Can supersymmetry and the multiverse both be true simultaneously?
When you pictured yourself as a grown-up, perhaps you had some idea that you would be sophisticated. Intelligent. Urbane, even. The kind of adult who went to dinner parties and spoke in honeyed words on philosophy, the topics of the day, the big questions of science.
Then you grew up and discovered that when you went to a friend's house for a backyard BBQ (stuffy dinner parties being, it turns out, mostly fiction), you were instead shouting at your children to get off the pile of compost, drumming up sympathy about having to redo your roof, and trying not to let on to the fact that you don't remember the name of the person you're talking to.
In other words, you might find yourself yearning for a little more intellect and far fewer honey barbecue wings. Next time, try this question to un-numb your mind: Can supersymmetry and the multiverse both be true?
To sort this out, we'll start with a lesson on supersymmetry. To understand supersymmetry, you should first get a grasp that it – in itself – isn't a "theory." Supersymmetry is an extension of what we call the Standard Model, which tells physicists what particles exist and how they work at a fundamental level. Basically, it accounts for 12 fundamental particles and four forces that they interact with.
The Standard Model, unfortunately, can't explain really pesky discrepancies in the universe's workings. For instance, it doesn't have any solution for what dark matter is: That's a still-unseen variable that seems to populate more than a quarter of our universe [source: NASA].
Supersymmetry tries to fill the holes in the Standard Model by saying that for each known matter particle we have, there is a much heavier force particle, and vice versa [source: Fermilab]. These "superpartners" would be a big help in understanding the Standard Model. They would also help explain things like dark matter, since the very lightest superpartner would be a good candidate for the mysterious stuff.
Perhaps even better for physicists – who have so far been delighted to confirm natural answers to physics questions – supersymmetry would provide an elegant solution for the Standard Model's deficiencies. It would work with mathematical equations, as well as perfectly balance out the mass of the Higgs boson to what we've observed, thus explaining why the Higgs is so much lighter than the Standard Model alone predicts that it should be. It would be neat and tidy.
And yet, there is a decidedly messy problem with superpartners. It's the tiny little detail that they don't seem to exist, at least, not in the same proton collisions that led us to the Higgs boson. That's where all the mathematical models predict that they should be – but they're not. You don't have to be a particle physicist to know it's a problem when something doesn't exist where you expect to find it.
Physicists haven't completely thrown in the towel, though. The Large Hadron Collider is set to collide at higher energies when it turns back on in 2015, and many are hoping that the collisions will result in some cool phenomena, including finding superparticles at higher masses than were possible in the collisions done so far.
However, other physicists are looking for other explanations in case supersymmetry turns out to be a pipe dream. Say hello to the multiverse.
More specifically, say hello to the multiverses. There are lots of 'em. The basic idea of the multiverse is that our universe is just one in an infinite soup of . . . well, stuff? Whatever it is, all these multiverses turned out the way they did, following the laws they have, randomly. Our universe was lucky enough to turn out just right to create us, and all the other junk in the cosmos. Which might sound special and fun to you and me – I mean, look how amazing and different we must be than all those other dumb universes! – but to a lot of physicists, the multiverse is a messy, messy baby.
Think a little closer about what being in a multiverse implies. Supersymmetry is the valedictorian of the class. She's got fundamental matter and forces that work just so in concert with each other to assure us that she is predictable and constant. Multiverse, on the other hand, basically slammed an energy drink, walked into the SATs and got a perfect score. Maybe he guessed; maybe he really did know all the answers. It doesn't matter. But we can easily trace supersymmetry's success to being methodical and predictable, while the multiverse has no record for being such a brilliant student – instead, it's all haphazard chance.
To some scientists, that's deeply disturbing. If we are part of a universe where things work one way just because that's randomly how things work here – knowing that in another universe they work differently, just because – they may as well throw in the towel. What's the point of figuring it out if it's nothing but random chance? The whole thing implies that we've been asking the wrong questions all along. It's not "Why do we observe the universe acting this way?" but perhaps "How does another universe act?"
So now that we understand supersymmetry and the idea of the multiverse, do we have any hope of trying to reconcile them? It's important to remember, first off, that we're talking about theories that go beyond the Standard Model – neither supersymmetry nor the multiverse is attempting to identify or even define the fundamental particles that we've directly observed [source: Willenbrock]. They're just two ways of trying to figure out why the fundamental matter and forces interact the way they do.
And in some ways, we can shorten our question to ask simply, "Can supersymmetry exist in a multiverse?" The answer to that: Absolutely. As we said, the idea of multiverses leaves open a pretty infinite number of universes. How they're ordered – that is, if they work like ours or differently or kind of the same or a little different – is completely open to question. It's reasonable to assume that if there were an infinite number of universes, one of them might operate supersymmetrically. Anything can happen in another universe, and if there's enough of them – everything will.
Supersymmetry, remember, would make a natural – and hopefully observable – order to the way particles and force functions in our universe. It's not a theoretical idea about the nature of the cosmos, unlike the multiverse. So supersymmetry and the multiverse aren't exactly mutually exclusive, and they are positing some solutions to similar questions. But they're concerning themselves with different enough ideas that we could theoretically have both occurring at the same time.
Author's Note: Can supersymmetry and the multiverse both be true simultaneously?
It's also important to note that some models of the multiverse (keep in mind that there are many) actually depend on supersymmetry to exist. Some even argue that finding supersymmetry would be an argument for the string theory, which in some iterations is a part of the multiverse model.


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The libra is still a basic unit of weight in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and other Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas.
For more information check out this Chart of Common Weights and Measures.


