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Q: Modified pattern does not see the pattern color option I have modified the north east lines pattern to accept a \LineSpace option that sets the density of the pattern (see the question Can I control the density of a pattern in TikZ?). The code works very well but I can't modify the color of the pattern using the pattern color option as I did before.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\PreviewEnvironment{tikzpicture}
\setlength\PreviewBorder{2mm}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}

\pgfdeclarepatternformonly[\LineSpace]{my north east lines}{\pgfqpoint{-1pt}{-1pt}}{\pgfqpoint{\LineSpace}{\LineSpace}}{\pgfqpoint{\LineSpace}{\LineSpace}}%
{
    \pgfsetlinewidth{0.4pt}
    \pgfpathmoveto{\pgfqpoint{0pt}{0pt}}
    \pgfpathlineto{\pgfqpoint{\LineSpace + 0.1pt}{\LineSpace + 0.1pt}}
    \pgfusepath{stroke}
}

\newdimen\LineSpace
\tikzset{
    line space/.code={\LineSpace=#1},
    line space=3pt
}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \begin{axis}[
        ymin=0, ymax=1,
        xmin=-1, xmax=1]

        \addplot[
            pattern=my north east lines,
            line space=8pt,
            pattern color=green,
            draw=black]
            {x} \closedcycle;

        \addplot[
            pattern=north east lines,
            pattern color=red,
            draw=black]
            {-x} \closedcycle;
    \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

A: \documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\PreviewEnvironment{tikzpicture}
\setlength\PreviewBorder{2mm}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}

\makeatletter %new code
\pgfdeclarepatternformonly[\LineSpace,\tikz@pattern@color]{my north east lines}{\pgfqpoint{-1pt}{-1pt}}{\pgfqpoint{\LineSpace}{\LineSpace}}{\pgfqpoint{\LineSpace}{\LineSpace}}%
{
    \pgfsetcolor{\tikz@pattern@color} %new code
    \pgfsetlinewidth{0.4pt}
    \pgfpathmoveto{\pgfqpoint{0pt}{0pt}}
    \pgfpathlineto{\pgfqpoint{\LineSpace + 0.1pt}{\LineSpace + 0.1pt}}
    \pgfusepath{stroke}
}
\makeatother %new code
\newdimen\LineSpace
\tikzset{
    line space/.code={\LineSpace=#1},
    line space=3pt
}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \begin{axis}[
        ymin=0, ymax=1,
        xmin=-1, xmax=1]

        \addplot[
            pattern=my north east lines,
            line space=8pt,
            pattern color=green,
            draw=black]
            {x} \closedcycle;

        \addplot[
            pattern=north east lines,
            pattern color=red,
            draw=black]
            {-x} \closedcycle;
    \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Just add pgfsetcolor{\tikz@pattern@color} and the relevant makeatletter, makeatother


SWBAT write down what they know about a particular subject to activate their prior knowledge.
To become a good reader we have to remind students that reading is thinking. Before we read a book or a chapter we have to think about what we already know. Many times activating what we know can be easy, and they need to practice activating it.
Students love to learn big words and a word we have used since the first day of school is schema. I now want to anchor the word schema with information that is already stored in our memories. I ask them to explain how a filing cabinet works and how our school secretary might use it. What are the steps she takes to get at a file.
I then explain that this system of retrieving a file is very similar to how our brain gets at information. In order to help our brain learn we need to take our new learning and attach it to things we already know or have felt. The fastest way to remember is through feelings, but sometimes we have to use what we already know.
It is then fun to tell them that we can help our brain best, by activating before we read or while we read. The strategy of today's lesson is geared to help them practice activating their schema or prior knowledge.
To practice we play a game. I say a word and they have to tell me with description what pops into their head. So I start with something that might be easy like "red car." Student will then add to it what they know about a read car. I had responses from "those are the fancy ones that go fast," and "in a garage." This quick response lets me point out that we all have different thoughts and memories associated with things. I prove is by next asking them about a dog. Most tell you a story about theirs, or have one about a puppy. Then I tell them a story about a little girl who get bit by a dog and had to have stitches. I ask them what her prior knowledge might be which includes her feelings.
We talk about things that we have prior knowledge for, because of our parents, of places we have visited, and events that have happened to us. This is a good way to show that our prior knowledge is linked to a lot of different things.
The next thing we practice is how when we feel something really excited, surprised, embarrassed, or even scared we tend to remember the event or thing better. This because when we have emotions tied to our learning the brain remembers it even better. I might ask them to tell me about what they might tell a kindergartner on their first day of school. The reason they can be so helpful is that their first day of school held lots of feelings for them so they remember at least one of them very well.
To get ready for our read aloud I ask them to use their white boards and activate their prior knowledge by writing down everything they know about a farm. For my students who have trouble with writing I ask them to create pictures to represent what they know.
Reading aloud is a fun way to show students how good readers use strategies. For this lesson I choose the book Farm by Elisha Cooper. This book is great because it gives the reader hints that this farm is a newer working farm.
Before I read I tell them that I am going to activate my prior knowledge before I ever begin. If I were reading a chapter book I would remind myself of what I had already read and add to it what I know from my own experience. To show them I am going to model with a shorter book but use the exact same strategy I would use with any other book. For this book I tell them that I am going to activate my prior knowledge by looking at the title and cover. This book is called "Farm" and has a rooster on top of a house. My think aloud begins with me telling them a few things I already know about a farm. I then draw their attention to the rooster and say that I have seen pictures of roosters on top of the house making noise, but I really don't know if that is true because I do not have prior knowledge of seeing it or learning about that.
Through the book I model how I use my prior knowledge to better understand how the farm works. When I am about half way through the book, I shockingly exclaim that I have just realized something. That when I use my prior knowledge it helps me also check for understanding because it makes that understanding easier for me.
Once I have modeled and we have talked about what they saw me do. I tell them it is now their turn to practice.
To practice using their prior knowledge I give them all about three sticky notes so that they can keep notes of their thinking. As they read, I am asking them to write down anything that connects to something they already know.
For example if they are reading Charlotte's Web, they need to then write down things that they already know maybe about pigs, or spiders. I also give them the example that in the Farm story I could have written down how the author talked about a growing corn and that I had seen real cornfields this summer and the same equipment on the farms I saw.
The first sticky note they should write needs to be how they are activating what they already know before they read. I also remind them that these are their thoughts and I might just ask them to explain them to me as I walk around.
The next day as a follow up, I have students take out their white board to practice. I tell them that I am going to give them 2 minutes to activate their prior knowledge. I explain that as practice and for fun, I am going to say one word. Once I say the word, they need to write all they know about that word onto the white board. The previous lesson was on a farm so that is the word I use. I say the word "Farm" and say go. We then discuss our boards and talk about how it helps to think about our subject before we read.


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Q: Checkbox label is being displayed on next line I have a checkboxlist, and I created a javascript function that will add checkbox to the checkboxlist,
here's the code
function add1()
{
  var ques = document.getElementById('Questions_que1');
  var container = document.getElementById('Questions_wh1');
  var checkbox = document.createElement('input');

  checkbox.type = "checkbox";
  checkbox.name = "que1";
  checkbox.value = ques.value;
  checkbox.id = "id";

  var label = document.createElement('label');

  label.htmlFor = "id";

  label.appendChild(document.createTextNode(ques.value));

  container.appendChild(checkbox);
  container.appendChild(label);
}

but the problem is that the checkbox label is being displayed on the next line instead of after the checkbox on the same line..
what am I doing wring here???

