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Tom Reese has a plan....
...maybe he should be asked to implement it. He lays it out at the NCR as Pope Francis prepares to meet the committee of eight (Octogang?), makes some important distinctions between managing and reforming, and hints at how precarious this effort looks--at least for now.
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Suppose that Pope Francis does remove the cardinals and bishops from the Curia. What could he do with them? Send them back home? To do what? Hmmmmm.
Last Saturday and this Tuesday, Pope Francis re-confirmed several cardinals and archbishops in their current Curial positions. As well, he brought two new archbishops into the Vatican system. How many archbishops there are in Rome is like trying to pin down the number of colonels in the Pentagon.
I would propose that only non-bishops be appointed cardinals. Cardinals, the people who select the pope, should be selected from priests, religious and lay people. Someone who served as a bishop would not be eligible. This way, you separate the management function from the governance function.
Reese's proposals certainly are thought-provoking. A couple of responses:
* His vision of what consistutes better management strikes me as curiously truncated. I don't disagree with him that the financial and administrative sections that he names need to be included in a program of management reform. But I would also think that management reform would be helpful in various dicasteries. Certainly, more urgency in resolving cases of accused sex abusers is at the top of the list. A management reform of the CDF would be necessary to accomplish this. Liturgically, a reform of how translation submissions from national conferences is necessary, which would seem to call for a management reform of the CDW.
* I am not as sanguine as he apparently is that putting more responsibility in the hands of diocesan bishops, at the expense of curial officials, will result in a better-functioning church. At the risk of being too cynical, it just seems to me that diocesan bishops are subject to all of the same temptations that curial officials are - and are farther away from the one guy in the church, Pope Francis, who can whack them upside the head when they stray. (For evidence of the fallibility of diocesan bishops, cf the sex abuse crises). It may be Reese's sense that, at this time, the diocesan bishops as a whole are a stronger and better group than the curial officials as a whole. But to borrow one of his points: what is true today may not be true tomorrow. Reese doesn't really articulate why it *must* be the case that the diocesan bishops always will be better at governing the church.
* Related to the previous point: he glosses "subsidiarity" as "decentralization" (sort of like Paul Ryan has done, on a different topic :-)). As we've discussed here at dotCom a number of times, "subsidiarity" has a richer meaning that doesn't always reduce to further decentralization. I expect that Reese's belief is that decentralization really is necessary to achieve optimal subsidiarity in church governance, and I don't say he's wrong about that. But it does require some discernment.
Our men's Vespers Group (including former Jesuit seminarians and other clergy) were quite enthused at our initial reading of the iterview. Yet, it does need to be balanced with the commentaries of Mary Hunt and Jamie Manson. Their reflections are relevant and not simply cold water thrown at an encouraging moment for all of us. Coupled with his appaent approval of the excommunication of the Australian cleric whose apparently grievous offense was promotion women's ordination, these concerns are not to be dimissed.
As with so many, we welcomed the style that Pope Francis is conveying and his prioritzation of issues and values, but substantive reform and re-examation of the "role of women" (sic) is still a work that is to be begun.
How many archbishops there are in Rome is like trying to pin down the number of colonels in the Pentagon.
Hang out in St. Peter's Square during any Really Big Show and, if you are a cleric below the rank of Cardinal (Really Big Bird?) you are ignored and carry your own bags.
There is indeed a paradigmatic shift that needs to occurr at the Vatican. Too often subsidiarity is interpreted as delegated leadership as opposed to distributive leadership. Delegated leadership means that you control what the decisions will be and retain the right to take certain decisions back to the executive (in this instance the pope and curia). Distributive leadership is far different. It assumes that those synods and bishops have competence in their area and their judgement is defferred to and respected.
We need only look at the translation issue as an example of what "delegated" leadership looks like. A distributed model would leave the decision around translations to English speaking bishop conferences.
I am not convinced that Rome will ever voluntarily remove from themselves authority especially when they are convinced that this is "divinely inspired". Hence reform will always be stylistic but not substantive.
George D. ==
Do you know of any other instance in recent times in which the Curia has in fact usurped the power of the local bishops to give the final approval to liturgical translations? (It is my understanding that V II itself defined that power as being the local bishops.) I also don't understand how the local bishops (and not just the English ones) let the Curia get away with it, given that the bishops are the Curia's main source of money. In most organiztions the ultimate powers that be, i.e., the policy makers, are usually those who hold of the purse strings.
How does the Curia maintain its power? If the press can be trusted at all, the Curia even bosses the popes around more than a little bit, often by appealing to canon law, but popes are absolute monarchs so they should be able to fix whaever laws need fixing.
Tom Reese's suggested reforms:
- Stop making Vatican officials bishops or cardinals
- Remove all curial officials from the committees (congregations and councils) that oversee curial offices and replace them with diocesan cardinals and bishops nominated by the synod of bishops and/or bishops' conferences
- Remove all curial officials from the synod of bishops and have it meet at least once every five years
Not bad - but only to get things started. Papa Giovanni [23rd] once famously responded when asked how many people worked in the Vatican said: "Oh, about half."
Perfectly understandable that Tom Reese would promote these kind of reforms - I'm not faulting him for trying to get the debate started. Unfortunately, these reforms would not go far enough to meet the critical needs of the historical moment.
The biggest problem with what Tom Reese suggests is that these are clerical solutions and remedies don't begin to touch the underlying problem: The clerics of the Roman Church, as a class or caste, are hopelessly alienated and dangerously irrelevant to the lives of most Catholics and Christians.
