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When looking at comparisons, it seems to me that there could be a 1:1 mapping between their feature sets. Yet, an often cited statement is that "Mercurial is easier". What is the basis of this statement? (if any)
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Case in point: Lets say that you want to change the username on all your previous commits. I've needed to do this several times for various reason.
Git Version
Mercurial Version:
authors.convert.list file:
Command line:
Now, which one looks easier to use?
Note: I spent 2 years working solely with Git, so this isn't a "I hate it, I didn't get it in 2 seconds" rant.
For me, it's the usability. Git is very linux oriented with a linux way of doing things. That means command line, man pages, and figuring it out for yourself. It had a very poor GUI (note: I'm basing this off of msysGit from about a year ago), that seemed to just get in my way. I could barely use it
The command line was worse. Being a Linux oriented program, on Windows it was very difficult to use. Instead of a native port they simply wrapped git with MinGW (Think cygwin), which made working with it much more difficult. MinGW isn't Windows Command Prompt, and just acts different. It's crazy that this is the only way to work with Git. Even in Linux it seemed the only way was to work with straight command line. Projects like RabbitVCS helped some, but weren't very powerful.
The command line oriented approach and being a linux program meant that almost all the howto guides, help documentation, and forum/QA questions relied on running monstrous commands like above. The basic SCM commands (commit, pull, push) aren't as complex, but any more and complexity grows exponentially.
I also hate the one place that lots of OSS git users seem to hang around: Github. When you first go to a github page, it slams you with everything you can possibly do. To me, a projects git page looks chaotic, scary, and overly powerful. Even the explanation of what the project is, is pushed down to the bottom. Github really hurts people who don't have a full website already setup. Its issue tracker is also terrible and confusing. Feature overload.
Git users also seemed to be very cult like. Git users seem to always be the ones starting "holy wars" over which DVCS is better, which then forces Mercurial users to defend themselves. Sites like http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ show arrogance and an almost "Use my software or die" mentality. Many times I've gone into various places of help only to be flamed for not knowing X, using X beforehand, using Windows, etc. It's crazy.
Mercurial on the other hand seems to go towards the kinder approach. Their own home page seems much more friendly to new users than Git's. In a simple Google search the 5th result is TortoiseHg, a very nice GUI for Mercurial. Their entire approach seems to be simplicity first, power later.
With Mercurial I don't have SSH nonsense (SSH is hell on Windows), I don't have stupidly complex commands, I don't have a cult user following, I don't have craziness. Mercurial just works.
TortoiseHg provides an actually usable interface (although lately it seems to be growing) that provides actually useful features. Options are limited to what you need, removing clutter and options that are rarely used. It also provides many decent defaults
Mercurial, being very friendly to new comers, was very easy to pick up. Even some of the more complex topics like the different branching model and history editing were very easy to follow. I picked up Mercurial quickly and painlessly.
Mercurial also just works the first time with little setup. On ANY OS I can just install TortoiseHg and get all the features I want (mainly context menu commands) without having to hunt for different Guis. Also missing is setting up SSH (half of the guides out there say to use Putty, Plink, and Pagent while the other half says to use ssh-keygen). For new users, TortoiseHg takes minutes to setup while Git takes 30 minutes to an hour with lots of googling.
Lastly you have the online repos. Githubs equivalent is BitBucket, which has some of the issues I outlined above. However there's also Google Code. When I go to a Google Code project, I don't get feature overload, I get a nice clean interface. Google Code is more of a online repo/website combo, which really helps OSS projects who don't have an existing site setup. I would feel very comfortable using Google Code as my projects website for quite some time, only building a website when absolutely necessary. Its issue tracker is also powerful, fitting nicely in between Github's almost useless Issue Tracker and Bugzilla's monstrosity.
Mercurial just works, first time, every time. Git gets in my way and only angers me the more I use it.
Context: I use both Mercurial (for work) and Git (for side projects and open source) on a daily basis. I primarily use text-based tools with both (not IDEs) and I am on a Mac.
In general, I find Mercurial easier to work with. A few things that I find make Mercurial easier:
This is very subjective and depends from one person to another, but yes, I would go that to someone completely new to VCS or someone coming from one of the "old school" VCSs, Mercurial will seem easier.
For example, adding files, the non-existence of the index in Hg, the ease of going back to some old revision and branching from there (just update and commit) as some of the most "obvious" examples. Now most of features of one system can be emulated in another and vice versa, but that requires some knowledge in Git, while in Mercurial the defaults (if you'll allow me to call them that) are rather "user friendly". Those little things - the switch here and there, the non-obvious behaviour in one command and so on ... these things add up, and in the end, one system seems more easy to use than the other.
Just to make the answer complete; I use git, but when recommending a VCS for someone who's "new to them", I almost always recommend Mercurial. I remember, when it first came into my hands, it felt very intuitive. It is my experience that Mercurial produces less wtf/minute than Git.
I think it's as simple as this: Mercurial has a more familiar syntax (particularly for SVN users) and is fairly well documented. Once you get used to the Git syntax, you'll find it as easy to use as anything else.
Perceptions might be changing over time, on this. Mercurial is very well designed, and so is Git. Mercurial seems to be easier to learn (at least it was for me), and there have been difficulties that I encountered in Git, that I have no parallel for in Mercurial. I tried to learn Python, and Ruby, and got farther, faster with Python. That doesn't mean Python is always and everywhere better than Ruby, or even that it's better for me. It's just what I learned and stuck with. Programmers often make holy wars out of personal preference. Other human beings do that too.
I am a mercurial user who tries to keep an open mind about Git, and I freely admit that it hasn't "become my new favorite thing" to the same extent as Mercurial has. I think Git is really really nice though.
A counter example for GIT/mercurial complexity: Nice GIT support is built into XCode, on Mac. Less easy to use XCode with Mercurial than GIT.
My experience with GIT so far has been that I get confused and lost and need to go consult the documentation more while using it. I believe that a lot of documentation has been written, but nothing that has enabled me to "grok" it. Secondly, I can modify and extend Mercurial easily in Python, and as I am adept in Python, and as anyone really could learn python quickly, it seems an advantage to me. I also know C, and write Python extensions in C, so I suppose some day, if I needed one, I could easily write a Git extension in C.
Ease-of-use is not something that is easy to quantify. It's there, and I don't think it's entirely subjective, but we don't have good objective measurement techniques. What would the units for ease-of-use be? Milli-iPods?
