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Due to lack of response, I sent an additional email to Google Checkout on 8/20/2013. I await their response.
Information about Google Checkout was first submitted to Scambook on Aug 31, 2011. Since then the page has accumulated 73 consumer complaints. On average users reported $2916.29 of damages. Scambook's investigation team reached out to this company a total of 10 times, Scambook Investigators last contacted them on Aug 20, 2013.
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They deducted the amount automatically without my permission. Google check out automatically deducted the amount from my skout.com and there was no information or security check about the purchase. I have deleted my skout account but still it is ...
Google Checkout Complaint 310851 for $100.00
- Anonymous
- Posted On: 03/06/2014
- SBID # ea9ace9ea4
I saw a vehicle a vehicle on Gumtree for the price of R 22000.00 so i contacted the seller via email.He/She replied saying that if i am interested in the vehicle i should send her my details and she will send it to Google checkout. The next day ...
Google Checkout Complaint 286061 for $2,127.66
- Pryesh
- Posted On: 11/11/2013
- SBID # 4217ee82ec
I paid for a 2003 chevrolet Avalanche 4WD Z71 in 2 individual payments of $1300.00 thru Western Union i was told my truck would be in the next 2 days.On the day of the supposed arrival of my truck i was sent an email from google checkout saying i had ...
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- Jessica
- Posted On: 04/27/2013
- SBID # 32f15d0f34
A customer through Google checkout purchased a home bar & wanted it shipped. Google checkout stated I needed to pay shipping charges & would be reimbursed along with the money for the bar, this is not unusual as it's the same way amazon ...
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I Lateasha King was looking to purchase a car from off of craigslist an found a 2003 Nissan Murano that was being sold by a lady named Tara lomass whom has a gmail account an contacted me threw it. My first email to her was february 24th 2013 letting ...
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I was buying a car and they asked me to western union them the money to a Google checkout financial agent and when i sent the money the stopped emailing me back,, havent heard anything since then.
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- Posted On: 03/26/2013
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The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and its appointed consultant, Lloyd's Register, have completed a study on the technical procedures for LNG bunkering in the Port of Singapore. The study consolidated information that must be addressed before LNG bunkering can take place into five key areas.
SINGAPORE -- Singapore has taken a significant step forward in
the development of the practical operational procedures and
standards for LNG bunkering operations.
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and its
appointed consultant, Lloyd's Register, have completed a study
on the Technical Standards and Procedures for LNG bunkering in
the Port of Singapore. The study consolidated information that
needs to be addressed, before LNG bunkering can take place,
into five key areas:
Following the completion of the study, MPA will be organizing
industry consultation sessions to share the results of the
study with the maritime industry and seek their feedback. With
the industry feedback, MPA will subsequently finalize the LNG
bunkering standards for the Port of Singapore.
"There is an increasing need for the shipping industry to look
at alternative sources of fuel and LNG is a promising option
that we should consider. The completion of the study is an
important milestone in the development of LNG bunkering in the
Port of Singapore and we would like to share this significant
progress with the industry," said Captain M Segar, MPA's
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Let $n\in\mathbb N$. Let $\{{x_i\}}_{i=1}^{n}$ be $n$ positive real numbers. Can one think of a fast way to construct a function $f$ such that $f(x_i)=i$?
(i.e. $f$ maps $\{{x_i\}}_{i=1}^{n}$ to ${1,2,3,...,n}$. At least a way faster than Lagrange, Newton or Trigonometric-Lagrange interpolation)
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I have a Sony Vaio sve15118fg running Ubuntu 12.10 which comes with an AMD Radeon™ HD 7650M graphics chip.
This was all working fine until some updates (note sure what they were) came through, after installing my laptop now no longer boots properly, specifically:
- Upon attempting to boot the screen starts flicking violent striped horizontal lines. This can only be corrected via the power button.
- Attempting to do anything in recovery - bar dropping to a root shell - runs
fsckwhich ends up hanging (although the system still responds there is no HDD activity). This is remedied via Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart the system.
- Running
fsckmanually from the root shell completes successfully.
I have attempted numerous things including removing all propriety drivers, Trying the two installed propriety drivers, installing the latest beta driver from AMD. etc.
These all yeild various results, such as the same as above, or a gnome-fallback session, or a gnome-shell session with various flickers and graphical artifacts.
So, I am wondering, what the heck do I have to do to get this to work?!? I don't really game, especially in ubuntu, so I just want a working system! not fussed about 3d acceleration of whatever...


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Santa Quarter for $1.97
Yup, after Christmas deal on these. As low as $1.89 when you buy 2 or more, shipping will say $3.99 to start, put the phrase "ACTUAL SHIPPING" in the comments of your order, we will refund shipping that exceeds actual postage cost. ACTUAL SHIPPING offer good on anything, but if you add heavy stuff postage will probably exceed shipping charged, and you will get NOTHING. Well, no shipping refund.
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So this is a dollar ninety-seven for an item that used to be worth twenty-five cents and is now worthless.
Actually I think they used two quarters in the process... So it used to be worth 50 cents! Some of these reworked novelty coins sell like hotcakes.
This isn't one of them, I must admit. But whatonearthcatalog.com - That's Johnson-Smith if you're an old timer like me, they offer them for $6.98
If I could predict what would be popular at a given price point, I would be rich, or framed by my competitors and sitting in a Turkish prison.


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I have heard lots of rumors on this but does anyone knows for sure?
closed as not a real question by FAE, ChrisF, Drake, tzenes, Arda Xi Jul 20 '10 at 22:13
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There have been rumors since 2005, but Square Enix has explicitly stated that no remake is in the works. I don't think they will be remaking it any time soon, as they haven't exploited all of the possible re-release avenues.
If you need your Final Fantasy VII fix, it has been released on the Playstation Network.
Never have so many gamers been teased, tricked, and disappointed than on this issue.
Producers such as Yoshinori Kitase constantly use this to string people along on this topic for publicity.
Most of the information about possible remakes is collected on the wiki article under "Possible remake". The consensus among the Final Fantasy players I know is that they can't see a reason why not to do it, but the longer it goes on, the less faith they have it will ever happen.


