I found this bug crawling in my bathtub
This bug was found on a couch in . The couch, and the two beds in the room show no signs of other bugs. Is this a bed bug that I should worry about or something harmless? It was slightly larger than a common tick.
What is Chromatic Aberration? What is Chromatic Aberration? Is it a physical part of the lens, or just an optical illusion? I am a first year Ph. D student, and I have been working on a new topic of research.  I worked day and night to prove something new and verified it. I began my Ph. D while my supervisor was on travel, but he returned before I had been here for long.  When he returned, he told me we have to stop and not continue without any reasonable reasons.  After a few months he began treating me poorly---always belittling and underestimating---although I got two grants from a top conference, made videos and podcasts, and constantly received praise for my good work and personality.    It seems that I have been treated as a competitor, not a collaborator.  Although agreeing with my approaches in private, my supervisor said false words to the committee to take the decision and stop my Ph. D work!  It is not surprising, as there was another former senior Ph. D student who I met on campus, who was not allowed to defend his Ph. D: this same supervisor claimed he was not able to finish his dissertation although he had published in a peer reviewed journal and having citation as well, it was scary and not familiar.  In front of committee, he lied, and said something without proving. I asked if he can make a detailed constructive criticism, but he could not.  All I can say that they are a gang literally, and he said words that show that he is jealous and doesn't want to see me having self confidence in my self. I know no one will believe me, but this is the truth.  Honestly, I am distressed and I'm losing sleep.  I had this dream where there were many people who saw me fail.  All things considered, I don't know whether what happened is good or bad, and I definitely don't know what I should do next!  I would be grateful for your advice and whether there is someone has encountered any similar situation. Every season near the trade deadline, we see teams that are out of it trading expensive players and/or free agents-to-be, typically for younger players or prospects.  For example, Matt Garza, set to become a free agent after the season, was traded to the Rangers for a few prospects.  It made sense for the Cubs to trade Garza, because he wasn't under contract any further than this season, and thus doesn't have much value to them.  Compare Garza to someone like Mike Trout, who is likely the most valuable property in baseball, given his skill and inexpensive cost over the next several years.  There's no way the Angels would trade him, because he'll be the cost-controlled centerpiece of the team for years to come.  However, with the Angels out of it this year, what if they wanted to trade Trout to a contender (say the Pirates), but only for the remainder of this season?  That is, they'd get several top prospects now, and would have an agreement with the Pirates that they'd trade him back in the offseason (for something pretty worthless, say for a journeyman minor leaguer).  The Pirates get Trout for the stretch run and are happy to give up a few prospects.  Trout doesn't have much value to the Angels this year, but he has a ton of value for next year.  So they get a few prospects for him, in exchange for the part of his career which has very little value to them.  So in effect, the Pirates are renting or borrowing him for the remainder of 2013.  Why don't trades like this happen?  Are there any rules prohibiting trades like this? After installing Ubuntu Studio 12.04, I have found that it uses a low latency kernel.   I searched for an explanation and how to change back it to a real-time or generic one. However, it looks like this part of Linux hasn't been covered to explain the details.   Q: Why choose a low latency kernel over a generic or real-time one?  PS: I have already read the answers from  question and  post. How to install all possible media codecs from console?  Is there a way to load and save them for some cases without Internet connection?  Thanks in Advance! Every word is marked as misspelled in TeXstudio Why is that most of the words, almost 90 percent, are marked as misspelled words when there is no error? And the spellchecking suggestions don't even look like English.  I am using TeXstudio as my editor. How to get a list of applications installed in Ubuntu dash? My LAN server won't let my cousin join me or me join my cousin. It won't show up on the multiplayer screen - it keeps saying "scanning for LAN servers" but it never finds it. I am at his house and we use different computers but it won't connect. How can I fix this? Unable to parse query string for function Query, when using IMPORTRANGE iPhone 7 Plus takes days to turn on showing Apple logo or black screen I’ve had this issue for months but in the last couple of days it’s got very very bad.  When my phone runs out of battery it needs like 2–3 days to turn back on. At the beginning of this problem the phone would need about 1h. Every time when my phone goes off again the time to switching on goes up.  What does this all look like? Well, when my phone died I put it on the charger, then the logo appears and goes off. When it goes off, a black screen pops out with a little white line on in it, then it turns on back to Apple logo. It keeps doing this until it turns on which is 1 or 2 even now 3 days.  I tried to restore it and also update it but nothing happens, literally nothing happened. Why do my LED lights stay on, even when the switch is off? I have two LED lamps in my corridor, and when I switch them off, they keep emitting light (not very strong, but it's annoying at night).  What can it be? How can I fix it? What is the name of this connector from a fan? I am EE hobbyist and I often used recycled parts in my projects. I came across this connector to a Heat Sink Fan and would like to know the name of it.  Thanks for the help. Rejecting a PhD offer after having accepted it. Advice? I have accepted a PhD offer from a very good university to do a project very close to my interests. I have told the project supervisor I accept it. In the meanwhile I have managed to secure a PhD offer from another 2 universities much better in world rankings and with better research groups and better faculty. Additionally these 2 universities do research exactly on what I want to devote my PhD research.  My only commitment to the first university is a mail confirming I accept. Nothing else. I understand declining the offer after already having accepted it is quite dishonest but it is a huge decision that will affect my future in a very significant level.   I would like your opinion and I would also like to ask for possible consequences of such an action. As far a postdocs concerned, in the first university there is no chance I ever get a postdoc since they do not actually do research on my area (except for the prospective supervisor and even he not as much).  