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There was a good set of advices about configuring git (I've learned some from them and posted mine things as well), but now I can't find it anywhere in SE (except of on various numerous SE mirrors).
Why is it deleted? Was it that bad?
There was a good set of advices about configuring git (I've learned some from them and posted mine things as well), but now I can't find it anywhere in SE (except of on various numerous SE mirrors).
Why is it deleted? Was it that bad?
Such poll type questions are not allowed on Stack Overflow anymore (or for that matter, anywhere else on the network). While I fully understand and agree with all of the reasons given for disallowing such questions, I'm against deleting questions which have some value to programmers and this is one among them.
I feel that old questions like this one, which are directly related to programming or the use of a programming tool, should be closed as "Not constructive", locked and a shiny "Exists for historical reasons" banner slapped on it (come on, waffles has been working hard on implementing this, so let's use it!).
Let me state that I'm actually even fine with mass deletion if there is some standard and guideline in choosing them. Right now questions are being deleted on whim and others that are even more egregiously off-topic/not constructive are being left alone because of personal preferences and some because it still gives them a chuckle. These arbitrary exceptions are totally unfair in a community that supposedly sticks to guidelines and faqs. It is extremely hard for the community to delete these questions too, because some of them require nearly 300 votes to delete!
Here's my list of questions that belong on present day Stack Overflow's hall of shame, that for some reason or the other have not been deleted:
I think I've made my point clear. We simply should not accept that a question fair and square on a programming tool (even if "not constructive") is deleted when something about nerdy t-shirts is allowed to remain! You can find more here. Delete all of these with extreme prejudice or draw up guidelines and stick to them, no matter what your personal preference is. If you're that attached, favorite it and then delete. That way, you can go back to it whenever you want.
Poll, list, "look what I've got in my pocket, what have you got in yours" questions are off-topic on all the SE sites.
The question you refer to falls into the sub category of:
See http://stackoverflow.com/faq#dontask for more info.


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How to Get What You Want from the Doctor
Certain behaviors are like fingernails on a chalkboard to doctors. Some of these you can control, others you cannot. As mentioned earlier, if you are overweight or have a chronic health problem, you will need to strategize to overcome the doctor's possible bias against you. Beyond that, here are a few behaviors to avoid:
Don't act entitled. No matter how lofty your position in the outside world, when you are on the doctor's turf, resist ordering him around. "[Patients] seemed to think my job was to write them referrals," groused one doctor anonymously in "Curbside Consultation." "At their jobs...[they] were used to aggressive, confrontational relationships and they continuously challenged me into arguments." Control is extremely important to doctors. If you challenge them or overstep the bounds of typical patient behavior, you will raise their hackles. If you need to question their decisions, ask politely; never demand or confront.
Don't play doctor with the doctor. "Patients often arrived at the office armed with complex and marginal information from the Internet that was inconsistent with standards of care," the same "Curbside Consultation" physician complained. Oncologist Barry Rosenbloom voiced similar concerns. "I personally feel good when people are educated about the disease. They ask intelligent questions. But the thing I've got over the patient is experience and judgment and the ability to take care of sick people. Breast cancer is a good example. Patients come with literature; they're aware of the various chemotherapy regimens. But they have no idea what they mean, whether one is better than the other."
Don't test the doctor. Doctors are aware that many people seek second opinions, and that is fine with them. What they object to are patients who see several physicians for the same problem but don't reveal what the other doctors have discovered. This type of blind testing undermines all the doctors.
Don't blame the doctor for his staff. Doctors are often as frustrated with the front office staff as you are. Bring your complaints to the office manager, not your doctor. It's not worth wasting 5 minutes of your 15-minute visit. If you get no satisfaction from the office manager (or if she herself is the problem), call, write, or e-mail the doctor explaining the situation. If the staff is so wretched or disrespectful that you are considering dropping the doctor because of them, it's only fair to let him know.
Don't ask the doctor to do something unethical. People commonly ask their doctors to write false reports so they can get out of work, get on disability, get handicapped parking permits, and so forth. Although it might seem like a harmless request, you are in fact asking the doctor to lie and possibly jeopardize his career.
Don't bad-mouth other doctors. If you disliked a former doctor's care and must explain your concerns to your new doctor, keep your tone and language neutral. Talk about the treatment itself rather than the doctor who provided it. If the doctor asks why you changed physicians, simply say that you and he didn't communicate very well.
From Say the Magic Words by Lynette Padwa. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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The on-loan midfielder has insisted the French striker will be joining Harry Redknapp's side, despite strong links with a move to the Magpies emerging this weekMarseille midfielder Joey Barton has claimed team-mate Loic Remy will not join Newcastle after making a last-minute decision to sign for QPR.
The Frenchman has been strongly linked with a £10 million move to St James' Park this week, with Barton previously tweeting "Good luck to Loic in Newcastle".
|QPR are 10/1 with bet365 to beat West Ham 1-0
However, again writing on his personal Twitter account, the QPR loanee hinted that the 26-year-old has had a change of heart.
He said: "Watching Patriots. Just heard from a magician that Loic Remy has signed for QPR. Not sure what happened at Newcastle probably Llambas again!
"Gift of the gab from Harry Redknapp perhaps? Thought it was done and dusted to Newcastle. Something must of gone amiss. Great news 4 #QPR.
"Am not sure whether am being wound up or i'm winding you up! Better than Sky sports news coverage anyway..."
Remy scored 20 goals in 42 appearances for the French side last season but has largely struggled this campaign, netting just twice in 12 outings.


