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Simplest menu using CSS
Many web designers I met had problems while creating menus, specially which contains nested sub menus.
In some cases it is a real pain, but in most of cases it is simple, and the problem come when the designer start to implement the simple menu the hard wrong way, it will take ages from him to implement a simple menu while it just need few lines of css code.
Also he may think it can't be done without javascript and jquery.
Try to think simple while writing your next menu and may be you will need my code as a starting point for a more complex menu.
What I am listing here is a very simple menu, putting in mind that this menu may contain infinite number of submenus.
Lets start with html:

Main 1 >

Sub 1 >>

Sub 2 >>

Sub SUB 1

Sub SUB 2

Sub SUB 3

Sub 3

Main 2 >

Sub 1

Sub 2

Sub 3

Main 3 >

Main 4 >

This html use UL and LI to draw the menu html, you can use divs instead of UL and LI, this will not cause a problem.
The only hint I can point about the previous html code is that the sub menus html are inside the parent menu html.
Such as 'Sub 1 >>' is inside the parent 'Main 1', this will make our job easier.
Next CSS:
ul li ul li { clear: both; } li { list-style-type: none; float: left; margin: 0 10px; cursor: pointer; width:100px; } li ul { display: none; padding: 0; } li:hover > ul { display: block; }
The most important lines for us are starting from line 15, everything before this is just for making things looks better and formatted better.
As you see it is just 4 lines of code to make the menu functional, the trick exists in line 21, which will show the UL which exists under any LI and the user hovered on it, and the '>' means that we will show just the first level of UL not all nested UL.
Feel free to add more nested submenus and see how simple it is.
it's weekend, facebook shoooooooo
I am not using facebook that much, I just open it for few moments everyday to check my friends news, But rarely I put a status or upload a picture there.
The question I have is: why employees get angry when their companies decide to block facebook during working hours?
By the way I don't respect a company which do this, this is the last last step after many discussions with their employees.
After monitoring facebook, and my friends activities during all week days, I can say that: the number of posts on facebook get 95% down in weekends, get 50% down after working hours, and really the peak time for facebook is during the working hours. "all numbers are estimated and just based on my own experience"
In my point of view, the employer pay us salaries to get from us work, for example he pays us 100$ per week to work 40 hours per week, 8 hours per day, so our salary = 40 hours work including a rest hour per day.
So if you take all this time daily on facebook or chatting, do you think you deserve this salary? "if the answer yes: sorry this post came to you by mistake discard it "
Other notes:
I know many workers I worked with, facebook is a permanent browser tab, never close it.
I know others, just open facebook on weekends "may be something bad also for their families "
Avoid sending Ajax request parameters in query string style
While reviewing some code, I found someone calling jQuery Ajax like this:
type: "POST",
url: "/AddPost",
data: "postText="+ PostText ,
dataType: "json",
success: function (status) {
}); //$.ajax({
And as you see in the previous code, it is sending the data using this line: data: "postText="+ PostText ,
This is like a query string style, this will work well but image the user inserted a special char in PostText, such as ?? you will get on the server un expected value ""jQuery15107041011152323335_1309357585354″"
So never use this style while dealing with Ajax calls, you need to post it in JSON style like this:
type: "POST",
url: "/AddPost",
data: { postText: PostText },
dataType: "json",
success: function (status) {
}); //$.ajax({
This will work whatever char the user will insert.
EF 4.1 Released
The final Release to Web (RTW) of Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 (EF 4.1). This is a fully supported, go-live release.
Javascript based Data Grids
I found in this blog post some good javascript based grids http://www.queness.com/post/7300/7-robust-and-feature-packed-javascript-grid-plugins
Here are their links:
2- http://www.webismymind.be/editablegrid/
3- http://www.trirand.com/blog/
4- http://tablesorter.com/docs/
6- https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid/wiki
Ajax loading gif images generator
I used to use this web site http://www.ajaxload.info/ to generate ajax loading gif images.
Today I found another nice website and it gave me more options to generate custom images: http://preloaders.net
another simple tool: http://fgnass.github.com/spin.js/
List of Colors in System.Drawing.Color
Few lines of code to print all System.Drawing.Color colors on a web page.
loop on System.Drawing.Color using KnownColor
Label lblColor; Label lblColorName; Panel pnlColorRow; string[] colorNames = System.Enum.GetNames(typeof(KnownColor)); foreach (string colorName in colorNames) { pnlColorRow = new Panel(); Color color = Color.FromName(colorName); lblColor = new Label(); lblColor.BackColor = color; lblColor.Style.Add("display", "block"); lblColor.Style.Add("width", "50px"); lblColor.Style.Add("height", "50px"); lblColor.Style.Add("float", "left"); lblColorName = new Label(); lblColorName.Text = color.Name; lblColorName.Style.Add("display", "block"); lblColorName.Style.Add("width", "50px"); lblColorName.Style.Add("height", "50px"); lblColorName.Style.Add("float", "left"); pnlColorRow.Height = 70; pnlColorRow.Controls.Add(lblColor); pnlColorRow.Controls.Add(lblColorName); this.pnlColors.Controls.Add(pnlColorRow); }
How to hide users files and folders on your website?
Sometimes you want to hide some files or folders on your website, so that no one can access them directly.
If you have an upload feature in your website, and your website users upload their files or images to your website, It will not be nice to let other users see others files by guessing the URL.
For example: Your website uploaded files directory is "UsersUploads" and you put there all the users files, so one file url will be www.example.com/UsersUploads/File1.pdf, another will be www.example.com/UsersUploads/File2.doc .
Now a user can guess the URL and access others files specially if your files names are easy to guess.
There are two solutions for doing that:
1- You can put your "UsersUploads" folder outside the website directory, so if your website exist on "c:\website\example.com" you can put the "UsersUploads" there "c:\UsersUploads", Like that IIS has no control over this folder and its files, And your website code will still have access to this directory as a normal physical path.
2- Stop IIS from serving this folder:
IIS by default doesn't server some website folders and files such App_Data, App_Code, bin, App_GlobalResourses, App_LocalResources, Web.config,….
You can configure IIS to stop serving some more files or folder inside your website folders by Adding a new Hidden Segment.
– Select your website in IIS, and open Request Filtering.
– Go to Hidden Segments tab.
– In the right Actions panel click on "Add Hidden Segment…".
– Write there the file or folder name you want to hide.
– This will edit your website web.config file and add the following:
<system.webServer> <security> <requestFiltering> <hiddenSegments> <add segment="UsersUploads" /> hiddenSegments> requestFiltering> security>
Now users can't access this folder directly by guessing the URL.
Note that you can do this manually without the IIS by editing your website web.config file and put there the same values.
I believe that there are more ways to accomplish the same thing, but these are 2 easy ways.


