Christian Orthodox Cemeteries in Philadelphia

Question: In which cemetery would Christian (Albanian) Orthodoxes be buried in Philadelphia in the 1920s? Would they be buried in standard, i.e. protestant, sites?
Answer: Have you seen Brief History of St. John Chrysostom Albanian Orthodox Church & SS. Peter and Paul Church, Uniondale PA? Dedicated church cemeteries seem to have been the norm, but they also used sections within larger non-denominational cemeteries.
Which congregation an immigrant joined often depended on what was convenient for worship. Slight differences in church custom and liturgy between various national churches could be overcome if there weren't enough of a specfic group in a city or a neighbourhood to sustain a parish.
Comment: I did, St John Chrysostom is more recent (they mention a Serbian Orthodox Church which their congregants went earlier-- probably St Nicholas). The one in Uniondale is too remote. I have researched the st Nicholas church but Albanians seemed only sporadic.
Comment: I had checked the Uniondale church's page because the St. John history mentioned an earlier SS. Peter & Paul Orthodox church in Philadelphia and kept the link because of the references to the cemetery.
Comment: I located the SS Peter and Paul church in Philadelphia, thank you.
Answer: Anesti Zoto, founding member of St. John Chrysostom had his funeral there and was buried in Lawnview Cemetery in Rockledge, according to his obituary found in the July 24, 1993 issue of Philadelphia Inquirer.


Cards with margins VS Edge to Edge container

Question: Is there any logic behind when to use cards with margins in design VS edge to edge containers. I've gone through material design guidelines as well as iOS guidelines, which does not give any clear logic. Checked Facebook, which used to have cards with margin before, but has now switched to edge to edge containers. Could not find any research behind their decision to switch as well.
Comment: The logic behind such an approach is more technical i believe.
Using full width gives you more space to work with and makes it also more easy to display the content on different devices i believe.
Comment: Hey.. not sure how it would help in displaying content better on different devices. Can you elaborate please.
Answer: Cards with margin and shadow look like real cards.
That's the motto of material design. To make things appear as real objects.
Objects are presented to the user without breaking the continuity of experience.

Material is the metaphor
A material metaphor is the unifying theory of a rationalized space and
  a system of motion. The material is grounded in tactile reality,
  inspired by the study of paper and ink, yet technologically advanced
  and open to imagination and magic.
Surfaces and edges of the material provide visual cues that are grounded in reality. The use of familiar tactile attributes helps
  users quickly understand affordances. Yet the flexibility of the
  material creates new affordances that supersede those in the physical
  world, without breaking the rules of physics.
The fundamentals of light, surface, and movement are key to conveying
  how objects move, interact, and exist in space and in relation to each
  other. Realistic lighting shows seams, divides space, and indicates
  moving parts.
https://material.io/guidelines/#introduction-principles
Comment: So from what I understand, it's more or less from a visual point of view. But again, that might be subjective.
Answer: The logic is in the content.
Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that last time I checked Apple didn't have a section for cards, so this applies to Material.
The difference that you have noticed is that one is a card (the one from the margins) and the other is a tile from a list.
Cards allow for different types of content, like large photos (including the full size of the card), titles, text and actions. It is then used when they have a hierarchy high enough to deserve their own container.

When to use
Use a card layout when displaying content that:

As a collection, comprises multiple data types, such as images, movies, and text
Does not require direct comparison (a user is not directly comparing images or text)
Supports content of highly variable length, such as comments
Contains interactive content, such as +1 buttons or comments
Would otherwise be in a grid list but needs to display more content to supplement the image

However, if the content is too homogeneous and there are few actions (or none), then it is better to use a tile list. In fact, Material shows this specific example

Do

A quickly scannable list, instead of cards, is an appropriate way to
represent homogeneous content that doesn't have many actions.

Don't

The use of cards here distracts the user from being able to quickly
scan. These list items are also not dismissible, so having them on
separate cards is confusing.

However...
Always remember that Material is only a guideline, and you can play with it a bit. In fact, unless you really want your app to look like everyone else's, I suggest you give your app a bit of personality
Comment: What would qualify as homogenous content? Are we deciding it based on the layout or the kind of content?
Comment: Both are connected. Your content will guide your layout. If you see the images, cards are very different, even in size, while tiles have very repetitive and similar content. Think on the metaphor: when you use a card in real world, it may have any kind of content, information is a bit more difficult to read and locate. However, if you write a list, it will be quite similar, you'll probably follow the same pattern
Answer: A lot of web apps or websites use edge to edge cards in mobile screens.

This gives them more space to show the content in an already small width screen estate. Imagine a mobile phone with 360dp width. If by any guidelines you use margins of either 8dp or 16dp, you essentially lose 16dp or 32dp respectively. And that 16dp or 32dp can play a huge role(For example, You can fit in an overflow button or show more characters in a single line).
Also having inset cards on mobile, give the feeling of content breaking frequently. To demonstrate this idea, imagine you are viewing in Full HD, an email app like Gmail having cards with 4px gutter in between, instead of table cell rows. Wouldn't that be uncomfortable?
Most* of the responsive websites/web apps that you see use Bootstrap grid style thinking. That is, they have a defined max widths set to containers at different breakpoints but for mobile devices the container width is set to 100% of the browser width. So obviously the cards when placed in the containers, are adjusted to 100% of browser widths by default(i.e edge to edge). This one is more of an outcome than logic. I explained the probable logic in the previous two points.

*Most - I don't have any stat to support it, but I used it here only to highlight the probably reason.
Comment: 1. app means application. Applications can be both for mobile or desktop. In my context, i meant imagining 'Gmail on Desktop ...',
2. Containers have 15px padding, Rows have -15px margins and then Columns have 15px paddings. So doesn't the card fit edge to edge?
Comment: Why would anyone check an app in a Full HD screen? And how? Also, Bootsrap has 15px padding on their containers for mobile, so the rows will have a margin by default (unless you modify it)


Users fields on front end form

Question: Is it possible to include a Users Fields Type on a front end form? I'd like to allow people to choose existing users on a front end form rather than giving them access to the admin area of the Craft site.
Answer: Sure is!  You'll want to bookmark this ridiculously handy page, but if you look under "Relations" you'll see the syntax you're looking for:
<code><select multiple name="fields[fieldHandle][]">
    <option value="13">Username One</option>
    <option value="42">Username Two</option>
    <option value="144">Username Three</option>
</select>
</code>
Comment: Thank you Brad! Would I be able to use code to include all users in a specified user group or do I need to list them all out like the code above?
Comment: Just use `craft.users.group` to the ones in the group you're looking for. https://craftcms.com/docs/templating/craft.users#group

Users fields on front end form


Brief concept about price movement of a particular stock

Question: suppose one company has 1M share, 100K Sold out,900K left and the current price of each stock is $5. so if i buy another 100K what will be the stock price . assume that no one selling .
Comment: If "no one is selling" then you won't be able to buy any shares.  Are you referring to an "Initial Public Offering", where a company issues shares for sale to investors?
Comment: Pay particular attention to the second answer to that question. You appear to be under the impression that most shares are bought directly from the company - they are not. Shares are bought from other people who previously bought them. The market price is simply the last price where 1 person who owned shares wanted to sell, and 1 person who wanted shares, agreed to buy.
Comment: hi @Nick R ! just assume that someone just sell the 900K shares ! somehow 900K share is free to buy .
Comment: If "no one" is selling, where are you buying the 100k shares from? What price are they asking?  The price of the last sale is your answer.  It's determined by the last seller's offer.
Answer: There isn't a formula like that, there is only the greed of other market participants, and you can try to predict how greedy those participants will be.
If someone decided to place a sell order of 100,000 shares at $5, then you can buy an additional 100,000 shares at $5.
In reality, people can infer that they might be the only ones trying to sell 100,000 shares right then, and raise the price so that they make more money. They will raise their sell order to $5.01, $5.02 or as high as they want, until people stop trying to buy their shares.
It is just a non-stop auction, just like on ebay.
Comment: There is no way to predict that.
Comment: @AnirbanBhui there is no formula for that. Let's say you are the sole seller in the previous scenario and you have the privilege of raising the prices, how high will YOU raise those prices above $5? Depends on how greedy you are? Depends on what time of the year it is, because you want to buy new electronics or a vacation with the profits? No math formula is capable of reading your mind. If you raise the price too high, you will be waiting too long to sell the shares and instead will lower them hoping someone will buy, converting your shares to dollars, cont:
Comment: @AnirbanBhui How would somebody else predict what influences your greed? There isn't a formula per say, people do try to predict these things with sentiment analysis and other schools of research. But there is no simple formula.
Comment: Someone wants to buy 10% of the total shares, and the sellers don't want to sell.  How much the price goes above the last traded price will depend totally on how much it takes to motivate the holders to sell.  It's so unpredictable that there are situations where the sale price is actually lower.  For instance, earnings reports were just released and investors are disappointed.  It might flip around where the holders are competing to sell, thus the price will drop.  There is no way to predict this with a mathematical formula.  This is why the pros make the big bucks.
Comment: thanks for the replay . i understand it but i want to know the greedy effect  for price movement
Answer: It depends completely on the current order book for that security.  There is literally no telling how that buy order would move the price of a stock in general.
Comment: @AnirbanBhui It's not common sense because every security has a different order book.  There are different numbers of people willing to buy and sell different numbers of shares at different prices to different depths.  Every security also trades a different total volume of shares every day.  There is no formula because there can be any number of people willing to buy or sell for one single penny more or less than the last sale price.
Comment: "securities" are things like stocks.
Comment: as much as i heard if more people interested to buy than sell a particular share , stock price will move up . So its a common sense that there is formula like price is proportional to the demand
Comment: i'm new in this subject ! sorry for that . what is security here ?
Answer: The problem with predicting with accuracy what a stock price will do in any given situation is that there are two main factors that affect a stocks price.
The first factor is based somewhat in math as it takes into account numbers such as supply and demand, earnings per share, expected earnings, book value, debt ratio and a wide variety of other numbers. You can compile all those numbers into a variety of formulas and come up with a rational estimate of what the stock should sell for. This is all well and good and if the market were entirely rational it would rarely make news because it would be predictable and boring. This is where our second factor throws a wrench in the works.
The second factor affecting stock price is emotional. There are many examples of people's emotions affecting stock price but if you would like a good example look up the price fluctuations of Apple  (AAPL) after their last couple earnings reports. Numerically their company looks good, their earnings were healthy, their EPS is below average yet their price fell following the report. Why is that?  There really isn't a rational reason for it, it is driven by the emotions behind unmet expectations. In a more general sense sometimes price goes down and people get scared and sell causing further decline, sometimes people get excited and see it as opportunity to buy in and the price stabilizes. It is much more difficult to anticipate the reaction the market will have to people's emotional whims which is why predicting stock price with accuracy is near impossible.
As a thought along the same line ask yourself this question; if the stock market were entirely rational and price could be predicted with accuracy why is there such a wide range of available strike prices available in the options market?  It seems that if stock price could be predicted with anything remotely reassembling accuracy the options market need a much smaller selection of available strike prices.


