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Q: Is my city/township/county required to submit my parks and recreation master plan to DNR for approval?
A: Only if you want to be eligible to apply for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) grant program administered by the IDNR Division of Outdoor Recreation. If you do not wish to apply for this grant, then you are not required to submit a plan to us, even though we highly recommend it. The Recreational Trails Program does not require a master plan on file with DNR to be eligible. Any local entities that would like to submit a park and recreation master plan to IDNR simply for future LWCF grant potential, guidance, or suggestions is welcome to do so; there is no requirement to apply for grants. A copy of all approved master plans will be retained by the DNR and will maintain grant eligibility for 5 years.
Q: My city/township/county has never created a plan before, where can I get help?
A: We're more than happy to see plans from consultants, in-house plans, or combinations of the two. We have received excellent quality plans from local entities using both methods. We do recommend consulting with local planners, regional planning agencies, other park and recreation agencies, colleges and universities that have created successful plans. On request, we can provide many kinds of information and reference materials that may be of assistance with your planning process. Please feel free to call, e-mail or mail us your questions.
Q: What are the January 15th and April 15th deadlines about anyway?
A: These deadlines are required to be met to be eligible to apply for Land and Water Conservation Fund grant programs through our Division. If your plan is new, expired or expiring, you should turn in your preliminary draft by January 15th and your final draft by April 15th of the year in which you want to apply for LWCF grants. Your local park board also must be legally established under current Indiana Code to be eligible for LWCF.
Q: I'm almost ready to submit my plan; what exactly should I send you?
A: Send us an electronic copy of the entire plan plus appendices, or mail us an unbound black and white copy printed on both sides. Acceptable electronic plan versions include Word or PDF. With either method, when sending us your final version of the plan, please include copies of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Section 504 Accessibility Compliance form, and the park board's resolution adopting the plan, both with original signatures.
Q: I just sent in my master plan to DNR; how long does it take to get my review?
A: The turn-around time for reviews depends a lot on the time of year, but generally we strive to get submitted master plans and drafts turned around in less than two weeks from the date of arrival (or a one-month maximum immediately after the January/April 15th plan submission deadlines). The plans are always reviewed in the order that they were received. Plans received at other times of year besides the January/April 15th submission deadlines will usually be reviewed within a few days.
Q: I just received final IDNR approval for my five-year parks and recreation master plan; what kinds of grants may I apply for?
A: Having an approved, current master plan and a park board created under Indiana Code 36-10-3 or 36-10-4 makes you specifically eligible to apply for Land and Water Conservation Fund or Hometown Indiana grants. IDNR has a number of other grants agency-wide (not just in Outdoor Recreation) that you may apply for. For more information about the various grant programs available, see the "Grants and Financial Assistance" webpage on the IDNR website: http://www.in.gov/dnr/3190.htm or the "Outdoor Recreation Grants" webpage: http://www.in.gov/dnr/outdoor/2331.htm , you may also contact the Division of Outdoor Recreation grants section chief, Mr. Bob Bronson at (317) 232-4075 or email@example.com.
NOTE: Not all grants are funded in any given year, so please contact our grants staff at the number above for details of grant availability.
Planning Area
Q: May I consider a set distance outside my town/city/township's boundaries as included in my planning area?
A: Yes. This is actually fairly common, as many rural entities have a number of rural users that come from the area outside the municipal boundaries. This section is asking you to consider what your 'real-life' service area is, not just where you draw your tax base from.
This document provides guidance to assist local park and recreation planners and interested individuals in understanding accessibility issues in park planning. The following information is provided as information and guidelines for IDNR planning standards only. This technical assistance does not constitute legal advice. Legal advice should be obtained from an attorney.
Q: What should we include in the Accessibility section of our plan?
A: Starting on page 15 of the 2008 guidelines, there's a good discussion of why we ask for accessibility information, as well as what is required. We are looking for specifics of the things mentioned in the guidelines:
Write about facilities, programs, policies, etc. that your department uses to ensure access to all. It is common for park departments to have some accessibility issues in facilities or programs. Acknowledge the potential for improvement, and discuss when, what, and where improvements might be made; include some ideas of where funding might come from, and where outside expertise might be useful. Include and consult with persons with disabilities during the evaluation process; their input can be critical to identifying program, activity, and/or service barriers that are unique to your park system.
Q: Do I have to provide the IDNR Division of Outdoor Recreation with an Accessibility Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan?
A: Not for the purposes of this plan. This is an item that is included on the checklist for those who voluntarily want to provide it to us. IDNR does not require it; this is a Federal requirement, and is enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice. We recognize the difficulties in conducting this kind of evaluation in-house without specialized and possibly expensive outside experts. There is much helpful guidance and information at: http://www.adagreatlakes.org/ada/ . We will still accept the plan if the actual accessibility self-evaluation and transition plan is not included. IDNR does require a concise commentary or table illustrating some examples of currently accessible facilities, currently inaccessible facilities, and a suggested timeline for improvements, estimated costs, the person(s) responsible, and potential funding sources.
NOTE: Title II of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act does require that state and local entities perform an accessibility self-evaluation and create a transition plan. Please see http://www.ada.gov/ for information.
Q: What is this 'Universal Design', and why is it mentioned in the guidelines?
A: Universal Design is not a requirement for our planning process. Universal Design (UD) is a design theory with seven principles. ADA requires at least minimum accessibility, while Universal Design intends to make a facility appealing and usable to all people, to the greatest extent possible, regardless of ability or circumstances. Please refer to the 2006 to 2010 Indiana Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) for examples. The IDNR Division of Outdoor Recreation views Universal Design as a best management practice, and recommends its use whenever possible.
Public Participation
Q: Why do you ask for more than one type of public input for my master plan?
A: On page 7 of the Planning Guidelines document, the 'minimum planning effort' asks for one method of random public input gathering (such as sending out a randomly sampled mail survey), and one method of user group input (such as conducting public meetings or focus group interviews). Each type of public input method has its own drawbacks; using more than one method cancels out some of these drawbacks. Remember, a larger sample size (number of people surveyed/interviewed), typically is a better representation of the community.
NOTE: We always ask for the number of people involved in each of the following:
Q: No one has shown up at my public meetings; is trying this method enough to satisfy the public participation section of the plan?
A: Not if it's the only method you've tried. This is consistently one of the toughest parts of anyone's planning process. We consider each and every plan on an individual basis. We suggest that you fully document each type of public participation method, even if it wasn't successful. We want to see a good faith effort, with multiple methods tried. If one method fails, document it in the plan, and then try something else.
Many departments see more success using 'outreach' type methods such as focus group or user group interviews. This has the advantage of taking the interviewer to the users instead of vice versa. We would prefer to see one random form of public input gathering, such as a survey, and at least one method that tries to reach user/non-user groups. As an example, it would be acceptable to have tried a survey (and received a small return), tried to hold public meetings (and had no one show up, so long as they were advertised), and then completed a series of interviews with stakeholders, users, and non-users to fill in the gaps.
Q: What is the 'ideal' or minimum number of people that we can receive public feedback from and still meet your requirements for public participation?
A: There are no stated figures in the Planning Guidelines document for the minimum number of citizens that should be heard from during the public participation process. For the consistency of plan reviews, we try to follow all previous standards set within the Planning Guidelines document. We look at each plan on a case-by-case basis, as the situation for each community is unique and requires unique examination.
Here's an inside look at how we try to determine if a plan's public participation section is thorough and complete enough:
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Needs Analysis
Q: May I use the Level of Service (LOS) formula from the National Recreation and Parks Association to do my needs analysis?
A: Yes. There are many ways to do needs analysis for your planning area, and deciding which one works best for your area is up to you. See page 31 of the Planning Guidelines for a good explanation of the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS), LOS, and Issue Analysis methods of needs analysis. Using any of the above methods fulfills our needs analysis requirements. If you wish to use another method of needs analysis, contact us, and we will be happy to consider them on a case-by-case basis.
For more assistance with IDNR's master planning process, please contact:
Greg Beilfuss
IDNR-Outdoor Recreation; State and Community Outdoor Rec. Planner
402 W. Washington St. W271
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2782
Office Phone: (317) 232-4071
Office Fax: (317) 233-4648
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Can you add the visual editor to the description field for custom taxonomies? It would be nice to have this option available when you edit an entry for a taxonomy be it core or custom.
Just wrote the function. It'll display the tinymce editor in every custom taxonomy description right now. Surely you can edit to show it for only some specific taxonomy.
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Have you tried The Rich Text Tags Plugin?
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If what you really want to do, however, is create a "many-to-many" relationship between posts (e.g. a post type of "Tires" and a post type of "Cars"), then WordPress doesn't (currently) have a facility for this. However, the Posts 2 Posts plugin does provide this functionality (and gives you a lot more flexibility to create complex relationships).


