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Tim: Well, that'll be the last one we get from her. Stopped by the hardware store, looks like they are splitting up.
Jill: Oh no, that's awful.
Tim: You wouldn't know that by talking to Harry. He's acting like this is the greatest thing that ever happened to him.
Jill: It is?
Tim: Yeah. You know what? I'm not buying it. They argue a lot? Yes. He loves her. Deep down somewhere this guy is hurtin'.
Jill: shockedOh my god.
Tim: What happened?
Jill: Did you just hear yourself? You had an insight.
Tim: Me?
Jill: Yes. And it was incredibly sensitive. Instead of taking Harry's behaviour at face value, you looked deeper and saw his inner pain.
Tim: I didn't mean to. I swear to god, I didn't mean to.
Tim: Talk to Delores? I could do that. Or I could shove my head in a bench grinder.
Jill: Men hate to write these. You get a thank-you note from a man, you know his wife is dead.
Harry: I could use a drink after the day I've had.
Jill: Why, what happened?
Harry: I woke up and Delores was next to me.
Delores: Yeah, well, the view from my side wasn't exactly a Kodak moment.
Jill: 8:30, you must be exhausted.
Tim: Boy, you bet I am. I had no idea Delores' shift was 12 hours.
Jill: Well, that went well.
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Jill: For what?!
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Jill: I thought that was the bathroom.
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William A. Rowe Jr. 2010-09-21, 05:55
Re: [DISCUSS] Applying commit-then-review
My sense is that there's virtually never feedback on patches prior to commit.
There is, however, often feedback on design choices before the patch is posted. I assume even with commit-then-review there would still be review for major change proposals before implementation. --Ari On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:55 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/13/2010 2:58 PM, Bernd Fondermann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> If I understand correctly, Chukwa is following the review-then-commit >> (RTC) pattern: Before every commit, a patch gets posted to a JIRA and >> only on positive feedback it is committed. >> As far as I can see, this is inherited from Hadoop's policies. >> However, most projects at the ASF apply commit-then-review (CTR). CTR >> has the advantage of being more agile, requiring less work (creating >> issue, patch file, attaching it, waiting for feedback etc.) while >> providing full oversight: >> Every commit is reviewed by other committers after it happened, can be >> discussed, reverted, improved etc. as a 'work in progress'. >> It is best practice in CTR-mode to selectively use RTC, e.g. for big >> patches or for potentially delicate commits. >> >> I think Chukwa would profit from changing to CTR, so I'd like to know >> what you think about it. > > The only useful question is what % of the jira tickets are rejected, or > corrected, prior to commit? If this number is very low, I'd suggest that > waiting for jira feedback before committing is a waste. As this number > grows larger, the amount of work undone in trunk becomes more onerous > than the review of open jira tickets. > -- Ari Rabkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] UC Berkeley Computer Science Department +
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Probably the only reason I did not enjoy this as much as most people is because I did not know any of the movies these quotes were taken from. It makes me realize just how many people use Naruto for these kinds of flashes. It should be considered a meme. The best part was at the end when Gaara was wearing Temair's bra. Next would probably be the start of the movie with Kisame. The strongest point of this was probably how good the animation was.
It would have been nice to put some credits in this to show what movies you got this from. At least all of the characters look so cute. I am glad this made it into the Naruto Collections. Naruto looks so funny on the "Play" button screen, but it's weird how he isn't in any of the cartoons themselves! I wish you had told why I and II aren't here.
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Notable recent CC licensors
In the world of weblogs, we've noticed a couple notable recent adopters of Creative Commons licenses. Jon Johansen, the teenage hacker that famously cracked DVD encryption so he could watch a movie he purchased on his computer, started a blog called "So Sue Me." He was recently acquitted of charges he did anything wrong.
A great looking blog centered around the design of books, called Foreword, is another interesting new site carrying a Creative Commons license.
Also of note is Accessify.com, a site aimed at helping webmasters build websites that are accessible to everyone (which is also under a Creative Commons license). They offer articles and tools to help you attain Bobby and Section 508 compliance with your sites.
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Mike Meyers, star of the popular Austin Powers series, has just scored an unusual movie deal with Dreamworks that will allow him to make films from sampling earlier movies. DreamWorks will acquire the necessary rights so the actor can be digitally inserted in the old flicks.
Today, people practicing in music and movie "mash-ups" are usually operating in a muddy area of legality (or they do it illegally). How cool would it be if those of us without the backing of Dreamworks' lawyers could do this sort of thing? Or, as we say in our demo movie, "Shouldn't it be easier still?"
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As we reported last month when it was first announced, the new version of Movable Type, a popular application for managing weblogs, was released today with full support for adding a Creative Commons license to your website. If you have a weblog, or are thinking about starting one, you might want to check out the lastest MT software.
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In a story about the U.S. Homeland Security office's recent suggestion that American citizens apply plastic sheeting and duct tape to doors and windows in case of terrorist attack, CNNfn last night aired several scenes from "Duck and Cover," a public domain film from 1951 that famously advised American school children to take shelter beneath their desks or under blankets in case of nuclear warfare.
As a product of the U.S. government, "Duck and Cover" was uncopyrightable and immediately entered the public domain. It is available for viewing online at the Prelinger Archives.
(Film archivist Rick Prelinger, you may recall, was our first featured commoner.)
Comments OffScientific American & Creative Commons
There's a great piece about Creative Commons in the March issue of Scientific American.
You may remember that Scientific American recently named our chairman Lawrence Lessig one of the 50 top innovators of 2002.
Comments OffMusicBrainz launches with CC licensed metadata
MusicBrainz, one of our collaborators, has announced they're releasing their database of music metadata under a CC license. MusicBrainz metadata lets you take all your assorted music files and organize them with consistent title, author, and album information.
