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The 5 Most Absurdly Offensive Theme Weddings Ever Planned
Usually, weddings are about as controversial as a bump on a super boring log. The bride wears white, the in-laws give passive aggressive hugs, someone toots a wet fart while doing the chicken dance. Every wedding is the same because most of us don't want to use the most important day of our lives to shock our friends and embarrass our families.
Most of us, anyway. In other cases, attempts to have a unique and kitschy ceremony wind up celebrating historical horrors in the process. That's how we wound up with the ...
#5. Chinese Nazi Wedding
It's one thing to naively admire another culture and half-assedly incorporate their look into your wedding day. We're guessing most of the, let's face it, women who plan theme weddings like we're about to show you are more devoted to fashion than history -- if you want a medieval-themed wedding, you're not trying to make a political statement, you just think having the groomsmen in suits of armor will look cool. Besides, it's not like somebody is out there saying, "Hey, those Nazi uniforms looked suave as hell, let's do that!" Oh, wait ...
"I can feel a fourth Reich rising."
Oh. Oh, God.
So what in the hell could possibly be the innocent context behind this? Well apparently "Nazi Chic" has taken Asia by storm, to the point where the Chinese couple above felt no shame in using an SS uniform for their ceremony. The original blog post, published in 2011, is entitled "My SS military uniform and bridal veil~Everybody, be nice now~(^o^)/~." And as everyone knows, cutesy emoticons automatically negate judgment for romanticizing the most hated symbol of all time.
You know it's fucked up when a dude possibly checking out a dog's ass is the second worst thing in a photo.
While no one seems to know exactly who this couple is or why in the sweet name of God they're dressed like this, most "Nazi Chic" cosplayers insist that they're not in any way Nazi sympathizers but rather Nazi fashion emulators, a distinction that gives no one anywhere any sense of comfort or relief.
"It has a certain ge no cide quoi."
#4. Native American-themed Weddings
So, already you can see the problem with these theme weddings -- it's usually fairly oblivious people who won't spend one minute Googling to find out why what they're doing is just so, so wrong. So, they wind up glancing through a history book and adopting styles of the people in it as if they're fictional characters. Like the above Australian wedding, where they're ironically dressing as "Indians" as if "Indians" were something hilarious they saw in a cartoon once.
This wasn't a one-time event, either. Here's another one also from Australia:
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"Using a filter makes it OK, right?"
This couple from Byron Bay wanted a Native American-themed wedding, but without the smallpox and forced relocations and heartbreak associated with the Native American narrative. And by that they meant they just wanted to incorporate feathers and teepees and dreamcatchers into their ceremony without everyone getting all judgy about it.
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If you like feathers so much, we have two birds we'd like to give you.
After all, it's not like the feathers Native Americans wore in headdresses had any kind of ceremonial meaning or anything, right?
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Not wanting to overshadow his bride, the groom passed on the Native American look for "'70s Coke Dealer," instead.
At least these two tried to keep things tasteful -- or as tasteful as you be when your wedding looks like Coachella's Instagram feed. On the other hand, the wedding of another Australian couple didn't bother with the subtlety of nuanced ethnocentrism and instead just went for straight-up racial stereotypes. From this:
Sean Middleton
How ... how could you think this was a good idea?
To this:
Sean Middleton
"Everyone smile for Milton, he's stuck in the hospital with a wounded knee."
To fucking this:
Sean Middleton, Sean Middleton
Yes, those are miniature whiskey bottles dressed up as Native Americans. No, you're not allowed to stop crying.
Some people even went dressed as cowboys. One guy came as a slot machine but he was turned away at the door for being too tacky.
Sean Middleton
Hookers were warmly welcomed, though. As always.
Originally featured on novafm.com.au (although the article has since been removed), the husband explained, "My wife loves her American Indians and always wanted to get married in America by an Indian Chief but decided that we would have it here in Perth." You'll notice there aren't any history books pictured.
Sean Middleton
Pictured: an actual decoration from the wedding. Somehow they resisted the urge to shove a giant cigar in his mouth.
#3. Non-Jewish Couple's Jewish Wedding
Motivated by their love of Judaism and the traditions of the Torah, Melanie Lo (Episcopalian) and Michael Pezzula (Catholic) decided that despite not being Jewish themselves, they wanted to have a Jewish wedding as a way to honor the faith of millions who have endured persecution and genocide throughout history with grace and dignity. Ha! Just kidding! We'll let the couple explain their motivation:
"I've ... been to a Catholic wedding, and they just seem boring. It's just like church," Michael said. "I thought, 'What am I going to do to set up the front of the room? 'A huppah would be perfect,' Melanie said.'"
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Like the ignorant Yin to Nazi wedding's offensive Yang.
So the real key to Melanie and Michael's desire for a Jewish wedding was that in the whole universe of indoor tent-like structures, there was absolutely nothing else that could go at the front of the ceremony than a huppah. Which is stupid, as any kid with a sheet and five minutes on hand could tell you. But erecting a Gentile canopy at the front of the church wasn't an option, especially after the couple asked a rabbi to conduct their ceremony. And decided to display a ketubah, or Jewish marriage contract, and incorporate a Jewish blessing as they drank from the same wine glass. By that point, Melanie argued they might as well go whole-hog (so to speak) and do a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony. So they did.
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We're guessing the groom kept some things Catholic.
The obvious problem here is that each one of those ancient rituals are steeped in traditions that go beyond a simple "This symbolizes our love." For example, there's a moment in a Jewish wedding ceremony when the groom steps on a wine glass and everyone shouts "Mazel Tov!" That's not just a fun opportunity to be destructive. Some scholars believe the tradition arose as a way to remember Rome's destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 AD. As in, "don't get too excited, Jewish wedding guests, life still sucks sometimes." It would be hard for a non-Jewish couple to get that reference -- especially when one member of the couple professes a faith that is headquartered in the same city that was once responsible for the destruction of the Temple that they're commemorating. It's like he's acting out the Destruction of the Temple with his presumably Italian foot. Mazel tov!
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"And then we dance the traditional Torah, symbolising Moses driving the snakes out of Ireland!"


