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How did you handle your last days of work before your final day?
I gave notice a couple weeks ago and Friday is my last day. People want to keep in contact with me and/or are acting awkwardly with me, it's hard to stay focused and care since I know I'm leaving, things with the boss are kind of awkward since I quit, etc. I just to quit in peace! ;)
What did you do/how did you handle/any stories about -- your last days of work?
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Worked all the way to the end, once when I retired, once when I quit. It's just who I am. On the job I quit, I put in notice for 3 weeks (wanted to give them time to start looking for the next target) and was bought out for 2 of those weeks (if I'd have thought about it I should have put in notice for longer...duh!). When they bought me out, I was told Friday would be the last day, but there was an event scheduled for Sat and I agreed to stay. As soon as the event finished I was out the door. I still keep in contact with that boss; left that job in 2009.
Should say, " I just want to quit in peace! ;)"
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@kylemittskus: I gave two weeks notice last June, although I had been planning to leave for quite a while. My immediate staff and a few friends knew, but not the weasels who were taking us over. They were stunned and rather upset that I was leaving since it dropped the responsibility of laying off about 300 people back on them. Too bad.
I worked up until the end, as I had at my previous job. There were things on my plate that I felt responsible for completing and I had a tough time getting it all done since folks kept coming by to chat. As you noted, it got uncomfortable, and I tried to close my door occasionally but that didn't always help. I should have spent more time packing up 20 years worth of assorted things, but I just couldn't do that with folks drifting in all day. On my last day I stayed until about 10:00 that night loading up my car and leaving notes on projects for others to follow up.
Hang in there. Smile. Give yourself a chance to say good-bye.
Good luck!
I just worked until the end. Took the time to put together a manual of all my duties to help whoever would be taking over my position since no one had been hired for me to train. It actually drove home to the powers the be that I was doing a (profanity)oad of stuff for what little they were paying me.
I actually worked 2 weeks beyond my original date because they were in no shape for me to leave.
Gave three weeks notice and started training the current employee they wanted to move up to my position. On my last day I worked 3 hours later than my scheduled time to insure that weekend's code deploy would be smooth and nothing could come back on me.
My replacement occasionally called me for the next 4-6 weeks with questions. A few months later the company got bought out and I spent weeks writing recommendations to my former co-workers, including my old managers.
I worked, and usually closer to 12-14 hour days at the end. It was rough because I was selling most of my possessions and getting ready to move from TX to VA at the same time.
I haven't been so exhausted in my life, but the company still deserved to have me work hard for them and give them their due. It's the honorable and right thing to do, you should continue to work just as hard, if not harder, during your last days there than otherwise. Else you'll leave everyone there with a sour taste in their collective mouths, and that will eventually reflect back on you.
When I left my last place, I knew that I was leaving them in a lurch. I liked my job, all the people I worked with, and all the bosses in my department. My relationship with the Plant Manager and his bosses soured, however. I wrapped up as many projects as I could, and even went on the road to train one of our vendors on how to make our parts.
Specifically, I worked 10-11 hours each day (like always) until my last day, when I left about 2pm. By then I had finished what I could finish.
I tried hard to make sure that if I ever need to go crawling back to that god-forsaken place again, they will welcome me back.
Try to go quietly is a good idea in most cases. You never know when you might need someone from there to give you a good reference in the future.
A couple of my memorable departures:
I worked about a month at a grocery store (while between jobs). Dress code explicitly said no jeans for cashiers, and I was faithful to that. Except on my last day, where I honestly forgot about it and went to work in jeans. Oops. Started a new job the following day.
Following job, I worked for about 2 years (retail). When I had my last day I wore a regular T-shirt under my uniform polo-type shirt. End of the night after the store was closed I took off my work shirt (not unusual in our store) and did closing in my T-shirt. Then I neatly folded my work shirt, shrink-wrapped it, and put it on my manager's desk (he was there that night and saw it immediately). He popped the shrink wrap and gave me back my shirt...
Clothing optional.
There isn't a printer you'd like to make off with to destroy, is there?
@lavikinga: Hmmm me thinks there is a story here .... Or at least something you have cooked up but never done.
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@djbowman: OH! How I would have loved to have gone out in a glory of brilliant flames as well as taken our danged fax machine with me to drag behind my car , but I was too thrilled to be out of that job to do anything other than make sure the radio/mp3 player that the office staff had claimed as their own went home with me. I've only now finally run out of the stacks of neon post it notes that ended up in my car too. As God as my witness, I will never work in an office full of women if I can help it.
OHHH yeah ... I forgot about that. I've only seen that move once a long time ago. Funny movie just not an over and over again person
The company had aggressively poached me from somewhere else and after being there for about 3 months and then delivering on nothing they promised I returned a call to an old colleague that was trying to hire me. I was overheard despite the fact that I had stepped out of the office.
I got back to my office and my boss pulled me in and asked what was going on so I told him I had talked to someone else about a job because they had called me. He indicated that they really wanted to keep me and they felt like I was a really good employee and wanted to know what they could do to get me to stay. (all this despite the fact I had just had one conversation and did not have another job offer) I told him some of my concerns all of which was not news to him as I had given the feedback multiple times before when asked.
We agreed to keep talking about it and I went about pursuing the opportunity and ultimately ended up taking a day off in order to fly somewhere for the interview despite the fact it was a PTO restricted date we argued about me taking the day off because he knew why so he finally said well go ahead and take the day off but when you get the offer from them let us know what it is because I have spoken to the VP and we intend to match it in order to keep you.
Sounds great right all hunky dory ?
I got back from the interview cycle and he pulled me to ask about the details of the offer and I told him I was still waiting and that I still had not decided if I wanted to go or stay but that I wanted to stay if they could help me get to the point of resolving my concerns. At which point I gave him some guidance on what I expected the offer from the other company to be.
About an hour after that I got a call with an offer which having learned my lesson had gone down 16 floors gone outside and walked half a block before taking it.
When I got back to the office there was an email in my inbox referring to the conversation of an hour before thanking me for giving my 2 weeks and setting my end date shorter than 2 weeks the day before they paid bonuses and would have caused my benefits to go for another 30 days .
So basically it went from we want to keep you to we are screwing you.
This is when it helps to have a friend who is an employment lawyer so he drafted a letter on letterhead inquiring around reasons etc…. I kept it in my pocket for a day after trying to work with them and HR and they were being stupid so I applied the lighter fluid and matches to the bridge and had my lawyer buddy email HR on his letterhead from his firm.