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I had two partitions with Win 7 and one partition with Kali Linux (Debian). Everything was working great but I got into Android Dev, specifically ROM dev and along the way I figured there was more support on Ubuntu for Android dev.
I decided to reduce some redundancy as I had many of the same apps on both Win 7's and the OS on C:/ (the original with ACER) was a bit screwy due to my insatiable curiosity. I decided to Install Ubuntu 12 on C:/ instead, so I have C:/, G:/ and Kali, Ubuntu is already installed on C:/ all the OS's are there but something happened to my MBR.
When I try to boot up it runs a few lines and the tries a network boot (last option in Bios) first HDD then USBs and then Network is the order I have it now, it was USB first the HDD then Network. Then it jumps to a black screen and says "Operating System not found"
I am sure this is a common problem, I tried to reinstall Ubuntu with several different setup options while being careful not to overwrite the other two OS's.
I think GRUB tried to take over my MBR. I used to be able to boot up and choose to boot either one of the Win 7's or Kali and when I chose Kali it would boot GRUB2, so I had MBR to boot into windows or Kali and if I choose Kali MBR would boot GRUB2 to boot into Kali.
Any Advice would be great, my last option is to back up my Media and settings then to reinstall everything from scratch which would probably take a week to accomplish with my schedule.


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>Crescent City California News, Sports, & Weather | The Triplicate
Final exam week at the College of the Redwoods ended on Friday. The students have taken their tests, so now it's your turn. Here's a word problem from Localvore 101:
You live in town but your street is tucked away, out of the hubbub and congestion of the main drag. Lot sizes are large, and many of your neighbors have fruit trees, flowers, and big vegetable gardens. One morning while walking the dog, you notice a swarm of bees gathering around the limb of one of your neighbor's apple trees. What should you do?
A) Shout, "Bees! Help!" and run around in circles.
B) Keep walking. Who cares as long as the bees aren't in your yard?
C) Grab a can of Raid and trespass onto your neighbor's lawn. His shotgun probably isn't loaded.
D) None of the above. These bees are freebies! Go get a spare hive.
The best answer, of course, is D. Before I moved to Crescent City, I thought a swarm of bees required a certain amount of panic. I knew several people who were deathly allergic to bee stings and never went outside without their Epinephrine pen tucked away somewhere on their persons in case they went into anaphylactic shock. I wasn't personally afraid of bees, but I wasn't warm and fuzzy about them.
Now I'm older, wiser, and living in a rural community. I've learned to live in relative harmony with bees. It turns out that less than 1 percent of the population is allergic. Bees are not our mortal enemies. We can put down the insecticide. It's time to cash in.
A few weeks ago, my husband and I experienced a situation like that in the word problem. Although we don't keep bees ourselves, we know someone who does. In fact, we know a few folks, and we helped our neighbor find help.
Bee swarms are social events in more ways than one; on this particular occasion, more than one interested person showed up to claim the hive. After some friendly negotiations, the privilege of packing off the bees went to my friend from work, the eager fellow in the professional-looking bee suit.
Bee-wrangling is not for the timid or untutored. It takes time to get the swarm into the box. And after that, of course, the work isn't done. Bees need care, attention and extra food during the lean seasons. But the benefits of beekeeping are numerous. First, you get honey out of the deal, and most of the labor is outsourced. Second, you get first-class pollinators for your orchard or garden. Even your neighbors benefit, because your bees will travel several miles a day, foraging for nectar, pollinating as they go.
They don't mind trespassing. (By the way, if you answered "C" on the quiz, you should seriously think about moving out of the county, for your own safety.)
The final benefit of beekeeping is that you get bragging rights for local eating. Substitute local honey for sugar when you can, and you not only support our local economy, but you also conserve fossil fuels. Most of our domestic sugar comes from Southern California or Hawaii, so it travels many miles to get to us. Perhaps even more importantly, sugar cane cultivation can be very destructive to the environment. It contributes to soil erosion and declining soil fertility, excessive water consumption, and agrochemical pollution.
By maintaining the neighborhood bees, however, you enhance pollination and support a more sustainable, local environment. How sweet is that?