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Australian Central Bank Adds Twitter to Armory
By Geoffrey Rogow
SYDNEY–The Reserve Bank of Australia on Wednesday added Twitter to its armory of communications as the surging Australian dollar and resources boom put more global focus on the machinations of the Pacific nation's central bank.
The bank said using the social-media site (under the handle @RBAInfo) will enable it to communicate better with the media and broader public, though by Wednesday afternoon the bank had yet to tweet. The initiative is part of a communications blitz by the central bank in the past two years, including the decision to post the audio and text of most governor and assistant governors' speeches. In addition, the bank now has multiple RSS feeds on its website to enable visitors to more easily find research and comments.
"It will be used for some of our announcements, like speeches or a [statement on monetary policy], letting people know that these are now up on our website," said a spokesman for the bank about the new Twitter feed.
The closely watched RBA is joining a growing list of central banks and U.S. Federal Reserve branches using Twitter as a mode of communication. Twitter, which was created in 2006 and now has more than 450 employees, lets people share messages of 140 characters or less in length. The firm has recently expanded into advertising as its popularity has surged. According to The Wall Street Journal, there have been recent low level talks between the company and fellow Internet giants Facebook Inc. and Google Inc., with potential suitors providing an estimated valuation of US$8 billion to US$10 billion.
The RBA said the addition of Twitter is part of a broader strategy to facilitate greater access to information. In the past, the bank was criticized for not publishing policy meeting minutes, failing to publish the rationale that underpinned changes, and even releasing the interest rate decision publicly a day after the decision was made. The bank has since addressed these issues.
These improvements have been welcomed by the market, particularly in the past 18 months given the bank has raised interest rates seven times since October 2009 to stave off a mining boom estimated to bring in about 120 billion Australian dollars (US$123 million) a year of cash into the country's resources sector. Those rate increases and the potential for further moves are partly behind a surging Australian dollar, currently trading at US$1.0287–just off its post-float high of US$1.3017 hit earlier Wednesday.
"The RBA has made a big shift to more transparency and that is welcome," said Matthew Robinson, senior economist at Moody's Analytics.
To be sure, Robinson and others say there remains some level of concern about the predictability of the bank. In February last year, all 22 economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires forecast a 25 basis point rate increase from the central bank at its meeting — a forecast that proved false when the bank held rates steady.
"They've been good lately but you certainly don't want a central bank shocking markets. They need to be predictable," added Robinson.