UPDATE I have decided to do as I was afraid to. I have decided to choose a different university than the first one that I have already accepted the offer. My offer acceptance included:    An online "I accept" statement. An e-mail I sent stating "I accept the scholarship and this University is my first option"   I do not have any legal commitments since I have not signed anything. The supervisor of the first university though is really nice to me and continuously was sending me mails. How do I very nicely tell her I will not be joining in the end? Additionally the place I will go in the end will be for research in Mathematics and not Physics. Can I use this as a part of a sensical excuse?  WHAT I HAVE CHOSEN AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WERE  I think that I should let people, especially other beginning grad students know what happened with my case. I have chosen to nicely tell the first university I got accepted that I will not be attending and will not be pursuing a PhD there since I decided I have different research interests (which is true). I had applied there in the first place since I was not sure what I wanted to do and because it was a nice program. Despite that, I got an offer from a World top university to work on 100% my research interests. I explained this to them, the first uni, and they happily let me go and wished me good luck, especially the supervisor who faught a lot secure me funding. I was lucky. Domain Controller etiquette after a crash between Server 2003 & Server 2008 I have 2 domain controllers on a non-Internet connected network running Windows Server 2008 R2. They running RAID 5 on a 8 Hard Drive server. Sometime last week the Boot Sector became corrupt on DC1 and I was unable to recover the server. I am not going to have to rebuild the server. I have been reading about the changes from Server 2003 to Server 2008. DC1 was the main domain controller and now that it won't but it is all falling to DC2. I know that in previous versions of Windows Server you had to make on the primary and one the secondary. Since DC2 does not see DC1 anymore is there anything I need to do to DC2 as it is now the one in control? I am thinking some kind of meta data clean up but I can't find any hard information on what procedure to do. I understand as of Server 2008 domain controllers are on an equal footing and provide replication to each other so they should be the same correct? Previously, someone posted his/her proof of "every neighborhood is open" . I am focusing on the same statement, but it seems that my approach is different from his/hers. Could someone comment on my own proof? Here we go:  Let $X$ be a metric space and $p\in X$. Fix $r&gt;0$. Define a neighborhood around $p$ as $N_r (p)=\{q\in X| d(p, q)&lt;r\}$. Now, take $w = \frac{r}{2}$. Then, $N_w (p)\subset N_r(p)$. In other words, every point of $N_r(p)$ is interior. Therefore, $N_r (p)$ is open. Since $r$ is arbitrary, this proves every neighborhood is open.  Update:  Under my definition of "neighborhood," can I prove in this way instead: For all $m\in N_r(p)$, take $w=\frac{r−d(m,p)}{2}$. Then, $N_w(m)\subset N_r(p)$.   Update2  From the hints given in comments, I solve it:  Assume $m\in N_r(p)$ and $q\in N_w(m)$. Take $w=r-d(m, p)$. Then, $d(p, q)\leq d(p, m) + d(m, q)&lt; d(p, m) + r-d(m,p) =r$.   Thanks to @JoséCarlosSantos and @fleablood ! I have a Redstone Power loop that connects to a Command Block that is set to kill all entities except for myself (/kill @e[type=!Player]), because I'm building a creative map, but don't want slimes all over the place. Problem is if I want to place an Item Frame than the Command Block kills it.  So, is there anyway to exclude items from getting deleted, or make it so it will only target mobs? How do I find out a name of class that created an instance of an object in Python if the function I am doing this from is the base class of which the class of the instance has been derived?  Was thinking maybe  might have helped me out here, but it doesn't seem to give me what I want. And short of parsing the __class__ member, I'm not sure how to get at this information. I have a set of predictors in a linear regression, as well as three control variables. The issue here is that one of my variables of interest is only statistically significant if the control variables are included in the final model. However, the control variables themselves are not statistically significant.  Here is how the multicollinearity of all my variables look like (including control variables):   &gt; vif(lm(return ~ EQ + EFF + SIZE + MOM + MSCR + UMP, data = as.data.frame(port.df)))        EQ      EFF     SIZE      MOM     MSCR      UMP   3.687171 3.481672 2.781901 1.064312 1.438596 1.003408   &gt; vif(lm(return ~ EQ + MOM + MSCR, data = as.data.frame(port.df)))        EQ      MOM     MSCR   1.359992 1.048142 1.412658    My variables of interest are EQ, MOM and MSCR, and the control variables are EFF, SIZE and UMP. EQ is only significant if the three control var are included, and becomes insignificant when they are not:   Here are the coefficients (1rst row) and t-stats (2nd row) when control variables are included (notice that EQ is statistically significant)         intercept           EQ          EFF        SIZE         MOM       MSCR          UMP [1,] 0.005206246 -0.006310531 0.0001229055 0.004125551 0.007738259 0.00473377 5.838596e-06 [2,] 1.866628909 -1.746583234 0.0388823612 1.178460997 2.145062820 2.08131100 1.994863e-01  Now, here is the result of the regression when the control variables are excluded (notice that EQ is NOT statistically significant anymore)         intercept           EQ         MOM       MSCR [1,] 0.007313402 -0.002111833 0.007128606 0.00668364 [2,] 2.652662996 -0.595391117 2.036985378 2.80177366    The problem is that when I include my control variables, all my variables of interest are significant, but my control variables are not.  Which variables should I include in my final model? How should I structure my final model then, given the fact that the model will be used for forecasting?  Thank you, Prove that $\lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{\log(1+e^x)}{x} = 1$ Show that $$\lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{\log(1 + e^x)}{x} = 1$$ How do I prove this? Or how do we get this result? Here $\log$ is the natural logarithm. I have data with a column containing a number value, and I want to divide the value of each feature by the total sum of all the values in the column (to get a percentage).  So I would like to know if there is some simple syntax in the QGIS field calculator to get the sum of a column, preferably without resorting to for loops and what not.    I have a shapefile where feature A has the value X in column B. How can I summerize the values for all features in column B in order to divide value X to get a percentage for each feature?