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The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Coincidences of All Time
Michael Dick of the UK had not seen his long-lost daughter Liza for 10 years. Why were they estranged? Your guess is as good as ours. All we know is that Michael went nuts looking for her.
Where it Gets Weird:
After fruitlessly combing the deserts of Sudbury for her, Michael turned to the Suffolk Free Press for help. The newspaper to write a story on the Dick family's predicament and even decided to include a picture of the family to make Liza feel homesick.
So, the family gathered out in the street, and the newspaper photographer snapped their picture. Sure enough, running the picture of the family farm did the trick! Michael Dick and his family were reunited with Liza just a few hours after the paper hit the streets.
Thanks to the tireless work of brave newsies.
Where it Gets Even Weirder:
After taking a good look at the newspaper photo, Liza realized something ...
"Hey, that's me!"
Liza, the long-lost girl whom the man in the above photo had not seen in 10 years, just happened to be walking past in the background when the photo was snapped.
She didn't know they were there, and she didn't know a photo was being taken. After a decade apart, at the moment her family posed for a photo for a newspaper story about how she was missing, she just happened to be standing within 100 feet of them.
She described the experience as "very strange" and said, "Perhaps it was fate." Yeah, call it what you want. We'll leave it at "weird as shit."
Wait -- why the hell is there an arrow sticking out of that one girl's throat?
#1. Japan's Divine Wind
Everyone loves a good case of "divine intervention" that can easily be explained away by basic meteorology.
Preferably on Channel Ocho.
For instance, Russia was invaded by Hitler and Napoleon, and they were stopped respectively by a snowstorm and a snowstorm. Wow, big surprise. They didn't finish their invasions during the 72 hours it's not snowing in Russia.
But then, you have the ones that make you wonder. For instance, the Brits burned Washington, D.C., in 1814, and out of nowhere came the first recorded tornado in D.C. history. It trashed the living shit out of the British army and conveniently put out all their fires on the federal buildings.
After ensuring a conveniently sweet remodeling for the White House.
But even that pales next to the most famous example of meteorological deus ex machina: a weather phenomenon that came to be known as the Kamikaze, long before that word symbolized suicidal fighter pilots.
Where it Gets Weird:
The first Mongol invasion of Japan took place in November 1274 and consisted of 23,000 men and 700 to 800 ships. They were at sea for two weeks, made fantastic time and even managed to establish a beachhead on Hakata Bay, Japan. When the Battle of Bun'ei broke out on Nov. 19, Japan was so weak it looked like they should have started scouting out other islands to move to.
This was before Tommy Lee Jones came to straighten them out.
And everything went swimmingly for the Mongols ... that is, until a typhoon came in and wrecked their fleet like a blast from Poseidon's own shotgun. The Mongols suffered horrendous losses and retreated after only one day of fighting, which is saying something when you consider that these are the same folks who conquered everything from Korea to Austria.
But no matter -- they weren't the type to give up. They simply came back with a second, larger invasion in 1281. This force consisted of 140,000 soldiers, 4,000 ships and a two-pronged invasion via China and Korea. It was pretty much the size of six or seven of the previous invasion force. It was the best the Mongol-ruled Yuan Dynasty could muster, and you can bet the Mongol leader, Kublai Khan, expected to conquer Japan this second time around.
By mid-August, the enormous Mongol fleet met the Japanese at the very same Hakata Bay where they had squared off seven years earlier. And, once again, this fleet was destroyed ... by a typhoon.
Where it Gets Even Weirder:
If you're now picturing Japan as a powerful typhoon magnet where you have to carefully slip in durring narrow windows between storms, stop. Storms almost never hit the Hakata Bay, and one of the invasions wasn't even in typhoon season (they tend to hit in the summer, and the first attack was in November).
So exactly how low were the odds of the Mongols getting trashed at Hakata Bay? According to Japanese sources, a typhoon like the one that hit the Mongols during the second invasion occurs "once a hundred years or once a few hundred years." Or, as was the case with Mongolians, every time they invaded Japan.
All their cunning was useless.
Two storms, in seven years, both right when the Mongols were attacking, and in the spot where their fleet was located.
The Mongols never tried to invade Japan again.
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I recently started processing Cyrillic text, and it's been really difficult.
I couldn't get my Python scripts to work with it at all. And I tried.
PHP worked well, but I don't know PHP. I just managed to hack a few things together, and I still don't feel comfortable in it. (It may become a bit of a mainstay, though, as it's proven unexpectedly useful.)
Of course,
grep is out of the question.
Or is it?
That's what this question is about.
I wanted to do this:
alec@ROOROO:~/$ grep '\w\{4\}' cyrillicstuff
...and came up empty handed.
But is there a way I could have returned all words 4 characters or greater, given that they're all in Cyrillic, using good 'ol grep??


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The John Grisham Room is a beautifully appointed exhibit, presentation, and conference suite on the third floor of Mitchell Memorial Library. Its main purpose is to provide a place where people may view materials and memorabilia from the writings and achievements of bestselling author, former Mississippi legislator (1983-1990), and MSU alumnus John Grisham. The Room was dedicated on May 4, 1998.
The John Grisham Papers include:
At present, access to the literary files is restricted, but a number of items are on display.
The Room is also the venue for many of the MSU Libraries' events, including the Marszalek Library Fund and Lecture Series, the Collins Speaker Series, and Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival talks and mini-concerts. Currently, a few items from the Myrna Colley-Lee Collection are also on display.
Seminars, receptions, lectures, and other functions related to teaching, research, and service can be scheduled in the Grisham Room. The Grisham Room can accommodate 75 people for a seated function and 150 for a standing function. The room comes with projector, laptop and screen setup capabilities. A podium, tables and chairs are also available for lecture functions. Setup for The Grisham Room is restricted to only a couple of options. A setup fee may be imposed. A conference room located inside the John Grisham Room provides seating for 12.
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15 Jul 2011 6:55 AM #1
Deployment Error with Sensha SDK Tool - 'null' is not a constructor
I'm trying to deploy my extJS-Application, which is written in MVC-Architecture style. As described in the extJS Docs I've first tried to generate a JSB3 File withCode:
sencha create jsb -a index.html -p app.jsb3HTML Code:
undefined:0 TypeError: 'null' is not a constructor
My application works fine in the debug-mode. I have so many files that I couldn't insert all my source code here .. but of corse if someone can give me his assumption where this error occurs I will paste that part of my application..
Thanks for any help!
15 Jul 2011 8:29 AM #2
All right, I found the solution:
For me, it was not clear that I've created a "...applications built on top of a dynamic server-side language like PHP..." (see doc).
Deploy my app this wayHTML Code:
sencha create jsb -a http://localhost/path/to/my/local/index.html -p app.jsb3
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Great to hear, thanks for the feedback. Sounds like we need to do a better job making this more obvious so I've logged a ticket to improve the docs hereExt JS Senior Software Architect
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I'm facing with the same error message. Unfortunately I already use the URL pointing to my server, so I do everything according to the documentation.
Can someone please describe me what is this message would like to mean? Thx!
29 Aug 2011 9:07 AM #5
The error quoted in the subject appeared when I was using IIS as the web server (WindowsXP). Now I moved to Tomcat, and I got a win32 exception. (Tried with both version 5.5 and 7)
26 Sep 2011 1:07 PM #6
Have to leave out index.html
This is a top Google result so I wanted to add another detail for anyone else confused out there. I too got the "null is not a constructor" error when using the from-the-guide command, even though I am not using a dynamic language. The command is shown below:
sencha create jsb -a index.html -p app.jsb3
sencha create jsb -a http://localhost/application_manager/index.html -p app.jsb3 [ERROR] Ext is not defined, please verify that the library is loaded properly on the application's page undefined:0 ReferenceError: Can't find variable: Ext
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Every 30 seconds a child in the U.S. is accidentally poisoned. Many of the toxic materials are common household items that don't seem threatening.
Items such as furniture polish, aspirin, bathroom cleansers and many more are toxic to your child's small body.
