Somebody help i have been experiencing intrusive thoughts and i need answers

Question: So i have been having bad thoughts about allah since a month now it became worse i started tp think about bad duas for example like (god dont forgive me forever) but i dont want that dua to happen even though its stuck into my mind and i cant stop thinking about it every day i always do bad duas because of my intrusive thoughts i dont want that dua to be granted im scared and i cant control my thoughts i tried to read quran but nothing is working,i always get interrupted by these bad dua thoughts.Will allah accept these bad duas or no because i have intrusive thoughts?
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Answer: Oh sister/brother i have the same problem. Try maybe with listening to Ruqya and removing music out of your life. The best is to arrange someone who will do Ruqyah on you InshaAllah. Those are clearly thoughts of Shaytaan which cannot be removed with medication.
So try:

Ruqyah
Listening to Quran a lot and let Surah Al-Baqarah recite in the background (so that you can clearly hear the recitor)
Always be on Wu'du
See what sins you may be doing which could be the trigger of those thoughts, and try to repent for them
Do more good deeds

I hope this helps and please consider contacting a skeikh or an imam who could help you there a lot more inshaAllah ❤❤
السلام عليكم
Answer: Some dude (idk who it was but it was either European or American) once said "Being able to entertain ideas without believing them is the sign of a strong mind." Don't worry about those thoughts. The simple fact that you are worried and care enough to ask a question like this shows that you are strong in your faith.
Answer: i also have been having similar that thoughts. my biggest fear is leaving islam. but I always say in my heart "god I'm leaving islam" I can not control it. it's always pops up almost every Salah. even though I don't mean to say that but it's just pops out automatically (I can't control it. I think that is a syaitan. so what I do is just say "o Allah please forgive me, you know that it's not me. it's syaitan" so then I don't try to forget it. because the more I try to forget it the more it will pop up. but I don't know wether it's the right solution or not. I hope it will help you.
Answer: I know it's not normal what i'm going to say now, but please understand me and help me too : i start thinking of bad things about Allah and life, even when i'm praying. I think it's about my negative doubting like: "If we are just souls in the day of judgment, what's going to happen?", "What's going to happen when the world will be entirely empty of humans?", and so many like that... i make duas like : "Allahouma a'oudou bika min wasswassati shaya'attin", and i hope one day my mind can be more clean of these bad thoughts. I really love Allah, because he's my everything in this life and i'm sure that when i want to cry, and suddenly comes something that makes me happy, he's the one who wanted me to be happy... i'm afraid that one day... Allah gives up on realizing my douas because of these thoughts... i'm afraid that these thoughts changes my life into a bad life...
I hope that all persons that have bad thoughts about life, Allah, and other things, can think of beautiful things instead of negative things. Thank you.
Answer: The best way to deal with doubts is sound information and knowledge. You may wish to write down those doubts in order to have a clearer idea regarding their content. Also, it is good to know that there are many really good articles online with addresses your question. If you google "dealing with doubts about Islam" many excellent articles will show up in your search. Also, I advise you to not spend too much time alone, but be in the company of good and righteous people. I know that is a bit challenging right now but try as much as you can. Also, I highly recommend the online series "Why Islam is True" with Shaykh Hamza Karamali which you can view at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4mTEQpP9b5FGEZMhSfJVK0N6miIN2DhP
May Allah makes things easy for you.
Answer: Assalamu alaikum
I sometimes have these thoughts too. In the past they have been so strong that I felt as if I had to go to sleep just to get away from them. I noticed they also often came to me at a time of stress or anxiety.
The fact that you are worried about such thoughts and are continuing doing duas and reading The Qur'an is a sign that you have imaan. If the thoughts were from the person themselves then obviously it wouldn't cause them distress because it would be from their own desires so the fact that you dislike these thoughts and are afraid of having them is actually a positive sign on your side. These thoughts are actually the whispers of the Shaitaan and Allah knows which are your duas and which are the whispers from the Shaitaan (waswasa). So there's no way that He will answer them as if it's your own dua. So don't worry about that.
This is mentioned in the following hadith:
Actions are judged by intentions (Bukhari/Muslim)
So you wouldn't be accountable for these thoughts especially as you dislike them
One of the Sahabah complained to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) about waswas during prayer, and he said: "The Shaytan comes between me and my prayers and my recitation, confusing me therein." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "That is a devil called Khanzab. If he affects you, seek refuge in Allah from him and spit drily to your left three times." He (the Sahabi) said, I did that and Allah took him away from me. (Narrated by Muslim, 2203)
So when you seek refuge in Allah from the accursed shaitaan by saying "au'thoo billahi min ashaitaan-i-rajeem" (I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Shaitaan) while blowing to the left after each time of saying it (3x) then it should in shaa Allah make the Shaitaan leave you alone.
Allah teaches in The Qur'an that when an evil suggestion comes to you from the Shaitaan then seek refuge in Allah. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Knowing (See Qur'an 41:36).
It should also help by reciting the last 3 surahs of the Holy Qur'an (Ikhlas, Falaq and Naas) 3x in the morning and 3x in the evening every single day and by reciting ayatul kursi (Qur'an 2:255) 3x in the morning and 3x in the evening every single day for it protects against all evils and reciting ayatul kursi in the morning and evening prevents the Shaitaan from coming anywhere near you in shaa Allah and enters you into Paradise if recited after every salah. The only thing that is in the way of you entering Paradise is death. These would summarize the sources found below:
Abu Dawood: Narrated Abdullah ibn Khubayb (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Recite Qul Huwallahu Ahad (Surah Ikhlas) and Al-Mu'awwadhatain (Surah Al-Falaq And Surah An-Nas) in the evening and in the morning, three times, and that will suffice you against everything (from all evils)
Sahih Bukhari: Narrated by 'Aisha (may Allaah be pleased with her) Whenever the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings be upon him) went to bed every night, he used to cup his hands together and blow over it after reciting Surat Al-Ikhlas, Surat Al-Falaq and Surat An-Nas, and then rub his hands over whatever parts of his body he was able to rub, starting with his head, face and front of his body. He used to do that three times.
Ayatul kursi is mentioned in a narration by Abu Umaamah, the holy Prophet (saw) was quoted to have said: "Whoever recites Aayat al-Kursiy immediately after each prescribed prayer, there will be nothing standing between him and his entering Paradise except death."
The holy Prophet (saw) was quoted to have said that "Whoever recites Ha Mim Al-Mu'min – up to – To Him is the return (40:1-3) and Ayat Al-Kursi when he reaches (gets up in) the morning, he will be protected by them until the evening. And whoever recites them when he reaches the evening, he will be protected by them until the morning." (Jami at-Tirmidhi)
And Allah knows best. May Allah bestow upon us of His mercy and protect us from evil and may He ease our affairs. Ameen.
Answer: Assalamu Aleikum
When you are hit by such thoughts say:
Aamantu Billaahi Wa Rasuulihi
A few helpful solutions:

Always maintain wudhu
Keep on remembering Allah (Dhikr)
Recite Quran or listen if possible
Keep good company of those who remind you of Allah.
Avoid places that trigger these thoughts outside the home.
Avoid all sins
Forgive and pardon others
Lessen your speech to what is necessary
Give something in charity if you can
Help the poor, elderly and sick
Seek forgiveness constantly from Allah (Recite Astaqfirulah at least 100 times a day)
Recite Durood (send Salaams) upon the Prophet Muhammad (SalaLaahu Aleyhi Wa Salam)
Keep good company. Avoid those engaged in amusements and play all the time.
If parents are alive seek their forgiveness and treat them well. Ask them to pray for you.


How do I include a lot of log file data in my question?

Question: What's the process for including log file data in a question?  I'd like to link to it separately, so it doesn't distract from the main question.  Does SO provide some sort of external file reference, or do I have to post the file somewhere else and link to it?
Comment: Duplicate on the über–Meta: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/215981/how-to-post-large-log-results
Answer: The problem with external links is that if you don't maintain it, your question will become obsolete in time.
You might just need to take your logs and cut some data to just show what's relevant, and then copy that in your question.
Comment: not that I know of or ever heard about. I do think "massaging" your log to make them "minimal" to understand your question is what it'll be all about in your case
Comment: Yeah, which is why I'm wondering if SO provides some sort of file-upload where I could link to a file within the site, however external to the question.
Answer:
Does SO provide some sort of external file reference, or do I have to post the file somewhere else and link to it?

The answer is "No" to both parts.
Stack Overflow does not have a file hosting service (apart from an agreement with imgur for image files).
Next, you should not link the entire log file from your question. (This would still be true even if there was a Stack Overflow file service.) If it's too much information to be copy-pasted into the question itself, then you should trim it until the relevant parts do fit.
Figuring out which parts are relevant is part of the work you need to do before asking a question, just as you're expected to create a Minimal, Complete, Verifiable Example for specific code that's acting incorrectly.
Comment: I should say that I agree completely with [Julldar's answer](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/271044/603977) but I thought that it should be worded more strongly.
Comment: 100% with you. I wasn't so sure about part 1 of the question (even if I had a hunch it was "no"), so I didn't want to phrase it too strongly.


Does the Bohr model violate the uncertainty principle?