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Sandy Sue Gonzalez, 49, died Sunday, Oct. 6, 2012 at her home in Dodge City.
Graveside Service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct.13, 2012 at the Ochiltree Cemetery in Perryton, Texas, with Pastor Wes Stevens officiating. There will be no public viewing. The casket will remain closed. Zielger Funeral Chapel in Dodge City is in charge of arrangements.
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The Sullivan County, Bluff City, Kingsport Animal Center is hosting a special event this weekend.
The Shelter Alumni Adopted Dog Reunion is happening Saturday, April 20 from 10am-4pm at Kingsport's Dogwood Park. The park is located at 800 Granby Road, off W. Stone Drive.
The event is open to all dogs adopted from either of the SBK Animal Shelter's Kingsport or Blountville locations.
Dogs must be adopted from the SBK Animal Centers, must be over 4 months of age, have documentation on hand that they are current on their vaccinations (including Bordetella), must be wearing a collar and be with a handler over 14 years of age.
All Dog Park Rules apply.
Event fliers and Dog Park Rules are posted at www.sbkanimalcenter.org, www.kingsportdogpark.com or on SBK Animal Center's Facebook page.
Animal center hosts reunion for adopted dogs
The Sullivan County, Bluff City, Kingsport Animal Center is hosting a special event this weekend.
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By MIKE HUGHES
Times Leader News Editor
SHADYSIDE - The weather is getting warmer and that means it will soon be time to don the swim trunks and bathing suits and hit the local swimming holes.
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THE?SHADYSIDE?pool is raffling off a quilt made by Phama Gartner as a fundraiser for the facility, which opens in June. From left, are: Sarah Neavin, Denise Neavin, Sydney Baum, Gartner and pool manager Melanie Haswell.
Melanie Haswell, the manager at the Shadyside pool is looking for the first week of June as the targeted opening date for the village's municipal pool.
Summer pool passes are again on sale and can be purchased at the mayor's office. They are $55 for individuals and $90 for families.
Daily admission is $3 for students and $4 for adults.
Haswell noted the pool will be open daily from noon until 6 p.m. Sundays, a moonlight swim will be held from 8-10 p.m. and is sponsored by the pool. The cost for admission will be $3.
The pool is available for parties at $125 plus $20 an hour for lifeguards.
"We're also selling sponsorship signs for around the pool which is a great way to show off your business to the people who come to the pool every day," Haswell said.
Anyone who has already purchased a sign can have it placed back up along the fence for $45. New signs can also be purchased.
The Step-Up club in Shadyside has been able to obtain funding to donate benches, chairs, shower curtains and paint for the pool.
PPG is again supplying the chemicals to the facility, free of charge.
"We can't thank PPG enough for helping us out with the chemicals," Haswell said, noting the savings on not having to buy chemicals enables to pool to remain open every summer.
Another fundraiser for the pool that is taking place is a quilt raffle.
The quilt was crafted and donated by Phama Gartner.
Haswell noted tickets are three for $2 and an arm's length for $5.
For tickets or for more information, contact Haswell at (740) 391-5015.
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I've got a question about heating a vacuum. If there were, say, a container in space, at 2.7 degrees kelvin (the typical temperature of space, if I'm not mistaken) and as empty as space (as close to a vacuum as space allows), how would one go about pressurizing and heating that container? If a gas such as oxygen were introduced, would it freeze due to the temperature or would it sublimate due to the vacuum? If the former, I don't understand how heat could be introduced because heat needs a medium to heat. If the latter, once the vacuum was overcome, and a sufficient pressure was acquired, wouldn't the oxygen freeze and re-create the vacuum? Would both heat and pressure need to be introduced at the same time?
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Dakota Wesleyan University students are partnering with two local non-profit organizations to raise funds for cancer patient support in the Mitchell area.
Swinging for Cancer will be on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Lakeview Golf Course in Mitchell. Participants may arrive from noon to 2 p.m. to take part in both men's and women's divisions for longest drive, closest to the pin and a putting contest. The cost is $20, contact email@example.com. Participants must bring their own golf equipment. There will be prizes for the winners and all proceeds go toward two local cancer support groups: You'll Never Walk Alone and Band of Brothers.
Chase Kristensen, of Plankinton, is a senior at DWU majoring in leadership and public service (PSL). As part of his senior seminar for PSL with Dr. Alisha Vincent, director of the McGovern Center, Kristensen partnered with eight students from an introduction to public service and leadership course to create Swinging for Cancer.
"The seminar required us to create an event that could potentially aid a local nonprofit organization," Kristensen said. "I chose these two cancer support groups because of the support they are giving local area members battling cancer. As a group, it was a fairly quick consensus these were the two organizations we wanted to help. We all have personal connections with cancer patients and survivors, and any help we can lend to them is the least we can do."
You'll Never Walk Alone was begun in 2009 by Mitchell resident Stacy Morgan as a support group for people undergoing cancer treatment. Band of Brothers is a Mitchell-based cancer organization begun by Rob Marchand who is also battling cancer.
This isn't the first time DWU students have used a classroom project to reach out into the community. The "Making a Difference" 3-on-3 basketball tournament April 6 was organized by DWU students in the COR 301B course with Dr. Derek Driedger and raised funds for Bella's Butterfly Garden in Northridge Park.
Also assisting in the fundraiser are DWU students: Michael Brown, Palmdale, Calif.; Shelbie Drey, Phoenix, Ariz.; Sarah Freier, Delmont; Jacob Habermann, Mitchell; Casey Henry, Sterling, Colo.; Briana Jung, Warner; Jenna Winckler, Lake Andes; and Ryan West, Sioux Falls.


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The title pretty much states my problem. I consider only finitely generated exterior algebras $\bigwedge V$. It is known that any morphism between exterior algebras y determined by its action on generators, i.e. its action on $V$. Does anyone know a good example of this kind of morphisms?
By $\mathbb{Z}_2$ graded I mean a morphism of algebras such that the parity of the degree of a form $\eta$ is preserved by such a morphism; and by $\mathbb{Z}$ graded I mean a morphism that preserves the grade of $\eta$, i.e. if $\eta$ is a $k$-form, then so is $f(\eta)$ where $f$ is the morphism in question. Thanks in advance.


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So here I am, knee-deep in a recently published reader on food and sociology and I'm just reading along, minding my own business until I come to a chapter midway through the book. Well, slightly prior to midway. It's written by what I can assume is a well-respected and well-researched author. However, I'm about a third of the way through the chapter and I've noticed that so far, up to this point, the author has almost entirely failed to elaborate on the thesis of the paper — which I have so far unsuccessfully ascertained — and to convey their own original thoughts. How can I be so sure of this?
In one and a half paragraphs, there are seventeen different citations. In a rough total of twenty sentences, excluding a lengthy quoted piece, there are seventeen citation. I've also read the phrase "in this paper", "this paper", "the paper", or "the emphasis of this paper" about a dozen times as well. And I still have another 15 or so pages to slog through.
This means I have, so far, read more of other authors' thoughts on the subject of this particular paper than the original author's own. I fully expect something like this from an undergrad like myself or a grad student, just looking to stuff citations to meet a requirement but a paper by someone at the top of their field? That's not writing, that's cobbling together a lot of research notes and formatting them nicely. I've read biology articles in journals with fewer total citations in the whole thing than I have in just these twenty or so sentences…this year. I have heard that this kind of stuffing has become more popular in recent years, wherein authors basically round-robin references to each other to increase visibility in journals and scholarly search engines which can equal higher standing in one's department and/or research niche.
But this? This isn't even academic writing.
PS – I realize it's been what, six months since the last post? Yeah. I'm not good at writing about life, I'm better at experiencing it.


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I take my cassette off the bike to give it a good cleaning a few times a year and have always put a good amount of grease under the lockring. I am not talking about repacking the hubs, bearings or anything like that, just some grease to fill the gap between the lockring and the sealed bearings that are deeper down inside the freehub.
I've seen some references to greasing the threads on the lockring, but nothing about grease under the lockring. Without the grease does dirt/rocks/grass/mud get into that gap?