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The indigenous people inhabiting the dense tropical rainforests of Borneo are collectively called the Dayaks, but in fact they comprise many tribes that are diverse in culture as well as in language. The word "Dayak" actually means "inland" or "upriver", especially where the Indonesian part of Borneo, - called Kalimantan, - is cut by many long and wide rivers as well as many tributaries, that are used as transportation highways.
In Central Kalimantan live the Ngaju Dayaks, the Lawangan, the Ma'anyan and the Ot Danum, known as the Barito Dayaks, named after the Barito river. Among these, the most dominant are the Ngaju, who inhabit the Kahayan river basin by the present town of Palangkaraya. The Ngaju are involved in agricultural commerce, planting rice, cloves, coffee, palm oil, pepper and cocoa, whilst, the other tribes still mostly practice subsistence farming through the slash and burn lifestyle.
Although many Dayaks have modernized and converted to Christianity and Islam, however, the majority still adhere to the original Kaharingan belief, also known as the Hindu-Bali Kaharingan, which is a state recognized faith
Kaharingan belief focuses on the supernatural world of spirits, including ancestral spirits. For this reason, funeral rites and structures are elaborate. Most essential, however, are the secondary funeral rites, called tiwah, when the bones of the deceased are exhumed, cleaned and placed in a special mausoleum, called sandung, which are placed next to their other ancestors. These coffins are normally beautifully carved and adorned. The tiwah is believed to be a most essential ceremony to allow the soul of the deceased finally to be released to the highest heaven.
You need to return to Palangkaraya to rent a car or book a customized trip package where you can ask the guide to show you around wherever you want. The guide will give you a prediction on how long it should take to get there and what you should do to make the experience enjoyable.
Palangkaraya, In the local Dayak language, Palangkaraya means 'holy container'. Palangkaraya can easily be reached from Jakarta, Banjarmasin, Samarinda, Balikpapan and other points on the island by air. The town has become the center of government, trade and education of the province. The Regional Museum of Palangkaraya contains a collection of historical and cultural interest from all over Central Kalimantan.
Here are some other places you can visit while going to or from the Dayak village.
Kuala Kapuas
Kuala Kapuas. It is located at Kapuas River, 40 km from Banjarmasin. A well-known tourist attraction is Telo Island, a pleasant fishing village and port. For the adventurer, white-water rafter and nature lovers, there is Gohong Rawai, known for its beatiful and challenging rapids. The gold mines of Teweh and Batu Api, Rung¬an district, are also interesting sites to be visited. In this region, gold mining is a major source of livelihood for the people, who pan for the valuable metal using the old traditional method.
Sampit. Sampit is the biggest timber port in Kalimantan. The Orchid Park of Pembuangan Hulu is home to a number of rare and beatiful orchid varieties. Hunters can engage in their favorite pastime in hunting park of West Kotawaringin.
Pangkalanbun. Make sure to visit the old Palace of Pangkalanbun, constructed completely out of ulin (iron wood). It is the only Banjar royal legacy found in Central Kalimantan.
Tanjung Puting National Park
The Tanjung Puting National Park is a well-known nature and wildlife reserve in lowland and swamp forests, inhabited by orang utans, owa-owa, bekantan and other primates. One can visit the Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre which is supported by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Garuda Indonesia, Batavia Air and Sriwijaya Air operate scheduled flights to Palangkaraya from Jakarta, while Lion Air and Batavia Air fly from Surabaya.

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Recent flooding across Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) region and the provinces of Punjab and Sindh has wreaked havoc on an already downtrodden and terrorized Pakistani citizenry. The floods serve as a stark reminder of how vulnerable the people of Pakistan are, especially those in the KP region. In July I had the unique and rewarding opportunity to visit Pakistan's KP province. For four days, I visited Peshawar and the surrounding villages alongside members of Pakistan's Pashtun film industry, which has steadily declined since 2001. Today, the Pakistani Pashtun film industry is reduced to a risky and largely underground operation. With Australian filmmaker and artist, George Gittoes as my guide as well as members of the Pashtun film industry, I was able to gain an appreciation for the hardships this community faces at the hands of extremists, or miscreants as they are called in KP. The Taliban and religious extremist parties like the Muttahdia-Majilis-e-Amal (MMA) have have declared these films haram, or against the laws of Islam. As a result, theaters in Peshawar and across KP have been forcibly closed, DVD sellers killed and their shops razed, and the actors and actresses that are the mainstay of the industry forced underground.
I witnessed the second and third order effects of this clampdown on creative expression firsthand on a visit to the village of a famous Pashtun actor.
Three hours north of Peshawar, in the heart of KP, I received a warm welcome into the modest village and home of one of the industry's great actors, Javid Muzavi. With more than 300 movies under his belt (both as an actor and a director), this star of BBC radio programs has name and face recognition that would make George Clooney blush.
During the 1990s Javid and his fellow Pollywood stars made more than enough money to support their large extended families. More importantly perhaps, they made films that entertained and resonated with the broader Pashtun community. Today the situation has changed dramatically. The remnants of Pashtun film industry have split; core talent like Javid and his colleagues are now making low budget action/drama tele-movies as a seedier faux-Pashtun cinema emerges out of Pakistan's Punjab province. It is the Punjabi variety of Pashtun cinema, predominantly funded by criminal elements with ties to the Afghan poppy industry that include storylines which run counter to Pashtun values, that is currently masquerading as true Pashtun cinema. The real Pashtun film industry and its stars remain, in large part, in hiding and out of the limelight. There is, however, room for hope. The MMA party was thrown out of office in the last election and a progressive and educated class of citizens in Peshawar and across KP and the Swat valley are organizing against the miscreants to promote the rebirth of Pashtun arts and culture. While the United States remains deeply unpopular in KP and the tribal regions, the Taliban and other insurgent groups' popularity and the support from the general population is waning.
When I sat down to dinner one evening in Peshawar with faculty from Peshawar University, local businessmen, and other individuals from the community, it was heartening to hear the hope and optimism they had regarding the future of their region and that of the Pashtun community. At the cornerstone of this resurgence of moderate Pashtun culture is the film industry that at one time so accurately reflected the values and mores of Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan. With support from local and international NGOs, the Pashtun film industry is slowly being put back to work, distributing their work through established vendors across the region. While the revival of this industry will not signal the defeat of the extremist and miscreants, it will surely provide a sense of hope and semblance of normalcy to a population that has suffered enormously over the past decade.


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The study, conducted by the University of Washington, is the first time scientist have looked at the locations and severity of local landslides.
It's no secret that coastal bluffs are prone to landslides, especially when they're wiped clean of vegetation and saturated in with water. But the new study looked at dry hillsides, concentrating more on what was on top of the land than underneath it.
Among other results, the study shows more areas that are vulnerable to earthquake-induced landslides than previously thought.
On the south tip of Mercer Island, 100 feet below the surface of Lake Washington, stands a well-preserved forest of trees that are 11,000 years old. Scientists believe a landslide slid the forest underwater after a major earthquake.
The unique forest led UW researcher Kate Allstadt to study the effects another large earthquake along the Seattle Fault would have on landslide-prone areas.
"We found you can actually under predict the hazards," Allstadt said.
She found Seattle has 30 percent more hillsides prone to earthquake-induced landslides than first thought.
"We found that areas directly over the fault, on what's called the hanging wall of the fault, are most prone. That's West Seattle, Delridge, Beacon Hill," she said.
And that's without hills being saturated with water. If the earthquake happens with soggy hillsides, you can add in other coastal bluff areas of North Seattle.
"People will say there will be a lot of landslides, but nobody says how much and where it will be," Allstadt said. "But we need to know these things because landslides can cut off access."
Lois Dunagan has lived through quakes and landslides, and the 91-year-old remembers when a 1946 landslide pushed her West Seattle house off its foundation.
"This use to sit back 40 feet from where it is now," she said.
That slide was weather related and not from an earthquake. Dunagan knows her home could be at risk, but she's losing sleep over it.
"What do you say, it will never happen to me? But really, I don't feel endangered at all," Dunagan said.
The last time Seattle had a major earthquake along the Seattle fault was in the year 900.


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Unanswered: Pie Chart , Legends Text does-not Resizes with device
I am implementing the Pie chart ,Text looks fine when viewing on Chrome browser, but when viewed on device ,the text within the Pie chart is going out of chart, it doesnt resizes according to screen,
how to set the Font family, font Size of Text displayed
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Here is a question in cryptography which is probably naive, and a reference request.
Suppose I have 3 matrices $I1$, $I2$, and $I3$ (same size) that I want to combine to to create a matrix $R$ (or 3 different matrices $R1$, $R2$, and $R3$) such that it would not be possible to recover any of $I1$, $I2$, and $I3$ from $R$ (or $R1$, $R2$, and $R3$). Also, I would be able to reconstruct $R$ (or $R1$, $R2$, and $R3$) if I am missing one of the $I$s.
Think of it this way. In secret sharing we create different shares from one secret where we can reconstruct the secret with combination of some of the shares whereas here is somehow the reverse of secret sharing. I have 3 secrets and want to find a combination(s) such that with any two of the Is, the combination can be reconstructed.