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Free trading of our music has genuine, verifiable returns. Community. Exchanges of artistic thought and aesthetic commodity. . . The RIAA argument that artists won't particpate in the marketplace of ideas without financial compensation for CDs seems pretty short-sighted from where we sit.
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We recently sat down for an interview with members of Dealership and The Walkingbirds. These independent, unsigned musicians with a small following of fans shared their thoughts and concerns about music online.
Comments OffTechnorati using Creative Commons
Technorati is an interesting weblog data mining tool that tracks links among and between sites. During its recent overhaul, creator Dave Sifry added a Creative Commons license to the resulting indexes and feeds. This allows others to reprint and produce modified versions of the indexes, as long as they are not used for commercial purposes (and properly attributed).
It's a refreshing approach by a toolmaker aimed at sharing his community-oriented tools.
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There's been a lot of recent talk among weblogs regarding Creative Commons licenses. After a little healthy back-and-froth, Copyfight cleared up some confusion over its use of a Creative Commons license. Doc (whom we profiled on this site) recently changed his blog to devote the contents to the public domain, sparking a discussion among a few webloggers questioning the rush to license, in turn prompting others to explain their reasons for doing so. Meanwhile, the ever dutiful and thorough Bag and Baggage asks for more opinions from lawyers with weblogs.
For our part, we're glad to see discussion of the licenses, the hows and whys of using them in certain circumstances, and so on. We're a community-based project, and we're of the school that the more speech, the better. That said, if you're confused about a Creative Commons tool, please remember to visit our FAQ, or email us. We can't provide legal advice specific to your situation, but we can provide general information that you can use to help yourself.
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Adarnase V, sometimes rendered as Adarnase II or Adarnase IV, (Georgian: ადარნასე) (died 961) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and hereditary ruler of Upper Tao with the Byzantine titles of magistros (945) and curopalates (958).
Adarnase was the son of Bagrat Magistros and succeeded him as duke of Tao in 945. Adarnase and, more prominently, his son David III benefited from the weakness of their cousins, the "royal" Bagratid line of Iberia-Kartli, to assert their influence and prestige in the region. Adarnase was probably married to a daughter of David, member of the Klarjeti line of the Bagratids. They had two sons: David III, and Bagrat II, who forced him to resign and retire to a monastery.[1]
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A recent poll by the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida) may give us some insights. Conducted last week when the Bangkok governor election was at its mid-way point, the survey found that as many as 40% of voters remained undecided on which candidate they will choose as their next governor.
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The Admin Touch
Smartphones and tablets have lost their gadget status and become part of the system administrator's tool kit. We look at the most important apps for admins.
In the pre-smartphone era, which was not so long ago, it was hard to imagine a practical use for a mobile device in system administration – if you discount laptops with graphical and web interfaces or terminal software designed for high latency.
All that has changed: With ubiquitous broadband and mobile data connections and with hotspots and WLANs widespread in the enterprise, admins are increasingly able to leave their desks and get out of the server room. Smartphones and tablets with sufficiently large screen sizes are mutating into multifunctional tools that can do most of the important tasks while on the road or in an emergency.
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Android devices are not characterized by any kind of version homogeneity, so we decided to test the programs on various devices: a Nexus 4 with the latest Android 4.3, a Nook HD+ with a slightly older version of Android 4, an ancient Motorola Defy with Cyanogen Mod 7 Android 2.3.7, a Sony Experia with Android 2.3 and many backports by the manufacturer, and an HTC Desire Z with Android AOSP 4.2.2. None of the tested programs had compatibility issues on any of the devices.
On the Apple front, we had access to an iPhone with iOS 6 and a first-generation iPad with iOS 5 – again, with no compatibility issues (Figures 1 and 2).
Stores and VPN
If you rummage through the Google Play Store or Apple's App Store, you are likely to find a large number of mostly free apps that help sys admins manage the systems they support in a reasonably convenient way while using a fairly small mobile device. Additionally, a variety of tools sprinkled throughout the web make life easier for IT professionals.
Most systems are not exposed to the Internet without protection but are, instead, well hidden behind a firewall, so access can only be made via a VPN connection in most cases. Setting up this connection is described for Android [1] and iOS [2] elsewhere.
Lord of the Console
If you frequently manage Unix and Linux servers, your primary tool is going to be an SSH client. On Android devices, ConnectBot [3] by Kenny Root and Jeffrey Sharkey is probably the best choice at this time (Figure 3). It supports logins using SSH key pairs and can also tunnel ports, which proves especially useful if you want SSH access to replace a full-fledged VPN.
ConnectBot establishes several simultaneous sessions and enables copy and paste to other applications – for example, to inform colleagues of the current system status by mail or to use a cheat sheet with frequently used commands. Even those who use a password manager like KeePassDroid [4] on the road will soon appreciate this function. A nice detail is that ConnectBot can issue commands automatically for the user after login. This post-login automation then takes care of standard tasks such as checking active logins or resources.
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But, the researchers added, all antiviral drugs tested, including Tamiflu, were effective in cell cultures against the new virus, lending support to the use of these drugs as a first line of defense.
Last week, U.S. health officials warned against complacency and said the country should be prepared for the swine flu virus' expected return in the fall.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and others led on Thursday an H1N1 swine flu "preparedness summit" at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
"Scientists and public health experts forecast that the impact of H1N1 may well worsen in the fall -- when the regular flu season hits, or even earlier, when schools start to open -- which is only five or six weeks away in some cases," Sebelius said in a news release.