Question: In a book, it is stated that one reason for the failure of Bohr's theory was the fact that it violates the uncertainty principle. Is this fact true? How so?
Comment: There is an issue of semantics here.  The Bohr model predates the Uncertainty principle, so one can't really speak to the impropriety 'violation' implies.  However, Bohr's model is not compatible with the Uncertainty principle, and the two really can not be rigorously combined to model the quantum mechanics of atoms.
Answer: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that
$$\Delta x \Delta p \geq \frac{\hbar}{2}$$
When you think about it, the whole of classical mechanics violates this principle. Think of a particle with mass $m$, a defined position $x_0$ at time $0$, a defined velocity $v_0$ at time $0$, and a constant acceleration $a$. The laws of kinematics state that at any time $t$, the position $x_t = x_0 + v_0t + \frac{1}{2}at^2$, and the momentum $p_t = m(v_0 + at)$, with zero uncertainty in both quantities, i.e. $\Delta x \Delta p = 0$. That works in most real-life cases because on a macroscopic level, quantum effects are negligible.
The Bohr model was derived via the classical assumption that the electron orbits the nucleus, much like how the Earth orbits the Sun, except that the origin of the centripetal force was electromagnetic instead of gravitational. It then went on to derive the energy levels of the electron in a hydrogen atom using the laws of uniform circular motion and electrostatics. This means that it is theoretically possible to know the position and momentum of the electron simultaneously with no uncertainty - a violation of the uncertainty principle.
Answer:
In the Bohr model of the atom the energy (thus its momentum) of the electron and the radius of its orbit (thus its position) are precisely defined quantities. This is a direct violation of the Uncertainty Principle. Since the energy levels of the hydrogen atom had been shown to be experimentally well defined by Bohr's model ($\Delta$p ~ 0), we are left with the conclusion that we know very little about the exact location of the electrons in space ($\Delta$x ~ infinity).

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Why do movie credits scroll from the bottom to the top of the screen?

Question: Why are movie closing credits usually animated by scrolling them from the bottom to the top of the screen? Is this because in old times there was no computer animation and the credits text template was scrolled-up mechanically by a man/device? Nowadays there must be thousands of possible ways for credit frame transitions, but still the old one is preferred.
Comment: Many movies - often cartoons - have a myriad interesting ways of getting you to watch the headliner credits... but then they get into the other 1000 people it takes to make a movie & all creativity goes out the window.
Comment: @Tetsujin Do not lock yourself only into scrolling. Text can be shown in a lot of ways. Question is why scrolling is preferred at all instead of other ways of animation.
Comment: For whatever it's worth, in a lot of old movies the credits didn't scroll from the bottom to the top of the screen, there was some intro animation showing people's names on slides.
Answer: Because this is the most natural and comfortable way of reading a vertical list of credits.
While the major credited actors/film crew can enjoy fancy transforms on their listings, it would become exhausting to see the names of rest of the bazillion film crew members to be similarly displayed.
Horizontal scrolling won't really work because someone's name/role will invariably scroll off one side before you have a chance to read it (especially when there's a full screen-full of names).
Generally, producers want you to see the full list as quickly as reasonably possible (especially as all of these people worked hard for you to enjoy that movie).
Comment: It can also be expensive and add up quickly if they display blocks of names in fancy themed fonts vs the standard white font that you normally see. On top of that, it can potentially take less time to continuously scroll vs putting a block up at a time.


Mechanical disc brake scratching noise

Question: The rear mechanical disc brake on my MTB makes a sharp intermittent scratching sound every time the wheel gets to a certain point in each revolution. The disc is true, so that is not the problem for sure. The brake is a Hayes MX5. Any adjustments I can make? The brake pads are pretty close to the discs, but I don't think they should be rubbing like that.
Comment: I've found disc rub to be almost a singing sound, but a bit of grit makes more of a scratching sound. Have you given it all a good clean?
Answer: I have found before that if you decide to do the quick release up tighter than usual it can tighten up the bearings a little too much and you might hear a fairly regular noise as the wheel rotates. I'm not sure I would call it a 'scratching' noise, but maybe that's it. Try a looser quick release adjustment. If the noise remains the same then you can rule this idea out.
Comment: +1 to the hypothesis that it is the axle that is installed in the dropouts in a slightly skewed manner. Loosening the QR and re-fastening it often helps as the hub's axle gets another chance to sit right in both dropouts.
Answer: If the sound is occurring once per revolution it must be related to the disc being at least slightly out of true. With the bike off the ground rotate the wheel and look at the disc in the caliper. Check to see if it's touching the pads at any point. You may need to re-adjust the caliper position.
I'd be suspicious of a bit of grit or metal stuck in the in the pad. Take them out and see of there is a foreign object stuck in the surface. Also look for a circular scratch or mark on the disc braking surfaces.
Comment: IMHO for mechanicals readjusting the pads is far less work than readjusting the caliper.
Answer: I've had a similar experience where I thought it was something to do with my rotor, or dirt in my system.  Took it all apart for cleaning & adjusted many times to try and sort it with no luck.
Turned out my problem was actually a tiny amount of flex in my QR skewer. Being a reasonably sized guy, in the down stroke during pedaling I caused just enough flex to make the the rotor to move into the pad.
Fixed it by getting a buddy to align the caliper while I had my full weight on my pedals
Answer:
the disk is true

IMHO the way to measure if the disk is true (on mechanical disk brakes), is to check if the the brake makes noise

every time the wheel gets to a certain point in each revolution

In your shoes, I would:

unscrew the static pad a tiny bit and check if this fixes it
if not, dramatically unscrew it and check
if not, unscrew the cable tension adjuster dramatically out and make sure the noise is fixed
if not, we are no sure the brake is not the problem
if 1. worked, we are done; else recalibrate the system, knowing that the disk has a slight dent in the indicated direction

Should take 10 minutes in a quiet environment and a 3mm hex key.

Mechanical disc brake scratching noise


How can I retrieve an answer I posted for a question that has been voluntarily removed by the author?

Question: I recently posted an answer to this question and I saw today that the question was voluntarily removed by its author. It's a bit disappointing because I wanted to reference the question and my answer, and now both are gone. Is there any way of accessing at least my own answer to that question? I have searched around, but I haven't found any way of doing so and I haven't been saving my Stack Overflow answers elsewhere, although if them disappearing is a possibility, perhaps I should. Some of them take considerable time to write up and would be great reference for the future. I would hate to lose them if someone removes their question.
Comment: Really making a case here for preventing users from deleting questions the moment they have any answers at all.
Comment: I've undeleted the question.  A question can be prevented from deletion if anyone in the community casts a single upvote on the answer.
Comment: I feel your pain.  I've had it happen several times that a fairly extensive answer was lost because the question was closed or deleted *before* I hit "Post Answer".  And in other cases had very nice answers get hidden by deletions after posting.
Comment: My guess is that users deleting their own questions with answers are almost surely trying to prevent their classmates from getting the benefit of the same answer or trying to prevent their instructor from seeing that they asked SO. This kind of anti-social behavior should result in a ban from the site.
Comment: Let's have a badge that gets *taken away* if you ever reference one of your own questions or answers on meta.  Let the naming contest begin...
Comment: @BoltClock Or just let answerers view their answers even if the question is deleted. (of course preventing deleting questions can prevent deletion of crap answered by whores, motivated by downvotes; but can also prevent deletion of good questions/answers, like this)
Comment: @RobertHarvey, that is only a reasonable expectation on higher traffic tags. The tag I'm most interested in at the moment gets maybe 5-8 questions a week. They always intersect with more popular tags, but it's not unusual for a reasonable question and a correct answer to be completely ignored.
Comment: @RobertHarvey, I understand that for my post there was a time gap and no upvotes. However, I do think that the following scenario that is not highly unlikely. Say a user spends a considerable time writing an answer, posts it and then, for whatever reason, the original question is removed, causing the user to "lose" his answer. I think there is a debatable point here that should be considered when decided when to prevent questions from being deleted.
Comment: @RobertHarvey, thanks. Is there any way to consider what BoltClock said about preventing users from deleting questions as soon as an answer is posted?
Comment: @JuanCarlosFarah: The OP deleted his question several hours after you posted your answer, so I doubt that a deletion moratorium would have helped here.  Any likely upvotes on your answer should have been received within several minutes after the question was bumped when you posted your answer
Comment: I have experienced that too. OP ask a question (which is valid and non-dup). I provided an answer which OP found really helpful. OP +1 my answer and accepted; All cool. Night when I logged back on SO, found that OP has deleted the post entirely; which I have no idea why he/she have done that? Since I didn't had the URL couldn't track the answer at all. Kind a same 3 more scenario happened. Don't understand why OP deletes the post; if that's the intent then why posting at all. Can Moderator do anything about it, to prevent?
Comment: @R.., Totally agree cause answering those question is waste of time and effort. Moreover, at the end of day it doesn't serve any purpose.
Answer: Since answers must receive upvotes to preserve the question, I think it's reasonable to allow some period of time after an answer is posted to allow the community to vote on it, before a question that receives an answer is eligible for deletion by the OP.
24 hours seems like a reasonable period of time (or the question/answer score goes negative, whichever comes first).
Comment: @Floris Not a problem, if you are attempting to answer a bad question, you deserve the pain.
Comment: That's a different problem.
Comment: Your suggestion is a great start, but doesn't address the really infuriating scenario where you are writing an answer, and find the question is closed before you post it (see @hotlicks's comment above).
Comment: @user2371861 Those aren't necessarily bad questions.  I've run into morons who delete because the answer solved their problem (or perhaps they managed to solve it otherwise).
Comment: I think the 24 hour moratorium on deleting your question is a great thing. I have seen a few times (once this week) where someone has said in the comments that they won't bother coming back to mark an answer as "accepted". So those would be the perfect people to block from eliminating answers that could really help other people.
Comment: @bjb568, A user can delete his own question even if it's a good one.
Comment: @Pacerier Yes. I was replying to the case where it's closed.
Answer: Did you check if the post shows up in "recently deleted" on "Answers" view of your profile?
I'm not sure if all answers show up there or only your own deletion + community once.
EDIT: Apparently this is only useful for 10K+ (as lower reputation users can't see deleted questions). I think it is sad, but looks like request to show all "my deleted answers" already rejected as discussed here Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted
Comment: You have 10K+, so you can see deleted posts. Us below 10K can only see our own deleted posts, so if it was not our own question, we cannot see anything.
Comment: @Deduplicator - Darn, guess it's going to be awhile before I'm allowed to see deleted things. I'm at 2.6K in 3.1 years... so I have another 9 years or so before I'm allowed to see deleted content (assuming a linear rate, which is laughably wrong).
Comment: @Deduplicator - thanks - inlined your comment. It feels like unfortunate fallout of not being able to see deleted answers... And looks like by design (see linked discussion).
Comment: This solves the problem directly without changing anything outside. +1