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18 Old-Timey Photos You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
#9. The Rise of the Machines
Here's one that looks like somebody ported props from Terminator: Salvation onto an old-timey photograph. They didn't have tiny little robot tanks back then, did they? Shit, they barely have that now.
But, as with all terrifyingly futuristic war machines from back in the day, we can thank the Nazis for this one. The above picture was taken shortly after the D-Day invasion and shows four British soldiers alongside three captured German Goliath tracked mines: killer robots capable of delivering 75 to 100 kilograms of high explosives.
OK, so they were remote-controlled instead of robotic. So instead of a Skynet AI, they were merely controlled by a nearby Nazi with a joystick. That's much less terrifying!
#8. Pony Rides Were for Pussies
Wait, did we say Teddy Roosevelt was a badass for riding a moose earlier? In 1920s Louisiana, if you weren't standing on an alligator by age 3, you got sent to a special school.
#7. A scene from D.W. Griffith's Cloverfield
While a cursory glance would suggest foreigners like King Kong, the above is an actual photo from a calamity that befell the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945, at the hands of an American airplane. At 9:49 a.m., Lt. Col. William Smith mistook the tallest man-made structure on the planet for nothing when he banked his B-25 bomber into it.
The plane hit so hard that one engine shot all the way through the building, out the other side, and landed on the roof of another building the next block over. Still, that happened on Saturday and the building was open again on Monday. People were probably sitting at their desks, smoking cigarettes and doing paperwork with smoldering hunks of plane laying all around them.
#6. And It Was the Least-Manly Piece of Grandma's Furniture
This chair, apparently created from a mutated six-footed monstrosity, was a gift to President Andrew Johnson. The grizzly chair was the creation of an admirer named Seth Kinman, who apparently had this much badass to spare.
#5. Back in Those Days, an Oil Spill Went Completely Unnoticed
That ain't Texas, and it sure as hell isn't Saudi Arabia. That's the modern home of hippies and Priuses -- California, as it looked in 1928 (specifically, Huntington Beach). Back in those days if you ran across an otter that wasn't covered in oil, it was considered a source of shame for the community.
#4. How Did It Wind Up on the Second Floor in the First Place?
Here's one you may have seen floating around the Internet. This seemingly impossible shot of a train exploding out of the second floor of a train station is the great derailment of the Granville-Paris Express at Gare Montparnasse on Oct. 22, 1895.
Despite the fact that the train carried more than a hundred passengers and plowed through a goddamn train station, only one person was killed: a woman outside. The image went on to play a direct role in surrealist artwork, inspire countless imitators and ultimately serve as a reminder to humanity just how much the world looks like a freaking toy if you zoom back far enough.
At least it was on time.
#3. Those Are Not Stilts
If you think they just paired that guy up with a couple of tiny women, you're wrong. Shaquille O'Neal would only come up to his chest.
That's Robert Wadlow of Alton, Illinois, widely believed to be the tallest man who ever lived, at 8 feet 11 inches. He weighed almost 500 pounds and had size 37AA shoes.
In answer to your next question, no, it's not normal for a person to get that size, and he only lived to be 22. Still, he's making people say, "Holy shit, look at that guy!" 70 years after he passed away. Will you be able to say that?
#2. No! The Airplane's Natural Enemy!
It is difficult to discern what is more embarrassing about this picture from 1915 Brussels: The fact that this pilot just lost a fight against a zeppelin, or that he subsequently lost a second fight against a tree?
Ah, well. At least he's in good company:
Yeah, aviation has come a ways since then. Kind of puts those tennis players earlier in another light.
#1. Salvador Dali Hated Cats
That is not a photoshop or otherwise manipulated. The guy standing in front of the easel, as many of you already know, is surrealist Salvador Dali. The photo is the work of photographer Philippe Halsman.
If you're wondering how they came up with this, here's the actual exchange between the two men:
Dali: "I know what the picture should be ... We take a duck and put some dynamite in its derriere. When the duck explodes, I jump and you take the picture."
Halsman: "Don't forget that we are in America. We will be put in prison if we start exploding ducks."
Dali: "You're right. Let's take some cats and splash them with water."
It only took them 26 takes!
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Fan-TasticWritten on January 2, 2003 Dual Fans for '67-72 Chevys
If one is good, two are better, right? Such logic may not always hold true, but there's something to be said for a pair of electric fans pulling air through your radiator. The folks at Old Air Products certainly think so. They felt a double dose of sucking power was a good solution for hot-running '67-72 Chevy and GMC pickups, so they developed a bolt-in kit specifically for the application.
Actually, you don't need to wait for an overheating problem to benefit from a dual-fan setup like this. For starters, many truck owners prefer electric fans because it doesn't take any horsepower to run 'em. Furthermore, they can be lifesavers in heavy stop-and-go traffic because they don't rely on engine speed to draw large quantities of air through your radiator. The skewed-blade design of the Old Air electric fans allows them to provide approximately 2100 cfm of combined flow for maximum cooling capability. This particular setup is designed to have one fan running whenever the ignition is on, with the second fan kicking in at a given radiator temperature that you determine. With the addition of a trinary pressure switch (sometimes requiring an adapter), the second fan can be hooked into your OEM or Old Air air conditioning so it will kick on whenever the A/C is running.
We recently watched as Alan Crouse installed an Old Air fan kit on a '71 Chevy belonging to Jim Ries at Classic Performance Products. The whole procedure literally took about an hour. The fan assembly bolts in place using the original fan shroud mounts, and wiring is a simple matter of securing two power wires to the positive battery terminal, routing one to the fuse box, and grounding another. Our particular truck didn't have A/C, but hooking the fans into an A/C system should be a straightforward affair as well. See what you think.
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The Old Air dual fan kit is basically ready to install right out of the box. The impressive thing is how self-contained the unit is, with the electrical relays, fusible links, and thermostatic control switch all installed on the fan framework and ready to be hooked up.Two self-adhesive foam seals are included to create a better vacuum and prevent radiator air bypass. The seals are installed horizontally across the top and bottom of the radiator.The fan assembly is lowered into place just like a fan shroud. In fact, it bolts to the fan shroud mounts using original hardware.Wiring is fairly simple, with wire lengths that are correct for stock vehicles and terminal ends already installed. Two power wires connect directly to the positive battery terminal.The third wire in this bundle is for the optional trinary pressure switch that will link fan operation to the A/C system; it was bundled up and left unconnected for our non-A/C application.
The second fan is thermostatically controlled, with this probe taking the temperature readings. The probe is easily installed by sliding it through the shroud and between radiator fins.The thermostat is attached to the fan shroud and is easily adjusted by starting the engine, waiting for it to reach the desired operating temperature, then turning the thermostat knob counter-clockwise until the second fan engages.