The H1N1 swine flu first surfaced in the United States in mid-April, and has since infected an estimated 1 million Americans or more. Although the virus continues to produce mild illness and patients recover fairly quickly, 211 people in the United States have died from the disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Inside Obama's bank CEOs meeting ... Arrayed around a long mahogany table in the White House state dining room last week, the CEOs of the most powerful financial institutions in the world offered several explanations for paying high salaries to their employees — and, by extension, to themselves. "These are complicated companies," one CEO said. Offered another: "We're competing for talent on an international market." But President Barack Obama wasn't in a mood to hear them out. He stopped the conversation and offered a blunt reminder of the public's reaction to such explanations. "Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn't buying that." "My administration," the president added, "is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."
Yeah i read this earlier, i almost started a thread. I got a kick out of the bankers trying to talk there way out giving the bonouses, and such large salaries. Then BO saying enough, the people out ther are Really angry, "i'm the only thing standing between you and the pitch forks". (Paraphrased) The one glass of water, no ice etc.
There actually are banks overseas. Barry will chase lots of people out of here. I'm not sure why any banker who can get a job overseas would stay here.
Patriotism, opportunity, natural beauty, diversity, family, friends, and that's just off the top of my head. But, if your imagination is limited to money, then you have a point.
I have no plans to leave, I love it here - but if Barry kept telling me "you suck, you suck, you suck", I guess I'd have to think about it.
UMass Amheast cranks out a couple of hundred finance majors a year i've been told. So i'm sure with the few other schools in this country we will be able to replace the ones that leave.
He is a horrible person. How would the people of any profession like it if the president blames them for anything and has the gall to suggest that only he protects them from pitchforks ? He's a sick dude.
If you watched or listened over the last 3-4 days he said that bankers aren't solely responsible for the mess we're in. That theres a lot of blame to go around. We need bankers to keep things running. I don't recall him ever hoping someones kids suffered unlike someone else i know.
Well I'm not the president, no-one cares what I say. A lot of people care about what he says and he needs to be more careful. His whole persona seems to be about pitting group against groups. He's nasty and antagonistic but he is now the president of those he's antagonizing.
You should read the article on the NYT correctly associating the Obama economic policies with the National Socialist, and the corresponding article about NAtional Socialist interaction with businesss, sounds JUST like what you are describing here...
13, it's important to remember that, incomplete as your study of history may be, the most objectionable part of Nazi reign was not that he was rude to industrialists. This seems to be more of the same: Hitler tied both of his shoes. Obama tied both of his shoes. Hitler was a power-mad blot on the twentieth century. Obama must be a power-mad blot on the 21st. Regardless: You will note that having taken over the helm of the National Socialist German Workers Party (that's the "D" in NSDAP, left off in one of your earlier rants to this effect,) Hitler proclaimed the party not to have a program, despite the 25-point populist program the party trotted out at some point in the 20s. However, he clarified as well to calm his industrialist backers, that all provisions having to do with the seizure of property from industrialists apply only to Jews. Seems a bit buddy-buddy to me. At any rate: Obama correctly paraphrased his position here. He was elected by we, the pitchfork-bearing people. Leaders in the financial sector have been behaving as if it's a game of chicken. "The average shmuck out there doesn't understand it, but working three months for a million bucks is a sacrifice to me... let me tell you why..." Obama states that no, they do not hold all the cards. And now he's Hitler. Working with international allies together representing 85% of the world's economic activity, Obama is taking his best shot at fixing the problems left by decades of deregulation. He's also what stands between millions of Americans and the unemployment line (though jobs are STILL being hemmhoraged.) News flash: "the market" ain't gonna fix itself all by its lonesome on a free market model. Unless by "fix" you mean "Great Depression." PFnV
I'm not prepared to say someone other than the bankers is to blame. Sure regulations were relaxed; but it shouldn't be laws that compel a person to do the right thing. Good sense should do that. Just because its not specifically illegal for a mechanic to clean parts with gasoline while smoking a cigarette doesn't make it the state's fault when he blows himself up. You shouldn't need laws to run your business right.
Apparently you didn't read the material from the NYT nor my post nor the material from the Reviews of the books written while the National Socialist were in power. Again the comments concerned ONLY economic policy. The similarities are stricking. If you ideology prevents you from examining the concepts fine. Saying there hasn't been regulation for the past 30 years is absurd on it's face. Since you are a gov drone you might look up the number of regulations put in place each year, here's a hint the # haven't been going down.
when you say foolishly say gets tough is this what you mean? Politics Story - Politics and Government * US * News * Story - CNBC.com WASHINGTON — Lawrence H. Summers, the top economic adviser to President Obama, earned more than $5 million last year from the hedge fund D. E. Shaw and collected $2.7 million in speaking fees from Wall Street companies that received government bailout money, the White House disclosed Friday in releasing financial information about top officials. The disclosure forms also shed further light on the compensation received by a top Obama aide who previously worked for Citigroup, one of the largest recipients of taxpayer bailout money. The aide, Michael Froman, deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, received more than $7.4 million from the company from January 2008 to when he joined the White House this year. Thomas E. Donilon, the deputy national security adviser, reported earning $3.9 million as a partner at the Washington law firm O'Melveny & Myers. His disclosure form says major clients included Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Apollo Management, a private equity firm in New York that specializes in distressed assets and corporate restructuring. So getting tough is hiring people that are potentially involved in making this mess? Goooooooooooood.
