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Strong to Endure
As 2014 begins, we should bear in mind important anniversaries in the history of the Church. The Council of Constance, which was the high water mark of conciliarism in the Church and which ended the Western schism, began in 1414. The Society of Jesus, which had been suppressed in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV, was reinstated in 1814. And of course World War I, whose repercussions for the Church and the world continue to this day, began in 1914. I'm aware that the opening of a high school in New York City doesn't match the significance of any of these events, but I hope you don't mind if I pay tribute to Regis High School, a place that opened in 1914 and has stood for so many of us as a place of prayer and learning and of civility and community.
Recent discussions at dotCommonweal have focused on Catholic philanthropy and Catholic high schools. These discussions have made me think of Regis. I'm also thinking of it because last weekend, some 250 eighth graders were interviewed as part of the admissions process. (Roughly 1000 eighth grade Catholic boys in the New York metro area took an admissions test weeks before that. The top 250 scorers on that test were invited for interviews.) In a couple of weeks, around 140 will receive a letter offering them admissions. If tradition holds, more than 95% of those admitted will accept. I received such a letter on my birthday in 1993. My friend Robert Imbelli did as well a few years before that. (He's a bit older than I am; it was harder to get in then.) Anthony Andreassi, a frequent presence in our comments, teaches history at Regis, and he's just written Teach Me To Be Generous: The First Century of Regis High School In New York City, a history of the school. This year the school is celebrating its centennial with a series of events and a capital campaign.
I don't pretend to offer anything important to the discussions we've had on wealth and philanthropy, but I'm continually amazed by the generosity that brought Regis into being. When the Jesuits, in the late 1540s, first began forming schools for adolescents, Ignatius Loyola wanted each school to be free for its students. As Regis's website notes, "Writing to Philip II of Spain in 1556, the early Jesuits expressed themselves clearly: 'All the well-being of Christianity and of the whole world depends on the proper education of youth.' Ignatius desired that Jesuits run tuition-free schools available to all students who were qualified – 'for everybody, poor and rich.'" On Christmas Eve 1912, Julia Grant, the widow of New York City mayor Hugh Grant, gave Fr David Hearn, SJ, the pastor of St Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Ave., $500,000 to found an all-scholarship Jesuit high school for Catholic boys. (That's roughly $12,195,000.00 today.) There was to be a special consideration in admissions for those who couldn't afford a Catholic high school education. The first class entered in September 1914, and every single student since then has received a full scholarship to the school. As far as I know, Regis is the only free private high school in America. Grant and her family asked to remain anonymous, and it was only in 2009, after Grant and all of her children has passed away, that their identity became public. Regis has survived because of the endowment that the family's gifts and the generosity of its alumni. Thanks to such generosity, Ignatius's vision remains alive.
The alumni themselves are an impressive lot. Although we can't boast of a Supreme Court justice the way our elder brother and rival Xavier High School or another rival Hunter College High School can, I'm proud to be numbered among alumni who include the current bishop of Bridgeport, Conn., the presidents of Fordham and St John's University in New York, a surfeit of attorneys and teachers, many doctors and bankers, nationally prominent news reporters, Saturday Night Live writers, actors, rock stars, and – one of my personal heroes – the priest whose life and ministry inspired On the Waterfront.
Were it just for the high caliber of Regis's academic offerings, I doubt it would engender such loyalty among its alumni. My friends and I were fortunate to go to some of the best colleges and graduate schools in America, and all of us consider our four years of high school to be the most academically intense years we had. Certainly our teachers at Regis expected a lot from us. But that expectation went far beyond "learning the material." (We certainly never were taught things because some standardized test awaited us.) Whatever we learned – from the ablative (or genitive!) absolute to the Krebs cycle, from equilibrium prices to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, from the Hapsburgs and the Roosevelts to quadratic equations – we learned so that we could become, in the words of Jesuit Superior Pedro Arrupe, "men for others." We were to become men for those less fortunate than ourselves and also men for each other. I've never been part of a community of learning where the people cared so much for one another. No doubt we failed – and continued to fail -- to live up to that charge, but there is also no doubt that we understood what our charge was.
I can say about Regis what de Lubac said about the Church: without it, I wouldn't know Him. The school offers its students a rich liturgical life complete with school-wide masses and small group retreats. Each student partakes in service projects throughout his time at Regis, and spends a considerable amount of time his senior year in direct service. The theology curriculum explores Church history, biblical studies, and ethics. Discussions of Christianity extend into each of the subjects beyond theology class and permeate the entire curriculum. The teachers are models of Christian discipleship. They help the students realize that the Catholic tradition is not a yoke that burdens or constricts, but a frame through which to understand. They taught us that love requires our intellects and that being a thoughtless Christian is a contradiction in terms.
As you can imagine, I could go on. Like any group of people, Regis High School has its faults, but I hope you can forgive me if I leave those to another day. I should note, however, that Catholic girls in the New York metro area do not have the opportunity to attend an all-scholarship Catholic school. Even though I am a great defender of single-sex education at the high school level, I would love to see an all scholarship girls' school built with the help of Regis alumni.
Regis stands on 84th Street between Park and Madison Avenues. On the building's façade, there is an inscription that reads "Deo et Patriae Pietas Christiana Erexit." Christian piety built this for God and country. The most important lesson I learned on 84th Street was that "Deo et Patriae" and "Men for Others" aren't snazzy mottoes, ready-made for brochures. They're not "brands" created to distinguish Regis from the many fine schools in New York. Instead, these words are calls to action and ways of life. Students and alumni are fortunate to have models for these ways of life: the generosity of the founding family, the stewardship of the Jesuits, and the dedication of faculty, staff, and alumni. All of these people have been shaped by the One who took the form of slave, washed his friends' feet, and loved them to the end. May Regis's next hundred years be as faithful and fruitful as its first hundred.
About the Author
Scott D. Moringiello is an an assistant professor in the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in Catholic theology and religion and literature. He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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"I would love to see an all scholarship girls' school built with the help of Regis alumni."
Me, too. My daughter in 8th grade is waiting to hear back from schools now. My only concern about an all-girls all-scholarship Catholic school is that it might peel off the brightest girls from the regular all girls Catholic high schools, most of which have pretty modest tuition.
An all-scholarship need-based school would be a different story; like an all-girl Christo Rey type school. I believe the Holy Child sisters operate a free all-girl midle school on the Lower East Side.
I have been most favorably impressed by the Jesuit schools run along the lines of Christo Rey.
So I have just been astounded to read the explanation Fr. John Dear gives today in National Catholic Reporter online for leaving the Jesuit order. How doea all this add up? I'm just flabbergasted.
I had no idea John Dear was in the process of leaving the order. I admire him. I do not understand this. http://ncronline.org/blogs/road-peace/leaving-jesuits-after-32-years
Bernard Dauenhauer
I am as shocked as you over John Dear's portrayal of his provincial, Fr. Jim Shea, S. J. I have known him for a long time, and I cannot imagine he woud ever say the things Dear has reported. Don't know what to make of this. The Christo Rey schools show that that the Maryland Povince has not abandoned the mission of faith and justice. It is nevertheless sad that John Dear felt he had to leave the Jesuits. He is a tireless advocate for peace.
Hope he stays a priest. There must be some bishop somwhere who would welcome him.
I married in to the Regis cultus. Haven't started prepping my boys for the test just yet, but I will note that my older son manifested an early fondness for owls ("owl" was one of his first words, in fact). Coincidence? I'll make sure it goes on his application, either way...
Sad about Fr. John Dear. I've read a couple of his books. What he seems to be saying about the Jesuits in the US also seems to be true of the Catholic Church in the US, if The Economist article on how the church spends its money is accurate .... the article states that the church spends 28% of its money on colleges but only 2.7% on charity ... http://www.economist.com/node/21560536
Re :John Dear
This is very sad, especially to people like me who have been members of Pax Christi. I look at him as one of the successors of the charism of the Berrigans.
A shame NCR eliminated comments. It would be interesting to see what Dear's fans think about his dismissal from the Society of Jesus. (Maybe Mollie will open a thread about it here.)
Joshua McElwee has a follow-up piece in NCR about Fr. Dear's dismissal from the Jesuits.
I don't know enough to say anything else now. But I do think that both Fr. Dear and someone speaking for the Jesuit order owe the Catholic community at large some dispassionate clarifications. It's not inconceivable that neither party deserves censure, but in the absence of any clarification, some of us will be tempted to make some unfair comments about one or the other party.
"A shame NCR eliminated comments."
Not at all. Over the last couple of months, culminating in last week, the comments sections of ANY article had turned in a vitriolic cesspool of scatology and homophobial.
I applaud Dennis Coday and Pam Cohen for taking swift and necessary action.
I hope they can find a way to reopen them in a manner in which better and quicker control can be exercised to eliminate the abuses that happened recently.
It is a shame that NCR HAD to eliminate comments, but not that they actually did.
Didn't realize there was a problem. (I rarely read the comments. Not because they're bad, but because they're boring.)
But I would like to see what people have to say about John Dear. (I thought it was a little harsh of the superior general to use the word "obstinately" in describing his disobedience.)
Strange that none of the Jesuits at In All Things has posted about the situation with Fr. Dear.
I hope the Jesuits who run America magazine aren't equally in danger of being reassigned to work in a high school.
Interesting that Bernard and Allen found this matter shocking. That the Provincial would do this. Just as the clergy many times do not know their parishioners, many of us do not know what goes on in clerical and religious circles. The vision is very different when you are not in the club. No matter how many people you may know in the club. In 1967 I went to see Dan Berrigan who was at that time quite active against the war in Vietnam. I was taken aback by how upset he was by the mistreatment and hostility of his fellow Jesuits at the time. It was hardly a conversation as Dan was so upset he just kept saying how hostile his fellow SJs were to him. In the room a television was showing General Westmoreland, the chief general of the Vietnam war. Dan yelled out "murderer." Dan is still with the Jesuits....
As far as the Jesuits at America, they are clearly buying the emphasis on the poor that Francis has made. No way do they talk like this particular Provincial.
As with Thomas Reese the Jesuits find a way to get around things They accomodated the pope by transferring Reese. Reese still writes for America. But his more pungent pieces are either in NCR or other venues.
John Dear is clearly a prophet and "no one is a prophet in her own country" It is arguable whether Jesus or Paul would hack it in the church today or for that matter , the church of the last 1700 years.
I hope the Jesuits who run America magazine aren't equally in danger of being reassigned to work in a high school.
Odd, in a thread about one of the Jesuits' great high schools, to describe "work in a high school" as being "in danger."
The short answer is the that the One Holy, Apostolic Catholic church has to find room to accomodate Fr John Dear. SJ..Another job for a Pope Francis intervention.
Bill Mazella,
You do not have my opinion quite right. What was shocking to me was Dear's representation of why was leaving the Jesuits and his account of his conversation with Jim Shea. S.J. the Maryland Provincial. I know Shea very well and Dear's characterization does not ring true. Shea is a man committed to social justice and to Arrupe's legacy. His track record in this matter is flawless.
We now know, after an update at NCR, that Dear was dismissed from the Society and did not "leave" the Jesuits of his own volition because he found remaining a Jesuit to be intolerable. There is much that we do not know in this very difficult decision on the part of the Jesuits, and I will not speculate here, but Dear's NCR article represents only one side of the conversation, which is doubtless much more complicated than what we know from what he has written.
I agree with you that his ministry of peace is propjetic, and like theprophets of old he has personally suffered for it. This is one of the reasons why I admire him. In my opinion, his dismissal is a loss for the Jesuits because his unwavering committment to peace is so neceaasry today. On the other hand, knowing Shea as I do, I am confident that Dear's NCR piece does not tell the whole complicated story. I encourage readers to exercise caution in coming to conclusions in this matter. This is not a win/win situation.
Something I forgot to mention. The idea that Jesuits involved in non-education ministries are being reassigned to high schools and colleges is unfounded. Search Jesuit high schools and see how few Jesuits are working in them, the same goes for colleges and universities. The Jesuits are preparing lay people to take over these schools because they see the handwriting on the wall. Decades ago it was evident to the Society of Jesus that their apostolates could not be adequately staffed with Jesuits and so they decided to train lay people in Ignatian spirituality to continue works that they were unabe to staff. Regarding Jesuits, the decision was made to allow them to do the work they wanted to do because there was no way they could cover all of their ministerial cimmittments by assigning Jesuits to them. The thought was that it was better to have a Jesuit committed to what he felt called to do thn to assign him to a ministry that he felt was not where his talents would be best used. John Derar was a beneficiary of this mode of apostolic thinking, which is why his dismissal from the Jesuits is so tragic.
"What was shocking to me was Dear's representation of why was leaving the Jesuits and his account of his conversation with Jim Shea. S.J. the Maryland Provincial. I know Shea very well and Dear's characterization does not ring true."
Without seeing the update I felt that Dear made what were conclusions rather than what was expressly said to him by Shea. I am not questioning your judgment. Just that we sometimes think we know people when we may not. So while Dear may not be as candid as he appears, we should not conclude that what transpired between them amounts to a different person than the person you think you know. My opinion.
Much as I admire Father Dear, I don't think that after you part ways with your employer, or your family, you go out and trash them in the newspaper.
I share Alan Mitchell's caution. It would be good to have the parties make some clarifications. In the absence of clarity, it's hard to avoid jumping to conclusions, even if we don't voice them. But such jumping cannot be in anyone's legitimate interest.
Communication is very complicated. What Shea believes he said may not match what Dear believes he heard.
Some of the things that Dear said - particularly that the Jesuits (or at least his province) are pulling back from their commitment to working for justice - can't just sit out there without a response. That's my opinion. If Dear is incorrect in this characterization, I'd think the Jesuit leadership must publicly set the record straight. If Dear is accurate - this is something I hadn't heard before. I'd think the Catholic media needs to tell this story.
Employers have to bear responsibility for their actions. Otherwise we have feudalism and oligarchy. It is really problematice to fault Dear when the American hierarchy was quite lukewarm in opposing the war in Iraq. Which everyone agrees now was a huge mistake which included outright lying by the US government and President. We may need more information. But what may be emerging is that this provincial had more problems with Dear than previous ones. Which may say something about him. Despite Alan's certainties. Further, prophets including Jesus often have problems with church officials.
When within our lifetime we have seen vast amount of Christians remain silent on the Holocaust and other atrocities, it is difficult to fault John Dear. Who has shown courage and persistence when so many are tepid.
Firstr, re: Regis...in halcyon days of high school (62-65) debate and Forensic Club,we were awlays intimidated by and occasionally gratified to beat Regis... fond memories of the excellent preparation they always had... and we other Upstate parochial schools were thrilled to play (and once in while slay) the giant...
Re: John Dear... his photo is on the "Path of the Peacemakers" at our parish where he inspired many of us a few years ago. Many of us have met him... it's hard to see both columns and I, like many, have no idea where the truth lies. However, I have heard that many Jesuit institutions that has been so supportive of teh protest against the School of the Americas have cut back support radically... due to Roy Bourgeois excommunication? I hope he can find peace and that the Jesuits have not "cut back" on their witness and encuragement to social justice....
It would be good to have the parties make some clarifications.
Have to disagree. Imho, Dear's superiors (bishops, provincials, superior general, et al.) should keep their mouths shut. I would think that Dear's Jesuit bosses are bound by rules and regulations not to talk of matters so personal, so intimate. Something like the seal of confession surely guards a subject in a religious order from having his personal issues bruited about on message boards, in the press, etc.
Dear said he "felt" certain things were being said to him, and he mentioned his health. Maybe those things should be considered by those looking at the situation.
I think the Jesuits should respond to what Dear said. The order has not ever been secretive - you can read the documents of their General Congregations, many Jesuits have collective and individual websites and blogs, their ways of proceeding are laid out in books, videos, journal articles. Sure, there may be private issues that are part of the break between Dear and the order, but the question of whether they're changing their mission is of public interest.
This case makes it again clear that the Jesuits are not a monolithic group. They've been traditionally proud of the diversity of views that resides within the Society. I know that Jesuits are often thought also to be "progressive," but back in the Modernist crisis, George Tyrrell was drummed out of the Society, if I'm not mistaken, even before he was excommunicated by Rome. And Tyrrell thought that it was the Jesuits who were leading the anti-Modernist crackdown.
Like Bill Mazzella, I remember that Daniel Berrigan was much criticized within the order. Back in the late 1960's, when Woodstock was still in Manhattan, I commented to a Jesuit theologian that Berrigan might attract some vocations to the Society. He replied, "Well, I certainly hope not!"
"Obstinate disobedience" is likely to be taken seriously in a group that modelled itself on military discipline. Do I read the report correctly: that Pope Francis has been asked to confirm the dismissal, but that he has not yet done so? The NCR did not publish the texts of the letters from superiors that Dear sent to them.
Regs has an Intel competition semifinalist this year.
The odd thing is that the order had seemed proud of him and his work. This past SJWeb nnewsletter (http://www.sjweb.info/news/ensPDF.cfm?PubNumID=76&DownLang=1) mentions him ...
*** USA: Jesuit Peace Activist Honored for his Advocacy
Jesuit Father John Dear, a nationally known peace activist, was recently honoured with the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award. The award, presented since 1978, is named after Pope John XXIII's 1963 encyclical, "Pacem in Terris" ("Peace on Earth"), which calls on all people to "secure peace among the nations." Previous award recipients include the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day ... ***
Regs has an Intel competition semifinalist this year.
And Jesuit High School in Portland, OR, has two.
Interesting to read the names and note the ethnicity of these brilliant students. (The Harker School in San Jose is amazing.)
America mentions this post http://www.americamagazine.org/content/ignatian-educator/lessons-jesuit-high-schools but not John Dear.
Maybe they've been forbidden to talk about him, and the above America post is an indirect way to bring readers' attention to Dear's dismissal without talking about him.
One glaring revelation is that former provincials gave strong consent to the works of Dear even if they may have winced about his actions. Why this provincial decided to take action begs for an answer. Compared to Berrigan Dear does not enjoy the support in the greater Catholic community--the universities and the bishops. Unlike the time of the Council when voices of peace and solicitude for the poor were widespread among the US bishops and universities. Both have lost a lot of their solicitude since then. Dear seems to be an embarassment to the bishops and universities.
Watching this 2008 talk by Dear. He tells a good Jesuit joke near the beginning :) ... http://youtu.be/gv3hCu9WEx0
1950s Regis alumnus here. In those pre-everything days, four years of Latin were required, and three years of Greek recommended. Plus a couple of years of French as a concession to modernity. Was there another school in the world where a young man could be steeped in nine years of foreign language in a mere four years? Not a very career-oriented curriculum, as it turned out, although I did teach a couple of semesters of beginning Latin years ago and had a class in Homer ready to go before it was canceled when only two students enrolled. I'm reading a little Livy just now and waiting patiently, if without much hope, for the return of the aurea aetas.
Youth, faith, first love, Regis. Those were glorious years.
Finally something in America about John Dear: http://www.americamagazine.org/issue/peace-activist-leaves-jesuits