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Use locks on your cabinet doors and store prescription medications in places your child doesn't know about. If you child is poisoned, call 911 for an emergency or the Poison Control Center at 800-222-1222.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A northeast Kansas judge has ordered a newspaper to identify an online commenter who is accused of accessing a news story during a first-degree murder trial in which he was a juror.
Shawnee County District Judge Steven Ebberts last week denied a request by The Topeka Capital-Journal to quash a subpoena for the information. The case involves a commenter on CJOnline.com using the pseudonym of ``BePrepared'' who accessed a news story in July about the trial of Anceo Stovall and posted a comment.
A man believed to be ``BePrepared'' asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at a September hearing when asked if he was a juror during the Stovall trial and posted under the identity of ``BePrepared.''
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6 Bizarre Side Effects of Foods You Eat Every Day
We cram so much stuff into our bodies in the course of a day or week that if we get sick, it's almost impossible to pin down what caused it. What if we told you that the last round of diarrhea you got wasn't from that shady Indian restaurant, but from your chewing gum? Or that your body odor isn't due to your bathing habits, but the steak you ate last night?
Yeah, it turns out the foods you've eaten this week can mess you up in all sorts of unexpected ways. For instance ...
#6. Red Meat Makes You Smell Bad to Women
With the exception of ATV racing, nothing expresses humanity's dominance over Mother Nature quite like taking a bite out of one of her beloved creatures. Red meat is full of muscle-building protein, meaning that when combined with exercise, eating meat gives you a totally ripped body that the ladies won't be able to resist.
Just oil yourself up with the still-warm blood of your latest kill and you're ready to be served.
That is, unless those ladies place a high emphasis on not smelling like garbage. In a 2006 study, 17 men were put onto a two-week diet -- one group consumed red meat, while the other did not. At the end of the two weeks, samples of their body odor were collected and presented to 30 women, who were made to take a whiff of each odor and assess it on its "pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity and intensity," though we can't imagine a vial of man sweat doing anything but unequivocally failing those first two categories.
It took us to dinner first, so we felt kinda obliged to take a whiff.
The odor of those on the non-meat diet was consistently rated as more attractive, even when the groups switched diets and were tested again a month later. According to the scientists, these results suggest that eating red meat has a negative effect on "perceived body odor hedonicity," which we assume is science-talk for "smelling like a goddamn werewolf."
"Can you smell wet dog?"
So far, there's no medical explanation for why this occurs, although the popular theory is that undigested toxins in the meat get secreted through the pores of the skin. That either generates the meaty stink directly, or the odor is caused by bacteria that subsequently gather on the skin to feed on the secreted toxins.
Either way, this helps explain how white guys with dreadlocks get laid, despite totally sucking at that acoustic guitar they insist on playing at every party. Each missed shower builds up their natural, vegetarian body musk into a stink cloud that women find irresistible.
#5. Sugar-Free Chewing Gum Can Cause Diarrhea
If you like having fresh breath and looking like you just don't give a damn, odds are that you chew gum. Some dentists even recommend it, because it increases saliva production and promotes jaw exercise.
And no one likes flabby jaws!
And if you get the sugar-free stuff, hell, what's the downside? You don't swallow it, so it's like all of the benefits of candy with none of the getting fat. But you might have a problem in the opposite direction.
The culprit is a sweetener called sorbitol, a chemical that is found in many sugar-free gums, and one that is poorly absorbed by the intestines. Substances that can't be absorbed tend to shoot right through. So what we're saying is, sorbitol is a laxative. Don't get us wrong, it's fine in small amounts. But if you're the type of person who always has to have gum in your mouth, and is always swapping it out for a fresh piece ... don't stray far from a toilet.
"At least I still feel fresh!"
This was discovered when an article from the British Medical Journal presented cases of two patients who displayed some serious reverse-Captain America weight loss, done entirely by way of thundergut diarrhea explosion.
At first the doctors were baffled by the symptoms, but they soon discovered that the patients chewed 15 to 20 sticks of sorbitol-containing gum a day. When the patients were made to give it up, the symptoms stopped and they were able to healthily gain back the weight they had lost, though presumably not before garroting someone with Bubble Tape in a withdrawal-fueled haze.
The authors of the article state that excessive sorbitol consumption can result in a loss of up to 20 percent of your total body weight, making it an ideal target for the next fad diet.
#4. Certain Fruits and Vegetables Give You a Sexy Tan
This is one of those things that you'd think only works in a cartoon. "Eat too many carrots, and you'll turn orange!" But it happens. And it may help you get dates.
So much food on the brain right now.
First, you need to learn what carotenoids are. They're color pigments that can be found in several fruits and vegetables such as carrots, plums and cucumbers. They contribute to human skin color, giving it a yellowish tint. In excessive amounts, they can even cause yellow-orange discoloration of the skin. So they're essentially a biological version of Cheeto dust, if Cheeto dust made you look vaguely jaundiced and/or anemic.
"This 10-carrot-per-day habit is killing my liver."
So, unless you have an extremely serious carrot-eating problem or are a cartoon rabbit, why should you care? Well, studies have shown that there is a noticeable connection between carotenoid coloration and how others see you. Specifically, how much they want to see you naked.
A series of studies by three U.K. scientists looked into the relationship between the pigments that affect skin color (melanin and carotenoid) and perceived appearance. The results showed a preference for light, yellow skin tone, with participants being more appreciative of carotenoid coloration than melanin coloration. They also expressed an unnatural fondness for Nick Stahl's performance in Sin City.
"It's the 'child killer' tan the whole nation is talking about!"
The scientists conducting the studies concluded that carotenoid coloration is "a valid cue to human health which is perceptible in a way that is relevant to mate choice." Basically, the yellow/orange tint is indicative of a healthy lifestyle, which portrays the person bearing said tint as a more desirable romantic companion. So if you're continually failing with the opposite sex, theoretically it's because you just aren't orange enough.*
*We'll just let you make your own Jersey Shore joke there, we're kind of tired of them.
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I heard on Doctor Oz once that drinking cold water can help burn calories in a rather passive way since the body will have to work to warm it back up. Would this concept work practically in general? Could I just turn down the thermostat some, and it help me lose weight?
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@svrist is right in his comment. However, in nutrition, 1kcal = 1 Cal. So, if you drank 1 gallon of freezing cold water, you would burn about 140 calories. Besides being extremely difficult, this isn't really significant enough to make a big difference. But if you're staying hydrated at the gym, you might as well do it with ice water to squeeze out an extra few calories. However, if you're looking to lose weight, remember your body will retain a lot of this excess water causing you to gain weight (although healthy weight). As far as turning down the thermostat, it might save on your heating, but you'd be lucky to see any difference without turning the AC on overdrive (simply, just no).
Honestly, there's almost no way this can be true. This question was answered on Straight Dope.com (though there they tried using beer...):
Assuming you probably only drink 2 liters tops, that's a whopping 70 kcal you just burned there!
However, this is drinking nearly freezing water, which is highly unpleasant. And because the water travels through your body, the heat loss is spread out through your mouth, gullet and stomach. This might not reduce the local temperature enough to get your body actively warming it and potentially could be warmed up from your regular activities, so there wouldn't be a net gain.
A more positive side effect would be that drinking lots of water fills your stomach and might reduce your need to eat, which probably will do more for your diet than the actual body warming.
More info can be found on howstuffworks.com and MetaFilter.com
Hmm I hadn't heard that about cold drinks. I do know that hot drinks like hot tea aid in digestion. Tea is a very popular drink in Asia. Look at the people in Japan who have the most centenarians and Asia has a 0-5% obesity rate (study in 2008).


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Is anyone else using Ruby? I tried this:
email@example.com [~]# ls -la calc.rb
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calc.rb is just one line:
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Maybe I'm looking at the wrong Ruby tutorial. Has anyone else had success?
Ruby isn't in your path for some reason. It's installed to /usr/local/bin/ruby.
email@example.com [~]# cd usr/local/bin/ruby
-bash: cd: usr/local/bin/ruby: No such file or directory
If I need to tell bash where Ruby is... I'm not really sure how to do that, but I'll look it up. Is that the case?
That last ruby is the executable, not another directory. Try entering:
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Presuming that works, enter the following:
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I assume /usr/local/bin won't be in the listed directories.