I got the bonus I deserved and my benefits were extended another 30 days.
I worked my tail of for that 6 days despite the fact it was very hard emotionally to even be there anymore as everyone knew about the whole thing. When I left I had gotten them 6 months ahead for my territory and shortly after I left the entire team was laid off and a few were moved to different jobs that were crappier and had to relocate so it was good I saw the writing on the wall.
I just always found it funny that they had reacted so badly because they had poached me and offered me 1200 bucks a head from everyone I could get to come with me.
The good part is the company I went too has doubled my salary and taken good care of me so I am very glad I changed


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STEUBENVILLE — Legal experts believe a change of venue motion filed Friday in the rape case involving two Steubenville High School student-athletes will be hard to prove....
This aricle is pretty well written. Some of the quotes are bogus, but as a whole very informative.
I appreciate social media, in absence of newspaper, TV, or radio coverage.
After social media intervened, so much more info was given, it appears officials: police and school, finally figured out there is a local problem, and some action must be taken.
Pressures from afar, sometime, are not that bad. If we are too close to the problem, we may not want others to see how bad we have gotten.
Now we should take a closer look at ourselves, our children, our system and fix it.
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Social media is the ONLY reason this rape, this despicable gang rape committed by a couple of Steubenville's finest and brightest, is receiving the attention it deserves. Steubenville officials were trying their hardest to keep this under the media wavelength. It is because of social media that the victim just might see some justice. Without the social media attention, she wouldn't stand a chance. I have absolutely no doubt of that.
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Since this is not a jury trial what is the purpose of a change of venue? The same judge will be making the decisions regardless of where the trial is held. Maybe this is more about embarrassment or humiliation by those involved. A change of venue will not make a difference in that respect.
I don't believe any more public embarrassment could be brought than they have already brought to themselves and their community. National and international media, bloggers and commenters, the general public are not to blame for the embarrassment and public humiliation. Place the blame right where it belongs and give credit where credit is due. Those who were so proud of themselves that summer night in August that they felt the need to document their disgusting activities and put them out there for the entire world to see are the ones who brought the humiliation to themselves and their community. There is no one else to blame.
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There is absolutely no legal basis for a change of venue. Out of town judge, out of town prosecutors and no jury or jury pool. This shouldn't even be a question!
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Is there an app (normal, jailbreak) that will keep my iPhone (3GS, OS 4.x) screen on, indefinitely, when it is plugged in, regardless of what app is running in the foreground?
An unexplained downvote brought to my attention this old post, so I decided to update it.
I don't have an iPhone any longer, but my iPad screen simply stays on, whenever plugged in or not, if my setting to Auto Lock is set to Never. On iOS 7+ it is that simple.
Now, if you want to automatically change it back (which is a completely different question), once you plug it out, you'll need to jailbreak. But since it's complicated and I haven't tried, I'll just give one pointer that seems to do it: get Tasker (found on lifehacker).
I personally rather just manually switch it on and off, until apple decides to have some kind of NFC. It should be just around the corner, if not with NFC, then with iBeacon.
Old answer (jailbreak only, iOS 4 or less)
First, I just tried on my iphone and even calculator stays active after 1 minute, even if the screen dims out. So maybe your question is really just about keeping the screen on.
Anyway, I can think of two solutions: kirikae with backgrounder might do the trick as a side effect. If not, you can use SBSettings with Autolock toggle to do it manually and temporarily set the auto-lock to never. All of them you should find in Cydia.
edit: as none of the above actually worked, here's some update.
Some custom toggles on SBSettings seem to just not work indeed. It's probably due to getting outdated or conflicting with something else, two common problems we find on cydia apps. BigBoss is kind of similar to SBSettings and also have an Autolock toggle. You could use it along with some multitasking, leave it on the background and use it as needed. It hardly have any conflicting issue.
Unfortunately I can't find many more ideas to this.
Only thing I can assure you is that I just tried SBSettings's Autolock toggle on my iOS 3.1.3 and it works. It also says it's updated to 4, so most likely it's either problem with 4.1 or conflicting with something else you've got installed. And believe me, there are conflicts from the least expected things (look at the comments).
I use iTunes. As long as you have a song playing the screen will dim, but it won't go black and it won't lock. If you don't want to have music playing you can download a track that's just silence, then put it on repeat.
EDIT: I should note that my IOS version is 7.1.0 - can't make any promises about other versions...
EDIT: I should also note that the behavior described above only applies when the phone is on external power, that is, iTunes will not keep the phone unlocked when on battery power.
The Gentle Alarm keeps the screen active when it is plugged in, but I guess that is a feature that each app has to implement, not something that you install to keep the screen active for all apps.
I use Kensington's Nightstand every night. Sure beats having a separate alarm clock by the bed. And no, you don't actually have to use (or even own) their charger.


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Does anyone know if a site admin can programmatically set permissions on documents in a SharePoint Library so that site collection administrators would have to take ownership before accessing the file? I'm one of the Site Collection administrators and a user wants to store InfoPath forms containing sensitive Information in our site and I'm looking for a way to assure them it would not be accessed, even by system administrators.
I've come across this question before in relation to non-SP content, and I believe it's more of a customer relations management question than a technical question. What it boils down to is that if users can't trust their admins they're already screwed anyway, and this kind of thing is the least of their problems.
OK, I can understand the user perspective here; something like pay rates, performance reviews and/or HR reports can be fairly dicey to deal with at the best of times, and it can seem attractive to an admin to lock themselves out from an ass-coverage point of view. But at the end of the day, there are plenty of situations where doing so can actually be for the worst.
Specific examples would include - how do you now backup and restore the data? Who looks after assigning permissions to new users? Who looks after troubleshooting issues with the library? What's going to happen in 5 years time when the data needs to be migrated to a new server? What happens if an admin just changes a users password and accesses the data that way? What's to stop an admin from just giving themselves (or a dummy user account) the required access rights? These (and more) are all questions that need to be asked and answered before you can even start to think about going down this route.
I'm sorry this is not an answer, but the reality is that with any system somebody has to be the admin, and being the admin means having both privilege and responsibility, and it also means that the users have to not only trust, but believe in their bones that they can trust the admin, and that the admin has to respect and show they deserve that level of trust.