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Install Spark-Plug WiresWritten by on January 1, 1998 Using the Crimp-Yourself Type
This one sure seems like a no-brainer, leaving us to wonder why so many street machiners have ugly, crossfiring, too-long, falling-apart spark plug wires. Maybe it's because many "custom-fit" or "precut-to- perfect-length" plug wires are neither. That's why, especially on a modified engine, we like to use universal or cut-to-fit plug wires and route the wires exactly where we want them for a cleaner job.
For this installation we used a Chevy 230 inline six, which is virtually no challenge for routing. Our real purpose here is to show you how to assemble typical crimp-yourself wires. Jacobs Electronics Energy Core wires have a simple no-crimp assembly process, but virtually every other type we've seen demands you use the process shown here on a set of MSD Heli-Core wires.
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Assembling MSD wires doesn't require any special tools because a crimper is included, which mounts in a bench vise. Other wires may require a set of crimping pliers. You might need a tape measure or string, and a set of needle-nose pliers and wire cutters are always handy, along with a little spray lube and a marker.There are two strategies you can use to avoid miswiring when adding a new set of plug wires. One is to remove and replace one wire at a time. Another option, shown here, is to trace each wire from the cap to its spark plug and make a drawing of each wire's location on the cap for reference. If you're working on an engine with no wires on it to start with, you'll need to know the engine's firing order, the direction of distributor rotation, and how the cylinders are numbered on the engine.After yanking off the old wires, we loosely installed the new ones on the plugs. MSD's Heli-Core universal wire sets come with the spark plug terminal and boot installed on an extra long piece of wire so you can plan routing to the distributor to your heart's content. We planned to loom the back three wires together with MSD wire separators, so pre-fitting them together allowed us to determine the correct length. MSD's straight plug boots can be bent to a slight angle. They bend easier one way than the other, so lightly push and pull the terminal to find the easier direction and tweak it to the right angle-of-the-dangle for your application. They won't go to 90 degrees, so buy fixed 90-degree plug boots if that's what you need.Make sure that the wires won't touch the exhaust manifolds, get caught in stuff like the fan belt, or get cut on sharp edges. Check that wires firing sequential cylinders (like 5 and 7 on most V-8s) cross at right angles (if possible) to prevent crossfire. Cosmetics are a big issue with plug wires--avoid big loops and use separators to keep them neat. Don't make the wires so tight that you can't remove the cap or rotate the distributor for timing adjustments. Once length is determined, cut one wire at a time then double-check the fit. If you cut it too short the first time you'll be out of luck unless it will fit another cylinder.MSD includes an aluminum tool for stripping and crimping the wires. It comes in one piece that you have to break apart in a vise, which is also required for crimping the wires.To strip the wire, slide it into the stripper until it's flush with the other side, then put a razor blade into the slot and rotate the wire. Remove the wire and pull the cut portion of the sleeve off with a counterclockwise twist to protect the conductor windings. It's a perfect strip every time!The socket-style (non-HEI-type) distributor connectors are brass and begin as straight terminals. Once they are crimped to the wire, slide the boot on and bend the terminal 90 degrees. The HEI-type terminals are straight and require no bending. With either style, fold the wire's exposed conductor back along the sleeve and place the terminal so it sandwiches the conductor to the insulation as shown. Now you're ready to use the crimp tool.Position the terminal and wire into the crimp dies, making sure the conductor's crimp tabs are facing toward the W-shaped side of the die. This is the side of the die responsible for bending the tabs to grip the wire sleeve. Before you start tightening the vise, check that the conductor is still in place between the terminal and the sleeve.The crimp dies have tab ends designed to go on the outside of the vise jaws to stabilize the assembly while you apply pressure; this is important for an even and strong crimp. Slowly close the vise and watch as the dies come together. We also learned that you don't need to run the die in completely--doing so tears the sleeve, which can cause a weak area resulting in spark loss. Putting a squirt of lithium grease or a dab of MSD Spark Guard on the W-side of the crimp tool helps smooth the crimp process.
With the terminal crimped, spray a little white grease or WD-40 in the boot to make it easier to slide the distributor boot up the wire past the terminal. Using a pair of pliers, grip the terminal where it is crimped to the sleeve and press it down on the workbench bending it 90 degrees, then slide the boot into place.These little MSD cylinder-number indicators slide on each wire easily with the weird little tool they come attached to.Using a marker to write the cylinder number on both the plug boots and the distributor boots can also help later.Only once all the wires were routed did we snap the plug boots firmly in place. The air- conditioning compressor presented a bulky obstacle for us to work around for the front two cylinders and the coil, but we were happy with the way we handled it. If we would have used a "custom fit set," the wires probably wouldn't have fit as well as we like. The coil wire ended up being only about 6 inches long! Our very leisurely paced installation time was under two hours. A heavily modified V-8 shouldn't take any longer. CC


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Can est-ce que be used for requests, particularly polite or friendly ones? For instance, does this sound natural?:
Est-ce que tu peux me passer le sel, s'il te plaît ?
Yes, this is fine.
Note that there could be (at least) three ways of asking this question:
I presume your question is more about the difference between (1) and (2) than between (1) and (3).
All these three variants are fine, but the second can sound a bit more formal. Used with tu, (2) is perfectly acceptable, but may sound slightly over the top (or almost jokingly used to emphasise the request requires more important attention). With a person with whom you can use tu, (1) and (3) are virtually equivalent.
If you're particularly worried about politeness, you should be more concerned about the tu/vous distinction than using "Est-ce que", depending on the person you're talking to.
In a relatively casual dialogue such as asking for salt, these three forms would work well with vous too, although it would certainly be more important to start these sentences with "excusez-moi" (since you're likely to interrupt people you barely know or who aren't part of your current conversation, or more selfishly to grab their attention). I would say "Excusez-moi, vous pouvez me passer le sel, s'il vous plaît ?" is fine, even with strangers, considering that you'd have both "excusez-moi" and "s'il vous plaît"; using "pouvez-vous [...]" wouldn't make a big difference at this stage (even if it is a bit more formal in principle).