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Student groups in Quebec are scheduled to meet with the province's education minister to resume negotiations over tuition hikes that have provoked more than 100 days of sustained protest.
The president of FEUQ, the largest student group involved in the talks, predicts the negotiations could put an end to the student strikes. Some student groups have demanded a tuition freeze while others appear to be willing to accept a compromise of lower tuition increases. —ARK
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Representatives from the three student groups involved in the conflict will travel to Quebec City for the negotiations, due to take place at 2pm on Monday, for what could be a week of negotiation, according to one student leader.
It will be the fourth round of discussions as both sides bid to come to agreement over the government's proposal to increase university fees by $325 a year for five years. The proposals sparked a strike and huge protests in Quebec, which have been fuelled by the government introducing a draconian law which restricts people's rights to demonstrate.
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We've been looking at some of the useful features that Nokia can bring to Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system – from music to cameras. Another way that Nokia could take the OS forward would be the introduction of dual-SIM smartphones. Join us after the break to find out more…
Since Nokia announced its partnership with Microsoft, which will see the the Finnish company producing smartphones with the Windows Phone OS on them, we've been thinking of ways that Nokia can differentiate itself from other Windows Phone manufacturers.
We've already looked at high-end features, such as the 12-Megapixel camera on the Nokia N8, and music playback capabilities, but we also think Nokia has lots to offer the operating system in more simple ways. For a start, there's currently no dual-SIM handset in the Windows Phone line-up.
Dual-SIM phones are the ideal products for those with hectic lifestyles. They let you connect two SIM cards at the same time, so you can make or take phone calls from two separate numbers. That means there's no need to carry both a work phone and a normal handset – you can have two in one – and still keep all of your contacts in separate places if necessary.
Nokia has a history of producing dual-SIM handsets – such as the Nokia C2. With a hot-swappable second SIM card, the Nokia C2 lets you easily swap cards on the move, which is also perfect for using the handset in different countries.
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Panthers say leaked documents paint 'incomplete picture'
The Panthers say the financial documents leaked and posted by Deadspin paint an "incomplete picture" of the team's financial situation.
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With the Panthers currently in the early stages of a battle to secure partial public funding for renovations to Bank of America Stadium -- and new Governor Pat McCrory declining to offer up state funds -- the last thing the team wants is documents detailing their profitability leaking out to the public.
So ... yeah. Deadspin posting financials for the Panthers' 2011 and 2012 fiscal years and writing that the team was "making more than $100 million in profit over the fiscal years covering those two seasons" won't do Carolina any favors on the public front.
The team responded Thursday to the post on Deadspin, which included the actual financial documents produced by accounting firm Deloitte and Touche (who probably will not be called for Jerry Richardson's next accounting job).
"The Deadspin story presents an incomplete picture of the Carolina Panthers profitability. The figures offer an isolated snapshot of the team's financial situation during an unusual time as the NFL lockout loomed," the team said in a statement. "At the time, the team had strategically reduced its spending because of the uncertainty and as part of a long-term plan to secure the team's best talent once a collective bargaining agreement had been reached.
"The team's actual operating cash flow, even before federal and state tax payments were made, was significantly less than the accounting income reported in the story. The most meaningful reflection of a company's profitability is cash flow, and the team's operating cash flow fluctuated between pre-tax figures of $26.7M in fiscal year 2011 and $39.8M in fiscal year 2012.
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- Central Eurasian Studies >> Courses >> Course List
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The introductory-level Hungarian course is designed to enable students to converse about simple personal and social topics, and read and write short texts. This one-year course intends to cover all the basic sentence patterns in present tense and to introduce a wide range of everyday topics. The goal is to make students familiar with the fundamental structure of the Hungarian language as well as to enable them to use the material covered in class with an appropriate level of comfort and confidence. The material also provides general information about Hungarian lifestyle, society, and culture.
In the second semester, the daily classes focus on the following: listening to and conducting conversations, intonation exercises, grammar exercises and writing simple dialogues and essays. Topics include: traveling, work, housing, shopping, the post office and bank, and family. In order to provide a guideline for further study, possessive structures and sentences, in addition to indefinite and definite verb conjugations, are emphasized.
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Hlavacska, Edit; et al. Hungarolingua 1 - Magyar nyelvkönyv. Debrecen, 1996.
Hlavacska, Edit; et al. Hungarolingua 1 - Nyelvtani munkafüzet. Debrecen, 2001.
In addition to the material covered by the course book, related sources, other textbooks, and authentic Hungarian texts will provide extra material to the course.
Requirements: regular class attendance and active participation; daily homework; weekly quizzes; a midterm and final exam.


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These pictures of awesome (and awesomely bad) October 31st get-ups will crack you up.
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Vanishing World: From 1935 to 1938, Vishniac documented Eastern European Jewish life, such as this image of Cheder boys in Carpathian Ruthenia, in what would become the last extensive photographic record by a single photographer of communities that had existed for centuries.
Roman Vishniac is best known for his emotional photographs of Eastern European Jewish communities prior to World War II.
He was also a widely respected scientific photographer, whose groundbreaking work in photomicroscopy continued throughout his life.
Born and raised in Russia, Vishniac immigrated to Weimar Berlin in the 1920s, where he became an accomplished social documentarian and recorded the changes occurring in prewar German society.
Between 1935 and 1938, Vishniac was commissioned by the European headquarters of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to photograph impoverished Jewish life in Eastern Europe for use in fund-raising. Carefully curated, edited and captioned to reflect the JDC's mission, the small percentage of Vishniac's images that were published defined these communities largely in terms of hardship, isolation and piousness. After the war, Vishniac's photographs, and especially his book A Vanished World were widely recognized as an iconic portrayal of Eastern European Jewish life.
After Vishniac's passing in 1990, one third of his archive was donated to the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. Through a careful review of his original negatives, Vishniac scholar and ICP adjunct curator Maya Benton discovered that life among pre-Holocaust Jews was much more than a one-sided portrayal. In fact, the bulk of the archive reveals Jewish life as being plentiful, diverse and integrated with other communities. As a result, Vishniac's place in photography, as well as prewar Jewish history in general, is now being recontextualized in a wider view.
Vishniac's daughter, Maya Vishniac Kohn, recently gifted ICP with the balance of her father's archive of 10,000 negatives, 12,000 prints, correspondence and personal documents. The current exhibition "Roman Vishniac Rediscovered," on view at ICP until May 5, 2013, offers a significant first glance at the breadth of Vishniac's work from the early 1920s through the 1950s.
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Merchurst's Blair, Rawding earn PSAC West baseball weekly honors
Mercyhurst seniors Zak Blair and Ben Rawding earned PSAC West baseball player and pitcher of the week, respectively.
Blair leads the team with a batting average of .450 with 27 hits in 60 at-bats. Blair is also leading the Lakers in runs (12), doubles (six), slugging percentage (.550) and on-base percentage (.507).
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Melissa Dominy and Jennifer Stevens must raise $4,800 to qualify for the Susan G. Komen three day walk, which is 60 miles.
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They rallied everyone they could to wash cars and sell baked goods Sundays as they work toward an unforgettable experience.
"People sit out on their lawns every two to three houses and they're thanking you and hugging you and bringing you water," Jennifer Stevens said. "It's really amazing you feel like you are doing something that's making a difference."
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One can make a ritual of daily walks on the beach to view the spectacular paintings across the sky. The sunsets in Rincon are Puerto Rico's best. Always dazzling, the colors will vary from deep blues and oranges to salmons, corals, pinks, and purples. Stunning. A daily activity, for sure.