Would it be haram as a Sunni Muslim to ask Allah to give you a serious illness in your dua?

Question: Not to ask for death but to ask for a serious illness that could potentially kill you e.g asking for a severe form of the coronavirus or cancer. Is it haram to ask for this in Dua?
Answer: Allah will do what He wills. We may ask for help and healing. I t is not a sin to speak to Allah asking to let you die. Allah will do what He will do and we are to accept His will.
Answer: It is wrong to ask Allah to hurt yourself, but Allah will do what he wills. If there is a reason that you want something bad to happen to yourself, then you should discuss your problems with someone


Are these LEGO windows?

Question: I have had these windows in my LEGO collection since the 80's and my mum bought them second hand. They look and feel like Lego but don't have the word LEGO stamped inside the hollow circles on top.
Answer: These look like "Blue-Box" , a construction toy from Singapore
From inverso.pt

Blue Box basic elements with a 2X4 LEGO brick on the right

The inside of a "Blue-Box" construction set
Comment: Nice find! I think it might be worth adding second picture from the article you are referring to since it shows two other elements provided by OP.
Answer: I don't think so; I've seen a lot of old Lego, and I'm fairly sure I've never seen these before.
BrickLink has a window category, and none of the pieces in there match.
Sorry.

Are these LEGO windows?


What is the fate of the time-duplicate turtles from the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon?

Question: In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 cartoon, Season 3 ends with the Earth destroyed and Season 4 sees the Turtles and friends go 6 months back in time, adventure in space then return to Earth and avert its destruction. Their past selves then leave the Earth with the Fugitoid and the Future Turtles & co. (whom we follow) then stay on Earth, taking their place. What happened to those sets of teens who went to space?
Answer: This was never explained in the series. One can only guess they had a space adventure and possibly settled down with the neutrinos. It's likely that writers didn't have a good explanation to close the loop.


Should I pass link juice to my pages on other websites that are already high PR domains?

Question: I am starting a new website for a local business and have entries listed for it on places like urbanspoon, yelp, google+ local, etc.  I am thinking of listing these citation sites on my business website to encourage visitors of my site to go and review the business on those sites.  If I dofollow I will pass link juice to my page on that site, but doesn't that mean that the very very little PR juice I have will be leached away from me?  Is it better to nofollow them?
Answer: The practice of hoarding "link juice" isn't a valid practice anymore. Google got wise to the whole "PageRank sculpting" game and amended their algorithm accordingly. Any PR that would have passed via a given link, were it not nofollowed, is effectively thrown away.
The only likely exception to this is where users are able to post unmoderated links, for example via blog comments or forum posts. In those cases, where there's a risk of someone linking to something nasty that you don't want your site associated with, nofollow is a wise precaution.
More broadly, attempts to manipulate search ranking inevitably backfire sooner or later. As well as fighting spam and hardcore "black hat" SEO, Google also takes issue with "over-optimisation", i.e. doing too much to tweak your site for search. Focus on quality in design, code, server configuration and content, and you won't go far wrong.
Comment: @huzzah Yep, pretty much. The explanation in that article of what happens to PR flow when nofollows are used isn't terribly clear - there's a better one somewhere that I can't find right now - but the important thing, where nofollow is concerned, is to understand that it doesn't result in ratining more PR for the outlinking page or site: that value is basically lost as though the link did not have a nofollow applied.
Comment: What I got from that article is that 1)generally don't use nofollow on your internal links 2)Google encourages dofollow to reputable sites and don't worry so much about link juice hoarding.  Is this correct?
Answer: If you dofollow the link a part link juice would leak out to the other site (depending on how your site is built, this part can be small or "quite big").
You definitely would not lose all the PR, but I would nofollow them if I were in you.
Comment: There's no benefit to nofollowing these links at all, unless the poster believes the target sites are in some way spammy, in which case it's better not to link at all.


Restore deleted photos

Question: I have accidently deleted some photos from my Lumia 640, and would like to bring them back. The photos were stored on the microSD card, but I don't have a microSD card reader for my laptop, so I have to connect the phone with an usb cable.
That way, I can see the phone listed as "Windows Phone" in MyComputer, but it has no drive letter, so that no recovery program can find it.
Is there anything I can do to save the pictures?
Answer: The only thing I can think of is to get a (usb) card reader and try to run the recovery tool then - this worked for me. It won't work connecting your phone directly, though.
In the meantime I'd recommend removing the SD card from your phone to prevent your photos from being overwritten with different data.
Answer: Check out the OneDrive applications. If you didn't disable it, all the photos you've taken will be stored there.
Comment: thx for the suggestion, but my phone was offline :)

Restore deleted photos


I did not get the job offer. What term could describe the brief sadness I experienced, then moving forward?

Question: I was turn downed for a job offer after an onsite interview. This was sad news for me. What term could describe the brief sadness I experienced upon notification that I did not make the cut for a job offer? The key difference here is that I was upset, but now I am feeling better after some hours passed in this situation.
Comment: A good single word 'euphemism' of our american psychology culture might be "absorbed" ... although it might not always mean bounce back but instead sink in.  I absorbed the bad news about the job offer in the morning and was able to get back in step by the afternoon" ?  I'm not so confident to make it an answer though.
Comment: Like resignation?
Answer: You felt dejected

unhappy, disappointed, or without hope:
She looked a bit dejected when they told her she didn't get the job.
  (Cambridge Dictionary)
Comment: @Tom22 - True. But English is not about having a single word to describe every possible complex concept.  English is designed to allow its users to combine multiple words to achieve their goals-  it's much more efficient that way.  "I was dejected for a time, but I quickly got over it."
Comment: Maybe it was a ***short-lived setback***?
Answer: I haven't come up with a single word but two similar idioms come to mind.

chin at dicitonary.com
Idioms
keep one's chin up,
to maintain a cheerful disposition in spite of difficulties, disappointments, etc.
take it on the chin, Informal.
to suffer defeat; fail completely.
to endure suffering or punishment.

On the second one, take it on the chin  I know that term in a much more positive way.

take sthing on the chin at Collins Dictionary
  phrase [VERB inflects]
If you say that someone took something on the chin, you mean that they accepted an unpleasant or difficult situation bravely and without making a lot of fuss about it.

My sense is even more positive than the second.
to me, took it on the chin means more of the positive outlook a great athlete would have to be able to come back from a setback.
Answer: For lack of a better term for a very wide event concerning multiple stages of emotion from a negative stimulus, I'd say you feel bummed out or just bummed. This is, however, very colloquial and likely slang, however does convey the feeling that the dejection is temporary and only for some time, though only implicitly.
Consider using a more eloquent way of expressing this set of events, as it is essentially three separate events you're trying to encapsulate into a single word.


Magento 2 - change mobile navigation text color

Question: How can i change the mobile navigation text color in .less file? Which variable is this?
Answer: Quick tip to answer your question:
If you are using chrome:
Step 1: press F12 then click on the mobile/tablet icon on the top left corner, or press CTRL + SHIFT + M to switch to mobile view.
Step 2:  Click on the mouse arrow icon next to the mobile/tablet icon or press CTRL + SHIFT + C, and select the element you want to modify.
At this point the browser will highlight the selected element, so you can copy it's class name.


Apple Pencil with Pages

Question: I use Pages on my iPad pro and would like to edit using my new Apple Pencil - can anyone tell me how to get Pages to recognise the Apple Pencil? Would be very grateful.
Answer: Normally, you simply have to plug the Apple Pencil in your iPad and wait a couple seconds until it is detected...
Answer: As of Pages version 4.0 the Apple Pencil is now supported.  This Apple Support for the iOS version of Pages explains how to use the Apple Pencil to draw, mark up and otherwise manipulate a Pages document.
From Apple:

Use Apple Pencil: Tap and hold Apple Pencil anywhere on the page.
Draw anywhere on the page or in the drawing area; you can do any of the following at any time:

Switch drawing tools: Tap any of the tools at the bottom of the screen.

Change colors: Tap the current color at the bottom of the screen, then tap a new one. Swipe left to fine-tune your color.

Resize the drawing area: Drag any of its handles.

Adjust the color's opacity: If you're using the pen, pencil, crayon, or paint tool, tap it then drag the slider.

Adjust the stroke size (line thickness): If you're using the pen, pencil, crayon, or eraser, tap it then tap a stroke size.
Answer: As of the time I am writing this, the pencil doesn't work with Pages.app except as a pointer. It can do whatever you can do by pointing/touch, but you can't draw or annotate.
I researched this on Apple Support and elsewhere, as I was hoping I could draw within the application.
One possible workaround is to export a pdf or image of the page and annotate in another application.