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Issues Impacting Access to HIV Care for Young African American Males Living with HIV/AIDS
Issues Impacting Access to HIV Care for Young African American Males Living with HIV/AIDS
Event Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm EDT
One in four new HIV infections occurs in youth between the ages 13 and 24; nearly 60% of these occur in African Americans. More new infections occurred among young African Americans than any other ethnic or racial group. In 2010, 38% of new infections among African American males occurred in this same age group (13-24 years). It is documented that young African American males are disproportionately affected by HIV. Low rates of HIV testing, high incidence of late diagnosis and limited access to care also contribute to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the African American community. This training session will focus on the factors responsible for the underutilization of HIV services among young African American males.
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Below is a simple page that demonstrates a memory leak in Internet Explorer version 9. On initial load, the page consumes approximately 51MB of memory. After hundreds of page refreshes (F5), the page consumes 78MB of memory.
The page simply loads the ExtJS library and display a div, but there is gradual memory leak accumulation after each page refresh. The memory is not freed until the browser is closed.
This issue appears to only affect Internet Explorer.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- Open the page (note the memory usage)
- Refresh the page (F5) several hundred times, and notice the memory usage gradually increase
- The memory is freed after each page refresh.
- Memory usage gradually increases and is not freed until the browser is closed.
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Tested against the latest beta, and the issue still exists. I should mention two important points that I discovered:
1) The issue does not occur in IE8, but affects IE9 only
2) The issue does not exist when the DOCTYPE is omitted
I've attached a graph of the memory usage below. As you can see, it takes a lot of refreshes (hundreds) before the pattern clearly emerges, much more than would be typical for any reasonable application. However, my concern is that the issue may be representative of deeper memory issues. It's also surprising that a page refresh would not reclaim all memory from the previous.
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But seriously, why the hell is this not hotfixed as some kind of 4.1.4?


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to visit. This is the Kuwait chapter from Lonely Planet's Oman, UAE & Arabian Peninsula guidebook.Kuwait is best described as a city state, and Kuwait City is a cultural oasis in a land of desert plains. Excellent museums, a corniche of combed beaches and lively restaurants, malls and souqs mark the Kuwait City... 4th Edition, Aug 2013. 38 pages.
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I would like to know if there is a function at pgRouting that given a point (lon/lat) can give you the projection of that point to the road network .
Thanks in advance john
There are linear referencing functions in PostGIS to help you out project the location of a point along a line. For example, if you have a road, and a point of interest (POI) that is along the side of the road, you can:
Here is the SQL to extract the interpolated POI on the road:
The tricky things you might run into is to locate the closest road LINESTRING and/or, your road network might be a MULTILINESTRING, which needs to be broken down into LINESTRINGs in order to work with the above. Also, linear referencing systems work best with projected (i.e., non-Lat/Lon) data, particularly if your data are far north/south from the equator.
Update An easier function that can use other geometries, including MULTILINESTRINGs is ST_ClosestPoint. For example, the closest POI on a road network is found using:
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Recently, I have been programming a simple game. Very simple: There is a tank, and the cannon will aim at whatever position the mouse is at.
Now lets talk about the cannon graphic. The cannon graphic points to the north, with 0 rotation.
Here are the variables I have for my game, and that might be important factors for solving my problem:
Tx = The tank's X position in the world. Ty = The tank's Y position in the world. Mx = The mouse's X position in the world. My = The mouse's Y position in the world.
Also, in this programming language, the greater the Y coordinate, the lower you are. And the less the Y coordinate is, the higher you are. So, Y = 0 means the top.
My problem is, how do calculate the rotation needed for my cannon graphic to "point" to the mouse's position?
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This three-pack of Mint microfiber cleaning cloths includes two white dry sweeping cloths and one textured grey, wet mopping cloth. Each can be washed and used hundreds of times. Each cloth is 8" x 11" and is easy to attach and remove from the magnetic cleaning pad.
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I have a site with custom roles, and custom taxonomies. I'm making the advanced search, where custom posts can be filtered by roles and taxonomies.
To accomplish this, I'm using my own custom SQL query, which works fine with the roles, and one taxonomy, but I'm having a hard time getting it to work with a second taxonomy (I get no results). Here's the code I'm generating (with some sample values coming in from the form):
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LEFT JOIN wp_usermeta um ON p.post_author = um.user_id
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Hazing Trespassing Canada Geese | California Outdoors Q and A
Using lead projectiles in air rifles in Condor Country?
Question: I know that air rifles are not technically considered firearms, but shouldn't the lead pellets from an air rifle still be illegal in Condor Country because they contain lead? It would seem the reason for banning lead projectiles is because it is made up of lead, not because of the type of firearm/weapon/tool it came out of. What is the purpose of the lead ban if it is legal to use lead pellets from a pellet rifle? Isn't there a health risk involved with condors and lead, thus the ban on lead? If the pellet rifle is not considered a firearm, isn't this a flaw in how the lead ban law is written when it states that the projectiles come from a firearm? (Sarah D.)
Answer: DFG enforces the Fish and Game Code regulations after they go through the legislative process and are adopted by the Fish and Game Commission. You raise valid policy questions that may have been considered by the State Legislature and Commission in developing the lead bullet bans. DFG can't speak for the Commission, but If you'd like to research this issue further, please contact the Fish and Game Commission directly. Their website iswww.fgc.ca.gov.


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I'm writing an ssis package that imports a number of access databases nightly. Each database has the potential to have a slightly different schema. Since I'm creating the tables than doing a direct table insert using execute sql tasks inside of a for each loop container the schema differences cause errors. I've upped the max error count so that the package can take errors and continue running. This leaves me with some databases that have incomplete data which I would prefer to drop.
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RSVP required to: firstname.lastname@example.com Please join General Martins for this timely and important presentation and Q&A hosted by the Roger Hertog Program on Law and National Security.Columbia Law School is pleased to host Brigadier General Mark Martins, Chief Prosecutor for the United States in cases alleging violations of the law of war and lead trial counsel in the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four other accused perpetrators of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Martins will outline major provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2009--which reformed a system much criticized when established in 2001 by presidential order--and will address the due process protections, constitutional authority, established sources of law, narrowness of jurisdiction, oversight by United States federal civilian courts, compliance with international legal obligations, public trial requirements, and transparency measures that characterize the reformed military commissions. Martins will also address continuing challenges to the reformed system's legitimacy, suggest what will be necessary to surmount perceptions of "victor's justice," and offer thoughts on the future of efforts to hold al Qaeda and associated forces accountable under law.Initial remarks will be on the record and subject to no restrictions on republication. Much of the time will be reserved for questions; while trial counsel are precluded from discussing specifics of ongoing prosecutions, queries of the speaker on broader questions are encouraged. The Chatham House Rule will be in effect during the question and answer period to stimulate open discussion and the sharing of information. Participants will thus be free to use the information received during the Q&A period but should reveal neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker, nor that of any other participant.THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND FACULTY ONLY
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Ashkenazi yarmulkes from around 200 years ago closely resemble the Yerushalmi style - white knitted with a tassel on top. Today, the vast majority of Chasidim and Yeshivish Jews seem to wear black velvet yarmulkes, with some notable exceptions. When and why did this change take place?
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I heard Rabbi Berel Wein discussing that Rashi's headcovering (in the animated film made by Rabbi Wein) is red, maroon, and/or brown. The historical research shows those were men's colors for Jews in Rashi's time and place. Someone objected that it should be a black velvet yarmulka. Rabbi Wein replied that black happened in the 1400s as a result of a Church decree that colors were too happy for Jews, they should only wear black. Much later, some rabbis came along and said "I see the Jews wear black; that's nice, it's a sign of humility."
That doesn't completely answer the question, but it's probably a piece.
(Of course, Rabbi Wein's questioner replied, "oh um ... but you still should have made it a black velvet yarmulka!" Rabbi Wein: "What's next? Rashi with a shtreimel? When is it wrong to tell the historical truth?")
One odd thought might be related to size? As you knit a kippah it takes more effort as the outer rim gets larger and larger. I asked my sister once to knit me one, but I have a big head and like a big kippah. She did it once and refused after that saying it was so much work to do big ones.
Cloth kippahs have no major additional cost in effort (material is cheap) to make larger sizes.
I doubt this is a real answer, but something to consider.
From this Google Books search you can see a few references in the mid- and late-19th century to Jews in Europe (including Polish Jews and a Jew from Italy) wearing black velvet kippas.
I assume that they became popular because velvet appears formal and dressy, and would have looked good with formal black coats. But I have no real information on why the change took place.