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Today, I'm proud to share with you an interview with award-winning author Joyce Magnin as the start of a new blog feature, Words with Friends. God has allowed me to build some great relationships with other authors, and I don't want to hide those when I feature their books. In Words with Friends, I'll share an interview and a bit of personal information, too.
Joyce and I first met a few years ago when we both served on faculty at the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference. At our first in-person encounter, I bowed at her feet to show my extreme appreciation for her talents. We share an off-center sense of humor, a love for great literature, and a deep appreciation for Lemon Squares. Elsewhere on this blog, you can read my earlier interview with Joyce and my review of her most recent work, CAKE.
Joyce, a frequent conference speaker and writing instructor, is the author of the popular and quirky Bright's Pond series along with two recent middle grade novels, Carrying Mason and Cake. When she's not writing or reading, Joyce enjoys baseball, needle arts, video games, and cream soda, but not elevators—especially glass ones. She listens to many kinds of music, shamelessly confesses to enjoying American Idol, and has never eaten a scallop or sky dived. Joyce has three children, Rebekah, Emily, and Adam; three grandsons, Lemuel, Cedar, and Soren; and one son-in-law, Joshua. Joyce, her son Adam, and their crazy cat Mango live in Havertown, Pennsylvania where Joyce cares for an eighty-year-old onion plant.
Welcome, Joyce. Let's jump right into our discussion. What were some of your favorite books as a child?
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books. Loved them all. Still do.
Emily of New Moon, she was one of the lesser-known heroines of Lucy Maud Montgomery, although Anne of Green Gables was a favorite also.
The poems of Emily Dickinson even though I didn't understand most of what I was reading, I just loved to read the words.
Pippi Longstocking made me want to have big feet and strap sponges on them to scrub the kitchen floor. Oh, and to have a monkey. Mom wouldn't allow it, which was kind of disappointing considering our mother let us keep every animal we brought home, including dogs, cats, a flying squirrel, snakes, birds, guinea pigs, mice, and a pig for a short while, but my favorite was the dogs.
But, believe it or not I became enamored with Sherlock Holmes when I was around eleven years old.
When and why did you decide to start writing for young readers?
I was nine. No, really. Middle Grade literature has always been my first love. I love this age group. Everything that is difficult, crazy, scary about this time in the kiddoes' lives is also what is wonderful about it. I think middle grade literature is some of the best writing out there. I love being part of this.
3. Both CAKE and Carrying Mason have a heroine who triumphs over others who in some way have rejected her. Did you make a conscious decision to champion the underdog?
Yep. Heroes come in many shapes and sizes. As I have been thinking about and reworking my vision/mission statement for my middle grade books I have come to realize that the main message (as much as I dislike the term) of my books is that all children are eminently worthy of love. To receive love and give love. Sometimes, kids with particular struggles need to be reminded of this.
Was the idea for CAKE something you'd carried around for a while?
Yes. Oh my gosh, I had been thinking about writing about magical cake for a long time. I love the idea of infusing magical realism into my middle grade stories. Readers of this age are wonderful and although they know magic is not real they are still willing to suspend belief and get carried away.
What do you hope your readers gain from reading CAKE?
As I said, my hope is that my words will somehow show kiddoes that they are worthy. Worthy of love. And that taking care of chickens is a good thing, and that sometimes giving love away makes it come back even stronger.
Is there anything else you'd like to tell us about your writing in general or CAKE in particular?
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Thanks, Marti, as always a pleasure to visit. Love all you do to promote literacy.
I love anything Joyce writes … but CAKE is her best yet. Can't wait to read what's next! Thanks for a great interivew, Marti!
Agree, agree, agree, Pam. I have loved all her books but I believe she's truly found her voice in this one. And my pleasure, Pammy!
P.S. Lemon Squares, GPCWC 2013? Maybe I can figure out a way to bring a cake!


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The Medical Minute: With Parkinson's Disease, Countering Symptoms Is Key
3-Dec-2015 11:05 AM EST
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The power of deep brain stimulation
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parkinsons disease, Essential Tremor, DBS, Deep Brain Stimulation
Newswise — Parkinson's disease isn't the kind of affliction that will kill most people. Instead, it creeps up slowly and progressively destroys the quality of life of those who develop it.
A disease of the nervous system, Parkinson's is typically diagnosed by symptoms such as tremors and slow, stiff muscle movements. "Most people don't actually have symptoms until about 50 to 80 percent of the neurons in their brain have died," said Dr. James McInerney, director of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at Penn State Hershey Medical Center.
Research on Parkinson's has found that the neurons are dying for a reason, so replacing dying cells with stem cells tends not to work – the new cells come under attack just as the old ones did.
"The fact that we understand that is an advance," McInerney said. "What we have to figure out is what is attacking them and making them die. We don't have a good way of making cells grow in the brain."
In the beginning stages of the disease, many patients do well with medications that either mimic or help the body produce dopamine, the neurotransmitter that dies with the disease. As the disease progresses, it can become difficult to complete daily tasks of living such as getting out of bed, dressing, eating and moving about safely.
Those with Parkinson's also frequently suffer from non-motor symptoms such as sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal problems, cognitive difficulties and clinical depression. "All of that makes it difficult for them to do the things they want to do," McInerney said.
A treatment called deep brain stimulation, or DBS, has been used for more than a decade at Penn State Hershey to help Parkinson's patients control their muscular symptoms.
McInerney said the idea for DBS grew out of original surgical procedures in which doctors would purposely create lesions in the brain to stop tremors. Medical professionals stopped performing the procedure when medications were developed that worked better than surgically destroying parts of the brain to control symptoms.
DBS uses an electrical current to mimic the damage surgeons used to purposefully create – but without actually destroying anything. Once implanted, doctors can control the stimulator with an external device that adjusts voltage, amplitude, frequency and location of stimulation. "We can turn it up, so if someone's symptoms worsen, we can respond to that," McInerney said.
While DBS is not the first line of treatment for Parkinson's, once begun, patients no longer need to rely solely on medications. "It works better because it is on all the time and it doesn't cycle on and off the way medications do," McInerney said. "And it typically doesn't produce side effects."
DBS has also proven effective for treating other disorders. It is FDA approved for use with essential tremors, dystonia (abnormal muscle contractions) and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Outside the United States, it is used as a tool for controlling seizures, obesity, addiction, pain and depression.
Doctors have also found that patients with Parkinson's disease often develop clinical depression that requires treatment with antidepressants. Once the depression is treated, the motor symptoms tend to improve. "It's not clear why the disease manifests itself with a mood disturbance," McInerney said. "But it is absolutely linked."
That's why he encourages his patients to pay attention to all of their symptoms and seek out treatment for each. "We want to give them a one-stop shop because if you don't, you're not taking care of the whole person," he said. "You have to look for these other symptoms and know they are going on."
Learn more:•	Call Penn State Hershey's Movement Disorder Program at 717-531-4177•	Visit PennStateHershey.org/dbsThe Medical Minute is a weekly health news feature produced by Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Articles feature the expertise of Penn State Hershey faculty physicians and staff, and are designed to offer timely, relevant health information of interest to a broad audience.