Apple Pencil with Pages


SSH after typing in "ifdown --force eth0"

Question: I have a raspberry pi on the roof of my building, and I was able to ssh into it. I was setting it up with a 3G modem, and to make the raspberry pi use the modem, I typed in ifdown --force eth0. I forgot to realize that will stop me being able to ssh into the pi. Is there a way I can somehow force ssh into the pi still, or is my only option going up on the roof, pulling out and inserting the power cable to reset the pi? I am still directly connected via ethernet, and the pi is still turned on.
Comment: You have slam the door leaving keys inside. have brought eth0 down, no connection in any protocol will ever reach the Pi. only solution is hard reset (power off and on).
Comment: You could try detaching the 3G modem and see if something in the networking config saves the day.  But then you have to go up on the roof anyway.
Comment: if you are sourcing power from your space inside the building setup a power strip (well labeled of course) so you can power cycle without going to the roof.
Comment: @jmsmcfrlnd Can you expand on that? Would that require a manual reset?
Comment: @freshtendrils yes, I was simply suggesting a way to power off&on your pi more easily by using the on/off button of a power strip that is more conveniently located than your roof; if you find you must reset the pi forcefully (turn power off) - you could do it without going to the roof.
Answer: Suggestions in comments are correct. Power reset is required. However, because the controller was still connected to a modem, it could connect to a server I had already set up. In the future, I could perform a reboot by loading an appropriate bash script on the controller and just telling the controller to execute the script by using a notify command in python on the server side. This uses the psycopg2 library. A reboot would prevent a power reset, and having to travel to the roof to do so.


What's the intention of setting a bounty on a [feature-request] or a [bug]?

Question: I'm curious why people set bounties on feature-requests and bugs. AFAIK it won't speed up the implementation or fixing progress of the FR/B, because the coders in SE don't matter about them very much. So why is there bounties? What's the possible intention of the setter?
Comment: Related: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/128818/bounties-on-meta-to-attract-stack-exchange-employee-attention (you might even call it a dupe, but it's 5 1/2 years old)
Comment: related article that laid down the way how things work over here: [Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do](https://blog.codinghorror.com/listen-to-your-community-but-dont-let-them-tell-you-what-to-do/). Worth noting that the second part ("Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do") seems to be followed almost religiously
Comment: Related: [How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/306398).
Comment: Also related, potential duplicate (though this question's better solely by virtue of having a staff response): [What is the purpose of a Bounty on a feature-request](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/210501/what-is-the-purpose-of-a-bounty-on-a-feature-request)
Answer: Yagmoth is correct, it's one way to draw attention to something. However, there are two goals one might be looking to accomplish by doing so:

Get more feedback from the community on a particular discussion or feature-request,
Get some kind of official response on a particular discussion feature-request or perhaps bug.

You also might want to accomplish both. If all you're after is community input, then the bounty is probably your best bet. If what you really want is an official response from us (SO/SE) then it's probably better to just use the contact form instead. This saves you a bit of rep and ensures a paper trail gets created while the right people get pinged.
I can't promise that we'll always be prepared to write an answer to something immediately, but we generally can and will leave a comment to let folks know it hasn't eluded us, and we'll answer as soon as we're able.
In any event, you're welcome to leave a bounty for any reason that you wish - just know that it isn't mandatory in order to make sure we see something that might have fallen through the cracks.
Comment: Using the contact form feels like a bet. Once placed, you have no idea if it worked or not. There is no way to know if your request has been submitted, and sometimes it take weeks to get a response (talking from personal experience). In case of bugs I'm sorry but it's just too long, and better leave something with a visible trail. (e.g. bounty where you know for sure "it worked, it's here, and it might actually do something".)
Comment: Additional upvotes often go to questions with bounties which in themselves should help to determine priorities when deciding what to fix/include next.  Perhaps by feedback you already mean additional answers, comments, edits and votes.
Answer: It serve as a poke, to draw attention to it (the bug or feature-request)
It happen as the backlog is really big and some old requests are more than some years old.
As no need to write a question if a duplicate already exist, but if you found a bug today and your duplicate is 3 year old its discouraging, so the bounty allow to draw some attention.


I'm looking for a credit card with daily purchase notifications

Question: My bank checking account allows me to get notifications/alerts for every check or withdrawal activity over a certain amount immediately.  My credit card allows frequent balance notifications, but not purchase activities notification.  Any recommendations for a credit card with better notification options?
Answer: Not exactly what you are asking, but I think you can use yodlee.com, mint.com or pageonce.com and add all of your credit card accounts, then login them once a day to get transactions of all your credit cards. There is typically a 2-day delay though.
Comment: And you can log in daily to update.  Additionally in the US you have 60 days to dispute a charge, so a 2 day window is great for fraud protection.
Comment: @MrChrister, +1, sir, you are absolutely right.
Comment: With Mint I get same day alerts; however, it depends on how quickly your credit card processes transactions.
Answer: Capital One offers this on their website account management.  You can go into your alerts and specify an alert when charged over a specified amount. I have mine set to email and my smart phone will pick up the email right away.  It has worked pretty good and very quickly every time I have triggered my alert settings.
Comment: At least in Canada, you can't set it to send notifications for expenses under $20, but that's probably not too much of an issue.  You can also get daily balance notifications.
Answer: With Bank of America MasterCard and Visa credit card accounts you can be notified of purchases which exceed a threshold you set (sorry, do not recall minimum threshold setting permitted).  Also, you can get alerts when payments are posted to your account, as well.
Answer: American Express offers a variety of customized alerts, including this one. I set it up to get a text message of my balance every Saturday before 8 AM.
Answer: chase has customizable alerts as well.
Comment: Hi Naveen, can you expand your answer to include more content?


How to add an html element (BODY) class based on taxonomy from logged in user?

Question: I'm building a website on Drupal 7 which will be accessible only to registered users. A taxonomy term is referenced to the user account. I need to add a body class based on that taxonomy term so I can personalize the theme's look depending on the logged in user.
Answer: In your custom module implement hook_preprocess_field().In the given code I am adding a taxonomy term field with uid as class,you can change to your requirement.
function mymodulename_preprocess_field(&$variables) {
  global $user
  if($variables['element']['#field_name'] == 'your_taxonomy_term_name') {
    dpm($variables);
    dpm($variables['classes_array']);
    $variables['classes_array'][] = $user->uid;
  }
}

Answer: Here is how I did it.
function mytheme_preprocess_html(&$variables) {
  global $user;
  $user = user_load($user->uid); // Load user
  $variables['classes_array'][] = $user->field_myfield['und'][0]['tid'];
}

It will output the tid not the term name that is being referenced in the user account.


How to restore files on SD card protected by NQ vault?

Question: I changed my Android mobile phone from one carrier to another. I installed Vault app from the Google Play store, and placed the old SD Card from the previous phone into this new phone. After installing the vault software in the new phone, I am unable to restore data (photos, videos) from old SD card.
My old phone isn't in working condition so how do I restore these files?
Answer: There is a related post here which indicates that vault app is phone specific How to restore files on SD Card that was protected by Vault app? which indicates it is not possible, more so since your old device isn't working
Even for premium vault members it appears to be the same (need to use old phone)
https://help.nq.com/entries/24327737-I-just-got-a-new-phone-how-can-I-transfer-my-Premium-Vault-service-to-the-new-device-
But both these are time lined 2013 so it's best to reach out to nq vault help and post your outcome here for benefit of others
Edit
Short answer : NO, unless you are a premium subscriber and made a cloud backup
Long Answer : I mailed NQ, since I had the app on my previous cell and
was debating to go premium. Their reply, you can quote  request (#239838) to follow up

Carrie (NQ Mobile US, Inc.)
  Dec 23, 09:28

Thank you for contacting NQ Mobile Customer Support.

Unfortunately, if you no longer able to access the device, it will be difficult to recover your files and information from the Vault at this time. This is because the Vault files are saved locally on the device itself and the only way to either backup, restore, or move those encrypted files would be by using the Vault application on the original device. There is no other way to do so via a computer for example, unfortunately.
If you ever made a backup with our premium Cloud Backup (Vault Online) feature in the past, you should be able to restore your information to the last backup on a new mobile device by tapping " Cloud Backup (Vault Online) " in the application, signing into your NQ Account, and then tapping the green "Restore" button. If you have never made a backup or were never a Premium User, unfortunately the files are lost and there's no other way to recover them. I do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
If you had Premium Service on your old device, however, I can assist you in transferring that Premium Service over to your new phone.

There is a lesson to be learnt here, before trusting sensitive data to such apps, evaluate all contingencies before you do that
Answer: I imported pics and videos which were in my SD card to vault, then inserted my SD card to another phone and all the pics and videos are available.
If you import data from sd card to vault so what vault does is it copies the data to vault in internal memory
And 1 original copy is still in the SD card.
Answer: I imported pics and videos which were in my SD card to vault, then inserted my SD card to another phone and all the pics and videos were available.
If you import data from SD card to vault, what vault does is it copies the data to vault in internal memory and 1 original copy is still in the SD card.
Answer: Try to read your sdcard using the PC , the Vault is a form of programme that move you files to hidden. Use of find the folder, your files are there.
That's how I do last time.


Do I need proof of prescriptions to take controlled medicines, like Vicodin or Valium?