structured grid and unstructured grid

Question: I am new to the field of CFD. When should one go for structured grid and when should one go for unstructured?
(Yes, it depends a lot on the geometry of the problem)
More specifically, I want to know the difference in the computational power required, accuracy achieved and efforts involved in both types of grid.
What are good resources that explain structured and unstructured grids in most simple language?
Answer: I am currently implementing a VoF method (a geometrical method for two phase flow simulation on Eulerian mesh) that is native to structured grid, on an unstructured grid, so here are my experiences so far (please note that what I'm writing comes from working with a specific implementation):
unstructured mesh:
pros

fast generation of meshes for complex geometries
straightforward operations on mesh topology

tetrahedral mesh: edge swapping, refinement
hexahedral  mesh: octree based refinement (split the cell with 2 planes)
sliding mesh interfaces (rotating geometries, etc)

finite volume method built on top of this kind of mesh: it is robust, parallelization of the method is straightforward, implementation of boundary conditions is very easy

cons

reduced accuracy because of a smaller cell stencil: you can only access face neighbours of a cell (this may differ for different mesh implementations, but in my case it is so)
because of a smaller stencil, implementation of higher order interpolation schemes (WENO, ENO) is very difficult (problems in parallelization)
reconstruction of gradients for sharp fields that propagate in the skew direction (involve information coming from point neighbours) is not straightforward

structured mesh
pros

higher accuracy than for unstructured mesh: you can access points in all directions and build large stencils
octree based mesh refinement: the mesh is represented using an octree data structure, so the top level geometry is a box
refinement is much faster than for unstructured  (on an unstructured mesh, the complete mesh is copied and inflated)

cons

for dealing with relative motion of bodies, complex immersed grid (chimera mesh) are used (most are not mass conservative)
if you need a boundary conform mesh, you can do it for curved boundaries, but the discretization is then translated into the curvilinear coordinate system
mostly used for flow domains in the shape of boxes (however, octree refinement and cell cut methods allow for fully complex geometries within the boxed domains)

So, if you have a boxed domain, and a complex geometry within, and you require high accuracy, use the structured mesh.
On the other hand, if the geometry of your domain bounary is complex (like metal alloy casting into complex moulds), use the unstructured mesh. Also, if the simulation requires relative motion of bodies, unstructured mesh is the choice, simply because the chimera libraries are very difficult to get (military based research).
Another question is what is available to you at what cost, like: licence fees, time needed to learn an open source library, etc.
Answer: As you have mentioned yourself, this is greatly dependent on the geometry of the problem involved but also on the computational framework used (i.e. FEM, FDM or FVM).
Finite Difference Methods (FDM) are often restricted to structured grids that do not require special data structures for recording of grid information. That being said, FDM can be extended to semi-structured grids such as adaptive quadtree or octree based grids by using more sophisticated data structures. Nevertheless, structured grids are much simpler to code and easier to develope. Besides, with this type of grids, domain decomposition and parallelization are often trivial. They are usually suitable for simple domains, but certain methods, such as immersed boundary or immersed interface methods, have been developed that utilize this type of grids for even non-trivial geometries.
Finite Volume Methods (FVM) and Finite Element Methods (FEM), on the other hand, are often more general and can (uniformly) handle various geometries. This, however, comes at the cost of using more complicated data structures which results in more complex algorithms and more development-time. They are usually harder to parallelize since the the grid now should be partitioned into sub-domains before they are sent to different processors. That being said, the existence of well-written software packages for specific tasks (such as preconditioners, linear solvers and graph partitioners) along with their robustness and versatility, makes them an excellent choice to consider if you have non-trivial geometries.
Finally, no matter which type of method (and thus grid) you choose, there both high (expensive) and low (cheap) order methods in all three different families that you can choose from for your specific problem.

structured grid and unstructured grid


Hbase Map and Reduce on same table

Question: Is it possible to map and reduce on same hbase table? For instance consider the wordcount example, I want to map each individual row of the column,reduce it and write the worcount instantly on the same row. Is it possible to do that? If yes what will be the performance?
Answer: I haven't tried this but I do see a risk of getting in an infinite loop.
So if you can do this then you must make sure that the range of keys you use as input do NOT overlap with the keys you produce as output.
Answer: It is depends of method of map reduce you are using. If you Bulk Load techniques  it is pretty safe to  do this operation, because it first read all data from table and only when update it. This is good for massive update of table and in this case has better performance when standard map reduce that works directly with table.

Hbase Map and Reduce on same table


How to fire a rocket

Question: I cannot figure out how to fire a rocket. I can get a rocket-launcher-man to go stand somewhere and aim, but I can't figure out how to command him to acutally fire the rocket, much to my annoyance. What do I need to click to get him to fire (say, at a random piece of wall he's aiming at)?
Answer: Either select the unit standing still or one of its waypoints, you should click-drag the 'aim' marker (to the top-left) to the location you wish to fire at, like so:

The unit will then pause at that point of its orders and fire a rocket in the desired direction.
It is important to note that they will stand still for 0.65 seconds1 before firing and that there is a 4.35 second1 cooldown between shots (meaning effectively one shot per turn), and they will stand still waiting for this hidden reload timer to expire before firing. Both of these delays can lead to the illusion that the unit is not firing, even when you've issued the correct orders.
1. See the wiki page for Unit Types
Comment: Aha. I was unaware of the 0.65 Second Rule. Thank you; that's all I was missing.
Comment: I suppose I should have picked that up in the tutorial.
Answer: If you command your rocket man to Aim (not the Look command), he should fire his rocket in the direction he's aiming automatically.  There's nothing else to it, as he won't fire on sighting an enemy like the other units.
There's also a pretty substantial reload time for rocket units, so be careful of that.

How to fire a rocket


Honda CR-V 2001 window winding fault

Question: My crv passenger window goes up only on the door switch and neither up or down on the master switch located on the dashboard.  Any ideas, I have got a new window regulator mechanism, another door switch.  Seems there is power to the door switch. Can't explain it as the regulator worked but sluggish so that why we got a new one.  Doesn't explain these symptoms NOW?
Answer: The most common cause of these symptoms is failure of the main window switch. It is not common for the door switches to fail. Water intrusion into the motor units is common on this model. It usually presents as slow movement at first, followed by failure. During the period of time that it is moving slowly it is drawing more power which stresses the switches. In this case the fact that is moves rules out problems in the wiring, power supply and ground connections.
Two testing approaches are available.
1) Use a voltmeter and a wiring diagram to test for power and ground at the switches and motor.
2) Replace parts one at a time until the symptoms are gone.

Honda CR-V 2001 window winding fault


Making a bootable image of linux Red Hat Ent Es for a VM

Question: I have a old server running Red Hat that has some valuable apps installed. I would like to create a bootable image of the drive and install it in a VM on a newer server. i am trying to avoid reinstalling Red Hat the apps and data. Any useful links or advice would be greatly appreciated.(Not yet decided on the VM Software)
Answer: depending on the virtualization technology you plan on using, you could use a p2v solution. For opensource virtualization (kvm/qemu/xen), virt-p2v and clonezilla are pretty good
Answer: VMware's VMConverter can be used to build a VM from the RH system and run in a full ESXi server or a small VMPlayer session on your desktop.  See http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/


How does the courier work?

Question: I've just gotten into DOTA-2, and never played any similar game before.  I realize the courier will bring items out to me, but does every player on my team have their own courier, or is it one per team?  If I'm using it to ferry a single item out to me, does that mean it isn't available for other teammates to use?  If it is shared, what is the standard courtesy for using it?
Answer: Everyone usually shares a single courier that a non-carry player should buy at the beginning and upgrade to flying as soon as possible.  You can buy more couriers (as many as you want), but most teams only use one.  In general, solo mid gets first rights to courier use, especially in order to get their bottle.
Other than that, it is generally not encouraged for you to bring items to yourself that you could buy at the side or secret shops, as they are close enough you can just walk there from lane.  If you do bring something from base, only do so with essential items or "big"(expensive) items.  Otherwise wait until you have multiple things to bring out.  Ferrying 1 ironwood branch at a time to yourself ties up the courier and will make everyone rage at you.
Answer: Furthermore the courier can be used to scout (if flying) but its not recommended since it dies with ~2 hits.
courier can be used to counter neutral spawns too (just like wards). if you get quelling blade/tangos you can eat trees near the enemy jungle pull camp (the camps that you can pull to your lane so creeps attack them) and deploy a courier into that spot.
when the ingametimer reaches 5 min the eaten tree will respawn making the courier hard to find.

How does the courier work?


Do I need a visa to Turkey if I am crossing from Georgia?

Question: I am Egyptian. I will travel to Georgia in February. I have the visa for Georgia and I would like to cross from Georgia to Turkey by bus. Do I need a visa? And if so, where should I get it? Egypt or Georgia?
Answer: According to the Turkish website about visas, Egyptian tourists do need a visa for Turkey. So far I didn't find details like whether you have to pay, how much, and what duration the visa lasts for.
There is a Turkish embassy in Cairo, so you should apply there for your Turkish visa.
Comment: There is a Turkish embassy in Tsbili. @sarah-maklad would need to apply for a Turkish visa at a Turkish embassy, not an Egyptian one. She could do this in Cairo, but may also be able to do it in Tsbili.
Comment: @imoatama: How right you are! I don't know how I could've made such a silly mistake. I'll strike out the middle paragraph.
Answer: You need visa to Turkey as per the Consulate website https://www.konsolosluk.gov.tr/VisaInfo/Index

Ordinary passport holders may obtain their 30-day single-entry e-Visas
  via www.evisa.gov.tr, provided that they have a valid Schengen or USA,
  UK, Ireland visa or residence permit and that they travel to Turkey
  with Turkish Airlines or Egypt Air.
Besides, those ordinary passport holders who are under 20 or over 45
  years old may get their 30-day single-entry e-Visas via the website
  www.evisa.gov.tr.