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Impressions in Digital Marketing: What Are They and Why Do They Matter?
Whether you're discussing a website or social media accounts, chances are you've either used or heard the term "impressions" a number of times.
The term "impression" has been used as a measurement metric for decades to help marketers try to quantify their efforts. I remember sitting in my marketing classes in college and learning how to estimate impressions and reach for direct mailers and even billboard advertisements.
But, as marketing evolved, so did our ability to more accurately report on impressions, leading us to today, where we can not only comment on impressions for traditional channels such as mailers or radio ads, but also for websites, SEO, social media campaigns, email marketing and more.
Before we dive into the importance of impressions in online marketing and the various ways in which they can be tracked, let's first take a look at the impression definition as it relates to marketing terminology.
This a question I get asked frequently from clients and my family and friends. There are so many similar terms used in marketing that it's difficult to keep them all straight.
While this definition focuses primarily on impressions as they relate to online ads, impressions in online marketing can really refer to anything on the digital platform such as email, ads, social media marketing, or blog content on your website.
In other words, a slightly tweaked answer to the question "what is an online impression" is that impressions in digital marketing refer to any time your digital content is rendered on a user's screen. And therefore, the number of impressions can be described as the number of people who would've seen your content online.
One important thing to remember is that impressions in online marketing are not measured by clicks or interactions with the digital media, only the potential of the user to seeing the piece of media.
In fact, impressions often get confused with reach, which measures unique users who view your digital content. Impressions metrics, meanwhile, track any time the content appears, even if this occurs multiple times for the same user.
For example, if you post a blog post to your 100 followers on Facebook, your reach would be a maximum of 100, even if one of your followers sees the content again from a friend sharing the same post. Your impressions, however, will increase each time someone sees your post, even if they've seen it before.
Because of the way impressions are calculated in online marketing, it has raised some concerns about the validity surrounding the metric.
This controversy exists among marketers because some feel that impressions serve as more of an estimation rather than hard data.
Since there is no interaction or click and the metric is based solely on whether the content, post, or ad is being viewed, it's difficult to determine whether or not the user is actually seeing and registering the content.
This, however, does not mean that impressions in marketing are insignificant or should be completely ignored. It's still an important metric.
And, compared to how marketers used them 25-30 years ago, measuring impressions in digital marketing is much more quantifiable compared to measuring traditional marketing tactics.
Despite the discussion around impressions in online marketing, I don't think any marketer is ready to write off the metric completely.
The reason for this is quite simple: impressions are a great complementary metric to help you better understand other aspects of your digital marketing data.
In our digital marketing agency, we are constantly looking at email impressions, social media impressions and more to better understand other data metrics such as click-through rate (CTR).
When looking at email impressions, for example, if we see that our impressions are quite high, but the CTR is quite low, it tells us that something in our email isn't resonating with our audience. This can help us formulate a strategic plan moving forward with how we structure our emails and calls to action.
Another worthwhile way to utilize impressions in online marketing is through the perception of your brand. Brand awareness plays a huge role in marketing and business. Getting your brand noticed is essential to building and expanding your customer base.
By utilizing impressions through, let's say, your social media channels, you can get a better understanding of the awareness of your brand and content. This, combined with other data metrics, can help you measure and evaluate your social outreach to create a more tailored strategic plan.
Despite the ever-changing reporting processes of digital marketers, certain things hold true, one of which being that evaluating a range of quality data is a great way to formulate strategy.
Now that you have a better understanding of what online impressions are and how they are still important in digital marketing, it's your turn to incorporate them in your campaign evaluations.
Check your email impressions the next time you send out an e-blast. Who knows, it might provide you with the insights you need to improve your CTR.
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Q: Are all "numbers" just one unit value transformed by a function? I'm a programmer, and I've been thinking about this for some time. I have a saying:

There are only three specific numbers: 0, 1, and ∞. ∞ is just a special case of 1.

Our base function really just converts a unary value into a string (example: "101") that we can parse in a given base.
Tonight, I've been putting some thought towards this, and I realize - I believe that the entire set of natural numbers can be represented by a recursive function that only works on a unit value, as follows (I apologize in advance for the terrible notation, this is not my forte):
// Please ignore the fact that this is invalid code for various, various reasons
N (the set of natural numbers) = add(1) where add(x) = return x + add(x);

Following this, I believe that the set of integers can be found as a union of the natural number function and a similar function using subtract instead of add (resulting in the full set of negative numbers).
Going further, I applied more thought - perhaps the set of real numbers can be applied through division functions for the set of all integers divided by the set of all integers (which we've already established via the functions above).
I suppose my question is this - as strange as it may seem, is there only one unit value? (Or, possibly, a very small subset of seed numbers - perhaps 0 and 1 (and maybe -1 for the complex plane?)) Is our number system just a system of transforms on top of one unit value?
If this is a really stupid question, I apologize. It's just that the more I think about this, the more I really wonder about it. There's a good chance that I'm missing something or that this has already been derived, but I'd love to know. I'm sure this community knows much more than I do about this. I hope that this interests all of you as much as it does me.

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the entire set of natural numbers can be represented by a recursive function that only works on a single unary value

Bravo -- this is exactly the key insight that is exploited in most standard formalizations of the natural numbers (the most famous of which is called Peano arithmetic, if you are curious about the details). The recursive function you refer to, which you denoted add(1), is usually called the successor function and written $S$. It's a function from the natural numbers to the natural numbers, which takes a natural number $n$ and returns $n+1$.
To define the natural numbers $\mathbb{N}$, we say that $0$ is a natural number, and for any natural number $n$, $Sn$ is a natural number. This gives us all natural numbers: $0$, $1 = S0$, $2 = SS0$, $3 = SSS0$, and so on.
We also may want to say that $Sn$ is a new natural number, one that has not been defined before (so for example, $4 = SSSS0$ is not equal to $2 = SS0$).
Some logics are strong enough that this definition alone is enough to define and prove what we want about the natural numbers!
You seem to be interested in formalizing it as a program.
In the proof assistant Coq, we may define the natural numbers as:
Inductive naturals : Type :=
  | O : naturals
  | S : naturals -> naturals.

This is similar to your code snippet, but unlike yours (which was invalid code) this is perfectly valid code defining the naturals.
Yes, it really is that simple -- nothing else is needed. Even more surprising, we can go from here to define addition, multiplication, exponentiation, prime numbers, and whatever else we like, and prove things about these that we want to be true. (Most of the definitions will be recursive, and the proofs will be by induction.) Once we have the successor function $S$, everything else follows.

Following this, I believe that the set of integers can be found as a union of the natural number function and a similar function using subtract instead of add (resulting in the full set of negative numbers).

Yes, this basic idea will work to define the integers $\mathbb{Z}$ from $\mathbb{N}$. The integers could be defined by $0$, the successor function $S$, and a predecessor function $P$ which takes $n$ to $n-1$. Unlike with the natural numbers, we do have to define a special equality (equivalence relation) on the integers, so that $PSn$ and $SPn$ are both equivalent to $n$.
An alternate definition (perhaps more common) is that an integer is an ordered pair $(a,b)$, where $a$ and $b$ are natural numbers, and this represents informally the integer $a-b$. We then have to define what it means for two integers to be equal (an equivalence relation), and we say that $(a,b) = (c,d)$ if $a + d = b + c$.
Once again, either definition may be easily formalized in a programming language like Coq.

Going further, I applied more thought - perhaps the set of real numbers can be applied through division functions for the set of all integers divided by the set of all integers (which we've already established via the functions above).

Introducing division in this way (fractions) will get you from $\mathbb{Z}$ to the rational numbers $\mathbb{Q}$. But it won't get you the real numbers $\mathbb{R}$, yet, which is a MUCH bigger set than $\mathbb{Q}$. There are a lot of real numbers -- so many that computationally speaking, we can't really write down most of them. As a theoretical tool, however, it's useful to define this giant set, which we do usually using "Dedekind cuts" or "Cauchy sequences". There are several other less-known ways as well. You can read about it here.

I suppose my question is this - as strange as it may seem, is there only one unary value? (Or, possibly, a very small subset of seed numbers - perhaps 0 and 1 (and maybe -1 for the complex plane?)) Is our number system just a system of transforms on top of one unary value?

Yes, the idea is that we can start with $0$ as the only base value, and use the successor function $S$, together with a way of constructing ordered pairs (for subtraction and division) to generate all the numbers we need. More generically, we start with one or several base values (seed numbers) and one or several recursive constructors (transforms) to build up all possible numbers.
We can develop the complex numbers $\mathbb{C}$ from $\mathbb{R}$ using ordered pairs again where $(a,b)$ is $a + bi$.
However, we do have to be careful to understand the limits of our construction. For example, for lots of computations involving natural numbers to be efficient, it is actually essential that they be represented as binary strings and not unary strings of $S$s. So if we care about efficiency, then not all representations are created equal.

A: You might want to check out Church numerals, where each natural number $n$ is defined as the function $f \mapsto f^n$; so

*

*$0 = f \mapsto id$

*$1 = f \mapsto f$

*$2 = f \mapsto f \circ f$

*$3 = f \mapsto f \circ f \circ f$

etc.  It's easy to define a successor function, addition, multiplication, etc. using this style (omitting un-necessary parentheses in function applications by convention):
$$Sn = f \mapsto f \circ nf$$
$$n + m = mS\;n$$
$$n * m = m (k\mapsto n+k)\;0$$
$$n^m = m(k \mapsto n * k)\; 1$$
etc.
While this is mostly used today in a programming / programming languages context, I believe it was originally intended in a foundations of math context (so in math, the natural numbers would be taken to 'mean' the above functions).  Of course, programming and programming languages as we know them today grew directly out of the work in foundations of mathematics during the 1920s and 1930s.