Catholics need much more radical reforms of the Vatican. I believe it woud be a good idea that all the clerics -cardinals, bishops, priests - that presently "work" - if you call it that - in the Vatican should be sent to their home dioceses to begin doing somekind of pastoral service. At a minimum, it would help with the so-called priest shortage. [Granted, most of these guys would probably be lousy at parish work - not people ready priests at all - yet they could start with refresher courses in seminaries all over the world.]
My suggestion would be for each diocese from around the world recruit one married woman and one married man to go to Rome to serve in the Vatican curia. I believe that they would have to be at a minimum as good, if not better, at those curial jobs as the clerics have been.
Given the ditch into which the clerics have driven the church over the last four decades, these women and men would not be any worse than what we got now!
The turn-over would be healthy for the church bringing new blood, new ideas to the internal operations of the church. Each culture in which the church serves would be represented. I have to believe that women and men who have to support their families through their new jobs would be as conscientious and dedicated as any priests to the mission of the church.
After a certain number of years of service in Rome, these men and women could return with their families to their home countries where they could share their newly acquired sense of the ministry of the universal church, causing concentric circles of good effect across the entire globe.
Jim P - agree with your observations about diocesan bishops = curial archbishops. But, the difference would be that episcopal conferences would be in the primary positon and the curia would serve them (not the other way around); and conferences hopefully would function such that no one diocesan bishop would dictate policies, decision making, etc. (prime example - you have Pell in a very important position but his own colleagues in Australia have never (and will never) elect him as head of the Australian Episcopal Conference.
Echo John Page - just like not naming monsignors; by stopping the current practice of making curial officers archbishops, cardinals, etc.....it might be an improvement.
Another suggestion - not every curial department needs to be in Rome; locate some in other parts of the world.
His four key departments - finance, fundraising, bank, Vatican - get all clerics out of those positions and appoint a balanced team of men and women.
(John Page - am reminded of John O'Malley's description as Trent was convened.....there were about 50+ bishops in Germany, France, Spain but 200+ bishops stationed in or near the Vatican so that benefices, payments, bribes, etc. could be used to reinforce papal power.
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I am not really plugged in to all those political currents but I do recall where the Vatican revised the Dallas charter overwhelmingly passed by American bishops in response to abuse crisis.
I am not sure what accounts for the whole move to upward delegation. In some ways, it seems a natural response. Maybe evolutionarily, we are hardwired for being led by the alpha's of our pack. Almost imperceptibly, power begins to be centralized and localized in a single figure; whether pope, president, prime minister, CEO, etc.
However, and this is an important however, leadership must be wise (wise as serpents) and astute. It needs to see these trends and somehow resist the temptation to act when it has the power, actual or implied, to do so. I think Paul VI is an underrated Pope in this regard. He utilized bishops conferences and by instinct believed in distributed power in that sense. But the structure is so deeply entrenched that it penetrates the consciousness of most Catholics.
Consider the attention given to this single interview in a magazine. It is almost as if we are a primitive tribe listening to the great white father speak.
I think that this pope, being a Jesuit, intuitively understands styles and symbols in the way JP II understood the power of images. Again, being a Jesuit, his is going to intuitively lean towards the ultra-montane spectrum.
But it is hard being pope! Just in reading him, I suspect that Benedict XVI grasped all of this intellectually in a way that I am not sure Francis does. But Benedict (I think) ironically had a more gentle temperment than Francis and was less willing to act decisivily in a the inner world of Vatican life. Francis might act decisivley albeit subtly but he does not have a democratic vision. Pastoral vision is great but organizationally I am not sure he is a systems thinker. Just my observations from afar and not even sure of the accuracy....just a gut feeling based on listening and watching.
George - i am intrigued by your intuition that Francis might lean toward the ultramontane and may lack a democratic vision. All of us are reading the stars to a large extent and trying to guess how they'll align, but I am curious what signs have led you in this direction. I confess I haven't seen/read/heard anything along those lines, and that my own star-gazing has led me to think that Francis will be at least mildly in favor of greater decentralization, e.g. hasn't he talked of reforming the system of synods? (Or perhaps that is other observers and commenters pouring their own hopes into the still-somewhat-empty vessel of Francis' papacy?)
Pope Francis is still a Jesuit, is he not? Tom Reese suggests in his report that Francis follow the General's advice on taking a vacation. Perhaps that signifies nothing about F's relationship to the Jesuits. However, we Amer/Canadians are used to finding the Jesuits more or less liberal, more or less anti-authoritairan. And I suppose most are, until they're not. I have known Jesuits who have abided by the requests/commands of their superiors, nothwithstanding their own views or inclinations. Francis is a Latino Jesuit; is that culture different than that of U.S. Jesuits. Probably to some extent. The Jesuits are, after all, a military order.
We shall see what he does.
Pope Francis is still a Jesuit, is he not?
BINGO. Not being anti-Jesuit but they do come by certain aspects of their character honestly!!
George D. --
Thanks Yes, that Dallas charter revision would qualify as a usurpation, I think.
As to Francis' mode of leadership, I've read more than once that he consults before making a decision, then makes up his own mind and sticks to that decision. Surely, his retention of the bishop accused of sexual misbehavior (Ricca?) and the woman (Chaoui?) who helped the Vatileaks journalist would bear this out. Hmmm, Not good. And I agree that there is a part of human nature that *wants* a dictator in charge.
As to his (still?) being a Jesuit, the thought doesn't encourage me, mainly because the Jesuits have historically had the interests of the males of our species at the heart of their mission. Girls need not apply at Jesuit schools until very recently. This indicates a certain blindness or at lest disinterest in half the human race on their part. But I suspect that Francis himslef actually likes women, including strong ones. See, for instance, his body language with the president of Argentina. There was mutual respect there, I think. And, as Ms. S. points out, there are Jesuits and Jesuits. Even within one group the differences among them can be major -- see the Jesuits in Spain, for instance.
