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Notes of a Future Pope
The Archbishop of Havana, cum permissu superiorum, has published notes of the talk given by then Cardinal Bergoglio during the pre-Conclave meetings of the Cardinals. Here are two of ths points he made:
When the Church is self-referent without realizing it, she believes she has her own light. She ceases to be the mysterium lunae and gives way to that very great evil which is spiritual worldliness (according to De Lubac, it is the worst evil that can come upon the Church). The self-referent Church lives to give glory only to one another. In simple terms, there are two images of the Church: the evangelizing Church that comes out of herself; the Dei Verbum religiose audiens et fidente proclamans,and the worldly Church that lives within herself, of herself, for herself. This must give light to the possible changes and reforms which must be made for the salvation of souls.Thinking of the next Pope, he must be a man that from the contemplation and adoration of Jesus Christ, helps the Church to come out to the existential peripheries, that helps her to be the fruitful mother who lives from the sweet and comforting joy of evangelizing.
The rest is here.Update:Here is part of L'Osservatore Romano's summary of Francis' General Audience today:
God did not wait for us to approach him. Rather, it was he who moved toward us, without calculation or quantification. Hence the invitation to rediscover Holy Week as an opportunity to learn once again to follow, to accompany Christ. Even if this demands that we first come out of ourselves, come out of a dreary way of living faith that has become a habit, he warned. To come out of the temptation to close ourselves into our own plans, which ends by closing our horizons to God's creative action. We should therefore continue to follow the Lord with courage, carrying within us a ray of his love to all those we meet: this is what living Holy Week means."
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Yes, yes, yes and yes.1- "The Church is called to come out of herself and to go to the peripheries not only in the geographic sense but also the existential peripheries: those of the mystery of sin, of pain, of injustice, of ignorance..." 2- The evils that over the course of time happen in ecclesial institutions have their root in a self-reference and a sort of theological narcissism" (and a self-protective clerical narcissism?)3- The self-referent Church lives to give glory only to one anotherthe worldly Church that lives within herself, of herself, for herself...(hierarchy refusing to own its complicity in criminal child endangerment)4- Thinking of the next Pope, he must be a man that from the contemplation and adoration of Jesus Christ, helps the Church to come out to the existential peripheries(where abuse survivors are among the crowd)
Correction to #3 and #4 above to clarify with close quotes where Cd Bergoglio's words end:#3 "of herself, for herself"#4 "existential peripheries"Parens are my comments, of course. Sorry, if any confusion.
In that same talk, Cardinal Bergoglio also said this:
The evils that over the course of time happen in ecclesial institutions have their root in a self-reference and a sort of theological narcissism. . . . The Church is called to come out of herself and to go to the peripheries not only in the geographic sense but also the existential peripheries: those of the mystery of sin, of pain, of injustice, of ignorance, . . . and of all misery.
I think theres common ground between his call and Bonhoeffers: that we must
liv[e] unreservedly in lifes duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world . . . . That, I think, is faith, that is metanoia: and that is how one becomes a [person] and a Christian.(Letters and Papers from Prison)
Right after posting the above, I took an early evening walk and was confronted by the rising full moon, the herald of Easter hope. It made Cardinal Bergoglio's reference to the Church as the "mysterium lunae" all the more vivid. A prayer for this Holy Triduum: that we, the Church, may be ever more a full moon, allowing the sun who is Christ to be reflected in us.
Thank you for posting this. I cannot help but connect some of the arresting imagery here with the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, about which we spoke in an earlier thread.The image of Jesus standing at the door and knocking, for instance. I would bet you anything that this wonderful concept of Jesus knocking TO BE LET OUT comes from praying with that scripture text imaginatively. Also, the discernment between two ways: classic. I am much encouraged, not only by these thoughts as they reflect the new Pope's mind, but also that these remarks may have been instrumental in the decision of the conclave, showing that they too were impressed and wanted a leader with who would bring the Church out to the peripheries.Robert, I am not familiar with "mysterium lunae" as a term. Where does it come from? Do you know the source?
Rita,I know that the metaphor was used by the fathers of the Church, but have no quote directly to hand. But here is what John Paul II wrote in "Novo Millennio Ineunte:""A new century, a new millennium are opening in the light of Christ. But not everyone can see this light. Ours is the wonderful and demanding task of becoming its reflection. This is the mysterium lunae, which was so much a part of the contemplation of the Fathers of the Church, who employed this image to show the Churchs dependence on Christ, the Sun whose light she reflects."
Francis has a master's degree in chemistry, and I've noticed that this short sermon (and others) draws not only on the languages of the Humanities (see the "existential peripheries") but also on the language of the sciences, e.g., "self-referential" (a term from logic and semantics), and "calculation and quantification" from math. He doesn't hesitate to use scientific concepts. Yet he is well aware of the "existential peripheries". It seems that he is also the first pope to have a really good education in both the sciences and the Humanities, a point which might have far-reaching effects in his consideration of the hot button issues facing the Church..Look at it this way: if he ever feels obligated to focus on the hot button moral issues his appreciation of scientific method might incline him to look carefully at the new relevant evidence concerning these issues, and he might be inclined to think critically about the old arguments when he draws his conclusions. (A girl can dream, can't she?)
La Stampa quotes another part of Frances' talk today:"Dear Arab speaking pilgrims and pilgrims from the Middle East: do not be afraid to follow the crucified and resurrected Jesus with courage, bringing joy and the light of your faith to everyone,"I don't remember another pope referring to another faith as bringing light to *everyone*. In other words, all faiths have something to offer each other. Another first?
Anne,I think you are misinterpreting Francis's words: Dear Arab speaking pilgrims and pilgrims from the Middle East: do not be afraid to follow the crucified and resurrected Jesus with courage, bringing joy and the light of your faith to everyone, He is not referring to Islam -- which denies the reality of the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus. You're forgetting (as we Western Christians so often do) that there are ARAB CHRISTIANS, whose following of Jesus often calls for a courage we can barely imagine. The reflections for the Stations of the Cross in Rome tomorrow night were written by some of them.
Katherine --Yes, I see now that your interpretation is correct. Thanks.


