I saw a lesson in English, said in Past Simple the following examples:        When did you get married?   When did you graduate?      Now, Why he said at (1) "get married" NOT "marry" like "graduate" in (2). ??
[i] Susan married Ed. (RHD)   [ii] My sister got married last fall. (COCA)   Is there a passive implication in [ii]? That is, the families and so on arrange and perform the marriage ceremonies for two people, and through all this the two get married. Is this implied in the expression [ii], and not in [i]?
Find the least value of $ \sec^6 x +\csc^6 x + \sec^6 x\csc^6 x$ Find the least value of $$ \sec^6 x +\csc^6 x + \sec^6 x\csc^6 x$$ I tried AM greater than equal to GM But that's for finding maximum value.  This can probably be solved with calculus but I don't know for some reason I can't find the answer . Which is $80$. How to shut down Ubuntu 11.10 host from within a Windows 7 VirtualBox guest? I want to run a script on all files with two specific extensions on a disk with a hierarchy of multiple nested folders.  My script works fine when I choose a folder further down the line with fewer subfolders but I'd like to run it on an entire archive with over a thousand folders.  The AppleScript takes forever to get all the files and then exits without returning anything and without executing the operations after getting the files.  No timeout message, no error message.  And the Finder becomes unresponsive (and remains stuck after the script exits).   set myFolder to choose folder with prompt "Choose a folder:"     tell application "Finder"         try             set eafFiles to (every file in entire contents of myFolder whose name ends with ".eaf") as alias list         on error             try                 set eafFiles to ((every file in entire contents of myFolder whose name ends with ".eaf") as alias) as list             on error                 set eafFiles to {}             end try         end try         try             set pfsxFiles to (every file in entire contents of myFolder whose name ends with ".pfsx") as alias list         on error             try                 set pfsxFiles to ((every file in entire contents of myFolder whose name ends with ".pfsx") as alias) as list             on error                 set pfsxFiles to {}             end try         end try         set myFiles to eafFiles &amp; pfsxFiles     end tell      repeat with CurrentFile in myFiles         set CurrentFile to CurrentFile as string          do shell script "perl /path/to/perl/script.pl " &amp; quoted form of CurrentFile     end repeat It looks like this issue has , but it just happened again on Travel.SE. Perhaps this is another corner case? These two questions are closed as duplicates of each other.           I had the last vote on each, although in both cases, my vote was for "Unclear what you're asking", but the weight of votes in both cases were for the duplicate status. So if the existing checks are only in place at the time someone casts a close vote, that would explain how this one got in under the radar. Perhaps another check needs to be done when the question is actually closed, not just when close votes are cast?  And as @gnat points out, low-rep/logged-out users get a Redirect loop when trying to load either question.  NOTE: A moderator has already fixed this particular circular duplicate situation by closing one of the questions with a different close reason. IBM Slack links broken Do I need to upgrade RAM from 4GB to 8GB for Android development? I'm an android developer and have laptop with 4GB RAM. When I compile my project the RAM is used at 100%.    If I add more RAM will it solve the problem? Why is the area under a curve the integral? International TLD's vs. duplicate content I currently work at a pretty big website that has visitors from around the globe. My job is to help out on the SEO, and one thing we've been discussing lately is the use of international TLD's. The ones we use range between:   (partly) translated websites like .es and .de that serve most of the content in the country's language non-translated (english) websites for non-english languages (due to a lack of translations) like .ro and .cz english websites for english speaking countries with localized TLD's (.co.nz, .co.uk)   On one hand I really have the feeling this is causing a lot of duplicate content, especially for the last two categories of TLD's.   On the other hand though it seems a lot like country-specific TLD's tend to score a lot better in that country's Google. 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I also want my override to automatically take account of possible upstream updates to the original unit file (which my current solution of copying whatever.service as whatever-modified.service and editing it unfortunately does not provide).  If I create the following symlinks and files: /etc/systemd/system/whatever.service → /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/whatever-modified.