Let's say you're a deficit hawk, as it seems almost everyone is these days. I give you a choice: Candidate A wants to reform entitlements, cut defense spending, and raise revenues. Candidate B wants to reform entitlements, raise defense spending, and lower revenues. Also, Candidate A's party has a history of lowering deficits, and Candidate B's party exploding them. Who would you trust more on the deficit?
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At the second Republican presidential debate last September, the GOP front-runner said what he lacked in foreign policy experience, he'd make up for with expert advisers.
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France's left-wing government just convened a 70-nation "peace conference" that was hostile to Israel. France has summoned far less international pressure to the exponentially bloodier conflict next door in Syria. Moreover, the French government funds French, Israeli, and Palestinian organizations that support and promote BDS campaigns against Israel, a report by NGO Monitor shows. Such boycotts are illegal under French law.
Media coverage often is skewed by Palestinian intimidation and deception, by reporters who uncritically favor underdogs, and by sloppy journalism and outright bias.
The BBC's distortions often turn terrorists into victims. Its bias is so egregious that even its former chief complained: "Regrettably, this is not the first time the standard of reporting and impartiality has been unsatisfactory in recent weeks. On Saturday 3rd October, I was disappointed to see the BBC News website publish a misleading and counter-factual headline: 'Palestinian shot dead after Jerusalem attacks kills two'. I note reports that this headline underwent four revisions following public criticism." The BBC's horrible headlines continue, describing the terrorist in last month's Jerusalem track-ramming attack as a "Driver of a lorry...allegedly ramming pedestrians."


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British dandy who popularized new men's fashions, including simply cut clothing, trousers rather than breeches, and elaborate neckwear. An inveterate gambler, he died in poverty in France.
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William's extravagance became notorious as he hosted glittering parties for the Duke of Wellington, the Prince Regent, Beau Brummell and Lord Byron.
Cuando se habla de dandi o de dandismo habitualmente se declina en masculino: Brummell, Caadaev o, en la literatura, Pelham, tal y como lo describe Bulwer-Lytton.
The official signing of the Memorandum of Understanding took place at the British Embassy in Bucharest hosted by the UK Ambassador, Paul Brummell.
Yo me acuerdo de muchos atletas: Houvion, Tima Papa Gallo, Sainte-Rose, Jazy, Piquemal, Pujazon, y tambien de Valerie Brummell (quien sufrio un terrible accidente en moto) y de Ter Ovanessian.


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Did you get something different in your box? I heard there was a moisturizer of some kind.


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The Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Monday 11 June, 2018, at 7pm. The venue is Rotherwood, Drake Road, SKEGNESS.
The meeting is open to all members. Please send apologies to the Secretary.
The 53rd Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Wednesday 7 June 2017 at Rotherwood, Drake Road, SKEGNESS, commencing at 7.00 pm.
All members past and present are welcome to attend.
As usual we will be electing officers and committee members, deciding on subscriptions for the next year, and announcing our show for 2018.
The 52nd Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Wednesday 8 June 2016 at Rotherwood, Drake Road, Skegness at 7.00pm.
This is your opportunity to be involved in running the society, so please make every effort to attend.
We need new officers for the club, and a new committee member, so please give serious consideration to offering your services; without you the club may not be able to continue!
I have attached a summary of the positions which need to be filled; read them and ask questions if you need to, then find yourself a proposer and seconder. The previous officers will still be around to help you – you won’t be left to flounder!
Responsible for the smooth running of the society. Calls regular meetings of committee and sets AGM. Liaison with Embassy to book theatre, civic night, after show party etc. Keeps president, vice president, life members and patrons updated on society matters. Chairs the audition committee and informs auditionees of the outcome. Arranges front of house.
In reality, a lot of these duties are delegated to other society members, but the Chairman is there to ensure that they actually happen.
Assists the Chairman, and acts on the Chairman’s behalf in his/her absence. Should be prepared to step up to the role of Chairman in exceptional circumstances.
Responsible for all financial aspects and book keeping. Reports monthly to the committee on its financial state and prepares and balances the annual financial statement.
Records minutes of meetings, responds to correspondence, and obtains libs and scores. Keeps members informed of committee actions and decisions. Notifies committee members of meetings, and the society of the AGM. Sends out patrons’ letters and civic invitations.
Represent the society, attend committee meetings, and assist in the running of the society.
We look forward to seeing you on 8 June.
Rehearsals are going well for our next production. We have a fabulous cast of talented local people, who are working hard to bring you an evening of first class entertainment. Tickets are on sale via the Embassy Theatre website, www.embassytheatre.co.uk, or by telephoning the box office on 01507 613100.
SOCIAL EVENING – It’s time to look in the dressing up box!
As you all know, Mary has a tardis at home in which she keeps our ever growing supply of costumes. We decided it was time to clear out the store, and raise some funds at the same time.
In order to sell the costumes over the internet, we will need some photographs of them being worn, and who better to act as models than our own budding actors!
On Wednesday 17 June, 7.00 pm, at Royal Arthur Hall, Ingoldmells, we will have a get-together to help sort the costumes, photograph them, and get them on the internet for sale. We thought this would turn into a fun evening, especially if we were to order take aways and bring a bottle of wine or two.
Mary works tirelessly on our behalf, so this is your chance to give a little help in return. Please make a note in your diary, and come along.
The 51st Annual General Meeting of Skegness Musical Theatre Company will be held on Wednesday 3 June, at 7.00 pm, at Rotherwood, Drake Road, Skegness. All members are welcome to attend.
To ensure the continued success of our society, it is important to have new involvement on the committee. This is your opportunity to get involved in the running of your society; if you wish to stand for election please find yourself a proposer and seconder, and let the secretary know. You can also be nominated on the night.
The following positions are elected annually. Even if the current incumbents are available for re-election, there is no reason why you shouldn’t put your name forward.
Trevor Fenton was elected in 2014 and has one year left to run.
Mandy Baron and Liz Burbridge were elected in 2013, so their two year term expires this year. They are both available for re-election.
Sabrina Horton has served two years on the committee, but if elected will move to the post of treasurer.
This leaves a vacancy for a two year term on the committee: please think carefully about offering your services – you would be made very welcome!
We hope to see you all at the AGM: please let the secretary know if you are able to attend, or offer your apologies as necessary.
We hope everyone has a happy Christmas, and we’re looking forward to seeing you all in the New Year. As the Embassy has given us such an early date for our show, it is vitally important that everyone attends every rehearsal (when required). Andrea circulated the rehearsal schedule last night, but if you missed out, here is the first couple of weeks.
Wednesday 14 January: 7 to 10. Full company required to rehearse ‘I hate People’ and ‘December 25th’ (Act one, scene 3, p15, scene 8 pp 27 to 32.
Don’t forget that the movie is on Channel 5 over Christmas (20th December and 25th December I think).
We will be getting together on Friday evening 9 May at the Royal Arthur Hall, Ingoldmells (our rehearsal venue), to enjoy a DVD and a fish and chip supper. All members are welcome, whether or not you were in Sweeney Todd. It would be great to see you all!
Admission: £1 contribution, but you will get a gift in return.
Tea and coffee will be available, but you are welcome to bring your own alcoholic or soft drinks.
Rehearsals are now moving to three per week, starting on Monday 17 February, so please try to be there as we are running the show. If you can’t make it, let Andrea know.
PLEASE note the above information and make sure you are prepared – no books allowed now!