I think that indications so far are that Francis will widen the *consultative* powers of the bishops. But I'm not at all sure how much *decision-making* power they'll have, even about matters affecting only their own dioceses. Until that happens, the Church won't be truly reformed.
But I know next to nothing about the theology of the bishops. In the early Church how much decision-making power did they have? And what does Scripture tell us about the bishops' powers? (I tend to think that Francis is a particularly brilliant man, smarter even than Benedict. Whatever he decides will, no doubt, be backed up by some strong theology.)
Thomas von Mitschke-Collande, a German consultant with McKinsey, has been engaged to consult with the G-8. This is an edited version from London's The Tablet of 14 September of an article that first appeared in the leading German Catholic magazine Herder Korrespondenz. http://www.herder-korrespondenz.de/aktuelle_ausgabe/special/details?k_beitrag=3870683
"All senior managers should be aware that their time in Rome is limited. Delegating dioceses would be more willing to send their best employees to Rome if they were guaranteed that they would have them at their disposal again after five years. In any event, a prerequisite for appointing clergy to high-level offices in the Curia should be several years of pastoral experience.
"All these reforms could help achieve an overall change in mindset. The individual's hope in life can no longer be to have a successful career in the Curia but rather to serve the Universal Church, in the course of which the Vatican is only a temporary station. A code of conduct for these officials would also enhance the Vatican's credibility, as would a compliance department, directly subordinate to the Holy Father. Confidentiality, incorruptibility, irreproachable lifestyle, no acceptance of monetary or other benefits – not even from one's own delegating diocese or any other organisation – all these are vital for those who work in the Vatican.
"There are many old and obsolete structures; we must renew them," said Pope Francis in a sermon in July. "Falsely understood tradition is loyalty to ashes," he declared in another context. A lot of ash that has settled on the Vatican needs to be blown away to allow the embers to blaze again visibly and credibly into the twenty-first century."
von Mitschke-Collande also had this to say about the laity and, more interestingly, about women:
"A critical issue is whether the assignment of a cleric is really the best appointment, or whether a qualified layperson would be more suitable for a particular post. If the Church is to be less clerical, then the proportion of lay people should be significantly increased – and include many more women in leadership positions. Could not the IOR be led, for example, by an internationally recognised female banker?"
Thanks for the Mitschke-Collande quotes, JIm P. Wise man. I particularly like:
:A code of conduct for these officials would also enhance the Vatican's credibility, as would a compliance department, directly subordinate to the Holy Father."
But the usual question arises -- who would judge the judges?


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In Diablo 2, certain bosses, such as Andariel had a weakness to fire. Do any of the bosses in Diablo 3 have any specific weaknesses that I can exploit on higher difficulties?
Some notes on boss fights in the earlier difficulties, this does not address Hell and esp. Inferno with the enrage timers.
General strategy for team play
If there are weaknesses, they are not in the way for example pokemon works (beating fire with water). The elemental damage in D3 is different from the D2 elements. In a way elements have become a purely visual gimmick. Resistances are still important for your own equipment to survive certain champions but you can kill them either way. Information about the Boss HP is aviable but not about resistances afaik. If you want to exploit the bosses on the higher difficulties you should do it in the way of survivability vs dmg output vs movability. But you don't have to think about killing diablo with Ice spells instead of arcane.
Most bosses in hell and upwards can be exploited the same way they were in the lower difficulties: by evading their attacks efficiently to reduce their dmg output. Try to heal yourself up rather sooner than later so you don't get suprised when a sudden burst kills you.


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Acadia National Park | Art of the Trail
Magnificent vistas along the miles of hiking paths and carriage roads in Acadia National Park are the result of man's planning as much as nature's hand.
On a cloudless August morning, I'm sitting atop The Beehive, an open, rocky hilltop in Acadia National Park that overlooks Sand Beach and the Gulf of Maine beyond. The sun is glinting off a dappled sea, lightly scored with iridescent ridges, like scales on a brook trout.Not a single other person is in sight. I hear only the sound of waves lapping, breezes murmuring in the conifers below me, and my heart thumping with perhaps a bit too much vigor. The ascent up this low knob follows a rugged path inscribed up the hillside about a century ago. The trail consists in part of ladders and rungs hammered into rock, providing access to one ledge and then another, each of which one traverses–one hand on the rock face for security, the other extended out into space like a tightrope walker's–before coming to another set of rungs, or perhaps boulders crafted into steps. (The layered ledges give the hill its name.) When people think of Acadia, they think of it mostly as a refuge for nature; it's been viewed as such since the first artists from Eastern Seaboard cities ventured here in the 1840s. But Acadia is no more a work of pure nature than Michelangelo's David is a block of pure marble. The landscape and our access to it have been subtly crafted by generations of artists who designed and built an extensive network of trails: some 125 miles of footpaths and 45 miles of carriage roads suited to walking.
A good many of the pathways of Acadia, like the Beehive Trail, were designed for aesthetic impact. Visitors may not realize it, but when they hike Acadia, they're being manipulated every bit as much as when they stroll through the galleries of an art museum. That stunning view of Frenchman Bay that suddenly filled the northern horizon when I pulled myself up that ledge? That wasn't happenstance. The view was, essentially, curated and put on display for me. Indeed, there's a much easier way to ascend The Beehive: Just follow the trail through the woods around the north side and come up from behind. The view from the top is the same–yet it's somehow diminished. The trail up the ledges was crafted with every bit of the precision of an Albrecht Duerer engraving. The artists here worked in the medium of trails; they were among the Old Masters of the big landscape.