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China's Pixar Hires U.S. Talent, Raises Fresh Funds
A year-old Chinese animated-film studio has hired former employees of U.S. powerhouses such as Pixar, while raising $20 million in the latest round of venture-capital funding.
Light Chaser Animation Studios in Beijing now employs about 130 people — including some Westerners as well as over 20 Chinese "returnees" who have worked overseas in U.S. and French animated film industries. The studio plans to increase its staff to 160 by August, according to founder Gary Wang, a Chinese Internet entrepreneur who previously co-founded online video site Tudou in 2005.
Wang first announced his plan to launch a film studio in an interview with The Wall Street Journal last March.
Venture capital firms GGV Capital and Chengwei Capital led the latest round of funding, which closed earlier this month. Light Chaser plans to complete the production of its first feature-length 3-D animated film, called Little Door Spirits, by July 2015.
Light Chaser's films, according to Wang, tell stories written for Chinese audiences, but using technology and skills comparable to the likes of Pixar.
"Companies live and die, but I want to create something that can last longer," Wang says.
Onine video-sharing website Tudou, his previous startup, was absorbed by rival firm Youku in a 2012 merger.
If Light Chaser delivers on its promises, it could spearhead a new era of Chinese-made animated films. While China is the world's second-largest movie market after the U.S. with numerous domestic production studios for live-action films, its animation industry is still in its infancy with skills far behind established U.S. studios.
Recruiting talent hasn't been easy. In early 2013, Wang says flew to California twice and met more than 100 people in the U.S. film industry. Most of them didn't want to move their families to China, and Beijing's bad air pollution didn't help, Wang recalls. From his first trips, Wang managed to hire three U.S. industry veterans – two Chinese-born animators and an American who had worked at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic.
The potential market for Light Chaser is expanding. China's overall movie market, including box office and other revenue, grew 32% last year and is projected to grow another 33% this year, according to a report released this month by research firm Entgroup. Still, Light Chaser will likely face tough competition from Western animation studios that are trying to reach Chinese audiences. Some U.S. films, like DreamWorks' "Kung Fu Panda" franchise, have already proven popular with Chinese audiences in recent years.
Foreign-made animated films with Chinese themes aren't the same as homegrown films that the Chinese can call their own, says Foo Jixun, Shanghai-based managing partner of GGV Capital, which invests in Light Chaser. "The face of it may be Chinese, but deep down, it's not necessarily Chinese," Foo says.
In March, Light Chaser released its first short film, called "Little Yeyos," on its YouTube channel. The three-minute film, directed by Wang, features chubby-faced fairies in traditional Chinese baby clothes playing at night in a spiritual world that looks like a forest. The film doesn't have much of a plot, but it does demonstrate what the studio can do in terms of character design, movements and effects.


