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In 1492 John Elway descended from Valhalla and discovered Colorado. He immediately started bottling his piss( also known a Coors original) and shitting out ford dealerships. John was a humble deity so he let other teams win until his final two years in the NFL. he did this by taking 500 vallume and drinking 300 beers before every game, any less and the Denver broncos would win games by 6000 points. Then in 1998,99 he cut the dose in half, this is why he single handily destroyed the packers and falcons. John Elway now resides on top of Pikes Peak controlling the outcome of all sporting events….. the browns will never win a super bowl.
i almost found god but i found John Elway insted
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2 minute drill, audible at the line of scrimmage (fooling the defense). Dont get caught offsides ;)
When your having sex "switch hit" and put it in her ass. She either rolls with it, or you have a problem on your hands. Execute it with the precision of the great John Elway.
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Eric Cartmans father.
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by ribman October 15, 2006
The greatest football quarter-back of all time. Lead the Broncos to 2 back to back Super Bowl wins.
John Elway is the greatest
by Bob February 16, 2004
A better QB than Marino(Elway actually used his team), known for blowing the colts away by not joining them, then got humiliated in 3 SBs til' he won 2
He let Terrell Davis(2,008 yards) get some carries and that equaled rings, Dan let no one really get carries and that equaled records and no rings.
by Your mom March 27, 2005
The son of god sent to denver to lead us to the promised land
The Rocky Mountain Messiah
by The Guz February 13, 2004
Football Jesus
John Elway is the messiah of quarterbacks
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Movie Review: The Purge: Anarchy
EXPECTATION: 3/5 stars
PROS: An improvement to its predecessor, more well-rounded story
CONS: Bad Acting, mindless characters
What's there to say about a movie that's centered around everybody killing each other for one whole night? One thing is for sure, 2013′s "The Purge" didn't even have much to say about itself, giving us a mindless, one dimensional story. But writer/director James DeMonaco returns with "The Purge: Anarchy" in an attempt to clean up his own mess, and although it's a clear improvement on its predecessor, is it still worth taking the time to see?

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Owen determined to lead Rosman to redemption
Published: Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 8:03 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 8:03 p.m.
As the Great Sphinx of Egypt shields the Pyramids of Giza, Rosman standout Ray Owen stands guard over a football team in need of renewal.
About the Great Sphinx
Location: Cairo, Egypt.
Built: Approximately 2500 BC.
Size: The Great Sphinx is the largest monolith statue in the world, standing 241 feet long, 20 feet wide and 66.34 feet high.
Did you know?
*The Great Sphinx is the oldest known monumental sculpture, and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians.
*The one-meter-wide nose on the face is missing. According to scholars, in AD 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sufi Muslim Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism.
Source: Wikipedia.org
"We've been getting after it," said Owen (6-2, 300), a returning starter at center and defensive tackle. "The morale (is higher). Everybody's attitude is a whole lot different this year."
On offense the senior identifies the defensive formation at the line of scrimmage before setting the simplified double-wing in motion. When the ball changes hands he initiates the contact on defense.
"I get up to the line and call whether (opposing teams are) in a 40-look, 30-look, or 50-look . . ." Owen said. "Then the backs get situated for whatever I call."
From either direction it starts with the team's unquestioned leader according to first-year head coach Freddie Whitman, whose strenuous workouts have toughened the Tigers in 2010. With more resolve and renewed vigor, Rosman plans to erase last year's troubles and is prepared for a fresh start.
Beyond his grasp of the new schemes, Owen's guidance is crucial following last year's winless campaign. After going through the motions in previous weight lifting sessions, the seniors better understand the need to build strength and keep fit. The effort that was lacking a year ago has returned, even when no one's looking.
Owen is among the team's strongest and most physically fit in '10. He added at least 50 pounds to his bench press and his work ethic carries over to his teammates, who count him worthy of their respect.
During the last two seasons the center snap went to quarterback Brady Owen, no relation to Ray. Brady was injured and missed seven games last fall. If he wins the job at QB, another Owen to Owen exchange could be in the works. Ray Owen has the size and skill to play at the next level, but the Tigers need to win this fall to get him noticed by college scouts — a likely event if the team stays healthy.