Today I'm planning a full day in Acadia's gallery, setting off on a nearly 12-mile hike, from Sand Beach halfway across the island's eastern lobe to the civilized splendor of the Jordan Pond House. The route will take me across three peaks–including Cadillac Mountain, at 1,530 feet the park's highest summit–sampling a broad collection of trails and trail types along the way.
At 9:15, I stand up, face northwest, and set off.
The tribes of Acadia hikers aren't identifiable by dress–everyone here wears "Life is good" T-shirts and hats–but rather by the trail greetings they proffer. And today I have plenty of opportunity for classification, at least after cresting Champlain Mountain and beginning my descent. Bar Harbor's excellent breakfast restaurants have apparently emptied out, and the trail population has started to swell.
The most populous tribe I encounter are the "How's-It-Going?"s followed by the "Much Farther?"s (a group, incidentally, that changes into the "Not Much Farther!"s when descending a hill). Another faction consists of the Grim Hikers, who soldier past with eyes to the ground and not so much as a grunt or a nod. A subset of the Grim Hikers clatters through the woods with a pair of extendable aluminum hiking sticks, scuttling like human/crab hybrids. They're often unwilling to cede an inch of trail.
This diversity–kids, elders, crab-hikers–would no doubt please those who conceived and built the trails about a century ago. The idea was to provide access to visitors who might not otherwise find their way into the dramatic landscape, although the trail builders–folks such as Rudolph Brunnow, Herbert Jaques, Waldron Bates, and George Dorr–had a different population in mind, more the likes of Theodore Roosevelt-era women hiking in skirts, and high-collared Boston clerks seeking respite from dreary office life.
Over several years, the trails were built largely by volunteers, many of them affluent summer residents who passionately loved Mount Desert Island. They donated time and money and formed village improvement associations to cut hiking paths through the new preserve. (Eventually the federal government established Sieur de Monts National Monument in 1916, and then Lafayette National Park in 1919; it became Acadia in 1929.) George Dorr, in particular, stands out. A Boston textile heir utterly captivated by the island, he devoted much of his life to protecting the land and building trails. He seemed congenitally averse to the easiest routes; instead he built trails through fields of tumbled talus and across narrow ledges, always in search of a great view or an intriguing natural feature. If there was a fracture in a rock big enough to walk through, Dorr and his cohorts would find a way to route a trail through it.
Dorr Mountain was named after him, and that's appropriate; the trails up the eastern face offer some of the best examples of the park's distinctive aesthetic. As I ascend Dorr Mountain from a small pond called The Tarn, it's clear to me that the trail builders had both stamina and a tremendous fondness for stairways. The ascent is a masterwork of a ziggurat: huge stone slabs edging along a smooth rock face here or past dour glacial erratics there.
At higher elevations, smooth, lichen-streaked rock faces break through stunted forest like a friar's pate, and here the trail builder's art shifts from building to plotting. The route, linking one smooth rock face with a view to another, is marked here with artful stacks of stones called cairns, each one typically a large flat rock set across two smaller ones, much like a bench. This style was dubbed the "Bates cairn," after Waldron Bates, another early trail advocate who's sometimes called the "father of Acadia's trail system."
Bates was "a tireless walker and fearless climber," wrote the noted landscape architect Beatrix Farrand. "He enjoyed nothing so much as working out a good path up an incredibly steep crag or finding a way between rock ledges to some quiet grove hidden in a fold of the mountain."
The Bates cairns offer a simple, pleasingly druidic, way of finding one's way across treeless uplands. I follow them across the rounded top of Dorr, then descend into a dusky col before ascending Cadillac Mountain, picking up the cairns again as I climb out of the beech and maples.
Nearing the top of the park's tallest point, which is accessible by car, crowds thicken as drivers and their families spill out of minivans and sedans. I find myself now amid a new tourist ecosystem, occupied by a tribe that views nature not only as inspiration but also as a yawning pit of horrors; I hear much shouting for children to stay away from the edge, which is odd, since Cadillac Mountain lacks much of an edge. (The summit was sanded smooth by ancient glaciers.)
I spend a few minutes trying to enjoy the summit, and in theory there are no obstructions to the view here. But the milling crowds, the glare from windshields in the parking lot, and the teeming gift shop offer larger if less tangible obstacles. I don't linger long; leaving the commotion behind, I set off down the South Ridge Trail.
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Emissary: Book Two of The Percheron Saga (Mass Market Paperback)
A prisoner in the forbidden harem of the great Stone Palace of Percheron, Ana inflames the desires of every man who sees her, even as she fears for her future. The city's beloved protector, Spur Lazar, offered up his life for her, accepting punishment intended for the bewitching odalisque. Now, without Lazar's guiding hand, Percheron has become a darker, more treacherous place.
Mistrusting the machinations of Herezah, his mother—who plots to destroy the odalisque Ana—the young Zar Boaz seeks counsel from the suddenly changed and dangerously secretive "Grand Vizier," counsel he desperately needs. War threatens from a distant realm; the cyclical battle of the gods intensifies; and the first of the Goddess's disciples is claimed by the demon Maliz. But all schemes must ultimately rise and fall on one unknown truth: Spur Lazar lives still, recovering in secret from the illness that has left him the gift of a curse.
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I would like to draw a curve between two points that minimizes the square of the second derivative integrated along the curve.
$J(y) = \int_{1}^{0} {y}''^2 dx $
The first derivative for the start and end point are known and must be preserved, and all values on the curve between the start and end point must fall within some range l < e < u.