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I need a theoretical proof that each angle of a regular hexagon is $120^\circ$.
Draw the five radiuses from the hexagonal's center to its vertices. You get 6 congruent isosceles triangles whose basis angle's equals $\,x=\,$ half our wanted angle..
But then the central angle in each triangle equals $\,180^\circ-2x\,$ , so
$$6(180^\circ-2x)=360^\circ\Longrightarrow 180^\circ-2x=60^\circ\Longrightarrow 2x=120^\circ$$
Sum of the internal angles of a regular Hexagon is $(2.6-4)*90=720 $ As there are 6 angles so each angle must be $720/6=120$
Another Perspective:In a regular Hexagon there are 6 Triangles each having the sum of the angles as $180$ degrees.So the sum of the Angles of all the 6 triangles is $180*6$ but this contains the central angle of $360$ degree so the sum of the internal angles of the hexagon is $180.6-360=720$.As all the angles are same so each angle must be $120$ degrees.
Consider a line rotating about a regular $n$-gon in the Euclidean plane. If the angle at each vertex is $a$, then the line rotates $180-a$ at each vertex.
Since there are $n$ vertices, the total rotation is $n(180-a)$.
But this total rotation is $360$. So, $n(180-a) = 360$ or $a = 180 - 360/n$.
For $n = 6$, $a = 180-360/6 = 180-60 = 120$.
Note: This is not original by me.