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Ramsey County Judge Kathleen Gearin ordered state budget officials to continue funding for "critical core functions" if Gov. Mark Dayton (D) and the Republican legislature fail to reach a budget agreement by July 1. The Minnesota government has been at a standstill ever since Dayton vetoed the Republicans' budget proposal refusing any tax increases for the wealthiest Minnesotans. Experts estimate that the shutdown could cost the deficit-ridden state millions of dollars in lost productivity, delays and financial penalties.


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The art of pastry is a skill many home cooks and even professional chefs find difficult to master. Following Aliza Green's Fishmonger's Apprentice and Eric Miller's Vintner's Apprentice, Stamm (International Baking & Pastry Inst., Johnson & Wales Univ.) here strives to do away with the stereotype that the art and process of pastry must be a complicated one. The organization of his book is simple; in two introductory chapters, "Ingredients" and "Equipment and Techniques," Stamm articulates that understanding the composition leads to a greater understanding of the final product. In intermingled sections "Interviews with the Masters" and "Illustrated Techniques," 17 of the world's great pastry chefs share their passion for their art and provide step-by-step preparation of specialties from their repertoires, with photos of each step.
Verdict If you can't afford to quit your day job and move to Rhode Island to attend Stamm's culinary classes, this book, comparable to Michel Roux's Pastry: Savory & Sweet, could be just what you need. And at this price, it's a bargain - Library Journal Xpress


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About the Creator
I completed my PhD in advanced economics in 1999 and have been working as a business consultant with an expertise in process improvement and systems design. On the fun and more creative side, I have been photographing since I was 11 (with a fully manual Minolta SLR) and am currently working as a part-time travel photographer for a number of small companies here interested in promoting their travel and other services. I am extremely proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign (including the latest version) and have produced a number of professional brochures and catalogues (including the three books currently publicly available through Blurb). I specialise in travel, street, documentary and nature photography, but am currently branching out to studio and portrait work - expect to see some of my first works on my site soon...;-))


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This message is given if a title or some text is not included in a post in the P2 theme:
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This only happens on posts that have "..." as their title and have not had any form of text included in the post other than embed codes or IMG tags.
Is there a way to fix this? My group is embed and image heavy and we're kind of tired of seeing this message. Our work around is to always include text or a title for the posts, but sometimes we forget.


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11 Apr 2012 12:50 PM #1
Ext JS 4.1 RC3 Now Available
Ext JS 4.1 RC3 is Now Available
You can download Ext JS 4.1 RC3 here.
Below list the fixed bugs and known issues with this build:
Fixed bugs:
Button (1)
- EXTJSIV-5802 - setIconCls() does not update the icon from within a beforerender listener
- EXTJSIV-5816 - Missing requires in Ext.chart.axis.Numeric
- EXTJSIV-5852 - Stacked Bar Chart shadow/border ghosts on redraw
- EXTJSIV-5819 - syncRequire callback scope broken
- EXTJSIV-5858 - Ext.LoadMask destroy() method not hiding the mask
- EXTJSIV-5873 - frameSize property undefined when CSS3 framing is used.
- EXTJSIV-5886 - htmlEncode returns apos which is incompatible with IE
- EXTJSIV-5798 - Reader should use current fields if metadata does not include a fields array
- EXTJSIV-5823 - Remote sort from a buffered store fails on small data sets.
- EXTJSIV-5788 - Simple tasks : Two "Dismiss" buttons are displaying in reminder popup.
- EXTJSIV-5789 - Simple tasks : "OK" button is not working in the "Set Default Reminder Time" pop-up.
- EXTJSIV-5791 - Simple Tasks : Not able to unhide the columns once all possible columns are hidden
- EXTJSIV-5554 - Issue with date format in Spanish locale.
- EXTJSIV-5774 - Bug in set focus on IE
- EXTJSIV-5782 - htmleditor in tab panel breaks layout when tab is destroyed
- EXTJSIV-5850 - Ext.Editor, startEdit event does not pass editor instance as first argument
- EXTJSIV-5885 - Forms - Advanced Validation - Months in the month selection menu are not properly aligned
- EXTJSIV-5761 - RowEditing plugin breaks Grid scrolling
- EXTJSIV-5779 - Tabbing on the last cell in a cell editing grid recurses infinitely.