$y(0) = a, y(1) = b, y'(0) = c, y'(1) = d$
$y(t) = e, \forall t \in [0, 1] \implies l < e < u$
Additionally the curve should be continuous in the interval.
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Finance Trust Bank, a Tier 1 Financial institution was granted an operating licence on 11th November 2013 taking over the business of Uganda Finance Trust Limited (MDI). Finance Trust Bank was first registered as an NGO in 1984 as "Uganda Women's Finance and Credit Trust Limited" which later changed its name to "Uganda Women's Finance Trust Limited" in 1997. On 12th October 2005, Uganda Women's Finance Trust Limited was licensed as a Microfinance Deposit taking Institution.
The bank offers a broad range of financial products and services, including lending operations, deposits accounts, money transfer services, utility bills collection and insurance services to small, medium companies, SMEs, institutions and high-income individuals. Finance Trust bank is also active in trade finance, asset management and treasury services. With its headquarters in Katwe, Finance Trust Bank operates a network of 36 branches, including one at Kalangala Islands. 70% of the bank's branches are located upcountry.
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"To provide customized financial services to low and medium income people, especially women, for poverty reduction with a focus on excellent customer experience and accessibility."
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As a company we stand by our personal principles of honesty, honor, and live by these principles as individuals, and as a team. Integrity supports our dedication to give honest service, both internally and externally, and upholds our exceptionally high standard of excellence and ethical conduct.
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Does anyone know if these are affected by the SandForce SF-2000 blue screen/reliability issue?
Anyone know compatibility with Late 2009 MacBook or Mid 2007 MacBook?
As long as your Macbook accepts a 2.5" SATA HDD its good to go!
Does anyone have any info on this drive? There's literally almost no reviews aside this one:
It doesn't go on 1 sale a day without some sort of significant flaw. Not to say whatever they sell is unreliable; it's just rather surprising to find a drive from a brand no one expected and reviewed.
No reviews but here it is on newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820235101
and the newegg youtube team did a video overview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZqBDNxCk9M
I wouldn't say its a suspiciously good deal, ~$20-$25 off, but I would like to see some reviews on it as well
Unboxing, review and benchmark test on NewEgg:
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@robio: Yes...basically unless you have one of the brand new Retina display Macbook Pro laptops you can upgrade the Hard drive. I have an Early 2011 Macbook Pro and upgraded it with a Samsung 830 Series 512GB drive...the thing now boots in like 7 seconds.
My only concern would be what others have already stated. No reviews and for the price you have to wonder if they are just advertising the top throughput of the interface and not the actual numbers of the drive...because if it really his 500+ R/W Mb/s then its more than worth this price tag as that puts it in Samsung 830 and Crucial m4 territory for 50 bucks less money. And I have a couple 128GB m4 drives as well and can attest to their speed. So I say at this point its a $75 gamble unless someone turns up a review or an IOPS figure or something.
I spoke before reading the link form @kyle1193 (above) which does have some good information....good find sir.
Here's a Camelegg link: http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16820235101
Looks like it's actually been on Newegg for a good while, no clue why there have been no reviews so far.
Another review of Verbatim SSD.
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A new report is questioning if milk is the best way for children seven and under to get calcium. The report, in the journal Pediatrics, says who drink more milk do not always develop healthier bones.
"There's continually research going on in the field of nutrition because we're constantly finding out new things between nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and proteins. And the way they work together and the way they influence each other."
But Gill says there is no reason to give up drinking milk.
"Milk and dairy foods are of course the highest calcium containing foods that we have in the diet. But for folks who don't care for those or want additional dosages of calcium they can use these other sources to get calcium in the diet."
Other sources of calcium rich foods include tofu, calcium enriched orange juice, greens, oats, and broccoli. Calcium consumption is critical to children's developing bones. However in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recently released dietary guidelines there have been some changes made.
"They're beginning to emphasize various aspects of the diet that would include calcium and also exercise which is going to play a role in calcium absorption and utilization and of course building bone density."
Overall Gill says it is important to know which foods are rich in calcium to encourage healthy eating habits in children during their growing years.
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Be careful with freedoms
August 11, 2013
To the editor: From the persecutions of the Roman Emperors to the Kulturkamph of Bismarck, from "Mein Kamph" and the attempt at a National Socialist Church to the anti-Christian pogroms of the......
Doesn't, "though shalt not kill pertain to Christians who hunted down, tortured and killed people that they labeled as heretics or pagans. Now the governments is trying to bankrupt Christians. Catholics give more money to the pope than they do the government. Be happy with your tax exemption and stay out of gov't legislation. You can't legislate morals that you can't even enforce in your own church. What a drama queen letter.
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I would not talk about being a Drama Queen if I were you Maverick
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Separate church and state and leave it at that. People talk about religious freedoms, but they want GOVERNMENT to make decisions about abortion, gay marriage, and any other thing that someone thinks is unchristian-like. If people live like they proclaim to be, we would not have these problems. This goes for the everyday person to the congressional people the represent their own selfish, and sometime immoral issues. In the end people will answer to God...
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@EB, I'm beside myself right now because I'm in agreement with most of what you've said. Religious tolerance is one of the main principles this country was founded on, under no circumstances should intolerance ever come into play. With that said there is a very clear separation of church and state which should be adhered to. Abortion is a medical procedure and should require a prescription. Gay marriage is not a religious issue, in my opinion. Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as an American. Those rights don't come with an exemption list for gays or any other group of people for that matter.