Elizabeth Denham, information officer at the ICO.
Data protection lawyers have questioned why an NHS Trust wasn't given a more serious penalty for illegally transferring patient data to a Google-owned company.
The Information Commissioner, the UK data regulator, ruled on Monday that DeepMind's deal with Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust "failed to comply with data protection law" but there was no fine issued.
Adam Rose, a partner at Mishcon de Reya who focuses on data protection, life sciences and technology, told Business Insider on Wednesday that both parties have been let off lightly given how many rules were broken. "In footballing terms, you could say they've got a yellow card," said Rose.
In a blog post on Mishcon de Reya's website, he added: "One might have thought that, given the seriousness of the breaches, the volume of sensitive personal data handed over to Google and the interest in getting this very issue right, the Commissioner would levy a fine on the Free close to the maximum permitted of £500,000.
"Instead, she has required the Free to give undertakings around its future performance. Whether this approach will act as a 'nudge' to others to perform better, or indicate that breaches of this scale aren't taken as seriously as many may have expected, will be the test for future projects of this kind."
Jon Baines, chair of the National Association of Data Protection Officers, told Business Insider: "I find it utterly extraordinary that a regulator can find that a data controller deliberately but unlawfully disclosed the health records of 1.6 million patients and received no sanction."
Asked why he thought the ICO decided not to issue a sanction, Baines said: They have a very wide discretion how to exercise their enforcement powers, and it's not always easy know why they exercise that discretion in a particular way. I'm presuming they did not consider the incident serious enough, or to have the potential to cause sufficient harm, to warrant a fine. I struggle to understand this, particularly as one reason for enforcement action is to persuade and dissuade others inn the future."
DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman heads up the DeepMind Health team.
The illegal deal (which was replaced with a new one in November) was signed to help DeepMind test and develop a kidney monitoring app called Streams, which sends an alert to a clinician's smartphone if a patient's condition deteriorates. It also allows clinicians to view a patient's medical records and see where patients are being looked after. It doesn't use any of the AI that DeepMind is known for.
Through the agreement, DeepMind was able to see whether people are HIV-positive as well as details of drug overdoses and abortions. DeepMind insists that it has never shared patient data with parent company Alphabet.
In an 11-page letter to Royal Free CEO Sir David Sloman, the UK information officer, Elizabeth Denham, wrote that DeepMind breached the UK's Data Protection Act (DPA) in a number of areas. Specifically, Principles 1, 3, 6, and 7 of the Act.
"My investigation has determined that the processing of approximately 1.6 million patients' personal data by DeepMind Technologies Limited ('DeepMind') for the purpose of the clinical safety testing of the Streams application did not fully comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the 'Act)," wrote Denham.
DeepMind was given access to the patient data to develop a kidney monitoring app called Streams.
Principle 1 of the DPA requires that data controllers inform individuals how their data will be processed and for what purposes. On this particular Principle, the ICO found that the Royal Free "did not provide an appropriate level of transparency to patients about the use of their personal data".
Principle 3 of the DPA states that "personal data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the, purpose or purposes for which they are processed," according to Rose's blog. The ICO ruled that the extent of DeepMind's access to patient records was neither necessary nor proportionate.
Principle 6 states that controllers should provide individuals with sufficient information about how their data is about to be processed. The Royal Free failed to do so.
Under Principle 7, the Royal Free should have put in place a contract with third party processors. A contract was signed in September 2015 but Rose writes that the ICO concluded it did not go far enough to ensure that "only the minimal possible data would be processed by DeepMind and that the processing would only be conducted for limited purposes."
Rose added: "The use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in assessing medical risk and process will only continue to expand, and how the health sector interacts with that, in the light of the DPA, and the General Data Protection Regulation, will play a crucial role in shaping healthcare and care outcomes for the foreseeable future."


Does this map from 1418 prove historian's controversial claim that the New World was discovered by the CHINESE 70 years before Columbus?
This purported evidence that a Chinese sailor mapped the Western Hemisphere more than seven decades before Columbus is just one of Earth-shattering claims that author Gavin Menzies makes in his new book ‘Who Discovered America?’ - out today, just in time for the Columbus Day holiday.
Furthermore, he says a majestic fleet of Chinese ships, commanded by Zheng He, sailed around the continent of South America - 100 years before Ferdinand Megellan supposedly became the first the undertake the task.
Columbus features heavily in the book - insofar as Menzies has devoted the last 20 years to finding and laying out evidence that Columbus not only didn’t discover America - he was 40 millenia late.
In the region of the map that Mr Menzies believes refers to Peru are written the inscriptions - 'Here the people practiced the religion of Paracas' and 'Here the people practice human sacrifice' - clear references peoples known to have inhabited Peru at the time.
That has not stopped him from gaining millions of readers - and thousands of followers who contribute to his website and contribute research of their own.
Mr Menzies debuted his Asia-centric theories with 2002's '1421: The Year China Discovered the World.' In it, he said that the famed Chinese sailor Admiral Zheng He, who is known to have reached Europe and Africa, also crossed the Pacific Ocean to the Western Hemisphere.
He claims that Zheng He not only reached the New World, he left colonies there. His fleet also sailed around the tip of South America - through the Strait of Megellan around the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi.
In 'Who Discovered America?' Menzies focuses on theories that Asians also made it to North and South America by sea long before even Zheng He.
'It appears certain that man reached the Americas by sea at least forty thousands years ago,' Menzies writes.
Mr Menzies says the idea that man was able to cross the Pacific Ocean around 40,000 BC isn't nearly as dramatic as it seems.
'Who Discovered America? The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas' by Gavin Menzies, published by William Morrow, is due out today.