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To the editor:
Had I known when I voted for the renewal levy for the City of Steubenville about the plans to close Belleview Pool and to perhaps close the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center, I would have never had voted in favor of it.
Please, City Manager Cathy Davison and members of city council, realize that new industry is coming to our area - new jobs, new blood. What will we have to offer? Deteriorated housing, poor roads, bad attitudes and sub-par schools? What will draw new people to this area? What will keep them?
This is poor planning on the part of this city manager and the previous city managers. We need to realize that money from the steel mills is gone, and that those days are past.
Look to Pittsburgh for examples of how to rise up and maintain the few recreational facilities we have remaining.
Please do not close the pool. We have already sold our golf course and closed the pool at Beatty Park. What else can be sold? How about making some of the managers of departments in the city take pay cuts? Once the assets are gone, they are gone with no hope of getting them back.
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You don't have to have lots of money or time or even go far to have a great vacation. This summer, maybe try a "staycation". Here are some fun staycation ideas, courtesy of imom.com. Got a great staycation idea? Let us know ...
1) Visit a nature center, or wildlife rescue or refuge center.
2) Camp out – you can do this at a campsite in your own area, or you can even have a camp out in your backyard.
3) Sign up for a workshop or activity you can do as a family. Look into cooking lessons, tennis lessons, or walking tours.
4) Let your kids choose their dream destination and then go there – without leaving home. Decorate a room in the style of that country or city. Watch a movie shot on location. Eat the food of that locale. Try to learn a bit of the language.
5) If you have friends who are also taking staycations, see about trading houses with them for the weekend.
6) Enlist the help of grandparents and other relatives. Let your children spend a few days away from home, and see if you can join them on the weekend.
7) Join a country club or community pool. Some clubs in smaller cities offer membership for as little as $50 a month. Consider it an investment in keeping your kids active, this summer. Call around to see if you can find "summer only" specials.
8) Take the train. Many railway carriers offer short trips of an hour or two. Pack a lunch and enjoy the scenery with your kids.
9) If you have a beach, lake or river nearby, check the paper or internet for bargains on rentals. Since fewer people are traveling this summer, you might be able to get a great deal.
10) Visit a local art museum with your kids. Once they've seen the paintings, sculpture, photography and other creative works, give them some drawing paper, some modeling clay or a camera and let them recreate their own favorites at home. Then create a gallery in your family room, featuring their finished works of art.
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How can i display two layers with diferent projections at once? For example i have layer with EPSG:70076 and OSM layer.
To add two raster layer on the same map like you say in the previous link:
OSM by default is EPSG:900913 while for a WMS layer you can use any projection the WMS server accepts, so ensure the server accepts the projection you are requesting.
Maybe not necessary to say but remember you can't have a map with a layer in a projection A and a second layer with a projection B.
Generally, if you have WMS with different projections, you need to deal with this at the server level. Reprojecting tiles on the client will be slow, and unless they have similar projection properties, will probably look awful too (as reprojection usually involves resampling and rotation). If you control the generation of the tiles on the server, then you can reproject at source to a common projection, such as 900913 (geoserver does this, for example).
If you want to reproject vectors, as distinct from rasters, then you can do this client side, but you will probably need to add the proj4js library, as openlayers only natively supports 900913 and 4326. See the example here: http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/using-proj4js.html Also, see the userguide on the proj4js page to see how it is done. http://trac.osgeo.org/ proj4js/