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pimpdaddy, you read my post and decided to address the last sentence. So, I am guessing you agree with the rest of my post or maybe because the rest of my post contained several three syllable words you just drooped down to the last sentence which contains 3 one syllable words and 2 two syllable words. Oh by the way what a mature posting name you've chosen. Kinda says a lot about you.
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Well Mav this may be hard for you to understand but this is America and I have the right to choose whatever name I want to so you will just have to get over it.
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@PimpDaddyBoss Your last post is on the same mentality level as a small child. How old are you? Your intellect, intelligence, and knowledge suggests to me that you're either very young or poorly educated. Which is it? Either way you obviously do not know as much about worldly issues and politics as you'd like to think you do. I'm asking you as a courtesy to the rest of us that from now on you research the topics you'd like to debate before spouting off with your illogical arguments that have no foundation on reality or truth. In my opinion, I can't take anyone with that kind of name seriously anyway.
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Moteman, I'd still have beer with you ... I'd even have one with pimpdaddy if he were old enough.
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RSimpson43952, "gay marriage" is a religious issue in my opinion. People would not oppose "gay marriage" if they just called such a thing a "civil union" and let it go at that. Calling it "marriage" is what angers some folks. Homosexuals, don't want anything to do with Christians or being like them. That is until they can rub their collective noses in it by taking that which is sacred to Christians and corrupting it. Then, if you speak against it, they say "what would Jesus do," or call you hateful, or racist.
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Agree, RPG. Civil Unions would give gay couples all the legal rights that heterosexual marriage does. If folk really cared about rights of gays, they would have worked long ago for civil unions. But, that is not their true goal.
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RPG and Hagrid are right. They wanted marriage just to cause trouble and they aren't finished. The next step is to force a church to marry a gay couple.
Commrade Mav. After you have called us everything in the book and insulted us you actually expect the people on here to sit down with you and drink a beer. I think you are off your rocker most of the time.
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Hey Mote, do you see what is left on this site. Nothing just the four or five of you who have driven everyone else off because you have no communication skills. You probably couldn't find a person to sit down and have beer with outside of the bootlicker crew.
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Maverick no way would I have a beer with you. Because I am sure you would find fault with the Beer, You would find fault with the bar we would be at. you would find fault with the person serving the beer. In other words you would do what you do best. complain about everything under the sun
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comrade mav. still insulting I see. Were you going to buy the beer? ------------ No comrade the people left here are the ones that didn't get vulgar and call everyone names. HS thinned the crowd not us. I guess it shows libs can't behave and be civil. My communication skills might not be all that great but I don't and never will act like the few libs that got banned or do I insult people I have never met and know nothing about.
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"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the American Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford
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Answered: Can't create a segmentedbutton
I am trying to create an 'Ext.SegmentedButton' and cannot manage to do so.
It feels like the class is not recognized by the Framework.
1. Trying to instantiate using 'xtype', I am getting this error: 'Uncaught ReferenceError: segmentedbutton is not defined'
2. Trying to instantiate with 'new Ext.SegmentedButton' from the example from the Sencha Touch documentation, I am getting this error: 'Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function'.
Please advice
//new Ext.SegmentedButton({}) Ext.create('Ext.SegmentedButton',{})
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Can you show more of your code please? It is hard to help when there is very little to work with.
7 Oct 2012 8:03 AM #3
You are right, I did not supply enough details... Sorry for that.
I receive this error on Google Chrome, with sencha-touch-220.127.116.11
Here is the code for the view ReportPost.js :
Ext.define('Surfspace.view.ReportPost', { extend: 'Ext.form.Panel', requires: ['Ext.SegmentedButton'], segmentedButton: new Ext.SegmentedButton({ allowMultiple: true, items: [ { text: 'Option 1' }, { text: 'Option 2', pressed: true }, { text: 'Option 3' } ], listeners: { toggle: function(container, button, pressed){ console.log("User toggled the '" + button.text + "' button: " + (pressed ? 'on' : 'off')); } } }), config: { items: [{ xtype: 'button', itemId: 'mapButton', ui: 'round', text: 'Choose spot', }], } });
Ext.application({ name: 'Surfspace', requires: ['Ext.Button'], views: ['ReportPost'], launch: function() { Ext.fly('appLoadingIndicator').destroy(); Ext.Viewport.add(Ext.create('Surfspace.view.ReportPost')); } });
7 Oct 2012 9:11 AM #4
I don't see anything syntactically wrong with your code. I even made a little demo of it and nothing came up.
7 Oct 2012 10:04 AM #5
Well, this is weird. I see this error on both Chrome and Safari.
Here is a link to the website, you can see it yourself:
On Chrome I get:
Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function
And on Safari I get:
TypeError: 'undefined' is not a constructor (evaluating 'new Ext.SegmentedButton')
Any idea what may cause this?
7 Oct 2012 11:39 AM #6
Make sure it is actually including the source for Ext.SegmentedButton. I looked at all the JS files being called and I don't see it being loaded.
7 Oct 2012 7:51 PM #7Code:
//new Ext.SegmentedButton({}) Ext.create('Ext.SegmentedButton',{})I write English by translator.
8 Oct 2012 10:32 PM #8
@haduki , your suggested change toCode:
The code I originally used was copy-pasted from the Sencha Touch 2 documentation. I have added a comment about that, and hopefully they will change it.
Thank you.
9 Oct 2012 4:43 AM #9


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1 Apr 2010 12:02 PM #1
extjs and coldfusion 9
How to download extjs 3.0 which is integrated with coldfusion 9?
Does this means it is free if you have coldfusion 9?
How much would it cost to upgrade to extjs 3.2 and later to extjs 4.0 when it is out.