A friend emailed me an article yesterday arguing that the current slowdown in global warming is due to different kinds of natural variability and is only temporary. To blame are dips in the sun's heat output, increased levels of sulfur aerosols in the atmosphere, and La Niña westerly winds causing the Pacific to soak up heat. "All the evidence suggests that atmospheric warming will soon accelerate again, and it could do so with a vengeance," the article concludes. Time for climate skeptics to pack it in?
1. How fast is the Earth going to warm?
2. How much of this warming is caused by human activities?
3. What can we expect will be the net cost of this warming?
4. Is it worth doing anything to slow or reverse recent warming?
5. What can we do to slow or reverse warming?
6. Should government impose top-down solutions?
What kind of skeptic am I? The current slowdown has made me a bit more skeptical of predictions of how much temperatures are going to rise (1) and also less sure about how much of observed warming is caused by us (2), despite the conclusions of the article linked to above. I've always been skeptical of scary stories that focus only on worst-case scenario costs and ignore all benefits (3) like boosts to agricultural yields in Canada and Russia and fewer deaths due to extreme cold. I still wonder whether it's worth doing anything at all about the problem (4). I'm also not convinced that curbing our use of fossil fuels is the right solution (5), if in fact we do need a solution. Innovative technological fixes and adaptation might make more sense than weaning ourselves off oil.
But the thing I'm most skeptical about is the frankly fanciful idea that governments can centrally plan us out of this problem (6), if problem it really be. Even if what we have is an example of market failure, with carbon emissions being a negative externality of the use of fossil fuels, there is no guarantee that action by government players, with all their backscratching and influence-peddling and careerism and inefficiencies and political intrigues, can fix the problem any better than markets themselves can. Quite the contrary. If the time comes when the case for action is solid, everything I know about economics and politics tells me that we would be better off if governments would get out of the way as much as possible and let insurance companies and technological entrepreneurs and voluntary associations and tort law decide on the best courses of action.


Is this a type of randomisation-allocation method for prospective trials?
I'm a student and am currently undergoing an interventional, comparative trial with human subjects. The plan was for the study to be randomised, using stratified randomisation. However there were two issues..
2) My project hand in is May, and we only started recruiting 8 weeks ago. Sign up has been slow.
If I waited until recruiting all patients before doing stratified randomisation I would not get data, so we decided to have some patients in one group based on when they signed up (baring in mind they were all invited at the same time and signed up randomly) and some assigned to the intervention in May. THere is clearly a random element to this, but how would I describe it and is there any literature to back it up?
I think I follow, but try describing this again, perhaps with an illustration.
I know it is quite hard to explain, I'll try my best to explain the original plan, give context on why it didn't work, and the new allocation method.
OK so this is a small pilot study of a new interventional (surgical) procedure vs control procedure. The original plan was to recruit all patients first and then to randomise them to each arm of the study (new intervention or control). This was stratified sampling so needed all the patients recruited first to see what variables may need controlling. However due to various reasons we only started recruiting in Feburary. Sign-up was slow, 4 weeks in we only had 30% of our target sample size, and it was a small aimed sample size. Because my final write up for this project is due at the end of May, if we waited for the full sample size of patients to join, it would be too late for me to get any data.
Further context - due to the nature of the procedure and some of our inclusion criteria, we have a relatively homogenous group of patients with same disease, similar age-range, and being male or female should not affect the procedure.
A final constraining contextual factor is that we cannot randomise the patients as they come in using traditional single randomisation because only the control group are able to have the procedure done at the moment. The new intervention group can only be done in May as this is when my senior colleagues were able to bring equipment needed for the new interention into the unit.
As a result, we decided to allocate those who happened to sign up first to the control arm. This allows me to get data in time before my project hand in. There is a random element to this as the invitations were all sent out at the same time and we have no control over who replies back first, however I am struggling to think of a way to describe this even after searching around. I would appreciate if there is a formal description of this type of randomisation, and any literature I can use to back it up, (in my head it is like 'uncontrolled' randomisation as the researchers have no control over the chance of any patient happening to reply first).
Well, first if you write it up you have to divulge the issues and that the protocol was heavily deviated from. Second, you no longer have randomization, so you have to stop trying to use that term. The biggest issue is whether subjects that were laggards in scheduling differ by any meaningful characteristic then the timely subjects. You can measure subject characteristics, but you will never know if there was a lurking variable (undocumented confounder). The best you can do is compare the subjects on known potential confounders, look at standardized mean differences. If there is a differences on a characteristic you can control for it in the analyses, but you will have to think about whether your sample size will allow you to have additional variables in the model without them being too saturated. You can also state post hoc how big an unknown factor would have to be in order to negate your results. Lastly, you can run the standard of care intervention on some of the May patients to examine for differences from the April subject outcomes, but statistical power will come into play again, since this was not a planned sub-comparison. You need to weigh benefits to the subjects vs. whether you may be able to power the study. It is not the worth the risk to the subjects if at the end you can't prove your hypothesis.
Study design is that you provided intervention A in April and intervention B in May - it is that simple.