On the e-visa site for Egyptian passport there is a condition for the e-visa

I have a round-trip ticket with Turkish Airlines, Pegasus Airlines,
  Onur Air or Egypt Air.

However my experience while traveling last month to Sabiha airport with NileAir, e-visa was accepted!
If you want to be on the safe side you can apply for visa at Embassy (Cairo or Alexandria) and you can get the visa in 3 working days. To do that check the visa page https://www.konsolosluk.gov.tr/Visa and fill application online and upload all required documents then schedule an appointment.

Biometric Photo
Documents attesting to the income status of the applicant and
inviting person
Flight Reservation
Hotel Booking or Invitation
Supporting document on the applicant's commitment to return (Land
registry, business certificate, salary table, bank account statement)


Double jeopardy

Question: Now that it has been reported that all charges against jussie Smollett will be dropped, does the federal government have the right to charge him on their own?
Also, if it is found that there was impropriety in the state prosecutors office, will the charges automatically be restored?
Comment: There are two distinct questions here.
Answer: Federal crimes and State crimes are different crimes - double jeopardy doesn't apply, you can be charged with both.
Prosecutors have wide discretion on who they charge and who they don't. If it is demonstrated that a prosecutor has acted corruptly then that case will be referred to a different prosecutor - who has wide discretion etc.
Comment: It's probably also worth noting that jeopardy will not have attached in this case, so the same sovereign, namely the state government, could still resume the prosecution.
Answer: The United States has dual sovereignty which means that if it's a crime in two different jurisdictions both jurisdictions can try the case.  So the crime was committed in Chicago, and goes to local and state agencies in Cook County, Illinois.   But it's also a crime to falsify a criminal report in the U.S. Federal Government, so they can take a swing at it too.
As a general rule, the DOJ does not prosecute crimes for which the state has prosecuted (regardless of outcome at trial... if you're declared innocent in Illinois, the Feds rarely will try you again... there's actually a set of specific conditions, called the Petite Policy, they have that governs whether they will prosecute you, though these are self imposed by the DOJ, not a law governing them) but they do have the option, and often use it if there seems to be any funny business on the state's part to give a more favorable outcome to the defendant than he or she should have reasonably had.
Additionally, one of the crimes alleged against Smollett is that he mailed himself a threatening letter (containing a white powder).  As any crime involving the mail is instantly elevates it to a Federal Crime, Smollett has not escaped possible charges from this investigation as of time of writing.   Federal Investigations tend to be much more thorough than state level investigations so it's possible that this aspect of the crime could result in new charges that Chicago wouldn't have jurisdiction over.  The Petite Policy does not limit the Federal Government when the charges are not brought by the state, so even if a trial had occurred, the Feds could charge him with crimes related to the letters and not violate Double Jeopardy or Petite Policy.
Finally, while it is usually best understood that Double Jeopardy attaches when the jury is seated, this is not necessarily true.  Although rare, if it was found that the trial was conducted corruptly in the defenses favor (including Jury Tampering) Double-Jeopardy is not attached, as the defense was never in a state of Jeopardy to begin with.  If this is proven, a second trial on the same crimes can be held with a fresh panel of Jurists.  It's rare, and certainly did not occur here (because no trial) but it's happened before.
As to the nature of the possible corruption on the prosecution's part, the charges will not automatically reinstate, as the acting-prosecutor will still have proprietorial discretion and will need to decide if he/she thinks there is a strong case.   In all likelihood, the Feds may charge Smollett with the crimes covered under the Petite Policy, if only to remove trial from the local area to avoid the contentious nature of the facts interfering with justice.  This is more of my own guess than actual fact, so take with salt, but it's probably the likely that there will be questions as to whether the prosecutor's office can still handle the trial.
Comment: Thank you for your thorough answer. Much Appreciated.
Comment: @user20554 it's not entirely clear from this answer, but jeopardy will not have attached in this case, so the state is free to resume the prosecution if it changes its mind.
Comment: @phoog thank you for making that clear

Double jeopardy


What procedure should be followed post spilling fluids onto a MacBook keyboard?

Question: I know the first thing to do is dry with a towel the majority of the fluid. Next is to turn off the computer. Then flip over the laptop itself and whilst upside down cool dry the keyboard with a hairdryer for a few minutes. Also leave the computer upside down for a day or so. Is there anything I'm missing?
Comment: Huh? Why would turning off the computer not be the very FIRST thing you do?
Answer: I'm writing this answer in the hopes to dispel the myths surrounding liquid damage repair.  Putting the device in a bag of rice, in the oven, in the sunlight, next to a radiator, heater vent, use a blow dryer, etc. are all nonsense "fixes" that gives you a false sense of security.  You can actually do more damage after drying things out and powering things on following these internet fixes.
No. Do NONE of this.
The only exception is to turn it off, immediately.

Do not use a towel to "wipe" it up as you're going to spread and "push" liquid deeper into cracks and crevices.  Put it on a towel and pat it dry with (preferably) paper towels.

Do not turn it upside down as gravity will pull that liquid across unaffected areas of the machine

Do not put it in rice or some other desiccant hoping that it will somehow fix the problem.  Rice can't fix anything but hunger pangs.

Do not put it next to a radiator, in the sunlight, or use a hair dryer.  Once you evaporate the liquid, whether by heating or just though the natural evaporation process, contaminants are still left over.

Why?
It needs to be cleaned.
A simple water spill isn't so simple.  The impurities in water are what makes water electrically conductive.  Pure (distilled) water cannot conduct electricity so it actually cannot harm your computer. The problem is water has salts and contaminants and it's this that causes damage to your Mac.
Removing all power and getting it to a competent technician within hours of the spill - not days is the only sure fire way to protect and contain liquid damage. Any other action rolls the dice and can allow capillary action to let liquid seep to every crack, crevice and corner of the device and cause corrosion and short circuits since the battery is still powering parts of the machine when off.
This also is a safety issue if the water gets into the charged battery.
Beverages of different sorts can wreak havoc, salts (metals) are conductive so thing can short out.  There can be acids (juice) or bases (milk) that can cause corrosion.  Corroded circuits can actually destroy components and the traces embedded within the PCB.  For a refresher, take a look at the Mythbusters episode "Salsa Escape" and see what running a small current through the acidic salsa mixture can do to steel.  Now apply that to the tiny "width of a hair" copper traces on a PCB.

How to clean a liquid damaged MacBook
If you don't have the technical skills, don't do this!  Take it in for service.
This needs to be professionally cleaned with an ultrasonic cleaner and electrical solvent.  This requires the logic board to removed, cleaned in the solvent and rinsed in 90% isopropyl  alcohol (not the 70% stuff as there's too much water content).  Then it needs to be dried and subsequently tested.
Can you use cotton swabs and isopropyl alcohol?  Possibly, but it's not reliable.  You'll have better results cleaning the case with this method than you will the PCB or electronic components.  Using alcohol or electrical solvent with a soft nylon bristle brush (toothbrush) will be much better.  You still will want to wash it completely with alcohol and dry with compressed air.
Now, while this will help with the logic board, liquid that happened to get into and in between components (i.e. the glass panes in a track pad) and subsequently evaporated will leave behind whatever residue was in the liquid. This may cause the component to become inoperable. The part might need to be individually cleaned or replaced.
TL;DR

Stay calm.  I know you've just watched your $3,000 baby get a shower from a $6 Starbucks Frap-a-something-chino, but a clear head will help you by not making the problem worse. Consider your data and your time and your budget. The chance of getting the data back improves the sooner and more correctly you act to get the storage separated from the potentially damaged electronics.

Turn off the machine.  No power in, no charging, less power coming out of the battery, no blowers running to spread the liquid internally, less chance the next steps will cause a short circuit. Liquids don't damage files and storage immediately, electrical failure and process mistakes do.

Using lots of paper towels, attempt to absorb as much as the liquid as you can.  Don't wipe; pat or blot; wiping can "push" the liquid making things worse.

Take it for service right away - time is a factor here.  Give the tech full details.  He/she has seen it all and there's no reason to be embarrassed - the more info they have, the better they can get right to the problem and rescue your Mac with a high degree of success.
Comment: Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been [moved to chat](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/108737/discussion-on-answer-by-allan-what-procedure-should-be-followed-post-spilling-fl).
Answer: microelectronics are very delicate  and it is the duty of every owner to protected this delicate devices  water is a very serious chock  to every components because it electrocutes.  the whole board instantly   and the damage is not fixable...when owners of lap tops are careless  they kill the motherboards  instantly..the flow of signals is very acurate and when water touches this flow of signals it fries, the system,,forever death.. right away  no magician  can fix this delicates  super boards..!!  is like being hit with high voltage. of water..
Comment: Welcome to AskDifferent! It's not totally clear what your recommendation to the OP is regarding how to handle a spilling incident. Can you please edit your answer to make this more clear?
Comment: I do not like this down vote pile on at all!  Yes, there are issues with the answer, but as he is a ***new user*** it would be beneficial to assist Mario in crafting a better answer.  There are 6 down votes and only a single comment providing feedback with no helpful flags being raised on that comment.
Comment: Mario, while what you say is technically accurate, it doesn't address the question being asked.  Can you expand on what a user should do when something like a liquid spill happens?


Why is Paracetamol so great?