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WHEELING - The last time the Madonna football team was still in pads this time of year, it was expected.
This year, it's been a little bit different.
That's not to say the 2012 version of the Blue Dons didn't have Wheeling Island Stadium the first Saturday of December as its goal, but the road south is different three years later.
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POUNCING ON THE BALL — Weirton Madonna's Josh Martin pounces on a Tucker County fumble during the second overtime of Saturday's West Virginia Class A semifinals. The Blue Dons scored on the next drive for a 20-14 victory.
-- Fred Younce
"We kept telling the kids throughout the year, 'you don't know how good you can be. We see it in you. You guys just have to believe in yourselves.'" said second-year Madonna coach Doug Taylor.
That conversation never happened in 2009, when some members of the current squad had big brothers playing on the 14-0 state championship Dons.
For Taylor, something changed at the end of Week 9.
"I think when they came back to beat Steubenville Catholic Central, 21-20, the light went on," he said. "It's been a whole different team, a whole different demeanor in practice.
"Right now, they know they are good enough to win the state title."
Fueled by three playoff wins, the last two where the defense stepped up to show itself, No. 4 Madonna will take on No. 3 Wahama at 7 p.m. Saturday at Wheeling Island Stadium in the West Virginia Class A state championship game.
The Blue Dons are coming off a 20-14 double-overtime win at No. 1 Tucker County on Saturday.
"I know they're winners," Taylor said of his 29-member team. "When their backs are against the wall, I can count on them. They play hard for each other and that's what we tell them. It's a family within that locker room. We're playing for each other.
"A lot of times we will tell them to look around and look into each other's eyes because that's who they're playing for. They buy into that and I want them to. We coach for that. We coach for them. It's a good feeling, a good family relationship."
Madonna has four seniors - Garrett Hypes, James Fulciniti, Quintin Hukill and Charlie Kotten - who were freshmen in 2009.
"We have four seniors we're going to lose this year and we hate to lose them," said Taylor. "They've done a lot for the program. They've sold out for what we're trying to teach. We appreciate them and we want them to go out as winners."
But, to get to this week, the Blue Dons had to survive last week.
"The more I watched Tucker County over the week (leading to the game), that team just kept getting better and better and better," said Taylor. "I knew it was going to take a great defensive performance."
Madonna quarterback Ross Comis was stopped on fourth-and-goal at the 1 in the first overtime.
"We know those things are going to happen," said Taylor. "Good teams will find a way to win. We were able to come out on defense and hold them to a long field goal attempt, which they didn't make."
The Blue Dons' defense stayed on the field as possessions alternate in overtimes.
"We knew we were playing against a good football team, but I had a feeling our defense would hold again," said Taylor. "I felt good then."
Tucker County had the first possession of the second overtime and faced a third-and-eight from the 18. Quarterback Derek Nestor dropped back to pass and was crushed from behind by a blitzing Eliott Nero, who forced a fumble that was recovered by teammate Josh Martin to end Tucker County's opportunity.
"When we got the sack and the fumble in the second overtime and got the ball, I told our guys on the headphones, 'this is it. We're going to win this one,'" said Taylor.
"At that time we were talking to Ross about our play options, he said 'hey, I want the ball.' If I have that type of player who wants the ball, I'm going to give it to him. We tightened our chin straps up, went straight ahead and got it done in three plays."
Comis scored from the 1 after runs of 9 and 10 yards.
"Our offensive line knew it too," said Taylor. "I think they had a sense. It was like blood in water. They knew it was time to put it away and get out with a win. And, that's what they did.
"Our offensive line had their moments, but when they needed to, they went after it and got the job done."
The finals match-up most people thought was coming did not come to fruition because Wahama knocked off No. 2 Magnolia in New Martinsville, 10-7, on a 27-yard field goal by Zack Wamsley with 25.3 seconds left in the game.
White Falcons coach Ed Cromley had a lot of confidence in his senior.
"A lot," he said. "We made a mistake several years ago, that we thought we had a good player who was younger. We put the ball in his hands when it was time to win the game and it didn't happen. Learning from that, you have a senior kicker, he's going to do it, if anybody will."
Wahama is 13-0 with the only close game in the first 11, a Week 2 25-12 win at Trimble.
It beat Greenbrier West, 21-12, in the quarterfinals and the Blue Eagles last week.
"We talked to kids that it was going to be a dogfight before the game and to stay in there no matter what happens and try to be in the game at the end of the game and we were," said Cromley. "It worked out perfectly for us.
"I thought that some of our backs stepped it up and ran inside when, in other games against lesser opponents, they took the outside route. We stuck it up in there, which we try to get them to do, but, usually we have enough speed to get outside and take the easy way.
"We wanted to get to the edge, but sometimes that edge appears real quick and you have to get up in there real quick and not count on it being open longer. We did have a set where we tried to run up inside, tried to blow everybody off the ball and shove up the field, but there were really strong and played with good leverage. We couldn't get that done, either.
"Since the playoffs have started, we've told the kids that three or four yards is a good deal. We spent the season looking to break big ones and we know that's not going to happen in the playoffs. We've talked about that for several weeks."
In defeating Magnolia, Cromley said keeping an eye on all-everything Magnolia senior Stephen Rogalski was the No. 1 priority.
"We paid a lot of attention to No. 5 and where he was," said the coach. "I thought we did a pretty good job of controlling him. The remainder of people who weren't paying attention to him, they had to watch the back (Drew Keller), because both of those guys are really good."
Wahama and Madonna played last year with the White Falcons earning a 33-0 victory at Fairmont State.
"We are different from what we were last year and so are they," said Taylor. "They handed it to us at Fairmont State. We're going to have our work cut out for us.
"I knew Wahama was a good football team. They are undefeated and No. 3 in the state for a reason. For them to be able to go into New Martinsville and beat Magnolia just shows how good of a football team they are."


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Given an $n$-vertex polygonal 'art gallery' $P$ in the plane, it is possible to cover the interior of $P$ by placing 'guards' at (at worst) $\lfloor n/3\rfloor$ of the vertices of $P$. That this is sufficiently many can be shown elegantly by triangulating $P$, then $3$-colouring this triangulation and placing guards at the vertices with the least common colour.
For a lower bound only a single family of examples is needed, and the standard is the $n$-pronged comb (or crown) which has $3n$ vertices and requires one guard for each prong. However, in considering variations on the art gallery problem it can be the case that the comb is easier to guard, and thus other families (which are harder in this new context) are required. So, is there (or can we construct in comments) a big list of 'hard to guard' polygons - that is, $n$-vertex polygons for which $\lfloor n/3 \rfloor$ guards are required - that could be used as starting points for considering variations?


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I know there is mods to replace the wheels in GTA. but thats not what I am looking for.
I am looking for a mod that will let you change the wheels on any car to another cars wheels (in game) with like a menu etc. if you understand what I mean, if not I'll try to explain.
In GTA if you have trainer it gives you the options to add neon, change the colour of the car and wheels, and lower it. I want to be able to change the wheels on the car to another cars wheels in game. Say I have a Banshee I would simply open the menu and cycle through the wheels and put sultan RS wheels on the Banshee.
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Customer service important at Gold Buyers of New Mexico
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Marin Carrillo of Gold Buyers of New Mexico talks about the importance of customer service when buying or selling jewelry or precious metals.
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Scott speaks with NPR's Mike Shuster, who is in Pristina, about peacekeeping efforts in Kosovo.
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a terrorist and a person who is very dirty. thats why he lived in a hole because he is a bum.
saddam hussien is a retard.
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Satan's ex-lover. They broke up because Saddam was just in it for the sex, and never wanted to take about Satan's "feelings".
Saddam Hussien: Just call me your old pal, Saddam Hussein!
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Captured Mother Fucker
They found Saddam's bitch ass in a hole.
by dickweed December 14, 2003
Pshycopathic, eagertistical, self centred, inhumane, perthetic, insecured ,parasite,
A Pshycopathic eagertistical self centred inhumane, perthetic insecured gutless little parasite
by CAROL.T April 30, 2003
Would really like it much better if you called him Saddam Hussein.
My name is Hussein, Saddam Hussein.
by Maddicus April 17, 2003
a knob head who doesn't think
by Anonymous October 14, 2003
i think saddam is in Hell for the Ungodly things he did.
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Erjon Bogdani has yet to make his first team debut.
By now it is becoming a cliche to talk about Arsenal's lack of transfer activity, however Arsene Wenger has seemingly
The latest gossip and rumours from the UK media:The Daily Express says midfielder BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER could become the first big-name
A new Premier League campaign is approaching which means teams have dusted off their passports to go on pre-season tours.
The latest gossip and rumours from the newspapers and online:The Guardian says Manchester United have offered £100million for PAUL POGBA
It would be fair to say that Arsenal have been underwhelming in this transfer, a state not helped by the
It seems that Manchester United will not be resting on their laurels with the bid for Pogba looking to be


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Hello all, it is well-known by transcendence results or Galois theory that famous geometric problems such as trisecting an angle or "squaring the circle" (i.e. given a disk of radius 1 construct a square of equal area) are not solvable by compasses-and-ruler only constructions. On the other side, it is equally well-known, by approximation results such as Weierstrass', that given any $\varepsilon >0$ there is a definite construction process that yields an approximate solution which is correct up to $\varepsilon$. Of course, the obvious solution is to compute the coordinates of the points you need up to the precision you need, and then place the points. This solution however relies on some classical function tables (cosine, arc cosine or the decimal expansion of $\sqrt{\pi}$) and I am wondering if there is a more "purely geometric solution" needing no calculator or tables. Specifically, for angle trisection, one could ask the following :
Define explicitly a compasses-and-ruler only algorithm with the following properties :
Initial data : a circle with center O and radius 1 cm, two points I and J on that circle such that IOJ is a straight angle, and a point M on the arc between I and J. Let us call N the point on that arc such that the angle ION is one third of IOM. The algorithm must return a point N' which is undistinguishable from N to the naked eye, and must not rely on any calculator or tables.
Either that question is interesting or it isn't. If it isn't, the "shortest number of steps" solution has a large number of steps and is only a complicated reformulation of the compute-coordinates-with-calculator method.