Edit (with something simple like pico or vi) the .bash_profile file in your homedir and on the end of the PATH line, add (without quotes) ":/usr/local/bin"
So for example, it might read:
make that:
Then either source .bash_profile or simple log out and back in. Presuming the executable is where Rando says it is AND you have the appropriate access rights, that should make it work normally for you.
A couple things here...Originally Posted by Taresa
First, you're missing the leading '/'. You're telling the cd command to go to the usr directory under your current working directory as opposed to the system usr directory. Second, you can't cd to that anyway (it'll throw another error) because it's not a directory. If you want to see if the ruby executable is really there, try 'ls /usr/local/bin | grep ruby'.
If you need to tell bash about /usr/local/bin, put the following line in your ~/.bashrc (and your ~/.bash_profile if you don't have that pointing at your .bashrc):Originally Posted by Taresa
Here's a decent intro to bash. Environment settings are dealt with briefly towards the bottom of the page. And here's a link to a bash quick reference card (well, cards).Code:PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH}; export PATH
Edit: Looks like DrSuSE beat me to it. That's what happens when you're interrupted halfway through writing a post. :)
Eric :)
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email@example.com [~]# /usr/local/bin/ruby calc.rb
-bash: /usr/local/bin/ruby: No such file or directory
firstname.lastname@example.com [~]# cd /usr/local/bin/ruby
-bash: cd: /usr/local/bin/ruby: No such file or directory
It's been too long since I've edited a shell.
I'll try editing my .bashes now. Thanks guys! I'll post what happens.
If you're getting: "/usr/local/bin/ruby: No such file or directory" then either ruby isn't there or there's some sort of privelages type situation going on. Sounds like you're going to need BH to doublecheck the location for you.


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I came across this 'paradox' - $$1=e^{2\pi i}\Rightarrow 1=(e^{2\pi i})^{2\pi i}=e^{2\pi i \cdot 2\pi i}=e^{-4\pi^2}$$
I realized the fallacy lies in the fact that in general $(x^y)^z\ne x^{yz}$. Why doesn't it work with complex numbers even though it is valid in real case? Is it related to the fact that logarithm of complex number is not unique?


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Jerrie Williams is a blogger on the Beauregard Daily News website. The name of her blog is C.O.P.E. Community Organized Parents in Education. This blog is syndicated statewide to all GateHouse websites. She will not only be blogging about local education concerns, but information about resources for parental research on different subjects concerning children and their well being. Jerrie Williams is the mother of three autistic children. Her journey began in 1999, when she discovered that her children were not developing according to the national mind stone charts. This was after they had received immunizations and developed reactions to them. She later learned the immunizations contained an agent that her children were allergic to, which led to their developmental delays. She moved her children to Georgia to be treated by a specialist in autism and brain injury in 2000. Since then she has been searching and discovering several research-based interventions and resources to educate, support and assist in the recovery of autism. She moved to Louisiana in August, 2011, and has been involved in educating the community about autism and the resources available to parents of autistic children as well as adults with autism. She has been instrumental in helping the Beauregard Parish school system to design an individualized curriculum that was suited for the educational needs of her children as well as other special needs children. Her children have since blossomed with this curriculum and continue to thrive. She will continue in her journey as a mother and an advocate for others.
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The Creative Zen X-Fi's plastic design leaves a little to be desired, but that doesn't detract from the fact that the player is an incredible value overall: for an extremely competitive price you get a boatload of features and great sound quality.
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I am a programmer working in an open-space environment. There are basically two types of people which make it difficult to use pomodoro:
- Those, who want something completely trivial every 10 minutes or so, which can wait without a problem or, even better, is completely irrelevant to me.
- People who visit rarely but I can't tell them to wait because they either are both completely deaf to anything while not respect your time or concentration much, and are higher in the hierarchy - product owners. It isn't enough to say "I'll do it once I finish X", I have to repeat it a couple of times in different ways while ensuring that "Yes, it will be my top priority". It's not about me failing to fulfill my own promises, it's just how a person is.
I'd like to start using the technique because, frankly, it sounds really good on the paper, but the above is something which might result in voiding a lot of pomodoros.


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Has anyone ever made the ring of fire joke before on This Morning? Fern Britten Perhaps?
Phillip Schofield at least was predicting a painful short-term future after sipping a shot of our 100,000 Scoville Naga Chilli vodka live on the popular breakfast show. If anything is going to give him an idea of how Gordon the Gopher felt, it's this.
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Why is everything iSomething (even if it isn't iApple)?! Who is iSick of iIT?
I can't understand this trend. What exactly does 'i' mean? Please enlighten me and my fellow iUnSavvy people because it's just iAnnoying.
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My best guesses are Information or Internet, but those usually don't make sense for the product. It is really annoying.
iI idon't imind iit iso imuch, ibut iI ican isee ihow iit icould ibe iannoying.
I think it has developed into a moniker for 'trendy' or 'techy'. So whenever a consumer notices an 'i' product they may have an inclination that the product has some sort of underlying value and therefore has more worth. I like pickles.
I think it stands for "internet"
iBooks, iToaster
The potential for the i is endless...
I tend to think most of it means idiot.
@bluescreenofwin: So if you said you liked iPickles, that would be trendy and it would catch on with techy people? Honestly though, I think you are right. Somehow the i got tagged as a "hey pay attention to me; I'm trendy!" statement
I actually tend to stay away from non-apple "i"applications or hardware because I think people choose it to be trendy and make money off apple's name.
I am not anti-apple. I actually have an iPad and an iPod classic and use some of their "i" apps. I just think that other companies naming their devices/programs like that is really gimmicky.
It's all about iRecruiting more iPeople into the iCult.
@chrosan: Unfortunately it probably would. Wootizens and many others understand that it is a silly marketing scheme. Unfortunately we are still the minority and the general public are more often convinced by this advertising. But look at me stating obvious generalities. You guys all know this :-)
Several days later: iWoot
Remeber for a l'il bit there everything was eThis and eThat?
I think "i-" killed "e-" what's next? We'll "c"
@phillystyle: You are correct sir. I was sick of eEverything. iAnything = I do not care. We did get a chuckle out of the iPad being white when it first came out.
Are you sure it is not going to be U, Wii <-doulbe i now the Wii U
We should just boycott the letter entrely
@phillystyle: Let's start the next iteration.
I say it should be "f" (use your imagination)
@phillystyle: Why do you think Internet Explorer started going by IE -- They couldn't make up their minds so they decided they'd hit both groups.
@j5: I don't want to hear anything about your fPad, thanks.
@caffeine_dude: at least 'e' made sense... like with the term 'e-mail'. No one is ever going to say "hold on let me go check my electronic mail real quick."
Supposedly the 'i' is supposed to stand for 'internet' because all of their products are capable of using the internet, although I can't figure out how to connect my iHome to the web.
What it really stands for is iSpentALotOfMoneyOnThis
I suppose it stands for "intelligent" now.
i just wish i could find an iASUS folio with bluetooth keypad for what I am seeing iPad folios selling for. Or accessories for my phone. It's tiresome seeing a deal that looks good but it's just another iThing.
as annoyed as i am with ithings, i'm still more upset with 'extreme' or 'xtreme'.
i suppose if there's ever an "ixtreme!", i'm gonna have to launch all the nukes.
This is right up there with people adding "for iPhone" onto the name of whatever they are selling, even though it is universal, like a standard 3.5mm stereo cord.
Reason it happens: Marketers. They are as dumb as the people they influence.


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Dogs picked up by Animal Control or dropped off by citizens are taken to the City of Boston's Animal Control Shelter and Adoption Center.
|Contact the City of Boston Animal Control Shelter and Adoption Center
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Lost animals are waiting to be claimed at our shelter so call us right away if you have lost a pet. When you call, you must give us a detailed description of your pet and the location he/she was last seen.
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If you do not find your pet at our shelter, here are some other places that you should call:
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Cream of the Crop
By Kem Butller-Oracle on Jun 25, 2013
JD Edwards has been working hard to ensure that you shouldn't have to work so hard! Yet there are still JD Edwards customers that may not be up to speed on all the new and or improved tools and utilities we have delivered, all designed to make your life easier.