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The Chamber Champions partnership program launched in fall 2005 as a way to engage the University in the work and activities of our regional chambers of commerce, and equally, to engage the chambers in the work and activities of the University.
Since the inception of the program, nearly 100 University employees have stepped forward to champion the work of the chambers by attending mixers, networking events, luncheons, and installation galas and, in some instances, by participating in committee work or serving on boards of directors. Each partner chamber has an assigned lead, a "champion," supported by a team of volunteers, most of whom reside in the chamber's community.
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The Chamber Champions program is a "win-win-win" partnership resulting in:
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There is a revised list of phase in rules for the IMCA Modified divisions competing at Cottage Grove Speedway, Sunset Speedway Park, and Willamette Speedway. Nothing new has been added to the list but what has changed is phase in rules that have expired have been removed. This document is in a .pdf form and can be found in the "Driver Info" tab on each tracks respected website.
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superjawes wrote:Saw it this morning. Pretty cool looking, IMO...I should probably go ahead and preorder if I can still get into the beta...
Also, that one Viking vs. the Ultra was pretty (unintentionally?) hilarious
Arclight wrote:The terran commander was a total noob. He got his tank stranded and killed needlessly, like the viking, he had no bunkers, no battle hellions, no ghosts to snipe the ultras. Tanks and marrines without medivacs......he had it coming
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NBA Union Head Hunter on Indefinite Leave
The NBA's players association announced on Friday that it had placed union head Billy Hunter on leave of absence.
The move came as the result of an independent report into Mr. Hunter's practices as the organization's leader published last month by lawyers at Paul, Weiss. While the report, commissioned by a special committee formed by the union, found no illegal use of funds, it did allege that Mr. Hunter knew that his contract—for $15 million over five years—hadn't been properly approved by the players.
The report also was critical that some of Mr. Hunter's relatives had jobs in the organization, and about Mr. Hunter's spending on gifts and travel.
Mr. Hunter, who has led the union since 1996, said last month that he believed his contract to be valid.
Mr. Hunter's attorney, Thomas Ashley, said Friday his client had been treated unfairly and had already taken steps to improve the union. "I am deeply troubled by the lack of fundamental fairness shown my client by a group whose authority to take such action is highly questionable. The act of placing my client on administrative leave is not supported in either the constitution or bylaws of the NBPA," Mr. Ashley said. "Furthermore, Mr. Hunter was not given any opportunity to respond to the Paul Weiss report prior to the time that a decision was made to place him on administrative leave."
After the report came out, the union announced that Mr. Hunter had fired his daughter and daughter-in-law. Mr. Hunter noted in a statement that these measures were being taken "although the report noted that both individuals were highly qualified, not overpaid, and contributing members of the NBPA staff." At the same time, Mr. Hunter announced the league would no longer use a financial institution that employs his son, which the report labeled a conflict of interest. Mr. Hunter's family members couldn't be reached for comment.
Players around the league received the news of the change Friday in a memo, in which union President Derek Fisher said, "This organization has been disrupted, and we will no longer tolerate it. Immediate action was necessary and taken to protect you." The union declined to comment further.
Ron Klempner, a longtime union lawyer, was appointed acting executive director of the union. The players are scheduled to have meetings in Houston later this month during All-Star Weekend, when they are expected to address the issue of new leadership. The union is also forming an interim executive and advisory committee, according to Mr. Fisher.
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BEACH magazine proudly supported the Southampton Fresh Air Home's annual American Picnic, which took place on Friday, July 5th. The family-friendly gathering featured classic American fare, music, children's games and the only fireworks show in Southampton by Grucci. The proceeds from ticket sales benefits the high-regarded organization which is one of the few residential camp facilities in the eastern United States that accommodates severely as well as mildly and moderately physically challenged children.
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While federal disability legislation has promised broad protections against discrimination and meaningful mandates to accommodate those with disabilities, real-world application of disability law has largely failed to spur lasting, wide-ranging change. Could a more inclusive way of thinking about those with disabilities, and about the benefits associated with efforts to integrate people with disabilities into society, provide a better way forward?
In the history of civil rights struggles, gourmet food has never been much of a galvanizing issue. But this past September, Manhattan federal prosecutor Preet Bharara '93 announced he would be inspecting New York City's 50 most popular restaurants, as rated by the Zagat guide, for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). "[N]o one should be unfairly deprived of the opportunity to enjoy the city's world-class dining offerings," Bharara said at the time, "and we will take all reasonable legal steps to make sure they are not."
His efforts, which followed on the success of a similar 2005 initiative directed at hotels, illustrate the uneven progress made by disability rights advocates in the more than two decades since passage of the ADA—which prohibits discrimination against disabled individuals throughout the private sector. While the gourmands among us might consider access to New York's finest restaurants as a right no one should be denied, other, more basic rights—such as freedom from housing discrimination, or the right to reasonable accommodations in the workplace—have proved harder to come by.
Still, Professor Elizabeth F. Emens is hopeful that the publicity around restaurant accessibility might signal a positive change in attitudes about people with disabilities. "The New York Times' coverage of restaurants now addresses disability," she notes, citing a 2007 Times story by then restaurant critic Frank Bruni in which he wrote about visiting four upscale New York restaurants with top Times editor Jill Abramson, who was temporarily in a wheelchair. Although websites about disability issues are filled with similar stories, as Emens points out, "When an anecdote is in The New York Times, suddenly it's news." The article, though, also highlighted in a very real way the wide berth between legal compliance and genuine accessibility. In so doing, it illustrated how much of the ADA's promise of change—to the built environment and to attitudes toward disability—has yet to be delivered.
Elizabeth Emens became fascinated by the challenges presented in disability discrimination suits while clerking for Judge Robert D. Sack '63 in 2002.
"As I attempted to synthesize the issues in a given case for the judge, I was overwhelmed by their complexity," she says. "The cases were just surprisingly difficult as legal matters and human matters."
Under the ADA, those cases could have been more straightforward than the courts made them. The Act prohibits discrimination against a "disabled" individual (defined as someone who has "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual"), someone who has a record of such an impairment, or a person who is regarded as having such an impairment. But in the years since the ADA's passage, its promise of protection from discrimination on the basis of disability has been extended to a scant few. Compared to those filing other categories of civil rights suits, plaintiffs in disability cases have notoriously low win rates. One analysis of cases from 2008 by the American Bar Association put the figure at 2.2 percent. In another analysis of employment discrimination decisions by federal district courts between 1998 and 2006, plaintiffs in ADA cases had an average win rate of 9.12 percent—representing the only type of federal civil rights cases stuck in single digits.