I am not so partisan as to be 100% pro-mercurial, and 100% anti-git. I'm more comfortable on Mercurial right now, on Windows and on Linux, and when I start doing more Mac work, I expect that I'll try to stick with XCode+GIT.
Update 2013: I have now used Mercurial AND GIT long enough to find some features that I wish it had that Git has, such as this question about merge strategies. Really Git is amazing, if difficult to learn, and sometimes maddeningly complex.
There are a few things that IMO are likely to put new users off Git:
One thing I can think of is
Because it is.
Git exposes far more of it's guts than mercurial. You can happily use mercurial within a few minutes of picking it up but I find git still very hard to grapple with after a couple of months of wrestling with it (I have done very little over the last couple of months other than try to learn git). I am using both from the command line and mostly on Linux so this is not just an aversion to the command line interface.
One simple example is the relatively few flags and command line arguments needed for mercurial compared to git. The staging area and the behavior of the add command in git also adds more complexity than is necessary. The trio of reset, checkout and revert and their multiple permutations adds enormous complexity, which was quite unnecessary when you witness the straightforward nature of revert and update on mercurial.
I agree with the above comment also about Hginit, it definitely made mercurial much easier to comprehend. Well written and very easy to understand. None of the documentation written for git comes close. I for one, find most of what is written by Scott Chacone (who has singlehandedly written most of the documentation/books about git) particularly confusing.
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He remarked:
The fuel standards that we put in place just a few years ago didn't cripple automakers. The American auto industry retooled, and today, our automakers are selling the best cars in the world at a faster rate than they have in five years — with more hybrid, more plug-in, more fuel-efficient cars.
The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new technologies — we've used science; we've used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.
The Obama administration is celebrating a win in which it convinced automakers to adhere to signficant increases to the
CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standard
Under President George W. Bush (R) and the 2007 Congress, the CAFE standard -- which covers light trucks and sedans -- was
scheduled to hit 35 mpg by 2020
. President Obama first succeeded in
bumping that target to 34.1 mpg by 2016
after initially asking for
35.5 mpg by 2016
Following that success, the President's team pushed for a much higher standard for 2025 --
as high as 62 mpg
. Automakers said
that increase would "kill" the auto industry
, but eventually begrudgingly
caved to a target of 54.5 mpg
by 2025.
The result is a mixed bag -- customers will save thousands of dollars at the pump over the lifetime of their vehicles (the exact amount is dependent on the price of fuel), but will pay $2,059 USD more for a new truck and $1,726 USD more for a new car on average (critics contend
the true price increase will be at least twice that
). And automakers have to swallow an estimated $200B USD in costs for developing advanced fuel efficiency technologies.
In his speech, the President also plugged General Motors Comp. (
) --
a bailout recipient
-- for making a climate change pledge. The President remarked, "More than 500 businesses, including giants like GM and Nike, issued a Climate Declaration, calling action on climate change 'one of the great economic opportunities of the 21st century.'"
GM makes
the Chevy Volt
plug-in electric vehicle that
both President Obama
and former President George HW Bush
are big fans of.
II. More Regulation Ahead?
Emboldened by the concessions that he has already won from the industry, the President proposed more regulation in his speech -- including a fresh round of CAFE targets for
heavy duty trucks
. The heavy-duty truck segment (which includes semis, garbage trucks, buses and three-quarter-ton pickups) was first regulated under President Bush's Energy Act of 2007, which calls for a 20 percent increase in average fuel economy by 2018.
The standard refresh would go into effect by 2018, and force that vehicle segment -- which typically features inherently poor fuel economy -- to continue more yearly bumps in efficiency. Despite the gains since 2007, heavy-duty vehicles are still the second largest source of emissions in the transportation sector, according to the White House.
President Obama was new fuel economy targets for heavy duty trucks.
[Image Source: Jason Mick/DailyTech]
Other automotive highlights of the speech included a reiteration of the President's call to
bump the electric vehicle tax credit to $10,000 USD
, a demand for
more federal advanced vehicle research funding
, and a push to give new tax credits
compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles
The President also called for regulations to limit the amount of carbon power plants can emit -- regulations that could force coal and oil burning plants to purchase expensive carbon capture and storage systems.
The speech compared these changes to the introduction of the federally forced introduction of the catalytic converter in 1970 (via the 1970 expansion of the
Clean Air Act
to cover automobiles), which critics complained would damage the industry. He remarked:
At the time when we passed the Clean Air Act to try to get rid of some of this smog, some of the same doomsayers were saying new pollution standards will decimate the auto industry. Guess what — it didn't happen. Our air got cleaner.
The President threatened the oil industry that he
wouldn't approve the Keystone oil pipeline
unless it cooperated with emissions improvements, remarking that the pipeline would be approved "only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution."
The President wants stricter emissions standards for power plants. [Image Source: Reuters]
At least some of the President's demands are unlikely to be fulfilled given the Republican control of the House. Thus far Republicans in Congress have fought efforts to bump tax credits for EVs/plug-ins and efforts to increase vehicle research funding.
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How about we stop tip toeing around the problem and just demand that the entire world do a reset of our civilization back to the early 1700s!
Let's do away with electricity, modern communications, modern transportation and everything. Everyone should go back to walking everywhere they go unless they can earn enough money to buy a horse to ride. Everyone should have to make their own living, do away with all welfare and entitlements and subsidies, make life simple again, simple in that if you don't work and support yourself you starve. That would cut our CO2 emissions to almost nothing!!!
Of course after doing that I would be willing to bet that we still see a warming trend because it is a natural process which the Earth goes through between all of its previous Ice Ages and the one that will come again just as they always have before. What humans are doing currently to accelerate warming is a drop in the bucket and once the Earth begins its next cooling cycle we can emit ten times the CO2 we are now and not be able to prevent the next Ice Age. The belief that humans are the cause of warming stems from humans not wanting to admit that many things are far beyond their control which causes fear when they realize the truth, and it is fueled further by the arrogant ego trips political leaders have that makes them feel they need to be in control of everything or else appear impotent.