I have a (large) commit tree that contains several merge commits that I want to rebase to another commit. Doing a normal rebase causes git to ask me to resolve merge conflicts. I didn't want to review each merge, because this would be a lot of work. After finding out about the --preserve-merges option, which is neatly explained here, I thought I found the perfect tool for this task. However, I cannot seem to get it to work properly. I have created a toy example that demonstrates the problem.
Starting from an empty folder, we first create a branch with a merge and another branch on which we will rebase.
Where master refers to B, branch refers to D and goodbye-branch refers to E.
git commit -m "Create Hello.txt (commit A)"
git commit -am "Change to Hello World (commit B)"
git commit -am "Change to Hello Dave (commit C)"
git commit -m "Merge branch master into branch (commit D)"
git commit -m "Add Goodbye.txt (commit E)"
What am I doing wrong? I would expect git to be able to use commit D to resolve the merge conflict it encounters while rebasing.
I am using Git 1.9.4.msysgit.1, which is the most recent version right now.
The --preserve-merges flag simply tells git-rebase to try to recreate merge commits instead of ignoring them. It does not give git rebase the ability to remember how merge conflicts were resolved, i.e. it does not record conflict resolutions for future use. What you want to use for that is rerere.
In your toy example, the conflict arising during the rebase is exactly the same as the one you resolved during the preceding merge. If you had activated rerere before the merge, you wouldn't have had to resolve that conflict again during the rebase.
If you anticipate that you will merge, then rebase a branch, you should activate rerere so that, in the future, you only need to resolve a given merge conflict once, not multiple times.
Let's break down your toy example.
You resolve that conflict by overwriting the contents of Hello.txt with Hello World, Dave!, staging your changes, and completing the merge commit.
Then Git attempts to create merge B' and C', but a merge conflict arises for the exact same reason as the first merge conflict you experienced: Git has no way of figuring out whether the Dave line should go before or after the World! line. Therefore, the rebase operation grinds to a halt, and Git asks you to resolve that merge conflict before it can complete the rebase.
Git's rerere is your friend, here.
The name stands for "reuse recorded resolution" and as the name implies, it allows you to ask Git to remember how you've resolved a hunk conflict so that the next time it sees the same conflict, Git can automatically resolve it for you.
[...] if you want to take a branch that you merged and fixed a bunch of conflicts and then decide to rebase it instead - you likely won't have to do all the same conflicts again.
before the merge, then Git would have recorded how you resolved the merge conflict when creating commit D, and would have applied the same resolution when it encountered the same conflict during the subsequent rebase. The conflict would still have interrupted the rebase operation, but it would have been resolved automatically. All you would have had to do is git rebase --continue.
However, it looks like rerere wasn't already activated before the merge, which means Git must have kept no record of how you resolved the conflict the first time. At this stage, you can either activate rerere now and resolve all those same conflicts manually again, or use the rerere-train.sh script (see also this blog post) to use the existing history to pre-seed the rerere cache.
Why does the same conflict reappear when I use git rebase?