Like the civil rights legislation that preceded it, the ADA could not, on its own, legislate away ignorance, Emens says. Even as the interdisciplinary field of disability studies flourished in the academy, various myths, fears, and stereotypes about people with disabilities persisted in mainstream society. And time and again, judges hearing ADA cases were more inclined to dispute whether a plaintiff was sufficiently disabled than to rule on whether discrimination had occurred.
In 2008, Congress attempted to push back against this state of affairs by passing the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), which aimed to reinstate the broad scope of protection from discrimination once promised by the ADA. It expressly rejected language stemming from a 2002 Supreme Court decision that required a "demanding standard" for determining whether a plaintiff has a disability. In addition, it barred courts from considering the ameliorating effects of mitigating measures such as medication or hearing aids when evaluating whether an individual qualifies as disabled. In this way, the new law provides some hope for improvement.
"In the past, courts would rather say, 'Poof, you're not disabled' as opposed to saying, 'You can't do the job' or, 'You're a threat to the workplace,'" says Emens. "The new amendments make it harder for them to do that."
These are significant advancements to be sure, but Emens cautions against relying solely on the law to force social change. Unless societal attitudes toward those with disabilities evolve, she says, courts applying the ADAAA may continue to find methods for precluding recovery. Emens asserts that factors such as workplace norms, media coverage, and architectural design are critical in shaping attitudes from the bottom up. The future of disability law will depend on how effectively these and other elements work together to compel discussion about the nature and meaning of disability itself, and how societies can not only accommodate but benefit from those it has deemed disabled.
Historically, attitudes about people with disabilities have ranged from shame and revulsion to pity and charity. Throughout most of the 1900s, various state, private, and nonprofit actors undertook initiatives to rehabilitate and reintegrate these individuals into mainstream society. These efforts, Elizabeth Emens says, tended to rely on the "medical model" of disability, in which a disability is viewed as some sort of individual defect resulting from a medical condition—a view she refers to as "the lens of pity." That society might adjust itself to better accommodate those with disabilities was rarely considered.
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which mandated "affirmative action" for people with disabilities in governmental hiring practices, marked the first legislative appearance of the "social model," the idea that disability emerges at the interaction between the impairment and the surrounding social world. By encouraging the development of "policies and procedures" that facilitated hiring those with disabilities, the Rehabilitation Act acknowledged that the workplace, and not the individual, might require adjustment.
By recognizing in 1990 that even being "regarded as" disabled can, in effect, be disabling, the ADA also reflected the social model. But courts reviewing ADA claims began interpreting the statute in ways that put a heavy focus on the extent to which individual plaintiffs were disabled.
This development occurred in ways that could not have been predicted based upon judicial responses to the Rehabilitation Act, which used the same definition of disability. As a result, disability cases became distinct from previous civil rights cases, in which plaintiffs "did not have to prove they have a race or a sex," notes Emens. The end result was a clear setback for advocates of the social model of conceptualizing disability.
"There aren't people who sit down and write defenses of the medical model, but it's still the prevailing model, and it's still the view in the courts," Emens says. "The ADA's goal was to force employers to confront that, but by focusing on whether someone was disabled or not, courts never had to reach the question" of what changes employers had to make.
To Columbia University professor of English and comparative literature Rachel Adams, the difference in the ADA's language and its real-world application shows that legislation cannot be seen as a panacea. Adams has worked with Emens on several projects and directs The Future of Disability Studies, an interdisciplinary working group at Columbia consisting of scholars specializing in subjects ranging from law to medicine to anthropology to dance.
"The law can mandate various kinds of access and accommodations," Adams says, "but it can't dictate a change in attitude or in the deep-seated, often subconscious forms of resistance evoked by the presence of disabled bodies."
While the 2008 ADAAA attempted to bypass these prejudices by rejecting narrow court interpretations of the ADA, it also distinguished between those who are actually disabled, and thus entitled to reasonable accommodation, and those merely "regarded as" disabled, who are not. In constructing a hierarchy of plaintiffs and entitlements, the ADAAA abandons the ADA's most radical feature: its equal treatment of those categorized under each of the three definitions of disability. Even as it welcomed more people under its umbrella, it created new divisions between them.
One hope for lasting, meaningful change in the disability realm, says Elizabeth Emens, may stem from a reassessment of the secondary impacts related to accommodation. "In analyzing the term 'reasonable accommodation,' courts have always talked about cost-benefit analysis without noticing when they spoke only about costs and not benefits," she notes.
In a 2008 law review article, Emens developed the idea of third-party benefits, in which well-designed workplace environments and policies not only accommodate people with disabilities, but provide important and often-overlooked benefits to others. For example, when an employer installs a ramp for an employee in a wheelchair, her colleagues wheeling suitcases or pushing strollers also benefit. Similarly, the convenience of voice-to-text technology acquired to accommodate a hearing-impaired employee is not lost on her colleagues.
Highlighting the wide-ranging benefits of workplace accommodations instead of focusing only on the costs also reorients attitudes toward the person who required them. Rather than being seen as a burden, a person with disabilities and her needs can be viewed as the catalyst for an overall improvement in the workplace. And acknowledging that we all can benefit from well-designed interventions places everyone on an equal footing, dissolving the neat, bright line that divides "us" and "them." In this way, says Professor Susan P. Sturm, innovative workplace policy or architectural design can, like artistic production or media coverage, help shape attitudes in a way that law on its own cannot.
"Disability law is really practiced largely within workplaces or within universities, in working out policies and practices both to accommodate and, in more innovative settings, to learn from and benefit from people with disabilities," Sturm says. "A lot of that isn't going to find its way into the case law, or get articulated through the case law."
Still, individual lawyers can play a critical role in drawing the connection between law and practice, Sturm adds. As "communicators of legal norms," they can choose to encourage clients toward innovation and inclusiveness. And efforts to spur a more nuanced view of disability might just net the type of lasting, large-scale change that legislation has struggled to achieve.
"I think the universalizing approach to accommodation has a 'big tent' quality," Emens says. "It brings people in, it reduces stigma, and it helps allow a broader group of people to see that there's something in it for them."
Ultimately, this advanced way of thinking about accommodation has the potential to change the narrative about disability, Emens asserts. "Most all of us are disabled in some way, or will become disabled, if we are lucky enough to live that long," she says. "My hope is that, over time, more people will recognize that fact and begin to see the Americans with Disabilities Act as a social insurance policy for everyone."