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My twenty-something season LLM save is put to rest for some time (dead bored by Scandinavia now), so I started a European challenge anew. Playing by the LLM rules, though this can't be classified as a game of that subforum - using some Central European league expansions. Barring Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and the Iberian peninsula all continental countries are loaded.
I had a look around the leagues and found one with a good name and nice colours (matching my real-life favourite club) in the Slovakian third tier. So we start from here.
You tell me what to make of that club coat of arms. Looks like some wicked little device and a butcher's knife is good for harvesting both stars and wheat.
We'll start with wheat, get to stars later. I hope it's wheat, not broken arrows.
Club information and facilities.
Trebisov itself is a small town quite near to the Hungarian-Slovakian-Ukrainian triple border, it goes by the nice Hungarian name of Tőketerebes. The town's medieval fort was besieged by about a dozen times by warlords, robbers, Turkish, Habsburg, Hungarians and whoever happened to go there. It was finally destroyed in the late 17th century. Since then there was a cholera uprising, some modest improvements and economical depression since the 1990s, highlighted by the local Roma rioting.
Nice place, innit?
The team's not better, either.
Slavoj Trebisov have no real history to boast of, but the club celebrates its centenary in 2012. The local stadium looks a nice little place.
Main stand • With bicycle parking • Club shop • We have a scoreboard! \o/ • He's the local hero
I'm appointed and over wage budget. Even when my highest earner gets the astronomical sum of 50 euros! Finances are somewhat sorted when an offer comes in for my right-back. 8K is taken without a thought. Right-backs are easy to come by, unlike money.
At least while I field a full team, there'll be a right-back in it.
5 free transfers are in, said right-back and an MC with expiring contract left. I have no idea how strong the other teams are, we're tipped 8th in a league of 16. Only one goes up, only one goes down.
Don't make me laugh. But I have a starting lineup.
GK - Sudimak
DR - Zembera
DC - Csolle
DC - Sovab
DL - Hoffman
MR - Tomovcik (c)He's MR, MC, AMR, AMC, AML, ST, assistant manager and most probably the local bartender, too.
He can play in so many positions he's bound to be useless in all of 'em.
DMC - Capko
MC - Zrubec
ML - Baran
ST - Rusnák
ST - Alusik
SUB1 (ST) - Goga (on loan from Kosice)
SUB2 (MC) - Hanicak (on loan from Presov)
The rest is not worthy a mention. They make up the numbers.
Transfer strategy: No parent team as of yet, will look into a regional one maybe later. Realistically we can might draw players from Northeastern Hungary and Carpathian Ruthenia, so I'll scout those parts apart from Slovakia.
Pre-season went well, but I've long learnt it means absolutely nothing.
Comedy hour: my coach seems to be undermining the ass. man, wanting to remove him from corner kick and penalty kick duties.
He's having none of it
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I have seen a few very small models using something called "Modulex" pieces and have even heard that they are directly related to LEGO somehow? They don't seem to be around anymore so I was wondering what their history was?
Modulex bricks were produced by LEGO mainly for architects as the dimensions were more easy to scale up (they are 5mm in all directions).
You can find a full history (which I confess I didn't read) here
In time, Modulex started to focus more on signage and separated from LEGO, but it still exists nowadays.
The german Wikipedia article states that they were meant to be used by architects, etc. They are much easier to use for to-scale models, because they are 5 mm high (which results in a comfortable 1:20 scale). It would be quite hard to do that with the standard 8x9.6 mm LEGO bricks.


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Al-Islam Group community development group plans to distribute sacrificial meat among 500,000 needy people in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh during Eid Al-Adha, Arab News reported today.
In an interview with the English daily, director of Al-Islam Group Muhammad Osmani said the group had been conducting this community service for the last decade, adding that it had won the applause of not only contributors but also beneficiaries. "We have been previously focusing on India but from this year onward, we would like to expand our services to Pakistan and Bangladesh with the help of national Islamic community groups," Osmani said.