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Let $X$ and $Y$ be random variable and $k$ be some fixed constant.
For a long time I thought that $P(X+Y=k)=P(X=k-Y)$, but recently I read something like $$P(X - Y = k) = E_{Y} \Big( P(X-Y = k) \Big) = E_{Y} \Big( P(X = k+Y) \Big) = \sum_{y=0}^{\infty} P(Y=y)P(X = k+y)$$ that makes me wonder whether it is common to consider as random variables probabilities involving random variables being equal to a quantity that involves a random variable itself, like $P(X=k-Y)$.
I have no background in Probability Theory from a measure-theoretic point of view, but from my naïve understanding an explanation could be that $$P(X=k-Y)=P(\{\omega:\omega\in X^{-1}(k-Y)\})\neq P(\{\omega:\omega\in {(X+Y)}^{-1}(k)\})=P(X+Y=k)$$ where $-1$ obviously indicates the preimage of the argument respect to the function.
In other words, in one case "$P(\cdot)$" is used as a measure of the preimage of $k$ via $X+Y$, in the other case it's used as a function of $Y$ therefore becoming itself a r.v.
Then the confusion rise because of the equal sign being improperly used in place of the set-theoretic way to write down the probability that a r.v. takes some value.


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The European Patients' Forum (EPF) is implementing, together with other six partners, an EU project co-financed by the EU Public Health Programme called "Chain of Trust". Started in January 2011, this project aims to assess the perspectives of the main end users of telehealth services, i.e. patients, doctors, nurses and pharmacists across the EU to see whether and how views have evolved since the initial deployment of telehealth and what barriers there still are to building confidence in and acceptance of this innovative type of services.
For more information on Chain of Trust, please visit the project website at www.chainoftrust.eu.
One of the tools that the Chain of Trust consortium is using in order to assess the views of patients and health professionals on telehealth is an online survey. This survey, which is available in 11 languages, is aimed at both users and non-users of telehealth services and consists of two questionnaires, one for patients and one for health professionals.
The online questionnaires can be accessed directly via http://www.chainoftrust.eu/
EPF will particularly value your support in disseminating this online survey across patient and health professional groups to help us reach out to as many respondents as possible. We would be very grateful, therefore, if you could disseminate this survey across your members and contacts.
On behalf of the project consortium, we would like to thank you very much for your valuable input and for contributing towards a successful completion of the project!
The deadline for submitting the survey is Wednesday 20 July.
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Even a simple fall can seriously bend or even break the foot lever. With no hope of continuing the journey. This problem is very easy to minimise with our foot levers, which fold up at the front.
The forces which are transmitted from the lever to the shaft in the event of a fall are also significantly reduced. Slightly bent levers can easily be straightened.


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I am doing the android test. And I need to know the way to use adb shell to run the test automatically. Does anyone know how to send an email with pictures attached via adb shell? like this:
am start -a android.intent.action.SENDTO -d sms:xxxx --es xxxxx
I would appreciate it if a complete example with subject and body is given. I have tried the following command, but it does not work.
-e stream "file:///sdcard/test.jpg" -t image/jpeg


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WACO (December 13, 2012)—A late-night house fire in a Waco neighborhood left five people including a 10-month-old infant homeless.
The Red Cross was providing assistance to the residents Thursday.
The fire was reported just after 11 p.m. at 824 North 34th St.
The residents escaped without injury, but the house was a total loss.
A preliminary investigation showed that the fire may have started in the kitchen near the stove.
Debbie Guerrero, who lived in the home with her three grown children and infant granddaughter, said nothing was salvageable.
She said she and the other four are now sharing a hotel room and will make a decision within the next few days about where to live next.
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Under Armour Doubt Me Men's Tee Shirt
Train with no doubt that you are the best, and dare anyone to test you. This performance tee is great for training hard or relaxing at home. It features screen print graphics on front and back. Made with 95% polyester and 5% elastane.


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I'm trying to decide which 29'er bike I want to purchase and one of them has lockout. I know what lockout does but I'm not sure what it is used for and if I will need it.
I'm trying to decide which 29'er bike I want to purchase and one of them has lockout. I know what lockout does but I'm not sure what it is used for and if I will need it.
You turn it on when riding on smooth surfaces or going up hill to improve pedal efficiency. It's hard to know if you will need it in advance because without riding the bike you won't know how well the suspension design handles pedal bob (the energy lost by the bike suspension compressing under pedal forces), try and get a test ride.
When you're riding on roads you, generally, have close to no need of suspension, but because you've got it you'll be wasting lots of energy which will be going into the shocks and not into the pedals and cranks.
If you don't need the suspension, it's going to be much more efficient to be able to disable it.
If you know that you're never (or close to never) going to be riding the bike on paved surfaces then you probably won't need the lockout, but if that's not the case, then you almost certainly should favour the lockout.
I disagree with all this talk of "wasting a lot of energy". When I am riding with constant pedal force, the suspension compresses very little, if any. The severe loss of efficiency occurs when power peaks to the pedals occur - sprinting or hill climbing. IMO the effect is very roughly up to 30% when sprinting. With climbing it depends on the terrain and your willingness to adjust gears. Keep a stable, high cadence* (as if riding on a road) and there will be no unnecessary compression at all.
Now, locking the fork is useful for road biking, right? If you ride at a constant, high, boring cadence on the flat, boring road - no unnecessary compression. In my country, even in the capital, most roads have mean distance between road holes in the order of tens of meters.
So I do not lock my fork. I suffer in sprints (sprints are bad for your knees), but ride more comfortable through road defects.
Note: I have not used high quality forks with suspension lockout(nothing over a hundred bucks) - so it could be that my answer is irrelevant.
* high cadence == low pedal force (for the same power output)
Lockout gives the rider blow-off valve adjustment options (how loose or stiff the compression force is on bike) not only helps pedaling efficiency while climbing/flat trail mode, but also gives the rider options to unlock when riding DH. High end forks have abilities to lock out/adjust blow off, also adjust travel on the fly while riding, like a swiss army knife for ALL conditions, and gives the rider advantages for racing, all mountain, casual non competitive riding too. Non-lockout forks are either for DH (200mm travel), or cheaper alternatives where efficiency in pedaling isn't important.


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Update: The rwl data at WDCP is a mixture of measurement formats with one set of measurements in units 1/10 of the other set. This accounts for the bimodal distribution. These graphs need to be redone. End Update 2006] .
Thinking about some of these tree ring sites reminds me of some stuff I did on Cook's Tasmania while I was learning the tree ring data, while I was first looking at Mann. Cook is on the Hockey Team, on the same line as Jacoby. Cook's Tasmania reconstruction is a staple of nearly every multiproxy study: Mann, Jones, Crowley, etc. Here are some graphics that I did a couple of years ago, which I've never quite figured out what to do with. Here's a histogram of all ring widths at Lake Johnston (there are over 170,000 measurements in this figure). A simple histogram is usually the first thing that a statistician would do, but I've never seen a simple histogram like this in any tree ring study. Yet it says volumes.
Figure 1. Histogram of All Ring Widths at Lake Johnston, Tasmania
Most histograms that I've drawn have a unimodal distribution – I think that they look like a type of gamma-distribution. But this one — a very long series back to –2136 — has a unmistakable bimodal distribution. It was a fluke that I noticed it, since it's a very small bump in the default histogram plot, but it obviously sharpens up when by specifying the breaks as I've done here. It looks like a mixture of two gamma distributions, since the "main" mode is also more like a gamma distribution than a normal distribution. (I have no idea why tree rings chronologies assume normal distributions when they never are.)
The left mode is not an artifact since the dataset has about 170,000 individual measurements and the left mode has about 30,000 measurements by itself — so it's statistically there. Another plot that I do on these sites( which again I've never seen elsewhere) is simply plotting the cumulative ring width "rooting" each tree in its assigned start date. Here's what this looks like for the Tasmania site: you certainly don't get the sense that the modern trees are exceptional. There are a couple of super-giant trees in the Greco-Roman period.
Figure 2. Lake Johnston, Tasmania – "Rooted" cumulative ring width by tree.
The scale of this is squashed by accommodating the super-giant trees, so I zoomed in a bit, with very interesting results as shown below. You can see that the slow-growing trees are concentrated in the millennium just ended.
Figure 3. Lake Johnston, Tasmania – "Rooted" cumulative ring width by tree – zoom.
I illustrated this by plotting first the distribution of "narrow-ring" trees and then the distribution of "wide-ring" trees as below. As you can see, the narrow-ring trees are "modern" phenomenon. They seem to start about half way through the first millennium. Interestingly, the earliest layers in the Quelccaya glacier (the recession of which is comlained about a lot) are dated as starting about AD450 – around the same time as the commencement of the "narrow ring" trees here. At the time I wondered if there was some connection.
Figure 4. Lake Johnston, Tasmania -Distribution of "narrow-ring" ring widths
Figure 5 . Lake Johnston, Tasmania – Distribution of "narrow-ring" ring widths
There were some observations in the article articles about this stand of huon pine being rather a surprise, since it was found quite a bit above the elevation where huon pine presently grows [I'll add in the exact quote later].
Since this was a Hockey Team study, they concluded that the 20th century was unique in some or another [again I'll add in the quote]. [I'll add in Cook's temperature reconstruction so re-vist this if you're interested].