So today, I want to share what I consider to be the cream of the crop….those items that every customer should know about and leverage to make ERP life just a little bit (or A LOT) easier!
These are my top picks, the cream of a very good crop! Explore and enjoy, and gain some of your time back to do with as you please.
- www.runjde.com It's where to go when you need to know! The Resource Kits available on www.runjde.com provide comprehensive Resource Kits (guides) by user type. The guides provide brief descriptions of the wide array of resources that are available to JD Edwards's eco system and links to each of those resources.
This link will take you to an index that is designed to provide you with simple and quick navigation to the available EnterpriseOne Information Centers. This index provides links to:
- EnterpriseOne Application specific Information Centers
- EnterpriseOne Tools and Technology Information Centers
- EnterpriseOne Performance Information Center
- EnterpriseOne 9.1 and 9.0 Information Centers
Information Centers give Oracle the ability to aggregate content for a given focus area and present this content in categories for easy browsing by our customers.
Information Centers offer a variety of focused dynamic content organized around one or more of the following tasks.
- Overview
- Use
- Troubleshooting
- Patching and Maintenance
- Install and Configure
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- Optimize Performance
- Security
- Certify
- JD Edwards Newsletters
Be in the know by reading the Global Customer Support Product Newsletters. They are PACKED with news and information covering a wide range of topics and news. It is a must read if you want to know what's happening in the JD Edwards universe!
Read the latest EntepriseOne newsletter
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Learn How to receive notification when a new newsletter edition is published
- Oracle Learning Library – (OLL)
Oracle Learn Library is the place to go for easy access to JD Edwards Application and Tools training.
For a comprehensive view of the training available for a specific product/functional area, explore the Knowledge Paths
For Net Change (new feature) training, explore the TOI sessions (TOI stands for Transfer Of Information).
Tip: Be sure to experiment with the search filters!
- www.upgradejde.com The site designed to help customers and partners with the process of upgrading JD Edwards. The site is a wealth of information, tools and resources designed to assist in the evaluation, planning and execution steps required when upgrading.
Of note is the wildly successful upgrade strategy known as "The Art of the Possible" wherein JD Edwards and many of our partners hold free workshops to teach customers how to conduct upgrades in 100 days or less.
Equally important is the fact that on www.upgradejde.com, customers can gain visibility into planned enhancements using the Product and Technology Feature Catalogs. The catalogs are great for creating customer specific reports about the net change between older releases and current or planned releases.
Examples of other key resources on www.upgradejde.com are the product data base changes between releases, extensibility guides, (formerly known as programmer's guides), whitepapers, ROI calculators and much more!


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Benjamin Reeves
Benjamin David Reeves was born on Dec. 6, 1977 to Ronald Reeves and Gwen (Grosboll) Reeves in Walla Walla. When Ben was less than a year old, his family moved to Kennewick. Ben and his family stayed in the Tri-Cities area until Ben was 14 years-old when they moved to Derby, Kansas, where they stayed until Ben was 21. At that time, the Reeves family moved to Rice. Ben stayed in the Northeast Washington area for the remainder of his life, except for a one-year stint in Michigan in 2003/2004. Ben attended Country Haven Academy in Pasco for his elementary years. He home schooled during his high school years. He attended Butler Community College, then went into construction and mission work. Recently, Ben had returned to college. He graduated with his Associate Degree in Business from Phoenix University on June 6, 2011. Ben was determined to finish that degree despite being bedridden for the last nine months of his life. Ben's work experience included Christian radio production, construction, website design, network configuration and missionary work. Among Ben's fondest memories were the two mission trips that he made to Ghana, West Africa in the mid-90's. On those trips, he helped with the construction of an orphanage, with the establishment of a Bible correspondence school and with some evangelistic meetings. Ben was a baptized member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. In 1998, while in Sweden, Ben met the love of his life—the future German wife, Silke Scheffler. For the next four years, the two enjoyed many transcontinental trips to visit each other. Benjamin and Silke were married on June 23, 2002 in Falls City, Oregon. Ben was afflicted by disease for the last few years of his life, despite this. Ben always remained optimistic, hopeful and encouraging to those around him and his faith remained strong until the last minute of his life. Ben passed away on July 12, 2011, at Providence Mount Carmel Hospital in Colville while surrounded by his family. Ben is survived by his wife, Silke Reeves; his mother, Gwen (Grosboll) Reeves; his father, Ronald Reeves; siblings, Rhonda (Reeves) Clark, Joseph Reeves, Christian Reeves and Deborah Reeves. Ben was preceded in death by his sister, Wendy Reeves. A memorial service will be held in honor of Benjamin Reeves on Saturday, August 13 at 4 p.m. at the Kettle Falls Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Please visit the online memorial and sign the guestbook at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. The Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory in Colville has been entrusted with arrangements.


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William Forsythe's Monster Partitur
Monster Partitur
and U.S. Premiere
See the U.S. premiere of this hybrid performance installation during the opening days of the exhibition William Forsythe: Transfigurations.
Dancer Alessio Silvestrin delivers a mesmerizing performance against a backdrop of sculptural elements created from life-size models of human skeletons and line drawings traced from these gnarled forms, which also serve as cues in the performer's score (the word "partitur" in the title is a reference to the musical scores utilized by orchestra conductors). Monster Partitur is a condensation of and companion to Forsythe's Bessie Award–winning You made me a monster.
Show Times
Wed, Apr 1 | 2:30, 5:30, 6:30, & 7:30 PM
Thu, Apr 2 | 12, 12:30, & 7 PM
Fri, Apr 3 | 11:30 AM; 12, 12:30, & 7 PM
Sat, Apr 4 | 12, 12:30, 1, & 7 PM
Sun, Apr 5 | 12, 12:30, 2:30, & 3 PM
Please arrive early to see the performance. Performances are free, but audience size is limited to approximately 50-60 viewers per performance, who will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis. The performance is approximately 20-25 mins. in length (and seating is not provided).
You are also invited to attend symposium discussions in the Film/Video Theater from 3 to 5 PM on April 1.
Once the performance cycle is over, Monster Partitur will remain on view in Transfigurations as an installation work. The sculptural environment and Forsythe's riveting text, which introduces and underscores the work, create a charged space that evokes both presence and absence.
Student volunteers from Ohio State's Department of Dance are working with members of the Forsythe Company during the company's residency to produce this installation. See photos of the students at work on our flickr pages.
These performances are presented in conjunction with the exhibition William Forsythe: Transfigurations, which is made possible at the Wexner Center with support from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius and from the Contemporary Art Centers network, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) , with major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and additional support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs. The exhibition is also made possible through the Wexner Center Residency Award program.
The Forsythe Company is supported by the city of Dresden and the state of Saxony as well as the city of Frankfurt am Main and the state of Hesse. The Forsythe Company is also supported by Mrs. Susanne Klatten. Additional support is provided by Ernst & Young.


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Hardin-Simmons' second-ranked women's soccer team advanced to the NCAA Sectional Tournament defeating Trinity 7-6 on penalty kicks, after a 2-2 tie through two overtimes.
The game is officially recorded as a tie and the Cowgirls are now 18-0-2 and Trinity ended its year with a record of 15-1-3. HSU is now 5-1 all-time in penalty kicks in the NCAA playoffs. This marked the 10th game between the two teams in the NCAA playoffs since 1999 and they are tied at 4-4-2 (HSU has won PKs both times).
Hardin-Simmons jumped on the board first with a Devon Howard goal in the 25th minute on an assist from Katie Kuykendall. Kuykendall found Howard in the box and she was able to get just enough spin on a shot to get it around keeper Katie Garrett for the early lead.
Trinity opened the second half with a flurry. The Tigers scored just :49 seconds into the half on a Shelby Guenthardt goal and at the 51:53 mark Guenthardt struck again to give TU the lead and the momentum.
HSU regained its composure and went on the attack and Devon Howard beat her defender wide and found Katie Haltiwanger who buried a shot to tie the game at the 57:38 mark.