A standard on the menu of any respectable steak house is peppercorn steak, or “steak au poivre” as the French call it. There is some debate over the exact origins of this recipe (which French chef, or French king, and what era), but a thick juicy steak served with a peppercorn sauce has been popular in American homes and restaurants for at least 50 years.
The steak is usually crusted with cracked black or green peppercorns, and served with a sauce with cognac, and cream or demi-glace. The following recipe uses crushed black peppercorns, brandy, beef stock, and cream.
In many recipes the peppercorns are pressed into the steak before cooking. In this recipe (adapted from the Joy of Cooking, same ingredients, slightly different method), the steak is seared first, so you can get good flavorful browning without burning a bunch of peppercorns.
After searing, then a peppercorn sauce is made and served over the steak.
By the way, as an experiment, we made this recipe with both boneless ribeye (a rather expensive cut) and top sirloin (half the price). The ribeye was predictably more tender (more fat marbling), but the top sirloin was also excellent. So I would say that with this sauce, you can get away with a less expensive cut of meat.
What kind of steak? Any good quality cut of steak will work, for example top sirloin, ribeye, filet mignon, porterhouse, T-bone, or New York strip. (Avoid chuck, that's best left for pot roasts.) We used inch-thick steaks, but you could go as thin as half-inch to as thick as 2-inches.
1 Salt the steak and let sit at room temp: Sprinkle salt generously over both sides of the steaks and let them come to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
2 Sear the steaks: Heat the oil in a large sauté pan over high heat. (Use a pan that can handle high heat. Cast iron works well for this, or hard anodized aluminum.) When the oil begins to smoke, take the pan off the heat.
Pat the steaks dry with paper towels (steaks brown better if they are patted dry first) and place in the hot pan. Return the pan to the heat and turn the heat down to medium-high.
Sear, without moving the steaks, for at least 4 minutes. Try to pick up a steak with tongs, and if it comes clean, flip it and turn the heat down to medium. If it sticks to the pan, let it cook for another minute or two on that side.
For this recipe, we sear on one side on high heat, and cook on lower heat on the other side. This way you get great flavor from the seared side, and better control over how done you want your steak by cooking the other side more slowly.
3 When done, remove steaks from pan, sprinkle with crushed peppercorns: Use the finger test for doneness or a meat thermometer. For rare, remove the meat from the pan when the inside reaches 120°F, for medium rare 125-130°F, for medium 140°F, and medium well 155°F.
Once the steak is done to your liking remove the meat to a baking sheet and sprinkle on a generous portion of crushed black peppercorns on both sides of each steak. Tent with aluminum foil and let the steak rest while you are preparing the sauce.
4 Make the sauce: Add the shallots to the pan and sauté for 2 minutes. Add the brandy and as it boils, deglaze the pan by scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon (helps to have one with a straight edge) to dislodge all the browned bits.
Once the brandy is almost cooked away, add the beef stock and turn the heat to high. Boil the sauce down until there's a noticeable trail when you drag a wooden spoon through the center of it (4-5 minutes).
Pour in the heavy cream and resume boiling. Again, boil down until you can make that telltale trail from the wooden spoon. Turn off the heat and add the parsley and any remaining black pepper (no more than 1 Tbsp, the rest should have already been used to pepper the steaks). Taste for salt and add if needed.
Pour the sauce over the steaks right when you serve.
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I make this with dried green peppercorns pressed into both sides of the steak, less heat than black pepper and more flavor. use Cognac for richer flavor, beef stock, not broth, high quality heavy cream, shallots, not onions. I also sear the meat on high heat on both sides, then finish in pre-heated oven at 450 degrees for 9 minutes.
Made this recipe yesterday for my roommate myself and it was so good I was afraid it was going to be super salty but to my surprise it was not and the gravy was delicious and I don’t like gravy, but I love this one. I did to add mushrooms to my gravy finely Chopped ,it was a nice addition.
Did today, a bit too much pepper, next time I use 1/2 the pepper.
Made it again last night, stuck to the recipe once more and used the amount of peppercorns called for because I like it as it is. It is the most easy and delicious sauce to serve with steak, love it!
Sorry to be a bit late with my comment. Your Peppercorn Steak recipe is well balanced and it works fine. Adding parsley at the end detracts from the original form of this dish and would probably not be missed by anyone (except perhaps in California ;-).
Adding and melting a finely sliced shallot in a bit of butter when you start making the sauce would be a great addition as mentioned by one of your fans.
I made this last night, and it was a huge hit, the sauce especially!! I substituted white wine for the cognac. Also, while letting the meat reach room temperature I combined it with all of the peppercorns and salt. The result was by the end the peppercorns were all cooked and tasty, and not to hot.
Delicious recipe!!! Love all of your recipes in fact!
After deglazing the pan with the Cognac or Brandy, add a heaping teaspoon of finely chopped shallots, cook for 2 minutes and add 1 heaping teaspoon of dijon mustard, along with 1 teaspoon of tarragon leaves. Stir & cook the sausce a little longer until it begins gently bubbling.
Serve over the steaks – Delish!!
Just made this meal and it was a huge hit, I didn’t use all the pepper called for in the recipe and it was AMAZING, even my very picky eater loved it.
just wanted to let you know I made this last night and it was great. The sauce was amazing!
I made this for dinner yesterday. My boyfriend and I LOVED it. It tasted so good and was so easy to make. Thanks Elise!
wow! My husband and I made this last night for us, our daughter and a friend; and we were all so impressed!!
My husband wanted a peppercorn steak like we had at local brewery pub. It was a “Merlot” peppercorn sauce. He loves pepper, and this recipe was just the right amount of pepper for him. He said it was spot on–better actually.
For me & everyone else, we liked the amount of pepper in the sauce but not as much on the steak. So our steaks had alot less cracked peppercorn on it, and it was well crushed.
We substituted Merlot for the cognac/brandy since that is what we were after.
It was amazing! Thank you!
I have to agree with the too-much-pepper comments (and I am a devout pepper freak). I did measure out whole peppercorns before cracking, so this wasn’t the problem.
I did like the sear-on-one-side technique, however – the steaks were nicely done.
I made this tonight. I had the butcher slice up a rump roast into steaks. Flavor of meat was great but a little tough, I will choose another cut next time. Was trying to save a buck. The other alteration I did was to slice mushrooms and a couple garlic cloves. My wife went crazy and was very disappointed I did not have more sauce.
Thanks Elise, Once again a great recipe to add to my repertoire.
My husband and I made this recipe the other night and boy was it peppery…is 1/4 cup the right measurement? The sauce was fantastic until I added all the crushed peppercorns, then the pepper flavor became so overwhelming we had to scrape it off the meat before we ate it. Despite our first experience we will make this recipe again, we will just cut back on the amount of pepper drastically…say maybe 2 or 3 tablespoons at the most.
Hey Elise!, I have made this many times and always salt add pepper both sides of the steak before, not after. Every recipe I have read states to do it that way. This reduces the heat of the pepper. Curious on doing it both ways.
Hi Elise, We thought the pepper over-powered the steak so next time we will use half the amount.
Love the au poivre style for pork chops also.
Wonderful recipe, a suggestion though, cook the sauce immediately after cooking the steak, if you cook the steaks in advance and wrap in foil, the heat inside the meat will cook it further, so if you want a medium steak, keep it a little on the rare side, it will be a perfect medium by the time your sauce is cooked and ready to serve.
the sauce will also get a wonderful flavor if you add some pink and green peppercorns, which is quite easily available.


Is eggology paleo or primal?
I think it isn't; not saying it doesn't have its place in the world, but I don't think it is paleo or primal. It's mentioned in the Four Hour Body book in the "slow carb" section alongside grass-fed beef. I thought it odd to praise the grass-fed and then promote the eggology.
I guess I take issue with the box.
Lots of paleos and primals are reading it right now. I guess the hype and marketing to the geek crowd is fueling it.
Yeah, if anything I'd toss the white!
4 hourbody us not a paleo/primal book, even if he mentions us as being a good idea.
I don't see why organic egg whites wouldn't be paleo... but it's probably better to eat the yolks anyways, so I just stick to local free-range eggs whenever possible.
IMO, egg is paleo, but throwing out the nutritious tasty yolk in favor of the less nutritious and not as tasty whites is just not paleo. But from a health perspective, it probably will not hurt you to eat the egg whites only. They are reasonably healthy as long as you aren't allergic, but don't overconsume as egg whites cause biotin deficiency because egg white contains avidin which binds biotin. MOderation is the key. However, personally, I really like the yoke so you won't ever catch me eating plain egg whites if I can help it.
A lot of animals in nature that feed on bird eggs, they eat the yolk only.


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To keep peace with Britain during the French Revolution, Washington sent John Jay to compromise with the British. Jay came back with a treaty known as the Jay Treaty that was a compromise between the two countries with each side having a part in it.
Once it came to the next election period, Washington decided to not run again for president. In his farewell speech, he gave multiple pieces of advice including that a president should not be able to serve for more than two terms, the U.S. should avoid conflict with Europe, and that the public should be educated.
The political parties including the Federalist and the Democratic Republicans were started by Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist, and Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic Republican. These two parties disagreed on many topics such as the Federalist supported Britain and the Democratic Republicans supported France.
President John Adams sent three men named Charles Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry to France to save their alliance with France. When the men got there, they were greeted by three agents of the foreign minister who said they had to pay $250,000 to see the minister and demanded a 12 million dollar loan.
To keep the U.S. safe, Adams passed the Alien and Sedition Acts to target aliens who could harm the U.S. citizens. The acts included extending the amount of time required to become a U.S. citizen, authorized the president to be able to deport aliens that were considered dangerous to the safety of the United States or if their country was at war with the U.S, and made it a crime to write anything false or criticising the government.
In the Election of 1800, the Federalist lost control over Congress and the Presidency and Thomas Jefferson was elected president. To keep the Democratic Republicans from having to much power, the Federalist packed the courts Federalist judges right before Adam's term ended.