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Study at the University of Tokyo: A Tradition of Excellence. As a leading research university with over 4,000 faculty and nearly 30,000 students, the UTokyo offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to providing students with a learning environment that is ideal for both intellectual development and professional skills attainment, the University is known worldwide for the cutting edge research undertaken within our institutions.
GraSPP was established in 2004 with a mission to bridge the gap between academic learning and public policy practices. Academic staff and private / public sector policy practitioners work closely together to connect social science theory to real world problems. In the modern globalized world, effective policy-making requires an international perspective. This, coupled with strong foundational academic training, is what we seek to provide our student body in preparation for careers spanning government, business, and the public sector. Despite a short history, GraSPP is now recognized as a leading public policy school in Japan. More than a third of the GraSPP graduates have been placed in various Japanese government ministries.
For the JISPA scholars, the UTokyo offers the 2-year Master of Public Policy, International Program (MPP/IP), which was launched in October 2010. An extensive and diverse menu of courses in English are offered to learn cutting edge approaches to the public policy arena from internationally renowned faculty members at the University of Tokyo. Student groups and school organized extra-curricular activities are combined events, allowing for increased social and scholarly exchange between Japanese-stream and English-stream MPP students. Furthermore, MPP/IP students are also able to take courses in other graduate schools (provided language proficiency requirements are met).
Three UTokyo Graduate Schools (Public Policy, Economics, and Law and Politics) contribute the core teaching staff of the MPP/IP; although other Schools and Research Institutes also provide courses which integrate with the program. The school boasts expertise in macroeconomic and monetary or financial economics, thanks to faculty members with a breadth of applied experience from organizations such as the IMF, the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and the Council for Economic and Fiscal Policy. Located in central Tokyo, the university is able to exploit its proximity to corporate headquarters and public ministries to attract many prominent speakers and practitioners to the program.
The GraSPP curriculum encompasses a wide range of public policy sub-fields including microeconomics, macroeconomics, policy process studies, governance and development. The JISPA scholars are required to complete 46 units in two years (please see a course listing for details).
First Year: In the first year, students are expected to take most of the required core courses as well as one or two case studies.
Second Year: In the second year, on top of taking other elective courses, students focus on writing a research paper/thesis frequently focusing on topics examined in case study courses to apply to policymaking in the context of their home countries.
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Elective courses cover a range of topics, including Development Economics: Macroeconomic Approach, Asian Financial Markets, Theory and Empirics of Unconventional Monetary Policy, Development Finance, and Asian Economic Development and Integration. GraSPP also hosts a Public Policy Seminar Series, inviting world leaders in government, academic and business fields to deliver lectures on current public policy issues.
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Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent from a recognized/accredited university and are expected to possess high English language proficiency to be able to pursue studies. A minimum TOEFL score of PBT 570 (CBT 230, iBT89) or IELTS 6.0-6.5 is expected. A strong undergraduate background and/or evidence of experience with public policy issues in economic management are also required.
Successful candidates for GraSPP are additionally required to complete and pass the formalities of admissions process for the GraSPP, the UTokyo. A separate application form must be filled out and submitted to the MPP/IP Admissions Office, following the instructions from the university after the JISPA final selection in mid-April 2016. The application form is downloadable on the UTokyo website.
The main campus of the university is located in Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo and occupies about 56 hectares of the former Kaga Yashiki, the Tokyo estate of a major feudal lord. Parts of the seventeenth century landscaping of the original estate have been preserved to provide greenery and open space.
The University of Tokyo Library System is composed of about 40 libraries, including the General Library, the Komaba and Kashiwa Libraries, and departmental libraries. The General Library is the system's main coordinating body. Each faculty / institution library has a large number of materials in their specialized fields.
GraSPP's International Student Adviser provides student support services to help students complete their enrolment and arrange for visas. It also helps coordinate applications for student dormitories or helps students to find accommodation through private real estate firms.
Japanese Language Courses: The University of Tokyo's International Center offers a variety of Japanese language courses for international students. For further information, please visit the website: http://www.nkc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_e.html
In addition to the Japanese language courses above, GraSPP offers its own Japanese courses (no credits earned) from beginners to intermediate levels. The size of the class is normally 5-7 students.
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Further information on the program can be found on the following website at http://www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/mppip/