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At 15, Cole Buese already holds nine individual age-group state swimming records, three relay records, and last summer, the St. Xavier freshman posted a Junior National qualifying time in the 200-meter butterfly.
Buese's older sister, Kelsey, is a senior long-distance freestyler at Sacred Heart Academy who took an individual state title in the 500-yard freestyle her sophomore year and has been an integral part of the Valkyries's back-to-back state championship teams.
To those familiar with the Buese clan, all of this success in the pool has come as no surprise.
The Buese name has been synonymous with aquatic excellence since the 1970's when Lisa Buese — aunt to Cole and Kelsey — rose to prominence as a Pan Am Games silver medalist in 1979 and a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that boycotted the Moscow Games.
A 1981 Kentucky Country Day graduate, Lisa Buese competed with the Lakeside Seahawks before a successful career at Stanford that included a 1983 national title.
Kirk Buese, Lisa's brother and Kelsey and Cole's father was a standout as well, winning three team state championships at St. X from 1976-1978 before a stellar career at Vanderbilt.
As Cole begins his prep career and Kelsey puts the finishing touches on hers (she has signed to swim at Michigan State), the two have happily embraced the family's past glories and fully intend to uphold the mantle.
"It's a really good support system," said Cole Buese, who specializes in butterfly, mid-distance freestyle and the individual medley. "My dad understands all the stress we have and my aunt has always been a really good role model."
After trying cross-country, soccer and basketball in middle school, there was little doubt where Cole would gravitate.
"I started swimming at Lakeside at six and I always wanted to be a part of that. The pool was a second home," he said.
Cole's times in the past year rank in the top 20 nationally for his age group in six events, including No. 5 in both the 200-yard freestyle (1:43.96) and 200 butterfly (1:54.55) and No. 3 in the 100 butterfly (52.25).
"He could easily be one of the best boys we've ever had," said Lakeside coach Mike DeBoor. "If he maintains his focus and excitement … he should be a player on the national level."
The 15-year-old trains year-round with Lakeside while also competing in meets with St. X.
The Tigers, winners of 23-straight state championships, are 4-0 in dual meets this season, outscoring opponents 546-256.
"Cole's always been a special athlete and he's only going to get better as he matures," said St. X coach Todd Larkin. "He's a multi-dimensional swimmer and, as a freshman, he'll even factor into our team's chance of repeating this season."
Kelsey, who has also been with Lakeside since age six, relishes the sport's team element.
"You can race for yourself to try to get personal bests, but you're always working for a team too," she explained. "You get the best of both worlds — achieving your own goals and team goals."
Valkyries coach Jim Luebbe said Kelsey's "great internal pace" allows her to pick the proper moments to be aggressive in a race.
"She allows the race to come to her and jumps on it at the right time," Luebbe said. "Often in our sport, people shy away from distance races, but she accepts the challenge willingly."
A second team All-State selection last season, Kelsey has finished in the top five in the 500 freestyle at the last three State Meets (5th, 1st, 4th).
Rounding out the Buese family are Hallie, 11, who swims for Lakeside and dances competitively, and Mackenzie, 19, a sophomore at Miami (Ohio), who was an accomplished swimmer at the youth level and won a team state title in her senior year at Sacred Heart.
Cole laughed as he explained that their Mom, Camilla, has the least knowledge of the sport, but still contributes at meets. "She likes to tell my sisters to just look good on the block. She says it's all about looking good."
Up Next for the Bueses
Cincinnati St. Xavier vs. St. X, Saturday, Jan. 7. Racing begins at 2 p.m. in U of L's Ralph Wright Natatorium.
Pannell Swim Shop/KHSAA State Swim Meet, Feb. 24-26, Ralph Wright Natatorium.
Contact columnist Chris Cahill at email@example.com.


