Say I have a gym instructor called Anne and it's her birthday. I want to convey that to someone who doesn't know who Anne is in one sentence.   In speech, I would probably say, "it is Anne, my gym instructor's, birthday." But, in writing, that seems wrong; it puts the possessive "s" in the subclause only.   So what is the correct way to write a sentence like this? "It is Anne's, my gym instructor's, birthday"? "It is Anne's, my gym instructor, birthday"? Something else?
I would like to say something like     The boy, Adam's, favorite toy was a bike.   What is the proper way to say this?
For equal cost, why would you select the MacBook Air over the MacBook Pro? I can see that the 13" version of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air is same $1199, but the Pro is more feature-loaded than Macbook Air. Why would anyone buy MacBook Air? What's the catch in this?    I was thinking of buying a MacBook for development purposes, and worried if there's any problem in the Pro version, because it comes with more features (like more storage).  Edit:    Thanks for the answer guys, I bought a MacBook Pro a week ago and already loving it. Getting started with neural networks for forecasting Java: Detect duplicates in ArrayList? How could I go about detecting (returning true/false) whether an ArrayList contains more than one of the same element in Java?  Many thanks, Terry  Edit Forgot to mention that I am not looking to compare "Blocks" with each other but their integer values. Each "block" has an int and this is what makes them different. I find the int of a particular Block by calling a method named "getNum" (e.g. table1[0][2].getNum(); What is the opposite category of $\operatorname{Top}$? My question is rather imprecise and open to modification. I am not entirely sure what I am looking for but the question seemed interesting enough to ask:   The opposite category of rings is the category of affine schemes. This is usually thought of as the category of spaces. Can we run the construction backwards for categories usually thought of as containing spaces?  For instance, does $\operatorname{Top}^{\operatorname{op}}$ have a nice description as some "algebraic" category?  Note that it does not seem easy to describe the opposite category of all schemes. Therefore, the above question might be asking too much. Perhaps the following is a more tractable (or not) question:  Can we find an "algebraic" category $C$ such that we can embed $C^{\operatorname{op}}$ in $\operatorname{Top}$ such that every topological space can be covered by objects in $C^{\operatorname{op}}$? Perhaps one would like to replace this criterion of being covered by objects by a more robust notion in general.  One can repeat the question for other categories of spaces like:   Category of manifolds (perhaps closer to schemes than general topological spaces) Compactly generated spaces Simplicial Sets   and so on. A perhaps interesting example is the category of finite sets, it's opposite category is the category of finite Boolean algebras. Should an apostrophe be used with a z at the end of a word? I know that if a word ends with an s then it should be made plural or possessive by use of an apostrophe with no extra s (e.g. "Thomas Harris' book was a riveting read." as opposed to "Gary Barlow's voice is so distracting.")  What about if the word ends with a z. For example, would it be Gomez' album or Gomez's album? What are the various physical mechanisms for energy transfer to the photon during blackbody emission? By conservation of energy, the solid is left in a lower energy state following emission of a photon.  Clearly absorption and emission balance at thermal equilibrium, however, thermodynamic equilibrium is a statement of the mean behaviour of the system, not a statement that the internal energy is constant on arbitrarily short timescales.  The energy has to come from somewhere during emission, and go somewhere during absorption.  Energy in a solid can be stored as kinetic and potential energy of electrons and nuclei, either individually or in collective modes such as phonons and plasmons.  In thermal equilibrium energy will be stored more or less in various forms depending on the temperature and material.  However, even if most of the thermal energy in a particular solid at temperature $T$ is stored in the form of phonons, it could be that phonons primarily interact with light indirectly via electrons, e.g. a phonon excites an electron in a phonon-electron interaction, which can interact with light via the EM field.  Given that light is an EM field, it makes sense to me that it is emitted and absorbed by charged particles.  The electron-photon interaction is probably dominant for visible and ultraviolet light, given that metals are opaque, while semiconductors and insulators are transparent to (visible and UV) light with energy lower than their bandgap. However, once you get into energies in the IR and below, or X-rays and above, other mechanisms apparently take over.  For example, on the high-energy end of the spectrum I've heard that gamma rays can interact directly with nuclear degrees of freedom, which is reasonable considering that gamma rays are emitted during a lot of nuclear reactions.  A review of  might give clues to important light-matter interactions over a broad range of wavelengths.  Whether all of the these processes are involved in blackbody emission is a somewhat different question.  What physical processes mediate energy transfer during blackbody emission, and in which energy ranges are the various processes dominant? How to play DVDs in Ubuntu 16.04? I have FlexiPage Home_Page_Default.flexipage assigned as Default Home Lightning Page for all profiles in one sandbox. I need to migrate it to another sandbox and assign as Default Home Lightning Page for all profiles in the destination sandbox.   