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City man sentenced
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STEUBENVILLE -Michael K. Greathouse, 21, of 517 Highland Ave. was sentenced on Tuesday by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge David Henderson to six months in the Eastern Ohio Correction Center after pleading guilty to two counts of drug possession.
Greathouse was charged with being in possession of heroin and cocaine in October in the 1500 block of Pennsylvania Avenue and the 900 block of North Seventh Street. Henderson also ordered Greathouse to forfeit to the county drug task force $2,387 confiscated during his arrest.
Greathouse was indicted in December 2010 on two counts of drug trafficking and single counts of drug possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was allowed by Henderson to enter drug court and was placed on probation. The county prosecutor's office filed a probation revocation motion in October. Greathouse was sentenced in January to six months in the Eastern Ohio Correction Center, which will be served concurrently with the sentence in the case settled on Tuesday.
Board of elections
certifies candidates
STEUBENVILLE - The Jefferson County Board of Elections on Tuesday certified the list of candidates for the May 7 primary election.
Richmond has withdrawn its 4-mill levy renewal for current expenses for five years.
There are only two contested partisan elections on the May 7 ballot -2nd and 6th wards in Steubenville.
April 8 is the last day to register to vote in the primary election.
Planning meeting
set in Bergholz
BERGHOLZ - Planning for the local observance of the 150th anniversary of John Hunt Morgan's raid will continue Thursday with a meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Bergholz Volunteer Fire Department.
A meeting was held Feb. 7 with 15 members attending, and future meetings are scheduled every two weeks until the commemoration date during the weekend of July 27-28.
Planners will be working with Carroll County historians and officials with the Wellsville River Museum to make this a two-day event to include dedications, guest appearances and re-enactors.
Morgan's Raid was an invasion into Union territory by a group of Confederate cavalry in the summer of 1863 led by Morgan.
Building demos
remove eyesores
WEIRTON - With demolition of four dilapidated structures completed, it's up to City Council now to recoup the costs through liens.
At Tuesday's Building Enforcement Agency meeting, members were told properties at 116 Gullett Lane, 1410 County Road, 214 Avenue D and 3118 Orchard St. had been razed and could be removed from the agenda.
Liens are already in place on two of the properties - on County Road and Avenue D. Council will be asked to place liens on the other two at the next meeting.
Shale workshop Saturday in Canfield
CANFIELD The Ohio State University Extension Service is hosting a workshop at Mill Creek MetroParks Farm, 7574 Columbiana-Canfield Road, Canfield, from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Entitled "Shale and You: A Workshop for Landowners," registration is $15. It's designed to help landowners and community leaders "make the best decisions possible," said Peggy Hall, OSU Extension field specialist in agriculture and resource law.
"As an educational institution, OSU Extension is focused on providing relevant information to help those who are dealing with shale energy development," she said. "We don't set policy or make decisions for people."
Topics include an update on Ohio shale development and activity; what landowners need to know if problems arise; taxation and wealth management of oil and gas income; when and why to test water supplies; pipeline construction; and one family's experience with shale development.
The workshop is partially funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's North Central Region Risk Management Education Center. For information, contact Chris Hogan with OSU Extension's Agriculture Law Program at (614) 247-7898 or e-mail email@example.com.
Woman injured after highway stop
EAST LIVERPOOL - A woman was injured Tuesday night after stopping in the middle of a busy highway to see what was happening on the Jennings Randolph Bridge, where a person had reportedly jumped into the water.
East Liverpool Patrolman Fred Flati reported Angeline M. Carter of East Liverpool was eastbound when she noticed Hancock County Sheriff's deputies and city police officers on the bridge with lighting trying to locate a jumper.
"With all that was going on on the bridge, (Carter) decided to stop in her lane to gawk," according to Flati.
He said Carter stopped her van in the middle of the right lane, where it was struck by an eastbound vehicle driven by Darlene G. Snyder, Price Street, who crested a hill and could not see the stopped vehicle.
Flati said the impact trapped Carter inside her vehicle until he and Patrolman John Headley were able to force the driver's side door open and move the steering wheel away so she could be extricated. Carter had two children in the van with her, while Snyder had another adult with her.
Carter was transported to East Liverpool City Hospital by ambulance. There were no other injuries reported. Carter was cited for a slow/stopped vehicle violation.
Both vehicles were towed from the scene. The city fire department also responded.
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Ive just upgraded to a i5-750, 4GB 1333 DDR3 RAM and Ati 5770 1gb gfx card. This this first time I will be able to play in 3d ha ha! I can't wait.
Intel Pentium P6100
4GB DDR3 (2x2048Mb) Ram
Intel HD Graphics upto 762Mb total available graphics
Been looking at this laptop HP Bisconti anygood for FM11?
Yes should be fine thanks for your help!
Hi, the 3D works on high detail, but I have to turn off Stadiums, sky, weather ect. I play the game on a MAC. What to do? Do you think that with the full game (5th november) it will run better?
Alright, I will try Swifst Shader. Thank you!
hi ishu could you recommend a good laptop for fm11 under 700 pound maybe a little more if needed. thanks alot ishu.
Just a quick question - my PC won't install the demo. At all. I have had the permission box come up once, clicked accept, nothing happens. But usually I click the install file and all that happens is that Windows Explorer freezes up.
Anyone have an idea what's going on?
I can run FM11 demo on my Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.5) but once running it, to access other applications or the home screen I have to quit the game. This never happened on my XP. Any suggestions?
Found a decent sub-£400 deal some people might be interested in. http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-g...i-quidc/791107
so i finally bit the bullet and got myself a laptop
its a dell inspiron n5010
specs are :
i5 @ 2.52ghz
4gb ddr3 ram
500gb HDD
radeon 5470 mobility
how do you think it will run fm 11? leagues etc?
does anyone know which processor is better? http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-C...r.23753.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Phe...r.31535.0.html i dont know but it looks like the specs on the second one is higher
The i3 one is better in my opinion.
any reasons why mate (looking to get 1 of these)
Any good? 3d capability and a decent amount of leagues?
AMD Turion X2 Dual Core RM-74 2.20GHz Processor
2.0 GB DDR2 Dual-Channel Memory (800MHz)
250 GB SATA Hard Drive
15.6" Widescreen XGA (1366 x 768) with TrueLife
Resolution: 1366 x 768
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300 - 512MB Graphics JCard
Intel High Definition Audio 2.0
Advice appreciated!
I'm looking to buy a new notebook in a few months. How important is it to have a separate graphic card as opposed to an integrated card? I'm hoping to get a i5 processor with 4 GB of Ram.
How well will the 3d run with an integrated card?
A number of us have PC's that will run anywhere from 30 to all leagues comfortably (ie i7's, 6 cores etc) but will we experience the big lag times 20-30 years into the game? Will the lags be significant & what's the best way to combat these lags? Or if we have a fast enough pc, we won't experience much lag even witha lot of leagues?
Also a kind of related issue, In FM10 it said there was a 125000 person limit on the database, is this to do with PC spec??? If not is it still present in FM11 and if so can i remove it???
Yep its to do with your PC spec as mine was limited to 75000.