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Woodland looks to Scirpo to deliver at crunch time
BEACON FALLS — He possesses good hands, exceptional speed and instincts, and game-breaking potential.
When Woodland junior quarterback Tanner Kingsley was asked to name the best characteristic of teammate and senior captain Anthony Scirpo, he had a quick response.
"All of the above," noted Kingsley, who has played with Scirpo since their Pop Warner days in Prospect. "Anthony is a really good player, and as a captain, he displays real good leadership through his play. The way he hustles and acts in front of his teammates makes him a great role model."
As for his individual play, Kingsley added, "Anthony is so dependable. Every time I drop back, I have a good feeling 'Scirp' is downfield. I know he will make a big play."
Helping Scirpo is his baseball talents as a center fielder. He was selected to the All-Copper Division team in both sports as a junior and earned All-Naugatuck Valley league honors as a sprinter in indoor track.
"I take football and baseball very seriously," said Scirpo. "Baseball is probably my best sport, but I work hard and give 110 percent all of the time in everything that I do."
Even more so this season. The Hawks are coming off what was viewed as a disappointing 6-4 season, a year after reaching the postseason in 2010, the first in Tim Shea's coaching tenure.
"We don't like 6-4 records at Woodland," said Scirpo. "That is unacceptable at Woodland. We will do what we can to change that. I always remember watching the 2005 state championship game against Brookfield (a 19-13 win) at Trumbull High and seeing the players throw their helmets up in the air after the win. I want to experience a feeling like that."
Scirpo will likely have a huge impact on Woodland's chances for the postseason.
"Anthony has gotten bigger, stronger and faster; we'll be leaning on him in all three phases of the game," said Shea.
A year ago, Scirpo scored 10 touchdowns (eight receiving and two rushing) and recorded 41 receptions for 581 yards. His best game last season was a six-reception, 101-yard, three-TD performance in a 40-14 win
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He ran for a 59-yard score on a sweep and also caught TDs of 27 and 10 yards. His previous best game was five receptions with two TDs, including a 65-yarder, in a 41-18 win over Sacred Heart.
Defensively, Scirpo recorded three interceptions with 46 tackles for the year. This season, he will move from cornerback to safety where he will rely on his uncanny instincts to read the quarterback's eyes and anticipate a play.
Scirpo thrives on making the big play in clutch time.
"My coaches have told me that I will have some pressure on me, but I feel comfortable with that role," said Scirpo, who considers himself a leader by example. "I'm a team player and I'll do whatever is best for us to succeed."
As a sophomore, Scirpo became a starter on offense early in the season for injured captain Rob Johnson and also played a key role on defense. That game experience was invaluable.
The 6-foot, 165-pound Scirpo credits former Hawk standouts Jack DeBiase, a sophomore at Post University, and Shane Kingsley, now a business teacher at Ansonia High and assistant baseball coach at Woodland, with influencing him.
"When I was a sophomore, Jack stood out as a leader, always encouraging all of us to do better and pumping us up everyday," said Scirpo. "Shane (a member of NVL and state championship teams in 2004 and 2005) is always teaching me new things. It's really good to have a coach who was an All-State player."
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The 5 Most Incredibly Badass Acts of Nonviolence
Blessed are the peacemakers, right? The people who experience violence up close and personal and, rather than dole it back out, somehow find an alternative solution. Sure, these types of people don't usually get blockbuster movie franchises made about them, but we'll sure as hell stop to applaud them here. So here's to the ones who, whether by Jedi mind trick or just pure audacity, resolved violent conflicts while using their indoor voices.
#5. John Rabe: The Living Buddha of Nanking
In popular culture, the roster of surprisingly awesome Nazis pretty much begins and ends with Schindler's List. In reality, there were no doubt lots of compassionate people who just got swept up in Hitlermania; it's just that it's hard to do a list of "5 Nazis We Admire" without upsetting the advertisers. But that shouldn't stop us from talking about John Rabe, who, during World War II, turned up in a place where somebody with compassion was badly needed.
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Which was actually "most of the planet" at that point.
In 1937, Japan invaded China and captured Nanking, the capital. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians were at the mercy of the invaders. What started thereafter was an inconceivable slaughter of a type so sanctioned that competitive civilian murder received news coverage back home, along with other atrocities so horrifying that a Cracked article has no place even hinting at what they are. But there was an organization called the Nanking Safety Zone, run by 22 Westerners from around the world, that was supposed to function as a haven.
One of these people would be credited with patrolling the streets and personally intervening to stop murders and prevent rapes. And rather than being some trained super soldier, he was just a guy who worked for the phone company and had been a member of the Red Cross. Soldiers naturally didn't take too well to this, and more than once Rabe found himself looking down a gun barrel. But what Rabe had to protect him was an armband with a swastika on it (oh, and he looked like an Indiana Jones villain):
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Sieg heil.
This guy actually wrote letters to Adolf Hitler requesting aid in stopping the atrocities being committed against the Chinese, which shows that even though he was with the party, he wasn't so much with the program. Who knows how this guy reconciled being a compassionate humanitarian with belonging to the most monstrous political party the world has ever known. Maybe he just liked the uniform? It probably did bring out his eyes.
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"Swastikas make my ass look incredible."
After the war, the Nanking Safety Zone organization was credited with preventing the deaths of an estimated 250,000 Chinese people through personal intervention, sheltering, and international pressure. Rabe himself went home to Germany in 1938 to do lectures and presentations about Japanese atrocities until the Gestapo arrested him for that, marking him as probably one of history's most oblivious heroes.
After the war, Rabe was denounced as a Nazi and became impoverished. But for many years, he and his family survived on care packages from the very Chinese citizens he'd helped to save and who'd given him the nickname "the Living Buddha of Nanking."
Nope, the hat doesn't help.
#4. Dr. Hawa Abdi Makes a Somali Militia Apologize
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Somalia is infamous in the West for being one of those hellholes where gruesome misogyny and brutal violence are the national pastimes. It's so bad, in fact, that aid workers won't even go there. That did not stop Dr. Hawa Abdi, however, who became the first female gynecologist in the country and found herself in charge of a refugee center with 90,000 people in it. Inevitably, some militia decided such a thing just would not do.
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Militias, right?
On May 5, 2010, a group of 750 militia members invaded the refugee center. Shocked and offended at the fact that a group of over 90,000 people was led by a woman, they took Abdi prisoner and ransacked her hospital, emptying clips into medical equipment, smashing windows, and making threats.
Abdi stuck to her belief that she shouldn't be intimidated by insane people with guns, even if the odds were 750 to 1. She stood up to the militia commanders imprisoning her, berating one of them with "I will lead my society. You are young and you are a man, but what have you done for your society?"
Typical hostage gynecologist, making this all about gender.
After five days, she was released unharmed, but still pissed. So pissed, in fact, that she demanded an apology from the armed thugs who had been holding her and her staff at gunpoint.
And she got one. In writing.
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That's right -- instead of, say, many bullets to the face, Abdi got a sheepish letter saying "We apologize to every hospital patient who suffered from the attack. We apologize to the entire Somali community." Note: We cannot guarantee the same results if you ever find yourself in that situation.
#3. Wade Watts Takes on the Klan With the Magic of Friendship
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Reverend Wade Watts was a representative of the NAACP in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he did a radio debate with Grand Dragon of the KKK John Lee Clary in 1976. After Watts threw his opponent off his game with the novel tactic of telling him that he wouldn't hate him, Clary insisted to Watts that he'd made a personal enemy, although Watts didn't seem to agree.
"Look, can't we just try to see eye to eye here? Oh ... right ... never mind."
Clary's Klansmen started off small: They burned a cross on Watts' lawn. Watts' response to the sight of a bunch of costumed men making death threats was to point out to them that Halloween wasn't for a few more months and to leave it at that. Their next attempt to scare him was to burn down his church. When Clary called him up to rub the threat in over the phone, the first thing Watts said was "Hello, Johnny" (we like to think Clary must have said "Uh, hi" in response).
The final stroke was when Clary saw Watts in a restaurant eating chicken. He got together a group of 30 Klansmen and surrounded him. Then Clary told Watts that he and his buddies would do to Watts what Watts was doing to that chicken he was eating. Knowing a good setup when he heard it, Watts took the bit of chicken and gently kissed it.
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Then he kissed it again, and things started to get kinda weird.
There are a lot of places the story could go from there -- maybe Clary flies into a rage and starts a riot, or quietly plans to destroy Watts behind the scenes. Instead, the Klansman Clary slowly started to realize that maybe he and his white-robed peers were the bad guys.
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Good guys are less prone to posing with brass knuckles and daggers.
So in 1981, Clary left the Klan. And, when being a former Grand Dragon hurt his career prospects like hell, he eventually decided to call up Watts. Watts offered to let him come speak at his church (against his own congregation's wishes), saying, "You know where it is, you burned it."
Clary ended up becoming a preacher at that very institution, and one day used his Klan robe to shine a black man's shoes on national television. Clary also started a program that helped former anti-racial-group members start anew after leaving their organizations. It just goes to show that while it sure helps to have (figurative) balls in the face of violence, having a heart is important, too.
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Not long after reading that Senator Barbara Boxer (D – CA) and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is trying to make it more difficult to ride your bike, GOOD pointed me to this study that was published by the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The study looked a the benefits of reducing car usage for short urban and suburban trips:
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There is no solution to complexity.
In "The Mythical Man-Month", Fred Brooks discusses the difference between accidental and essential complexity in programming. Accidental complexity is caused by our tools and methods, such as having to write and test additional code in a language because we can't express our ideas directly, and things like that. New methods and techniques can reduce accidental complexity. I can write programs faster and better than I could twenty-five years ago, because I have better languages and tools.
Essential complexity comes from the fact that what we try to do with programming is inherently complicated, and that there is an irreducible complexity. "Essential", in this context, means "relating to the essence of the thing" rather than "very necessary".
Therefore, he claimed that there would be no silver bullet, that writing software would continue to be difficult.
I strongly recommend that you read his book: specifically, I recommend the Silver Anniversary edition, with an additional essay "No Silver Bullet". In that, he reviews the proposed solutions to complexity and considers their impact. (What he finds the most effective is shrink-wrap software - write something complex once, and sell thousands or millions of copies.)
Now, object-oriented programming helps, when done right, by creating abstractions and hiding away complexity. An object of a class has a certain defined behavior that we can reason from, without caring about the complexity of the implementation. Properly written classes have low coupling with each other, and divide-and-conquer is an excellent way to deal with complexity if you can get away with it. They also have high cohesion, in that they're a set of functions and data that relate very closely to each other.
I expect you'll get some better answers shortly, but here's a simple one:
OOP helps* with complexity by modeling software in a way closer to the way we model everything else in the world. It's just generally easier to image a ball object interacting with a wall object than it is to imagine a series of routines and data structures to do the same thing, since it's closer to how we interact with the real world.
*Because nothing can 'solve' complexity
I think the current mainstream definition of OOP is not a good solution for managing complexity.
If you go back to its roots, I believe Alan Kay was influenced by "lisp" a great deal.
Because Lisp hasn't been corrupted by mainstream adoption, it probably managed to conserve its core values. So I think looking at how lisp tackles this problem of complexity might gives us some insight, and we can use it as a basis to sort of judge how useful is OOP at dealing with complexity.
If you look at the end of the "Lecture 3a: Henderson Escher Example" of SICP, Hal Abelson proposes that complexity is managed not by breaking the task into smaller subtasks, but by creating layers of abstraction. At the highest level, you express the solution to the complicated problem in terms of the the solution to the lower level of abstraction.
I think OOP was originally intended as a mechanism to create these layers of abstractions.
Unfortunately nowadays, OOP is (ab)used to write spaghetti code/structures.
I will make up an example: an FPS multi-player game.
At the highest level, the game works by having a bunch of players running around a map and shooting at each other using weapons.
At the next lower level, we have to talk about maps and weapons and players. Perhaps we can talk about them as physical objects that interact within the world of the game.
At the next lower level, we can talk about how objects interact physically (movement, collisions, etc).
And so on and so forth.
What this means, (and I'm sort of quoting from SICP..), is that at each layer, we not only solve a particular specific problem, but a class of problems that sort of fall in the neighborhood of the problem we're trying to solve. So if there's a small change in the problem's description, it would likely require only a small change in the solution.
So, the wise way to use OOP is to create layers of abstractions, at each level of abstraction, you solve the problem at hand using the "objects" from the level that's directly below.
Here's the bit I was quoting from the lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYtrfncMqHQ
Object-oriented programming has roots that can be traced to the 1960s. As hardware and software became increasingly complex, manageability often became a concern. Researchers studied ways to maintain software quality and developed object-oriented programming in part to address common problems by strongly emphasizing discrete, reusable units of programming logic.
An object-oriented program may thus be viewed as a collection of interacting objects, as opposed to the conventional model, in which a program is seen as a list of tasks (subroutines) to perform. In OOP, each object is capable of receiving messages, processing data, and sending messages to other objects. Each object can be viewed as an independent 'machine' with a distinct role or responsibility. The actions (or "methods") on these objects are closely associated with the object itself.
This separation of concerns, along with other features of Object Orientation such as polymorphism, inheritance, message passing, decoupling and encapsulation, provide a logical and conceptual framework by which the complexity of large programs can be managed in a highly effective way.
As usual I disagree with everyone. Far from giving you tools to manage complexity, OOP creates a huge amount of complexity because it is an inadequate and mathematically bogus paradigm. It confuses programmers no end, to try to model things with OOP that cannot be modelled with OOP.
In my view the seminal work here is Meyer's Object Oriented Software Construction. It details a set of requirements, including one I regard as crucial: the Open-Closed Principle. This says that a thing must be open for extension but closed for use, at the same time.
Meyer proceeds to derive Object Orientation from these requirements, as embodied in Eiffel. Encapsulation provides closure, inheritance open-ness, and the "thing" mentioned is the class.
I regard this work as good science because Meyer was demonstrably wrong, and it is possible because of the quality of his work, to pin point the error and fix it.
The error is making the class, or type, the unit of modularity. That's wrong, and provably so. Even Meyer recognized the problem (called the covariance problem), that OOP cannot handle relations of arity higher than one (that is, OOP works fine for properties but fails on binary relations). In Eiffel, this problem resulted in an unsound in the type system!
The solution is quite clear. The unit of modularity must be bigger than a single type. It must consist of several types, and the methods relating them.
It is hardly surprising that this model of abstraction is backed by the mathematical theory of abstraction, namely category theory: types are objects of a category, and methods (functions) are arrows.
With this model, the representations of several types are known to a set of functions. The representation is hidden from the public, so this is encapulsation, but we use modules, not classes.
The Standard Meta-Language (SML) and Ocaml are based directly on this model. Ocaml also has classes and OOP: it's not useless because OOP gives you dispatch on properties, aka dynamic binding. However most real world problems involve relations and it is hardly surprising classes aren't used much in Ocaml.
It is hardly surprising inheritance is hardly used at all in the C++ Standard template library.
The simple fact is, OOP does not give you the right tools to handle complexity, it doesn't even give you the tools to handle really simple problems, instead it has mislead and confused two generations of programmers. Far from helping, OOP is the most Evil and Bad thing that has happened to programming in since C, Fortran and Cobol started to get tired.
There are many kinds of complexity to software development. At the programming level, OOP seeks to address complexity by using objects and classes to model the problem domain. A well-known guru said problem solving is just representing the problem so that the solution is the representation itself. Hence, by abstraction using classes, encapsulation using access modifiers and methods, inheritance for specifying relationship and reuse, composition in establishing relationship and collaboration between classes, polymorphism as a means to simplify the determination of different behaviors in similar objects, complexity can be managed.
There are also other ways to manage software complexity, for example, Logic (Prolog) and Functional (Haskell) programming.
At a level higher than programming, we need Design Patterns and Principles to guide OOP. Hence OOP is managing complexity at a low (coding) level while these methodologies such as Design Patterns and Principles guide the design of the solution at a higher (system and application) level and make software development and handling complexities more manageable.
To answer your question, yes, OOP is just a solution to handling complexity among many other solutions. It is a solution at a low level. We need Design Patterns and Principles to guide OOP in a higher level.
Object oriented programming manages essential and optional complexity, but does not reduce either.
I prefer the definition provided by Eric Steven Raymond in The Art of Unix Programming, because it delineates between essential, optional, and accidental complexity. http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch13s01.html#id2964646
OOP does nothing for essential or optional complexity, they are a function of the program's requirements. It can have an effect on accidental complexity, in that you can create a more elegant design sometimes with OOP. Sometimes however, the design is worse when using OOP.
Complex problems cannot be rendered simpler through technology, they can only be managed through technology.
OOP is a technology, a concept, and a way to approach a problem.
OOP gives you the tools to enforce a design that can make it easier to manage complexity, but you can just as easily have a bad design that increases your complexity. In other words, if not used properly, you can have technology-induced complexity in your problems.
Keep in mind that there are many other aspects that will dictate how successful your project will be (i.e. project management style, problem definition, change management, etc...). The technology you use is only relevant in how much will it help you manage the problem.
In the end, object oriented programming cannot be a solution to complexity; it's just a tool to manage it. (if used properly)
Object Orientation (as conventionally used) is a useful tool in many circumstances, but it isn't a sufficient solution to complexity.
In particular, it often adds a lot of "incidental complexity". Examples are the complexity surrounding implementation inheritance, the need to provide lots of "standard functionality" suach as equals() and hashCode() etc. A nice presentation by Stuart Halloway on this topic: "Simplicity Ain't Easy"
Objects in most languages also tend to encapsulate a lot of mutable state - which in a concurrent world is increasingly starting to look like a poor design decision. Again an interesting video by Rich Hickey looks at the distinction between object identity and state, and how it might be a mistake to conflate the two.
Object oriented programming is a way of representing a problem, nothing more, nothing less. It is, in and of itself, not any less complex than any other programming paradigm. A well designed OOP system manages and reduces complexity, but it is also very easy to design a system that is much more complex than necessary and gets in the way of everything.
As oft said of C++, OOP gives you enough rope to hang yourself.
I think YES, just because it allows you to slice complexity into small self-containing "building blocks" that hide details, and then use them to create the functionality you need, step by step, layer by layer.
Divide and conquer.
OOP is an attempt at a solution.
The best way to manage complexity is to create abstractions. If I can turn my data into useful collections, with recognizable functions which operate on those collections, I can start thinking about the collections as discrete "things." That's the basis for classes and methods. In that respect, properly designed OOP can help to manage complexity.
Somewhere along the way, someone decided that we could use OOP to help solve the problem of code-reuse. I mean, why reinvent the wheel? If someone else has done much of the work towards solving this problem, leverage what they've done, add the tweaks that your, particular project requires and voila! You've created a powerful, sophisticated application with relatively little work on your part. OO programmers can be very productive programmers.
The end result is that modern OO programmers end up being "sorcerer's apprentices," where they tie together a bunch of large, unwieldy libraries with a few lines of "glue" and get something which works. Sorta. Kinda. Most of the time. Are there potential side-effects from using this library with that one? Maybe. But who has time to really dig into the code contained in those libraries? Especially when the libraries are evolving. The result is that we end up with bloated applications, where a programmer needed a handful of classes and methods from that library, but the app has to carry the weight of all the OTHER stuff they didn't need.
The end result is that you end up with much more complexity than you need.
Another mechanism to deal with complexity that you want to separate functionality. You want all of your data access functions in one place. You want all of your user interface functionality in one place. You want all of your controllers in one place. So you create different classes which manage different parts of the functionality. So far, so good. And this scales, to a degree; your developers who are skilled with data access can write those classes, your user-interface people can write the user-interface classes, etc. All is well and good.
Until you have to maintain something written by someone else.
Yes, it's good to know that all of the data access functions are located here. But what calls them?
This method is calling that method on that class. But when I look at the class definition, there is no method with that name. Oh, that's inherited from something else one or two layers up in the inheritance chain. Wait a minute; that class implemented an interface? How many different classes implement that interface? And we're using some complicated run-time system (I'm looking at you, Spring) to "wire together" instances of classes at run-time? Where ANY class that implements that interface can be used?
You end up with lots of small, discrete methods which do precise things. But this one calls that one, in another class. Which calls that one, in yet another class. Which calls that one, in still another class. Which calls that one, in an additional class. Which returns a result of a particular type. On which you have to call a method to do a certain thing. Which returns a result of another type. Etc.
There's a term for this: spaghetti code.
You end up with a very complex system needed just to compose the code. Hence IDEs like Visual Studio, Eclipse and NetBeans. All of which have a significant learning curve. Indeed, many of them are able to encapsulate/aggregate multiple tools, developed by different groups, each of which have their OWN learning curves.
This is managing complexity?
Debugging code is twice as hard as writing it. Good luck debugging some of this stuff. Especially if it's using multiple libraries, "wired together" at run-time using some kind of dependency-injection system.
In summary: OOP provides what looks like a promising tool to help manage complexity. The reality is the resulting code tends to be horribly bloated (because you can't extract just the pieces you need from all of those linked libraries) and you need sophisticated tools just to navigate the code. It quickly becomes a maintenance nightmare.
IMHO, it's a net loss; it adds more complexity than it eliminates. It does allow you to do things which would be exceedingly difficult, possibly even impossible, without it. But any large project rapidly evolves into an unmaintainable mess.
If you already know how it works, and you can remember that, you might stand a chance at maintaining it.
Remember to apply Eagleson's Law: any code of your own, which you haven't looked at in six months, might as well be written by someone else.
To some degree...
Why? Because it facilitates very logical modularity. At least in comparison to procedural programming where it's all too tempting to just write huge piles of spaghetti code.
The reason Object-oriented programming seems to help us handle complexity is because it forces us to write code in a specific fashion instead of a huge variety of ways. Task-oriented programming is much more intuitive, which is why programming started that way. Object-orientation takes training and practice to understand and use effectively, but by constraining programming into a certain path, it allows those trained to effectively maintain the code that was written.
It's no more logical or real-world than any other method, it's just a way of focusing our problem solving through similar lenses. A lot of technical specialties use the paradigm of a non-intuitive rigid methodology to handle the complexity of their tasks.
A third method to handle complexity would be functional programming, and there will be probably be other new methods in the future also.
i think it's more of a solution to maintainability, because, as a programmer, you are supposed to put methods where you have the data, thus creating an object model of your application.
yes, it's also a solution to complexity by providing a model for you to "see" your code in a natural way, as objects that have properties and possible actions