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He did his bit too
Former Merchant Marine reflects at age 85
|John Keane of Wolcott served in the Merchant Marines. Steven Valenti / Republican-American
Nobody ever called him a hero.
But at 85, when his grandchildren ask him if he was ever in a war, he can nod with candor. John Keane did his bit.
If they press, he can tell them war is not exclusive to seething oceans and blood-drenched soil. He can tell them the most entrenched warfare roils in your soul. He has tramped through those nettles, too. They leave you bitter. Or they leave you better. You pick.
In the spring of 1944, just after he turned 16, Keane, then living in Waterbury, went to sea. The Navy wouldn't take him; men had to be 17 to enlist. So Keane went with the United States Merchant Marine, the "fourth arm of defense," which delivered troops and supplies for the military during World War II.
Well, it was the spirit of the age. Boys itched to go. Even boys like Keane, who grew up on Long Island in a clapboard home that seemed to lean into the adjacent railroad tracks like willow. From his window at night, Keane could see a bar, a vegetable stand and the glint of an iron his mother pressed into fabric at the Chinese laundry just across the tracks. By day, his mother worked in a lace factory and his older brother shined shoes outside a bar — five cents a shine. She was a young woman, his mother. By 21, she had three boys and a drunk for a husband. The husband took off in 1933. John Keane was 5.
The first ship on which Keane served was the S.S. Michael Moran, one of the 2,751 Liberty ships the U.S. built between 1941 and war's end. The feeling of being on this mass-produced cargo ship as it churned through the Atlantic toward Cherbourg, France, is one that will stay with Keane for as long as he lives. A Liberty could carry 2,840 jeeps, 440 tanks, or 230 million rounds of rifle ammunition.
"What hurts me is that it's like we were not part of the Second World War," says Keane, a trim, hazel-eyed man in window-pane shirt and pressed charcoal pants. "Without us, the war would have been much harder won. When we had all these Liberty ships going at the same time, it was amazing."
Keane sits at a round oak table in his kitchen, a bubble-gum pink tea-and-saucer set before him. The ranch-style house is spare and immaculate, its walls the color of green Necco wafers. A rack of teaspoons presides over the dining room. The kitchen and living room are separated by a window of shelves that hold small ceramic kittens and mice that sniff toadstools. A pair of wind chimes no bigger than a key chain dangle from the top shelf.
Keane clutches a stack of yellow-gray discharge papers from vessels on which he served — ships with exotic names like the African Rainbow and the Cape Ann. The paper has the look of Confederate war bonds and the soft, cottony feel of a well-circulated dollar bill.
During World War II, an estimated 8,300 merchant crewmen were killed at sea and another 12,000 were wounded. More than 660 were taken prisoners of war. In 1988, after a decades-long court battle, those who served in the U.S. Merchant Marine in the war won veteran's status.
Keane spent eight years at sea, signing up with the mariners over and over. The life suited him. The drinking suited him. And the drinking was his legacy of the sea. He kept it with him throughout the 1950s, after he married the woman he loved, a slender little pip of a thing named Teresa Galligan, down-to-earth and "full of hell," he said. "She could light up an empty room," he said.
After the couple married, Keane's estranged father phoned him, wanting to meet. They convened outside a Western Union office in Bridgeport. "He looked like the world had beat him up pretty good," Keane said. He bought his father a drink at a nearby bar. He felt nothing for the man. Nothing at all.
His wife bore him seven children while he drove a bread truck and installed storm windows. He went to work for Brock Hall Dairy for 30 years and for all of those early days ended his shift in a bar, stopping in for a pop or two and then, well, then losing track. That last night he staggered home — such a mess. His wife didn't holler. Took one look at him and drove him to the hospital, where he stayed for a month, until the poison left him.
It has been 38 years. Keane hasn't had a drop. Not that there hasn't been reason.
Two of his sons — handsome, fair-haired men whose framed photographs perch on the upright piano — were killed. He lost one in a motorcycle accident in 1980, and the other in a 2003 car wreck. Such fine boys they were, he says, stroking their photographs.
Was there some grace in the fact his wife died of cancer in 1998 before she had to endure the death of another son? He doesn't know. But his wife's death left a void in him.
He went back to church, began to sing in the choir. He is learning piano now. The sheet music for Brahms' Lullaby leans against the upright. He is beginning to use two hands now, he boasts.
Keane has a passel of medals to show for his wartime service. They are pinned in a glass case. It is an august testament to his service. And then there is the book, thin as a breviary, its pages curled and spine held together with duct tape. "Twenty-Four Hours a Day," distributed by Alcoholics Anonymous, holds daily proverbs.
"I like sayings," says Keane. When he opens the book, scraps of yellowing writing paper tumble out, maxims he has collected and transcribed on small sheets of paper, tucked throughout the years into his black book.
"Don't cry because it's over," Keane recited. "Smile because it happened." He wants his grandchildren to know a few things about his life, he said. He typed them out, single-space, on three sheets of white typing paper. "Be kinder than necessary," he typed. "For every one you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
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The United States Merchant Marine is the fleet of U.S.-registered, non-military, commercial vessels, operated by either the government or the private sector, that engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services internationally or on the navigable waters of the nation.
The U.S. Merchant Marine transports cargo and passengers during times of peace and war. In times of war, the Merchant Marine may also be called upon to operate as an auxiliary to the Navy, to deliver troops, equipment and supplies for the armed forces. These vessels fly the American flag, and employ U.S. Coast Guard licensed and unlicensed mariners.
Merchant mariners move cargo and passengers within the United States and around the globe. Mariners operate and maintain cargo vessels, container ships, tankers, research vessels, tugboats, towboats, ferries, dredges, excursion vessels, and other watercraft on the oceans, the Great Lakes, rivers, canals, harbors, and other waterways. Merchant mariners are also employed at sea in the offshore energy and fishing industries.
— Source: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
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Roasting Oven Environment
- One 2 pound elk tenderloin* (may use antelope or venison).
- 4 tablespoons whole black peppercorns
- 1 tablespoon Kosher salt
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil + 2 tablespoons
*Weight will vary based on size of animal – adjust seasoning accordingly.
Place peppercorns in a plastic bag and pound lightly with a meat mallet to crack. Remove and set into small fry pan with olive oil. Set pan in mouth of wood burning oven and heat, stirring a few times for about 5 minutes. Remove and let cool. Add salt to pepper oil and mix. Rub pepper mixture over entire exterior of tenderloin, pressing to ensure that peppercorns adhere. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
Set medium sauté pan with 2 Tbsp. olive oil in wood burning oven and heat. Add tenderloin to pan and begin to brown, turning as needed to brown all sides. Once brown, continue to cook for about ten minutes or until reaches desired internal temperature.
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Let $M$ be an $n$-dimensional manifold and let $[M]$ denote the unoriented bordism class of $M$. Forming the usual commutative graded ring $\text{MO}_n$ we know that $$\text{MO}_* \simeq \mathbb{Z}_2[u_n : n \neq 2^r -1, \deg u_n = n]$$ as graded rings.
Writing out the first groups we have that $\text{MO}_0 = \mathbb{Z}_2$, $\text{MO}_1 = 0$, $\text{MO}_2 = \mathbb{Z}_2$ (generated by $[\mathbb{R}P^2]$), $\text{MO}_3 = 0$ and so on.
From this I can see that $\mathbb{R}P^2$ is not the boundary of some $3$-dimensional compact manifold. But is it true that any closed 3-dimensional manifold is the boundary of some 4-dimensional compact manifold? That is, does being cobordant to a manifold which bounds imply that the manifold itself bounds?


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I am working on a program that can "upgrade itself" by install a new package. In order to accomplish this, I am using the
at command to specify that a shell script should be run one minute in the future and the shell script, in turn, will install the package. I would really like this to execute sooner than one minute into the future but that appears to be the best that I can do based upon what I have read in the man page for at. Is there a way to do this with tighter resolution?
I am working on a program that can "upgrade itself" by install a new package. In order to accomplish this, I am using the
It would be easier to simply launch the program directly and have it run the update immediately (or it could sleep for some small delay if you really needed it to).
If this is in a script itself (eg, bash), simply call the update script directly (likely redirecting the output):
If it's in a program, you can always use the system() call to do the same thing:
Fork a script that waits for a few seconds.
If your goal is to do the upgrade as soon as your program exits, but no sooner, arrange for your program to terminate by calling
This depends on what you program is doing. For daemons it is done the following way:
This is tricky. First, just out of precaution, put the invocation in a function at the beginning of the script, and don't call it till the end:
This is the best way to be certain that everything from the current script has been fully read and copied into memory. Just saying.
Now for my attempt at an answer...
POSIX specifies the
Ok, so I know it sounds like a lot, but it's not so much to look at after all:
Ok, so here's the workflow:
Ok, but we're not done, right? Nope, we put the whole command set in a
I call this method sneaky below, but i pulled it straight from the POSIX GUIDELINES:
Then, in the next paragraph...
So the sneaky part is
By this time we should be running a new script in a new shell in a new process group in a clean environment after having to wait only as long as was actually necessary and to have pulled the whole thing off pretty thoroughly.
In fact, we were so thorough that we could safely do this:


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Life-threatening flooding could threaten Cuba, Haiti and other areas in the Caribbean.
The storm, while moving to the west now, is expected to turn to the Northwest tonight.
Strengthening is expected over the extremely warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The current projected path does take the storm into the Gulf and a possible landfall somewhere on the Gulf Coast. However, with Isaac being several days away from a United States landfall, that path could easily change.
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"Snow Angels" Single with Animated Music Video
Indianapolis-based songwriter Ross Davis is rejoicing this winter season with the release of his new single "Snow Angels," a joyous song that can gingerly carry your imagination aloft among a quiet snowfall or glistening winterscape. While there are countless fine songs out there having a winter theme, whether it entails Christmas or any other occasion, "Snow Angels" resonates with a unique flavor.
Seasoned with the folky strum of mandolins and the chiming of piano, "Snow Angels" is a fresh winter anthem that offers an ode to the winter season, with Davis singing, "I wake up to the sunrise, and look out my window, what I see outside, is a winter wonderland," as he takes delight in "dancing with the snow angels." Davis's breathy vocal is a comfort amid the snow storm, gentle and sweet, with blossoming images of spending warm times with family and friends during the winter season.
Accompanying the song's release is an innovative music video that employs stop-motion animation across a chalkboard, including hand-drawn snow crystals and an intricate illustration of a winterscape composed by five kids. The video's animation was directed by Keiko Sono of New York-based Flick Book Studio.
Yellow Brick Road
Ross Davis released his second full-length album Yellow Brick Road in October 2012 through independent label Bean Blossom Productions, comprising seven self-penned songs, including the timeless electricity of guitar-driven "1950's Rock 'n Roll," the folk-rock balladry of "Bean Blossom" (about childhood memories at a rustic cabin in southern Indiana), and the inspirational title track. Contributors to the project include Grammy Award-winning session guitarist Brent Mason, and Juno Award-nominated Canadian songwriter Annabelle Chvostek who played fiddle on the "Wonderland" track.
The album has received positive reviews, such as the following:
"Indeed, the truest message of "Yellow Brick Road" shines via its instrumental showcase, admittedly making the lyrics almost secondary to the hummable melodies and fine musicianship here." –Chuck Lance, entertainment journalist and previously Senior Editor at Billboard magazine.
"The Indianapolis based songwriter is not afraid to stick to an adult-oriented vintage sound that sets him apart from the followers that just jump on every new passing trend to try and get a foothold in the music business." –Indie Band Guru (read full review).
"Ross Davis has been busy building his Yellow Brick Road and this 7 song collection does not disappoint." –Joshua Smotherman, Middle Tennessee Music (read full review).
The following music video features the song "1950's Rock 'n Roll," which is one of the tracks on the Yellow Brick Road album.
Audio samples of songs from the album are available on the Music page of this website.