Question: I know that Medical marijuana is schedule I in the US, and that it is illegal federally, but what about schedule II-IV drugs? Do other countries have rules about which substances are controlled?
At the moment, I will be flying from the US to Canada and Mexico, but in the future, I may be going to Europe.
I don't take narcotics at the moment, but I do take Clonazepam for psychiatric management.
Comment: Shall we understand that the place you're going to Canada, Mexico and Europe _from_ is the US? If you've been legally prescribed the drugs in the US, US authorities would not have any problems with you taking them, but the country you're going to might. Then you need to know how the drug is classified in the _target_ country's law, not which Roman numerals apply to them in your home country.
Comment: I was prescribed Clonazepam, which is like Valium, but I don't know if I should bring proof of prescription so they know that it was legally prescribed to me. Maybe this is a legal question I should ask the consolate or embassy of that country. Any suggestions would be great.
Comment: @HeavenlyHarmony: I think that the point in Henning's comment is that it does not really matter for the **target** country how you got the medicine if it is not legal over there. There may be some very specific provisions for these cases but generally speaking if something is illegal in a country, it does not matter why you are trying to bring it in.
Answer: You need to learn the status of the medication in your destination. This is harder than you might think. A decongestant that is available over the counter in Canada is banned in New Zealand and since it's not by prescription, I had to get a special letter from my doctor (NZ customs helped with the wording) explaining why I had it with me.
If the medication is not controlled in the destination, you can just bring it. If the landing card asks about medications, declare it even though it's not controlled. When they ask what you have, you can say "Tylenol" or whatever and they will be happy. If it's by prescription only, again declare it, bring it in the prescription bottle with the label showing your name and if you can, bring a receipt and any other paperwork to prove this has been prescribed to you. If it's banned in the country, see if there are doctor-letter exemptions and arrange for the letter in plenty of time.
I have crossed a LOT of borders with prescription meds and other than looking at the label, there has not been much delay or any problem. I don't know if they are trained to know what various pills actually look like, but nothing of mine has ever had more than a visual inspection. One reason for that may be that I don't bring thousands of pills, just the amount I might need for the length of the trip.
In the particular case of marijuana, it is still illegal in Canada. Do not bring any. Best case is that you will be refused admission. Worse cases include being arrested for smuggling. I have seen that so many times on Border Security. And not just for the smokable leafy form. Chocolates, tea, you name it, if they find it, they react as they would to cocaine or any other street drug. And they generally find it (the smell is easy to detect.)
Comment: You might also want to check what names medications are known under in your destination country - e.g. 'Tylenol' might cause confusion  in the many countries where its generic name 'paracetamol' is widely used
Comment: @stuart10 Agreed, and Tylenol is a great example - in particular because `paracetamol` is actually not the generic name it's known by in the US (`acetaminophen`).
Comment: last week a Scot mentioned he needed to get some eee-BOO-pruh-fen and it took me a while to translate that to eye-boo-PRO-fen.
Comment: To make this more international: if there is no bottle with your name on it, or if its just your name and nothing indicating that it is described by Doctor xyz, then bring some additional paperwork. Sometimes you are only accepted to bring it in when you have some paper with the signature and stamp of your doctor, because this is how it is handled in that country. In some you may only bring the exact amount needed for your planned stay.
Comment: In the US at least, it is also possible to get a prescription for OTC medications. For example, I have a prescription for pseudophedrine, which is OTC in the US but restricted in many other countries.. It's the same stuff they would give me without the prescription, just with a pharmacy label stuck on the box. I doubt it would help if I were traveling to a place where it were banned outright, but it's useful to have for places where it's prescription only.
Comment: What was the reason you wrote BOO and PRO in all caps? Was that to show where the original speaker emphasised stress?
Comment: @HeavenlyHarmony yes, where the emphasis is in the word.
Comment: @HeavenlyHarmony it took me a moment to realize that eye-boo-PRO-fen is how you pronounce eye-*byou*-PRO-fen.  :)
Comment: _In the particular case of marijuana, it is still illegal in Canada_ - and might be worth noting that while medical marijuana may be legal in parts of Mexico, it is not legal to carry it across the border (USA into Mexico, and Mexico into USA)
Answer: In the U.K. Clonazepam is Class C, possession can get you 2 years in prison, an unlimited fine, or both. Guidance on how to travel with it legally while visiting the U.K. is here https://www.gov.uk/travelling-controlled-drugs In essence, you need to prove it's prescribed to you and you may need to get a licence.
Comment: @HeavenlyHarmony Whether drugs are available by prescription is dealt with by the "schedule" column in https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/controlled-drugs-list--2/list-of-most-commonly-encountered-drugs-currently-controlled-under-the-misuse-of-drugs-legislation found via the link Traveller supplies. It looks like Clonazepam is schedule 4 part 1 in the UK, making the prescription requirements relatively lax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Drug_in_the_United_Kingdom
Comment: It should also be noted that not carrying a prescription doesn't mean you'd be sent to jail automatically. Assuming you're traveling to a developed country you are likely to be given the option to contact your doctor abroad to receive proof of your medical status.
Comment: When you say unlimited fine, what does the term unlimited really mean? Does that mean that I might be fined for all my life until I am unable to pay any more? Is Clonazepam banned entirely or is it only available by prescription?
Comment: @HeavenlyHarmony It means there is no upper limit to what the fine could be - it previously was £5000. The magistrate presiding over the case now has free reign to assign whatver fine they think is appropriate - whether that's £10 or £10Trillion. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/unlimited-fines-for-serious-offences


Numbering measures in pieces with first/second endings and Codas

Question: What are the rules for numbering measures in pieces with 1st and 2nd endings and Codas?I'm wondering if I should number the first ending and go back to the start and number the first measure as continuing from the first ending?
Comment: I'm not a fan of numbering measures in the first place. I find it more useful when the parts have Alphanumeric **locations** marked, typically at sensible places like key changes, theme changes, etc. It's usually at these sorts of spots that you'll want to initiate the next bit of rehearsing, or at most "take the pickup 3 bars before letter G." When scores get numbered, all too often the numbering is done on a strict counting basis -- every 10 or 20 bars, say, which is rarely coincident with useful starting points.
Comment: I was so pleased to find this Q and its answers. Reading the responses really drives home the point that the "ideal rule" is whatever best enables communication between you and your bandmates/conductor/theater-group/duet-partner/etc.
Answer: Actually, normal practice is to omit the first ending measures from the count and number the second ending measures. If the bar number of the first bar of the first ending would normally be, say, m.31, the first bar of the second ending is m.31. If you need to refer to these two measures separately, you would refer to them as m.31 and m.31 bis (or m.31b) respectively.
Answer: I just received Exploring Latin Piano by Tim Richards today. It's worth note for this discussion that the book uses an alternative measure numbering scheme which skips numbering for introductions and numbers measures after repeat signs as if the repeated measures had been written. (with a repeat at m.4 the next measure will be numbered m.9 rather than m.5) The author says this was done to reflect how working musicians will think of measure numbers in regard to performance.
It seems you can deviate from the norm if you have a really good justification for doing so.
Answer: There's not One True Way to do it.  There are a few different methods that make sense in different contexts.
In musical theater, every measure gets its own unique measure number so that places in the music can be unambiguously referred to by everyone.  (In fact, this idea is so important that if music is added or removed, the measure numbers stay where they are.  If we insert 4 bars between 82 and 83, the new measures become 82A-82D.  And if we cut measures, then we leave a hole in the numbering.)  1st/2nd endings aren't very common in musicals, but they are always numbered separately, and linearly as if the repeat markings weren't there.
For singers, it's not uncommon (but also not completely standard) to number repeated measures for each repeat.  So for example if a piece starts with a 16-bar repeat, those first 16 bars are numbered 1-16 and 17-32.  That is, the measures are numbered as if the music were fully written out, and so if in my example the last measure had 1st/2nd endings, the 1st ending would be 16 and the 2nd would be 32.
In operas, symphonies, and other large classical works, usually the measures aren't numbered at all and instead rehearsal marks are placed regularly throughout the music.
Comment: Numbering things in performance order (giving repeated measures multiple numbers) has the advantage of allowing the use of repeat signs in parts which have duplicated content, even if other parts don't have duplicated content there.  This can sometimes reduce or eliminate the need for page turns.
Answer: Normal standard is to count the measures. The measure after the second ending goes further as there was no first and second ending. It makes sense, the conductor says measure  x the second time around you wouldn't need more numbers. We save that the measures wouldn't have double numbers. I went to look it up here is a Beethoven 3rd symphony  the forward repeat is at the end of measure#4, the first repeat ends at measure 155, in page 17 measure# 156
is the start of the second ending and the measure number is a continuation it doesn't start over from the fifth measure in the begin. Look it up the link wasn't good  the site is http//www.musedata.org/beethoven/sym-3
Comment: the link you gave seems broken :-(
Answer: Numbering should only be used for rehearsal or analysis purpose. So it makes sense to just give a measure a different number regardless of repeats or coda signs.


Any drawbacks in forgoing a secondary?

Question: I have a India Pale Ale which is just finishing fermentation in a sealed bucket under airlock, I want to skip the secondary. How long should I wait before carefully racking and bottling?  Will the beer be clear at that point or should I extend that time?
Comment: http://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/7229/what-is-the-secondary-fermentation-debate/7250#7250
Answer: While there are no drawbacks to leaving it in the primary — I do all the time — try not to let it sit on the trub for more than four to six weeks. Off flavors can start to develop the longer it sits on the trub. So if you're planning to let your beer sit for a longer period of time, consider racking to secondary. Otherwise, if you're just going to have it in the carboy for four weeks or less, you're fine leaving it in the primary.
You can get clear beer in the primary, both by cold-crashing and using something like Biofine, ClarityFerm, or Gelatin Finings. I've used them all, and they all do a sufficient job helping produce a clear beer.
Comment: Off flavors from leaving wort on trub is a myth, at least according to Jamil and Palmer (even though both admit to previously perpetuating it).  www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/secondary-not-john-palmer-jamil-zainasheff-weigh-176837
Answer: No draw backs.
Check that the final gravity has been reached and then move to the bottles. Let it sit for a few weeks to carbonate and it will clear at the same time.
Answer: No drawbacks. Wait one or two more weeks. Clarity will depend on the yeast flocculation, but if you can bring the temperature down before racking (cold-crash), that will help the yeast and anything else settle out of suspension.
Comment: My garage is cold, 38F currently, may make it to the low 40's next week, would that work? How long should it be kept cold, if this is an option?
Comment: Most active (ie: refrigerated) cold-crashing is going to be in the lower 30s because efficiency, but high-30s/low-40s is better than 60s, for sure.  A few days should do it.
Answer: You'll get more off flavors by not using a secondary. If you rack to the secondary after 5 days or so, you'll get a much better brew. It can then sit in the secondary much longer.
Comment: It takes months for yeast autolysis to affect the flavour of the beer. The primary benefit of racking to secondary is clarity, not flavour. Older books on home brewing recommend *always* racking to secondary. Contemporary books recognize that it's not always necessary and brings some associated risks. http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter8-2-3.html
Comment: While it's true that you can leave a beer in secondary for longer, primary is just fine for the 3 or 4 weeks needed for a typical beer. There's no reason to think it will introduce off flavors.
Comment: You'll pick up off flavors from the trub that settles at the bottom. Sure you don't have too- but that's the reason pretty much every book recommends using a secondary.
Comment: FG was right on the mark, moved the PF to the garage for a few days, Christmas will be below zero, so, I'll move it to the cellar, plan on 2 weeks post fermentation, then racking to bottling.

Any drawbacks in forgoing a secondary?


