. I am not cool enough to pull it off ironically though I'd just look like a tool.
On the topic. I do own a pair of Flag swim trunks that I bought last year to go tubing sort of a last second late night joke buy. However I think it's dumb to wear flag designed stuff. Also I'm pretty sure these shorts were made in china and the white parts in water...lets just say big mistake.
@gideonfrost: Or a little mistake. ...Depending. ;-)
@jenntil: i actually agree with your interpretation of it. it's wrong to take an actual flag, cut a neckhole and armholes and wear it. but a tshirt with a flag on it is more than acceptable.
i'm glad to get everyone's opinions though
@gmwhit: How did you know my secret?
It is against US Code to, I don't agree with people who do but in most cases I won't say anything. I was in the service and don't see anything wrong with flag going on a shoulder or hat.
1. It is wrong to desecrate the US Flag.
2. Clothing with red and white stripes and white stars on a blue background may look similar to a US flag, but it is NOT in fact a flag that has been desecrated. It is simply a clothing item that has a them/pattern similar to a flag. NOTHING TO GET WORKED UP OVER.
3. I will bend over backwards to defend your RIGHT to burn a flag, but don't be surprised if I exercise a little bit of civil disobedience and punch you right in the face when you do it.
@kamikazeken: I have your back on this one. To wear an actual flag as clothing is a big no-no, but a flag themed shirt, hat or other attire is appropriate. I am saying this about the flag of the USA, if anyone wonders.
You never see any really nice clothes, with a flag motif, it always seems to be the sort of stuff that doesn't appeal to me. So if I am feeling "in the moment" I might wear a red white and blue outfit, but that is the extent of it. I do get a little creeped out when it is something skimpy, like a speedo, or thong bikini, but not really offended. As someone else said, it bothers me more when people don't stand for the anthem.
@gideonfrost: Ha,ha, I saw a guy yesterday wearing one, and I could not decide if it was ironic or not. He looked like Cheech Marin, but with long hair. Just as I blurted, "three wolf moon" his woman walked up, wearing a similar shirt with an Indian maiden on it. Definitely not ironic.
I find it perversely amusing when "patriots" are fine with wearing a flag, flying a tattered one in the dark or rain, or having a politician autograph one, yet go all jihad when someone burns one. The first three are explicitly disrespectful per the Flag Code (USC Title 4 Chapter 1), while the last is the preferred, respectful way to dispose of a flag. Skip down to §7-8 here:
Right there in the laws, folks. Doesn't anyone teach history in schools anymore?
It is disrespectful. I agree with everything urocyon says (above)
@urocyon: agree.
@kamikazeken: You yell way too much


