Late 80s horror/post-apocalyptic novel praised by Stephen King; main character's half-zombied wife attempts to kill him after sex
70s or 80s Book. Post Catastrophe, Sheriff tries to hold town together, and keep his schizo wife from killing him
The tennis statistics at the end of a set always show the number of winners and unforced errors of the players. But when does a point count as a winner and when as unforced error? What is the best word describing the nature of expiring in a short amount of time, connoting "losing public attention"? SqlServer: can one table's PK be the FK of two table's? I have three tables project, users and proj_user. The PK of proj_user table is the FK of project and users table's pk e.g.(project_id,user_id)  My question is, is it possible if the project_id and user_id's data is different  like project_id = '12345' and user_id = 'abc987'  Please reply  kind regards Vivek How can I get a reference to a method? Prove that $x^x+y^y=z^z$ doesn't have integer solutions Conditional distributions of the multivariate normal How do I detect a click outside an element? I have some HTML menus, which I show completely when a user clicks on the head of these menus. I would like to hide these elements when the user clicks outside the menus' area.  Is something like this possible with jQuery?  $("#menuscontainer").clickOutsideThisElement(function() {     // Hide the menus }); Differences between the introduction of a sandwich thesis and a paper I would like to know what are the main differences between the introductory part of a paper and of a thesis. My thesis would be a sandwich type, so I would have to wrap everything there.  Some of the differences are:   Longer in thesis. Deeper in thesis. Extended definition of key terms, concepts and methodology in thesis. Clear definition of the whole goal in thesis, whereas paper smaller goal.   To narrow the possible answers, I do research on the molecular aspects of the infection steps of a pathogenic swine bacteria. Also develop strategies to block infection by using vaccines. How can I list the contents of a .zip folder in c#? How can I list the contents of a zipped folder in C#? For example how to know how many items are contained within a zipped folder, and what is their name? So I had  closed within eight minutes of asking.  Is this a little fast? Not only do I object to the reason it was closed (not a real question, come on I'm asking for decent books!), but it was closed insanely fast. Should there be a grace period for questions (diamond mods exempt if so) before they can be voted on to be closed? GAP: how to work with elements of the group ring of the symmetric group $\mathbb{C}[S_k]$? In an ideal case, we assume strings and ropes to be massless and having same tension throughout.  However, I was doing some questions which involved a rope with mass.  The question was that if a uniform thick rope of length 5 m is resting on a horizontal smooth (assume frictionless) surface and is pulled by a force of 5N from one end, then what is the tension in the rope at the point 1 m away from the end where force is applied? (sorry for the poor image)    I came to the conclusion that since rope is not fixed, tension anywhere should be zero. However, when I checked the answer, it was 4 N. I failed to understand how.  Then the next part of the question was that if the rope now hangs between two fixed points which are at same level, then what would be the tension in the rope at its lowest point?    The answer has to be expressed in terms of mass of string m, acceleration due to gravity and $\theta$ where $\theta$ is the angle that tangents to the rope make with the horizontal.  I took that force acting on lowest point is mg, since it is center of mass and hence T = mg. However, according to the answer it depends upon $\theta$ as well. However, I failed to see what I was doing wrong?  I would appreciate any help in solving these questions, since I have no clue of where exactly I am wrong. I did search the Internet and a few books, but everywhere they assumed string/rope to be massless. How to check who owns the Slack's workspace? I'd like to check who owns (or at least some kind of public profile page) some workspace based on its subdomain (e.g. xyz.slack.com).  Is it possible? Does one need a visa to transfer between two airports during a transit through the Schengen area? I am an Indian citizen travelling from New York to Delhi with a layover in Paris where I need to transfer between Paris Orly Airport (ORY) and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG).  Do I need to have a visa to make this transfer?  I didn't notice that while booking the ticket. Use nmcli to modify VPN password? With nmcli, I can modify VPN data like this:  nmcli con modify myvpn vpn.data 'refuse-pap = yes, user = xxx'   So I'm wondering if I can set password this way as well? I've recently started playing Minecraft, and I only have a little experience with enemies (I've been playing with the peaceful setting so I can figure out what the heck I'm doing).  