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Only orders that are shipped to Washington state pay taxes. The rate is shown at checkout.
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When is my order processed and how long does it take to deliver?
Unless otherwise posted, your order is processed within 2 -3 business day of placing the order, often sooner. Your order is delivered within the estimated delivery schedule of the shipping options you've chosen. Orders may take longer to arrive due to inclement weather.
During the holiday season, we do our very best to ship items within 1-2 business days of order placement (not including weekend days, Saturday and Sundary). However, please note that due to the high shipment volume, your order may take longer to arrive. ChildTrek cannot control 3rd-party carrier schedules. In which case, we recommend you order at least 10-12 business days from the desired arrival date, and to choose a shipping option that meets your schedule. If you are within 5 days of your desired arrvial during the holiday season, we recommend you choose USPS Priority (2-3 business days - likely, but not guaranteed) and FedEx 2nd Day (2 business days guaranteed).
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You have 30 days to return new, unopened packages from receiving your order for a full refund. The item(s) must have no signs of wear. All original packaging must be present and all tags must be attached. Your invoice must accompany your return to qualify. If these conditions are not met, then only partial credit is applicable. If the return is due to our error in processing the order, we will gladly cover the return shipping costs. If return is not due to our error, then you are responsible for shipping fees for returns and exchanges. For more information (opened items, post-30 day period, etc.), please read our full return policy.
How long do I have to return or to make an exchange?
You may return or exchange any item in its original condition within 30 days of delivery. We are happy to issue a full refund, less shipping, if your product meets this condition and you include the original packing slip. The packing slip serves as your receipt. An electronic gift certificate will be issued for returns and exchanges without the original packing slip. Please note: If there are any obvious signs of use, no refund will be issued.
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Do you take backorders? If so, when would they ship?
We accept backorders for specific products under certain circumstances. These are typically noted in the product description where we allow backorders. Approximate shipment time will also be stated in the notation. Please note, that if you do choose to backorder, your credit card will be processed and charged to secure the item. If you order other items along with the backorder, the whole order will be shipped when the backorder arrives. If you change your mind about the backorder, please contact us immediately or call 800-406-8735, M-F, 10 am - 5 pm PST.
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Yes. You can choose to gift wrap each item by clicking this option in the product description page and at checkout. Gift wrapping service fee is noted next to each item that can be wrapped. If you choose this option, please allow for an additional day for shipment, especially during the holiday season.
Where are ChildTrek's Terms and Conditions?
A link to our terms and conditions can be found at the footer area of every page.
What's the difference between a gift registry and a wish list?
ChildTrek's gift registry allows you to create a list of desired gifts for your invitees to view and purchase down from.
ChildTrek's wish list is where a registered user can create a list of items for personal reference. The wish list is intended to be a repository of your future purchase ideas and are not viewable by others.
The gift registry and the wish list are entirely separate and are not transferrable.
What are your security measures to ensure secure shopping at ChildTrek?
ChildTrek wants you to be confident that your sensitive information is fully protected at all times. That is why we have taken significant steps to protect your personal information. We use a higher level of security than those typically used by many commercial web sites. That is, we use high assurance 256-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology. This is double the standard protection (i.e., 128-bit) used by many online stores. This process encrypts all of your personal information, including, but not limited to, your name, address and credit card information. You can see verification of this exceptional technology at work at the bottom of ChildTrek's web pages.
Also, ChildTrek requires that your billing address match the one on file with your financial institution. If it does not match the one on record, we will not be able to process your order.
As an additional protection, we require that all users verify their credit card information by entering the card verification number (CVN, CV2), which makes up the three-four numbers on the back of your credit card. It is very important that you do not share your card to unauthorized users and that you protect your CVN/CV2. ChildTrek does not store your CVN/CV2 and only uses it to confirm the presence of the physical card.
Rest assured that your information is never shared, sold or rented. Please read our full privacy policy to learn more.
What do you use my personal information for?
We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order to complete that order and to correspond with you. We do not sell, share or rent this information. It stays in house.
We use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
We offer electronic gift-cards by which you can personalize a product you order for another person. Information you provide to us to create an electronic gift-card is only used for that purpose, and it is only disclosed to the person receiving the gift.
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Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
What are your cutoff shipping dates for the holiday season?
Holiday season delivery cutoffs are available at Shipping Rates.
What is your return and exchange policy during the holiday season?
ChildTrek wants to help you through the busy holiday gift-giving season. That's why you have until January 31st to return or exchange items purchased on or after November 1st.
Do the products at ChildTrek meet the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008?
Among other changes, the CPSIA of 2008 reduces allowable lead levels and disallows certain phthalates (plasticizers) and other harmful chemicals in children's products along a timetable. We are proud to say that products offered at ChildTrek have always either met or exceeded what the US federal guidelines now dictate. We carefully choose products from conscientious manufacturers who adopt safety and quality policies that are modeled after the European Safety standards, which in most cases are far better than those set in the US. Furthermore, these companies employ 3rd-party testing and/or implement rigorous inhouse testing with due documentation as proof of meeting relevant safety requirements.
ASTM is noted in most of the toy descriptions. What is this?
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Why is a ring called "ring" (or Zahlring in German)? There seems to (naive) me nothing more ring-like to a ring than there is to a group or a field. I am particularly interested to learn why the word "ring" seemed appropriate to the founders. Thanks for educating me!
First, a minor correction to the question, but it seems somewhat relevant: ring is not called 'Zahlring' in German, ring in German is 'Ring.'
As mentioned Hilbert introduced the word 'Zahlring' but also in the same sentence as synonyms 'Ring' and 'Integritätsbereich' (so ring and integral domain, resp.); see the embedded document on math.SE mentioned above; the mathematical meaning is that of a ring of algebraic integers in a number field (not necessarily the (full) one. In particular, already in that document he frequently just uses 'Ring', and defines for example 'Ringideale'. I just browsed the first part of the 'Zahlbericht' where this happens, there seems no motivation for the name to be found, he just gives in a footnote that Dedekind calls this 'Ordnung' [order].
The idea that the name is motivated by 'circling back' might or might not be true. But I could not find any trace of it there. In particular, there seems to be no result close by regarding the fact that the powers $\alpha^n$ somehow 'circle back' to linear combinations (the idea mentioned by KConrad); also no analogy to rings of residue classes is drawn. (Of course, it is proved somewhere that such a 'ring' has a finite $\mathbb{Z}$-module basis but the way this is presented does not suggest any particular 'circling back' idea.)
Hilbert's definition for ring is (paraphrasing): given a collection of algebraic integers, a ring is everything that can be written as polynomial functions with integer coefficients of this given collection. (As an aside, personally, I now finally understood the idea behind the name integral domain/'Integritätsbereich'; a number field is also called 'Rationalitätsbereich', so rational domain there, being everything one gets with rational functions and the integral domain is what one gets with integral functions. Added: I saw had I started to read MO earlier I could have learned this usage due to Kronecker was mentioned by KConrad on the question linked to).
He then right away comments that a 'ring' is thus closed/invariant under addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
So, perhaps it is a ring just since one does not leave it even if one moves around, say like a boxing-ring. Or, I quite like the idea presented earlier of 'Ring' also being used to describe (figuratively) a collection of people with a certain relation among them, a property this word shares with 'Gruppe' [group] and also 'Körper' [field, but literally body], both seem to have been established by then already. (Which also is somehow a partial response to why a ring is a ring even though it is not more ring-like than a group or a field; the later two already had a different name.)
Then, it seems the first axiomatisation of some notion of ring is due to Fraenkel (J. Reine Angew. Math., 1915). I stress some notion, since it does not completely match current practise in that each element is either a zero-divisor or invertible (and while non-commuativity is allowed it is only in a somewhat restricted sense in that the two products must only differ by an invertible element). The guiding example seems to be rings of integers modulo composites.
Regarding the name 'Ring' (that paper is also in German) he credits Hilbert but says there is some deviation of the meaning.
By constrast, Steinitz in his earlier axiomatization of fields (J. Reine Angew. Math., 1910) also discusses 'Integritätsbereiche' (integral domains) with exatly the axiomatization common today. (comm. ring, with unit, no zero-divisors).
Then to 'Moderne Algebra' (1930) by van der Waerden (based on lectures by Artin and Noether). [To be precise, I could not look at the original edition, but only some later edition, I hope this did not change over time.]
There one finds 'Ring' defined, (essentially) as is done now, as a basic notion; without any discussion of the naming. [To be precise, a ring there has not necessarily a multiplicative unit element and the existence of additive inverse and neutral element is expressed together via imposing solubility of $a+X=b$ for all $a,b$.]
In addition, one also finds 'Integritätsbereich' there with a different meaning than 'Ring'; namely as commutaitve ring without zero-divisors (yet not necessarily with unit element, so somewhat deviating from current usage and Steinitz).
I think one can make an argument that the structure is now called ring because it is called like that in 'Moderne Algebra', and one can note that also the naming of integral domain survived. (Except for slight deviation with unit element, but which until today is not quite uniform.)
And, it seems reasonable to assume that the naming of Artin, Noether, van der Waerden as for Franekel is directly inspired by Hilbert. After all, a ring has (just) the main properties mentioned by Hilbert for his 'rings', closed under addition, subtraction, and multiplication. What I do not know is whether there is any earlier axiomatization of ring in (or at least closer than Fraenkel's to) the current sense. Fraenkel's
To sum it up, this is all but a 'definite' answer, but I hope it contains some relevant information. In my opinion, it could be difficult, possibly even impossible, to ascertain what precisely motivated the choice of name and even more so to really pin down why one name survived and another not (say, Integritätsbereich did, Rationalitätsbereich did not). It could however be interesting to research literature and in particular lecture notes, if existant, of the beginning 20th century to see the development in more detail.
Still, ring seems like a good word as there are some potential intuitions (this circling back and the residue classes), also it is short and was I think quite different from preexisting names.
Ring is also an outdated German word for association or coalition - there is probably a better translation, but it means something along those lines. I would guess Hilbert was thinking of this meaning of the word, not the round shiny object usually seen on fingers.
There is also the word Verband for some algebraic structure http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verband_%28Mathematik%29 for which I do not know the english name, but this notion probably predates ring. A Verband is also a word for association; nowadays, its mainly used in sports - FIFA, UEFA, IOC are Verbände (to increase the confusion, Verband is also the German word for bandage). One might speculate that Hilbert looked for a similar, but different word to describe a similar, but different algebraic structure.
I think the classical argument is that the original rings were Z/nZ, which as you'll remember from "clock arithmetic" has a certain cyclicity to it. This theory is backed up by Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(mathematics)#History ) citing Harvey Cohn's number theory book with
(citation from the Wikipedia page as of 26th December 2012)
The Hilbert paper in question is Die Theorie der algebraischen Zahlkörper (Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker Vereinigung, Vol. 4, 1897), credited with introducing the word Zahlring in the first place.