Question: Every time I get ill (cold, flu etc) I take a couple of these wonderful tablets for up to 4 times a day and I, eventually, get better.  What exactly is paracetamol?  Why is it so effective and is it really not harmful as my doctor would have me believe?
Comment: If your doctor seriously tells you that taking paracetamol (or any other drug) liberally is not harmful you should really think of changing doctor...
Comment: Sachin didn't say the doctor said taking the drug liberally is not harmful.  I think the doctor would have said taking the drug when Sachin has a cold, flu etc. is not harmful.  Would it be ok if a doctor said drinking water isn't harmful?  Of course.  But if you drink too much water you'll die.  Remember the reason people go to physicians is for individual advice, not general advice.  That's why anyone asking for individual advice is encouraged to seek a physician.  Therefore I don't think you can judge the doctor, since you don't know the individual circumstances.
Answer: Paracetamol is a pain killer, it does not treat the cause of your illness, it only alleviates the symptoms. From its wikipedia page:

Paracetamol [...], chemically named
N-acetyl-p-aminophenol, is a widely used over-the-counter analgesic
(pain reliever) and antipyretic (fever reducer).

So, paracetamol does not make you better. Your immune system makes you better. Paracetamol just makes you feel better while you are waiting for your immune system to get an infection under control.
You should be aware that it is only safe in small doses and a toxic dose is not that much more than the recommended one (source):

Risk of severe liver damage (ie a peak ALT more than 1000 IU/L)
Based on the dose of paracetamol ingested (mg/kg body weight):
<code>Less than 150 mg/kg - unlikely
More than 250 mg/kg - likely
More than 12 g total - potentially fatal
</code>

Again from wikipedia:

While generally safe for use at recommended doses (1,000 mg per single
dose and up to 4,000 mg per day for adults),[6] acute overdoses of
paracetamol can cause potentially fatal liver damage and, in rare
individuals, a normal dose can do the same; the risk may be heightened
by chronic alcohol abuse, though it is lessened by contemporary
alcohol consumption. Paracetamol toxicity is the foremost cause of
acute liver failure in the Western world, and accounts for most drug
overdoses in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New
Zealand.

I am sure someone else can explain the pharmacokinetics and details of action of paracetamol. I just wanted to point out that paracetamol can be dangerous and should be treated with respect.
Comment: Over-the-counter paracetamol pills are usually 500mg. Therefore, the 150 mg/kg figure you listed for acute liver damage in a 60kg adult would be 60*150/500 = 18 pills in the span of a day or so. Cumulative damage can occur at lower doses but I think this is only seen in people who take it to control chronic pain.
Comment: The mechanism lies within the production of the messenger molecule Prostaglandin and COX-2 inhibitor. (Graham & Scott 2005, Mechanism of Action of Paracetamol, wikipedia: COX-2_inhibitor & Prostaglandin). Thinking back to my school days, these are involved in the transmission of signals in neurones related to pain. Paracetamol reduces how much is produced making reducing signalling activity. I am by no means an expert on this and hope someone can expand on this further, hopefully this will prompt people! Also, please don't try to work out how many you can "safely" take, tolerances vary greatly
Answer: Paracetamol, also known as acetominophen and Tylenol is a Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drug (NSAID).  Other NSAIDs include aspirin and ibuprofen (Advil).
NSAIDs all help with inflammation, reduce fever, but each has its own effect. Aspirin tends to thin the blood more than Paracetomol.  Paracetomol also has less effect on inflammation, but acts to reduce fever (antipyretic) and reduce pain (analgesic).  Your doctor has probably chosen this prescription because your needs fit better to this drug's properties.
Ibuprofen for instance probably causes more problems more frequently when it's used frequently, one of the most common being ulcers because ibuprofen inhibits generation of stomach acid, but cancer and a slew of other problems can crop up.
While it is true that Paracetamol is the leading cause of pharmaceutical liver damage in North America, its toxicity as a drug is fairly moderate and the high number of cases is due to the fact that it is sold as an over the counter drug (with no prescription required) and is taken millions of times a day. The FDA has recently lowered the dose of Paracetamol to four 300 mg doses a day - but that's still 1.2 g a day.
Its important to watch to see if you are one of those people who have an adverse reaction or if your liver is under stress.  You should not use this drug beyond its expiration date - it really does matter in this case.
Still, all told, you probably could just take a handful of aspirin and feel just as good, but this prescription should get you feeling a little better a little faster, especially if you have pain or fever.
It's true what @terdon says that acetominophen is not curing you, but drugs really mostly balance the body - healing never comes from pharmaceuticals, they often just let the body heal with fewer obstacles or discomfort.  I know I feel that when my fever comes down that I'm on the  mend - though thats not necessarily the case.
Comment: I thought that paracetamol was not traditionally classified as an NSAID, because it is not an anti inflammatory drug? Its effect on fever appears to be related to a central influence on temperature regulation *via* prostaglandines. Additionaly, it is to my knowledge not known for any influence on coagulation processes, while NSAIDS  do have that characteristic.

Why is Paracetamol so great?


How to ensure developers don't sneak in code not part of requirements?

Question: Other than than code reviews by another developer and by trusting your developers won't do anything nefarious or stupid, is there any way to ensure that when you release a build to production or even QA that it doesn't include any extra code that's not part of the assigned requirement?
Comment: I smell an XY problem. You have problem X and think that Y will solve it, but you're not quite sure about how to do Y. So you ask us about Y, but your *real problem* is X. What is your X? What is the real problem that you're trying to solve?
Comment: Automated testing. It won't ensure there's hidden pieces of functionality sneaking into your code, but you'll ensure at that what's currently working isn't broken.
Comment: Is this about gold plating?
Answer: There is a lot you can do that ensures that the code does what it's supposed to do, but aside from trusting the people developing it (including their reviewers) there is basically no way to make sure it does not do more.
But it comes down to that trust in any other job, too. At some level, you need to trust the people. If you cannot, get others that you can trust.
Answer: Using a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) or Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) approach means that the code is self documenting. So introducing functionality beyond the original requirements would be obvious to anyone who paid attention to the code base.
What constitutes 'extra code' is a much more difficult question. It is quite possible that code is added:

To indirectly support the requirements (e.g. helper classes)
To refactor and improve the quality of the code base
To ensure the expansability of the code
To deal with non-functional requirements (performance, security, etc.)

Only somebody who is deeply engaged with the development team is likely to understand the significance of all the code being added.
Answer: Undesirable functionality can become a significant software security risk. The absence of architecture, design, formal requirements, specifications, test cases, and infrastructure can turn a harmless Easter egg into a massive data breach. In some organizations, this is a firing offense.
Code review is recommended but not sufficient for larger applications with limited budgets. Positive testing as practiced by most QA testers will be hard pressed to identify unwanted functionality. Such functionality is by definition absent from the software specifications or resulting test cases.
Static code analysis (SCA such as Fortify, Veracode, etc) will detect "dead code" aka code that is not executed during data flow analysis. (This goes well beyond compilation.) Then you can review the findings to determine what is happening and what to do. SCA will also find other concerns which could be equally serious.
Dynamic and integrated code analysis such as fuzzing could detect unwanted functionality in the application.
Answer: Answering this question in a product/project agnostic way, this is what the quality processes are about, specifically quality control.  Product inspections before delivery to verify and validate it meets requirements and delivery criteria.  It should not matter if the product is an IT solution or a remodeled bathroom or an ice cream cone.  Inspect, exercise the product, use a checklist, and then sign off on it or not.
Answer: I understood that you are looking out for a Development process where in the code should not call for any additional functionalities expect the ones that are asked for.
Lemme try to pen down a simple approach here

Requirements Workshop - Once the requirements document is signed off by customer, arrange a requirements workshop meeting with Requirement provider / IT Expert (Developer) / Test Engineer - This helps to ensure that there is common understanding with three stakeholders
Work Break down structure - After Requirements workshop, set up a phase for IT Expert to provide work break down structure for the given requirement and get reviewed by reviewer - This helps IT Expert to focus on requirement and analyse dependencies.
Test Scenarios - After requirements workshop, set up a phase for Test Engineer to provide Test Scenarios and get reviewed and sign off by Requirements provider. The same test scenarios will be executed by IT expert as part of Unit Testing - This helps all teams to be on common understanding

Best,


Does a flight instructor rating supercede a ground instructor rating?

Question: In the FAA jurisdiction, if an instructor candidate were to become a ground instructor (advanced and instrument) and receive that certificate, then later become a flight instructor (and CFII), would there be any value in retaining the ground instructor certificate? The flight instructor certificates held at that point provide all the same privileges. Is the ground instructor certificate superceded?
Answer:
The flight instructor certificates held at that point provide all the same privileges.

This is not true.  A ground instructor certificate is valid to give ground training for all aircraft... airplane, helicopter, glider, balloon, etc.  A flight instructor must have those ratings on their certificate.
Record keeping requirements also differ between the two certificates.
§61.189(b)(2) requires the flight instructor to keep a record of all knowledge test endorsements to include the student name, date, kind of test and result.
The ground instructor has no such requirement.

The flight instructor must also have an advanced or instrument ground instructor certificate to qualify for a gold seal.
Comment: How do record keeping requirements differ?
Comment: Just to clarify another point; they are still treated as two separate certificates.  So if one were to sign ground work off under their AGI number and get dinged on some technicality by the FAA and had their instructor cert. suspended it would essentially protect the flight instructor cert.  . . . or so I have been told over and over again.


Auto insurance- should I add my girlfriend?