By the way, for a technical answer, I would be more in favour of enabling access logging on the sensitive data and arranging for the logs to be made available to the relevant manager on a daily, weekly, or whatever is required basis (or even let the relevant manager view the logs directly as and when they wish, so as to remove any possibility for suspicion of someone else tampering with them).
Encryption is the only way to secure data from someone with physical access. However, as mh says, if you cannot trust your admins, you have far bigger problems.
The only answer I can come up with is to create a new site collection for the sites that require the security. Your new problem is who will be the admin for those sites, which at best is something that is granted and taken away as needed, and at worst is done by someone unqualified for the position.
Besides site collection admins, how to you keep the farm admins out? Then you are back to the answers already provided about the level of trust you must put in your admins.
Basically I agree with most responses in seeing this as representing a rather odd scenario. If the admin isn't trusted then why is a document in this area. However it can in fact be done through code. If you create a document library using code, break inheritance of permissions and set the permissions manually, only those manual permissions will apply and even a subsequent granting of full control of the site won't change that. The sole exception to this will be the original creator of the site (whether using the web pages or the person in whose id the code was run) who will retain full access.


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Stress-reactive people are often what outsiders perceive as egocentric, paranoid, volatile, and often become violent in response to perceived threats. Being stress-reactive means you have a low tolerance for threat; and perceived threats will trigger irrational actions and can even destroy health and accelerate aging. (Robert Sapolsky summarizes this research in his bestseller, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.) In the face of a perceived threat, a stress-reactive individual's compassion and empathy fly out the window, and self-preservation mode takes over. We often refer to those who default to this mode as being narcissists.
A fantastic article on Psychology Today talks about how stress-reactivity in adults can tear apart society, and it's foundations form in infancy. One popular method that undermines healthy reactions to stress are methods that encourage parents to not respond to a child's distress:
[When babies are left to cry, with no parental attempt at timely comforting,] epigenetic effects occur (genes are turned on or off and become part of subsequent cell generation). As a result, brain stress response systems can be wired permanently for oversensitivity and overreactivity (Anisman, Zaharia, Meaney, & Merali., 1998), leading to predispositions for clinical depression and anxiety (Barbas et al., 2003; de Kloet, Sibug, Helmerhorst, & Schmidt, 2005; see Watt & Panksepp, 2009, for a review), poor mental and physical health outcomes, and accelerated aging and mortality (for a review, Preston & de Waal, 2002)
Unrelieved distress in early life reduces the expression of GABA genes, leading to anxiety and depression disorders as well as increased use of alcohol for stress relief (Caldji, Francis, Sharma, Plotsky, & Meaney, 2000; Hsu et al., 2003). When emotional dysregulation becomes chronic, it forms the foundation for further psychopathologies (Cole, Michel & Teti, 1994), especially depression.
Infant emotional dysregulation is related to subsequent mental illness, including a propensity for violence (Davidson, Putnam & Larson, 2000). Stress that leads to "insecure attachment" disrupts emotional functioning, compromises social abilities and can promote a permanent bias towards self-preservation (Henry & Wang, 1998; also see Schore, in press, for a review). Children who are not nurtured well in early life tend to be more stress reactive, aggressive and troublesome.
Bottom line: Parents shape self-control in babyhood with nurturing care. Making sure babies' needs are met promptly builds calm systems. Parents who don't respond to baby's needs lead to systems that are poorly shaped and easily stressed. What the baby's body "practices" (calmness or distress) becomes habitual.
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I am sorry if this is quite elementary question. But I always think, that why we use $:=$ at some places, instead of $=$. Is there any fundamental difference between these two? Before reading Terry Tao's blog (4 months ago), I had never seen a symbol like this (:=).
Some authors like to distinguish the assertion "A is equal to B" from "define A as an object equal to B".
In math, the first one is always $A=B$ (I've never seen anything else, at least). But for definitions, I've seen
Often the triple equal sign is used for strong notions of equivalence (such as in binary relations) or with the "mod" symbol.
In computer programming, we are typographically limited of course. The assignment operator is usually distinguished from the comparison operator, and this is done in different ways depending on the language. For example in Pascal you assign
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Oh Crap!
I RICE'd it all evening and even popped a pain pill wishing, hoping and praying that it would feel better in the morning. Well, it's better but unfortunately it still hurts. I have a Dr. appointment at 11:45. I'm pretty sure he's going to advise against running the half on Sunday but I'll see what it actually wrong to make that decision. Regardless, there will be no running till Sunday to rest it up just in case.
Please send good vibes my way, I'm really looking forward to Tulsa this weekend and adding another medal to my wall.
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- Slomohusky said...
happy vibes on the way from here!
- November 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- Jamoosh said...
Dang. What is going on with the injuries - I'll trade you some good vibes for some good vibes!
- November 15, 2010 at 10:25 AM
- FruitFly said...
Oh boy. Fingers are crossed and the good vibes are being sent your way!!
- November 15, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Ms. E said...
I wish you a speedy recovery my dear, but BE SAFE and listen to your body! Crossing my fingers you make it to Tulsa without hip/ankle paiN!!!!!!!!
xoxoxo BW
- November 15, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- trifitmom said...
ugh sorry......sending you warm thoughts
- November 15, 2010 at 11:08 AM
- kimert said...
I'm so sorry! Definitely sending good healing vibes your way.
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- November 15, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- Pam said...
I'll send you mine if you send me yours!
- November 15, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Kovas Palubinskas said...
Definitely stay off it. Better to rest now, than to rest for a long time later!
- November 15, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- to dream the KIMpossible dream said...
Totally sending good vibes your way, of course! If you aren't feeling pain free, though, don't run it! I'm still off of running (though it's killing me). 14 miles on the elliptical just about made me lose my mind yesterday.
Hang in there and best wishes!!!
- November 15, 2010 at 12:52 PM
- Jon Gilchrist said...
wow...sounds pretty painful. I hope it's something that can fixed thru chiro/PT/resistance training your core more and not killing your running...
- November 15, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- Kate said...
us crazy runners. we can never give it a rest. :) I feel your pain.
- November 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM
- Adrienne said...
Dang, Hope it gets better soon...
- November 15, 2010 at 9:43 PM
- Melissa said...
Hope you feel better soon. Don't overdo it.
- November 15, 2010 at 10:17 PM
- Johann said...
That's a real bummer! Hoping it's nothing serious and you'll be running Sunday! Take care!
- November 16, 2010 at 5:29 AM
- Kevin said...
