On the morning of Wednesday, September 13, 1961, Katangese forces – backed up by mercenaries from Belgium, France and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) – attacked the Irish troops while they were at mass in Jadotville. It’s estimated there were anything between 3,000 and 5,000 of them. What happened to Patrick Quinlan? QuinlanRead More →
Purging Ritual – why the nine have to burn As they all clutch themselves, pulling at their faces and bodies, as if wrenching something from within, they are all cleansing themselves. For Dani, we see this before our eyes. Now free of the burdens she’s struggled with, she realises she’sRead More →
Do runDisney virtual races sell out? Yes! And fast! (With summer 2020 selling out record-breakingly fast.) Can you walk the Disney 10K? Yes, walkers are welcome in a runDisney event. Just be sure to maintain the minimum-pacing requirement for the race you’re participating in when walking. If you fall short,Read More →
400-meter first round heats (Monday, Aug. … 400-meter semifinal heats (Wednesday, Aug. … 400-meter final (Friday, Aug. … 4×400 relay. Did Allyson Felix make the Olympic team? Less than three years after the birth of her daughter, Allyson Felix won bronze in the women’s 400-meter dash at the Tokyo OlympicsRead More →
The people who must attend the Daily Scrum are only members of the Development Team. … The Scrum Master, the Product Owner, or any Stakeholder may attend as listeners, but are not required to do only as long as it is useful to the Development Team. Can stakeholders attend sprintRead More →
Another way to think of it is that two mutually inclusive events cannot happen independently. … If you have two events that are dependent in some way, they are mutually inclusive. CAN A and B be mutually exclusive and independent? The definition of being mutually exclusive (disjoint) means that itRead More →
Neville’s actions set in motion a chain of events that have become depressingly familiar these days. A sad and unfortunate chain of events last night has rendered my computer useless. What is it called when a series of events? A sequence of events or things is a number of eventsRead More →
The maximum number of entries permitted for individual events is three per country. The number is fixed (but can be varied) by the IOC in consultation with the international federation concerned. In most team events only one team per country is allowed. What is the oldest unbroken world record? 13,978.Read More →
The atmosphere protects life on earth by shielding it from incoming ultraviolet (UV) radiation, keeping the planet warm through insulation, and preventing extremes between day and night temperatures. The sun heats layers of the atmosphere causing it to convect driving air movement and weather patterns around the world. What isRead More →
Conditional Probability for Mutually Exclusive Events The simplest example of mutually exclusive are events that cannot occur simultaneously. In other words, if one event has already occurred, another can event cannot occur. Thus, the conditional probability of mutually exclusive events is always zero. Can two events be not mutually exclusiveRead More →