I have hesitated putting this on here as I have so few details but here goes.  I was read this story in infant school in the mid 80's.     The story has children in it at least 1 boy and 1 girl these may be siblings.    They find a tree with a door in it not at the base but half way up.   The tree is in some woods near a house.    They manage to get through the door.....  and that's where my memory goes blank grrr.   The story had a very fantasy feel to it and I remember the book been large and thick so it might of been in a book with several stories. It was definitely hardback.  I don't remember the cover unfortunately.
In the 90's I read a book about two children (I think they were siblings, boy and girl) who climbed a tree. At the end they found a door to another world. After some time the (fantasy) worlds switched to another one. Once they got stuck in a world, because the world went on traveling and therefore the door couldn't be reached anymore. They met many curious individuals during their adventures.  It's a completed novel for kids. I've read it in German, but I can't remember if the author was a German one, so it might've been available in English as well. It was a fairly thick book.  EDIT: After some thought I remember a pancake kind of person
Is smell a bad way of determining whether meat is still good? I have always relied on my sense of smell to determine whether meat (most often chicken) is bad and I thought it was reliable. However, I have just heard that [1] smell is not always reliable, since some of the toxins produced by bacteria won't cause any smell whatsoever and you won't be able to notice that the meat is off until after you've eaten it.   Is this true? If yes, is this true for all meat or only for some? Is there a more reliable way of determining whether meat is still good.  [1] "Heard that" isn't very reliable; so that's why I'm asking the question here. :) I have being using Skype for a long time on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. From this morning on, Skype simple cannot connect to my account anymore.  That is my Skype version:     Skype 4.3.0.37   © 2014 Skype and/or Microsoft   My Ubuntu system:  LSB Version:    core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-3.0-amd64:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-amd64:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-amd64:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-amd64:cxx-4.0-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-3.1-amd64:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-amd64:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-amd64:desktop-4.0-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-amd64:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.1-amd64:graphics-4.1-noarch:languages-3.2-amd64:languages-3.2-noarch:languages-4.0-amd64:languages-4.0-noarch:languages-4.1-amd64:languages-4.1-noarch:multimedia-3.2-amd64:multimedia-3.2-noarch:multimedia-4.0-amd64:multimedia-4.0-noarch:multimedia-4.1-amd64:multimedia-4.1-noarch:printing-3.2-amd64:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch:qt4-3.1-amd64:qt4-3.1-noarch:security-4.0-amd64:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-amd64:security-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release:    14.04 Codename:   trusty   Any suggestion why or how to fix it?  Thanks in advance. How should I handle taxes for Minecraft server donations? I run a Minecraft server and there is a donation button so players can help support the costs. I pay out of pocket for the rest, it's $125/mo.  The money they donate goes right to paypal which is where the automatic payment to the server happens, so it works out nice as it will just pull the remaining amount from my account.  Do I need to claim the donations as income? Can I somehow write off the server costs? Etc. Gaming the system for Populist badges Graphing y=x^2 and y=x I want to draw the region bounded by y=x^2 and y=x. Any ideas? I was hoping this would be somewhat simple. I've tried used a similar, with \begin{axis}..\end{axis}, but it doesn't like that. Did I not declare a package or something?   Also, if I wanted to show the solid this region creates by rotating it about the x-axis, is there a way to did this in latex? (If you had cal 2, think volume of a solid rotated about ...). I am pretty much sure that for native speakers the issue I am going to bring up might look as an uncalled question as they can easily figure out which form of a verbal part of speech should be used, be it a gerund, an infinitive, or a bare infinitive. However, it can be pretty much misleading for a foreigner because the same construction works differently with different words and I don’t see a logical explanation. For example:  The purpose of this article is to analyze the issue…  My hobby is reading. One may assume, and many foreigners really come to this conclusion, that it’s OK to switch the “gerund” and “infinitive” as the meaning will stay the same, that is:  The purpose of this article is analyzing the issue… (same as 1 above)  My hobby is to read. (same as 2 above)   However, as I was told, this assumption is erroneous. Another example: His task was watching after them. (not good) His task was to watch after them. Is there any principle which governs the choice of the right form in such cases? Best File Management Practices when you have thousands of Files We publish over 100+ textbooks and growing (1-color, 2-color, 4-color) maninly designed in CorelDraw &amp; Indesign with associated Image and Font Files. We also have merged multipage PDF &amp; EPS files that we send to our offset printers.Also, some Image files are exclusive to a project while some are shared across projects.   