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What are your favorite movie snacks?
I'm going to an all-day movie marathon at my local theater tomorrow with a couple of friends. We all love popcorn, but agree that we can't subsist on popcorn alone for that length of time. Of course some candy will be a nice addition and chocolate with my popcorn is a must-have, but we will be there for both lunch and dinner so we need some more substance. I'm thinking of a sandwich and maybe some slice fruit/veggies for a little bit of healthiness.
What are your favorite movie snacks? What would you eat if you were spending all day at a theater?
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Roller food (hot dogs) or nachos are a must.
I have seen them for years at the movies and wondered why.
My go-to candy at the movies is Junior Mints.
If I have to add something to the perfection that is buttered popcorn and pepsi, it's Reese's Pieces.
depends. when at a movie theater, i will only have popcorn, maybe some snack I brought from the gas station when i plan ahead. like skittles, sour patch kids, nibs...
when at home. steak!. Chips and salsa! lol
I was just at the movies on Monday and Tuesday to see Flight and Argo. The Studio Movie Grill (Dallas area) has discounted tickets available sometimes, plus pretty good food. This time I had pizza on Monday (lunch time) and a fruit cup on Tuesday (early afternoon).
salami sandwich
Nachos only if I forgot to bring something from outside.
So far I've amassed Junior Mints (thanks for the reminder @lumpthar!), Dots, m&m's, granola bars, apple slices, grapes, nutella snack pack, and PBJ sandwich. Add to that a GINORMOUS popcorn and coke and I think I'm good. I'll be sharing with my friends...but 12+ hrs in a theater is a long time. I just remembered this theater has mini corn dogs...so I may wind up with some of those too :)
Oh yeah, plus my flask of adult type beverages...because sparkly vampires are so much better with coconut rum.
CamelBack full of beer.
Buttered popcorn and a soda. That's the best!
I love movie theater popcorn with extra butter, especially at the theater that gives free shake-on cheese topping. If I'm not in the mood for popcorn I bring in wasabi peas and colossal cashews.
Butterfinger pretzels.
@chronosquall14: WHOA! I had no idea those existed - and now I want some so bad. Don't have time to make them myself for this trip, and they don't appear to be available anywhere around here, but I will definitely be trying them sometime soon. I may actually add them to my Christmas candy collection that I make every year. Thanks for the suggestion.
I get popcorn with extra butter (butter halfway, then on top, please) and sour patch kids. I prefer to bring a seltzer from home, or I'll get water. I'd pack sandwiches, cheese slices, beef jerky, and a few clementines if I was doing the marathon.
Have fun! My bf and I are taking my 14yo to the 10pm show, which makes us the best parental people ever. :)
@mkdr: I saw them at Target during Halloween season, and they went on sale post-holiday. The only knock I have against them is that each little bag holds literally 2-3 1/2 pretzels. Talk about portion control!
I like dumping my Raisenettes of M&M's into my Popcorn... Delicious.
@phoenixgirrl: We got to Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 way to early and my wife went out and got us some Char-Grill burgers and snuck them in. Best Date Ever.
For a single movie, my favorite snacks are buttered popcorn and Raisinets. I've never done a movie marathon in a theatre but if I ever did, I'd probably be searching for one of those adult-only theatres where you have to be 21 to get in and waiters bring drinks and food right to your seat. I saw a movie in one of those at the Mall of America and it was a really nice experience.
The last time we did a marathon I supplemented the theater hot dogs and popcorn with hardboiled eggs, clementines, bananas, bell pepper strips, and cheese sandwiches. I also bought a dozen krispy kremes. We didn't smuggle them in, I left them in the trunk of my car (the eggs, sandwiches, bell peppers and some waters in a cooler) and we went out during the breaks between movies and ate them, got some fresh air and stretched our legs at the same time. We were a large group so we took turns holding our row of seats and watching people's stuff (being the pantry I didn't have to take watch). The theater that hosts the marathons here has a cafe that sells salads, sandwiches, pizzas, etc. But they are pretty pricey and still tend toward overwrought, over salted commercial food. I just found out they are doing a LOTR marathon the one weekend I will be out of town this holiday season. :(
It's gotta be poopcorn. Yes, poopcorn.
For a 12 hour marathon I might consider bringing an orange or two. They travel well and from my last movie marathon experience with the Batman movies the air freshening side effects would have been most welcome. When the theatres aren't given time to air out between showings things can get stuffy.
@chronosquall14: My wife bought some of those *before * they were on sale(of course) and you are right about the portions. I can eat a pack and 5 minutes later wonder if I ate them or laid them down somewhere.