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MSE Foundation Receives The Salvation Army's Community Partner Award
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation received The Salvation Army's Community Partner Award on Tuesday, May 13, at United in Service. United in Service was a Salvation Army award ceremony in recognition of volunteers and community partners for their compassionate work on behalf of The Salvation Army, which assists people in need throughout the Washington, D.C., region. Press Release
Playworks Young Leaders
On April 28 Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation and Playworks DC hosted the Junior Coach Leadership Conference at Verizon Center. Video Recap | Press Release | Photos
MSE Foundation & Telos Corporation Donate More than $30,000 to TAPS
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation and Telos Corporation joined forces this past November for the inaugural Washington Wizards Courage Program. Hats with the word "Courage" written in the Wizards' wordmark were sold with 100% of the proceeds benefiting Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS). Press Release
Flashes of Hope
Washington Capitals forward Jason Chimera and Wizards center Marcin Gortat participated in a Flashes of Hope photo shoot on the Hematology/Oncology Care Unit at Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24. Flashes of Hope is a national nonprofit organization that changes the way children with cancer and other life threatening illnesses see themselves through the gift of photography. Nearly 20 families were photographed during the session with the goal of helping children feel better about their changing appearance. Video Recap | Press Release | Photos
MSE Foundation MLK Day Project
Washington Bullets alumnus Bob Dandridge, Capitals Hall-of-Famer Rod Langway and Washington, D.C., mayor Vincent C. Gray participated in a MLK Day of Service project hosted by Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation and Playworks Washington, D.C., at West Education Campus in northwest D.C. on Monday, Jan. 20. They were joined by 50 Capitals, Mystics and Wizards fans who took part in tasks that included painting murals, organizing the library and assembling and painting benches. The murals were generously created and donated by Susan Schwerin, who has created murals for MSE Foundation at multiple schools throughout the District of Columbia. Read More | Photos | Video
Capitals, Mystics and Wizards Participate in Family-to-Family Initiative
On Dec. 11 Washington Capitals players Nicklas Backstrom, Eric Fehr, Mike Green, Steve Oleksy and Joel Ward and Wizards Players Trevor Ariza, Trevor Booker, Nene, John Wall and Martell Webster along with Mystics head coach Mike Thibault delivered gifts to four underserved families in Washington, D.C., as part of Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) Foundation's Family-to-Family program. This year marks the third consecutive year that all three MSE sports teams collaborated on the initiative, which the Wizards created 17 years ago. The program allows the Capitals, Mystics and Wizards to "adopt" families in need. This holiday season 20 families were adopted through the program. Read More | Photos | Video | Blog
MSE Foundation, Hoops for Youth Foundation and Wizards Players Unveil New Basketball Court for Ward 8 Youth
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation and Hoops for Youth Foundation collaborated to provide a new outdoor basketball court for Horton's Kids, a local nonprofit that provides education and enrichment programs to young people in Washington D.C.'s Ward 8. The unveiling of the new court took place as part of a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Horton's Kids Community Resource Center in the Wellington Park neighborhood in Southeast D.C. The new court replaced a concrete-paved one and will benefit the children of Washington, D.C.'s, Ward 8. Read More | Photos | Video
The Washington Wizards and their players will celebrate the Thanksgiving season with Wizards Cares events to assist the underserved community in the metropolitan area. Read More
The Washington Wizards hosted wounded warriors from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as well as families from Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) at Verizon Center on Nov. 7. The visit was part of the launch of Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation's Wizards Courage Program presented by Telos Corporation and NBA Cares Hoops for Troops Veterans Day initiative. Read More | Photos
MSE Foundation to Assist in Court Refurbishment
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation has partnered with the Hoops for Youth Foundation to help refurbish a basketball court at Horton's Kids that will be unveiled later this year. The community center located in Ward 8 currently hosts the only basketball court for kids in that community. "We are excited about this new relationship with Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation," stated chairman of the Hoops For Youth Foundation Paul Miller. "Their commitment to the kids of D.C. and to rebuilding this court is so important to the lives of these kids. This court represents another opportunity for them to use the skills they develop on this court in the classroom and their daily lives." Read More
Clinic at Dunbar High School
As the Wizards prepared to face the New York Knicks in the Baltimore Basketball Classic on Oct. 17 at Baltimore Arena, the team hosted a basketball clinic for students at Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School. The clinic was conducted by Baltimore native and Dunbar High school alumnus Sam Cassell. He will be joined by Wizards players Bradley Beal and Garrett Temple as well as Assistant Coach Ryan Saunders, Player Development Coach (and Baltimore native) Joe Connelly and Wizards/Bullets Alumni Association members Mike Riordan and Larry Stewart. Riordan played six seasons with the Bullets, including two in Baltimore (1971-72 and 1972-73, where he was the team's fourth-leading scorer at 18.1 ppg), while Stewart spent four years with the team (1991-95) after starring at Coppin State in Baltimore. Also attending was Baltimore Arena/SMG General Manager Frank Remesch. Read More | Photos
The Salvation Army's Back-to-School Shopping
Twenty-two Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) staff members participated in The Salvation Army's Back-to-School Shopping event on Wednesday, July 16, at Target in Hyattsville, Md. MSE staff members were paired with local students in need to help them shop for school supplies, shoes and other must-have, back-to-school items. The 25 children ranged from kindergarten to high-school students and each had a shopping list of the supplies required for the upcoming school year. Target provided each student with an $80 gift card. Read More | Photos
KaBOOM! Playground Design Day with Bradley Beal
Students at Eagle Academy Public Charter School will be seeing red, white and blue this fall as the Monumental Sports and Entertainment (MSE) Foundation has joined forces with KaBOOM! to build a playground themed around the Capitals, Wizards and Mystics for the Washington, D.C., school. While the playground will not be built until Sept. 26, Wizards guard Bradley Beal and members of the KaBOOM! design team met with children from the school on Tuesday, July 9, to brainstorm ideas and concepts. Read More | Photos | Video
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation Donates $50,000 to Playworks Washington D.C.
Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) announced Tuesday the formation of a partnership between Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation and Playworks Washington D.C., through which MSE Foundation will provide a $50,000 grant and programming to the organization for the 2013-14 school year. More: Press Release | Photos | Video
Mystery Mini-Basketball Recap
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation raised $3,550 through its first Mystery Mini-Basketball fundraiser that took place at Verizon Center during the Wizards game against the Indiana Pacers on April 6. The fundraiser featured more than 100 mini-basketballs signed by various Wizards players that sold for $30 each. Read More
NBA Family Tips off 2013 with NBA Fit Live Healthy Week
The NBA family today tips off its NBA FIT Live Healthy Week, which will run through Feb. 1. During the week, the entire NBA family – led by the NBA/WNBA FIT Team – will join celebrity chefs, community members, and partners to highlight the importance of healthy living.