Jpeg2000 or webp images with CE IMAGE?

Question: Is it possible to use next-gen formats with CE Image, using Expression Engine 2.8?
What's the alternative?
Answer: CE-Image is pretty old now, and I'm also fairly sure it doesn't support outputing images in either webp or Jpeg2000 formats.  Neither does any version of EE.
In theory CE-Image (or some equivalent) could output images in those formats, but due to limitations within EE it is pretty difficult to use either format as image sources within your site - EE's "File Manager" system does not currently recognise either format.
A better question to ask yourself though is why you would want to output images in either format in the first place: webp is not supported by macOS Safari yet, and only by the most recent version of iOS.  Similarly Jpeg2000 has limited support (e.g. AFAIK it is still not supported on Firefox).  So unless you are targetting a closed group of browsers that you know support the format, you'd need to provide an alternative image format in a more compatible format anyhow - so might as well just provide the compatible alternative...
HTH

Jpeg2000 or webp images with CE IMAGE?


My folding tire has kinks in it

Question: I just bought my first set of tires. They were of the folding type.
Even after unfolding and leaving them overnight they still had kinks in the bead. It is a bit unsightly but that isn't the issue. Do the kinks affect the way they should be installed?
Comment: I've learned to avoid folding tires like the plague, especially in heavier sizes.  Yes, they are convenient if you need a spare for a cross-country trip, but they are a royal PITA to mount.  (Once mounted and "broken in" they do perform reasonably well, however.)
Answer: This is completely normal for folding tires. They will settle into round shape when they are mounted and inflated for a while.
When installing the tires with kinks, they do slip away from rims more often than perfectly round tires. One way to avoid it is to keep the part that is already on the rim tight. There's no need to align the kinks to something, or anything like that.
Answer: Kinks should disappear once the tire is mounted and inflated and the bead is under tension.
Answer: I got an unused 20" folding tyre that had sat in someone's bag for 10 years.  It was seriously zig-zagged when unfolded, but once on the bike it was perfect.
Later I suffered a puncture, and on changing the tube I noted the tyre still wanted to  zigzag, but its completely unnoticeable on the rim.
For peace of mind, you might want to lubricate the rim with water when first fitting, and then half-inflate the tube, and give the whole tyre a good visual inspection before fully inflating.
You can also use your thumbs every inch or two around the outside, to push the tyre's sidewall sideways.  Any oddness, stop and evaluate.  Note that a "pop" is probably just be the bead seating, compared to a herniation where the tyre is bulging out.
Leave the wheel fully inflated overnight before riding the first time, and check it again before your ride.

My folding tire has kinks in it


How to get rid of past events in the Event field lising (Select Box) on New Event Registration page Page

Question: In the New Event Registration page, Event field gets all the events from very beginning. How can I configure to display only the upcoming events.
Answer: Don't think there is a setting in the UI to do this. The event is basically added to the input widget using the getlist api of Event entity. Adding the following param to the same should be able to list only upcoming events in the input field.
'params' => array('start_date' => array('>' => "now")),

You should be able to do this via an extension. Or if you want to see the param buildup in core, it is present in Event/Form/Participant.php
Extending the above array to include our param should remove the past events.
$eventFieldParams['api']['params']['start_date'] = array('>' => "now");

Note that changes made to core would be lost after an upgrade, so it is better to override this file in an extension OR see if any hook can help you in attaining this.
Comment: It works. Thank you. For now I added this in Participant.php. Later will do the same via extension or hook. Thanks again.
Answer: You can set the Event Is_active Flag to FALSE - you can find this in Event Configure Page
Is this Event Active?
So, the list will ignore any in-active event Events.
I guess this helps!!!


why bitcoin escrow don't use fiat currency?

Question: Cryptocurrency escrow,  like localbitcoins.com, use bitcoins as guaranty funds.
Seller transfer bitcoins to merchant as guaranty, later when buyer has paid with fiat money to seller, merchant make the transfer of bitcoins to buyer wallet.
why bitcoin escrow use bitcoins guarantee and  don't use fiat currency?
Comment: I think it's because bitcoin transactions are more transparent and it's always possible for third parties to verify the escrow is behaving correctly.
Answer: Because it is much harder to do escrow with fiat.
Fiat currencies are subject to various regulations which make this difficult. The escrow service would have to be registered as a money transferring business and be required to follow AML/KYC regulations. This means that all users would have to submit personally identifying documentation to the service in order to do any trades.
Additionally, there are multiple ways that fiat can be transferred. If you look on LocalBitcoins' website, you will see that you can do a variety of things for transferring the fiat; you can send cash by mail, cash in person, you can do bank account transfers, you can purchase goods for the seller, etc. There are a lot of different ways to send the fiat to the other person. If they put the fiat in escrow, then they would be limiting the number of ways that the fiat could be transferred. Conversely, there is only one way to transfer Bitcoin.
Furthermore, doing a fiat escrow would mean that the service is subject to whoever they are using as their bank. The service itself cannot actually hold the fiat money when it comes to things like bank and wire transfers (or it's really difficult). Rather they have to have an account with a bank and the money would go into that bank account and leave from that bank account. This introduces another third party who is not necessarily trusted. That bank could shut down the service's bank account thus causing all users whose funds are in escrow to lose all of their funds. It would, in general, introduce more risk to trading.
Lastly, the idea of services like LocalBitcoins is centered around the idea of trading Bitcoin for physical cash, typically in person. This means that it is extremely difficult to provide escrow services because someone from LocalBitcoins would have to be physically present for each trade to hold the fiat while the Bitcoin transfers. That would simply be unfeasible and impractical to do. However, because Bitcoin is a digital asset, the Bitcoin can easily be held in escrow on their servers and the trade can go along as long as both parties have internet access. This is much easier and cheaper to do.
Thus Bitcoin is easier to do escrow with than fiat, so such services escrow the Bitcoin rather than the fiat.


Is the mystic form stronger than SSJ3?

Question: We know as a fact that SSJ < SSJ2 < SSJ3 < SSG < SSB . But what about the mystic form that probably Gohan is going to recover? Is there any official info / evidence that shows how strong it is compared to the other forms?
Comment: You can't compare the form to determine who is stronger, what you can compare is by their base form. I think what you want to compare is the form's multiplier.
Comment: I didnt compare the form to determine who is stronger. But the same person with a particular form is stronger than the same person in another form. We do know that Goku SSJ < Goku SSJ2 < Goku SSJ3 < Goku SSG < Goku SSB . Which doesnt mean Vegeta SSJ2 < Goku SSJ3 for example. At one point it is said that Vegeta in SSJ2 surpassed Goku in SSJ3.
Comment: The answer to this is quite simple. When Gohan is in his ultimate state, he has access to his full potential power. Depding on what Gohan's maximum super Saiyan level is at a given time, Mysitc Gohan will be equal to that level.
Answer: My take on this is that his "mystic" form is just him unleashing all his power without turning into a SSJ which puts some strain on his body / wastes some energy.
Basically even if he could go SSJ3 there is no need for that because he can bring all of that energy out in this "mystic" form without any side effects. So no matter how strong he becomes with this he does not need to transform (regarding the normal Saiyan transformation).
Now regarding the "god" transformation (if he ever reaches it), I'm not sure. Since we have a new kind of ki involved maybe he can not bring that out without transforming into a SSG but that is even more based on speculation.
In the end, Mystic form > all other normal SSJ forms because it enables him to draw out all energy without any side effects.
Answer:
SSJ2 < Mystic Form < SSJ3

Mystic Form is Stronger than SSJ2.
Evidence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkSsU7tO3Ew
Mystic Gohan was More Powerful than SSJ2 Goku or Vegeta during fight with Buu, But Buu after absorbing Gotenks(SSJ3) became stronger than Gohan.
Thus, Mystic form more powerful than SSJ2 but less than SSJ3.

Another Evidence
SSJ3 Goku was equally matched with Kid Buu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aMPHOHX9Bc
Kid Buu was way much powerfull than of its any other form.
Gohan could only overpower Super Buu, But was easily defeated by Gotenks absorbed Super Buu.
Hence SSJ3 > Mystics Form
Comment: but Buu combined his own strength (which was over a SSJ2) with that of the SSJ3. It isnt the SSJ3 strength only who is fighting mystic Gohan
Comment: Fat Buu was strong enough to go toe to toe with a weakened SSJ3 Goku. However, Goku from the start couldn't win, despite being at near full power when he started. Gotenks SSJ3 was unable to really win against Super buu, who was roughly as powerful as Fat Buu. Gohan came along and overpowered Super Buu far more than SSJ3 Gotenks, and once they split inside and Super Buu Gotens absorbed downgraded to Super Buu Piccolo Absorbed, Goku decided there was no need to fuse with Gohan, SSJ3 Goku and Mystic Gohan could have won. Mystic Gohan seems to beat up Super Buu better than either SSJ3 Character.
Comment: @Ryan During Fight with Fat Buu SSJ3 Goku was onlying stalling Buu so that Trunks could find the Dragon Radar.
Comment: @Ryan "Gotenks SSJ3 was unable to really win against Super buu, who was roughly as powerful as Fat Buu." Actually that's wrong since Gotenks was overpowering buu, Till it absorbed them.
Comment: well if it isnt clear, and since aparently Gohan is going to recover his mystic form soon, may be Dragon Ball Super will give a definitive answer to this question. Or may be they will release a osm book which does. Particulary I dont see SSJ3 overpowering the mystic form, may be they are equal, Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon rises more questions since there Goku SSJ3 defeats Hirudegarn when mystic Gohan couldnt, but that movie isnt canon and may be it just was the dragon technique and not his SSJ3 what allowed Goku to defeat it
Answer: According to some spoilers appearing in a japanese magazine about the upcoming Dragon Ball Super episodes