What are the best practices to follow when it comes to management of these files? We are always working on multiple versions of the same files and often with multiple DTP operators.  Right now it is all on a Shared Drive with Individual Folders but that always creates confusion in identifying the latest version of the file and some users save the file to some other folder. Security of the Data is another issue as we work with a lot of freelancers also.  How do big design studios and publishing houses handle versioning, collaboration and the associated files with a project neatly? Do they use a CMS / Document Management System? Currently, if you access a deleted question you will get a short message informing you that the question has been deleted. However, if you click on a direct link to a deleted answer or comment (which you can get via notifications), nothing is displayed.  This is naturally quite confusing as you will get the message about a new answer or comment via notifications, click on the link and simply see nothing.  Therefore, I propose to display some sort of message to the user, informing her/him that the answer or question has been deleted. Note that this is different from always showing a deleted answer/comment, as I specifically request it in case you access the specific URL.  One example for a comment would be:   One example for a deleted answer is:   This question is related to ,  but requests a feature to circumvent the problem altogether. 'POCO' definition Can someone define what exactly 'POCO' means? I am encountering the term more and more often, and I'm wondering if it is only about plain classes or it means something more? When I search for my address on Google Maps it cannot be found which means I can't order takeaway etc.  Is there a way of adding my address to Google Maps or even add a street address?  I want the address to be publicly available so others can search it. Scale Insetted Characters to Plot Proving a triangle with different edge colors exists in a graph. This is again some homework translated (hopefully not too badly) from my book  The graph $K_{n}$ is colored using $n$ different colors, in a way that each color is used at least once. Prove that there exists a triangle with its edges colored in different colors. I am not sure if  works. Can someone please help me? My phone is new and in its warranty period so I can't root it yet. I tried this app but I am not sure if it actually did something. Unlike the other famous app on the PlayStore for fstrim, it doesn't require root access which is quite incredible. How did Rutherford conclude that most of the mass (as well as the positive charge) was concentrated in the nucleus? Geiger and Marsden's experiment led Rutherford to believe that the positive charge and most of the mass of the atom was concentrated in a small region. I understand what led him to conclude the way the positive charge is positioned in the atom. But how did he conclude that most of the mass was in a small region (the nucleus)?  How did the distribution of the mass matter after all? Given that the electric force is greater than the gravitational force by many magnitudes, the force between the positice charge and the electrons was predominantly electric.   So how did Rutherford conclude that most of the mass is in the nucleus? How to draw a fish? I would like to draw an image like the following.     This is what I've done so far (I used tikz, but any other package is welcome):  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz}  \begin{document}     \begin{tikzpicture}         \draw[fill=blue] (.5,0) rectangle (4,2);         \draw[fill=red] (1,1) to[bend left=50] (3,1) to[bend left=50] (1,1);         \draw[fill=red] (3,1) -- (3.5,1.5) -- (3.3,1) -- (3.5,.5) -- cycle;         \draw[fill=white] (1.6,1.1) circle (.15cm);          \draw[fill=blue] (1.55,1.1) circle (.05cm);              \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}     Edit: April 2nd, Time for explanation  In Italy (but I also think in other countries), a practical joke done on April 1st is called "pesce d'Aprile" (= April's fish, that is an ) and is often related to fishes.  The usual one is to stick a drawing of a fish on someone's back without he/she realizes it.  Some years ago a colleague of mine stuck some "pesci d'Aprile" with written below "sono disponibile" (= I'm easy) on the rear of all the cars in our company car parking. Some other colleagues didn't realize it, and they had gone around with that drawing for days.  Another funny example happened in Milan . Someone put on the windshield of a lot of cars a false fine for illegal parking. On the fine sheet was written "per il pagamento rivolgersi agli uffici comunali di via Gadio, 2" (= for payment, please contact the municipal offices in via Gadio, 2), the address of the Civic Aquarium.  Hence, this question was simply a way to put    P.S. = Since I earned a lot of reputation points with this trick question, I decided to give them back to the Community awarding a bounty to the two answers posted on April, 1st.  