That's not a good sign. I hope all gets better.
- December 1, 2010 at 8:03 AM


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Dr. Bruce J. Giantonio is a practicing oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania and the Executive Officer of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG). He also served as the study chair for two large ECOG trials evaluating bevacizumab (Avastin) in combination with chemotherapy for colon cancer. Dr. Giantonio's personal interests include targeted therapies in gastrointestinal malignancies and new drug development.
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OncoLink: Dr. Giantonio, thank you for taking time to speak with us. First off, tell us about ECOG. What is it? Why is it important? Why is it better than any of the trials done at a big academic center like your own, for example, Penn?
BJG: Well, it is not better, it is simply different. ECOG is one of the largest clinical cancer research organizations in the US. It conducts clinical trials in all types of cancers. As the name implies it is a cooperative effort. It was first established in 1955 as one of the first cooperative groups launched to perform multi-center clinical trials. The University of Pennsylvania, although an enormous institution with many resources, is still only one academic center. ECOG allows us to run the same clinical study in multiple high-ranking, large academic institutions simultaneously.
A cooperative group such as ECOG is really a huge network of health care researchers, in both the private and public institutions. Our membership has really evolved from a five member group of institutions primarily on the east coast – hence the origin of the name – to almost 6,000 physicians, nurses, pharmacists, statisticians, and clinical research associates from the US and Canada. Institutional members include universities, medical centers, as well as community clinics. Everyone is committed on working for a common goal of controlling, treating and curing cancer. Our funding comes primarily from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
One of the great strengths of ECOG is that many of the leaders in oncology are members of ECOG. This provides us with an outstanding group of oncology experts that insures our studies represent some of the most important studies in oncology today. In addition, all of our research results are published in scientific journals and presented at professional meetings, whether positive in their findings or negative, and are subject to the same rigor as all other clinical studies.
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BJG: Yes, the last two digits represent the year the study was approved for development within the group. So, with E3200 we began work on the study in 2000 and it accrued its first patient in 2001. The second number represents the ECOG disease committee that submitted the study. In the example of E3200, the study came from the Gastrointestinal Committee, which has been assigned the number 2. The first number represents the sequence number of the study for the particular committee in that year. Again, with E3200 as an example, it was the 3 rd study to be submitted to ECOG by the Gastrointestinal Committee in the year 2000.
OncoLink: Tell me about E3200.
BJG: This was a randomized phase III trial comparing three different regimens: bevacizumab, oxaliplatin (Eloxatin), 5-fluouracil (5-FU) and leucovorin vs. oxaliplatin with 5-FU and leucovorin without bevacizumab vs. bevacizumab alone in previously treated patients with advanced colon cancer. The last arm of the study was closed early following scheduled independent analysis: it appeared that the patients treated with bevacizumab alone weren't doing as well when compared to those patients treated on the chemotherapy arms of the study.
It is worthwhile to give a little bit of background on bevacizumab because it is a fairly exciting development in caner therapy. Bevacizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody that binds Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) and inhibits formation of new blood vessels. We have learned that in order for tumors to grow beyond the size of a period, they need to establish their own blood supply to survive. VEGF is a very potent mediator of new blood vessel development. The remarkable thing is that the tumors can make their own VEGF and direct the formation of the tumors blood supply. Bevacizumab can alter that. It acts like a sponge, 'soaking up' VEGF and preventing it from stimulating the formation of new blood vessels and in theory 'chokes' the tumor. We are learning that it is a bit more complicated than that, but that is basically how it works.
Several clinical studies have already been performed with bevacizumab, and in one it was found to improve survival when added to first line chemotherapy for advanced colon cancer. This study sought to see if there was a survival benefit to using these combinations in people who were already treated for colon cancer and either progressed or did not respond. The only caveat being is that prior use of the antibody was not allowed. Our primary end point, our main goal if you will, was to evaluate the overall survival of this group.
We treated over 800 patients from 2001 to 2003 and found that the combination arm of bevacizumab, oxaliplatin, 5-FU, and leucovorin was well tolerated and did increase survival in advanced previously treated colorectal patients. The survival benefit, although modest, is significant for this group of patients who may have few alternatives. Of particular importance was the fact that bevacizumab used in combination with this particular chemotherapy regimen improved its efficacy. This is important because it is the most commonly used regimen in treating colorectal cancer in the United States.
OncoLink: The study has been criticized for using an unconventional dose of the bevacizumab. Could you comment on that?
BJG: The dose we tested was 10 mg/kg, and while I wouldn't call it unconventional, it is a higher dose than the 5 mg/kg that was approved for commercial use by the FDA. We considered several factors when we selected the dose of bevacizumab. At the time we designed the study there were limited data on both doses in humans, and what data existed was conflicting: some studies in other cancers suggested that a higher dose was more active while one study in colon cancer suggested the lower dose was more active. Despite the conflict, all the data suggested that 10 mg/kg was active and given that the patient population for E3200 was further along with their disease, we believed the higher dose was justified.
It's important to point out that E3200 does not tell us which is the better dose. Even though we demonstrated an important improvement in survival, we don't know if it would have been worse, the same, or even better had we selected the lower dose.
OncoLink: I guess the next question on everyone's mind is: If bevacizumab is good for first line advanced disease and now for second line metastatic disease, then would it then be good for the kind of colon cancer that is not metastatic but warrants chemotherapy after full surgical resection?
BJG: That is a very important question. There are several very large studies that are being done to answer that question and we need to wait for those results before we can advocate using the drug in those patients being treated with adjuvant chemotherapy. The clinical development of bevacizumab has followed a conventional pattern: we test the drug in advanced disease and then study it in earlier stages of disease. From past experience we know that we can not always make the assumption that success in the advanced disease tests will mean it will work in earlier stages. So, to emphasize my point, we need to wait the results of the 'adjuvant' studies before we can recommend the drug's use in early stage colorectal cancer.
OncoLink: Some would also wonder if we could start to use bevacizumab as almost like "maintenance" therapy. Is there any thinking for that? We have precedent for this sort of use from Herceptin and Rituxan.
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OncoLink: Are bevacizumab and cetuximab (Erbitux) competing for the same role in colon cancer or do you see them as separate and additive to the treatment of this disease?