I did read your NYT article. I did not find the similarities "stricking." "Me" ideology doesn't prevent me from examining the concepts; "me" ideology does not prevent me from reaching the same conclusion as you have. A couple of articles are fine; equating "stimulus" under the Nazis -- without the unfortunate complications of rearmament which well preceded WWII, and the complication of confiscation of all property (by the mid 1930s) from a couple hundred thousand German citizens -- with Obama's stimulus, is a tad disingenuous, and from my point of view, seems written specifically because of the novelty of the "analysis." Stating that war had not begun does not address German rearmament, which began instantly upon repudiation of Versailles, in 1932 I believe. It's not the firing of the weapons that creates jobs (except that it did result in the hiring of millions in every country, for the job of firing weapons.) The big-scale jobs were created in manufacturing the weapons. Your application here derives from Obama's standing up to the private sector, to a certain extent, but refusing to nationalize as policy (which of course would have the knee jerkers hereabouts screaming "socialist.") So my understanding is this: 1) If Obama trusts the market to fix itself -- besides being foolish -- he's breaking all his promises and he is more of the same (Bush), which is precisely what we all voted against. 2) If Obama embraces a command economy, he is a Socialist... except he's a Socialist just for discontinuing Bush's tax breaks for the wealthiest. I suspect that if he went in with desire to nationalize financial sector assets, we would be calling him a Communist, and comparing him to Lenin. 3) If Obama proceeds toward a mixed model -- which necessarily means he does not give away the farm to the captains of industry and finance -- but is not a Communist, he is therefore Hitler. I have problems with too much optimism too, 13. I want to see jobs rebound not just the Dow, and we're looking at late 2010 by most guesstimates before that happens. That's a long time and a lot of jobs. And by the way, recovery will also come with a great deal of inflation. It's not going to be puppy dogs and rainbows just because the guy seems to be doing the right things (by my lights at least.) But it sure as hell ain't Hitler just because he's not in bed with leaders in the private sector. Besides, you'd just be complaining if he were. PFnV


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Singapore stock market and companies daily report (Genting Spore, Thai Beverage, UOB-Kay Hian) (August 15, 2014)
Genting Singapore PLC recorded a 6.1 percent increase in revenue to $751 million in 2Q14, on the back of higher contributions from its gaming business in Resorts World Sentosa. However, due to a decrease in other operating income, coupled with increases in administrative and other operating expenses, net profit fell 22.4 percent to $131.7 million in 2Q14. For the six-month period, revenue rose 14.7 percent to $1.6 billion and earnings jumped 23.7 percent to $389.2 million.
Halcyon Agri Corporation's revenue decreased 31.1 percent to US$37.2 million in 2Q14, mainly due a drop in sales volume and lower average selling prices. Gross profit fell 37.1 percent to US$3.4 million mainly due to a decrease in gross material profit as a result of a restricted supply of raw materials. Consequently, net profit shrunk 76.7 percent to US$622,000.
Healthway Medical Corporation reported a 3.6 percent increase in revenue to $20.8 million in 2Q14. On the other hand, other operating income plunged 93.6 percent to $2.4 million, mainly due to lower gain on disposal of available-for-sale financial assets reclassified from equity. As a result, 2Q14's net profit dipped 97.7 percent to $520,000. For the six-month period, revenue rose 6.1 percent to $42.8 million while earnings shrunk 92.1 percent to $1.9 million.
Singapore Medical Group's revenue grew 11.3 percent to $13.2 million in 1H14, mainly attributable to the increase in income of its health segment, partially offset by a decrease in its aesthetics segment. Coupled with a decrease in financial, distribution and selling and expenses, the company returned to the black with earnings of $136,000.
Swissco Holdings' four subsidiaries of Scott and English Energy have secured charter contracts worth a total of approximately US$94.8 million. The contracts entail the provision of four mobile offshore drilling units for up to two years. The company noted that upon deployment, the charters are expected to have a positive impact on group's earnings per share for the financial year ending 31 December 2014.
Thai Beverage Public Company has reported an 8.7 percent increase in revenue to THB40 billion in 2Q14, due to increases in sales income of the spirits, beer and food businesses. The increase in turnover outpaced the rise in total costs and expenses and subsequently, net profit jumped 12.2 percent to THB5.5 billion in 2Q14. Similarly, 1H14's revenue and net profit grew 6.7 percent and 37.2 percent respectively, to THB81.1 billion and THB11.5 billion.
The Straits Trading Company registered a 23.1 percent decline in revenue to $173.1 million in 2Q14, as a result of the company's transformation to an investment company through the divestment of the hospitality business and the sale of the portfolio of market securities recorded in 2Q13. Consequently, earnings slipped into the red with net loss of $5.8 million in 2Q14. For 1H14, revenue fell 16.2 percent to $343.4 million and net profit contracted 99.8 percent to $131,000.
TT International reported a 16.4 percent drop in revenue to $66 million in 1Q15. Gross profit margin declined 2.8 percentage points to 18.3 percent as the decrease in turnover was larger than the fall in costs of goods sold. Coupled with an increase in staff costs, finance and other operating expenses, losses slipped deeper into the red with a net loss of $12.8 million in 1Q15.
UOB-Kay Hian Holdings' total revenue contracted 10.5 percent to $100.4 million in 2Q14, mainly due to lower commission income as trading volumes remained low in regional markets. Together with a decline in foreign exchange gains and a slight increase in total expenses, earnings decreased 36.8 percent to $16.8 million in 2Q14. For the six-month period, revenue and net profit fell 14.3 percent and 40.7 percent respectively, to $195.4 million and $34.7 million.