@moondrake: That is an awesome idea! Next time (not sure if I will do LOTR) I will do that. We have almost an hour before the last movie and we could have gone out to a place next door for food, but we had enough here. A reason to take a walk outside would be good though. For anyone else doing a marathon and wants popcorn/soda - be sure to get the large if your theater does free refills like Regal does - totally worth it! We just refilled before the last movie :)
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I tried to use a $5 coupon from @Jumbowoot on a woot.plus purchase, but it was applied for only $3. That doesn't seem right. I chose not to use it yet, hoping that I can use the full $5 once an error is fixed (I hope).
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the one time I tried to use a coupon linked to my account from the pre-site redesign days after the site redesign I had no problems. I purchased one of the weekly event shirts from shirt.woot (obviously)
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@lichme: It was a pair of pairs of the $1.50 headphones from woot.plus
$3 for the order, $5 for shipping
Coupon should be $5, but only worked for $3.
Left $3 for the headphones and $2 for shipping, for a total of $5.
Is there a minimum $5 order now?
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In Future Woot, there's a difference between discounts applied to the subtotal, and discounts applied to shipping. Sounds like your jumbowoot coupon was for $5 subtotal, while your subtotal was only $3.
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I'm thinking of buying the new Train power function, e.g. 8884 IR Receiver, 88000 Battery Box, and 8879 IR Speed Remote. However I already have the set 7897, is the Speed Remote from this set compatible with 8884 IR Receiver ? Does anyone know ? I think the train motor is compatible by the way, correct me if I'm wrong.
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A small warning about PTGui 9.1.1.
When using viewpoint correction for source images with a FOV of >180 degree (f.e when using a full size sensor camera and a Tokina 10-17 mm or a Canon 8-15 < @13 mm zoom setting) you will get problems with an incomplete output so when using such images and vp correction it is better to keep and use the previous version 9.1.
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The developer of PTGui knows about the issue and it will be fixed.
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I have send this to Joost,
However there is a blending issue when you have parts of the panohead in the image. They are now much more prone to be blended into the nadir if you do not mask them.
This may result in what you call incomplete output.
Unfortunately the editor does not show it always.
Do you have an example of how your incomplete output looks.
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The error occurs in both the Panorama Editor and the output of PTGui 9.1.1.
When stitching a pano with only fisheye images with a FOV > 180 degree, VP correction, no zenith and/or nadir patch, so only roundshots, then you will see that the warped images will miss a big part of zenith or nadir resulting in a lot of grey/white transparant blocks in the editor and a lot of black parts in the output. After I reported the issue Joost has confirmed it so I am pretty sure that it will be solved soon.
BTW, when using fisheye images with a FOV < 180 degree and VP correction there is absolutely no issue so in this case you can use PTGui 9.1.1. without any problem.
Ok I managed to trigger it after trying about 6-7 projects. But only after I had done some completely weird things.
I mean you can of course not expect that you can use VP on a full fisheye with CP applied at the very edge of the images.
I had to set CP at around 170 degrees before I could see it. You can not expect that this has a usable effect on a full 180 degree fisheye.
BTW it is not visible in the detail viewer.
And using the VP did not have any good effect on the stitch either.
Are you kidding me ? I am sure you know that there are situations that you need a precise template and when using an optimum spread set of CP's (and that includes sometimes setting CP close to the edges) and using VP correction (to eliminate errors due to a lot of parallax) this can help a lot to get a better result, f.i. when (batch) processing hand held pole panos.
BTW, it should not matter what workflow is used, the only thing that matters is that an issue that is absent in PTGui 9.1 is present in version 9.1.1 but soon will be solved so soon everyone can use his/her own workflow that could be weird, or not, can have CP's close to the image edge, or not, and can have VP correction, or not, just as the user of PTGui seems to be fit for a given project.
I am sure you agree with that, or not ;-))
No, using VP for parallax on a full 180 degree image is of absolutely no positive effect. You can use it on flat areas if you can mask it out from the rest of the image.
You can sometimes use individual shift to correct for parallax though but even that effect is limited.
Hans, come next year to the PanoTools Meeting and we will discuss this topic off forum, it could be very well that despite all your knowledge I can still learn you a new trick about how to process a hand held shot pole pano in such a way that you can use VP correction to get the best result.
See you,
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Hans means that when the NPP is correctly set, parallax at the zenith/ nadir region can not be corrected by vp.
Wim means that when the NPP is offset (whether mistakenly or deliberately/ unavoidably, eg in pole photography), VP correction will improve the overall stitching.
Am I right?
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Hello Nick,
The use of VP correction is often a point of discussion on forums because there are only a few situations where it can help to improve the results, one of those situations is when shooting hand held pole panos with a lot of NPP offset (a combination of a deliberately forward shift of the lens + an unavoidable wobble of the lens caused by the hand held leveling of the pole).
Sometimes it is hard to solve a misunderstanding when having an online discussion and in such situations it is much easier to take away the misunderstanding when talking in person, I think the last postings of this thread are a good example for this ;-)
When talking about an improvement when using VP correction it is impossible to judge the improvement without numbers so I did some tests with a few handheld pole panos and depending on the scene (= spread of CP's) and how much the pole is shaken I get an overall improvement from 10-20% for both CP max and CP average.
