I read this book back in middle school, but cannot remember the title. It was a great story, but I can't seem to find it. The book begins with a woman falsely accused of witchcraft by her neighbor. She is found guilty and is sentenced to be made into an offering for the dragon. When the dragon finds her, she throws stones at it in a rage. The dragon finds her reaction curious and shapeshifts into a man who agrees to help her seek revenge on her accuser.
Story is in a medievalish setting and starts with a woman who has been falsely accused of being a witch being taken by 2 men to be sacrificed to a dragon.  She ends up befriending the (male) dragon, who is able to transform into various forms, including human, and can speak only the language of whatever form he is in. e.g. can speak English in human form, but can't in dragon form.  He needs to return to his dragon form every day at sunrise or he dies.  Contact with iron or steel causes him pain and prevents him from transforming.  Near the end of the book, he's been put in handcuffs by one of the two men from the start and the woman has to get the assistance of the other one (village blacksmith?) to remove them before sunrise, which they manage to do just in time.  I think I read it maybe 10 years ago.    I also remember it was a very short book, probably only about 100 pages.
Table column not align if give color for Table entries My code follows:  \documentclass{book} \usepackage{color,colortbl} \begin{document}  \begin{tabular}{ll&gt;{\color{red}}p{20pc}} a &amp;1 &amp;Test \end{tabular}  \end{document}   The output was:    Some unnecessary vertical space came before the last column. If I remove the tag \color{red} then everything works fine, how can I fix this?  Above said issue was fixed based on the suggestion given by David Carlisle and CarLaTeX, but the same problem was there if I use the supertabular environment, I used supertabular package for auto breaking table and the code follows:  \documentclass{book} \usepackage{color,colortbl,supertabular} \begin{document}  \begin{supertabular}{ll&gt;{\leavevmode\color{red}}p{4pc}&gt;{\leavevmode\color{black}}l&gt;{\leavevmode\color{black}}l&gt;{\leavevmode\color{red}}p{4pc}} a &amp;1 &amp;Test &amp;a &amp;1 &amp;Test\\ a &amp;1 &amp;Test &amp;a &amp;1 &amp;Test\\ \end{supertabular}  \end{document} In what order are the dated ordered by? Certainly not alphanumeric order.  ls -lt sorts by modification time. But I need creation time. Finding a replacement for the scoreboard player test What did Enel do after being defeated? As shown in the Manga and the Anime, Enel survived along with the Ark.  He then Embarks to Fairy Verth      The Moon.   In the Manga it shows his adventures on the Moon.  But what happened?  I didn't understand the situation that happened.  What exactly happened on the Moon? Story about a deadly alien creature on another planet that has some chemical in its body that makes it faster I can not remember if it was a short story or a novel, but I am leaning towards it being a novel. There is a colony of humans and I can't remember if they crash-landed or not.   There is a creature that they come to discover after it has killed a few people. The creature has some kind of chemical in its body that is like a super-adrenaline. One part is I remember is one of these creatures getting very hot from using up its reserve of this chemical and it dived into a river or pond and it started to steam. Something like that.  It has to be at least 10 years since I read the story. I've seen several examples of code like this:  if not someobj:     #do something   But I'm wondering why not doing:  if someobj == None:     #do something   Is there any difference? Does one have an advantage over the other? Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem Proof Abbott (Ax. of Choice) In Abbott's Proof of the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem, does Abbott use any form of the Axiom of Choice ?   I think he is since he chooses an $a_{n_k} \in I_k$ where there are multiple such $a_{n_k}$. Proof of $\int_{[0,\infty)}pt^{p-1}\mu(\{x:|f(x)|\geq t\})d\mu(t)=\int_{[0,\infty)}\mu(\{x:|f(x)|^p\geq s\})d\mu(s)$ Who killed Ra's Al Ghul first, Batman or Arrow? Find the value of $\sum_0^n \binom{n}{k} (-1)^k \frac{1}{k+1}$ Find the value of $\sum_0^n \binom{n}{k} (-1)^k \frac{1}{k+1}$.  Writing out several terms, I think the answer is $1/(n+1)$, but I'm struggling to prove this. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could show how to prove this. Should edits with only minor code improvements be accepted. As an example, I'm reviewing an edit that changes all double quotes to single quotes and renames a variable in some javascript. With the exception of the variable rename (which is not entirely necessary), the edit is frivolous. Should I accept on the merits of a debatable variable name change? 123.SOGOU.COM - trojan horse in ukui-screensaver How can a singularity in a black hole rotate if it's just a point? I guess nobody really knows the true nature of black holes, however, based on everything I know about black holes, there is a "singularity" at their center, which has finite mass but is infinitely small and thus infinitely dense.  So a black hole is really just a point mass that dramatically warps the space-time around it so that an event horizon is achieved.  