I am able to retrieve and deploy that flexipage but looks like I am not able to assign it automatically as Default Home Lightning Page for all profiles in the destination sandbox using Force.com ANT Migration Tool or changeset.  Is that possible to migrate default home flexi page assignment from one organization to another using ANT Migration Tool or changeset?  If this is possible then how? Linux network troubleshooting and debugging From time to time Linux and Unix users faced with various network problems. Many of these problems are presented here and at some others troubleshooting forums, but they are very concrete and contains a lot of additional technical information, and sometimes it's rather difficult to understand the main point and the real reason of buggy system behavior.   By asking this question, my intention is to start a community wiki page which allows generalizing our network troubleshooting and debugging experience. I hope the Linux and Unix users could easier recognize and solve("divide and conquer") their network problems using this page.   The parent of this page should be  . But here we should focus on troubleshooting the network problems from user- and kernel-space.  I suppose, if you:    Share the information about using some great network diagnostic tool with concrete usage examples and examples of network bugs, which they help to catch. Share the link to the great network tutorial connected with this subject Tell about a general method or recipe which allows to tackle some class of network problems Share information about your tool-set for network debugging and troubleshooting   it would perfectly fits for this topic.    I'll begin from sharing the link to varios  and . Also  seem to have actual information about our subject. And for diving into linux networking we definetely need to visit . What is the most effective way for float and double comparison? Turn off close Facebook friend notification If I chose "Replace Windows with Ubuntu", do I lose the other partition too? I am a newbie in linux. I wanted to install ubuntu to my desktop. I currently have two partitions, Windows 8 in installed on one, and i have some important files in another partition. While installing ubuntu, if I chose "Replace Windows 8 with Ubuntu", do I lose the other partition too?   And are there other ways to leave the other partition as it is, and install ubuntu in the partition  where windows was installed. I need to make a small correction in a video I uploaded to YouTube. Googling shows that this is not possible. However, I remember seeing it done before. I posted a comment on a video saying that a certain part of the video was missing. I got a reply back that it was fixed, and when I went to see the video again, it was changed. How was this done? There were so many discussions about an Ubuntu with RR. They were so many pros and contras. At the end ubuntu wont be changed, the 6 month cycle system wont be changed. Thats fine!   But because there are so many people who would like to use an ubuntu with RR Im asking myself why isnt there an Ubuntu Derivate with RR. I couldnt found one, there are a loooot of Ubuntu Derivates but no RR. Is it just impossible? I mean Ubuntu = 6 months cycle, so the derivate have to be a 6 month cycle too? Is there no other option? Or are there already some smart guys trying to solve this problem? Thank you! probability of $k$ boxes contain exactly $1$ ball I am relatively new to Java, and often find that I need to sort a Map&lt;Key, Value&gt; on the values.  Since the values are not unique, I find myself converting the keySet into an array, and sorting that array through array sort with a custom comparator that sorts on the value associated with the key.  Is there an easier way? Is radioactive decay spontaneous or random? When it comes to radioactive decay, what is the difference between random and spontaneous?  For example, when the count rate of a radioactive isotope is measured, the readings fluctuate. Is this a demonstration of the randomness of the process, or of its spontaneous nature? Write $\frac 11 + \frac12 + ...\frac1{(p-1)} =$ $\frac ab$.Such that $(a,b)=1$. Show that $p^2 \mid a$ $\text{if}$ $p\geq 5$.  I was trying to apply something with prime modulus, but I am unsure how exactly to go about it. In this movie there are scientists who (spoilers ahead)       ...are creating a simulation. One scientist starts seeing odd looking characters but no one else sees them. He asks around and more and more characters are missing or don't know about the characters in the story he knows about.  He finds out that he is part of a simulation. He finds out that the characters only he remembers have been deleted. He also finds out that there are characters from his own simulation that have broken free of his simulation and are in his world.    Hints: I remember this being an older film (70's?); it might have been foreign film possibly with subtitles (not Hollywood); it might have been part of the Criterion collection; I'm pretty sure I streamed it from Hulu. Sorry, I can't remember more details. "All of these things are not beneficial and (they) do not help her" Should I mention the pronoun again in this case?     "All of these things are not beneficial and (they?) do not   help her"   I know that there is already answer about the question "if it's needed to repeat on the pronoun in case that they are in the same position of grammar tense". But in this case it's different because the question deals with case of two different  tenses (in bold).