For me these numbers are worth the use of VP correction but for other people perhaps not, at the end it is just about personal preferences and workflows.
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Joost has now released PTGui V9.1.2 to fix the VP correction problem.


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If he were an NFL draft prospect, he'd be the guy who's a bit raw but wows scouts at the combine and aces the Wonderlic test.
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Walcott's case was complicated by the fact that his body of work to that point was decidedly mixed. His own idea of what he was worth differed from Arsenal's. As the season unfolded and he showed his reliability, his position strengthened, and he was able to drive a tougher bargain. Arsenal could have tried to sell him in the summer, and indeed there was some paper talk to that effect. At least that way, it could have gotten something back for its investment. But no move materialized.
This season, Walcott has blossomed. He seems well aware that he holds most of the cards, going so far as to say he wants to play as a center forward rather than as a winger. It was as a central striker that he turned in his tremendous performance Saturday.
Take a step back and you see just how much of an upper hand Walcott now has. It isn't just the financial aspect—clearly he can demand more than he could just six months or a year ago—but also the fact that he's telling the manager where he wants to play. Public opinion suggests it is a no-brainer, and against Newcastle, fans at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium were chanting "Sign him up! Arsene, Arsene, sign him up!"
So did Arsenal screw up here? It is tempting to come to that conclusion in hindsight. But in many ways, Arsenal's stance made sense at the time. Walcott's gifts were evident, but so was the fact that he had failed to fully harness them. And with Walcott, it isn't as if the slow development could be chalked up to other issues.
Plus, locking Walcott into the long-term deal he presumably wants means less room to maneuver. If you pay a guy starter money, you generally need to start him. Otherwise, his value diminishes, particularly if he has a big contract. What's more, Walcott wanting to play up front is another potential headache. It worked out Saturday, though Wenger also spent big on Olivier Giroud in the summer, and his characteristics are the polar opposite to Walcott's, which suggests Arsenal would need a substantial tactical overhaul to satisfy Walcott's wish.
The reality is that a lot of contractual relations come down to game theory and assessing probability vs. opportunity cost. Arsenal didn't necessarily negotiate badly. It simply played the percentages at the time. To paraphrase John Maynard Keynes, when the facts changed, Arsenal did too. The question now is whether it was too late.
—Gabriele Marcotti is the world soccer columnist for the Times of London and a regular broadcaster for the BBC.


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This has a mini-USB port, not a micro. I bought one and it's a hassle usig two different charge cables. Just sayin' . . . .
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I've been looking at the wikipedia page for NoSQL and it lists several variations on the Key/Value store database, but I can't find any details on what it means by Key/Value store in this context. Could someone explain or link an explanation to me? Also, when would I use such a database?
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Are you familiar with the concept of a Key/Value Pair? Presuming you're familiar with Java or C# this is in the language as a map/hash/datatable/KeyValuePair (the last is in the case of C#)
The way it works is demonstrated in this little sample chart:
Where you have a key (left) and a value (right) ... notice it can be a string, int, or the like. Most KVP objects allow you to store any object on the right, because it's just a value.
Since you'll always have a unique key for a particular object that you want to return, you can just query the database for that unique key and get the results back from whichever node has the object (this is why it's good for distributed systems, since there's other things involved like polling for the first n nodes to return a value that match other nodes returns).
Now my example above is very simple, so here's a slightly better version of the KVP
So as you can see the simple key generation is to put "user" the userunique number, an underscore and the object. Again, this is a simple variation, but I think we begin to understand that so long as we can define the part on the left and have it be consistently formatted, that we can pull out the value.
Notice that there's no restriction on the key value (ok, there can be some limitations, such as text-only) or on the value property (there may be a size restriction) but so far I've not had really complex systems. Let's try and go a little further:
You get the idea... all those would be stored in one massive "table" on the distributed nodes (there's math behind it all) and you would just ask the distributed system for the value you need by name.
At the very least, that's my understanding of how it all works. I may have a few things wrong, but that's the basics.
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In SQL terms, a NoSQL database is a single table with two columns: one being the (Primary) Key, and the other being the Value. And that's it, that's all the NoSQL magic.
You would use NoSQL for one main reason: scalability.
If your application needs to handle millions of queries per second, the only way to achieve it is to add more servers. That is very cheap and easy with NoSQL. In contrast, scaling a traditional SQL database is much more complicated.
Only the biggest websites out there are actually taking advantage of the full NoSQL potential, i.e., Facebook, having thousands of servers running Cassandra.
I strongly recommend to read this blog post, comparing SQL, NoSQL and ORM:
I assume you have basic understanding of NoSQL movement and non-relational databases models.