A: You may be interested in reading about groups, rings, and fields. Wikipedia is a good place to start.
We say that 1 generates all integers under addition and inversion, that is, every positive integer is just a sum of ones, and and every negative integer is just its negation.
If we introduce division, then we get all rational numbers. If we further allow roots of polynomials we get algebraic numbers which include some complex numbers. However, we cannot get all real numbers using algebraic techniques like this--such numbers are called transcendental numbers, e.g. $\pi$ and $e$.
This is a really interesting part of math and not a stupid question at all!


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Free Winona! (From enviro prejudice!)
By Lisa Hymas on Jan 6, 2005
It's not like the woman hasn't paid her dues. Winona Ryder did 480 hours of community service to atone for that little shoplifting mishap (the $7,600 worth of Saks duds she lifted in 2001 — oopsy!), and still the actress endures discrimination — now from enviros, of all people.
Ryder says she wanted to sign a petition calling on Bush to get behind the Kyoto Protocol but was turned away because of her criminal record. No word on which green group did the spurning — last we heard, enviros weren't rebuffing any would-be signers from their go-nowhere petitions, let alone celebs, even of the has-been variety.
Come make your voice heard on the virtual pages of Gristmill, Winona. We won't turn you away!
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Taking inspiration from the indigenous art of South America, Max Kauffman's work is folkloric in nature as it tells tales of a mythological world filled with sprawling buildings and abstract landscapes. Made from the stuff of childhood dreams, these fanciful visions simultaneously evoke a sense of wonderment and wild chaos that's extraordinarily inviting. "Aether Ceremony" pushes Kauffman's DIY aesthetic even further as he continues to make the most out of what he has. Each work on paper resonates with soft hues of blue, pink, brown and black that highlight the artist's post-modern shapes. Configurations that Kauffman describes as "Buildings dissolving in and out of time, space and dimensions." In addition to the watercolor and ink pieces are a series of found cans playing upon his signature style. Having to dig the earth in search of these sculptural pieces beckoned to Kauffman's love for anthropology and native cultures while adding a "nice meta-scenario" within his work.
Overall "Aether Ceremony" is a strong and cohesive body of work portraying the realms of both real and imaginary. For those in the Denver area, there's another opportunity to view Kauffman's art in person. Black Book Gallery is holding a closing reception Friday evening, April 4th from 6-9pm.