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We mentioned in a previous article that horses are distantly related to rhinos on the evolutionary tree, and you can tell if you look closely at their feet. Rhinos have three huge toes ...
Whatever. We have six ... what? Guys?
... and horses have just a hoof, but the horse's hoof is actually one giant toe. There was a time in history when each evolved from a common multiple-toed ancestor, and the horse's middle toe evolved into one big one that we're referring to as a hoof. But, once again, occasionally freak horses will be born with multiple toes sticking awkwardly out of the sides of their feet.
Via Stablemade.com
And just as the man with the tail has been worshiped as a mystical being, multiple-toed horses were often regarded as magical status symbols among warriors. Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great were both said to have owned one. The Romans were so impressed by the "toes on a horse thing" that Caesar's was rendered as having at least five, and also a unicorn horn for good measure:
Jacopo di Stefano Schiavone via Theinquisition.eu
This piece is titled "Ew, Freak Horse. Gross."
To be clear, the toes did NOT look like that -- the Romans were so fascinated by horse toes that they just couldn't help going overboard with it.
"... AND ADD MORE TOES TO MY DAMNED HORSE. Also, make that trumpeter's dick smaller."
#2. People With Reptile Hearts
Via Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Imagine you're struck one day with the most crippling chest pains and you race to the hospital, fearing the worst. The doctor tells you that there's good news and bad news. The good news is that you're not having a heart attack. The bad news is that inside your chest beats the cold heart of a reptile.
That's exactly what happened to a 59-year-old man who was admitted to the hospital with mysterious symptoms that had medical professionals puzzled until they gave him an X-ray and found that he had a full-blown case of snake heart -- a reptilian heart with only three chambers, instead of the usual four.
"As you can see here, you are the devil."
Again, this isn't just a freak deformity that happens to resemble a lizard's heart in the body of a man -- studies of the organ found that it was a genuine genetic throwback, a simple case of evolution getting drunk and forgetting which eon it is. Because we know you think we're making this up, let us just quote the scientists:
"In early stages of embryonic development, the human heart resembles that of a fish .... In later stages of development, the human heart -- now with fully separated atria and a partially separated ventricle -- resembles a reptilian heart. ... To our knowledge, this is only the second reported case of an unusual morphologic variant involving a non-mammalian, reptile-like cardiac anatomy ...."
"The patient is unable to speak Parseltongue, but he can read it."
Wait, you mean this has happened more than once?
And while this sounds like the origin story for a supervillain (this was the plot of the Spider-Man reboot, right?), the only superpower the patient got from it was a horrible pain in the chest and a dependence on prescription medication. We're assuming that if he complained, the doctor's only response would have been "Dude, count your blessings. You made it to age 59 with a snake heart."
"Doctor, the transplant has arrived."
#1. People With Multiple Sets of Boobs
Come on, you knew this was where the article was going. Other mammals have multiple breasts, humans are mammals, you can put two and two together.
So, yes, there have been people who were born with more than just the factory standard two breasts. The hilariously named accessory breast syndrome (we're going to guess a male came up with that) is a throwback to an earlier human ancestor who, like other mammals, had several breasts each so that they could feed a whole bunch of offspring at the same time. Humans tend to only give birth to one or two kids at a time, though, so evolution has decided that we only need an upper limit of two boobs per person.
We think it knew that bras are only cute in relation to how much material is used.
But, as with all of the other cases on this list, the genes are still hiding in there somewhere, and occasionally they pop up and decide to award someone the grand prize in the boob lottery.
If you're wondering why Internet porn isn't just packed full of four-breasted women, it's because nature, in her infinite wisdom, made it so that accessory breasts are more common among men than women. It's typically harmless, and the extra breasts often aren't even detectable without an MRI (the thing where some men have an extra nipple is not really the same thing). Women often have them removed because they're in the way (sometimes located in the armpit), and because they probably get tired of dudes who hear about it immediately picturing a Total Recall situation.
Via Crushable.com
Once again, Hollywood sets grossly unrealistic expectations.
For more strange wonders of nature, check out 7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes and 15 Animals You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped.