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We have NOTHING! LOL DH likes Natasha, but I DON"T! It reminds me of the chick on Rocky and Bullwinkle and that little purple monster on Sesame Street who blows raspberries all the time! LOL I like Anne for a middle name after a very dear friend of ours who never had children but has "adopted" us and Katelyn calles her 'Grandma Anne'... But, that could change depending on what first name we choose! *I* Like Avery, Kimberly, and Victoria... We will see! I guess we still have a few months to decide!! LOL Kerri |
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I think I was always just really honest with people and explained that we both felt that only dh & I should pick our child's name, and we know that if we share our choices, people will comment (good or bad) or give some kind of look and it will influence us - perhaps just on a subconscious level - but still. And we really wanted the name choice to be just ours. This way we protected ourselves - kept us true to our feelings and not to others. And believe me, people still felt free to share their feelings, but at least then the name was written in stone (or, well, the birth certificate at least ).
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Running back a turnover or a kick return for a touchdown may prove to be the decisive factor in this weekend's divisional games, writes Len Pasquarelli.
That means more than half the points in the first playoff weekend can be attributed to resourcefulness and opportunism, with scoring chances created in manners unrelated to the offensive side of the ball.
"Those are 'bonus' points and they're always great to get," Jacksonville cornerback Rashean Mathis said. "They're big anytime. In the playoffs, though, they're huge, man."
Mathis should know. He intercepted two passes, returning one for a touchdown, in the 31-29 win at Pittsburgh. In fact, 24 of the Jags' points came off defensive takeaways and long kick returns.
Indeed, the aggregate takeaway/turnover differential for last weekend's four winning teams was plus-6. Not surprisingly, every team that advanced to the second round either won or tied in the turnover battle. Seattle, the only winning team not on the plus side of the turnover ledger, got two interception returns for touchdowns and scored another 13 points after long returns or other standout special-teams plays.
One might assume that in the upcoming divisional round, with the four best teams in the league now entering the mix after last weekend's bye, that nonoffensive scoring would be reduced, right?
Don't count on it.
Seven of the final eight teams playing this weekend ranked among the NFL's top 10 defenses in takeaway/turnover differential during the regular season. That includes the San Diego Chargers, at a league-best plus-24. The only club not in the top 10 in one of the NFL's most critical categories was the New York Giants, who defied the odds by securing a wild-card spot despite a minus-9 differential.
To take it one step farther, more than 30 percent of the 3,518 points which the eight teams collectively produced in 2007 came after takeaways. Paced by New England and San Diego, with eight apiece, every remaining team had three or more fumble, interception or kick returns for scores.
Clearly, the potential exists for outcomes to be determined by a nonoffensive touchdown.
"If you can give your offense a 'short field' in the playoffs, it's a big boost," said Seattle cornerback Marcus Trufant, one of two Seahawks to score touchdowns on fourth-quarter interception returns in last week's 35-14 win over the Redskins. "If you can score yourself, take it all the way to the house, that's even better. Scoring chances in the playoffs are hard enough to come by. So when a defense creates a few more of them, it really does give you an edge."
The divisional-round matchups feature a half-dozen players who each scored two or more touchdowns on returns in 2007. No fewer than 21 defensive players accounted for three or more takeaways each during the regular season, including:
• Chargers cornerback Antonio Cromartie, who not only led the league in interceptions but scored touchdowns on interception and fumble returns and on a 109-yard runback of a missed field goal, the longest scoring play in NFL history.
• Green Bay cornerback Charles Woodson, who scored once each on fumble and punt returns.
• Giants linebacker Kawika Mitchell, normally not regarded as a big-play defender, who registered fumble and interception returns for scores.
Meanwhile, in the kicking game, San Diego's Darren Sproles and Nate Burleson of Seattle both had one kickoff return and one punt runback for touchdowns.
Both of Sproles' touchdowns, an 89-yard runback on the opening kickoff and a 45-yard burst on a second-quarter punt return, came in the Chargers' 23-21 victory over Indianapolis on Nov. 11. The two teams meet again Sunday in the RCA Dome, with a spot in the AFC Championship Game on the line.
Recall that all 23 points scored by San Diego in that November win were the result of special-teams plays or defensive takeaways. The Chargers intercepted Peyton Manning six times, including three pickoffs by Cromartie in the first half. Manning certainly is not careless with the ball, but Indianapolis' special-teams coverage units have been a notable area of deficiency the past few seasons.
All of the teams in the divisional round would do well, of course, to limit turnovers and to reduce the number of big plays in the kicking game. With so much at stake, surrendering cheap points could prove costly to a franchise's Super Bowl aspirations.
Of course, on the flip side, it can turn a defensive player or return specialist into a star.
"If you get the ball in your hands now," said New England cornerback Ellis Hobbs, who scored on a fumble recovery and a 108-yard kickoff return this season, "you're definitely thinking 'touchdown.' Everybody wants to see himself on 'SportsCenter.' There's just a big-play [mentality] all over the league now.
"People want to put the ball in the end zone any way they can."
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Patriots 31, Jaguars 20
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Chargers 28, Colts 24
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Seahawks 35, Redskins 14
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Jaguars 31, Steelers 29
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• Chadiha: Jaguars pass character test
Giants 24, Bucs 14
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Chargers 17, Titans 6
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In elementary algebra, a quadratic equation (from the Latin quadratus for "square") is any equation having the form
where x represents an unknown, and a, b, and c represent numbers such that a is not equal to 0. If a = 0, then the equation is linear, not quadratic. The numbers a, b, and c are the coefficients of the equation, and may be distinguished by calling them, respectively, the quadratic coefficient, the linear coefficient and the constant or free term.[1]
Because the quadratic equation involves only one unknown, it is called "univariate". The quadratic equation only contains powers of x that are non-negative integers, and therefore it is a polynomial equation, and in particular it is a second degree polynomial equation since the greatest power is two.