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#6. You Die Faster
To borrow from Professor Rufus of Bill and Ted University, "No matter what you do, no matter where you go, that clock, the clock in San Dimas is always running."
"However, time will never run out on these sunglasses."
So you get in your DeLorean and you leave 1985 to go on an adventure in the past. Say it takes you six months to accomplish your goal (ie, nearly making out with your mom) and when you're done, you go back to your own time. Maybe you go back to the very moment you left.
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Poor kid aged five years in one damn weekend.
When you get to the core of it, traveling through time is pretty much a deal with the Devil. Yes, it will enable you to save John Connor and get to Muggle Studies on time, but it will shave several months to several years off your life depending on how much you abuse it. These are precious moments from your twilight years that you will never get back: one last weekend with your wife, your granddaughter's graduation and the inevitable cloning of John Candy.
In short, when you've managed to hit age 89 in seven years and you're lying on your deathbed, will it really have been worth seeing everything time had to offer just to miss out on your own life? Sure, things may suck now, but you have no idea what it's going to be like in the future. By rewriting it all, you may just end up missing out on your own God-authored happy ending.
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So let's say that somehow you've come into possession of Bill and Ted's time-traveling phone booth. Awesome, now you have the opportunity to find out for yourself what it was like when the Mongols ruled China, among other things.
Travel back to a time when Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves were the exact same level of famous.
After a run-in with Napoleon at Austerlitz, you decide to tackle the Western Movement in America in 19th century New Mexico. After some Reconstruction Era sightseeing, a saloon catches your eye. You are totally thirsty, and they are totally not carding!
Unfortunately by beer #2 and plate of wings #6, your insides are starting to feel like a sitcom on TBS. Why? It's kind of the same reason you don't want to drink the water if you take a vacation in India. There is, uh, stuff in it that the locals have gotten used to but you haven't.
Likewise, mankind's history of purifying food and water for the past thousand years or so has significantly weakened your modern stomach's ability to tolerate impurities, such as all the microbes, piss and yes, even shit you'll find in most foods and beverages from the past.
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So you've got an HG Wells-esque time machine, which, if two separate movies are any indication, means you'll be able to fling yourself 800,000 years into the future. Think of all you'll have to learn by talking to the locals! Don't worry, they all speak perfect English, with only a slight accent. Language is pretty much the same, everywhere, forever, right?
Hmm.... let's try it the other way. Let's go backward in time, not 800,000 years, but just 1,000. You step out, grab some English reading material and find that it looks like this:
Well, this isn't right! After all, even the freaking monkeys in Planet of the Apes (SPOILER: It's future Earth) spoke plain English. What the hell?
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When the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association holds its 6th Annual WILL Platinum Gala on March 20, 2013, four of the six honorees will be Rutgers School of Law–Newark alumnae.
The Honorable Jaynee LaVecchia '79, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey; the Honorable Jennifer Velez '96, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Human Services; and Lucinda Long '84, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Valley National Bank, will receive the NJWLA's Women's Initiative and Leaders in Law (WILL) Platinum Award.
Frances V. Bouchoux '87, Senior Associate Dean at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, will receive the Trailblazer Award.
WILL Platinum Award recipients are chosen for their exceptional achievements, the development of the legal profession, their sustained contributions to gender equity challenges and other issues unique to women in the legal profession. The Trailblazer Award recognizes a man or woman who has "blazed a trail" for women lawyers in New Jersey through hiring, promoting or mentoring women in the profession.
Hon. Jaynee LaVecchia has been a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court since February 2000. She previously was New Jersey Commissioner of Banking and Insurance and, before that, she was the director of the Division of Law within the Department of Law and Public Safety. In addition, she served as director and chief Administrative Law Judge for the Office of Administrative Law and as an assistant counsel and then as deputy chief counsel to Governor Thomas H. Kean. She also has been in private practice and worked as a deputy attorney general in the Division of Law. Justice LaVecchia has chaired or served on numerous Supreme Court committees, subcommittees, and other Court-assigned projects.
As head of the Department of Human Services since 2007, Hon. Jennifer Velez focuses on several key initiatives, including Medicaid reform, creating employment opportunities and advancing supported placement of individuals with disabilities, and sustaining the safety net of services for the state's older population and low-income individuals and families. She was previously first assistant child advocate in the Office of the Child Advocate and, prior to that, senior associate counsel and Assembly liaison in the Office of Governor's Counsel for three administrations.
Lucinda Long joined Valley National Bank in 1991 from Lowenstein Sandler LLP where she specialized in mortgage lending and commercial real estate. Before practicing law, she taught political science at Montclair State University. She has held numerous leadership positions, including vice president and committee liaison for the New Jersey Corporate Council Association, a NJCCA director and chair of its Small Law Department Committee; vice chair of the New Jersey Bar Association Banking Law Section; and chair of the Bank Lawyers Council of the New Jersey Bankers Association.
Frances Bouchoux oversees all administrative functions relating to students at Rutgers–Newark Law School. Her professional leadership positions include co-chair of the Amicus Committee of the National Association of Women Judges, member of the board of directors of New Jersey Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and past vice chair of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts. Before joining the law school in 1993, she was with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where her practice areas included commercial litigation and bankruptcy.
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i'm attempting to provide a facility on my site that allows a user to create a facebook event for their booking.
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Students at Carmi-White County High School have been working hard to put the finishing touches on the school play. The group will present three performances of "Miracle on 34th Street" as part of the areas "It's a White County Christmas" celebration. Opening night for the school play is Friday, Nov. 30 with a 7:30 p.m. curtain call followed by a performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 and a matinee at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2.
Based on the 20th Century Fox Pictures film, the music and lyrics based on the work from Merridith Wilson of "Music Man" fame. Sherry Passmore leads the team of students as the play's director.
"Miracle on 34th Street" is set in 1960s New York. The play begins just before the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A bearded man agrees to play Santa in the parade and soon interacts with Doris Walker, played by Jessica Bovenkerk. Walker, who is the head of the parade, has a six-year-old daughter, Susan, who doesn't believe in Santa. When people involved with the parade realize the bearded man believes he is the real Santa Claus, the man is committed to an institution, which sets the stage for a court case and a revelation of the true meaning of Christmas.
Bovenkerk has been involved in many school productions in the past as a stage crew member. The senior stepped up into a role last year and now handles the lead in this year's musical.
The bearded man is portrayed by Senior Luke Allen, also a veteran with the drama department at CWCHS. Sophomore Eric Arnold has been cast as the attorney, Fred Gaily, solicited by Walker to assist the bearded man with his fight in court. Logan Pugsley will portray Walker's daughter, Susan.
Tangela Grant will serve as Doris' assistant. Grant, a senior who is very active in the drama and band departments, is the student director of the play.
Others cast in the play include Junior Rachel Fleming as R.H. Macy, Sophomore John Lamp, who plays Judge Robert Jackson, Lizzie Cribbs, who plays the judge's publicist, Kelli Newman, who plays the judge's secretary, Shane Trail as the store psychologist, Alli Haley, Mr. Sawyer's secretary, Hailey Winkleman, who plays the Dutch-speaking Hendrika and Faith Hohman as Hendrika's mother.
The other portion of the cast can be detected in the courtroom scenes. Cassie Mick will portray the district attorney while the court bailiff is played by Holly Porter. Rayann Midkiff is a spectator and clerk in the scenes and also plays the DA's daughter, who is accompanied by the DA's wife played by Adrian Lamp. Other members of the cast include Emma Bryant, Jordan Jones, Frencheska Robertson, Michael Trail, Tabitha Mick, Heather McCully, Shiann Bidabe, Elizabeth Bryant, Kathryn Woodard and Tiffany Winkleman.
Members of the state crew include Taylor Evans, Kassidy Knight, Hannah Templeton, Bailey Chapman, Joshua Pierce, Peyton Tibbs and Quinton Browning. Spencer Coe serves as the sound technician while Kristian Newman serves as the light technician.
Page 2 of 2 - Ryan Preci, CWCHS Band Director, holds down the duties as the conductor of the orchestra, which is made up of both students and musicians from the community. Those assisting with the musical contributions to the play include students Sammy Arnold, Haley Bell and Tyler Pretzsch. Members of the community seated in the pit include Kregg Winkleman, Steve Bell, Hannah Howard, Sean Cribbs, Cayman Passmore, Allison Fields and Pam Stein. Also, Lynn Cantrell assists the orchestra on piano and has been of assistance on the piano throughout rehearsals.
To support the play, the Carmi League of Arts will sell refreshments in the lobby at intermission.
Tickets for the play are available at the door with all proceeds benefiting the school drama department. Ticket prices are $8 for adults and $4 for students.
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The joke of Licensed to Ill's cover--that the Beasties could crash their jet into the side of a mountain and keep on tickin'--serves as a good metaphor for a career that even some of their 1986 admirers thought might be over after the one-time-only shock of this full-length debut. That thousands of funk-junkie wannabes have since failed at re-creating its groove, breaking-the-law vibe, and ear-splitting mix of rock and rap is an even better joke. And funniest of all is the record itself, which packs dexterous boasts, aural puns, and lots and lots of yelling into a disc that can still be listened to with as much pleasure as it gave in '86. --Rickey Wright
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This article appears in the Fall 2011 CLINIC NEWS.
Like most states and the federal government, New Jersey grants preferential tax treatment to charitable organizations. When the Community Law Clinic (CLC) began working with the League, a Newark-based youth services organization, it discovered oversights in the New Jersey tax exemption statutes that required redress.
Although the CLC primarily handles transactional matters, at times a transactional case can proceed to litigation. Therefore, when the League brought an action against the City of Newark seeking a refund of taxes paid in 2009 on property it acquired in the same year, CLC students found themselves before the New Jersey Tax Court.
The League had been granted a property tax exemption from 2010 forward but the 2009 property tax status was uncertain. The League's situation revealed a gap in New Jersey's tax statutes. When an indisputably tax-exempt organization acquires property from a nonexempt company, the first year is not exempt from property taxes. In contrast, the League acquired its property from an exempt organization, meaning that the prior owners had no tax liability for 2009 and, therefore, the League also was exempt. However, the City relied on a different section of the tax statute, which suggests that, in order for the exemption to continue uninterrupted, the League must have been a prior owner of different tax exempt property.
Asserting that this interpretation of the statute was contrary to legislative intent, which was to continue an exemption without interruption when property was being transferred from one exempt owner to another, the CLC filed a motion for summary judgment in New Jersey Tax Court, which was argued by Nicole Barna '11 last May. The decision is pending, but students' work on the case allowed them to experience first-hand the inherent flaws in legislative drafting and a taste of litigation.