Question: Im shopping around for insurance and have almost decided on Allstate because of the low cost on my two vehicles and renters insurance. My girlfriend and I bought a 2008 Nissan Altima two days ago and when I added it to my insurance it raise my monthly rates from $120 to $772, so I of course am shopping around frantically. The Nissan is being financed so it does require full coverage. My question is this; do I need to add my girlfriend on to my policy? When I asked for a quote with her as a secondary driver the man from Allstate asked if she lived with me and I said yes, he then said that if she has a valid drivers license from this state and my permission to drive the car she is fully covered under my policy, as long as the car is primarily in my name. I am the primary owner of the vehicle but her name is also on the title as secondary owner. That is what I am concerned about mostly. If something happened and it came down to the nitty gritty I want to be taken care of. Thank you in advance for your help and advice
Comment: Hi Orton - not (yet) voting to close this question, but it seems both awfully localized, as well as asking for almost legal advice.  Neither is a good fit for this site.
Comment: Retagged as 'united-states' based on guesswork. The answer will depend very much on your location.
Comment: Maybe you should ask an insurance broker.
Comment: @sdg - I think that while his situation is localized the situation is common enough to relate.  There is no request for legal advice just request for an opinion on need.
Answer: You better consult with a professional insurance agent (face to face, AllState have local agents everywhere), and make sure they show you exactly in the policy where it confirms whatever that is that they're saying.
To the best of my knowledge, living together is not only not enough for her to be covered under your insurance, it is most certainly the opposite. It is my understanding that you can occasionally give people (with valid local licenses) your car with permission, and your insurance will cover the car (not sure about their liability, I'm talking about the damage to your car). However, this does not include systematic usage, only occasional. When you live with your girlfriend and she drives the car, especially if she's the owner of the car together with you, then it is most definitely systematic, and you have to either include her as a secondary driver, or have both of you as the insured.
Also, since the car is financed, the lender might have some additional requirements about her name in the insurance policy, since she's a partial owner, so call the lender and ask what they think about all that.
Comment: "living together is not only not enough for her to be covered under your insurance, it is most certainly the opposite" - You may want to rephrase that I had to reread it several times to make sure I understood what you were saying.  My initial impression was you were saying she would not be able to be insured on his policy.
Comment: Second this.  I know my policy specifically excludes any driving by anyone living at my address but not on the policy.  Also, around here it wouldn't even be possible to register the car with that policy--our DMV won't accept insurance that doesn't cover all registered owners, period, even if they aren't drivers.
Comment: As of 2016 (possibly earlier), Progressive adds **everyone of driving age** who lives at the house, unless they are explicitly excluded.  Even then, they require strong evidence that the excluded person won't use the insured vehicle.
Answer: This is actually a complicated question as not only does it vary by state, but each insurance company has its own policies regarding this. I am going to try to provide some information that would typically remain the same regardless of state or company.
The insurance company's answer: Yes you should add her to the policy. Why? You are required by the terms of your contract to provide a fair representation of the risk that the company is assuming from you in exchange for premiums paid. If someone is a regular operator (varies by company) then failing to add them to the policy is potentially material misrepresentation, which could result in denial of claims and termination of the policy. Further if they can demonstrate that you misrepresented yourself for profit (for example reducing premiums) then that potentially qualifies as fraud. What is a regular operator? No clear definition but a company like GEICO for example would want you to add anyone who uses the vehicle more than once per year to the policy even if they do not live with you.
The real world answer: The odds of being charged with fraud for this type of misrepresentation are low, I never saw it happen even once in my time as a licensed auto claims adjuster for the New England states (as well as NY and NJ which do not require licensing). It is also possible that the company will not deny the claim even if they discover your misrepresentation (this can happen for many reasons such as policy holder was insured for 10 years with no accident and the current claim is for a tiny amount, it is better to pay the claim rather than lose a profitable customer). Keep in mind though the company has the right to deny the claim if they want. What would happen at that point is the underwriting department would be notified and the driver would be added to the policy, and your premiums would increase.
My final thoughts: You entered into a contractual agreement with a company (and even if you did not read the contract) you are legally and morally bound to adhere to it. So as a matter of being responsible you should honor the contract by adding the driver. If you do not care about that just remember that by not adding the driver you are gambling. The company can deny a claim, and it is the liability portion of the claim (paying for damages to a third party) that would be denied, leaving you potentially open for a lawsuit from the claimant. Of course if the service rep is aware of the driver and tells you that you do not need to add the driver then you would be in the clear, as long as you can prove that you attempted to add the driver and were told you did not have to.
A note regarding permissive use because there are a few comments about this here:
If you borrow my car because your car is being serviced then under your policy my car qualifies as a temporary replacement, meaning that if you crash my car it is likely that your insurance will be primary (will have to pay first). If you borrow my car because it is more convenient than walking down the street to get your car then that is not a temporary replacement and as a result my policy would likely be primary in an accident.
Answer: If she drives the car more than once a month you should add her or your insurance will not cover damages if she gets in an accident while driving it.


To what CEFR does SFI correspond?

Question: The first time I lived in Sweden I did a 4-month language course at university.  The second time I lived in Sweden I wanted to continue with Svensk för invandrare (Swedish for immigrants, SFI) but I was declined because I had already reached the highest level for the courses on offer from the municipality, so I briefly did a Swedish course at a Folkhögskola instead.  However, I have never tested my level according to CEFR scales.  Does the final SFI level correspond to any particular level within CEFR?
Answer: According to The Swedish Teacher,

SFI course A corresponds to CEFR level A1,
SFI course B corresponds to CEFR level A1/A2,
SFI course C corresponds to CEFR level A2/A2 +,
SFI course D corresponds to CEFR B1/B1+.
Comment: I see.  That confirms my experience that finishing SFI does not really mean one knows Swedish particularly well.
Comment: I don't know whether they exist for Swedish, but I have found online free "sample" versions of the "official" tests for Spanish, Italian, and other languages.

To what CEFR does SFI correspond?


Check engine light 2005 Toyota Camry

Question: I am getting a P1135 code on my 2005 Toyota Camry.I have replaced the A/F sensor first with a Bosch then with a Denso. I am still getting the same trouble code almost immediately after starting the car up. I checked the connector for power at the connector and I have power at the lower right male connector. What is my next step?
Comment: Also you list the code as a P1135 which is an O2 Sensor code, but you said you replaced the Air Flow sensor. Also P1135 doesn't come up as a valid code for this make, model, year.
Comment: if you get an engine code, don't just assume the sensor is bad, maybe it's working fine but the sensory input (emissions in this case) is what trips the threshold.
Comment: What size engine?
Comment: no, air flow is measure by a MAF sensor. an A/F sensor is the Air/fuel sensor. different from an O2 sensor, but serves the same purpose. i think a p1135 is usually a heater circuit code. could be a wiring issue or bad/wrong sensor. double check the part number on the new sensor
Answer: P1135: AFR Sensor Heater Circuit Malfunction Bank 1 Sensor 1
As discovered, the malfunction doesn't necessarily have to be in the sensor itself.
Possible causes for a P1135 code include:

Faulty Air-Fuel Ratio (A/F) Sensor Bank 1 Sensor 1 (already ruled out by replacement)
Air-Fuel Ratio (A/F) Sensor Bank 1 Sensor 1 harness is open or shorted
Air-Fuel Ratio (A/F) Sensor Bank 1 Sensor 1 circuit poor electrical connection
Faulty Engine Control Module (ECM)

A faulty ECM is possible, but not probable, so the CEL is likely due to a break in the heater circuit which you will need to trace.
A very nice video by Schrodinger's Box shows him diagnose a similar problem on a Nissan Maxima.
Comment: BAM ------- consider this question answered!

Check engine light 2005 Toyota Camry


Fastest way to diagonalize square matrices with c++

Question: I am currently writing software in c++ which solves the eigenvalue problem of sparse hermitian  matrices. The size of the matrix depends on the user input, but as an estimation it will roughly be 1000x1000. I will have to solve about 300 (again relies on the user input) of them for different initial conditions. What is the fastest way to do it? More specifically, I would like to know if it makes sense to do the calculations on the GPU or would it be faster to do it on the CPU and use openMP for the 300 initial conditions? What c++ library would you suggest to use and why (maybe one has some easy build-in support for GPU)? Currently I am using eigen3 for dense matrices.
Comment: Do you want all the eigenvalues? If not, just a few percent or most of them? Do you want the corresponding eigenvectors as well?
Comment: I want just a few eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenvectors. But I need to specify what eigenvalues to take, e.g. the first few >0 and the first few <0.
Comment: For dense matrices, LAPACK will be fastest regardless of how many eigenvalues you need (because that's not the bottleneck). These matrices are likely not large enough to offload to GPU if your CPU doesn't suck. For sparse, it's even less likely that offload pays off, unless your Krylov method needs a huge number of matrix-vector products and these run much faster on the GPU than the CPU.
Comment: @Jeff In the end I have sparse matrices. I only mentioned dense matrices to state that I am familiar with eigen3. In the case there is a way to use eigen for this... But you basically say do not use GPU for a sparse matrix of size 1e3x1e3. Is there a way to state some kind of border size? How big must a sparse matrix be so that it is beneficial to put it on a GPU?
Answer:
What is the fastest way to do it?

This very much depends on the form of the matrix.  You can exploit symmetries to reduce your problem: Is the matrix symmetric or Hermitian? Is it banded or tridiagonal?  Maybe it is even block-diagonal, then you can diagonalize the blocks independent of one another.
Also if you only need a few eigenvalues, then you probably want to use an iterative solver instead of doing a full diagonalization.
You probably want to take a look at this online resource:

http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/la-sw.html

It is a huge table listing a lot of linear algebra codes, their level of parallelism, supported matrix and datatypes and much more.


Will a C# program for Windows run in Ubuntu under Mono without modification?