Quadratic equations can be solved by factoring, by completing the square, by using the quadratic formula, or by graphing. Solutions to problems equivalent to the quadratic equation were known as early as 2000 BC.
A quadratic equation with real or complex coefficients has two solutions, called roots. These two solutions may or may not be distinct, and they may or may not be real.
It may be possible to express a quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 as a product (px + q)(rx + s) = 0. In some cases, it is possible, by simple inspection, to determine values of p, q, r, and s that make the two forms equivalent to one another. If the quadratic equation is written in the second form, then the "Zero Factor Property" states that the quadratic equation is satisfied if px + q = 0 or rx + s = 0. Solving these two linear equations provides the roots of the quadratic.
For most students, factoring by inspection is the first method of solving quadratic equations to which they are exposed.[2]:202–207 If one is given a quadratic equation in the form x2 + bx + c = 0, the sought factorization has the form (x + q)(x + s), and one has to find two numbers q and s that add up to b and whose product is c (this is sometimes called "Vieta's rule"[3] and is related to Vieta's formulas). The more general case where a does not equal 1 can require a considerable effort in trial and error guess-and-check, assuming that it can be factored at all by inspection.
Except for special cases such as where b = 0 or c = 0, factoring by inspection only works for quadratic equations that have rational roots. This means that the great majority of quadratic equations that arise in practical applications cannot be solved by factoring by inspection.[2]:207
The process of completing the square makes use of the algebraic identity
which represents a well-defined algorithm that can be used to solve any quadratic equation.[2]:207 Starting with a quadratic equation in standard form, ax2 + bx + c = 0
We illustrate use of this algorithm by solving 2x2 + 4x − 4 = 0
The plus-minus symbol "±" indicates that both x = −1 + √3 and x = −1 − √3 are solutions of the quadratic equation.[4]
Completing the square can be used to derive a general formula for solving quadratic equations, called the quadratic formula.[5] The mathematical proof will now be briefly summarized.[6] It can easily be seen, by polynomial expansion, that the following equation is equivalent to the quadratic equation:
Taking the square root of both sides, and isolating x, gives:
Some sources, particularly older ones, use alternative parameterizations of the quadratic equation such as ax2 − 2bx + c = 0 ,[7] where b has a magnitude one half of the more common one, possibly with opposite sign. These result in slightly different forms for the solution, but are otherwise equivalent.
A number of alternative derivations can be found in the literature. These proofs are simpler than the standard completing the square method, represent interesting applications of other frequently used techniques in algebra, or offer insight into other areas of mathematics.
It is sometimes convenient to reduce a quadratic equation to an equation involving two instead of three constant coefficients. This is done by simply dividing both sides by a, which is possible because a is non-zero. This produces the reduced quadratic equation:[8]
Here p = b/a and q = c/a are the only coefficients in the reduced equation, which is also called a monic equation.
It follows from the quadratic formula that the solution to the reduced quadratic equation is
In the quadratic formula, the expression underneath the square root sign is called the discriminant of the quadratic equation, and is often represented using an upper case D or an upper case Greek delta:[9]
A quadratic equation with real coefficients can have either one or two distinct real roots, or two distinct complex roots. In this case the discriminant determines the number and nature of the roots. There are three cases:
Thus the roots are distinct if and only if the discriminant is non-zero, and the roots are real if and only if the discriminant is non-negative.
The function f(x) = ax2 + bx + c is the quadratic function.[11] The graph of any quadratic function has the same general shape, which is called a parabola. The location and size of the parabola, and how it opens, depends on the values of a, b, and c. As shown in Figure 1, if a > 0, the parabola has a minimum point and opens upward. If a < 0, the parabola has a maximum point and opens downward. The extreme point of the parabola, whether minimum or maximum, corresponds to its vertex. The x-coordinate of the vertex will be located at , and the y-coordinate of the vertex may be found by substituting this x-value into the function. The y-intercept is located at the point (0, c).
The solutions of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 correspond to the roots of the function f(x) = ax2 + bx + c, since they are the values of x for which f(x) = 0. As shown in Figure 2, if a, b, and c are real numbers and the domain of f is the set of real numbers, then the roots of f are exactly the x-coordinates of the points where the graph touches the x-axis. As shown in Figure 3, if the discriminant is positive, the graph touches the x-axis at two points; if zero, the graph touches at one point; and if negative, the graph does not touch the x-axis.
The term
is a factor of the polynomial
if and only if r is a root of the quadratic equation
It follows from the quadratic formula that
In the special case b2 = 4ac where the quadratic has only one distinct root (i.e. the discriminant is zero), the quadratic polynomial can be factored as
For most of the 20th century, graphing was rarely mentioned as a method for solving quadratic equations in high school or college algebra texts. Students learned to solve quadratic equations by factoring, completing the square, and applying the quadratic formula. Recently, graphing calculators have become common in schools and graphical methods have started to appear in textbooks, but they are generally not highly emphasized.[12]
Being able to use a graphing calculator to solve a quadratic equation requires the ability to produce a graph of y = f(x), the ability to scale the graph appropriately to the dimensions of the graphing surface, and the recognition that when f(x) = 0, x is a solution to the equation. The skills required to solve a quadratic equation on a calculator are in fact applicable to finding the real roots of any arbitrary function.
Since an arbitrary function may cross the x-axis at multiple points, graphing calculators generally require one to identify the desired root by positioning a cursor at a "guessed" value for the root. (Some graphing calculators require bracketing the root on both sides of the zero.) The calculator then proceeds, by an iterative algorithm, to refine the estimated position of the root to the limit of calculator accuracy.