The 2013 NBA FIT Team includes Harrison Barnes (Golden State Warriors), Tyson Chandler (New York Knicks), Goran Dragic (Phoenix Suns), Kevin Love (Minnesota Timberwolves), Wesley Matthews (Portland Trail Blazers), Chandler Parsons (Houston Rockets), and John Wall (Washington Wizards). NBA FIT Live Healthy Week will feature grassroots programs and events, special oncourt apparel, and in-arena and online programming designed to inspire kids and families across the country to live active, healthy lives. Throughout the week, NBA and NBA Development League players will wear special oncourt attire, including adidas NBA FIT shooting shirts and blue headbands and wristbands. The adidas shooting shirts will be available at NBAStore.com and the NBA Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Release
Salute to the Stars
The Washington Wizards and J&G Steakhouse kicked off the NBA Cares Week of Service with their annual 'Salute to the Stars' event to honor our service men and women on Monday, October 22, at 11:30 am at J&G Steakhouse at the W in Washington DC.
Serving as celebrity waiters were players John Wall, Bradley Beal, Emeka Okafor, Jordan Crawford and Shelvin Mack. Team broadcaster and Wizards Bullets alumni association member Phil Chenier, Assistant Coach Sam Cassell, Wizards Executive Vice President of Business Operations Greg Bibb and the Wizard Girls also participated in the festivities. Release | Video | Photos
Staff Volunteer at A-SPAN Emergency Winter Shelter
MSE at DC Central Kitchen
Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) staff members and Capitals Hall of Famer Rod Langway assisted DC Central Kitchen employees with morning meal prep on Monday, Aug. 27, in Washington, D.C., during MSE's second summer service project. Throughout the session 40 MSE employees transformed 3,000 pounds of leftover food into 5,000 meals for 100 area homeless shelters, transitional homes and nonprofit organizations in Washington, D.C. Photos | Release | Video
Operation USO Care Package
Capitals Hall-of-Fame alumnus Rod Langway and Bullets alumni Bob Dandridge, Jack Marin and Larry Stewart participated alongside 40 Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) staff members, Caps mascot Slapshot, several Wizards Girls and 25 USO-Metro volunteers in an Operation USO Care Package event on Wednesday, July 11, at the USO Warehouse in Fort Belvoir, Va. Langway, Dandridge, Marin, Stewart, Slapshot, the Wizards Girls and MSE employees volunteered with a mix of civilians, active duty military members and military spouses and children to assemble military family care packages that service members who are deploying will send home to their families. Photos | Release
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Staff Participate in Everybody Wins! DC Power Lunch Program
This school year 20 staff members from Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) participated in the Everybody Wins! DC Power Lunch program, a literacy and mentoring program based in select elementary schools in the Washington metropolitan area. The goal of Power Lunch is to encourage children's interest in reading, expand their opportunities for success and facilitate meaningful volunteer contributions. Read More
2012 Pioneer Award Presented by Amtrak
Washington Wizards and Amtrak to Recognize Three Community Leaders in Honor of Black History Month
Black History Month, a remembrance of important people and events in African-American history, has been celebrated annually in the United States during the month of February since 1976.
In celebration of Black History Month, the Pioneer Award was created by the Washington Wizards and Amtrak to recognize African Americans within the Washington, DC community, who through hard work and dedication, have positively impacted the communities in which they live. During halftime of the Wizards vs. Magic game on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, the Wizards and Amtrak will recognize this year's recipients: Dr. Betty Jo Gaines, Executive Director at Bright Beginnings, Inc.; Natalie Randolph, Head Coach of the Coolidge High School varsity football team; and Neal Henderson, Founder of the Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club. All three recipients are pioneers in their own right, and their ongoing contributions continue to enrich the Washington, DC community.
"We are excited to join forces with Amtrak to present these deserving individuals with the Pioneer Award," stated Washington Wizards Executive Vice President Greg Bibb. "They have distinguished themselves and provided an outstanding example by improving our community and we are proud to honor them for their efforts."
Wizards Partner with Special Olympics
Five Wizards players (Jordan Crawford, Nick Young, Andray Blatche, Chris Singleton and Rashard Lewis) spent time at St. Coletta of Greater Washington, as they took part in a Special Olympics basketball game to support the Special Olympics' fourth annual "Spread the Word to End the Word" awareness day. Photos
Read Across America
Wizards center JaVale McGee and Bullets/Wizards alumni member Bob Dandridge read to students at the Marie Reed School to celebrate Read Across America day. Blog
Family to Family
On Dec. 19 Washington Capitals players Nicklas Backstrom, John Carlson, Mike Green, Brooks Laich and Joel Ward, Washington Mystics player Monique Currie and Washington Wizards players Jordan Crawford, Shelvin Mack, Hamady Ndiaye and John Wall delivered Christmas presents to three underserved families in Washington, D.C., as part of Monumental Sports & Entertainment's (MSE) Family-to-Family program.
This is the first year that all three MSE sports teams collaborated on the Family-to-Family program, which the Wizards created 15 years ago. The program allows the Caps, Mystics and Wizards to "adopt" families in need who are nominated by local schools and nonprofit organizations. This holiday season more than 20 families were adopted by the teams' charities, individual players and staff members. Photos | Wizards Minute
Wizards Staff Volunteer at Calvary Food Bank
Members of the Wizards and Mystics staff volunteered at the Calvary Food Bank to help prepare food baskets for D.C. families this Thanksgiving.
Food 4 Families
Wizards staff teamed up with NBC 4's Food 4 Families to help provide a basket of food for a Thanksgiving meal to families in need.
Wizards Staff Deliver Boo Boxes
Members of the Wizards and Mystics staff made and delivered 'Boo Boxes' for the children of Kimball Elementary School.
Wizards Staff Volunteer at Capital Area Food Bank
This September, Wizards staff members volunteered their morning at the Capital Area Food Bank to help bag lunches for children in need. Over 600 bagged lunches were prepared to be distributed amongst youths throughout Washington D.C. This initiative is a small way the Wizards are able to give back to their supportive community.