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I'm shooting some 1/6 scale model sets and need to get my NN4 down onto the floors of the sets for collecting IBL data.
I was wondering if anyone has ever found or created a table stand for their Nodal Ninja ? .. my plan was to rig something up with the EZ leveller bolted to a small slab of metal.
But I'd be interested to hear from anyone that has done this before.


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EagleCAD workshop
EagleCAD is a computer-aided tool for schematic capture and designing printed circuit boards that runs on Macs, Linux, and Windows. There is a free (as in beer) version available here:
The free version is slightly crippled in terms of the size of the board you can design but is perfectly fine for most hobbyist use.
Larry Klingenberg's Double Sided Board Tutorial
More info, tutorials, etc. from the SWARM wiki: http://wiki.orbswarm.com/index.php?title=The_PC_Board_Page
List of EacgleCAD "gotchas"
I promised I would post my list of "gotchas;" hope this helps avoid some irritation! Jtfoote 23:38, 27 April 2009 (PDT)
- IF BOARD AND SCHEMATIC GET OUT OF SYNC, YOU ARE SCREWED. This can happen if updates on the schematic don't make it to the board. To avoid this, always keep board file open when editing schematic, and vice versa! Use "rip up" instead of "delete" on the board. DRC will tell you when you are not in sync, otherwise you won't know. Use it often, and save often.
- Don't click on "Drop" button when adding a component. Hit "cancel." "Drop" "drops" the library (!)
- tOrigin layers must be visible to move/rotate components.
- Overlapping wires sometimes don't logically connect. Add junction (green dot) if a problem. Check by moving component and seeing if wire moves with it.
- "Cut" (scissor icon) is really "copy to paste buffer" and only works on groups! Use "copy" for single items. In V5, use shift-right-click or menu item to copy/move groups.
- Pay attention to messages in the status bar, they are often helpful. For example when trying to select things on top of each other, clicking will cycle through each and the status bar will tell you how to select the one you want.
Possible topics for advanced tutorials
- How to design/edit custom parts using the library editor
- How to fab a board. Converting EagleCAD designs to Gerber and drill files, checking output files and design rules, uploading to fab houses.
- Panelizing (step-and-repeat copying) designs using http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana/Python/gerbmerge/ (one way around EagleCad board size limitation)
- Advanced tricks like logo images in the silkscreen layer
You will want to check that things look OK. Use a gerber file viewer like ViewMate (reg req) http://www.pentalogix.com/Download/download.html#item8
or GerbView (free, open source, a little buggy) http://sourceforge.net/projects/gerbv/


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American English movie, genre : drama, production house mostly mgm
This is the movie about an American war hero who was largely neglected during his childhood. He joins the army and during his first battle field when an enemy soldier is captured, his senior asks him to kill the soldier but he didn't have the courage to do so. Then his senior asks him to think of a person whom he hates the most and he had picture of his father in his mind which made him trigger the bullet to kill the enemy soldier.


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I have a list added to a web part page. When clicking inside the web part (not on a link in the list but in the area around it), the List Tools button (at the top in the ribbon) is selected. Is there a way of disabling this? Thanks.
I believe the only reasonable way to do this is to create a custom web part to display your data. For a small number of web parts this would not be an unreasonable solution.


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I was recently contacted by a fellow named Roy who was looking for something to do with 200 pallets. He couldn't find any buyers or even someone to haul them off free, so he's decided to build something out of them. To help him visualize how I'd build a house from pallets I drew these 3D drawings with Google SketchUp, the free 3D drafting software from Google.
I've been getting better at drawing with SketchUp and it only took about 30 minutes to draw this up. I'll eventually replace the 2D plans on this website with a better 3D plans. In the mean time I thought I'd share with you what I shared with Roy. The tiny house pictured here would use about 50 to 70 pallets. I left the roof off the design because I'm thinking more and more that the roof should be conventionally framed. Pallets over head just seems a little too risky, although I think Roy is going to find a way to do it safely. Continue reading


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Hi all, I am Greenfireflygirl, originally from the Infernal Abyss server. I am a huge fan of this genre, and have been a huge cheerleader for this game. So much so, that even though I quit playing on the other server months ago, I stuck around with my alliance and still supported them with a lot of behind the scenes work! The chance to join fresh with everyone again on a new server was too much for me to pass up, and quite a few of us felt the same way, so here we are!
Unfortunately, we didn't get the chance to all land in the same area, our timing was bad it seems. This means that there is opportunity for you! So, let's see what we're all about, and you can see if it interests you any to come join us.
Chaos was formed out of a Coalition of alliances on the other server, that joined together to attack a group of close to a thousand players, many of whom were multis. Yes, we are multi hunters. If you find any multis, or suspected multis, message any Chaos member and we will make sure to put them on our hit list.
The second thing that we didn't like was that with no chat on the other server, and no way for people to contact each other out of region, there were a lot of new players that had no help, and no guidance for how to learn, to ask for help, to really make a go of it. Sadly, in the beginning, a lot of people were just lost to the server and inactives popped up everywhere. We're really hoping to help you guys so that doesn't happen here.
Our coalition worked well, and we formed our own group to chat with on facebook which really helped with organisation. Getting along with allies sometimes means you find yourself fighting back to back with a friend instead of a brother, so we took 3 of the original 4 alliances to form our group. It took a while to settle on the name Chaos, and while the name might make you think that we aren't organised… we are. Our coalition on the other server has several very amazing alliances, and some players from each have also joined us here.
On the other server, we have a group of 7 leaders. They have all joined us here, but we aren't sure yet how we're going to spread duties. We already have two leaders from our coalition group set up as leaders here, so we have a lot of experience here. I am not sure yet, just what our numbers are going to be. We still have people joining in, clicking the join a friend option, hoping to land near an ally. We also have some who landed unfortunately in the new region so we will also be opening up there. So get used to seeing us!
We are very selective in our recruiting. If you are active on the chats and are keen, we may message you ourselves. If you put in an application, expect it to sit for a while as we watch to see that first you play every day, and second, that you are growing in power. While we do not have a power requirement yet, we will implement one in the coming months. I've also been known to scout your cities as well to make sure that you know what you're doing. But here? A lot of us are new, and learning together, so we'll drop the requirement that you already BE awesome, and make the requirement that you WANT to be awesome! If we think you could be, then welcome!
If in AngelVale, please contact me with a quick message and a friend request. Please let me know why you want to join us. Let me know what kind of player you are, how often you play, what special skills you bring to the team. If we know you from IA, by all means include that info, I don't want to miss anyone because you didn't speak up! Be patient as well, I'm already falling behind on my build schedule because of administration duties in the group, but I'm working on it!
If in RavenGulch, please contact Leda Diamond. Give her a rundown on who you are as well. She is very busy, but will as you a bunch of stuff to get a feel for you. Impress us. We want those who are willing to be the best!
Raiders, either pvp or pve are most welcome! Crafters, Traders, Diplomats, Banks, PonyExpress… whoever you are, we have need of you if you are willing to be great at your job. One thing though… this is not negotiable, and for that I'm sorry… You MUST be willing to join our facebook group so that we can coordinate everything. We refuse to be one of those alliances that just takes people in and never talks to them and you never hear from them again.
(in fact, if you know any alliances like that, let us know, we'll happily make sure they go away so that their players can find an alliance to help them the way they should!)
Okay, back to the alliance structure… I normally do a lot of HR and PR stuff for the group as well as admin, but for the moment I am recruiting so a little busy. MatGB, our chancellor, is also busy schmoozing, but also killing and warring and diplomatting on the other server. But he is very excited to have the opportunity here to make this server what the other one should have been, so you'll see him on chat a lot, helping people with questions. He'll point out that he wrote a great deal of the wiki… and NOG borrowed very heavily from it to create their version of it. He also is all over their forums with a lot of help too, while I'd love to keep all the KONG stuff to the KONG forums, there's still a lot of great things over there that are worth looking at. So… Mat is pretty busy too. Please only message him with topics that are related to his leadership of the alliance. Any questions you have about gameplay, please start a question and answer thread in the forum here, and someone will answer for you.
You will note that we have two generals listed, one for AngelVale and one for RavenGulch. They will be in charge of deciding in each region who is a friend and who is a foe. For now, we won't be warring as a group with anyone. We're all new, you're all new. We don't want to make enemies until we get to know everyone. We will also be appointing TradeMinisters for each region, who will be in charge of setting up trade alliances with other groups. Other positions haven't been sorted out yet, but they're coming. You may not see them all listed on the page, because we hate clutter… (very Chaotic, I know!!) So, if you want to talk about leader issues, talk to Mat. If you want to join us, talk to me or Leda. If you want to propose who we should target, talk to Bloodtyrant in AngelVale, or Str8piff in RavenGulch. (by the way, they'll happily take down your multi info too, if you can't find another Chaos member nearby)
We'll update when we know who wants to lead in the new region, and when we have trade ministers set up, but for now, that's all! Nice to meet you!