With regards to the 125000 players recommended limit. Is it possible to go over it without too much hassle on the following system?
i7 860
6GB dDR3 1600mhz Ram (I know it's not running in dual channel mode with this motherboard and setup.)
Radeon HD5850
Hopefully the SSD will make a difference. It certainly does with general system performance. And I always thought FM was held back by accessing the data on the HDD.
Silly question maybe, but what is the difference between window 7 home premium and windows 7 home premium 64 bit?
Many thanks
ssd will help... but the game wont recognise it as such.. therefore ignore the limit it puts on your game and go over it...
as for the limit itself.. ie the 125000 players thing... it takes your processor and ram into account when calculating this.. .and it its in fm2011 btw...
my laptop is runn
64 bit is for those with over 2gb ram... 32 bit OS's cant recognize anything over 2...
i can pretty much guarantee that your limit will be more than 125000
I have had a problem because everytime i attend a match my name does not come up when it say that i am in the stands watching the game and i thought it was a big problem in the demo, because i like to attend matches so that when the news come up and says that mr .................. was at the match but sometimes it does not do it and i find this a big strange about it.
I can run FM11 demo on my Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.5) but once running it, to access other applications or the home screen I have to quit the game. This never happened on my XP. Any suggestions?
How many leagues could I run with this PC ?
Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
Memory: 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz
Graphics: ATI Radeon 5770 1024MB GDDR5 Graphics
O/S: Windows 7 64 bit
Thanks - what would I need to do to increase it to 125k players?
not a lot mate... i think ishu's being a bit conservative..
with 4gb ram and that processor you should be fine with that many players for a good 20-30 years in game before it becomes slow
but thats just an opinion
My laptop pc specifications are:
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.100608-0458)
Language: Spanish (Regional Setting: Spanish)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: MCP67
BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.1
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53 (2 CPUs), ~1.7GHz
Memory: 1982MB RAM
Page File: 1372MB used, 2833MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 7.00.6002.18107 32bit Unicode
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0531&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_A2
Display Memory: 793 MB
Dedicated Memory: 57 MB
Shared Memory: 735 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 800 (32 bit) (59Hz)
Monitor: Monitor PnP genérico
Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll
Driver Version: 7.15.0011.7991 (English)
DDI Version: 9Ex
BGRA Supported: Yes
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 6/24/2009 06:08:00, 5976064 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
And my navigation menu demo is toooo slowwwww. Please friends, help, thanks
does anyone know how many leagues i can run with this srtup
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3400ghz Black Edition
4 gb ddr3 ram
This might come across as a bit braggish but i just built myself a new system and would like to know if it could comfortably run almost everything:
Intel i7-960 3.2Ghz CPU
256GB Corsair SSD + 2x 500GB Seagate HDD
12GB Corsair DDR3 RAM
2x XFX GT8800 PCI-E 768GB Graphics Cards (these are holdovers from my last system)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Acer - Better CPU, Better Graphic Card. (Both nearly unnoticable)
HP - Better screen, Better Build quality.
Acer is 17" while HP is 15". Depends if you are going to carry it around.
I would go with the HP just for th build quality.
Seen a few acers whose screens don't work at certain angles after a few years.
Acer has a plasticy feeling to it. The reason they have lower cost laptops is the use of low quality stuff.
Read up on Acer build quality here.
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How many stars you figure is still very acceptable when loading an x amount of leagues with a large database. I'm always afraid of going under 4 stars.
How many leagues could I run with this PC ?
Processor: Pentium Dual core T4200 2.00 Ghz
Memory: 4GB RAM
Graphics: mobile intel gma 4500m
O/S: Windows vista 32 bit
Thanks in advance.
How many leagues with how many players will I be able to run on this machine?
Thanks for your earlier advice Ishu, unfortunately by the time I decided some of the best offers had elapsed so I think I'm going to go for this one instead? Good shout? They will basically cost £330 each after a small discount and the cash rebate. Will it be hard wearing?
Thanks for quick reply.
Cheers Ishu, you really are a hero. What do you think another 2gb of RAM would give me, in terms of increasing number of players I can use?
2.66 GHz Intel Quad Core i7
I tried to play 55000 players, 15 leagues from 10 countries, and it gave me 2/5 stars :confused:
How many leagues should I be loading? Long term, journeyman save.
Ok i need some help please:
My current laptop has a:
AMD Athlon Dual Core M300
Windows 64 Bit
This one has:
AMD Phenom II X4 quad core N930
Windows 64 Bit
Would the 2nd one be much faster than my current one?
Could someone tell me how the laptop with the specs below would cope with regards FM2011 no. of leagues/players - Thanks.
Sony VAIO VPCEE2S1E/BQ
Processor AMD Phenom™ II X3 Processor P820
- 1.8 GHz
- 1.8 GHz HT
- 1.5MB L2 Cache
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Graphics card ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5145 Graphics
Screen type LCD Screen resolution 1366 x 768 Screen size 15.5"
Hard drive 320GB
Thanks for the quick reply TigerTime.
Your welcome.
I have:
Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHZ
ATI Radeon X1650 256MB DDR3
Windows XP
What can I expect on FM11?


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#4. Wolverine - Patch
Patch was originally introduced as an identity Wolverine assumed only while traveling to the Asian nation of Madripoor. So, in America he's a costumed madman who stabs people in the head...
"Holy! Did you see that shit!? Did you see what I just did? Tell me you were looking!"
...but in Madripoor, he's the respected owner of a bar called Princess and dresses accordingly.
Is the assumption that people in Madripoor have never even heard of the X-Men, so they wouldn't recognize Wolverine despite his flimsy disguise? Bullshit. No place on Earth, no matter how remote, would not have heard of the X-Men in the Marvel universe. They're a band of superpowered freaks on the news for saving the entire planet from buttchinned green dudes like every other weekend. But OK, we'll play your game, Marvel - nobody's ever heard of the X-Men in Madripoor. So if that's the case, why would he even bother wearing a disguise in the first place?
#3. The Hulk - Joe Fixit
Yep. The Hulk had a secret identity - not Bruce Banner, that's a whole different being. The giant, fucking hulking (hence the name), occasionally gray colored monster went incognito and worked as a Vegas bouncer. He called himself Joe Fixit, because he "fixed" problems. Presumably punch-based problems.
"Yeah, I can help you with your bookkeeping... with stomping!"
He even got a girlfriend, an aerobics instructor named Marlo that had no idea who he really was. Keep in mind we're still talking about The Hulk in his giant monster form here, and never once did Marlo stop and think - possibly as she's fleeing in terror from gargantuan Hulk-wang - that this thing might be the monster she saw on the news yesterday swinging tanks into other tanks.
#2. Robin - Dick Grayson
Batman's always getting grief for dressing his sidekick in the, uh... most questionable costume imaginable... but the truth is, Dick Grayson was already wearing that Speedo long before becoming Robin. The character's origin establishes that Dick was part of a famous circus act, The Flying Graysons.
How does a lame trapeze act become famous, you ask? By getting themselves killed in front of a full audience, of course. Luckily for young Dick, Batman happened to be in the audience when all this happened, and adopted the boy. Unluckily for Dick, he decided that the exact same flamboyant circus outfit that his dead family just made front page news in would make a great super-secret superhero costume. This rampant disregard for Dick's out-of-costume identity, coupled with the inherent dangers of "fighting crime from the shadows" while wearing bright primary colors and no armor save for a Speedo and a V-neck shirt, begs the question: Why did Batman want Robin dead so badly?
