I would like to know if an 'and' is always necessary before the last item in a colon list. Is the following correct, or should I place an 'and' before 'grapes'?  The basket contained a variety of fruits: bananas, apples, oranges, grapes.  Thanks.
He called her, emailed her, texted her, tweeted her—all to no use.   Strictly speaking, I would need to write texted her and tweeted her, but I'm omitting and to convey a rhythm and sense of urgency. What do you call this kind of construction, and is it accepted grammar (at least for creative writing, if not in an academic context)?
Or "Why is Ant-Man the last movie of Phase 2, rather than Avengers 2?"  The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the series of movies involving characters from Marvel comics and produced by Marvel Studio/Disney Studio. The series of movies is decomposed into phases, that are different steps in the studios' production plan.   Phase 1, entitled Avengers Assembled, is composed of all movies from Iron Man (2008) to The Avengers (2012). This phase relates the origins of each Avenger and how these mighty superheroes came to fight as a team.   The narrative purpose of Phase 2 is less clear to me. At first, I thought it was about Thanos' story arc but Thanos doesn't seem to appear in Ant-Man, the last movie of the Phase 2. Actually, Thanos will most likely be the main antagonist of Infinity War, which is a part of Phase 3.   Therefore, what story arc will be concluded at the end of Ant-Man? I believe it can be answered before the movie is released, as the purpose of Phase 1 was clear before the release of The Avengers. Marvel Studio may also have commented about the organization of the movies. In other words, what narrative elements unify the movie of Phase 2? Intuition of the meaning of homology groups Irreducible polynomial is always separable in char 0 field Consider the following minimal example:  \documentclass{article}  \setlength{\parindent}{0mm}  \usepackage{paralist} \usepackage{tabto}  \begin{document}  \NumTabs{3} \begin{inparaenum} \item text \tab\item text \tab\item text \tab\item text \tab\item text \tab\item text    \end{inparaenum}  \end{document}   Which results in:    It does exactly what I want, but I was wondering whether it was possible to create an environment, say tabbedEnum so that we can eliminate the use of the \tab, in particular, that the first case doesn't need a tab but all others do. Something of the form:   \begin{tabbedEnum}[3] \item text \item text \item text \item text \item text \item text \end{tabbedEnum} google search index what is fresh content I read that sites have good reputation in google search index if it is fresh content.  what does fresh content means from google's point of view?  I have many pages. I have created articles and tutorials.  These page dosent change except the comments which are at the bottom.  I have made this page as static (.html) and never edit cause that is the information i wanted to be ever. cause the concept is not going to change?  with these parameters how to judge whether my page is fresh or not? Mathematical Induction Question About A Basis Step Can I mix sources from different ubuntu versions? As we know that we are using  for installing packages and repositories configuration file located at /etc/apt/sources.list.  I am using Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) which reaches . That means no updates or support. So, the question is, can I use sources.list file from another version, say Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and will it negatively affect the system. I'm trying to show that if $f$ is a continuous function on $[0,1]$ and $\int_0^{1} f(x)e^{nx}\,{\rm d}x = 0$ for all $n = 0, 1, 2, \dots$, then $f(x) = 0$.  I'd like to use Weierstrass approximation theorem to find a sequence of polynomials $p_m$ that converge uniformly to $f(x)$. Then we could say $\lim\limits_{m\to \infty} \int p_m(x)e^{nx}\,{\rm d}x = \int f(x)e^{nx}\,{\rm d}x = 0$, but I'm struggling to deduce that then all the $p_m$ are zero which would give the result. lsusb relevant output Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:8812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8812AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN Adapter  Upon plugging the device it is recognized by lsusb, however when I go to wireless settings no adapter is recognized. The driver is installed (by going to software and updates -> addition drivers and selecting the open source driver). The differences between TeX engines Show a message if directly accessing a deleted answer or comment Currently, if you access a deleted question you will get a short message informing you that the question has been deleted. However, if you click on a direct link to a deleted answer or comment (which you can get via notifications), nothing is displayed.  This is naturally quite confusing as you will get the message about a new answer or comment via notifications, click on the link and simply see nothing.  Therefore, I propose to display some sort of message to the user, informing her/him that the answer or question has been deleted. Note that this is different from always showing a deleted answer/comment, as I specifically request it in case you access the specific URL.  