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Does Netflix have a Jurassic World project in the works? That certainly seems to be the case. While the nature of the project, be it a TV series or one-off special of some sort, isn't yet known, some eagle-eyed subscribers noticed something interesting recently. Some further digging has revealed that, indeed, it appears the dinosaurs of Isla Nublar will be making their way to the world's largest streaming service sometime in the probably not-too-distant future.
This all started with a couple of Twitter users who shared screenshots of a title that showed up as a suggestion on Netflix, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. A fan site did some further digging and it was revealed that Universal actually filed three different trademarks for the title in December 2018 that cover a wide range of things from toys, games and other entertainment. So the studio is definitely doing something with that title within the Jurassic franchise and, barring a very bizarre mistake, it's almost certainly with Netflix.
It's also well worth noting that there is plenty of other circumstantial evidence to back this up. For one, there are several other titles related to the franchise already on Netflix, such as LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape. Most importantly, Universal is already working with them on another show based on one of their biggest properties, Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, which arrives later this year. Margie Cohn, president of DreamWorks Animation Television, while discussing that series at one point had this to say.
So it would seem that Universal wants to make other, similar content based on their biggest franchises for Netflix. Jurassic World is easily one of their biggest going right now. The franchise, all told dating back to Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park, has grossed just shy of $5 billion at the global box office. The most recent entry, Fallen Kingdom, brought in $1.3 billion. Needless to say, there's a huge global audience for this stuff.
Taking everything into account, the probability is very high, near certain, that Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is coming to Netflix. Using the evidence we have in front of us, we'd bet on it being an animated series geared towards younger audience members. It's also well worth noting that a Jurassic Park animated series, which was meant to be a big-budget, primetime show, was in the works during the 90s, but was scrapped before it ever made it to air. If not a series, this would probably be a one-off, kid-friendly animated movie. We'll have to wait and until Netflix decides to dish on the details. This news was previously reported by Jurassic Outpost.


A bus driver has been disciplined after asking a young Muslim mother to remove her face veil.
The 20-year-old woman was with her two-month-old baby when the incident happened on a service operated by First in Bristol.
She was wearing a niqab - a veil for the face leaving the eyes visible - when she bought a ticket from the driver.
The woman, who has not been identified, said he responded by asking her to remove her veil.
She told the Bristol Post: "He said he couldn't see my face, and that he didn't know what I was 'capable of doing'.
"He said I was scary and I was dangerous, and he kept talking about it during the journey. I didn't say anything.
"He continued to insult me, and he made me out to be a terrorist, and kept saying everyone should see each other's faces. He asked why I was wearing a balaclava."
She added: "He was insinuating I was going to bomb the bus."
Mobile phone footage filmed after the woman had left the bus shows other passengers confronting the driver over the incident, which took place on July 1.
A female passenger told him: "It's her choice what she wears."
The driver replied: "I care because this world is dangerous. If you don't see somebody's face, that's not good."
A First West of England spokesman said: "We have fully and unreservedly apologised to the customer for the distress caused when one of our drivers expressed his personal opinions and behaved in an offensive fashion that in no way reflects our deeply held values as an inclusive company which welcomes all people, irrespective of background, race, nationality or religion as customers and employees.
"We have reminded staff of our expectations and behaviours that are demanded of them.
"The driver has been censured through the company's disciplinary procedures for this incident, which is a matter the company takes very seriously.
"We are also helping the police with their inquiries and we are arranging a meeting with the customer to apologise in person and discuss matters in more detail."


What makes a memorable line from a classic movie?
...clothes to setting to character description is written out first.
Sometimes a particular actor is in mind as a character is developed on the printed page, but many times the character is developed by the writer and the actor cast for the part does his (or her) best to literally flesh out the written outline.
And, of course, as hard as it might be to believe when we are caught up in the action of the story, every word spoken started as a printed word envisioned by a novelist or screenwriter. And every film (almost) seems to have one memorable line that somehow captures or personifies that film.
I'm going to make them an offer they can't refuse.
Each one of these lines captures the essence of the film - and especially the richness of the character.
But look at these lines as sentences.
They are all direct, in the present tense, have simple uncomplicated grammar and a very clear audience and message - elements of every effective sentence.
Researchers at Cornell University have created a computer program to understand what makes a memorable movie quote (you can see - or hear - details here - http://www.npr.org/2012/04/18/150903304/what-makes-a-movie-quote-memorable).
The principles are simple (which does not mean easy) and apply to every aspect of writing; mostly keep it simple and don't fancy it up.
I've always thought it would be fun to be a script doctor - the one who goes over the near-final edition of a script and fixes it with a sense of attitude and tone of each character. Let me know if you are working on a film.


Is Marvel Studios Going Cosmic Post-Avengers?
The latest on Marvel Studios' upcoming slate of films points toward 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and 'Inhumans' getting the big screen treatment before certain other characters.
'Iron Man 3' will film in Wilmington, North Carolina this coming June according to new reports. North Carolina beat out Michigan for the high-profile project.
After seeing 'Runaways' put on indefinite hold by Marvel Studios, we now know the simple reason and have hope that it can still happen one day, post-Avengers.
If you haven't seen 'Captain America: The First Avenger' yet, the button for 'The Avengers' attached to it should give you reason to. Here's a teaser of what you'll see.
Jon Favreau reveals that he might still be involved with 'Iron Man 3' in some capacity and Robert Downey Jr. admits that 'The Avengers' is turning out better than he could ever have imagined.
Director Shane Black will be sharing writing duties with Drew Pearce on 'Iron Man 3,' hopefully realizing his story ideas of a thriller against real world villains.
Although he's no longer at the helm of the 'Iron Man' franchise, Jon Favreau reveals that he's willing to reprise his role as Tony Stark's bodyguard Happy Hogan in 'Iron Man 3'.
Drew Pearce (Runaways) has been recruited by Marvel to write 'Iron Man 3', and will work closely with director Shane Black on the screenplay.
'Iron Man 3' director Shane Black confirms that he'll be writing the film as well - and that Tony Stark's third solo outing will be a bit of a departure from its predecessors.
Shane Black is in final negotiations with Marvel Studios to direct 'Iron Man 3,' which will reunite the director with his 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' star, Robert Downey Jr.
Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) is in the running to direct and write 'Iron Man 3' for Marvel Studios in place of Jon Favreau.
Jon Favreau is out of 'Iron Man 3' and the project needs a new director. We've put together a list of directors who could potentially (and very well might) take over the 'Iron Man' franchise.
Jon Favreau informs Marvel Studios that he's dropping out of directorial duties on 'Iron Man 3.' Why? And who will replace him?
Disney has purchased the marketing and distribution rights to 'The Avengers' and 'Iron Man 3' - which now has a May 2013 release date - from Paramount.
A Marvel exec drops word that Marvel Studios' master plan for 'The Avengers' will lead to a major movie event in 2017.