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Whenever a backup is run, Time Machine says "Preparing Backup...". During this stage, it looks for what files have been changed since the last backup by comparing changes in the Event Log (I assume) with its cache of files on the system.
Because of the cache, the Preparing stage is usually quite fast (30 seconds), but for some reason, sometimes when I restart from Boot Camp (Windows 7) into OS X, Time Machine's cache is wiped clean or corrupted. I know this because the Preparing stage takes 10 minutes after booting back into OS X.
So, that's why I'm wondering where the cache is located so perhaps I could determine why it's sometimes corrupted.


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the coolest chara in KINGDOM HEARTS
who is voiced by some really hot guy.
who is voiced by some really hot guy.
"take care of her"
"the paupu thing? oh, it was just a joke. Yuo should have seen your face!"
"no! you're not gona use me for this! go! the heartless are comming!"
"is that the best you can do?"
"come on sora!"
"the paupu thing? oh, it was just a joke. Yuo should have seen your face!"
"no! you're not gona use me for this! go! the heartless are comming!"
"is that the best you can do?"
"come on sora!"
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a damn sexy beast that every girl wants to do
ex)riku from Kingdom Hearts 2
by unknown33657 October 14, 2006
One of the main characters in the surprisingly popular video game Kingdom Hearts. Riku lives on the Destiny Islands with his best friends Sora and Kairi. He and Sora are rivals yet still friends. They both try to win Kairi's heart but fail in the process. Riku was originally the wielder of the Keyblade but was given to Sora because he opened his heart to darkness.
Open your heart to the darkness!!!
by Laqueefa April 19, 2005
one of the coolest characters from the one of the best games ever, kingdom hearts. HE has silver hair and is the sickest fighter besides sephiroph
When does riku become our age.
by Luccic August 12, 2006
The guy who never gets what he deserves. He doesn't have the power nor the means to get what he wants or protect what he loves. He tranfers to the darkside to get what he desires but gets screwed over anyway by a man named Ansem.
Malicafent: He isn't your friend. He hates your guts.
by Shouko July 31, 2004
Riku is the silver haired 15-year-old guy in Kingdom Hearts (now 16 in the second Kingdom hearts)who was once living a happy life until he joined the Darkside. Now he tries to help Sora along the way even though he is opposite of Sora, yet is still hot and sexy! Kairi, his other friend, should die and go to hell so that Riku can share the paopu fruit with Sora and then they can have a hot, sexy, gay relationship!Also, voiced by David Gallaghar...the kid Simon on 7th Heaven.
"I love Sora. I hate Kairi. There. That explains it all." ~Riku
by Dark_Riku69 January 01, 2006
A Kingdom Hearts character who is considered sex on wheels to many a fangirl. The general consensus is that he will be gay with Sora forever. It's probably true considering he has really girly hair.
Riku is the uke111! no he's the seme cUz he tallers!!1
by what, it's canon October 16, 2006