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Bit late to the game on this but on Monday evening Paul Walsh is hosting a very interesting and what looks to be a very impressive evening called Curry 2.0 where a bunch of folks will compete with each other over good food by pitching their idea, not to a suit, but to a waiter. Sounds fun. There's a nice lineup too. It being a school night, I won't be able to go up there but were I able to I'd be going to this networking event. I think a few journalists might go along and I'm emailing a few I know to see are they interested.
Now back to Cork and on the topic of booze. Tom Raftery is hosting an OpenDrinks event on Saturday July 14th at which Jennifer Pahlka, one of the organisers of the European Web 2.0 Expo, will be attending.
Then there's all those OpenCoffee events in Cork, Limerick and Dublin. Great to see more and more good networking events happen.
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BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. – Work at Reckless Motorcycles' manufacturing operation skidded to a halt Tuesday after county officials issued a stop work order for the business.
Officials issued the order based on Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and fire code violations, Blount County Mayor Ed Mitchell told the Daily Times. The infractions alleged were inadequate ventilation, no running water and improper storage of chemicals inside the old boat factory Reckless occupied.
The company was also found to be operating at a second site without a permit and without telling county officials of the move, Mitchell said.
Reckless Motorcycles sells fairings for American and Japanese motorcycles and luggage for a variety of bikes. Johan Fourie, location operation manager for Reckless, said the company has eight employees producing fiberglass fairings at the former boat plant. The county order idles them until the building is up to code.
A disgruntled employee tipped authorities to the alleged violations, Mitchell said. The county does not plan to assess fines, and Reckless will voluntarily shut down the second location.
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2006 ITF World Champion
Roger has been elected 2006 ITF World Champion. He is only the fourth player to be named Men's World Champion for three consecutive years, following Björn Borg, Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras.
Roger said: "I am honoured to be ITF World Champion for the third year in a row. It was a great year for me, finishing again as the world No. 1, winning 12 titles including three Grand Slams and reaching my first final at Roland Garros. The ITF Dinner in Paris is always a good evening and will give me another chance to celebrate my successful 2006 with the other World Champions and my friends in the tennis family."
This year, Roger reached all four Grand Slam finals, winning the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open. He posted an overall 92-5 win-loss record, and became the first player to earn over $8 million in annual prize money. Roger also helped Switzerland retain its place in the World Group of Davis Cup by BNP Paribas.
ITF President Francesco Ricci Bitti said: "Roger Federer was again the clear choice for ITF World Champion after another extraordinary season. In an extremely close women's contest, Justine Henin-Hardenne's overall consistency at the year's major events saw her emerge as champion."
The ITF announced that Justine Hénin-Hardenne (BEL) is the female World Champion and that Bob and Mike Bryan (USA) and Lisa Raymond (USA) and Samantha Stosur (AUS) are the 2006 ITF Doubles World Champions.
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End of the year , you getting and deserving many awards champ !
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Tennis is reaching another LEVEL with your untouchable tennis and your genuine effortless attitude.
As the fan JLH said, my dear Roger, don't forget the POSITIVE energy, the vital ki, the love from almost 100,000 fans
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Check out behind the scenes footage from the set of August Alsina and fellow Def Jam labelmate Trinidad James' upcoming video 'I Luv This Shit'. The visual was shot in Atlanta by Motion Family and is set to debut this month.
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For some viewers, just the word "sequel" is cringe-worthy. Whenever we venture out to the theaters to support the latest release from our favorite franchise, we're armed with the knowledge that we're either going to come out of it extremely let down and disappointed, or clawing our faces for more. Some of us are willing to take that chance, because while the formula for a successful sequel is tricky, it can be done right! Now You See It weighs in on the matter with a video essay: What Makes a Sequel Good? (more…)
Humanity's understanding of reality was shattered when we received the news that a critically panned, yet highly profitable cinematic adaptation of a cartoon/toy line from the 1980s would get a sequel. Confused, panicked civilians took to the streets, looting and rioting as they screamed "WHY???" and asked what kind of God could allow this… (more…)
Remember the dignity and the gravitas of the above scene in Simon West's Con Air? Where madman Cyrus The Virus (John Malkovich) threatens the life of the stuffed rabbit badass Army Ranger Cameron Poe (Nicholas Cage) bought for his daughter?
Well, say goodbye to this kind of serious, intelligent filmmaking if West has his way. The director has recently admitted that he'd like to set a sequel to his modern classic in space!
1997's Con Air made $223 mil. at the box-office worldwide, and has become utterly ubiquitous on cable and broadcast television–odds are, it's playing right now somewhere. Follow me after the jump for the bewildering plans Simon West has for Con Air 2: (more…)
In just about 3 years, another film in the POTC franchise will take what it can–which, based on history, could be as much as a billion dollars worldwide–and give nothing back, except a reasonably entertaining two hours or so.
Perhaps solely to remind us that they STILL do things other than Star Wars and superheroes, Disney has decided to continue the lucrative franchise with a fifth installment tentatively subtitled "Dead Men Tell No Tales".
As for who will make up this outing's cast, we have no information as of yet–though all 4 installments have thus far starred Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, and Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa, so the return of one or both of them is more or less assured…..and frankly, I don't see how you could even consider making a POTC film without Depp–but then, I didn't think they could (or should) make one without Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley….More after the jump: (more…)
It's still over a week until Transformers: Age of Extinction makes us fall in love with Bay-hem all over again, but rest assured, Trans4mers won't be the last "robots in disguise" movie to roll out in the multiplex if Paramount Pictures has there way. At the CineEurope conference in Barcelona, Spain studio bigwigs laid out their plans, and future Transformers films have a big part to play in those plans. Yes fans, in 2016, it's time to bring on Tran5formers. (Spelling intentional. And trademarked. Probably not by us.) (more…)
As James Cameron toils away in pre-production for the back-to-back-to-back Avatar sequels nobody asked for (can we even find a legit fan of these films any longer?), questions have swirled around the three upcoming pictures. What are they even about, and who from the original cast will even return for the second, third and fourth go-rounds?
Well, confirmation from one major cast member has come, as Sigourney Weaver says that she will, indeed, be returning for all three Avatar sequels.
Zack Snyder's highly anticipated Man of Steel sequel Batman Vs. Superman (as it is currently known) has just signed 300: Rise of an Empire's Callan Mulvey, Tao Okamoto of The Wolverine, and Oscar-winner Holly Hunter–best known for Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou?, and as the voice of The Incredibles' Elastigirl.
For further details, you know what to do. (more…)
With the newest and, so it seems, most ambitious entry in the X-Men film franchise less than two months away, six new featurettes have been released in anticipation of X-Men: Days of Future Past's imminent arrival. These featurettes are a combination of set tours, interviews, and explanations of plot details–with snippets of actual film footage sprinkled here and there.
See more after the jump–and beware of minor spoilers: (more…)
Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog was judged by yours truly to be the nerdiest musical ever made. If you have not seen it, then look it up…NOW. It's only about 45 minutes long–I'll be here when you're finished.
Aren't you glad I made you do that? Want more? Of course you do. And while it's old news that a sequel is in the works, there hasn't been many updates from the filmmakers. Which is understandable, as Joss and Jed Whedon have been ridiculously busy as of late.
Follow the jump to read what Jed had to say to Entertainment Weekly about the further adventures of Nerddom's favorite lovelorn evil scientist: (more…)
Today – February 11, 2014 – marks the beginning of production for the second most anticipated sequel to be released in 2015. (If you don't know what the first is–welcome to the internet! How was life under that rock?) (more…)