The game was an offensive slugfest and both keepers and the goalposts and crossbar were active participants in the game. Both teams hit shots off the crossbar and Lexi Stinson had 10 saves and Garrett had five.
Trinity had 24 shots in the game and HSU had 22. Neither team held back in the overtimes as Trinity had five shots and HSU three.
"This was one of the best soccer games I have ever been a part of," said HSU head coach Marcus Wood. "Both teams played well and just countered the other's team punch every time. We have great respect for their program. The level of play on both sides was tremendous."
The penalty kicks were tense and both teams missed a shot in the first three kicks and it was tied 2-2 after three shots. Caitlin Cramer missed and Michelle Lanier made her kick to make it 3-2 Trinity heading to the final kick of the original five-shot shootout. Julianne Kucera made her kick to even the score and then Stephanie Segovia hit the post on a kick that would have given Trinity the win. Instead it went to extra kicks.
Devon Howard, Kristen Brockman Courtney Cramer and Haltiwanger all made their kicks for HSU. Emil Jorgens, Jennifer White and Kimberly Polasek all answered for Trinity. HSU led 7-6 when Lauren Henderson stepped to the line and she tried to go to the lower right corner and Stinson got her hands on it to knock it away and send the Cowgirls to the Sectionals.
"We have worked so hard on penalty kicks in practice the last few weeks, both offensively and defensively," said Stinson. "I didn't really have a read on the last shot I just reacted to the ball and fortunately got my hands on it. I was close on several of them. I am so happy for our team. We have worked so hard."
It was the second time the two teams had tied this season. It is the fourth straight year they have met in the NCAA Tournament with each team advancing twice.
Information provided by HSU Athletics Department.


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You can keep playing FM11 even if you have FM12 installed...
You can keep playing FM11 even if you have FM12 installed...
Thanks I'm here all week
Probably to do with the file structure and database addresses which FM11 file would be looking for something and the FM12 database would be structured differently.
One thing i've always wondered is why the game doesnt come out annually in July to coincide with the beginning of the new football season. That's when football mania starts and i imagine many gamers want a new version of the game.
The patch updates would be less annoying too, cause transfers are going on anyway and people will want to restart the game to play with their teams new signings.
So release the game beginning July, have a patch in August if needed and the last one 1st September including a transfer window database update.
That schedule would make so much more sense to me.
It really wouldn't make much sense to release a game that will already be out of date by release date in all the major leagues, and then make people wait 2 months for a patch with an updated database for the actual start of the new season.
Just a couple of things that would enhance my game playing for FM2012 would be the ability or option to offer long serving players the chance to have a testimonial, I always create a friendly game or tournament with there former clubs and call it a testimonial for players like I have a bond with in the game, as I enjoy transfer deadline day IRL as it is one of the most exciting days of the season for me maybe more emphasis could be put on this day with agents harassing you with players or your players trying to force through a transfer maybe and a major mispleasure in the game for me is the inability to loan good players to good sides, i.e with any big club I manage I find it nearly impossible to loan very good and highly rated youngsters to other PL teams, Ive tried loaning Lukaku, Torje, Munian all internationals etc to clubs and not a single PL club offers to loan them from me which is totally unrealistic in my view
Is there going to be better interaction with the media? It's bordering on diabolical right now.
Will there be a bit more of a fuss made when you achieve something that would be incredible in the real footballing world? It's all such an anti climax.
Will the club legend status get sorted out? Do the treble two years running and be favoured personel whilst somebody who scored 20 goals in his first season is above you. Then leave the club and be an outcast. These little things have a big effect on the game, in my opinion.
Not the be all and end all but little things can make a big difference.
Loads of other little things that I can't think of right now.
It's available for pre-order now on Steam, 30 quid though. Do I pay that now and guarantee to download it for Day 1 or get it for ( probably ) closer to 20 quid in Tesco/Play and probably get it lost in the post? Decisions decisions
Just been looking at tactic video. Finally player instructions are to each player so you don`t have to keep changing them for each tactic.
The only reason that SI would change from what has been an incredibly successful release strategy would be if they could guarantee that doing so would massively increase sales over a sustained period (like say, oo I dunno? 23 years? :whistle: )
Two things which may have been answered already.
1) Ability to choose at the start of the season how much of your remaining transfer budget you want to use to pay off debt. So you get £50,000,000 and only spend £35,000,000. The remaining 15m goes towards paying off debt.
2) Ability to buy up the rest of a clause whenever you feel like. e.g.
You purchase Messi for £100 million pounds over 48 months in season 1.
At the start of the 2nd season you have £50 million pounds for transfers, but you do not want to buy anyone. You go to the clauses section and lets say you owe a remaining £80 million. You click on the Messi transfer and a box is shown which lets you enter an amount of money. You could opt to pay off £10 million right this second to reduce to monthly outgoings, or you could pay off £45 million to really take a chunk out of it.
Messi is a bad example due to the transfer value I used. If it was something more like £20 million you could pay off the whole lot.
There would have to be something in place to stop clubs like Man City abusing this. When you spend all the transfer funds, the chairman seems to (in FM11) randomly give the club cash injections.
where is this tactics video?
This is already in the game. Whilst you personally cannot pick which clause to pay off, if you chairman has good business rating then we will arrange for one of the clauses to pay off. Comes up in the Monthly Board Update or just goto clauses through the transfer screen. Randy Lerner always want me to pay Bents international clause off early for a little less than what is set.2) Ability to buy up the rest of a clause whenever you feel like.
Are long shots, 1v1's, long throws improved in the Match Engine?
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Hopefully ridiculous managerial appointments will not happen. like paul jewell becoming england manager same with sackings. fergie and wenger retiiring in 2013 when that isn`t gonna happen. the appointments and sackings need to be more realistic.
cheers for the links
Sir Alex retiring in 2013 isn't exactly unrealistic? Bearing in mind he'll be 71 at that point, obviously he seems like he'll go on forever at the moment but he could well retire in 2 years time if he gets the Champions League back.
The first thing I'll check will be whether the recurring 'Belgian' issues have been fixed: the newgen naming issues and the impossibility of editing the league.
Then I'll look at the new functions (of which some look pretty interesting)
Yeah, I've been thinking about things I'd like to see fixed too. Nothing really that major to most people maybe but it really annoys me that the clock since last save resets itself at 24 hours instead of going into days (and weeks) like it used to in FM09.
I'd also like to see fixed the annoying problem of the screensaver turning the sounds off, or even just leaving the preferences>display & sound page without pressing confirm and then hitting the back button, which also turns them off.
Things like menu ordering in a player's training screen (which could be the fault of my skin, granted) - I hate having to scroll right down to the bottom of ALL of the available schedules to create a "new schedule" right down at the bottom, why can't it be the first item?
I know they're only minor cosmetic things, apart from the sound, but things like that shouldn't be that difficult to fix should they?
I wonder if they added the Copa Argentina that started playing this year. I'd like to play it in FM 12
Question. How long does the team get to together to work on a new game? Is it a year-round thing?
I would say that even right now they are finalising FM12 - but I suspect that some members of the team have already begun on FM13.
are the changes in the russian league already included in fm 2012? im talkin bout the moving to winter season
new game looks great!! keep up the good work!!
Well done on fixing up the regional pricing on Steam. It's half the price that FM11 came out at here - indeed, it's actually cheaper than FM11 is currently!
Is there going to be an Improvement in the Financial System .. I am 20 years into the Game and my team keeps getting the same amount as prize money since year 1 for winning things and as the TV rights .
The Player Wages are going up and so is my Wage Budget but the Prize Money hasnt increased even a single dollar .
Realistically the Prize Money will be probably tripled or atleast doubled in 10 years and the TV rights money will be increased even more .
Working my way through this thread so I don't know if it's been asked or mentioned but does anyone know if there will be a slight change to the Private Chat options in the Development>Training Level areas? Right off from the start when you choose that line of chat there is only two options to choose from which are both negative ones saying that the player needs to train harder if they want to get in the first team/remain at the club. I have had the option of saying that they have trained well but this is VERY rare that this has come up and I'm presuming it's only come up if you have spoken to the player previously about upping his training level.