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The only parts where I would see potential for optimisation are:
1) The lower rotator leans a bit once the camera (K10D) is mounted. This becomes a bit better when tightening the Friction Set Knob but the bubble level is still slightly out.
2) The markings on the lower rotator are about 2 degrees out after rotating the lower arm from 0 to 90 (15 deg detent ring). I haven't tried other detent rings yet, hence I don't know if it's the ring or the markings on the rotator.
3) Detents allow about ±1 to ±1.5 degree movement at each stop.
4) A quick release camera mounting plate would be nice as standard.
I don't have another head to compare and none of this stops me from getting much better results than without the NN3.
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I know that it is recommended to write unit test before coding.
But my question is related to test cases.
When should I write test cases? When I already have written code or before it.
I know that it is recommended to write unit test before coding.
But my question is related to test cases.
When should I write test cases? When I already have written code or before it.
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Welcome to SQA, TIKSN. Since your question distinguishes between unit tests and test cases, I assume you are asking about test cases written in English (or Armenian, or whatever) rather than automated tests.
You will hear a variety of opinions about this. Some people recommend writing the test cases before writing any code because the test cases help clarify details about the requirements. Other people recommend writing the test cases after the code is finished (or at least functionally complete) because the requirements (and therefore the test cases) are likely to evolve as the code is written.
The form of a written test case can vary from one person to the next, too. Some people prefer test cases with detailed, step-by-step instructions. Others prefer higher-level test cases that get the point across but stay out of the details. I prefer to write higher-level test cases before writing code. However, I also expect to revise my test cases as the code progresses.
Finally, it is interesting that you asked whether you should write the test cases. If you work with a tester, they may prefer to write the test cases for you, or at least collaborate with you on the test cases. There are several reasons why a tester might want to be involved; for example, if the tester knows about the test cases before the code is finished, they can plan for how much time and effort they will need to test your code.
Typically, you can do testing at any point in the development cycle; therefore you can write test cases at any point.
If you have requirements to build from, you have the building blocks for test cases in the future. If you have code, you can write test cases while the code is being built. If you already have the code, you can write tests too. Do you have data? You can write test cases. Do you have configurations? You can write test cases.
As per your request, "when should I write test cases?". It depends. It depends on:
At the end of the day, you need to take a look at your own risks and apply your own heuristics as to when your write test cases.
According to your question, you can write test cases after the partial completion of code because once the code is ready then you will be able to decide the expected result.
Once the expected result is known then it will help you a lot in writing test cases and to decide the Pass/Fail criteria. If more than 60 % code is completed then it will help you in identifying :


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A problem in my book asks:
In the Laurent series for $\displaystyle f(z) = \frac{1}{(z-4)}$ centered at $z=1$, what is the coefficient of $(z-1)^{-2}$?
The book's solution gives
$$\frac{1}{4-z} = \frac{1}{z-1-3} = \frac{\frac{1}{z-1}}{(1-\frac{3}{(z-1)})} = \frac{1}{z-1} \sum_{n=0}^\infty (\frac{3}{z-1})^n,$$
so the cofficient will be $3$.
However, I don't think this is correct (I don't know complex variables that well, so I'm hesitant to say the book is wrong). First, $f(z)$ is analytic at $z=1$, so shouldn't we get a unique power series expansion about $1$, and hence no negative coefficients?
Second, I'm not sure their expansion of $\displaystyle 1/(1-\frac{3}{(z-1)})$ is valid near $1$, since $\displaystyle |\frac{3}{(z-1)}|$ is not less than $1$ for $z$ close to $1$.
Can anyone confirm my reasoning, or explain why it's wrong?
The way I did this problem was:
$$\frac{1}{z-4} = \frac{1}{(z-1)-3} = \frac{-1}{3-(z-1)} = \frac{-1/3}{1-(z-1)/3}$$
and so we get
$$f(z) = -\frac{1}{3} \sum_{n=0}^\infty \left(\frac{z-1}{3}\right)^n$$


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