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PUXICO - Edna M. Hamlyn, 75, died Sept. 6, 2003, at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter.
Born July 27, 1928, in Chaonia, daughter of the late Elza and Ruby Davis Caldwell, she lived in Cahokia, Ill., for many years before moving to Puxico in 1964. A retired seamstress, she had operated a daycare in her home and served as librarian for the Puxico Library. Also a volunteer teacher's aide at Puxico Elementary School, she was a member of the Puxico United Methodist Church and VFW Post 7522 Ladies Auxiliary in Puxico.
On Dec. 24, 1949, in Piggott, Ark., she married Harold E. Hamlyn who preceded her in death on Sept. 17, 1963.
Survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, David H. and Mona Hamlyn of Gipsy; one daughter and son-in-law, Joy Ruth and Tony Avery of Littleton, Colo.; two brothers, Roy Caldwell of Calvert City and Joseph Caldwell of Woodburn, Ore.; one sister, Alma Hamlyn of Lemay; and four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
One brother, Emory Caldwell, also preceded her in death.
Visitation begins at 6 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Puxico, where services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Danny James of Leopold and the Rev. John Adams of Dexter will officiate.
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WEST HURLEY - Two West Hurley residents have been charged in three daytime residential burglaries in the town of Woodstock.
Police say Mark Vandendooren, 24, and Kasandra Quednau, 23, were arrested on Sunday and charged with three counts of felony burglary. Quednau, who possessed a hypodermic needle and a small amount of narcotics, was also charged with misdemeanor criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument.
The two were arraigned in Woodstock Town Court and sent to the Ulster County Jail on $30,000 cash or $60,000 bond.
State police are continuing to investigate other burglaries.
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The uShip Story
In many ways, uShip.com was born in the back of a rented moving van. As Matt Chasen and his then-fiance, Heather, were moving from Seattle to Austin, the 9-foot van he ordered was sold out, leaving him with an enormous 20-foot truck — twice the size they needed.
Matt Chasen, CEO and Founder, uShip.com (photo: Brent Humphreys for CNN Money)
From Frustration to Inspiration
As Matt drove his virtually empty truck 2,500 miles to Texas, it started to dawn on him that his rental van frustration may actually inspire a new business idea. Over the previous year, Matt's mother had been trying to ship an heirloom armoire from Ohio to Texas, but outrageous shipping quotes had prevented her from doing so. So he wondered if there may be someone in Ohio with similar empty truck space to transport his mother's dresser to Texas. The question was how to connect these parties and consummate a transaction?
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Matt continued to tinker with the idea over the coming year, and when he arrived at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, he eventually joined with fellow business school students Jay Manickam and Mickey Millsap. The three further developed the business plan to create a transport marketplace where customers could connect with empty truck space to make shipping more affordable, efficient and even eco-friendly. Originally designed to serve only the Lone Star State, the team quickly learned the stress and expense of moving big items was a universal problem. Yes, even bigger than Texas. uShip was incorporated in 2003 and launched its online marketplace in 2004.


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The Two Towers
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers Race Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph).
Quote #1
"Gondor! Gondor!" cried Aragorn. "Would that I looked on you again in happier hour! Not yet does my road lie southward to your bright streams.
Gondor! Gondor; between the Mountains and the Sea!
West Wind blew there: the light upon the Silver Tree
Fell like bright rain in gardens of the Kings of old.
O proud walls! White flowers! O wingéd crown and throne of gold!
O Gondor, Gondor! Shall Men behold the Silver Tree,
Or West Wind blow again between the Mountains and the Sea? (3.2.17)
We don't want to generalize, but it does seem to us as though much of The Fellowship of the Ring is dedicated to the elves. In that novel, we see both Rivendell and Lothlórien, and we learn that these fair things will fade once the Ring quest is over, never to appear in Middle-earth again. As Aragorn's momentum picks up in The Two Towers, the attention of The Lord of the Rings moves away from the elves and towards the Men of Númenor, specifically, Aragorn and the return of glory to Gondor. While time may be close to done for the elves in Middle-earth, Aragorn represents the continuation and rebirth of men, which is a much more cheerful subject.
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"But what are we going to do at sunrise?" said some of the Northerners.
"Go on running," said Uglúk. "What do you think? Sit on the grass and wait for the Whiteskins to join the picnic?"
"But we can't run in the sunlight."
"You'll run with me behind you," said Uglúk. "Run! Or you'll never see your beloved holes again. By the White Hand! What's the use of sending out mountain-maggots on a trip, only half trained. Run, curse you! Run while night lasts!" (3.3.48-52)
This moment of tension between Uglúk and the other orcs as they try and carry Merry and Pippin to Isengard reveals a bit more about the differences among orcs themselves. Sure, orcs may be universally evil, but they are also not all the same. Not only do the orcs sometimes serve different masters, since Uglúk follows Saruman and many of the other orcs follow Sauron, but some of them appear to serve no one at all except evil itself. We also can't pass over this reference to "Whiteskins," by which Uglúk means human beings. There isn't a lot of racial differentiation among the people of Middle-earth. They are all pretty European in appearance, so far as we can tell. Why do the peoples of Middle-earth have so little racial or even cultural differentiation? Do the different peoples of Middle-earth—the elves, dwarves, hobbits, etc.—substitute somehow for different human races in our world?
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They found that they were looking at a most extraordinary face. It belonged to a large man-like, almost Troll-like, figure, at least fourteen foot high, very sturdy, with a tall head and hardly any neck. Whether it was clad in stuff like green and grey bark, or whether that was its hide, was difficult to say [...] But at the moment the hobbits noted little but the eyes. […]
"One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present; like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don't know, but it felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between root-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years." (3.4.20-1)
Ah, Pippin the poet. What's so great about his description of the Ents is how much it emphasizes the otherness of non-human creatures in Middle-earth. Even the Treebeard's consciousness appears different. Unlike that of humans, it's timeless and immediate, and very, very deep. The differences between the peoples of Middle-earth seem to go far beyond the physical.