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The Chicago Cubs signed first baseman Anthony Rizzo to a seven-year, $41 million contract Monday. If there's one guy who has always been a believer in Rizzo, it's Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer. Hoyer was the assistant GM in Boston when the Red Sox drafted Rizzo in 2007. After he moved to San Diego to become GM of the Padres, Hoyer acquired Rizzo as part of the package in return for Adrian Gonzalez in 2010. Finally, in his new position as GM of the Cubs last season, Hoyer acquired Rizzo from San Diego for pitcher Andrew Cashner.
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WADA Toughens Stance
The World Anti-Doping Agency moved a step closer to tightening penalties on deliberate PED abusers, recommending an increase in the automatic penalty to four years from two during at its executive board meeting in Montreal. The shift appears likely to be adopted in November at the World Conference on Doping in Sport in Johannesburg and would go into effect in 2015. Richard Pound, a former WADA president, said the longer penalty would have a significant deterrent effect on international athletes, who would automatically miss an Olympic Games, which are held every four years.
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Racist Chants Draw Fine
A day after a referee had to interrupt a match between AC Milan and AS Roma because of racist chanting, the association that runs Italy's top division fined Roma $64,900 over the incident. The association, known as the Lega Calcio, also issued an official warning to the club, but stopped short of docking it points in the league standings.
Sunday's match in Milan was suspended for about two minutes in the second half after players complained to the referee about the visiting supporters' chanting. Specifically, the players said, fans were targeting black players on the Milan side. During the suspension in play, Roma captain Francesco Totti also walked over to the away fans to tell his own fans to stop.
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The U.S. leads the world in providing P&C insurance, with U.S. firms collecting some 43.4 percent of worldwide P&C premiums. Japan (at 10.3 percent) and Germany (8.8 percent) trail well behind. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2004 there were approximately 19,800 property and casualty carriers in the U.S. employing 609,000 workers.
The current regulatory environment for property insurance is characterized by heavy-handed regulation at both the state and federal levels. Consumers suffer when regulations appropriate for a different era reduce competition, discourage innovation, and limit choices. We seek a world where insurers are free to sell the products they want to sell, consumers are free to buy them, and insurance serves a crucial risk-management and safety-promoting function that in many cases makes political intervention in individual affairs unnecessary.
To do that, we seek to advance three goals:
Risk-Based Rates
Insurance works best when risk determines rates. Forty-eight states, however, exert some degree of control over the rates P&C insurance companies can charge. Some states require prior approval of all rates, others grant insurers a greater degree of freedom in setting rates but still require insurers to inform state authorities of the rates (called "use-and-file" laws). We favor freedom to the maximum extent possible. We also believe insurers should be allowed to use geographic location, credit scores, and other relevant data correlated with risk to set rates.
Freedom to Innovate
Within broad guidelines intended to prevent fraud, insurers should be able to sell any product they want to and consumers should be free to purchase any product they want. Government interferes with the freedom to innovate when it sells products itself or bars the sale of products. Residual insurance markets should not be expanded beyond a bare minimum "market of last resort," and any other government effort to provide insurance or reinsurance should be kept to a minimum. An optional federal charter would allow insurers to file and charge rates nationally without unreasonable restriction.
Longstanding federal, state, and local policies have encouraged development to occur in disaster-prone and often environmentally sensitive locations. Risk-based insurance rates offer the surest, most secure route to mitigating damage claims and producing overall a safer built environment. Government should stop subsidizing development in environmentally sensitive areas, remove government-built physical infrastructure (shipping channels in particular) that increase physical dangers, and restore coastal wetlands on publicly owned land.