Although the quadratic formula provides what in principle should be an exact solution, it does not, from a numerical analysis standpoint, provide a completely stable method for evaluating the roots of a quadratic equation. If the two roots of the quadratic equation vary greatly in absolute magnitude, b will be very close in magnitude to , and the subtraction of two nearly equal numbers will cause loss of significance or catastrophic cancellation. A second form of cancellation can occur between the terms b2 and −4ac of the discriminant, which can lead to loss of up to half of correct significant figures.[7][13]
Babylonian mathematicians, as early as 2000 BC (displayed on Old Babylonian clay tablets) could solve problems relating the areas and sides of rectangles. There is evidence dating this algorithm as far back as the Third Dynasty of Ur.[14] In modern notation, the problems typically involved solving a pair of simultaneous equations of the form:
which are equivalent to the equation:[15]:86
The steps given by Babylonian scribes for solving the above rectangle problem were as follows:
Geometric methods were used to solve quadratic equations in Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, China, and India. The Egyptian Berlin Papyrus, dating back to the Middle Kingdom (2050 BC to 1650 BC), contains the solution to a two-term quadratic equation.[16] In the Indian Sulba Sutras, circa 8th century BC, quadratic equations of the form ax2 = c and ax2 + bx = c were explored using geometric methods. Babylonian mathematicians from circa 400 BC and Chinese mathematicians from circa 200 BC used geometric methods of dissection to solve quadratic equations with positive roots.[17][18] Rules for quadratic equations were given in the The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, a Chinese treatise on mathematics.[18][19] These early geometric methods do not appear to have had a general formula. Euclid, the Greek mathematician, produced a more abstract geometrical method around 300 BC. With a purely geometric approach Pythagoras and Euclid created a general procedure to find solutions of the quadratic equation. In his work Arithmetica, the Greek mathematician Diophantus solved the quadratic equation, but giving only one root, even when both roots were positive.[20]
In 628 AD, Brahmagupta, an Indian mathematician, gave the first explicit (although still not completely general) solution of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx = c as follows: "To the absolute number multiplied by four times the [coefficient of the] square, add the square of the [coefficient of the] middle term; the square root of the same, less the [coefficient of the] middle term, being divided by twice the [coefficient of the] square is the value." (Brahmasphutasiddhanta, Colebrook translation, 1817, page 346)[15]:87 This is equivalent to:
The Bakhshali Manuscript written in India in the 7th century AD contained an algebraic formula for solving quadratic equations, as well as quadratic indeterminate equations (originally of type ax/c = y Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Persia, 9th century), inspired by Brahmagupta, developed a set of formulas that worked for positive solutions. Al-Khwarizmi goes further in providing a full solution to the general quadratic equation, accepting one or two numerical answers for every quadratic equation, while providing geometric proofs in the process.[21] He also described the method of completing the square and recognized that the discriminant must be positive,[21][22]:230 which was proven by his contemporary 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk (Central Asia, 9th century) who gave geometric figures to prove that if the discriminant is negative, a quadratic equation has no solution.[22]:234 While al-Khwarizmi himself did not accept negative solutions, later Islamic mathematicians that succeeded him accepted negative solutions,[21]:191 as well as irrational numbers as solutions.[23] Abū Kāmil Shujā ibn Aslam (Egypt, 10th century) in particular was the first to accept irrational numbers (often in the form of a square root, cube root or fourth root) as solutions to quadratic equations or as coefficients in an equation.[24] The 9th century Indian mathematician Sridhara wrote down rules for solving quadratic equations.[25]
The Jewish mathematician Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi (12th century, Spain) authored the first European book to include the full solution to the general quadratic equation.[26] His solution was largely based on Al-Khwarizmi's work.[21] The writing of the Chinese mathematician Yang Hui (1238–1298 AD) is the first known one in which quadratic equations with negative coefficients of 'x' appear, although he attributes this to the earlier Liu Yi.[27] By 1545 Gerolamo Cardano compiled the works related to the quadratic equations. The quadratic formula covering all cases was first obtained by Simon Stevin in 1594.[28] In 1637 René Descartes published La Géométrie containing the quadratic formula in the form we know today. The first appearance of the general solution in the modern mathematical literature appeared in an 1896 paper by Henry Heaton.[29]
Vieta's formulas give a simple relation between the roots of a polynomial and its coefficients. In the case of the quadratic polynomial, they take the following form:
These results follow immediately from the relation:
which can be compared term by term with
The first formula above yields a convenient expression when graphing a quadratic function. Since the graph is symmetric with respect to a vertical line through the vertex, when there are two real roots the vertex's x-coordinate is located at the average of the roots (or intercepts). Thus the x-coordinate of the vertex is given by the expression
The y-coordinate can be obtained by substituting the above result into the given quadratic equation, giving
As a practical matter, Vieta's formulas provide a useful method for finding the roots of a quadratic in the case where one root is much smaller than the other. If | x 2| << | x 1|, then x 1 + x 2 ≈ x 1, and we have the estimate:
The second Vieta's formula then provides:
These formulas are much easier to evaluate than the quadratic formula under the condition of one large and one small root, because the quadratic formula evaluates the small root as the difference of two very nearly equal numbers (the case of large b), which causes round-off error in a numerical evaluation. Figure 5 shows the difference between (i) a direct evaluation using the quadratic formula (accurate when the roots are near each other in value) and (ii) an evaluation based upon the above approximation of Vieta's formulas (accurate when the roots are widely spaced). As the linear coefficient b increases, initially the quadratic formula is accurate, and the approximate formula improves in accuracy, leading to a smaller difference between the methods as b increases. However, at some point the quadratic formula begins to lose accuracy because of round off error, while the approximate method continues to improve. Consequently the difference between the methods begins to increase as the quadratic formula becomes worse and worse.