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As North American shale resources drive low-cost ethylene production, Middle East producers are shifting their focus to heavier feedstocks and higher value-added products.
Abundant North American shale energy resources are driving
low-cost ethylene production and a competitive resurgence for
the continents producers of ethylene and ethylene
At the same time, producers in the Middle East -- facing the
opposite and unfamiliar challenge of ethane supply limitations
-- are shifting their focus to heavier feedstocks and delivering higher
value-added products.
These findings were
presented in a new study released Thursday. The study,
titled IHS Chemical 2014 World Ethylene
Analysis, covers historical developments and future projections for supply, demand,
capacity and trade in the global ethylene markets for 2008 to
Low regional ethane prices continue to support high
ethylene margins for North American producers, while producers
in other regions are facing an opposite situation, said
Steve Lewandowski, director of olefins research at IHS, and one
of the authors of the report.
Once blessed with abundant supplies of cheap ethane,
Middle East producers invested heavily in capacity additions,
but this market shift, and a lack of readily available ethane
supplies, has effectively put a stop to new, low-cost
ethane-based ethylene capacity and shifted investments to
ethylene based on LPGs (liquefied petroleum gas) and
naphtha feedstocks.
Producers in the Middle East, he said, face some challenges,
such as a less developed infrastructure as compared to what
exists in the US, and a mixed global-demand-growth environment (rapid expansion in developing regions and
slower growth in developed regions).
According to the IHS Chemical analysis, after contracting
considerably in 2008, world ethylene demand is forecast to be
close to 140 million metric tons (MMT) in 2014. In the next 10
years, IHS estimates global ethylene demand will grow at
approximately 4%/year, reaching nearly 196 MMT by 2023.
During the next 10 years, China and the Middle East will
continue to be the largest drivers of global ethylene demand
growth; however, since its domestic market is small, most of
the Middle East demand for ethylene will be for export in the
form of primary derivatives, such as polyethylene and ethylene
Ethylene demand growth in the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia,
South America and Africa also is projected to remain considerably
above the global average, but from smaller absolute base
In contrast, consumption volumes in North America and Europe are forecast to grow slowly
for the next few years, but after 2016, the large-scale
investments in nearly 14 MMT of North American ethylene
capacity will require a substantial rise in ethylene derivative
The new derivatives are primarily to feed exports to the rest
of the world (South America, Asia, Europe, etc.), according to the IHS
"The US ethylene industry and the ethylene industry in the
Middle East have essentially traded places in terms of supply
outlook in the past few years, due to the emergence of low-cost
said Lewandowski.
"There is a tremendous amount of US capital investment that is
underway, with units starting up beginning in 2017. Middle East
players wish to participate in the North America low-cost feedstock boom, and are seeking
joint venture partners with North American companies as one
entry strategy.
Demand in Asia, particularly China, continues to grow since
Chinas chemical industry remains unable to meet the
countrys rapidly growing consumption requirements,
according to the report.
Sharp increases in consumption stemming from Chinas rapid
industrialization have spurred the development of numerous new
domestic ethylene and derivative complexes that are either
under construction or planned for the next
few years, including several coal-based facilities.
According to the IHS report, imports of ethylene and ethylene
derivatives into China will continue to increase rapidly during
the next 10 years, when they are projected to be about 50% higher
than the estimated 2013 volume of nearly 16 MMT.
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23 Apr 2013 6:05 PM #1
XTemplate question
I'm trying to use XTemplates to render something that looks like this:
@FormatterFactories(@FormatterFactory(factory=AutolinkerFactory.class, name="linkUrls"))
The linker works fine, but what it is being shown is safe html instead of the actual <a> tags and link. It seems like the output of the formatter gets run through safe html after it formats.
Is there any way to do what I'd like to? Or a better solution?
24 Apr 2013 8:44 PM #2
At present we do not have support for formatters that return SafeHtml objects. It isn't a simple change, so would be something that we would add as part of 3.1 or a later release. While I've considered adding this, I never put much thought into it (as there is a way to implement this sort of feature already, see below). Additionally, this is the first time I've heard the idea mentioned by a GXT user.
One idea would be to add a method to your POJO that builds up a SafeHtml value. If you used a SafeHtmlBuilder to render the content, this code could be shared between the client and the server - if you used another XTemplate inside there, you'd need to be sure not to call it on the server.
Sample method (minus actual wiring, since I don't know your pojo or your behavior):
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load data for each fieldset item Extjs
am trying to load data dynamically in a fieldset.
So I have a fieldset in which I dynamically add items, in my example I have two comboboxes. I want to fill those comboboxes with data coming from a store, knowing that each combobox will have different data according to its ID.
Here's what I've tried to do :
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Okay I managed to do it by cloning the filtered store to an array and then binding that array to the fieldset items. Thank you.


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6 Insane (But Convincing) Fan Theories About Kids' Cartoons
For every innocent cartoon out there, there's at least one obsessive fan on the Internet who managed to crap out a semi-coherent theory finding something disturbing about it, like that Tom & Jerry was actually Nazi propaganda, or that Barney & Friends is a metaphor for the Watergate scandal. But just like a broken watch, even the Internet is right every once in a while: The most disturbing fan theories are the ones where you just can't help but agree with them.
#6. The Characters in SpongeBob SquarePants Are the Result of Nuclear Testing
SpongeBob SquarePants is one of those classic, timeless ideas: It's about a talking sea sponge who lives in a pineapple at the bottom of the sea whose mascot is a meowing snail and who works in a restaurant owned by a crab. OK, sure, it sounds kind of bizarre when you put it like that, but what cartoon premise doesn't? Children's cartoons are metaphors; it's not like the creators were trying to say that these characters are literally mutants or something.
Although Squidward does bear some resemblance to Professor X.
The Theory:
According to one strangely convincing theory posted on Reddit, the show is really about nuclear testing. SpongeBob and his friends look and act the way they do because of their exposure to the radiation from atomic bombs dropped in the area around Bikini Bottom, where the show is set.
Also, "bikini" is ancient Mongolian for "atomic chain reaction resulting in a massive explosion."