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Hoping you guys enjoy the Jackson 5's song that's both very catchy and very relevant to this thread, obviously MJ had a few haters because of some nasty rumours about being a paedophile, but that's not really relevant to this thread (although I do at some point manage a Portuguese side named after a children's charity that's most famous for a massive child sex abuse scandal) - it was quite awkward to find that out when I was doing some research on the club! But aside from that and a few rather 'unpleasant' experiences in Northern Ireland, it's been an interesting save game so far. I'm writing this whilst on 'E' (East Fife, not Ecstasy) so I am not yet sure what will happen in the other letters, hopefully it's more to write home about and update this post with at some point!
I'm looking to complete the alphabet challenge during this save game, something nobody in the history of the forums has done before. The basic aim is to manage clubs based on the alphabet going from A-Z, this also includes international teams. The aim is to start with Sunday League reputation at an 'A' club then after spending at least 365 days at the club, then move onto 'B' and so on. I usually like to stick around at one club and get quite attached but in this career I am hoping to travel around Europe managing numerous clubs as well as an international team at some point.
North America
England - down to Blue Square South/North
France - down to National
Germany - down to Third Division
Holland - Jupiler League
Italy - down to Serie C
Northern Ireland - down to Second Division
Norway - Second Division
Portugal - down to Third Division
Russia - down to First Division
Scotland - down to Third Division
Spain - down to LIGA adelante
Turkey - down to Second Division


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I had posted an urn probability problem that didn't have good motivation. I'd like to try to explain the motivation here, and reintroduce the problem.
Consider binary sequences of length $2n$. Let's say we put a marker in such a sequence as soon as we see a total of $n$ 0's or $n$ 1's, reading left to right. For example, if $n=4$, then the sequence 00101011 would receive a marker thus: 001010|11. Now write down the bits to the right of the marker. In the case of our example, this would be 11. Do this for every binary sequence of length $2n$. We observe that we have written down $2n\binom{2n}{n}$ bits, half 0's and half 1's. It is possible to prove this observation using binomial coefficient identities, but I wonder whether there is a simple bijective proof.
The previous urn problem was an equivalent probabilistic formulation of the case $n=5$.


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14 Sep 2011 1:08 PM #1
Sencha.io Sync Beta Open for Public
Sencha Touch folks!
We're happy to release to you the public beta of Sencha.io Sync. We're releasing it early to the forums to give you a preview of the broader beta we'll make available later this month.
In order to get going, download the Getting Started guide here:
You'll also need a special Sencha Touch, version "1.2.0", which is a special build of Touch 1.1 that includes the new "syncstorage" that's needed to connect up to Sencha.io Sync. It can be downloaded here:
(2011-09-20: see below for updated build)
We're making this build specially available for people participating in the SenchaCon 2011 app contest (http://www.sencha.com/share-contest) and folks who are interested in trying out Sencha.io Sync.
Please note that this is a beta, so please do not use it for production environments or mission critical applications. Since it's a beta, the APIs may change and your data may get lost. We don't expect it to, but since it's a beta, anything is possible.
Good luck and let us know how it goes!
Aditya Bansod
Sencha Product Management
14 Sep 2011 2:31 PM #2
Hi, Sencha Touch 1.2.0 is a specail build of 1.1.0 or 1.1.1?
14 Sep 2011 4:28 PM #3
It's actually a build of Touch 1.1.1, so there are a few bug fixes we may not have released yet.
20 Sep 2011 1:37 PM #4
Hi folks -- we have an update build for Sync.
This update fixes a bug in Sync and Touch where you were unable to dynamically create a store that uses Sync.
20 Sep 2011 6:31 PM #5
Desktop sync?
Sorry if I missed this somewhere else: Is there also a special build needed for Ext-js to test this?
Or is only Sencha Touch supported at the moment?
20 Sep 2011 10:33 PM #6
Right now only Sencha Touch is supported. Ext JS is in the roadmap but we're starting with Touch.
28 Sep 2011 12:29 PM #7
Helps us get around local storage limitations
I built an app for a company that measures sidewalks. We're currently using local storage and often after a lot of entries that app basically will lose all of the data. (It's sort of recoverable, but essentially we go over the limit and weird things start to happen). Does sencha.io magically solve this problem for me, because it's all backed up to the cloud or does it still rely primarily on local storage and therefore not last beyond 2.5 - 5mb?
Oh and if anyone has any suggestions to help us get around the local storage issue that would be great.
Jamund Ferguson
28 Sep 2011 3:10 PM #8
The local replica is stored in localstorage, so we do have the same limitations as the localstorage does. The server has a full replica (i.e. the sync of it), but since we use localstorage to keep the replica, we have the same limitations as the browser.
30 Sep 2011 10:13 AM #9
Sync to our own data stores
Sencha.IO sync is some good news.
I'm still trying to figure out how this will work for my company's app. Our IPad app (still in the works) will involve A LOT of data (sensitive and secure). We currently plan on developing a service layer on top of our application layer & databases (sql server). Whenever our users are online, then our app uses our services to read/write data, but when no connection is available (for whatever reason), we plan on storing data locally, and then syncing it back up to our live stores.
Now Sencha.io sync seems to help resolve this issue, but from all the docs i've read so far, it syncs to a Sencha cloud location (pls correct me if i'm wrong). But am I able to sync up to our own live stores when the user's device regains connectivity?
Looking forward to your responses.
Last edited by dolowoyo; 30 Sep 2011 at 10:15 AM. Reason: added to the question
30 Sep 2011 11:02 AM #10
Hi there -- right now, we only sync to our cloud and that's likely how it'll be for a while. We store a bunch of metadata in order to make the sync work. We're looking for the future (think: after 1.0) to have webhooks so that you can get callbacks when the state changes, but right now it's only w/in our cloud.


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I have the Power Functions IR Speed Remote Control 8879 and it's great for, well, the train it came with and maybe other applications where you don't need precise control. 8885 looks like it would work for a car but does it speed up the motor the further you press up the joystick? Is the joystick spring loaded in that it returns to "stop" when you let go or it it more like the helicopter remotes of late where you press the joystick up and it keeps that current speed? Do the joysticks move left to right and up and down?
The two sticks on that remote are pure on/off switches (well, forward/off/backward) and come back in their central position if not maintained pushed, and don't move laterally either.
There are two classic ways to control a car with them:
Use each switch to control a motor and wheel (or set of wheels) - so you have to push both levers to advance, and only one to turn. That's how the first PF Motorized Bulldozer is built and it works great for that kind of model.
For a more realistic car, however, you'll need to use one motor to control the forward/backward movement of the car (that's the easy part), and the other for the direction. That's slightly less easy, but you can usually achieve it with some kind of spring-loaded mechanism that puts the direction to straight forward when you're not pushing the lever. Some people have used that part to do it, but I've never tried it myself:
Edit: as I said, using the 8879 remote by itself to control a vehicle directly may be difficult, but I forgot it's a Technic part by itself, which means you can build something else on top of it. See Sariel's modification for a good example with which you can easily control a one-motor-per-wheel model.