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TRACY - The chess club at Art Freiler Elementary in Tracy will host a youth tournament Friday in the school's multipurpose room at 2421 West Lowell Ave.
Registration is from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The cost is $10. Games start at 7 p.m., with the awards ceremony scheduled for about 9 p.m. The tournament is open to all children, including those of high school age. Beginners are encouraged, provided they know basic chess rules.
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Fire crews continue to investigate the cause and origin of the South Lake Tahoe fire that destroyed two homes on Tuesday night at the corner of Pioneer Trail and April Drive.
"We're looking at the fire investigation - cause and origin. We're doing a systematic investigation of the whole property looking for burn patterns," Lake Valley Fire Protection District Fire Chief Gareth Harris said as his crew sifted through the burned debris around 10 a.m. on Wednesday. The crews have been working all night to control the fire and determine the cause, Harris said.
One person was taken to Barton Memorial Hospital with burns and nearby homes were evacuated after police and fire personnel responded to the fire around 5:55 p.m.
The house where the fire originated, 3120 Pioneer Trail, belonged to local watercolor artist E. Peter Darvas, who was identified as the burn victim. According to Harris, Darvas's condition was stable as of Wednesday morning. He was taken to the hospital after trying to put out the fire with a garden hose.
South Lake Tahoe Fire Chief Brian Uhler credited a quick response from firefighters for preventing the fire from spreading to additional homes and the surrounding forest. He described both houses as "total losses" Tuesday evening. The fire was mostly extinguished by about 7 p.m., Uhler said.
Firefighters from South Lake Tahoe Fire Department, Lake Valley Fire Protection District, Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District and Fallen Leaf Fire Department responded to the blaze, Uhler said.
Eyewitness Clayton Cole, whose parents own the house across the street from the structure where the fire started, said the house went up in flames within about three minutes. It spread from the house to a tall tree across the street and the adjacent building.
"When we first saw it it was just brown smoke and the fire alarm was going off and people were running around. Then the flames broke through the roof and there were 30-foot flames all over the front of the house," Cole said.
Cole and his girlfriend both said they saw someone run from the house when the fire started and leave the property quickly in a van.
Chad Davis, who lives in the house directly behind the second burned structure, said his roommate also saw someone leave the house and get in a van.
Davis said he spent the night watching the flames and hoping they wouldn't spread to his house.
"I was afraid to even take a shower. I would have lost everything. This is crazy. It sure was a rough night," Davis said.
Davis said he's seen smoke emanating from 3120 Pioneer Trail before, and that Darvas had a wood stove in his home.
The internationally renowned impressionist painter had recently won an appeal before the South Lake Tahoe City Council in January. The city had confiscated debris found in his yard and the two parties grappled with abatement issues.
The council approved the appeal with a 3-1 vote on the grounds that Darvas didn't receive proper notification of the abatement proceedings. Mayor Claire Fortier, the only dissenting voter, said she doesn't buy it.
"I felt that Mr. Darvas was in violation of our city code. He had a backyard full of stuff, which he failed to remove," Fortier said Wednesday morning.
"It was a nuisance to his neighbors, it was also a health hazard and a safety hazard," she said.
Since January, Darvas has filed a claim against the city for the cost of his confiscated property. Fortier said she didn't know the amount and wasn't sure Darvas had ever specified it.
Due to the amount of embers that were blown into the air during the fire, at least one fire engine was dispatched to patrol surrounding neighborhoods in search of starts. Police Officer Aaron Crawford said as long as the wind stayed down, he didn't anticipate more starts.
A police officer also suffered minor burns during the incident but did not need medical treatment, according to scanner traffic.
For all the latest news and photos, check out the Tahoe Daily Tribune's Facebook page at http://tinyurl.com/cg8ua3m.
- Reporter Adam Jensen and Editor Trisha Leonard contributed to this report.


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3 hurt in explosion in fire Vt.May 07,2013MORRISVILLE Police say three Vermont firefighters were injured when a tank of welding gas exploded during a fire that destroyed a home and art gallery in Morrisville.
The fire was reported late Friday evening and when firefighters arrived the Foundry Street building was engulfed in flames.
The Morrisville Fire Department called for assistance from departments in Hyde Park, North Hyde Park and Elmore.
The firefighters injured by the explosion of the acetylene tank were treated for minor injuries and released from the hospital.
The building was considered a total loss.
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