When I did play some survival mode, I happened to be at the top of a pretty large cliff when night hit, and this seemed to protect me - the baddies just piled up at the bottom of the cliff.  However, it seems like this probably only worked due to pathing flukes.  The terrain behind me was pretty easy going, so I suspect if enemies spawned in the right areas, they could still come up and visit.  That said, how can I set up a quick protective shelter for the first night or two?  The days don't seem to last very long, so I don't expect I would be able to generate a lot of high-end materials, tools, etc. to work with.  Also, the zombies caught fire nicely when the sun came up, but there were still some spiders and some other things (creepers? - they were explosive) that didn't go away at daybreak.  Do I need multiple exits for my shelter or some other way to avoid running into all the enemies outside the front door that have accumulated overnight? Intuition behind measurable random variables and $\sigma$-algebra I've been trying to understand $\sigma$-algebras and how it encodes information in context of filtration. While certain parts seem clear and logical, I can't say I get the whole picture.  I'll try to explain the counter-intuition I get with the classical example of : the probability space $\Omega = \{ HH, HT, TH, TT \}$ and a r.v. $X(\omega)$ equal to the number of heads.  At times $0$, $1$ and $2$ the available information is represented using $\sigma$-algebras $\mathcal{F}_0=\{\emptyset,\Omega\}$, $\mathcal{F}_1=\{\emptyset, \Omega, \{HH,HT\},\{TH,TT\}\}$ and $\mathcal{F}_2=\{\emptyset, \Omega,\{HH,HT\},\{TH,TT\},\{HH\},\{HT\},\{TH\},\{TT\}\}$.  One can notice that $X(\omega)$ is not measurable with respect to $\mathcal{F}_0$ and $\mathcal{F}_1$, because $X^{-1}((\frac{3}{2}; +\infty))=\{HH\}$. To me it is quite surprising: intuitively $X$ makes perfect sense at all times. In particular it has an expected value at time $0$, which I interpret as that the probability and value of all outcomes $\{\omega\}$ can be computed. How do you think of a non-measurable function?  Here's another way of expressing the same confusion. The most natural choice of $\sigma$-algebra in a finite discrete case is $\mathcal{F}=2^\Omega$, and it is implicitly used in all elementary probability problems. However, this choice of $\mathcal{F}$ does not reflect the fact that some information is known or unknown, conditional probability does. Does it mean that the statement "$\sigma$-algebra is known information" make sense only in conditioning? Why is it convenient then? Show that a connected metric space is $\epsilon$-chainable for $\epsilon>0$ Show a connected metric space (X,d) is $\epsilon$-chainable for $\epsilon &gt;0$       $\epsilon$-chainable Definition      (X,d) is $\epsilon$-chainable if given any two points $a,b \in X$, $\exists$ a finite set $\{ x_0,x_1,...,x_n\}$ of points in X with $x_0 = a$, $x_n=b$ and $d(x_{n-1},x_n)&lt;\epsilon$, $\forall$ n      Clopen Definition      A set is clopen $iff$ its boundary is empty      Connected Metric Definition      Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space. It is connected $iff$ it has no proper subsets which are clopen      The following are equivalent:         $X$ is connected   The only subsets of $X$ that are clopen are $\emptyset$ and $X$   $\nexists$ non-empty, disjoint, open sets $A$ and $B$ such that $X=A\bigcup B$   $\nexists$ non-empty, disjoint, closed sets $A$ and $B$ such that $X=A\bigcup B$         Theorem      Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space, and let $S$ be any subset of $X$. Then $S$ is closed $iff$ $S^c$ is open.     So how would someone show this exactly?  Let the set $A$ be the set of all elements in $(X,d)$ that can be reached from $a\in X$ in a finite number of steps with length less than $\epsilon$.  Does this mean that there should be no isolated points? (an isolated point would be at distance infinity from any other point, or distance zero from itself, since $\epsilon &gt;0$ we don't want this?)  Knowing that $X$ is connected $\implies$the only subsets of X that are clopen are $\emptyset$ and $X$  Also, by construction of A;   A is the set of all $\epsilon$-chains between any element and $a$  And, so $A^c = \emptyset$ if $A$ was $\epsilon$-chainable (because A has to have a path from all elements to a, for this to be true, the complement wouldn't have anything in it)  Leaving only $A$ as the remaining clopen set  Does this make any sense? Or should an alternative be used, and how to formalize it.  Thanks. Function pointers/delegates in Java? For my Java game server I send the Action ID of the packet which basically tells the server what the packet is for. I want to map each Action ID (an integer) to a function. Is there a way of doing this without using a switch? Why do we require radians in calculus? I think this is just something I've grown used to but can't remember any proof.  When differentiating and integrating with trigonometric functions, we require angles to be taken in radians. Why does it work then and only then?