Question: i want to write a tcp server in c# under windows. can i run the same program or use the same code under mono without modification.
Answer: You have to be careful with what you write. Mono isn't near 100% supporting .NET on Windows, but it's a very good start. a TCP server might be tricky because it tends to be the places that do hardware interaction (like IO) that have the most compatibility issues.
Mono has a free tool called MoMA that can analyze a .NET Application and tell you if it is going to have problems. You can download it here: http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA
Comment: If you ignore WCF, WPF, WF and the more esoteric parts of the framework like Enterprise Services, then Mono is very close to 100% .NET. TCP Server support is likely 100%
Comment: The older (but still effective) .NET Remoting is also working great. But yes, a simple TCP server will work with no changes.
Answer: I would suggest developing the application under Linux/Mono, then checking that it works on Windows. You're less likely to encounter issues that way.
Answer: Generally speaking it should work if you aren't using OS specific actions. Miguel made a damn good job with Mono and you'll find it's very easy to work with.


Hangs up on install "Who are you" -- Dell Inspiron 1150

Question:
Possible Duplicate:
Installer gets stuck with a grayed out forward button.

I'm installing to a Dell Inspiron 1150 from a CD. I get to the window labeled "Who are you?," and enter info into all the fields. The prompt at the bottom says "Ready when you are..." The BACK button is available, but the FORWARD button is grayed out. I tried going BACK, and I tried reentering the info, and I tried restarting the install, but I can't get it past this screen.
Answer: Ensure your username is all in lower case - this is a problem on all operating systems.


Can viruses transfer from phone to computer over the network?

Question: I don't know if this is the right place to ask but I heard that adult websites (porn) had viruses.  I used to look up porn on my iPhone (I won't anymore) and I understand that there aren't viruses for iPhones yet, but if my iPhone gets a virus, can I affect other PCs on my network?
Comment: Once your phone is infected, the attacker can use it to MITM WPA2 PSK WiFi networks, or, if your phone is plugged in via USB, attack it with BadUSB like tactics, e.g. by faking a keyboard.
Answer: It doesn't really work that way. Any web site can provide active content, and any active content could be "malware". Virus, if you will.
Porn sites are no exception. Of course, reputable ones are less likely to stoop to malware to milk their customers.
One risk involved with an iPhone (or any smartphone) is that the site might try to trick you into subscribing to some service that will cost you money. This is sometimes done with the... well, I'll have to say complicity of the phone operator, which must supply information about your phone number. Then, any click anywhere on the page could potentially be crafted into a "request for premium service subscription", which would go straight on your phone bill.
Once a device is infected, what happens depends on the malware. Some of them actively attempt to replicate throughout the local network, and some of the most sophisticated will actually try establishing a contact to a "virus server" to download suitable code (e.g. if they detect a Mac OS machine on the network, they might try to download a Mac OS exploit, or try leaving an enticingly-named malware suitable for running on Mac OSes somewhere where the Mac's owner might stumble upon: file shares, DropBox folders, public areas...).
A first line of defense is an updated antivirus software. There are free versions too (AVG and Avira, I believe). Browsing with a secure browser (e.g. Firefox or Chrome with NoScript and adblocker plugins) is another good practice. Situational awareness - never click on something you're not sure of, and think before confirming any actions - is a definite plus.
If you're really paranoid there are "virtual secure browsing appliances" that run on VMware or VirtualBox, and allow browsing almost anywhere with a good certainty that whatever virus or infection will be unable to come out of the "sandbox" it's confined to. There are also strategies that essentially recreate the VM each time from a clean copy, and destroy it when you're finished, so that any virus you downloaded would be exceptionally short-lived. In this case, of course, you must be wary of what files you copy from the VM to the outer host machine, and scan them thoroughly with an antivirus.
Actually, if you're really paranoid you should buy DVD porn and watch it on a TV which is incapable of network connections :-) -- keep work documents and porn separated by a physical air gap.
Comment: @DeerHunter , I had thought of several, and in person I would have suggested some. In writing... it's difficult to tell friendly banter from sarcasm, and I do not want to give offense, sex being a *touchy* subject and all...
Comment: Porn sites milking their customers? Heh.
Comment: +1 on air gapping and sandboxing... Mental -1 on not suggesting healthier alternatives to p0rn.
Comment: +1 for emphasizing that any web site can be infected. Symantec put out figures a few years ago (http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/other_resources/b-istr_main_report_2011_21239364.en-us.pdf) indicating that porn sites are surprisingly low down the rankings for malware. Porn sites can afford to hire good Admins; your local church can't.
Answer: The scenario you're proposing is possible (but probably not easy to execute).
Assuming you connect your iPhone to your home computer to transfer music files or pictures or backup your device, that would be an opportunity for software on your computer to try to open a file from your phone (possibly in the browser cache or downloads) and that file could maliciously exploit a vulnerability on your computer.
If you use something like DropBox that can sync files between your phone and laptop, a file downloaded to your phone could be replicated to your computer where you could try to open it.
Both of the scenarios I describe are a long shot.  If you have a virus on your computer it probably came from a website or email.  Lots of sites can push malware, not just porn sites.
Also...
"...even if there aren't viruses for iPhones yet..." -- This is a bad assumption.
Answer: Just to add some additional information to the current answers:
There is a high likelihood of exposure to malware when visiting porn sites, so you must take precautions when doing so. See http://www.techhive.com/article/2034864/just-how-much-malware-is-on-free-porn-sites-.html for a study on the prevalence of malware porn sites.
Even if the owner of a site does not place malware on the site, advertising material is typically served up from a different location, and may include malware. Even if you don't mind ads, it is worth installing an ad-blocker in your browser for security reasons.
The big danger in getting your mobile phone infected with malware is that said malware can start to use your phone services which, depending on your phone plan, can cost you real and significant amounts of money. This may all happen in the background without you ever having had to subscribe to any service. This used to be the case with PCs as well, with malware hijacking the modem and calling out to premium phone services, but this went away once broadband became the norm.
Answer: If you plug your phone into your computer (to sync to iTunes) anything is possible.
Incidentally, it's possible to send a signal from your computer to your phone with a special virus.  This is very hard to accomplish, but since phones are often tethered, not inconceivable that this could be seen in the wild.


"Scan and fix SD card errors" keeps appearing

Question: For some time, every time my phone starts up it offers to scan and fix SD card errors but warns it may delete files. Everything is working normally but the message appears on every startup. Then I finally made my backups, ran the scan but nothing changed - still gives the message every time phone starts.
Answer: Some people suggest the problem may occur if you're using the SD card and then the phone crashes or runs out of battery. It's best not to have frequently used apps on the SD card. Also I fixed my problem by plugging the sd card into sd card reader on my laptop and running error checking there: http://www.ehow.com/how_6857598_check-sd-card-errors.html (strangely enough, it said no errors were found but suddenly the phone was happy).


How to Bottle Brewed Tea

Question: Hi I'm planning to sell my tea(brewed tea + sugar + lemon/fruit extract) product in bottles(Plastic or Glass) but since it's brewed tea it only last for 12hrs before funky smell comes out. Is there a way to preserve it so I can distribute it in bottles?
Answer: Given your recipe has fruit. I would make sure everything reaches a boil for 3 minutes, or at least a pasteurizing temp around 160°F, then bottle hot into mason jars.
Campden may be an option if boiling is not, but this doesn't kill yeast / bacteria. It only deprives the solution of oxygen inhibiting growth phases for microbes that require oxygen to do so.

How to Bottle Brewed Tea


what is the difference between "l'argent" and "la monnaie" ?

Question: What is the difference between "l'argent" and "la monnaie" ?
Are both used to reference to money ?
Answer: Argent (which literally means "silver") is used to mean "money" in all cases.
Monnaie has several different usages:

"coins", especially petite monnaie
"change", as in "the money given back to you after you pay with more than the exact amount", which can perfectly well include bills
"any small amount of cash", as in T'as de la monnaie ? (an English-speaker could well say "Do you have some change?"). I often understand this as stemming from "do you have some small coins so that I can make up the exact amount on what I have to pay so that I don't have to break out a large bill or cheque or card?", which is more polite than "I don't have any money, can you help me out?". I have absolutely no research for this interpretation!
"currency", as in La monnaie américaine est le dollar, or La monnaie britannique connaît des problèmes à cause du Brexit.

You also have the word pièce / pièces (short for pièces de monnaie), which (in context) always means "coin / coins" (cf. "thirty pieces of silver", "pieces of eight"), as opposed to billets (short for billets de banque), which is paper money (cf. "bill", "banknote").
Answer: "L'argent" can be related to everything about money like banknotes or coins.
"monnaie" is usually use to speak about coins only.
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SharePoint Permission to home page but not the entire site

Question: I am using SharePoint 2010.  How do I give a user group permission to the home page without giving them permission to the entire site?
Answer: if you go to your pages library and pick a specific page, you should be able to choose "Document Permissions".
You will have to "break" the permissions inheritance from the parent container by clicking "Stop Inheriting Permissions".
Your page has now its own set of permissions and you can add whoever you want without affecting other areas of the site, through the "Grant Permissions" icon.
You can grant any user or group the "View Only" permission, which will enable them so see that particular make, as long as there is a published and approved version of it.
Comment: In fact, you don't need to go to to pages library. Just when on home page select "Page" tab on ribbon and click "Page permissions". Then you can either break inheritance and add custom permissions or manage parent group.


Sitecore administration page to view all pipeline processors

Question: Is there an administration page to view all pipeline processors that are configured in Sitecore and the order in which they will execute? I'm trying to verify that my custom processor is being inserted into the right place in the Sitecore pipeline but I don't see anything in the Sitecore control panel or the start menu on the Sitecore desktop to facilitate this.
Comment: While I agree, this would be extremely useful, I don't think you could ever determine the order in which pipelines execute. They're not interconnected via configs - code decides to run them.
Comment: Yes, but only if you assume two things. 1) No processor aborts the pipeline. 2) No processor branches out and executes another pipeline. And 2 is definitely not true, this happens very often even in default configs.
Comment: @MarkCassidy The order in which the processors execute within the pipeline is determined based on configuration though, right?
Answer: Yes there is. Depends on your Sitecore version but you can use: /sitecore/admin/pipelines.aspx
Sitecore Pipeline Profiler page
The Sitecore Pipeline Profiler page has been in from Sitecore 7 but is disabled by default.
You enable by renaming the /App_Config/Include/Sitecore.PipelineProfiling.config.disabled to remove the .disabled extension and setting the Pipelines.Profiling.Enabled setting in the file to true.