Roaring Grass (the "wild grass") - ground spawn in the castle of the Plane of Disease, location +65, +1777. This is in an area beyond Aramin the Spider Guardian.
Petrified Fangshrub (the "elusive shrub") - ground spawn in Riwwi, location -349, -29.
Wildspirit Tear (the "tortured essence") - dropped from an Ailing Walrus in Siren's Grotto, which can spawn anywhere a Servant Manatee or Walrus can.
Taut Leather Swatch - received from Savage Lord Hunter in the Gulf of Gunthak (location -2644, +918) upon giving him three Blue Diamonds.
Bring these four items back to Elder Animist Muada in exchange for a Plain Animist Helm and Shiny Sewing Needle. You'll need to tailor a Helm of the Feral with them (trivial 0, minimum skill 100 (no-fail combine? need confirmation either way)). Upon doing so, equip the helm and speak to Elder Animist Muada again.
Head to the Ocean of Tears and find Marrey McGrannel (now located at +665, +1995 post-revamp). Hand her the letter.
You get the letter back.
Find Irionu Bastun in the Overthere (location +3250, -3096) and hand him the letter.
You receive the letter back.
You'll now need to find Rashara Wrualla, a Vah Shir in Jaggedpine Forest (location +324, -1592).
The fourth elder you need to locate is Ikpug Giblod, who is found in a water tank (of all places..) in Cazic Thule. The location is +865, -355, and it is a little tricky to get to him. Be prepared to gate out after finishing up. Hand him the letter.
He'll sign the letter and return it to you.
The fifth and final elder you need to find is Diddugu in the Western Wastes at location +4246, -93. He is KOS, so you'll need to sneak or invis to do the letter turn-in.
You can now head back to Elder Animist Muada.
He speaks of the Darkened Spirit Essence and Disturbed Beast Essence. They are dropped by Frantic Ravenous Beast in The Maiden's Eye and by Ravenous Nightstalkers in the Plane of Nightmare. Nothing special about these mobs.
Receive a Note to Irionu.
Go back to Irionu Bastun in The Overthere (location 3525, -3095) and hand her the note.
Head to the Gulf of Gunthak and kill the Delirious Drogmor. Loot the Swirling Feral Essence and give it to Irionu Bastun.
Return to Shar Vahl and visit again with Elder Animist Muada.
Elder Animist Muada reads the note and his whiskers twitch, his often bright eyes become dull.
Find yourself three Ales before heading out to the Ocean of Tears. Find Marrey McGrannel in the Ocean of Tears (location -1530, +1550).
Find Ankhefenmut and Zazamoukh, two sphinxes in the Mountains of Rathe. Ankhefenmut may be found at +3410, -3340.
Your faction standing with Ankhefenmut got better.
Your faction standing with Zazamoukh got better.
Ankhefenmut says 'Yes, and do perk your ears. I do not want to have to say this too loudly. There is darkness around our minds and it is clouding our visions and magic. It is a cold, [chaotic feeling] and it does not feel natural. I might have dismissed it as my path to aging, but it is not, for my counterpart, Zazamoukh, feels it too.
Rambling Sphinx Spiritservant has a dark glow in its eye as it rushes toward you.
Rambling Sphinx Spiritservant spawns and attacks. Kill it and loot the Tarnished Ankh Piece.
Rambling Sphinx Spiritservant's corpse babbles incoherently as the glow in its eyes is extinguished.
Hand Zazamoukh the Tarnished Ankh Piece.
Raving Sphinx Spiritservant has a dark glow in its eye as it rushes toward you.
Raving Sphinx Spiritservant spawns and attacks. Kill it and loot the Sullied Ankh Piece.
Raving Sphinx Spiritservant's corpse babbles incoherently as the glow in its eyes is extinguished.
Give the Sullied Ankh Piece to Ankhefenmut.
Receive Gift of the Sphinx.
Find Elder Animist Muada in Shar Vahl. Give Gift of the Sphinx to Elder Animist Muada.
Find Rashara in Jaggedpine Forest at location +324, -1592.
Receive Request of the Elders.
Go to Dranik's Scar and find Yerika Sisslak at location -590, +50.
Upon handing him the note, Girplan Spiritleech spawns along with several friends (fight information?). Kill it and loot Rashara's Warder Essence, after which a chest can spawn with additional loot. Hand the essence to Yerika.
Go back to Rashara and hand her the Essence as well as the Elders Response.
Go back to Shar Vahl and visit with Elder Animist Muada.
Receive Elder Cloak of Resilience.
Head to the Ruined City of Dranik (bring a raid force) and find Erana Farrel at location -1019, -253 (under the bridge). Hand her the cloak, triggering Discordling Dark Animist.
Discordling Dark Animist spawns with five adds at location +413, -1466. Adds are slowable and hit for around 600.
The named has an AE for 1000 + an hp/mana DOT. If things go badly, you can receive another cloak by talking to Muada.
Loot the Discordant Totem of the Feral, after which a chest can spawn with additional loot.
Receive Savage Lord's Totem, the Beastlord Epic 1.5.
After being stuck like so many others with Ankhefenmut not responding to me no matter what I tried. I simply started by saying "What Riddle" to Ankhefenmut and that started the script as intended. Ignore the hailing part and the no response and just move forward.
Hope that helps others from wasting time and causing much frustration.
I find it funny that the word "tough" is spelled correctly in the second bit, but not the first.
Also, I can confirm that he is not in fact KOS. If he was in the past, he no longer is now. He conned indifferent to my Vah Shir Beastlord.
If If I can start this at 62 and finish it early?
when u kill the second little one and loot the item, u need to give it to ankhefenmut. it is the only way shell give you the gift of the sphinx. g~l to you.
here is dialogue for 4th turn in of note .. turn in mob name ikpug gibold..
he says:ah, is a letter from muada!have back !i gets bugged all da time out here .
me hates it lots . all me try to do is study da lizards and how dey (survive) and grow in dis pretty and big place..
ikpug giblod says : well, da smarts is a big clue, but how dey manage to build such a pretty tings is mystery. me been here many weeks and still (learning).
ikpug giblod oh dear. dere bad tings brewin. me gots to go now and get prepared to help muada / i sorta signed dat letter for you bye beastlord!
I just did this today, as soon as I hailed Anhke, Zaza attacked me, still continued the dialogue, had pet hold on, and finished. When I went back to Zaza, he aggroed again and I started the turn it, he stopped then the spirit attacked me, killed that and went back to Anhke, did the turn in spawned spirit and ofcourse Zaza popped back and attacked again. I think this portion of the epic is bugged they both conned Warmly to me and yet Zaza still attacks. Go figure.
The sphinx step in this quest can give some beastlords a bit of trouble. I had to try a few different things and eventually asked a guildmate for help in hailing them. Most seem to have the problem of getting them to respond, and I was surprised to find little information here on how to get around it.
To get Ankhe to respond to you, hailing simply didn't work for me. Get close enough to her as to not agro Zaza (she's on a different faction and isn't as friendly as Ankhe). Most beastlords I've spoken with said Ankhe never responded to hails at all. Getting close enough to her, hailing, and then saying "I am the beastlord" starts the dialogue that is posted above. Simply continue onward from that point.
At level 78, I had no problem doing the fights solo. I think I used one heal potion, and that was between the two fights so I didn't have to wait to get to full health.
Diddugu was indifferent to me without invis, and the dragons were ally.
anybody else have the issue of Ankhefenmut and Zazamoukh not responding to you... went up to em and hailed Ank and Zaz attacked me... ended up druid with me ported out and went back in to retry, they were now ally and warmly but, wouldn't respond. Have been back a few times in the last couple days with the same result, no response. Anyone have an idea?
I had the same issue today.. I had to gate out and run back.. When I returned I could not get a response. Try getting right up under him, target then start where you left off.. When I gated he had just given me the first riddle.. After moving underneath him I responded to the riddle that he had previously given and it picked up where we left off and I finished that part of the quest.. As for Zaz attacking .. He did this to me as well, dunno why but when you return he doesnt attack.
They have massive, massive aggro ranges for grey mobs. Probably aggroed right before you hailed the first for the faction boost. My bard who I brought to get there faster got aggroed barely within visible range.
Has anybody tried this and can tell me if you can druid pacify his pets and single pull DDA, or vice versa...knock the pets out first and then get him? The posts I have read said his aggro is not linked to the pets...how far away can he be pulled without leashing his warders? Any info would be great. Thanks much.
i tri-boxed this with merc's, and had my druid pacify the 3 dragorn in the room. said named and pets were uneffected. i snaared one pet long distance and they all came except the dragorns, i just killed them on the stairs at the top of the room, and dragorns did not aggro after pacify wore off. even though NPC tells you at hand in that he will be surrounded by summoned mobs, druid and mage spells to nuked summoned mobs does not work, so save that spell gem for another spell. my bst was 81, dru 85, mage 85, and at no point was it difficult, the bst healing merc was bored.
Pulled single to zone in by bard. Also split 6 adds and killed them first several times before pulling Named. Never moved raid into the tunnels since the split is abit tricky. Don't know if a druid could pull it but can always try. The adds are wimps but they supposedly make him stronger if you don't drop em first.
Just killed the Dark Animist today and discovered..much to my disappointment..that Erana Farrel despawns when you give her the cloak. If yu succeed in the fight, she will respawn approximately 1 1/2 hours later. So...find something else to do in the meantime.
With the revamp of OoT, the location is no longer valid. The npc Marrey McGrannel is at loc 657.81, 1990. There 2 very small islands near the center of the zone, the north island is the one with the npc. If you take the ship from Butcherblock, stay on it until you get near the twin islands then jump off to the north.
It should be noted getting to the NPC was extremely difficult due to steep mountain peak so dunno if it's intended to be hard or if it is a bug. I reached the npc by climbing on the north side where it was indented.
[Fri Jun 22 00:03:48 2007] Logging to 'eqlog.txt' is now *ON*.
No response from the hail so just give the letter to him.
[Fri Jun 22 00:25:01 2007] Logging to 'eqlog.txt' is now *ON*.
No response from the hail, I just gave the letter to him.
[Fri Jun 22 00:39:14 2007] Logging to 'eqlog.txt' is now *ON*.
No further response, I gave him the letter.
[Fri Jun 22 02:47:51 2007] Logging to 'eqlog.txt' is now *ON*.
[Fri Jun 22 02:48:30 2007] You no longer have a target.
Last latter turn in: NPC was not KOS as indicated in the quest above. Was indifferent to me (Vah Shir) so maybe race plays a role? I did not need to invis or sneak to get the letter turn in. There is however a dragon very close by so if you are KOS to the dragon, watch out. Dragons in western wastes are on Claws of Veeshan faction.
[Fri Jun 22 03:05:33 2007] Logging to 'eqlog.txt' is now *ON*.
[Fri Jun 22 03:05:39 2007] Diddugu regards you indifferently -- looks kind of dangerous.
I returned to Elder Animist Muada. It should be noted in the quest you have to hand in the letter (again) to continue.
I got half way via invis/sneak to avoid the mobs in the corners but I had to plow most of the way to the top. Easy solo at level 73. Do remember to bring bat wing or something for levitate.
Opon hailing Rashara Wrualla says "Hm? What is it? I'm rather busy." Hand her the letter."Terrible. Just terrible. I had a feeling something was wrong. You may return this to him--I have signed it. Interesting place here,is'nt it? Those potameids do cause some trouble. I find them very hard to study as they are quite feisty. I specialize in the advancement and power of warders and the spirits of the wild I command are very dear and special. Many of them are of an ilk you have never seen and they are much sought after. All that will have to [wait]. I must go." You say wait. "I have no time to study now. I must leave and prepare to assist Muada. I would guess you have a roll in all of this too. Goodbye,young one." Also the letter name is still the same.
On letter turn in Irionu Bastun says,"Ah, well,expect rigorousss timesss. Nice to see a familiar stroke of the pen. I learned from Muada a long time ago and it wasss not easy. His tasksss are never easy. Are you familiar with these [lands]?" You say lands "I've been studying the rhinocerosss asss well asss other things i cannot discusss,but my life is about our kind and the power of our warders. This gray beast here isss so incredibly fierce and surprisingly agile for its size. I have been able to use the waysss of ferociousss beastsss in some of my conjuresss that you may have heard of hm? Endless things to learn about wild beastsss. Enough slithering of the tongue,I shall [read] thisss note now." You say read "I must go. That letter bringsss troubling newsss. I must hurry asss I now have another task I must persue urgently. I marked that letter for Muada for you. Do not lose it."
Updated for this and for Marrey, thanks.
I have a lil bit more info i forgot to add to this post Marrey McGrannels loc is +663,+1994.There is no dialog upon hailing her she just turns toward you.Also the letter remains called Letter from Muada after you get it back from Irionu Bastion.
On letter turn in Marrey McGrannel says,"It is indeed authentic. I suppose I can tell ye that I've been studyin' the ways o' the sirens. We as beastlords use the strength of our warders,as well as bestow magic upon them. These sirens use mind tricks! I'm workin' on a [way]to use the magic these fair ocean maidens do to help our kin." When you say way she replies, "I do miss me time with Muada and i suppose i'll get me chance again. I'll have to leave ye now and go to Muada so that I may learn what i must do for him to end the threat to our ways as beastlords. Be well and ready to open your mind to learn from Muada."
Ikpug Giblod in Cazic-Thule is pretty easy to get to. I found out yesterday, after several attempts at carefully moving up the pyramid and fighting the see invis mobs.
I am having problems with the blue diamond turn in to the savage lord hunter, I give them to him and hear the exp sound, but do not receive the leather swatch. I have done the other three pieces in order and tried this several times. I read that some people didn't get them either so they went back and hailed Muada and went through the text again, and then went back and it worked. I did this and it did not work for me. I also noticed that when I hail muada and go through the text that I do not get a yellow flag when finishing the text. I get all the prompts leading up to it, but don't get the flag at the end. Also, when I hail Muada, I get the line about "I am guessing we have some business to tend to." Is this not the line I should get before starting the 2.0? When I say yes we have some business to tend to, I get nothing. When I say What wild? I get the prompted lines. Sorry to sound like a newb, but Sony will not help me any further and told me to talk to people in game and check the boards, I have combed everything I kno and I have no clue what else to do. If you can help it would be greatly appreciated.
Diddugu is indifferent to Vah Shar Beastlord, not KOS and no problem giving the letter to.
Can anyone tell me the pre-quests / tasks for 1.5 if you do not have epic 1.0 please? Been grinding up my BL and hoping to get epic 1.5 without doing the quest for 1.0 :) Thanks for any help you can give.