What doesn't make sense to me is how a true mathematical "point" can rotate, or at least how it is even possible to determine if a point is rotating (or if it should even make a difference about whether or not it is rotating, for the same reason it would be impossible to tell if a perfect, featureless sphere were rotating (I know it would have higher rotational energy but lets assume you can't measure that because a true "point" can't attain rotational energy since it has no radius)).  The only conceptual solution I have to describe a rotating black hole would be to compare it to a rotating whirlpool, where the surface of the water is the fabric of space-time... but this is different because there is no "singularity" in a whirlpool that causes the water around it to rotate, whirlpools form from flow of water around a point (put into motion perhaps by some kid swirling water in a 2-liter bottle... it's due to an external cause), but the only thing that could cause rotation around a black hole would be the singularity itself, which doesn't make sense because, once again, how can we know if a true point is actually rotating?  Aside from everything I've said, here is what I am actually asking:  Why/how do some black holes rotate... what is the mechanism of their rotation (is analogous to a spinning point or a 3-d whirlpool, or something different)? Mysterious Windows 7 Autorun Location I have Acer Aspire One A521 with brand new SSD disk, on which I've just installed brand new Windows 7 HE 64. After installing system I installed all drivers, including Conexant audio driver. Starting from that moment, after each system restart I see Windows prompt asking me, if I really want to run application C:\Program Files\CONEXANT\cAudioFilterAgent\cAudioFilterAgent64.exe.  Situation like that is quite normal to me, and I always use some "startup scanner" to find such software and purge system out of it. I have very, very old Startup Control Panel 2.8 by Mike Lin. It can have even ten years, but it has never disappointed me, so I continue using it. It scans Startup folders for current user and common one, HKLM Run, HKCU Run and Run Once sections of Windows Registry. For past ten years I thought that these are all locations where application, that is being autorun during system startup can coexist. Turns out, I was wrong.  Since this is brand new Windows, just installed, its autorun locations are empty. The only entry I do have is ATI graphic card driver manager startup string in HKLM Run. I have checked that fact ten times (but only with above mentioned program and manually) and I'm 100% sure, that in none of known to me autorun locations there are no traces of Conexant program startup string.  What do I miss? Does Windows 7 introduces some new startup location or a new method of autorunning programs, that is beyond, what I know and what Startup Control Panel scans?  Solving this problem is a snap for me. I can use brute-force method of removing manually that file or renaming it or I can uninstall Conexant audio driver at all (for the very, very limited use of audio in my laptop, that I have, Windows driver will for sure be enough, I've installed Conexant one "just in case"). But I'm really, really curious, how Windows is possible to run this program each time I restart it? Where autorun string for it can exists? Why is any pgr_* routing function taking forever based on OSM data in an pgrouting enabled DB ISP blocking port 25 My ISP has started blocking port 25 so I can not send email through my dedicated server any more.   I have several options:   Send email through the SMTP server provided by my ISP. Any problems with this? Setup mu server so that it receives email on another port instead of port 25     No one else sends email through my server so it should be OK. How do I do this on a Linux server? Buy a static client IP - these are not being blocked so far.   Which one is preferable? Prove $a^\alpha b^{1-\alpha} \le \alpha a + (1 - \alpha)b, \; a,b > 0,\; 0 < \alpha < 1$ How can I buy apps in the App Store without a credit card? While I'm waiting for my credit card to arrive, I still want to be able to buy some apps for my iPad!  Are there alternative ways to pay for apps, without resorting to someone else's credit card? Where are some good places to find royalty free stock images? The email for getting notifications can be changed by clicking the "preferences" tab in your profile. After entering a new email address, the "Save email settings" button becomes clickable:    Clicking the button turns it grey:    So all looks well. But if you don't confirm the email by clicking on the link sent to your email inbox, the next time you go back to the preferences, you will see your old email address with no indication that it changed.  You can subscribe to the weekly newsletter from the "edit" tab of your profile. If you click the option and save, the next time you visit the edit page before confirming your email you get this message:    Once you confirm the email, the resend link disappears so you know the subscription is set up:    Ideally, the two systems would be unified so that all email subscriptions happen the same way. But short of that, it would be very helpful to indicate that an email address is unconfirmed for notification emails just like newsletters.