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I bought the disc for this and am eagerly awaiting to play this with my wife, who owns all but the latest issues of the graphic novel. The fact that it's in that universe will probably make her giddy.
The preview for the fps WD title also has me excited with the choices for who to save and who to kick out of the group when your vehicle is full, and a supposed emphasis for survival. I really hope it resembles the difficulty and rationing found in ZombiU, but being a fps by Activision, I don't think that's even a possibility.
"Scheduled to be released in 2013."
Better be December 31st, 2013, because the game looks rough as fuck right now.
That musical score makes up for it though.
Got 1st episode on iOs for free and well yeah it's pretty engrossing and seems quite good. Will probably get the rest on Xbox or PC. I am converted!
Spoiler!Kenny saves Duck, no matter what happens, but he's utterly pissed with you for the rest of the game. You can choose to save neither and it still plays out the same way. I saved Duck because I knew what happened to Shawn in the comic - he's dead before Rick and co. meet The Greene family. Probably one of the few times I sort of "cheated", I guess.
I don't think something like the RV scene was bullshit either, and I heard all the butthurt on the Telltale forums. It's not that choices don't matter - because if you're being engaged, then its obviously doing its job. People got pissed because they were fine with being thrown to the wolves, but they got annoyed when a fave died and that they had no control...and isn't that what Lee goes through in just about every situation?
Just to add, from the start, this about Lee's choices having an effect on the relationships around him. He doesn't actually do anything that radically changes the plot in any way - he's just another survivor. It's not exactly Mass Effect, where to certain degrees, Shepard changes the outcome of a quest. It's far more intimiate than that, and the choices reflect your thoughts and feelings. It's why you're engaged.
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Well said, Stevil.
Though regarding the Duck thing, Kenny remembers it if you don't try to save him, but he doesn't really stay pissed at you for it. I'd consider Kenny and my Lee good friends, even though I made opposing decisions where I felt the need to.
It's hard for me to feel attached and emotionally engaged when I realize early on that my feelings don't mean anything within the first 20 minutes of the game. Right after that bullshit on Hershel's farm, the game telegraphed to me in big, bold letters: "YOU ARE MY BITCH. I DO WHAT I WANT." From then on, I took the role of a passive movie viewer and didn't bother getting too invested in anyone. The only people I gave a shit about was Clementine (you'd have to be a psychopath not to) and myself (Lee)--everybody else was officially "whatever."
And before anyone goes into "but surely you've gotten attached to movies or TV shows without having any input in them": Very, very few. I watch no television shows outside of news programs and barely any movies. The Wire is the only show in the last 10 years I've watched to completion, and that was only after being pestered into it by a friend 5 years after it had ended.
Also,Spoiler!The RV was bullshit to me because Lee barely reacted to the death of a character that he admitted he had feelings for in my story. "Oh, well, she's dead, guess I better wait it out on Clementine." That was my problem with it--it just seemed unnatural given the prior scenes with her. I have no problem with everybody dying.
It was a great story, but I generally don't get attached to individual characters in any story. I'm more interested in the plot and details. The Wire has been the only exception to the rule.
Spoiler!They jump on the RV in total shock - it was classic fright and flight. What was there to say, anyway? I liked Lily, but there was no coming back from that. I put her on the RV, and had no idea why. There was no plan and nothing to say. It's how people would react in real life. Lee explains it best in Episode 4 - Clem is all he has left in a world gone to total shit.
It's not unnatural, either. Lily was clearly losing it when Lee and Kenny came back from the drug store. Not to mention she was living with the guy who killed her dad. She became the de facto leader, and also the outcast for doing it.
Spoiler!How about a "damn, that really sucked, yo"? Or something. Anything. There's plenty of time after the RV breaks down to reflect back on the moment. This was a character that my game claimed its lead character had an attachment to, though you definitely wouldn't have known it if you judged it by his indifference to that moment.
Larry's death gets more reflection for Christ's sake.
How could they?
Spoiler!Ben just saw someone die for his lies. Kenny and Katjaa have a dying son on their hands. Did you really want to hear Lily's bullshit excuse when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere and have a whole new bunch of problems on your hands. Nobody mourned for Mark, so I don't get why Carley/Doug is a special case because they lasted 2 and half episodes.
Pacing-wise, they went for a two punch and standing around talking about some supporting character's death would have diluted the next scene's impact.
Besides, Lee does talk about it to Katjaa. It doesn't need to be a five minute dialogue. A few lines is more than enough.
I don't care what the side characters have to say about it--they didn't have an attachment to that character, according to my game. What Lee says about it matters to me. All he says to Katjaa about it amounts to,Spoiler!"Eh, yeah, I liked her, but whatever. Shit's rough these days."
Maybe Lee is just more fatalistic and pessimistic than I am.
I can't wait to finish the episodes I haven't finished yet so I can read the other half of what goes on in this thread.
Soon it'll be one giant spoiler tag.
Let's make it happen.
Well, I downloaded Walking Dead: 400 Days.
It was a little hectic since it had to pack so many ideas into two hours, and there weren't any puzzles, but the writing was pretty solid and smart with the way you certain characters from different perspectives (I'm a sucker for those kind of ).
Anybody else given it a spin, or are they done with the series?
I'll pick it up at some point, would love to play some more Walking Dead.
So it's two hours long? I'd heard it was only an hour :S
I clocked in around two hours with it. That's with some afk time too, though.
Thoroughly enjoyed it. There were some really tough choices in this one. Had to stop and think for a few. The new characters were great, too. If this is gonna be the group for S02, then sign me up. They all seemed much more interesting than the majority of S01's cast.


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August 6, 2012
Web-based course now updated with the latest evidence-based protocols for educating the bedside nurse
NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) announces the release of the Geriatric Resource Nurse (GRN) Core Curriculum (2nd edition 2012), an online course designed for use by NICHE members who educate nurses in best practices for hospitalized older adults. The GRN curriculum is based on the book Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice (4th edition 2012). The updated 2nd edition of the curriculum now contains the latest evidence-based practice content known to experts, and is designed for easier access and navigation.
The Geriatric Resource Nurse curriculum is part of the NICHE Core Curriculum, which also includes the Geriatric Patient Care Associate (GPCA) curriculum for patient care associates and the Introduction to Gerontology curriculum for all personnel across all hospital departments. The recently added Nursing Care of the Older Adult with Cancer and Critical Care Nursing of Older Adults courses are also part of the Core Curriculum. Combined, these curricula enable educators to deliver a comprehensive education program of evidence-based geriatric nursing care in their hospitals and allow hospitals to elevate their NICHE programs to greater levels of success.
"The underlying NICHE goal of improving the geriatric knowledge and expertise of the bedside nurse is foundational to implementing system-wide enhancements in the care of older adult patients," says Marie Boltz, Ph.D., RN, GNP-BC, associate director, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Practice Initiatives, and one of the editors of the GRN curriculum. "The Geriatric Resource Nurse curriculum is an educational and clinical intervention model that prepares staff nurses as the resource person available to other nurses for geriatric issues."
The completed course provides 20 contact hours. The course can be accessed by NICHE hospitals in the online NICHE Knowledge Center at http://www.nicheprogram.org/courses/114.
The NICHE Knowledge Center houses an extensive portfolio of tools and resources for healthcare providers, organizations, and consumers to use in improving quality of care and patient outcomes.
About NICHE
NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) is designed to help hospitals improve the care of older adults. A program of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing, the vision of NICHE is for all patients 65-and-over to be given sensitive and exemplary care. The mission of NICHE is to provide principles and tools to stimulate a change in the culture of healthcare facilities to achieve patient-centered care for older adults. NICHE has over 350 hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout North America.
For more information visit www.nicheprogram.org. Follow us on Twitter: @NICHEProgram
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
College of Nursing, NICHE, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
Type: Press Release
Press Contact: Christopher James | (212) 998-6876