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When I did a dist-upgrade of my ubuntu 10.04 server, it automatically installed Decnet, and it trew up ncurses based configuration wizard.
I have never heard of Decnet, but I followed the instructions in the wizard, and accepted for it to be installed, and it lead to the disconnection of 2 of my internet uplinks, and the hosted website stopped responding on WAN side. Then I purged Decnet, and rebooted the server, and everything went normal.
So why did my server install Decnet when I did dist-upgrade?


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The pangolin has struck again. The bug of the day for today is Ubuntu taking away my permissions on my Data partition (NTFS). One moment everything worked fine, the next moment I couldn't chmod anything anymore.
chown throws no errors or warnings at all, but nothing has changed either.
chmod keeps saying
Operation not permitted.
I've been messing around with
/etc/fstab as suggested by other answers on AskUbuntu, but none of them seem to have the desired effect.
This is my current line:
UUID=25D7D681409A96B7 /media/Data ntfs defaults,umask=000,gid=46,permissions,users,auto,exec 0 0
For reference, this is the original one:
UUID=25D7D681409A96B7 /media/Data ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
(right after the problem started occuring)
What do I need to do so I am the owner of my own hard drive again? I want to be able to just use
chmod and
chown (without
sudo) without being told that some mysterious alien has taken over control of my Data partition.
I can still read and write, but execution permissions seem to be the problem.
I already figured out the execution permissions problem. The bounty's for the one who can tell me how I can set myself as owner of the data on that partition.


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When can one use the sentence ender ぞ? I've only ever heard it anime, so I'm unsure of it's actual usage in the real world. Is it not used that often or limited to specific age/gender groups?
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Borrowing from page 277 of this grammar textbook and the Daijisen entry flamingspinach linked to, ぞ is a (primarily masculine) sentence-ending particle used to
なあ can usually substitute for ぞ in the third category. (This is covered in the same section as ぞ in the abovelinked Google Books preview.) Note that when using ぞ in the second category, ぞ follows the dictionary form of the verb. This is in contrast to ぜ, which often follows the volitional form when the intent is to get someone to participate in an action with you:
ぞ never follows the polite form, and is only used toward friends and persons of lower status.
Yes, it is a very emphatic sentence-ending particle. Also ぜ. They seems stronger than よ (in my opinion). I think they (ぞ/ぜ) are very informal though, so where you could use よ for emphasis in a polite and/or formal way, you probably shouldn't use these.
I think their usage must be a regional or demographic thing. When I lived in Osaka, I never heard it at all, and sometimes another gaijin friend of mine would use it around our Japanese friends (mostly young people in their 20's), they would always give an amused laugh. Maybe I'm over-generalizing it because of the somewhat limited group I was around, but it doesn't seem to be a Kansai thing. Maybe other places use it more commonly?
As far as I noticed, many people use
and it is used like 行こう/行きましょう(意向形)with a bit stronger sense when talking to group of people, mainly if speaker is kind of coordinator / leader.


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While on study abroad in northern Chile, "we went to listen to a presentation by an NGO fighting against arsenic and lead contamination in their neighborhood. It was then and there that I realized I had found the project that had been awaiting me. Two weeks later I was in the neighborhoods and working with the NGO once again, this time with my camera, notebook, a bit of fear, and an open mind, beginning a project that would prove to be one of the most incredible, challenging, and rewarding experiences of my life."
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"I went to a lot of plays during my semester abroad in Madrid, and that's where I first saw a play by José Luis Alonso de Santos. When I came back to Bennington, I chose a scene from three plays that exemplify the themes I'm interested in and directed them in the original Spanish. I want to know, if you're performing in a language that isn't your audience's primary language, how does that affect the acting?"
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The opportunity to study abroad—whether for a term or an entire year—is available to all students, and can be a wonderful way to expand upon the student's work at Bennington and to expand or specialize a student's interests and area of concentration in a new and exciting environment. Bennington students have studied across the globe in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Central and South America. Bennington has relationships with several study abroad programs, but also allows students to research new programs and to propose them for study abroad possibilities.
A student who is interested in studying at another school should begin planning approximately a year in advance, and discuss the idea with his/her Plan committee. The Plan committee will evaluate programs of study and advise how the courses they offer may be coordinated with the student's plan of study at Bennington. Students must complete the Bennington Application to Study Away through the Dean's Office for final approval.
In order to obtain approval from the Dean's Office, students must consult with the Study Abroad Advisor and complete the Application to Study Away. A student who arranges to study at another institution should submit a formal request for a leave of absence in order to return to Bennington. Students may choose to apply for consortium status from the Financial Aid Office. Our Financial Aid Office would then facilitate the transfer of allowable aid to the other school. After the program is completed, an official transcript must be sent directly to the Dean's Office and official granting of transfer credit will then be determined. A credit transfer fee is charged per term. Much additional information is available from the Study Abroad Advisor.


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I've been through a year of programming and have the tools to create a cool, simple 3d game using Java.
The biggest problem I have is ideas. When you have no idea how programming works, you want to create extravagant games and then you realize it doesn't work that way.
I just need a simple game to create. I don't have many models (sphere or block guy) to work with, just a 3d environment my professor created. I can also create a very limited multiplayer aspect (leaderboard, perhaps a 2 player co-op).
So please, throw out some ideas! Or allow me to join your team as an intern. :D


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Preley Nash is a typical three-year-old girl. She likes to put on make-up, eat ice cream, and play with her baby doll.
But Presley is in need of a Bone Marrow Transplant, because she has a degenerative disease called Mannosidosis.
Mannosidosis is a storage disorder and Presley's body doesn't have an enzyme that needs to break down large molecules.
Symptoms of this disease include: hearing problems, impaired language, recurrent infections, skeletal malformation, and muscular problems.
To help the Nash family raise the money for the transplant, Girls Inc. is sponsoring a car wash June 27 and 28. It will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the McDonalds on Campbell Lane.
An Antique Road Show will be held on June 30, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Bowling Green Community College. For a $5 donation per item, you'll receive a verbal estimate of value for your item.
An account is also set up at the South Central Bank on Campbell Lane under the Presley Nash Care Fund. All donations are tax deductible.


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ART 103. History of Modern Art (3)
Lec-3, field trips
The origins and developments of Modern Art in Europe and America from the French Revolution through World War II. Artworks will be analyzed from both critical and historical perspectives. Students will examine the formal/thematic characteristics of styles and periods of modernism. Also under examination are the larger social/cultural contexts for the art movements under study. UC/CSU
ART 109. History of Contemporary Art (3)
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Contemporary art from 1945 to the present. Students will analyze late modern and postmodern developments in art in relation to their historical contexts. The course will also investigate the unusual challenges contemporary art forms and concepts present to the traditional methods and practices of art history. UC/CSU


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Landmarks of Boston
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USS Constitution
Commonly known as "Old Ironsides" because of its ability to repel cannonballs, the heavy frigate is the oldest fully commissioned U.S. Navy vessel afloat. One of the most recognizable vessels in the Navy's fleet, the frigate served in the Quasi-War, Tripolitan War, and the War of 1812. The ship was nearly scrapped in 1830, but a public campaign saved it from destruction, and it continues to be visited by millions each year.
Fun Fact: The USS Constitution was never defeated in battle.
Photo source: Carol M. Highsmith
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Your 13th Week
As you enter this second trimester, your body will settle down to pregnancy.
For most women, any discomforts of early pregnancy start to disappear this trimester. The high levels of pregnancy hormones, which are thought to contribute to sickness, are subsiding, and fatigue should begin to diminish. Meanwhile, your baby floats peacefully in the amniotic sac. As he goes on growing, so the sac will expand to give him plenty of room to kick and stretch. His brain is developing at a rapid rate.
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I need to find all decimal numbers $a1,a2,a3,...,an$ in a range [0; $10^15$] which have following property: digit sum of $a1$ equals digit sum of $x*a1$ for any decimal number $x>0$.
I found this link http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CastingOutNines.html which looks quite relevant to my task, but I can't figure out how to apply it.
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In a movie I heard an actor saying "I'm dead serious". I looked up the dictionary and found that "dead" in this context means "really". Is it formal? Can we use it in business meetings?
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Dead, as adverb, is informal when used to mean very, such as in "omelets are dead easy to prepare." (As far as I know, dead is used to mean very only in British English.)
Well, the use of a contraction isn't formal, but putting that aside …
Since the intended meaning of the word in that phrase does match the literal definition of dead as an adverb, it must technically be considered formal. However, such usage is certainly secondary to its common interpretation as a noun, and is liable to confuse your audience across cultural and language barriers. In formal writing, I'd avoid it just in case the people judging your work falsely condemn it.
Neither is the phrase offensive, but the primary meaning of dead still lends it a slightly morbid connotation. I'd using it sparingly and in appropriate context. For example, I'd say I'm dead serious in a business meeting, but not you're dead right. The latter statement clashes with the adverb's connotation, which makes the word stand out rather than just effectively carry your thoughts.
It should be used sparingly in formal settings(if you keep saying "dead" you will creep out people), but it isn't offensive and it isn't inappropriate to use when you really need to.
So it isn't the most formal, as it exaggerates meaning.