We're thinking Robin had pictures.
#1. The Entire Superman Family - A Bunch Of People With Poor Eyesight
This comes as no surprise: It's a cliche that Superman's glasses are the most laughably ineffective costume ever, but who cares? Changing that part of the mythos would be like taking the stars off the American flag. So screw suspension of disbelief: Superman predates it. He's got a free pass to be wearing the same completely unbelievable disguise 70 years later. The many, many other Super-characters, however, do not. Take Supergirl, Superman's cousin from planet Krypton, who is apparently into roleplaying and uses sex to deal with her abandonment issues (her home planet was never there for her, growing up).
Her secret identity, Linda Lang, is also the niece of Clark Kent's friend Lana. She even works at the Daily Planet, the same paper as Clark.
You'd think that at some point the Editor would notice that every glasses-wearing member of his staff mysteriously disappears whenever there's trouble, not to mention that all of his nerdly reporters are suspiciously built like Aryan wet dreams. But wait, there's more! There's also Superman's teenage clone, Superboy. While he has the good sense not to work in the same place as Clark Kent, he does go to his old school (Smallville High) and share his last name (Conner Kent).
Man, every nerd at this school looks like an Abercombie and Fitch catalog.
And it's not even over! After the film Superman Returns introduced Superman's six-year-old son with Lois Lane, the comics followed suit by having a Kryptonian boy of the same age conveniently show up in a spacecraft that lands in Metropolis.
Clark Kent and Lois Lane secretly adopt the boy and name him Chris Kent. So how do they alter his appearance so people won't recognize the alien child everyone saw arrive?
Even the fictional characters are starting to get bitter over how lame a plot device this is.
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A Quote by Richard J. Foster on richard j foster and celebration of discipline
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
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Late Rally Propels Lenoir-Rhyne over Trojans, 10-8April 4, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Three ninth inning runs by visiting Lenoir-Rhyne proved costly, as Anderson University baseball dropped the opening game of a three-game series, 10-8, to South Atlantic Conference opponent Lenoir-Rhyne Friday evening at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
The setback snaps a three-game winning streak and drops the Trojans to 14-24 for the season and 9-12 in conference play, while the Bears jump to 11-26 overall and 7-16 for the league. With the win, L-R has won its last two contests and three of its last four.
Two Trojans recorded multi-hit games, as senior left fielder Nathan Galliford and junior shortstop Brett Cash each tallied a pair of singles, while combining for three runs scored. Hitting his eighth home run of the year, sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper increased his hitting streak to 10 games, but snapped a consecutive streak of five straight games with multi-hits.
Senior right fielder Paul Como and senior third baseman David Jones each notched a double, as Como took the team lead away from Cooper in the doubles category with 14 on the campaign. Catcher Jonathan Zalud drove in two runs with a single in the seventh inning, leading the team in RBI for the evening and increasing his hit streak to five games.
Lenoir-Rhyne used 16 hits for 10 runs and took advantage on two AU errors to produce its first double figure scoring output of the season. L-R's first baseman David Newcomer recorded four hits for the game, while driving in three runs and scoring twice. Right fielder Ivan Vieitez added a solo home run in the ninth inning to even the score at 8-8, to cap off his 3-for-5 performance with three runs and two RBI.
Despite tossing three shutout innings in relief, sophomore right-hander Mitchell Cooksey was tagged with his second loss of the season, allowing two ninth-inning runs, the most runs he has given up this year.
After plating three runs in the bottom of the second inning, highlighted by Como and Jones' doubles, L-R responded with three runs in the top of the third to even the score again. AU answered with two runs in the bottom of the frame on the strength of Cooper's homer over the right-field wall. The home run was Cooper's third home run in as many games. Currently, Cooper's eight home runs have come in AU's last 15 contests.
Despite earning the lead once more, the Bears crossed two runs in the fourth and fifth innings to take a 7-5 advantage. After coming up empty in the sixth inning, the Trojans regained the lead back in the seventh on the two-RBI single by Zalud and an RBI single from second baseman Kyle Bailey for his lone hit on the evening.
With the one-run advantage heading into the ninth, Lenoir-Rhyne tallied five hits for three runs to eventually seal the victory. AU came up short in the ninth, failing to find a base runner going down in order to close the game.
Anderson looks to get back on the winning path and claim the three-game set on Saturday when the Trojans and the Bears square off again at Anderson Memorial Stadium in a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.


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I'm keeping a consistent ~10% rejection rate on my suggested edits (not that I agree with some of these rejections):
I'm just wondering what the community average is, across all users on Stack Overflow?
I'm keeping a consistent ~10% rejection rate on my suggested edits (not that I agree with some of these rejections):
I'm just wondering what the community average is, across all users on Stack Overflow?
Here you go: using Data Explorer
Not an answer, but a serious advise. I have re reviewed some of your suggestions, and I can advise you to go for the bigger fish
So, I completely misread the question but leaving this here anyway as it give the other point of view.
hims056's answer gives the rejection rate of suggested edits from the point of view of the suggester; to do it the other way around.
In order to calculate the average rejection rate of the user who approves edits the SQL would look something like this (assuming I've read how SuggestedEditVotes works correctly)
Removing outliers1, those people who approve 100% of everything and those who have voted on 10 or less the average rejection rate rises to 17.57% and SQL becomes:
1. Definition randomly made up by me with thought but without proper analysis.
So that's a good question and I appreciate that you're thinking critically for how to best contribute to SO, but that's not really the point of suggested edits. When you reach a certain reputation (2k, is it?) you can edit anything you want without it needing to be approved. The suggested edit queue up until that point serves a primary function of training new users to edit properly.
So you will graduate from your edits needing approval regardless of what "grade" you finish with. That being said, really, your goal is to strive for all edits being approved. And certainly understand why your rejected ones are rejected. If you disagree with some, then that's fine, you won't need approval in time and will be on equal standing in the community with your rejector on this issue.
FWIW - on the "too minor" ones, I go with the rule "Did this increase how fast I was able to process the question?" Most do so I approve most, and I nearly always approve title corrections since those impact the presentation of the post to the site and internet at large.


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The Steal command (and mug, also known as capture, and all other attempts to steal) has a success rate determined by the following formula. Note as Kaiser points out below, you can cut your enemy's level in half with the Discord Lore (unless they're immune to instant death, like bosses)
Success % = (Locke's Level + 50 - Target's level)/128
There's also lots of ways to steal more than one time per turn. You can have any two of the following relics:
- Brigand's Glove: turns Steal into Mug
- Genji Glove: allows two weapons, thus two attacks (affects Mug)
- Thief's Bracer: Doubles percentage chance of stealing
- Master's Scroll: 4 random attacks instead of 1, per weapon
There's also the Thief's Knife item which has a random chance of attempting to steal. Possible combos I'm considering are:
- Brigand + Genji: 2 Mug attempts per turn
- Brigand + Master: 4 Mug attempts per turn (but random targets)
- Master + Genji + Thief's Knife: 8 attacks per turn, possible chance of theft
So what's the most effective combo? Without (previously) knowing the % boost of the Thief's bracer or the % chance of the Thief's Knife, I've been going with Brigand's Glove and Master Scroll (Genji Glove before it) to maximize attempts per turn, but what's the most efficient way to do this?