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Have you had a chance to play the prototype for the innovative time-bending first-person shooter, Superhot?
Made during a seven day game development challenge, the Polish Superhot Team created something rather extraordinary in the form of Superhot, a minimalistic FPS where time moves forward only when you move, resulting in Matrix-esque slow-mo shoot-outs with starkly red enemies in view and bullet trails slicing up the screen.
Have you still not played the Superhot prototype?
To move the game beyond the prototype phase, the development team has taken the concept to crowd-funding site Kickstarter to ask for a total of $100 000 to help fund the development of the full game.
The game is also looking a bit more detailed since the release of the prototype – check it out in action with a new trailer below:
Superhot Trailer
What do you think? Will you be kicking in a few points of your own personal currency to contribute to the development of the game?
And… have you still not played the prototype?
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Boston Conservatory Announces New String Artist-in-Residency
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Boston, MA—The Boston Conservatory announces its new annual String Artist-in-Residence Series beginning in 2010-2011. The new series invites guest faculty artists—each a notable luminary in world of string musicians—to come to the Conservatory to perform and to teach master classes and individual lessons with select students to help them gain a deeper understanding of their instrument and the discipline behind it.
According to Andrew Mark, chair of the Conservatory's string department, "Exposure to these great musicians of our time helps our students understand the rich heritage of our art and gives them a respect for the traditions that they will be responsible for carrying forward to new generations. All three of these guest artists are deeply committed to and passionate about their art. I know that our students will not soon forget how much these experiences have touched their musical lives."
The line-up for the 2010-2011 String Artist-in-Residence Series includes Jorja Fleezanis (serving a one-week residency during the school year), Joseph Silverstein (making four one-day visits in fall 2010) and Pamela Frank (making two two-day visits in spring 2011). While individual lessons will be limited to a select number of students, all lessons will be open.
Jorja Fleezanis
Jorja Fleezanis served as concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra for 20 years before recently retiring to accept an appointment as Professor of Orchestral Studies and Violin at Indiana University. She brings a wealth of knowledge about orchestra, chamber music and contemporary music, as well as a deep love of violin study and an understanding of the discipline artists need to accomplish their goals.
During her one-week residency during the 2010-2011 school year. Fleezanis will serve as concertmaster of The Boston Conservatory Orchestra for one of its regular season concerts. Students will share her joy for large ensemble playing and will experience what it means to be an effective leader. She will also teach master classes in violin and chamber music repertoire.
Joseph Silverstein
After attending The Curtis Institute of Music, Joseph Silverstein joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1955, became concertmaster in 1962 and assistant conductor in 1971, holding both positions through the 1983-84 season. He was the music director of the Utah Symphony until 1998, and has been a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1993. He is currently on the faculties of the Tanglewood Music Center and the Curtis Institute of Music. Silverstein is a complete musician who bridges the 21st century with the wisdom and inspirations of the violin masters of the earlier half of the 20th century.
During his series of visits in fall 2010, Silverstein will perform with The Boston Conservatory Orchestra as soloist. He will also present a series of violin and chamber master classes as well as individual (open) lessons.
Pamela Frank
International concert artist Pamela Frank is the recipient of the prestigious 1988 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 1999 Avery Fisher Prize. She has performed internationally as a soloist with prestigious orchestras, as a recitalist on leading concert stages and as a chamber musician collaborating with distinguished soloists and ensembles. She is on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory and the Curtis Institute of Music.
During her series of visits in fall 2011, Frank will share her passionate and vivacious musical coaching style with our students in master classes for both violin and chamber music repertoire, as well as in individual (open) lessons.
The Boston Conservatory trains exceptional young performing artists for careers that enrich and transform the human experience. Known for its intimate and supportive multi-disciplinary environment, The Boston Conservatory offers fully accredited graduate and undergraduate programs in music, dance and theater, and presents more than 200 performances each year by students, faculty and guest artists. Since its founding in 1867, The Boston Conservatory has shared its talent and creativity with the city of Boston, the region and the nation, and continues to grow today as a vibrant community of artists and educators. For more information, visit www.bostonconservatory.edu.
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With 101 stories that reach 1,671 ft (509 m) high, Taipei 101, also known as the Taipei Financial Center, became the world's tallest building when it was completed in 2003. Designed by C. Y. Lee & Partners, the multi-use steel-and-glass skyscraper echoes a traditional Chinese pagoda with its soaring podium base, eight tiers of eight stories (a number that is a homophone for prosperous growth in Chinese), and narrow pinnacle tower and spire. An 18-ft (5.5-m), 882-ton (800-metric-ton) ball-shaped damper located near the top counteracts swaying during earthquakes and typhoons. Source: Columbia Encyclopedia.
Fun Fact: From 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. every night, Taipei 101's lights are illuminated in one of the seven colors of the spectrum.
Photo source: Alton Thompson
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Finding Support for Kids During Cancer Treatment
Last Modified: May 8, 2012
How can I help my kids deal with their dad's illness? Some say to keep things as normal as you can, but I feel nothing is "normal" anymore.
Christina Bach, Oncology Social Worker at Penn Medicine responds:
I know it is really hard to maintain normalcy after a cancer diagnosis---especially with your children. I talk to my patients a great deal about recognizing and understanding the concept of a "new normal--" i.e. what life WITH cancer (and treatment and uncertainty and anxiety) may look like.
Its important to help your children express their emotions about what is happening with their dad; but also to allow them to continue to be children.
You can get great resources about kids coping with cancer:
It also may be very helpful to connect with other patients with kids who are going through similar issues.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series. View the entire transcript from the Focus on Pancreatic Cancer Webchat.


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Do I Wanna Know?
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Other songs on this album
- Arabella
- Knee Socks
- One For The Road
- R U Mine?
- Snap Out Of It
- Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
Other songs by this artist
- 89.3 In-Studio Performance
- Cornerstone
- Crying Lightning
- Dance Little Liar
- Fluorescent Adolescent
- Only Ones Who Know
- The Bakery
- Brianstorm
- Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend
- What If You Were Right The First Time?
- Favourite Worst Nightmare
- 505
- Brianstorm
- D Is For Dangerous
- Fluorescent Adolescent
- Teddy Picker
- Humbug
- Cornerstone
- Crying Lightning
- Dance Little Liar
- Dangerous Animals
- The Jeweller's Hands
- Isles Of Wonder: Music For The Opening Ceremony Of The London 2012 Olympic Games
- Come Together (The Beatles cover)
- Leave Before the Lights Come On
- Put Your Dukes Up John
- R U Mine? (Single)
- The Blond-O-Sonic Shimmer Trap
- Suck It and See
- Brick By Brick
- Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
- Piledriver Waltz
- She's Thunderstorms
- Suck It and See
- That's Where You're Wrong
- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
- I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor
- Mardy Bum
- Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But...
- Red Light Indicates Doors are Secured
- Riot Van
- The View From The Afternoon
- When the Sun Goes Down
- You Probably Couldn't See for the Lights but You Were Staring Straight at Me
- When the Sun Goes Down
- 7
- Settle for a Draw
- Who Are The Arctic Monkeys?
- Dispair In The Departure Lounge
- No Buses
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My problem solving strategy involves looking at the problem and collecting as much relevant information as possible, elaborating the given information and waiting for a general strategy to develop. This of course happens after I understand the question and before I come up with strategy.
Many Problem Solving Strategies mention for example, Understanding, coming up with a plan, implementing the plan.
The strategies never mention the crucial event between understanding and coming up with a plan. What does your thought process involve while solving problems?
Or after understanding the problem, what measures ease your development of strategy?
P.S. Happy to delete if this is not suitable. Just leave a comment.


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I'd like to set the default visited on <date> to accessed on <date> (as per my teacher's specifications). I believe I need to change the
urlseen label to accomplish this.
Is changing the
urlseen label the way to go, and if so, how can I do this?
I found out that you can change the localization keys as described in Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles:
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NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called. Then an actor is killed on the set of a film. And a Molotov cocktail explodes at a movie premiere.
Detective First Grade Zach Jordan and his new partner—and ex-girlfriend—Detective Kylie MacDonald are assigned to the case. The killer has every murder, every escape, planned down to the last detail—and he's scripted an explosive finale that will bring New York and Hollywood to its knees. With larger-than-life action, relentless speed, and white-knuckle twists, NYPD RED is a mega-blockbuster from "The Man Who Can't Miss." (TIME)
Prologue | THE CHAMELEON
It's the height of the breakfast rush at the Regency's world-famous You-Can-Kiss-Our-Ass-If-You're-Not-Richand-Powerful dining room. THE CHAMELEON slips quietly into the busy kitchen. His sandy hair is now dark, his skin copper. He blends right in, just another nameless Puerto Rican in a busboy uniform. He goes totally unnoticed.
THE CHAMELEON HAD stared at those words in his script hundreds of times. This morning they were coming to life.
His movie was finally in production. "And action," he whispered as he entered the Regency kitchen through a rear door.
He did not go unnoticed.
"You!" one of the black-tied, white-jacketed waiters yelled. "Get out there and top off the coffee cups at table twelve."
Not exactly what he'd scripted, but so much better than he could have hoped for. Like most New York actors, The Chameleon knew his way around a restaurant kitchen. He filled one chrome carafe with regular coffee, another with decaf, and pushed through the swinging door into the dining room.
The cast of characters was even better than he had expected too. Today was the start of Hollywood on the Hudson week, the city's all-out push to steal more film production business from LA. So in addition to the usual East Coast power brokers, the room was chock-full of Hollywood ass-holes chewing on multimillion-dollar deals and hundred-dollar breakfasts. And there, holding court at table twelve, was none other than Sid Roth.
If you could go to prison for destroying careers, families, and souls, Sid Roth would be serving a string of consecutive life sentences. But in the movie biz, being a heartless prick was a plus if it translated into the bottom line, and over the past three decades Roth had turned Mesa Films from a mom-and-pop shop into a megastudio. The man was God, and the four other guys at the table were happily basking in His aura.
The Chameleon began pouring coffee when Roth, who was regaling his tablemates with a Hollywood war story, put a hand over his cup and said, "Get me another tomato juice, will you?"
"Yes, sir," The Chameleon said. One tomato juice and a featured cameo coming up for Mr. Roth.
He was back in less than three minutes with Roth's juice. "Muchas gracias, amigo," Roth said, and he emptied the glass without giving his waiter a second look.
And vaya con Dios to you. The Chameleon went back to the kitchen and disappeared through the rear door. He had ten minutes for a costume change.
The men's room in the lobby of the hotel was posh and private. Cloth hand towels, floor-to-ceiling walnut doors on each stall, and, of course, no surveillance cameras.
Half a dozen Neutrogena makeup-removing wipes later, he went from swarthy Latino to baby-faced white boy. He traded the waiter's outfit for a pair of khakis and a pale blue polo.
He headed back to the lobby and positioned himself at a bank of house phones where he could watch the rest of the scene unfold. It was out of his hands now. He only hoped it would play out half as exciting as writ.
Camera is tight on THE VICTIM as he feels the first effects of the sodium fluoroacetate. He grabs the edge of the table, determined to fight it off, but his legs won't hold him. Panic sets in as his body goes into catastrophic betrayal and his neurological center goes haywire. He experiences a full-blown seizure, vomiting violently, flailing his arms, and finally crashing face-first into his mushroom-tomato frittata.
"How do you know he'll order a frittata?" Lexi had said when she read it.
"It doesn't matter what he orders," The Chameleon said. "It's a placeholder. I just had to write something."
"Oatmeal would be better," she said. "Maybe with some berries. Much more cinematic. How do you know he's going to do all that...what did you call it? Catastrophic betrayal?"
"It's a guideline. I won't even know who the victim is till the last minute. Most of it is improv. All we want is for the guy to die a miserable, violent death."
Sid Roth delivered. The vomit, the panic in his eyes, the spastic seizure—it was all there. Instead of falling facedown, he took a few blind steps, crashed into a table, and cracked his skull on the base of a marble column when he hit the floor. There was lots of blood—a nice little bonus.
A woman screamed, "Call 911!"
"And cut," The Chameleon whispered.
All in all, a brilliant performance.
He texted Lexi as he walked toward the subway. Scene went perfectly. One take.
Fifteen minutes later, he was on the F train reading Variety, just another blue-eyed, fair-skinned, struggling New York actor heading to his next gig—a 9:00 call at Silvercup Studios.
Copyright © 2012 by James Patterson
Edoardo Ballerini is an actor and an award-winning audiobook narrator. On screen, he's best known for his working the television series The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, and 24. Edoardo was nominated for a 2012 Audie Award for his recording of The Land of Laughs. AudioFile Magazine named him one of the "Best Voices of 2011."
Jay Snyder has performed on Broadway and Off-Broadway, regional theatre, television, film, and works regularly in the voice-over industry.