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Is there a Poker etymological dictionary out there that explains the origin/history of the poker terms? There are many terms in Poker with meanings that are not immediately obvious and it'd be nice to find out their origins, for example terms such as cow, broadway, cooler, coffee housing, come bet/betting on the come, etc...
Some of the terms are defined here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poker_terms.
Some etymology here: http://www.flopturnriver.com/top-10-poker-lingo.php
Personally I like this site: http://pokerterms.com/
It does answer your cow question (and many others): http://pokerterms.com/cow.html
This is good too: http://www.poker1.com/archives/2344/wiesenberg-official-dictionary-of-poker-mcu-intro but has a drawback: When you search you have to search the whole site, not only the dictionary


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26 Sep 2011 2:41 AM #1
Android URL Bar Problem
This problem occurs only on Android, not on iOS:
When you have a Sencha Touch App in fullscreen mode, the URL bar is hidden. But sometimes on Android it does show up, which breaks the layout of the App if you have a docked item on the bottom of your App. On iOS this problem does not occur. The URL Bar shows up for example if you click into a text element within a form.
28 Oct 2011 11:48 AM #2
Anybody know how to solve this? I am having the same issue some posts mention adding window.scrollTo(0,1); but it does not work.
7 Nov 2011 11:55 PM #3
I experience the same problem. The whole app gets unusable on Androids when the bottom tabbar disappears.
Anyone who can help with a workaround or monkeypatch for this?
16 Mar 2012 12:35 AM #4
Same here....
I get exactly the same issue. I've used fullscreen: true but this seems to only work intermittently.
It's odd though, because sometimes it does work as expected. I've got a form with 3 fields and sometimes the view is correctly rendered full screen, even when I click in a field the URL bar doesn't appear.
Then I'll refresh the browser to reload the application and it'll then revert back to having the URL bar at the top.
There doesn't seem to be any consistency on Android.
Does anyone have any suggestions?


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Shows as all sold out.
Just did it and worked fine. Not sure why it showed sold out. Cheers.
@locorojo93: I see that the Chill Mat is available, and a few others, but the Chill Hub XC is sold out. Just looked again and no change. The Chill Mat is available for the $11.99 price.
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The "Growing Patch" is the county's newest community garden to be planted.
Located next to the shelter on Sparrow Drive, the garden is the result of a partnership between the health department, 4-H program, local farmer Randy Hager, Community Food Network and other local agencies and volunteers. This educational and community-driven garden will provide hands-on learning for youth and adults while providing extra support for local food pantries. For more information or to volunteer, visit www.ioniahost.com/garden.
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T-Rex Pen for $9
It's a dinosaur. It's a pen. It's the Tyrannosaurus Pen. Just pull the T. Rex's tail to reveal the pen. It measures 8″ x 2″ x 3-1/4″.
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$16 after shipping.. not much of a deal
$9? $16? You're (profanity) me, right? This looks like it would cost you 20 tickets from the skeeball machine, next to the finger traps and spider rings.
@sl8763: No I'm not (profanity) you, I posted this because it was unique and interesting, especially for those who have paleontologist wannabes in their families, like me.
Why pay an $#^%* company more money than a crappy item is worth. I thought thats what dx.com was for :D
Better half is an anthro major, we have lots of goofy little dino palentology cro magnon type archeological dohickey's around here. Don't over pay busted for them. Go to the same place busted goes, CHINA!
Present Time Silly Triceratops Ball Pen $7.21-- http://www.amazon.com/Present-Time-Silly-Triceratops-Ball/dp/B008BSHO84/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357588357&sr=8-1&keywords=dinosaur+pen
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LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE - Fossils for Children - Starter Collection - 16 GENUINE fossils collection - Fossils for Kids - Ammonites, Dinosaurs and more - Educational Set - NEW Packaging
^^ That went on annual sale in Feb last year for $15. We have a sort of nifty hey it's random dino crap to play with mentality around here. Grabbed it on a whim and it was a lot of fun for the nephews to play with.
Oh well. I thought this was an enclosure for all of my T-Rex's. I guess I will keep looking...


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TOPEKA, Kan. -- Memorial Day is a time to honor the men and women, past and present, who have held steadfast in their duty to protect and serve our country. In appreciation of their service, Penwell-Gabel will display a photographic Wall of Tribute this Memorial Day weekend at Penwell-Gabel Cemetery & Mausoleum at SW 6th Avenue and Gage Boulevard.
At 11 a.m. on Monday, May 28, the cemetery will host a Memorial Day ceremony that will include a ride through the grounds by the American Legion Riders, a wreathlaying ceremony and remarks by Senator Pat Roberts and Colonel John Muther.
The community is encouraged to join in the recognition by submitting their photos of military or civic heroes to the cemetery office at 6th Avenue and Gage during the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by emailing them to firstname.lastname@example.com. This is the sixth year for the Wall of Tribute.
"This is an inspiring way for anyone to honor his or her own special heroes, not just military," said Ren Newcomer, owner of Penwell-Gabel Funeral Homes, Crematories and Cemeteries. "We really want to encourage everyone to submit a photo of each friend or
loved one who has served, or is now serving, our country in the military or civil service."
Penwell-Gabel is a family-owned company with funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries throughout Kansas. Owners Ren and Theresa Newcomer continue a four-generation Tradition of Caring that has provided uncompromising personal service and highest-quality merchandise at a moderate price since 1893.
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Why you no come?
Why you no talk English?
Why you no have a girlfriend?
What kind of English are these sentences? Are these types of sentences grammatically correct?
What kind of English are these sentences? Are these types of sentences grammatically correct?
closed as not a real question by MετάEd, tchrist, FumbleFingers, TimLymington, Lynn Nov 26 '12 at 2:33
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I guess you are talking about the Y U NO guy.
~ http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/y-u-no-guy
So basically, no, they are not proper grammar, but they work great in situations like these, because they bring people's attention. Like they brought yours :)
None of them is grammatically correct. They should be:
I offer past and present tense choices because there's no context to tell me whether they refer to the present or the past.
Also, there is never a space between the last word in a question and the question mark.
The kind of English you ask about is possibly either a pidgin or a stereotype of how people who speak pidgin English sound. This is common in old "cowboy and Indian" movies about the American west and other English-language movies with characters who aren't fluent English speakers, especially characters who might live in jungles, in grass huts, or in caves.
Simply put, English requires the helping verb "do" in each of these cases. It is somewhat idiosyncratic, however, enough to the point where it becomes a useful marker of the knowledge of the language, at least insofar as popular movies are concerned...