For me, there should be the positive chat options for training right at the start of this chat section as well as the two negative ones. I'm kinda hoping that that will be altered because at the moment you cannot praise the player for training well (unless you have already had a chat with him previously telling him to improve?) when you should be able to do that.
I just shout at them about their training, all the time, no matter how hard they're working. They're pros, they can take it! Also, it improves their morale and genuinely seems to show better results in the training levels screen.
Looking pretty good!
Will there be a demo?
Yes there should be a demo, dont know when though
A demo is usually released when the game goes gold, around 2 weeks before release date usually. Nothing has been confirmed but this is going by past experience.
Main thing i want to hear news on is if there is any network improvements been made for FM12, i've asked on Twitter but no one will give an answer, it's like it's some top class secret so come on SI, at least give us network players a small hint that somethings been improved.
The manage anytime/anywhere addition sounds great but would appreciate a bit more info about what jobs may become available, depending upon how your game is set up.
I normally play long career game with England, Scotland, Italy, France and Spain set as playable leagues. Will job vacancies still crop up and may I still be approached for job vacancies in non playable leagues? Will leagues need to be minimum of view only for job opportunities etc?
If you were hoping to have chance of Real Madrid job, say, when it became vacant would the Spanish league have to be set as playable?
Would be good to have some clarity on how anytime/anywhere works re job offers etc.
Increase in game speed would be good but trade off may be lack of job offers and, presumably, smaller player database (playable leagues add more players than view only leagues).
And to add to that:
If it's true that the country (I think I understood that it's complete countries that can be switched on or off, not the individual leagues) needs to be loaded to get job offers from clubs of that country, does that mean I can load several countries temporarily in June to await offers, and switch all but my current country off again on... let's say August 1st?
Or do I need to load a country for an entire season (which will make this method less convenient)?
Thinking of job offers: Will it be possible in FM12 to show interest in jobs of clubs who fear their manager will leave at end of contract (or consider not renewing his deal) so that one can take over at end of season? Same goes for clubs offering me jobs while their under pressure manager is still in the seat, kicking him out when I accept? That's probably the way things work out normally don't they. Manager in trouble -> reputable manager is approached in secret and accepts -> manager get's the boot.
In FM11 only my interest can get a manager fired and myself in the hotseat, but when I do nothing, nothing happens. I'm never approached by clubs that still have a manager, however precarious their position is. Still I get tons of messages saying clubs consider their managers future or fear them leaving at end of contract, but I can do nothing with those news items really. Players can sign pre-contracts, why can't managers. Happens in real life..
I think it would be realistic if I fail at a club (or the board thinks so) that the board tells me:
"Sorry lad, time for a fresh face this summer. You may start looking for another job, cause after July 1st you're out of here and we've got Ruud Gullit to get your job" (foolish choice off course ;-))
Or: "Hi there, would you like to take the hotseat at our club when our current managers contract finishes this summer? We fear he will leave/we won't renew his contract/he's singned a contract at another club already".
Or I go: "I read in the papers that you might have a vacancy at your club in summer due to your manager probably leaving. I want you to know I'm very much interested if it becomes available. Please let me know asap so I can arrange things at my current club and give them the chance to find a replacement".
Or I go: "Hi board, I was approached by ManU to take over when my contract ends. I'll finish the season off course, but don't expect me to renew my deal. I've loved my time here at Biggleswade Town, but hey, It's United we're talking about here.. You understand don't you.".
Hmm, maybe one can add to that: "Hi board, that contract of mine.. I've just been offered double that wage at Woodley Sports for next season. How about doubling my salary or I'm out of here when my contract ends".
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So it's coming out on 21st Oct then .. another month to wait
Have the dates for data lock been set yet? Especially in regards of managerial movements and free transfers.
Hello, i want to ask you which localizations will be available when it's comming out. Will be there Czech? (is't important to know to me before i pre-oreder it)
Thank you.
Thinking of getting a new laptop for the new game.
What kind of spec. would I need in order to run the game to it's full potential. (Quite a few active leagues, full match day engine graphics, etc)
Any help very much appreciated.
here mate. Whilst it's the FM11 thread, you will probably get more responses .
Cheers for pointing me in the right direction mate.
any demo news?
I have a question Very important question.
Is the Montreal Impact already on the MLS?
I know is still a month to go but i need to know
No f away another year... waiting for this unreal...
Ok i still have to buy the game but cmon....
Ne peut pas attendre une autre année!!
I will not be buying this game, staying with FM11 for the forseeable future.
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AI is the single biggest issue for long term games. No amount of fluff will be bale to disguise it if it is not there. I enjoy taking the long view and building a team to greatness, but the challenge is greatly reduced once the majority of the teams are populated with newgens. If I survive the first 2 years with any team, I find myself reminded of a matrix quote (slightly amended for the purposes) "Can you hear that? That is the sound of inevitability. That is the sound of your dominance". I really would like things to be a little harder in the long run. If they have to add an "expert mode" so be it...
What does "when the game goes gold" mean?
cheers mate!
only 3 weeks, wish the demo comes tommorow^^
Looking through the features of the game.
Will there be a feature to export in a FM2011 saved game?
Where is the cheapest place to reserve the game?
so far I have found it at £25.85 with free delivery at zavvi
£24.99 with a pre-order price guarantee on Amazon.
"Release candidate" is now with SEGA. Which means, if it passes, demo will be next weekend & release date stays October 21st.
I don't know if this is a reasonable question or not but I wanna learn if FM 2012 would be available or playable for iPad or not?
But we'll get the latter anyway?
#FM12 is officially gold & will release on Oct 21. Demo still planned for the weekend - if that changes, I'll tweet about it.
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I know it doesn't happen often, but when I'm on an "apply-to-all-jobs" holiday my messagebox quickly gets filled with all the news concerning the clubs I automatically applied for. Those clubs apparently end up in my subscriptions, and stay there also when those jobs are taken bij another manager already. So 3 months onward I have hunderds of uninteresting messages to plough through, when I'm only intersted in the reaction to my application. If I don't get the job, that club is not interesting to me anymore.
The same goes for players I scouted by the way, once scouted they stay in my subscriptions, also when I havent shortlisted them because they were judged as not intersting by my scouts. I have to actively unsubscribe them if I don't want all the messages concerning those players, while it seems more logical that I actively subscribe players when I find them interesting enough to monitor, not the other way around.
So my suggestion would be: Jobs I show interest in or apply to (and players I scout), shouldnt be transferred to my subscibtions automatically. Removing junk from my subscribtions is annoying. If I want to be kept up to date with certain clubs or players I will actively subscribe to them.
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i have one enquiry don't know where to put this and i did not want to start a new thread so
this is it if i created a basque league in fm11 it will work fine however athletic bilbao will be in ruins since of the hardcoded second nationality only rule will have all their best players leave for nothing on a free with no chance of extending their contract since they are not basque? what? even their youth intake half of them i can't even give a contract to when i joined them in 2020. in 10 years of playing they only won the basque cup once and never won the league,
its annoys me since whats the point of making a basque league if their best team gets ruined and there is nothing you can do?
what am asking is will that be fixed in 2012 edition though i highly doubt it.
I am very impressed with the demo. I think this is the biggest leap since 09. Great job
I really like the Sky Sports HD on the advertisements boards, makes the game that bit more realistic. well for me anyway i love little details like that.
Defo the most polished pre-patch fm in years.
In the "Opposition Instructions" screen is there a way to set a customised view with the "Pkd" (what position they've been picked for)? I can pick "position" (what positions they can cover reliably) but not the other one.
I cannot play my game the "Match" Button is grayed out
any ideas?
Demo is good, with some glitches offcourse. (Small font and Space for rent at higher resolution being best of them)
Waiting for 21st.
yes Demo is really good i like a lot ... even if i always liked FM series. But i have to admit that this DEMO is really good and give me a really good impression on me.
Just a question about the BOX. This year ... i don't understand. Will be just the download option on STEAM or On SEGA?
You can buy a boxed copy. It will install both the game (from the disc) and Steam.