 Gohan is able to hold his own against Super Saiyan Blue Goku in mystic form

Edit: 13/05/2017. After seeing Dragon Ball Super episode 90th

 It's quite questionable if Gohan can hold his own against Super Saiyan Blue
Answer: Well SSJ3 Goku Was Slightly injured but was still equal to Fat Buu but Mystic Gohan Overpowered Super Buu which was a little stronger than Fat Buu since its Evil and Fat Buu combined.But lost to Buutenks which had the power of at least two SSJ3's which does kinda make Mystic a little stronger than SSJ3 cuz its not rlly a multiplier it just unleashes the energy he can use with all SSJ forms he has (Including Base) combined,without using a lot of energy and stress and Kid Buu shouldnt have been the strongest form out of all Buu (Gohan Absorbed) should have been since its two SSJ3's Combined with mystic and Fat Buu was all Kai's absorbed so he should have gained there power too but they never returned after kid buu's demise so rlly Kid buu should be around a little less than SSJ3 the only reason he overpowered Goku was because his moves were unpredictable since he attacked without thought so That might have been a reason :)
Answer: Some people only see Mystic form as a transformation. It is not. The thing is the Spiritual Gods like Kami, Yama, Kai, Grand Kai, Supreme Kai, God of Something, God Superintendent, Universal God (Dragon God Zalama) are Ranks that can pass pressure on the lower Rank very easy.
Since Gohan is a Mortal, below Kami rank, his potential can be opened by Namekian Great Elder (Kami rank) and even further by the old Supreme Kai (percentage wise). After training, Gohan of course could have gone to the Namekian great elder again, but that guy is dead. Anyway, Gohan unlocked the SSJ2 Stage. When he was a kid he was pretty strong, but he kinda got weaker in his teenage years. He was weaker than SSJ2 Goku and Vegeta. But still, after Dabura fight, he got a little bit stronger again because of the near even fight. Afterward, he kinda was on the level of the cell games. After training and unlocking his potential on the Planet of Supreme Kai, he basically absorbed the SSJ1 and SSJ2 states which makes him put out even more energy that otherwise would have been wasted and he does not get any strain that is accompanied by the SSJ1 and SSJ2 state. He is basically his base state with the power level of the maximum SSJ2 state. So in a way, he is stronger than Goku SSJ3 because he doesn't waste energy that much and has no strain. It's like the Saiyan God state. Every possible transformation tabs into your potential.
So lets make this simple:
SSJ1 < SSJ1-Mystic=SSJ2 < SSJ2-Mystic=SSJ3 < SSJ3-Mystic=SSJ4 < SSJ4Mystic=SSG < SSG-Mystic=SSB < SSB-Mystic etc etc.
The Mystic state is basically the transformed strength into the base form which will in turn be always better or equal to the next transformed state. In Gohan's case, it is stronger than SSJ3 but not as strong against Buu that absorbed so many characters. This mystic state basically is the true path to godhood.
Answer: Okay, so here's the thing: unlike the Super Saiyan forms, Mystic doesn't universally multiply every person's power by the same amount. The increase a martial artist gets from Mystic is completely dependent on how much hidden potential is within that person. If Umigame and Goten were at the same power level and both went through the Mystic ritual, for example, Goten would receive a way stronger boost, as he's a martial artist and a half-Saiyan.
If we're talking GOHAN'S Mystic boost, however... it actually is stronger than Super Saiyan 3. We know this because when Gotenks fought Super Buu, his Super Saiyan 3 form was stronger than Goku's, meaning his base form must have also exceeded Goku's. And we know for a fact that Goku's base form was stronger than Gohan's. Meaning:
Base form
Gohan (weakest) --> Goku (mid) --> Gotenks (strongest)
When Gotenks fought Super Buu as a Super Saiyan 3, Gotenks was stronger, but the strength difference between the two wasn't that great-- Buu even manages to hurt Gotenks a bit, albeit nothing too major. Yet when GOHAN fought Super Buu with Mystic, Gohan's strength exceeded Super Buu's by a mile. Therefore, Mystic provided the greater power boost, as it took the Saiyan with the weakest base form (of the three I mentioned) and made him stronger than Gotenks at Super Saiyan 3.

Is the mystic form stronger than SSJ3?


Do multiple take control effects let me keep a card?

Question: If I was to cast two "take control of a creature until end of turn" spells, like Act of Treason, twice on the same creature in the same turn, do I keep it ?
Comment: @doppelgreener My guess would be the idea is the second effect might overwrite the first somehow, and make it forget where to go back to. (Perhaps by analogy to blinking with Cloudshift or one of the ways you *can* keep something by turning it into a new object, but without understanding the underlying rules.)
Comment: It can be any two combinations of control untill end of turn spells  or copy
Comment: What leads you to suspect you'd get to keep it? Are you expecting you'd keep it until the turn _after_ or something?
Answer: You will keep the creature until the end of the turn (more precisely, the Cleanup Step). If you cast two separate Acts on the same creature in the same turn, they both have the same duration—"until end of turn"—so both will expire at the same time. They don't add together to let you keep the creature longer.
Comment: Ok thanks everyone i talk to and play with say it works. Based on it returns to the last person that controled it.The first spell would resolve at end secoud spell woud triger resolve.But would be like castining it on a creature you control ,own. only reason i was running it. Maybe i wont tell them.3 of them are masters of the game and all lol.


Is there any library other than gphoto2 to use remote capture in Canon G10?

Question: I am using gphoto2 library to remote capture on my Canon G10.It does not take photos at the required frame rate.Currently i have not been able to achieve  fastest the camera can achieve which is 1.4fps.Is there any library or sdk other than gphoto2 which can click faster photos with Canon G10. Also if some changes can be made in gphoto2 to make it faster suggest them too.
Comment: I wonder if you would get a better response by posting this question in software?
Comment: Are you asking for faster shutter speed, less shutter lag or higher frame rate? What are you current results? Regarding frame rate, continuous shooting  with G10 is limited at [0.6 fps with continuous AF and RAW, 1.4fps without](http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/powershot_g10-review/); no software would speed up past that.
Comment: Also it might be worth checking out the Magic Lantern software and/or the Canon Developers APi
Comment: @Imre i have to achieve higher frame rate. I have not achieved frame rate of 1.4 fps
Answer: In some regions, Canon has included RemoteCapture DC software with the G10. On Windows, there's PSRemote.
I have no direct experience with gphoto2, but its idea seems to be quite simple, translating requested commands to camera-specific datagrams and as such the library itself is unlikely to be a major cause for slowness.
Rather, the G10 firmware seems to do full on-and-off cycle for each capture requested by computer, and this of course is much slower than shooting images manually. Perhaps CHDK would act more sensibly.
The easiest way to increase frame rate would be to capture video instead of still photos, and extract frames from that.
For still images, other than getting a faster camera, frame rate can be maximized by trying to spend less time for each shot, such as

use lower resolution (JPEG, no RAW) to deal with less data;
use manual exposure so there would be no need to measure light;
use manual focus so there would be no need to focus;
switch off instant viewing of captured photo;
avoid using flash so its capacitors would not need refilling;
use higher ISO or more light so you could use a faster shutter speed;
use continuous shooting mode so the camera can optimize to deliver many shots quickly;
leaving data in camera is likely faster than tethering, tethering via cable is likely faster than over Wi-Fi.


What's the best way to warm a baguette?

Question: I baked French bread recently. They were crusty outside and moist inside. Delicious! I froze a few. How should I heat them so they're as good as when they were freshly baked?
Comment: It might be worth thawing one, and then tell us if there's a specific issue that needs to be fixed. For instance, if it's ending up a bit stale, you can use the wet paper bag trick to resuscitate it.
Answer: I spray mine with a little water and then put it in my toaster-oven at 400 (F) for a few minutes.  Won't be as good as fresh baked, but it does improve the smell and texture.
Comment: +1 spray with water; keep in mind you can use real oven if the baguette doesn't fit in toaster!
Answer: I've never had any success baking my own, so this is from experience with shop bought but should be applicable.
To just eat cold then defrosting as usual (an hour or two at room temperature should do) gives decent results. It won't be as good as fresh but should be better than if you left it out (I always find they go stale very quickly and are generally not great even the next day).
If you want it warm or hot then I find wrapping it in tin foil and putting it in a hot oven for 10 - 15 minutes (adjust depending on whether it's still frozen or not) is quite good. It'll get a little crispier than it was when fresh but you get a little of that fresh bread effect without making toast.
Comment: You can include a hot container of water on the oven bottom shelf to give a bit of steam and humidity as you heat it, which (might) bring the crust back to something close to how you bought it. Just have the water barely off the boil when you put it in.
Comment: Good tip, I'll have to try that next time. Of course I tend to just use the stale french bread for french toast as it's really good for that.
Answer: Very lightly coat the crust in olive oil, wrap tightly in foil and put in the oven for 10 minutes at 400.
Answer: slice it, apply some butter, toast it at 220 Degree celsius for about 5 minutes. I had it today in the morning just like the mentioned way and they were amazingly delicious.
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What's the best way to warm a baguette?


Importing multiple user responses on a Form to a single row on a Sheet

Question: I have a Google Form containing three linear scale questions.  The form collects emails and then a value between 1 and 3 for each question.  I need the people who respond to the form to do so biweekly.  I would like to see their answers added as new columns in the same row as their first round of answers in the corresponding spreadsheet.  I do not want to have a new row created for them each time they respond to the Form.  I tried researching IMPORTRANGE but that didn't work quite right.  I assume I need to tell the sheet to look for matching emails but I'm not sure how to then add new columns with that email's responses to the existing sheet.
Answer: You want to accumulate form responses for three questions based on the email address entered in the form. There may be many ways to do this but I suggest a script.
Managing Data
The form responses will be displayed on a specific sheet.
In addition to this sheet, I suggest that you create a sheet devoted to the accumulated form responses for the three questions - you can format this appropriately.
In this answer, the sheet is called "data".

Sample layout for "data" sheet

Script processing
You need a script that will:

use Event Objects so that you have easy access to the form submission details
use an installable On form submit trigger that will execute the script whenever a new form response is received.