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6. Illustrant
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Baptiste stood at the front of the classroom. He looked out on the dozen, empty chairs peeking at him from the shadows, and he savored the moment while it lasted. Soon the day would begin, the day his mother always said would come.
The previous teacher, Mrs. O'Toole, told him this was her favorite part of the Vocation. The beginning of the semester, a new start, full of so much potential waiting to be unlocked. He could see the appeal in it, that sliver of time when everything had played out flawlessly in one's mind without being ruined by reality. Yet as a man of science he preferred truth to dreams, practice to theory. Why he had decided to become a teacher, then, was anyone's guess. It was too late to back down now. The students were due soon, and their minds needed to be filled with knowledge.
"Sunn, lights at half power," he called out. The soft lights at the ceiling's edge came to life, revealing to him the entirety of the classroom. He already knew the room well from his time as a student. It was a perfectly round room some fifty meters wide, with a domed ceiling perfect for displaying lessons in tremendous detail. So many kids looking for their Vocations had stared at that ceiling, hours spent gazing up at simulations of polluted bloodstreams, mass extinctions and all those other clinical ways to explain away the screaming Hell their people had run from. Baptiste was, in a way, lucky enough to have been born on the Ark. He'd been spared from the memories that haunted so many on board. All he knew of their original home was from books and stories, all of them with tragic endings. Ironic, he thought, the man teaching Earth Science had never set foot on it.
He turned now to face the front wall. "Sunn. Please show me the ocean."
An ocean blinked into being. It filled every inch of the walls with its bubbling and churning life, billions of gallons spreading out into dark blue. Baptiste craned his neck to see the surface bobbing overheard, just out of reach, as if he were a swimmer drowning in the grip of its cold, dark miles.
"Perfect." He took a few steps back to allow for some space at the front of the room. "Now I need a full-sized female Great White…here." A Great White- Carcharodon carcharias, as they were properly known- appeared at the front of the classroom. Its thick, white and gray body hovered three feet off the floor, swaying slightly as if swimming against an invisible current. He walked around to its front to inspect its scarred and pointed face. The shark smiled with its pink lips drawn back, revealing rows and rows of serrated teeth leading down to its massive gullet. Then he walked back around to its side.
He'd decided to start the year with something dangerous and exciting. To catch the kids' attention early and hold it as long as possible. If he was going to win any of them over to a science Vocation, if there was any way at all, it was through sharing his excitement for the subject. Standing so close to the shark, he could swear it was staring at him with those lifeless, black eyes, yet he knew it was only a simulation, a hollow play of light hanging on the air like an unspoken secret.
Well, not entirely hollow. He held up his right hand with the fingers together, forming the shape of a blade. "Sunn. Dissection mode."
Baptiste plunged his flattened hand into the side of the shark, making a deep incision. He felt no warmth, no wetness as he trailed a bright red line down the length of its body, then down and back up to the start. When he'd made a large enough section to surround all the major organs, he removed his hand and peeled back the section of light.
The anatomy of the shark was laid bare to him, all pinkish-gray with interconnected bags of flesh and vein. He refamiliarized himself with the layout of the shark's innards so he wouldn't find himself at a loss when it came time to teach them. He didn't need that kind of embarrassment on his first day, knowing full well that kids won't let a person live down a thing like that. He quickly found the spleen and heart just behind the gill slits, then moved the bumpy uterus aside to get a better look at the liver.
Just as he was reaching for the kidney, a knock came at the open door. Baptiste recognized the bearded man in his doorway as an Allcleric, the red and black clothes being a dead giveaway. He didn't have much experience with the Allclerics, men and women who acted as Priests, Rabbis and every other religious teacher rolled up in one. They offered spiritual guidance for those who needed it on the voyage, and they held the responsibility of carrying the word of God through the cosmos.
"Sunn. Reset Great White," Baptiste called out. In a blink the shark became whole, the organs hidden once again.
"I don't mean to interrupt," the Allcleric said.
Baptiste waved off the apology, stepping away from the shark. "It's fine. Please, come in." The Allcleric took a few, short steps inside the classroom. He stared at the Great White from a distance.
"Frightening creatures," he remarked.
"Also beautiful. Imagine a killing machine designed so perfectly it barely changed over millions of years, only shrinking to match the available food."
"Just the same, I'd rather not stand too close to one."
Baptiste chuckled. "Of course not. But that's the great thing about science- the closer you look, the more beauty you see." He wanted to add that unlike the lessons the Allcleric taught, they also held up better to scrutiny. But that was an old argument, and one he wasn't interested in rehashing.
"I appreciate the passion you show for your work, Professor," the Allcleric said.
"Please, you can call me Baptiste."
"Ahh. Baptiste." He said the word with reverence. "My name is James Crick, I don't believe we've properly met."
"I can't say that we have." He shook the man's hand. "We don't get many Allclerics down here on Seven."
"Yes, well, somehow we ended up on Four." There was a hint of something in his words. Distaste, perhaps, for the Psych Doctors who shared Deck Four with the Allclerics and their church rooms. Crick wasn't an easy man to read, but Baptiste picked up some hidden anger there.
"I guess the idea is they heal the head and you heal the heart," Baptiste offered. The Allcleric's face warmed at his words.
"That's a wonderful way of looking at things. I might just use that- with your permission, of course."
Sensing an awkward moment, Crick shifted the conversation. "Mrs. O'Toole was a wonderful woman. Her and I didn't always see eye-to-eye, but she did a wonderful job educating the children here. As one of her former students, I'm sure you can agree."
"She's one of the reasons I'm here."
The Allcleric smiled before continuing. "I was wondering, Baptiste, now that you've taken over the science department, how willing you will be to expanding your syllabus."
Baptiste raised an eyebrow. "I haven't even started yet."
"Yes. Of course. In the future, I mean. Down the proverbial road."
"Oh." Baptiste cleared his throat. "Well, I'm always going to stay up-to-date with the latest findings. It's the nature of science to adapt to new facts, new theories. Though to be fair not much has changed in a while."
"The sciences have run stagnant," Crick suggested.
"I wouldn't say they're entirely dead. The Astronomers occasionally come up with an interesting find. The same with the Geologists. Whenever we conduct a mining expedition they seem to come across a new mineral or artifact. Those cubes are fascinating. Then there are the Cytologists and the Geneticists, there's been some wonderful work in that field, with-"
"I was thinking more along the lines of my field," the Allcleric politely interrupted.
Baptiste paused a moment. "But you teach religion."
"Precisely. It would be wonderful if we could work together to illuminate the people on this ship, explain to them not just the how but the why. To offer them new, expanded viewpoints that allow for the spiritual as well as the scientific."
Baptiste felt himself growing annoyed. Classes hadn't even begun and he was already having to defend his syllabus. He took a deep breath, attempting to remain calm. "With all due respect, I think it's better if we stay out of each other's curriculums."
"Forgive me if I'm over-stepping, but this is the very argument Mrs. O'Toole and I had for years. Don't you think that science and religion can walk hand-in-hand? That the existence of one does not negate the other by its very existence?"
"I actually do, but-"
"Then what's the issue with sharing that feeling with the others?"
"Because I don't deal in feelings, Allcleric, you do." No sooner had the words left his mouth, Baptiste regretted saying them. The look on the older man's face said that he'd taken the outburst personally. Baptiste didn't want to cause too many waves, especially on his first day, so he shifted to the other concern on his mind. "I'm sorry, it's just that…I've heard some…things recently. Rumors about a religion being practiced on the Ark."
"I've heard them myself for years. The cult that worships Blackwood, that practices a mixture of science and religion in a way that destroys both. But then there are always rumors on the Ark, no? That's what happens in any place with so many closed doors. Which is precisely why I'm trying to open a few of those doors, to bring the conversation into the light and illuminate the minds of the people."
"I can appreciate what you're saying, I really can. I'm just afraid your timing might be a little off."
Now Crick seemed to be the one losing patience. "You shouldn't let your fears sway you from teaching what you want to teach. To do that is to fail your students."
Baptiste took a step back. "I'm teaching exactly what I want to teach. And if you'll excuse me, I need to prepare to do exactly that. My students should be here any moment."