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IPC's own Wendy Sefsaf was quoted in a Mercury News article about DREAMers living in the Bay Area. In that area alone, there are about 65,000 immigrants who could benefit from Obama's new deportation policy coming into effect August 15, 2012. But the Bay Area isn't the only region of the country with hopeful DREAMers:
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Telefon: 90 240 4704.
Website: www.aena.es
The airport is located 5km (3 miles) to the west of Arrecife.
How to get there
The airport is clearly signposted. From the capital, Arrecife, take the westbound Autovia Arrecife-Yaiza (LZ-2) and follow signs for the airport.
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Arrecifebus routes 22 and 23 (tel: 92 881 1522; www.arrecifebus.com) depart from Arrecife-Playa Honda bus station. The bus station is situated next to Arrivals, the fare is €1, and the journey time is less than 15 minutes. Taxis (tel: 92 852 0176) are available at the airport and depart from taxi ranks next to Arrivals. The fare into Arrecife starts at around €10.
Taxis (tel: 92 852 0176) are available at the airport and depart from taxi ranks next to Arrivals. The fare into Arrecife starts at around €10.
Information desk
There are information desks (tel: 90 240 4704) in both terminals. Tourist information (tel: 92 882 0704) can be found on the ground floor in Terminal 1.
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I'm not a physicist but I'm interested in unified theories, and I do not know how to start learning about it. What would be a good book to read to start learning about this topic?
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As a theory of everything includes a theory of all particular things, it would be good if you start by learning about the theories that need to be unified. This means first
Unless you are content with such books as ''The elegant universe'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elegant_Universe where you learn the buzzwords without a deeper understanding.
These sorts of questions are hard to answer unless there is some understanding about the level of math and physics the asker actually has. Probably one of the most irritating aspect about trying to learn physics is that there is a lot of literature out there that completely ignores any discussion of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian which are so fundamental to physics formulations (in fact I have an entire college physics text that doesn't use either term once, which is mind numbing and infuriating in retrospect, and I even had a physics grad argue blue in the face that the Hamiltonian was not $\mathcal{H}=T+V$). If a person has not been exposed previously to these concepts, then it is very difficult to have a coherent conversation about physics let alone the Theory of Everything.
Assuming you have at least this level of introductory understanding, the next place I would start is to get an understanding of algebra, lie groups and the standard model. The best introductory paper I have ever read is A Simple Introduction to Particle Physics by Robinson, Bland, Cleaver and Dittman of Baylor University. I would focus especially on Part II - Algebraic Foundations.
The reason this is critical is that although the Theory of Everything is not some sort of crude algebra (despite attempts by some to make it so), modern physics is understood in the language of algebra, and even more importantly a supersymmetry algebra which makes us of Grassmann numbers for the fermionic fields.
Another good introductory text which is worth exploring is the book Lie Groups, Physics and Geometry by Robert Gilmore. I would pay special attention to chapter one, as there is an excellent discussion of why the general polynomial of degree 5 or more can not be solved using radicals. It also gives an excellent initial expose about Lie groups and their classification as simple vs. solvable.
In any case, if you want to master Theories of Everything, it is the language of algebra that needs to mastered first.
The book Out of this world written by Stephen Webb is a good introduction if you have really no idea what modern fundamental physics is up to. It is the one that made me excited about this stuff for the first time several years ago, and the excitement still holds on :-).
It gently starts by explaining why symmetries are important in physics, followed by an overview about QM and GR, what particle physics generally is about, and the standard model. Then the key ideas behind GUTs (Grand Unified Theories), supersymmetry, and extra dimensions leading to supergravity as a first unified theory including gravity, get introduced. The second part focuses on explaining string and M-theory (other approaches are shortly mentioned too) and some topics, such as black holes, the holographic principle, and cosmology that can be addressed by it.
The book builds up the wisdom it explains in a logical and systematic manner and it is written in a absorbing style that made it difficult for me to put it away. Historical notes about when which ideas and concepts are discovered by whom are included and the way the narrator tells the story made me think that these are all nice people who do awesome and cool things when reading it for the first time.


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Diversity Defined
"Diversity" defined can be very broad in scope and includes each member of the University community, with the understanding that each individual possesses unique social identities. The principles of diversity and inclusion, however, move beyond understanding the characteristics of each social identity and lead to creating an inclusive community and environment. The University's commitment to diversity and inclusion requires a set of conscious practices that involve:
- Building alliances across social identities to work together to eradicate all forms of individual and institutionalized discrimination and oppression, including, but not limited to, discrimination and oppression based on race, ethnicity, national origin, immigrant status, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical ability, cognitive ability, mental illness, religious beliefs, physical appearance, income, military experience, geographic location, marital status, education, and parental status.
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- Recognizing that personal, cultural, institutionalized, and organizational discrimination and stigmatization along social identities creates and sustains privileges for some while creating and sustaining oppression for others.
- Practicing mutual respect for our own identities, as well as identities different from our own.
- Exploring differences and similarities in a safe and nurturing environment.
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I have lost my Android phone but I have backup of my SD-card on which I have backup of my ColorNote app. How can I get all my notes from that backup?
NOTE: I am using iPhone now so don't have a Android device for now.
I have lost my Android phone but I have backup of my SD-card on which I have backup of my ColorNote app. How can I get all my notes from that backup?
NOTE: I am using iPhone now so don't have a Android device for now.
You need another Android phone.
You can either:
To restore your notes from SD card which were backed up using ColorNote's Backup to SD card functionality you can try this.
Install ColorNote app and then go to
I have tried this using the same SD card, in your case you have a backup of it so I am not sure but I guess it should work. Let me know how it helps.
Yes you can, but it will be a bit convoluted: ColorNote's notes can only be exported from the SQLite colornote.db file, but it's not available from the sd card backups. So we will have to do it in two steps: first reimport the sd card backup into the ColorNote app, then extract the generated colornote.db SQLite file (note that you must have rooted your phone to access the SQLite file, but you can do it on the BlueStacks emulator). Here's the walkthrough, inspired greatly by this post by Danyil Bohdan and this one:
Note that this technic works for most applications, since most Android apps use SQLite to store their databases (exception being some apps like WhatsApp which uses SQLite but encrypted to, of course, avoid leaking your private data to anyone).
In my case the program had problem finding my backup after upgrading from Android 2.3 to 4.2.
The backups were in
There is also another solution. If you download the app "Evernote" on your phone. You will then have two note apps; color note and evernote.
Then click on a note you want to keep. On my phone, HTC wildfire, you can press a "menu" button once you've accessed the particular note; And then you can choose "Share" or in my language "Send". You will then be able to send the particular note from "colornote" to "Evernote". "Evernote" is accessible for an iphone and an android phone, and the app enables you to transfer notes from different devices.
Good Luck!
It is easy to restore ColorNote backup files from PC:
If your Android has a SD card, you could just plug the card into PC and copy the files. On my Colornote versions, the backup restore deletes previous files.
Hi I found the answer to lot's of peoples problems on restoring colornote files. Transfering from one mobile to another, I Tried everything but like most people I could see them on the phone's sd card but I could not read the files, this is how I managed. If you have files backed up to an external HDD copy the colornote data folder to the phone's sd card, open colornote go to settings & sign out of online sync (this is the secret), while in settings go to sd card back up and select the first one of your file's when you select the file it gives the option to restore. Hit restore and all your files will then show in colornote. If any files are locked it will require that you enter the password I just used the same as used on my old phone and I could then open and read the files.
You can install Android emulator (such as www.bluestacks.com/) Install there ColorNote and send notes to email or save them to a file.
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In a series of movies called Ip Man 1 and 2, based in WW2, a Wing Chun martial arts master called Ip Man fought with a Japanese general and a western boxer named Twister. Did these events actually happen?
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Yip man was real (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). He was a famous student of Wing Chun. My guess is that you're referring to the 2008 movie, Ip Man. However, it was not historically accurate. Quoting its Wikipedia page:
So, although the film had inaccuracies, Yip Man was as real as any other human.
"...the film had inaccuracies..." lol!
That's like saying "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" had inaccuracies.
I love the art of good movies, including historical ones, but filmmakers (Western or Eastern it seems) are notorious liars to a high degree. I don't forgive the lies...they cheapen the true struggle of the 2nd Sino-Japanese war (World War II).
If we want to be generous for the sake of art, and the real feeling it can inspire, we can say that this movie chose a real-life bystander and masked him as a hero.
If... If we let ourselves believe the theatre of it - then it becomes a poignant tale of a people's struggle with tyranny and brutality. Taken that way, it's a successful and even meaningful film for the spirit it evokes.
But, returning to fact, sadly, it has very little to do with the real-life Yip Man.
Grandmaster Yip Man did not fight any British boxing champion. In real life, it was actually Yip Man's student, Wong Shun Leung ("Wong Leung" in the movie) who fought a 240 lbs Russian not British Boxer in Hong Kong and Wong Shun Leung won that fight by KO with just three punches!!! He did not in real life have to resort to any "Poison Hands" ! In the Movie, "Wong Leung" was portrayed as a student with average skill but in real life, everyone in the Wing Chun family knows that Wong Shun Leung was the man who put Wing Chun on the map in Hong Kong by winning 50-60 bare knuckle Challenge Matches against many different systems.
Actually, they were real,all incidents in this story might not be true,cause its a movie, but the fights were real of course,But, what ive heard from different people is that last fight(ip man vs twister) had some modifications in it.Actually it was quite longer,Extra scenes were added, actually ip man defeated Twister quickly same as Gen.Miura, but see since ive already mentioned its a movie, so extras will be added,otherwise it would be boring,and it would make people think that ip mans victory would be inevitable,