Moreover, I accepted Robert's one since he guessed without spoiling, and I thank the other two answerers.  To the downvoters: you're probably technically right, but:   there's already too much sadness in the world, let's laugh now and then! humor is part of the LaTeX philosophy, Prof. Knuth himself docet if only serious questions are accepted, why did they create a fun tag? How can i restrict /admin login page to a particular IP only? How to buy plane tickets for job interviews? I am currently on the academic job market, and scheduling on-campus interviews with institutions that might want to hire me.  Suppose I am invited to an on-campus interview at the University of X, and must travel there by air.  They handle travel on a reimbursement basis: I buy the plane ticket, and then they reimburse me.  However, the interview is a few weeks away.  Since the job market sometimes moves fast, there is a chance that by the time of the scheduled interview, I may have already accepted another offer (say from the University of Y).  Of course I should then decline the interview at X, but I would have already bought the plane ticket.  How should I plan for this contingency?   I could buy a refundable ticket to X.  However, these are normally several times the price of a non-refundable ticket, and if I do end up traveling to X, they might balk at reimbursing me for such an expensive fare. I could buy a non-refundable ticket to X.  If I end up not going there, I could ask X to reimburse me for the cost of the ticket (or at least the "change fee" charged by the airline to let me use the ticket's value for a future flight).  However, I suspect they will be reluctant to reimburse me for a trip I'm not making, and might refuse to do so altogether, in which case I am out-of-pocket. I could wait until the last minute to buy a non-refundable ticket for X.  But it may still be expensive for them (or may exceed their limits), and the most convenient flights may be sold out. I could contact University of X and ask them for guidance.  I'm a bit hesitant to do this, as I am afraid that if I bring up the possibility that I might accept another position, they might think I am not seriously interested in theirs.   Is there a standard way to handle this situation?  This is in the United States, if it matters. Suddenly unable to screenshot- Do not have permission to save files in the location where screenshots are stored Recieved the error:  'Your screenshot could not be saved. You don't have permission to save files in the location where screenshots are stored.' with OS X Yosemite.  I opened terminal and tried directing the screenshots to save on my desktop:  Brigittes-Air:~ eggsalad$ defaults read com.apple.screencapture location 2017-01-06 03:04:47.765 defaults[17729:1947540]  The domain/default pair of (com.apple.screencapture, location) does not exist  So I tried writing and:  Brigittes-Air:~ eggsalad$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop 2017-01-06 03:05:08.652 defaults[17742:1948451] Could not write domain com.apple.screencapture; exiting  I'm not sure where the screenshots are being stored if the location does not exist. Ideas?  EDIT  I ran something else and got a different response, but defaults are still unchanged.   Brigittes-Air:~ eggsalad$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location/Users/eggsalad/Desktop killall SystemUIServer  2017-01-06 03:22:35.444 defaults[18265:2001767] Unexpected argument SystemUIServer; leaving defaults unchanged.  2nd EDIT  Result of:  ls -l ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist  was:   ls: /Users/eggsalad/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist: No such file or directory Who is the eponymous Jedi in Return of the Jedi? Examples of patterns that eventually fail Often, when I try to describe mathematics to the layman, I find myself struggling to convince them of the importance and consequence of "proof". I receive responses like: "surely if Collatz is true up to $20×2^{58}$, then it must always be true?"; and "the sequence of number of edges on a complete graph starts $0,1,3,6,10$, so the next term must be 15 etc."  Granted, this second statement is less logically unsound than the first since it's not difficult to see the reason why the sequence must continue as such; nevertheless, the statement was made on a premise that boils down to "interesting patterns must always continue".  I try to counter this logic by creating a ridiculous argument like "the numbers $1,2,3,4,5$ are less than $100$, so surely all numbers are", but this usually fails to be convincing.  So, are there any examples of non-trivial patterns that appear to be true for a large number of small cases, but then fail for some larger case? A good answer to this question should:   be one which could be explained to the layman without having to subject them to a 24 lecture course of background material, and have as a minimal counterexample a case which cannot (feasibly) be checked without the use of a computer.   I believe conditions 1. and 2. make my question specific enough to have in some sense a "right" (or at least a "not wrong") answer; but I'd be happy to clarify if this is not the case. I suppose I'm expecting an answer to come from number theory, but can see that areas like graph theory, combinatorics more generally and set theory could potentially offer suitable answers.