Why It's Not That Crazy:
First of all, the fact that a talking sponge lives in a place called Bikini Bottom isn't some roundabout reference to human contraception -- the show is set under a real place called Bikini Atoll, which is confirmed by the official Nickelodeon-written synopsis. And here's where it gets interesting: Back in 1946, the U.S. government detonated a couple of atomic bombs there, one of which was set off underwater. The resulting explosion looked like this:
SpongeBob fans might be familiar with this particular mushroom cloud, considering that similar explosions are used on the show whenever a character so much as drops a pin on the floor:
Suddenly, all the weirdness in this cartoon starts making sense: The characters were normal sea creatures until the radiation from the explosion mutated them into sentient freaks. Even the landscape changed, allowing giant pineapples to grow out of the ground. Not only does this theory make sense, but it also provides answers to a lot of previously unanswered questions that have baffled fans for years, such as "How the hell did Mr. Krabs father a goddamn whale?"
Wait, no, we still have no clue.
#5. Super Mario Bros. 3 Is Actually a Play
For decades now, Mario games have been telling the same story over and over: Bowser kidnaps the Princess and Mario has to rescue her by stomping the shit out of everything. The only exception in the main series is Super Mario Bros. 2, with its infamous "It was a dream all along" ending. With the fan-favorite third game, Nintendo went back to the classic formula, and they've stuck to it since then.
The Theory:
Or did they? According to this illustrated guide, Mario 3 was just a stage play. Like Mario 2, it never happened, and you are a chump for buying it. Nintendo has trolled you once again.
"Also, I'm actually a dude."
Why It's Not That Crazy:
Just look at the game for a moment. When you start up Super Mario Bros. 3, the first thing you see is a curtain rising and the characters rushing in, like actors in a play.
"Mamma m ... um, line?"
But this doesn't necessarily have to mean anything, you might say. This is, after all, a game about a fat plumber who occasionally shoots fireballs out of his hand. It could simply be an artistic choice, for all we know ... but there's more.
During gameplay, objects such as blocks have bolts on them, implying that they are stuck to a backdrop -- everything is fake, like onstage. This would explain why the objects cast shadows, even when there's apparently nothing behind them.
All those mushrooms didn't leave a whole lot of money for scenery.
Also, most of the platforms in the game aren't magically levitating in the air like in the previous games: They're either suspended from the roof with ropes, held up by pillars or driven by machinery.
Mario has his understudy do all the dangerous jumps anyway.
Oh, and when you're done with a level, Mario exits stage right, just like you would in a play. Finally, this is the first game that introduced Mario's tendency to dress up as animals -- that's because he's actually playing different parts.
"OK, cue the fake blood geyser!"
But why would Mario star in a play based on his own adventures? Well, remember that by this point, Mario had gone through the "fight Bowser and rescue the princess" routine only once -- what if Super Mario Bros. was Mario's only real adventure? After that, Mario went back to unclogging toilets, but he still dreamed about being a hero again every night (as seen in Mario 2).
The "go fuck yourself" of storytelling.
Eventually, he tries to recapture that feeling by staging a play about the events of Mario 1, taking some artistic license with the story. Presumably at this point he completely lost touch with reality, hence Super Mario World and the increasingly ridiculous spinoffs.
#4. Dr. Claw Is the Real Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget was basically Get Smart meets RoboCop: A bumbling inspector with robotic enhancements fights crime with the help of his young niece and her dog, both of whom are vastly smarter than him. Gadget's main antagonist is the evil Dr. Claw, whose face is never revealed in the series ...
"My doctorate is in proctology, but I had to quit because my hand killed seven people."
The Theory:
... and, according to a theory posted on various sites, that's because Dr. Claw is the real Inspector Gadget. The main character is actually a robot duplicate of the man Claw once was, who was driven insane by an accident and now wants to destroy the machine that replaced him. But there's no way that makes sense, right?
Why It's Not That Crazy:
There are a lot of things that the show never bothered to explain, and this theory covers them better than the crappy live-action movie ever did. For starters, why does Gadget have robot parts? It seems unlikely that he would have been chosen for some sort of police-enhancing program, considering that he's a total moron and all. No, there had to be some sort of tragic accident in his past, but he doesn't seem to remember it.
To be fair, all that crap in his head doesn't leave much space for a brain.
Then there's Dr. Claw: Not only do we never see his face in the show (the action figure that revealed it came out years after the show had gone off the air), but the only thing we see is his metal hand, almost like an artificial limb. Also, his voice sounds like someone fellating a garbage disposal -- it's pretty obvious that Claw was involved in some sort of accident, too. Coincidence? We think not.
"Gadget! I will skull-fuck you until you bleed semen!"
According to the theory, "Claw" was once a normal human detective, but a terrible explosion caused his family and friends to think him dead. That's where his conveniently smart niece comes in: Penny, in her grief, recreated her uncle as a crime-fighting robot ... ignoring that the real man wasn't dead, only disfigured and insane. This would also explain why nothing ever happens to Penny, even though Claw's cronies seem to catch her every episode: She always finds a way to ruin Claw's plans because she's the only thing he still cares for.
The dog can eat a dick, though.
And hey, remember the part at the end of the opening theme where Gadget turns Claw's chair around and there's a bomb in it? A bomb that then explodes in Gadget's face? Perhaps this was meant to be symbolic. Perhaps there's no Claw, just Gadget.
Or perhaps Claw is a talking bomb, did you ever think of that?


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6 Reasons We're In Another 'Book-Burning' Period in History
The next thing I'm going to say is going to make 80 percent of you want to punch me in the face, so let's get it out of the way: For the past year or so, part of my job has been to walk through library warehouses and destroy tens of thousands of often old and irreplaceable books.
Book burning is something people usually associate with the Third Reich (the fact that this is the second time this year I've been compared with Nazis on this website probably speaks more about me than I would care to admit sober), a symbol of intolerance and a hatred of intellectualism. But that's not why we're doing it. So, let me take this chance to make a few things clear ...
#6. A Library Near You Is Doing It Right Now
And I'm not just talking about the crappy local library in your nearest hick town where you assume nobody can read anyway.
"No need to repair the sign -- we have an audio version."
Industrial-scale book destruction is going on at the British Library, possibly the most prestigious library in the world (you can tell because it's British). Recent book-pulping scandals have hit the University of New South Wales in Australia, as well as several other institutions. Hell, when Borders bookstores went belly-up earlier this year, they decided to destroy all the unsold books instead of donate them.
The hobos would have just traded them in for books about drugs anyway.