Key Value store is one of the non-relation database model, like graph, document oriented database models.
View below slides/articles and you'll get an idea, when, why and why not use key value store :)
Others have explained this, but I'm going to take a stab anyway.
A key/value database stores data by a primary key. This lets us uniquely identify a record in a bucket. Since all values are unique, lookups are incredibly fast: it's always a simple disk seek.
The value is just any kind of value. The way the data is stored is opaque to the database itself. When you store data in a key/value store, the database doesn't know or care if it's XML, JSON, text, or an image. In effect, what we're doing in a key/value store is moving the responsibility for understanding how data is stored out of the database in to the applications that retrieve our data. Since you only have a single range of keys to worry about per bucket, it's very easy to spread the keys across many servers and use distributed programming techniques to make it possible for this data to be accessed quickly (every server stores a range of data).
A drawback of this approach to data is that searching is a very difficult task. You need to either read every record in your bucket o' data or else you need to build secondary indexes yourself.
There are a few reasons you might want to use a key/value database:
There are about as many reasons to use a key/value database as there are to using an RDBMS and there are just as many arguments to justify one over the other. It's important to take a look at how you're querying your data and understand how that data access pattern guides how you're going to be inserting and storing data.
Just remember that a key/value database is just one type of NoSQL database.
If you have a relational database, then you can easily experiment with this:
This is how all databases used to be, with Berkeley DBM being a good example, from 1979. Since then, things have advanced (you can have many values per key in any RDBMS). For many applications a key-value store is sufficient (e.g. this is how sendmail stores its aliases). But if you find yourself pre-processing the value in your own code (or concatenating strings to make your "key"), perhaps splitting the value on a delimiter or parsing it, before you can use it, you will probably be better off with an RDBMS and actually storing it that way.


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On Ohloh, Ubuntu is reported as "mostly written in C#", and indeed if we go to the Ubuntu's languages summary we see that C# has the most LOCs, accounting approx. 20% from the code base. If the Ohloh's engine isn't wrong, which is the explanation of this?
The Oloh engine is way wrong. Ubuntu is a quite complex project, and it's difficult to state what is Ubuntu and what is not. But C# is not by any measure the most popular language.
Ubuntu has also much more than 50 contributors and 1500 commits/year even if you only count Ubuntu specific patches.
This site seems to follow some strange mix of Ubuntu and non-Ubuntu projects, it doesn't make sense. It's likely than F-Spot (a big program that is not in the default install base now and it's made in C#) is weighting heavy on that statistic.
The Linux Kernel (which is the core of Ubuntu) is written mostly in C and a little parts in assembly languages. And many of the applications are written in python or C or C++. C# is not a popular language for many linux users/developers because it was meant to be used for Windows. But still you are free to use it. Its just that people mostly give preference to languages other than C#.
Ubuntu is definetely NOT written in C#! Ubuntu does not even (as far as i know) ship with any C# / Mono applications installed although they are available in software centre (banshee etc)
Ubuntu like most distros is made up of alot of C and C++, mix in some vala, python, perl and many others. C# is a bit of a sore point due to MS/.net connections.
Ubuntu is a distribution containing a lot of individual projects each of which are free to use whatever language they want to implement their project.
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I'm going to donate a copy of AdvancED CSS to the Noisebridge library. If anyone reads it, I would sincerely appreciate it if you would write a short review on a site like Amazon.com or on your blog. Thanks!
Go nights
I've heard rumor of interests in Go. I haven't played regularly for more than 5 years but would love to start regular Go nights of some kind. I have at least one additional friend who'd be interested. I'll keep my eyes open for opportunities to start playing Go more regularly at Noisebridge.


text: I guess the first lesson I will submit is the one on "how to draw Longtail", step by step from Warrior Cats. I will sometimes make these characters from time to time when people request them. A lot of members have uploaded their own works of art and lessons on these popular cats from the childrens book that has gotten inside the minds of so many teens and young adults. Longtail is what I would call a gray colored tiger cat that has really dark black stripes. Instead of being a robust cat, Longtail is slender with long legs. He does have a scar on his ear which leaves it looking like someone carved a V from his ear. If you are an avid reader of the books you should know all the 411 on Longtail. Unfortunately I didn't read the series yet, so I don't know too much about this Warrior Cat. I do know that Longtail is very protective and doesn't take a liking to cats that are or where naturally born into a clan. Anyways, I think you will find that Longtail is spruced up a bit to go along with his character description or personality. I hope you like this version of one of the coolest looking Warrior Cats I have drawn to date. Peace out folks and enjoy!


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Project Description
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Capacity building for environmentally sound PCBs management and disposal.
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- Ministry of Nature and Environment of Mongolia (MNE)
Project Description
The project will enable environmentally sound management (ESM) and disposal of targeted PCB-containing oil and equipment in fulfillment of Mongolia's commitments under the Stockholm Convention.