Ideally I'd like the most chances to steal inside a single turn when using mug (or normal attack + Thief's knives, if necessary). Yes I know I can use Steal without an attack and be sure I won't kill things, I'd like to know the most effective way per turn to do this.


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27 Jun 2012 6:09 AM #1
Created dataview does not show data
I try to show a dynamic result set in a dataview.
In a store 'Headers' I have loaded all the columns that have to be loaded in a new (json) store.
In the onStoreLoad event of the store 'Headers' I have code shown below.
The problem is that the created dataview does not show any fields. When I look in Chrome (developer tools) I see that the created store does have data.
When I force the webservice to give no results then I get the text 'No data', that is the correct value from the property emptyText. So, the dataview is visible.
It seems that the binding between store and dataview is not correct. The fieldnames are correct.
What is wrong in this code?
var tpl = ''; var fields = new Ext.data.Field(); var max = records.length; for (var i = 0; i < max; i++) { var field = new Ext.data.Field({ name: records[i].get('cname') }); tpl = tpl + '{' + records[i].get('cname') + '} '; fields[i] = field ; } var store = new Ext.data.Store({ proxy: { type: 'jsonp', url : 'http://tspalm/toolkit/callback.php?level=9&commandid=' + MyApp.sqlCommandId + '&viewid=' + MyApp.sqlView, reader: { type: 'json' } }, fields: fields }); var dv = new Ext.DataView({ store: store, height: 445, emptyText: 'No data', itemTpl: tpl, tpl: new Ext.XTemplate( '<tpl for=".">', '
'+ tpl + '
', '</tpl>' )}); var panel = new Ext.Panel({ id:'myview', alias: 'widgets.resultsview', layout:'vbox', fullscreen: true, title:'Results', items: [ dv, { xtype: 'button', text: 'Refresh', handler: function() { store.load(); } } ] }); store.load(); var p = Ext.getCmp('mynavigationview'); p.push(panel);
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28 Jun 2012 10:46 PM #3
Yes, this code from onLoad event of a store. An event, so manually typed.
The problem is that I have to consume webservices from a backend database, these webservices are dynamically. I do not know at this moment what the columns will be, however the backend does have a possibility to return the column names and type. With that I build a new store to consume the dynammically webservice.
The code so far that the dynamically store retrieves the data, the view does have the correct store and the fields do have the correct name. Still there is no data showned, only when there is no data received I see the 'No data' text.
I am very very close, but that is for days now. My trial is ending over a week so I hope to get an answer if it is possible with Sencha to create dynamically stores and views, if so how..?


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Before seeing "Side Effects," a film that deals with our fondness for mood-altering drugs, you should know that Steven Soderbergh's sly thriller may provoke symptoms of elation, along with some anxiety, agitation, confusion and low-grade skepticism. You should also know that the madness of Big Pharma peddling psychoactive meds on a staggering scale is only the starting point of a plot that pushes the principle of nothing being what it seems. In another sense, though, everything is exactly what it seems, expertly crafted and cleverly compounded for high-dose entertainment.
The stars are Rooney Mara and Jude Law. She's Emily Taylor, a victim of chronic depression with darting eyes and a haunted demeanor. He's Dr. Jonathan Banks, Emily's manifestly empathetic psychiatrist. Channing Tatum is Emily's husband, Martin, but we don't see much of him, given that Martin is out looking for work after serving a prison term for insider trading.
At first "Side Effects," which was written by Scott Z. Burns, slides back and forth, ever so smoothly, between its heroine's urgent need for treatment and droll observations on pill-poppery in the general population—the antidepressants with seductive names, the television commercials with dire warnings of side effects couched in idiotically cheerful tones. For the most part, the prescription chatter concerns such familiar brands as Effexor, Wellbutrin, Xanax and Zoloft—we're a long way from the Soma of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"—though special attention is reserved for Ablixa ("Take Back Tomorrow"), a new competitor for market share that's no less effective for being fictional. Google its name and you get a website that's all the more amusing for being bogus.
When Emily's mood—and more significantly her behavior—takes a startling turn for the worse, the story turns toward issues of responsibility for criminal acts. Much of this is fascinating in the abstract. Can criminal intent be proved, for example, in a person who commits a crime while sleepwalking as the result of medication? Can a portion of guilt be shared by the shrink who prescribed the pills? Then there's the concrete question of who's certifiable in the area of venality. (A larger proportion of the movie's population than you might think.) A few developments test credulity's tensile strength; they're like a collection of especially convoluted outtakes from "Law & Order." Yet the film as a whole is consistently enjoyable and sometimes thrilling, a classic Soderbergh showcase for provocative storytelling and marvelous acting.
Mr. Law's performance gains straight-line intensity as his character grows ever more desperate. Instead of a parody of a crazy psychiatrist, the actor gives us a plausible portrait of a caregiver afflicted by professional ambition, financial stress, congenital malevolence and undiagnosed naiveté. Catherine Zeta-Jones does cool-to-chilling variations on a similar theme; she's Dr. Victoria Siebert, a psychotherapist who has treated Emily in the past.
But the breakthrough belongs to Ms. Mara, however odd that term may seem for an actress who got our attention with a single scene at the start of "The Social Network," then played the title role in David Fincher's English-language version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." I found that starring performance fairly conventional, and not very interesting. This time, though, with supple direction and a character of exceptional variety, Ms. Rooney is impressive in her range, and commendable for her subtlety, whether Emily is struggling to find her emotional core or, having found it, is coping with the unintended consequences of her cure.
Supple is only one word for the director's technique. In previous films his work has been stylish, puckish, precise, reserved, distant or, the hardest of all qualities to achieve, invisible—conveying the illusion of a film unfolding spontaneously. Ever since Mr. Soderbergh unveiled his virtuosity almost a quarter-century ago with "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," he has turned out an extraordinary assortment of mainstream hits ("Erin Brockovich," "Ocean's Eleven"); eccentric experiments ("Kafka," Schizopolis"); handsome failures ("The Good German"); and small-scale treasures ("Out of Sight"). Often serving as his own cinematographer—under the well-known pseudonym of Peter Andrews—he has been an auteur without portfolio; each production has given us something new to chew over or delight in. If this is the last Soderbergh film for the big screen, as the filmmaker has been saying it is in recent interviews, the movie medium will be much poorer for it.
'Identity Thief'
Melissa McCarthy stole big chunks of a great show in the 2011 "Bridesmaids": She was Megan, the bridesmaid of formidable girth and unstoppable id. On the strength of that sensational comic turn, she clearly deserved her own starring vehicle. But no one—neither the star nor her audience—deserves "Identity Thief," the comedy equivalent of mud-wrestling without the mud.
Its premise is simple, and obtuse. Jason Bateman's earnest businessman, Sandy Patterson, must travel from his home in Colorado to Florida to confront Ms. McCarthy's faux Sandy Patterson, an electronic kleptomaniac who has ruined his life by stealing his identity, then bring her back home to confess to her crimes. And why would he embark on such an unlikely quest? Because, in the terms of Craig Mazin's coarse script, it's the way to turn a schematic sitcom notion into a raunchy road movie. (The director was Seth Gordon.)