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I'd like to know if it is possible to develop C++ software for NXT2 using Visual Studio 2010 as IDE. I know there are small online projects for NXT but I can't find nothing about NXT2.... Any suggestions would be more than welcomed about libraries, software and firmware that is required to achieve this goal: C++ and Visual Studio for NXT2.
I think that all you might need is the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. The examples that I could find all refer to C#, VB.Net, or the included VPL languages but there isn't any reason you wouldn't be able to reference the same objects from managed C++.
It does look like there might not be a full set of services for all of the more recent parts judging from some of the comments in one of the examples that I saw, but the author of that article does have a few other notes elsewhere.
After installing and playing around with it a bit myself, I did find a link to the MSDN documentation for using NXT with MRDS that you can look through before you get started. (I wasn't able to give much of it a try yet because I'm out of batteries with my NXT brick.)
Beyond that a Google search for "mrds nxt" found the following likely useful items:
There are some answers to this on Stack Overflow: C++ OOP Library for Programming the Lego NXT
NXT++ is the best choice with dual USB/Bluetooth support. The C++ communication library has more features, but it's Bluetooth-only.


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Let $A\subset\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ such that: $|A|>n^{d}$ ($0< d <1$).
Let $C=\{(x,y,2y-x)\in A\times A \times A\}$ be the set of $3$-term arithmetic progressions within $A$.
[The original version asked about $x+y \in A$, settled by the example of Anthony Quas.]
I need to prove (or refute) that there exists a lower bound $u(n)$ on $\frac{|C|}{|A|} $ such that
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15 Nov 2012 1:53 AM #1
Unanswered: List not scrolling
I am trying to use an indexBar on a grouped list that is an item in a Panel. The problem is that when i set indexBar: true , the list will not scroll anymore, at all. I can only click on the letters to move it. Also, the indexBar is set in the middle of the panel, rather than on the right, and it's just a normal font. It doesn't look like the one from the docs page.
This is my panel which contains my list:
Ext.define('App.view.Companies',{ extend: 'Ext.Panel', requires: [ 'Ext.dataview.List' ], xtype: 'companies', config: { title: 'Companies', itemId: 'companies', layout: 'fit', styleHtmlContent: true, styleHtmlCls:'document-entry', items: [ { xtype: 'list', fullscreen: true, store: 'Companies', grouped: true, indexBar: true, itemTpl: '

{name} {symbol}

' } ] } });
Thank you.
15 Nov 2012 3:41 AM #2
Hi Prozaxx,
Give "fullscreen" config to the panel instead of list, like-
Ext.create('Ext.Panel', { fullscreen: true, layout:'fit', items:[ { xtype:'list', indexBar:true, itemTpl: 'Your Tpl', store: store, grouped: true }] });sword-it.com, Sencha Developer House in Turkey - Istanbul University Technopark Suite 204.
15 Nov 2012 5:18 AM #3
Thank you for answering. I have tried that, but it did not help. The list is shown in the same way. I think I should also mention that my panel is part of a navigation view. This is how it is defined :
Ext.define('App.view.CompaniesContainer',{ extend: 'Ext.navigation.View', xtype: 'companiesContainer', config: { layout: 'card', navigationBar:{ items: [ { xtype: 'button', text: 'Menu', align: 'left', action: 'openMenu' } ] }, items: [ { xtype: 'companies' } ] } });


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I'm running 10.10 and have stayed within the repositories. When it is time to upgrade to 11.04 are there any "programs" in the 10.10 repository that are a potential conflict with 11.04 and should remove before "Upgrading?"
The update manager handles this for you, you shouldn't have to do anything.
Where it becomes problematic is when people start adding third party applications. The upgrader does it's best to cope by disabling PPAs on upgrades, etc. but you should be good to go!
The update manager (
To maximise your chance to go fine, please use (
All PPAs will be desactivate for the upgrade. You can reactivate them after by editing the sources.list file or by the GUI. It's better to not reactivate them before the official relase of Natty.


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I play Command and Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour a lot with friends of mine, and none of us ever pick China Infantry or GLA Demolition generals. They just seem relatively useless compared to the other generals.
Is the game unbalanced, or are the strategies needed for these generals just not matching any of our play styles? If so, how are you supposed to play those generals?


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The Smithfield Historical Society will hold an Election Day Soup and Sandwich breakfast and lunch Tuesday at its Main Street museum.
There will be coffee and pastries from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The menu will include bean soup with corn muffins; chili; sloppy joes; plain, chili and kraut hot dogs; homemade desserts; and drinks.
Bergholz museum is open Sunday
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Getting ready for the Smithfield Historical Society Election Day sale are, from left, seated, Linda Kovach and Michelle Miller, and back, Frank Kovach, Samantha Yanok and Jody Verhovec.
The Bergholz Area Museum will be open for the last time this season on Sunday from noon to 3 p.m.
Featured this month is a collection of original poems written by the late Forrest Buchanan, famed naturalist and a longtime educator from Amsterdam. A DVD of Carroll County cemeteries from 1806 through 1991 will be shown on a DVD.
The museum's permanent collection includes pictures and memorabilia related to area communities, the schools, local mines and various businesses.
The museum, which is open on the first Sunday of the month from May through November, is located at the corner of Second and Jefferson streets across from the town parking lot. Admission is free.
Election Day food sale in Stratton
Proceeds from an Election Day food sale at the Stratton Fire Hall will benefit the Charlie Ward Cancer Memorial.
The sale Tuesday begins at 9 a.m. with a menu consisting of soups and sandwiches, cakes and cookies and beverage. Patrons can dine in or get takeout by calling (740) 264-5551. The fire hall is located behind the Stratton Municipal Building.
The menu will include bean soup, chili, vegetable soup, chicken noodle soup and wedding soup along with sloppy joes, shredded turkey sandwiches and hot dogs.
Benefit dinner set in Unionport
The F&A Masons of Unionport No. 333 located at 3451 county Road 39, Unionport, will host a spaghetti dinner benefit from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 10.
It will be held for the Pete and Stephanie Dennis family, which includes children Gracie, 10; Kurtis, 8; Jonathan, 3; and Mackenzie, 6 months.
The Dennis family lost everything when their home caught fire Sept. 29, according to a press release.
Cost is by donation for the dinner which includes spaghetti with homemade sauce, bread, salad, drink and dessert with ice cream.
Veterans invited to pasta dinner
The GFWC WV Bethany Woman's Club made plans for Veterans Day and other activities at a meeting led by Helen Moren, president, and held at the Old Meeting House.
The group will honor veterans on Nov. 11 with a morning coffee hour at Bethany Church and a free spaghetti dinner from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at the church.
Sharon Monigold shared the history of the Old Meeting House, and devotions were led by Moren.
Judy Pyle gave the treasurer's report. Moren reported on the soup and sandwich sale and Northern District convention held Oct. 13 at Moundsville. Winnona Arthurs was recognized as a 25-year member and Moren won first place in arts and crafts in the recycling category.
Plans were made to make Halloween favors for Ann's Country Retreat and Valley Haven Nursing Home, observe Make A Difference Day, provide cookies for Bethany College's Connections program and fill Christmas stockings for Boatsie's Boxes.
Other projects will include sewing hats and scarves for the homeless, supporting Operation Smile, sewing Little Dresses for Africa and collaborating with Beech Bottom Community Church in its Backpack Buddies project.
Special guests were: Linda Viderman, Carmel Esposito and Mary Schwertfeger of the 20th Century Club of Follansbee; Dorothy Hawkes, Joyce Young, Patty Fisher, Sally Greathouse and Alice Mitchell of the New Cumberland Woman's Club; Lynette Williams, president, Betty Miller and Audrey Cirpompa of the Warwood Civic Club; and Karen Bracey.
Brain foods topic of program
Discover brain foods that help slow mental aging and simple exercises that can help fight Alzheimer's disease during a program planned for 6 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Schiappa branch of the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County.
National speaker and author Patrick Hartory will be discussing his new book, "Your Ageless Mind." Hartory became interested in the power of the mind at an early age. As a young student being challenged by his weekly spelling test, Hartory was encouraged by his father to use memory systems to help improve his scores. From those early experiences, he took with him a deep appreciation of how the mind works and was determined to learn more.
He would later take that interest to Kent State University where he earned a degree in both psychology and business administration. Following college, he went to work developing educational programming for the PBS network, going on to produce and star in the long-running series "Weird Science."
Today, Patrick continues to present more than 150 live programs and workshops each year, delivering his educational messages to audiences across the country. His stories and articles have been featured in major publications and he is the author of three books, including his latest release: Your Ageless Mind. Copies of the book can be purchased at the library during the program.
East Springfield food sale Tuesday
The East Springfield Junior Women's Club will be having a bake sale and also soup to go on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the election polls at the East Springfield Fire Hall. The soup selections will be vegetable, chicken noodle and chili. The cost for the soup will be $5 a container.
Lupus Support Group to meet Monday
Susan Miller, a registered nurse, oncology, patient advocate, will be the guest speaker at the Monday meeting of the Lupus Support Group. It will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Hampton Inn, 820 University Inn. Steubenville.
Walter and Pat Howard are coordinators. Iris Callahan is the outreach worker.