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I added my Facebook account to the calendar to sync up my Facebook friend's birthdays in my calendar. But along with the birthdays, few useless events also got added automatically. Like if my friend who is a football fan, is attending a Football match somewhere, that event is displaying in "MY CALENDAR". It is very annoying to see my friend's events in my calendar. How do I stop that?
Has your friend invited you to the event? I've never seen my friends' events in my calendar, only when they've invited me too. For these events you need to remove the event by going to the event's facebook page, scrolling all the way down and clicking the "Remove from My events" link in the footer. Facebook won't sync the RSVP info for some reason, so "Hide declined events" in the calendar options won't hide events that you're not attending (which is very annoying by the way).
The way to solve this requires you to go onto the web version of facebook. From the newsfeed page, select 'events' from the column on the left. On the events page, select list and press the cross in the right hand corner of the event you want removed. Then on your phone, open calendar and press the menu button, select sync and it should remove the event. For some reason, facebook doesn't seem to inform your calendar of declined events, so removal is essential.
Depending on the calendar app on your phone, you may be able to do this easily. I'm using a Samsung Captivate with Froyo, and can hide Facebook events by doing the following:
In addition to which phone and calendaring app you use, this may also be affected by how you sync your Facebook calendar, via the official Facebook app or via some other 'social' software.
If you give details about your phone, calendar and social software being used, someone may be able to give more detailed and/or directly applicable help.


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4 Ways to Keep the Flame Burning Year-Round
Love isn't the same thing as romance. Romance is one way to express love – but we can express love in so many other ways, too.
Love isn't just a feeling. It's not just an emotion. Love is a commitment to putting your partner at the top of your priority list. Love is intimacy at every level.


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Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with Tactile High-Speed Keys for $99.99 + free shipping
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Cherry MX Browns in this, per the reviews. Nice.
I have this keyboard. It's quite nice. The keys are Cherry MX Browns as has been said. It has white backlit keys and your standard media buttons and volume roller thing. It also has three profiles for the six macro keys on the left. My only complaint is the weird non-detachable orange molding around the macro keys. I've only had it about a week, but I'm enjoy it and getting used to typing on a mechanical keyboard. It's a pretty good price for a backlit mechanical keyboard with the other somewhat less important features. The price is good too, this is what I paid from newegg when I got it on a 'shell shocker.'
It also has a dual USB plug that gives you a passthrough port on the keyboard so you can plug other usb stuff into it without running it to your PC. Probably pretty handy for USB headphones or just charging your phone or something with a short cord.
Not a huge fan of my Razer Black Widow. It isn't bad by any means, but not the change I was hoping for from my Logitech G510. I would like to try this....but that orange key panel annoys me.