"More is not more," says a scandalized stylist in a salon where Ms. McCarthy's Sandy is gorging on beauty products. Truer words were never spoken, or more flagrantly ignored. The organizing principle of this shambles is Pile It On—pile on the crotch jokes, car chases, car crashes, hot pursuits, torrid sex and literal snakes in the literal grass. Mr. Bateman, I am happy to report, does not participate in the movie's sexual low jinks. As Ms. McCarthy's straight man, he mostly looks distressed or dismayed. Ms. McCarthy, on the other hand, participates in everything but restraint. The sad thing is that her devouring character could have been a genuine phenomenon instead of what the movie makes her, a grotesque kewpie doll with fluffed-up hair, shallow dimples and dead eyes. Watch the trailer, if you must, but spare yourself the full experience: "Identity Thief" steals time.
It has been six years since Cate Shortland's "Somersault" opened in the U.S., and eight years since she made it. That promising debut feature was the story of an Australian girl's self-abasement that leads, via dangerous detours, to self-discovery, and Abbie Cornish gave a remarkable performance in the title role. Now, in Ms. Shortland's second feature, the promise is amply, even startlingly, fulfilled. "Lore" is a complex tale, in German with English subtitles, told from the perspective of five German siblings in the spring of 1945, when Hitler's forces have collapsed in the face of the Allied invasion.
This is another coming-of-age story, but one that stakes out new territory. The first clue to its intricacy comes when the oldest child, Lore ( Saskia Rosendahl), asks her mother for reassurance that Germany's "final victory" is still within grasp. Hitler is dead, says the mother, bereft: "This is the end." For 14-year-old Lore, however, it's a beginning. After her Nazi parents go off to prison, she must care for her brothers and sister in a terrifying world where Americans are viewed as the enemy, as well as the source of vile lies about German atrocities visited on Jews.
Again, as in "Somersault," the narrative structure is an odyssey of body and soul. The physical aspects are harrowing. Searching for safety, Lore takes her truncated family from the Black Forest of Bavaria across a devastated land to the outskirts of Hamburg, where the children's grandmother lives in a house whose walls, Lore remembers, are decorated with little windmills. The spiritual journey is equally intense. It brings almost unbearable bewilderment in the form of a young Jewish man, Thomas ( Kai Malina), a concentration-camp escapee who may be heaven-sent and the children's savior, or, as Lore fears, diabolical and their undoing.
And again a young actress shines in the title role. Lore—short for Hannalore—is seized by fear and loathing of Thomas, who's not much older than she is, but also by sexual desire. All of this plays out with unforced eloquence on Ms. Rosendahl's lovely face, accompanied by flashes of rage at the responsibilities that keep threatening to overwhelm the heroine, a girl suddenly thrust into a kind of motherhood. Ms. Shortland's film, based on a novel by Rachel Seiffert, was adapted for the screen by the director and Robin Mukherjee. The pace is deliberate, verging on slow—Australian filmmakers aren't keen on short takes or quick cuts—but the content is constantly surprising. Lore does somersaults too, as the ground crumbles beneath her feet and her beliefs are turned on their heads.
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Where to begin sampling the variety of Steven Soderbergh's feature output? Here are three good entry points:
'Erin Brockovich' (2000)
The embodiment of brains and heart, this terrific comedy has a starring performance by Julia Roberts that's as funny, romantic and justifiably self-confident as any seen on the screen since Hollywood's golden age. In theme it resembles other truish life stories about working women taking on corporate adversaries, such films as "Silkwood" or "Norma Rae." But it's mercifully free of the genre's worst clichés—no didacticism, bombast or courtroom scenes—and it celebrates a single mother whose star power lies in her God-given intelligence and sexuality. The script was written by Susannah Grant, with uncredited contributions by Richard LaGravenese.
'The Limey' (1999)
Terence Stamp is Wilson, a white-haired English ex-con who shows up in Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. It's a shock to see him played by Mr. Stamp, who looked like a young blond angel when he made his debut as the title character in a 1962 screen adaptation of Herman Melville's "Billy Budd." Then comes another shock in flashbacks to Wilson's young manhood. Instead of youthening its star with makeup, "The Limey" ingeniously uses footage from Mr. Stamp acting in another film, Ken Loach's 1967 "Poor Cow."
'King of the Hill' (1993)
Long unavailable on DVD, Mr. Soderbergh's superb third feature can finally be seen as streaming video on Netflix. An almost perfect coming-of-age film, it's based on A.E. Hotchner's memoir of his life as a child during the Depression. Jesse Bradford is the author's surrogate, Aaron, who's left to fend for himself in a rundown hotel in the Midwest after he's separated from his parents and younger brother. The cast includes Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth McGovern and Adrien Brody. The production, which abounds in period details, was designed by Gary Frutkoff.


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so i'm using Google docs to keep track of time. I'm using the bimonthly timesheet template, what would be useful is if the spreadsheet coulld start adding hours to another column when the total hours worked per day exceeds 10 hours. What would be the best way to do this?
You can do this by modifying the current formulas and adding one of your own.
Based on the template you mentioned, you need to amend the formula for the Total hours per day: column to:
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City, with over 1000 paintings from the "Toclay Series", all of which were executed in Manhattan between
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installed each month. A Million Years (Past), Kawara's monumental ten volume epic, presented for the
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Of Japanese origin but widely regarded as a cosmopolitan artist, on account of his extensive travels, Kawara has produced several ongoing series of works in a variety of forms including telegrams, post cards, and street plans as well as paintings, to chart a life course. Fundamental to his existential stance is the affirmation of existence, as witnessed by the recording of a speciflc date at a particular place. So, for example, Kawara's paintings must be concluded within a single day, the day whose date is represented in the language and according to the grammatical conventions of the country in which he happened to be present. Hand-made cardboard boxes which house these paintings typically contain a newspaper clipping from the city in which the artist executed the work, testimony to the historical context in which it was generated.
Since the early 1970s Kawara's work has been shown widely in Europe and later, in America, Japan and elsewhere. Several comprehensive exhibitions of his work have recently been organized, including On Kawara: Date Paintings in 89 Cíties, curated by the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, this show is now travelling in the U.S., with upcoming stops at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (Nov. 21,1992-Feb.7,1992); and the San Francisco Museum of Modem Art, (Feb. 25-April 11, 1993). In 1991, On Kawara was awarded the prestigious Camegie Prize and in 1992 he received the Aachen Prize. The exhibition will close for the summer on June 20, but will reopen in September to continue and continue to December 31, 1993, Hours are Thursday through Sunday, 12 noon to 6pm.
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Any idea how to remove the top bar saying
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from the Mathematica main window (see screenshot). It has no use to me and it steals real estate from my laptop sreen.
Also: How do I remove the bottom bar with the zoom button?
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Thread: Brother for Maggie!!!?????
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Brother for Maggie!!!?????
Maggie's (Margaret Anne) brother needs a name!
Maggie and Jack (my Dad's nn...has it gotten too popular?)
Maggie and Henry (again...too popular?)