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Wade Wharton Exhibit
Friday March 1, 2013 - Saturday October 31, 2015:
Throughout the Garden
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|Mr. Wharton's whimsical artwork is made from 'found' metal pieces such as shovels, rototiller blades, springs, and tools. He welds them into objects such as dogs, cats, flowers, time machines, Jack and the Beanstalk and more, each with a little story about it. We have placed over 30 pieces of his artwork throughout the Garden for this exhibit.
Download a map of the exhibit trail.


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How I can limit Download/Upload bandwidth for:
- Entire OS.
- One network interface.
- Single application.
How I can limit Download/Upload bandwidth for:
Limiting single interface is easy, but global rate limits need more complex rules as do application based rules. I'm not saying that it can't be done, but it requires quite a bit digging in to the internals of the networking.
Here is a quick How to on setting up a per interface limit
If you really want to set up application based rules, you should look in to some firewall framework, like shorewall, which have helper features to configure shaping. Even with these tools, it requires quite bit of forethought and testing to get it in to place. Doing something like this ad-hoc is not yet quite that easy.
Although this is an old question, I came across this when looking for an answer to the same question. The OS and interface limits are already addressed in an earlier answer, so here is a way to set up application specific limits. Use an application called trickle. So do
This will launch the application with the specified limits. You can also specify "smoothing" time, so that trickle samples over the desired time period in case your application has bursts of bandwidth consumption and you'd like the bursts to be allowed so long as the average is within your specifications.
If you wan to limit bandwidth for a specific ip address, you can use this.


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I am confused when talking about a general idea using "our life" when sometimes I feel like using "our lives". Please tell me the correct answer with appropriate explanation.
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These examples illustrate when you would want to use the singular versus plural of life:
In (2), I imply that we have shared a life, hence we jointly have had one life. In (1), I imply the opposite (different lives have to be counted separately). Consequently, the singular is felicitous in (2), but not in (1).
Felicitous does not mean obligatory, though. You can also say:
This is possible because we each have a life and it is possible to spend them together. Personally, I prefer the singular though.
By contrast, you completely change the meaning by using the plural in:
This no longer means "different from each other's lives", but implicitly contrasts with someone else's life (or lives).
would become
Note that 'I' changes to 'We' as does 'my life' which changes to 'our lives'. In other words, you would use 'our lives' when talking in the plural ('We'), and 'my life' in the singular ('I').
The usage of life in singular form is meaningful as we all share one life—denoting shared existence. fraternity, equality etc. Once we make clones, we can say lives (life + clones).
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I've been watching the Marble Hornets videos on YouTube (basically, an independent film series about a group of kids chased by the "Slender Man"), and in this video I saw something interesting. Normally, the videos have "Entry #" whatever as the title, but in this one (supposedly from the "bad guys", I guess), it's a repeating, glitching pattern of the following four series of characters:
Also, @EvanTeitelman found apparently the full stream of text, if that's helpful. Here's the pastebin he made.
I don't recognize this as any kind of encoding or cipher, so I was hoping the actual security experts might be able to enlighten me if there is one, or if it's actually just random nonsense. I'm always interested in learning something new from the pros!
The reasons I don't think it's random nonsense are:
- The same four sequences are repeated; if it were random, I would expect lots of random strings.
- It uses the same general alphabet (set of characters). (Actually, that just made me think -- maybe a simple substitution cipher?)
- And, most importantly, the binary at the end of the "bad guy's video" is an actual binary representation of a string, not random nonsense. Translated into ASCII, the binary comes out to
All of this makes me think that the data is indeed intentional rather than random noise.
The only thing I see in it is that each line has a set of brackets, a power of 10, and the letters for the word "RIGHT", combined with either a "T" or a "W". That's all I've got.


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I don't know how to properly phrase this question (not a native english speaker) so I guess I'd have to show it to you:
I want to remove the red-shaded part of the picture above. It's really annoying, especially when the thread reaches a hundred or so messages- it makes every email message a lot longer than necessary. If possible, I'd like to simplify it to an I.M.-like interface. Why not use an I.M. instead of email? Company restrictions.
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how do u get aluminium powder
You have to find a Termite nest, then take you pick...
Why so complicated??
Just make two pieces of aluminium very angry,
lock them in an airtight container,
let them fight until it is silent in the box again,
carefully open the box and take the powder out.
Discard of too big chunks and put them back in the container for the next fight, they will get crushed...
See here for some Etch-A-Sketch artwork...
hope this helps.
except this one produces black sludge, How useful!
I think your mistaken.
a relatively easy way to make this (if you have the tools) is to blend or grind aluminium foil in an old coffe grinder/blender, then to ball mill the rough powder that comes out.
sorry, you can only really get into pyro/bomb making if you have a ball mill. its cheaper to make one yourself, btw
if you can't do it this way the best your gonna do is sandpaper a block of aluminium then ginding it with a mortar and pestle. it takes ages and doesn't make lots or at a good quality either.