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I'm interested in making a game that can be distributed on PSN. Any suggestions?
You have to put money down. Call Sony and ask them about it. They'll tell you how to hook yourself up with the official developer's kit. It will cost money. But of course, you'll make that money in the back end. So the question really is, how confident are you that you can make something that will end up on PSN for sale?
Here is an interesting article on becoming a developer of the "mini" titles that have recently come onto PSN. http://www.pspminis.com/2068/interview-futurlab-on-how-to-become-a-licensed-psp-mini-developer/
In terms of initial cost, you no longer need to purchase a full reference kit (~$10k) and can get away with a reference tool costing $2000 with much of the functionality.
As mentioned above, getting a real devkit and being setup as a licensed studio can take quite a bit of cash. A better bet might be to learn Unity since Unity3 (which is supposed to be out Real Soon Now) will support PS3. That said, Unity Pro is still not cheap, though they haven't said if the free version will support targeting the PS3 last I looked.


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Rosemary Garlic Popcorn Recipe RecipeRosemary Garlic Popcorn Recipe
Source: MyFoodDiary.com
Air-popped popcorn makes a filling, whole grain snack, but it doesn't have to be plain to be healthy. This version is dressed up with the rich flavors of garlic, rosemary, and a light sprinkle of salt.
Yield: 6 servings
Preparation time: 35 minutes
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
- 1, 4-inch long sprig of fresh rosemary
- ½ cup popcorn kernels, air-popped
- 1/8 tsp fine ground sea salt
- Pinch of black ground pepper (optional)
- Place the olive oil in a small saucepan and add the garlic. Heat the oil on medium, just until it begins to bubble, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and add the rosemary sprig. Let sit for 30 minutes.
- Place the popcorn in a large bowl. Strain the oil and discard the garlic and rosemary. Pour the oil over the popcorn.
- Use a large spoon to toss the popcorn in the oil. Sprinkle with the salt and pepper, toss again, and serve.
Nutrition information for 1/6 recipe: Calories 122; Total Fat 5.4 g; Saturated Fat 0.8 g; Trans Fat 0 g; Cholesterol 0 mg; Sodium 48 mg; Carbohydrate 17 g; Fiber 3.3 g; Sugar 0.2 g; Protein 2.7 g


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Runners Return to Retrieve Belongings
The Boston Athletic Association on Wednesday opened its headquarters near Copley Square to Boston Marathon runners looking to retrieve bags and claim their medals.
A spokesperson for the BAA, which organizes the race, said early Wednesday that the office would remain open until 8 p.m. that night and from 11 a.m. through 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday. The spokesperson declined to comment about the BAA's role in the ongoing investigation of the Monday bombing that killed three spectators and injured more than a 170 others near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Runners began streaming into the BAA offices mid-morning Wednesday, some wearing their race bibs. After a typical race, the number on those bibs is used to identify which checked bags belong to whom. But following the bombings, there was little or no opportunity Monday for runners to reclaim their checked belongings or finish the race to claim a medal.
On Wednesday, the mood was subdued, with runners expressing mixed feelings about claiming medals for a race many didn't finish.
"I definitely feel like I have unfinished business," said Kathleen Lutz, 44, from Auburn, Mass. She was twenty-five miles into her sixth Boston Marathon as a charity runner with the Dana Farber organization when "a cop just grabbed me by the shoulder and said, 'The race is closed, you have to stop.'"
She said she hesitated to retrieve her medal because she didn't feel as though she had earned it. Lutz said she wants to run Boston again, but adamantly does not want her husband or three children to attend, as they did this year.
"I put them in harm's way," she said, her eyes welling with tears. "They were there because of me. Even if they catch who did this, it won't be enough. I don't want my family to come."
"They attacked the best of humanity. It's families, it's children. One of those who died was an 8-year-old boy. I have an 8-year-old boy," Lutz said, her voice trailing off.
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Janice Weber earned a B.M. in piano, summa cum laude, from Eastman School of Music and has completed piano studies with Cécile Genhart, Nadia Reisenberg and Eugene List. She also held a fellowship at Tanglewood Music Center from 1976–1977.
Weber has given more than 500 recitals throughout North America, Europe and China and in venues such as Carnegie and Merkin halls, Wigmore Hall, St. John's Smith Square, the White House, the National Gallery of Art, Weill Hall, Cleveland Institute of Art and the Newport Music Festival. She has appeared in concerto performances with the Boston Pops, the Sarajevo Philharmonic, Sarasota Pops and the Syracuse, New Hampshire, Chautauqua and Civic symphony orchestras. Additionally, Weber has toured with Alea III and the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble USIS tours of Yugoslavia, Turkey and Baltic the States. Her recording can be heard on Naxos, IMP Masters, New World Records, VAI, Ongaku and Leonarda record labels.
Weber has been involved in master classes at the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin College, the Chautauqua Institution, Tanglewood Music Center, Boston University, Capital University and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. She is a contributor to publications, such as Clavier and The Musical Times, as well as an adjudicator for the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the Gilmore Foundation, the American Piano Association and the Hilton Head International Competition. Weber is also a lecturer at the International Piano Pedagogy Conference and an honorary member of Pi Kappa Lambda. She is also the author of six novels.
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Hi all!
Does anybody know what is the settings for Canon 10-22 lens at 22 mm for Canon 400D and Canon 7D (also for 10mm)?
I know, there are several methods to compute this setting. But if you already have this settings - could you share it?
It seems that it is impossible to shoot nadir with NN3 and Canon 10-22. Using it at 10mm, the nadir is not necessary - the fov is wide enough.
It is necessary to shoot nadir at 22mm?


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hi Guys
Having just acquired a new NN3 Mk1 complete with a T-bar extension, and never really tried or even given a thought to pano work, but becoming more and more hooked each day.
Dont have a problem with the settting up tho still a bit slow at the minute tho Im sure with time this will speed up. I use canon and can use either a 5D (Mk1) or 40D with a 17-40 and from reading posts on hear and reading some of the links I have settled with 10 clicks to give a 360 pano (here's hoping thats ok, please feel free to correct me if needed) no 10 indent disc so using a 20 and double clicking.
This is where Im am at present, next thing for me is to achieve a good single row pano and need to ask how you would expose for the shots, assuming manual settings and on landscapes probably anything between f11-f16. I take it the exposure would be the same for all shots or do you expose each for the scene being shot at the time.
Also, advancing to more than single row panos how would the angles be calculated.
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