Maggie and Jack Henry (ha- we live in the South!)
Maggie and James (same popular problem???)
Maggie and Edward (Family name...but I don't like Ed or Eddie and think its inevitable!)
Maggie and George (it would take a lot of work to get this approved by DH!)
Maggie and Will (William)
Maggie and John _____ (DH's name is John, double name with that? He's worried John Henry will be related to the railroad worker fable??!)
I Love the classics and nn's! What greatness am I not thinking of! Nothing feels as satisfying as my daughter's name to me...do I need to get over it!
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Maggie and Jack - I think Jack is too nicknamey next to Margaret. Margaret and John, Maggie and Jack would be better.
Maggie and Henry - Opposite issue, Henry strikes me as too formal next to down-to-Earth, approachable Maggie.
Maggie and Jack Henry - I'm not keen on double names for the simple fact everyone I've known with one has ended up dropping one half of it eventually.
Maggie and James - I actually rather like this with Maggie, it's not overly formal and has cute nicknames Jamie and Jimmy if needed too.
Maggie and Edward - I like this but I think Ed or Eddie will be inevitable unless you set another nickname - Ted or Ned are legit, or I've heard Ward touted as a nickname for Edward on here too.
Maggie and George - Adore George, I think this works well too.
Maggie and Will (William) - Margaret and William nn Maggie and Will are so cute. My favourite of your options.
Maggie and John _____ - I knew a John Henry in school, went by John after the age of about 13 or 14 though. I have no idea what the railroad fable is, though I'm not American which might be why. See Jack Henry for my opinion on double names.
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I wrote about organizing a school dance with my friend J. in this post, and as mentioned there, we had some left-over money after returning the unopened bottles of soda. J. was the one who put the returned money in her wallet to return to the teacher, and I put it out of my mind. Never had I thought it would come back to nearly destroy our friendship.
A couple of months later, there was a big party for the first three grades of our high school. My friend J. had gotten money from her paternal grandmother to buy some clothes for the party. But, J.'s parents were divorced and her home situation was a bit weird. Her mother, whom she lived with, had this weird rule that whatever she got from her father (or that side of the family) was to stay at her father's. So she basically had two separate lives. If she were to buy clothes from the money her grandmother had given her, she wouldn't be able to wear them to the party because of this rule. So, we made the deal that we'd go together to buy clothes, I would take everything home with me. J. would spend the night of the party with me, so she could dress in the clothes without her mother finding out. My mother would wash them and J. would then smuggle them to her father's house when she went there for the weekend, without anyone being the wiser.
We had a lot of fun buying the clothes, right until the end, when we were in the check-out line. J. saw a scarf she wanted to have too, but she didn't have enough money to buy it. However, she remembered then that she still had the money from returning the soda bottles in her wallet. I was unhappy with the fact that she still hadn't returned it, but she swore she'd give the teacher the money just as soon as she got her allowance the next week. There wasn't a lot more I could say and she bought the scarf. The next week she did indeed pay the teacher back, the party was great, and that should've been the end of it. It wasn't.
Sometime later, I think it was a week or two, I was watching a movie on the tv in my room. I can still remember what movie it was, because it was such a good movie, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, with Whoopi Goldberg. The movie hadn't been going for more than fifteen minutes when my mother came upstairs with the phone, telling me J.'s mother wanted to talk to me. I took the phone call, and got a very angry mother on the phone. Apparently, she'd discovered the scarf J. had bought, hadn't been happy that her daughter had bought it and had questioned her about it. J. had told her mother I had loaned her the money for it, which was in her eyes unacceptable, as I was thereby helping J. break the rules she'd set for her daughter. I was at first speechless, but then I became angry. It was one thing for me to keep my mouth shut about J. breaking rules, but it was something else entirely to have J. lie about my involvement to keep herself out of trouble. So I told J.'s mother everything, about the clothes, the borrowed money, and the party. J.'s mother apologized for getting angry at me and said she was going to have another talk with J. We hung up and I went back to watching the movie, still angry at J.
Half an hour later, the phone went again. This time it was J., in tears. I was still very mad at her and at first refused to take her phone call. My mother persuaded me to at least hear her out. I took the phone and J. apologized to me. I told her why I'd been so angry, and she promised never to put me in such a position again. I accepted her apology and we hung up.
Our friendship, however, never truly recovered from this incident. We stayed friends for another two years, but kept growing further and further apart. It didn't help that her home situation worsened and that, looking back, she had a lot of problems with her self-image. In the end, I sat down with J. and told her I thought our friendship as it stood wasn't working any longer. That I needed more space than she was giving me and that maybe it was best if we stopped being friends. She wasn't happy about it, but she did agree. We parted ways amicably, still talked to each other once in a while, and greeted each other when we saw one another. Two years later, we graduated high school and I never saw her again. I do not miss our friendship, but I do hope that she's in a better place than she was when we were friends.
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Sentimental Sunday: Left-over Money
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- AnonymousMay 23, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Great story. Very recognizable.ReplyDelete
You must have been a very mature teenager. Most would just have emotional blow ups. Sad that adults in their emotional crisis seem to cause life long pain for their children.ReplyDelete
I think it was more shock than maturity. I did get very angry, but I'm like my father, the angrier I get, the quieter I become.ReplyDelete
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Sunday, December 22, 2013
Vegan Irish Cream
Another quick post because I have not posted enough calories on this blog for the holiday season. Har har. When Vegansaurus posted this recipe for vegan Irish Cream it caught my eye because Bailey's was one of my all-time faves back in the day. I'm not sure why I have not explored Irish cream before because there are a bunch of recipes for it out there on the interwebs that are easily veganized. I made the recipe linked to above, but I remember Bailey's being much sweeter. Granted, it's been a good 8 years since I have had the original version, but the combination below satisfies my food memory. The above pic is a 50/50 mix of the Irish Cream and almond milk with ice--delicious! Here is what I did, just in case you like specific measurements.
- 1/2 cup extra strong coffee
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup each maple syrup, white sugar, brown sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups Irish whiskey
- 1 can coconut milk
- 1/2 cup plain almond milk (optional, see note)
1. Brew coffee and place into a pitcher. Blend in cocoa powder, then sugars and maple syrup until dissolved.
2. Add extract, whiskey, and coconut milk and blend with an immersion blender until smooth. Thin with almond milk if desired.
3. Refrigerate in a glass jar with a lid and serve cold. Shake jar to re-blend before serving.
Note: I made this with full-fat coconut milk. It's a bit thick and rich, so I thinned it with almond milk. I think this would work just as well with low fat coconut milk, but you might not want to thin it. Do what works for you.
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- Anonymous said...
Wow, I'm not a drinker but his really sounds awesome! Making my list...
- December 23, 2013 at 12:14 AM
- Anonymous said...
YESS!! So glad you are back!!
- December 23, 2013 at 10:41 AM
- Labanca said...
This recipe has made my day. It gives the best taste..
- January 6, 2014 at 4:12 AM
- David Higgins said...
I have made this for the past two years, and have loved it.. thanks. One variation that makes the flavor right in to steep a half tsp cardamom seeds in the coffee. Thanks!