1 Apr 2010 6:47 PM #2
Ext JS and ColdFusion
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6 True Stories About Disneyland They Don't Want You to Know
#3. The Feral Cat Kingdom
The Happiest Place on Earth!
As your children roam through a magical wonderland of fun and adventure, they're often greeted by their favorite Disney characters - characters that are recognized and beloved the world over for having netted the Disney Corporation millions in merchandising and copyright revenue, but mostly for being totally wuvvable and huggable ($5 per hug, limit four per customer).
Not So Happy:
Just don't hug any actual animals you see, or you'll end up going full-zombie on your family and being sent into a gibbering panic at the sight of drinking fountains... on account of the rabies.
See, Disneyland has a secret army of filthy and diseased stray cats that roam the park grounds every night. It all started in the early years of Disneyland when ride operators found themselves sweeping mice out of the attractions and restaurants by the plague-full (isn't that a pleasant idea?). The mouse problem went away when someone suggested letting around 50 cats loose to hunt down the remaining mice, who may or may not have sung beautifully orchestrated songs about hope and enchantment while being devoured.
You might recognize this plan from a cartoon by the competition.
Unfortunately, when you give a stray species a warm place to sleep at night, an endless food supply and free roam of a place with giant fences to keep out potential predators, they tend to stick around. And that's just what the cats did. Judging by their track record of remarkable foresight, Disney park officials are probably already implementing a stray dog strategy to hunt down the remaining cats, then a cougar strategy to counter the inexplicably rising dog problem, and so on until they'll have to change Disneyland's nickname to "the Grizzly Beariest place on Earth (And Also Some Wolves)."
#2. The Yippie Invasion
The Happiest Place on Earth!
Disneyland's Tom Sawyer Island! An exciting land of adventure! See th- Wait, they removed that. OK then, ride- Oh, there are no rides. Well, you can dine in th- No restaurants? Seriously? All right, there are absolutely no reasons to visit Tom Sawyer Island.
Not pictured: Fun.
Like everything else that's wrong with anything, you can blame this one on the hippies--back when they invaded the island in the 70s.
Not So Happy:
On the 6th of August, 1970, about 300 members of the Young International Party (Yippies) descended upon Disneyland to protest against stuff and junk or whatever (we literally could not give a shit long enough to look up the explanation). After taking over Castle Rock, the hippies hoisted the Viet Cong flag, marched down Main Street USA and harassed the marching band while sarcastically singing the theme to the Mickey Mouse Club. In response to this minor annoyance, Disneyland did what any sane, rational company would do in these circumstances: Call in the fucking riot cops.
"Who the fuck was singing?"
Fights broke out between the Yippies and the police--one eyewitness account describes a girl with her "head split open, blood dripping all over her face"--as children everywhere were mentally scarred for life at the sight of Mickey Mouse passively watching an intense and violent beating... and then possibly physically scarred for life because their colorful T-shirt was just a little too close to tye-dye. It got so bad that, for the first time in park history, Disneyland closed the gates early. Despite the horror, the tragedy and the violence, that day is still remembered in history as the most fun anybody ever had on Tom Sawyer Island.
#1. Gay Days
The Happiest Place on Earth!
Truly, Disney is a gay playground. Full of lightness and whimsy, staffed by cartoon animals, soundtrack by the laughter of children--can there be any place more joyous and gay and...what's that? Oh, you meant gay in the homosexual sense?
We're not sure how the rainbow got mixed up in all this.
OK, hey, that's great too: Disneyland is about fun in its purest and simplest form, so of course it welcomes all comers. Attendees can gather as equals and... what's that again? There's a bunch of horrible discrimination and protests and even frequent death threats?
Not So Happy:
Gay Days is a week or so out of the year where the homosexual community comes together as a group at the Disneyland theme park. It's not sponsored by Disney or anything, they just gather there because no matter who you like to hump, everybody likes roller coasters. This is all anything but surprising. Quite frankly, if anybody is out of place at Disneyland, it's heterosexual adults. Somewhere between mincing about in the Enchanted Castle and doing the Running Man with a cartoon duck, you just lose the ability to be butch about anything. If there's anywhere homophobes have to concede to the presence of homosexuals, it's Disneyland.
But unfortunately, that is not the case.
Disney steadfastly refuses to acknowledge that Gay Days is a thing (despite tens of thousands of participants), but that doesn't stop them from being the target of mass protest, veiled threats and sometimes even implied violence by the religious right (for... failing to stop it, we guess?).
The American Family Association sends "undercover photographers" to every Gay Days celebration, attempting to photograph "sexual misconduct," (which is totally not just a convenient excuse for some fundamentalist to volunteer for the cameraman position at a gay orgy, you know, "for the cause.") The Christian Action Network has a long-standing 10 year boycott of all Disney products in response to Gay Days, even going so far as to protest in Washington D.C. Their official petition states that they are "shocked and outraged" that Disney has transformed this traditionally macho and totally Christian establishment where men dance about in tights and anthropomorphic animals practice magic into an anti-family values terror-pit, like unto "Sodom and Gomorrah."
And, like Sodom and Gomorrah, this immoral behavior is about to result in complete destruction. That's right: Pat Robertson has gone on record as officially stating that "[A] condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs, it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."
This raises two troubling implications: First, that Robertson actually thinks Disneyland is a "nation," whose people are all wise-cracking cartoons ruled over by the iron-fist of Prime Minister Mickey. And second, that Pat Robertson does truly and literally believe that he has nature-based superpowers, and is shocked, shocked every single time he tries, and ultimately fails to summon natural disasters down on things he doesn't understand.