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did gas skyrocket anywhere else tonight?
I got gas the s Morning at $2.98/gallon. Tonight I went to fill my wife's van up and the lowest price in town was $3.69. That is a big increase in less than 12 hours. Did gas go up this much anywhere else?
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Imagine that, gas prices spiking on a weekend after a major holiday.
@silo11 Ouch, that sucks. I haven't noticed gas prices today, but a week ago it went up from 2.96 to 3.16 overnight here in Georgia. What state are you in?
While no expert I'm pretty sure it might have something to do with Iran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, which is currently a waterway in which 1/3 of the world's shipped crude oil passes daily. I found a brief article at
with some more information on the subject.
I am more t han a little tired of gasoline prices shooting through the roof because of the THREAT that there MIGHT be a POSSIBLE issue SOMEWHERE in the world that Oil comes from. I mean seriously, if all these oil companies want me to believe they're "in it for the good of humanity, and expanding their energy resources to cleaner safer cheaper alternatives" then why do they bend us over and ---- us every chance they get?
as an old wise man once said "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining."
Of course gas went up tonight! As long as there are concerns about the oil-rich countries, the prices will go up, and the news will report on it, so that we race out during the weekend (when we're out and about already) and buy it at its most expensive all week. Then it'll drop a bit when the weekend is over (unless we're in a REAL crisis, whatever that means!). It's a poopy cycle that we're hostages to.
newsflash: gas is cheap in the united states. get used to rising prices...it'll compound dramatically in the next decade.
[not trying to be a dick, it's the cold situational reality of global energy]
@waltertangofoxtrot: thats the same "unlimited gasoline faucet" attitude that'll lead us to the inevitable more sooner than later.
@pinchecat: I realize gasoline is a finite resource, what I don't understand is why the THREAT of the POSSIBILITY that SOMETHING SOMEWHERE might SOMEHOW go bad, causing the oil companies to spike prices in fuel... Then, they turn around and post record profits quarter after quarter... (as in profits from this quarter broke the previous record of the last quarter, which broke the record of the previous quarter etc.)
As for the fact Gasoline is "relatively cheap in the US as compared to the rest of the world" so? I don't live in the rest of the world, I live in the US, where we don't have a mass transit system worth a ----, or any other alternative to clocking 45,000 to 70,000 miles a year in driving time. When I bought my first truck in 1998, gasoline prices dropped to 68 cents a gallon in AZ, because the oil companies were trying to prove to the state that they could manufacture gasoline cheaper if they didn't have to move to reformulated fuel blends.
Less than $3 gas until today? I'm jealous. It has been $3.59 here for the last 3 days (jumped from $3.29). I can't tell you if it spiked or not today though because I have been sitting in the hospital all day/night.
@waltertangofoxtrot: so, if oil companies raise prices, are you asking them to shave profit margins simply to deliver cheaper gas to joe consumer? you're neglecting to consider the fact that record profits are achieved because:
1) upstream prices go up do to speculation, trading, exports, etc.;
2) higher prices at the pump (downstream) due to larger cost;
3) static margin on higher prices here leads to higher profit...even if they're disproportionately priced higher do you expect them to accept a shrinking margin simply to look out for customers' bottom line...especially in a mostly inelastic demand scenario?
@pinchecat: It's not about shaving profit margins to benefit the customers.
1) Are the oil companies involved in insider trading to make the market fluctuate to jack up prices? That is not only unethical, it's illegal.
2)The prices for the crude itself hasn't changed.
3) Record profits ensue because the margin isn't static, it's because prices have risen while costs have stayed static.
BTW, Shell here was $4.23. I predict that when it gets to $3.89 (up from $3.69, last week) all the sheeple will acclaim that at least it's not $4 anymore.
Gas under $3/ gallon? What's that like? Both my vehicles require Premium, so I don't even look at how much gas costs, I just close my eyes and take it. I barely remember when I paid less than $3.00 / gal for Premium, but that didn't last too long. Right now I'd be thankful for Premium coming in at sub $3.50 / gal. I think it was actually $3.45 a week or two ago. Go figure.
It went from $2.89 to $3.17 here yesterday.
WE don't explore or drill for oil (for example, Gulf of Mexico - where China, Venesula, Mexico are all drilling offshore), we're "regulating" domestic refining (example, the Canada pipeline 'regulations' referred to in the 'payroll tax cut' leglislation).
Iran is making a statement about how they can control oil transport from the Middle East - since we have no choice, we end up paying more...
I'd expect the news media to serve this up as an election policy issue - we won't have solar cars (and where does electricity for rechargable cars come from ?). Meanwhile OPEC laughs at us, all the way to the bank !
25 cents in 24 hours in the N.Fla area.
It's been $3.69 here in Seattle for a while. Can't wait to see what it jumped to. Fortunately we have a decent bus system here and my company provides free bus cards, so I only have to fill up every month or so.
I saw only a $0.05 increase from yesterday to today but we were already around $3.59 per gallon before this increase
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/traffic/sns-end-of-ethanol-subsidies-could-increase-gas-p-20120104,0,4424050.story did not read story or all comments but check it out (it was on radio yesterday) Running late or I would not be so lazy.
My Grandpa called and said his went up about 20-25 cents in his area of Missouri.
I haven't noticed it here in Houston, as I'm glad I filled up Monday.
@caffeine_dude: Now if the government could just mandate the removal of ethanol from gasoline... That would be the day.
I have no idea. I buy gas once every 2 weeks. The price doesn't bother me much.
Here in Kansas, it's 3.06. But I bet we will see it going up pretty soon. We're always behind the rest of the nation--in just about everything.
Gas has gone up nearly 15 cents a gallon in my area since Monday. I noticed it after I saw a crawler that mentioned an Iranian production reduction threat boosting the per-barrel price on the commodities market.
Nevermind that the oil in processing right now to be gasoline is already paid for, as it were, and that there's no practical reason for the price of gas already in station tanks to go up so much.
@aphroat: Gas is a commodity in a speculative market.
That is exactly why the gas in the station is already going up. Speculation is that future supply may be limited and therefor current supply increases in value as demand does not decrease.
It sucks, but it's the market.
Don't like it? Use less gas.
@ganzhimself: Sadly, the government is the reason it's in there in the first place. Helping out the corn farmer (and cutting everyone else's gas mileage simultaniously!)
First of all we do"t need to rely on foreign oil at all. We have enough oil available in this country if politics wasn't involved. The oil reserves in this country right now would supply us for the next hundred years. Do you know that most of the oil pumped in Alaska is sold to Japan. We have tapped into one of the largest oil fields right now in N.D. and we have a huge field in Texas. I read it is larger than all the oil in the Middle East put together.
As far as cutting back on usage, depending on where you live that is almost impossible . We have one of the worst mass transit systems in the world. If you live anywhere other than a major city you have no choice but to use your car. In Europe you can travel from Russia to Italy by train and in comfort.
@waltertangofoxtrot: When something like this is coming, people with lots of money want to buy up all the oil they can so they can sell it for a huge profit when the price rises after the shortage. There's so many people doing this, that the mere mention of a possibility causes real actual sales to happen, driving demand and prices up.
For example - if I had a lot of money, I would buy up as many hard drives as I could as soon as I heard about flooding in Thailand. I would have made a lot of money selling them on eBay.
Its unfortunately that oil is treated essentially like a stock, where a simple scare can drive people to push the price up, but other commodities are the same way. If you hear your favorite (insert consumable item here) is going to be out of stock or in short supply soon don't you stock up? Same thing essentially happens with oil. Up goes the price, and they gladly pass it on to the consumer. Now why the gas already at the pump goes up in price immediately? That I can't explain. When oil goes down in price the system works a lot slower. Amazing that, eh?
My wife read in the newspaper a few days ago that the number one export in the US is fuel oil. We send ours to someone else and then buy from terrorist countries. How brilliant is that!? (confirmed it with the Wall Street Journal)


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Many debutant GIS users are asking me which one is better QGIS or gvSIG. Since I use Qgis and I don't have any experience in gvSIG, I aways say that both are very nice softwares and the chose is a matter of liking vanilla or chocolate.
But I want to have a better answer for that question, so I would like to hear from people with experience on both of them, what drove you to choose one or the other as your favorite opensource desktop GIS.
Many debutant GIS users are asking me which one is better QGIS or gvSIG. Since I use Qgis and I don't have any experience in gvSIG, I aways say that both are very nice softwares and the chose is a matter of liking vanilla or chocolate.
I use both gvSIG and Qgis. In my view it is VERY difficult to say which one is the best. BOTH are very useful and, most of all, IMHO, they are complementary.
This is the boon of using open source softwares: you can try them without spending anything!
This is my personal list. I am fully aware it is very subjective: please, bear with me...
gvSIG pros:
QGIS pros:
I have much more experience with QGIS, but coincidentally just recently I decided to give gvSIG a try. Below some observations, some of which are different from answers from others. My guess is that this is at least partly related to the platform and perhaps memory configuration (especially if you work on Windows). I am running both on Linux (Ubuntu 11.04). Anyway, some points that come to mind:
Rendering / displaying maps
Spatial analysis
Talking about free softwares, the dynamic of the community could also be an argument of choice for using one or another.
That document benchmarks gvSIG/Qgis and GRASS regarding the community aspects (see english summary of paper here). I would say it is interesting but has to be read with precaution. Taken indicators to analyze the community participation could be discussed! And specifically here, since more and more users use qgis as GRASS GUI.
(And it could be discussed on many others points)
And we can't forget the powerful integration of Qgis with GRASS GIS via the Qgis-GRASS plugin!
I've used a little bit both the products, so give the right importance to my words.
The first thing that you can experiment is that working with large base data with QGis is almost impossible, due to low performances. GVSig is extremely faster, and used a "paginated" rendering that is very cool when you're working.
GVSig used an UI approach that (my2cents) is similar to ArcView GIS 3.X: extremely popular and "familiar" bot personally I love much more QGis UI.
Qgis right now is also lighter. But for heavy operations, I find gvSIG more useful.
The right question you should ask is: what do I want to do? Viewing, editing or geo-calculate heavy stuff?
Well, as far as I saw using both QGIS and gvSIG, either have an equal value. But, your choice is dependent upon on what you want to do. QGIS is a complete application in order to working on GIS and it's supported by a large community.
But if you need a portable GIS application (that runs on the stick, eventually) or you want to get support for MrSID files in Linux, gvSIG could be an option.
gvSIG also has a portable version packaged by Cartolab.
As one of the developers of NavTable and OpenCADTools, i mostly agree with Silvio's analysis. gvSIG is more robust and has much better performance than Qgis, but i think that qgis has a more configurable gui.