BJG: Cetuximab is a fascinating agent. It is a targeted therapy, but unlike bevacizumab it works by turning the 'growth switch' on the cancer cell to the 'off' position. I don't see these agents as competing and it is possible that we will learn they act synergistically when used together. That idea, of combining the cetuximab and bevacizumab, will be tested in another large cooperative group study that will likely begin sometime this year.
OncoLink: What is the future for bevacizumab in colon cancer?
BJG: Bevacizumab is a very exciting new treatment for colorectal cancer, and while we have learned quite a bit in a very short time about its role in treating this disease, there are still a boat-load of questions we need answered. You have touched on many of them already, such as it role in adjuvant therapy, its duration of use, and combining it with other targeted agents. All this makes it extremely important that oncologists offer clinical trials to their patients, and that patients asked about these studies, so that we can continue the momentous progress the last few years have seen. Thank you for this thoughtful interview.


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How do I evaluate this function for given $s$?
$$\zeta(s) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac1{n^s} = \frac{1}{1^s} + \frac{1}{2^s} + \frac{1}{3^s} + \cdots$$
How do I evaluate this function for given $s$?
$$\zeta(s) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac1{n^s} = \frac{1}{1^s} + \frac{1}{2^s} + \frac{1}{3^s} + \cdots$$
Assuming you're talking about numerical evaluation, along the critical strip $0<\Re s<1$ and "large" $\Im s$, (which is the region of interest for many) the Riemann-Siegel formula is standard; off the strip, what you can manage is a polyalgorithm.
For $\Re s\leq0$, one can use the reflection formula for $\zeta$,
so we can consider evaluation for $\Re s>0$ in what follows.
Note that if $|s|$ is "large enough" (how large is "large" depends on the computing environment you're in), one can simply use the defining series ($\sum_{j=1}^\infty \frac{1}{j^s}$), since its terms quickly diminish in magnitude. That leaves the problem of what to do for small to medium-sized $s$.
The key is to use the Dirichlet $\eta$ function:
$$\eta(s):=-\sum_{j=1}^\infty \frac{(-1)^j}{j^s}$$
which is related to $\zeta$ by the following identity:
The reason for our interest in $\eta$ is that although this sum is slowly convergent, it is an alternating series, and a number of algorithms exist for quickly finding the sum of an alternating series numerically.
One method is the Levin transformation; another one, which is one of the simplest methods for numerically summing alternating series (and my personal favorite) is the Cohen-Rodriguez Villegas-Zagier algorithm. The algorithm is a bit too long to describe here, so I will just have to point you to the original paper.
This is in fact identical to the approach taken by Borwein in this paper.
You should look at the work of Wadim Zudilin. In particular you should look at "One of the numbers ζ(5), ζ(7), ζ(9), ζ(11) is irrational" (Turpion link, pdf 91k, gzip ps 80k) in Russian Math. Surveys 56:4 (2001), 774--776;


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Any recommended books, DVDs, websites, etc for parents wanting to use sign language with their (hearing) baby?
We used Signing Time DVDs for our children and it's great. They have Baby Signing Time (which our toddler grew out of pretty quickly), and then just regular Signing Time. A 20-minute DVD is part of our 2-year-old's every-day morning routine, and she loves it. She doesn't think she's learning, she just likes to do Signing Time.
Our local library has quite of few of these DVDs, so we haven't had to buy any--we just cycle through. They are available for purchase online though.
We also use the video dictionaries at aslpro.com a lot, but this is more to help you help your child than to help your child directly.
We found a book (not sure how widely available) called, not surprisingly, "Baby Sign Language, A Practical Guide to Signing with your Baby" by Alison Mackonochie published in 2008 by Parragon that I would recommend. It has big photos of how to do a fairly comprehensive list of signs. We have tried to teach our son some practical signs as well as some fun signs of things he enjoys so that he is motivated. We started with "More" and "All Done" as well as "Cat" and "Dog" for our family animals that he always seems tickled to see.
We used and can highly recommend Sing & Sign DVD's - my son loved it.
In the U.K. there are also group meetings and an online resource.
Here in Austria, there is the concept of a community college where the general public can enroll for specific classes on a wide range of topics. One such topic was baby sign language (which is completely different from deaf people's sign language!).
You can also ask your pediatrician or even the local library for references about such classes in your neighborhood.
This site has a video dictionery of ASL signs, but no direction on which ones to start with. I recommend starting with the word "more"/"again".
Our daughter learned many signs on her own by looking at children's board books that showed the signs. Sometimes we would read the books with her and show her the sign and point to the picture on the page, but most of it she picked up on her own.
We just went to our library and got a few books in the board-books section that dealt with baby signs.
Here are some of them on Amazon:
These aren't really resources for parents to learn the signs - they are meant for the babies - I couldn't tell if that is what you wanted from your question.
I'm sure kids learn in different ways, so what worked for our kid may not work the same for everyone else...
We used signs from around 6 months. They are from a community course and are baby-suitable adaptations of the German signing language. Here are the ones we use most, in the order in which we introduced them:
This might help you get started. I guess most babies won't manage more than that anyway.
We started with just signing ourselves for awhile. ASLpro was not known to me then, but I've used it since and it is a WONDERFUL resource. I recommend it to you now. At about 5-6 months we introduced "my baby can talk" videos to Alice. When she was about 18 months to two years we added the "Signing Time" Videos, but she still often wanted the "my baby can talk videos". Signing Time is wonderful, but a little fast for the very young.
If you want a list of great words to start with try, I suggest; milk, more, food, and drink first. From there you can add so much more, but there is somewhat of an order that works best that follows how kids learn spoken language as well. Use as much ASL as you can, but they will be most motivated to learn signs for things they need and things they really want. For example, the Baby Einstein videos with sign language include words like Window. I don't know many kids who are all that interested in knowing the word window. Especially when they are often near one to which they can always just point. However, "bear" might be out of sight when little one wants her "bear".


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For the number zero,
[零]{れい} is a Chinese origin word that is pretty much familiarized in Japanese. Nevertheless, it seems more popular to use the Western origin word
ゼロ, which probably appeared later. Why is that? They are both two morae, and I don't see any phonological reason.
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For the number zero,
ゼロ has almost 0% ambiguity (when spoken) and, only requiring katakana, is much easier to write.
I've heard れい still being used when pronouncing phone numbers. But other than phone numbers (and maybe sports scores,) ゼロ is generally easier for listeners to pick up because it has more of a 濁音{だくおん} (voiced sound.)