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5 Dec 2012 11:30 AM #1
Memory Leak on refresh ( IE9, HTML 5, ExtJS 3.4.0, ExtJS 4.1.1a Sandbox, No Iframe)
Ext version tested:
- ExtJS 4.1.1a Sandboxed with ExtJS 3.4.0
- Including ExtJS 4.x sandbox, ExtJS 3.4.0 base and ExtJS 3.4.0 all scripts in a blank HTML 5 document and refreshing page leaks ~20MB each refresh.
- Page Refresh
- IE9 Memory Usage stays about the same after each refresh
- IE9 Memory Usage increases by ~20MB after each refresh
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <script src="ext340-base-debug.js"></script> <script src="ext340-all-debug.js"></script> <script src="ext411-all-sandbox-debug.js"></script> </head> <body> </body> </html>
Debugging already done:
- Remove the doctype - no leak
- Remove ExtJS 4.x sandbox - no leak
- Remove ExtJS 3.x base and all - no leak
- Comment out fireDocReady in ExtJS 4.x sandbox - no leak
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5 Dec 2012 12:35 PM #3
If you mean does it happen without the Ext4 sandbox script included, then no it does not leak.
If you mean does it happen with Ext4 non-sandboxed included, then the answer is also no, it does not leak, however this is probably because of script errors triggered by running 3 & 4 together un-sandboxed.
29 Jan 2013 10:49 AM #4
Hi, unfortunately I was also hit by this memory leak issue (and some other annoying things with sandbox).
Richard did a very good job with tracking this down to "fireDocReady", so I just took it from there.
Seems like the "MouseEnterLeave" test performed inside Ext.supports.init() call leaks in sandbox.
I'll continue checking tomorrow, but so far it seems to be the reason.
EDIT: I made a mistake with tests bisection (was too tired probably). It's not "MouseEnterLeave" as it turns out, but it's neightbour "GeoLocation", and specifically this beauty:
typeof navigator.geolocation != 'undefined'
Doing'geolocation' in navigator
PS: I only tested sandbox version, but seems this should leak in all cases - confirmed. I posted a separate bug report for this issue since it's not really sandbox related: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?255148


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What are symptoms of thyroid cancer? How can thyroid cancer best be diagnosed?
Rachel Kelz, MD, MSCE, at Penn Medicine responds:
Thyroid cancer is often asymptomatic. When symptoms occur, they can range from a visible mass to voice dysfunction. Thyroid cancer is rarely associated with symptoms that are typical of thyroid dysfunction. That means that weight gain, fatigue, hair loss etc are not characteristically associated with thyroid cancer. Thyroid cancer is best diagnosed by ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (a biopsy.) There is no blood test to detect well differentiated thyroid cancer.
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Investment Advice for 2013
Three advisers offer their predictions—and strategies—for next year
The headlines have been unnerving for investors all year, perhaps never more so than now, with financial markets bracing for the worst as Congress and President Obama wrangle over a budget deal.
Daisy Maxey, a special writer for Dow Jones Newswires, sat down with three fee-only financial advisers to discuss what lies ahead for investors and how they can best manage a continuing parade of uncertainties, from the immediacy of the fiscal cliff to longer-term tax and economic issues.
The panelists were:
• Greg Plechner, principal and wealth manager, Modera Wealth Management LLC, Westwood, N.J., and Boston
• Marjorie Fox, chief executive officer, Fox, Joss & Yankee LLC, Reston, Va.; and
• Drew Tignanelli, president, Financial Consulate Inc., Hunt Valley, Md.
Here are edited excerpts of their discussion.
Get Past the Headlines
MS. MAXEY: It's been another very difficult year for investors. What should they expect from the economy and markets in the coming year?
MR. PLECHNER: If you ignore the headline news, it's really been a great year for investors across the board. Whether you were invested domestically, internationally, even real estate, you had double-digit returns. Even high-quality fixed income has had mid-single-digit returns.
I don't think it's been a very volatile year, by the traditional measures of volatility. There's certainly a lot of angst, and maybe that's a factor that you need to look at for your clients. But as a long-term investor you need volatility to be rewarded for investing in riskier assets.
MS. MAXEY: Are you expecting a similar environment in the coming year?
MR. PLECHNER: Yes. It's a matter of managing our clients' expectations of what the fiscal cliff means, what is the impact of Europe on your portfolio, what could rising interest rates do to your portfolio. All you have control over is how you react to those scenarios. So that's where we focus a lot of our time.
MS. FOX: If you're looking for headline risk, you can easily find things beyond the fiscal cliff—the slowdown in China, the recession in Japan, the euro debt crisis, the recession in many of the euro nations, slowing corporate profits. But our firm and our clients are long term. I'm optimistic.
MR. TIGNANELLI: We are concerned about 2013. The Federal Reserve is manipulating the bond market. It's economically illogical that interest rates on two-year, five-year and 10-year Treasurys should be at the rate they're at when the rate of inflation over the last four years has averaged 2.3%. People are actually losing money in the bond market after inflation, yet they're fleeing to the bond market as if it's this panacea of investments. That's a problem, and it's going to blow up sooner or later.
That doesn't mean there aren't great investment opportunities like we found this year, but there's a lot of danger, and investors have to be alert to that.
Better Late Than Never
MS. MAXEY: A lot of money is still on the sidelines. Should investors be taking on more risk?
MS. FOX: Well, the train left the station about 3½ years ago. The answer is yes. If they haven't already, they should certainly tiptoe back in. But investors should always have an allocation to equities consistent with their risk tolerance, so it's not a question of jumping in and jumping out.
MS. MAXEY: Are there particular emerging-markets investments you like? Should investors avoid Europe?
MR. TIGNANELLI: I'm not avoiding Europe. But Asia is clearly my favorite. Almost 50% of our equity assets are focused on Asia. I think small-cap stocks in Japan could be one of the most fascinating buying opportunities I've seen since 1980. When the price gets down to these kinds of levels, it's hard not to be invested in Japan. But China is more interesting—1.2 billion people who don't have refrigerators, air conditioners, cars, and they all want them now.
MR. PLECHNER: In the emerging markets, we like Europe and Japan. We do have some exposure to China, but even though China has this amazing growth opportunity, you can easily make the argument that India has the same opportunities in terms of number of people, size and demographics. So we don't try to cherry pick any one country to invest in. It's more to be broadly diversified and take sort of a world market-cap approach to the countries we invest in.
Worries All Around
MS. MAXEY: How do you advise your clients to handle their emotions during market volatility?
MR. PLECHNER: We spend a lot of time in the initial engagements with our clients, getting to know every detail of their finances, what are your short-term, midterm and long-term cash needs. That gives us the confidence when we do hit a difficult market cycle to say, look, we've done the planning, we've got a pretty good handle on where you're at now and there's no need to be reactionary.
Another part of that process is behavior modification. A simple example of that is, you don't necessarily want to be buying more of something when it's already gone up in value.
MS. MAXEY: What about inflation? Is that something you're worried about going into 2013? Are you recommending Treasury inflation-protected securities, gold, commodities, corporate bonds?
MR. PLECHNER: One of the most highly correlated investments to changes in the Consumer Price Index is short-term TIPS. We would just caution that if you're in longer-term TIPS, one of the things that you have to be willing to accept is somewhat severe interest-rate volatility. So that's something that we've done defensively; for long-term inflation protection, longer-term TIPS are probably a better investment. We also invest in commodities and gold. Those two have some characteristics of inflation hedges, but they're imperfect. They're also not taxed very nicely, so you need to be aware of that when you invest in those. And you have to be willing to accept volatility.
Over the long term, one of the best ways to protect purchasing power is equities.
MS. MAXEY: Investors are very focused on the fiscal cliff. With so much uncertainty, what are the major tax concerns for investors in your minds, going into 2013?
MS. FOX: There's concern about ordinary-income tax rates. In response to that, some investors are choosing to convert their traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, pay the income taxes down at a lower rate and then be out from under required minimum distributions taxed at a much higher rate down the road.
They're also concerned about higher capital-gains tax rates. Some are selling. That may or may not be a good idea. If they were going to sell in January, then maybe it's a good strategy to sell in December and avoid higher capital-gains tax rates. But if they were going to hold the investment for many years, then they're giving up those dollars used to pay their capital-gains taxes. They're out of the portfolio, and any return they could have earned on those dollars is no longer there.
They're making charitable bequests. I think the most interesting thing that I have seen is all kinds of contributions to donor-advised funds. You can make a contribution to a donor-advised fund this year and actually not make grants to charities until next year or years beyond that. So what they're saying by their actions is maybe we're not going to see an unlimited charitable deduction. Or they may be saying, 'I realized capital gains by selling appreciated assets, so I've got to minimize taxes this year by increasing my charitable deduction.'
MR. TIGNANELLI: If you know you're going to sell an asset, sell it in 2012. But I would never sell a stock that I have no anticipation of selling and then buy it back a second later just because I believe the capital-gains rate is going to be lower this year than in the future. Because if I hold a stock until the day I die, it's 0% capital-gains tax for my family.
I don't like making decisions because of taxes. I make decisions on taxes after I make a good economic decision, and if there's a tax differential, I go with the better tax differential.
The second thing is you have to consider gifting. You have a $5.12 million gift exclusion this year. Next year, who knows what it's going to be?
MS. FOX: Our advice to our clients is, take a strategy to a point, but don't go whole hog, because it may turn out that that strategy, with hindsight, is no longer appropriate. So hedge your bets when it comes not only to investing but to tax strategy as well.
Ms. Maxey is a special writer for Dow Jones Newswires. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Guest Chef Linton Hopkins of Restaurant Eugene in Atlanta joined Proof on Main's own Chef Levon Wallace in the kitchen on Dec. 6 for the Hog and the Barrel Dinner.
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Microtome for tissue sectioning in EM lab
Pathology was one of the first departments organized at YSM, and has contributed in many ways to Yale's long tradition of scientific research, teaching, and patient care. Early Yale pathologists were among the first to document the ravages of the 1918 flu pandemic; they also led the investigation of pathologies associated with radiation and burn injuries in atomic bomb victims, and later established Yale as the leading center for research into environmental lung disease.
Recent advances include basic discoveries in mapping the epigenetic basis of tumor progression; novel genetic and epigenetic screening methodologies that promise new methods of detecting occult tumors in the pancreas and colon; new insights into the many ways that tumors achieve their aggressive growth; gene-detection methodologies that have revolutionized our assessment of lymphoproliferative disorders; novel concepts of breast cancer initiation, progression, and diagnosis that are central to guiding therapy for patients with breast cancer; widespread institution of advanced molecular techniques for cervical cancer risk detection, the detection of sexually transmitted infections; and the development of innovative and promising approaches to vaccine development for viral diseases.
Most recently, in collaboration with Yale's Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Smilow Cancer Hospital, Pathology has instituted large-scale genotyping of patients with cancer, opening the door to an era of truly personalized cancer therapy. On other fronts, Pathology has expanded several of its subspecialty diagnostic programs as well as its investigative programs into cancer biology and degenerative disease.