The project will develop regulatory infrastructure and strengthen national capacity to identify, monitor, manage, and treat PCBs in an environmentally sound manner as required by the Convention.
Strengthened capacity for ESM of PCBs will include both discarded equipment and equipment remaining in use, so that continued operation of that equipment does not constitute a global environmental risk until it is retired as provide for by the Stockholm Convention.
The project will also directly provide for treatment according to Stockholm Convention and Basel Convention guidelines of a minimum of 1,000 tons of identified targeted PCBs, including PCB-containing equipment and oil.
The project's overall objective is to create capacity for environmentally sound management (ESM) of PCBs for preventing PCBs releases from the electric equipment, avoiding cross-contamination of electric equipment and disposing of 1,000 tons of PCBs wastes. This objective will be achieved through a combination of strategies, including legislative and regulatory development, capacity building, public education, technology transfer, training and technical support.


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Wofford football team will open next season at Baylor
Terriers' 2013 schedule announced on Monday
Published: Monday, February 25, 2013 at 6:53 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 25, 2013 at 6:53 p.m.
Wofford lost a big-time opponent to kick off the 2013 football season but replaced it with another.
Aug. 31 — at Baylor
Sept. 7 — at The Citadel
Sept. 14 — Georgia Southern
Sept. 21 — Gardner-Webb
Sept. 28 — Open
Oct. 5 — Presbyterian
Oct. 12 — Elon (homecoming)
Oct. 19 — at Western Carolina
Oct. 26 — Samford
Nov. 2 — Open
Nov. 9 — at Chattanooga
Nov. 16 — Appalachian State
Nov. 23 — at Furman
(Start times TBA)
The Terriers had an agreement with Florida State to play Aug. 31 in Tallahassee, Fla., but the Seminoles backed out to play at Pitt on Sept. 2 in what is expected to be a prime-time Monday night game on ESPN.
Wofford, however, was able to land a game for that last Saturday in August against Baylor at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas. It will be the Terriers' first game in that state and their first against the Big 12.
"We had an open date on the 28th (of September), so Florida State was going to play us that day," Wofford head coach Mike Ayers said. "All of the sudden, Baylor comes into the picture. Next thing you know, it works out and we're able to open up on that first day, which we wanted to do."
Otherwise, Wofford would have been forced to take an open date on that opening weekend and the Terriers' first game would be a Southern Conference contest at The Citadel.
"I feel like we would have been a week behind," Ayers said. "Everybody else would have more preparation and a game under their belts."
Teams are allowed to schedule 12 games, but Wofford will stick with 11 and a pair of open dates at seemingly good times. The Terriers get one after the first four games and another after the next four, leading into the end of the regular season against Chattanooga, Appalachian State and Furman.
"We had an opportunity to get somebody (scheduled for one of the open dates), but at this late date, probably not," Ayers said. "It just worked out this way and I think it's good. We'll have a chance to refresh and get ready for the next run of games."
Baylor went 8-5 last season, including a Holiday Bowl victory, 49-26, against UCLA. It will be the final opening game at a stadium called "The Case." The Bears will play in a new stadium in 2014. Baylor returns 13 starters from a team that set or tied 37 school records and two NCAA marks. The Bears have won back-to-back bowl games for the first time in a quarter century.
"They've got a heck of a football team," Ayers said. "Offensively last year, they were fourth in the nation in scoring. They've got some great ideas, conceptually, on offense. They do a nice job with the personnel on defense, too. They have a lot of speed, they play hard and they play well. It's a big challenge."
Wofford, which went 9-4 last season and made the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs for the fourth time in five seasons, will go right into Southern Conference play after the opener in Texas. The Terriers are at The Citadel on Sept. 7 and then play host Sept. 14 to FCS national semifinalist Georgia Southern.
"We'd better be ready out of the chute," Ayers said. "Those are two quality football teams. They know what they're doing and they're well-coached. Georgia Southern was a coat of paint away from playing for the national championship. The Citadel was a team that last year beat Georgia Southern and Appalachian State. So those are going to be very difficult openers in the conference."
Wofford has non-conference games at home against Gardner-Webb and Presbyterian, with an open date in between, during the middle part of the schedule. Homecoming will be Oct. 12 against Elon.
The Terriers start spring practice on March 4.
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FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) -- More than 50 companies were at Fort Riley Tuesday, looking to provide career opportunities for wounded soldiers and troops getting ready to transition out of the military.
The 5th Annual "Hiring Heroes" job fair was held at Fort Riley's Conference from 9 AM to 2 PM.
Injured soldiers from the Warrior Transition Battalion were able to meet potential employers and take part in on-the-spot interviews.
The Warrior Transition Battalion is a unit designed to assist ill and injured Soldiers in recovering in order return back to their Army unit or transition them out of the Army into civilian life.