One example for a comment would be:   One example for a deleted answer is:   This question is related to ,  but requests a feature to circumvent the problem altogether. I need some advice as I am struggling with the following combinatorics exercise.  Let $k$ be a given positive integer. Show that any non-negative integer $N$ can be written uniquely in the form $$N=\binom{x_k}{k}+\binom{x_{k-1}}{k-1}+\dots+\binom{x_1}{1},$$ where $0 \leq x_1 &lt; \dots &lt; x_{k-1} &lt; x_k$.  The exercise is accompanied by this advice:  Let $x$ be such that $\binom{x}{k} \leq N &lt; \binom{x+1}{k}$. Then any possible representation has $x_k = x$. Now use induction and the fact that $N-\binom{x}{k} &lt; \binom{x}{k-1}$ to show the existence and uniqueness of the representation.  I am really stuck and thus grateful for the slightest hint on how to solve it. What is the best symbol to use for the d'Alembertian? Normally, most people use the symbol $\Box$ to represent the  (including the linked to Wikipedia page).  Recently I wanted to use \hat\Box and \tilde\Box, but they do not render very well.    What is the "best" way to create such symbols?    Aside: The above image is rendered using my local install of pdflatex: pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian). The symbols seem to render fine on some online services: e.g. "" produces    from   \begin{align*} \Box &amp;= \sum_a \partial^a\partial_a \,, &amp; \hat\Box &amp;= \sum_a \mathcal{D}^a\mathcal{D}_a \end{align*} Change the location of saved screenshot when screenshot taken by printscreen button in GNOME 3 I want to change the default location of "Save a screenshot to Pictures" to save it to Desktop.   If that is not possible, is there any other way to do it? I am using Ubuntu GNOME 17.04.  NOTE: I don't want to change the location with dconf-editor as it changes the location of screenshot applet and not of the shortcut I require. Is it possible to construct a multi-colored double-bladed lightsaber? I was just watching  video of some SW dueling at the 2015 World Fencing Championship, and wondered if it's actually possible in the SW universe to construct a multi-colored double-bladed lightsaber?   Are there any accounts of such a thing? If not, would it at least be theoretically possible to make one, or, are there obvious limitations? How can you test what color different people perceive? Remove marker using lat or long gmaps v3 population and subsamples : mean equality? I want to perform a two sample test, to see whether theirs means are equals. One of the sample is rather big (#60000 values) and represents the scores of a whole population. This population is partitioned in small classes of less that 1000 people. The other sample of the test is a subsamble of the former. It corresponds to people of the same class. So, each time, there is less than 1000 values in it. I have no idea about the variances, so I'd think of using Welch's t-test.  But I'm concerned regarding the independence hypothesis: can it be valid, considering that the second sample is negligible when compared to the overall population? How should I address a potential FERPA violation by a professor? In the United States, federal law prohibits professors from releasing any student's grades to any party other than the student and any party whom the student authorizes to receive the grades.  One of my professors appears to be violating this law by uploading each student's lab grades in one file, which is accessible to anyone who is enrolled in the class.  Here is my proposed plan of action:   Ask the professor - in private - to post the grades using the online management system the professor already uses for other things.  If the professor doesn't fix this privacy violation, inform the professor that the method by which he/she post grades is a violation of federal law. As a last resort, contact the department dean. Missing SOAP action header Im trying to get the session ID of another user in the same org by sending the following request by using the data from my enterprise wsdl and its an developer edition.  &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:urn="urn:enterprise.soap.sforce.com"&gt;    &lt;soapenv:Header&gt;       &lt;urn:organizationId&gt;xxxxxxx&lt;/urn:organizationId&gt;    &lt;/soapenv:Header&gt;    &lt;soapenv:Body&gt;       &lt;urn:login&gt;          &lt;urn:username&gt;xxxxxxxxx&lt;/urn:username&gt;          &lt;urn:password&gt;xxxxxxxxx&lt;/urn:password&gt;       &lt;/urn:login&gt;    &lt;/soapenv:Body&gt; &lt;/soapenv:Envelope&gt;   But when i send this request i get      Missing SOAP ACTION header  but in my wsdl i dont have the action ,its blank    how to overcome this problem ?I got totaly struck over here since there is no action though its asking for action header.Following method handles the http request.   public string   processrrequest(string ep,string message,string method) {      HttpRequest req = new HttpRequest();     req.setEndpoint(ep);     req.setMethod(method);     req.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/xml');     req.setHeader('SOAPAction','');     req.setBody(message);     system.debug('Request::'+req.getbody());     Http http = new Http();     HttpResponse res =http.send(req);     //Dom.Document doc  = res.getbodyDocument();     system.debug('Response::'+res.getbody());     system.debug('Response2::'+res.getStatus());     Dom.Document doc= new Dom.Document();     doc=res.getBodyDocument();     system.debug('doc::'+doc);     return 'hai'; }