- December 5, 2015 at 7:07 PM
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If you've just clicked on this topic, you're probably wondering what this RP is all about. Well, I'll tell you. This is a place where anyone who's progressed past the Newbies RP can come and try out their character and learn how to RP properly with said character. I, along with the more experienced RPers, will not be joining the RP but will instead be looking in on the RP in order to instruct the players on the art of RPing. If you wish to join this RP, then you must have already posted on the Newbies RP and been given permission by myself to post here. Please don't post here unless this is the case, as this is the next step up from the Newbies RP, not the same as. Anyone who joins this RP must abide by the following rules:
1. Abide by the RPG Forum rules. They can be found here:
Before posting a new RP, Read This First!
2. Use the following form in order to present your character:
Age: (please make it 14-16)
Weaknesses: (Must have three min.)
Strengths: (No more than three)
Please put some thought into your character. Don't just throw in three weaknesses that either don't mesh with each other or with the strengths, or don't make sense. Also, use the Bio part to describe your character, but please don't spend too much time on physical appearence as it really doesn't matter overmuch. Personality description is far more important. Flesh out your character; don't just post the bare bones. Make your character into a real person.
3. Use correct writing skills; that is, no chatspeak, 1337 or KrAzY. Also please make an effort to spell properly and use correct grammar. I understand that everyone makes mistakes occasionally, but making a post that's chock full of grammar and spelling mistakes is ridiculous. Also, don't drop the dummy if you are criticised about your character and/or posting style. Just make the changes requested; no-one is being mean, they are trying to help you.
4. Don't spam in the RP or use it to chat. If you have a question you would like to ask, then put Ooc: in front of it. Don't argue with other players. If you feel that a player is breaking rules, then PM me about it, DON'T start a flame war in the RP. Anyone found doing this will be barred from it.
5. Finally, please don't take over the RP for your own ends. The last Tutoring RP had to be locked cuz a core group of people had taken the RP over, excluding any new people who might have wanted to join. If you feel as tho you are ready to RP properly, then rather than take over the Tutoring RP, I suggest you either start your own, or join one of the open RPs. The full list of which RPs are open to new people is here: RPG Categories, Availability And Which RPs Are Open To New Members. Anyone I see who is treating the Tutoring RP as their own personal playground will be first warned, then if they continue to disregard this rule, barred from the RP.
Here is the premis that everyone who joins this RP will RP one. This RP, like the Newbies RP, is not categorised so therefore does not have an extensive plot. But if you start your own, you will need to follow the rules laid out in the stickies.
The school of art in downtown New York City has started a new year. The new freshman are excited to have been accepted, and you are one of them. You come from around the world and from different lifestyles. This year, the students will learn dance, acting and classical music. Of course, after school activities will pop up later on. Which clique do you belong to? Do you have a career in mind? Do you devote yourself exclusively to one subject, or do you dabble? Will you find love at the school, or devote yourself to your future career? The possibilities are endless.
One more thing... Mary Sues/Gary Stus are strictly forbidden. Here's a little information about these creatures:
Mary Sue and other character atrocities.
Before we move on to Mary Sue, first let me list a few more character atrocities.
1. A thin character. No, that does not mean a skinny character, just one that has no detail whatsoever. For example, just name, age and a power description. A character bio must contain a personality description, listing both good and bad points.
2. A character with just a picture as a description. If you use a picture as an appearence reference, then that's fine; just remember that you must also include a paragraph on personality. I cannot stress this enough.
3. A character that doesn't interact. There is no point whatsoever in joining an RP if you're just going to go your own sweet way and not interact with the other players.
Finally, we get on to Mary Sue. If you are unsure about whether your character is a Mary Sue or not, then PM me your character form and I will tell you. The main characteristics of a Mary Sue are listed below:
1. Pointlessly flowery description. For example; "Her hair was golden like the sun shining on ripening wheat." Completely unnecessary.
2. Perfect in every way. Only Mary Poppins is "practically perfect in every way." Anyone else who has no faults is a Mary Sue. Faults are things like bad temper, laziness, greed, clumsiness. NOT "she was so beautiful all the girls were jealous." X_x Also, do not list a character's strengths as "everything." They must have power or school weaknesses, cuz everyone does.
3. Being the girlf of a canon character. This applies to RPs that are based on TV, anime, or books. Just don't. If in the canon two characters are boyf and girlf, you stick to that. You can play the girlf, but don't change her character to fit your own. Which leads us on to...
4. Makes canon characters behave out of character. Don't do this. If you can't do this, then make an original RP instead.
5. Constantly bangs on about her tragic past. No-one's saying you can't have a character with past tragedy, just don't have them constantly bring it up, unless it pertains to the RP. Also, your character can not be the focus of the RP, or be the main character.
If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.
Name: Layla Fales
Age: (please make it 14-16): 15
Personality: Layla is a clumsy girl. She isn't dumb or smart. She's kind though, but doesn't have many friends. But she's very unique but no one really likes her.
Weaknesses: (Must have three min.): The popular people, boys, powerful people, and being in the crowd of attention
Strengths: (No more than three): Being a hard worker, trying her best
Bio: Layla isn't that girl with many friends. She tries her best to suceed and doesn't care if she fails. She is a hard worker and works as hard as she can to do what she needs to do. Layla finds having friends is hard work. She says you have to try to have good friends that like you for who you are and not your looks and popularity.
is haunting me!! WHAT DO I DO?
Help me stop the zombies!!
ooc: Very good for your first try (I am assuming) but you do have some flaws. First: Your weaknesses. They are great weaknesses except for the fact that it was mean for personality. So it could be like 'She loses her voice around the popular group because they make her feel belittled' or 'Authority people make her feel afraid because they have more power than her' or 'She doesn't like being in the center of attention because she gets nervous fits and stage fright'.
You also need a first paragraph to introduce your charrie. This needs to be 5-6 sentences long, maybe more.
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
Age: (please make it 14-16)14
Personality:Alex has quite a bit of a temper....when you make her mad.
Otherwise she is very nice and easy to make friends with.
But,a techno geek at heart and is always on the computer.
Weaknesses: (Must have three min.) is lazy and procrastinates ,math,and her glasses are always falling off.
Strengths: (No more than three)Very skilled at typing,fun to be around and,is pretty good at swimming
Bio: Blond haired short,laid back.Thats why her grades are dropping.Thats why,being a techno geek,she'd much rather be on the computer.
What would I say for the opening paragraph?
Ooc: Not that bad, I guess. A couple things though.
1) Weaknesses are also known as character flaws. The first two are good, though they kind of overlap, but simply "Math" is not really a weakness. Instead, that could be something like "logically weak" (as math is a logic based subject. However, "glasses are always falling off" is definitely not a character flaw, but more of a trait that may have to do with the size of her nose (her appearance). Same thing goes for Strengths. They also deal with your personality stregths. EG. Outgoing, atheletic, amusing.
2) The bio is a bit short. Biography's usually provide background info on the character. This may include (in general): previous love interests, family history, religion, previous school/work/life experiences, etc.
Here's and example.
Bio: 18 year old Clark's mother is an alcoholic, so she has been taking care of her 3 siblings for the past couple years. She's very independant, and has thus never felt love for anyone since she sees it as something that may hold her back. Clark goes to Church every Sunday, despite being unsure of her beliefs. However, she believes that Christianity may help her through this difficult time in her life. She dropped out of school when she was 16, but no one could ever guess. She works at a small coffee shop down by the coast and spends most of her free time looking out at the water, thinking about where her life had went.