And no, I'm not just talking about duplicates and old TV Guides, either. Imagine holding a beautiful, dusty, illustrated volume of Shakespeare printed in the 1700s, a calligraphic message from its long-dead owner inscribed on the inside cover, and throwing it straight in the trash. I've been there, more than once. I could have kept it and maybe gotten a few hundred dollars for it on eBay, if my supervisor wasn't watching with specific orders to prevent me from doing that.
"Look, this isn't the Dead Sea, and I'm not interested in its scrolls. Throw them away."
This isn't some secret Soviet plot driven by Obama's New World Order of CommuNazis, you understand. The reasons are much more mundane and infuriatingly bureaucratic. It just so happens that ...
#5. It's Cheaper Than Giving Them Away
The first and most obvious objection is, why not give the books to the poor? They need stuff to read. Or to prisoners? Or to sick kids? Or to struggling independent booksellers? It doesn't cost a thing to give something away, right?
The problem is the situation for a library is more complicated than when you just take a bunch of old clothes and unwanted porn down to the Salvation Army. A library book is stamped and bugged and cataloged so that the library knows that it belongs to them. When a book is given away or sold, the library has to go through and remove all that crap, so whoever winds up with it can prove they didn't just steal it off the shelf. I'm not kidding about that, either -- some people who wind up with such books helpfully return them to the library.
"Sir, for the last time, your friend is not a 'thieving douchebag.' We gave him those."
And we're talking about a lot of books here -- these libraries are having to cut down their stock in a hurry. Imagine you're the manager of a library, and some accountant tells you that you need to get rid of 100,000 books, and do it in a week. You really have two options. One, you can get a bunch of academics to scour your collection and painstakingly rate each book according to its value and importance. Then you can hire a bunch of people to take down the 100,000 least important books and painstakingly stamp and debug them, one by one. Your second option is to get the computer to spit out a list of the 100,000 least borrowed books, and hire a few people to walk down the aisles with their arms out, throwing those books in a shredding machine.
That second option is much quicker and much cheaper. Sometimes you can find a paper recycling centre that will pay you for the pulp, so destroying the books leads to a net profit. Nobody likes it, but for a librarian it's like your best friend just got bitten by a zombie and you're the only one with a gun.
"Dude, I just ate spaghetti off of recycled Hamlet!"
Also, remember that the stuff worth saving is buried among a lot of other books that are basically garbage. Though everyone realizes that extremely valuable books are going to inevitably get caught in the same net, there's not much that can be done about it. Nobody is going to order a first-edition Moby-Dick from a library warehouse if the 2011 reprint is sitting right there on the shelf. A computer list that ranks books by popularity can't tell the difference.
Another downside to this option is that you have to ensure total destruction. You can't just throw the books in a Dumpster for some asshole to come along and grab later. If you go the Dumpster option, you have to tear out chapters so that people won't want them, or just fill the Dumpster with detergent. You don't want people to get in the habit of treating your Dumpster like the clearance rack -- it's dangerous and messy for everyone involved.
"... and this is our horror and romance section."
And if a staff member does come across some forgotten 16th century treasure, the library can't allow it to be rescued -- that's encouraging employees to sort through the books rather than dispose of them. The order from the top is "no mercy." It's easier to throw books out if you don't know what they are, just as it was easier for the Son of Sam to shoot people if he didn't know their names.
#4. It Has to Be Done in Secret
If you didn't know any of this, it's because destroying books is a job that, by necessity, is done in secret. Ordinarily the first the public hears of it is when someone unwittingly finds a bunch of books in a Dumpster. Your library won't announce they're doing it, but you can find message boards with librarians discussing it in private.
Back in 2004, Victoria University in New Zealand decided that it was going to have to destroy around 130,000 books. But they had a crisis of conscience, and revealed their plans to the academics and the student body. The idea was that they would mark the condemned books with red tape, and if anyone wanted to rescue a book, they needed simply to strike the tape with a black felt pen.
Material World
"If they burn all these books, what will I use for rolling papers?"
Predictably, everyone went apeshit. A professor sent an email around the faculty calling the library "barbarians," and he led a campaign in which staff and students went through the library armed with felt pens, searching for red tape and marking every single book for retention.
Material World
Because successful activism is about feeling, not thinking.
In my case, the only people who were let in on the bookpocalypse were the people who were charged with carrying it out. By the time the general public heard about it, there was no chance to lead a rebellion -- the job was already done. And libraries will use tricky rhetoric to avoid people catching on. If you notice a ton of shelves in your library suddenly empty, and they tell you the books have been sent to a warehouse, chances are they're telling you the truth. But what they're not mentioning is that a hundred thousand books already in the warehouse had to be destroyed to make room for them.
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Aug. 2, 2012 -- An experimental spray-on skin product may help people with chronic leg wounds heal faster and more effectively than available treatments, a new study suggests.
The spray-on skin is made up of skin cells and suspended in a mixture of different types of proteins. The participants in this study all had venous leg ulcers, which are shallow wounds that occur in people who have a circulation problem in their veins. These wounds tend to develop on the inside of the lower leg. Most at risk for venous ulcers are inactive and obese people, as well as people with varicose veins.
People in the study who used the new treatment experienced a greater reduction in wound size than those who didn't use it.
The findings appear in the Lancet.
Healthpoint Biotherapeutics of Fort Worth, Texas, is developing the new product and sponsored the study.
Current Treatment
As it stands, most venous leg ulcers are treated with compression bandages. Some doctors also use skin grafts in which skin is taken from another area of the body and used to resurface the wound. Skin grafts involve surgery, and people can develop a wound at the skin donation site, too.
"If you don't get these to heal, they become chronic, and the older the wounds are, the harder they become to heal with anything," says researcher Herbert B. Slade, MD. He is a pediatrician at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth and is also the chief medical officer at Healthpoint Biotherapeutics. "Compression bandages work for 30% to 70% of people, but are not 100% effective."
That is where the spray-on treatment may come in.
In the 12-week study of 205 people, those who received the spray-on treatment and compression bandaging had a greater reduction in wound size than those who used compression bandaging without the test treatment.
Researchers tested two strengths of the new therapy, along with compression bandages. The biggest improvements were seen in the lower-strength dose given every two weeks; there was a 16% greater reduction on average of the wound area, compared to a group that was given a spray that didn't contain the new therapy, after 12 weeks.