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I have access to (but not root on) a compute server which is running a Linux distribution that is a few years old. I'd much prefer to use a current Debian-like flavor.
Thus, I'm wondering if it is possible to install Ubuntu (or stock Debian) in one of my directories, and use the Ubuntu programs and libraries in preference to what comes with the server.
I would need to access arbitrary parts of the server's filesystem, not just the parts under the Ubuntu install.
I log in by SSH, so there's no desktop environment needed. But, I would like to be able to use X programs.


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I don't understand why people sometimes use 'du' instead of 'des' when the meaning of both articles is the same. For example, "some pencils" is des crayons whereas "some cheese" is du fromage.
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Use du (masculine) or de la (feminine) followed by a singular noun for uncountable quantities. Use des followed by plural for countable ones.
Sometimes there are nouns that can be both uncountable and countable:
Note: du or de la don't always denote uncountable quantities, de is a widely used preposition in French.
If you would like to use an undefinite quantity following a de preposition simply use de + singular (uncountable) or de + plural (countable), without an additional article. Examples:
Note that using "du bonheur" (the general notion) would mean something different from "de bonheur" (some subset of the general notion). Same for "de l'ami" (the friend, i.e. a specific friend), "des amis" (all of them), or "d'un ami" (one of them), all are different from "d'amis" (some of them).
Some of the most difficult words in a language are articles and prepositions. The words du and des can combine a preposition with an article, so it's inevitable that this can get a little complicated.
The word du is always a contraction of de le. The corresponding feminine form is de la, and we use de l' for the masculine when it's followed by a vowel. The plural is des. Then, to complicate matters:
In your example sentence, du is a partitive article. Du fromage is the singular form, and des fromages is the plural form.
The singular form du fromage uses fromage as an uncountable noun. "Je mange du fromage": "I'm eating cheese" (or: "I'm eating some cheese"; French doesn't normally distinguish between these two). The singular is used because cheese is a substance, and I'm eating an indeterminate amount of that substance. Contrast:
See also Usage of "d'eau" vs "de l'eau". To complicate matters even further, sometimes the plural is de instead of des — see Elle a de/des longs cheveux, Base de données ou base des données ?.
Jez' answers misses a crucial point, I'm afraid: you can say des fromages!
The distinction is simply between mass nouns (which allow the use of de with a singular) and count nouns (which don't). You can say Je veux des crayons (in which des does not mean "of the") because you can use that with almost all French nouns (there are very French words that are not count nouns in at least some meanings), but you can hardly say je veux du crayon because crayon is not a mass noun (vs. la mine du/des crayons, "the pencil's/pencils' lead")
The distinction is only troublesome to English speakers because English drop articles for both mass nouns and count nouns (compare I'm eating cake/cakes and je mange du/des gateaux, which make exactly the same distinction).
Use du (masculine) or de la (feminine) followed by a sing. noms for articles indéfinis(uncountable) while des followed by plural noms for article définis(countable).
example of articles indéfinis
example for articles définis
Use du when the object of the sentence is singular. du is short for de le, and des is short for de les, so:
In your examples, crayons is plural (so des is used) whereas fromage is singular (so du is used).


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Is it possible to determine the structure of maximal subgroups of finite simple groups?(Even if in special cases such as minimal simple groups, alternating groups,...)
The maximal subgroups of $A_n$ are given by the O'Nan-Scott Theorem. They lie in one of the following classes:
1) $A_n \cap (S_{n-k} \times S_k)$, that is the stabiliser of a $k$-set.
2) $A_n \cap (S_a wr S_b)$ where $n=ab$, that is the stabiliser of a partition.
3) $A_n\cap AGL(d,p)$ where $n=p^d$ for some prime $p$.
4) $A_n \cap (S_m wr S_k)$ where $n=m^k$, that is the stabiliser of a cartesian power.
5) $A_n \cap (T^{k+1}.(Out(T) \times S_{k+1}))$ where $n=|T|^k$ and $T$ is a finite nonabelian simple group
6) an almost simple group acting primitively on $n$ points.
For classical groups the main result is Aschbacher's Theorem in the paper pointed out by Rivin. More details of the structure of the subgroups is given in the book by Kleidman and Liebeck.
For exceptional groups of Lie type there are papers by Liebeck and Seitz as noted by Barnea.
Both these results and Aschbacher's Theorem have the same philosophy as the O'Nan-Scott Theorem, namely that a maximal subgroup is either one of a small number of natural families that are usually stabilisers of some geometric structure, or is almost simple.
For sporadic simple groups, all the information in in the online Atlas. They are all known except for the monster. In this case there are a couple of possibilities for maximal subgroups where it is not known if they are actually subgroups.
In general the question is too ambitious, but more can be said than might be expected. For example, it follows from results of J.G. Thompson that if $M$ is a maximal subgroup of a non-Abelian finite simple group $G$ and $M$ is nilpotent, then $M$ is a Sylow $2$-subgroup of $G$ and is non-Abelian (this does occur "in nature", for example for $G = {\rm PSL}(2,17)).$
The proof by Feit and Thompson of the solvability of finite groups of odd order proceeds by analyzing the structure of maximal subgroups of a minimal non-Abelian simple group of odd order, and the interplay between them.
Perhaps the person who has exploited the structure of maximal subgroups of finite simple groups most is H. Bender, and this has given rise to the term "the Bender method". A remarkable general result of Bender, which has had many extensions and applications, is that if $G$ is a non-Abelian finite simple group with distinct maximal subgroups $A$ and $B$ such that the generalized Fitting subgroups of $A$ and $B$ satisfy $F^{*}(A) \leq B$ and $F^{*}(B) \leq A$, then there is a prime $p$ such that $F^{*}(A)$ and $F^{*}(B)$ are both $p$-groups (again, the exceptional situation does occur in nature, for example if $G$ is a simple group of Lie type of characteristic $p$ and rank greater than $1$). However, if $A$ and $B$ are both solvable, then $p = 2$ or $3$. It does, however, appear that there are situations in the study of finite simple groups where the Bender method is not as easily applicable as the method of signalizer functors.
I think the basic paper is actually this one:
Aschbacher, Michael. "On the maximal subgroups of the finite classical groups." Inventiones mathematicae 76.3 (1984): 469-514.