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In a scattering reaction, there are many possible final states for the products, each with different production rates.
Question: Is there a way in which we could in general supress certain rates of products of the reaction and enhance others? can we use coherence and interference of the initial states to modulate such rates?
As an application of such possibility, i'm wondering if we could enhance the production rate of antimatter (for the purpose of the question, let's consider antihydrogen) by a few orders of magnitude by such manipulations?


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I have a 3d clustered data:
Is there any other way to get concavehull of 3D data points?
I have a 3d clustered data:
Is there any other way to get concavehull of 3D data points?
Here's a possible approach.
First use TetGen to tetrahedralize the data:
Next define a function to compute the radius of the circumsphere of a tetrahedron (formula from Wikipedia)
Now calculate the radius of each tetrahedron in your data, and define a function to pick out only those tetrahedra with radius below a given threshold:
This function converts a tetrahedron into a list of 4 triangular faces:
We also need to remove internal polygons. Internal polygons appear twice, since they belong to two tetrahedra, so we simply need to prune the list of faces to those which only appear once in the list.
Now we can generate the graphics for a particular value of
Here's an animation showing the effect of different values of
As pointed out in the comments, there's really no mathematical definition of a concave hull.
Of course, just because there's no mathematical definition does not preclude coming up with something that sort of works. I can think of two ways to do this:
Easy Way, Not General
Your data roughly has axial symmetry parallel to the x-axis. Moreover, all of your coordinates appear to be integers.
So for every integral value of x, you can make a slice of your data between x and x+1. Then, for each slice, compute the convex hull. Finally, stitch all of the results together, like so:
I'd call this a "duct tape" solution.
Addendum: This works on Mathematica v8.0.0, however it appears that v126.96.36.199 makes a change to the output of
Complicated Way, More General (And Not Implemented ;-)
A complicated but perhaps more general solution to this problem would be to use Voronoi diagrams. Similar techniques have been proposed for removing data points from banks in k-Nearest Neighbor searches. Here's a paper on this if you're interested.
Sketch of the algorithm:
This would effectively keep only "exterior" points in your set.
This approach has drawbacks: the first is that it will sometimes discard points that, intuitively, a child with a crayon would probably not. The second is that it's slow. Finally, it violates the KISS design pattern, so it's a chore to write (hence, I didn't bother).
Let me update Simon's code for Mathematica 10. We no longer need to explicitly load
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In Merrimack and Nashua, six Wish Children visited Anheuser-Busch Employee's Credit Union, St. Joseph's Hospital Employees' Credit Union and Triangle Credit Union on February 12th. Four year old Wish Child, Rylee, visited the staff of Triangle Credit Union – wearing her formal princess gown - and shared memories of her family trip to Disney World. Rylee delivered cookies to share with staff at Triangle Credit Union.
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I was practicing Hangestu this morning with a lot of focus and tension. Throughout the final move I kept the tension, with my muscles working against each other, and felt a definite pain within my biceps. I was wondering if anybody else had encountered this, and if it is possible to injure yourself by doing this. Is it beneficial to do Hangetsu with a lot of tension? It's not a kata I have trained much in the past.
If Hangetsu is really similar to the Seisan I know, it is indeed a kata traditionally performed with a lot of tension. Most of the tension should be in your core however, as if you were preparing to get punched and wanted to reduce the damage. While your arms should be tensed, they shouldn't be as tense as your abdominal muscles. One of the goal of seisan is to teach you to put your core into your blocks and punches. Combined with a good leg stance and proper weight shifting, you'll be able to generate a lot more power compared to simply using your arms to perform these movements.
What you describe in your question looks a lot like improper stretching to me, though. If you are performing the kata with heavy tension in your arms and legs, you're putting your muscles under constant strain. That kata is also done pretty slowly, too, with short bursts of speed and power where it's easy to put even more strain on your already tense muscles.
You seem to imply doing katas as part of your morning workout. Do you stretch beforehand? If so, do you give enough attention to your biceps? If they aren't warmed up properly, it's entirely possible that the pain you're feeling is due to the constant strain you're putting your unprepared muscles under. Ask your sensei (and maybe a certified trainer if you have a gym membership somewhere) for proper bicep stretching techniques and try to perform this kata while properly warmed up.
If the pain persists, try to talk your sensei into looking at your stance, posture, movements and technique carefully. You mention not having much experience with this kata, and this could be why you're feeling some pain, as it's not impossible that you're simply doing the movements slightly off. Correcting your technique might alleviate the strain on your muscles. I'd still suggest investigating proper stretching techniques, though. Usually can't go wrong with that anyways.