Side effects were similar in the different groups. The spray-on treatment sped wound closure by an average of 21 days compared to the comparison group.


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I am interested in learning some of the intricacies associated with 'real ale'. I realize that out in industry, this is done in large stainless steel (or aluminum?) barrels with special corks etc etc in order to achieve the desired level of carbonation and aging. My question is, has it been attempted to replicate this keg conditioning using a corny keg, aside from simply adding priming sugar and letting it carb? Would a first attempt at this be as simple as hooking up a pressure relief of some sort to the CO2-in port, and letting it sit at 58F (ish) for awhile, or is the cask conditioning process much more involved than this?
Real Ale, that's
"beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide". (CAMRA)
As homebrewers, we can emulate this by:
A lot of what we do as homebrewers is similar to traditional methods since we're not trying to or have the means to exploit economy of scale or produce sterile, filtered beer. For the most part, producing real ale can be a lot like normal homebrewing in kegs, apart from not using forced carbonation.
Depending upon how you naturally carbonate the beer, the pressure relief is optional. If you rack when the gravity is 4 points above final, then you don't need a pressure relief valve - the residual fermentables is the right amount to provide the appropriate level of carbonation at fermentation temperature (see link).
In the case where we don't know the exact FG or we hit final gravity before racking, then the pressure relief valve is the way to go. Set it from usual keg pressure charts according to the cellar temperature (typical 55-60F) and aim for 1.2-1.4 vols of CO2. If final gravity was reached, then add priming sugar. You can also add priming sugar even if FG wasn't reached - any excess CO2 will be bled off.
One problem with natural carbonation in a keg is that sometimes the corny lid doesn't seal - it takes a blast of CO2 or N2 to get a complete seal so the CO2 produced from fermentation is kept in the keg. Again, if you use CO2, that's more "extraneous CO2", but it's a personal choice if you think this will affect the beer.
It is really as simple as putting in some priming sugar and letting it go to "keg condition" for carbonation. In a true real ale situation you might rack from primary to keg when there is still <10% of the sugar remaining. In this case you are not adding any priming sugar.
But there's nothing more to it than sealing the keg and getting the beer to carbonate on the trapped pressure. Just like bottling. A measured amount of sugar will produce a measured about of CO2 and carbonation. No need to hook up a "pressure relief of some sort".


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Do you often find yourself hitting the snooze button in the morning at the sound of your alarm clock because you are not yet ready to get out of bed? This tends to happen even more during summer since many of us stay up later since it stays light longer. We also tend to be more active in the evening due to the light and warmer weather, which can also lead to more barbecuing and socializing, creating the need for more rest. So how do you combat these things to get yourself up in the morning?
My first suggestion is that you try to adjust your circadian clock. Your circadian clock is your body's internal clock that tells you when to go to sleep and when to wake up. So how do you adjust your internal clock? There are several factors that go into how your circadian clock is influenced. One factor that affects your clock is light. Light signals to your body when it is time to go to bed and when it is time to wake up. In one of my previous posts I suggested avoiding bright objects like T.V. and computer screens an hour before bedtime. When it comes to waking up the opposite is sort of true. Instead of avoid light in the morning you need to expose yourself to it. Open up your blinds if it is sunny out. If not, then turn on lights in your bedroom to make it bright. Bright light helps your body to accept that it is time to get out of bed and begin the day.
Next, try to play with the time that you go to bed but not with the time you wake up. Our bodies sleep in cycles. The best time to wake up is when we are in the lightest phase of the cycle. By changing the time that you go to be but not changing the time that you wake up, this teaches your body that wake up time is inflexible and therefore it must instead adjust your bedtime. By setting a rigid wake up time your body will start to become tired earlier.
A great way to wake up is by turning on music. Some may use music as their alarm clock. Upbeat, happy tunes will rouse you from sleepiness, get your blood pumping and may even get you singing. If your living situation is such that a stereo system complete with subwoofer is a too much for the rest of your household (or your neighbors!) in the morning, put some headphones on while you're getting ready so you don't disturb anyone.
There are two final pieces of advice that I have for you to help you get up in the morning. If you find yourself frequently hitting the snooze button, then you need to make it more difficult for yourself to do this. One such way is to set your alarm out of reach so that you have to physically get out of bed to turn it off. This helps to avoid the temptation to go back to sleep. Lastly, you should try to maintain your sleep pattern every day….including weekends. This is probably the hardest thing for all of us to do. I find it very difficult to not want to sleep in on the weekends but keeping our sleep pattern will make it easier to get out of bed on Monday morning, typically one of the toughest days to wake up. Give these a try and let us know how they work out for you. Or, share your tips if you have a great way to get yourself out of bed in the morning.


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Lunchtime Movie: Hope Springs
Location:Bluffton Branch
Date & Time:Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Bring your lunch to the Bluffton Branch Library each Tuesday at Noon and enjoy a newly released film. We'll provide dessert! Full movie listing is available at the Bluffton Branch Library.
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I need to have a index page and it can pull out the title (with link), meta key description and meta key image (meta keys from custom fields) of its child pages, but only one level down.
e.g. I have a index page call WORK, and few child index PRINT, WEB. there will be some pages under PRINT and WEB as well, but I don't want them to be shown on the WORK index. I only need to have PRINT and WEB to be listed and with the meta keys.
Anybody can help please? many thanks!


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I have an app based on leaflet 0.3.1 and it is time to upgrade to 0.4 !!! Nice ! So, what to do now !
Obviously, our map is absent in the browser, so let's have a look inside our files. Well, i have changed the scripts url in html to their new path...no more append on the screen...Héhéhé, of course is not so simple :D
Right, so now, let's start by the map and one of those layers... I have seen the document of reference : https://github.com/CloudMade/Leaflet/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#other-breaking-api-changes
but i don't know how to start, is that to remove all the new ? thanks if you can help from that point !
Edit: After one hour, i get my geojson back ! but with a bit of pain ! let's continue if it's all ! one good sign is that i have no error in CSS also :P


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If their growth rate was comparable to the rest of the world over the past several millenia, then was it only a matter of having a "head start"? (If so, then how did this initial condition come to be?)
If their growth rate was higher than the rest of the world at times, in which periods were this the case, and for what attributable reasons, if any?
In particular, I'm curious about the role of sanitation, hygiene, and medical culture and technology, e.g. Eastern medicine and practices.