Crick smiled. "Of course. Thank you for seeing me." Before he left he stopped at the door. "Your name. Baptiste. It's typically paired with Jean, as in Jean-Baptiste, in honor of Saint John the Baptist. Do you know why your parents didn't do this?"
Baptiste thought of his mother, gone all these years, and of his father, alive yet just as gone in some ways. "Maybe they weren't trying to honor anyone," he said. "Sometimes people just like a name."
Crick smiled again, though less warmly. "I see. Thank you again, Baptiste." This time all the previous reverence for the word was gone, as if it had lost its meaning. The Allcleric exited with no more pauses, leaving Baptiste by himself, alone with his Great White shark made of great, white light.
A sudden crash rang out. Baptiste jumped, startled by the loud noise. Something big had been knocked over near the front of the class. When he ran to look, he found one of the extra chairs had tipped over from its resting place against the wall. He checked for what might have knocked it over, maybe a mouse or a strong breeze from one of the air vents, but there was nothing there. No sign of anything that might have caused it. He looked back at the Great White shark floating above and behind him.
"Was that you," he asked. The shark grinned back at him silently, its rows of crushing and rending teeth glinting with inner light. At that moment the students started filing in through the door, screens in hand as they talked and joked with one another. Baptiste stood to face them. One of the girls let out a yelp at the sight of the unexpected shark swimming at the front of the room.
"Save the screams for later," Baptiste said with a mischievous smile. "We haven't even started yet."
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Quotes I like: "Prediction is very difficult, especially concerning the future." "There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them." __ Niels Bohr Given his contribution to the establishment of quantum mechanics, I guess it's not surprising he had such a quirky of sense of humor. ......................."Deliberate misinterpretation and misrepresentation of another's position is a basic technique of (dis)information processing" __ I said that
Experts Agree Clinton Indictment "Chatter Is Just Plain Ridiculous."
http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/02/01/experts-push-back-against-right-wing-media-clai/208297
TPM's Josh Marshall: Experts Agree Clinton Indictment "Chatter Is Just Plain Ridiculous." As reported by Talking Points Memo editor, Josh Marshall, law professors and former federal prosecutors have told him "to a person" that the chances of an indictment are a "far-fetched" idea and that "on the possibility of an indictment, most of this chatter is just plain ridiculous -- a mix of ignorance and tendentiousness":
[div style="border:1px solid #000000;" class="excerpt"] As a legal matter, the chances of Hillary Clinton facing any kind of indictment are very, very low.
Start with the fact that as far as we know, she is not actually even being investigated for anything, let alone facing a looming indictment. The simple facts, as we know them, just don't put her in line for an indictment. The first reason is the facts, which rest heavily on intent and reckless negligence. The second is tradition and DOJ regulations which make professional prosecutors very leery of issuing indictments that might be perceived or in fact influence an election. This was my thinking. But as the press coverage has become increasingly heated, I started trying to figure out if there was something I was missing - some fact I didn't know, some blindspot in my perception. So I've spoken to a number of law profs and former federal prosecutors - based on the facts we know now even from the most aggressive reporting. Not like, is this theoretically possible? Not, what the penalties would be if it happened. But is an indictment at all likely or is this whole idea very far-fetched. To a person, very far-fetched.
So why the press coverage? I think it's a combination of reasons. The most irreducible and perhaps most significant is simply prestige reporter derp and general ignorance of the legal system. Second is journalists' perennial inability to resist a process story. And third, let's be honest, wingnut page views. (TPM, 2/1/15)
ABC News: "There Doesn't Seem To Be A Legitimate Basis For Any Sort Of Criminal Charge Against Her." In a February 1 article, ABC News' legal analyst Dan Abrams debunked media outlets hyping the claim that Clinton will be indicted over her private server usage. Abrams added that "there is no evidence - not suppositions or partisan allegations but actual evidence - that Clinton knew that using a private email server was criminal or even improper at the time":
But the Republicans just love to keep repeating this threadbare RW Big Lie: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1960216
Posted by Bill USA | Sat May 14, 2016, 03:37 PM (35 replies)
40% of BS fans will vote for Trump in Nov, the rest will vote for Justin Bieber -(just conjecture)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511937241
every bit a valid as this post: Millions will sit out the election no matter what Bernie says/does if Hillary is the candidate
Posted by Bill USA | Tue May 10, 2016, 07:13 PM (0 replies)
Predictit - Presidential Election: Hillary 0.62, Trump: 0.40, Sanders: 0.07
https://www.predictit.org/market/1234/who-will-win-the-2016-us-presidential-election
Primary Turnout Means Nothing For The General Election: empirically validated, not an opinion
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/primary-turnout-means-nothing-for-the-general-election/
Republican turnout is up and Democratic turnout is down in the 2016 primary contests so far. That has some Republicans giddy for the fall; here's an example, from a March 1 Washington Times article:
Republicans continued to shatter turnout records in their presidential primaries and caucuses Tuesday, while Democrats lagged behind in what analysts said was a clear indication of an enthusiasm gap heading into the general election.
And some commentators are saying that Democrats should be nervous. From The Huffington Post, last month:
But Democratic Party elites shouldn't be high-fiving each other. They should be very, very worried. In primary after primary this cycle, Democratic voters just aren't showing up.
But Democrats shouldn't worry. Republicans shouldn't celebrate. As others have pointed out, voter turnout is an indication of the competitiveness of a primary contest, not of what will happen in the general election. The GOP presidential primary is more competitive than the Democratic race.
Indeed, history suggests that there is no relationship between primary turnout and the general election outcome. You can see this on the most basic level by looking at raw turnout in years in which both parties had competitive primaries. There have been six of those years in the modern era: 1976, 1980, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008.
a very good presentation of how it is we know AGW is happening.... on Vox.com
.. I know this is not news to rational people, but this is a good presentation with links to all relevant data provided. MIght be useful for informing any who still believe it's all a hoax.
http://www.vox.com/cards/global-warming/what-is-global-warming
Benghazi - Emails addicts remind me more & more of the Birther Bugs! ROFL
when all else fails, just pick and choose the words you like in someone else's statement . no fraudulence in that! [font size="5"]ROFL[/font]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1917594
Posted by Bill USA | Sat May 7, 2016, 04:14 PM (9 replies)
Benghazi Biopsy: A Comprehensive Guide to One of America's Worst Political Outrages
http://www.newsweek.com/benghazi-biopsy-comprehensive-guide-one-americas-worst-political-outrages-385853
Moussa Koussa.
That is the name of the "classified source" in an old email from Hillary Clinton released last week by Republicans purportedly investigating the 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Under the instructions of the Benghazi committee's chairman, Republican Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, Koussa's name was blacked-out on the publicly issued email, as Republicans proclaimed revealing his identity would compromise national security. The media ran with it, saying Clinton had sent classified information through her personal email account.
[font size="3"]But the CIA never said the name was secret. Nor did the Defense Intelligence Agency or the FBI. No, Koussa's role as an intelligence source is about as classified as this column.[/font] He is the former intelligence chief and foreign minister of Libya. In 2011, he fled that country for Great Britain, where he provided boodles of information to MI6 and the CIA. Documents released long ago show Koussa's cooperation. Government officials have openly discussed it. His name appears in newspapers with casual discussions about his assistance. Sanctions by the British and the Americans against Koussa were lifted because of his help, and he moved to Qatar. All of that is publicly known.
[font size="3"]But, as they have time and again, the Republicans on the Benghazi committee released deceitful information for what was undoubtedly part of a campaign—as Kevin McCarthy of the House Republican leadership has admitted—to drive down Clinton's poll numbers. Republicans have implied—and some journalists have flatly stated—that Clinton was reckless and may have broken the law by sending an email that included thirdhand hearsay mentioning Koussa's name. [font color="red"]The reality is that the Republicans continue to be reckless with the truth.[/font][/font]