The Atlas of Finite Group Representations has information on the maximal subgroups of some particular finite simple groups. This is at least a handy place to start. See
for an example. The front page is at
I am not an expert, but I believe lots of work was done on the case of groups of Lie type by Seitz, Liebeck and others. I think the basic paper is "The maximal subgroups of classical algebraic groups" by Seitz. These results are of great importance in the development of the many of the random generation results that were found in the last 20 years. But I will leave it to the experts to add more information.
The recent book of Malle and Testerman, Linear algebraic groups and finite groups of Lie type, has several chapters on the subject. From the MR review:
(etc. The review goes on to describe the Aschbacher/Liebeck-Seitz results mentioned in other replies.)
Also Robert A. Wilson's The finite simple groups addresses the question, for the classical groups in a devoted section (3.10), for the others by systematically giving references to original papers classifying the maximal subgroups.
Every finite group can be broken down into elements consisting of prime cycle permutations. Just go up the lattice. Every nontrivial subgroup has to contain at least one of these prime cycle permutations: http://oeis.org/A186202


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The 6 Most Brutal Murders Committed by Batman
#3. Batman Pushes a Dude into a Sword (Detective Comics No. 37, 1940)
In this issue, the villain makes the deadly mistake of throwing a sword at Batman. The only thing that this accomplishes is getting on the Dark Knight's nerves. The sword becomes lodged in a door and a supremely pissed-off Batman starts walking toward the villain, who trembles and begs for mercy, sensing the fate that's in store for him.
"Have mercy! My monocle needs me."
What sets this particular Bat-murder apart is how deliberate and easily avoidable it was: Batman isn't in a life-or-death situation here, and the guy is completely unarmed and clearly prepared to give himself up. Batman had to close the door, walk across the hallway and position himself at the other side of the formerly monocled villain ...
Batman punched him so hard that it just disintegrated.
... and then hit him with enough force to send him flying into the sword and cause it to stab the back of his neck.
"This is exactly how that hooker died at Jon Favreau's bachelor party."
So we guess that the lesson here, kids, is that if you throw a sword at Batman, you'd better make damned sure you don't miss.
#2. Batman Locks a Villain Underground and Starves Him (Batman No. 420, 1988)
The KGBeast was a short-lived Batman villain sent to America by the Soviet Union to kill everyone involved with the Star Wars defense program, including President Reagan. When we say "short-lived," we don't mean that the writers stopped using him once the cultural references became outdated five months later -- we mean that Batman locked the dude away without food and abandoned him.
The Soviets were notoriously fond of S&M.
After being outmatched by the KGBeast for three straight issues, Batman finally manages to break his bitchin' arm-gun and lures him into the sewers, where they reach a dead end. The KGBeast offers a final challenge to the Dark Knight Detective: beat each other with pipes until a victor emerges. Batman promptly tells him to eat a dick.
"I left my bludgeoning pipe at home."
Batman stands outside the room and coldly explains to the villain that he simply can't be bothered to fight him, as he slowly closes the steel door behind him ...
"Also, my DVR is broken and Homeland is about to start, so ..."
... then barricades it with a nearby stack of planks, perfectly jamming it, and quietly leaves KGBeast fruitlessly banging on the door with his one good hand.
Batman, not grasping how doors work, shores up the hinges.
Batman calmly walks away, leaving the guy to starve or asphyxiate behind a steel door. Once he makes it back to the surface, a CIA agent congratulates Batman on stopping the KGBeast before he could get to Reagan. Then the agent (who had previously told Batman that if the villain was caught alive, they'd have to turn him over to the Soviets) asks where KGBeast is, and we're treated to this gem of a response:
This man has the shortest refractory period in history.
In later comics, a different writer clarified that Batman told the police to retrieve the villain before he could die, and the KGBeast later broke out of prison, which doesn't even make sense with this story, because he would've been sent back to Russia right away. However, the intent of this issue is clear: proving that Batman is indeed a bad enough dude to save the president. Even if it means starving people to death.
#1. Batman Lets Some Thieves Burn to Death ... as He Gets Laid (All-Star Batman and Robin No. 7, 2007)
Note: This following horrific sequence of events becomes much funnier if you imagine Adam West doing it.
So Batman starts this particular issue by swooping down on a bunch of armed thugs stealing a shipment of ... bleach, for some reason. Apparently the Gotham City black market has some serious issues with spilling wine. Not satisfied with scaring the bodily fluids out of them, our "hero" grabs a bottle of flammable bleach, combines it with some thermite he presumably carries in his utility belt for this very purpose and flings it into the crowd.
"Molotov cocktails are only for women and communists!"
Apparently the thieves had been playfully splashing bleach at each other with Super Soakers before Batman arrived, because Batman's dirty bomb is enough to instantly ignite the whole sorry lot.
"Who knew that a spontaneous bleach-balloon fight could go so horribly awry?!"
Now the thugs are scared shitless and burning to death. They are not a threat anymore. They couldn't attack Batman even if they wanted to ... and yet he still feels the need to mercilessly beat the crap out of every single one of them. At this point Batman's fellow Justice Leaguer, the Black Canary, stops by and looks on as Batman needlessly kicks a burning criminal's face into the asphalt. Rather than stopping him, she decides to watch him some more and comment on how aroused this is making her feel. Seriously.
"Krunch hurkk" -- that's the sound of Batman's moral high ground disappearing.
So this is the part where they turn off the fire and tie up the criminals for the authorities to retrieve them, right? Nope: Instead, they lie down on the wet cement and start jumping each other's bones directly in front of the heap of burning flesh that was once a gang of bleach thieves.
Turns out rendered human fat makes excellent lube.
Now, this issue is part of Frank Miller's insane "I'm the goddamn Batman" series, but still -- holy shit, DC. Hopefully you paid Miller's salary in therapy sessions.
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6 Tiny Mistakes That Caused Apocalyptic Explosions
Does anything improve a hard day at work like hearing about a huge mistake that wasn't your fault?
Maybe that's why we love telling you about things like tiny math errors that led to huge disasters and other minor mistakes that led to even bigger catastrophes. So settle in and celebrate the fact that no matter how badly you've screwed up at work, you've probably never caused an explosion that destroyed half of a city. Unlike ...
#6. The Loose Bolt That Destroyed a Moon Rocket
Anyone who's ever assembled Ikea furniture knows that screwing in bolts is no walk in the park. You've got to turn and turn and turn, and sometimes you just want to say "Eh, good enough" and take a nap (on the floor, of course, since your furniture probably isn't safe for sleeping).