You can also set Pipelines.Profiling.MeasureCpuTime setting to true, this gives you additional information.
Answer: You can use the /sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx page to view the generated Sitecore configuration to verify if you're custom pipeline is inserted into the pipeline and it's position of execution.
Answer: Yes, pipelines.aspx is the page where you can view all pipeline processors.
By default, Pipeline profiling is disabled.
To enable pipeline profiling, add the following key <add key="env:define" value="Profiling" /> to Web.config <appSettings> section.
After that go to the https://{Sitecore Instance}/sitecore/admin/pipelines.aspx you will get all the pipelines processors.


Can I edit my name on a submitted paper if I changed my name during the review process?

Question: I am in PhD and about to change my name. I already have a number of publications.
Comment: Related: [Indicating a name change after publication](http://academia.stackexchange.com/q/9003/10643) and [What are some practices for getting a name change so that people can find me more easily?](http://academia.stackexchange.com/q/512/10643).
Answer: If your paper has not been slated for publication yet, you can probably change your name on it.  I would contact the editor about making the change immediately.  Depending on the system the journal uses, this may simply require the editor to edit your name in single file; or it may entail quite a bit more work, so you want to given the editor and production staff as much time as possible to make the correction.
You will probably not need to provide proof that you have changed your name.  Name changes are not particularly uncommon; they happen when people get married or divorced, and less frequently (but uncontroversially) for other reasons as well.  If you have decided that it is definitely in your professional interest to change the name under which you publish, that is unquestionably your prerogative.
Answer: Consider keeping your (by now somewhat known) name as your name for publications and other scientific work. If really needed, add a note that you are now/also known by the new name.
Answer: Of course; there should be no problem. See the excellent journal workflow diagram prepared by our fellow user Wrzlprmft: you have time until the final proofreading to notify the journal about the name change.


Server hangs at "Shutting down loopback interface" on reboot

Question: I'm having some trouble understanding what's going on with connecting one of our Xen hypervisors to our iSCSI SAN.
Ever since we mounted our iSCSI targets, we've experienced hanging on reboots.
This is what it looks like...
<code> Stopping iscsi:                           [ OK ]
 Shutting down system logger:              [ OK ]
 Stopping iscsid:                          [ OK ]
 Shutting down interface eth0:             [ OK ]
 Shutting down interface eth1:             [ OK ]
 Shutting down loopback interface:         [ OK ]
</code>
Then it hangs there.  We have to perform a power cycle to get it to come back online.
We are running CentOS 6.4 with Xen 4
<code>[root@hypervisor1 ~]# uname -a
Linux hypervisor1.localhost 3.4.59-8.el6.centos.alt.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 22 20:19:06 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
</code>
These were the commands that were run - we think its probably the last one thats the culprit..
<code>iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 10.100.1.2
iscsiadm -m node -l -T iqn.2011-12:san1.target0
iscsiadm -m node -T iscsiadm -m session
iscsiadm -m session
iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2011-12:san1.target0 -p 10.100.1.2 -o update -n node.startup -v automatic
</code>
Answer: Applied patch at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583218 which resolved the issue.


Can I release Kinect based games?

Question: I've been reading up some hacks on Kinect development to work around the fact that there is no official SDK from Microsoft. Even if we do manage to create a game, can we distribute it through the XBox marketplace? Or will it cause any issues?
Answer: No. Without official support they won't let you release it. The problem would be if they changed the way something worked (behind the scenes in their libraries) and you weren't going through official channels to access the Kinect, then it could break your Kinect support and it would make both of you look bad. Full blown (paid up development kit) game developers aren't allowed to access hardware by hacking around the official libraries for the same reasons. Hardware changes over time for cost-reduction and other reasons.
Have you managed to find hacks to get it working with XNA for the 360? I thought most of them were PC specific and non-portable. I can't imagine it'll be that long before they release an official SDK, they've already said the PC is getting one very soon, hopefully XNA support will follow closely.
Comment: There are a number of hacks published, but frankly I have not checked each one and seen the limitations of each one. Wanted to get the clarity on the marketplace regulations before spending time on those.
Answer: Microsoft have plans to release the Kinect SDK for Windows for free this Spring (link). The point to notice here though is 'Windows'. That wording suggests to me that there'll be some additional fee to realease games onto the Indie Channel on the XBLA; though they might just absorb the charge into the current one for distributing a game to the service.

Can I release Kinect based games?


Where did the idea that Frankenstein is the name of the monster come from?

Question: Where did the idea that Frankenstein is the name of the monster come from? I know that the monster is addressed as Frankenstein in several spin-off movies, but after doing some primary research, I can't find where this idea came from.
Comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein%27s_monster#Names
Answer: Actually, it started very early on and probably wasn't inspired by anything in particular. Probably it was created of either laziness ("Frankenstein's monster" is so long) or ignorance ("Dracula" is both the name of the book and the monster).
As I wrote elsewhere, using "Frankenstein" to refer to Frankenstein's monster dates back to at least 1838, only 20 years after the book was published according to the OED:

They [sc. mules] really seem like Frankensteins of the animal creation.
Murray's Handbook Sicily

Here's another example I found from only a year later, in 1839:

Two gigantic empires—the Frankensteins of our own creation, which will soon turn upon the author of their being—are shooting...
The London Quarterly Review
Comment: The Dublin University Magazine seems to push the usage back to 1833 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AHBRAAAAYAAJ&dq=Dublin%20University%20magazine%20reform%20bill%20frankenstein%201833&pg=PA223#v=onepage&q=frankenstein&f=false
Answer: It seems really unlikely that there's any single path, and the monster is "a Frankenstein" in at least some of the same ways that a Model T. is "a Ford" or Guernica is "a Picasso." But James Whale is also obviously a key tributary of the drifting reference.

James Whale's 1931 movie with Boris Karloff (the seminal visual depiction of the monster) totally centers the monster in a movie called "Frankenstein." Moreover, many (if not all) of the posters for the film have the text "Frankenstein" superimposed on Karloff's giant forehead.
James Whale made a 1935 movie that not only compounds, but trades on the ambiguious reference, being called "The Bride of Frankenstein." The bride is of course a bride for the Monster, conceived by the mad scientist Frankenstein (though not the same Frankenstein as made the first monster!)
Answer: The popular recognition of Victor Frankenstein's Creature as simply "Frankenstein" started with the films; since more people were familiar with the films, popular culture began to acknowledge the movie portrayal of the Creature more than the literary portrayal.
See "How Frankenstein's monster has shuffled through movies and comics" by Rosalind Early-Wustl on Futurity.org (30 October 2017).
From the above link you can see how the Creature has progressed through film; this progression seems to suggest my conjecture.
Comment: Have you got any references for that?


Can we get the dosage list for a drug

Question: How can we get the dosage list for a particular drug. we have the key "dosage_forms_and_strength" but it gives a single string not in a list format.
I need to bind a dropdown for dosage information for a drug
Comment: Where did you get this data from? Can you show an example of what exactly you're looking for and what authority might have it?
Answer: When using the openFDA Drug Label API, you can obtain the drug's NDC product code. For example, using Amoxicillin from your other question, NDC code would be 50090-0714:
https://api.fda.gov/drug/label.json?search=openfda.generic_name:Amoxicillin
<code>"openfda": {
    "product_ndc": [
      "50090-0714"
    ],
</code>
Then you can query the openFDA NDC API using the product code obtained above, such as: https://api.fda.gov/drug/ndc.json?search=product_ndc:50090-0714. The API will provide you with structured information about the product's packaging, which you can use to build your dropdown:
<code>"packaging": [
    {
      "marketing_start_date": "20141128",
      "package_ndc": "50090-0714-0",
      "description": "20 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50090-0714-0)",
      "sample": false
    }
  ]
</code>
Hope this helps.

Can we get the dosage list for a drug


Can leafy vines be used as shade?

Question: Has any climbing plants been used to envelope a house for the purpose of creating shade? What would be the best vine for this and why?
Comment: A good answer would need to know what part of the world and the height of the house, whether you mean a pergola  or the walls of the house.  Details please...
Comment: I want to just check whether, when you say 'vines', you do actually mean climbing plants? Its just I notice a tendency for 'vine' to be used as a general term for larger plants rather than  climbing plants in some countries other than the UK.
Comment: @Bamboo revised
Comment: As kevinsky pointed it it will depend on your region but in general the answer is yes.
Answer: By and large, no. Climbing plants trained up houses are there either for disguise (of a poor facade or something) but more usually simply for aesthetic reasons. Whilst a close cover of something like Virginia creeper might keep the sun off the walls in summer, that won't be why it's there. There are drawbacks to training climbers up house walls, and there's no real advantage if shade is what you're looking for. Plants such as Virginia creeper may cause damage to old mortar pointing, and need to be kept in check, or they have a tendency to penetrate inside the roof space of a house, and through windows; Hedera (English Ivy) will stick to  the walls so securely as to cause damage to mortar and brickwork. Climbers which need support on house walls such as Wisteria need pruning twice a year, which is no easy task on a two or three storey house.
For shade purposes, a pergola can be constructed and climbing plants trained up and over the top, often so that people can sit beneath it out of doors, especially if there is no other shady area within the garden space; they are sometimes constructed relatively close to a particular part of a property to provide some shade in a full sun exposure situation, and this may help keep that part of the property a little cooler.

Can leafy vines be used as shade?