The script will:

check the new email address against the existing email addresses on "data" using the Javascript indexOf method
if no match is found, then this is the first response by this user and you use appendrow to append the relevant form details to the bottom of the "data" sheet.
if a match is found, then you identify the matching row on the "data" sheet

a subroutine calculates the next blank Column to the right of the row
the question responses are pasted into adjacent blank columns using setValues

Sample results

Code
function updatequestions(e) {

  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet()

  // enter the name of the data sheet
  var data_sheetname = "data"
  var datasheet = ss.getSheetByName(data_sheetname)

  // enter the number of header rows on the data sheet
  var data_headers = 2

  // get the form response data
  //Logger.log(JSON.stringify(e))// DEBUG

  // get the response values
  var remail = e.values[1]
  var q1 = e.values[2]
  var q2 = e.values[3]
  var q3 = e.values[4]
  Logger.log("DEBUG: email address = "+remail+", Q1:"+q1+", Q2:"+q2+", Q3:"+q3)

  // get the existing data
  var dataValues = datasheet.getDataRange().getValues()
  Logger.log("DEBUG: the length of data values = "+dataValues.length)

  if (dataValues.length <= 2){ // no responses yet, this is the first
    // append row
    // create a temporary array and add the values to the array
    var qresponses = []
    qresponses.push(remail,q1,q2,q3)
    Logger.log(qresponses)// DEBUG

    // append the reply
    datasheet.appendRow(qresponses)
    Logger.log("DEBUG: first response - data appended")
  }
  else{
    // there's already data in the sheet
    // try and find the respondent email address in the existing data

    // get the email address column
    var dataEmail = dataValues.map(function(e){return e[0];})
    Logger.log(dataEmail) // DEBUG

    // find a match for the email address with a value in the email column
    var remailidx = dataEmail.indexOf(remail)
    Logger.log("DEBUG: email idx is "+remailidx)

      if (remailidx == -1){ // if -1, then no match was found
        // couldn't find this email in the existing replies
        // append this reply.
    // create a temporary array and add the values to the array
        var qresponses = []
        qresponses.push(remail,q1,q2,q3)

        // append the reply
        datasheet.appendRow(qresponses)
        Logger.log("DEBUG: email not matched. Must be a first reply, so append data")

      }else{
        // found the email in the replies
        var rowtocheck = remailidx+1
        Logger.log("DEBUG: Found a match on row#"+rowtocheck)

        // run subroutine to find next blank column in this row
        var nextblankCol = getLastNonEmptyCellInRow(data_sheetname, rowtocheck)
        Logger.log("DEBUG: the next blank column = "+nextblankCol)

        // create a temporary array
        var qresponses = []
        // push response details but not the email address which is already in column A
        qresponses.push([q1,q2,q3])

        // update values on sheet
        datasheet.getRange(rowtocheck,nextblankCol,1,3).setValues(qresponses)
      }

    }

  SpreadsheetApp.flush()

}

/* adapted from StackOverflow
// Google Apps Script .getLastColumn(); of a specific row?
// Answer by Alan Wells
*/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/28783508/1330560

function getLastNonEmptyCellInRow(sheetname, row) {

  var rowToCheck =row
  var data_sheetname = sheetname
  Logger.log("DEBUG: Subroutine: row = "+rowToCheck+", and sheet = "+data_sheetname)
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();

  // get the data sheet
  var sheet = ss.getSheetByName(data_sheetname)

  // get the last column with content in the sheet
  var maxColumns = sheet.getLastColumn();

  //var maxColumns = sheet.getLastRow();
  Logger.log("DEBUG: Subroutine: max columns = "+maxColumns)
  Logger.log("DEBUG: Subroutine: row data Range = "+sheet.getRange(rowToCheck, 1, 1, maxColumns).getA1Notation())
  var rowData = sheet.getRange(rowToCheck, 1, 1, maxColumns).getValues();
  Logger.log("row data#1")
  Logger.log(rowData)
  rowData = rowData[0]; //Get inner array of two dimensional array
  Logger.log("row data#2")
  Logger.log(rowData)
  var rowLength = rowData.length;
  Logger.log("DEBUG: Subroutine: the row length = "+rowLength)
  for (var i = 0; i < rowLength; i++) {
    var thisCellContents = rowData[i];

    Logger.log('DEBUG: Subroutine: i='+i+', thisCellContents: ' + thisCellContents);

    if (thisCellContents === "") {
      Logger.log("DEBUG: Subroutine: The last column containing data = "+i);
      var nextcolumn= i+1
      Logger.log("DEBUG: Subroutine: the next column number = "+nextcolumn)
      return nextcolumn;  //Pass the count plus one, which is the last column with data
    }
  }
}

References
Event Objects
on form submit
indexOf
appendRow
setValues


Meaning of 「以上」 when someone finishes his/her speech and says 「以上」

Question: What is the meaning of 「以{い}上{じょう}」 when someone finishes his/her speech and says 「以上」? For example - the lawyer at the court after his speech says 「以上」and stops speaking then.
Comment: I can't imagine just saying "以上" to end a speech. I am pretty sure you say the complete "以上です".
Comment: It was a drama リーガルハイ - on NHK/FujiTV - and the main character at the court did so..
Answer: The meaning is "that's all", in the sense of "(all that there is, I've said) before".
The second definition of 以上 here shows that "above" is equated with "before", and the fourth definition corresponds to the usage you're referring to.


Can you do a lot of cardio to lose weight but keep your muscle mass?

Question: I was wondering, if i do more cardio like + 45 min more on my current 30 min, with proper diet and strenght exercises and calorie intake, could i preserve my muscle mass and just lose fat?
Comment: yes, this is called "cutting"
Answer: In short, Yes you can. But, as you qualified, you'll still want to do your strength training as it will help you burn the fat much more quickly along with continuing to build and maintain your strength.
The exact answer on whether you should do 45 min of cardio depends on your fitness goals. Do you just want burn fat? Do you want to build muscle? Or do you want to train to run a marathon?
If burning fat is important and endurance or long distance running isn't important to you then another possible alternative to cardio is HIIT. HIIT - High Intensity Interval Training, is the perfect method for losing fat while retaining muscle mass and it is great for the lungs and heart as well. It is also a good way to train for spontaneous activities especially if you also desire to burn calories.
See these these articles on dailyburn.com and bodybuilding.com for more info on HIIT.
HIIT is not a replacement for strength training and will not produce the same results in the short term or even long term. Strength training will burn more calories but will not necessarily do your lungs as good as HIIT or Cardio. HIIT also isn't a replacement for cardio if your goal is long distance endurance. Some people define HIIT differently, so I'll add this qualifier Weight training being -i.e. weighted squats, leg press, calf extensions, lunges, etc. and HIT being non-weighted High Intensity Workouts. Some HIIT techniques involve weighted exercise but they're applied with a different methodology. The focus with HIIT is to burn calories not to build muscle strength. One of the drawbacks of HIIT is that many of it's activities may put you at risk of injury. If you're concerned about injury or have had a recent injury, I wouldn't recommend HIIT.
More on why HIIT is not a replacement for strength training:

"EMG techniques make it possible to study recruitment order, the relationship between stimulation and the amount of force developed, the type of muscle contraction (concentric vs. eccentric) and the effects of fatigue. EMG analysis in my study showed the approximate percentage of the recruitment of muscle fiber types in the quadriceps of a trained athlete during execution of a one repetition squat with progressively increasing loads.
Starting with 60% of one-repetition maximum, the slow-twitch fibers contribute 60 percent to the effort; fast-twitch fatigue resistant fibers, 30 percent; and fast-twitch fatigable 10 percent. At 100 percent maximum effort, however, the percentage of slow-twitch fibers involved is only 5%, while fast-twitch fatigue resistant is 15 percent, and fast-twitch fatigable is 80 percent.
The implications for athletic-type strength training are clear. To develop strength in the fast-twitch fibers you have to train with heavy weights. Light weights contribute little to optimizing strength and power performance. "

For complete article see: http://www.drdarden.com/readTopic.do?id=412352
If your fitness goal is endurance, then stick with more cardio and less HIIT and strength. In either case, you'll still want to do some strength training. See these articles on why strength training is important for runners. 5 Essential Elements of An Endurance Training Program That Most Athletes Neglect.


WordPress site migration - locked out of admin area

Question: I migrated my WordPress site by uploading the wp-content file from the original site to the new site and dumping the database of the old site onto the new one.
However, this has resulted in me being locked out of the admin area; I can log into the site and view the site, but the admin bar is missing many buttons and going to the /wp-admin page results in this message:

Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.

I've enabled WP_DEBUG and it's not logging any errors.
I think it has something to do with the table prefix. The old site did not have a table prefix, but the new one does. I just searched through the database dump file before I imported it and did a find & replace of each of the old table names (e.g. replace "wp_usermeta" with "wp_prefix_usermeta").
[EDIT]:
It is definitely the prefix causing the issue; when I remove the prefix (from both the database tables and the wp-config) the site works.
I've also set the prefix constant in wp-config to the right prefix.
Are there any other words apart from the wp_tablename which need to have the new prefix added?
Answer: Try to rename the plugins folder to something like plugins-hold via FTP. Then try to access the admin area again.
Comment: Already tried that. It's definitely the prefix causing it; I just removed the prefix for now and everything works, although I do still need to find a way to add the prefix and have everything work.


Editing startup-config

Question: I have a Cisco router, and I want to remove a few lines from startup-config. How could I do it? Do I need to copy it over to a PC, edit it there, then copy it back, or can I do it through the serial console somehow?
Comment: What is wrong with issuing "conf t", making your changes, exit,  and issuing a "wr mem" or "copy run start" command? Is it that you only want to touch the startup config and leave the running configuration untouched?
Answer: Yes, only real way is to copy the startup-config file to a PC and edit on there, then copy back.  Of course the commands will not take effect until the next reload and you will have to be careful you don't corrupt the config in any way.  Make sure you use a proper text editor like Notepad++ and not a word processor when you edit to make sure you don't insert any odd character codes.
Comment: I used a USB drive, but after connecting it to a PC ios won't recognize it.
Comment: What filesystem is it formatted with?  Needs to be FAT
Comment: It's formatted on the router, it works perfectly, then I plug it into a windows PC, and even if I do nothing with it and connect it back to the router it won't work anymore
Comment: Try another drive, or you could use TFTP - try Solarwinds free TFTP server
Answer: Edit: Karl Billington's method is superior and should be used when possible
The other (extremely painful) way is:

Setup a console connection if you don't already have one. The rest of the
steps below are over the console connection
Reboot the switch, stop it at the rommon/bootloader (usually Control-C or break)
Configure the rommon/bootloader to ignore the startup Boot the IOS. It should come up with a default config after ignoring the startup-config
Run show startup-config. This will print the entire startup-config,
including the undesirable lines that you want to remove.
Now do a conf term and start pasting the output of show startup-config, excluding the undesirable lines that you want to exclude
Issue the command wr mem. This will save your edited config.
Reboot. This time configure the rommon/bootloader to not ignore the startup-config

As you can see this is extremely messy, and is error-prone especially if your config is large. But if the real solution (editing it off-box and then copying it to the device) won't work for whatever reason, and you're in a "desperate times call for desperate measures" situation, you can give this a shot.