- EXTJSIV-5780 - CellSelectionModel does not cope well with deletions of rows.
- EXTJSIV-5814 - Not possible to specify a column component on a locked grid (only a config)
- EXTJSIV-5841 - Key navigation in grid with no selection throws JS errors
- EXTJSIV-5793 - Chrome 18 - broken layouts due to V8 NaN bug
- EXTJSIV-5812 - Specifying a placeholder for a region in a border layout fails if given as a config object
- EXTJSIV-5828 - Ext.menu.Menu.show - missing return this
- EXTJSIV-5870 - menuExpandDelay of Ext.menu.Item not working
- EXTJSIV-5759 - Ext 4.1 - What happened to hideMode: 'asclass'?
- EXTJSIV-5843 - Korean locale file is throwing an exception
- EXTJSIV-5231 - GroupTabPanel UX doesn't work as expected
Known issues:
Animation (1)
- EXTJSIV-5487 - accordion animation doesn't always complete if you click frequently
- EXTJSIV-5108 - can't create label for type area series
- EXTJSIV-3932 - dom.style.setExpression not implemented in IE8
- EXTJSIV-4942 - Element#tgetWidth() returns an incorrect result for naturally widthed absolutely positioned elements in some cases.
- EXTJSIV-3316 - Ext.ux.grid.FiltersFeature cannot restore state
- EXTJSIV-4319 - Use a parameter other than 'id' for server calls
- EXTJSIV-4335 - Duplicate records when calling sync() on a autoSync store
- EXTJSIV-4372 - Grid Filtering Example: Bug with database return packet
- EXTJSIV-4296 - Ext JS 4 and Sencha Touch Docs examples fail on Chromebook, can't use Example viewer, ReferenceError: Ext is not defined
- EXTJSIV-5148 - Ext.selection.Model documentation bug
- EXTJSIV-5156 - Update documentation that fields (id,text,leaf) are expected
- EXTJSIV-2081 - Issue with "Bullet list" in the form widget editor
- EXTJSIV-2425 - HTMLEditor corrupted when changing background color of selection
- EXTJSIV-4873 - Errors calling add method in a checkboxgroup
- EXTJSIV-5484 - Ext.form.field.File buttons don't get the mouse over effect that buttons do
- EXTJSIV-4091 - Grid filters: initial value can be set, but it is not applied
- EXTJSIV-4954 - Store Grouping Not Cleared Properly
- EXTJSIV-5125 - FiltersFeature - Updating column header class when using a column group
- EXTJSIV-5595 - Last selected row maintains selection after unchecked on column sort
- EXTJSIV-5607 - Grid: getEditorParent is ignored - nested cell editing is not possible
- EXTJSIV-3704 - Ext.layout.container.Box: wrong children margins if using CSS rules
- EXTJSIV-4768 - Border Layout : regions overlap when size (or size constraint) won't allow all regions to fit container
- EXTJSIV-4545 - Kitchen Sink - Basic Tabs : By default tab headers are not displaying in Basic tabs.
- EXTJSIV-4937 - Combination Examples : Web Desktop : Notepad: Displaying errors in error console upon double clicking on empty space in the note pad.
- EXTJSIV-5130 - Neptune theme missing resources
- EXTJSIV-5254 - HTMLEditor.insertAtCursor issues in "Source Edit" mode
- EXTJSIV-5488 - Panel collapse/expand behavior not as expected when called on hidden panel
- EXTJSIV-5489 - preventHeader not honored when panel is programmatically collapsed.