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I often have slight reflections in my lens when the sun (or another bright source of light) is directly in front of my camera. As a result of this effect I had to change the composition of my picture! What is the right way to avoid reflections when Sun is in front of the camera? Is there any way other than changing the composition?
In general a lens hood can help this, as can shading the lens with your hand (this if useful in the cases where the lens hood falls short of offering optimum flare protection, as is often the case with zooms, or full frame primes on APS-C). Shading only works when the lightsource is outside of the frame, however.
Of course the best way of avoiding flare is by not shooting into the sun (or any other lightsource). But for the times when this is not possible, removing any lens mounted filters may help. Also when upgrading look at reviews that tell you how badly a lens flares, as some are much worse than others! Finally try and use flare as an artistic element in the picture!
This might be obvious but: don't shoot towards the Sun, what's not so obvious is the angle on which your lens "is more sensible to capture the light to the lens flare" varies a lot. Usually wide angle lenses are very prone to this, because they have a protuberant front element and smaller lens hoods
Some lenses are more resistant to this effect than others. Optical construction plays a large part - how many individual lenses are there inside, how are they shaped, how are they coated.


text: Right. Is it just me who has this problem? I have a very vague storyish idea thing that's been around for about 2 years now. Fine, that's not the problem. However, now when i pick up a new book, whether in a library or shop i want it to be MY story. Now i seem incapable of really reading anything because i want it to be something else. MY something else. Is it just me who has this problem and how do i end it? Probably by actually writing the story. Lol


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6 Popular Children's Books That Teach Kids Horrible Lessons
As only buzzkills like us would want to point out, some children's books seem to intentionally traumatize kids with hard adult themes of vice and dysfunction. But those are the exception, not the rule. What about all those other cutesy, cartoony little picture books you find in the beanbag section of the library? The ones that aren't actively teaching kids to idolize crack dealers or mock the disabled? Those are OK, right? Apparently not: Even some of the biggest names in the industry are practically seeding our children's brains with impending personality disorders. Books like ...
#6. Love You Forever
"... but if you flush that Rolex, I'll skin you alive."
In this best-selling picture book, an impish boy tears apart every room in the house and runs his mother ragged. But that's OK, because when she sees him lying there sleeping peacefully, he's impossible not to love. From newborn through the toddler years and beyond, Mommy always finds a chance to sneak into her boy's room, cradle him in her arms and sing a lullaby. Because he will always be her little baby.
"But if he keeps peeing on the carpet, we might have to have him put down."
The Horrible Message:
No, seriously, he will always be her little baby. Until death itself comes to claim his husk from her viselike arms ...
Mommy won't ask what that brown stuff is, even though she knows it hasn't rained in days.
For example, here: We're past the hugging stage now, right? We're pretty sure the tape in his Walkman cassette player is Run-DMC's Raising Hell, and we're almost positive he's going to masturbate into that catcher's mitt later (he's a 13-year-old boy; he's pretty much going to masturbate into everything at least once). So maybe he's getting a little bit old for this stealth coddling stuff, right?
She washes out that catcher's mitt and lovingly places it on her face at night.
No? OK, that's cool. He might start associating his mother's perfume with his wet dreams about Samantha Fox, but it's not like a few mommy issues will turn every kid into Ed Grimley or anyth--
That shirt has "fat Elvis" all over it.
Huh. Well, he's not off to a galloping start, is he? Your high school age son is wearing loafers and doing a Sha-Na-Na fantasy number in front of the cat and his almost certainly deceased friend (human beings do not bend like that, nor do they possess terrifying visages that lifeless). Maybe it's time to lay off the covert cuddles.
At school, he finds himself licking girls' faces. He's been suspended twice.
Or hey, you could also sneak into his bedroom on ... on ... all fours like the creepy girl from The Ring. Jesus, what would you do if he woke up right at this moment? He would never stop screaming.
And what are you going to do when he eventually grows up and moves out of the house? Strap a ladder to the roof of your car, drive across town, break into his house and sneak into his bedroom there, too?
"Sheila? Sheila ... not again. I want a divorce."
Whoa, wait a minute. She's not seriously ...?
He paws at the windows of nursing homes and whispers "Soon."
Wow. Just wow. That's so balls-out crazy stalker-core that even your mentally imbalanced son's bizarre Bed Rodent is trying to escape that mise en scene. So remember: Sleep soundly, kids, because the bellowing furnace of Mommy's uterus will smother every bad dream inside your head ... forever.
#5. The Berenstain Bears and the Bully
Based on the cover art alone, we would have guessed at a much darker story.
Kiddie book mack daddies Stan and Jan Berenstain have sold hundreds of millions of Berenstain Bear books over the decades. With roughly a blazillion titles in the series, the Berenstains were bound to throw in at least one blood-soaked reboot full of violence and retribution, if only to keep the series fresh for their ever-maturing fan base. The Berenstain Bears and the Bully is that book.
"There's a talking time and a face-eating time. This is a face-eating time."
After getting beaten up by a playground bully named Tuffy, darling little Sister Bear nurses cruel revenge fantasies that are a bit excessive, even for the hyperbolic imagination of a slighted child. We hated bullies, too, Sister Bear, but most of our fantasies involved either whupping their ass in front of our karate mentor (a proud Jean-Claude Van Damme) or else besting them in some kind of ski race in front of our ski mentor (also a proud Jean-Claude Van Damme). But Little Sister ain't no punk: She's going to stab the bully with lances, bust her head open with morning stars, crush her with tanks or just straight up kamikaze a plane into her furry ass.
"Boy, I sure am glad thought bubbles aren't visible, otherwise I'd look like a psychopath."
Jesus, when your kid starts fantasizing about suicide-bombing the local bully, don't run to the crayon box to turn it into a heartfelt children's book; call the therapist and start putting locks on the scissors.
The Horrible Message:
But that's not on the Bear family's checklist when they find out about Little Sister's Inigo Montoya-caliber revenge vow. The family instead breaks into two factions: Mama Bear in favor of mealy mouthed avoidance, and everyone else in favor of physical confrontation -- and nobody in favor of contacting school authorities. Because even in the Bear universe, snitches get stitches.
So naturally, Brother Bear's next move is to set up a scrappy Rocky-style training session in the basement with a bag of beans standing in for Tuffy.
"Hit her hard enough in the kidneys and she'll wet her pants. Remember -- shame is half the battle."
When Sister Bear shows up at school the next day, she finds the bully doin' what bullies do (mostly bully stuff), and immediately pops her in the face.
"Oh hey, this feels familiar. My father does this all the time when he's drunk."
Sister Bear's punishment: A warning from the principal. Tuffy's punishment: A loss of recess privileges and twice-weekly visits to the school psychologist. The parents aren't even notified. So Sister Bear gets off scot-free, all of her problems solved by good old vigilante justice.
Now toughened by the streets, she takes to the shadows and unleashes her own brand of justice. She ... is Bearbear.
There's no discipline, no talks about pursuing other means besides violence and certainly no retaliation from the bully. Because you see, kids, no matter how weak you are, it's always a good idea to sucker punch the kids with a history of kicking your ass -- they're sure to back down and not put your little bear muzzle on a curb and American History X your little pink hair bow into the pavement.
#4. The Rainbow Fish
Get used to that lobotomized stare; you'll be seeing it quite a lot.
This here is an award-winning book that subsequently became an HBO Family animated series. In the most fabulous study of loneliness this side of a Liberace biography, the beautiful but vain Rainbow Fish cannot seem to make any friends, because he's just too proud of his bright, shiny scales.
Don't feel sad. Three seconds later he was fine.
But then the wise old Octopus teaches him about sharing. So now he shares all of his scales with all of his new friends, of course!
The Horrible Message:
Unfortunately, those plain fish "friends" of his don't give two squirts of nitrogenous waste about the Rainbow Fish. They never asked if he wanted to swap scales or hang out or anything -- they only asked for his skin, because they thought it was pretty.
"Of course," said the Rainbow Fish, as he screamed in agony.
And the kindly old mentor, the Octopus, didn't step in to stop the Rainbow Fish from sharing the wrong way -- this is exactly what he meant. He doesn't urge the Rainbow Fish to be nice, or take an interest in others, or help out his fellows -- he just hops right to "buy their affections." Here's a no shit, serious, actual quote: "You won't be as beautiful, but you will have friends."
Really, Octopus? Disfigure yourself so your beauty doesn't make them feel insecure? Give them the only property you have to make them like you?
Look at this pathetic slice of pan-fried, crispy, lemony, we've forgotten our point.
He may as well have said "If the other girls are jealous of your looks, just put an iron to your face!" Or "If the other kids don't like you, pawn everything you own and buy them all PlayStations!"
If you're the fish to go to for free flashy fish scales, every schmo in the ocean will be at your door -- not to be your friend, but to get them some free shit. And giving away all of your assets for feigned affection quickly sets a precedent:
Kids: If someone compliments your hair, immediately tear a handful of it out and force it into their pockets. You have now made a friend.
..."and was left with nothing but a pool of vapid, fair-weather friends," is the implied next sentence. Did we learn nothing from every episode of VH1's Behind the Music?