Editing startup-config


Please explain "Wie dem auch sei."

Question: The only previous post I could find related this was in German a bit over my head, so sorry if it's already covered there; it didn't seem like it though. I know the phrase means something like "Be that as it may," or "In any case", or just "Regardless." What I'm looking for is a word-for-word literal translation which might explain how this seemingly random collection of monosyllables can be interpreted to mean any of those things. The references I've tried just translate the phrase as a whole without any explanation, and it would help me to learn if there was one. My best attempt is "How to that also might be," which I can't make sense of. The equivalent English expressions are idiomatic as well and I'd probably be hard pressed to explain them myself, so maybe I'm asking for the impossible here. But often idioms do start to make sense if you figure out some missing words or context, this one seems just baffling though.
Answer: The closest English expression would be

however that may be
wie dem auch sein mag

which corresponds closely to the German equivalent. The key to understanding lies in realising that auch modifies wie. The dictionaries call this the generalising use of auch (see for instance DWDS).

Was auch geschieht, dürfen die Kinder sich der Liebe ihrer Eltern sicher sein.
Whatever happens, the children can be certain of their parents' love.

Wenn Sie sich an Ihre Schulzeit erinnern möchten, wann auch immer das war.
If you want to remember your school days, whenever that was.

I find this characterisation somewhat lacking. The point is that these clauses are interpreted as if preceded by egal.

Egal, wohin man auch schaut, scheinen globale Kipppunkte erreicht zu sein.
No matter where you look, global tipping points seem to have been reached.

One inexplicable fact that remains is the use of dative dem instead of expected nominative das in the original sentence. One is liable to say:

Dem ist eben so.
That's just the way it is.
Comment: It's a pity that you don't have an explanation for the dative. That is the really interesting thing here.
Comment: The why dative question was the subject of the other thread I mentioned that was hard for me to follow. In English there's the phrase "as to", and you might think of "as to that" as "wie dem" in German. It's probably not logical or grammatical but it's good enough to help remember the expression. The meaning of 'auch' here is a big help, and is as much as could expect. So the translation I'm going with (filling in several ellipses) is "As to that, whichever it may be, that's what it will be." It reminds me of the English "It is what it is," presumably just as cryptic to non-native speakers.
Comment: The idiomatic equvalent in English is not "however that may be" but "be that as it may..."
Comment: @KilianFoth I wrote *closest*. OP suggested *be that as it may* themselves.
Comment: By the way, the dative occurs also in the related idioms "Dem ist/war nicht so" or "Wenn dem so ist, dann..."
Answer: The shortest translation in english is probably "anyway" or also "whatever".
Is something like a filler word or you also use it to end a conversation topic where the exit is indifferent (gleichgültig), for example "Anyway, let's talk about something else now" (Wie dem auch sei, lass uns jetzt über was anderes reden).
A word to word translate would be something like this:

let's leave it
no matter how it is
be that as it may
Comment: It's a kind of wordy phrase that actually doesn't mean that much. But I suppose without them conversation would eventually drift into an awkward silence. I was more interested, though, in how the individual pieces fit together to get the rather cryptic whole.
Answer:
how them may be

this is them in the substandard reading them thangs, they people, which makes for an apt illustration that demonstrative pronouns and all that have quite a long winded, diverse and complicated history.
Compare therefore *wam? wiu!.
After all, the dative reading, which would be the only remaining legal interpretation of dem does not seem to be fit here.

Note by the way that however neatly parallels wie aber, "wie dem aber auch sei", "wie aber auch immer", in terms of phonetics, although, an etymologic link cannot be proved so far, inasmuch as ever at least is uncertain of origin.
Comment: The why dative question seems to be covered in another thread, and that wasn't the thing that was confusing to me, not that I knew the reason but it wasn't the thing that was keeping me from parsing the phrase. I'm pretty sure @David Vogt hit it with the auch meaning -ever thing. I'd never seen that before and now that I know it's easy to construct other examples: "whomever you mean" _wen Sie auch meinen_, "whatever it takes" _was es auch kostet_, "wherever you go" _wohin Sie auch gehen_.

Please explain "Wie dem auch sei."


How can I set the title of a notebook to the notebook filename, and keep it in sync automatically?

Question: I usually use descriptive filenames for my notebooks, and then find myself manually copying that filename into a "Title" style top-level section in the notebook.  I would like this to be automatic, or at least to happen when the notebook is evaluated.  What is the best way to achieve this?
Comment: Do you want to update the first title cell multiple times? What if the first title cell isn't the first cell?
Comment: I want the title displayed in the notebook to match the filename.  I could by convention always have the first title cell being the first cell, and I could also have only a single title cell in the notebook, if that were necessary to make a good solution work.  Probably the most elegant solution wouldn't have these constraints, but I'm not too fussed about that.
Answer: Put the following into a "Title" cell:
Dynamic[FileBaseName @ NotebookFileName[]]

An alternate version that will work even if the notebook has not been saved yet:
Dynamic["WindowTitle" /. NotebookInformation[]]

You can create the title cell with:
CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[
    Dynamic["WindowTitle" /. NotebookInformation[]],
    "Title",
    ShowStringCharacters -> False
]

Comment: If I copy and paste the former into a title cell, it doesn't evaluate when I do shift-enter.  Probably title cells don't evaluate?  If I copy and paste the result of evaluating it, i.e. the actual dynamic object, it crashes the frontend (11.2, Mac OS).  Did you try this solution?  Maybe I am doing something wrong?
Answer: My solution is the following:
NotebookPut[
  NotebookGet[InputNotebook[]] /.
   Cell[x_, "Title", y__] :>
    Cell[FileBaseName[FileNameTake[NotebookFileName[], -1]], "Title",
     y], InputNotebook[]];

which seems to work, but has a few issues:

It seems quite heavyweight to read and write the whole notebook for this.  The notebook might be very large, containing graphics etc, and performance might suffer.
When the NotebookPut cell is evaluated, the selection in the notebook moves to the end, which is a bit odd.
Running "Evaluate notebook" causes "(Running...)" to remain in the notebook title bar even after evaluation has completed.

Does anyone have any better solution?  For example, searching for the title cell and setting its text?  I tried to do this, but I'm not familiar enough with how the various notebook functions work.


Deploy standalone PHP/MySQL applications

Question: I have been looking for a solution that would allow me to deploy PHP applications on Macs and Windows. I've been developing online applications but would like them to be offline applications as well but that would require that Apache/PHP/MySQL be installed on their platforms as well. I've set up WAMP and it was NOT that easy. Lots of configurations were needed. I wonder if there is a way to install easily, something that a person can just click "Install" and it's all done. I don't want the packages to install mySQL manager or anything else - just php/apache/mysql... no extras.
Comment: Are you looking for something like an install-shield wizard for php Applications. One which would also install the apache/php/mysql cocktail as well?
Answer: I'm not sure if this would be simple enough, but have you looked at XAMPP?
Answer: You my think about to build a PHP Desktop Application with PHP-GTK and sqlite
Answer: Try EasyPHP. Just don't bind MySQL and Apache to their default ports. (3306 and 80). Or better when it comes to standalone application deployments, use SQLite with PHP.
Answer: PHP-GTK supplies a distribution that is easy to package and redeploy using NSIS. You should be able to use the gtkHTML control to display the HTML output without too much trouble.
This article here shows you how to package a simple PHP-GTK app with NSIS.
Answer: If you are using wamp, copy your wamp folder to the client's sytem as it is on your system, then install wamp server, when it asks if you want to install to that existing folder, say yes, that way all the configurations will be intact. but you'd have to delete other projects from your www folder so that only the client's project is there.
Answer: In Windows case the following will be helpful:
PhpDock
PhpDock is a deployment platform for PHP applications.
PhpDock enables you to deploy any PHP web application as a Stand Alone Windows Desktop application w/o any changes in the code.


Bourbon soaked oak cubes

Question: I have made a ten tidy clone using the 1st runnings method.  Which left me with 3 gallons after boil.  I transferred from the primary to secondary and I am currently ready to add the bourbon soaked oak cubes (american medium plus toast), which was a ratio of 12 oz bourbon to 2 oz of cubes.  My question is how long do you recommend soaking the bourbon oak cubes in the secondary before bottling?
Comment: Are you referring to the Ten FIDY?
Answer: For the bourbon flavor, the effect is rapid. However, for the wood, you'll want to keep that in for a few weeks. However, bourbon will likely mask much of the oak that you will extract.
Comment: That would agree with my experience. I used a recipe kit with bourbon + oak in the secondary. Recipe said 6+ months for the secondary but a house move meant I only had 3 months. Too much bourbon flavour! although post bottling, the flavour is slowly balancing. Next time I'll use less whisky and age longer. Perhaps increasing the oak chips might help?
Answer: I have not tasted a "ten tidy" yet, but based on my experience with wine and oak chips, I would say that one week is enough to get some wood taste.  After 2 weeks, I felt the oak taste was too strong for a wine.
So according to that experience, I would say that after a week take a small sample to taste.  Then decide if you'd like to leave it more time or not.  Take another sample every 2-3 days until you are satisfied with the amount of extraction.
Answer: wild stab in the dark here but I think it makes sense. I have several jars of varying chars of oak in different whiskeys and wines. I plan on pulling them out, soaking them in another jar of like beer to be brewed, and then adding to full batch. My hope is this would simulate a second (brewers) use barrel and at the very least less aggressive and could work from there.

Bourbon soaked oak cubes