- EXTJSIV-5544 - Intermittent issue with collapseOnDblClick set to true on IE
- EXTJSIV-3625 - TabPanel: defaults: closable true not configurable
- EXTJSIV-4421 - x-tab-top-over never inserted into any element
- EXTJSIV-3712 - 4.0.5 tabpanel shows blue strip in header in IE
- EXTJSIV-5764 - Theme slicer requires new build of SDK Tools
Edmund Leung
- EXTJSIV-4243 - Synchronous loading fails if async loading of same class is on going
- EXTJSIV-5075 - NodeInterface "deep" copy only copies a single level
Sencha Product Management
11 Apr 2012 1:21 PM #2
The theming guide documents a bug it claims to be specific to "ExtJS 4.0.2a"
Due to a bug in Ext JS 4.0.2a you will also need to edit line 62 of appname/extjs/resources/themes/lib/utils.rb from this:As far as I can tell though, this bug is still present in this release and not listed in the known issues...
images_path = File.join($ext_path, 'resources', 'themes', 'images', theme)
to this:
images_path = relative_path
This ensures images will be served from appname/resources/images rather than appname/extjs/resources/imagesChief Architect @ Jarv.us Innovations
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Don't waste time with bugs that have already been found and fixed by the community, compile our tried and tested hotfixes packages into all your projects: https://github.com/JarvusInnovations/sencha-hotfixes
11 Apr 2012 3:47 PM #3
11 Apr 2012 4:14 PM #4
Nice release guys!
EXTJSIV-3712 - 4.0.5 tabpanel shows blue strip in header in IE
This one is that hard to fix? Today I started to build an app that use the gray theme and I want to fix that before show to my client.
11 Apr 2012 6:09 PM #5
Where can I get the 4.1 RC3 's online API?
In the download version, some examples like calendar are not available...
11 Apr 2012 9:48 PM #6
EXTJSIV-5802 - fix of this bug is really helpful! Thanx!
12 Apr 2012 6:24 AM #7
ext-all-dev.js store loading problems
ext-all-dev.js has problems with loading store.
In previous version everything worked.
12 Apr 2012 12:03 PM #8
Any update on the general performances issues ?
Is it planned for final realese ?
Are you guys still working on this ?
12 Apr 2012 5:28 PM #9
I've been following the 4.1 development saga for a while now. I was nervous to try it out in my app because of other people's complaints about the instability of the first beta/RC releases.
But I just tried it out.
I gotta say - great work guys! This was basically a drop-in for 4.0.7->4.1 RC3. I only ran into a couple necessary changes in my code, which I found easily on the forums.
Also, it's noticeably faster - even in Chrome.
12 Apr 2012 6:41 PM #10
yes, It would be great to know if the IE 6 & 7 performance improvements are scheduled for the final 4.1 release. Can someone please provide an update on this.
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TV In Defense of (and in Love with) Crowned
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As Eli noted yesterday, last night brought the premiere episode of Crowned, the new CW reality show in which teams of mother-daughter pageant queens live in a house together and compete for…something.
"Crowned is the first in an onslaught of nonscripted programs to hit the networks' schedule since the Hollywood writers' strike began," notes the Washington Post. "If Crowned is any indicator of what to expect, viewers are in for a thoroughly depressing 2008."
That's one way to look at it. Another is: holy crap! Despite it's complete immersion in/obsession with/exploitation of grotesque meaningless bullshit, Crowned scores major points as a collection of uniquely awful human behavior.
Among the premiere's key delights:
*The mandatory, introductory mini-performances given by each mother-daughter team, which ranged from bite-size raps to messily choreographed pose-dances to what looked like simultaneous acid flashbacks.
*The team names chosen by the mother-daughter competitors, most of which deployed the word "bombshell" (the Blonde Bombshells, the Redheaded Bombshells). Leading the surreal team-name pack: Silent But Deadly, chosen by the mother-daughter pair that "may not say much, but when it comes time to deliver, we're winners." Neither mother nor daughter displayed any awareness of their moniker's gassy connotation. (Such linguistic klutziness is also at play in the show's title, which obviously refers to the crowning of pageant queens, but given the mother-daughter set-up, also serves to remind viewers that, once upon a time, the placenta-smeared skulls of half the contestants emerged from the other half of the contestants' vaginas.)
Needless to say, the whole thing's terrible, but it's terrible in some fascinating new ways, especially for those of us infected by Shari Cookson's miraculous Living Dolls with a lifelong morbid obsession with all things beauty pageant.
Crowned continues at 8pm Wednesday on the CW.