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Are there any explicit disadvantages in comparison to running it on a UNIX machine these days?
For one, it might not work at all. I tried recently (April 2012) on two Windows machines (7 and 2008 R2), and some aspect of the PostgreSQL setup invariably fails. I spoke to a Rapid7 account manager about it, and he confirmed that the Windows version is flaky. He also recommended against using it in a production environment.
I have been using the Windows port of Metasploit for a while now and it is working great. Also, the development team have done a great job in packaging Metasploit for Windows, installing it is a breeze.
However, some Metasploit modules are not supported on the Windows platform, like sniffer ones (pSnuffle for example).
I had Metasploit 4.0 installed on my PC and it worked fine no issues. But, since i have reinstalled windows 7, it is now incapable of installing becuase of the PostgreSQL issue. I have MySQL installed. Maybe if Rapid7 gave us the option to use MySQL from install we wouldn't have this problem.
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We're considering building a ~16TB storage server. At the moment, we're considering both ZFS and XFS as filesystem. What are the advantages, disadvantages? What do we have to look for? Is there a third, better option?
I've found XFS more well suited to extremely large filesystems with possibly many large files. I've had a functioning 3.6TB XFS filesystem for over 2 years now with no problems. Definately works better than ext3, etc at that size (especially when dealing with many large files and lots of I/O).
What you get with ZFS is device pooling, striping and other advanced features built into the filesystem itself. I can't speak to specifics (I'll let others comment), but from what I can tell, you'd want to use Solaris to get the most benefit here. It's also unclear to me how much ZFS helps if you're already using hardware RAID (as I am).
ZFS will give you advantages beyond software RAID. The command structure is very thoughtfully laid out, and intuitive. It's also got compression, snapshots, cloning, filesystem send/receive, and cache devices (those fancy new SSD drives) to speed up indexing meta-data.
It supports simple to create copy-on-write snapshots that can be live-mounted:
Filesystem cloning:
Filesystem send/receive:
Incremental send/receive:
Caching devices:
This is all just the tip of the iceberg, I would highly recommend getting your hands on an install of Open Solaris and trying this out.
Edit: This is very old, Open Solaris has been discontinued, the best way to use ZFS is probably on Linux, or FreeBSD.
Full disclosure: I used to be a Sun storage architect, but I haven't worked for them in over a year, I'm just excited about this product.
using lvm snapshots and xfs on live filesystems is a recipe for disaster especially when using very large filesystems.
I've been running exclusively on LVM2 and xfs for the last 6 years on my servers (at home even since zfs-fuse is just plain too slow)...
However, I can no longer count the different failure modes I encountered when using snapshots. I've stopped using them altogether - it's just too dangerous.
The only exception I'll make now is my own personal mailserver/webserver backup, where I'll do overnight backups using an ephemeral snapshot, that is always equal the size of the source fs, and gets deleted right afterwards.
Most important aspects to keep in mind:
A couple additional things to think about.
Having run large storage pools for large format video production on a Linux, LVM, XFS stack. My experience has been that it's easy to fall into micro-managing your storage. This can result in large amounts of unused allocated space and time/issues with managing your Logical Volumes. This may not be a big deal if you have a full time storage administrator who's job is to micro-manage the storage. But I've found that ZFS's pool storage approach removes these management issues.
ZFS is absolutely amazing. I am using it as my home file server for a 5 x 1 TB HD file server, and am also using it in production with almost 32 TB of hard drive space. It is fast, easy to use and contains some of the best protection against data corruption.
We are using OpenSolaris on this server in particular because we wanted to have access to newer features and because it provided the new package management system and way of upgrading.
Which OS are you planning on running? Or is that another part of the consideration? If you're running Solaris, XFS isn't even an option as far as I know. If you're not running Solaris, how are you planning on using ZFS? Support is limited on other platforms.
If you're talking about a Linux server, I'd stick with Ext3 personally, if only because it receives the most amount of testing. zfs-fuse is still very young. Also, I had troubles with XFS once, when a bug caused data corruption after a kernel update. The advantages of XFS over Ext3 definitely didn't outweigh the costs involved in restoring the machine, which was located in a remote datacenter.
I dont think you should focus on performance. Is your data safe with XFS, ext4, etc? No. Read these PhD thesis and research papers:
XFS is not safe against data corruption: pages.cs.wisc.edu/~vshree/xfs.pdf
And neither is ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, etc: zdnet.com/blog/storage/how-microsoft-puts-your-data-at-risk/169?p=169&tag=mantle_skin%3bcontent "I came across the fascinating PhD thesis of Vijayan Prabhakaran, IRON File Systems which analyzes how five commodity journaling file systems - NTFS, ext3, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS - handle storage problems.
In a nutshell he found that the all the file systems have
But ZFS successfully protects your data. Here is an research paper on this: zdnet.com/blog/storage/zfs-data-integrity-tested/811
Not a FS-oriented answer sorry but be aware that a number of disk controllers won't deal with >2TB LUNS/logical-disks - this can limit the way you organise your storage quite a bit. I just wanted you to be aware so you can check your system end-to-end to ensure it'll deal with 16TB throughout.
Rather than building your own, an alternative is the Sun 7410 aka Toro. It has some very useful software that comes bundled with the solution.
It depends what features you want..., the two reasonable choices are xfs and zfs as you have said, the xfs code is pretty well tested I first used it 8 years ago under IRIX
It is possible to get snapshots from xfs ( using lvm and xfs_freeze )
It is possible to have a separate log device eg SSD
Large xfs traditionally need lots of memory to check
The issue with zeros turning up was a "security" feature, Which I think disappeared a while ago.
Apart from what is already mentioned, from a performance point of view xfs on MD base raid performs better than zfs on streaming media. I've used the exact same hardware for half a decade with xfs and about the same amount of time with zfs on my media server. On the Intel Atom 330 with xfs I never experience stuter, on zfs on complex scenes the same hardware cannot keep up and starts dropping frames.
Well guys, lets not forget about latest addition to zfs: deduplication. And lets speak about on the fly iscsi, nfs or smb sharing. As others already said, exports of zfs file systems, snapshots, raidz(=raid5) block checksum, dynamic stripe width, cache managing and many others. I vote for zfs.