Just a quick question. How do i load the game i have saved on the demo when i get the propper game in 2 weeks? cheers
You just copy/move it from the demo's savegame folder in Documents/Football Manager 2012 Demo/games/ to the one for the full game in Documents/Football Manager 2012/games/ then use the usual Load Game option in-game.
Can any of the SEGA guys maybe say when the activation keys will be sent out to the sellers, so they can in turn send them out to us end users and we can activate the game prior to the 21st an hopefully take part in the pre loading of the game?
Why do Liverpool only have a kitty of 2m in FM12? :confused:
what is the scouting pool? how does it work?
also is it best to but a player in "conditioning" when he is injured and or comming back from an injury?
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In Dodd-Frank: What it Does and Why It's Flawed, Hester Peirce and a team of contributors ask whether the law is an effective response to the financial crisis that so deeply rattled our nation. Taking a hard look at the law's celebrated objectives, they reveal that it not only fails to achieve many of its stated goals, it also creates dangerous regulatory pathologies that could lay the groundwork for the next crisis.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Hester Peirce is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Before joining the Mercatus Center, Hester Peirce served as Senior Counsel to Senator Shelby's staff on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. In that position, she worked on financial regulatory reform efforts following the financial crisis of 2008 and oversight of the regulatory implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Among the issues Peirce focused on were derivatives regulation, the use of economic analysis in the development of financial regulations, the regulation of investment advisers and broker-dealers, corporate governance, and the regulation of credit rating agencies. Her oversight work on the Banking Committee focused primarily on the activities of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Financial Stability Oversight Council, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
Peirce served as counsel to Commissioner Paul S. Atkins at the Securities and Exchange Commission from 2004 to 2008. Prior to that, she served as a staff attorney in the Division of Investment Management at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Before joining the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Peirce clerked for Judge Roger B. Andewelt on the Court of Federal Claims and was an associate at a major Washington, D.C. law firm.
Hester Peirce earned her B.A. in economics from Case Western Reserve University and her J.D. from Yale Law School. She also studied in Vienna, Austria on a Fulbright grant.
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In Pulp Fiction, there is a briefcase which has contents that are kept very secret. What item is most likely to be in the briefcase?
In Pulp Fiction, there is a briefcase which has contents that are kept very secret. What item is most likely to be in the briefcase?
Roger Avary, the co-writer of Pulp Fiction says:
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Well people try and make tenuous Links between reservoir dogs and pulp fiction, by that I mean people try and see if they hold up as sequels, whether continuity wise they can work. A logical opinion is to say that the diamonds that are stolen in Dogs are what are in the brief case in Fiction. However Harvey Keitel and Quentin Tarantino act as two different people in both films. So this still doesn't hold true. I heard a theory that it was Wallaces soul that was in the case. Evidence for this is that losing his soul is what the injury on the back of his neck is. However that seems far fetched.
I've always assumed (despite Avary's explanation) that it was a clever movie reference to the McGuffins in two previous movies.
The most recent being the great Repo Man (Dir Alex Cox, 1984) where a briefcase purported to contain alien remains and which glows mysteriously is a key thread. This, in turn, may have some relationship with the case of radioactive material in the great noir thriller Kiss Me Deadly (Dir Robert Aldrich, 1955).
If you are going to include references to other movies (a known Tarantino trait) those are two awesome movies to reference.
I heard the theory that @JosephLynn mentioned about it being Wallace's soul - and relating it to the injury on the back of his neck. The theory only has slim backing - the glow, the band-aid, the combination of the briefcase (666) and the 'miracle' that happens as Vince and Jules come to take the soul back, perhaps rescuing it from the devil.
Obviously the quote from Avery saying that they didn't have a fixed idea of what it was kind of trumps that.
Until reading the other answers here I always assumes that it contained gold bars because of the orange glow. I know this is a slightly boring conclusion but I don't think that Pulp Fiction is supernatural in any way and the theory about Wallace's soul is just silly.
It had to be something very valuable due to Tim Roth's reaction to it and the colour of the glow makes me think gold rather than diamonds.
I'm afraid I must also weigh in with boring old, run of the mill diamonds. I read that Tarantino didn't want to use diamonds (even though that's what is in the briefcase according to the script) because he'd just come off Reservoir Dogs which featured a diamond heist.
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I am slated to teach an undergrad Cognitive Neuroscience course next year and I am not sure which textbook to use. This would be an entry-level course (no pre-requisites) primarily intended for students in psychology and biology. There seem to be a lot of books on the market, so I'm hoping people will share their experiences (either as students or instructors) with whatever books they've used, especially why they liked or didn't like a particular book. Advice about strategies for selecting a book would also be helpful.
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I'm in an undergraduate course on Cognitive Neuroscience and have found the textbook we chose, Principles of Neural Science, to be helpful and illustrative. Strictly speaking, cognitive neuroscience is the subject of but one of the book's sections, but if you are not requiring prerequisites I think it is appropriate to have the basics (and some possible extensions) included.
There might be a new edition, but this one is good:
Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind by Michael Gazzaniga, Richard B. Ivry, and George R. Mangun.


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My question is little bit philosophical. I would like to explain my ideas with a 2 dimensional universe model.
If we had lived in 2 dimensional universe like a plane, What could we observe when seeing a 3d object?
For example: If a square pyramid that is inside full of material comes to the plane universe in right angle, what could the people who live in 2d universe observe? Firstly, we could see small square and slowly it would enlarge and then it would dissappear suddenly. If the scientists who live in the 2d universe observed such event , All scientists could get shocked and they could check their physics formulas because energy is not conversed in that event. They had believed that Energy is conserved and nobody could create energy from nothing and finally they could understand that total observed universe energy can be much more what they calculated with their formulas.
My questions:
What could we see a 4d pyramid comes to our 3d universe? is it correct that Firstly we would see small cube and it would enlarge and then suddenly disappears?
Dark matter and Dark energy is related with such ideas? http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_matter.html
I know we do not observe such strange events till now but maybe scientists can get some results during micro experiments. Is there any such experimental results at least in micro universe (atomic level experiments in quantum mechanics)?
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I'm looking for a way to prohibit voting rigging (cache/cookie-clearing, etc.) without requiring the user to jump through hoops (registration, authentication, etc.). Any ideas?
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You can combine several methods:
Each is easily overcome for those who know how, but the question, like Dan Petker said, is how important is the vote?
Alternatively you can use an easy authentication technique like OpenID or Facebook, which will enable most users to finish the process extremely quickly.
One option is to associate each vote with the user's IP address. If you see another vote come in from the same IP address, you could disallow it.
This solution has two major drawbacks, however. The first is that there isn't a one-to-one mapping of computers to IP addresses in a lot of home networking setups these days. For example, if you have three computers all hooked up to a single router/modem then they'll all likely share the same IP and so only one vote from the three computers would be allowed even though you should be allowing all three.
The other drawback is that all it takes is someone using Tor or another anonymizing software to circumvent this restriction altogether.
I guess it all depends on just how secure you need this voting process to be, and how hard you want to make it for would-be attackers to cause trouble. If security and integrity of the voting process is top-priority, then you'll really need to consider requiring some sort of registration/authentication to make sure things aren't rigged.
Edit: Another idea...
I was thinking about this problem from a slightly different angle and I had another idea. In your question you mention you don't want users to jump through hoops and suggest that registration/authentication would be considered a "hoop". What if registration didn't have to be a hoop? You could make the registration process so dead simple that users wouldn't consider it a reason to refrain from voting.
For example, I only found out about ui.stackexchange today and I wanted to dive in and start answering questions/upvoting/etc. right away. To do that, though, I had to register. However, stackexchange uses OpenID as a way to create your account, which means that with two clicks I was registered here and ready to go.
Is this something you could do on your site? Without having implemented the technologies directly, it seems like OpenID, Facebook Connect, etc. all offer quick, easy ways of adding authentication to a site without forcing the user to fill out long registration forms - the best of both worlds!
Combine a few different aspects: IP address, user-agent, Flash version, etc. The resulting identity won't be guaranteed to be 100% unique, but it's a lot closer to your goal than just an IP.