Companies included the Department of Defense and other federal, state and local agencies as well as private sector recruiters.
Representatives were looking to hire wounded, ill, injured and transitioning Soldiers and their spouses.
"For me, being the commander of the Warrior Transition Battalion, it helps my soldiers, even if they don't get a job here, build their confidence that there are jobs out there for people with injuries both visible and invisible like they have, to know there are jobs and corporations willing to hire veterans with those kind of disabilities. And on top of that, there are some wonderful opportunities. Everybody that's here today has some job openings and they're hoping to fill them. They're looking to hire veterans for their experiences and the training that they've received in the military. They find that veterans make very good employees because they're well disciplined and dedicated to their organizations," said Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Zielke.
"This is all part of our mission is to help them transition either back to their unit or into the civilian world as a veteran in their community so to see some of them find out that there are actually people out here willing to hire them, it's just great to see that. They're all upbeat and looking for jobs and getting ready to make this next big step and transition out of the military so this is great for them," he added.


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In technical interviews which interviews experienced programmers , the interviewers ask a lot of knowledge based questions . [eg. Like how to configure this and that in the xml] . These questions have exactly one answer and it is very likely that a good programmer may not know the answer to it (and hence get rejected) . Is there a good way to respond to these questions ? [Like politely telling the interviewer that the answer is just a google search away].
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I think it should be OK to tell the interviewer that you honestly don't know the answer, and then proceed to tell them how you would find out (such as ask coworkers, consult the manual, search the web, etc...). This should show the interviewer that you are resourceful and adaptable to new situations and willing to learn - and also honest about admitting when you don't know rather than try to bluff and fail. I haven't had this experience personally, so I'm not 100% sure how it would work, but I'd accept that sort of answer if I were the interviewer. Good luck!
My favorite type of interview question... My typical response if I don't know the answer off the top of my head is to say as much, but then proceed to describe how I would solve the problem.
For example, "What's the API call to Shazbut the Fuzzer?"
Answer, I would go to the "Fuzzer" API docs online, and find out. To be fair, I haven't used "Fuzzer" but I've used "Fubar" which does the same thing. We used Fubar in our last project because of X, Y, and Z.
This type of approach demonstrates a number of things:
If I were the interviewer, I would want someone with the more complete knowledge than someone who could spout off the answer.
If it's a question that doesn't sound correct, I'd mention that too. Sometimes you get people who want to trick you--maybe it's to see if you are paying attention or if you are going to spout off an obviously wrong answer like you are the authority on it. Using the same hypothetical question, you might have an answer something like this: "This is the first time I've ever heard of that. If you don't mind, where can I find out more information about it?"
This tells the interviewer that you aren't going to pretend like you know something you don't, but are willing to learn. Whether you take the time to look up the Fuzzer API on your own is up to you.
I think it's important in an interview to be able to demonstrate how you handle being confronted with the limits of your knowledge. Your employer is going to want to be able to dump a 200-page document on a technology you don't know, and expect you to become the resident expert on it.
When I interviewed for my current position, I hadn't written any C++ in the several years since college, and admitted as much. When someone wrote
However, even someone who uses a particular language all the time, may be rusty in certain areas you might not expect, but should have a good reason for it. For example, I do embedded programming, and haven't written code to open or read from a file in a long time, or get input from a user, or query a database, or draw a GUI. That doesn't mean I couldn't reacquire those skills quickly, but I should be prepared to demonstrate the ability to do so, and not just expect them to take my word for it.
As another example, in a previous job, all our memory had to be statically allocated, to make it easy to prove maximum RAM requirements for ultra-reliability. In the rare exception it wasn't feasible, you had to get a peer to sign off on it, and the memory could never be freed. I got very good at avoiding dynamic allocation, but that's not the same thing as being good at doing it.
If asked a question about those areas, I would admit I was rusty, and give the reason, then proceed to answer as best I could recall, asking clarifying questions as necessary.
I am ambivalent about them. Part of me dislikes how trivial many of them are ("what is the 3rd parameter of the Print function") but I also recognize that if someone works with a technology, over time you've seen it so many times you know it by heart. I'm quite willing to say "I don't know, I'd google it before bothering my coworkers about it." On the other hand, if you answer every question with that same answer, it gives the impression that you don't know the technology and are going to google everything - including the code you allegedly wrote.
I work with .NET. Early versions of the framework had over 40,000 different objects. No one can possibly know them all.
I've had this happen to me during a phone interview where I was presented with a question involving a BASH utility I had not used before. I explained that while I had not used it before, I was confident I could after checking Google or its man page.
Being a phone interview, the interviewer quickly put me on the spot by asking if I was in front of a computer and asked that I do just that. A few moments later I was able to give a clear explanation of how it could be used to solve the problem presented.