"Goddamnit, TiVo, why won't you record?! That's it! That is it! I SUMMON THE METEORS!"
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WELLSBURG - The Brooke High School Cheerleaders are hoping to bring home another state title for the school as they prepare for the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission's State Cheerleading Tournament in Charleston on Saturday.
The Brooke squad will be among several regional winners competing for the Class AAA division in the competition, which will begin at 10 a.m. at the Charleston Civic Center.
They are advancing after emerging the Class AAA winners of the regional championship, earning 30 points above their nearest competitor, on Nov. 3 at Wheeling Park High School.
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REGIONAL CHAMPS — The Brooke High School Cheerleading Squad will advance to the state cheerleading championship in Charleston Saturday after placing first in its division at the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission's Regional Championship on Nov. 3 at Wheeling Park High School. Coached by Melissa Michaux, Michelle Scherich and Chris Stucin, the squad includes, front, from left, Teirra Duffy, Haley Bowman, Emily Hosler, Katie Nunley, Elizabeth Fernandez and Alex Sperlazza; middle: Dani Johnson, Aubrie Reynolds, Kelly Schambach, Cassi Camilletti, Brooke Clark, Holly Davis, Makayla Moore, Alexandra Velegol, Marin Rogers and Abbi Yachini; and back: Sydney Gambellin, Nicole Himmelrick, Lauren Fritz and Caitlin Cuomo.
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Since 1999, Brooke cheerleading squads have won 12 state titles and were runners-up twice.
This year's squad is comprised of captains Teirra Duffy, Haley Bowman, Emily Hosler, Katie Nunley and Alex Sperlazza; Elizabeth Fernandez, Dani Johnson, Aubrie Reynolds, Kelly Schambach, Cassi Camilletti, Brooke Clark, Holly Davis, Makayla Moore, Alexandra Velegol, Marin Rogers, Abbi Yachini, Sydney Gambellin, Nicole Himmelrick, Lauren Fritz and Caitlin Cuomo.
Melissa Michaux, their coach, said the squad includes five seniors and several underclassmen, including two freshmen, who share a common desire to present a perfect routine.
"If they feel it was wrong or bad, they will stay until they feel it's right," said Michaux, who added they have been practicing three to four hours per day, six days a week, to prepare.
Michaux is aided by Michelle Scherich, her sister and assistant coach; and former head cheerleading coach Christine Stucin, who came out of retirement in recent years to assist as volunteer coach.
Michaux noted Stucin led Brooke cheerleaders to many championship victories and as former cheerleaders under her, she and Scherich value her input.
Michaux said the current squad has been viewing films of past squads' routines, from 1997 to the present, as part of their preparation.
Squads participating in the state competition will be required to present two routines. The first is a technical cheer that may not exceed 40 seconds and includes two jumps and various arm movements and formations.
The second must be within 2 minutes and 30 seconds and may be set to music and involve more creativity.
Over the years the squad has gained a reputation for fast-paced routines involving gymnastic maneuvers such as mid-air flips and twists from atop pyramids.
In recent years the competition's coordinators have placed more restrictions on some moves. For example, competitors may not do a tumbling twist from the ground because it's been linked to knee and other injuries, Michaux said. But spectators still can expect a lot of action, as other moves, even from atop a pyramid, still are permitted, she said.
Michaux said whatever happens Saturday, the squad will go about preparing a new routine for the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference competition in February.
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Fundraising for Fish: Shelter Works to Save Health-Promoting Friends
The following was contributed by Guest Blogger Kathy Lovin, Public Affairs and Communications Manager – Salvation Army's Western Territory.
In study after study, researchers find that people who watch fish in an aquarium can experience surprising health benefits, such as a decrease in blood pressure, muscle tension and pulse rate!
For instance, one study found that tanks full of brightly-colored fish in the dining room of the memory care unit at a convalescent center increased Alzheimer's patients' nutritional intake. That's why the staff of The Salvation Army's Bell Shelter in Southern California is trying to raise money to save their 300 gallon saltwater fish tank.
The Bell Shelter is home to about 300 to 350 residents at a time. It's the largest homeless shelter West of the Mississippi and is located in a converted 40,000 square-foot hangar formerly used as a U.S. Army Air Base. It costs about $200 to $250 per month to feed the fish and clean and maintain the Bell Shelter's tank. And that's only if everything's functioning properly. When a pump or a light needs to be replaced, the cost goes up.
But Paul Wager says the expense is worth it. He should know; he's the Bell Shelter's on-staff psychotherapist who helps the residents get their mental health needs met. Of the homeless population, Paul says between 30 – 50% have legitimate mental health issues.
The tank is in the main hall of the shelter in a high traffic area. There are benches along the opposite wall so folks can sit and gaze at the fish to their heart's content. There are about two dozen fish in all, including clownfish, damselfish, dottybacks, basslets, and anthias.
Paul says the tank has a calming effect on the residents. Watching the tank allows them to relax and take a mental vacation from the challenges in their lives. The fish are such a part of their daily routine that many name their favorites and stand in front the tank to wait for them to swim by every day.
On Friday, September 16 Bell Shelter held a barbecue fundraiser to "Save Nemo and His Friends." Staff and volunteers bought tickets for lunch and an opportunity drawing that will hopefully bring in much-needed funds so they can keep the tank. They want to give the fish a permanent home while they help the residents ease the transition into a stable, long-term home of their own too.
Click here for a link to a fascinating a research paper on the health benefits of companion animals – including fish!
Click here to learn more about the Bell Shelter.
Check out Kathy's Blog at www.SalvationArmyExpectChange.org!


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