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How long does mana from Burning-Tree Emissary stay around?
On the meta home page I noticed the  is listed as doing something, but cannot figure out what it is.  There is nothing on the  or its , but the recent activity is listed with the same timestamp. Partial vs. Full Volume Wort Boil The starting position for most new extract brewers is to use a partial boil set up.  Defined as using a pot smaller than the intended batch size, all the ingredients are boiled in a smaller volume.  Then the wort is diluted to the final desired batch size.  (Often the dilution step is used as part of a cooling step)  What are the Ups and Downs of both Partial vs. Full boils? Massless charged particles I heard using 'could' is for politeness. When I request something, should I say "Can you please" or "Could you please"? Does the latter sound over-polite and pretentious? How can I download a Flash video from a website? Apt/Synaptic needs to reinstall package but can't find the archive for it Running Synaptic I get the following error message:  E: The package hl1440lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.   Upon accepting the message, Synaptic quits. Why could the dwarves only enter Erebor with the secret passage? Please bear with me as I've never read any of the LOTR books or the Hobbit, only seen the movies so far...  But when the sunlight fades and the dwarves think they've lost their only chance to enter Erebor using the secret passage and the key, they turn around to head home. Why is it that the dwarves would be unable to enter Erebor the way they did years ago, using regular doors to get inside? I'm assuming that's how they entered Erebor years ago? Maven plugin executing another plugin I'm trying to create a new plugin to package my latest project.  I'm trying to have this plugin depend on the maven-dependency-plugin to copy all my projects dependencies.  I've added this dependency to my plugin's pom, but I can't get it to execute.  I have this annotation in my plugins main Mojo:  @execute goal="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:copy"   I've tried a few other names for the goal, like dependency:copy and just copy but they all end with a message saying that the required goal was not found in my plugin.  What am I doing wrong?  Secondary to this is where to I provide configuration info for the dependency plugin? New passport and entrance Schengen I am from Brazil and travel a lot in Schengen countries. Under the rules of Schengen visa (3 months stay in a 6 months period). In my passport are the entrance and exit stamps, also to chec the days I stay in Schengen.  I need a new passport and will get this in Brazil. So in this new passport are NOT the stamps. Does this mean I start new with the Schengen visa rule? I seems like. The new passport is empty. Or do I miss something? It would be great because I am almost on my 90 days stay in the period of 180 days. Did Sidious know the secret of cheating death? In Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Chancellor Palpatine tells Anakin the tale of Darth Plagueis the Wise. He told Anakin that if he joined the dark side he could save the people he loved from death by extending their midichlorian count, just as Darth Plagueis had done (obviously more subtly than that).  When Anakin asked what had happened to Plagueis, Palpatine says:      Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew. Then his apprentice...killed him in his sleep.   It is revealed (not in the movie) that it was Palpatine himself that was Plagueis' apprentice  After Anakin and Palpatine kill Mace Windu, Palpatine says,     To cheat death is a power only one has achieved, but if we work together I know we can discover the secret.   This implies that Palpatine doesn't already know the secrets but if Plagueis taught him "everything he knew" then surely he would have.  So did Sidious know the entire time or was "everything he knew" an exaggeration?  Just to be clear when I say "cheat death" I only mean extending someone's midichlorian count, not "transfer essence" or anything else like that. Does it just vanish into space leaving nothing behind or does it expel some material?    Also, talking more about black holes, as far as I understand the term "temperature", it is defined by the amount of kinetic energy of the particles of a body and from what I have read, there are no particles inside a black hole, I know that you can find the temperature of a black hole by analyzing its Hawking radiation but I cant really understand how the term "temperature" can be applied to a black hole. Does it mean that whatever is that it is inside a black hole has kinetic energy? Have physicist already experienced the death of any regular black hole (by regular I mean space-sized black holes not micro ones created in labs)? Also, where is the Hawking radiation form? Because if it is released by the black hole I bet it must have formed outside the event horizon, but how exactly? Justifying the Normal Approx to the Binomial Distribution through MGFs Would absolutely love if someone could help me with this question, in a step by step way to help those who are uninitiated to Statistics and Mathematics.   So, I am trying to "prove/justify" through MGFs how as n(the sample size) increases and goes to infinity, a standardized binomial distribution converges to the Standard Normal Distribution. So in the beginning we have $X_n $~$ Bin(n,p)$ then we standardize this $R.V.$ by subtracting the mean $E(X_n)=np$ and dividing by the $SD$ which is $np(1-p)$. After doing this, we get a new $R.V.$ with $mean=1$ and $variance=SD=1$. It is the distribution of this standardized quantity that converges to a fixed distribution, correct? Namely the Standard Normal Distribution. Let's call the standardized version of $X_n$, $Z_n$.   