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I have two fields, "P_Area" and "PC_Area", whose sizes I'd like to compare in a third field, "Areas_Equal". The "Areas_Equal" field should contain a "Yes" if the other two are equal and a "No" if they aren't.
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Great deal. Now if only it came in Mac.
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Thanks! I've been looking for Borderlands on Steam, and getting GOTY content cheap is a bonus
Great deal! Gotta love Steam! I'm getting to the point where the game download has to be Steam compatible for me to buy it. Haha.
hehehe... free shipping on a digital game. Regardless, an excellent purchase if you've never played the game!
@ninjafluff: I always love selecting free shipping on digital items. It brings a smile to my face.
If you like zombies, and have this game, get the Island of Dr. Ned.... freaking awesome, and difficult (compared to the other maps).
My $.02
I thought the island of dr.ned was the worst in the dlc. The story was funny but the quests and enemies were lackluster and easy. I mean they give you a quest to collect 1000 brains after you already did quests for 10 and 100.I'm not saying this game is bad but if you like zombies there are clearly better places to spend your money.
Be aware that unless they've changed it recently a couple of the included DLC have Securom limited activations in addition to Steamworks. If you don't want a ticket to that rodeo they've also got regular vanilla Borderlands on sale for $4.99:
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Is a lattice of convex sets in $R^2$ distributive?
In the paper "On non-modular n-distributive lattices: Lattices of convex sets" (Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged) 52 (1987), 35-45) A. Hunh proves that the lattice of convex sets in $\mathbb R^n$, $Co(\mathbb R ^n)$, is $n+1$-distributive but not $n$-distributive. This means that the lattice of convex sets in $\mathbb R^n $ is only distributive for $n=0$, as the example by François G. Dorais shows.
Here we define a lattice $L$ to be $n$-distributive if for any $x,y_0,\dots,y_n$ the following identity holds: $$x\wedge \bigvee_{i=0}^n y_i =\bigvee_{i=0}^n (x \wedge \bigvee_{i\neq j} y_i).$$ This nice result shows that the dimension of a Euclidean space has a lattice theoretical characterization. The proof relies on Caratheodory's theorem. The same holds for the dual of $Co(\mathbb{R}^n)$, it is $n+1$-distributive but not $n$-distributive, and the proof uses Helly's theorem.
I googled "lattice of convex sets"+distributive and the second link led me to the abstract for the paper: "Geometric Condition for Local Finiteness of a Lattice of Convex Sets" in Mathematica Moravica, Vol. 1 (1997), 35–40 by Matt Insall, which contains the following sentence:
This means that the answer to your question is no, since $\mathbb{R}^2$ is certainly a Hilbert space.
Unfortunately, the journal did not have the paper online, but I was able to find Insall's webpage and from there, the PDF for the paper.
The paper is relatively easy to read and has illustrations for the examples.


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I have trouble remembering instant things in mind. It really feels weird when I am talking about something and then I ask the person talking to me as, "
Excuse me! Where were we?." I have been told by many people that I am very inattentive in conversations. I would be very thankful if anyone could help me out with it. Thanks
I have trouble remembering instant things in mind. It really feels weird when I am talking about something and then I ask the person talking to me as, "
It's quite natural for your mind to wander. If you sit still for a few minutes and try to watch your thoughts, you wil find that your mind is almost continuously going from one thought to another. Fortunately you can train your mind to focus. Try to focus on one task at a time as much as possible. This goes for everything you are doing, even something simple like brushing your teeth or doing the dishes. When you notice that you got distracted, just go back to your task and focus again. You will find that this not only improves your efficiency in doing your tasks, in time you will increase your attention span and get less distracted.
This also applies to conversations. Force yourself to listen carefully. If you find yourself distracted, focus again on the conversation. Practice this for all conversations and you will improve your listening skills.
If you are interested, this technique of training your mind is the basis of mindfulness. Some people find it difficult to start with mindfullness because they are unsure if they are doing it right. If you are one of those people it may help to follow an introductory course.
EDIT: I just found an article that explains the above more scientifically and with more tips: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/train_your_brain_to_focus.html
There's a technique called "active listening" that may help. While using it, you listen with a goal of being able to repeat back (paraphrased) what the speaker is saying. There's more than that, but just that much helped me quite a bit years ago. Google the phrase and see what some of the links you find have to say - it may help you.
It's possible you have Attention Deficit Disorder.
What distracts you? Is it:
Try to identify what causes your distraction, and then when you know the cause, try to eliminate that cause.
For instance, turn off the TV. I am very easily distracted by computer screens, incoming email, etc. so when people talk to me I deliberately turn myself away from the screen, or minimize all windows.
Aim to be silent as much as possible.


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What is (1) the meaning of the names and (2) the structure of the "poems" found in Selichos particularly the Pizmon and the Shalmonis. (3) I note that the number of phrases in the first verse of the Pizmon is less than in subsequent verses. Why is that?
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All the slichot poems are called "slichot," but they can also have different names, based on their form, their subject matter, or their location in the davening.
This answer is specific to Ashkenazi slichot.
For Pizmon, the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l (in his notes at the end of the Chabad Selichos) summarizes the following explanations:
For Shalmonis, the Rebbe quotes two explanations, although without providing sources:
Given that the first verse (or part of it) of a pizmon is meant to be used as a refrain between stanzas, then it makes sense that it would be shorter than them, since the stanza would carry part of the melody and the refrain would carry the rest.


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