The question you need to ask is:
For example, if there's something real at stake - money, a physical prize etc. then there is a greater temptation to try to rig the vote. In these cases you probably have to insist on user registration (but going the OpenID/Facebook Connect route as Dan Petker suggests might be the least painful way here).
If, however, it's "only fun" you could end up expending a lot of time (and money) trying to stop something that most people won't indulge in. The amount of effort you expend should be proportional to the cost of voter fraud.
Having said that though, it's amazing the efforts that some people will go to to "game" voting systems to award themselves more points, so you could end up going the full registration route anyway.
The techniques used by the EFF for the Panopticlick project may be very relevant here :
"When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer's configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer".
The statistical results of this experiment are available but technical information is limited to a short paper - both linked from the home page. Nevertheless, it provides good inspiration about browser fingerprinting, which is the technology that will solve most of your problem.
You can use a cookie or IP address to make sure they don't vote more than one time.


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How can I improve my reading ability? I want to increase my reading speed and comprehension.
Do you have experience in increasing your reading. What did work for you? Which approaches failed?
How can I improve my reading ability? I want to increase my reading speed and comprehension.
Do you have experience in increasing your reading. What did work for you? Which approaches failed?
Something I have been taught while studying English and then preparing for tests/exams like IELTS which may be of help here.
From the first look this process may appear to be longer and more convoluted comparing to just jumping right in guns blazing and trying to grasp everything the first time you read the piece. It is not so especially once you get used to this method and get better and scanning and skimming.
This works great with non-fictional, and especially technical or academic reading. From personal experience I can tell you that using these techniques I can read academic journal articles substantially quicker than my fellow post graduate and research university students who read in the "usual" way. This greatly helps when you have limited amount of time to read as well.
I'm sure others will post fancier responses here, but I really think this one is pretty simple.
Read more.
I have always been a voracious reader and read quite fast (at least material that doesn't require too much thought to digest -- the slower stuff takes longer because you actually have to think about it). The other people I know who read a lot read faster, and the ones who read less read slower.
In other words, it's one of those practice-makes-perfect sort of deals. Reading more will help your writing, too.
I learned speed reading techniques at a very young age (honestly believe that children should be taught to speed read in elementary school, but I digress), and I think it's helped me considerably, since I can cover a huge amount of material very quickly, and retain a high percentage of it.
http://www.evelynwood.com.au is one widely recommended speedreading course, with the book "Remember everything you read" being based on this method. These's also a few free courses online but I don't have personal experience with them - I learned from this book and a college speedreading textbook that I forget the name of.
Regardless of which course you use, the three biggest tips I know are:
As well as reading whenever possible (ie over breakfast, at lunchtime, instead of watching the TV), and reading everything (books, newspapers, technical papers etc) I would suggest using something like Rocket Reader
I haven't used it myself but a couple of my friends who were slow readers used it to improve to a reasonable speed level)
Short term benefits can come from applying some of the recommendations in "how to read a book", which focuses on going through the material repeatedly, from high level to low level. You can also ask specific questions raised by the first impressions.
If you are willing to invest more time, you can have a look at speed reading techniques combined with mind maps. Tony Buzan has written on these topics.
I've never really got into speed reading, or any learn to read fast guides, so I can't really comment on that part.
But at least from my experience, if you are reading technical or any skill oriented book, having some knowledge in the area will improve your reading speed drastically.
I've been programming for about 10 years now, and every time I read a new book, I can read it A LOT faster than my friends who aren't as experienced in the field, because I don't have to spend that much time thinking about the content.
My mother tongue is not English. So i 'learned' to read English fast.
There is one book which guides you all the way how to increase your reading speed.
Since my speed was not that great in the beginning i was able to increase my reading speed at least twice. You'll find all the good points mentioned in the answers (and those which will be mentioned in subsequent posts) in that book. It works.
Tim Ferriss has done some good writing on speed reading, which doesn't require tools and teaches you to read fast in less than half an hour: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/07/30/speed-reading-and-accelerated-learning/
As a summary:
Don't speed read everything! Difficult text should always be read slowly. Speed reading will improve your maximum speed for reading, but not comprehension.
I'm afraid that my experience is that the 10,000 hour rule holds true for reading. Getting something you already want to read and getting started is likely the best way to improve speed and comprehension. When you need to read something that holds no intrinsic interest for you, the skills you developed reading stuff you enjoy will often be transferable. There are a few things that might help in the meantime:
In some ways, fiction is easy to read efficiently since human minds are well tuned to story and narrative. Therefore it's relatively easy for us enjoy reading stories quickly; if we miss an important plot point in our haste, our brains easily fill in the detail. For that reason, it's rarely worthwhile to re-read parts of the story for comprehension. It's entirely possible to exploit this fact in order to quickly read fiction without sacrificing much comprehension: skip every other page.
What you lose in the process is descriptive detail and you sacrifice a measure of enjoyment. Depending on your goal, that could be a worthwhile short-term trade. (In high school, I passed several tests on Shakespeare plays by reading every other page during Physics and Calculus.) In the long-term, the technique does not pay off since it reduces pleasure from reading. It also doesn't help if you need or want something besides plot from your reading. (Many years later, I reread the plays I'd speed through and discovered how much I'd missed.)
It's a bit dangerous to lump all non-fiction into one bin, but traditional study techniques are geared toward non-fiction textbooks. Non-fiction tends to be organized logically, categorically, and hierarchically, which make such texts useful for just-in-time learning. Instead of reading textbooks from cover to cover, it can be useful to read introductory material first and then search detailed material as needed. In this way, you can benefit from the structured nature of the material.
One of the reasons Stack Exchange sites are so useful for learning is that they provide excuses for searching the documentation for something specific. On Stack Overflow, you never know which portion of the manual a particular question will take you to. As you attempt to apply and explain what you've discovered, you will naturally learn a great deal about some otherwise obscure portion of programming knowledge. That act of discovery solidifies the information in the mind better than any amount of study ever could.
You might be optimizing for the wrong thing. Being able to read for comprehension more quickly can be a worthy goal. However, developing a love for reading will serve you much better over the course of your lifetime:
It depends on what you are reading. If it is lighter matter, you can look at speedreading techniques/software (search on google). It helps your eyes jump words so you have are physically reading faster.
For technical reading, the limit tends to be comprehension speed. In which case, outlining, skimming and going back can help you retain more. Not so much faster, but you get more out of it. Of course, skimming is faster. Just less useful.
Speed is inverse to comprehension - at first.
I tested highest in my class for reading comprehension in 8th grade, yet I read at a snail's pace. Later on, in college, I learned how to speed-read; this technique takes advantage of consistent types of fonts, but it is mainly useful for fonts with serifs and in narrow columns.
The idea behind speed-reading is that words are a vocal medium when we're young. Speech has to take time. Sight goes nearly the speed of light, so it takes a lot less time. When you see a picture, you immediately understand what it means (a lot of the time). Just take the ability to recognize pictures a step further and apply it to whole words (or paragraphs).
Comprehension is different. It's something you only gain by reasoning about the text for a while. While you're reading, take a few minutes out when the text sparks an idea; let your mind go on a tangent. Then return to the text with your (much more personal) understanding and feel the plot move on. Your understanding of fictional text (though perhaps not your appreciation) will transfer fairly well to non-fictional text.
The understanding of specific words is not quite the same as reading comprehension.
While the skimming and scanning method helps speed reading invariably,it is less likely that you will interpret everything that the author desired.
Reading is rather beautiful when done gradually.You got to be involved and enjoy it much like a good meal,absorbing everything that was meant to be.Reading just for the heck of reading seems to be a bad idea for me atleast.
Try this for good comprehension.Nothing Special but just 3 steps.
To comprehend something your brain must be focused and indulged in the content.
Reading topics, headlines, scanning, skimming are all in order to keep your brain indulged in the content.
I mean you must constantly have a supposition or hypothesis about what you are reading, then gradually try to complete it as you go further or reread the text, like completing a puzzle.
I having been using a program called 7 speed reading, and its helped a lot. a few of the main topics to increase your speed are:
Those are the two habits that slowed down my reading speed. Good luck


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