I have heard the word medal used as a verb recently by members of the (BBC) Rio 2016 commentary team and on occasion to podium even slipped in - is this a common phenomenon?  Perusal of the internet indicates that to medal is not just a recent occurrence but one that stretches back to the  and a usage in reference to the   (N.B.: Ngrams only looks at written language so it's apparent decline recently is probably not representative of its overall usage)     the OED lists examples of using "medal" as a verb as long ago as Byron, in 1822: "He was medalled." [The modern usage is]  dated by the OED from 1966: "to win a medal (i.e. to come first, second, or third in a sporting event or competition)".   ()   Podium as a verb has no such illustrious history with a more minor usage in mainly athlete circles. My Ngrams search (see above) finds to podium has a small, recent use but podiumed is not found (and is highlighted as a spelling error). It is listed in the OED but as mainly in AmE.       (Of a competitor in a sporting event) finish first, second, or third, so as to appear on a podium to receive an award:     **In the end, my question is:   Are these words mainstream verbs or are they merely seasonal, and don't see use outside of commentary and competitor circles?**
Is “I medalled in volleyball” a grammatically correct sentence? According to OED, medal is a verb and a noun. I haven't seen any usage of the word as a verb, but I am assuming the above sentence is correct.
Recently, my iPhone 5 was stolen, and while I have a new iPhone 6, I received a message from a number of someone claiming to be in possession of the device, with a new number.   All images, contacts, Outlook mail, you name it, are still on the device.  While I realize it's my fault for not having it connected to iCloud to wipe manually, is there anything I can do to have this sensitive information wiped from the device? Shapefile layer no longer editable (toggle edit option greyed out) in QGIS Is there a word for someone that always has to be right? The person gets angry if they are not. What about lowering the edit character limit for characters in code snippets? , to correct a misspelled library enum in an answer. Since the edit was only one character, I also had to add a superfluous sentence to get over the character limit required to edit a post.  I've hit this problem before in other edits, always in code snippets. 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Schwarz's Lemma, fixed points question This is from an old qualifying examination question.  If f is holomorphic in the unit disk $D$ and $|f(z)|&lt;1$ for all $z\in D$. Suppose also that $f$ has two distinct fixed points in $D$ then $f(z)=z$ for every $z\in D$  I know that I have to use the Schwarz's lemma and may be make use of Möbius transformations. I tried setting $g(z)=\phi_a\circ f\circ \phi_{-a}$. But that does not seem to work because I don't see why $|g(z)|=|z|$ for some non zero $z$.   Any helpful hints are greatly appreciated.  Edit: Of course the $a$ above is one of the fixed points. Messed up my PATH environment variable and can't login to desktop To get an maven environment variable to run, I tried several options. Basically, I followed some options from , such as ~/.pam_environment, /etc/bash.bashrc and I don't really know anymore. Within them I exported sth like export PATH=/opt/apache-maven-3.6.0/bin:$PATH (I'm being so unconcrete because I cannot look it up).   Afterwards, I did run gnome-session-quit and my machine got stuck.   So after hard restart I try to login again, but I'm not able to do that: I see my username, enter the password, hit enter, screen turns black and after 2 seconds I'm back at the login screen.   So, that very strange and worrying. Next step: Login via tty (Strg + ALT + F3). Within there I can login, but can not do much. I thought about sth like . But whatever I do: The command could not be located because '\bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable. I think, altogether thats alarming and I'm getting really nervous.  Executing export PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH seems to work and echo $PATHgives an output starting with /usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/home/user/Documents/.../esper/examples/transaction/etc:/home/user/anaconda3/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64/bin:/opt/apache-maven-3.6.0/bin:/opt/apache-maven-3.6.0/bin:/opt/apache-maven-3.6.0/bin but does not really help.  I'm running an Ubuntu 18.04 on an Lenovo G50-70.   Can you help me accessing my desktop again and/or fixing my PATH issue? Android - Call log/ history : Retrieve a dialed number when there was no network coverage I dialed a number when I had no network support but it does not appear in the call history of my android phone.  Is there any way to get it ? (system logs or whatever)  THanks a lot in advance, Jack I'm quite confused about attacking with two weapons in both hands and wondering what is required to be able to do to (in Pathfinder).  1. Base Attack Bonus Looking at the base attack bonus tables for different classes (e.g. the ) it seems like up to +5 you get only one attack per full action but starting from base-attack-bonus of +6 you get a second attack with +1.  2. Feats There is a feat . The existence of the feat sounds like you could not do two-weapon-fighting without it. 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