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Isn't this because your available flags vary with your flag weight?
Perhaps it changed and now your total flags are less, but you already spent the equivalent for the old value for the day.
Of course this is speculation that'd need to be confirmed by a dev.
Update: I can confirm that the reverse is true -- I ran out of flags on SO and after my flag weight increased, I had more to use.
Closing as too localized; I expect this relates to:
Yesterday, at around 6:30 UTC, the flag weight algorithm was tweaked, and existing flag-weights refactored. You might have had 740 before-had, and 620 afterwards. The number of available flags depends (in part) on your flag-weight, hence this will have reduced.
And if you'd already spent all the flags available, you could well have spent more than you now theoretically have.
This only impacts yesterday, so I'm not overly concerned... and the UI is, in many ways, entirely correct.
Sigh; ok, to make things simpler, I've changed things to just display 0 if you've gone -ve.


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Someone I know said "I wish no matter where I am, there is always a place near me so I can visit".
I started to wonder what is the minimum number of places required if he give me what he consider as "near".
I formalized it into a math problem:
Every point on the unit sphere has distance at most $d$ to some point in the set $S$, what is the lower bound for $|S|$?
I also wonder if there are any studies on the generalized version: replace unit sphere with any totally bounded spaces in the problem above.


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I saw a nice panoramic image online. How do I go about creating my own (say, of my yard at home)?
The easiest way to produce a high quality panorama is to take multiple shots and stitch them together using AutoStitch (Windows only). AutoStitch is free and there is almost nothing to do except to chose your images and save the results.
The basic principle is to take multiple shots with overlap between them (20%-30% is recommended) while keeping everything constant (exposure, aperture, focus and white-balance).
If your camera has a Stitch or Panorama Assist mode, that is exactly what it does: It locks all the settings and shows you an overlay of the last photo you took so that you can line them up.
Apart from the the answers suggested by others, I recommend a few other tips. Based on what I read.
Last but not the least, go for a very good tripod. It's not possible without a tripod.
Hope this helps... Happy Shooting :-)
Although there's a previous answer that covers stitching tools, as I discovered in my question about action shots, there are important considerations when you're shooting the pictures that you're going to combine, too.
I believe stitching is fairly well-covered in the other question.
Most importantly get a good tripod, and make sure you rotate around your focal point, take the images as rapidly as possible with partial overlap. (to avoid clouds/wind/movement artifacts)
Then also a great tool to use in my experience is Hugin. It is Open Source and available for Linux, Windows, and Mac. It may not always work automatically, but the advanced options are awesome.
On Windows, the Windows Live Photo Gallery app (http://get.live.com) makes it REALLY easy to stitch photos together into great panoramas. It works better than almost all other tools I've tried (and is far simpler).
Oh, it's free too.
Some of the point and shoot camera provides stitching software but I'm using "Auto Pano" for my panoramas. There are free software available too. Here is a nice article about panoramic stitching.
Free tool which does a nice job too: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
Good Luck
You can create one on an Android device very easily with the (little known) panoramic feature.
Camera > Settings > Shooting Mode > Panorama
Short video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txwdD11sW1s
A very easy way of creating a panoramic picture is to shoot a regular photo (usually at a wide angle) and crop to desired format.


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What adjectives can you combine with drop-dead to emphasize?
There's drop-dead gorgeous, can you also combine others like "nice" and "simple"?
What adjectives can you combine with drop-dead to emphasize?
There's drop-dead gorgeous, can you also combine others like "nice" and "simple"?
If you modify an adverb with the phrase drop-dead, you're saying that it's extremely/intensely/incredibly [adjective] - so much so, it might kill you on the spot.
While someone might be gorgeous enough to invite heart palpitations, it's harder to imagine the effect of someone's kindness or simplicity could be the same.
Personally, I don't think there's much of a reason to expand this modifier's usage; it seems more likely you'll misfire and raise eyebrows than anything else.
If you are going to use it, use it with intense adjectives, keeping in mind that most speakers are used to hearing it only in a few stock phrases (and those are generally beauty-related).
"Drop dead" is an "extreme" adjective. So is "gorgeous." But "nice" and "simple" are not.
I would use an extreme adjective only in combination with other such adjectives.
And preferably not at all. Unless one wants to get a reputation as a "hyperbolic" (extreme) speaker.
According to a contemporary English corpus, drop-dead is only used to intensify adjectives related to beauty: gorgeous, handsome, etc.
You can sometimes omit the intensified adjective.
Of course, there is also a more literal meaning of drop-dead.
There is a possible connection between beauty and simplicity, however, both of those combinations sound wrong to my ears.