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/whatever.service /etc/systemd/system/whatever-modified.service.d/fix.conf  systemd considers the new service to be masked as well and refuses to start it. How to avoid this? I just bought "Reputation to the max". I bought this first, because I really want to help the cleanup of the vote-to-close queue, which, despite the efforts I've been hearing about, is still quite large. According to SO, my reputation is now 15,750, but that queue still says I need at least 3k rep to review! That is clearly a bug! Currently, when flagging an off-topic question, the following choices are offered.   Questions about general computing hardware and software are off-topic for Stack Overflow. Questions concerning problems with code you've written must describe the specific problem and include valid code to reproduce it. Questions must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved. Questions on professional server, networking, or related infrastructure administration are off-topic for Stack Overflow unless they directly involve programming or programming tools. Questions asking us to recommend a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network   However, there are some questions that fit in none of these categories.  For example, career advice questions are off-topic here (and on programmers.SE), questions like  are off-topic on pretty much any SE site.    Some questions might also be relevant on another SE site not listed when the "belongs on another site" option is selected.  How should those questions be flagged?  Why isn't there a "it's off-topic because it is" option?  EDIT: just to be clear, I don't have the "Other" option under Off-Topic. How to distribute objects in a circular pattern on a surface (Radial Array, Polar Array) I've been told that when "the" is proceeded by a vowel sound, like "apple" or "hour", it's pronounced as "thee" and not as "thu".  But after listening to a couple of songs, I noticed that sometimes this "rule" is not followed. Take for example the two Katy Perry's songs, "Roar" and "The one that got away". In the first she sings "I got thee eye of thu tiger", but in the second she sings "Thu one that got away".  I don't know if it was sang this way to better suit the song melody (I understand nothing about those techniques), but I got confused. What's the correct pronunciation?  Thanks in advance. How does the Mounted Combatant feat interact with Infernal War Machines? I use XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012/W32TeX).  I am using the crop package to add bleed and crop marks to a document. This works fine for pages with white background, but how do I achieve this for pages which have another colour in the bakckground?  I tried the pagecolor package, and see that it somehow extends the pagecolour to around 2 to 3 mm into the bleed but not beyond. 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Proof that $\bigcap_{a\in A} \bigg(\, \bigcup_{b\in B} F_{a,b} \, \bigg) = \bigcup_{f\in ^AB} \bigg(\, \bigcap_{a \in A} F_{a,f(a)}\,\bigg) $ I found an interesting exercise of other amazing book (Jech's) that I'm not totally sure about how to do it.   Prove the following form of the distributive law:   $$\bigcap_{a\in A} \bigg(\, \bigcup_{b\in B} F_{a,b} \, \bigg) = \bigcup_{f\in ^AB} \bigg(\, \bigcap_{a \in A} F_{a,f(a)}\,\bigg) $$  Assuming that $F_{a,b_1} \cap F_{a,b_2} = \emptyset $ for each $a\in A$ and $b_1,b_2\in B$ and $b_1\not=b_2$.  First of all, I'm not completely sure about what $ F_{a,b}$ really means. I suppose that is  the range of a family with a domain $A \times B$.    And second, I cannot figure out how to do the converse (assuming that the first part it is correct, I used as normal in this kind of proof element chasing)  Proof:  ($\Rightarrow$) ...  ($\Leftarrow$) Suppose that $z\in \bigcup_{f\in ^AB} \big(\, \bigcap_{a \in A} F_{a,f(a)}\,\big)$; then there is $f\in \,^AB$ such that $z\in  \bigcap_{a \in A} F_{a,f(a)}\, $. Let $a \in A$ be arbitrary.   Claim 1 $\, \bigcap_{a \in A} F_{a,f(a)}\subseteq F_{a,f(a)} \subseteq \bigcup_{b\in B} F_{a,b}$.  Proof of the Claim 1:   For the first inclusion: Suppose $z\in\bigcap_{a \in A} F_{a,f(a)}$; then for each $a\in A$ we have that $z\in F_{a,f(a)}$. Then $\bigcap_{a \in A} F_{a,f(a)}\subseteq F_{a,f(a)}$.  For the second inclusion: Now suppose $z\in F_{a,f(a)}$. Clearly $f(a)\in B$ because $f\in ^AB$. Then there is some $b\in B$ such that  $z\in F_{a,b}$ and hence that $z\in \bigcup_{b\in B} F_{a,b}$. $\square$  Since $a$ was arbitrary it follows that $z\in \bigcup_{b\in B} F_{a,b}$ (by claim 1) for each $a\in A$ and hence  that $z\in \bigcap_{a\in A} \big(\, \bigcup_{b\in B} F_{a,b} \, \big)$ as desired.  I really, really would very much appreciate some help with that. Thanks in advance as usual. Please help me to answer the following problem:  Let $f(x)=x^3-3x-5\in\mathbb{Q}[x]$  Thanks