At some point in the mid-1960s, a Soviet comrade with a tired arm had the same feeling. The only difference was that he wasn't assembling economical yet sleek furniture -- he was assembling an N1 rocket for the Soviet space program.
Via Starbase1.co.uk
Those are people in the lower right. What's one little bolt mean to that monster?
You know where this is going.
The Disaster:
We've talked about Russian space missions before, always with a little tear streaming down our face, because they were so damn sad. The poor suckers didn't have enough money or time or know-how to get to the moon, but by gosh did they try. And the N1 rocket was supposed to get them there.
It did not.
Four test launches were scheduled, and four test launches failed spectacularly. This particular failure, the one doomed by the stray bolt, occurred on July 3, 1969, only a few weeks before the Apollo hit the moon for real.
At liftoff, that single loose bolt was sucked into a fuel pump, which then stopped cold. Because the fuel pump wasn't working, the automatic engine control shut down 29 of the rocket's 30 engines.
In midair.
Via Starbase1.co.uk
Which is sort of like asking Fred Flintstone to take over for your 18-wheeler's engine while it barrels down the interstate.
So, 20 seconds into its flight, the whole rocket stalled. Which was very, very bad, because that rocket booster was full of rocket fuel as it plunged back down to Earth. The resulting explosion was huge, yet the Soviets somehow managed to keep the whole disaster a secret until the fall of communism. And that was when we got a hold of this footage:
Yep. We're thinking this should be in every single workplace training video in the world. This:
The largest explosion in the history of rocketry ...
... was the result of one freaking loose bolt. One. Yet that blast was minor compared to what's coming.
#5. The Lazy Contractor Who Blew Up a City
This is the story of how tiny little holes like this ...
Via Semp.us
Oh, that's not so b-
... turned a city into freaking this:
Via Semp.us
-holy what the hell!
It started with the sort of project that you wouldn't think could lead to an explosion no matter how badly you screwed it up. In the 1980s, a contract worker was tasked with a pretty straightforward job -- lay down some water lines so the good people of Guadalajara, Mexico, could enjoy continued access to city water.
It was an easy job, too, because space had already been dug for a separate set of lines (for gasoline), so it was as simple as laying his water lines in the same trench. There's no way that can start an apocalyptic wave of destruction across the entire city, right?
Surely if it could, the Joker would have thought of it already.
The Disaster:
Fast forward a few years. On April 19, 1992, residents of the city noticed that their water smelled like gas. Local officials heard one complaint after another about smelly toilets and drains, and then someone noticed gas vapors coming out of the manholes.
Within two days, those vapors morphed into full-on smoke columns. And since the Guadalajarans weren't living in the "Thriller" video, this was a pretty alarming development. What if Ninja Turtles were real and they were in danger underground? Or worse, what if Ninja Turtles weren't real, and something else was going on?
"No, all I see is darkness and shit. Does that mean I'm a goth?"
Well, that gassy smell in the water? Turns out that was gas. Highly combustible natural gas. The city's water was so explosive that something as small as a lit cigarette or a particularly hard finger snap could ignite it. And remember, these pipes were running under the town, so it's like everybody was suddenly living on top of a gigantic landmine. And before anyone could figure out how the gas got there or what to do about it, the first explosion hit.
Via H2Oreuse
It was the one time in history that "my toilet smells like shit" actually meant something important.
We say "the first" because 10 more followed.
Each blast erupted under the busy streets of the downtown district. And we're not talking about little pops, either. One actually sent a bus flying. In fact, some of the blasts registered as high as 7.1 on the Richter scale recorded in Mexico City, hundreds of miles away. When all was said and done, 6 miles of sewer lines were destroyed and the city looked like post-blitzkrieg London.
Via H2Oreuse
We've never seen a semi truck writhing in agony before.
Eventually, investigators discovered that the whole shebang came back to that anonymous contractor who placed the city's water pipe over the state-owned gas company's pipe. It turns out that the water pipes were made of zinc-coated iron, and the gas pipes were made of steel. Put them together and you get a reaction that leads to corrosion. After a few years of water dripping down onto the gas pipe, holes formed, gas started to leak and somebody learned a horrific lesson in not cutting goddamned corners.
#4. The Stockpile of Rocket Fuel Stashed in Plastic Drums
We don't care how neat and organized you are, shit has a way of piling up. Take a peek inside anybody's garage or basement or, hell, their refrigerator, and you'll see a large collection of unwanted stuff to be dealt with at some unspecified point in the future.
So what happens when your company makes rocket fuel and finds itself with way, way too much of it? It gets stacked in containers and crammed out of the way. And then, eventually, this happens:
Note the distinct lack of rocket at the other end of those plumes.
The company in this case was PEPCON, whose job was producing a particular compound that was pretty much used exclusively as space shuttle fuel. But by 1988, the space shuttle program had been frozen for over two years, thanks to the Challenger disaster. The product this company was producing was temporarily obsolete, like Jason Bateman between the years 1991 and 2003. By all rights PEPCON should have stopped and just made guest appearances on The Love Boat and Hollywood Squares for a while.
Via W. Oelen
"Well, OK, but don't let it sit next to Charles Nelson Reilly. You're just asking for trouble."
The Disaster:
Instead, for two years PEPCON kept making this fuel that no one needed. Piles and piles of the stuff. And then, because no one was buying it, they ran out of places to put it. They were like the hoarders of the chemical company world, but instead of dead cats and used diapers piled to the ceiling, they had 4,000 tons of amazingly combustible rocket fuel, which they eventually stored in plastic bins.
Now, we're not rocket scientists, but if we were, we'd probably know that these particular plastic bins were oil-based, and that this particular rocket fuel compound was an oxidizer. And that one welding spark could set off a pretty big explosion. Here's video of what that looked like:
On May 4, 1988, their stockpile of fuel went off in an explosion that was the equivalent of 2.7 kilotons of TNT. It left a crater 200 feet wide and 15 feet deep. It killed two people and caused $100 million worth of damage.
So, you know, the lesson here is you should store your rocket fuel in good, sturdy containers. Did you really need us to tell you that?
Maybe something like this -- though we admit, we don't know anything about rocket fuel.


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I know that there were similar questions: How to create a map with states by attribute value?
However, I do not know which software is better to use. For the Q-GIS, I cannot find an appropriate shape file with Russian administrative regions.
Any help would be highly appreciated! Thank you!