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Nintendo's Next-gen Console - Finally?
Posted 20 April 2011 - 04:52 AM
Posted 20 April 2011 - 07:17 AM
It's supposed to be more powerful than a PS3, and I think they are ditching their wii-like motion control.
Give me LoL Referals.
Posted 20 April 2011 - 08:03 AM
Posted 20 April 2011 - 08:38 AM
Posted 20 April 2011 - 03:21 PM
I've thought about this and i doubt it's going to have motion controls.
What I'm going to guess is, the new controller is also going to use bluetooth but it's going to be a normal gaming controller (such as a PS3 controller)
The old controller (the wii controller) would still be able to hook up and maybe they'll have it so you can still plug in the sensor bar but I doubt they'll continuing using motion control. "Hardcore" gamers dont like it, they should know this by now.
Posted 20 April 2011 - 04:44 PM
A screen on a controller? What is this the dreamcast?
Posted 20 April 2011 - 05:09 PM
one can hope...
Posted 20 April 2011 - 05:31 PM
Posted 20 April 2011 - 09:48 PM
And the 360 and PS3 does the motion-control better than it, as well. Seriously, why should I care about Nintendo's new-fangled-vision-box when their last leap into the future of gaming left themselves and their customers with a busted ass?
Nah, the Dreamcast is amazing and, for its time, was solid-gold. A screen on the controller for a console of this generation, one that's headed towards VR, is garbage and, gasp, a cheap-ass gimmick. If Nintendo has any sense and actually wants to push for something new and awesome, they'll stop cutting themselves over the virtual boy and give za goggles another go.
Gun controller, goggles that truly let me see in first person, hear as if I'm hearing through the character's ears, zombies, zombies all over the damned place, and everything motion sensed--except for the movement controls, because that's a little hard to pull off, currently.
Posted 20 April 2011 - 10:12 PM
The Wii came out like 4 years before the kinnect / move
The Wii managed to defeat both the PS3 and the 360 in sales so obviously they were doing something right.
If you want honesty, all three consoles have been a step backwards in game development. If the technologically advanced PS3 and the 360 and all it's blockbuster games both lose to a PS2 with motion controls then obviously a lot went wrong in this whole generation of gaming.
Posted 21 April 2011 - 06:16 AM
This is probably the truth, but dont forget the Kinect has broken records for the number of units shifted. As of March, they have sold ten million units, and have achieved the title of fastest selling consumer device. Not console, but device.
Posted 21 April 2011 - 06:28 AM
Posted 21 April 2011 - 06:47 AM
I don't know where you're from but the Xbox 360 was available in Europe, North America (USA and Canada) and Japan by the 10th of December 2005. The wii hadn't come out in any of these places until the 19th of November 2006... PP3 around the same time i think... anyway, all im saying is that its not a matter of time it was out for, its the fact that it was always so much cheaper than the X360 or PS3, and its extensive marketing, mostly, as you said, as a 'family' system. the fact that its soo much cheaper is also something - as you said sales don't equate to quality.
Battlelog: maxnizle1
Posted 21 April 2011 - 03:58 PM
I spit milk out of my nose laughing from this one.
Also, pretty sure 360 had the year advantage on everyone- as well as the blockbuster Halo 3 to win everyone over. PS3 I can't say had any exclusive games that would make me go out and buy one (I did buy one eventually, at the time of release I mean) except LBP.
Oh and sales do mean something. The price does have something to do with it for sure, but sales mean the company who knew what they were doing won. The 360's had 1 or 2 good exclusive series and people bought PS3 for the blu-ray player. The wii was a gimmicky console with little to no good games.
The Kinnect has nothing to do with the conversation, the kinnect is not only a completely new factor but it's an idea completely stolen (as well as the sony version). They're just cashing in on the gimmicky market that the wii won over. This is probably why Nintendo's going to attempt "hardcore" (I use that term losely *) games, to just basically steal their own new costumers.
Edited by CakeCom, 21 April 2011 - 04:05 PM.
Posted 21 April 2011 - 09:02 PM
Yeah, I should have made it more clear what I meant there, I realize all real gamers play on PC, but there are a few console games that are at big tournaments, even though they suck balls. Like Halo, Street Fighter, etc. etc.
Posted 21 April 2011 - 11:50 PM
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Love how the resident tough guy is happy to talk trash on an internet forum but back pedals as soon as he is called out. Typical coward. No doubt he'll respond to this with excessive bravado in order to restore his rightful place as a fully fledged internet badass.
I like to make werewolf...
Posted 22 April 2011 - 04:51 PM
Street Fighter would be one off the ones that would be under the category of "Legitimately Competitive" on console, imo anyway.
Halo on the other hand, is debatable. When you play with the right rules, it feels somewhat competitive. Imo tho it doesnt feel clean and simple like a normal competitive game would be- probably because of the aim-assist that all FPS games have on consoles. So yeah you're right there.
Posted 22 April 2011 - 09:52 PM
Posted 22 April 2011 - 11:58 PM
PS3 has lower frame rates on a lot of games that XBOX has. Loading times are horrendous. You have to install shit left and right. The controller is nice though.
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Love how the resident tough guy is happy to talk trash on an internet forum but back pedals as soon as he is called out. Typical coward. No doubt he'll respond to this with excessive bravado in order to restore his rightful place as a fully fledged internet badass.
I like to make werewolf...
Posted 23 April 2011 - 12:50 AM
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I often write and see written something like "Fix typo" in commit messages, when the fix was not in fact for a "typographical error". It might have been a duplicate word, a small grammatical problem (perhaps have/has, they're/their), an awkward construction, or a mistaken identifier. Is there a good, compact word or phrase that would describe this more accurately, but perhaps isn't as pretentious and hollow as "Fix minor linguistic problems"?
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For a single generic phrasing, I'd suggest "correct text".
For more specific commit messages, "fix grammar", "fix spelling", "re-word message", or "rewrite text" could all be used.
The word "typo" is also used as a euphemism for any kind of writing error, especially for grammar errors, because hitting the wrong key is much less humiliating than making an error in grammar. It can be a subtle way of teaching someone a rule of grammar, assuming that he will think "huh?" and look it up if the rule is not mentioned.
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Actually, I would include duplicate words and homonym mistakes (they're/their, its/it's) as typos - they're cases where our fingers can't keep up with our brain, or is that vice versa. Basically, if it's something the original writer would have corrected if he'd had more time for/had paid more attention to proofreading, then it's a typo.
Copyedit as (nearly) suggesed in Colin Fine's answer is good. Also perhaps the briefer emend.
Another word I've seen used for something written in haste so it comes out wrong is thinko.
How about a simple 'Fix error'?
In the specific context of a checkin statement, words don't always mean the same thing as they would in a conversation or a contract. To a developer, "typo" means any time the letters on the screen don't match the thought in the head. Whether that's because the fingers got out of sync and you typed "teh" for "the", or a momentary brain-freeze had you typing "there" for "their", or even that you personally are sure it's "seperator" even though everyone else writes "separator", they are all likely to be lumped together as typos. When a checkin comment says "fix typos" I know that it means there is no deep meaning to look for here, just somebody tweaking a comment or an error message or the like.
My favourite checkin comment ever, btw, was "fix tyos". Not deliberate either. Just someone in a hurry :-)
I would say "Copy-edit".
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Correct a misspelling maybe?
"Correct the grammatos in this for me please" could be what you are looking for.
Word: Grammato
Example: Fix this grammato for me, will you?


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