A short while later, they offered me the job.
I've had an interview or two like this and I can understand that it can make you feel uncomfortable. It's usually when an employer is touching on some technology that I have on my CV/Resume that I've not used for a good year or two.
I answer it by giving them the understanding of the technology they ask and how it's applied, when it's applied, and when it's not applied. The technical side, I will try my best to answer, even half an answer is useful to them, and reassure them that yes if I was at my PC, Google would help and that the technical answer is nothing but a minute or two to delay in carrying on with work.
All in all, I think an interviewer can ask enough questions to know if you have the calibre for the job and how much of a risk you are to them.
However, if you did indeed answer every technical question incorrectly, or got a very obvious question like, how do you declare a variable on language X, wrong, then that would be very worrying to them, and they will feel they don't have the time to invest in you getting up to speed or training you on fundamentals.


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I have a number of outlets that are old and worn out (plugs fall out of them mainly.) Obviously I need to turn off the breaker to replace them safely but any guidance on how to rewire them, how to properly ground the new one, and how to safely test them once the power is back on is appreciated.
If you plan on doing much electrical work around the house, get a multi-meter. It's just a little box with black and red probes on the end. Safe enough to stick in an outlet to see if it's live or not.
Outlets are mostly idiot proof. Turn off the breaker, pull it out of the box, see where the old wires are attached and move them one by one to the new outlet. Probably the old outlet already has a ground wire, in which case you're done. If it doesn't, it's probably time to call a pro.
Once you have it hooked up and the power is back on, you can use the multimeter to test. There is a hot side and a neutral side to the outlet. Ground behaves the same as neutral as far as the multimeter is concerned. You should be able to stick one prob in the hot side and the other into ground or neutral and get around 110 on the multimeter (+/- 2-3 volts).
One other very important thing that nobody has mentioned: before purchasing your replacement outlets, make sure that your house does not have aluminum wiring.
Most of the switches & outlets you'll find are designed for copper, and using them with aluminum can lead to dangerous conditions, including fires. There are outlets specifically designed for aluminum.
Something like this (not this) should show you quickly if your current plugs are wired correctly, and should also test the ground. If you've got a good ground, then replacing the socket should be just a matter of:
If you don't have good ground, then you might not have a ground wire running into the box, which makes this alot harder, and you might want to call a real electrician at that point.
Another thing not mentioned so far: tamper-resistant receptacles are required by code in the US (since 2008) and Canada (since 2009). These have a built-in plate that covers the holes unless something is pushed into both sides at once, which greatly reduces the chances of a child pushing something into an outlet and being injured.
Big box stores will still have the old kind on-hand (it's not illegal to sell them, and AFAIK they can still be used in non-residential environments), so be sure you get the right ones if you want to do the work to code and have the most up-to-date safety features.
One very important thing that others have not mentioned - If the outlet is in a kitchen in an older home, it will often have separate circuits for the top and bottom plug.
So, if that's the case, make sure BOTH circuits are off, and when you put the new outlet in, make sure you break off the little tab that connects the top and bottom wire connectors on both sides of the outlet (note that you ONLY do this if there are two circuits on the outlet. Leave the tab on if there's only one)
Other people have already answered this one pretty well. I just wanted to add one thing. While you are replacing the outlets, it might be a good idea to use GFCI receptacles where appropriate.
GFCIs should be used wherever stuff that is plugged into it could be exposed to water. (Outlets that are near kitchen/bathroom sinks, outdoor outlets, outlets that are right under a water line, etc).
Note: in some jurisdictions (e.g. Australia), it's illegal to do your own wiring - you have to use a licensed electrician.


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5 Simple Things You Won't Believe Are Recent Inventions
#2. Teddy Bears
You have to be a hooligan with the heart of cold-blooded reptile to not have a soft spot for a well-worn teddy bear. It's a toy as American as apple pie and latent racism, and we can picture our great-grandma's great-grandma as a toddler, clutching her bear as they crossed the country in a Conestoga wagon. And before that, every part of the world that has bears probably had little stuffed ones they carried around for centuries. Bears are awesome, and they didn't become that way overnight.
It took a beary long time.
Teddy Bears Weren't Actually Around Until ...
1902. So no matter how raggedy your teddy bear looks, it can't possibly be more than 108 years old. To put that in perspective, this iconic emblem of Americana is more modern than the light bulb, the discovery of X-rays and toilet paper on a roll.
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt was invited on a hunting trip by the governor of Mississippi. Everyone in the hunting party bagged some sort of game for the wife, but at the end of the day poor Teddy was dead animal-less. Not wanting to offend their honored guest, the Mississippi hunting party did what any self-respecting 20th-century hunting party would do: They clubbed a baby bear and tethered it to a tree for the President of the United States to shoot.