In fact, no previous assault on a diplomatic outpost has received this kind of relentless expression of congressional outrage. There weren't investigations that were anything on this scale about the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983 (63 killed), on the U.S. Embassy annex northeast of Beirut in 1984 (24 killed) or on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, in 2008 (18 killed). Republicans didn't believe these exact same scenarios that took place under Republican presidents merited similar zeal to dig down to some unexposed, imaginary "truth."
In fact, Benghazi was just one of 21 major assaults on an American diplomatic facility in the last 20 years; the personnel murdered there were among about 90 other Americans hired by the government to work in diplomatic outposts who were killed in terrorist attacks from 1998 through 2012, according to a State Department report. Apparently, their killings—like the deaths of thousands of Americans at Pearl Harbor and in the World Trade Center—were seen as less important than murder of four people in a North African country in the midst of a government overthrow.
But to fully understand how political this latest Benghazi investigation has become, look at the records. Since March, the committee has issued almost 30 press releases related to Clinton; only five have been put out on every other topic combined. Then there is the committee's interim report from this past May. The word Obama—who cannot run for commander-in-chief again—is not mentioned. Neither is the word president. Or Ansar al-Sharia, the group suspected of engineering the attack. White House makes only 13 appearances. Imagine an investigation on 9/11 that did not mention Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or President Bush; that is what has been done with the Benghazi committee's first public report.
Nothing like this happened after 9/11. Yes, there were scores of buttons and bumper stickers with words on them like "We Will Never Forget" and "America Salutes Its Fallen Heroes." These were intended to unify the country and honor those who had died; in a widespread search, I could find none showing the blood of the murdered splattered on anyone in the Bush administration.
GOP-Commissioned Benghazi Report Debunks GOP Conspiracy Theories About Benghazi
But the latest report, released Friday, does little to back up Republicans' suspicion of negligence, and it finds no intelligence failure on the part of the CIA.
The investigative report is authored on the right by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and the left by Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD). Rogers previewed the report during a Fox News this September when he smacked down one of the leading right-wing theories, that the State Department issued a stand-down order before the attack. "It was the commander on the ground making the decision," Rogers explained at the time. "I think it took 23 minutes before they all, including that commander, by the way, got in a car and went over and rescued those individuals."
The report also disproves other conspiracy theories about that tragic night, including the idea that officials rejected a proposal to rescue the Americans trapped in the under-attack consulate, and that those in the consulate were covertly dealing arms to Syrians from Libya.
This investigation is one of eight total into the attack. Collectively, the investigations have been panned on the left as "partisan" and "an embarrassment," particularly because of the amount of money spent on them — more than what's allotted for standing Congressional issues like the budget or ethics — and because Republicans have raised money off of the tragedy and subsequent investigation. Even family of one of those killed in the attacks came forward to denounce the repeated Benghazi investigations.
Will Bernie give us another Ralph Nader moment?
Posted by Bill USA | Fri May 6, 2016, 04:44 PM (33 replies)
US Officials Report No Evidence Hillary Clinton Broke The Law, Will Right-Wing Media Listen?
Conservative Media Conspiracy Theories Doused By The Facts
U.S. officials say they have not yet found evidence that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton willfully broke the law with use of her private email or that her server was hacked, according to two new reports, undercutting the conservative witch-hunt for a bombshell in the Democratic presidential front-runner's email setup.
Prosecutors and FBI officials "have so far found scant evidence that [Hillary Clinton] intended to break classification rules," according to a May 5 Washington Post report. The article noted that "prosecutors are wrestling with the question of whether Clinton intended to violate the rules, and so far, the evidence seemed to indicate she did not":
[blockquote style="border:1px solid #000000;padding:10px;"]Prosecutors and FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server have so far found scant evidence that the leading Democratic presidential candidate intended to break classification rules, though they are still probing the case aggressively with an eye on interviewing Clinton herself, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter
The involvement of the U.S. Attorney's Office is not indicative that charges are imminent or even likely. One official said prosecutors are wrestling with the question of whether Clinton intended to violate the rules, and so far, the evidence seemed to indicate she did not.
CNN underscored the findings in the Washington Post article, reporting that "The investigation is still ongoing, but so far investigators haven't found evidence to prove that Clinton willfully violated the law." The reports join the growing chorus of legal experts and government officials who have undermined claims made by right-wing media figures, who have repeatedly scandalized Clinton's use of a private email server by arguing that she broke the law using her server for State Department emails.
But U.S. officials "dismissed claims (by "Guccifer") that he was able to breach Clinton's personal email server,"according to the Post, noting, "investigators have found no evidence to support the assertion." NBC News also reported that the hacker "could provide no documentation to back up his claims," and Politico reported that an "internal FBI review of Clinton's email records did not indicate traces of hacking."
Will the Right Wingers listen?? ..of course not! ...http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1898037
At the starting gate: Clinton leads Trump by double-digits
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/04/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-general-election/
Indianapolis (CNN) — As Donald Trump captures the mantle of presumptive Republican nominee, a new poll finds he begins his general election campaign well behind Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
The new CNN/ORC Poll, completed ahead of Trump's victory last night, found Clinton leads 54% to 41%, a 13-point edge over the New York businessman, her largest lead since last July.
of course, REpublicans swaddled in their reality inverse Alternate Universe have started a disinformation campaign asserting Trump, the candidate that 40% of Republicans say they won't support, can win in November: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511913819
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Kvitova into French Open quarter-finals
Petra Kvitova underlined her status as one of the French Open title favourites with a 6-2 6-4 win over China's Zhang Shuai in the fourth round.
The seventh seed, who has yet to drop a set at the tournament, needed 85 minutes to see off the 31-year-old.
The Czech got on top of Zhang by breaking at the start of both sets, two of her four breaks during the match.
She was broken only once herself – while serving for the match – but then got over the line in the 10th game.
The 30-year-old is into the last eight at Roland Garros for the first time since 2012 and will now face German Laura Siegemund, who beat Spain's Paula Badosa 7-5 6-2.
Kvitova struggled with her serve at times, especially in the second game of the second set where she made successive doubles as the roof closed in Philippe Chatrier. However, her fierce ball-striking from the baseline often overwhelmed the world number 39.
Her only other wobble came when she looked to finish off Zhang in the eighth game of the second set, but made three unforced errors as she dropped serve.
"It was difficult and a tough one," Kvitova said. "She served well and played aggressive. I'm happy for the end.
"I've been lucky enough to play on all three big courts. The conditions changed today from windy and cold to like playing indoors when the roof closed."
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Q: I'm confused with the role of method called .next() in java and jdbc I use .next() in java string to return the value what comes before white_space
e.g. "hello world"=> returns "hello"
But in jdbc:
ResultSet rs= stmt.executeQuery();
if(rs.next()){
     //do something
}

I use it with the moto

"If the result set still has results, move to the next result and do
  something"

So I'm confused with the role. Please someone clarify it.

A: All standard Java classes are documented: Java API Specification.
Example:

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*ResuttSet.next()

Moves the cursor forward one row from its current position. A ResultSet cursor is initially positioned before the first row; the first call to the method next makes the first row the current row; the second call makes the second row the current row, and so on.
...

*Scanner.next()

Finds and returns the next complete token from this scanner. A complete token is preceded and followed by input that matches the delimiter pattern.
...


Does Snow capture the subscription ID for Azure and AWS?
Is there any specific report for it ?
Where can we get that information if SNOW does capture it ?
You will find the fields collected and the mapping in the connector user guides on the Support Portal.


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