This situation arises commonly in amplifier design, where widely separated roots are desired to ensure a stable operation (see step response).
In the days before calculators, people would use mathematical tables—lists of numbers showing the results of calculation with varying arguments—to simplify and speed up computation. Tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions were common in math and science textbooks. Specialized tables were published for applications such as astronomy, celestial navigation and statistics. Methods of numerical approximation existed, called prosthaphaeresis, that offered shortcuts around time-consuming operations such as multiplication and taking powers and roots.[12] Astronomers, especially, were concerned with methods that could speed up the long series of computations involved in celestial mechanics calculations.
It is within this context that we may understand the development of means of solving quadratic equations by the aid of trigonometric substitution. Consider the following alternate form of the quadratic equation,
where the sign of the ± symbol is chosen so that a and c may both be positive. By substituting
and then multiplying through by cos2θ, we obtain
Introducing functions of 2θ and rearranging, we obtain
where the subscripts n and p correspond, respectively, to the use of a negative or positive sign in equation [1]. Substituting the two values of θn or θp found from equations [4] or [5] into [2] gives the required roots of [1]. Complex roots occur in the solution based on equation [5] if the absolute value of sin 2θp exceeds unity. The amount of effort involved in solving quadratic equations using this mixed trigonometric and logarithmic table look-up strategy was two-thirds the effort using logarithmic tables alone.[30] Calculating complex roots would require using a different trigonometric form.[31]
The quadratic equation may be solved geometrically in a number of ways. One way is via Lill's method. The three coefficients a, b, c are drawn with right angles between them as in SA, AB, and BC in Figure 6. A circle is drawn with the start and end point SC as a diameter. If this cuts the middle line AB of the three then the equation has a solution, and the solutions are given by negative of the distance along this line from A divided by the first coefficient a or SA. If a is 1 the coefficients may be read off directly. Thus the solutions in the diagram are −AX1/SA and −AX2/SA.[32]
The formula and its derivation remain correct if the coefficients a, b and c are complex numbers, or more generally members of any field whose characteristic is not 2. (In a field of characteristic 2, the element 2a is zero and it is impossible to divide by it.)
The symbol
in the formula should be understood as "either of the two elements whose square is b2 − 4ac, if such elements exist". In some fields, some elements have no square roots and some have two; only zero has just one square root, except in fields of characteristic 2. Even if a field does not contain a square root of some number, there is always a quadratic extension field which does, so the quadratic formula will always make sense as a formula in that extension field.
In a field of characteristic 2, the quadratic formula, which relies on 2 being a unit, does not hold. Consider the monic quadratic polynomial
over a field of characteristic 2. If b = 0, then the solution reduces to extracting a square root, so the solution is
and there is only one root since
In summary,
See quadratic residue for more information about extracting square roots in finite fields.
In the case that b ≠ 0, there are two distinct roots, but if the polynomial is irreducible, they cannot be expressed in terms of square roots of numbers in the coefficient field. Instead, define the 2-root R(c) of c to be a root of the polynomial x2 + x + c, an element of the splitting field of that polynomial. One verifies that R(c) + 1 is also a root. In terms of the 2-root operation, the two roots of the (non-monic) quadratic ax2 + bx + c are
For example, let a denote a multiplicative generator of the group of units of F4, the Galois field of order four (thus a and a + 1 are roots of x2 + x + 1 over F4. Because (a + 1)2 = a, a + 1 is the unique solution of the quadratic equation x2 + a = 0. On the other hand, the polynomial x2 + ax + 1 is irreducible over F4, but it splits over F16, where it has the two roots ab and ab + a, where b is a root of x2 + x + a in F16.
This is a special case of Artin–Schreier theory.


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90g split yellow mung beans, washed and drained
50g sugar
90g split yellow mung beans, washed and drained
50g sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp Rice Bran oil
2 pandan leaves
1 tbsp Rice Bran oil
2 pandan leaves
- Steam mung beans with pandan leaves over high heat for about 20 minutes or until beans are soft.
- Immediately place the cooked mung beans into a food processor together with sugar and oil. Blitz until fine.
- Press the mashed mung beans through a sieve with a spatula to get a smooth texture.
- Set aside to cool.
- When filling is cool enough to handle, divide and roll into balls of 9g each. (Adjust the weight to suit the size of your mould).
150g golden sweet potatoes
120g glutinous rice flour
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1 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp Rice Bran oil
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120g glutinous rice flour
1/2 tbsp rice flour
1 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp Rice Bran oil
35g hot water, or adjust accordingly
- Steam the sweet potatoes until soft and press through a sieve. Set aside to cool.
- In a mixing bowl, combined mashed sweet potatoes, glutinous rice flour, rice flour, sugar and oil. Gradually add in hot water and knead into a soft dough. Cover the dough and let it rest for 10 minutes.
- Divide and shape the dough into balls of 12g each.
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- Dust the mould with glutinous rice flour and knock out excess flour.
- Flatten a ball of dough and place a ball of filling in the middle and seal the dough. Roll gently into a round ball. Place into the mould and press gently to flatten. Knock out the kuih from the mould and place on square of baking paper.
- Steam kuih over medium-low fire for 5 minutes.
- Remove from the steamer and immediately brush oil over the kuih.
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The authors propose an efficient method to evaluate a large class of history-based policies written as logic programs. To achieve this, they dynamically compute, from a given policy set, a finite subset of the history required and sufficient to evaluate the policies. They maintain this history by monitoring rules and transform the policies into a non history-based form. They further formally prove that evaluating history-based policies can be reduced to an equivalent, but more efficient, evaluation of the non history-based policies together with the monitoring rules.
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