How T1 and T3 lines can be used for security camera video through broadcast video transmission.
High speed digital private lines, such as T1 and T3 carriers, got their start transporting telephone conversations. Over the last 20 years or so, businesses have pressed this technology into service to expand their local area networks and to tie their PBX telephone systems together. One more recent trend has been using digital networks to converge or combine data and VoIP telephone services. Another is transporting video signals.
The classic video standard is NTSC (National Television System Committee) which is what the U.S. adopted for over the air broadcast of black and white pictures in 1941. It has an analog bandwidth of 4.2 MHz and, with audio, is transmitted in a 6 MHz TV channel. Some clever engineering allowed color information to be squeezed into the same channel size.
Sixty some years later, most TV sets are still analog and still use the NTSC standard. But TV broadcasting is migrating to a new digital high definition standard, HDTV, and satellite and many cable TV signals are delivered digitally. They can then be used as digital inputs to high resolution monitors or converted to analog for monitors and TV sets that need that format.
One nice thing about digital video signals is that digital line services can be used to transport them between offices or cross-country. Digital video can be standard or HDTV broadcast programs, two-way video conferencing, medical imaging, security cameras and even digital cinema. Yes, it may not be that long before your local movie theaters ditch their massive film reels in favor of DVDs or even downloaded video streams stored on local hard disk drives.
The process of transmitting video digitally is quite a bit like what is done for digital telephony and digital broadcast audio. It all starts with a device called a CODEC or Coder/Decoder. This is the component that converts from analog to digital and back again. It also performs whatever compression is needed to fit the original signal through a particular size channel.
Why is that important? Raw digital conversions of analog signals can use up a lot of bandwidth fast. The standard telephone PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) codec called G.711 spits out a stream of 64 Kbps for each telephone conversation. Phone conversations are hardly what you'd call high fidelity. A real Hi-Fi stereo signal needs about 1.5 Mbps, which fits nicely on a T1 line. Video needs even more. A raw HDTV video signal needs 1.5 Gbps. That's 1,000 times what you need for audio. Even the standard NTSC video consumes about 143 Mbps. If video signals stayed in that format, you could forget transmitting them outside the studio or even recording them on DVDs.
The magic of the CODEC is compression of the converted signals. For video, the standard compression format is called MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) and the most popular format is MPEG-2. That's what's used for HDTV broadcasting and satellite TV. MPEG-2 does its magic by monitoring what is changing in the scene and only transmitting that. In practice, one frame of video doesn't really differ dramatically from the next, which comes only 1/60 of a second later. Get rid of all the "redundant" information in the pictures and the bandwidth requirement drops dramatically. That 1.5 Gbps raw HDTV becomes 19.4 Mbps for HDTV broadcast using MPEG-2 compression.
DS3 service running over a T3 line or multiplexed on a OC3 or higher optical carrier works well for transporting digital video signals using reasonable amounts of compression. A couple of HDTV signals will fit into the 45 Mbps bandwidth of DS3. Less compression can be used to transmit a single higher quality video stream for video production work, digital cinema or medical imaging use. If truly raw video is needed, OC3 at 155 Mbps, OC12 at 622 Mbps or OC48 at 2.488 Gbps are available. Otherwise, DS3 offers an excellent price point, wide availability, and enough bandwidth for most video applications.


A man from Mali has told the BBC how he hid shoppers at a Jewish supermarket in Paris during an attack by an Islamist gunman last Friday.
The 24-year-old shop assistant, Lassana Bathily, who is Muslim, explained how he had shepherded fleeing customers into a basement cold store.
He told them to stay quiet and calm before escaping to alert police.
Mr Bathily is to be given French nationality at a ceremony on Tuesday after his application was fast-tracked.
The gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, killed four Jewish hostages at the supermarket before being shot dead by police.
A petition was later circulated in France calling for Mr Bathily to be given citizenship.
He has lived in France for nine years and applied for citizenship last year.
Mr Bathily said he had been in the basement of the supermarket when he heard gunshots upstairs.
"The customers started running down the steps. They were screaming [that] there were terrorists in the shop.
He said he noticed that the cold storage room was open.
"I told them to come in with me. Then I switched off the fridge and the lights.
"I told the customers to stay calm. [I said:] If the terrorist comes down here he must not hear you."
Mr Bathily said once everyone was quiet he decided to escape to alert police.
"I took the service lift out of the basement. I rushed out and saw the police everywhere," he said.
"They told me to put my hands up but then they asked me for my help.
"I told them a lot of hostages were hidden in the basement. They asked me to draw a map of the shop to help with their assault."
Mr Bathily said he had a good relationship with Jewish colleagues at the shop, and was sometimes teased about when he would get a Jewish girlfriend.
Asked about the Paris attackers, Mr Bathily said: "They were just criminals who want to make people suffer."
The two gunmen behind the Charlie Hebdo attack - Said and Cherif Kouachi - were shot dead by police outside a warehouse near Paris on 9 January.
Twelve suspects are being held by police in the Paris region over the attacks, in which 17 people were killed.