3) No opening paragraph. That's simply a paragraph (or more; it's generally fairly long) helping to introduce your character to the setting, and maybe even have them interact with some of the other characters. Here, you may discuss their current emotions about whatever topic the RP happens to be (in this case, your would mention how excited/scared/maybe even indifferent, your character is to be starting at this high school.
Here's an example:
Clark sat out on the shore, humming pleasantly to herself. She had just gotten off work and had a little less then an hour to relax before she had to head off to meet her sibling after school. It was a long walk, but Anna, Clark's youngest sister, really appreciated her sister being there.
Like every Tuesday afternoon, the walk seemed much colder then any other day of the week, and much more windy. It had rained the day before, so Clark was glad she decided to wear shorts, for her pants would have gotten soaked dragging along in the puddles.
On her way there, she saw a familliar face coming off of the number 26 bus. "Hannah? Is that you?" She asked quietly, tapping the girl on the shoulder.
And that's about all. ^^ So change up your post a bit by using my tips, and hopefully it'll help you in the future.
Name: Kristy Seders
Age: (please make it 14-16) 16
Personality: She's rather lazy but if the result of hard work is something that will benefit her, she will put all her effort into it. She is very smart and has many friends but wouldn't be considered popular. Just her little circle.
Weaknesses: (Must have three min.) Lazy , smart-alec, temperamental
Strengths: (No more than three) pretty, has lots of friends, smart
Bio: Shes a piano player who came to the School of Arts so she could get away from her over protective parents and her annoying Ex. Here she is hoping to make it big in the music career and maybe make some new friends. (If anyone can get on her good side.)
She looks like this:Click Here
"I feel you breathing... Everywhere...The rain, the hay... please. Please Wendela."
Good for a first try, but you need to fix the following.
1. You have not really explained the weaknesses properly; I'm not too taken with "tempermental" or "smart-aleck" as weaknesses cuz they seem to me like a cop out. In any case, they're much the same. You need to pick ones that could actually hamper or hurt the character, for example, like being boastful or being lazy.
2. Those strengths you listed are not really strengths; only "smart" passes muster, if you mean that she's clever. Do NOT, not ever, list "pretty" as a strength; only Mary Sues see appearence as being a strength; same goes for "has lots of friends". Instead, have something like "is friendly/makes friends easily" and lose the "pretty" right away. Choose something like "hard worker/determined" for example instead.
3. Your Bio is pretty Sue-ish; not only does it tell us absolutely nothing about the character, it's pretty bland. You need to tell us about your character's background, her good and bad points, and her life up to now. Who is her ex and why is she escaping him? What did her parents do to be deemed overprotective? Also, lose the picture; in RP a picture is not worth a hundred words and really isn't needed. We don't need to know what she looks like at all, bar a brief description; what we need to know is what her personality and behaviour is like.
4. You have no opening paragraph. Please read Hayley's instruction above.
Name: Maria Bailey
Age: (please make it 14-16) 15
Personality: Very dreamy. Most of her friends say she has her head in the clouds because she always day dreams and believes in mythical creatures.
She has a very good way of calming people down as she is very relaxing and her voice is soothing.
Weaknesses: (Must have three min.) Gets very tired; self concious; shy
Strengths: (No more than three) Determined (she may be shy and get tired a lot but she wishes to overcome that and follow her dreams) Generous and Modest
Bio: Maria grew up in the UK. When she was 5 she was given the main part in her school play. Since then she has become too shy to do that well with acting so her mother booked her up for incredibly expensive acting lessons but at first they didn't pay off. When her mother accused her of this Maria said she didn't want lessons anymore because she was so bad. Her Mother got fed up with her and told Maria she could get where she wanted to be by herself and she wasn't going to get any help from her. So Maria applied for the school of arts and miraculously got accepted. So maybe she wasn't that bad after all...
Maria arrived at the gate. The first thing she thought was, well the same thing she always thought when she started something new. 'Right I can't mess this up. I always make a right fool of myself. This is my big chance.' And this really was her BIG chance. As she walked through the gate the bottom of Maria's jeans dangled in the mud. ' Oh great' she thought. ' Now I'm going to have to wash these stupid things' In fact she was so busy thinking about her jeans that she didn't realise that she had stepped inside the school...
Good for a first try, cept for the following things.
1. First of all, this just screams "Mary Sue".
2. You need a lot more to your bio than you've given out. You've given no information about Maria at all; what are her hopes and dreams? Does she have any friends? What about her father? Also, as a child of fifteen, she couldn't apply for a school. Her parents would have to do that; at fifteen, you are legally a child and couldn't do this.
3. Your weaknesses don't come up to scratch. First of all, "gets very tired" is NOT a weakness. These are character flaws; getting tired is not one. Second, "self conscious" and "shy" are the same, pretty much. So you basically just have one weakness, which will not do. You need to have actual faults and flaws; instead of "gets very tired" you could have "lazy". You also need to pick something that could hurt your character; like being spiteful or selfish. We all have negative flaws; not having your character have them makes your character a Mary Sue.
Ok is it ok if I delete my last post and redo my character completely? I might sleep on it.
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Is it suitable for beer "bottling" or would the pressure tear it apart? If it's suitable it could be really useful since it can contain a large quantity of liquid with low package weight.
If you're referring to this bag-in-box, then there's nothing wrong with it. You basically store flat beer in a box (which is very similar to how soda fountains work), then carbonate it as you serve. You still, however, have to have a CO2 tank where you're planning to serve it, which is still heavy. Your use and shelf-life would be similar to a keg.
If you are wanting to actually carbonate beer in and serve it strait out of the bag, I think the pressure would definitely tear it apart. However if the box was sturdy enough (i.e. not made of cardboard) and smaller than the volume of the bag it could hold up and prevent the bag from popping. The problem with this setup is once you start drinking the beer begins to go flat, similar to a 2 liter of soda.
EDIT: Have you checked out the Party Pig? After looking into it a bit, it looks like this is exactly what we've been describing. It however has a disposable pouch that looks like it sets outside of your beer pouch and produces pressure to prevent your beer from going flat. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has used one of those.
You may be referring to these cubitainers http://www.bestcontainers.com/hedpak---cubitainer-cubitainer--combination-packaging-knocked-down-cubitainer---inserts.html most lhbs carry them in 1 and 5 gallon. I've used them in the 1 gallon format for a cheap "cask" alternative. I say cask in the fact that they are carbed to low volumes (around 1.5) and that I do not pour through an engine...i instead dispense with gravity.
they're airtight and the bag collapses as it pours....so minimal oxygen exposure unless your purposefully let it in.


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Levush Orach Chaim 133 says that this is done to help us have the proper intention by Tefila.
Rivivos Efraim Volume 3:395 says that the reason we open the Aron Kodesh has to do with the Posuk "Vataal Shaavosom El HoElokim ותעל שועתם אל האלקים" which is said regarding the place the Sefer Torah rests upon, and the proof is that we open it up for Shema Kolainu to inspire the Zechus of the Sefer Torah.


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