And Teddy Roosevelt, the perfect gentlemen that he was, refused to shoot because it was unsportsmanlike (but ordered his entourage to shoot the bear to put it out of its misery).
The story of Roosevelt's act of pity spread like wildfire, especially after a cartoonist illustrated the episode in a political cartoon that was published in The Washington Post, then reprinted across the country.
Is anyone else seeing Mickey Mouse on a leash?
The cutesy cartoon inspired Brooklyn stationery store owner Morris Michtom to create "Teddy's Bear," which he displayed in his store window. And that was when things really went nuts for the stuffed bear industry. Teddy bears became the Cabbage Patch Dolls of the early 20th century. By 1906, people were singing songs about teddy bear picnics, and Roosevelt himself used the bear as his mascot in his successful re-election bid.
#1. Nationalism
Of all the entries on this list, this is by far the one we found hardest to wrap our minds around.
There probably isn't a single person reading this who hasn't run across a nationalist at some point. Not a patriot -- a nationalist. People who turn the love of their country into a goddamned religion and believe that their nation and its flag stand as an island of righteousness in a black ocean of evil foreigners.
Above: Nationalism.
But haven't those guys -- the equivalent of the "American flag painted onto a pickup truck" tribe we have now -- been around since ... well, forever?
Nationalism Wasn't Really Around Until ...
Up until that point, the zealous types were all about loyalty to their ethnic group, or a leader, or their religion, their city-state or their clan/tribe. Not their country, because countries as we understand them today didn't exist.
Tea parties back then were far less obnoxious.
It's hard to grasp how different the world was then. Most nations of the time were really just a collection of ethnic enclaves, usually speaking multiple languages within the country, sometimes united under one leader, often not. But thinking of themselves as "Russian" or "French" just wasn't a big part of their personality.
"I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective."
Let's pick on another example besides America. How about France? After all, they're famous for being fiercely French -- the snobby, tourist-hating Frenchman is still a stereotype in the USA, and we fully expect them to hate us if we don't speak perfect French when we travel there. Now consider this: In 1789 only 50 percent of the people in France actually spoke French, and only 12 to 13 percent of those folks spoke it "fairly well."
And the same was true in other countries across Europe; people just didn't see themselves as citizens of a particular nation. Which is why the national anthem of the UK, for example, is "God Save the Queen." Not "God Save Our Kick-ass Country."
It wasn't until the Enlightenment-inspired Founding Fathers of the U.S. and their French cousins got it into their heads that states should be governed by the people, that the people actually got boners for the state. Which is probably the best description of nationalism anyone's ever going to come up with: state boners.
His state boner was THIS BIG.
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I have an MXD. It connects to about 30 layers in one of our SDE databases. I want to change the SDE database they connect to. Is there a way to do this without having to right-click every layer and change it individually?
Right click on the mxd in ArcCatalog, click on Set data sources, and bulk change from there. However, this tool warns:
You could also use the arcpy.mapping python library:
If you are using ArcGIS 10 and are interested in using Python, check out the help on Updating and fixing data sources with arcpy.mapping and the methods of the Layer object.
If your layers don't all source the same original connection file, or the destination feature class name is different on the new SDE, you might need to use
This will remove all the red exclamation mark containing layers in the MXD and will point to the new created data source. In one go you can do this; no need to go and click each time on the red exclamation mark and clicking and setting the data source.
The link is to an old Arcscript called GDK tools, wich can be obtained on other sites. The Program creates a toolbar in arcmap where you can change source on selected layers (any layer you want. this works between SDE connections or SDE to local file geodatabase (wich change source in Arccatalog not can handle, because of the name in SDE starts with the SDE user and then dot.
this is very helpful, but maybe only in arcgis 9.3
If you've got the .mxd open already, do what @blah238 did, but use
Then you'll have to save and reopen the .mxd file anyway.


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Ok.... New to this forum and the world of panos! I am about to invest in a pano head and just cannot sort out which pano head is best for me. I'm sure this has been covered, but couldn't find anything. Point me out if this has been discussed.
Canon XSi (cropped sensor)
Sigma 8mm 3.5 circular
I will be taking a variety or panos to include interior and exterior. I've seen that the R1 is great for outdoors but maybe not so great for indoor shots unless it is a flat ceiling, but easier to use than the NN3?. NN3 sounds like it might be a good all around mount but maybe a weight issue for my equipment? Ease of nidar shots? My head hurts now...
Any recommendations on tripods? Mine currently has lower supports and would create a large foot print.
Thanks in advance for all your help!


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I'm sitting in Europe myself and I have to deal with partners in USA (different locations), Japan, Australia, ...
I'd like to see quickly what time it is at their site - is there a tool which makes that possible easily?
I'm using Outlook 2007 with Exchange Server (if there should be a built-in way to see quickly the local time of a contact).
The other way I could imagine would be to create a panel with different clocks - any suggestions?