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OWENS, Max L., 83, of Wintersville, died Wednesday, October 24, 2012, at Trinity West.
He was born in Bloomingdale, OH, on May 11, 1929, a son of the late Dorman and Leah (Rulong) Owens.
Max was a gifted welder and attended the Lincoln Electric Company Trade School in Cleveland to further his skills. He was a member of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 490 since 1957, Unionport Lodge 333 F&AM since 1950, American Legion Post 557 since 1954 and Bloomingdale Presbyterian Church since 1961. Max also served for 25 years on the board of Beaver Creek Presbyterian Church Camp.
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During the Korean Conflict, Max served two years at Fort Knox, Kentucky with the 3rd Armored Division as Company Administrator 1st sergeant for troop trainers. Max was an avid auto racing fan and attended the Indy 500 numerous times.
In addition to his parents, Max was preceded in death by brothers, Merle and Jerry Owens; sister, Margaret Jeanne Cornett; granddaughter, Martha Dear; step great-grandchild Elijah Lamp; great-grandchildren, Paisley and Brady Lamp.
He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Kathleen Stevens Owens; sister, Patricia Garafalo; daughters, Ilore (Keith) Wilson and Barbara Logan; beloved grandchildren, Jeremy (Michelle) Wilson and Brittany (Jimmy) Lamp; five wonderful great- grandchildren, Isabella Wilson, Emma and Parker Lamp, Victoria and Terry Dear, Jr.
Friends may call at Dunlope-Shorac Funeral Home, 215 Fernwood Road, Wintersville, OH, today, from 6-9 p.m. Friends may also call on Saturday from 11 a.m. until time of services at noon with Rev. C. Robert Meyer officiating.
Burial will be private. Ohio Valley Veterans Memorial Squad will conduct military honors at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, please consider memorial contributions to: The Children's Bereavement Fund, 108 Aliceland Drive, Wintersville, OH 43953.
Offer condolences at www.shorac.com


text: Menswear mavens Robert Godley and Robert Goldman launched Psycho Bunny, their line of luxe-but-twisted men's clothing and accessories, with a batch of handmade silk ties emblazoned with a crazed skull-and-crossbones rabbit. It wasn't long before the designing duo plastered their bunny on a cashmere scarf, striped socks, pure cotton rugby and polo shirts, and other men's essentials. Subversive but sophisticated, Psycho Bunny's clothes come with all the hallmarks of quality: mother-of-pearl buttons, imported Italian fabric, and — naturally — a skull with rabbit ears. Don't miss the brand's comfy and casual board shorts and T-shirts, available in colors ranging from bubblegum pink to turquoise.


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I started installing an application from the App Store but forgot to check its size. When I check now, it is 50 MB. Now I don't want to download that application any more because I'm on 3G plan which is costly. I paused it but don't know how to delete it. Can anyone help me on how to delete a paused app download?
If you can't delete the paused download (which, I'm thinking, suggests you aren't on the most recent release of iOS), then the simplest option that doesn't require a restore is going to be to find a WiFi hotspot and let the app finish downloading. Personally, I'd go that route (especially if out-and-about or on vacation, etc.) before wiping my data and having to restore again.
Alternatively, leave it on paused until you get home to your primary network. Your phone doesn't care two cents about your paused app downloads, so it shouldn't get in the way of anything.
I can confirm that paused downloads get removed by rebooting in iOS 5.
I've successfully deleted them like any other app: press and hold on the icon until all of the icons start shaking, tap the X in the red circle on the icon and confirm the deletion, then press the hardware Home button to end deletion mode.
I will say that these have all been apps that failed to complete downloading, nothing that I've intentionally paused, but I'd think it would be the same.
Slide left on download and delete.
We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer; explain why your answer is right, ideally with citations. Answers that don't include explanations may be removed.


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Why does the sky change color? Why the sky is blue during the day, red during sunrise/set and black during the night?
Why does the sky change color? Why the sky is blue during the day, red during sunrise/set and black during the night?
The keywords here are Rayleigh scattering. See also diffuse sky radiation.
But much more simply, it has to do with the way that sunlight interacts with air molecules. Blue light is scattered more than red light, so during the day when we look at parts of the sky that are away from the sun, we see more blue than red. During sunset or sunrise, most of the light from the sun comes towards the earth at a sharp angle, so now the blue light is mostly scattered away, and we see mostly red light.
The Rayleigh scattering is one element of the solution, as j.c. explained.
However, when there is dust in the air (for instance after a volcano sends huge quantities of tiny rock particles into the sky, like what happened with Eyjafjallajökull, or because of sand or smoke particles), you might have noticed that the sunsets happen to be more colourful.
This is caused by another related light scattering effect, known as the Tyndall effect.
Here is my older text "Mix your own reflection nebula" describing a related experiment:
"The physical process that cause the blue color of dust nebulae (like those in the Pleiades) can be demonstrated by a splendid experiment mentioned in The Feynman Lectures On Physics. You need just a beaker (or an ordinary glass) and two common chemical substances, dilute sulfuric acid ($H_2SO_4$) and sodium thiosulfate ($Na_2S_2O_3$), hypo used in photography to fix developed films. Be cautious while handling the acid – though dilute, it's still caustic. The other slight drawback of the demonstration is that a chemical reaction produces smelly sulfur oxid but luckily in a negligible amount.
If you mix three teaspoons of the thiosulfate into one litre of water and add a dozen drops of the acid, you get a colorless and clear liquid which doesn't look much remarkable. However, after a few seconds it gets light blue. The color first becomes brighter, then fades, and the liquid finally gets a milky appearance, being cloudy and white (if it's yellow, the acid or the thiosulfate solution were too concentrated and the experiment should be repeated).
These changes are due to the scattering of white light on grains of sulfur which are being eliminated from the mixture and gradually grow in size. At the beginning, they are tiny and intensity of the scattered light is inversely proportional to the fourth power of its wavelength. This means that blue light with the wavelength of 450 nm is preferred against red light, which typically has 650 nm, by a factor (650/450)4, roughly 4.4. The same process, called Rayleigh scattering, is responsible for sky blue of the Earth's atmosphere. In this case, sunlight is scattered by another type of inhomogeneities, microscopic density fluctuations which arise from the chaotic thermic motion of molecules. When dimensions of the motes become comparable with the wavelength, the scattering is still selective but not so much. Approximately, intensity of the scattered light is now inversely proportional to the wavelength itself. This applies to dust particles in reflection nebulae or cigarette smoke. At the end, the sulfur grains are so large that they no longer favor any particular wavelength of the optical spectrum and the scattered light is white. An everyday example are water droplets in sunlit clouds.
To make the demonstration really impressive, put the beaker on an overhead projector and mask the rest with a sheet of opaque cardboard which has a hole in it fitting the beaker's bottom. Such an arrangement ensures ideal lighting and first of all allows you to watch the light that passes through the solution and appears as a bright spot on a screen. Being increasingly impoverished of the blue constituent scattered aside, it changes from white through yellow and orange to red, and finally fades away, just like the sun setting in evening haze. Similar reddening (in actual fact de-blueing, as David Malin points out) affects the light of stars observed through interstellar dust."
I am afraid that an overhead projector, an optical device frequently used by lecturers in 1990s, when this article has been written, are gone. Any idea of a substitute?
I would like to point out this video by minutephysics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5P6O0pDyMU
so far the better and simpler explanation of the color of the sky. It takes into account also color theory (not particle physics of course) and not just scattering.