I think what we need to do is to find the MGF of $Z_n$ and show that this MGF becomes the Standard Normal Distribution's MGF as the sample size $(n)$ heads toward infinity. Now $Z_n$ is a function of $X_n$ which we know the MGF of which is $(1-p+pe^t)^n$.   Now I know that $Z_n$ is a linear transform and that we should be able to use this to simply the MGF but I don't understand how the course notes do it, mostly because they skip a lot of steps and it is difficult to follow. There is also a Taylor Series Expansion for the exponential that I am confused about although I do understand the concept of the series expansion.  Help would be greatly appreciated! I would love assistant in exactly how we can prove this via MGF.   Thanks so much in advance :) proper use google webmaster tools URL Parameters There are some urls like http://domain.com/user/:username and http://domain.com/post/:id on my website, the username and id is the parameter from database. I try to let google crawler more efficiently , can I use google webmaster tools &gt; URL Parameters &gt; add parameter ? I read the document but still don't get it how to set up? the column Parameter and the rest what should I filled? or this tools only for get method parameter? How do I make my own horse follow me? I've found a horse in Skryim and I ride it a bit to explore the wild but when I dismount, it wanders away and doesn't stay where I leave it. How do I stop it from doing this? Is there a special thing I forgot about horses? I didn't steal this horse - it was from an Imperial Fort that I've cleared. Why does LD keep outputting "no version information available" On every loading of a lib, I get the error:     no version information available   This lib has been compiled on another PC (ubuntu 10.04) than the one running it (mandriva 2010.2).  $ ldd /usr/local/gnu-eabi-4.5.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/arm-eabi/lib/libbfd-2.21.so /usr/local/gnu-eabi-4.5.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/arm-eabi/lib/libbfd-2.21.so: /lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/local/gnu-eabi-4.5.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/arm-eabi/lib/libbfd-2.21.so)  linux-gate.so.1 =&gt;  (0xffffe000)  libz.so.1 =&gt; /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb77a7000)  libc.so.6 =&gt; /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0xb7655000)  /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb787a000)   Edit: the workaround didn't work. Is the axiom of choice needed in proving that metric spaces in which every infinite subset has a limit point are compact? What is the unit of the coordinate system in PSTricks? If I use the following code, there two different kinds of units. One for the coordinate system used to declare \begin{pspicture} with (0,0) to (20,10), and the centimeter used in 4.2cm.  \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(20,10) \rput[lt](0.5,9){\psframebox[linewidth=1pt,framearc=0]{\parbox[c]{4.2cm}{\raggedright Text Goes Here...}}} \end{pspicture}   Can I use a unified dimension for both PSTricks objects and \parbox? I have $a,b,c\in\mathbb{Q}$ not all zero. ($a^2+b^2+c^2\ne 0$), I want to show that the following determinant is then non-zero. I failed to arrive at an appropriate form of the polynomial. Help please. $$\left|\begin{bmatrix} a &amp; 2c &amp; 2b\\b &amp; a &amp; 2c\\ c &amp; b &amp; a\end{bmatrix}\right| = a^3+2 b^3-6 a b c+4 c^3$$    Second question, what is the easiest way to argue that $\{1,\sqrt[3]{2},(\sqrt[3]{2})^2\}$ is linearly independent in $\mathbb{Q}$?    Motivation: Prove that $\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt[3]{2}] = \{a+b\sqrt[3]{2}+c(\sqrt[3]{2})^2\;|\;a,b,c\in\mathbb{Q}\}$ forms a field.   Proof: Since $\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt[3]{2}] \subset \mathbb{R}$, we prove $\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt[3]{2}]$ is a subfield of $(\mathbb{R},+,\cdot)$    $\forall (a+b\sqrt[3]{2}+c(\sqrt[3]{2})^2)\in \mathbb{Q}[\sqrt[3]{2}]\backslash\{0\}.$ We want to find $(a+b\sqrt[3]{2}+c(\sqrt[3]{2})^2)$ such that    $(a+b\sqrt[3]{2}+c(\sqrt[3]{2})^2)(d+e\sqrt[3]{2}+f(\sqrt[3]{2})^2) =$ $ (ad+2ec+2bf)+(ae+bd+2cf)\sqrt[3]{2}+(af+cd+be)(\sqrt[3]{2})^2 = 1$    Since $\{1,\sqrt[3]{2},(\sqrt[3]{2})^2\}$ is linearly independent (?) over $\mathbb{Q}$, we show there is unique solution to: $$\begin{bmatrix} a &amp; 2c &amp; 2b\\b &amp; a &amp; 2c\\ c &amp; b &amp; a\end{bmatrix} \cdot \left[\begin{array}{l l} d\\e\\f \end{array}\right] = \left[\begin{array}{l l} 1\\0\\0 \end{array}\right] $$ Which is equivalent in showing the determinant is non-zero $$\left|\begin{bmatrix} a &amp; 2c &amp; 2b\\b &amp; a &amp; 2c\\ c &amp; b &amp; a\end{bmatrix}\right| = a^3+2 b^3-6 a b c+4 c^3=(?)$$    By subfield test, 1)2)3)4) is enough to say that $(\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt[3]{2}],+,\cdot)$ is a subfield of $(\mathbb{R},+,\cdot)$ therefore a field.  EDIT: If you have shorter way that prove the proposition without touching my 2 questions, that is even better. In what order should I watch the various Stargate TV Series? I am unfamiliar with the (multiple) Stargate shows and films, other than the movie which I saw a while ago. I want to try watching the series to see if it is something that I like.   What are the non-subjective facts about the series (without spoilers) that I should be aware of when figuring out which series to start with, for example the original airing order of the series, chronological order of the series, frequency of references to a series other than the one that I'm watching, etc. Where can I find my .emacs file for Emacs running on Windows? I tried looking for the .emacs file for my Windows installation for Emacs, but I could not find it. Does it have the same filename under Windows as in Unix?  Do I have to create it myself? If so, under what specific directory does it go?