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Endurance exercise and metabolism are linked to transcriptional activation of human telomeres, researchers propose.
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Dickonomics: How 5 Everyday Businesses Trick You
#2. The Mall
Ah the mall, the Mecca of North American culture. What makes it, and its shops, so enticing that people will refuse to stop shopping for anything, even at the risk of being consumed by flames?
"We just got a shipment of half-a-dozen Wiis in, now if you could all line up in an orderly fashion..."
Rats in a Maze Part 2
Like the supermarket, malls aren't actually designed for convenience, but to force you to do as much walking past as many storefronts as possible. This is why the up escalator is often on the opposite end of the floor from the down escalator.
Stores appealing to certain demographics are spread around the mall; you manly men will never find the beef jerky store next to the shiny new electronics store, nor will nerds ever have their dreams of a Taco Bell next to the Gamestop realized. On the plus side this extra walking is probably the best exercise most Americans get these days.
Malls are also filled with mirrors, which slow us down then make us feel like shit since we're all vain, self-loathing bastards at heart. That "oh God, I look terrible" moment has sent more than a few people scurrying into shops for new clothes.
Also, when you first enter the mall just keep moving for the first hundred feet or so. There are two phases to shopping, deliberation and buying, and they've found that buying even a minor item will break us out of the deliberation mindset and get us spending freely, thus chintzy impulse items are kept near the entrance. That trip to the dollar store may be the foreplay leading to a spending orgy that ends in you tying a cashmere sofa to the roof of your car.
She actually just came in to use the bathroom.
Little Retail Shop of Horror
Things don't get better once you enter the stores themselves. First off, go left when you enter the store. Research has shown that most people go right, and thus the items most profitable to the store are on the right, with the best bargains hidden off to the left.
A lot of "deals," especially around the holidays, are blatant bait-and-switches. A low price is advertised for a particular item, often one that they only have three of in stock. Salespeople can then "upsell" you on another replacement item... that costs more.
They also use the "disrupt-then-reframe" sales technique, hitting you with sales pitches so complicated they may as well be speaking a combination of Pig Latin and Swahili, then reframing it in an over-simplified way that makes the "right" buying decision seem obvious ("Look, all I'm trying to say is that this system is like a Cadillac, where the cheaper one in the window is like feeding your children hobo turds.").
Electronics salesmen are masters of this, but then pretty much everything they say is a constant stream of verbal diarrhea.
Leading us by the Nose
Traditionally overlooked (except by uncles with fingers that chronically require pulling) our sense of smell is being preyed on by retailers with increasing frequency. Notice how you can smell the wonderful toasted coffee beans a good two hundred feet from the actual coffee shop?
Smells are impossible to escape or ignore, and scent marketing has been shown to increase buying by up to 300 percent. As a result most stores now have their own carefully researched scents.
Scents have even been shown to increase gambling by up to 45 percent, speaking of which...
#1. The Casino
Casinos are the kings of making ordinary people spend like MC Hammer at the billowy silk pants store. They kind of have to be, as they don't actually offer any, you know, goods or services for your money. So how do Casinos get you to blow the kids' college fund when clearly the hookers out front offer a far better value for your dollar?
Outside World? What Outside World?
Sunlight, fresh air, remembering the fact that you have a house payment to make this month; these are the enemies of the big casinos. Most have few windows and no clocks, and attempt to artificially simulate a daytime or outside environment, creating a world where time has no meaning.
The interior of The Venetian in Las Vegas could be mistaken for Venice until you notice there's no sewage floating in the water.
Some even block cell phones; tearful calls from your kids asking where you've gone and why you're not at their birthday party can really kill your mojo.
The Gambling Trance
There's a specific fast-paced rhythm to everything that happens in a casino, making it difficult to break from the money-hemorrhaging haze (especially when you're half-wasted on free drinks). Oh, and there's a reason every casino you hit in Vegas is packed with hot women, and it's not your raw animal magnetism.
Casino managers don't let any of your senses go neglected. Music is soothing and loops frequently contributing to your trance and loud ugly carpets and low hanging canopies keep your eyes focused on the one-armed bandits in front of you. Casinos pump up the oxygen levels to keep you alert and some have even been accused of spreading pheromones through the ventilation system (possibly explaining why people still get way too damn excited over Wayne Newton).
You Can Beat the Casinos. Really! You Can!
There's no way to beat the casinos that won't land you in jail or under a bright light in a backroom with a broken hand, but casinos love to make us think we can.
Seconds after this photo, he filed for bankruptcy.
Why else would Vegas fund and stage glamorous showings for movies like 21, a film built on the premise that your "A" in math class could allow you to legally scam casinos out of millions while having sex with Kate Bosworth?
The floor is filled with the sweet (and these days, usually artificial) sound of jangling coins and "loose" machines are placed in high visibility areas to give the impression payoffs are more frequent than they are. Slot machines are also designed to deal out a high number of "near misses" with, for instance, the first two reels set to land on the "Jackpot" far more often than the third reel, dealing you more false hope than your high school girlfriend.
Finally, don't be fooled by posted payout percentages. A machine might say it pays out 97 percent of the time, which sounds low-risk, but that's a hypothetical number based on an infinite number of spins. Spin 10 times and you may lose nine, spin 100 and you may lose 50; you would have to pull that handle a massive number of times for it to finally even out at that 97 percent (a theory being put to the test by blue-haired slot jockeys nationwide).
So now that you know what kind of dickery our economy is based on, get out there and hold your head high knowing every time you're screwed over you're doing your part to fight the recession. Maybe, if we're all just gullible enough, we can get through this thing.
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FieldSetCollapse Bug
I found a bug with Ext-JS 4.1.1 having to do with fieldset collapse. I'm posting it here because I'm providing an Architect archive file that demonstrates the problem. I don't expect that it has anything to do with Architect itself.
I tested this with the latest version of Chrome running on OSX.
Deploy the example and collapse the field set labelled "My Fields". You will see that the panel title is affected and the content of the other field sets on the page are hidden.
In my real application I found that the entire contents of the panel were hidden. Slightly different outcome, but I believe probably the same bug.
This happens when the minHeight of the first field set is set to a value (in this case 50). If minHeight is not set then everything works as expected.
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I see that I put this in the Designer forum by mistake.
I meant to put it in the Architect 2.x forum. Can a forum moderator move it?
You may wish to move it to the Ext 4.1.1 bugs form instead.
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- BSO Case Number: BS01-09-11775
- PIO Number: 01-9-30
- Date: Sept. 25, 2001
- Time: 0633
- Place of Occurrence: Bailey Road & Woodlands Blvd., North Lauderdale
- Brittany Harris, 11, 1/22/90, female, 1934 Players Place, North Lauderdale
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An 11-year-old North Lauderdale girl suffered critical injuries when a car struck her on her way to school this morning.
The mishap occurred at about 6:30 a.m. at the intersection of Bailey Road and Woodlands Boulevard in North Lauderdale. Brittany Harris and three other children were crossing Bailey Road, heading from north to south, enroute to their bus stop and a ride to Lauderdale Lakes Middle School. Brittany ran into the path of an eastbound 1986 Chrysler LeBaron, driven by Michael Maloney, 39, of Tamarac.
The child sustained a fractured skull and was transported by BSO helicopter to Broward General Medical Center, where she was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit in critical condition. The driver, Maloney, remained on the scene and cooperated with BSO Traffic Homicide detectives investigating the accident.
No charges were filed against the driver and the investigation continues.
- THIS REPORT BY: Det. L. Akers, Sgt. R. Hodges, THI Jim Leljedal / PIO 9/25/01 1515
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It is sometimes said that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic. What is meant by each of these descriptions? Are they mutually exclusive, or does one require the other? And what implications rise because of this?
A homogeneous cosmology is one in which there are no "special" places in the universe: at a given instant in time, the universe appears the same at every location (on large enough spatial scales).
An isotropic cosmology is one in which there are no "special" directions: at a given instant in time, the universe appears the same in every direction (again, on sufficiently large spatial scales).
Together, they form the Cosmological principle.
As pointed out by Brian Hooper, these symmetries (when applied to physical laws) give rise to the conservations of linear and angular momentum as a result of Noether's theorem.
In addition, the cosmological principal is important for the physical interpretation of observational data, and not only because it is a generally unspoken assumption when using physical laws tested on Earth to model distant objects (galaxies, quasars, etc.) For example, it supports the interpretation of the Hubble diagram as the result of the expansion of the universe as opposed to evidence that the Earth (or someplace "nearby") was at the center of a very big conventional explosion. After all, in a conventional explosion, the fragments that travel the farthest are those that had the highest velocity, so some time after the explosion, faster moving fragments are further away from the center. If, however, observers on all fragments see the same density of galaxies and relationship between velocity and distance in all directions, then this model doesn't work.
It means that the laws of physics are the same everywhere and the same in every direction. It is of fundamental importance as these symmetries give rise to conservation laws. The isotropy of the universe means that angular momentum is conserved; its homogeneity means that momentum is conserved. A similar symmetry, that the laws of physics are the same for all time, gives us conservation of energy.
See Noether's Theorem on Wikipedia for more information.
According to the generally accepted theory of the Big Bang, the universe originated between 10,000 and 20,000 million ago years ago and has been expanding ever since.
The uncertain future of the universe: the expansion could be limited (closed universe), shrinking the universe upon itself, or it could be infinite (open universe), in which case the universe will expand forever.
In the limiting case between these two possibilities (flat universe) nor cease the expansion. At large distances from the observational point of view, the universe is - homogeneous - isotropic.
If $u$ is the mass density, call $(du / u)$ in $R$ a fractional fluctuations of the mass density, due to the existence of structures (galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters), within an area located randomly, radius R. Thus $(du / u)$ in $R$ decreases as a negative power of R.
This suggests that we can model the universe as made of a soft background of average density, with superimposed fluctuations. A small scales these fluctuations are large but decrease as the scale grows. A sufficiently large scale (greater than about 100 Mpc), the universe can be treated as homogeneous and isotropic then a uniform density.
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A mother is facing child-abuse charges after being accused of leaving her 6-year-old daughter at a McDonald's in Phoenix.
According to court documents, Lucy Parra, 23, picked up her daughter at school Tuesday and went to a McDonald's at 23rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road, where she dropped her off and drove away as the girl went inside.
The girl later came out of the restaurant with two adults who helped her look for her mother, and when they couldn't find Parra, employees called police. Officers were on the scene for 15 minutes before Parra came back for her daughter, the documents said.
Police discovered that earlier in the day, Parra was released from Tent City after serving time on a warrant for driving on a suspended license.
Court documents show that on a separate occasion, Parra left two other children at her mother's house without informing family members.
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Rookie question that a lot of people who are using this site may want to know the answer for (including me). I have read a couple of things referring to GTD but nothing definitive. It'd be good to see a well-presented summary here with links to further reliable sources.
What is the most definitive resource on adopting it?